Nause-Waiwash Band

Nause-Waiwash Band Photo Credit: Jeff Kirwan The ecocultural description of Nause-Waiwash Band territory can best be summarized as brackish estuarine marsh and salt estuarine marsh. According to Nause-Waiwash Band oral…

Washoe Tribe of Nevada and California

Washoe Tribe of Nevada and California Washoe Tribe of Nevada and California Lake Tahoe is the center of Washoe Homelands, with the four bands of the Washoe radiating out from…

Yurok

A family burns together

Yurok The mission of the Cultural Fire Management Council (CFMC) is to facilitate the practice of cultural burning on the Yurok Reservation and Ancestral lands, which will lead to a…

Karuk

karur photo

KARUK Photo Credit: Analisa Tripp Since time immemorial, the Karuk have lived in the Klamath-Siskiyou Mountains in the mid-Klamath River region of Northern California. With an Aboriginal territory that includes…

Hoopa Valley

Hoopa Valley Photo Credit: Greg Moon The Native people of Hoopa Valley understood and used the natural cycle of burning. Cultural burning for clearing areas for crops, basketry material (hazel…