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 Jeremy FiveCrows | May 1, 2025 | CRITFC News
The Confederated Tribes of the Umatilla Indian Reservation (CTUIR) Department of Natural Resources (DNR) hosted its open house event at the Nixyaawii Governance Center, drawing tribal members eager to learn about ongoing First Foods protection and restoration...
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,...
by Jeremy FiveCrows | Feb 27, 2025 | CRITFC News
SPOKANE, Wash. – Kellen Lewis views life through a lens of wellness. He has lived his life at the crossroads of history, heritage, and identity while balancing reservation and urban life in Seattle, where he grew up. As an Afro-Indigenous Nez Perce artist, dancer,...
by Jill-Marie Gavin | Feb 20, 2025 | CRITFC News
HOOD RIVER, Ore. – Jesse “Buck” Jones – horseman, star basketball player, and an advocate for tribal fishers on the Columbia River – shared his personal story with a live audience Feb. 12 during “A Sense of Place” podcast. Jones, an enrolled member of the Confederated...
by Jill-Marie Gavin | Feb 13, 2025 | CRITFC News
MESA, Ariz. – The National Center for American Indian Enterprise Development has announced the 2025 Native American 40 Under 40 honorees, recognizing individuals who have demonstrated leadership, initiative, and dedication to their communities. ~ “Our youth will be...
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