New bison calves on Colville reservation reconnect tribes to culture and ecosystem. Tribal leaders see it as a healing process for past traumas.

The Colville Confederated Tribes released the first 30 head of bison near Buffalo Lake in the fall of 2023.

The Kalispel Tribe says the artwork is a metal sculpture of a deer family. The unveiling ceremony will be held on Tuesday at Five Mile Grange.

To the several tribes who revere American bison, the calf’s appearance was both the fulfillment of sacred 2,000-year-old Lakota prophecy and a message.

“If we’re going to solve this wildfire crisis, we need to be working together,” says Cody Desautel, a firefighter with 30 years’ experience and executive director of the Colville Tribe in ...

First thought to belong to an English lady-in-waiting, the lavish silk clothing from a 17th-century Dutch vessel is just one of many mysteries surrounding the last voyage of the Palmwood Wreck.