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The Daily Troll: Sequestration vs. tribe fishing. Bus crash fatalities. Happy pay days for Tacoma.

Tue, May 7, 4:19 p.m.

By Joe Copeland

Ethiopian Orthodox community celebrates Easter.

The Daily Troll: Metro cuts guidebook. May Day aftermath. A win for Iranian-Americans

Thu, May 2, 4:46 p.m.

By Joe Copeland

McGinn plays the 'disappointed in you' card. A loss for Tulalip tribe.

Lynda Mapes: The Elwha behind the scenes

Wed, May 1, 5 a.m.

By Mary Bruno

The journalist and author on the river and the writing.

Austerity effort's roots are honorable but dubious

Tue, Apr 23, 9 p.m.

By Mark Trahant

Austerity and the failed effort by the federal government to cut all ties with tribal governments are twin ideologies.

Coal exports: There could be a twist on the global warming argument

Tue, Jan 29, 5 a.m.

By Tracy Warner

Guest Opinion: If you look at one study, the easy assumptions that exporting coal will harm the climate could prove backward. Two Stanford researchers raise a point worth looking at.

Can two men save thousands of acres of Kitsap Peninsula forest?

Fri, Nov 30, 6 a.m.

By Joshua Zaffos

Port Gamble and its surrounding forests have been logging territory for more than a century. Owner Pope Resources is willing to strike a deal with local tribes that would conserve thousands of acres of forestland. If the two sides can agree on terms.

For Kennewick Man, a return from the dead

Thu, Oct 11, 6 a.m.

By John Stang

Nearly 16 years and numerous lawsuits after the discovery of his 9,200 year-old skeleton, scientists can finally tell us a bit more about Kennewick Man.

Lummi Tribe joins the opposition to Whatcom coal port

Fri, Sep 21, 5:46 p.m.

By Floyd McKay

Extensive environmental hearings are about to get underway, reviewing the proposed coal port and its impacts. The tribes further complicate the chances for the port facility.

Timothy Egan's latest: A photographer's greatness at all costs

Wed, Sep 19, midnight

By Knute Berger

Timothy Egan's new biography of Seattle's Edward S. Curtis sheds light on his epic effort to record the world of the American Indian and the high price he paid for his pursuits.

Revictimizing Native women for political purposes

Thu, Aug 23, midnight

By Ryan Dreveskracht

Republicans in the U.S. House, including Todd Akin and Paul Ryan, are blocking the expanded authority that tribal police need to deal with violent non-Indian offenders of Native American women on Indian land.

The mystery of early Northwest peoples

Mon, Jul 30, midnight

By Daniel Jack Chasan

Anthropologists speculate that south Oregon's "Western stemmed" culture could have been here prior to the Clovis.

Why the farmer and the enviro really can be friends on irrigation

Fri, Jul 13, midnight

By Peter Dykstra, Michael Garrity, Steve Malloch, and Lisa Pelly

Environmentalists don't often get behind flooding old-growth trees and expanding irrigation. But a deal in Eastern Washington has some surprises.

A big old 'Twilight' welcome

Mon, Jul 9, midnight

By Bryn Nelson

Washington's Quileute Tribe has seen a rush of visitors since it became known as the progenitors of the popular vampire series' werewolf pack. How they're dealing with the vampire-mania.

McKenna, Inslee reach beyond white voters

Fri, Jul 6, midnight

By Joe Copeland

Inslee and McKenna each set up their Seattle headquarters in locations where they can connect with minority communities.

A Northwest professor looks at a forgotten American pandemic

Tue, Jun 26, 10 p.m.

By Robin Lindley

Crosscut writer Robin Lindley talks with University of Puget Sound professor Nancy Bristow about the 1918 Spanish Flu Pandemic and America's foggy memory of a disease that claimed ten times the U.S. fatalities during World War 1.