Indigenous Affairs

Grief as a community bridge during Día de los Muertos event in Siskiyou

Leaders from two grassroots groups, Latino Outdoors and Seeds of Ancestral Renewal, came together last Friday with the help of Siskiyou County Arts Council for the second annual community celebration of Día de los Muertos.

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Redding Rancheria PAC spends $32,000 to support four city council candidates

The Tribe said it created a PAC, or political action committee, to support city council members who understand the relationship between the Tribe and the city. Those candidates haven’t received direct donations of funds; instead, the PAC has provided indirect support through media campaigns.

After nearly four decades, James ‘Little Man’ Wright returns home

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.

Gallery: Redding Rancheria features dancing and festivities for seventh annual Big Time celebration

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.

Native community marches through Burney to raise awareness for the missing and murdered

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.

In a Soledad prison, a Shasta man facilitates discussion on the power of forgiveness

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.

Endangered salmon returned to California’s far north — then the money dried up

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?

Wintu people say proposed reforms to a state list of tribes is erasure, threatens their homelands

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.

This Native man from Northern California has gone missing not once, but twice

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.

This week, the California Energy Commission is expected to decide the future of the Fountain Wind project

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.

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