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The U.S.
Department of Interior says it has added 21 American Indian communities to a $1.9 billion program to consolidate tribal lands owned by multiple individuals.
White Swan, an impoverished community of about 800 residents south of the city of Yakima, can be a rough place.
Last year, the Yakama Nation Tribal Council passed a resolution declaring a public safety crisis, specifically citing rampant crime in White Swan.
"We must remain of one voice, one heart, one spirit -- to speak for those things that cannot speak for themselves" JoDe Goudy, chairman of the Yakama Nation Tribal Council in the northwestern US, told demonstrators.
(AP) - Two men arrested in connection with five slayings over the weekend on the Yakama Indian Reservation in Washington state were charged Monday with assault with a dangerous weapon related to fleeing the killings.
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OREGON CITY, Ore.
(AP) — They dove into the cold waters, emerging with writhing, eel-like fish in hand and thrusting them into nets.
The venture will employ up to 100 workers. Planting at the greenhouse is expected in early spring but the partners have declined to say how much cannabis will be produced.
The greenhouse complex will eventually occupy 2.5 acres, with 10 extra acres available for offices and processing.
Chanting "water is life" and shouting out tribal calls, a circle of dancers beat on drums in protest at the Dakota Access Pipeline, part of which runs through lands inhabited by the indigenous groups.
James Cloud, 35, and Donovan Quinn Carter Cloud, whose age was not available, briefly held a child at gunpoint, resulting in the assault charge, and demanded the keys to a car while fleeing, according to documents filed in federal court in Spokane.
The Yakama and other tribes have opposed the movement of oil and other fossil fuels through the Columbia Gorge, a canyon carved out of the region's volcanic rock by the river and by violent Ice Age floods.
Oil trains pose grave threats to public safety, the environment and koltuk yikama their treaty-reserved fishing rights, the tribes say.
Native Americans catch lamprey, eel-like fish, at Willamette Falls, a 40-foot waterfall south of Portland, Ore., Friday, June 12, 2015.
An ancient fish that's a source of food for tribes in the Pacific Northwest, lampreys have been in drastic decline in recent decades.
The U.S.
Department of Interior says it has added 21 American Indian communities to a $1.9 billion program to consolidate tribal lands owned by multiple individuals.
White Swan, an impoverished community of about 800 residents south of the city of Yakima, can be a rough place.
Last year, the Yakama Nation Tribal Council passed a resolution declaring a public safety crisis, specifically citing rampant crime in White Swan.
"We must remain of one voice, one heart, one spirit -- to speak for those things that cannot speak for themselves" JoDe Goudy, chairman of the Yakama Nation Tribal Council in the northwestern US, told demonstrators.
(AP) - Two men arrested in connection with five slayings over the weekend on the Yakama Indian Reservation in Washington state were charged Monday with assault with a dangerous weapon related to fleeing the killings.
OREGON CITY, Ore.
(AP) — They dove into the cold waters, emerging with writhing, eel-like fish in hand and thrusting them into nets.
The venture will employ up to 100 workers. Planting at the greenhouse is expected in early spring but the partners have declined to say how much cannabis will be produced.
The greenhouse complex will eventually occupy 2.5 acres, with 10 extra acres available for offices and processing.
Chanting "water is life" and shouting out tribal calls, a circle of dancers beat on drums in protest at the Dakota Access Pipeline, part of which runs through lands inhabited by the indigenous groups.
James Cloud, 35, and Donovan Quinn Carter Cloud, whose age was not available, briefly held a child at gunpoint, resulting in the assault charge, and demanded the keys to a car while fleeing, according to documents filed in federal court in Spokane.
The Yakama and other tribes have opposed the movement of oil and other fossil fuels through the Columbia Gorge, a canyon carved out of the region's volcanic rock by the river and by violent Ice Age floods.
Oil trains pose grave threats to public safety, the environment and koltuk yikama their treaty-reserved fishing rights, the tribes say.
Native Americans catch lamprey, eel-like fish, at Willamette Falls, a 40-foot waterfall south of Portland, Ore., Friday, June 12, 2015.
An ancient fish that's a source of food for tribes in the Pacific Northwest, lampreys have been in drastic decline in recent decades.