by Jill-Marie Gavin | Jun 17, 2025 | CRITFC News
Columbia River tribes work with CRITFC to release comprehensive update to groundbreaking conservation effort as climate change and habitat loss threaten cultural cornerstone PORTLAND, Ore. – Thirty years ago, most Pacific Northwesterners, the federal government, and...
by Jill-Marie Gavin | Jun 16, 2025 | CRITFC News
Yakama Nation Review and Confederated Umatilla Journal also win big with 11 awards combined Columbia River Inter-Tribal Fish Commission (CRITFC) entered the annual media award contest for Indigenous news services and journalists its second time this year. According to...
by Jill-Marie Gavin | Jun 8, 2025 | Uncategorized
Today, June 8th, we celebrate UN World Ocean Day under this year’s theme of “Wonder” – the ocean’s wonder that draws us in and drives our desire to protect it. For the Columbia River tribes, this wonder extends far beyond the horizon where...
by Jill-Marie Gavin | May 21, 2025 | CRITFC News
For fifty years, the Endangered Species Act has recognized the reality that a species can just as be threatened with extinction by losing their habitat as they are by directly killing them. Despite this precedent, as well as the fact that habitat loss is the number...
by Jill-Marie Gavin | Mar 14, 2025 | CRITFC News
MISSION – The Umatilla Indian Reservation community gathered at the Mission Longhouse on March 2 for the annual Nixyaawii Celery Feast. Several days before the feast, gatherers collected the tender shoots of latit latit or Indian celery according to ancient protocols,...
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