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SALEM — Oregon Gov. Kate Brown announced on Friday, March 5, that she was directing all Oregon schools to offer hybrid or full in-person instruction to all elementary students by
MISSION — The Confederated Tribes of the Umatilla Indian Reservation COVID-19 Incident Command Team has announced plans for Yellowhawk Tribal Health Center to vaccinate area high school students 16 and
MISSION â The Yellowhawk Tribal Health Center is hosting a mass vaccination clinic on Tuesday, Feb. 23, and Wednesday, Feb. 24, according to a Confederated Tribes of the Umatilla Indian Reservation press release. The health clinic has received 975 doses of the Pfizer COVID-19 vaccine from the Indian Health Service to put on a mass vaccination clinic. The Oregon National Guard will assist with administration of the vaccines. Vaccinations will be provided to enrolled members of the CTUIR who are 16 and over, employees of all CTUIR entities, including the Tribal government, Wildhorse Resort...
NWIFC, 2007/Glenn Drosendahl Listen / Leaders of seven Pacific Northwest tribes testified this week in favor of replacing a statue of Oregon Trail pioneer and missionary Marcus Whitman in the U.S. Capitol. A proposal pending in the Washington Legislature would install a statue of the late Native rights activist Billy Frank Jr. in Whitman's place of honor. Every U.S. state gets to choose two prominent figures to put in the National Statuary Hall Collection. In the early 1950s, Washington state delivered a larger-than-life bronze of Marcus Whitman. As sculpted by Arvard Fairbanks, th...
PENDLETON â Leaders from the Confederated Tribes of the Umatilla Indian Reservation met with Umatilla County Commissioners and other county officials on Wednesday, Dec. 16, to discuss the current state of the COVID-19 pandemic, the Thorn Hollow Bridge and how local communities are jointly planning for the upcoming flood season. The meeting began with updates from tribal officials who confirmed that Yellowhawk Tribal Health Center will be receiving the first 300 doses of the COVID-19 vaccine on Thursday, Dec. 17. Inoculations of health care staff, frontline first responders and Yellowhawk...