Native American

In the past two weeks, the Trump administration has announced the cancellation of leases for at least 12 Indian Health Service facilities and 25 Bureau of Indian Affairs offices, representing nearly 30% of all agency locations, including one each in Toppenish, Washington, and Lapwai, Idaho, as part of an effort to decrease federal office space.

The Forest Grove Indian Industrial School opened on February 25, 1880. It was the first school of its kind on the West Coast and the second federally funded, off-reservation Native American boarding school in the country.

“Little Ones,” a comedic opera telling the story of Indigenous youth at Intermountain Indian School, is in its beginning stages of development but gave a glimpse of what’s to come with the launch of its community listening tour at the Center for Native Arts and Cultures.

In his first term, Trump opened up lands sacred to Native people for development, and rolled back dozens of environmental protections. Oregon Gov. Tina Kotek said she’ll stand with Oregon values as the White House changes hands again.

At tumwata village, the Confederated Tribes of Grand Ronde plan to create a mixture of public, cultural and commercial use overlooking Willamette Falls at the site of the old Blue Heron Paper Mill.

Teen’s disappearance — highlighted in recent InvestigateWest report — among the first cases taken by new state investigative unit .

A leader, husband, father, grandfather and more, Ted Strong was well-known and loved throughout his community.

Central Oregon Native American hip-hop artist Blue Flamez recently won an arts fellowship with a six-figure award to reach a wider audience.

Whitman College welcomed its first Choctaw visiting educator, Roger Amerman, who recently finished working on the new show "Echo" from Marvel.

“Tribes should have access to information about cultural items held in storage or on display at state agencies, state universities, colleges, and public schools,” said Kotek in a news release. “It is time to renew this important work and continue to strengthen our essential government-to-government relationship with the nine sovereign nations.”