The commission was created in 1975 so Oregon’s nine federally recognized tribes could advise state officials and agencies on the needs of Oregon’s Native American communities.

A free-flowing river has reemerged where Copco 1 and 2, Iron Gate and J.C. Boyle dams used to be. For Indigenous tribes, including the Klamath, Shasta, Karuk, Hoopa Valley and Yurok, the project ...

It was only one of two tribes in the country, along with Oregon’s Confederated Tribes of Grand Ronde, compelled to do so to regain tribal land. World & Nation A remote tribe is reeling from ...

In Oregon, the federal government designated 195,012 acres for floating farm development off Coos Bay and Brookings in areas within coastal tribes’ ancestral territories.

But to get a fraction of its land back — roughly 3,600 acres (1,457 hectares) of the 1.1-million-acre (445,000-hectare) reservation established for the tribe in 1855 — the Siletz tribe had to ...

Oregon tribe has hunting and fishing rights restored under a long-sought court ruling ... It was only one of two tribes in the country, along with Oregon’s Confederated Tribes of Grand Ronde, ...