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"content": "\n\u003cp>\u003cem>This story was originally published by \u003ca href=\"https://calmatters.org/\">CalMatters\u003c/a>. \u003ca href=\"https://calmatters.org/subscribe-to-calmatters/\">Sign up\u003c/a> for their newsletters.\u003c/em>\u003c/p>\n\n\n\n\u003cp>Five days after signing a law formalizing a state apology for “harms and atrocities” against California’s \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/tag/indigenous\">Native peoples\u003c/a>, Gov. Gavin Newsom vetoed two additional bills that California tribes had championed, one on water and the other on sacred sites.\u003c/p>\n\n\n\n\u003cp>Tribal leaders say the vetoes leave them shut out of decisions about their ancestral waters and sacred places.\u003c/p>\n\n\n\n\u003cp>One of Newsom’s vetoes struck down a measure that would have compelled state agencies to address water shortages faced by tribes. \u003ca href=\"https://calmatters.digitaldemocracy.org/bills/ca_202520260ab2218\">Assembly Bill 2218\u003c/a> by \u003ca href=\"https://calmatters.digitaldemocracy.org/legislators/ash-kalra-100938\">Ash Kalra\u003c/a>, a Santa Clara County Democrat, would have established a state policy to address water-related inequities and would have required a dispute between a tribe and any state water agency over water projects in the tribe’s ancestral territory to go through a mediation process, run by the Governor’s Office of Tribal Affairs. The Karuk Tribe and the Shingle Springs Band of Miwok Indians co-sponsored the legislation. \u003c/p>\n\n\n\n\u003cfigure class=\"wp-block-image size-full\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"2000\" height=\"1333\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/04/GavinNewsom1AP.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-12036066\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/04/GavinNewsom1AP.jpg 2000w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/04/GavinNewsom1AP-800x533.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/04/GavinNewsom1AP-1020x680.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/04/GavinNewsom1AP-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/04/GavinNewsom1AP-1536x1024.jpg 1536w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/04/GavinNewsom1AP-1920x1280.jpg 1920w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 2000px) 100vw, 2000px\" />\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-element-caption\">Gov. Gavin Newsom discusses his revised 2024-25 state budget during a news conference in Sacramento, California, on May 10, 2024. Newsom vetoed a number of bills that would have given tribal leaders more power. (Rich Pedroncelli/AP Photo)\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\n\n\n\u003cp>Newsom also rejected a bill that would have barred state agencies from significantly interfering with tribal religious practices on state land unless the state showed a compelling reason and chose the approach that interfered least. Assemblymember \u003ca href=\"https://calmatters.digitaldemocracy.org/legislators/james-ramos-149649\">James Ramos\u003c/a>, a Democrat from San Bernardino and the Legislature’s only Native American member, authored \u003ca href=\"https://calmatters.digitaldemocracy.org/bills/ca_202520260ab1881\">AB 1881\u003c/a>, which was called the California Indian Freedom Act of 2026.\u003c/p>\n\n\n\n\u003cp>Only tribes could sue to enforce Ramos’ bill. Agencies would also have had to seek and document a tribe’s written consent before significantly changing a site they know is sacred, though an agency could ask for consultation if a tribe objected. \u003c/p>\n\n\n\n\n\n\u003cp>Ramos is a member of the Serrano/Cahuilla tribe and is a former chairman of the San Manuel Band of Mission Indians. \u003c/p>\n\n\n\n\u003cp>Neither bill drew a “no” vote in the Assembly, though 23 members did not vote on the water bill and 15 on the sacred-sites bill, many Republican. Not voting counts the same as a no vote, and lawmakers are known to skip votes that might offend their supporters and donors.\u003c/p>\n\n\n\n\u003cp>In his veto message for the water bill, Newsom \u003ca href=\"https://www.gov.ca.gov/wp-content/uploads/2026/09/VETO-msg-AB-2218.pdf\">wrote\u003c/a> that the bill was “not sufficiently clear about how its new policy will be implemented” and that “adding new sources of uncertainty will delay our urgent fight to secure Californians’ water supplies.”\u003c/p>\n\n\n\n\u003cp>About Ramos’ bill, Newsom \u003ca href=\"https://www.gov.ca.gov/wp-content/uploads/2026/09/VETO-msg-AB-1881.pdf\">wrote\u003c/a> that he was “sympathetic to the goals of this measure” but that it could have “far-reaching impacts” on state government operations and management of state property, and that “this uncertainty calls for further discussion and review.”\u003c/p>\n\n\n\n\u003cp>The governor’s office referred to Newsom’s veto messages in response to a request for comment on this article.\u003c/p>\n\n\n\n\u003ch2 class=\"wp-block-heading\" id=\"tribes-criticize-water-bill-veto\">Tribes criticize water bill veto\u003c/h2>\n\n\n\n\u003cp>“Tribes need to be at the table when decisions are being made, not brought in after the important decisions have already been made,” said Russell “Buster” Attebery, chairman of the Karuk Tribe.\u003c/p>\n\n\n\n\u003cp>Shingle Springs Vice Chair Malissa Tayaba called the veto of the water bill a “backhanded betrayal of California tribes and a direct contradiction of his apology and promises of reconciliation.” \u003c/p>\n\n\n\n\u003cp>Her government, like other tribes, can sue or lodge formal objections to state water projects, she said, but those steps don’t guarantee an outcome. The final language of the bill would have added a mediation process that paused an agency’s action while the state and affected tribe discussed a resolution. Tayaba said \u003ca href=\"https://www.waterboards.ca.gov/tribal_affairs/policy_project.html\">the status quo\u003c/a> \u003ca href=\"https://calmatters.org/environment/water/2023/08/california-water-agency-investigation-discrimination/\">excludes\u003c/a> her tribe from meaningful consultation on water projects in its ancestral lands and contributes to “a decimation” in salmon runs. \u003c/p>\n\n\n\n\u003cfigure class=\"wp-block-image size-full\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"2000\" height=\"1333\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/06/25_06_25_TRIBE_FOOD_CUTS_MM_26.DSC_7866-KQED.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-12046548\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/06/25_06_25_TRIBE_FOOD_CUTS_MM_26.DSC_7866-KQED.jpg 2000w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/06/25_06_25_TRIBE_FOOD_CUTS_MM_26.DSC_7866-KQED-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/06/25_06_25_TRIBE_FOOD_CUTS_MM_26.DSC_7866-KQED-1536x1024.jpg 1536w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 2000px) 100vw, 2000px\" />\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-element-caption\">The Trinity River flows through the Hoopa Valley in Northern California. (Mark McKenna for KQED)\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\n\n\n\u003cp>Under the vetoed bill, the State Water Board would have had to consult with any tribe whose ancestral territory included a water body at issue in a water-rights investigation. It also would have required agencies to offer financial assistance to tribes. \u003c/p>\n\n\n\n\u003cp>“The bill represented a step toward building a more meaningful relationship between California and tribal nations,” Tayaba said.\u003c/p>\n\n\n\n\u003cp>The Association of California Water Agencies opposed the bill, saying it created a “new and poorly defined standard under the Water Code” and that the mediation process would be inadequate because it would not be binding. Under the rejected bill, a tribe could have withdrawn at any point, according to a legislative analysis — including if the tribe believed the state was not acting in good faith. \u003c/p>\n\n\n\n\u003cp>“We cannot say with certainty how this bill will be implemented and what its impacts will be on water supply,” Andrea Abergel, an advocate for the California Municipal Utilities Association, testified before the Senate Committee on Environmental Quality in July. The organization, which represents more than 80 public utility agencies across the state, opposed the bill. \u003c/p>\n\n\n\n\u003ch2 class=\"wp-block-heading\" id=\"current-law-doesn-t-prevent-sacred-site-destruction\">Current law doesn’t prevent sacred site destruction\u003c/h2>\n\n\n\n\u003cp>Ramos said the sacred sites bill, sponsored by Indigenous Justice, an advocacy group, would have afforded Native Americans greater protections to practice their faith.\u003c/p>\n\n\n\n\u003cp>“Tribal members are routinely questioned or harassed for wearing regalia or carrying ceremonial items in public places,” Ramos told the Senate Judiciary Committee in July. “We have the right to assemble and practice our customs and traditions in a state whose ancestral lands are traditional lands of Indian people.”\u003c/p>\n\n\n\n\u003cp>The bill would also have treated restrictions on regalia and other ceremonial items at state buildings as a burden on religious practice, requiring that the items be allowed in and inspected by hand when possible.\u003c/p>\n\n\n\n\u003cfigure class=\"wp-block-image size-full\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"1920\" height=\"1245\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2016/08/Powwow1.jpg\" alt=\"Helen Gaddie (L) stands inside the dance circle during the Sierra Mono Museum's 45th annual powwow on August 6, 2016.\" class=\"wp-image-11049382\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2016/08/Powwow1.jpg 1920w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2016/08/Powwow1-400x259.jpg 400w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2016/08/Powwow1-800x519.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2016/08/Powwow1-1180x765.jpg 1180w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2016/08/Powwow1-960x623.jpg 960w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1920px) 100vw, 1920px\" />\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-element-caption\">Helen Gaddie, left, wears regalia and stands inside the dance circle during the Sierra Mono Museum’s 45th annual powwow on Aug. 6, 2016. (Vanessa Rancano/KQED)\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\n\n\n\u003cp>Assemblymember Patrick Ahrens, a Democrat from Cupertino and a co-author of the bill, criticized the veto. “The least we can do as a government is allow Native Americans unburdened access to state lands to honor their heritage,” he said in a statement to CalMatters and ICT.\u003c/p>\n\n\n\n\u003cp>Supporters say the bill was needed because harm to sacred sites is a direct result of state and federal policies. Landmark Supreme Court cases such as \u003ca href=\"https://www.supremecourt.gov/opinions/24pdf/24-291_5i26.pdf\">Apache Stronghold v. United States\u003c/a> and \u003ca href=\"https://supreme.justia.com/cases/federal/us/485/439/\">Lyng v. 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The bills “would have created serious legal barriers” to building water storage and infrastructure, wrote John Myers, spokesman for the chamber. \u003c/p>\n\n\n\n\u003cp>Kristopher Anderson, a policy adviser for the California Chamber of Commerce, testified in July against the sacred sites bill. “This bill is about much more than access,” he said. “It is about the way land and water are managed — and the consequences of this bill would have severe ramifications for the water supply reliability of communities and local economies throughout the state.” \u003c/p>\n\n\n\n\u003ch2 class=\"wp-block-heading\" id=\"apology-and-the-vetoes\">Apology and the vetoes\u003c/h2>\n\n\n\n\u003cp>Newsom declared \u003ca href=\"https://www.gov.ca.gov/2026/09/30/governor-newsom-proclaims-a-day-of-remembrance-for-indian-boarding-schools/\">Sept. 30\u003c/a> a Day of Remembrance for Indian Boarding Schools, which Tayaba called “ironic” considering he rejected bills that would have expanded tribal power the same day. \u003c/p>\n\n\n\n\u003cp>California was home to 13 federal Indian boarding schools between 1892 and 1974 that forcibly removed thousands of Native children from their families. \u003c/p>\n\n\n\n\u003cp>In June 2019, Newsom signed an \u003ca href=\"https://www.gov.ca.gov/wp-content/uploads/2019/06/6.18.19-Executive-Order.pdf\">executive order\u003c/a> apologizing on behalf of the state to California Native Americans and creating a Truth and Healing Council, \u003ca href=\"https://colorlines.com/articles/california-governor-apologizes-native-americans-genocide\">saying\u003c/a> they “suffered violence, discrimination and exploitation sanctioned by (the) state government.”\u003c/p>\n\n\n\n\u003cp>On Sept. 25, Newsom signed \u003ca href=\"https://calmatters.digitaldemocracy.org/bills/ca_202520260ab2115\">AB 2115\u003c/a> into law, formalizing an apology to California Native peoples for harms experienced as a result of state policy.\u003c/p>\n\n\n\n\n\n\u003cp>“Newsom acknowledges the state’s historical violence against California’s Indigenous People, but when given the chance to rectify those harms and finalize the bills … he disappointed us and failed to follow through,” said Kasil Willie, policy director of the environmental group Save California Salmon. \u003c/p>\n\n\n\n\u003cp>Newsom, who is not eligible for re-election, \u003ca href=\"https://www.gov.ca.gov/2026/09/25/governor-newsom-signs-legislation-supporting-california-native-americansgovernor-newsom-signs-legislation-supporting-california-native-americans/\">signed\u003c/a> a package of tribal bills, including making Native American Day a paid state holiday and making the Governor’s Office of Tribal Affairs permanent. 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"innerHTML": "\n\u003cp>Her government, like other tribes, can sue or lodge formal objections to state water projects, she said, but those steps don’t guarantee an outcome. The final language of the bill would have added a mediation process that paused an agency’s action while the state and affected tribe discussed a resolution. Tayaba said \u003ca href=\"https://www.waterboards.ca.gov/tribal_affairs/policy_project.html\">the status quo\u003c/a> \u003ca href=\"https://calmatters.org/environment/water/2023/08/california-water-agency-investigation-discrimination/\">excludes\u003c/a> her tribe from meaningful consultation on water projects in its ancestral lands and contributes to “a decimation” in salmon runs. \u003c/p>\n",
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"content": "\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>\n\u003cp>\u003cem>This story was originally published by \u003ca href=\"https://calmatters.org/\">CalMatters\u003c/a>. \u003ca href=\"https://calmatters.org/subscribe-to-calmatters/\">Sign up\u003c/a> for their newsletters.\u003c/em>\u003c/p>\n\n\n\n\u003cp>Five days after signing a law formalizing a state apology for “harms and atrocities” against California’s \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/tag/indigenous\">Native peoples\u003c/a>, Gov. Gavin Newsom vetoed two additional bills that California tribes had championed, one on water and the other on sacred sites.\u003c/p>\n\n\n\n\u003cp>Tribal leaders say the vetoes leave them shut out of decisions about their ancestral waters and sacred places.\u003c/p>\n\n\n\n\u003cp>One of Newsom’s vetoes struck down a measure that would have compelled state agencies to address water shortages faced by tribes. \u003ca href=\"https://calmatters.digitaldemocracy.org/bills/ca_202520260ab2218\">Assembly Bill 2218\u003c/a> by \u003ca href=\"https://calmatters.digitaldemocracy.org/legislators/ash-kalra-100938\">Ash Kalra\u003c/a>, a Santa Clara County Democrat, would have established a state policy to address water-related inequities and would have required a dispute between a tribe and any state water agency over water projects in the tribe’s ancestral territory to go through a mediation process, run by the Governor’s Office of Tribal Affairs. The Karuk Tribe and the Shingle Springs Band of Miwok Indians co-sponsored the legislation. \u003c/p>\n\n\n\n\u003cfigure class=\"wp-block-image size-full\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"2000\" height=\"1333\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/04/GavinNewsom1AP.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-12036066\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/04/GavinNewsom1AP.jpg 2000w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/04/GavinNewsom1AP-800x533.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/04/GavinNewsom1AP-1020x680.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/04/GavinNewsom1AP-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/04/GavinNewsom1AP-1536x1024.jpg 1536w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/04/GavinNewsom1AP-1920x1280.jpg 1920w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 2000px) 100vw, 2000px\" />\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-element-caption\">Gov. Gavin Newsom discusses his revised 2024-25 state budget during a news conference in Sacramento, California, on May 10, 2024. Newsom vetoed a number of bills that would have given tribal leaders more power. (Rich Pedroncelli/AP Photo)\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\n\n\n\u003cp>Newsom also rejected a bill that would have barred state agencies from significantly interfering with tribal religious practices on state land unless the state showed a compelling reason and chose the approach that interfered least. Assemblymember \u003ca href=\"https://calmatters.digitaldemocracy.org/legislators/james-ramos-149649\">James Ramos\u003c/a>, a Democrat from San Bernardino and the Legislature’s only Native American member, authored \u003ca href=\"https://calmatters.digitaldemocracy.org/bills/ca_202520260ab1881\">AB 1881\u003c/a>, which was called the California Indian Freedom Act of 2026.\u003c/p>\n\n\n\n\u003cp>Only tribes could sue to enforce Ramos’ bill. Agencies would also have had to seek and document a tribe’s written consent before significantly changing a site they know is sacred, though an agency could ask for consultation if a tribe objected. \u003c/p>\n\n\n\n\n\n\u003cp>Ramos is a member of the Serrano/Cahuilla tribe and is a former chairman of the San Manuel Band of Mission Indians. \u003c/p>\n\n\n\n\u003cp>Neither bill drew a “no” vote in the Assembly, though 23 members did not vote on the water bill and 15 on the sacred-sites bill, many Republican. Not voting counts the same as a no vote, and lawmakers are known to skip votes that might offend their supporters and donors.\u003c/p>\n\n\n\n\u003cp>In his veto message for the water bill, Newsom \u003ca href=\"https://www.gov.ca.gov/wp-content/uploads/2026/09/VETO-msg-AB-2218.pdf\">wrote\u003c/a> that the bill was “not sufficiently clear about how its new policy will be implemented” and that “adding new sources of uncertainty will delay our urgent fight to secure Californians’ water supplies.”\u003c/p>\n\n\n\n\u003cp>About Ramos’ bill, Newsom \u003ca href=\"https://www.gov.ca.gov/wp-content/uploads/2026/09/VETO-msg-AB-1881.pdf\">wrote\u003c/a> that he was “sympathetic to the goals of this measure” but that it could have “far-reaching impacts” on state government operations and management of state property, and that “this uncertainty calls for further discussion and review.”\u003c/p>\n\n\n\n\u003cp>The governor’s office referred to Newsom’s veto messages in response to a request for comment on this article.\u003c/p>\n\n\n\n\u003ch2 class=\"wp-block-heading\" id=\"tribes-criticize-water-bill-veto\">Tribes criticize water bill veto\u003c/h2>\n\n\n\n\u003cp>“Tribes need to be at the table when decisions are being made, not brought in after the important decisions have already been made,” said Russell “Buster” Attebery, chairman of the Karuk Tribe.\u003c/p>\n\n\n\n\u003cp>Shingle Springs Vice Chair Malissa Tayaba called the veto of the water bill a “backhanded betrayal of California tribes and a direct contradiction of his apology and promises of reconciliation.” \u003c/p>\n\n\n\n\u003cp>Her government, like other tribes, can sue or lodge formal objections to state water projects, she said, but those steps don’t guarantee an outcome. The final language of the bill would have added a mediation process that paused an agency’s action while the state and affected tribe discussed a resolution. Tayaba said \u003ca href=\"https://www.waterboards.ca.gov/tribal_affairs/policy_project.html\">the status quo\u003c/a> \u003ca href=\"https://calmatters.org/environment/water/2023/08/california-water-agency-investigation-discrimination/\">excludes\u003c/a> her tribe from meaningful consultation on water projects in its ancestral lands and contributes to “a decimation” in salmon runs. \u003c/p>\n\n\n\n\u003cfigure class=\"wp-block-image size-full\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"2000\" height=\"1333\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/06/25_06_25_TRIBE_FOOD_CUTS_MM_26.DSC_7866-KQED.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-12046548\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/06/25_06_25_TRIBE_FOOD_CUTS_MM_26.DSC_7866-KQED.jpg 2000w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/06/25_06_25_TRIBE_FOOD_CUTS_MM_26.DSC_7866-KQED-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/06/25_06_25_TRIBE_FOOD_CUTS_MM_26.DSC_7866-KQED-1536x1024.jpg 1536w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 2000px) 100vw, 2000px\" />\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-element-caption\">The Trinity River flows through the Hoopa Valley in Northern California. (Mark McKenna for KQED)\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\n\n\n\u003cp>Under the vetoed bill, the State Water Board would have had to consult with any tribe whose ancestral territory included a water body at issue in a water-rights investigation. It also would have required agencies to offer financial assistance to tribes. \u003c/p>\n\n\n\n\u003cp>“The bill represented a step toward building a more meaningful relationship between California and tribal nations,” Tayaba said.\u003c/p>\n\n\n\n\u003cp>The Association of California Water Agencies opposed the bill, saying it created a “new and poorly defined standard under the Water Code” and that the mediation process would be inadequate because it would not be binding. Under the rejected bill, a tribe could have withdrawn at any point, according to a legislative analysis — including if the tribe believed the state was not acting in good faith. \u003c/p>\n\n\n\n\u003cp>“We cannot say with certainty how this bill will be implemented and what its impacts will be on water supply,” Andrea Abergel, an advocate for the California Municipal Utilities Association, testified before the Senate Committee on Environmental Quality in July. The organization, which represents more than 80 public utility agencies across the state, opposed the bill. \u003c/p>\n\n\n\n\u003ch2 class=\"wp-block-heading\" id=\"current-law-doesn-t-prevent-sacred-site-destruction\">Current law doesn’t prevent sacred site destruction\u003c/h2>\n\n\n\n\u003cp>Ramos said the sacred sites bill, sponsored by Indigenous Justice, an advocacy group, would have afforded Native Americans greater protections to practice their faith.\u003c/p>\n\n\n\n\u003cp>“Tribal members are routinely questioned or harassed for wearing regalia or carrying ceremonial items in public places,” Ramos told the Senate Judiciary Committee in July. “We have the right to assemble and practice our customs and traditions in a state whose ancestral lands are traditional lands of Indian people.”\u003c/p>\n\n\n\n\u003cp>The bill would also have treated restrictions on regalia and other ceremonial items at state buildings as a burden on religious practice, requiring that the items be allowed in and inspected by hand when possible.\u003c/p>\n\n\n\n\u003cfigure class=\"wp-block-image size-full\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"1920\" height=\"1245\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2016/08/Powwow1.jpg\" alt=\"Helen Gaddie (L) stands inside the dance circle during the Sierra Mono Museum's 45th annual powwow on August 6, 2016.\" class=\"wp-image-11049382\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2016/08/Powwow1.jpg 1920w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2016/08/Powwow1-400x259.jpg 400w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2016/08/Powwow1-800x519.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2016/08/Powwow1-1180x765.jpg 1180w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2016/08/Powwow1-960x623.jpg 960w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1920px) 100vw, 1920px\" />\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-element-caption\">Helen Gaddie, left, wears regalia and stands inside the dance circle during the Sierra Mono Museum’s 45th annual powwow on Aug. 6, 2016. (Vanessa Rancano/KQED)\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\n\n\n\u003cp>Assemblymember Patrick Ahrens, a Democrat from Cupertino and a co-author of the bill, criticized the veto. “The least we can do as a government is allow Native Americans unburdened access to state lands to honor their heritage,” he said in a statement to CalMatters and ICT.\u003c/p>\n\n\n\n\u003cp>Supporters say the bill was needed because harm to sacred sites is a direct result of state and federal policies. Landmark Supreme Court cases such as \u003ca href=\"https://www.supremecourt.gov/opinions/24pdf/24-291_5i26.pdf\">Apache Stronghold v. United States\u003c/a> and \u003ca href=\"https://supreme.justia.com/cases/federal/us/485/439/\">Lyng v. Northwest Indian Cemetery Protective Association\u003c/a> have allowed federal projects to go forward on sacred lands despite tribes’ religious-freedom claims. \u003c/p>\n\n\n\n\u003cp>An Assembly analysis of the bill also notes state law restricts severe damage to sacred sites on public property unless there is a clear and convincing showing that the public interest requires it — but tribes have criticized state agencies for \u003ca href=\"https://www.latimes.com/california/story/2023-05-22/caltrans-indigenous-burial-site\">failing\u003c/a> to prevent damage.\u003c/p>\n\n\n\n\u003cp>In the bill’s findings, authors emphasize that Native American religions are land-based, meaning their practices are often inextricably linked to specific geographic locations.\u003c/p>\n\n\n\n\u003cp>The California Chamber of Commerce applauded both vetoes. The bills “would have created serious legal barriers” to building water storage and infrastructure, wrote John Myers, spokesman for the chamber. \u003c/p>\n\n\n\n\u003cp>Kristopher Anderson, a policy adviser for the California Chamber of Commerce, testified in July against the sacred sites bill. “This bill is about much more than access,” he said. “It is about the way land and water are managed — and the consequences of this bill would have severe ramifications for the water supply reliability of communities and local economies throughout the state.” \u003c/p>\n\n\n\n\u003ch2 class=\"wp-block-heading\" id=\"apology-and-the-vetoes\">Apology and the vetoes\u003c/h2>\n\n\n\n\u003cp>Newsom declared \u003ca href=\"https://www.gov.ca.gov/2026/09/30/governor-newsom-proclaims-a-day-of-remembrance-for-indian-boarding-schools/\">Sept. 30\u003c/a> a Day of Remembrance for Indian Boarding Schools, which Tayaba called “ironic” considering he rejected bills that would have expanded tribal power the same day. \u003c/p>\n\n\n\n\u003cp>California was home to 13 federal Indian boarding schools between 1892 and 1974 that forcibly removed thousands of Native children from their families. \u003c/p>\n\n\n\n\u003cp>In June 2019, Newsom signed an \u003ca href=\"https://www.gov.ca.gov/wp-content/uploads/2019/06/6.18.19-Executive-Order.pdf\">executive order\u003c/a> apologizing on behalf of the state to California Native Americans and creating a Truth and Healing Council, \u003ca href=\"https://colorlines.com/articles/california-governor-apologizes-native-americans-genocide\">saying\u003c/a> they “suffered violence, discrimination and exploitation sanctioned by (the) state government.”\u003c/p>\n\n\n\n\u003cp>On Sept. 25, Newsom signed \u003ca href=\"https://calmatters.digitaldemocracy.org/bills/ca_202520260ab2115\">AB 2115\u003c/a> into law, formalizing an apology to California Native peoples for harms experienced as a result of state policy.\u003c/p>\n\n\n\n\n\n\u003cp>“Newsom acknowledges the state’s historical violence against California’s Indigenous People, but when given the chance to rectify those harms and finalize the bills … he disappointed us and failed to follow through,” said Kasil Willie, policy director of the environmental group Save California Salmon. \u003c/p>\n\n\n\n\u003cp>Newsom, who is not eligible for re-election, \u003ca href=\"https://www.gov.ca.gov/2026/09/25/governor-newsom-signs-legislation-supporting-california-native-americansgovernor-newsom-signs-legislation-supporting-california-native-americans/\">signed\u003c/a> a package of tribal bills, including making Native American Day a paid state holiday and making the Governor’s Office of Tribal Affairs permanent. His office says the state has returned more than 100,000 acres to tribes. \u003c/p>\n\n\n\n\u003cp>Still, tribal leaders including Tayaba from Shingle Springs said they plan to continue their efforts to boost tribal consultation and co-stewardship.\u003c/p>\n\n\n\n\u003cp>“His apology, what does it really mean?” Tayaba said. “Man, did he really hurt us on his way out.”\u003c/p>\n\n\n\n\u003cp>\u003cem>This story is co-published by CalMatters and ICT, a news partnership that covers Indigenous communities in California.\u003c/em>\u003c/p>\n\n\n\n\u003cp>\u003cem>This article was \u003ca href=\"https://calmatters.org/education/higher-education/2026/07/newsom-uc-cal-state-billion-dollars-more/\">originally published on CalMatters\u003c/a> and was republished under the \u003ca href=\"https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-nd/4.0/\">Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-NoDerivatives\u003c/a> license.\u003c/em>\u003c/p>\n\u003c/div>\u003c/p>",
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"content": "\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Here are the morning’s top stories on Monday, September 7, 2026\u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\n\n\n\u003cul class=\"wp-block-list\">\n\u003cli>Powwows are common in many parts of the country where Native Americans call home. But did you know some regions have powwow seasons? \u003ca href=\"https://calendar.powwows.com/events/categories/pow-wows-in-california/\">California’s powwow season \u003c/a>recently kicked off in Central California. And it brought tribes from as far as New York and Canada to Table Mountain Rancheria casino just outside of Fresno, \u003ca href=\"https://www.kvpr.org/community/2026-08-27/outside-fresno-tribal-members-dance-to-their-own-beat\">where the sound of a long tradition rang out.\u003c/a>\u003c/li>\n\n\n\n\u003cli>California \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/12097964/why-sick-sea-lions-are-washing-up-on-california-beaches-right-now\">sea lion poisonings are surging\u003c/a> along the coast, and warm waters brought by El Niño could make things worse.\u003c/li>\n\n\n\n\u003cli>Researchers estimate \u003ca href=\"https://laist.com/news/housing-homelessness/unsheltered-people-within-mile-la-olympic-venues\">that close to 6,000 unsheltered people live within a mile of venues\u003c/a> for the 2028 Olympic Games in Los Angeles.\u003c/li>\n\u003c/ul>\n\n\n\n\u003cp>\u003ca href=\"https://www.kvpr.org/community/2026-08-27/outside-fresno-tribal-members-dance-to-their-own-beat\">“\u003cstrong>You Dance For Your Loved Ones. You Dance For Someone Who Can’t Dance.\u003c/strong>“\u003c/a>\u003c/p>\n\n\n\n\u003cp>It’s a Saturday evening, and a steady drum is beating as dozens of people representing many Native American tribes circle a large patch of grass. Small kids dance alongside adults, each in their own tribal colors and with their own rhythm. Dozens more watch intently from the sidelines.\u003c/p>\n\n\n\n\u003cp>The grassy area is known as an “arena,” and it’s tucked into a golden hillside in eastern Fresno County. This is a social gathering known as a “powwow.” \u003c/p>\n\n\n\n\u003cp>Although Native tribes have held ceremonial gatherings for centuries, powwows are a 19th century tradition,\u003ca href=\"https://www.visitcalifornia.com/experience/pow-wows-california/\"> and late summer is California’s busy season.\u003c/a> These gatherings are formal ways of exchanging culture, but what tribes really come here to do is dance – what they consider as “spreading medicine.” \u003c/p>\n\n\n\n\u003cp>Waylon Burrough organized this celebration. He’s a member of the Chukchansi Indians. \u003c/p>\n\n\n\n\u003cp>“Dancing is healing,” he says. “You dance for your loved ones. You dance for someone who can’t dance.”\u003c/p>\n\n\n\n\u003cp>He says at powwows, everyone brings something special. \u003c/p>\n\n\n\n\u003cp>“Each different regalia has a different meaning. And each dance has a different story behind it.”\u003c/p>\n\n\n\n\u003cp>Tribal members come from all over. There’s Choctaw, Mono Indians, Seminole, Lakota, and Navajo, but Burrough says where they come from isn’t the story – it’s what happens when they get here. \u003c/p>\n\n\n\n\u003cp>“We dance in a circular motion. And clockwise motion. And to the beat of the drum. So it’s like dancing with time.” \u003c/p>\n\n\n\n\u003cp>Everyone moves to the same beat, like a heartbeat. \u003c/p>\n\n\n\n\u003cp>Twirling in the arena is Murphy Bear-McCloud. He’s 17 years old, and belongs to the Dunlap Band of Mono Indians as well as a tribe in Oklahoma. He’s wearing yellow and orange – with two fans of feathers called bustles that look like fireworks on his back. \u003c/p>\n\n\n\n\u003cp>“The bustles used to be flat, not big. And they used to be a lot smaller but now they just got bigger because everyone wanted a flare,” says Bear-McCloud. \u003c/p>\n\n\n\n\u003cp>He shares more with me after his dance… once he catches his breath. \u003c/p>\n\n\n\n\u003cp>“I do this powwow for a living. I’ve been dancing since I was real young, when I could walk. It’s just been sticking with me my whole life.” \u003c/p>\n\n\n\n\u003cp>This time of the year is his busiest. \u003c/p>\n\n\n\n\u003cp>“Usually I do it like weekend after weekend after weekend. Like usually I’m never home for weeks. So I’m not going to be home until November.” \u003c/p>\n\n\n\n\u003cp>One of his fans interrupts our interview. \u003c/p>\n\n\n\n\u003cp>“This guy’s going to be a superstar in life right here. You know why? Because he’s guided by the best and he’s got the best. And this is his uncle Craig Hackett speaking. And if anybody’s got anything to say to this boy, you can find me. Just say ‘whats up.’” \u003c/p>\n\n\n\n\u003cp>That’s what you call a proud uncle.\u003c/p>\n\n\n\n\u003cp>By nightfall, it’s time to compete for prize money.\u003c/p>\n\n\n\n\u003cp>Lilliane Shakespeare Largo is waiting for her turn. \u003c/p>\n\n\n\n\u003cp>“I’m from the Diné Nation, which is Navajo, and I’m also part of Northern Arapahoe and Mescalero Apache,” says Shakespeare Largo. \u003c/p>\n\n\n\n\u003cp>She’s 25 and came in from New Mexico. \u003c/p>\n\n\n\n\u003cp>“We drove all night, it was about a 10 hour drive.”\u003c/p>\n\n\n\n\u003cp>She’s performing the “Women’s Northern Buckskin” dance. A large feather points up from her head and curtains of white buckskin fringe hang from her brightly colored shawl.\u003c/p>\n\n\n\n\u003cp>“My favorite color is blue. So I made my whole bead work blue. And then they’re family designs,” she says.\u003c/p>\n\n\n\n\u003cp>In the arena, Largo and the other women take one step. And then another. Their buckskin sways in the wind – almost in slow motion. Then, time is up.