by Jill-Marie Gavin | Jul 17, 2025 | CRITFC News
THE DALLES, Ore. – Over three dozen tribal students from the Columbia River Gorge gathered with their friends and family at The Rise Center in The Dalles to celebrate their graduation from with a potluck barbecue hosted by the local Johnson O’Malley (JOM) and Oregon...
by Jeremy FiveCrows | Jul 3, 2025 | CRITFC News
GOLDENDALE, Wash. – The film These Sacred Hills tells the story of Yakama Nation members that are trying to save sacred ground from being desecrated by a pump storage energy project in the Columbia River Gorge. The full-length film took home the Best Feature...
by Jeremy FiveCrows | Jun 18, 2025 | CRITFC News
in honor of National Fishing Day (June 18), we are sharing this 2004 article about a Umatilla father passing on his love of fishing to his son that appeared in the CRITFC magazine Wana Chinook Tymoo. Quentin Quaempts can’t sit still. In fact it’s difficult to tell...
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 Jeremy FiveCrows | Jun 12, 2025 | CRITFC News
CRITFC Chair Jeremy Takala We are dismayed that an agreement that was among the best roadmaps charted for helping Columbia Basin salmon — representing years of work by tribes, states, and the federal government — was undone with the stroke of a pen. This action, done...
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