We acknowledge that the Port of Portland is located on lands that have been occupied and stewarded since time immemorial by people from the Cascade, Clackamas and Multnomah Bands of the Chinook Tribe.  

Many other indigenous peoples have their homes in, travel through, harvest and use the plentiful natural resources of the Columbia River, Willamette River, and the other lands and waters within the Port’s district.  

The Port of Portland respects the history of the federally recognized sovereign Tribal Nations of the Northwest, whose people were forcibly dispossessed and removed from their homes and lands by the United States government following treaties entered into between 1851 and 1855. And we are committed to recognizing the ongoing relationship that exists between indigenous peoples and these places.