Jazz Halfmoon, 38, remembers playing the educational video game Oregon Trail
as a reward for doing well in class. It was on a super-old computer, she says. The green screen was like the only color.
She says it was really exciting, and the kids would often clamor and fight over who could play the game at their school on the Confederated Tribes of the Umatilla Indian Reservation, in northeast Oregon.
Halfmoon says, I remember being like, Oh, like the Indians killed off somebody in your wagon train . and then being like, Oh, we re Indians, you know. I remember being like, Oh, like the Indians killed off somebody in your wagon train . and then being like, Oh, we re Indians, you know. - Jazz Halfmoon
May 12, 2021
Photo: Yamhill County Sheriff s Office
After three days of searching, Yamhill County Special Deputy Dean Danchuck, a helicopter pilot, located a missing elderly man in the forest approximately 7 miles north of Grand Ronde in remote Yamhill County Oregon.
Tuesday, around 3:45 p.m., Danchuck and his spotter, Rich Ashenbrenner helped save Sang Kwon Sa, a 73-year-old man from Washington State who had gone missing Sunday evening around 5:30 p.m. while collecting plants with family members off Wind River Road in Yamhill County. Search and Rescue teams from multiple agencies had been looking for him since his disappearance. A private helicopter, unmanned aerial drones, ground searchers, ATV units, search dogs around 100 volunteers from multiple surrounding counties were utilized in the search.
May 12, 2021
Photo: Yamhill County Sheriff s Office
After three days of searching, Yamhill County Special Deputy Dean Danchuck, a helicopter pilot, located a missing elderly man in the forest approximately 7 miles north of Grand Ronde in remote Yamhill County Oregon.
Tuesday, around 3:45 p.m., Danchuck and his spotter, Rich Ashenbrenner helped save Sang Kwon Sa, a 73-year-old man from Washington State who had gone missing Sunday evening around 5:30 p.m. while collecting plants with family members off Wind River Road in Yamhill County. Search and Rescue teams from multiple agencies had been looking for him since his disappearance. A private helicopter, unmanned aerial drones, ground searchers, ATV units, search dogs around 100 volunteers from multiple surrounding counties were utilized in the search.
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Scholars, Religious Orgs Back Ore. Tribal Highway Challenge
Law360 (May 11, 2021, 10:12 PM EDT) Several groups of American Indian and religious liberty law scholars and advocacy groups on Monday threw their support behind tribal members who are fighting a completed highway widening project in Oregon, lodging several amicus briefs urging the Ninth Circuit to revive the case, which was tossed earlier this year.
Members of the Confederated Tribes and Bands of the Yakama Nation and the Confederated Tribes of Grand Ronde, along with two nonprofit groups, have taken issue with a widening project completed in 2009 that they say destroyed a rock cluster that held religious significance for them. In February, an Oregon federal judge.