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Washington, Oregon, 29 tribes sue over plan to move archives

by Gene Johnson
| January 5, 2021 12:03 AM

SEATTLE (AP) — Washington, Oregon, more than two dozen Native American and Alaska Native tribes and cultural groups from the Northwest are suing the federal government to stop the sale of the National Archives building in Seattle, a plan that would force the relocation of millions of invaluable historical records to California and Missouri.

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