Lower Columbia Diversity Project

03/31/2024

08/27/2022

https://actionnetwork.org/petitions/stand-with-chinookjustice-restore-federal-recognition?source=direct_link

I just asked my legislators to restore for the Chinook Nation.

06/16/2022

“With so many lives on the line, federal recognition shouldn’t be this difficult to achieve.”

Our allies from Marguerite Casey Foundation , Northwest Health Foundation, Arcora Foundation , Group Health Foundation , Schultz Family Foundation , Satterberg Foundation, and Empire Health Community Advocacy Fund are speaking up for . ✊

Washington and Oregon leaders, grant us federal recognition so our people can access critical resources to survive.
https://bit.ly/3KBBVK4

05/05/2021

https://www.hcn.org/issues/53.4/indigenous-affairs-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?

03/11/2021

Thane Tienson, a renowned environmental lawyer, admired throughout the Pacific Northwest, and remembered for his unfailing generosity, superb storytelling and indelible courage, died suddenly and tragically of a heart attack Jan. 28, 2021 in transit to Portland's Legacy Emanuel Hospital for surgery.

Born in Astoria, Ore., to Dorothy and John Tienson, he was the eldest of four sons. He attended Astoria public schools until the family moved to the Bay Area in 1960.

He returned to Oregon to attend law school at Lewis & Clark and began a legal career of over four decades, much of them spent doing pro bono work for grateful clients. Thane was an environmental champion and won many noteworthy battles including a federal court ruling requiring sweeping changes in the way dams are operated to protect Pacific Northwest salmon, and his lasting contribution to the court's decision to allow the John Day River to be owned by the people of Oregon.

He identified by heritage and politics with the Finns and Scandinavians who came by the thousands to Astoria to fish and log before and after 1900. He worked tirelessly with public officials and private citizens, alongside his friend, Jordan Schnitzer, to restore the Astoria Column.

View Thane Tienson's obituary, send flowers and sign the guestbook.

02/22/2021

Tony Johnson describes the experience of the Chinook receiving recognition in 2001 and having it revoked only eighteen months later.

02/22/2021

Chinook Nation Needs Your Help Confluence Staff February 20, 2021 The mission of Confluence is primarily educational and so it is rare that we, as an organization, advocate for specific policy proposals. We also get a lot of questions during our events from folks asking, what can I do to support Ind...