Tribal Resources

ORPARC acknowledges that our building and statewide services operate on the ancestral, traditional and contemporary lands stolen from and belonging to Indigenous peoples—the first people of this country—home to nine strong federally recognized Tribal Nations in Oregon and those from countless others since Time Immemorial. We seek ways to honor, learn from and elevate Tribal voices, including by investing in Native businesses, supporting Native authors & illustrators, and curating these Resource pages below.

Supporting children in care of American Indian, Alaska Native or First Nations heritage comes with an enormous responsibility to keep children deeply involved with their culture, land, language, Tribe or Nation on a daily basis. Always first refer to a child's Tribe(s) for support. These pages below are a celebration of Native resilience designed to help you—whether as caregiver or professional—to further uplift Native children experiencing foster care, guardianship, kincare or adoption.

Please also reference ORPARC's Grandparent, Relative & Kinship Caregivers, Life Story Work, Talking About Race and Transracial Parenting/Cultural Diversity pages for more general, non-Tribal specific resources.

We offer gratitude to our supportive colleagues, friends and elders representing different Indigenous Tribes, Nations, Bands and heritages—and those who came before and who will come after—who helped create, inspire, approve and grow these Tribal Resource pages. We welcome your feedback!

"Home" (artwork shown above) with permission by Steph Littlebird (Grande Ronde) at Etsy.

Tribal Books!

ORPARC's library has an exciting, expanded Tribal materials collection and Culture Connection Collection, curated with many thanks to Tribal creators and consultants—past, present and future—and courtesy of the National Library of Medicine Region V and the State Library of Oregon.