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Rewriting Indigenous History

In Oregon and across Turtle Island, colonizing powers rewrite Indigenous history, sanitizing the atrocities of genocide and erasing enduring Indigenous presence and joy The massive lake known in English as Crater Lake attracts visitors from all over the w ...

9 Aug 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
Navigating a post-Roe world: abortion access for Native Americans

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
Opinion | Melanie Henshaw joins Street Roots as new Indigenous affairs reporter

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
Opinion | Reckoning with history

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
Long-term effects of Oregon’s early COVID-19 response

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
OPINION | Missing Indigenous women often ignored

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
OPINION | Conservatorships historically used to exploit Native Americans

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
COVID-19’s toll on Oregon’s tribal elders imperils preservation of Native languages

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
Why Rep. Tawna Sanchez hasn’t shied away from controversial legislation

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

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