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From Metal and Jazz to Hip Hop, there isn't a type of music Native Americans don't play.

From Metal and Jazz to Hip Hop, there isn't a type of music Native Americans don't play.

Children at Daybreak Star Preschool benefit from indigenous food and farm-to-table practices in the Child and Adult Care Food Program.

Maternal mortality rates are already much higher among Native people. The pandemic added another complication.

Top 25 places to see and experience in Washington before you die Sign In FacebookTwitterEmail 1of5 Mt. Constitution on Orcas Island (not on NYT list), the highest point in San Juan Islands, part of 5,000-acre Moran State Park. Accessible by road or trail, the summit offers vistas of the San Juans, Mt. Baker, and distant Coast Range and Tantalus Mountains in British Columbia. (Robin Layton/Seattle P-I)Robin Layton/Seattle P-IShow MoreShow Less 2of5 3of5 4of5 Olympic Peninsula, Olympic National P...

Co-founder of R Digital Design and Wenatchi Wear, Mary Big Bull-Lewis outside of her warehouse in Wenatchee on March 2, 2021. She started her companies with her husband, Rob Lewis, and aims to educate people about Wenatchi history through their designs and apparel. Dorothy Edwards/Crosscut  and is republished here with permission. Just outside her shop in Wenatchee, Mary Big Bull-Lewis can see the Cascade foothills on the western edge of her hometown. Along the crest, only a little bigger tha...

In this particular case, the P’squosa are one of the many bands of Native peoples encompassed by the federally recognized Confederated Tribes of the Colville Reservation. While the band signed a treaty that promised a reservation, it wasn’t recognized, leading the P’squosa to eventually lose ownership of their land base entirely.  Randy Lewis, a P’squosa elder who’s a board member of the Land Back Project (no relation to Big Bull-Lewis), has ancestry connected to many of the bands e...