The Hoopa Valley Tribe was recently awarded a $4.5 million grant for the removal of barred owls from local forests as part of an ongoing effort to stave off the extinction of the native northern spotted owl by killing their invasive cousins. The funding comes from the America the Beautiful Challenge program launched by President […]
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Hoopa Tribal Chair Calls for Federal Involvement in Police Shooting Investigation
Hoopa Valley Tribal Chair Joe Davis has asked that the Bureau of Indian Affairs Office of Justice Services be involved in the ongoing investigation into a California Highway Patrol officer’s fatal shooting of a tribal member last month. “Our federal partners are still gathering information,” Davis wrote in an email to the Journal. “They have […]
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Carrying the Fire
Patrick and Audrey Ramer were planning to get a water truck, not a food truck. They would sell their home in Sacramento and return to Humboldt to work fire seasons from Hoopa, where Audrey was born and raised on the Hoopa Valley Reservation. But when Patrick, who grew up in Eureka, went ahead to start […]
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No California Salmon: Fishery to be Shut Down This Year
Most summer mornings at first light, Jared Davis is a few miles west of the Golden Gate Bridge, motoring his charter fishing boat Salty Lady over the Pacific Ocean. His eyes sweep the horizon, looking for diving birds, but mostly he watches the screen of his dashboard fish-finder for schools of anchovies — a sure […]
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Yurok Tribal Chair to Address Legislature on MMIWG Epidemic
With the National Day of Awareness for Missing and Murdered Indigenous Persons approaching Thursday, a Jeans for Justice event was held Friday in Hoopa, kicking off a week of events on the North Coast. Awareness of a Missing and Murdered Indigenous Peoples epidemic has spread since 2020, when the Sovereign Bodies Institute released a groundbreaking […]
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Hoopa Tribe Awarded $5 Million Beautification Grant
The Hoopa Valley Tribe has been awarded $5 million from the state’s Clean California initiative, the largest amount available under the Caltrans-led program that grants funding to beautify public spaces. According to a news release, the money will go toward makeovers in four separate areas owned by the Hoopa Tribe — Pookey’s Park, the Hoopa Rodeo […]
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Hoopa and Karuk Tribes Get Millions in Affordable Housing Grants
The U.S. Department of Housing and Urban Development has granted more than $90 million to 24 Native American Tribes and Tribally Designated Housing Entities (TDHEs) across the nation, including the North Coast’s Hoopa and Karuk tribes, to support new housing construction, housing rehabilitation and critical infrastructure projects. The Hoopa Valley Tribe received $5 million, while the Karuk Tribe […]
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Klamath River Tribes Open Mass Vaccination Site to All Residents, Including Non-Tribal Members
The Hoopa Valley Tribe, with assistance from the Yurok and Karuk Tribes, are leading an inter-tribal effort to vaccinate all Klamath-Trinity community members 18 years old and older, including non-tribal members, on March 27. The Hoopa Valley Tribe’s K’ima:w Medical Center has enough vaccine supply for all residents in the inland ancestral lands of Hoopa, […]
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State Awards $8.6 Million for Hoopa Broadband Project
The California Public Utilities Commission has approved an $8.6 million grant application that will bring high-speed broadband internet service to the Hoopa Valley. “The beautiful and rural Hoopa Valley Indian Reservation has needed technological upgrades for decades,” Tribal Chair Byron Nelson Jr. said in a press release. “As Chairman, I thank the CPUC for helping […]
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Hoopa Confirms No New COVID-19 Cases
The Hoopa Valley Tribal Office of Emergency Services announced there are no new COVID-19 cases today. The total number of cases in Hoopa remains at 44 cases since the last report with 18 active cases, 26 recoveries and no deaths.
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Hoopa Reports One New COVID-19 Case Today
The Hoopa Valley Tribal Office of Emergency Services COVID-19 Incident Management Team announced one new case of COVID-19 reported today through the K’ima:w Medical Center. To date there are 42 total confirmed cases in Hoopa, of which 24 are active with 18 recoveries and zero deaths. The results from the K’ima:w Medical Center are included in Humboldt […]
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Hoopa Valley Tribe Files Lawsuit to Block Contract with Central Valley Agribusiness
The Hoopa Valley Tribe has filed a federal lawsuit to block the U.S. Department of Interior from signing a water delivery contract with an agribusiness in the Central Valley, an agreement which would divert water out of the Trinity River basin 400 miles away. “The Hupa people have a long history of fighting to protect […]