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Luna Reyna

@lunabreyna.bsky.social
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Award-winning journalist • Based in occupied Duwamish territory 🌲 • Email story tips to lunabreyna@gmail.com

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Guy Oron @guyoron.net · 12/08/2026
BREAKING: The Seattle City Council has just voted 8-0 to pass the new ordinance banning landlords from imposing junk fees and requiring up-transparency in rental listings.
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Luna Reyna @lunabreyna.bsky.social · 10/10/2025
Verifying myself for journalists of color slack. ✅
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Underscore Native News @underscore-news.bsky.social · 12/09/2025
In addition to collaborating with Coast Salish weavers for the jersey signs, the league donated the first $50,000 made from sales of the jerseys to local Native nonprofit organizations. 🔗: www.underscore.news/culture/coas... ✍️: @lunabreyna.bsky.social , Underscore Native News + Indian Country Today
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Coast Salish Weavers Bring Meaningful Representation to New Seattle Sounders Jerseys - Underscore Native News
Underscore + ICT sat down with two of the Salish weavers, Gail White Eagle and Danielle Morsette, who created the “Salish Sea kit.”
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Luna Reyna @lunabreyna.bsky.social · 06/06/2025
Thank you! Thank you!
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Luna Reyna @lunabreyna.bsky.social · 05/06/2025
Congrats!
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Luna Reyna @lunabreyna.bsky.social · 24/05/2025
The Chinook are calling on U.S. Sens. Patty Murray and Maria Cantwell of Washington, and U.S. Sens. Ron Wyden and Jeff Merkley of Oregon, and U.S. Reps. Marie Glusenkamp-Perez of Washington and Suzanne Bonamici of Oregon step up and support federal recognition that honors their sovereignty .
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Luna Reyna @lunabreyna.bsky.social · 24/05/2025
Read the full story for a fuller picture. I spoke with a few of the surrounding Native nations that support Chinook federal recognition that detail their shared histories and support.
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Luna Reyna @lunabreyna.bsky.social · 24/05/2025
“What I would say to any legislative delegation is, ‘Since when will you not introduce a bill because somebody’s opposed to it?” Chinook chairman Johnson said. “Somebody’s opposed to every piece of legislation that is passed in Congress, right?”
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Luna Reyna @lunabreyna.bsky.social · 24/05/2025
But Congresswoman Gluesenkamp Perez decided that wasn’t enough to push the legislation forward and “expressed the necessity of repairing and upholding multinational relations with others in Indian Country in order to proceed with the bill.”
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Luna Reyna @lunabreyna.bsky.social · 24/05/2025
The Chinook Indian Nation Restoration Act was supported by the Cowlitz Indian Tribe, the Confederated Tribes of the Chehalis Reservation, the Shoalwater Bay Indian Tribe, and the Confederated Tribes of Grand Ronde.
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Luna Reyna @lunabreyna.bsky.social · 24/05/2025
“We’ve never left this place,” Johnson told Underscore + ICT. “This is where our sovereignty springs from. We literally use the words in our trading negotiations, ‘staying with the bones of our ancestors.’ We don’t use the word time immemorial because there is not a time we don’t remember.“
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Luna Reyna @lunabreyna.bsky.social · 24/05/2025
Recognition would also ensure that Chinookan children be kept with their people through the protections of the Indian Child Welfare Act and their ancestors’ dignified rest on their homelands through the Native American Graves Protection and Repatriation Act.
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Luna Reyna @lunabreyna.bsky.social · 24/05/2025
W/out federal recognition the Chinook can’t access federal services available through the BIA including health care, education, housing, economic development, & social services critical to healing from generational trauma caused by the American government and to surviving modern disasters.
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Luna Reyna @lunabreyna.bsky.social · 24/05/2025
The Chinook Indian Nation is calling on new legislative allies, following a bill amendment proposed by Congresswoman Gluesenkamp Perez to the Chinook Indian Nation Restoration Act language that would strip all resource access rights from the nation. www.underscore.news/justice/chin...
