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.
After his disappearance in 2020, Nick Patterson’s mother said she received only limited help from law enforcement. The lengths she went — to discover the truth and recover the rest of her son’s body — illustrate the profound systemic failures Native families face in the search for their missing and murdered relatives.
This week, local Tribal members led a prayer walk to demand justice for missing and murdered Native people, particularly those local to the North State.
Monument status will provide increased protection for hundreds of thousands of acres of unspoiled wilderness that have been threatened by geothermal extraction. Pit River Tribal members say the federal designation will also promote Native healing.
Similar to the Amber Alert, the newly established Feather Alert system was meant to be a vital tool for Native families searching for missing relatives. Native policymakers and families say law enforcement agents are unnecessarily rejecting the majority of Feather Alert requests. Amendments to the law are already in process.
Honeygirl McCloud says her freedom of speech was violated earlier this month when her principal told her she couldn’t use a quote referencing violence against Indigenous women. The district did not confirm or deny those allegations but says that she will be allowed to use her original quote.
The designation would ban the kind of new leases for geothermal energy drilling that Pit River people have fought for decades and bestow far stronger protections for the culturally and ecologically important sacred landscape.
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