\u003c/p>\n\n\n\n\u003cp>The winner? Largo – she’s taking home 1,000 dollars. This is a special win for her. \u003c/p>\n\n\n\n\u003cp>“I’m five months postpartum. So it’s a lot harder for me. But I feel happy when I do perform well.” \u003c/p>\n\n\n\n\u003cp>Her dad is holding her five month old baby as they celebrate. Here, three generations point to the spirit of these powwows. Tribal members don’t just come to dance for themselves. But also for their ancestors, and the next generation, who will one day learn to dance to their own beat. \u003c/p>\n\n\n\n\u003ch2 class=\"wp-block-heading\">\u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/12097964/why-sick-sea-lions-are-washing-up-on-california-beaches-right-now\">Sea Lions in Crisis As Toxic Algae Blooms Off California Coast \u003c/a>\u003c/h2>\n\n\n\n\u003cp>\u003ca href=\"https://www.marinemammalcenter.org/\">The Marine Mammal Center in Sausalito\u003c/a> is fielding up to 600 calls a day about \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/science/1914632/algae-poisoned-sea-lions-inundate-marine-mammal-center\">sea lions\u003c/a> that appear confused, lethargic, and, in some cases, dead. The center has treated more than 100 sea lions — above the yearly average of 75 to 90 — with the majority of these cases occurring since the start of July.\u003c/p>\n\n\n\n\u003cp>An algal bloom is poisoning mammals with a toxin called \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/science/1931779/scientists-uncover-genetic-basis-for-toxic-algal-blooms\">domoic acid\u003c/a>, which can cause seizures and heart failure. The animals ingest the naturally occurring neurotoxin by eating fish or shellfish. \u003c/p>\n\n\n\n\u003cp>Giancarlo Rulli is a spokesperson for the center.\u003c/p>\n\n\n\n\u003cp>“We’ve seen a major flare-up in Monterey and Santa Cruz counties,” Rulli said. “This is highly emotional, and it can be very disturbing to see an animal that’s not in control of itself out on the beach.”\u003c/p>\n\n\n\n\u003cp>Additional rescues have taken place in San Mateo, San Francisco, Marin and Sonoma counties. The center has also treated a handful of northern fur seals. Treating a single mammal can require up to six trained responders and may involve repeated doses of anti-seizure medication.\u003c/p>\n\n\n\n\u003cp>“It’s brutal on the animals,” Rulli said. “We are seeing animals die out on the beaches. There are a fair amount of carcasses out there. We’re seeing animals pass away in transport being brought back to the hospital.”\u003c/p>\n\n\n\n\u003cp>Rulli said the cases are a sign that the toxin has worked its way through the food chain in “a short-term burst,” but said the center is also seeing chronic cases where sea lions have “brain lesions and permanent heart damage.”\u003c/p>\n\n\n\n\u003cp>Along the northern California coast, marine algal blooms are primarily caused by natural factors such as ocean upwelling of nutrient-rich water and warm ocean temperatures.\u003c/p>\n\n\n\n\u003cp>Polluted runoff from agriculture and other human activities also feed blooms, a factor projected to become more frequent and \u003ca href=\"https://www.cdc.gov/harmful-algal-blooms/about/harmful-algal-blooms-contributing-factors-and-impacts.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">severe\u003c/a> due to human-caused climate change.\u003c/p>\n\n\n\n\u003cp>Rulli says that already warmer-than-normal sea surface temperatures, and further warming from \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/science/2001688/strong-el-nino-may-bring-record-sea-level-and-coastal-flooding-to-bay-area\">the climate pattern El Niño\u003c/a>, could exponentially increase the number of affected mammals. \u003c/p>\n\n\n\n\u003ch2 class=\"wp-block-heading\">\u003ca href=\"https://laist.com/news/housing-homelessness/unsheltered-people-within-mile-la-olympic-venues\">Initial Count of Unsheltered People by L.A. County “Obviously Low,” UCLA Researcher Says\u003c/a> \u003c/h2>\n\n\n\n\u003cp>Local officials expect that security plans for the 2028 Olympics will require unhoused people to vacate areas around competition venues, but exactly how many people is unclear.\u003c/p>\n\n\n\n\u003cp>The \u003ca href=\"https://home2028.la/\">new report from academics\u003c/a> at USC and UCLA indicates that potentially close to 6,000 people could be displaced. That figure is more than three times higher than an estimate the L.A. County Department of Housing and Homelessness gave LAist earlier this year.\u003c/p>\n\n\n\n\u003cp>“That just seemed obviously low,” said Randall Kuhn, a UCLA professor and demographer who co-runs \u003ca href=\"https://archive.is/o/0tb4r/https://www.paths.la/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">a monthly survey of unhoused people in L.A.\u003c/a> In total, there are around 49,000 unsheltered people countywide, according to the \u003ca href=\"https://archive.is/o/0tb4r/https://laist.com/news/housing-homelessness/la-homelessness-rose-in-2026-official-count-shows\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">2026 point-in-time homeless count\u003c/a>.\u003c/p>\n\n\n\n\u003cp>Kuhn and his colleagues came up with their higher estimate using numbers from that count, which estimates the number of unhoused people by census tract. They then adjusted those figures based on how much each tract overlapped with a potential Olympic security perimeter and the length of walkable and major streets where unhoused people were likely to be located.\u003c/p>\n\n\n\n\u003cp> ”The numbers just give us a good starting point, right? What really matters is the people in those buffers.” \u003c/p>\n\n\n\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\n\n\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n",
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"content": "\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Here are the morning’s top stories on Monday, September 7, 2026\u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\n\n\n\u003cul class=\"wp-block-list\">\n\u003cli>Powwows are common in many parts of the country where Native Americans call home. But did you know some regions have powwow seasons? \u003ca href=\"https://calendar.powwows.com/events/categories/pow-wows-in-california/\">California’s powwow season \u003c/a>recently kicked off in Central California. And it brought tribes from as far as New York and Canada to Table Mountain Rancheria casino just outside of Fresno, \u003ca href=\"https://www.kvpr.org/community/2026-08-27/outside-fresno-tribal-members-dance-to-their-own-beat\">where the sound of a long tradition rang out.\u003c/a>\u003c/li>\n\n\n\n\u003cli>California \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/12097964/why-sick-sea-lions-are-washing-up-on-california-beaches-right-now\">sea lion poisonings are surging\u003c/a> along the coast, and warm waters brought by El Niño could make things worse.\u003c/li>\n\n\n\n\u003cli>Researchers estimate \u003ca href=\"https://laist.com/news/housing-homelessness/unsheltered-people-within-mile-la-olympic-venues\">that close to 6,000 unsheltered people live within a mile of venues\u003c/a> for the 2028 Olympic Games in Los Angeles.\u003c/li>\n\u003c/ul>\n\n\n\n\u003cp>\u003ca href=\"https://www.kvpr.org/community/2026-08-27/outside-fresno-tribal-members-dance-to-their-own-beat\">“\u003cstrong>You Dance For Your Loved Ones. You Dance For Someone Who Can’t Dance.\u003c/strong>“\u003c/a>\u003c/p>\n\n\n\n\u003cp>It’s a Saturday evening, and a steady drum is beating as dozens of people representing many Native American tribes circle a large patch of grass. Small kids dance alongside adults, each in their own tribal colors and with their own rhythm. Dozens more watch intently from the sidelines.\u003c/p>\n\n\n\n\u003cp>The grassy area is known as an “arena,” and it’s tucked into a golden hillside in eastern Fresno County. This is a social gathering known as a “powwow.” \u003c/p>\n\n\n\n\u003cp>Although Native tribes have held ceremonial gatherings for centuries, powwows are a 19th century tradition,\u003ca href=\"https://www.visitcalifornia.com/experience/pow-wows-california/\"> and late summer is California’s busy season.\u003c/a> These gatherings are formal ways of exchanging culture, but what tribes really come here to do is dance – what they consider as “spreading medicine.” \u003c/p>\n\n\n\n\u003cp>Waylon Burrough organized this celebration. He’s a member of the Chukchansi Indians. \u003c/p>\n\n\n\n\u003cp>“Dancing is healing,” he says. “You dance for your loved ones. You dance for someone who can’t dance.”\u003c/p>\n\n\n\n\u003cp>He says at powwows, everyone brings something special. \u003c/p>\n\n\n\n\u003cp>“Each different regalia has a different meaning. And each dance has a different story behind it.”\u003c/p>\n\n\n\n\u003cp>Tribal members come from all over. There’s Choctaw, Mono Indians, Seminole, Lakota, and Navajo, but Burrough says where they come from isn’t the story – it’s what happens when they get here. \u003c/p>\n\n\n\n\u003cp>“We dance in a circular motion. And clockwise motion. And to the beat of the drum. So it’s like dancing with time.” \u003c/p>\n\n\n\n\u003cp>Everyone moves to the same beat, like a heartbeat. \u003c/p>\n\n\n\n\u003cp>Twirling in the arena is Murphy Bear-McCloud. He’s 17 years old, and belongs to the Dunlap Band of Mono Indians as well as a tribe in Oklahoma. He’s wearing yellow and orange – with two fans of feathers called bustles that look like fireworks on his back. \u003c/p>\n\n\n\n\u003cp>“The bustles used to be flat, not big. And they used to be a lot smaller but now they just got bigger because everyone wanted a flare,” says Bear-McCloud. \u003c/p>\n\n\n\n\u003cp>He shares more with me after his dance… once he catches his breath. \u003c/p>\n\n\n\n\u003cp>“I do this powwow for a living. I’ve been dancing since I was real young, when I could walk. It’s just been sticking with me my whole life.” \u003c/p>\n\n\n\n\u003cp>This time of the year is his busiest. \u003c/p>\n\n\n\n\u003cp>“Usually I do it like weekend after weekend after weekend. Like usually I’m never home for weeks. So I’m not going to be home until November.” \u003c/p>\n\n\n\n\u003cp>One of his fans interrupts our interview. \u003c/p>\n\n\n\n\u003cp>“This guy’s going to be a superstar in life right here. You know why? Because he’s guided by the best and he’s got the best. And this is his uncle Craig Hackett speaking. And if anybody’s got anything to say to this boy, you can find me. Just say ‘whats up.’” \u003c/p>\n\n\n\n\u003cp>That’s what you call a proud uncle.\u003c/p>\n\n\n\n\u003cp>By nightfall, it’s time to compete for prize money.\u003c/p>\n\n\n\n\u003cp>Lilliane Shakespeare Largo is waiting for her turn. \u003c/p>\n\n\n\n\u003cp>“I’m from the Diné Nation, which is Navajo, and I’m also part of Northern Arapahoe and Mescalero Apache,” says Shakespeare Largo. \u003c/p>\n\n\n\n\u003cp>She’s 25 and came in from New Mexico. \u003c/p>\n\n\n\n\u003cp>“We drove all night, it was about a 10 hour drive.”\u003c/p>\n\n\n\n\u003cp>She’s performing the “Women’s Northern Buckskin” dance. A large feather points up from her head and curtains of white buckskin fringe hang from her brightly colored shawl.\u003c/p>\n\n\n\n\u003cp>“My favorite color is blue. So I made my whole bead work blue. And then they’re family designs,” she says.\u003c/p>\n\n\n\n\u003cp>In the arena, Largo and the other women take one step. And then another. Their buckskin sways in the wind – almost in slow motion. Then, time is up.\u003c/p>\n\n\n\n\u003cp>The winner? Largo – she’s taking home 1,000 dollars. This is a special win for her. \u003c/p>\n\n\n\n\u003cp>“I’m five months postpartum. So it’s a lot harder for me. But I feel happy when I do perform well.” \u003c/p>\n\n\n\n\u003cp>Her dad is holding her five month old baby as they celebrate. Here, three generations point to the spirit of these powwows. Tribal members don’t just come to dance for themselves. But also for their ancestors, and the next generation, who will one day learn to dance to their own beat. \u003c/p>\n\n\n\n\u003ch2 class=\"wp-block-heading\">\u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/12097964/why-sick-sea-lions-are-washing-up-on-california-beaches-right-now\">Sea Lions in Crisis As Toxic Algae Blooms Off California Coast \u003c/a>\u003c/h2>\n\n\n\n\u003cp>\u003ca href=\"https://www.marinemammalcenter.org/\">The Marine Mammal Center in Sausalito\u003c/a> is fielding up to 600 calls a day about \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/science/1914632/algae-poisoned-sea-lions-inundate-marine-mammal-center\">sea lions\u003c/a> that appear confused, lethargic, and, in some cases, dead. The center has treated more than 100 sea lions — above the yearly average of 75 to 90 — with the majority of these cases occurring since the start of July.\u003c/p>\n\n\n\n\u003cp>An algal bloom is poisoning mammals with a toxin called \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/science/1931779/scientists-uncover-genetic-basis-for-toxic-algal-blooms\">domoic acid\u003c/a>, which can cause seizures and heart failure. The animals ingest the naturally occurring neurotoxin by eating fish or shellfish. \u003c/p>\n\n\n\n\u003cp>Giancarlo Rulli is a spokesperson for the center.\u003c/p>\n\n\n\n\u003cp>“We’ve seen a major flare-up in Monterey and Santa Cruz counties,” Rulli said. “This is highly emotional, and it can be very disturbing to see an animal that’s not in control of itself out on the beach.”\u003c/p>\n\n\n\n\u003cp>Additional rescues have taken place in San Mateo, San Francisco, Marin and Sonoma counties. The center has also treated a handful of northern fur seals. Treating a single mammal can require up to six trained responders and may involve repeated doses of anti-seizure medication.\u003c/p>\n\n\n\n\u003cp>“It’s brutal on the animals,” Rulli said. “We are seeing animals die out on the beaches. There are a fair amount of carcasses out there. We’re seeing animals pass away in transport being brought back to the hospital.”\u003c/p>\n\n\n\n\u003cp>Rulli said the cases are a sign that the toxin has worked its way through the food chain in “a short-term burst,” but said the center is also seeing chronic cases where sea lions have “brain lesions and permanent heart damage.”\u003c/p>\n\n\n\n\u003cp>Along the northern California coast, marine algal blooms are primarily caused by natural factors such as ocean upwelling of nutrient-rich water and warm ocean temperatures.\u003c/p>\n\n\n\n\u003cp>Polluted runoff from agriculture and other human activities also feed blooms, a factor projected to become more frequent and \u003ca href=\"https://www.cdc.gov/harmful-algal-blooms/about/harmful-algal-blooms-contributing-factors-and-impacts.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">severe\u003c/a> due to human-caused climate change.\u003c/p>\n\n\n\n\u003cp>Rulli says that already warmer-than-normal sea surface temperatures, and further warming from \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/science/2001688/strong-el-nino-may-bring-record-sea-level-and-coastal-flooding-to-bay-area\">the climate pattern El Niño\u003c/a>, could exponentially increase the number of affected mammals. \u003c/p>\n\n\n\n\u003ch2 class=\"wp-block-heading\">\u003ca href=\"https://laist.com/news/housing-homelessness/unsheltered-people-within-mile-la-olympic-venues\">Initial Count of Unsheltered People by L.A. 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"content": "\u003cp>\u003cem>This story was originally published by \u003ca href=\"https://calmatters.org/\">CalMatters\u003c/a>. \u003ca href=\"https://calmatters.org/subscribe-to-calmatters/\">Sign up\u003c/a> for their newsletters.\u003c/em>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>When Celestina Castillo filled out the ethnicity forms at her children’s school, she’d always check \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/tag/latino\">Latino\u003c/a> and \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/tag/native-american\">Native American\u003c/a>. After all, the family is proud of both its heritages.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But because of a loophole in the state’s data collection system, checking Latino or Hispanic meant that her children’s Native American identity was not counted at all, and they would not receive the extra services they’re entitled to. When Castillo learned of this, she stopped checking the Latino box altogether.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>According to the arcane way California counts its 5.8 million students, students who say they are Hispanic and Native American get counted as solely Hispanic. Native American students who also identify as another race, such as Black, white or Asian, are counted as “two or more races,” not Native American.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad fullwidth]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The problem affects all multiracial students, but it’s especially pronounced among Native Americans because the majority are multiracial. It’s resulted in an undercount of Native American students by as much as 90%, advocates said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“If someone is Black, or Asian, or white, they’re counted that way,” said Castillo, a director of a college learning center who lives in Los Angeles. “Why does it not count if someone is Native American? That’s not OK. It feels like erasure.”\u003c/p>\n\u003ch2>More services, fewer stereotypes\u003c/h2>\n\u003cp>Last year, California schools said they had 24,822 Native American students, but the actual number may be as high as 156,000, according to an Assembly report on a new measure, \u003ca href=\"https://calmatters.digitaldemocracy.org/bills/ca_202520260ab1581\">Assembly Bill 1581\u003c/a>, that seeks to fix the problem. If those students were identified, they’d be entitled to cultural services and other programs that could help them succeed in school.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>A more accurate count could also change the public perception of Native Americans generally, according to Assemblymember James Ramos, the San Bernardino Democrat who authored the bill. Instead of being thought of as rare or even extinct, the public could see that Native Americans are everywhere, Ramos said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“We’ll start to see the true picture of Native Americans in California,” said Ramos, a member of the Serrano/Cahuilla tribe. “Native American students should be able to stand up in the classroom and say who they are and be proud of it.”\u003c/p>\n\u003ch2>Changes in the U.S. Census\u003c/h2>\n\u003cp>There’s a long history of the government marginalizing Native Americans in California, particularly in schools. In the late 19th and 20th centuries, not long after \u003ca href=\"https://nahc.ca.gov/native-americans/california-indian-history/\">90% of California’s Native American population was murdered or killed by disease\u003c/a>, the federal government forced thousands of Native American children in California into \u003ca href=\"https://docs.house.gov/meetings/II/II24/20220512/114732/HHRG-117-II24-20220512-SD054.pdf?fbclid=IwZXh0bgNhZW0CMTEAAR0Rk4M_Oha8vdrx8seDjhPKAEDkJN1t4sIXtVHBvjqQz3uc3CFsKdO3aRE_aem_QNCcqOg4MiwccxyrqjJlfQ\">boarding schools\u003c/a>, where they were forced to speak English and abandon their cultures.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Things started to change in 1970 when the U.S. Census Bureau started improving the way it counted Native Americans. Now, Native Americans can write in their tribal affiliation or list themselves as multiracial, and still be counted as Native American. Although Native Americans are \u003ca href=\"https://census.ca.gov/resource/tribal_gov/\">still undercounted\u003c/a> more than any other ethnic group, the census changes resulted in a tenfold increase in the official number of Native Americans in the U.S. In 1960, Native Americans only made up .3% of the population. 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More than 760,000 people in California identify as Native American, with most living in urban areas like Los Angeles.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Ramos’ bill would allow Native American students to write in the name of their tribe on school forms and identify as Native American plus another race, if applicable. The hope is to give a more comprehensive, more nuanced view of California’s Native American student population, allowing them to get extra services regardless of their biracial identity. 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If those students were identified, they’d be entitled to cultural services and other programs that could help them succeed in school.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>A more accurate count could also change the public perception of Native Americans generally, according to Assemblymember James Ramos, the San Bernardino Democrat who authored the bill. Instead of being thought of as rare or even extinct, the public could see that Native Americans are everywhere, Ramos said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“We’ll start to see the true picture of Native Americans in California,” said Ramos, a member of the Serrano/Cahuilla tribe. “Native American students should be able to stand up in the classroom and say who they are and be proud of it.”\u003c/p>\n\u003ch2>Changes in the U.S. Census\u003c/h2>\n\u003cp>There’s a long history of the government marginalizing Native Americans in California, particularly in schools. 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What began as guerrilla gardening — planting flowers and vegetables in neglected lots — has grown into a nonprofit with four sites across West Sacramento. \u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400;\">At its core, the work is about turning unused land into something productive: teaching young people to grow food and getting it into the hands of people who need it.\u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400;\">And in this part of Yolo County, that need is significant — nearly \u003c/span>\u003ca href=\"https://www.sacregcf.org/wp-content/uploads/2025/04/Yolo-Food-Access-Survey-Report.pdf\">\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400;\">one in three households \u003c/span>\u003c/a>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400;\">experiences food insecurity.\u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_12073468\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 2000px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-12073468\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2026/02/02122026_LBR3_3SISGDN-192-KQED.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"2000\" height=\"1334\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2026/02/02122026_LBR3_3SISGDN-192-KQED.jpg 2000w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2026/02/02122026_LBR3_3SISGDN-192-KQED-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2026/02/02122026_LBR3_3SISGDN-192-KQED-1536x1025.jpg 1536w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 2000px) 100vw, 2000px\" />\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Alfred Melbourne, founder and director of Three Sisters Garden, at the garden in West Sacramento on Sept. 12, 2026. \u003ccite>(Louis Bryant III for KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400;\">“How do we still live in a food desert?” Melbourne said. \u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400;\">A West Sacramento native, this is a question Melbourne has grappled with his entire life. \u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400;\">In an attempt to mitigate this, he gives away most of the produce grown on the land, with a goal to distribute 50, 000 pounds of free food this year, and having distributed 42,000 pounds of free food the year before. \u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400;\">He draws on his Indigenous roots to shape the gardens. \u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400;\">“The hawk, they always seem to fly right above us,” Melbourne said, gesturing toward the sky. He takes it as a good sign.\u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400;\">He is a member of the Fort Peck Assiniboine and Sioux Tribes and named the farms after the native “Three Sisters” method of planting corn, beans and squash together — each crop supporting the others.\u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400;\">That approach, he said, reflects a broader way of thinking about community — the heart of the farms he runs.\u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003ch2>From incarceration to intervention\u003c/h2>\n\u003cp>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Melbourne grew up one street away from the 5th and C Street garden where he stood.\u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400;\">“For the youth growing up here, there wasn’t a lot of opportunity,” he said. “There was a gang \u003c/span>\u003ca href=\"https://yoloda.org/appellate-court-upholds-gang-injunction/\">\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400;\">injunction \u003c/span>\u003c/a>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400;\">in place for almost 10 years, over-criminalizing our youth.”\u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_12073467\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 2000px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-12073467\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2026/02/02122026_LBR3_3SISGDN-150-KQED.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"2000\" height=\"1334\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2026/02/02122026_LBR3_3SISGDN-150-KQED.jpg 2000w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2026/02/02122026_LBR3_3SISGDN-150-KQED-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2026/02/02122026_LBR3_3SISGDN-150-KQED-1536x1025.jpg 1536w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 2000px) 100vw, 2000px\" />\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Dominitt Henderson waters newly planted lettuce at Three Sisters Garden in West Sacramento on Sept. 12, 2026. \u003ccite>(Louis Bryant III for KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400;\">At 19, he was arrested for the first time and eventually spent 18 years in prison for assault with a firearm and assault with a deadly weapon.\u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400;\">“As a youngster, I kind of just fell in with the bad crowd and made some poor choices, and I ended up incarcerated,” said Melbourne. “Incarceration is not something that I would wish upon my worst enemy.”\u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400;\">For much of that time, he said, he resisted the system and his circumstances. But eventually, something shifted.[aside postID=news_12082596 hero='https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2026/05/KQED_RURALMATERNALHEALTH_HIRES_02-KQED.jpg']\u003c/span>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400;\">“I just sat there, and I closed my eyes, and I listened,” he said. “I saw what it was they were doing as a system to try to break us down, to kidnap us off the streets and profit off of us.”\u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Melbourne spent time getting educated in prison and learned that it costs California nearly \u003c/span>\u003ca href=\"https://www.lao.ca.gov/policyareas/cj/6_cj_inmatecost\">\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400;\">$128,000 annually\u003c/span>\u003c/a>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400;\"> to incarcerate a person. That realization stayed with him. \u003c/span>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400;\">“I couldn’t allow that to happen,” he said. “Not to me any longer, or to anybody I knew or anybody in my community.”\u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400;\">When Melbourne was released, he returned to West Sacramento with a different sense of purpose — thinking about how to intervene with young people, before they ended up where he had.\u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400;\">“We know that if you feed a kid better, they’ll perform better,” he said. “Test scores go up, behavior problems go down.”\u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Since 2018, he has built the nonprofit Three Sisters Gardens, spanning four farms across West Sacramento. But, not without some challenges.\u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400;\">The model remains susceptible to fluctuations in federal funding priorities.\u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_12073463\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 2000px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-12073463\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2026/02/02122026_LBR3_3SISGDN-74-KQED.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"2000\" height=\"1334\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2026/02/02122026_LBR3_3SISGDN-74-KQED.jpg 2000w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2026/02/02122026_LBR3_3SISGDN-74-KQED-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2026/02/02122026_LBR3_3SISGDN-74-KQED-1536x1025.jpg 1536w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 2000px) 100vw, 2000px\" />\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Kenny McDowell plants microgreen onions at Three Sisters Garden in West Sacramento on Feb. 12, 2026. \u003ccite>(Louis Bryant III for KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Melbourne had set his sights on a \u003c/span>\u003ca href=\"https://iratracker.org/actions/epa-pushes-climate-groups-to-close-community-change-grant-program-grants/\">\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400;\">$21 million grant\u003c/span>\u003c/a>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400;\"> from the US Environmental Protection Agency, a program that was discontinued by the Trump administration. \u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Currently, the organization depends on a mix of local and state funding, with land leased from the city at a subsidized rate of $1 per month.\u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400;\">“It took a lot of learning to know that I can transform what used to be an illegal business into a legal business,” said Melbourne. “And use our hustle mentality to support our youth and ourselves into a future that’s brighter for everyone.”\u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Melbourne sees access to food as one entry point. But the work extends beyond nutrition — into job training, workforce development and life skills.\u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400;\">“I want to use the lived experience that I have for all the pain and suffering that I went through to be able to change these youngsters, to divert them,” he said about being a mentor, educator and a resource for the young people in West Sacramento.\u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003ch2>Cultivating community\u003c/h2>\n\u003cp>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Nancy Long, 18, found the Three Sisters Gardens nearly two years ago, at a time when she felt unmoored. \u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Now, between packing produce for distribution and tending the soil, she said she has found a sense of purpose — in both the work itself and in giving food away.\u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_12073461\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 2000px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-12073461\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2026/02/02122026_LBR3_3SISGDN-36-KQED.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"2000\" height=\"1334\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2026/02/02122026_LBR3_3SISGDN-36-KQED.jpg 2000w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2026/02/02122026_LBR3_3SISGDN-36-KQED-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2026/02/02122026_LBR3_3SISGDN-36-KQED-1536x1025.jpg 1536w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 2000px) 100vw, 2000px\" />\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Three Sisters Garden in West Sacramento on Feb. 12, 2026. \u003ccite>(Louis Bryant III for KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400;\">“I grew up very poor, and I feel like this is actually helping a lot of people because not a lot of people get food,” she said.\u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Long, who is Cambodian American, now brings produce home for her family, who use it in soups. Before joining the garden, she said she struggled in school and often kept to herself.\u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400;\">“I was really in a bad place in my life,” she said. “When I got this job, I changed a lot, and it also helped me with my mental health issues.”\u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Working at the garden, she said, has changed how she sees herself and how she interacts with others.\u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400;\">“I feel like this garden has made me a better person,” she said. “I really am glad, and I appreciate that I have Alfred in this.”\u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Many of the young people who come through the gardens are looking for stability — a steady job, guidance, a place where they feel seen.\u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Melbourne’s role often extends beyond supervision. \u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400;\">He checks in on the young people working with him and, at times, helps them navigate challenges outside of work.\u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_12073465\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 2000px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-12073465\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2026/02/02122026_LBR3_3SISGDN-113-KQED.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"2000\" height=\"1334\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2026/02/02122026_LBR3_3SISGDN-113-KQED.jpg 2000w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2026/02/02122026_LBR3_3SISGDN-113-KQED-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2026/02/02122026_LBR3_3SISGDN-113-KQED-1536x1025.jpg 1536w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 2000px) 100vw, 2000px\" />\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Kenny McDowell plants onion microgreens at Three Sisters Garden in West Sacramento on Feb. 12, 2026. \u003ccite>(Louis Bryant III for KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400;\">For 21-year-old Dominitt Henderson, that meant straightforward advice.\u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400;\">“He will tell you the truth straight up to your face,” Henderson said. “He won’t hide nothing from you — that’s what I like.”\u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Other youth described more tangible forms of support.\u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400;\">“He helps me a lot,” Amari Sullivan said. “He gives me jackets — whatever I need.”\u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Kenny McDowell said that support has made a difference during difficult moments.\u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400;\">“There’ll be times where I miss a couple of car payments,” McDowell said. “He’ll help me out. Little things like that, it counts.”\u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Over time, the work begins to take root in other ways. \u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400;\">McDowell said being part of the garden gave him a sense of direction and something to build toward.\u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_12073462\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 2000px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-12073462\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2026/02/02122026_LBR3_3SISGDN-57-KQED.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"2000\" height=\"1334\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2026/02/02122026_LBR3_3SISGDN-57-KQED.jpg 2000w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2026/02/02122026_LBR3_3SISGDN-57-KQED-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2026/02/02122026_LBR3_3SISGDN-57-KQED-1536x1025.jpg 1536w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 2000px) 100vw, 2000px\" />\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Interns Damia Zhang and Leilania Tian inspect seed containers at Three Sisters Garden in West Sacramento on Feb. 12, 2026. \u003ccite>(Louis Bryant III for KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400;\">“This was a purpose,” he said. “I want to see a brighter future.”\u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Melbourne described the work as reciprocal — something built alongside the young people, not just for them.\u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400;\">“It’s them coming to me and us just feeding off of each other,” he said. \u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400;\">“What I really, truthfully, in the end want to build is community.”\u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n",
