Native articles
-
A crisis call line run by Native youth, for Native youth
WARM SPRINGS, Ore. — Rosanna Jackson, an enrolled member of the Confederated Tribes of Warm Springs here, counts herself as one of the resilient ones. Her childhood in the 1970s and 80s was tough. Home didn’t always feel like a safe place to be. There’s a stigma that leads to people “not talking about their […]
-
Navy Protects Native Species at Lualualei
A U.S. Navy environmental team discovered that with some planning, an auspicious wetland, and the use of creative designs, there are opportunities to protect and study native Hawaiian species at a small military facility in west Oahu.
-
Alaska has a plan to save its salmon but some Native leaders are wary
A new approach aims to restore fish levels in the Yukon River but some feel it unfairly targets traditional practices while failing to tackle huge losses to industrial fishing in the oceanEarlier this month Alaska officials announced a new plan they say could revive the Yukon River’s struggling salmon population. The 2,000-mile waterway that runs from Canada’s Yukon Territory to the Bering Sea has seen sharp declines in its Chinook, or king salmon, in recent years.The new strategy aims to...