The Washington State Department of Children, Youth, and Families (DCYF) signed its first agreement last month to coordinate child welfare services with an out-of-state tribe. The historic memorandum of agreement…
Indigenous people
Despite federal dams, Columbia and Snake River tribes fight to keep fishing traditions alive
This summer for the first time the U.S. government acknowledged that nearly a century of damming waterways in the Columbia and Snake rivers for hydroelectricity has devastated fish runs central…
Report finds barriers for NW coastal tribes responding to climate change
Coastal tribes in the Northwest are on the front lines of the changing climate but face barriers to responding to its effects. A new report collected testimony directly from tribal members to…
Prison powwow: Native families connect with their loved ones behind bars
In line to enter a state prison north of Olympia, 10-year-old Ahyoka Wixon cannot stay still. “My dad’s friend made me a jingle dress!” she says to a friendly man…