The Yurok Tribe’s special election closed yesterday evening and the unofficial results are in: There will be a new casino in Klamath. Yurok Tribe members voted 61 percent to 39 percent in favor of a proposal by the tribal council to take $9.6 million of a $27.5 million settlement from the United States government and […]
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Speaking Yurok in the LAT
The Los Angeles Times writes about a new Yurok language program at Eureka High School, launched last fall, making EH “the fifth and largest school in Northern California to launch a Yurok-language program” and “marking the latest victory in a Native American language revitalization program widely lauded as the most successful in the state.” The […]
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Hoopa Cash
The post office and banks in the Hoopa Valley were inundated today as Hoopa Valley tribal members lined up to get their mail and then deposit their fresh-cut $10,000 checks. Outside the post office, the Hoopa Tribal Police posted a guard to keep things orderly. The checks are part of a $49.2 million settlement reached […]
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Painting Into The Night
They started in the daytime and painted into the night, light flickering from a campfire merging with spotlights to show their handiwork. And the scene emerging on the large canvas was no surprise: an expression, oft repeated, of the keenest desire of many in our region, including members of local tribes, to see the Klamath […]
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Quit It, Idiots
The Two Rivers Tribune reported recently that certain rock-headed word wags have been sneaking onto the broad river bar that swings into the Trinity River outside of Hoopa and rearranging the “Fish On” that for years has been spelled out in large rocks there. Yes, they’re making cute little cuss words. Notes the TRT: The […]
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Addiction Tales From Hoopa
If you haven’t been over to the Two Rivers Tribune website lately, you’re missing out on a powerful collaboration between TRT editor/writer Allie Hostler and New America Media reporter Jacob Simas. In writing and on film, Hostler and Simas take a nuanced, poignant and tough look at addiction, especially to meth, in Hoopa country, from […]
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A Hupa Renaissance
A story in today’s Sacramento Bee (originally published in the Contra-Costa Times) profiles the efforts to rescue the Hupa language from extinction. Native Hoopa resident Kayla Carpenter, 22, is a doctoral student studying linguistics at UC Berkeley. She tells reporter Matt Krupnick that she and her colleagues are “using education as a tool, rather than having […]
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Yurok Tribe Doubles Land Base
The Yurok Tribe’s land base, long confined to a narrow strip to either side of the lower Klamath River, will more than double in size now with a just-completed acquisition of 22,237 acres from Green Diamond Resource Company. The tribe announced the acquisition in a news release this afternoon, noting that it will allow for […]
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Native American Sovereignty FTW
Spotted today in an Old Town Eureka parking lot: A Toyota 4Runner with a license plate issued by the Turtle Mountain Band of Chippewa Indians. I knew that some Native American nations issue passports. I remember the showdown earlier this year when the U.K. shamefully refused to let members of the Iroquois National lacrosse team […]
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Pennisi Tree-Trimmer: ‘I Did The Job I Was Hired To Do’
Tom Head, owner of Coastal Tree Service, called into the Journal this morning to give his side of the illegal clearcut that happened last month on the Trinidad Bluffs, at the top corner of the city-owned archaeological site known as Tsurai Village and directly beneath the home of Trinidad Planning Commissioner Sam Pennisi and his […]
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Scenes From Tribes’ MLPA Protest
Big rigs, many of them empty log trucks, blared support as they passed the 25 or so protesters, most from local tribes, gathered on both sides of Highway 101 Tuesday afternoon in front of the Red Lion Hotel in Eureka. Inside the Red Lion, the California Marine Life Protection Act Initiative Master Plan Science Advisory […]
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Not Teepees!
One of the locally relevant Census ads that TRT staff helped create created Apparently, those folks flacking for the U.S. Census just think “teepee” when they think “Indian” and, as a result, their attempts to pull in Native Americans for the 2010 count instead repelled some members of the Hoopa Valley Tribe. As the Two […]