The Yurok Tribe is a few steps closer to completing its mission to bring fast-speed internet to the reservation after the California Public Utilities Commission (CPUC) approved a settlement requiring the Frontier Communications Corporation to pay $500,000 for reimbursement losses for service failures and to invest $5 million in the Yurok Tribe’s effort to build internet […]
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Prey-go-neesh One Step Closer to Soaring in Humboldt Skies
After nearly a century, California condors will soon once again soar over Yurok ancestral lands, the culmination of years of work by the tribe on behalf of the bird Yurok people know as prey-go-neesh. Nearly lost to extinction in the 1980s, condors are integrally connected to the Yurok Tribe and others in the region, where […]
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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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Yurok Broadband Project Connects Reservation’s Most Remote Areas to High-Speed Internet
The Yurok Connect Broadband Project team finished installing a new 150-foot tower in Wautec yesterday, linking one of the remote parts of the Yurok Reservation to high-speed internet. “Access to high-speed internet will significantly improve the everyday lives of Yurok citizens and non-Indian reservation residents,” said Yurok Tribal Chair Joseph L. James. “This project will facilitate progress […]
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Native American Curriculum Aims to Bring Culturally Informed Education and Representation to Humboldt County High Schools
Save California Salmon, along with the Blue Lake Rancheria, the Yurok Tribe’s Visitor Center, Klamath-Trinity Joint Unified School District’s Indian Education Program, Humboldt State University’s Native American Studies Department and the Hoopa High School Water Protector’s club created a curriculum that meets California standards and responds to the state’s “urgent water, climate and educational crises” and […]
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Local Tribes Support AG’s Effort to Continue CWS Monitoring
Four local tribes have announced they are “vigorously supporting” an effort by California Attorney General Xavier Becerra to extend third-party monitoring and other provisions of a 2018 court ruling that found the Humboldt County Sheriff’s Office and Department of Health and Human Services were not in compliance with the California Child Abuse and Neglect Reporting Act. In […]
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Yurok Tribe Purchases 40-Acre Land for Food Security Farm
With the help of the Coronavirus Aid, Relief and Economic Security Act funding, the Yurok Tribe has purchased 40-acres of agricultural land to create a food security farm filled with healthy fruits and vegetables. “The COVID-19 crisis illuminated a very real potential for food shortages in our rural region. We purchased this property to make the […]
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Yurok Tribe and Huffman Celebrate Biden’s Nomination of New Mexico Rep. Deb Haaland to Secretary of Interior
The Yurok Tribe and local officials have been applauding president-elect Joe Biden’s nomination of Rep. Deb Haaland, who is native to the Pueblo of Laguna Tribe in New Mexico, to serve as Secretary of Interior. If Haaland is confirmed, she would become the first Native American Cabinet secretary and the first to oversee the interior […]
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Two More Test Positive for COVID-19 on the Yurok Reservation
The Yurok Office of Emergency Services announced today that two more Yurok Reservation residents have tested positive for COVID-19, bringing the total case count to five. According to a press release, the new cases involve residents who live on the east side of the reservation. The release states the Yurok Office of Emergency Services staff, in collaboration […]
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NCJ Preview: Rules of the Purple Tier and Camping in Eureka, and Yurok Food Sovereignty
Linda Stansberry breaks down the Eureka City Council’s vote on camping and its impact on Eureka’s homeless population. We’ll also review what is and isn’t allowed in the state’s purple “widespread” risk tier for COVID-19, where Humboldt County now finds itself. And we’ll look at how the Yurok Agricultural Corp. is trying to help those […]
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Yurok Tribe Strikes ‘Unparalleled Partnership’ to Distribute Beer to SoCal Casino
The Yurok Tribe has struck a deal that it is casting as revitalizing a pre-colonization trade system adapted for the 21st century. Under the deal, the tribe’s Mad River Brewing Co. — one of the first tribally owned breweries in the country — will distribute its beer to the San Manuel Band of Mission Indians’ […]
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Yurok Tribe Certifies Election Results, Readies to Welcome New Board Member
The Yurok Tribe certified its runoff election results today, with incumbent Weitchpec District Council Member Toby Vanlandingham retaining his seat and challenger Phillip Williams claiming a seat representing the board’s North District. The new council members will be sworn into office at 11 a.m. Nov. 30 in a ceremony that will be live streamed on […]