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Your thoughts on the state of the divide
We asked readers the following questions: What do you think? What is the state of the rural-urban divide? Are things better or worse? It’s clear ...
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Essay: Finding the middle ground
I was standing in line at OHSU — Oregon Health and Science University, Oregon’s premier medical facility — when I overheard the clerk ask a ...
by Staff reports, Friday, June 30, 2023 6:00 am
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Editor’s note
With this edition we have completed five full years of publishing The Other Oregon. We look forward to many more years of bringing you stories ...
by Staff reports, Friday, June 30, 2023 6:00 am
Feature Stories
Flexing our sovereignty
Last summer, I saw a Facebook post from a Native community page for the Portland/Vancouver area that said a deer was available. I commented that ...
by Staff reports, Friday, March 24, 2023 7:15 am
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How acorns carry cultural knowledge
On an unusually warm October weekend, I sat on a picnic bench beneath the oak and pine trees of what is today known as Touvelle ...
by Staff reports, Friday, March 24, 2023 7:01 am
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At Warm Springs, a new generation leads the feast
When Warm Springs Elder Alice Sampson goes out to the fields to dig roots for the annual Root Feast, she is careful to manage her ...
by Staff reports, Friday, March 24, 2023 7:00 am
Feature Stories
Breaking the law to uphold it
The South Slough of the Coos River is a beautiful place. Eelgrass flourishes within the shallow tidal waters of the estuary. Harbor seals haul out ...
by Staff reports, Friday, March 24, 2023 7:00 am
Feature Stories
How indigenous nations are rebuilding food systems
“We were thrown to the four winds.” That’s how Francene Ambrose describes the fate of her people when, in 1954, the U.S. government terminated its ...
by Staff reports, Friday, March 24, 2023 7:00 am
Feature Stories
Ancient village site is reborn again
The old building on a small highway that houses the Native American Youth and Family Center (NAYA) is as industrial as it is utilitarian. But ...
by Staff reports, Friday, March 24, 2023 7:00 am
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Oregon Coast tourism group pushes to keep more seafood local
Remnants of century-old canneries — deteriorating timber pilings that dot the Columbia River — are reminders of the North Coast’s role in the fishing and ...