California tribe that lost 90% of land during Gold Rush gets piece back
Headline from The Columbian
California’s Yurok Tribe, which had 90 percent of its territory taken from it during the Gold Rush of the mid-1800s, will be getting a slice of its land back to serve as a new gateway to Redwood Natio
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The state of California, The National Parks Service and the Yurok Tribe have signed a memorandum of understanding for the return of a slice of the tribe's ancestral land.
California’s Yurok Tribe, which had 90 percent of its territory taken from it during the Gold Rush of the mid-1800s, will be getting a slice of its land back to serve as a new gateway to Redwood Natio
A growing Land Back movement has been returning Indigenous homelands to the descendants of those who lived there for millennia before European settlers arrived.
