Native Warrior’s Efforts Lead Washington State to Observe Annual Welcome Home Vietnam Veterans Day

Richard Walker
March 26, 2013
Many of them were 18 or 19 when they enlisted or were drafted. They were trained to fight in a far-off land, to stop communism from spreading into Southeast Asia...

Rez Dog Rescue: Help Them Help Animals in Need

ICTMN Staff
December 05, 2012
Rez Dog Rescue is a nonprofit animal rescue and welfare group based on the Yakama Nation Reservation in Washington state...

Hatching a Plan for Northwest Salmon: Conference Highlights Fish Stock Restoration

Jackleen de La Harpe
October 28, 2012
Fish hatcheries built below the dams in the Pacific Northwest have replenished salmon stocks for downstream and ocean fishermen for decades, while upstream, wild runs where treaty ...

Yakama Nation Statement Against the ‘KKK’ Hate Crime Upon a Lakota Elder

Harry Smiskin
May 04, 2012
An Open Letter to Indian Country Media Network At some point between August 26 and September 8 of 2011, while in the medical care of the Rapid City Regional Hospital following open...

Yakama Nation Challenges Willamette River Polluters to Clean and Protect Lower Columbia River

Terri Hansen
April 08, 2012
PORTLAND, Ore.—Portland is an environmentally-friendly city, a scenic city, with Mt...

Yakama Pow Wow Dancers Perform in Front of 1.5 Million in South America

Jack McNeel
March 17, 2012

“I think it’s the best I’ve ever been treated,” HollyAnna DeCoteau Pinkham said.

Death of Yakama Leader Leaves Ripples in Many Communities

Brian Daffron
January 13, 2012
The October 27, 2011 death of Yakama General Council chair Moses Dick Squeochs created serious ripples not only within his family and the Yakama people, but also with the higher ed...

What Demolishing the Condit Dam Means, and How It Looked

ICTMN Staff
October 28, 2011
On Wednesday, the Condit Dam on the White Salmon River in Washington state was breached...
Emily Washines

The Condit Dam Removal and Moving Forward in the White Salmon River

The existence of Condit Dam has been a blink of time in the history of the White Salmon watershed....

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October 27, 2011

Yakama Recognized for Environmentally Sound Solid Waste Handling

Richard Walker
October 26, 2011
In the last few years, the Yakama Nation has fought plans to ship refuse from Hawai’i to a landfill in the Columbia River Basin, and ridded the reservation of mosquito-breeding pil...

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