An Oregon tribe based near North Bend wants to build a casino in Medford roughly 160 miles away. Other tribes, including the Karuk Tribe, with ancestral homelands in Humboldt and Siskiyou counties ...

She also learned firsthand that it’s OK if one’s first basket looks more like a bird’s nest. The experience has had a lasting effect on Smith, an enrolled descendant of the Karuk tribe who is a new ...

The Karuk understand well what can happen when Indigenous peoples are barred from their traditional practices. The tribe lost 150 homes, including its elder housing complex, and two people lost ...

Members of the Karuk Tribe lost homes when the Slater fire burned hundreds of properties in Siskiyou County in 2020. ... basket makers would gather basket making materials, ...

It's for plants, basket materials, medicine, food. It's to be able to open a forest up like this so you can see for miles. ... We sat down with people from the Hupa, the Karuk, and the Yurok tribe.

Last week, state legislators announced they’d secured $10 million for the Karuk Tribe to build a center to host cultural and prescribed fire trainings in rural northeast Humboldt County. The ...

The Karuk Tribe estimates that, conservatively, its more than 120 villages would complete at least 7,000 burns each year before contact with European settlers. Some may have been as small as an ...

The Karuk Tribe estimates that, conservatively, its more than 120 villages would complete at least 7,000 burns each year before contact with European settlers. Some may have been as small as an ...

The Karuk Tribe in northern California has traditionally managed plants for food, fiber, and medicine, but decades of fire suppression and climate change are threatening culturally important species.

Karuk Tribe member Jesse Coon Goodwin, top, takes a break from cleaning salmon as his 5-year-old son, Eric Goodwin, center, watches the process done by fellow Karuk.