Knowing your ingredients goes further than familiarity, says Crystal Wahpepah. The Three Sisters Cake she’s teaching Cal Poly Humboldt students to bake in the stainless-steel kitchen of the Rou Dalagurr Food Sovereignty Lab today makes a solid example. The Three Sisters, as the North American Indigenous staples corn, beans and squash are called, are all […]
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Signs of Soulatluk Revival
As you look out over the water along Eureka’s boardwalk at the foot of F Street, a small placard at your elbow might catch your eye, reading “DA’GURR, Known in English as Sea Otter,” above the illustration of a mustachioed specimen drifting on his back and waving a paw. Just a few inches below its […]
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‘Our Food is Our Medicine’
Marion Frye is cutting sea anemones, or sa’roh, gelatinous looking fists pulled from rocks at low tide. She’s let them rest a couple days in water so they won’t sting her hands. “Yeah, ‘horse’s ass,’” she says with a chuckle, explaining the nickname of the creatures whose flowery tendrils retract when touched. She cuts into […]
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The Reluctantly Famous Shoshoni Hostler
When Yurok Native Shoshoni Hostler began beading as a hobby years ago, she never dreamed it would lead to museum exhibits and Hollywood actresses wearing her designs. She works as suicide program manager and associate marriage and family therapist for the Yurok tribe, but her artistic career has continued to grow — albeit somewhat accidentally. […]
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Full Circle Journey
“I will never lose the sense that I’m not separate,” says Robert Benson. In an Oct. 10 talk about his exhibition at Cal Poly Humboldt’s Goudi’ni Gallery, he described his intimate relationship with the environment and all its elements, explaining how his relationship to the land, his sense of un-separateness informs his art. Benson’s exhibition […]
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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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NCJ Preview: Settler Cannabis, Supes Pony Up for Fair and Free Lunch
We’re talking about an excerpt from a Cal Poly Humboldt Native American Studies professor’s book and what it says about the Green Rush, the supes’ move to save the fair and Jefferson Community Center, which is feeding kids through a collaborative mentorship project. Hit subscribe for weekly updates on Humboldt stories.
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Miss Indian World Tori McConnell’s Song of Gratitude
On April 29, 23-year-old Tori McConnell of the Yurok Tribe and Karuk heritage, won the beaded crown of Miss Indian World 2023 at the Gathering of Nations Pow Wow in Albuquerque, New Mexico. Born and raised in Eureka, McConnell studied neurobiology at University of California at Davis before switching to a Native American studies major […]
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Miss Indian World Tori McConnell’s Song of Gratitude
On April 29, 23-year-old Tori McConnell of the Yurok Tribe and Karuk heritage, won the beaded crown of Miss Indian World 2023 at the Gathering of Nations Pow Wow in Albuquerque, New Mexico. Born and raised in Eureka, McConnell studied neurobiology at University of California at Davis before switching to a Native American studies major […]
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NCJ Preview: Transparency, a Hostage Released, Indigenous Boats and More
Celebrate Sunshine Week with us (despite the rain) by reading this year’s Foilies, highlighting the worst in government transparency across the nation. Also worth celebrating is the release of McKinley man Jeff Woodke, who’d been held hostage in West Africa for six years. We’ll also touch on some turnover at the Humboldt County Fair Association, […]
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Intertribal Project Celebrates Traditional Boat Building
Marc Daniels-Aygagnax had a dream to build a nigilax, the traditional open skin boat of the Unangax (Aleut) people. In 2014, he founded the immersive MakeAccess Iqyax Apprenticeships with his wife, Leah, teaching Native youth traditional boat-building. He had built single- and double-hulled kayaks, but the nigilax was different. Knowledge of how to build it […]
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NCJ Preview: Abortion Access, Native Foodways for Youth
This week, for our Health and Wellness issue, we’re talking about local barriers to abortion access, despite legal rights. Funding, transportation, Catholic-run hospitals and can make it difficult to make reproductive choices here in Humboldt. We’ll also look back at the tragedies of deadly illegal abortions through Humboldt’s history. We’re also checking out how a […]