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What began as guerrilla gardening — planting flowers and vegetables in neglected lots — has grown into a nonprofit with four sites across West Sacramento. \u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400;\">At its core, the work is about turning unused land into something productive: teaching young people to grow food and getting it into the hands of people who need it.\u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400;\">And in this part of Yolo County, that need is significant — nearly \u003c/span>\u003ca href=\"https://www.sacregcf.org/wp-content/uploads/2025/04/Yolo-Food-Access-Survey-Report.pdf\">\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400;\">one in three households \u003c/span>\u003c/a>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400;\">experiences food insecurity.\u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_12073468\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 2000px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-12073468\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2026/02/02122026_LBR3_3SISGDN-192-KQED.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"2000\" height=\"1334\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2026/02/02122026_LBR3_3SISGDN-192-KQED.jpg 2000w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2026/02/02122026_LBR3_3SISGDN-192-KQED-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2026/02/02122026_LBR3_3SISGDN-192-KQED-1536x1025.jpg 1536w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 2000px) 100vw, 2000px\" />\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Alfred Melbourne, founder and director of Three Sisters Garden, at the garden in West Sacramento on Sept. 12, 2026. \u003ccite>(Louis Bryant III for KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400;\">“How do we still live in a food desert?” Melbourne said. \u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400;\">A West Sacramento native, this is a question Melbourne has grappled with his entire life. \u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400;\">In an attempt to mitigate this, he gives away most of the produce grown on the land, with a goal to distribute 50, 000 pounds of free food this year, and having distributed 42,000 pounds of free food the year before. \u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400;\">He draws on his Indigenous roots to shape the gardens. \u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400;\">“The hawk, they always seem to fly right above us,” Melbourne said, gesturing toward the sky. He takes it as a good sign.\u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400;\">He is a member of the Fort Peck Assiniboine and Sioux Tribes and named the farms after the native “Three Sisters” method of planting corn, beans and squash together — each crop supporting the others.\u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400;\">That approach, he said, reflects a broader way of thinking about community — the heart of the farms he runs.\u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003ch2>From incarceration to intervention\u003c/h2>\n\u003cp>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Melbourne grew up one street away from the 5th and C Street garden where he stood.\u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400;\">“For the youth growing up here, there wasn’t a lot of opportunity,” he said. “There was a gang \u003c/span>\u003ca href=\"https://yoloda.org/appellate-court-upholds-gang-injunction/\">\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400;\">injunction \u003c/span>\u003c/a>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400;\">in place for almost 10 years, over-criminalizing our youth.”\u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_12073467\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 2000px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-12073467\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2026/02/02122026_LBR3_3SISGDN-150-KQED.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"2000\" height=\"1334\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2026/02/02122026_LBR3_3SISGDN-150-KQED.jpg 2000w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2026/02/02122026_LBR3_3SISGDN-150-KQED-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2026/02/02122026_LBR3_3SISGDN-150-KQED-1536x1025.jpg 1536w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 2000px) 100vw, 2000px\" />\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Dominitt Henderson waters newly planted lettuce at Three Sisters Garden in West Sacramento on Sept. 12, 2026. \u003ccite>(Louis Bryant III for KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400;\">At 19, he was arrested for the first time and eventually spent 18 years in prison for assault with a firearm and assault with a deadly weapon.\u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400;\">“As a youngster, I kind of just fell in with the bad crowd and made some poor choices, and I ended up incarcerated,” said Melbourne. “Incarceration is not something that I would wish upon my worst enemy.”\u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400;\">For much of that time, he said, he resisted the system and his circumstances. But eventually, something shifted.\u003c/p>\u003c/div>",
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"content": "\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>\u003c/span>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400;\">“I just sat there, and I closed my eyes, and I listened,” he said. “I saw what it was they were doing as a system to try to break us down, to kidnap us off the streets and profit off of us.”\u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Melbourne spent time getting educated in prison and learned that it costs California nearly \u003c/span>\u003ca href=\"https://www.lao.ca.gov/policyareas/cj/6_cj_inmatecost\">\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400;\">$128,000 annually\u003c/span>\u003c/a>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400;\"> to incarcerate a person. That realization stayed with him. \u003c/span>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400;\">“I couldn’t allow that to happen,” he said. “Not to me any longer, or to anybody I knew or anybody in my community.”\u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400;\">When Melbourne was released, he returned to West Sacramento with a different sense of purpose — thinking about how to intervene with young people, before they ended up where he had.\u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400;\">“We know that if you feed a kid better, they’ll perform better,” he said. “Test scores go up, behavior problems go down.”\u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Since 2018, he has built the nonprofit Three Sisters Gardens, spanning four farms across West Sacramento. But, not without some challenges.\u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400;\">The model remains susceptible to fluctuations in federal funding priorities.\u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_12073463\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 2000px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-12073463\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2026/02/02122026_LBR3_3SISGDN-74-KQED.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"2000\" height=\"1334\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2026/02/02122026_LBR3_3SISGDN-74-KQED.jpg 2000w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2026/02/02122026_LBR3_3SISGDN-74-KQED-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2026/02/02122026_LBR3_3SISGDN-74-KQED-1536x1025.jpg 1536w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 2000px) 100vw, 2000px\" />\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Kenny McDowell plants microgreen onions at Three Sisters Garden in West Sacramento on Feb. 12, 2026. \u003ccite>(Louis Bryant III for KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Melbourne had set his sights on a \u003c/span>\u003ca href=\"https://iratracker.org/actions/epa-pushes-climate-groups-to-close-community-change-grant-program-grants/\">\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400;\">$21 million grant\u003c/span>\u003c/a>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400;\"> from the US Environmental Protection Agency, a program that was discontinued by the Trump administration. \u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Currently, the organization depends on a mix of local and state funding, with land leased from the city at a subsidized rate of $1 per month.\u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400;\">“It took a lot of learning to know that I can transform what used to be an illegal business into a legal business,” said Melbourne. “And use our hustle mentality to support our youth and ourselves into a future that’s brighter for everyone.”\u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Melbourne sees access to food as one entry point. But the work extends beyond nutrition — into job training, workforce development and life skills.\u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400;\">“I want to use the lived experience that I have for all the pain and suffering that I went through to be able to change these youngsters, to divert them,” he said about being a mentor, educator and a resource for the young people in West Sacramento.\u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003ch2>Cultivating community\u003c/h2>\n\u003cp>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Nancy Long, 18, found the Three Sisters Gardens nearly two years ago, at a time when she felt unmoored. \u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Now, between packing produce for distribution and tending the soil, she said she has found a sense of purpose — in both the work itself and in giving food away.\u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_12073461\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 2000px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-12073461\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2026/02/02122026_LBR3_3SISGDN-36-KQED.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"2000\" height=\"1334\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2026/02/02122026_LBR3_3SISGDN-36-KQED.jpg 2000w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2026/02/02122026_LBR3_3SISGDN-36-KQED-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2026/02/02122026_LBR3_3SISGDN-36-KQED-1536x1025.jpg 1536w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 2000px) 100vw, 2000px\" />\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Three Sisters Garden in West Sacramento on Feb. 12, 2026. \u003ccite>(Louis Bryant III for KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400;\">“I grew up very poor, and I feel like this is actually helping a lot of people because not a lot of people get food,” she said.\u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Long, who is Cambodian American, now brings produce home for her family, who use it in soups. Before joining the garden, she said she struggled in school and often kept to herself.\u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400;\">“I was really in a bad place in my life,” she said. “When I got this job, I changed a lot, and it also helped me with my mental health issues.”\u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Working at the garden, she said, has changed how she sees herself and how she interacts with others.\u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400;\">“I feel like this garden has made me a better person,” she said. “I really am glad, and I appreciate that I have Alfred in this.”\u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Many of the young people who come through the gardens are looking for stability — a steady job, guidance, a place where they feel seen.\u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Melbourne’s role often extends beyond supervision. \u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400;\">He checks in on the young people working with him and, at times, helps them navigate challenges outside of work.\u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_12073465\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 2000px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-12073465\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2026/02/02122026_LBR3_3SISGDN-113-KQED.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"2000\" height=\"1334\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2026/02/02122026_LBR3_3SISGDN-113-KQED.jpg 2000w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2026/02/02122026_LBR3_3SISGDN-113-KQED-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2026/02/02122026_LBR3_3SISGDN-113-KQED-1536x1025.jpg 1536w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 2000px) 100vw, 2000px\" />\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Kenny McDowell plants onion microgreens at Three Sisters Garden in West Sacramento on Feb. 12, 2026. \u003ccite>(Louis Bryant III for KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400;\">For 21-year-old Dominitt Henderson, that meant straightforward advice.\u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400;\">“He will tell you the truth straight up to your face,” Henderson said. “He won’t hide nothing from you — that’s what I like.”\u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Other youth described more tangible forms of support.\u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400;\">“He helps me a lot,” Amari Sullivan said. “He gives me jackets — whatever I need.”\u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Kenny McDowell said that support has made a difference during difficult moments.\u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400;\">“There’ll be times where I miss a couple of car payments,” McDowell said. “He’ll help me out. Little things like that, it counts.”\u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Over time, the work begins to take root in other ways. \u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400;\">McDowell said being part of the garden gave him a sense of direction and something to build toward.\u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_12073462\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 2000px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-12073462\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2026/02/02122026_LBR3_3SISGDN-57-KQED.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"2000\" height=\"1334\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2026/02/02122026_LBR3_3SISGDN-57-KQED.jpg 2000w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2026/02/02122026_LBR3_3SISGDN-57-KQED-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2026/02/02122026_LBR3_3SISGDN-57-KQED-1536x1025.jpg 1536w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 2000px) 100vw, 2000px\" />\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Interns Damia Zhang and Leilania Tian inspect seed containers at Three Sisters Garden in West Sacramento on Feb. 12, 2026. \u003ccite>(Louis Bryant III for KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400;\">“This was a purpose,” he said. “I want to see a brighter future.”\u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Melbourne described the work as reciprocal — something built alongside the young people, not just for them.\u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400;\">“It’s them coming to me and us just feeding off of each other,” he said. \u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400;\">“What I really, truthfully, in the end want to build is community.”\u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003c/div>\u003c/p>",
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"content": "\u003cp>Last summer, 28 Indigenous teenagers became the first in a century to kayak the full length of the\u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/tag/klamath-river\"> Klamath River\u003c/a> — traveling\u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/12048228/native-american-teens-kayak-major-us-river-to-celebrate-removal-of-dams-and-return-of-salmon\"> more than 300 miles\u003c/a> from the river’s headwaters in southern Oregon to the Pacific Ocean in Northern California.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Their journey follows decades of advocacy by Klamath River tribes to remove a series of dams that had reshaped the river since the early 1900s, disrupting salmon runs, water quality and cultural practices tied to the river. In 2024, four of those dams were removed in what is considered the largest\u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/12046844/klamath-river-bounces-back-following-dam-removal\"> dam removal project in U.S. history\u003c/a>, allowing the\u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/12002229/salmon-will-swim-freely-as-nations-largest-dam-removal-project-nears-end\"> river to flow freely\u003c/a> for the first time in generations.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Before I came on this trip, my uncle was saying bye to me, and he said, ‘Go be historic,’” said 16-year-old paddler and Karuk tribe member Tasia Linwood. “This moment has been prayed for.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad fullwidth]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The teens — ages 13-20 — embarked on a month-long expedition documented by producer and Karuk tribe member Jessie Sears in the Oregon Public Broadcast film \u003ca href=\"https://www.opb.org/article/2025/11/13/first-descent-klamath-documentary/\">\u003cem>First Descent: Kayaking the Klamath\u003c/em>\u003c/a>.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Sears and paddler Tasia Linwood spoke with \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/californiareportmagazine\">\u003cem>The California Report Magazine\u003c/em>\u003c/a> about what it took to make the journey — and what it means to move through a river that is still finding its way back.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_12002231\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 2560px\">\u003ca href=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/08/AP24240704731912-scaled.jpg\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-12002231\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/08/AP24240704731912-scaled.jpg\" alt=\"An aerial view of a river, trees and mountains.\" width=\"2560\" height=\"1706\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/08/AP24240704731912-scaled.jpg 2560w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/08/AP24240704731912-800x533.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/08/AP24240704731912-1020x680.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/08/AP24240704731912-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/08/AP24240704731912-1536x1023.jpg 1536w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/08/AP24240704731912-2048x1365.jpg 2048w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/08/AP24240704731912-1920x1279.jpg 1920w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 2560px) 100vw, 2560px\">\u003c/a>\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">The Klamath River winds run along Highway 96 on June 7, 2021, near Siskiyou County’s Happy Camp. With dams removed from the Klamath River, a group of Indigenous youth descended the full length, through Oregon and California. \u003ccite>(Nathan Howard/Associated Press)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003ch2>\u003cstrong>On finding the story \u003c/strong>\u003c/h2>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Sears:\u003c/strong> I had heard of the first descent when I was actually on the Klamath filming the removal of the dams. I had heard through the grapevine that kids were training to kayak the Klamath, and I just thought that was going to be so cool. I hope that actually happens.\u003c/p>\n\u003ch2>\u003cstrong>On paddling the river\u003c/strong>\u003c/h2>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Linwood:\u003c/strong> I wanted to do this because of my family, my parents, my grandparents, my great-grandparents, and, of course, everyone who didn’t get to see the river undammed and everyone who fought for the river to be undammed, and for my younger siblings to have someone to look up to.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>I trained for about two years from 2023 to 2025. Part of the preparation for this was a semester-long academy program. For six weeks, I was in Chile kayaking and going to school down there and I did that twice, once my 8th grade year and then once my freshman year. 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"content": "\u003cp>On a sunny November day last year, a crowd of \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/tag/mendocino-county\">Mendocino County\u003c/a> locals began to gather in a clearing amid a thick forest of redwood, tanoak, fir and pine trees, just south of \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/tag/fort-bragg\">Fort Bragg\u003c/a>.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>For many, it was their very first time stepping onto this property.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>This land had recently passed into the stewardship of the Potter Valley Tribe, a band of the Pomo Indians, becoming the first “\u003ca href=\"https://www.tpl.org/media-room/potter-valley-tribe-establishes-pomo-community-forest-with-support-from-trust-for-public-land-and-usda-forest-service\">community forest\u003c/a>” owned by a tribe in the entire state.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“It’s setting the foundation for generations to come — the next generation, for the youth to be able to learn more about the land, the native plants, creeks, the rivers, the seasons,” said Salvador Rosales, the Potter Valley Tribe’s chairman.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad fullwidth]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>And today, the assembled group — made up of adults, children and members of neighboring tribes and allies — was here to hunt for mushrooms.\u003c/p>\n\u003ch2>\u003cstrong>A bountiful forest\u003c/strong>\u003c/h2>\n\u003cp>As dedicated foragers know, safety when foraging for mushrooms is a serious business. Before Corine Pearce, a member of the nearby Redwood Valley Tribe, kicked off the event with a blessing and song, organizers reminded attendees not to eat anything they might gather before they’d brought it back to consult with the experts.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>(In December 2025, after this story was reported, the California Department of Public Health issued \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/12066441/california-mushroom-poisoning-symptoms-death-cap-identification-toxic-foraging\">advice\u003c/a> to state residents to avoid eating foraged wild mushrooms during what they called a “high-risk season” — after a number of deaths and severe illnesses caused by people mistakenly ingesting toxic “death cap” mushrooms. On April 1, the agency confirmed that their alert is still in effect.)\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_12071163\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 2000px\">\u003ca href=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2026/01/20251122_POTTERVALLEYPOMO_GC-25-KQED.jpg\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-12071163\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2026/01/20251122_POTTERVALLEYPOMO_GC-25-KQED.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"2000\" height=\"1333\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2026/01/20251122_POTTERVALLEYPOMO_GC-25-KQED.jpg 2000w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2026/01/20251122_POTTERVALLEYPOMO_GC-25-KQED-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2026/01/20251122_POTTERVALLEYPOMO_GC-25-KQED-1536x1024.jpg 1536w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 2000px) 100vw, 2000px\">\u003c/a>\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Mushrooms picked by individuals who attended Potter Valley Tribe’s mushroom foraging event are displayed on a table at the Pomo Community Forest, a 48-acre coastal forest, in Fort Bragg on Nov. 22, 2025. \u003ccite>(Gina Castro for KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>Pearce, who works with kids from all over Mendocino as a native studies education coordinator, said that after a lifetime of avoiding foraging mushrooms for fear of illness, she realized the time had come after she moved to an area whose traditional name means “mushroom mountain.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“I was like, ‘Okay, well if they’re literally growing outside in my backyard, I should probably learn them and not ignore them anymore,’” she said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Pearce is also a community basket weaver, and it’s her baskets that were handed out to participants as they set off.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The group dispersed out of the clearing and into the dense, cool forest. Nate Rich, the Potter Valley Tribe’s environmental program manager, invited a few interested foragers on a crash course on mushroom hunting.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>For him, Rich told the group, the best moments on the hunt are the serendipitous ones, like finding a cluster of highly prized golden chanterelles.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But his approach is also a meditative one. For the most success, Rich said he tries to dispel any notion of going in for “the kill” when it comes to spotting mushrooms — and instead, he’ll “lay on the ground for like 10 minutes and not do anything and calm down.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_12071170\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 2000px\">\u003ca href=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2026/01/20251122_POTTERVALLEYPOMO_GC-20-KQED-1.jpg\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-12071170\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2026/01/20251122_POTTERVALLEYPOMO_GC-20-KQED-1.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"2000\" height=\"1333\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2026/01/20251122_POTTERVALLEYPOMO_GC-20-KQED-1.jpg 2000w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2026/01/20251122_POTTERVALLEYPOMO_GC-20-KQED-1-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2026/01/20251122_POTTERVALLEYPOMO_GC-20-KQED-1-1536x1024.jpg 1536w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 2000px) 100vw, 2000px\">\u003c/a>\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">From left, Zhao Qiu, Allison Deng and MingXia Bai pick mushrooms during a mushroom foraging event, hosted by Potter Valley Tribe, at the Pomo Community Forest, a 48-acre coastal forest, in Fort Bragg on Nov. 22, 2025. \u003ccite>(Gina Castro for KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>“And then usually, I’ll turn my head, and it’ll be right there,” he said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Rich told his mushroom-hunters-in-training how he likes to look up through the forest canopy for spots where the sun might warm up the ground, allowing certain light-seeking fungi to grow And how he’ll look down to see where water flows, fueling the mushrooms’ growth — or watch out for where “duff,” that thick, decaying vegetation that layers the forest floor, has built up on the ground.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“When my feet start to squish, I’m like, ‘Oh, I’m in an area where there might be some mushrooms,’” he said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>With so much potential for wandering, Potter Valley chairman Rosales said, always make sure someone knows their rough whereabouts while foraging, in case they get lost. And “don’t be afraid to \u003ca href=\"https://www.latimes.com/california/story/2025-12-10/these-wild-mushrooms-have-sickened-californians-heres-how-to-forage-safely\">touch mushrooms\u003c/a>,” he said. “As long as you don’t ingest them.”\u003c/p>\n\u003ch2>\u003cstrong>Recovering the tribe’s land\u003c/strong>\u003c/h2>\n\u003cp>The Potter Valley Tribe is the first tribe in California to be awarded this grant to create a community forest by the U.S. Department of Agriculture. But for Rosales, the road here — to actually owning this 48-acre property that the mushroom hunters are exploring — has been a long one.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>This land has been \u003ca href=\"https://pinoleville-nsn.gov/heritage/our-history/\">home to Pomo people\u003c/a> for thousands of years. When colonizers started arriving in the early 1800s, they began to chip away at it, killing, removing and enslaving the Pomo people — decimating their population numbers and relegating them to reservations to make way for European homesteads.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_12071166\" class=\"wp-caption alignright\" style=\"max-width: 1333px\">\u003ca href=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2026/01/20251122_POTTERVALLEYPOMO_GC-37-KQED.jpg\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-12071166\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2026/01/20251122_POTTERVALLEYPOMO_GC-37-KQED.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"1333\" height=\"2000\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2026/01/20251122_POTTERVALLEYPOMO_GC-37-KQED.jpg 1333w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2026/01/20251122_POTTERVALLEYPOMO_GC-37-KQED-160x240.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2026/01/20251122_POTTERVALLEYPOMO_GC-37-KQED-1024x1536.jpg 1024w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1333px) 100vw, 1333px\">\u003c/a>\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Salvador Rosales, Chairman of Potter Valley Tribe, poses for a photo at the Pomo Community Forest, a 48-acre coastal forest, in Fort Bragg on Nov. 22, 2025. \u003ccite>(Gina Castro for KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>In 1958, \u003ca href=\"https://nahc.ca.gov/native-americans/california-indian-history/\">Congress passed a series of laws and practices ending the federal government’s recognition\u003c/a> of tribal sovereignty and lands. The move dismantled Pomo reservations, like the Potter Valley Rancheria, revoked their federal status and left these tribes landless.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>That was, until the 1980s, when \u003ca href=\"https://www.narf.org/nill/bulletins/federal/documents/hardwick.html\">Tillie Hardwick,\u003c/a> a Pomo Indian woman, sued the federal government in a class action lawsuit and won, immediately restoring 17 California tribes’ federal status and creating precedent for more in the future.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The Potter Valley Tribe — and many others included in the suit — would nonetheless remain mostly landless until the early 2000s. But when Rosales became chairman in 2003, he said he saw it as his mission to slowly but surely buy back the tribe’s ancestral lands.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The quest began with a federal grant to buy a 4-acre parcel in Redwood Valley for housing for tribe members. And since then, via grants, land donations and money earned from the gaming industry, the tribe has purchased a checkerboard totaling more than 1,000 acres — the majority of it undeveloped forest — across Mendocino County.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“It’s unbelievable,” Rosales said, of the tribe’s progress in reacquiring their land. When family and friends ask him about the tribal council’s continual investments in land, he said he tells them that there’s “never been an opportunity like this” in previous years.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Rosales and the tribe worked with the nonprofit \u003ca href=\"https://www.tpl.org/our-work/community-forests\">Trust for Public Land\u003c/a>, which has now helped establish 45 community forests nationwide, protecting 43,000 acres through this grant alone.[aside postID=science_1999301 hero='https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/35/2025/11/KQED_PRESCRIBED-BURN_AT_257_QED-KQED.jpg'] The trust’s North Coast Project Manager Jeff Conti said the agency’s primary role is to help tribes navigate the sometimes long and convoluted processes to get land back in the hands of those working to conserve it.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“However we can plug in, whether it’s providing technical assistance, whether it’s helping fundraise, or just doing the whole transaction, we can help,” he said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Even after the tribe won the grant, it took six years before they found themselves in the right place and time with this particular property — and for this forest to be returned to its ancestral caretakers.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“In the end,” Rosales said, “it paid off to be patient.”\u003c/p>\n\u003ch2>\u003cstrong>Keeping history and tradition alive\u003c/strong>\u003c/h2>\n\u003cp>Being effectively landless has affected the Pomo people in deep, lasting ways, Rosales said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Most of his ancestors were farm ranch hands, chasing seasonal work throughout the Potter and Ukiah valleys to make ends meet, he said. But as there’s been very little written or shared from elders, Rosales doesn’t know a lot beyond that — as he said, it became especially apparent when he was invited to speak to students in Potter Valley about the tribe’s history.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_12071155\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 2000px\">\u003ca href=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2026/01/20251122_POTTERVALLEYPOMO_GC-5-KQED.jpg\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-12071155\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2026/01/20251122_POTTERVALLEYPOMO_GC-5-KQED.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"2000\" height=\"1363\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2026/01/20251122_POTTERVALLEYPOMO_GC-5-KQED.jpg 2000w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2026/01/20251122_POTTERVALLEYPOMO_GC-5-KQED-160x109.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2026/01/20251122_POTTERVALLEYPOMO_GC-5-KQED-1536x1047.jpg 1536w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 2000px) 100vw, 2000px\">\u003c/a>\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">An Amanita Muscaria mushroom grows at the Pomo Community Forest, a 48-acre coastal forest, in Fort Bragg on Nov. 22, 2025. \u003ccite>(Gina Castro for KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>And without land to gather on, they have even fewer traditions to uphold.