At Salish School of Spokane, students from 1 to 13 are immersed in n̓səl̓xčin̓, known as the Colville-Okanagan Salish ...

Underscore Native News staff spent 2025 reporting stories that covered a broad spectrum of areas impacting Native Nations, ...

A look back at this past year's coverage in images from Native Nations and Indigenous communities across the Pacific Northwest.

In his highly anticipated second cookbook, “Turtle Island,” Sherman shines a light on 13 regional Native foods and traditions ...

Jarrette is a multimedia journalist with experience in digital news, audio reporting and photojournalism. He joined Underscore in June 2022 in partnership with the national Report for America program.

On Feb. 10, around a dozen people gathered outside the Mamook Tokatee apartment complex in the Cully Neighborhood to display protest signs and sing handdrum songs before walking to the Native American ...

U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE), www.ice.gov. Photo courtesy of ICE, public domain, via Wikimedia Commons Tribes across the U.S. are responding to reports of Indigenous people being ...

Photo courtesy of Caskey Russell. Caskey Russell, an enrolled member of the Tlingit Nation (Eagle / Kooyu Kwáan) of Alaska, is a father, a professor and a musician. Russell currently teaches ...

This story is co-published by Underscore, ICT and High Country News. ‍The second-largest waterfall in North America is 20 minutes south of downtown Portland, Oregon. Most Portlanders have never heard ...

The view over Iron Gate Dam outside Hornbook, Calif., in February, 2024. (Photo by Alex Milan Tracy / Underscore News) At a virtual press conference on Thursday, Oct. 9, Klamath River scientists ...

Chris Kowitz, the North Central Region Manager for the Oregon Water Resources Department, said continuous funding will be needed for the Walla Walla Water 2050 Plan. Members of the Walla Walla Basin ...

Gabe Galanda, an Indigenous rights lawyer and citizen of the Round Valley Tribe, says systemic racism against Native American people in Washington’s legal system is a continuation of historically ...