Alleged broken promises by U.S. Rep. Marie Gluesenkamp Perez have resulted in the Chinook Indian Nation seeking a new legislator to champion their ongoing fight for federal recognition. Chinook Indian ...

PORTLAND, Ore. (KOIN) — Bones and sacred objects of Chinook Indian Nation ancestors are left on museum shelves without a legal path for descendants to bring home or bury. Chinook Indian Nation ...

Leaders of the Chinook Indian Nation celebrated Thursday what they described as a precedent-setting legal victory granting the tribe access to its land claim trust funds even though it is not ...

When Tony Johnson walks the beach at Bay Center, a small peninsula that hooks north in Washington’s Willapa Bay, he feels connected to both the past and the present. First off, it’s called Johnson ...

Since time immemorial, members of the five tribes that comprise the Chinook Indian Nation spent their winters in a sheltered inland spot along a creek that feeds the Naselle River. The U.S. government ...

Chinook tribal chair Tony Johnson, right with drum, and other members of the Chinook Nation gather outside the federal courthouse in Tacoma, Washington, ahead of a court hearing in January 2020.