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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: Chance White Eyes, the first Director of Tribal Relations at Oregon State University.
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The Coquille Indian Tribe has been trying to open a new casino in Medford for over ten years. After hitting bumps along the way — including a hard 'no' from the feds in 2020 — the project is again moving forward. Among its most vociferous critics: other regional 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.
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C’waam and Koptu are intertwined in the Klamath Tribes’ culture. But poor water quality has made Upper Klamath Lake lethal for juvenile fish.
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It's Native American Heritage Day. NPR's Steve Inskeep talks to Ned Blackhawk, a professor of History and American Studies at Yale, about the history of the day and what it means to observe it.
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Larissa FastHorse is updating the Macy's Thanksgiving Day Parade to make it "less harmful" to Indigenous people. She's also consulting on a new Peter Pan and has a satire called The Thanksgiving Play.
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A voting bloc that hasn't gotten as much national attention, Native voters are an influential constituency in several swing states, making them a group to watch in 2024.
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The Pit River Nation is seeking protective status for Medicine Lake Highlands. Brandy McDaniels, Monument Lead for the Pit River Nation, and Michelle Berditschevsky at the Mount Shasta Bioregional Ecology Center.
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Klamath Falls archeologist Dan Broockmann, and Ken Sandusky of the Modoc Tribe talk about efforts to "image" archaeological sites, so that Modoc Nation members in Oklahoma can "experience" their ancestral homelands.
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Oregon State Archaeologist John Pouley. He lays out the laws and suggestions guiding archaeological exploration of Oregon's long-ago past.
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Chief Caleen Sisk of the Winnemem Wintu about the 2023 symbolic Sacramento River Fish Run.
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A series of essays by indigenous leaders, many of them women, in the book Invisible No More: Voices from Native America.Steve Dubb, the book's co-editor (with Raymond Foxworth), and from contributing writer Hillary Renick.