Coverage of issues facing Native people, here in our region and around the country.
JPR's studios are on the campus of Southern Oregon University (SOU), which is located within the ancestral homelands of the Shasta, Takelma, and Latgawa peoples. In recognition of this history, SOU has adopted a Land Acknowledgement Statement that honors the sovereignty and rich cultural heritage of indigenous people.
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Hundreds of Native American tribes are getting money from lawsuit settlements with opioid companies. Some are investing the new funds in traditional healing practices to treat addiction.
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New research documents how many children lost a parent to an opioid or other overdose in the period from 2011 to 2021. Bereaved children face elevated risks to their physical and emotional health.
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A CEO of one of the companies offering "memorial spaceflights" says his customers view it as "an appropriate celebration" of their loved ones.
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The Trinity River Restoration Project has spend two decades trying to put things back more like they were, but with dams and diversions still in place.
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Last week, the Hoopa Valley Tribe in Northern California announced its largest land acquisition since its reservation was established in 1864.
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Cooking with ingredients that are original to this country is a passion for some indigenous chefs. We get into the kitchen with one of them.
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The Biden administration punted on key demands from Indigenous leaders to tear down hydroelectric dams hindering salmon. But tribes won control over $1 billion for other salmon efforts.
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Lynnee Jacks of the Oregon Coast Visitors Association about plans to make oregon coast beaches accessible to wheelchairs.
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Salmon populations in the Scott and Shasta rivers have crashed, so state officials are about to restrict irrigation again. And the controversial rules may even become permanent.
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Shana McConville Radford's appointment to the new position of Tribal Affairs Director.
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The White House has reached what it says is an historic agreement over the restoration of salmon in the Pacific Northwest, a deal that could end for now a decades long legal battle with tribes.
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Native Americans are returning to raising buffalo and plants that tribes have grown for millennia. It's a way to reconnect with historic traditions, and to bring healthy eating to their communities.
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Northern Circle Indian Housing Authority services. Elizabeth Elliott is Executive Dir.
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Oregon has created the fresh tribal affairs director position, while Washington has had a similar official in place since the early '80s.