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Chinook Indian Nation Rejects Recognition Without Rights - Underscore Native News
After decades of work toward federal recognition with Congresswoman Gluesenkamp Perez and surrounding tribes, the Chinook Indian Nation is calling on new legislative allies, following an amendment pro...
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Luna Reyna @lunabreyna.bsky.social · 04/04/2025
Olive Oshiro, disenrolled Nooksack citizen, died before the four-year legal battle with Nooksack Indian Tribe to keep her home of 24 yrs was over. April 1 Nooksack evicted the Oshiro fam but Oshiro may have owned her home in 2020 if there was proper oversight by the state Housing Finance Commission.
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Luna Reyna @lunabreyna.bsky.social · 18/03/2025
Thank you for sharing!
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Underscore Native News @underscore-news.bsky.social · 03/03/2025
✨2025 Underscore Indigenous Journalism Fellowship✨ Apply to be a fellow today and join us June through August in Portland, Oregon for an immersive 10-week internship! More information linked below. The application deadline is March 20. 🔗: www.underscore.news/work-opportu...
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Work with Underscore - Underscore Native News
Staff Jobs Freelance Opportunities Stay tuned for more information about pitching freelance stories to us.
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Luna Reyna @lunabreyna.bsky.social · 01/03/2025
Important reporting by my colleague @jarrette-werk.bsky.social for @underscore-news.bsky.social
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Underscore Native News @underscore-news.bsky.social · 11/02/2025
Native Nations across Turtle Island are working to ensure their citizens’ safety amid rising reports of Indigenous people being racially profiled, stopped, questioned, and mistakenly detained for undocumented immigrants. 📰: shorturl.at/JOlRj ✍️: Luna Reyna, UNN/ICT
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Native Nations Mobilize Against ICE Targeting and Profiling - Underscore Native News
Native Nations across Turtle Island are working to ensure their citizens’ safety amid widespread reports of Indigenous people being racially profiled, stopped, questioned, and mistakenly detained for ...
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Luna Reyna @lunabreyna.bsky.social · 06/02/2025
Thanks Ryan! It’s been a long time coming. 😄
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Luna Reyna @lunabreyna.bsky.social · 05/02/2025
Aw, thanks so much Holly! 💛
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Luna Reyna @lunabreyna.bsky.social · 05/02/2025
Thanks for reading it! 🙌🏽
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Luna Reyna @lunabreyna.bsky.social · 05/02/2025
These are all stories from 2024. More to come from myself and colleagues this year. Miigwech for reading if you’ve made it this far! 😄🙌🏽
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Luna Reyna @lunabreyna.bsky.social · 05/02/2025
Water Warriors made national news last month when they took to Puyallup tribal waters in a traditional Nisqually canoe calling for a permanent ceasefire in Gaza, temporarily blocking a military ship. Their fight against oppression didn’t start or end there. www.underscore.news/culture/indi...
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Indigenous Water Warriors Call for Global Solidarity Against Genocide - Underscore Native News
Water Warriors made national news last month when they took to Puyallup tribal waters in a traditional Nisqually canoe calling for a permanent ceasefire in Gaza, temporarily blocking a military ship. ...
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Luna Reyna @lunabreyna.bsky.social · 05/02/2025
A WA state task force voted to recommend the return of land at a former youth detention facility to the Chinook Indian Nation. Washington Gov. Jay Inslee and the fiscal committees of the legislature will review the task force report in June and make a decision. www.underscore.news/land/chinook...
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Chinook Indian Nation Closer to Securing Ancestral Winter Village Land - Underscore Native News
A Washington state task force voted to recommend the return of land at a former youth detention facility to the Chinook Indian Nation. Washington Gov. Jay Inslee and the fiscal committees of the legis...
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Luna Reyna @lunabreyna.bsky.social · 05/02/2025
Work above the Chief Joseph and Grand Coulee Dams by the Upper Columbia United Tribes has proven that salmon will return home, pressuring the government to uphold obligations to Native nations. www.underscore.news/land/how-nat...
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How Native Nations Forced Federal Investment in Salmon Reintroduction -
Work above the Chief Joseph and Grand Coulee Dams by the Upper Columbia United Tribes has proven that salmon will return home, pressuring the government to uphold obligations to Native nations. With f...
