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Members of Chinook Indian Nation liken lack of federal recognition to slow-motion 'genocide'


Members of Chinook Indian Nation liken lack of federal recognition to slow-motion ‘genocide’
Updated Apr 03, 2021;
Posted Apr 03, 2021
Members of the Chinook Indian Nation paddle a newly made replica of an historic Native American canoe in 2013. They were on the first day of a five-day river journey down the Lower Columbia in honor of their ancestors and in celebration of the river. Faith Cathcart/The OregonianLC-
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By Anna V. Smith/High Country News
Before the pandemic, the cedar plankhouse called Cathlapotle would have been full of stories and fire. Every winter, the Chinook Indian Nation and neighboring tribes hold their annual gathering here, on their ancestral lands on a Columbia River floodplain, where red-winged blackbirds sing from the cattails and yellow-and-orange-eyed sandhill cranes strut on stilted legs. It’s not far from the remnants of a village also called Cathlapotle, a major Chinookan trading town established around 1 ....

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The 'slow-motion genocide' of the Chinook Indian Nation (Unrecognized) — High Country News – Know the West


The ‘slow-motion genocide’ of the Chinook Indian Nation
Federal recognition provides tribes with critical healthcare and education. What happens to the tribal nations that the U.S. refuses to recognize?
Image credit: Greg A. Robinson
April 1, 2021
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Before the pandemic, the cedar plankhouse called Cathlapotle would have been full of stories and fire. Every winter, the Chinook Indian Nation and neighboring tribes hold their annual gathering here, on their ancestral lands on a Columbia River floodplain, where red-winged blackbirds sing from the cattails and yellow-and-orange-eyed sandhill cranes strut on stilted legs. It’s not far from the remnants of a village also called Cathlapotle, a major Chinookan trading town established around 1450 that once held as many as 16 plankhouses. ....

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Udall Secures Enactment Of 12 Indian Affairs Bills


Udall Secures Enactment Of 12 Indian Affairs Bills
U.S. SENATE News:
WASHINGTON, D.C. U.S. Sen. Tom Udall (D-N.M.), vice chairman of the Senate Committee on Indian Affairs, hailed final passage of 12 Indian Affairs-related bills.
The 12 bills will now go to the president to be signed into law.
Udall also cheered Senate passage of seven additional Indian Affairs provisions, which must be passed by the House of Representatives. 
Udall led or cosponsored seven of the 12 Indian Affairs-related bills set to become law, including:
– The Health Care Access for Urban Native Veterans Act, Udall’s bipartisan bill to improve health care access for Native American Veterans by providing Department of Veterans Affairs (VA) coverage for care that Native American veterans receive at urban Indian health centers; ....

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