The Yurok Tribe is mourning the death of longtime Tribal Councilmember Bonnie Green, who died Saturday. Green served six terms representing the tribe’s south district on the council, and another as vice chair, and was intimately involved in a host of tribal issues, including battles over fishing rights, management of tribal forest lands and healthcare […]
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Get the Lead Out! (Bullet Exchange Tonight)
If you hunt and you still use lead bullets – well, we get it. Lead, as Yurok Tribe biologist Mike Palermo tells the Times-Standard today, is “very dense and very malleable … [t]hat’s what makes it a fantastic projectile. When it hits a deer, it expands and mushrooms out.” But you really should switch to non-lead […]
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Update: Let the Trinity Flow, Judge Rules
Update: Both the Yurok Tribe and the San Luis & Delta-Mendota Water Authority — one of the agencies that sued to prevent the release — released statements following the judge’s decision. They can be read below. Trinity River water will flow. The Fresno judge who issued a restraining order on extra releases from the Trinity […]
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Klamath Salmon Fest
If there’s one thing we don’t have a shortage of in HumCo, it’s festivals dedicated to fish (I’m counting bivalves as fish in this instance). No complaints, of course; fish is delicious and festivals are fun! This weekend, Saturday, Aug. 17, is the 51st annual Yurok Tribe’s Klamath Salmon Festival, and deliciously cooked salmon is […]
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The Passing Of An Elder
The Del Norte Triplicate writes that Ada Charles, who was born Dec. 17, 1909, has died. She was the oldest member of the Yurok Tribe, and for the past several years her birthdays have made the news. A 2010 Times-Standard announcement of her 101st birthday celebration in Klamath, to which the community was invited, noted: […]
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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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Cannery Dreams in Weitchpec
A Yurok family plans to build a cannery in Weitchpec, near the confluence of the Klamath and Trinity rivers, and has been accepting pledges at Kickstarter to get the venture going. Tom and Morneen Willson, who own Spey-gee Point Resort and Guide Services, co-founded The Source Food Company late last year with Billee Willson, who […]