Moving up the line: Northwest tribal women and girls gather wild celery amid challenges

Around this time each year, women and girls from the Confederated Tribes of the Umatilla Indian Reservation gather wild celery. They say their ancestors come back through the plant, and the ceremonial dig marks the arrival of spring.

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