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Ceremony — any kind of gatherings, we don’t really have a history of that simply because of the past history of settlers and indigenous people,” he said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>As part of the community forest grant, the tribe is developing a land management and public access plan, which tribal leaders said will focus on environmental education, from foraging to reintroducing traditional ecological practices like \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/11887536/getting-good-fire-on-the-ground-the-karuk-tribe-pushes-to-restore-native-burn-management-to-protect-forests\">forest thinning\u003c/a>, to promote the resilience of the forest.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Rich, the tribe’s environmental program manager, said he’s excited to have a space where practicing — and sharing — these traditions is the focus.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“I think we’re at the beginning,” he said. “Now the tribe has a resource to work with the community on.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“We need these spaces together,” he said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_12071169\" class=\"wp-caption alignright\" style=\"max-width: 1333px\">\u003ca href=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2026/01/20251122_POTTERVALLEYPOMO_GC-45-KQED.jpg\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-12071169\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2026/01/20251122_POTTERVALLEYPOMO_GC-45-KQED.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"1333\" height=\"2000\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2026/01/20251122_POTTERVALLEYPOMO_GC-45-KQED.jpg 1333w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2026/01/20251122_POTTERVALLEYPOMO_GC-45-KQED-160x240.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2026/01/20251122_POTTERVALLEYPOMO_GC-45-KQED-1024x1536.jpg 1024w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1333px) 100vw, 1333px\">\u003c/a>\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Nathan Rich, Tribal Environmental Manager of Potter Valley Tribe, poses for a photo at the Pomo Community Forest, a 48-acre coastal forest, in Fort Bragg on Nov. 22, 2025. \u003ccite>(Gina Castro for KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>For her part, Pearce said she plans to help teach foraging here during the tribe’s annual environmental youth campout and other events — and she can already see how they could harvest wild onions growing here and use elder trees to make musical instruments.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>This is work that can only be done when the tribe owns the land to do it on, she said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“There are \u003ca href=\"https://www.hcn.org/issues/51-17/tribal-affairs-an-indigenous-way-of-life-for-these-california-tribes-breaks-state-laws/\">laws\u003c/a> in place that stop indigenous people from caretaking on their own tribal land,” she said. “So the only answer is private land because private landowners have more rights than indigenous people.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But with so many tribes in the area still without land, not everyone has the same opportunity to learn what has been lost.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“In California, only half the tribes were reinstated after the Tillie Hardwick case,” she said. “So there are tribes that aren’t even recognized that have no access to anything.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Pearce teaches her students that food sovereignty is important to everyone, not just native people on native lands.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“When someone has control of your food, and you can’t feed yourself, that is their power,” she said. “That’s their power move, to take your food away, and you have to do what they say.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“But if you can feed yourself for free where you live, then that’s food sovereignty,” Pearce said.\u003c/p>\n\u003ch2>\u003cstrong>The next generation\u003c/strong>\u003c/h2>\n\u003cp>Pearce said she’s particularly encouraged by the willingness of her Gen Z students and community members to “look at hard things and call them by the right name.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“And all we can do is give them the education and support to do that, and that’s what we’re doing,” she said.[aside postID=news_11874585 hero='https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2021/05/UpperLake_BloodyIslandSunriseCeremony-1020x633.jpg'] High school student Elizabeth Dodge, from Willits, attended the mushroom hunting event thanks to an invite from Pearce herself — to whom Dodge reached out for help identifying mushrooms she’d spotted in her family’s backyard.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>While Dodge isn’t a big fan of eating mushrooms, she’s really into identifying birds — a skill she learned from her grandmother. She said she now planned to make a presentation to her class on everything she found.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“I’ve seen at least 17 kinds or something like that, so I’m really excited,” Dodge said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Back at the entrance to the property, a table was blanketed in mushrooms of every size, shape and color, gathered by the day’s participants in Pearce’s handwoven baskets. People milled about, munching on freshly caught and cooked salmon.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Meanwhile, a massive pan of foraged mushrooms — identified by the expert foragers present as safe to eat — sizzled next to a vat of alfredo sauce, as fettuccine vigorously boiled on the stovetop.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>For Chairman Rosales, a noted expert on fungi, this event was ultimately a true family affair. That morning, Rosales’ son Boo had made donuts with glaze from candy cap mushrooms while his daughter Mariah was manning the stove.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“We’re just gonna season them a little bit,” Mariah said. “You don’t really have to because mushrooms have their own seasoning, but just to be a little extra.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_12071167\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 2000px\">\u003ca href=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2026/01/20251122_POTTERVALLEYPOMO_GC-41-KQED.jpg\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-12071167\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2026/01/20251122_POTTERVALLEYPOMO_GC-41-KQED.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"2000\" height=\"1333\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2026/01/20251122_POTTERVALLEYPOMO_GC-41-KQED.jpg 2000w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2026/01/20251122_POTTERVALLEYPOMO_GC-41-KQED-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2026/01/20251122_POTTERVALLEYPOMO_GC-41-KQED-1536x1024.jpg 1536w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 2000px) 100vw, 2000px\">\u003c/a>\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">From left, Mariah Rosales, Allison Deng and MingXia Bai cook mushroom Alfredo fettuccine for attendees of Potter Valley Tribe’s mushroom foraging event, at the Pomo Community Forest, a 48-acre coastal forest, in Fort Bragg on Nov. 22, 2025. \u003ccite>(Gina Castro/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>Once the mushrooms were cooked, Mariah took command of the final steps of the process: pouring the sauce carefully onto the noodles, layering the delicate mushrooms on top and finishing with a sprinkling of herbs and plenty of parmesan cheese.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>With the tantalizing smell of the mushrooms filling the air, a line started to form, as everyone wanted a plate, and Mariah proudly served them.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Let the elders get their plate first,” she said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>For Chairman Rosales, who stood watching the group with a beaming smile, this event was exactly the type of new story — a new piece of history — he can now tell, when younger people ask about his tribe.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“That sense of freedom,” he said, “is a powerful, positive energy for us.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad floatright]\u003c/p>\n",
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"content": "\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>And today, the assembled group — made up of adults, children and members of neighboring tribes and allies — was here to hunt for mushrooms.\u003c/p>\n\u003ch2>\u003cstrong>A bountiful forest\u003c/strong>\u003c/h2>\n\u003cp>As dedicated foragers know, safety when foraging for mushrooms is a serious business. Before Corine Pearce, a member of the nearby Redwood Valley Tribe, kicked off the event with a blessing and song, organizers reminded attendees not to eat anything they might gather before they’d brought it back to consult with the experts.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>(In December 2025, after this story was reported, the California Department of Public Health issued \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/12066441/california-mushroom-poisoning-symptoms-death-cap-identification-toxic-foraging\">advice\u003c/a> to state residents to avoid eating foraged wild mushrooms during what they called a “high-risk season” — after a number of deaths and severe illnesses caused by people mistakenly ingesting toxic “death cap” mushrooms. On April 1, the agency confirmed that their alert is still in effect.)\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_12071163\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 2000px\">\u003ca href=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2026/01/20251122_POTTERVALLEYPOMO_GC-25-KQED.jpg\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-12071163\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2026/01/20251122_POTTERVALLEYPOMO_GC-25-KQED.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"2000\" height=\"1333\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2026/01/20251122_POTTERVALLEYPOMO_GC-25-KQED.jpg 2000w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2026/01/20251122_POTTERVALLEYPOMO_GC-25-KQED-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2026/01/20251122_POTTERVALLEYPOMO_GC-25-KQED-1536x1024.jpg 1536w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 2000px) 100vw, 2000px\">\u003c/a>\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Mushrooms picked by individuals who attended Potter Valley Tribe’s mushroom foraging event are displayed on a table at the Pomo Community Forest, a 48-acre coastal forest, in Fort Bragg on Nov. 22, 2025. \u003ccite>(Gina Castro for KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>Pearce, who works with kids from all over Mendocino as a native studies education coordinator, said that after a lifetime of avoiding foraging mushrooms for fear of illness, she realized the time had come after she moved to an area whose traditional name means “mushroom mountain.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“I was like, ‘Okay, well if they’re literally growing outside in my backyard, I should probably learn them and not ignore them anymore,’” she said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Pearce is also a community basket weaver, and it’s her baskets that were handed out to participants as they set off.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The group dispersed out of the clearing and into the dense, cool forest. Nate Rich, the Potter Valley Tribe’s environmental program manager, invited a few interested foragers on a crash course on mushroom hunting.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>For him, Rich told the group, the best moments on the hunt are the serendipitous ones, like finding a cluster of highly prized golden chanterelles.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But his approach is also a meditative one. For the most success, Rich said he tries to dispel any notion of going in for “the kill” when it comes to spotting mushrooms — and instead, he’ll “lay on the ground for like 10 minutes and not do anything and calm down.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_12071170\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 2000px\">\u003ca href=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2026/01/20251122_POTTERVALLEYPOMO_GC-20-KQED-1.jpg\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-12071170\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2026/01/20251122_POTTERVALLEYPOMO_GC-20-KQED-1.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"2000\" height=\"1333\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2026/01/20251122_POTTERVALLEYPOMO_GC-20-KQED-1.jpg 2000w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2026/01/20251122_POTTERVALLEYPOMO_GC-20-KQED-1-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2026/01/20251122_POTTERVALLEYPOMO_GC-20-KQED-1-1536x1024.jpg 1536w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 2000px) 100vw, 2000px\">\u003c/a>\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">From left, Zhao Qiu, Allison Deng and MingXia Bai pick mushrooms during a mushroom foraging event, hosted by Potter Valley Tribe, at the Pomo Community Forest, a 48-acre coastal forest, in Fort Bragg on Nov. 22, 2025. \u003ccite>(Gina Castro for KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>“And then usually, I’ll turn my head, and it’ll be right there,” he said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Rich told his mushroom-hunters-in-training how he likes to look up through the forest canopy for spots where the sun might warm up the ground, allowing certain light-seeking fungi to grow And how he’ll look down to see where water flows, fueling the mushrooms’ growth — or watch out for where “duff,” that thick, decaying vegetation that layers the forest floor, has built up on the ground.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“When my feet start to squish, I’m like, ‘Oh, I’m in an area where there might be some mushrooms,’” he said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>With so much potential for wandering, Potter Valley chairman Rosales said, always make sure someone knows their rough whereabouts while foraging, in case they get lost. And “don’t be afraid to \u003ca href=\"https://www.latimes.com/california/story/2025-12-10/these-wild-mushrooms-have-sickened-californians-heres-how-to-forage-safely\">touch mushrooms\u003c/a>,” he said. “As long as you don’t ingest them.”\u003c/p>\n\u003ch2>\u003cstrong>Recovering the tribe’s land\u003c/strong>\u003c/h2>\n\u003cp>The Potter Valley Tribe is the first tribe in California to be awarded this grant to create a community forest by the U.S. Department of Agriculture. But for Rosales, the road here — to actually owning this 48-acre property that the mushroom hunters are exploring — has been a long one.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>This land has been \u003ca href=\"https://pinoleville-nsn.gov/heritage/our-history/\">home to Pomo people\u003c/a> for thousands of years. When colonizers started arriving in the early 1800s, they began to chip away at it, killing, removing and enslaving the Pomo people — decimating their population numbers and relegating them to reservations to make way for European homesteads.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_12071166\" class=\"wp-caption alignright\" style=\"max-width: 1333px\">\u003ca href=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2026/01/20251122_POTTERVALLEYPOMO_GC-37-KQED.jpg\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-12071166\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2026/01/20251122_POTTERVALLEYPOMO_GC-37-KQED.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"1333\" height=\"2000\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2026/01/20251122_POTTERVALLEYPOMO_GC-37-KQED.jpg 1333w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2026/01/20251122_POTTERVALLEYPOMO_GC-37-KQED-160x240.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2026/01/20251122_POTTERVALLEYPOMO_GC-37-KQED-1024x1536.jpg 1024w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1333px) 100vw, 1333px\">\u003c/a>\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Salvador Rosales, Chairman of Potter Valley Tribe, poses for a photo at the Pomo Community Forest, a 48-acre coastal forest, in Fort Bragg on Nov. 22, 2025. \u003ccite>(Gina Castro for KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>In 1958, \u003ca href=\"https://nahc.ca.gov/native-americans/california-indian-history/\">Congress passed a series of laws and practices ending the federal government’s recognition\u003c/a> of tribal sovereignty and lands. The move dismantled Pomo reservations, like the Potter Valley Rancheria, revoked their federal status and left these tribes landless.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>That was, until the 1980s, when \u003ca href=\"https://www.narf.org/nill/bulletins/federal/documents/hardwick.html\">Tillie Hardwick,\u003c/a> a Pomo Indian woman, sued the federal government in a class action lawsuit and won, immediately restoring 17 California tribes’ federal status and creating precedent for more in the future.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The Potter Valley Tribe — and many others included in the suit — would nonetheless remain mostly landless until the early 2000s. But when Rosales became chairman in 2003, he said he saw it as his mission to slowly but surely buy back the tribe’s ancestral lands.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The quest began with a federal grant to buy a 4-acre parcel in Redwood Valley for housing for tribe members. And since then, via grants, land donations and money earned from the gaming industry, the tribe has purchased a checkerboard totaling more than 1,000 acres — the majority of it undeveloped forest — across Mendocino County.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“It’s unbelievable,” Rosales said, of the tribe’s progress in reacquiring their land. When family and friends ask him about the tribal council’s continual investments in land, he said he tells them that there’s “never been an opportunity like this” in previous years.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Rosales and the tribe worked with the nonprofit \u003ca href=\"https://www.tpl.org/our-work/community-forests\">Trust for Public Land\u003c/a>, which has now helped establish 45 community forests nationwide, protecting 43,000 acres through this grant alone.\u003c/p>\u003c/div>",
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"content": "\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp> The trust’s North Coast Project Manager Jeff Conti said the agency’s primary role is to help tribes navigate the sometimes long and convoluted processes to get land back in the hands of those working to conserve it.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“However we can plug in, whether it’s providing technical assistance, whether it’s helping fundraise, or just doing the whole transaction, we can help,” he said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Even after the tribe won the grant, it took six years before they found themselves in the right place and time with this particular property — and for this forest to be returned to its ancestral caretakers.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“In the end,” Rosales said, “it paid off to be patient.”\u003c/p>\n\u003ch2>\u003cstrong>Keeping history and tradition alive\u003c/strong>\u003c/h2>\n\u003cp>Being effectively landless has affected the Pomo people in deep, lasting ways, Rosales said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Most of his ancestors were farm ranch hands, chasing seasonal work throughout the Potter and Ukiah valleys to make ends meet, he said. But as there’s been very little written or shared from elders, Rosales doesn’t know a lot beyond that — as he said, it became especially apparent when he was invited to speak to students in Potter Valley about the tribe’s history.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_12071155\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 2000px\">\u003ca href=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2026/01/20251122_POTTERVALLEYPOMO_GC-5-KQED.jpg\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-12071155\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2026/01/20251122_POTTERVALLEYPOMO_GC-5-KQED.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"2000\" height=\"1363\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2026/01/20251122_POTTERVALLEYPOMO_GC-5-KQED.jpg 2000w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2026/01/20251122_POTTERVALLEYPOMO_GC-5-KQED-160x109.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2026/01/20251122_POTTERVALLEYPOMO_GC-5-KQED-1536x1047.jpg 1536w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 2000px) 100vw, 2000px\">\u003c/a>\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">An Amanita Muscaria mushroom grows at the Pomo Community Forest, a 48-acre coastal forest, in Fort Bragg on Nov. 22, 2025. \u003ccite>(Gina Castro for KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>And without land to gather on, they have even fewer traditions to uphold.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Ceremony — any kind of gatherings, we don’t really have a history of that simply because of the past history of settlers and indigenous people,” he said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>As part of the community forest grant, the tribe is developing a land management and public access plan, which tribal leaders said will focus on environmental education, from foraging to reintroducing traditional ecological practices like \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/11887536/getting-good-fire-on-the-ground-the-karuk-tribe-pushes-to-restore-native-burn-management-to-protect-forests\">forest thinning\u003c/a>, to promote the resilience of the forest.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Rich, the tribe’s environmental program manager, said he’s excited to have a space where practicing — and sharing — these traditions is the focus.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“I think we’re at the beginning,” he said. “Now the tribe has a resource to work with the community on.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“We need these spaces together,” he said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_12071169\" class=\"wp-caption alignright\" style=\"max-width: 1333px\">\u003ca href=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2026/01/20251122_POTTERVALLEYPOMO_GC-45-KQED.jpg\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-12071169\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2026/01/20251122_POTTERVALLEYPOMO_GC-45-KQED.jpg\" alt=\"\" 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has control of your food, and you can’t feed yourself, that is their power,” she said. “That’s their power move, to take your food away, and you have to do what they say.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“But if you can feed yourself for free where you live, then that’s food sovereignty,” Pearce said.\u003c/p>\n\u003ch2>\u003cstrong>The next generation\u003c/strong>\u003c/h2>\n\u003cp>Pearce said she’s particularly encouraged by the willingness of her Gen Z students and community members to “look at hard things and call them by the right name.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“And all we can do is give them the education and support to do that, and that’s what we’re doing,” she said.\u003c/p>\u003c/div>",
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"content": "\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp> High school student Elizabeth Dodge, from Willits, attended the mushroom hunting event thanks to an invite from Pearce herself — to whom Dodge reached out for help identifying mushrooms she’d spotted in her family’s backyard.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>While Dodge isn’t a big fan of eating mushrooms, she’s really into identifying birds — a skill she learned from her grandmother. She said she now planned to make a presentation to her class on everything she found.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“I’ve seen at least 17 kinds or something like that, so I’m really excited,” Dodge said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Back at the entrance to the property, a table was blanketed in mushrooms of every size, shape and color, gathered by the day’s participants in Pearce’s handwoven baskets. People milled about, munching on freshly caught and cooked salmon.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Meanwhile, a massive pan of foraged mushrooms — identified by the expert foragers present as safe to eat — sizzled next to a vat of alfredo sauce, as fettuccine vigorously boiled on the stovetop.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>For Chairman Rosales, a noted expert on fungi, this event was ultimately a true family affair. That morning, Rosales’ son Boo had made donuts with glaze from candy cap mushrooms while his daughter Mariah was manning the stove.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“We’re just gonna season them a little bit,” Mariah said. “You don’t really have to because mushrooms have their own seasoning, but just to be a little extra.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_12071167\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 2000px\">\u003ca href=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2026/01/20251122_POTTERVALLEYPOMO_GC-41-KQED.jpg\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-12071167\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2026/01/20251122_POTTERVALLEYPOMO_GC-41-KQED.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"2000\" height=\"1333\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2026/01/20251122_POTTERVALLEYPOMO_GC-41-KQED.jpg 2000w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2026/01/20251122_POTTERVALLEYPOMO_GC-41-KQED-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2026/01/20251122_POTTERVALLEYPOMO_GC-41-KQED-1536x1024.jpg 1536w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 2000px) 100vw, 2000px\">\u003c/a>\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">From left, Mariah Rosales, Allison Deng and MingXia Bai cook mushroom Alfredo fettuccine for attendees of Potter Valley Tribe’s mushroom foraging event, at the Pomo Community Forest, a 48-acre coastal forest, in Fort Bragg on Nov. 22, 2025. \u003ccite>(Gina Castro/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>Once the mushrooms were cooked, Mariah took command of the final steps of the process: pouring the sauce carefully onto the noodles, layering the delicate mushrooms on top and finishing with a sprinkling of herbs and plenty of parmesan cheese.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>With the tantalizing smell of the mushrooms filling the air, a line started to form, as everyone wanted a plate, and Mariah proudly served them.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Let the elders get their plate first,” she said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>For Chairman Rosales, who stood watching the group with a beaming smile, this event was exactly the type of new story — a new piece of history — he can now tell, when younger people ask about his tribe.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“That sense of freedom,” he said, “is a powerful, positive energy for us.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\u003c/div>",
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"content": "\u003cp>\u003cb>Here are the morning’s top stories on Friday, August 15, 2025…\u003c/b>\u003c/p>\n\u003cul>\n\u003cli style=\"font-weight: 400\">\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">When Congress passed a budget bill that clawed back more than a billion dollars in federal funding for public media, radio stations across the country were put on notice. With the lack of funding, many have already laid off staff, and many smaller stations in rural areas are at risk of closing for good. That includes stations in the western United States \u003c/span>\u003ca href=\"https://apnews.com/article/native-american-radio-stations-cuts-7c2b6d8750a103107a679bb657402f1b\">\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">that serve indigenous communities.\u003c/span>\u003c/a>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\"> \u003c/span>\u003c/li>\n\u003cli>School is back in session for thousands of students across the state. In Los Angeles County, \u003ca href=\"https://laist.com/news/education/los-angeles-unified-school-district-lausd-first-day-2025\">the start of the school year looks a bit different\u003c/a> after a summer colored by aggressive, federal immigration enforcement. Teachers and staff are on high alert, patrolling neighborhoods around their campuses looking for ICE agents and preparing for what to do if there’s a raid.\u003c/li>\n\u003c/ul>\n\u003ch2>\u003cstrong>Native American Radio Stations At Risk Following Loss Of Funding\u003c/strong>\u003c/h2>\n\u003cp>Dozens of Native American radio stations across the country vital to tribal communities are at risk of going off the air after \u003ca href=\"https://www.pbs.org/newshour/politics/cpb-says-it-is-shutting-down-after-being-defunded-by-congress-targeted-by-trump\">Congress \u003cspan class=\"LinkEnhancement\">cut more than $1 billion\u003c/span>\u003c/a> from the Corporation for Public Broadcasting.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Native Public Media, which supports the network of 59 radio stations and three television stations serving tribal nations across the country, said \u003ca href=\"https://apnews.com/article/native-american-radio-stations-cuts-7c2b6d8750a103107a679bb657402f1b\">about three dozen of those radio stations\u003c/a> that rely heavily on CPB funding will be the first to go dark for the coming fiscal year that starts Oct. 1.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Peggy Berryhill is General Manager of KGUA in Gualala in Mendocino County. “It’s a big blow. Our stations, our television, our radio stations, our community stations, rural stations, we’re here to support our communities,” she said. “We not only carry great programming produced from other resources, but we are your lifeline during emergencies” Local radio plays an outsized role in the lives of many who live in Indigenous communities, where cable television and broadband internet access are spotty, at best, and nonexistent for many. That leaves over-the-air TV stations — usually a PBS station — and more often local radio to provide local news, community event details and music by Indigenous artists. Sometimes the news is delivered in Indigenous languages.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“When you look at Native American stations, they’re gonna often hear programming in their own languages and programming that is specific to their community,” Berryhill said. “If your local news source is only carrying stories about what’s happening in the big urban areas near you and not even in your rural community, it’s not going to be very helpful. But you also get to hear the voices, the voices and the accents of the people that you know every day. Your local voices, your local culture, what it means to you to be able to turn on your radio and hear news and information about you and your community or your adjoining community.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad fullwidth]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>KGUA does not rely on CPB funding, but Berryhill expects the \u003ca href=\"https://www.hcn.org/issues/57-8/native-languages-need-radio-which-is-at-risk-of-being-lost/\">effects of funding cuts to be widespread.\u003c/a>\u003c/p>\n\u003ch2 class=\"ArticlePage-headline\">\u003ca href=\"https://laist.com/news/education/los-angeles-unified-school-district-lausd-first-day-2025\">\u003cstrong>First Day Of School Tests LAUSD’s Protections For Immigrant Families\u003c/strong>\u003c/a>\u003c/h2>\n\u003cp>Some Los Angeles Unified families returned to campus Thursday carrying fears about immigration raids along with the annual first-day jitters, excitement and sleepiness.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>More than \u003ca class=\"Link\" href=\"https://www.latimes.com/world-nation/story/2025-08-07/federal-arrests-of-undocumented-immigrants-in-l-a-drop-in-july-dhs-says\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\" data-cms-ai=\"0\">\u003cu>4,000 people\u003c/u>\u003c/a> have been arrested across the region since June and it’s still unclear how the threat of detention may affect whether students show up to school and, if they do, what type of support they might need. “There’s a lot of fear from community members coming back to school because of all the snatch and grab type of activity that we’ve been seeing all throughout LA,” said Clemen Avalos, psychologist at Coughlin Elementary School in Pacoima.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The federal government’s actions have been a call to action for Avalos. She’s a member of a community group called Union del Barrio. And all this summer, she’s been helping train educators what to do if they suspect an ICE agent is near their campus. “So what I did this morning – I came in a lot earlier than I usually do. I did a drive around the whole community. So I’m doing this school here, and the middle school that’s over there. There’s also a charter up the hill that I kind of went around as well,” she said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>LAUSD is the second-largest school district in the country with more than 500,000 students. Nearly 75% of the student body is Latino. District leaders are trying to reassure families and get the word out about additional resources that are available if they need them.\u003c/p>\n\n",
