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With dams removed from the Klamath River, a group of Indigenous youth is on a journey to descend the full length, through ...
She said the heart of the Karuk Fire Resiliency Center is to build up these trainings. They’ll host people from Cal Fire, the U.S. Forest Service, tribal and non tribal people and even those ...
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 ...
Start the day smarter. Get all the news you need in your inbox each morning. Leaf and Lisa Hillman, longtime fish protectors from the Karuk Tribe, called the end of the dams a healing of ...
The Karuk tribe is based in Happy Camp, about 1½ hour’s drive from Yreka through the Klamath National Forest, and provides services to 3,700 enrolled members and an estimated 4,000 descendants ...
Karuk Tribe signs historic agreement with California to remove barriers to use of ‘good fire’ in land stewardship. ... Karuk people would still work secretly to put fire to land.
When a Girl’s First Period Calls for Celebration, Not Stigma When a Girl’s First Period Calls for Celebration, Not Stigma In “Long Line of Ladies,” the Karuk people celebrate a girl’s ...
Tripp and the Karuk people know well the consequences when tribes are barred from traditional stewardship. In 2020, the tribe lost half the town of Happy Camp to the Slater Fire, including all its ...
Hockaday, the Karuk tribal councilman, said Scala’s choice represented another example of whites taking resources from struggling native people. “They’re saying we’re taking their water ...
Leaf and Lisa Hillman, longtime fish protectors from the Karuk Tribe, called the end of the dams a healing of communities from top to bottom. "It's the removal of these artificial barriers that ...
The following month, the fast-moving McKinney fire — which killed four people — destroyed a building that housed Karuk tribal archives and resulted in a massive die-off of fish in the Klamath ...
Last week, state legislators announced they’d secured $10,000,000 for the Karuk Tribe to build a center to host cultural and prescribed fire trainings in rural northeast Humboldt County.