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.
From October 3–5, the Redding Rancheria will host a pow wow to celebrate Tribal ceremonial dances, food, art, and music.
After eight weeks the number of people utilizing the Rancheria’s harm reduction services, which include access to clean syringes, has more than doubled. Research shows harm reduction helps protect community health.
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