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"content": "\u003cp id=\"p_summary\">As bright-colored kayaks push through a thick wall of fog, voices and the beats of drums build as kayakers approach a crowd that has formed on the beach. Applause erupts as the boats land on the sandy spit that partially separates the \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/12046844/klamath-river-bounces-back-following-dam-removal\">Klamath River\u003c/a> from the Pacific Ocean in northern California.\u003c/p>\n\u003cdiv id=\"P_body\" class=\"story-block\">\n\u003cp>Native American teenagers from tribes across the river basin push themselves up and out of the kayaks and begin to cross the sand, some breaking into a sprint. They kick playfully at the cold waves of the ocean they’ve been paddling toward over the last month — the ocean that’s seen fewer and fewer salmon return to it over the last century as four hydropower dams blocked their ideal spawning grounds upstream.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“I think our ancestors would be proud because this is what they’ve been fighting for,” said Tasia Linwood, a 15-year-old member of the Karuk Tribe, on Thursday night, ahead of the group’s final push to the end on Friday.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad fullwidth]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The Klamath River is newly navigable after a decades-long effort to remove its four hydropower dams to help restore the salmon run — an \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/11622280/fish-blood-in-their-veins-but-few-salmon-in-their-river\">ancient source of life, food and culture\u003c/a> for these paddlers’ tribes who have lived alongside the river for millennia. Youth primarily from the Yurok, Klamath, Hoopa Valley, Karuk, Quartz Valley and Warm Springs tribes paddled 310 miles (499 kilometers) over a month from the headwaters of the Wood River, a tributary to the Klamath that some tribes consider sacred, to the Pacific Ocean.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The teens spent several years learning to navigate white water through Paddle Tribal Waters, a program set up by the nonprofit Rios to Rivers, to prepare local Native youth for the day this would be possible.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>During their last days on the water, the group of several dozen swelled to more than 100, joined by some family members and Indigenous people from Bolivia, Chile and New Zealand who face similar challenges on their home rivers.\u003c/p>\n\u003ch2>Dams built decades ago for electricity\u003c/h2>\n\u003cp>Starting in the early 1900s, power company PacifiCorp built \u003ca href=\"https://apnews.com/article/klamath-dam-california-removal-restoration-473a570024584c2e02837434e05693da\">the dams\u003c/a> over several decades to generate electricity. But the structures, which provided 2% of the utility’s power, halted the natural flow of a waterway that was once known as the third-largest salmon-producing river on the West Coast.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>With the dams in place, tribes lost access to a reliable source of food. The dams blocked the path to hundreds of miles of cool freshwater streams, ideal for salmon returning from the ocean to lay their eggs. Salmon numbers declined dramatically along with the water quality.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_12048241\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 2000px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-12048241\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/07/AP25196086091044.jpeg\" alt=\"\" width=\"2000\" height=\"1336\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/07/AP25196086091044.jpeg 2000w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/07/AP25196086091044-160x107.jpeg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/07/AP25196086091044-1536x1026.jpeg 1536w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 2000px) 100vw, 2000px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Kayakers pause before paddling the last couple of miles of the Klamath River to reach the Pacific Ocean on Friday, July 11, 2025, in Klamath, California. \u003ccite>(Brittany Peterson/AP Photo)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>In 2002, a bacterial outbreak caused by low water and warm temperatures killed more than 34,000 fish, mostly Chinook salmon. That galvanized decades of advocacy by tribes and environmental groups, culminating in 2022 when federal regulators \u003ca href=\"https://apnews.com/article/business-california-native-americans-dams-salmon-311ea96fda0fe1b0052ab8cef9ae36a9\">approved a plan\u003c/a> to remove the dams.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Through protests, testimony and lawsuits, the tribes showcased the environmental devastation caused by the dams, especially to salmon. From 2023 to 2024, the four dams were dynamited and removed, freeing hundreds of miles of the Klamath.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The renewable electricity lost by removing the hydropower dams was enough to power the equivalent of 70,000 homes, although PacifiCorp has since expanded its renewable sources through wind and solar projects.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Two dams used for irrigation and flood control remain on the upper stretch of the river. They have “ladders” that allow some fish to pass through, although their efficacy for adult salmon is questionable. On the journey, the paddlers got out of the river and carried their kayaks around the dams.\u003c/p>\n\u003ch2>For teens, a month of paddling and making memories\u003c/h2>\n\u003cp>The journey began June 12 with ceremonial blessings and kayaks gathered in a circle above a natural pool of springs where fresh water bubbles to the surface at the headwater of the Wood River, just upstream of the Klamath River.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The youth camped in tents as they made their way across Upper Klamath Lake and down the Klamath River, jumping in the water or doing flips in their kayaks to cool down in the summer heat. A few kayakers came down with swimmers’ ear, but overall, everybody on the trip remained healthy.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_12048242\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 2000px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-12048242\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/07/AP25196086147030.jpeg\" alt=\"\" width=\"2000\" height=\"1333\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/07/AP25196086147030.jpeg 2000w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/07/AP25196086147030-160x107.jpeg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/07/AP25196086147030-1536x1024.jpeg 1536w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 2000px) 100vw, 2000px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">A kayaker begins the final day of paddling the Klamath River to reach the Pacific Ocean on Friday, July 11, 2025, in Klamath, California. \u003ccite>(Brittany Peterson/AP Photo)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>Nearly everyone had a story to share of a family’s fishing cabin or a favorite swimming hole while passing through ancestral territory of the Klamath, Modoc, Shasta, Karuk and Yurok.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>More than 2,200 dams were removed from rivers in the United States from 1912 through 2024, most in the last couple of decades as momentum grows to restore the natural flow of rivers and the wildlife they support, according to the conservation group American Rivers.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“I believe that it was kind of symbolic of a bigger issue,” said John Acuna, member of the Hoopa Valley Tribe and a leader on the trip.\u003c/p>\n\u003ch2 class=\"mceTemp\">\u003cspan style=\"font-size: 24px;\">Removal of dams represents end of long fight with federal government\u003c/span>\u003c/h2>\n\u003cp>The federal government signed treaties with these tribes outlining their right to govern themselves, which is violated when they can’t rely on their traditional food from the river.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Acuna said these violations are familiar to many tribal communities, and included when his great-grandmother was sent to boarding school as part of a national strategy to strip culture and language from Native Americans.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_12048245\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 2000px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-12048245\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/07/AP25196086067646.jpeg\" alt=\"\" width=\"2000\" height=\"1334\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/07/AP25196086067646.jpeg 2000w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/07/AP25196086067646-160x107.jpeg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/07/AP25196086067646-1536x1025.jpeg 1536w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 2000px) 100vw, 2000px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Native youth with ties to the Klamath River arrive at its mouth where it empties into the Pacific Ocean on Friday, July 11, 2025, in Klamath, California. \u003ccite>(Brittany Peterson/AP Photo)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>That history “comes with generational trauma,” he said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Their treaty-enshrined right to fish was also blatantly disregarded by regional authorities in the 1970s but later upheld by \u003ca href=\"https://www.waterboards.ca.gov/waterrights/water_issues/programs/bay_delta/california_waterfix/exhibits/docs/PCFFA&IGFR/part2/pcffa_94.pdf\">various court decisions\u003c/a>, said Yurok council member Phillip Williams.[aside postID=news_12046844 hero='https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/07/GettyImages-2168371101-2000x1332.jpg']Standing on a fog-shrouded boat ramp in the town of Requa awaiting the arrival of the youth, Williams recounted the time when it was illegal to fish here using the tribes’ traditional nets. As a child, his elders were arrested and even killed for daring to defy authorities and fish in broad daylight.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Fifty years later, with the hydropower dams now gone, large numbers of salmon are beginning to return and youth are paddling the length of the Klamath.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“If there’s a heaviness that I feel it’s because there’s a lot of people that lived all in these places, all these little houses here that are no longer here no more,” said Williams. “They don’t get to see what’s happening today. And that’s a heavy, heavy, feeling.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Even as a teen, Linwood says she feels both the pleasure of a month-long river trip with her friends and the weight of the past.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“I kind of feel guilty, like I haven’t done enough to be fighting,” she said. “I gotta remember that’s what our ancestors fought for. They fought for that — so that we could feel this joy with the river.”\u003c/p>\n\u003c/div>\n\u003cp>[ad floatright]\u003c/p>\n",
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"content": "\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>\u003cp id=\"p_summary\">As bright-colored kayaks push through a thick wall of fog, voices and the beats of drums build as kayakers approach a crowd that has formed on the beach. Applause erupts as the boats land on the sandy spit that partially separates the \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/12046844/klamath-river-bounces-back-following-dam-removal\">Klamath River\u003c/a> from the Pacific Ocean in northern California.\u003c/p>\n\u003cdiv id=\"P_body\" class=\"story-block\">\n\u003cp>Native American teenagers from tribes across the river basin push themselves up and out of the kayaks and begin to cross the sand, some breaking into a sprint. They kick playfully at the cold waves of the ocean they’ve been paddling toward over the last month — the ocean that’s seen fewer and fewer salmon return to it over the last century as four hydropower dams blocked their ideal spawning grounds upstream.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“I think our ancestors would be proud because this is what they’ve been fighting for,” said Tasia Linwood, a 15-year-old member of the Karuk Tribe, on Thursday night, ahead of the group’s final push to the end on Friday.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\u003c/div>",
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"content": "\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The Klamath River is newly navigable after a decades-long effort to remove its four hydropower dams to help restore the salmon run — an \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/11622280/fish-blood-in-their-veins-but-few-salmon-in-their-river\">ancient source of life, food and culture\u003c/a> for these paddlers’ tribes who have lived alongside the river for millennia. Youth primarily from the Yurok, Klamath, Hoopa Valley, Karuk, Quartz Valley and Warm Springs tribes paddled 310 miles (499 kilometers) over a month from the headwaters of the Wood River, a tributary to the Klamath that some tribes consider sacred, to the Pacific Ocean.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The teens spent several years learning to navigate white water through Paddle Tribal Waters, a program set up by the nonprofit Rios to Rivers, to prepare local Native youth for the day this would be possible.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>During their last days on the water, the group of several dozen swelled to more than 100, joined by some family members and Indigenous people from Bolivia, Chile and New Zealand who face similar challenges on their home rivers.\u003c/p>\n\u003ch2>Dams built decades ago for electricity\u003c/h2>\n\u003cp>Starting in the early 1900s, power company PacifiCorp built \u003ca href=\"https://apnews.com/article/klamath-dam-california-removal-restoration-473a570024584c2e02837434e05693da\">the dams\u003c/a> over several decades to generate electricity. But the structures, which provided 2% of the utility’s power, halted the natural flow of a waterway that was once known as the third-largest salmon-producing river on the West Coast.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>With the dams in place, tribes lost access to a reliable source of food. The dams blocked the path to hundreds of miles of cool freshwater streams, ideal for salmon returning from the ocean to lay their eggs. Salmon numbers declined dramatically along with the water quality.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_12048241\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 2000px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-12048241\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/07/AP25196086091044.jpeg\" alt=\"\" width=\"2000\" height=\"1336\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/07/AP25196086091044.jpeg 2000w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/07/AP25196086091044-160x107.jpeg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/07/AP25196086091044-1536x1026.jpeg 1536w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 2000px) 100vw, 2000px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Kayakers pause before paddling the last couple of miles of the Klamath River to reach the Pacific Ocean on Friday, July 11, 2025, in Klamath, California. \u003ccite>(Brittany Peterson/AP Photo)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>In 2002, a bacterial outbreak caused by low water and warm temperatures killed more than 34,000 fish, mostly Chinook salmon. That galvanized decades of advocacy by tribes and environmental groups, culminating in 2022 when federal regulators \u003ca href=\"https://apnews.com/article/business-california-native-americans-dams-salmon-311ea96fda0fe1b0052ab8cef9ae36a9\">approved a plan\u003c/a> to remove the dams.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Through protests, testimony and lawsuits, the tribes showcased the environmental devastation caused by the dams, especially to salmon. From 2023 to 2024, the four dams were dynamited and removed, freeing hundreds of miles of the Klamath.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The renewable electricity lost by removing the hydropower dams was enough to power the equivalent of 70,000 homes, although PacifiCorp has since expanded its renewable sources through wind and solar projects.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Two dams used for irrigation and flood control remain on the upper stretch of the river. They have “ladders” that allow some fish to pass through, although their efficacy for adult salmon is questionable. On the journey, the paddlers got out of the river and carried their kayaks around the dams.\u003c/p>\n\u003ch2>For teens, a month of paddling and making memories\u003c/h2>\n\u003cp>The journey began June 12 with ceremonial blessings and kayaks gathered in a circle above a natural pool of springs where fresh water bubbles to the surface at the headwater of the Wood River, just upstream of the Klamath River.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The youth camped in tents as they made their way across Upper Klamath Lake and down the Klamath River, jumping in the water or doing flips in their kayaks to cool down in the summer heat. A few kayakers came down with swimmers’ ear, but overall, everybody on the trip remained healthy.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_12048242\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 2000px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-12048242\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/07/AP25196086147030.jpeg\" alt=\"\" width=\"2000\" height=\"1333\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/07/AP25196086147030.jpeg 2000w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/07/AP25196086147030-160x107.jpeg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/07/AP25196086147030-1536x1024.jpeg 1536w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 2000px) 100vw, 2000px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">A kayaker begins the final day of paddling the Klamath River to reach the Pacific Ocean on Friday, July 11, 2025, in Klamath, California. \u003ccite>(Brittany Peterson/AP Photo)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>Nearly everyone had a story to share of a family’s fishing cabin or a favorite swimming hole while passing through ancestral territory of the Klamath, Modoc, Shasta, Karuk and Yurok.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>More than 2,200 dams were removed from rivers in the United States from 1912 through 2024, most in the last couple of decades as momentum grows to restore the natural flow of rivers and the wildlife they support, according to the conservation group American Rivers.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“I believe that it was kind of symbolic of a bigger issue,” said John Acuna, member of the Hoopa Valley Tribe and a leader on the trip.\u003c/p>\n\u003ch2 class=\"mceTemp\">\u003cspan style=\"font-size: 24px;\">Removal of dams represents end of long fight with federal government\u003c/span>\u003c/h2>\n\u003cp>The federal government signed treaties with these tribes outlining their right to govern themselves, which is violated when they can’t rely on their traditional food from the river.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Acuna said these violations are familiar to many tribal communities, and included when his great-grandmother was sent to boarding school as part of a national strategy to strip culture and language from Native Americans.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_12048245\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 2000px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-12048245\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/07/AP25196086067646.jpeg\" alt=\"\" width=\"2000\" height=\"1334\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/07/AP25196086067646.jpeg 2000w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/07/AP25196086067646-160x107.jpeg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/07/AP25196086067646-1536x1025.jpeg 1536w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 2000px) 100vw, 2000px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Native youth with ties to the Klamath River arrive at its mouth where it empties into the Pacific Ocean on Friday, July 11, 2025, in Klamath, California. \u003ccite>(Brittany Peterson/AP Photo)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>That history “comes with generational trauma,” he said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Their treaty-enshrined right to fish was also blatantly disregarded by regional authorities in the 1970s but later upheld by \u003ca href=\"https://www.waterboards.ca.gov/waterrights/water_issues/programs/bay_delta/california_waterfix/exhibits/docs/PCFFA&IGFR/part2/pcffa_94.pdf\">various court decisions\u003c/a>, said Yurok council member Phillip Williams.\u003c/p>\u003c/div>",
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"content": "\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>Standing on a fog-shrouded boat ramp in the town of Requa awaiting the arrival of the youth, Williams recounted the time when it was illegal to fish here using the tribes’ traditional nets. As a child, his elders were arrested and even killed for daring to defy authorities and fish in broad daylight.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Fifty years later, with the hydropower dams now gone, large numbers of salmon are beginning to return and youth are paddling the length of the Klamath.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“If there’s a heaviness that I feel it’s because there’s a lot of people that lived all in these places, all these little houses here that are no longer here no more,” said Williams. “They don’t get to see what’s happening today. And that’s a heavy, heavy, feeling.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Even as a teen, Linwood says she feels both the pleasure of a month-long river trip with her friends and the weight of the past.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“I kind of feel guilty, like I haven’t done enough to be fighting,” she said. “I gotta remember that’s what our ancestors fought for. They fought for that — so that we could feel this joy with the river.”\u003c/p>\n\u003c/div>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\u003c/div>",
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"content": "\u003cp>Reparative movements have a hope problem.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>We at the \u003ca href=\"https://www.bliscollective.org/\">BLIS Collective\u003c/a> — a solidarity and action hub that braids narratives and grows movements for reparative and redistributive policy — call the distance between support for a movement and belief in its feasibility the “hope gap.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003ca href=\"https://static1.squarespace.com/static/63e94c8ea475597f7bbc51e7/t/68094609b33fd33efecc6407/1745438229721/Fabric+of+Repair_LONG_2025.pdf\">New research published last week\u003c/a> by BLIS Collective shows that it’s one thing to believe reparative movements — such as \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/reparations\">reparations for Black people\u003c/a> and \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/education/535779/land-back-the-indigenous-fight-to-reclaim-stolen-lands\">Land Back for Indigenous people\u003c/a> — should happen, and another thing altogether to believe that they can happen.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>And to be clear, in order for this country to live up to its stated ideals of democracy, both must happen. America was founded on stolen land and labor — on the exploitation of Indigenous and Black bodies. Repair for these dual original sins is the only way for this country to realize its stated values and ensure freedom and liberation for all.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad fullwidth]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>While 76% of surveyed Black respondents support reparations and 80% of Indigenous respondents support Land Back, only about 20% believe such policies are actually achievable.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In California, the first state to establish both a \u003ca href=\"https://oag.ca.gov/ab3121/members\">reparations task force\u003c/a> and a \u003ca href=\"https://tribalaffairs.ca.gov/cthc/\">truth and healing council for Native Californians\u003c/a>, the ground is fertile for helping close this hope gap. In 2020, Gov. Gavin Newsom signed AB 3121, creating the California Reparations Task Force to study and develop proposals for potential reparations for descendants of enslaved people and those impacted by slavery.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_12028920\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 2000px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"wp-image-12028920 size-full\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/02/250219-ReparationsGallery-04.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"2000\" height=\"1333\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/02/250219-ReparationsGallery-04.jpg 2000w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/02/250219-ReparationsGallery-04-800x533.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/02/250219-ReparationsGallery-04-1020x680.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/02/250219-ReparationsGallery-04-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/02/250219-ReparationsGallery-04-1536x1024.jpg 1536w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/02/250219-ReparationsGallery-04-1920x1280.jpg 1920w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 2000px) 100vw, 2000px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">The exhibit What Are Reparations, a bilingual zine and art installation by Katie Quan, at the Edge on the Square gallery in San Francisco’s Chinatown neighborhood on Feb. 19, 2025. The installation explores the ongoing debate about reparations for Black communities in San Francisco, particularly within the context of systemic injustices. \u003ccite>(Beth LaBerge/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>This task force released its final recommendations in 2023, including proposals for financial compensation for housing discrimination, \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/12002804/centerpiece-reparations-bill-derailed-by-newsoms-late-request-heres-why\">the creation of a dedicated state agency\u003c/a> to implement reparations, \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/12006819/california-to-issue-apology-for-slavery-as-newsom-signs-reparations-bills\">formal apologies for historical injustices\u003c/a> and educational reforms to accurately teach Black history in schools.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In 2019, Newsom established the Truth and Healing Council to clarify the historical record of the state’s relationship with California Native Americans and provide recommendations on reparative policies by 2025. This dual-track approach to addressing historical injustices offers California a rare chance to show the nation that repair is not just theoretical — it’s possible.\u003c/p>\n\u003ch2>Why the hope gap matters\u003c/h2>\n\u003cp>Support for a movement alone won’t activate people to participate, engage or advocate without also having the belief that meaningful change is possible. Active engagement from supporters is the only way to grow a movement and ensure its success.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Though the hope gap isn’t just about pessimism, it reflects generations of oppression, historic disenfranchisement, broken promises and eroded trust in government institutions. When only 21.5% of Black respondents and 19.1% of Indigenous respondents believe reparative policies are feasible, we face a fundamental challenge that goes beyond building support.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>We need to rebuild public belief in what’s possible. In a society that continues to breed apathy and despair, addressing the hope gap for a reparative and liberated future is the project of our generation.\u003c/p>\n\u003ch2>Research insights: The power of braided narratives\u003c/h2>\n\u003cp>The hope gap findings emerged from our national study, which tested the impact of a “braided narrative” \u003ca href=\"https://www.tiktok.com/@garrisonhayes/video/7412648697215061294?is_from_webapp=1&web_id=7429881490349934122\">video\u003c/a>, which illustrated how the histories and solutions for Black and Indigenous communities are inherently intertwined.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Strengthening solidarity between communities could be a powerful strategy for narrowing the hope gap.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11891757\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 2000px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-11891757\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2021/10/1920_GettyImages-859129098-scaled-e1745610765619.jpg\" alt='A person wearing a T-shirt saying \"You Are on Indian Land\" and wearing two long braids with white ribbons stands amid a crowd.' width=\"2000\" height=\"1125\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Dancers from Anahuacalmecac International University Preparatory of North America prepare to dance on Hollywood Boulevard during an event celebrating Indigenous Peoples Day, Oct. 8, 2017, in the Hollywood section of Los Angeles, California. \u003ccite>(David McNew/Getty Images)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>The survey results demonstrate that we can successfully increase support and solidarity by highlighting the interconnectedness of the reparations and Land Back movements. Solidarity matters for several important reasons: It broadens the base of support for each movement, helps overcome the historical divisions intentionally sown between these communities by the U.S. government and ensures that victories for one community can spark momentum and hope for the other.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Our data show that Black and Indigenous communities are already primed for solidarity, with 68% of Black respondents supporting Land Back and 51% of Indigenous respondents supporting reparations. The braided narrative approach further strengthened cross-movement support, particularly among Democrats in both groups.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>It’s encouraging that the majority of both groups support one another at baseline, and even more so that a brief exposure to a solidarity narrative can boost cross-movement support. This should serve as evidence for a scaled solidarity narrative rooted in the truth about the nation’s founding.\u003c/p>\n\u003ch2>The spillover effect: How movements strengthen each other\u003c/h2>\n\u003cp>The study also revealed an important narrative spillover effect: When Black viewers watched content about reparations, their support for Land Back increased, even without content related to it. Similarly, Indigenous viewers who watched content about Land Back showed increased support for reparations.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>This suggests that hearing about progress for one movement can boost support for the other. While these movements have distinct and rich histories, both communities recognize that Land Back and reparations are linked and that justice for both populations is interconnected.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11981334\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 1920px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-11981334\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/03/001_Oakland_ReparationsMarch_10162021_qut.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"1920\" height=\"1280\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/03/001_Oakland_ReparationsMarch_10162021_qut.jpg 1920w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/03/001_Oakland_ReparationsMarch_10162021_qut-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/03/001_Oakland_ReparationsMarch_10162021_qut-800x533.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/03/001_Oakland_ReparationsMarch_10162021_qut-1020x680.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/03/001_Oakland_ReparationsMarch_10162021_qut-1536x1024.jpg 1536w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1920px) 100vw, 1920px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Bakari Olatunji, Western Regional Party Representative of the African People’s Socialist Party, speaks during a rally for reparations for African people in Oakland on Oct. 16, 2021. \u003ccite>(Beth LaBerge/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>Another promising approach to addressing the hope gap is to publicly highlight evidence of past and current successes for reparative movements. History shows that local wins, even when they seem small, can create powerful precedents that fuel hope and transform what people believe is possible.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Consider how marriage equality spread across the United States. In 2004, Massachusetts became the first state to legalize same-sex marriage, a decision that seemed impossibly radical to many at the time. That single, state-level victory created a tangible example that advocates could point to, gradually shifting public opinion and \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/11911275/supreme-court-ruling-clears-way-for-release-of-footage-from-landmark-trial-that-legalized-same-sex-marriage-in-california\">inspiring other states to follow\u003c/a>, including California.[aside postID=news_12036599 hero='https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/04/250409-LIVERMORE-BLACK-LAND-MD-10-KQED-1-1020x680.jpg']What once seemed unattainable became reality nationwide just 11 years later.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Similarly, the municipal reparations program in Evanston, Illinois, \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/arts/13921493/erika-alexander-reparations-the-big-payback\">provides a powerful contemporary example\u003c/a>. When Evanston approved the first government reparations program for Black residents in 2021, it created a concrete precedent that advocates across the country could reference. This local policy breakthrough has inspired similar efforts in dozens of municipalities, \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/forum/2010101894622/whats-next-for-san-franciscos-slavery-reparations-plan\">from Providence to San Francisco\u003c/a>, showing how quickly “impossible” can become “inevitable” once the first domino falls.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Finally, Minnesota offers a model for transferring a state park to tribal communities, with the state Legislature voting in 2023 to transfer Upper Sioux Agency State Park to a Dakota tribe as a form of repair for the violent acts preceding and during the U.S.-Dakota War of 1862.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>It’s important to note that while this case offers a strong model, \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/11956856/how-a-coast-miwok-group-are-buying-back-a-piece-of-their-ancestral-land-in-marin\">California’s Land Back strategy\u003c/a> will require significant intention and tact, given the state’s more than 100 federally recognized tribes and dozens fighting for federal recognition, creating a unique landscape for this work.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>These historical patterns highlight why publicizing successes is important: Precedent breeds hope, which fuels movements that transform society.\u003c/p>\n\u003ch2>A blueprint for building hope\u003c/h2>\n\u003cp>California is uniquely positioned to leverage both approaches to make a real impact on the hope gap across the nation. The dual processes of the California Reparations Task Force and Truth and Healing Council offer an opportunity for key communicators and leaders to present them as part of the same reparative project — to braid their narratives.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Our study shows this approach can effectively strengthen solidarity between Black and Indigenous communities.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_12037638\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 2000px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-12037638\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/04/011_Oakland_ReparationsMarch_10162021_qed.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"2000\" height=\"1333\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/04/011_Oakland_ReparationsMarch_10162021_qed.jpg 2000w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/04/011_Oakland_ReparationsMarch_10162021_qed-800x533.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/04/011_Oakland_ReparationsMarch_10162021_qed-1020x680.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/04/011_Oakland_ReparationsMarch_10162021_qed-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/04/011_Oakland_ReparationsMarch_10162021_qed-1536x1024.jpg 1536w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/04/011_Oakland_ReparationsMarch_10162021_qed-1920x1280.jpg 1920w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 2000px) 100vw, 2000px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Demonstrators march in support of reparations for African people in Oakland on Oct. 16, 2021, organized by the Uhuru Movement. \u003ccite>(Beth LaBerge/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>Second, there is a significant opportunity to showcase the work of the reparations task force and the ongoing efforts of the Truth and Healing Council.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>While the reparations task force is no longer active, former members continue to advocate for the policies outlined in the final report. Greater communication about the successes and processes of each commission can show that repair is not just a theoretical concept, but that active steps have been taken in California.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>California should actively build support while directly addressing skepticism about feasibility through evidence-based storytelling. This means:\u003c/p>\n\u003col>\n\u003cli>Amplifying every concrete win across both commissions, no matter how small\u003c/li>\n\u003cli>Connecting current achievements to longer-term goals\u003c/li>\n\u003cli>Using a braided narrative approach that highlights how these efforts are fundamentally related and can support each other.\u003c/li>\n\u003c/ol>\n\u003cp>The communication efforts should center trusted voices from California’s Black and Indigenous communities — and must be persistent. Closing a hope gap of more than 80 percentage points will require sustained effort over time.\u003c/p>\n\u003ch2>From hope to action: Creating pathways for participation\u003c/h2>\n\u003cp>While government commissions are essential, closing the hope gap requires a broader ecosystem of actors demonstrating progress and providing infrastructure for sustained solidarity.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>As California shows that change is possible through commissions, it must simultaneously create meaningful ways for people to participate. When people begin to believe that reparative policies are achievable, they’re more likely to engage — but only if there are clear opportunities to contribute.[aside postID=news_11966087 hero='https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2023/10/231002-TULUWAT-ISLAND-01-KQED-1020x680.jpg']By creating community engagement mechanisms, supporting local initiatives and establishing educational programs that build public understanding, California can transform growing hope into concrete action. There is also an opportunity to uplift community-led initiatives that are already advancing reparations and Land Back in big and small ways across the state, such as \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/11956963/how-black-californians-had-their-land-stolen\">Bruce’s Beach\u003c/a>, \u003ca href=\"https://sogoreate-landtrust.org\">Sogorea Te’ Land Trust\u003c/a>, \u003ca href=\"https://www.santamonica.gov/topic-explainers/landback-reparations\">Santa Monica Landback and Reparations Task Force\u003c/a> and \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/12014575/palm-springs-oks-5-9-million-in-reparations-for-black-and-latino-families-whose-homes-the-city-burned\">the Section 14 settlement in Palm Springs\u003c/a>.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>California has a historic opportunity to show that reparative justice is achievable. By building visible wins, fostering cross-movement solidarity and creating pathways for participation, the state can establish a national model that shows how we move from acknowledging historical harms to actually repairing them.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>This work isn’t just about policy — it’s about healing generations of justified skepticism and creating a foundation for true liberation.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cem>Camilla Griffiths, Ph.D., is a behavioral scientist and the director of applied narrative research at the \u003ca href=\"https://www.bliscollective.org/\">BLIS Collective\u003c/a>.\u003c/em>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad floatright]\u003c/p>\n",