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Luna Reyna @lunabreyna.bsky.social · 05/02/2025
The Quinault Indian Nation’s court system focuses on individual healing from addiction, instead of criminalization and punishment. www.underscore.news/justice/quin...
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Quinault Indian Nation Wellness Courts Replace Punishment with Empowerment - Underscore Native News
The Quinault Indian Nation’s court system focuses on individual healing from addiction, instead of criminalization and punishment.
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Luna Reyna @lunabreyna.bsky.social · 05/02/2025
Oregon grapples with limited transparency & data gaps, as unpublicized guidelines from the federal coordinator in OR on missing & murdered Indigenous people and inconsistent reporting from OR State Police hinder effective understanding & accountability for MMIP. www.underscore.news/justice/secr...
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Secrecy and Data Issues Impede Progress on Missing and Murdered Indigenous People - Underscore Native News
Oregon grapples with limited transparency and data gaps, as unpublicized guidelines from the federal coordinator in Oregon on missing and murdered Indigenous people and inconsistent reporting from Ore...
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Luna Reyna @lunabreyna.bsky.social · 05/02/2025
When Wilma Acosta, Pascua Yaqui, went missing, Portland police announced Acosta had “suicidal ideations,” despite repeated denials of that claim from Acosta’s family. Experts say such announcements are harmful. www.underscore.news/justice/a-ya...
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A Yaqui Woman’s Disappearance in Portland Exposed Policing Flaws in MMIP Cases - Underscore Native News
When Wilma Acosta, Pascua Yaqui, went missing, Portland police announced Acosta had “suicidal ideations,” despite repeated denials of that claim from Acosta’s family. Experts say such announcements ar...
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Luna Reyna @lunabreyna.bsky.social · 05/02/2025
In 2016, Nooksack Indian Tribe disenrolled 306 citizens. Nooksack leadership then worked to evict the disenrolled from their homes, homes the families claim they should own through a federal program meant to create a pathway to homeownership. www.underscore.news/justice/fail...
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Failed Federal Housing Commitments Leads to Evictions for Native Families - Underscore Native News
In 2016, Nooksack Indian Tribe disenrolled 306 citizens. Nooksack leadership then worked to evict the disenrolled from their homes, homes the families claim they should own through a federal program m...
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Luna Reyna @lunabreyna.bsky.social · 05/02/2025
The Cowlitz are working to maintain their traditional values for their Two-Spirit relatives by protecting and providing gender-affirming care for their gender-diverse citizens through the Health and Human Services department. www.underscore.news/justice/lgbt...
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Building a Model for Gender Affirming Care at Cowlitz Indian Tribe - Underscore Native News
The Cowlitz are working to maintain their traditional values for their Two-Spirit relatives by protecting and providing gender-affirming care for their gender-diverse citizens through the Health and H...
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Luna Reyna @lunabreyna.bsky.social · 05/02/2025
Here’s some of my recent work: A collaboration between artist Louie Gong, Eighth Generation & Huy raises awareness for incarcerated Indigenous people, offering support through art & cultural advocacy. www.underscore.news/culture/tran...
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Transformative Art Supporting Indigenous Prisoners’ Rights - Underscore Native News
A powerful collaboration between artist Louie Gong, Eighth Generation and Huy raises awareness for incarcerated Indigenous people, offering support through art and cultural advocacy, including a Never...
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Luna Reyna @lunabreyna.bsky.social · 05/02/2025
Before coming to Underscore Native News and ICT (formerly Indian Country Today) as the partner organizations’ Seattle-based Northwest Bureau Chief, I was Crosscut’s Indigenous Affairs Reporter, and my work has appeared in the South Seattle Emerald, Prism Reports, Talk Poverty and more.
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Luna Reyna @lunabreyna.bsky.social · 05/02/2025
Hi Blue Sky community! I am a Little Shell Chippewa descendant passionate about reporting that sheds light on colonial white supremacist systems of power, and empowers and centers the voices of Indigenous communities in service of liberation and advancing justice.
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