Skip to main content
Street Roots Donate
Portland, Oregon's award-winning weekly street newspaper
For those who can't afford free speech
Twitter Facebook RSS Vimeo Instagram
▼
Open menu
▲
Close menu
▼
Open menu
▲
Close menu
  • Advertise with Us
  • Contact
  • Job Openings
  • Donate
  • About
  • future home
  • Vendors
  • Rose City Resource
  • Advocacy
  • Support
News
  • News
  • Housing
  • Environment
  • Culture
  • Opinion
  • Orange Fence Project
  • Podcasts
  • Vendor Profiles
  • Archives

Melanie Henshaw

Indigenous Affairs Reporter

she/her

Melanie Henshaw is the Indigenous affairs reporter at Street Roots. She is a multimedia journalist exploring issues related to the environment, inequity and sovereignty. Henshaw began at Street Roots as the 2022 Zuhl Fellow. She is a citizen of the Muscogee (Creek) Nation.

 

Articles by Melanie Henshaw

  • Street Roots

    Dams, drought and survival in the Klamath Basin

    A major river restoration project is likely forthcoming, but fish and tribes in the basin face ongoing water and climate troubles
    By
    Melanie Henshaw
    November 2, 2022
  • Street Roots
    A tan wall with words on it that say, "District Attorney Victim Assistant and Service. Mike Schmidt."

    Multnomah County District Attorney supports changing Ervin Jones’ death certificate

    By
    Melanie Henshaw
    October 5, 2022
  • Street Roots
    Large black text says, "2022 Local Ballot measures. Measures 26-224, 26-227, 26-229"

    2022 Elections | Local Ballot Measures

    The Portland Community College Bond Measure, David Douglas School District Bond Measure and a Parkrose School District 5-year Operating Levy will be on this year's ballot. Read more about them:
    By
    Melanie Henshaw Piper McDaniel
    October 5, 2022
  • Street Roots
    Large black text says, "2022 Elections. Oregon's 6TH congressional district"

    2022 Elections | Oregon’s 6th Congressional District

    Democrat Andrea Salinas faces Republican Mike Erickson to represent Oregon’s newest congressional district
    By
    Melanie Henshaw
    September 28, 2022
  • Street Roots
    Large black text says, "2022 Elections. Oregon's 5th congressional district"

    2022 Elections | Oregon’s 5th Congressional District

    Polling for the race shows Lori Chavez-DeRemer and Jamie McLeod-Skinner are in a highly competitive race for Oregon's newly redistricted 5th Congressional District
    By
    Melanie Henshaw
    September 28, 2022
  • Street Roots
    Large black text says, "2022 Street Roots election coverage. Commissioner of labor and industries."

    2022 Elections | Commissioner of Labor and Industries

    Cheri Helt and Christina Stephenson vie for the nonpartisan Commissioner of Labor and Industries seat, a role that oversees all programs of the Bureau of Labor and Industries
    By
    Melanie Henshaw
    September 21, 2022
  • Street Roots
    Large black text on a black and white photo of the Oregon state capitol building says, "2022 Oregon Ballot Measures. 111, 112, 113, 114"

    2022 Elections | Oregon Ballot Measures

    Measures 111, 112, 113 and 114 propose changes to the Oregon Constitution, a permit-to-purchase system for purchasing firearms and more
    By
    Piper McDaniel Mia Ryder-Marks Melanie Henshaw
    September 21, 2022
  • Street Roots
    An art piece hangs on a white wall.

    Brenda Mallory breathes new life into discarded materials

    Exploring themes of connection and disruption through art and sculpture
    By
    Melanie Henshaw
    August 31, 2022
  • Street Roots
    NAYA’s Mammon Tokatee affordable housing apartment building. People are standing in front of the entry of the building.

    Affordable housing for Native Americans offers community, stability and support

    NAYA, which already maintains three affordable development projects in the Cully neighborhood, plans to begin construction on a new project in the Portsmouth neighborhood next year
    By
    Melanie Henshaw
    August 31, 2022
  • Street Roots
    The photo is focused on Lehuauakea's hands. They are tattooed and wearing rings as they work with bark cloth.

    Lehuauakea uses art to say Native Hawaiians are still here

    Lehuauakea, kapa maker and cultural practitioner, finds community in both the Northwest and Hawai'i
    By
    Melanie Henshaw
    August 16, 2022

Pages

  • ≪ previous
  • 1
  • 2
  • 3
  • 4
  • 5
  • next »

3 of 5

▼
Open menu
▲
Close menu
  • © 2021 Street Roots. All rights reserved. To request permission to reuse content, email editor@streetroots.org.
  • Read Street Roots' commenting policy
  • Support Street Roots

  • Street Roots has found its new home. This campaign is 85% funded. We need YOU to get us to the finish line.

  • LEARN MORE