Taking lessons from the original stewards of the Pacific Northwest landscape could help Oregon avoid disastrous wildfire seasons T his past wildfire season was one of the most destructive on record. Over a million acres of Oregon burned, and 40,000 people ...
21 Oct 2020 - B. Toastie
NAYA was successful in renting 51 of 59 new units in Portland to Native households, and a clever financing model made that possible Nesika Illahee is the first of its kind. The 59-unit affordable-housing complex doubles as off-reservation tribal housing, ...
26 Aug 2020 - B. Toastie
NAYA is developing its second Portland apartment complex, Mamook Tokatee, with a gallery next door Portland’s Native American Youth and Family Center broke ground on a 56-unit affordable-housing development Tuesday. The project, called Mamook Tokatee, beg ...
5 Aug 2020 - B. Toastie
A darling of Portland’s contemporary art scene, Yale Union is fighting gentrification by dissolving and giving its $5 million building to a foundation that has big plans for the space “How do you reverse-gentrify?” asked Flint Jamison, co-founder and pre ...
22 Jul 2020 - B. Toastie
Lana Jack makes daily trips to drop off donated supplies, helping about 100 people with precautions against COVID-19 On the banks along a stretch of the Columbia River between Oregon and Washington, Lana Jack brings supplies to Underwood, Lyle and Lone Pi ...
17 May 2020 - Celeste Noche and John McDonald
These Indigenous-owned Oregon small businesses can use our support As businesses shutter and unemployment surges in response to the coronavirus pandemic, businesses owned by people of color are at risk of permanent closure. BIPOC (black, Indigenous and pe ...
16 May 2020 - Celeste Noche
COMMENTARY | Delaying acknowledgement of the monthlong celebration and giving priority to the nation's founders, the White House has once again demonstrated its disregard for Native people Since 1990, Native American Heritage Month (or a similar vari ...
22 Nov 2019 - Jacqueline Keeler and Desiree Kane
Anthony Hudson’s full-length production, ‘Looking for Tiger Lily,’ follows the quest to find validation as a Native artist and be at peace with a complex identity July 21, 2020, update: The world premiere of “Looking for Tiger Lily" has been postpone ...
8 Nov 2019 - Danielle Frost
State Legislature considers finding resources to solve cases of missing and murdered Indigenous women and girls Deborah Shipman didn’t sugarcoat her intentions. “We want to keep you from being one of the statistics,” she said emphatically to the Native Am ...
1 Feb 2019 - Emily Green
Despite the Native American Languages Act of 1990, the dialects of indigenous communities still face extinction Alaska has a “linguistic emergency,” according to Alaskan Gov. Bill Walker. A report warned earlier this year that all of the state’s 20 Native ...
30 Nov 2018 - Rosalyn R. LaPier