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“The Klamath salmon is as much a part of our traditional culture as our prayers and our drums,” said Yurok Tribal Chairman Thomas P. O’Rourke said. “That is what is at stake here, ...
The Yurok Tribe’s annual salmon festival in Klamath, California, is a little different this year. Yes, there’s a noisy parade, yes there are dozens of stalls selling T-shirts and jewelry, yes ...
To cook salmon the Yurok way, Jon Luke dug a pit, roughly a foot deep and three to four feet long, and got a blazing fire going — in their case, made with fragrant alder wood, though madrone is ...
The Yurok Tribe has regained nearly 189 square kilometres of ancestral forestland along the Klamath River in northern California, more than doubling their land holdings and marking the largest ...
Last week, the Yurok Tribe signed a historic agreement with the National Park Service, California State Parks and Save the Redwoods League to transfer a 125-acre property back to tribal ownership.
It's being called the largest land return deal in California's history. Yurok Fisheries Department Director Barry McCovey tells NPR's Scott Detrow what it means for the Yurok Tribe and for the land.
At 10 p.m. on Wednesday, April 23, in an episode titled “River Restoration,” PBS’s “Changing Planet” will explore the Yurok Tribe’s contributions to post-Klamath dam removal ...
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.
California's Yurok Tribe Gets Back Ancestral Lands That Were Taken Over 120 Years Ago ON THE KLAMATH RIVER, Calif. (AP) — As a youngster, Barry McCovey Jr. would sneak through metal gates and ...
The Yurok Tribe’s annual salmon festival in Klamath, California, is a little different this year. Yes, there’s a noisy parade, yes there are dozens of stalls selling T-shirts and jewelry, yes ...