With the release of her debut album, “It’s My Way!,” in 1964, Buffy Sainte-Marie was named Billboard Magazine’s best new artist. It was the same year the United States was “invaded” by the Beatles and was in the midst of the Vietnam War. Soon after, with ...
10 Jul 2015 - Suzanne Zalokar
Native Americans are battling hate groups along with environmental degradation in their fight for the Columbia River Gorge When it comes to environmental destruction, Northwest tribes typically have the most to lose. It should come as no surprise, then, ...
20 Aug 2015 - Stephen Quirke
Bryan Pollard, now executive editor of the Cherokee Phoenix, says Native American media are 'struggling for a free press' Bryan Pollard is the executive editor of the Cherokee Phoenix, a monthly publication based in Tahlequah, Okla. Pollard is ...
3 Sep 2015 - Israel Bayer
COMMENTARY | State and tribal officials throw a wrench in the corporation’s water-bottling plan Gov. Kate Brown just made a game-changing intervention in Nestlé’s ongoing effort to bottle public water in Oregon. Soon after receiving three letters of oppos ...
12 Nov 2015 - Stephen Quirke
COMMENTARY | Successful protests show indigenous nations can use education about Columbus to win new respect and support “In fourteen-hundred and ninety-three, Columbus stole all he could see.” – Christopher Loewen, “Lies My Teacher Told Me” On Oct. 7, Po ...
19 Nov 2015 - Stephen Quirke
COMMENTARY | He spent a lifetime fighting for Native Americans and their home “I don’t believe in magic. I believe in the sun and the stars, the water, the tides, the floods, the owls, the hawks flying, the river running, the wind talking. They’re measure ...
31 Dec 2015 - Stephen Quirke
Vancouver, Wash., exhibit commemorates 1864 Sand Creek Massacre This week, the Clark County Historical Museum in Vancouver, Wash., unveiled an exhibit of Native American artwork commemorating an American massacre. The exhibit, “One November Morning,” feat ...
11 Feb 2016 - Stephen Quirke
Elizabeth Woody talks about family, living with poverty, and her Native American culture that shapes her view of life To meet Elizabeth Woody is to feel the full breadth of nature embodied in a woman. She truly understands the human condition. And she is ...
12 May 2016 - Suzanne Zalokar
From across the country, Methodists converge in Portland to honor descendants of the Sand Creek Massacre and come to terms with church’s role in the 150-year-old tragedy Since February, the Sand Creek Massacre exhibit at the Clark County Historical Museum ...
2 Jun 2016 - Stephen Quirke
COMMENTARY | Hunger-plagued Oregon still has an abundance of food, but much of it is being exported Portland is widely regarded as a city for foodies and a hot-bed of farmers markets and food co-ops. Last year, The Washington Post even ranked us the best ...
23 Jun 2016 - Stephen Quirke