Native People Rush to Feed the People

by @bsnorrell.blogspot.com, #CensoredNews, November 5, 2025

"The #BlackfeetNation brought in a load of produce from the #YakamaNation, and #FortPeck announced buffalo distribution. #GilaRiver is giving tribal members $1,000 in hardship funds, as the government shut-down continues.

"Blackfeet Tribal Council Member Mike Comes At Night brought in a load of produce from the Yakama Nation in Washington State for the Blackfeet Nation in Montana. 'We made it home safely from the Yakama Nation with a generous load of produce for the Blackfeet People. I am honored, as a Councilman, to serve our people. I’ve traveled hundreds of miles to help
bring food home, and at the end of the day, I know I am doing my job. I also want to thank all the farmers who helped us with this food — may the Creator bless them and their families," Comes at
Night said.

"#FortPeck's #Assiniboine and #Sioux Tribes are distributing buffalo meat, and gathering groceries, after declaring a state of emergency in Montana.

"In California, the #Yurok Tribal Council approved $300 food assistance cards for Yurok because of the disruptions in the Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program #SNAP, and #CalFresh benefits, due to the federal government shutdown.
'Our goal is to help our most vulnerable citizens get through this challenging time,' said Yurok Chairman Joseph L. James, who said the tribe is working to mitigate the hardships on families from
the federal shutdown.

"In #Tahlequah, Oklahoma, the #CherokeeNation announced a $6.5 million response package. This includes cash payments of up to $185 per individual Cherokee Nation citizens on SNAP. It also includes over $1.25 million to support food banks and other non-profit food programs.

"The Cherokee Nation's expanded emergency declaration includes tribal members who are currently on SNAP living anywhere in the United States. The Cherokee Nation has over 470,000 citizens living in all fifty states. Cherokee Chief Chuck Hoskin, Jr. said the Cherokee's network of 27 “at-large” organizations located in urban areas could access grants of $5,000 to address local food shortages.

"The #GilaRiverIndianCommunity, south of #Phoenix in #Arizona, is distributing $1,000 hardship payments to all adult tribal members, regardless of whether or not they are SNAP recipients.

"Gov. Stephen Roe Lewis said, 'We want to make sure that, as a sovereign nation, we take care of our members during this unprecedented shutdown.'

" 'I hope that this payment brings some peace of mind during this time of uncertainty at the federal
level.' "

Source:
https://bsnorrell.blogspot.com/2025/11/native-people-rush-to-feed-people.html

#ReaderSupportedNews
#CensoredNews #FoodInsecurity #FoodSovereignty #NativeAmericanNews #FirstNations #SNAPCuts

"A growing Land Back movement has been fighting, in part, for indigenous people's reclamation of their ancestral homelands and the restoration of land management based on Native knowledge and practices." www.upworthy.com/yurok-tribe-... #NorCal #Yurok #indigenous #LandBack

Yurok Tribe in California beco...

Kaitlin Reed's book "Settler Cannabis" places the Northern California green rush in the historical context of settler-colonial violence against #Yurok & other Indigenous peoples of #California

#IndigenousStudies #PostcolonialStudies #AmericanStudies #AmericanHistory #counterculture #AmericanHistory

"Klamath River Dams Removal: How It Saved Salmon & Our People" www.youtube.com/shorts/F0rHW... #NorCal #Oregon #Yurok #Karuk #fisheries #environment #policy #law

Klamath River Dams Removal: Ho...

"Klamath River Paddlers Complete 300-Mile Journey to the Sea | Source to Sea Finish Line" www.youtube.com/watch?v=NI6J... #NorCal #Yurok #Karuk #salmon #environment #fisheries #policy #law

Klamath River Paddlers Complet...

"a remarkably malevolent view of environmental protection has gathered strength in the White House & Congress that threatens to undo this hard-won progress, seeking to pull the nation 100 years into the past." www.circleofblue.org/2025/water-p... NorCal #KlamathRiver #Yurok #Karuk EPA #policy #law

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#Yurok Tribe Celebrates Again as Ancestral Homelands are Returned–in Wake of Historic Dam Removal https://www.goodnewsnetwork.org/life-only-gets-better-for-yurok-tribe-who-follow-historic-dam-removal-with-ancestral-land-rights-agreement/ #California #NativeAmerican #Indigenous

HT @Yehuda

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"The 73 square miles of forested land is over three times the size of Manhattan, according to Nelson Mathews, president of the Western Rivers Conservancy. The conservancy partnered with the Yurok Tribe for 23 years to return the massive parcel of stolen land, which is now called the Blue Creek Salmon Sanctuary and Yurok Tribal Community Forest and is fully owned and managed by the tribe."

https://www.sfgate.com/bayarea/article/parcel-size-manhattan-returned-california-tribe-20363588.php

#LandBack #Native #Indigenous #Yurok #YurokTribe #BlueCreekSalmonSanctuary #NoMoreStolenLand

