Scientists who had argued that Kennewick Man was not an ancestor of the Columbia Plateau tribes were proved wrong, and the return of the Ancient One’s remains “validated what we said all along ...

Rude, who died in November 2021, was one of three linguists who recorded and documented Plateau ... Walla tribes, who together make up the Confederated Tribes of the Umatilla Indian Reservation ...

Doris Swayze Bounds spent most of her life in Oregon. She formed close associations with Plateau Indians and other regional tribes before she died in 1994. She was not of Native American ancestry ...

P O R T L A N D, Ore., Sept. 25, 2001 -- The U.S. Interior Department has decidedthat “Kennewick Man,” one of the oldest skeletons ever foundin North America, should be given to five American ...

The Northwest Museum of Arts and Culture is known for its deep American Indian collection. Now, in its biggest American Indian exhibit ever, the MAC is showing off its holdings in “Lasting ...

SEATTLE — In the high desert of the Columbia Plateau, more than 200 people gathered early Saturday to lay the Ancient One to rest, returning his 9,000-year-old remains to an undisclosed location ...

More than 200 members of five Columbia Plateau tribes and bands gathered ... according to an announcement Sunday by the Confederated Tribes of the Umatilla Indian Reservation, the Tri-City Herald ...

For his part, Moorhouse saw himself as a great friend of the Columbia River Plateau Indians. In a published essay he asserted that “Years of close friendship, association and confidence are ...

Early on Saturday, more than 200 members of five Columbia Plateau tribes and bands ... announcement Sunday by the Confederated Tribes of the Umatilla Indian Reservation. “We always knew the ...

The percentage continues to plateau despite funding ... to strengthen law enforcement in Indian Country. In April 2017, he began expanding tribes’ access to national crime databases, and the ...