Twelve tribes make up the confederation, including the Okanogan, the Moses-Columbia, the Nez Perce and the Wenatchi. At one ...

have opened a hunting season for gray wolves on their reservation that sprawls across 1.4 million acres in northeast Washington, saying wolves have reduced the number of deer and elk that tribal ...

Fishing is still allowed in the inundated Sanpoil Arm of Lake Roosevelt. The Colville Indian Reservation may be the best fishing destination in the state where most Washington anglers have never ...

The Confederated Tribes of the Umatilla Indian Reservation (CTUIR) strongly objects to the Confederated Tribes of the Colville Reservation’s (Colville Tribe) plan to continue advocating for a ...

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COLVILLE, Wash. — An Elmer City local ... From April 2022 through December 2022, the Bureau of Indian Affairs Division of Drug Enforcement engaged in a variety of controlled purchases from ...

On a late summer day in 2020, Gina Lawrence stepped onto her porch and spotted fire rolling through the dry grass across the valley from her home on the eastern edge of the Colville Indian ...

The fire has been extinguished, confirmed Neeka Somday, spokesperson for the Confederated Tribes of the Colville Reservation. Video taken by Chad Aubertin, a resident who lives nearby, shows a ...

In exchange, two Oregon tribes -- the Confederated Tribes of ... of the Yakama Nation and the Confederated Tribes of the Colville Indian Reservation -- agreed to drop lawsuits against the federal ...

Tribes in Idaho, Oregon and Washington are building new tribal housing with grant funds from the U.S. Department of Housing and Urban Development. “There was a total of $150 million nationwide ...