Gabrielle Canon: The river that came back to life: a journey down the reborn #Klamath: Less than a year after four dams were removed from the river, life has blossomed along its banks, presenting new challenges and joys of recovery

#California #Yurok #Karuk #NativeAmerican #restoration #DamRemoval
https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025/jun/07/klamath-river-trip-dam-removal

California’s Yurok Tribe gets back ancestral lands that were taken over 120 years ago

#LandBack #California #Yurok

https://apnews.com/article/yurok-tribe-land-back-salmon-restoration-california-57632c4170995a0067eb89dbeb080f80

Since the Gold Rush, #tribes in California have lost countless #women, #girls and two-spirit individuals to #violence.

Most commonly, these crimes are perpetrated by non-Indians and away from tribal jurisdictions.

These incidents impact every aspect of tribal communities, ranging from an increased need for services for survivors and their families to heightened strain on tribal law enforcement.

The #Yurok #Tribal #Court initiated the To’ Kee Skuy’ Soo Ney-Wo-Chek’ Project to improve outcomes of MMIWG2 cases in the state and eventually the entire United States.

(There are more federally recognized tribes and tribal citizens in California than any other state.)

Yurok MMIP #TipLine: 1-833-YRK-MMIP
or 1 (833) 975-6647

https://yuroktribalcourt.org/programs/to-kee-skuy-soo-ney-wo-chek/

Salmon returned a month after dam removal.

The "dams only produced...enough to power about 70,000 homes. They also didn’t provide irrigation, drinking water or flood control, according to Klamath River Renewal Corporation."

"The Klamath River’s headwaters lie on the tribe’s homelands in Oregon, and members once depended on salmon for 25% of their food. But for more than a century their waters have not held any salmon"

#Oregon #California #rewilding
Thanks to #KlamathBasin #Yurok #Karuk #fish

'Anything that can be built can be taken down': The largest #dam removal in US history is complete – what happens next?
The #Klamath River is free of four huge dams for the first time in generations. But for the #Yurok tribe, the river's restoration is only just beginning – starting with 18 billion seeds.

https://www.bbc.com/future/article/20240903-removing-the-klamath-river-dams-to-restore-the-river-what-happens-next

#142holdheap #Environment #nature #DamRemoval

'Anything that can be built can be taken down': The largest dam removal in US history is complete – what happens next?

The #KlamathRiver is free of four huge dams for the first time in generations. But for the #Yurok tribe, the river's restoration is only just beginning – starting with 18 billion seeds.

by Lucy Sheriff, September 3, 2024

"This is decades and decades in the making," says Thompson. 'We were told it was never going to happen. That it was foolish to even ask for one removal. We were asking for four.'

"The #KlamathBasin covers more than 12,000 square miles (31,000 sq km) in southern Oregon and northern California, and was home to the JC Boyle, Copco 1, Copco 2 and Iron Gate dams, all owned by #PacifiCorp, an electric utilities company. The Klamath was once the third-largest salmon producing river on the US's West Coast before the construction of the dams blocked fish from accessing almost 400 miles (640km) of critical river habitat for almost 100 years.

"Fall #ChinookSalmon numbers plummeted by more than 90% and spring chinook by 98%. #SteelheadTrout, #CohoSalmon and #PacificLamprey numbers also saw drastic declines, and the Klamath tribes in the upper basin have been without their salmon fishery for a century, since the completion of #Copco 1 in 1922. The situation became so bad that Yurok tribe – who are known as the salmon people – began importing Alaskan salmon for their annual salmon festival, traditionally held to celebrate the first return of fall chinook salmon to the Klamath River.

"The dams also had a severe impact on #WaterTemperature and quality – growth of #ToxicAlgae behind two of the dams resulted in health warnings against water contact.

"'It was painful,' says Willard Carlson, a Yurok elder who is known as a #RiverWarrior and was part of the inter-generational campaign. 'All those years seeing our river damaged like that. I remember as a kid we'd have other people from nearby tribes making fun of our river. 'Oh, you're Yurok, your river is dirty.' For us, the #dams were a monument to the [#coloniser] people who conquered us."

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"Restoring the land

But something that does need "a helping hand is the restoration of 2,200 acres (890ha) of land that is above ground for the first time in a century following the emptying of four reservoirs.

"'Removing the dams is one thing, restoring the land is quite another,' says Thompson, a civil engineer and part of the crew working on the restoration project – which is being managed by Resource Environmental Solutions, an ecological restoration company."

Read more:
https://www.bbc.com/future/article/20240903-removing-the-klamath-river-dams-to-restore-the-river-what-happens-next

#KarukTribe #YurokTribe #KlamathRiverRenewal #RestoreNature #Decolonize #WaterIsLife #NativeAmericans

The largest dam removal project in the US is completed a major win for #Indigenous tribes

The #KlamathRiver dams removal project was a significant win for tribal nations on the #Oregon-#California border who for decades have fought to restore the river back to its natural state.

