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Underscore Native News
U.S. left-of-center, Indigenous-advocacy focus
Underscore Native News is a nonprofit newsroom in Portland, Oregon, focused exclusively on Indigenous communities in the Pacific Northwest. It is funded entirely through grants and donations from journalism-support organizations. Its coverage of the Trump administration's second term has consistently highlighted federal budget cuts, rollbacks of tribal consultation requirements, and other policies it frames as harmful to Native communities.
Owned byIndependent nonprofit; founded as a spin-off of InvestigateWest, now a standalone 501(c)(3) based in Portland, Oregon
LeaningU.S. left-of-center, Indigenous-advocacy focus
On the administrationbroadly critical
6average bias score across 1 story
1 = straight reporting · 10 = heavily spun
1 = straight reporting · 10 = heavily spun