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"content": "\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>\u003cp>Reparative movements have a hope problem.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>We at the \u003ca href=\"https://www.bliscollective.org/\">BLIS Collective\u003c/a> — a solidarity and action hub that braids narratives and grows movements for reparative and redistributive policy — call the distance between support for a movement and belief in its feasibility the “hope gap.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003ca href=\"https://static1.squarespace.com/static/63e94c8ea475597f7bbc51e7/t/68094609b33fd33efecc6407/1745438229721/Fabric+of+Repair_LONG_2025.pdf\">New research published last week\u003c/a> by BLIS Collective shows that it’s one thing to believe reparative movements — such as \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/reparations\">reparations for Black people\u003c/a> and \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/education/535779/land-back-the-indigenous-fight-to-reclaim-stolen-lands\">Land Back for Indigenous people\u003c/a> — should happen, and another thing altogether to believe that they can happen.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>And to be clear, in order for this country to live up to its stated ideals of democracy, both must happen. America was founded on stolen land and labor — on the exploitation of Indigenous and Black bodies. Repair for these dual original sins is the only way for this country to realize its stated values and ensure freedom and liberation for all.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\u003c/div>",
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"content": "\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>While 76% of surveyed Black respondents support reparations and 80% of Indigenous respondents support Land Back, only about 20% believe such policies are actually achievable.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In California, the first state to establish both a \u003ca href=\"https://oag.ca.gov/ab3121/members\">reparations task force\u003c/a> and a \u003ca href=\"https://tribalaffairs.ca.gov/cthc/\">truth and healing council for Native Californians\u003c/a>, the ground is fertile for helping close this hope gap. In 2020, Gov. Gavin Newsom signed AB 3121, creating the California Reparations Task Force to study and develop proposals for potential reparations for descendants of enslaved people and those impacted by slavery.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_12028920\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 2000px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"wp-image-12028920 size-full\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/02/250219-ReparationsGallery-04.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"2000\" height=\"1333\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/02/250219-ReparationsGallery-04.jpg 2000w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/02/250219-ReparationsGallery-04-800x533.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/02/250219-ReparationsGallery-04-1020x680.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/02/250219-ReparationsGallery-04-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/02/250219-ReparationsGallery-04-1536x1024.jpg 1536w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/02/250219-ReparationsGallery-04-1920x1280.jpg 1920w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 2000px) 100vw, 2000px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">The exhibit What Are Reparations, a bilingual zine and art installation by Katie Quan, at the Edge on the Square gallery in San Francisco’s Chinatown neighborhood on Feb. 19, 2025. The installation explores the ongoing debate about reparations for Black communities in San Francisco, particularly within the context of systemic injustices. \u003ccite>(Beth LaBerge/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>This task force released its final recommendations in 2023, including proposals for financial compensation for housing discrimination, \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/12002804/centerpiece-reparations-bill-derailed-by-newsoms-late-request-heres-why\">the creation of a dedicated state agency\u003c/a> to implement reparations, \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/12006819/california-to-issue-apology-for-slavery-as-newsom-signs-reparations-bills\">formal apologies for historical injustices\u003c/a> and educational reforms to accurately teach Black history in schools.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In 2019, Newsom established the Truth and Healing Council to clarify the historical record of the state’s relationship with California Native Americans and provide recommendations on reparative policies by 2025. This dual-track approach to addressing historical injustices offers California a rare chance to show the nation that repair is not just theoretical — it’s possible.\u003c/p>\n\u003ch2>Why the hope gap matters\u003c/h2>\n\u003cp>Support for a movement alone won’t activate people to participate, engage or advocate without also having the belief that meaningful change is possible. Active engagement from supporters is the only way to grow a movement and ensure its success.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Though the hope gap isn’t just about pessimism, it reflects generations of oppression, historic disenfranchisement, broken promises and eroded trust in government institutions. When only 21.5% of Black respondents and 19.1% of Indigenous respondents believe reparative policies are feasible, we face a fundamental challenge that goes beyond building support.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>We need to rebuild public belief in what’s possible. In a society that continues to breed apathy and despair, addressing the hope gap for a reparative and liberated future is the project of our generation.\u003c/p>\n\u003ch2>Research insights: The power of braided narratives\u003c/h2>\n\u003cp>The hope gap findings emerged from our national study, which tested the impact of a “braided narrative” \u003ca href=\"https://www.tiktok.com/@garrisonhayes/video/7412648697215061294?is_from_webapp=1&web_id=7429881490349934122\">video\u003c/a>, which illustrated how the histories and solutions for Black and Indigenous communities are inherently intertwined.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Strengthening solidarity between communities could be a powerful strategy for narrowing the hope gap.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11891757\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 2000px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-11891757\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2021/10/1920_GettyImages-859129098-scaled-e1745610765619.jpg\" alt='A person wearing a T-shirt saying \"You Are on Indian Land\" and wearing two long braids with white ribbons stands amid a crowd.' width=\"2000\" height=\"1125\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Dancers from Anahuacalmecac International University Preparatory of North America prepare to dance on Hollywood Boulevard during an event celebrating Indigenous Peoples Day, Oct. 8, 2017, in the Hollywood section of Los Angeles, California. \u003ccite>(David McNew/Getty Images)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>The survey results demonstrate that we can successfully increase support and solidarity by highlighting the interconnectedness of the reparations and Land Back movements. Solidarity matters for several important reasons: It broadens the base of support for each movement, helps overcome the historical divisions intentionally sown between these communities by the U.S. government and ensures that victories for one community can spark momentum and hope for the other.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Our data show that Black and Indigenous communities are already primed for solidarity, with 68% of Black respondents supporting Land Back and 51% of Indigenous respondents supporting reparations. The braided narrative approach further strengthened cross-movement support, particularly among Democrats in both groups.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>It’s encouraging that the majority of both groups support one another at baseline, and even more so that a brief exposure to a solidarity narrative can boost cross-movement support. This should serve as evidence for a scaled solidarity narrative rooted in the truth about the nation’s founding.\u003c/p>\n\u003ch2>The spillover effect: How movements strengthen each other\u003c/h2>\n\u003cp>The study also revealed an important narrative spillover effect: When Black viewers watched content about reparations, their support for Land Back increased, even without content related to it. Similarly, Indigenous viewers who watched content about Land Back showed increased support for reparations.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>This suggests that hearing about progress for one movement can boost support for the other. While these movements have distinct and rich histories, both communities recognize that Land Back and reparations are linked and that justice for both populations is interconnected.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11981334\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 1920px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-11981334\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/03/001_Oakland_ReparationsMarch_10162021_qut.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"1920\" height=\"1280\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/03/001_Oakland_ReparationsMarch_10162021_qut.jpg 1920w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/03/001_Oakland_ReparationsMarch_10162021_qut-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/03/001_Oakland_ReparationsMarch_10162021_qut-800x533.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/03/001_Oakland_ReparationsMarch_10162021_qut-1020x680.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/03/001_Oakland_ReparationsMarch_10162021_qut-1536x1024.jpg 1536w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1920px) 100vw, 1920px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Bakari Olatunji, Western Regional Party Representative of the African People’s Socialist Party, speaks during a rally for reparations for African people in Oakland on Oct. 16, 2021. \u003ccite>(Beth LaBerge/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>Another promising approach to addressing the hope gap is to publicly highlight evidence of past and current successes for reparative movements. History shows that local wins, even when they seem small, can create powerful precedents that fuel hope and transform what people believe is possible.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Consider how marriage equality spread across the United States. In 2004, Massachusetts became the first state to legalize same-sex marriage, a decision that seemed impossibly radical to many at the time. That single, state-level victory created a tangible example that advocates could point to, gradually shifting public opinion and \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/11911275/supreme-court-ruling-clears-way-for-release-of-footage-from-landmark-trial-that-legalized-same-sex-marriage-in-california\">inspiring other states to follow\u003c/a>, including California.\u003c/p>\u003c/div>",
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"content": "\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>What once seemed unattainable became reality nationwide just 11 years later.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Similarly, the municipal reparations program in Evanston, Illinois, \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/arts/13921493/erika-alexander-reparations-the-big-payback\">provides a powerful contemporary example\u003c/a>. When Evanston approved the first government reparations program for Black residents in 2021, it created a concrete precedent that advocates across the country could reference. This local policy breakthrough has inspired similar efforts in dozens of municipalities, \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/forum/2010101894622/whats-next-for-san-franciscos-slavery-reparations-plan\">from Providence to San Francisco\u003c/a>, showing how quickly “impossible” can become “inevitable” once the first domino falls.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Finally, Minnesota offers a model for transferring a state park to tribal communities, with the state Legislature voting in 2023 to transfer Upper Sioux Agency State Park to a Dakota tribe as a form of repair for the violent acts preceding and during the U.S.-Dakota War of 1862.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>It’s important to note that while this case offers a strong model, \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/11956856/how-a-coast-miwok-group-are-buying-back-a-piece-of-their-ancestral-land-in-marin\">California’s Land Back strategy\u003c/a> will require significant intention and tact, given the state’s more than 100 federally recognized tribes and dozens fighting for federal recognition, creating a unique landscape for this work.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>These historical patterns highlight why publicizing successes is important: Precedent breeds hope, which fuels movements that transform society.\u003c/p>\n\u003ch2>A blueprint for building hope\u003c/h2>\n\u003cp>California is uniquely positioned to leverage both approaches to make a real impact on the hope gap across the nation. The dual processes of the California Reparations Task Force and Truth and Healing Council offer an opportunity for key communicators and leaders to present them as part of the same reparative project — to braid their narratives.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Our study shows this approach can effectively strengthen solidarity between Black and Indigenous communities.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_12037638\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 2000px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-12037638\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/04/011_Oakland_ReparationsMarch_10162021_qed.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"2000\" height=\"1333\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/04/011_Oakland_ReparationsMarch_10162021_qed.jpg 2000w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/04/011_Oakland_ReparationsMarch_10162021_qed-800x533.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/04/011_Oakland_ReparationsMarch_10162021_qed-1020x680.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/04/011_Oakland_ReparationsMarch_10162021_qed-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/04/011_Oakland_ReparationsMarch_10162021_qed-1536x1024.jpg 1536w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/04/011_Oakland_ReparationsMarch_10162021_qed-1920x1280.jpg 1920w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 2000px) 100vw, 2000px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Demonstrators march in support of reparations for African people in Oakland on Oct. 16, 2021, organized by the Uhuru Movement. \u003ccite>(Beth LaBerge/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>Second, there is a significant opportunity to showcase the work of the reparations task force and the ongoing efforts of the Truth and Healing Council.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>While the reparations task force is no longer active, former members continue to advocate for the policies outlined in the final report. Greater communication about the successes and processes of each commission can show that repair is not just a theoretical concept, but that active steps have been taken in California.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>California should actively build support while directly addressing skepticism about feasibility through evidence-based storytelling. This means:\u003c/p>\n\u003col>\n\u003cli>Amplifying every concrete win across both commissions, no matter how small\u003c/li>\n\u003cli>Connecting current achievements to longer-term goals\u003c/li>\n\u003cli>Using a braided narrative approach that highlights how these efforts are fundamentally related and can support each other.\u003c/li>\n\u003c/ol>\n\u003cp>The communication efforts should center trusted voices from California’s Black and Indigenous communities — and must be persistent. 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"content": "\u003cp>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">Starting this month, Medi-Cal has expanded coverage to include traditional healing practices like music therapy, rituals and ceremonial dances to support those suffering from addiction. For years, Native people have argued that this more holistic, culturally-specific approach can help fill an important gap in the state’s approach to drug and alcohol treatment. \u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c!-- iframe plugin v.4.3 wordpress.org/plugins/iframe/ -->\u003cbr>\n\u003ciframe loading=\"lazy\" frameborder=\"0\" height=\"200\" scrolling=\"no\" src=\"https://playlist.megaphone.fm?e=KQINC1884877555\" width=\"100%\" class=\"iframe-class\">\u003c/iframe>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cb>Links:\u003c/b>\u003c/p>\n\u003cul>\n\u003cli>\u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/12021150/where-to-donate-help-los-angeles-wildfire-eaton-fire-palisades-pasadena\">\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">How to Help People Affected by the L.A. 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This is right off 16th and mission in San Francisco. And then when you walk inside, it’s very clean. It’s very friendly. I mean, it feels like a facility and it feels like a detox center, but it doesn’t have that sort of downtrodden, heavy feeling. There’s Native American art on the wall. There’s a room off to the side, which is like kind of like the recreation room. And there was five men sitting around in a circle with huge drummers in front of them with someone teaching them a Lakota song about survival.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Lesley McClurg \u003c/strong>[00:03:07] And it was a pulsing kind of powerful chant. I would say. One of them kind of piped out, it feels a little like meditation. It’s like my brain can pause. And I felt that. It just has a very different vibe than any addiction treatment center I’ve ever been into.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Cecilia Lei \u003c/strong>[00:03:31] And you spoke to a few folks who have benefitted from services offered by the Friendship House. Tell me, who did you meet there and what did they share with you?\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Lesley McClurg \u003c/strong>[00:03:40] I talked to a couple of different clients. One in particular was named Emery Tahy.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Emery Tahy \u003c/strong>[00:03:44] I am a member of the Navajo Nation, and I work here at the Friendship House as a house manager.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Lesley McClurg \u003c/strong>[00:03:51] He had a really compelling story. He grew up in Arizona in the Four Corners area on the Navajo Nation.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Emery Tahy \u003c/strong>[00:03:59] I come from a household where alcohol use was normal.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Lesley McClurg \u003c/strong>[00:04:03] He had a really hard life of alcoholism and, you know, had his first sip of alcohol when he was four years old, living in a one bedroom I think he said house on the Navajo Nation, very poor. I think there was 7 or 8 children. So a lot of people in this very small space, they didn’t have running water, didn’t have electricity.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Emery Tahy \u003c/strong>[00:04:24] We definitely lived in poverty. And it’s still that way there in the communities. And alcohol and drugs run rampant through those those communities.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Lesley McClurg \u003c/strong>[00:04:36] He used alcohol and drugs to numb some parts of him that were really pained by his experience in the world. He experienced a lot of racism, a lot of prejudice, trying to, you know, live on the reservation and also integrate into mainstream population in Arizona.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Emery Tahy \u003c/strong>[00:04:58] Coming from an impoverished community, coming from a tribe that experiences a lot of trauma, I felt like that’s how I was self-medicating.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Lesley McClurg \u003c/strong>[00:05:08] But simultaneously he did speak also about a really rich cultural upbringing. And those were sort of two parallel tracks that he experienced growing up.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Emery Tahy \u003c/strong>[00:05:17] We would burn cedar, we would smoke mountain tobacco, and we would have ceremonies done seasonally to kind of keep the family together and keep the family in balance.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Lesley McClurg \u003c/strong>[00:05:29] But unfortunately, alcoholism got the best of him and he ended up basically destroying his life on the streets in Phoenix and on the brink of suicide before he landed, eventually at the Friendship House.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Cecilia Lei \u003c/strong>[00:05:46] And what kind of treatment did he received there? Walk me through what a traditional healing practice would look like there.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Lesley McClurg \u003c/strong>[00:05:54] Yeah. So he said he was in a detox center in Phoenix in a hospital. And his brother told him about the Friendship House, and he said it felt different from that first phone call.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Emery Tahy \u003c/strong>[00:06:04] What I can remember from that phone call was promising because I heard a really friendly voice on the other end and the flute music in the back. And and from that first experience, you know, I knew I made the right choice.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Lesley McClurg \u003c/strong>[00:06:21] And so he arrived. There was a drum circle going on. And so he immediately heard music that he had grown up with that he hadn’t heard for years. He met people who spoke to him in Navajo, his native tongue. And so he was incorporated and I think more open than he had ever been and more hopeful than he had ever been is how he speaks to it from the get go.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[00:06:43] And then incorporated into the treatment, there’s the traditional protocols in the sense that you’re meeting with a psychologist and you’re getting counseling, you’re doing detox therapy. You may even have medication assisted therapy, which would all be offered at a traditional treatment center. But what’s different about the Friendship House is that there’s also the opportunity to engage in traditional practices. So smudging, dancing, drumming, sweat lodges, all of these are part of the curriculum, basically.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Cecilia Lei \u003c/strong>[00:07:18] So it sounds like encountering sort of familiar practices from his culture. Did it perhaps give him, you know, more motivation to really follow through this treatment?\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Lesley McClurg \u003c/strong>[00:07:29] I would say so. What he said and what he talks about very eloquently is that that really connected him back to a sense of meaning and connected him back to his deep traditional roots and gave him the inspiration to to change his life.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Emery Tahy \u003c/strong>[00:07:46] Connection to culture and connection to community is the cure to a lot of the health disparities that we experience. And I could I could attest to that today.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Lesley McClurg \u003c/strong>[00:07:57] It’s not just about getting sober. It’s not just about getting, you know, the opportunity to talk about your issues, which, you know, counseling does, but it’s connecting to something that’s meaningful. And I think that’s a really key part of addiction therapy that is not always offered. And this is a way for the Native American population to have that key, to find the resilience, to find the will to to change one’s life.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Cecilia Lei \u003c/strong>[00:08:30] And as your reporting highlights, Medi-Cal will now cover these kinds of practices. Tell me what’s included and how does this all work?\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Lesley McClurg \u003c/strong>[00:08:38] Yeah. It’s a two year pilot program that could be extended. There will be two different kinds of practitioners that will be able to receive reimbursement from medical either traditional healers, folks who teach dancing, smudging, sweat lodges, who are part of the Native American community in some way. Or you can receive psychological support from leaders within the Native American communities who maybe a client may see that person as more trustworthy. And so those two types of of practitioners qualify for for reimbursement.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Cecilia Lei \u003c/strong>[00:09:19] Why is this happening now and what is motivating the state to finally cover health care in this way?\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Lesley McClurg \u003c/strong>[00:09:26] The Native American population, unfortunately, has some of the highest addiction and overdose rates in the country. So this is a population that has been hit really hard by alcoholism and substance use disorders. And so I think especially with the fentanyl crisis just escalating, that this is a moment that the state is willing to try anything. And there is not a ton of research, but the research that does exist shows that using traditional healing practices is a powerful way to help the Native American community.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Damian Chase-Begay \u003c/strong>[00:09:57] What California is now covering under Medi-Cal is exactly what our native communities have been asking to be covered for years.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Lesley McClurg \u003c/strong>[00:10:08] I talked to a man named Damien Chase Begay. He used to work in Oakland at one of the Indian health centers and now is a researcher at the University of Montana.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Damian Chase-Begay \u003c/strong>[00:10:17] This kind of support, had it been in place, could have helped stop some intergenerational trauma and substance use years ago. 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How do you ensure that this population, who may be living in Oakland and has a local clinic as their primary health provider, you know, that that clinic may be able to use this funding to offer traditional healing to this population.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Damian Chase-Begay \u003c/strong>[00:11:00] So we want to see our MDS are NPS or is working side by side with our traditional practitioners because our community is using both.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Cecilia Lei \u003c/strong>[00:11:12] You mentioned earlier that there is limited research and evidence to show how traditional practices can be more effective than a clinical approach for some communities. But speaking about this moment, do you think this could potentially spur more research and study about these kinds of practices in health care?\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Lesley McClurg \u003c/strong>[00:11:30] I think absolutely there is a lot of hope that this will lead to increased funding. 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"content": "\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>\u003cp>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">Starting this month, Medi-Cal has expanded coverage to include traditional healing practices like music therapy, rituals and ceremonial dances to support those suffering from addiction. For years, Native people have argued that this more holistic, culturally-specific approach can help fill an important gap in the state’s approach to drug and alcohol treatment. \u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c!-- iframe plugin v.4.3 wordpress.org/plugins/iframe/ -->\u003cbr>\n\u003ciframe loading=\"lazy\" frameborder=\"0\" height=\"200\" scrolling=\"no\" src=\"https://playlist.megaphone.fm?e=KQINC1884877555\" width=\"100%\" class=\"iframe-class\">\u003c/iframe>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cb>Links:\u003c/b>\u003c/p>\n\u003cul>\n\u003cli>\u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/12021150/where-to-donate-help-los-angeles-wildfire-eaton-fire-palisades-pasadena\">\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">How to Help People Affected by the L.A. Fires\u003c/span>\u003c/a>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\"> \u003c/span>\u003c/li>\n\u003cli>\u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/12020872/la-fires-eaton-fire-palisades-pasadena-wildfire-resources-air-quality\">\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">Got Loved Ones Affected by LA Fires? These Wildfire Resources May Help\u003c/span>\u003c/a>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\"> \u003c/span>\u003c/li>\n\u003c/ul>\n\u003cp>\u003cem>This is a computer-generated transcript. While our team has reviewed it, there may be errors.\u003c/em>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Cecilia Lei \u003c/strong>[00:02:14] Lesley, you visited a unique drug recovery center in San Francisco called the Friendship House. Tell me, what did you see there and what was it like?\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\u003c/div>",
