American Rivers announced the 10 Most Endangered Rivers in the U.S., and this includes California’s Yuba River. Please support the efforts to help revive this great watershed and wild salmon that are severed from their ancestral homes by two outdated dams. The video will describe the problem. Signing the petition will help to move toward [...]
Archive | May, 2011
Seaweed Testing – California Coast
It is with great relief that the CIWC received notice of testing results of radiation contamination fallout from Japan. It has not shown to negatively affect the seaweed along our coastlines of the Pacific Ocean. At a time when Round Houses, Tribal Big Times, Gatherings and other cultural traditional practices begin, the gathering of marine [...]
Radiation – A Letter to Governor Brown
Governor Brown, The radiation contamination from Japan’s nuclear facility has grave implications for Tribal communities in California that still practice traditional fishing & gathering sustenance from the Pacific Ocean. Radiation levels, the testing & continual monitoring of its location has not been extended to inform Tribal communities of potential human, health and marine ecosystem contamination. [...]
Human Right to Water Bill
Human Right to Water Bills Pass Key Assembly Committees Grassroots Advocates Created Momentum in Packed Hearings by Dan Bacher Tuesday, April 26 was a good day for the future of safe drinking water in California, where many rural and urban communities lack drinkable water. Safe water advocates from across the state hailed the passage of [...]
California Native Survivance Presentation
The CIWC is proud to acknowledge and invite the public to attend the upcoming Amah Mutsun Speaker Series in Santa Cruz. ”the traditional land management perspectives and practices utilized by co-keynote speaker Hawk Rosales, Executive Director of the Inter Tribal Sinkyone Wilderness Council. With the implementation of traditional ecological knowledge, caring for the land and its indigenous [...]
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