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Randy Settler’s family has spent generations fighting for its right to harvest salmon. But the federal government squandered its chance to recover the endangered fish before the onset of climate change. Now, Settler sees it all slipping away again.

How more than a century of federal policy kept this family’s way of life on the endangered list.

Native tribes in the Columbia River Basin face a disproportionate risk of toxic exposure through their most important food. While tribes have pushed the government to pay closer attention to dangerous chemicals and metals in fish, that hasn’t happened. So, we did our own testing. What we found was alarming for tribes.

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For decades, the U.S. government has failed to test for dangerous chemicals and metals in fish. So, we did. What we found was alarming for tribes.

The government bulldozed an Indigenous religious site along a busy highway. Elders want the U.S. Supreme Court to hear claim to restore the site.

MISSION — “Honoring Fisher Women of Celilo Falls” was the theme of Elders Day on Sept. 9 at Wildhorse Resort & Casino near Mission.

Pacific Lamprey have existed for more than 450 million years, but they are struggling to survive dams, drowned waterfalls, and industrial degradation.

Long ago, or so the story runs, Coyote happened upon an impressive waterfall. Five sisters had lived near this place since ancient times, and Coyote,...

The ancient relationship between the otherworldly fish and Northwest tribes is also the future of freshwater conservation.