An initiative in Washington that intends to ban transgender girls competing in girls’ school sports, and which Native leaders ...

Northwest Native leaders gathered at the annual NCAI convention discuss top issues from protecting the environment, gaming, ...

With DNA testing confirming her identity, Oregon officials have returned Marion Vinetta Nagle McWhorter’s remains to her last surviving sibling.

Native leaders at the NCAI convention lay out the stakes in midterm elections, including the future of federal funding, ...

"I voted on Native land" sticker created by Urban Native Era. (Jourdan Bennett-Begaye/ICT, file) As the country ramps up for midterm elections, voters will see 117 Indigenous candidates across 17 ...

A person puts their ballot in a drop box on Oct. 27, 2020, at a library in Seattle. (AP Photo/Ted S. Warren, File) Affirming Identities: This is part of an ongoing Underscore Native News series on how ...

Rocky Shore area, early September 2026. Photo by Andrea Taylor. The largest Dungeness crab ever caught in Oregon was rumored to be from a stretch of coastal land south of Yachats back around the 1930s ...

From left Michael Running Wolf, Northern Cheyenne and Lakota; Leonard Forsman, Suquamish Tribe; Elaine Harvey, Yakama Nation; and Johnny Buck, Yakama Nation sit on a panel about AI and data centers ...

Volunteers and attendees of the Inaugural Indigenous Food summit held in Portland skinning a cougar as part of the cougar hide tanning course on Sept. 9, 2026. (Photo by Lyric Aquino, Underscore ...

Red dresses sway in the breeze at Heron Park in Springfield, Oregon on May 7, 2025 during an "Poetry in the Park" event held in honor of Missing & Murdered Indigenous Women's Day. (Photo by Brian Bull ...

PORTLAND, Ore. — A group of Indigenous organizations around the Portland metro area felt inspired by the first Indigenous foods expo last year in the Northwest. They decided to bring something similar ...

Between last year’s passage of the tax and spending bill known as the One Big Beautiful Bill Act and federal cuts to agencies and staff, Natives across the U.S. are seeing diminishing support for ...