Native Americans

The Bison Bridge will be the world’s longest human-made wildlife crossing

June 30, 2021

Chad Pregracke is an impassioned conservationist who spends his time on barges, cleaning up refuse from the Mississippi River. While on the river, he watches cars drive across a 55-year-old concrete bridge that is meant to be demolished and replaced—but when he sees the aging … [Read more...] about The Bison Bridge will be the world’s longest human-made wildlife crossing

New version of “The Oregon Trail” finally portrays Indigenous perspectives

May 21, 2021

When it was first launched in 1971 as a computer game, “The Oregon Trail” told the story of white settlers traveling across the American West in 1848 and let players assume the roles of wagon leaders whose mission was to keep people and cattle alive while facing starvation and … [Read more...] about New version of “The Oregon Trail” finally portrays Indigenous perspectives

More and more Native American tribes are buying back their ancestral land

February 23, 2021

When the Klamath Tribes of southern Oregon purchased a 1,705-acre patchwork of meadows, wetlands, and timberland that had once belonged to them this past summer, it represented the latest example of Native American tribes taking back their homelands via the real estate market. … [Read more...] about More and more Native American tribes are buying back their ancestral land

Salmon spawn in the upper Columbia River for the first time in 80 years

December 21, 2020

For several decades, Native American tribe leaders and scientists have dreamt of seeing the return of salmon in the Columbia River system. Now that dream has come true after biologists counted 36 redds (a nest in which female salmon lay their eggs) along the Sanpoil River, a … [Read more...] about Salmon spawn in the upper Columbia River for the first time in 80 years