Yellowhawk to begin providing further COVID-19 testing

From the CTUIR Incident Command Wednesday, Aug. 10, 2020 MISSION – Yellowhawk Tribal Health Center (Yellowhawk) will begin providing further testing for enrolled Tribal Members of the Confederated Tribes of the Umatilla Indian Reservation (CTUIR) while resources and capacity for providing this testing can be sustained. An appointment is required for all testing done at Yellowhawk. Testing needs have been…

Oregon House passes bill regarding law enforcement’s legal use of force

Wednesday, Aug. 10 Statement by Attorney General Rosenblum on the Passage of HB 4301  Salem, Oregon—Oregon Attorney General Ellen Rosenblum today issued the following statement on the passage of HB 4301: “Congratulations to Representative Janelle Bynum, Senator James Manning, and to all the members of the People of Color Caucus of the Oregon Legislature on the passage tonight of HB…

CTUIR Language Program awarded NEH CARES grant

Mission, OR. – The Confederated Tribes of the Umatilla Indian Reservation Language Program has been awarded a grant of $125,000 from a National Endowment for the Humanities program funded by the CARES Act. Their grant project is to create video-recorded oral histories from Tribal elders about pandemics and natural disasters previously experienced on the reservation and ceded lands. The funding…

OHA Releases Weekly Testing Summary

Today, OHA released its Weekly Testing Summary, showing 35,424 test results were reported during the week of July 26 – Aug. 1.  Of those test results 2,174 were positive, indicating a test positivity of 6.1 percent, one of the highest rates observed since the early pandemic. The most recent weekly in-state theoretical testing capacity estimate is 48,000 tests for the…