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Inaugural Indigenous Food Summit in Portland This Week

Sept. 9 and 10 at Portland State University, attendees can take part in knowledge sharing through dozens of workshops centering Indigenous food sovereignty.
Grist

A rare celebration of Indigenous Pacific cultures underscores the cost of climate change

More than 2,000 people are gathering in Hawaiʻi this week and next for the 13th Festival of Pacific Island Arts and Culture. It’s the largest gathering of Indigenous Pacific peoples in the world. And ...
KHNL

Reflections from FestPAC: Nonprofit Nia Tero urges protection of indigenous lands

HONOLULU (HawaiiNewsNow) - The recently concluded 13th Festival of Pacific Arts and Culture (FestPAC) highlighted the importance of indigenous voices and protecting native Pacific cultures and ...
OPB

REBROADCAST: PNW organization emphasizes lacrosse’s Indigenous roots

Indigenous tribes in what is now the northeastern U.S. and Canada have played lacrosse for millennia. Similar stick-and-ball games were played by tribes across the Southeast and Great Lakes region.
The News Tribune

Pacific Northwest Indigenous doulas are helping Native women reclaim birthing practices

Hummingbird Indigenous Family Services is a group of five indigenous doulas who provide culture-specific help to Native pregnant women and continue assistance through the first 1,000 days of the ...
EurekAlert!

Pacific curators restore Indigenous voices to colonial-era collections

Fault Lines: Imagining Indigenous futures for colonial collections, at the University of Cambridge’s Museum of Archaeology and Anthropology (MAA) from 6th December 2024 to 21st December 2025, examines ...
OPB

Pacific Northwest organizations work to support queer Indigenous youth

A new report from the Trevor Project shows LGBTQ2S+ Indigenous youth face a disproportionate rate of mental health challenges. The report’s recommendations mirror work being done by local Indigenous ...
Oregonian

New Indigenous culture exhibits open at Columbia River Maritime Museum in Astoria

The display cases in “Cedar and Sea” are like many others in museum exhibits, full of traditional objects such as baskets, fishing hooks, carving tools and boxes. But compared with many other ...
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I Found Proof Evidence That an Indigenous Explorer Beat Lewis and Clark to the Pacific Coast by a Century

It feels like wading through a sea of green. With every step, sword ferns and prickly branches slap at my pant legs and sleeves. I can’t see the ground, so I search for footing between slick rocks and ...
PBS

Native Heroes Take Center Stage at Indigenous Comic Con

Welcome to Electric Chaco, a futuristic world where Indigenous people develop cities and communities that are completely sustainable and yet still adhere to Indigenous culture and traditional ...

Indigenous Groups Are Exempt From Medicaid Work Rules, But Native Hawaiians Aren’t

Native Hawaiians will have to comply with the new work requirements in President Donald Trump’s signature One Big Beautiful ...