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"content": "\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Lesley McClurg \u003c/strong>[00:02:23] It was pretty unique almost from the moment I stepped out, like got onto the block. This is right off 16th and mission in San Francisco. And then when you walk inside, it’s very clean. It’s very friendly. I mean, it feels like a facility and it feels like a detox center, but it doesn’t have that sort of downtrodden, heavy feeling. There’s Native American art on the wall. There’s a room off to the side, which is like kind of like the recreation room. And there was five men sitting around in a circle with huge drummers in front of them with someone teaching them a Lakota song about survival.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Lesley McClurg \u003c/strong>[00:03:07] And it was a pulsing kind of powerful chant. I would say. One of them kind of piped out, it feels a little like meditation. It’s like my brain can pause. And I felt that. It just has a very different vibe than any addiction treatment center I’ve ever been into.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Cecilia Lei \u003c/strong>[00:03:31] And you spoke to a few folks who have benefitted from services offered by the Friendship House. Tell me, who did you meet there and what did they share with you?\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Lesley McClurg \u003c/strong>[00:03:40] I talked to a couple of different clients. One in particular was named Emery Tahy.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Emery Tahy \u003c/strong>[00:03:44] I am a member of the Navajo Nation, and I work here at the Friendship House as a house manager.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Lesley McClurg \u003c/strong>[00:03:51] He had a really compelling story. He grew up in Arizona in the Four Corners area on the Navajo Nation.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Emery Tahy \u003c/strong>[00:03:59] I come from a household where alcohol use was normal.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Lesley McClurg \u003c/strong>[00:04:03] He had a really hard life of alcoholism and, you know, had his first sip of alcohol when he was four years old, living in a one bedroom I think he said house on the Navajo Nation, very poor. I think there was 7 or 8 children. So a lot of people in this very small space, they didn’t have running water, didn’t have electricity.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Emery Tahy \u003c/strong>[00:04:24] We definitely lived in poverty. And it’s still that way there in the communities. And alcohol and drugs run rampant through those those communities.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Lesley McClurg \u003c/strong>[00:04:36] He used alcohol and drugs to numb some parts of him that were really pained by his experience in the world. He experienced a lot of racism, a lot of prejudice, trying to, you know, live on the reservation and also integrate into mainstream population in Arizona.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Emery Tahy \u003c/strong>[00:04:58] Coming from an impoverished community, coming from a tribe that experiences a lot of trauma, I felt like that’s how I was self-medicating.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Lesley McClurg \u003c/strong>[00:05:08] But simultaneously he did speak also about a really rich cultural upbringing. And those were sort of two parallel tracks that he experienced growing up.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Emery Tahy \u003c/strong>[00:05:17] We would burn cedar, we would smoke mountain tobacco, and we would have ceremonies done seasonally to kind of keep the family together and keep the family in balance.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Lesley McClurg \u003c/strong>[00:05:29] But unfortunately, alcoholism got the best of him and he ended up basically destroying his life on the streets in Phoenix and on the brink of suicide before he landed, eventually at the Friendship House.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Cecilia Lei \u003c/strong>[00:05:46] And what kind of treatment did he received there? Walk me through what a traditional healing practice would look like there.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Lesley McClurg \u003c/strong>[00:05:54] Yeah. So he said he was in a detox center in Phoenix in a hospital. And his brother told him about the Friendship House, and he said it felt different from that first phone call.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Emery Tahy \u003c/strong>[00:06:04] What I can remember from that phone call was promising because I heard a really friendly voice on the other end and the flute music in the back. And and from that first experience, you know, I knew I made the right choice.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Lesley McClurg \u003c/strong>[00:06:21] And so he arrived. There was a drum circle going on. And so he immediately heard music that he had grown up with that he hadn’t heard for years. He met people who spoke to him in Navajo, his native tongue. And so he was incorporated and I think more open than he had ever been and more hopeful than he had ever been is how he speaks to it from the get go.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[00:06:43] And then incorporated into the treatment, there’s the traditional protocols in the sense that you’re meeting with a psychologist and you’re getting counseling, you’re doing detox therapy. You may even have medication assisted therapy, which would all be offered at a traditional treatment center. But what’s different about the Friendship House is that there’s also the opportunity to engage in traditional practices. So smudging, dancing, drumming, sweat lodges, all of these are part of the curriculum, basically.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Cecilia Lei \u003c/strong>[00:07:18] So it sounds like encountering sort of familiar practices from his culture. Did it perhaps give him, you know, more motivation to really follow through this treatment?\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Lesley McClurg \u003c/strong>[00:07:29] I would say so. What he said and what he talks about very eloquently is that that really connected him back to a sense of meaning and connected him back to his deep traditional roots and gave him the inspiration to to change his life.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Emery Tahy \u003c/strong>[00:07:46] Connection to culture and connection to community is the cure to a lot of the health disparities that we experience. And I could I could attest to that today.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Lesley McClurg \u003c/strong>[00:07:57] It’s not just about getting sober. It’s not just about getting, you know, the opportunity to talk about your issues, which, you know, counseling does, but it’s connecting to something that’s meaningful. And I think that’s a really key part of addiction therapy that is not always offered. And this is a way for the Native American population to have that key, to find the resilience, to find the will to to change one’s life.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Cecilia Lei \u003c/strong>[00:08:30] And as your reporting highlights, Medi-Cal will now cover these kinds of practices. Tell me what’s included and how does this all work?\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Lesley McClurg \u003c/strong>[00:08:38] Yeah. It’s a two year pilot program that could be extended. There will be two different kinds of practitioners that will be able to receive reimbursement from medical either traditional healers, folks who teach dancing, smudging, sweat lodges, who are part of the Native American community in some way. Or you can receive psychological support from leaders within the Native American communities who maybe a client may see that person as more trustworthy. And so those two types of of practitioners qualify for for reimbursement.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Cecilia Lei \u003c/strong>[00:09:19] Why is this happening now and what is motivating the state to finally cover health care in this way?\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Lesley McClurg \u003c/strong>[00:09:26] The Native American population, unfortunately, has some of the highest addiction and overdose rates in the country. So this is a population that has been hit really hard by alcoholism and substance use disorders. And so I think especially with the fentanyl crisis just escalating, that this is a moment that the state is willing to try anything. And there is not a ton of research, but the research that does exist shows that using traditional healing practices is a powerful way to help the Native American community.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Damian Chase-Begay \u003c/strong>[00:09:57] What California is now covering under Medi-Cal is exactly what our native communities have been asking to be covered for years.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Lesley McClurg \u003c/strong>[00:10:08] I talked to a man named Damien Chase Begay. He used to work in Oakland at one of the Indian health centers and now is a researcher at the University of Montana.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Damian Chase-Begay \u003c/strong>[00:10:17] This kind of support, had it been in place, could have helped stop some intergenerational trauma and substance use years ago. I’m so thrilled that it’s in place now, but it’s long overdue.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Lesley McClurg \u003c/strong>[00:10:31] One thing that’s important to remember is that a lot of Native Americans are no longer living on reservations where they may qualify for Indian health services or may have more access to traditional healers. A lot of Native Americans are living in cities. And so I think this moment is important to think about. How do you ensure that this population, who may be living in Oakland and has a local clinic as their primary health provider, you know, that that clinic may be able to use this funding to offer traditional healing to this population.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Damian Chase-Begay \u003c/strong>[00:11:00] So we want to see our MDS are NPS or is working side by side with our traditional practitioners because our community is using both.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Cecilia Lei \u003c/strong>[00:11:12] You mentioned earlier that there is limited research and evidence to show how traditional practices can be more effective than a clinical approach for some communities. But speaking about this moment, do you think this could potentially spur more research and study about these kinds of practices in health care?\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Lesley McClurg \u003c/strong>[00:11:30] I think absolutely there is a lot of hope that this will lead to increased funding. That is something that Damien Chase Begay has really been excited about, but also frustrated.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Damian Chase-Begay \u003c/strong>[00:11:42] Indigenous communities have had generations of practice based evidence on the effectiveness of these approaches, and Western research is finally catching up.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Lesley McClurg \u003c/strong>[00:11:52] Thus far, although the qualitative evidence is quite solid, there hasn’t been a lot of quantitative evidence and that really is a result of a lack of funding.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Cecilia Lei \u003c/strong>[00:12:02] Lesley, we all know that drug addiction is such a prevalent and visible problem in San Francisco. Do you think other communities could benefit from this medical expansion?\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Lesley McClurg \u003c/strong>[00:12:12] I think it absolutely could. I think there’s a lot of promise that connecting people and focusing on a more holistic approach to treatment could really turn things for folks. The Friendship House is a really solid example of this. We have an incredible center here in San Francisco that has a long history of doing really good work. Hopefully more centers like this or even one offs at, you know, various clinics where practitioners may work will happen as a result of this Medi-Cal funding.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Cecilia Lei \u003c/strong>[00:12:47] What do you think that sort of reveals about the gaps that these kinds of practices could fill in current drug treatment strategies?\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Lesley McClurg \u003c/strong>[00:12:59] I think it reveals that we can’t just take a clinical approach to this disease. People are often taking drugs and alcohol or abusing drugs and alcohol because they’re deeply conflicted and struggling with life. And if we don’t address that part of their humanity and potentially these, you know, traditional healing practices are away, like who doesn’t love to sing and dance? Who doesn’t feel better after sitting in a sweat lodge and singing with people? That’s a that’s an incredibly cleansing and enlivening experience and adding that to our medical repertoire. You know, it makes intuitive sense and hopefully the science will continue to back that up.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Cecilia Lei \u003c/strong>[00:13:46] You mentioned Emery Tahy at the start of our conversation. I wonder how is he doing today after receiving treatment from the Friendship House?\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Lesley McClurg \u003c/strong>[00:13:54] Oh my god, his story is such a success when he has turned his life around completely.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Emery Tahy \u003c/strong>[00:14:00] I’ve been sober for three years, so very, very, very healthy today.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Lesley McClurg \u003c/strong>[00:14:05] He volunteers at the Friendship House. He works full time for the Indian Health Center.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Emery Tahy \u003c/strong>[00:14:10] I feel, you know, healthy in my mind, my heart, my body, emotionally, I feel connected.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Lesley McClurg \u003c/strong>[00:14:18] He’s almost finished a master’s. He plans on going on to get his Ph.D. and he’s run the San Francisco Marathon. My gosh. And he works out almost every day. So the guy is doing really well. He’s doing way better than I’m doing. I mean, he really is an exemplary example of someone who’s turned his life around.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\u003c/div>",
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"content": "\u003cp>Standing at the banks of the North Fork Eel River in a remote section of Mendocino County, Michelle Merrifield dipped her feet into the cool, clear water. It may have been the first time an Indigenous person accessed this section of the river in over 150 years. This particular stretch of water has long been held privately by ranchers until it passed into the hands of \u003ca href=\"https://wildlandsconservancy.org/\">The Wildlands Conservancy\u003c/a>, a conservation group, in 2019.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Theresa’s ancestors called this river Xa-Cho. “That river is the blood pumping through Mother Earth to give it life,” she said. “And that’s in our DNA, that river. We are river people and salmon people. And that’s what we used to survive for generations.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Now, the state of California is laying the groundwork to build a 307-mile hiking trail that would run alongside this river. \u003ca href=\"https://thegreatredwoodtrail.org/\">The Great Redwood Trail \u003c/a>(GRT) would begin in Marin County and continue north through Sonoma, Mendocino, and Trinity counties, concluding in northern Humboldt County. It would follow the tracks of the now-defunct Northwestern Pacific Railroad, and if completed, it would become the longest rail trail in the nation. But the creation of the trail is unearthing painful memories for local Indigenous tribes who once called this land home.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_12009348\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 2000px\">\u003ca href=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/10/241014-GREAT-REDWOOD-TRAIL-SA-05.jpg\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"wp-image-12009348 size-full\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/10/241014-GREAT-REDWOOD-TRAIL-SA-05.jpg\" alt=\"A rusted metal crane with a yellow tip in a grassy landscape.\" width=\"2000\" height=\"1500\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/10/241014-GREAT-REDWOOD-TRAIL-SA-05.jpg 2000w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/10/241014-GREAT-REDWOOD-TRAIL-SA-05-800x600.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/10/241014-GREAT-REDWOOD-TRAIL-SA-05-1020x765.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/10/241014-GREAT-REDWOOD-TRAIL-SA-05-160x120.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/10/241014-GREAT-REDWOOD-TRAIL-SA-05-1536x1152.jpg 1536w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/10/241014-GREAT-REDWOOD-TRAIL-SA-05-1920x1440.jpg 1920w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 2000px) 100vw, 2000px\">\u003c/a>\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Abandoned heavy machinery like this crane, found near Dos Rios in Mendocino, would have to be removed by the Great Redwood Trail Agency. \u003ccite>(Sam Anderson for KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>Since time immemorial, Indigenous tribes like the Wailaki, Lassik, Nongatl, and Sinkyone (collectively known as The Eel River Athapaskans) lived in hundreds of villages scattered along the banks of the Xa-Cho and its many tributaries. They cultivated thriving populations of salmon, steelhead, and Pacific lamprey. They also built dugout canoes from redwood trees, using them to travel up and down the river for commerce and ceremony.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>During the 1850s, these tribes were forcibly displaced by white colonizers and state militias, who massacred Indigenous people and razed villages along the Xa-Cho, which they re-named the Eel River (mistaking local lampreys for eels). This violence was funded and supported by the state and federal governments.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad fullwidth]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Colonizers engaged in gold mining and cattle ranching, then timber logging, which became the dominant economic engine of the region by the late 1800s.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_12009342\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 1500px\">\u003ca href=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/10/241014-GREAT-REDWOOD-TRAIL-AW-02.jpg\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"wp-image-12009342 size-full\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/10/241014-GREAT-REDWOOD-TRAIL-AW-02.jpg\" alt=\"A closeup of a railroad track in a forest landscape.\" width=\"1500\" height=\"2000\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/10/241014-GREAT-REDWOOD-TRAIL-AW-02.jpg 1500w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/10/241014-GREAT-REDWOOD-TRAIL-AW-02-800x1067.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/10/241014-GREAT-REDWOOD-TRAIL-AW-02-1020x1360.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/10/241014-GREAT-REDWOOD-TRAIL-AW-02-160x213.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/10/241014-GREAT-REDWOOD-TRAIL-AW-02-1152x1536.jpg 1152w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1500px) 100vw, 1500px\">\u003c/a>\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">The Great Redwood Trail would be built alongside the railroad tracks, allowing public access to some remote areas of Northern California for the first time. The train tracks would be preserved through rail-banking, which allows for future railroad use. \u003ccite>(Anthony Wells)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>To capitalize off of an increasingly productive lumber trade, a railroad was carved into the rugged landscape starting in 1905. The Northwestern Pacific traversed a wide variety of terrain, from rolling hills and plains to redwood forests to rocky northern coasts. However, the most difficult-to-build section of the railroad was a 75-mile stretch known as the Eel River Canyon. This steep-walled area is geologically unstable and prone to massive landslides and washouts. Despite the difficulty of the terrain, the railroad persevered, completing construction in 1915.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Ironically, the “golden spike ceremony” planned to celebrate the railroad’s completion was delayed by a landslide. And it wouldn’t be the last time natural forces disrupted this rail line.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“At many times, it was the most expensive line in the entire nation to maintain, just because of all the landslides,” explained Alicia Haman, executive director of the non-profit \u003ca href=\"https://eelriver.org/\">Friends of the Eel River\u003c/a>. “There were a lot of fatal incidents, with rail cars ending up in the river, and so it just became a huge burden.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Today, kayakers often navigate from the headwaters in Mendocino National Forest to the river’s end in Humboldt Bay. Along the way, they have to dodge twisted rail lines, collapsed culverts, and entire train cars submerged in the water.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But it’s not just boaters who are impacted by these hazards. According to Haman, this industrial waste is wreaking havoc on the environment, leaching toxic chemicals into the water and impacting fish habitat.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“There are lots and lots of small tributaries to the main stem that have been blocked off. The fish can’t get up there to access the habitat that exists,” she said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_12009343\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 2000px\">\u003ca href=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/10/241014-GREAT-REDWOOD-TRAIL-AW-03.jpg\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-12009343\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/10/241014-GREAT-REDWOOD-TRAIL-AW-03.jpg\" alt=\"A view of a train bridge and tunnel going into a mountain.\" width=\"2000\" height=\"1500\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/10/241014-GREAT-REDWOOD-TRAIL-AW-03.jpg 2000w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/10/241014-GREAT-REDWOOD-TRAIL-AW-03-800x600.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/10/241014-GREAT-REDWOOD-TRAIL-AW-03-1020x765.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/10/241014-GREAT-REDWOOD-TRAIL-AW-03-160x120.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/10/241014-GREAT-REDWOOD-TRAIL-AW-03-1536x1152.jpg 1536w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/10/241014-GREAT-REDWOOD-TRAIL-AW-03-1920x1440.jpg 1920w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 2000px) 100vw, 2000px\">\u003c/a>\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">A train bridge near the meeting point of Mendocino, Humboldt, and Trinity Counties. Train tunnels provide a challenge to the GRT because they are frequently filled with debris and have also become habitats for wild animals like bats, which the government would have to relocate. \u003ccite>(Anthony Wells)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>For these reasons, Haman’s organization supports the idea of building the Great Redwood Trail. That’s because the Great Redwood Trail Agency (GRTA), the government agency responsible for building the trail, would also be mandated to clean up the river.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Absent the trail project, much of this [debris] would never be cleaned up, and it would just stay here,” Haman said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The GRTA would also perform fish habitat remediation, which could increase salmon and steelhead trout populations, a priority for environmentalists, who have a \u003ca href=\"https://www.themomentum.com/story-a/indigenous-voices-sustaining-californias-past-and-future\">long legacy in the region\u003c/a> fighting to protect native fish, redwood trees, and other vulnerable natural resources.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Local Indigenous tribes have been at the center of many battles – past and present – to protect natural resources. And while cleaning up the Xa-Cho is a priority for the tribes with ancestral ties to the river, a serious debate is unfolding over whether a hiking trail is the best way to accomplish that goal.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“The tribal people are no longer in that area, or haven’t been in over 100 years, because we were herded like cattle out of that area for landowners, loggers, and miners,” said Michelle Merrifield, a Wailacki descendent and member of the Round Valley Indian Tribes.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_12009351\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 1500px\">\u003ca href=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/10/241014-GREAT-REDWOOD-TRAIL-SA-08.jpg\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-12009351\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/10/241014-GREAT-REDWOOD-TRAIL-SA-08.jpg\" alt=\"An indigenous woman wearing a turquoise shirt stands outside in nature.\" width=\"1500\" height=\"2000\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/10/241014-GREAT-REDWOOD-TRAIL-SA-08.jpg 1500w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/10/241014-GREAT-REDWOOD-TRAIL-SA-08-800x1067.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/10/241014-GREAT-REDWOOD-TRAIL-SA-08-1020x1360.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/10/241014-GREAT-REDWOOD-TRAIL-SA-08-160x213.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/10/241014-GREAT-REDWOOD-TRAIL-SA-08-1152x1536.jpg 1152w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1500px) 100vw, 1500px\">\u003c/a>\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Wailacki activist Michelle Merrifield stands at a viewpoint overlooking a remote stretch of the Eel River in Mendocino County. \u003ccite>(Sam Anderson for KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>Michelle is leading a \u003ca href=\"https://mendofever.com/2024/06/02/leave-the-wildyou-already-took-enough-land-native-voices-challenge-the-great-redwood-trail/\">coalition of Native people\u003c/a> to stop the Great Redwood Trail from being built. At the core of their argument is frustration over not having access to their ancestral lands for over 100 years.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Today, over 50% of the Xa-Cho or Eel River is privately owned, according to Friends of the Eel River. In the more remote Eel River Canyon, there are few sections of riverfront that are accessible to the public.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Throughout the Eel River watershed, there are hundreds of former Indigenous villages, burial grounds, and ceremonial sites. Many of them are located along the old Northwestern Pacific railroad tracks that have since become the GRT right-of-way.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>After the demise of the Northwestern Pacific, the land was acquired by the state, which at one point tried to maintain the railroad tracks but failed to do so. The idea of a rail trail gained momentum, and in 2022, the state began a process known as railbanking, by which railroad tracks and other key infrastructure were preserved for future use, but alternative uses – like a hiking trail – would be allowed in the interim.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In other words, if the GRT were to be built, there is no guarantee it would remain a trail forever because the land could revert back to railroad use in the future. However, public officials said this is highly unlikely due to the cost and risk associated with maintaining the Northwestern Pacific line.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_12009347\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 1500px\">\u003ca href=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/10/241014-GREAT-REDWOOD-TRAIL-SA-04.jpg\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"wp-image-12009347 size-full\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/10/241014-GREAT-REDWOOD-TRAIL-SA-04.jpg\" alt=\"An upward view of redwood trees in a forest.\" width=\"1500\" height=\"2000\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/10/241014-GREAT-REDWOOD-TRAIL-SA-04.jpg 1500w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/10/241014-GREAT-REDWOOD-TRAIL-SA-04-800x1067.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/10/241014-GREAT-REDWOOD-TRAIL-SA-04-1020x1360.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/10/241014-GREAT-REDWOOD-TRAIL-SA-04-160x213.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/10/241014-GREAT-REDWOOD-TRAIL-SA-04-1152x1536.jpg 1152w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1500px) 100vw, 1500px\">\u003c/a>\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Humboldt County is famous for its Redwood trees, many of which were cut down for lumber during the 20th century and transported via the Northwestern Pacific Railroad. \u003ccite>(Sam Anderson for KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>If built, the Great Redwood Trail would open up vast sections of the Xa-Cho or Eel River to the public for the first time. Indigenous cultural sites along the path could also be exposed to foot traffic. The GRTA said it will protect these sites with proper signage and interpretative sites, but tribal members said this does not go far enough to ensure that sensitive Native areas are protected from destruction and looting.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>GRT proponents imagine hikers, horseback riders, bicyclists, and others enjoying this land for the first time.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But for the Indigenous people who were forcibly displaced from their ancestral land after years of violent colonialism, prioritizing public access over tribal access resurfaces old wounds.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“There’s people that are feeling threatened by being plowed over by this force that’s plowed over us in the past,” said Perry Lincoln, Wailacki descendant and leader of the Kinesté Coalition, a Native community group. “Now, it’s kind of a different situation, but in one sense, it’s the same situation. The Great Redwood Trail… it’s not a good idea.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Speaking at a local community meeting where tribal members came together with property owners and government officials, Lincoln told the story of his grandfather, a Native leader named Lassik, who led a fierce resistance to colonial encroachment. Lassik was eventually killed by colonizers in the same area where the meeting was being held, a place the colonizers named Fort Seward.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Indigenous people have found common ground with white property owners, who are also wary of the impact the public trail will have on lands they have long controlled and kept private.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Community meetings organized around the Great Redwood Trail are facilitating some of the first face-to-face conversations between Native people and white landowners in decades.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Peggy Satterly is a local property owner whose parents bought a ranch along the Eel River over 80 years ago. She was visibly moved after hearing Perry Lincoln speak about the violent history of Fort Seward.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“I never thought of owning the land as pushing you off the land,” Satterly said. I’m bitter and protective of this land. As I know that you guys are, too. And I’ll do anything to help you to protect your sites and your places. The river is your river. It’s not my river.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Landowners said they are concerned about fire danger and littering, while Indigenous people emphasize the risk to important cultural areas that contain grave sites and priceless artifacts.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“We want people to work together,” Lincoln continued. “We don’t want there to be some division between native and non-native. Reviving our culture means land access. It means working with landowners that have a longstanding interest in the land.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>For its part, the GRTA said it is committed to speaking and working with Native tribes throughout the process of developing the trail.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In an email, executive director of the GRTA Elaine Hogan wrote, “Over the past 2+ years, we have been in contact with about 40 California Native American Tribes and tribal organizations (which includes ‘unrecognized’ tribes). That doesn’t just mean sending a letter or email, but following up via phone and in-person visits, presentations at tribal council meetings, and meetings with tribal government staff.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_12009349\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 2000px\">\u003ca href=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/10/241014-GREAT-REDWOOD-TRAIL-SA-06.jpg\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-12009349\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/10/241014-GREAT-REDWOOD-TRAIL-SA-06.jpg\" alt=\"A view of a river with large rocks around the grassy landscape.\" width=\"2000\" height=\"1500\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/10/241014-GREAT-REDWOOD-TRAIL-SA-06.jpg 2000w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/10/241014-GREAT-REDWOOD-TRAIL-SA-06-800x600.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/10/241014-GREAT-REDWOOD-TRAIL-SA-06-1020x765.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/10/241014-GREAT-REDWOOD-TRAIL-SA-06-160x120.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/10/241014-GREAT-REDWOOD-TRAIL-SA-06-1536x1152.jpg 1536w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/10/241014-GREAT-REDWOOD-TRAIL-SA-06-1920x1440.jpg 1920w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 2000px) 100vw, 2000px\">\u003c/a>\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">A view of the Eel River from Route 162 on the way to the Round Valley Reservation where Michelle Merrifield lives. \u003ccite>(Sam Anderson for KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>Michelle Merrifield, a Round Valley tribal member who is leading the opposition to the trail, disputes this.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“We’ve written some letters to the Great Redwood Trail back in November and December [2023], and we didn’t get any answers back,” she said. “We went to some meetings that the GRTA had in Ukiah and Eureka and were given three minutes to voice our opinion and comments on the trail. And to me, that’s not sufficient consultation with the public.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>While the Xa-Cho or Eel River Canyon is the most contentious segment of the trail, other segments have already been built or are presently under construction. Much of the GRT would involve constructing new trails, but other sections involve simply connecting pre-existing trails and paths. This includes sections of a paved multi-use trail in Ukiah, and the Humboldt Bay Trail between Eureka and Arcata.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The segment of trail that would traverse the Eel River Canyon is still several years away from construction, if it gets built at all.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>State Sen. Mike McGuire, a key supporter of the GRT, said that paved multi-use sections that could accommodate pedestrians, bicycles, and other uses could cost up to $900,000 per mile of trail, while more rugged backcountry sections would cost closer to around $300,000 per mile.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But even in remote, backcountry sections like the Eel River Canyon, infrastructure projects like parking lots, public restrooms, camping areas and day-use sites could potentially transform the landscape, along with the daily lives of those who live alongside the trail.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The \u003ca href=\"https://greatredwoodtrailplan.org/wp-content/uploads/2024/04/Great-Redwood-Trail-Draft-Master-Plan_Accessible-compressed.pdf\">Draft Master Plan\u003c/a> published by the GRTA claims the trail would generate $169,000 per day in revenue and that small towns and communities that have struggled due to the collapse of cannabis prices would benefit the most.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>On the Round Valley Reservation in Covelo, Michelle Merrifield reflected back on her experience touching that remote section of the Eel River for the first time.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad floatright]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“It was so breathtaking. It’s awesome. I would love to share that. But I just can’t trust people would treat it the way I would treat it. These trees are talking to us, the river is talking to us, the rocks are talking to us. Everything comes alive to me out there. And it sickens me that they’re going to have people just traipsing up and down there who are just hikers or thrill seekers.”\u003c/p>\n\n",