By Rachel Ramirez, CNN
Published Sep 2, 2024

"The largest dam removal project in US history is finally complete, after crews last week demolished the last of the four dams on the Klamath River. It’s a significant win for tribal nations on the #OregonCalifornia border who for decades have fought to restore the river back to its natural state.

"The removal of the four hydroelectric dams — #IronGateDam, #CopcoDams 1 and 2, and #JCBoyleDam — allows the region’s iconic #salmon population to swim freely along the Klamath River and its tributaries, which the species have not been able to do for over a century since the dams were built.

"Mark Bransom, chief executive officer of the #KlamathRiverRenewal Corporation, the nonprofit group created to oversee the project, said it was a 'celebratory moment,' as his staff members, conservationists, government officials and tribal members gathered and cheered on the bank of the river near where the largest of the dams, Iron Gate, once stood.

"Federal regulators approved the plan to raze the dams in 2022. The next year, the smallest of the four dams, Copco No. 2, was removed. Crews then began releasing water from the dams’ reservoirs at the beginning of this year, which was necessary before dismantling the last remaining dams.

"The river system has been steeped in controversy: During the recent historic #WesternDrought that dried up the #KlamathBasin, an intense #WaterWar pitted local farmers against #Indigenous tribes, government agencies and conservationists.

"But anxiety turned to joy for the #IndigenousPeople who have lived for centuries among the Klamath and its tributaries.

"'We all came together in the moment with a feeling that ranged from pure joy to anticipation to excitement,' Bransom told CNN. 'For the first time in over 100 years, the river is now back in its historical channel, and I think that was an extraordinarily profound moment for people to actually witness that — the reconnecting of a river.'

"The #Yurok Tribe in Northern California are known as the '#SalmonPeople.' To them, the salmon are sacred species that are central to their culture, diet and ceremonies. As the story goes, the spirit that created the salmon also created humans and without the fish, they would cease to exist."

Read more:
https://www.accuweather.com/en/weather-news/the-largest-dam-removal-project-in-the-us-is-completed-a-major-win-for-indigenous-tribes/1687353

#RestoreNature #ProtectTheSacred #WaterIsLife

Ian Rose: Frontier myth vilified the #California grizzly. Science tells a new story.

"In April 1924, a road crew was working in Sequoia National Park, near the spectacular granite dome of Moro Rock, when a large shape emerged from the woods. These workers had previously been stationed with the Park Service at Yellowstone, and they were familiar with the animal that walked by their camp. In their report, they noted its cinnamon-colored fur and the prominent hump on its back, both telltale signs of a grizzly bear."

…

“They were trying to get rich and famous by marketing themselves as these icons of the fading frontier,” Alagona said. “A lot of the historical sources that we have about grizzlies are actually not about grizzlies. They’re about this weird Victorian 19th-century celebrity culture.”

#giftarticle #bears #grizzlybears #restoration #Yurok #ecology
https://wapo.st/3UyKi1e

@EU_Commission@social.network.europa.eu

#ClimateCrisis #ForestFires

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...tribes, such as the #Yurok, #Karuk, #Hupa, #Miwok, and #Chumash in #California:

"For more than 13,000 years...hundreds of...tribes 👉across...the world used small intentional burns to renew local food, medicinal and cultural resources, create habitat for animals, and reduce the risk of larger, more dangerous wild fires."👈

The Spanish conquerors first prohibited this...

The #Yurok tribe is also helping lead efforts in the largest #DamRemoval project in U.S. history along the #California - #Oregon border to restore the #Klamath and boost the #salmon population.

Plans for ‘O Rew include a traditional Yurok village of redwood plank houses and a #SweatHouse. There also will be a new visitor and cultural center displaying scores of #SacredArtefacts from deerskins to baskets

9/13

https://apnews.com/article/business-california-native-americans-dams-salmon-311ea96fda0fe1b0052ab8cef9ae36a9

The tribe will take ownership in 2026 of 125 acres near the tiny Northern California community of #Orick in #HumboldtCounty after #restoration of a local tributary, #PrairieCreek, is complete under the deal. The site will introduce visitors to #Yurok customs, culture and history, the tribe said.

The area is home to the world’s tallest trees — some reaching more than 350 feet. It’s about a mile from the #Pacific coast and adjacent to the Redwood National and State Parks,

3/13

The #Yurok will be the first Native people to manage tribal land with the National Park Service under a historic memorandum of understanding signed Tuesday by the tribe, Redwood National and State Parks and the nonprofit Save the Redwoods League.

The agreement “starts the process of changing the narrative about how, by whom and for whom we #steward natural lands,” Sam Hodder, president and CEO of Save the Redwoods League, said in a statement.

2/13