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.

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.

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 ...