At the mouth of the Klamath where the river jets cool, fresh water into the Pacific Ocean, several carved wooden salmon were dipped into the waters and ceremoniously blessed before beginning their symbolic journey upriver, carried with prayer by runners on foot. Runners passed the carved salmon batons for more than three days and 350 […]
Allie Hostler
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The Hoopa Valley Versus the Digital Divide
This summer, the mountains moved in the Hoopa Valley. As a wildfire burned through trees and vegetation, a thunderstorm dropped 2 inches of rain in one day. The result was catastrophic. The rain, coupled with the unstable burned ground, caused the mountainsides along the Klamath, Trinity and Salmon rivers to collapse. “Our community was freaking […]
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Red Hot Chili Peppers Heat up Warrior Dome
Hoopa Gets the Rock Show of a Lifetime and Everyone has a Front Row Seat They made it. And they rocked it. Driving into Hoopa Valley on a clear and unseasonably warm morning on Wednesday, October 12, things seemed normal. If you stopped at the overlook on Highway 96 and glanced down at the town, […]
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Red Hot Chili Peppers Interrupt Tour to Play Free Closed Concert in Hoopa
*Editor’s Note: This is a closed community event. To limit potential safety hazards, those without a pass are asked to refrain from visiting the location. If your chili pepper harvest wasn’t quite what you hoped for this year, don’t worry, a bumper crop is about to come in, and they are red hot! Rumors that […]
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Hoopa’s Long Wait for a Grocery Store is Over
On Monday, semi-trucks lined up outside of the new Hoopa Shopping Center waiting to unload pallets of groceries. Inside, more than a dozen new employees swiftly stocked shelves, learned how to use the cash registers, practiced frying chicken and worked in their respective sections of the store. The sounds of drills and hammers echoed as […]
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Slim Pickins’
By the U.S. Department of Agriculture’s definition, Hoopa was a food desert long before its only full grocery store packed up and left town in June of 2016. That month, Ray’s Food Place, the only store serving a 40-mile radius in the Klamath-Trinity region, permanently closed its doors due to a rodent infestation and subsequent […]
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Power, Prayer and Politics
Screams of victory erupted on Sunday afternoon at Oceti Sakowin Camp near Cannon Ball, North Dakota, after the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers announced it will not grant an easement for the Dakota Access Pipeline to be constructed under Lake Oahe on the Missouri River. Although thousands of self-described “water protectors” from around the world […]
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We Travel in a Spiritual Way
Some things are sacred. For the Standing Rock Sioux and the more than 250 tribes who joined them in Cannon Ball, North Dakota, water is sacred. This deep reverence for water is shared by members of the Hoopa, Yurok and Karuk tribes, who have each fought their own decades-long battles to ensure enough clean water […]