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The White House has reached what it says is an historic agreement over the restoration of salmon in the Pacific Northwest, a deal that could end for now a decades long legal battle with tribes.

The Oregon Bureau of Labor and Industries this fall settled a lawsuit from a second former employee who alleged racial hostility under then-commissioner and current U.S. Rep. Val Hoyle.

Oregon has created the fresh tribal affairs director position, while Washington has had a similar official in place since the early '80s.

Chauvin was stabbed and seriously injured by another inmate inside a federal prison in Tucson, Ariz., according to officials.

A series of essays by indigenous leaders, many of them women, in the book Invisible No More: Voices from Native America.Steve Dubb, the book's co-editor (with Raymond Foxworth), and from contributing writer Hillary Renick.

Julie Oliveira and Rosemary Deck, Yurok Tribe investigators, about ongoing search for missing and murdered native women.

Karen Kitchen tells stories created by the Osage at Native Story Hours at the Coos Bay Public Library.

Coming soon to California: a diversity reporting mandate for venture capital firms. Not coming soon to California: a diversity reporting mandate for Gov. Gavin Newsom.

BASE Southern Oregon, set up a police liaison committee to keep an ongoing dialogue between the Black community in Jackson County and several of the police agencies. The Jackson County Sheriff has signed on, along with the police chiefs of Medford, Ashland, Talent, Phoenix, and Central Point. Karla Narcesse chairs the committee.

Veronica Davis is working on making car centric cities equitable, and she provides a guide in her book Inclusive Transportation: A Manifesto for Repairing Divided Communities.

Richard Rothstein catalogued the actions and abuses of civil rights by government in his 2017 book The Color of Law. He follows that up with a guide to undoing lingering segregation, Just Action: How to Challenge Segregation Enacted Under the Color of Law which he co authored with his daughter Leah Rothstein.

Dr. Brin Williams, trauma surgeon, wants laws to prevent badly injured people. He wrote The Bodies Keep Coming: Dispatches from a Black Trauma Surgeon on Racism, Violence, and How We Heal.