PORTLAND — Nez Perce, Umatilla, Warm Springs, and Yakama tribal fishers are making their way to the Columbia River after the tribes announced that the first commercial gillnet fishery of 2021 will open on Wednesday, June 16. They will harvest…
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PENDLETON – On May 26, the CTUIR’s Fish & Wildlife Commission (FWC) released Emergency Tributary Regulations for Spring/Summer Chinook fisheries. The notice came a day after the Oregon Department of Fish & Wildlife re-opened the Chinook salmon fishery on the…
Read MoreMORE THAN 134,000 spring Chinook salmon smolt were trucked from the Lookingglass Hatchery in Elgin to four raceways on Catherine Creek (Saxsaaxinma) in March. The setting includes fresh creek water pumped by an Isuzu diesel generator into the east end…
Read MorePENDLETON – The accolades keep coming in for CTUIR member Tyasin Burns, a football player for Pendleton High School. Burns was selected to the 5A/6A All-Star game called the Les Schwab Bowl July 3rd in Hillsboro. The CTUIR member was…
Read MoreWARM SPRINGS – A CTUIR member’s efforts on another reservation are being celebrated this year. Azar Spino started the annual Super Man – Wonder Woman Endurance Foot Race in Warm Springs, which will occur June 27. Austin Green, the Confederated…
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WHITE SWAN, Wash. – Teal Soaring Eagle, a 6-foot-2 guard from White Swan High School, signed a letter of intent to play basketball at Haskell Indian Nations University in Lawrence, Kans. this fall. The CTUIR member earned his scholarship after…
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By Cary Rosenbaum of the CUJ, KENNEWICK – In referencing the aspirations to work together with the City of Kennewick, Board of Trustees member Armand Minthorn recalled the discovery of Kennewick Man, a 9,000-year-old ancestor of the Columbia Plateau Tribes…
Read MoreBy Cary Rosenbaum of the CUJ, MISSION – Robert Windy Boy is a one of a kind — literally. The Pendleton High School student earned the Oregon Seal of Biliteracy after becoming the only student to pass the CTUIR Language…
Read MoreBy Cary Rosenbaum of the CUJ, MISSION – Nixyaawii Community School added three new faces in May. Robby Bill (Behavior Support), Nicci Harrison (Language Arts) and Aaron Noisey (PE/Health) received contracts with the school. Bill, a CTUIR member, was hired…
Read MoreBy Cary Rosenbaum of the CUJ, MISSION – Former Yellowhawk Tribal Health Center CEO Lisa Guzman will be remembered as one of the key figures within the CTUIR that helped combat COVID-19. The Tribe’s Health Commission accepted her resignation in…
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