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As the cost of imported seed beads climbs, Indigenous beadworkers in Montana say the tradition — and the livelihood — won’t be abandoned.
Attebery is chairman of the Karuk Tribe and James is chairman of the Yurok Tribe. Last year, we watched as the last of four dams were removed from the Klamath River in a historic endeavor. Karuk ...
More than 80 percent of the Karuk Tribe’s cultural and medicinal plants are reliant on fire, according to a report, “Good Fire II,” co-authored by Tripp that was released by the Northern ...
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 Tribe of northern California recently became the first to reach an agreement with the California Natural Resources Agency and local air quality officials to practise cultural burns.
Karuk member Leaf Hillman stands for a portrait above the now-drained Iron Gate Reservoir on the Klamath River on Feb. 27, 2024, in Hornbrook, California. Brian van der Brug, Los Angeles Times via TNS ...
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 ...
It's the first Karuk dugout canoe to be launched in Karuk waters in decades. ... The effort was a vision of Grant Gilkison, a Karuk Tribe member from Orleans, who died in August 2020.
The Karuk Tribe, along with the Yurok Tribe and USGS, are conducting the water-quality monitoring required by the “Section 401” certification that was needed for the dam removal.
CORVALLIS, Ore. (KTVZ) – Oregon State University researchers have teamed with the Karuk Tribe of Northern California to create a novel computer simulation model that showcases Indigenous fire ...
Oregon State University researchers have teamed with the Karuk Tribe to create a novel computer simulation model that showcases Indigenous fire stewardship’s role in forest ecosystem health.