James ‘Little Man’ Wright disappeared in 1988 at just 19 years old. This week, the Shasta County Sheriff's Office identified his remains, allowing his family and Tribal community to arrange for a dignified burial.
In a celebration of Native culture and community, the Redding Rancheria’s seventh annual Big Time featured three-days of traditional dance performances, music, and Indigenous vendors. Eighteen different tribes across California gathered for the celebration.
May 5 is Missing and Murdered Indigenous Peoples Day. Yesterday, members of the Pit River Tribe and Redding Rancheria organized prayer walks in Burney and Redding to raise awareness for the systemic crisis.
A Shasta County man currently incarcerated at a state prison in Soledad recently organized a speaking event in which survivors talked to inmates about how violence has impacted their lives. The event was held as part of National Crime Victims’ Rights Week.
Newsom promised to help a Native tribe restore sacred salmon to their ancestral river. Now California is ending the funding. The fish made it back to their ancestral waters for the first time in 80 years — so why is California walking away now?
A state commission’s proposal to remove Wintu and other federally non-recognized tribes from a consultation contact list would leave cultural sites vulnerable to destruction, tribal members say, and represents a form of unconstitutional discrimination.
A portion of Nick Patterson’s skeletal remains, finally recovered years after he went missing, were lost again by officials during his missing person investigation. The stunning error has complicated the Pit River Tribe’s grieving process and led to suggestions for policy changes.
Wind energy company Repsol needs the Energy Commission’s approval to proceed with a plan to develop a wind energy plant in Shasta County. The recommendation coming from the commission’s director makes that approval seem unlikely.
After recent erasures of the historical contributions and experiences of Indigenous people from public sites, the work of an early 20th century Wintu poet provides poignant insights into how local Native people have fought against invisibility for centuries.
Beginning with California’s annexation from Mexico in 1850, the government engaged in nearly a century of ongoing colonization of Tribal land. Newly-developed curriculum explains how the Maidu and Pit River peoples have been able to reclaim some of that land through years of activism.
