President Calvin Coolidge posed with Indigenous Americans near the White House on Feb. 18, 1925. In 1924, Congress passed the Indian Citizen Act, which gave citizenship to all Native Americans born in the U.S. Since then, several laws have been implemented in an effort to grant rights for Indigenous tribes. Photo courtesy of the Library of Congress
By GRAHAM LEE BREWER and JANIE HAR, Associated Press WASHINGTON – President Donald Trump has said since his first administration that he wants to end birthright citizenship, a constitutional right for everyone born in the United States. Last week he issued an executive order that would eliminate it, upending more than a century of precedent. On Jan. 23, however, a…
By COLLEEN LONG, ZEKE MILLER, JOHN HANNA and STEVE KARNOWSKI Associated Press WASHINGTON (AP) — Indigenous activist Leonard Peltier will return home nearly half a century after he was imprisoned for the 1975 killings of two FBI agents. President Joe Biden commuted Peltier’s sentence Monday following decades of community-led advocacy calling his imprisonment an example of the U.S. government’s mistreatment…
US Interior Secretary Deb Haaland shares a photo with Confederated Tribes of the Umatilla Indian Reservation Board of Trustees Member Cor Sams during the recent Tribal Nations Summit in Washington.
By SUSAN MONTOYA BRYAN, Associated Press ALBUQUERQUE, N.M. (AP) — It started to get real when the artwork was taken down from her office walls. The collection — all creations of Indigenous artists — had been handpicked by U.S. Interior Secretary Deb Haaland over the last four years as she guided one of the nation’s most expansive federal agencies. Then…
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: 2 positions for CTUIR Culture Coalition,…
Located along Johnley Road north of the Umatilla River, the 30-foot-deep Johnley Pond is an old rock quarry that became an illegal dump and party spot over the years.
By TRAVIS SNELL, CTUIR Communications MISSION – After learning of a truck at the bottom of Johnley Pond, the Confederated Tribes of the Umatilla Indian Reservation (CTUIR) Planning Department has initiated a cleanup of the pond and its surrounding area. Located along Johnley Road north of the Umatilla River, the 30-foot-deep pond is an old rock quarry that during the…
ODFW is reminding anglers that salmon and steelhead fishing remains closed in McKay Creek. ODFW has received reports of anglers fishing for salmon and steelhead in the area, which is mostly private land.
ODFW Media Release PENDLETON — Salmon and steelhead are returning to spawn in McKay Creek, a tributary of the Umatilla River near Pendleton, thanks to a fish passage project that dropped part of the weir that blocked passage for decades. ODFW is reminding anglers that salmon and steelhead fishing remains closed in McKay Creek. ODFW has received reports of anglers…
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, 2025, once the minutes have been approved and processed on CTUIR paydays. CTUIR is advertising the following positions:1 Position for CTUIR Culture Coalition, to…
Interior Secretary Deb Haaland, right, and Bryan Newland, Assistant Secretary for Indian Affairs at the Department of the Interior, left, present President Joe Biden with a blanket from Eighth Generation, a tribally-owned business, embroidered with “Joe Biden Champion for Indian Country,” at the 2024 White House Tribal Nations Summit at the Department of the Interior in Washington, Monday, Dec. 9, 2024. SUSAN WALSH | AP
By MATTHEW BROWN and MARC LEVY, Associated Press HARRISBURG, Pa. (AP) — President Joe Biden designated a national monument at a former Native American boarding school in Pennsylvania on Dec. 9 to honor the resilience of Indigenous peoples whose children were forced to attend the school and hundreds of similar abusive institutions. The creation of the Carlisle Federal Indian Boarding…
While supplies last, home and property owners in select wildfire-vulnerable communities may be eligible to receive a $250 payment following a defensible space assessment by the agency or a participating fire agency.
MISSION –Residents of Mission and other Eastern Oregon communities may be eligible for up to $250 to help pay for defensible space projects thanks to the Oregon State Fire Marshal (OSFM). Defensible space is the area around homes and buildings managed to keep embers from having a place to land and catch fire. Creating and maintaining defensible spaces is one…
