Indigenous

From the removal of fish migration barriers in Washington to the decades-long community effort to revive Seattle’s Duwamish River, our most-read stories of 2026, so far, celebrate ecological recovery across the bioregion.

A half-century ago, the Indigenous Tsimshian village of Metlakatla, in Southeast Alaska, preserved its reservation when others in Alaska were terminated. Today, the reserve sustains a thriving fishing industry — and the tribe is fighting in court to expand its territory.