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...
by Jeremy FiveCrows | Jun 5, 2025 | CRITFC News
James Ryan Marsh was a proud Cayuse man who never forgot his heritage. This pride in his lineage was reflected by his deep sense of responsibility he carried as both a Umatilla Commissioner and Fish and Wildlife Commissioner of 15 years. Through his bloodline, he felt...
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,...
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