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"content": "\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>\u003cp>Standing at the banks of the North Fork Eel River in a remote section of Mendocino County, Michelle Merrifield dipped her feet into the cool, clear water. It may have been the first time an Indigenous person accessed this section of the river in over 150 years. This particular stretch of water has long been held privately by ranchers until it passed into the hands of \u003ca href=\"https://wildlandsconservancy.org/\">The Wildlands Conservancy\u003c/a>, a conservation group, in 2019.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Theresa’s ancestors called this river Xa-Cho. “That river is the blood pumping through Mother Earth to give it life,” she said. “And that’s in our DNA, that river. We are river people and salmon people. And that’s what we used to survive for generations.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Now, the state of California is laying the groundwork to build a 307-mile hiking trail that would run alongside this river. \u003ca href=\"https://thegreatredwoodtrail.org/\">The Great Redwood Trail \u003c/a>(GRT) would begin in Marin County and continue north through Sonoma, Mendocino, and Trinity counties, concluding in northern Humboldt County. It would follow the tracks of the now-defunct Northwestern Pacific Railroad, and if completed, it would become the longest rail trail in the nation. But the creation of the trail is unearthing painful memories for local Indigenous tribes who once called this land home.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_12009348\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 2000px\">\u003ca href=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/10/241014-GREAT-REDWOOD-TRAIL-SA-05.jpg\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"wp-image-12009348 size-full\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/10/241014-GREAT-REDWOOD-TRAIL-SA-05.jpg\" alt=\"A rusted metal crane with a yellow tip in a grassy landscape.\" width=\"2000\" height=\"1500\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/10/241014-GREAT-REDWOOD-TRAIL-SA-05.jpg 2000w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/10/241014-GREAT-REDWOOD-TRAIL-SA-05-800x600.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/10/241014-GREAT-REDWOOD-TRAIL-SA-05-1020x765.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/10/241014-GREAT-REDWOOD-TRAIL-SA-05-160x120.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/10/241014-GREAT-REDWOOD-TRAIL-SA-05-1536x1152.jpg 1536w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/10/241014-GREAT-REDWOOD-TRAIL-SA-05-1920x1440.jpg 1920w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 2000px) 100vw, 2000px\">\u003c/a>\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Abandoned heavy machinery like this crane, found near Dos Rios in Mendocino, would have to be removed by the Great Redwood Trail Agency. \u003ccite>(Sam Anderson for KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>Since time immemorial, Indigenous tribes like the Wailaki, Lassik, Nongatl, and Sinkyone (collectively known as The Eel River Athapaskans) lived in hundreds of villages scattered along the banks of the Xa-Cho and its many tributaries. They cultivated thriving populations of salmon, steelhead, and Pacific lamprey. They also built dugout canoes from redwood trees, using them to travel up and down the river for commerce and ceremony.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>During the 1850s, these tribes were forcibly displaced by white colonizers and state militias, who massacred Indigenous people and razed villages along the Xa-Cho, which they re-named the Eel River (mistaking local lampreys for eels). This violence was funded and supported by the state and federal governments.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\u003c/div>",
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"content": "\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Colonizers engaged in gold mining and cattle ranching, then timber logging, which became the dominant economic engine of the region by the late 1800s.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_12009342\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 1500px\">\u003ca href=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/10/241014-GREAT-REDWOOD-TRAIL-AW-02.jpg\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"wp-image-12009342 size-full\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/10/241014-GREAT-REDWOOD-TRAIL-AW-02.jpg\" alt=\"A closeup of a railroad track in a forest landscape.\" width=\"1500\" height=\"2000\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/10/241014-GREAT-REDWOOD-TRAIL-AW-02.jpg 1500w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/10/241014-GREAT-REDWOOD-TRAIL-AW-02-800x1067.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/10/241014-GREAT-REDWOOD-TRAIL-AW-02-1020x1360.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/10/241014-GREAT-REDWOOD-TRAIL-AW-02-160x213.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/10/241014-GREAT-REDWOOD-TRAIL-AW-02-1152x1536.jpg 1152w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1500px) 100vw, 1500px\">\u003c/a>\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">The Great Redwood Trail would be built alongside the railroad tracks, allowing public access to some remote areas of Northern California for the first time. The train tracks would be preserved through rail-banking, which allows for future railroad use. \u003ccite>(Anthony Wells)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>To capitalize off of an increasingly productive lumber trade, a railroad was carved into the rugged landscape starting in 1905. The Northwestern Pacific traversed a wide variety of terrain, from rolling hills and plains to redwood forests to rocky northern coasts. However, the most difficult-to-build section of the railroad was a 75-mile stretch known as the Eel River Canyon. This steep-walled area is geologically unstable and prone to massive landslides and washouts. Despite the difficulty of the terrain, the railroad persevered, completing construction in 1915.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Ironically, the “golden spike ceremony” planned to celebrate the railroad’s completion was delayed by a landslide. And it wouldn’t be the last time natural forces disrupted this rail line.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“At many times, it was the most expensive line in the entire nation to maintain, just because of all the landslides,” explained Alicia Haman, executive director of the non-profit \u003ca href=\"https://eelriver.org/\">Friends of the Eel River\u003c/a>. “There were a lot of fatal incidents, with rail cars ending up in the river, and so it just became a huge burden.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Today, kayakers often navigate from the headwaters in Mendocino National Forest to the river’s end in Humboldt Bay. Along the way, they have to dodge twisted rail lines, collapsed culverts, and entire train cars submerged in the water.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But it’s not just boaters who are impacted by these hazards. According to Haman, this industrial waste is wreaking havoc on the environment, leaching toxic chemicals into the water and impacting fish habitat.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“There are lots and lots of small tributaries to the main stem that have been blocked off. The fish can’t get up there to access the habitat that exists,” she said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_12009343\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 2000px\">\u003ca href=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/10/241014-GREAT-REDWOOD-TRAIL-AW-03.jpg\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-12009343\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/10/241014-GREAT-REDWOOD-TRAIL-AW-03.jpg\" alt=\"A view of a train bridge and tunnel going into a mountain.\" width=\"2000\" height=\"1500\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/10/241014-GREAT-REDWOOD-TRAIL-AW-03.jpg 2000w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/10/241014-GREAT-REDWOOD-TRAIL-AW-03-800x600.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/10/241014-GREAT-REDWOOD-TRAIL-AW-03-1020x765.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/10/241014-GREAT-REDWOOD-TRAIL-AW-03-160x120.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/10/241014-GREAT-REDWOOD-TRAIL-AW-03-1536x1152.jpg 1536w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/10/241014-GREAT-REDWOOD-TRAIL-AW-03-1920x1440.jpg 1920w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 2000px) 100vw, 2000px\">\u003c/a>\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">A train bridge near the meeting point of Mendocino, Humboldt, and Trinity Counties. Train tunnels provide a challenge to the GRT because they are frequently filled with debris and have also become habitats for wild animals like bats, which the government would have to relocate. \u003ccite>(Anthony Wells)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>For these reasons, Haman’s organization supports the idea of building the Great Redwood Trail. That’s because the Great Redwood Trail Agency (GRTA), the government agency responsible for building the trail, would also be mandated to clean up the river.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Absent the trail project, much of this [debris] would never be cleaned up, and it would just stay here,” Haman said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The GRTA would also perform fish habitat remediation, which could increase salmon and steelhead trout populations, a priority for environmentalists, who have a \u003ca href=\"https://www.themomentum.com/story-a/indigenous-voices-sustaining-californias-past-and-future\">long legacy in the region\u003c/a> fighting to protect native fish, redwood trees, and other vulnerable natural resources.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Local Indigenous tribes have been at the center of many battles – past and present – to protect natural resources. And while cleaning up the Xa-Cho is a priority for the tribes with ancestral ties to the river, a serious debate is unfolding over whether a hiking trail is the best way to accomplish that goal.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“The tribal people are no longer in that area, or haven’t been in over 100 years, because we were herded like cattle out of that area for landowners, loggers, and miners,” said Michelle Merrifield, a Wailacki descendent and member of the Round Valley Indian Tribes.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_12009351\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 1500px\">\u003ca href=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/10/241014-GREAT-REDWOOD-TRAIL-SA-08.jpg\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-12009351\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/10/241014-GREAT-REDWOOD-TRAIL-SA-08.jpg\" alt=\"An indigenous woman wearing a turquoise shirt stands outside in nature.\" width=\"1500\" height=\"2000\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/10/241014-GREAT-REDWOOD-TRAIL-SA-08.jpg 1500w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/10/241014-GREAT-REDWOOD-TRAIL-SA-08-800x1067.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/10/241014-GREAT-REDWOOD-TRAIL-SA-08-1020x1360.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/10/241014-GREAT-REDWOOD-TRAIL-SA-08-160x213.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/10/241014-GREAT-REDWOOD-TRAIL-SA-08-1152x1536.jpg 1152w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1500px) 100vw, 1500px\">\u003c/a>\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Wailacki activist Michelle Merrifield stands at a viewpoint overlooking a remote stretch of the Eel River in Mendocino County. \u003ccite>(Sam Anderson for KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>Michelle is leading a \u003ca href=\"https://mendofever.com/2024/06/02/leave-the-wildyou-already-took-enough-land-native-voices-challenge-the-great-redwood-trail/\">coalition of Native people\u003c/a> to stop the Great Redwood Trail from being built. At the core of their argument is frustration over not having access to their ancestral lands for over 100 years.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Today, over 50% of the Xa-Cho or Eel River is privately owned, according to Friends of the Eel River. In the more remote Eel River Canyon, there are few sections of riverfront that are accessible to the public.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Throughout the Eel River watershed, there are hundreds of former Indigenous villages, burial grounds, and ceremonial sites. Many of them are located along the old Northwestern Pacific railroad tracks that have since become the GRT right-of-way.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>After the demise of the Northwestern Pacific, the land was acquired by the state, which at one point tried to maintain the railroad tracks but failed to do so. The idea of a rail trail gained momentum, and in 2022, the state began a process known as railbanking, by which railroad tracks and other key infrastructure were preserved for future use, but alternative uses – like a hiking trail – would be allowed in the interim.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In other words, if the GRT were to be built, there is no guarantee it would remain a trail forever because the land could revert back to railroad use in the future. However, public officials said this is highly unlikely due to the cost and risk associated with maintaining the Northwestern Pacific line.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_12009347\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 1500px\">\u003ca href=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/10/241014-GREAT-REDWOOD-TRAIL-SA-04.jpg\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"wp-image-12009347 size-full\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/10/241014-GREAT-REDWOOD-TRAIL-SA-04.jpg\" alt=\"An upward view of redwood trees in a forest.\" width=\"1500\" height=\"2000\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/10/241014-GREAT-REDWOOD-TRAIL-SA-04.jpg 1500w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/10/241014-GREAT-REDWOOD-TRAIL-SA-04-800x1067.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/10/241014-GREAT-REDWOOD-TRAIL-SA-04-1020x1360.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/10/241014-GREAT-REDWOOD-TRAIL-SA-04-160x213.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/10/241014-GREAT-REDWOOD-TRAIL-SA-04-1152x1536.jpg 1152w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1500px) 100vw, 1500px\">\u003c/a>\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Humboldt County is famous for its Redwood trees, many of which were cut down for lumber during the 20th century and transported via the Northwestern Pacific Railroad. \u003ccite>(Sam Anderson for KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>If built, the Great Redwood Trail would open up vast sections of the Xa-Cho or Eel River to the public for the first time. Indigenous cultural sites along the path could also be exposed to foot traffic. The GRTA said it will protect these sites with proper signage and interpretative sites, but tribal members said this does not go far enough to ensure that sensitive Native areas are protected from destruction and looting.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>GRT proponents imagine hikers, horseback riders, bicyclists, and others enjoying this land for the first time.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But for the Indigenous people who were forcibly displaced from their ancestral land after years of violent colonialism, prioritizing public access over tribal access resurfaces old wounds.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“There’s people that are feeling threatened by being plowed over by this force that’s plowed over us in the past,” said Perry Lincoln, Wailacki descendant and leader of the Kinesté Coalition, a Native community group. “Now, it’s kind of a different situation, but in one sense, it’s the same situation. The Great Redwood Trail… it’s not a good idea.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Speaking at a local community meeting where tribal members came together with property owners and government officials, Lincoln told the story of his grandfather, a Native leader named Lassik, who led a fierce resistance to colonial encroachment. Lassik was eventually killed by colonizers in the same area where the meeting was being held, a place the colonizers named Fort Seward.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Indigenous people have found common ground with white property owners, who are also wary of the impact the public trail will have on lands they have long controlled and kept private.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Community meetings organized around the Great Redwood Trail are facilitating some of the first face-to-face conversations between Native people and white landowners in decades.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Peggy Satterly is a local property owner whose parents bought a ranch along the Eel River over 80 years ago. She was visibly moved after hearing Perry Lincoln speak about the violent history of Fort Seward.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“I never thought of owning the land as pushing you off the land,” Satterly said. I’m bitter and protective of this land. As I know that you guys are, too. And I’ll do anything to help you to protect your sites and your places. The river is your river. It’s not my river.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Landowners said they are concerned about fire danger and littering, while Indigenous people emphasize the risk to important cultural areas that contain grave sites and priceless artifacts.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“We want people to work together,” Lincoln continued. “We don’t want there to be some division between native and non-native. Reviving our culture means land access. It means working with landowners that have a longstanding interest in the land.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>For its part, the GRTA said it is committed to speaking and working with Native tribes throughout the process of developing the trail.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In an email, executive director of the GRTA Elaine Hogan wrote, “Over the past 2+ years, we have been in contact with about 40 California Native American Tribes and tribal organizations (which includes ‘unrecognized’ tribes). That doesn’t just mean sending a letter or email, but following up via phone and in-person visits, presentations at tribal council meetings, and meetings with tribal government staff.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_12009349\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 2000px\">\u003ca href=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/10/241014-GREAT-REDWOOD-TRAIL-SA-06.jpg\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-12009349\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/10/241014-GREAT-REDWOOD-TRAIL-SA-06.jpg\" alt=\"A view of a river with large rocks around the grassy landscape.\" width=\"2000\" height=\"1500\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/10/241014-GREAT-REDWOOD-TRAIL-SA-06.jpg 2000w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/10/241014-GREAT-REDWOOD-TRAIL-SA-06-800x600.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/10/241014-GREAT-REDWOOD-TRAIL-SA-06-1020x765.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/10/241014-GREAT-REDWOOD-TRAIL-SA-06-160x120.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/10/241014-GREAT-REDWOOD-TRAIL-SA-06-1536x1152.jpg 1536w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/10/241014-GREAT-REDWOOD-TRAIL-SA-06-1920x1440.jpg 1920w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 2000px) 100vw, 2000px\">\u003c/a>\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">A view of the Eel River from Route 162 on the way to the Round Valley Reservation where Michelle Merrifield lives. \u003ccite>(Sam Anderson for KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>Michelle Merrifield, a Round Valley tribal member who is leading the opposition to the trail, disputes this.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“We’ve written some letters to the Great Redwood Trail back in November and December [2023], and we didn’t get any answers back,” she said. “We went to some meetings that the GRTA had in Ukiah and Eureka and were given three minutes to voice our opinion and comments on the trail. And to me, that’s not sufficient consultation with the public.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>While the Xa-Cho or Eel River Canyon is the most contentious segment of the trail, other segments have already been built or are presently under construction. Much of the GRT would involve constructing new trails, but other sections involve simply connecting pre-existing trails and paths. This includes sections of a paved multi-use trail in Ukiah, and the Humboldt Bay Trail between Eureka and Arcata.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The segment of trail that would traverse the Eel River Canyon is still several years away from construction, if it gets built at all.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>State Sen. Mike McGuire, a key supporter of the GRT, said that paved multi-use sections that could accommodate pedestrians, bicycles, and other uses could cost up to $900,000 per mile of trail, while more rugged backcountry sections would cost closer to around $300,000 per mile.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But even in remote, backcountry sections like the Eel River Canyon, infrastructure projects like parking lots, public restrooms, camping areas and day-use sites could potentially transform the landscape, along with the daily lives of those who live alongside the trail.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The \u003ca href=\"https://greatredwoodtrailplan.org/wp-content/uploads/2024/04/Great-Redwood-Trail-Draft-Master-Plan_Accessible-compressed.pdf\">Draft Master Plan\u003c/a> published by the GRTA claims the trail would generate $169,000 per day in revenue and that small towns and communities that have struggled due to the collapse of cannabis prices would benefit the most.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>On the Round Valley Reservation in Covelo, Michelle Merrifield reflected back on her experience touching that remote section of the Eel River for the first time.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\u003c/div>",
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"content": "\u003cp>The federal government will soon protect more than 4,500 square miles of ocean off the Central California coast. The Biden administration is creating a new national marine sanctuary, which will be the third largest in the U.S.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The sanctuary is also the first to be led by Indigenous people. It was nominated by members of the Northern Chumash Tribe, \u003ca href=\"https://www.npr.org/2023/08/10/1192122040/chumash-tribe-california-marine-sanctuary\">\u003cu>who drove the effort for more than a decade\u003c/u>\u003c/a> to protect the rugged coastline that is their historical homeland.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Going forward, the new \u003ca href=\"https://sanctuaries.noaa.gov/chumash-heritage/\">\u003cu>Chumash Heritage National Marine Sanctuary\u003c/u>\u003c/a> will be managed in partnership with tribes and Indigenous groups in the area, who will advise the federal government. It marks a growing movement under the Biden administration to give tribes a say over the lands and waters that were taken from them.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“We’re still here, and so are the Indigenous people wherever you live,” says Violet Sage Walker, chairwoman of the Northern Chumash Tribal Council, who led the campaign for the sanctuary. “Being able to address climate change, use traditional ecological knowledge, and participate in co-management is Indigenous peoples’ contribution to saving the planet.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure class=\"wp-block-image size-large\">\u003cimg decoding=\"async\" src=\"https://npr.brightspotcdn.com/dims3/default/strip/false/crop/1000x563+0+0/resize/1200/quality/75/format/jpeg/?url=http%3A%2F%2Fnpr-brightspot.s3.amazonaws.com%2Ff1%2F6b%2F9ec7bc0b4453869e43ddd7e1adb4%2Funderwater2.gif\" alt=\"The Chumash Heritage National Marine Sanctuary will become the sixth off the West Coast, protecting a vibrant marine ecosystem.\">\u003cfigcaption>The Chumash Heritage National Marine Sanctuary will become the sixth off the West Coast, protecting a vibrant marine ecosystem. \u003ccite>(NOAA)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>The final sanctuary boundaries are \u003ca href=\"https://www.npr.org/2023/08/24/1195653011/biden-proposes-vast-new-marine-sanctuary-in-partnership-with-california-tribe\">\u003cu>smaller than originally proposed\u003c/u>\u003c/a> due to California’s burgeoning offshore wind industry. The National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA) says it plans to look at expanding the sanctuary in the future.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad fullwidth]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>National marine sanctuaries are similar to a national forest on land. The new sanctuary will be protected from oil and gas drilling, as well as undersea mining, while fishing is still permitted. It also means more public outreach and monitoring for environmental impacts, something NOAA says is vital to understanding how the ecosystem is being affected by climate change.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“People will protect what they love, and they won’t love it unless they understand it,” says Paul Michel, regional policy coordinator for NOAA’s West Coast Office of National Marine Sanctuaries. “One of our challenges is to share this incredible resource with people to encourage their advocacy and support for ocean conservation.”\u003c/p>\n\u003ch2>A vision for protection\u003c/h2>\n\u003cp>The new sanctuary is the \u003ca href=\"https://www.npr.org/2023/08/10/1192122040/chumash-tribe-california-marine-sanctuary\">\u003cu>fulfillment of a lifelong dream\u003c/u>\u003c/a> of Walker’s father, Fred Collins. He nominated the area to become a sanctuary in 2015 with NOAA. The proposal languished under the Trump administration, and Collins passed away several years later.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“That’s all my dad ever wanted, that people would know that we are the stewards of this land,” Walker says. “One of the last conversations we had in the hospital before he passed away, he says the sanctuary was one of the most important things he did and that he wanted me to finish it.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_12009358\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 1672px\">\u003ca href=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/10/Screenshot-2024-10-14-at-10.48.52%E2%80%AFAM.png\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-12009358\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/10/Screenshot-2024-10-14-at-10.48.52%E2%80%AFAM.png\" alt='A map with different regions highlighted in shades of blue with a title that reads \"New national marine sanctuary off the California coast.\"' width=\"1672\" height=\"1496\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/10/Screenshot-2024-10-14-at-10.48.52 AM.png 1672w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/10/Screenshot-2024-10-14-at-10.48.52 AM-800x716.png 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/10/Screenshot-2024-10-14-at-10.48.52 AM-1020x913.png 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/10/Screenshot-2024-10-14-at-10.48.52 AM-160x143.png 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/10/Screenshot-2024-10-14-at-10.48.52 AM-1536x1374.png 1536w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 1672px) 100vw, 1672px\">\u003c/a>\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Source: National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration \u003ccite>(Connie Hanzhang Jin/NPR)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>The new sanctuary is home to a diverse marine ecosystem, where dense kelp forests support a broad array of l,ife from sea otters to migrating whales. For Walker, the area is also home to many sacred sites dating back thousands of years, like the rocky cliffs known as Point Conception.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“It’s where we spiritually believe that all people leave this world into the next life,” she says. “They take their journey – whatever faith you are, whatever spirituality you have – and that area will be fully and forever protected. For my father, our ancestors, elders who have passed – I think they would be the most excited about that.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The Pacific Ocean has also been hit hard by climate change, like the massive marine heat wave \u003ca href=\"https://www.npr.org/2019/09/06/758042120/is-the-blob-back-latest-marine-heat-wave-could-pose-new-risks-to-sea-life\">\u003cu>known as “the Blob,”\u003c/u>\u003c/a> which dramatically altered the food web from 2014–16, affecting everything from \u003ca href=\"https://www.npr.org/2024/02/29/1234718984/humpback-whale-decline-pacific-climate-change\">\u003cu>the tiniest creatures to massive whales\u003c/u>\u003c/a>.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“The historic designation of the Chumash Heritage National Marine Sanctuary comes not a moment too soon,” says Congressman Salud Carbajal, who represents the area. “As our oceans and communities face unprecedented challenges from a changing marine environment, this new sanctuary comes at a critical time for our region.”\u003c/p>\n\u003ch2>Compromise with the wind industry\u003c/h2>\n\u003cp>In 2022, the federal government held the \u003ca href=\"https://www.doi.gov/pressreleases/biden-harris-administration-announces-winners-california-offshore-wind-energy-auction\">\u003cu>first offshore wind leases\u003c/u>\u003c/a> on the West Coast, opening the door for wind energy. The new floating turbines will be outside the sanctuary, but under the original sanctuary boundary, the undersea cables that bring power to shore would have been within it.[aside postID=\"news_11985188,news_11959107\" label=\"Related Stories\"]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>After negotiations, wind energy companies and tribal groups agreed to a smaller boundary for the sanctuary, with a \u003ca href=\"https://evenkeelwind.invenergy.com/news/northern-chumash-tribal-council-and-morro-bay-offshore-wind-leaseholders-announce-joint-support-for-marine-sanctuary\">\u003cu>phased approach to expand it\u003c/u>\u003c/a>. The current boundary leaves a corridor for wind energy infrastructure to be built. After that, NOAA has said it will begin the process of considering expanding the sanctuary to the original proposed size, something wind companies say they’ll support.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“We have a commitment to ensuring that infrastructure advances with consideration of the natural environment and species of concern and sensitive natural resources,” says Erin Lieberman, vice president of environmental compliance and strategy at Invenergy, one of the wind companies developing a project. “How we incorporate that into our project placement and our project design is a priority. 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It also means more public outreach and monitoring for environmental impacts, something NOAA says is vital to understanding how the ecosystem is being affected by climate change.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“People will protect what they love, and they won’t love it unless they understand it,” says Paul Michel, regional policy coordinator for NOAA’s West Coast Office of National Marine Sanctuaries. “One of our challenges is to share this incredible resource with people to encourage their advocacy and support for ocean conservation.”\u003c/p>\n\u003ch2>A vision for protection\u003c/h2>\n\u003cp>The new sanctuary is the \u003ca href=\"https://www.npr.org/2023/08/10/1192122040/chumash-tribe-california-marine-sanctuary\">\u003cu>fulfillment of a lifelong dream\u003c/u>\u003c/a> of Walker’s father, Fred Collins. He nominated the area to become a sanctuary in 2015 with NOAA. The proposal languished under the Trump administration, and Collins passed away several years later.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“That’s all my dad ever wanted, that people would know that we are the stewards of this land,” Walker says. “One of the last conversations we had in the hospital before he passed away, he says the sanctuary was one of the most important things he did and that he wanted me to finish it.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_12009358\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 1672px\">\u003ca href=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/10/Screenshot-2024-10-14-at-10.48.52%E2%80%AFAM.png\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-12009358\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/10/Screenshot-2024-10-14-at-10.48.52%E2%80%AFAM.png\" alt='A map with different regions highlighted in shades of blue with a title that reads \"New national marine sanctuary off the California coast.\"' width=\"1672\" height=\"1496\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/10/Screenshot-2024-10-14-at-10.48.52 AM.png 1672w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/10/Screenshot-2024-10-14-at-10.48.52 AM-800x716.png 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/10/Screenshot-2024-10-14-at-10.48.52 AM-1020x913.png 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/10/Screenshot-2024-10-14-at-10.48.52 AM-160x143.png 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/10/Screenshot-2024-10-14-at-10.48.52 AM-1536x1374.png 1536w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 1672px) 100vw, 1672px\">\u003c/a>\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Source: National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration \u003ccite>(Connie Hanzhang Jin/NPR)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>The new sanctuary is home to a diverse marine ecosystem, where dense kelp forests support a broad array of l,ife from sea otters to migrating whales. For Walker, the area is also home to many sacred sites dating back thousands of years, like the rocky cliffs known as Point Conception.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“It’s where we spiritually believe that all people leave this world into the next life,” she says. “They take their journey – whatever faith you are, whatever spirituality you have – and that area will be fully and forever protected. For my father, our ancestors, elders who have passed – I think they would be the most excited about that.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The Pacific Ocean has also been hit hard by climate change, like the massive marine heat wave \u003ca href=\"https://www.npr.org/2019/09/06/758042120/is-the-blob-back-latest-marine-heat-wave-could-pose-new-risks-to-sea-life\">\u003cu>known as “the Blob,”\u003c/u>\u003c/a> which dramatically altered the food web from 2014–16, affecting everything from \u003ca href=\"https://www.npr.org/2024/02/29/1234718984/humpback-whale-decline-pacific-climate-change\">\u003cu>the tiniest creatures to massive whales\u003c/u>\u003c/a>.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“The historic designation of the Chumash Heritage National Marine Sanctuary comes not a moment too soon,” says Congressman Salud Carbajal, who represents the area. “As our oceans and communities face unprecedented challenges from a changing marine environment, this new sanctuary comes at a critical time for our region.”\u003c/p>\n\u003ch2>Compromise with the wind industry\u003c/h2>\n\u003cp>In 2022, the federal government held the \u003ca href=\"https://www.doi.gov/pressreleases/biden-harris-administration-announces-winners-california-offshore-wind-energy-auction\">\u003cu>first offshore wind leases\u003c/u>\u003c/a> on the West Coast, opening the door for wind energy. The new floating turbines will be outside the sanctuary, but under the original sanctuary boundary, the undersea cables that bring power to shore would have been within it.\u003c/p>\u003c/div>",
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