oral history

June is Pride month. For queer people in the Walla Walla Valley, life hasn’t always been easy. A new oral history project, “Sweeter Than the Onions: Stories of Queer Resilience in Walla Walla,” documents their experiences over the last 50 years.

Dec. 21st is the winter solstice — the shortest daylight hours of the year. It was also Indian New Year across the Northwest. One of those celebrations happened on the Umatilla reservation in northeast Oregon.

RICHLAND, Wash. – A coalition of groups from southeast Washington is collecting oral histories about the the Hanford Nuclear Reservation and communities…