Updated July 09, 2020 By Special to The Oregonian/OregonLive By Chuck Thompson, Columbia Insight The freshwater plume that discharges from the Columbia River into the Pacific Ocean around Astoria is an ever-changing phenomenon. Near the Columbia River Estuary at the mouth of the river it may be mostly freshwater; as it expands into the Pacific it becomes brackish;…
Reckoning at Standing Rock
Paddlers from the Pacific Northwest and elsewhere arrive by canoe at the main activist camp on North Dakota’s Cannon Ball River during a canoe demonstration in September against the Dakota Access Pipeline. photo: Terray Sylvester With tribal leaders in the front row, President Richard Nixon signs into law a bill deeding lands to the Taos and Pueblo American Indians, one…
Olympic Icon Billy Mills Comments on Washington D.C. Football Team Announcing Name Change
Gold Medalist and Native American Activist Calls for Lasting Change ALEXANDRIA, VA – Today, Billy Mills, Olympic Gold medalist, Oglala Lakota, and National Spokesperson for Running Strong for American Indian Youth spoke out on the Washington D.C. football team’s decision to move away from their current name and imagery after years of protracted discussion. “It’s never too late to do…
Bill Would Give Tribes 2 More Years To Spend COVID-19 Funds
By Andrew Westney Law360 (July 10, 2020, 6:52 PM EDT) –A bipartisan pair of U.S. House of Representatives members are floating a bill to push back the deadline for tribes to spend $8 billion in COVID-19 relief funds from Dec. 30 to the end of 2022, saying the federal government’s delays in disbursing the money have contributed to a time…
NFL’s Washington Redskins will change name and logo, team says
By Homero De la Fuente and Wayne Sterling, CNN The National Football League’s Washington franchise will change the Redskins name and logo, the team announced Monday in a statement. The new name of the team was not revealed. The announcement comes just days after the team said that a “thorough review” of the name would be conducted. The name has…
CTUIR Incident Command reduces allowable gathering sizes
Press Release Confederated Tribes of the Umatilla Indian Reservation 46411 Timíne Way, Pendleton, OR 97801 Phone: 541-276-3165 Fax: 541-276-3095 www.ctuir.org For immediate release: July 2, 2020 Contact: Heather Anderson, Public Information Officer – Public Health, (541) 240-8727 Jiselle Halfmoon, Public Information Officer – Tribal Governance, (541) 969-4801 Mission, OR – The Confederated Tribes of the Umatilla Indian Reservation (CTUIR) Incident…
Van Pelt new ASB President at Blue Mountain College
By the CUJ PENDLETON – Megan Van Pelt is the new Associated Student Body (ASB) President at Blue Mountain Community College (BMCC) in Pendleton. Van Pelt, an enrolled member of the Confederated Tribes of the Umatilla Indian Reservation (CTUIR), will be a sophomore at BMCC this fall and, after graduation next spring, plans to transfer to Arizona State University in…
Quaempts lands lunker Indian Lake trout on ultralight rod and reel
Logan Quaempts and the 6-pound, 6-ounce trout he took out of Indian Lake in June. By Wil Phinney of the CUJ INDIAN LAKE – On his way out the door, Logan Quaempts grabbed the 6-foot ultralight rod he uses to sneak up on brook trout hiding in the shadows under logs and behind boulders in the North Fork Umatilla and…
NCS playing football with Pendleton Bucks
Tyasin Burns, a senior next year at Nixyaawii Community School, will play football with the Pendleton Buckaroos. By Wil Phinney of the CUJ PENDLETON – Pendleton High School Coach Eric Davis is excited about adding three seniors from Nixyaawii Community School (NCS), especially tough running-back Tyasin Burns, to the Buckaroo football roster this fall. The Nixyaawii School Board in May approved…
SAMS & SONS — First Nixyaawii coach returns with two boys
Dakota Sams drives to the basket for Pendleton Buckaroos last year. Grayson, Ryan and Dakota Sams stand in the Nixyaawii Community School gym. By Wil Phinney of the CUJ Ryan Sams, Nixyaawii Community School’s first basketball coach, is returning to lead the Golden Eagles after 14 years of coaching at Pendleton High School, and he’s bringing his two sons with…