Native Americans seeking abortions must negotiate a complex maze of legal, financial and jurisdictional barriers to receive care Editor's note: This story contains graphic descriptions of sexual violence. After the landmark Supreme Court decision in ...
13 Jul 2022 - Melanie Henshaw
Henshaw (Mvskoke) is a skilled multimedia reporter who has covered a variety of topics, she's poised to make an impact in her new role. I am extremely grateful to accept the position of Street Root’s first-ever Indigenous affairs reporter. I believe ...
6 Jul 2022 - Melanie Henshaw
The historical impact of sexual violence in Native communities explains why some are not welcome in our spiritual spaces Editor's note: This story contains graphic descriptions of sexual violence. T he prisoner hierarchy is simple, good dudes at the ...
18 May 2022 - Ga lo Vann
Community leaders and health officials point to distrust, an incompetent early pandemic response and the predictable results of longstanding systemic inequities Black and Indigenous Oregonians have been infected, hospitalized and killed by COVID-19 at rat ...
26 Jan 2022 - Henry Brannan
Spotty data collection, historic racism against Indigenous communities contribute to lack of media coverage when Indigenous women go missing No one knows just how many Indigenous girls or women go missing each year. There are estimates. In 2019, 8,162 Ind ...
1 Dec 2021 - Wendelin Hume
In the early 1900s some Native Americans were put under a status of guardianship, claiming to protect them, but instead their money and property were taken Pop singer Britney Spears’ quest to end the conservatorship that handed control over her finances a ...
8 Sep 2021 - Andrea Seielstad
They taught more than grammar and vocabulary; they taught the cultural meaning behind the words. And now, they’re gone. “ We don’t say they died. We say that they returned home,” said Jermayne Tuckta of his tribe’s elders lost to COVID-19. “And now that t ...
7 Jul 2021 - B. Toastie
The legislator from Portland talks to Street Roots about how she's addressing issues such as addiction and justice for Indigenous Oregonians On a warm spring Tuesday last week, Oregon Rep. Tawna Sanchez (D-Portland) presented a history lesson on Chri ...
12 May 2021 - B. Toastie
Native representation in decision-making processes is meager compared to business interests’ Another wildfire season is already underway, with fires burning around Klamath Falls. Drought conditions across 85% of Oregon have threatened a worse fire season ...
21 Apr 2021 - B. Toastie
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