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Supreme Court upholds Indian Child Welfare Act

Native nations, people across Turtle Island celebrate Supreme Court ruling upholding ICWA A sense of relief washed over Indian Country when the U.S. Supreme Court upheld the Indian Child Welfare Act, or ICWA, in its entirety June 15. Native nations and ...

28 Jun 2023 - Melanie Henshaw
Injury claims from PPB’s 2020 protest response cost city of Portland over $2.8 million

The city has settled dozens of claims and lawsuits and more are pending So far, the city of Portland has paid over $2.8 million resolving police use of force lawsuits and claims stemming from the racial justice protests that roiled the city in 2020. The M ...

5 Apr 2023 - Piper McDaniel
Tribal sovereignty at stake in challenge to Indian Child Welfare Act before the Supreme Court

Altering or reversing the Indian Child Welfare Act would damage tribal sovereignty, but select states — like Oregon — may offer protection In a case with potentially far-reaching consequences for tribal sovereignty, a divided Supreme Court debated the con ...

30 Nov 2022 - Melanie Henshaw
The Castro-Huerta ruling: A concerning attempt to limit tribal sovereignty

Tribes fear the Supreme Court decision will hamper the ability to protect their citizens. PL-280 states like Oregon may be the most accurate basis for predictions. In 2015, the state of Oklahoma convicted Victor Castro-Huerta of neglecting his stepdaughte ...

27 Jul 2022 - Melanie Henshaw
Opinion | The American Rescue Plan Act: A promise of what could be

The federal relief package recognizes that our nation’s crisis began long before COVID-19 Out of the wreckage of the COVID-19 pandemic, federal legislation full of promise has arisen. The American Rescue Plan Act, enacted by Congress in March, could have ...

5 May 2021 - Janet Bauer
Wyden takes Oregon street response model nationwide

Biden includes more than $1 billion over 10 years to fund non-police crisis response in his American Rescue Plan In the year since Sen. Ron Wyden (D-Oregon) first introduced the CAHOOTS Act, much has changed to suggest that this nationwide incentive for n ...

5 May 2021 - Joanne Zuhl
Behind the death of ‘Black Messiah’ Fred Hampton

Recently unearthed documents, an Oscar-winning film and today’s racial justice movement bring new significance to the Chicago Black Panther Party chairman’s 1969 assassination The recent discovery of memos related to the 1969 assassination of Black Panthe ...

28 Apr 2021 - Suzanne Hanney
Editorial | Local efforts could bolster Biden’s housing plan

The president’s $2 trillion infrastructure package is a solid start to reversing the impacts of Reaganomics H e may have been president in the 1980s, but Ronald Reagan’s legacy has stuck with us going on four decades. It was during his administration that ...

14 Apr 2021 - SR editorial board
Kaia Sand | Hints of federal progress offer new hope for rectifying old failures

OPINION | The Biden administration’s child tax credit creates a floor on families’ poverty. Can we keep going? On cold concrete we lie on freezing rain and snow We hide behind our blankets, dirty tarps and tent The small and cruel can see we are weak and ...

31 Mar 2021 - Kaia Sand
Opinion | The New Deal for Housing Justice should be a Biden administration priority

America needs to invest in housing infrastructure that provides all of us safety and stability Like the air we breathe and the food we eat, housing is a basic human need. But even before the pandemic hit, our housing system was already broken. We’ve seen ...

24 Mar 2021 - Brook Fadley