Incumbents Dustin Best, Virgil “Smoker” Marchand, Andrew Joseph Jr., Sharleen Zacherle and Joseph Somday return, while Inchelium boasts two new faces in Cody Peone and Cindy Marchand
OMAK, Wash. - Tony Mattina visited the Omak Language Program May 16-20. Mattina had some new study tools for Nsexlcin on his website www.MELTR. org that he wanted to share with the program. Tony has recordings of elders from the 1960's which have been transcribed and available in part on his…
OMAK, Wash — Tribal members gathered on Thursday, January 27, 2022 to witness the Omak Tribal Head Start staff host a ceremony of song and prayer over the grounds where the future building for Omak Tribal Head Start will be built.
Colville Tribes Paschal Sherman Indian School doing their part to keep a dwindling language alive through youth immersion; PSIS third-grade class performs at the PAC as part of Winter series
Tony Boyd took a well-deserved nap Friday after helping save seven homes in the Omak countryside—and losing one he rented, containing many of his family’s belongings. On the outside of a home on Dutch Anderson Road, he slept—awaking to the sound of barking, a warning signal. He got up to see…
OMAK—All that remains of their home is the rock work, the stairway that wrapped from the daylight basement upward, the two levels of walls where their grandchildren’s play set (now melted and burned) still sits and the chimney. The rocks are now charred and cracking behind the wake of the Tu…
When Colville tribal members Virgil and Lenora Michel purchased land in the Omak countryside almost 50 years ago, a sense of pride carried with the next three generations who have shared the family home, known widely as, “The green house.” Remaining children of the couple joke that they didn…
OKANOGAN—A building that once held slot machines now—at least temporarily— houses donations for fire victims and local firefighters.
DISAUTEL – The way Phillip “Cubby” Barnaby sees it, someone had to stand in the way of the Major League Baseball pitch that was the Tunk Block Fire—part of a state-record Okanogan Complex that has now reached 256,567 acres.
OMAK — The author behind a senate bill mandating Washington’s public schools to teach a curriculum incorporating the 29 federally-recognized tribes of the state lacked satisfaction from a similar bill that saw a low turnout after a decade of implementation.
$2,500 offered to information in regard to vandalism of Tribes’ Dream Catcher
OMAK – The Colville Indian Reservation will be the site for the 2nd annual Take Charge of your Health Triathlon that is set to take place on August 1 in the Omak area.
BRIDGEPORT – The Colville Confederated Tribes’ purse seine, the Dream Catcher, was vandalized in the early mourning hours today, July 14, in what appears to be a hate related act.