CRITFC News
News and announcements from the Columbia River Inter-Tribal Fish Commission.
The Columbia River Inter-Tribal Fish Commission mourns the loss of our elder and Commissioner...
It is with heavy hearts we share that CRITFC has lost one of our own. Bobby Begay—Celilo Village...
The 2020 United States census is underway. This count, which happens every 10 years, helps...
Sunday, September 29, tribal leaders, dancers, and drummers helped welcome Pacific lamprey to the...
Jeremy Red Star Wolf (Umatilla) taking the oath of office to become the 2019-2020 CRITFC chair....
Emerson Squiemphen, Warm Springs, offering a blessing on the lamprey and their new home. Today the...
by Jeremy FiveCrows, critfc public affairs “Everywhere you are, Indians have been.” This phrase...
Back in 2008, CRITFC, the Umatilla, Warm Springs, and Yakama tribes, the Bonneville Power...
Hereditary Chief of the Walla Walla Tribe Carl Sampson passed away November 15, 2017 in Pendleton, Oregon.
It is with heavy heart that CRITFC shares the news of the passing of Roy Sampsel, our first executive director and a dedicated advocate of tribes throughout the United States for nearly fifty years.
This year’s low number of steelhead returning to spawn are getting a helping hand from the Nez Perce Tribe and the Columbia River Inter-Tribal Fish Commission this week when fisheries biologists are releasing approximately 100 wild, B-run steelhead into the Snake River.
This spawning season, CRITFC and its member tribes will bolster the population of B-index Steelhead at Lower Granite Dam on the Snake River by an estimated 20%. This increase is thanks to CRITFC’s Steelhead Kelt Reconditioning program.