Tracy Lawrence, Rodney Atkins to Headline 2025 Round-Up & Happy Canyon Kick-Off Concert. PENDLETON ROUND-UP | COURTESY
PENDLETON – Chart-topping country stars Tracy Lawrence and Rodney Atkins will headline the Pendleton Round-Up and Happy Canyon Kick-Off Concert at the Happy Canyon Arena on Saturday, September 6th. Tickets go on sale March 14th. Lawrence, whose 13 million albums sold and 18 No. 1 singles have racked up numerous American Country Music (ACM) and Country Music Association (CMA) awards…
Members of the Nixyaawii boys basketball team pose with sweatshirts they received from the school’s booster club at a sendoff on March 6, 2025, shortly before they boarded the bus for the 1A state basketball championships in Baker. KATHY ANEY | THE CUJ
By ANNIE FOWLER, THE CUJ BAKER CITY — Nixyáawii has been a fixture at the 1A state basketball tournament for years. The Golden Eagles are making a return trip this week and will face Country Christian at 6:30 p.m. Thursday, March 6, in the quarterfinals. The Golden Eagles and Cougars met at the 1A preview in December, with Nixyáawii coming…
The second annual Two Cultures -One Community Powwow welcomed competing drum Red Hawk Express (pictured) and the return of host drum Wild Rose along with eight other drums who competed for prizes. KATHY ANEY | THE CUJ
WIL PHINNEYTCOC Committee PENDLETON – More than 500 dancers and drummers competed over three days at the Two Cultures – One Community Powwow (TCOC) in Pendleton Feb. 28 – March 2. Dancers and drummers came mostly from the Western states – Oregon, Washington, California, Idaho and Montana, but also from as far away as Regina, Saskatchewan in Canada and Window…
Dear CTUIR Members, Since President Donald J. Trump’s inauguration on Jan. 20, we at the Confederated Tribes of the Umatilla Indian Reservation (CTUIR) – along with our lobbyist teams in Oregon, Washington State and Washington, D.C. – have been keeping an eye on the executive orders emanating from the White House and their impacts. Many executive orders are Trump’s attempts…
In this photo released by NDN Collective, Native American activist Leonard Peltier poses for pictures as he was released from a Florida prison on Tuesday, Feb. 18, 2025, weeks after then-President Joe Biden angered law enforcement officials by commuting his life sentence to home confinement in the 1975 killings of two FBI agents. (Angel White Eyes, NDN Collective via AP)
By GRAHAM LEE BREWER, Associated Press BELCOURT, N.D. (AP) — More than 50 years after a shootout on the Pine Ridge Indian Reservation landed him in federal prison, Leonard Peltier remains defiant. Despite being convicted and sentenced to life in prison, he maintains his innocence in the killings of two FBI agents in 1975 and sees his newfound freedom —…
Title VI Coordinator Wynema Thurman, left, and Kendall Rosario show off a tribal nations map that will be displayed in one of the several schools in the Confederated Tribes of the Umatilla Indian Reservation’s education service area. LISA SNELL | THE CUJ
LISA SNELLThe CUJ MISSION – Youth Services Manager Kendall Rosario needs you to understand what she does and why it is important.She manages the Title VI Indian Education program for the Confederated Tribes of the Umatilla Indian Reservation (CTUIR).“When I first started, there was a really negative idea of what Title VI was, why we were here,” she said. “Parents…
TRIBAL MEMBERS: This notification formally announces that applications are now being accepted from tribal members who wish to serve on the Commission(s)/Committee(s) listed below. Appointed members will receive a $125.00 stipend per meeting, effective January 1, 2022, once the minutes have been approved and processed on CTUIR paydays.CTUIR is advertising the following positions: 3 Positions for CTUIR Culture Coalition, to…
Russell Eagle Bear, with the Rosebud Sioux Reservation Tribal Council, talks to U.S. Interior Secretary Deb Haaland during a meeting about Native American boarding schools at Sinte Gleska University in Mission, S.D., Saturday, Oct. 15, 2022. Haaland wrapped up her nationwide tour confronting the legacy of the institutions where students were often abused on Sunday, Nov. 5 in Bozeman, Mont.
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By MORGAN LEE and SUSAN MONTOYA BRYAN, Associated Press SANTA FE, N.M. (AP) — Deb Haaland, who championed conservation and clean energy during her tenure as Interior secretary, is running for the Democratic nomination for governor in New Mexico, the nation’s No. 2 oil production state. Haaland, a member of Laguna Pueblo and the nation’s first Native American cabinet secretary…
