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"California’s Yurok Tribe, which had 90% 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 national and state parks visited by 1 million
people a year.
The Yurok will be the first Native people to manage tribal land with the
National Park Service under a historic memorandum of understanding signed on
Tuesday by the tribe, Redwood national and state parks and the non-profit 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.
The return of the 125 acres (50 hectares) of land – named ’O Rew in the Yurok
language – more than a century after it was stolen from California’s largest
tribe is proof of the “sheer will and perseverance of the Yurok people”, said
Rosie Clayburn, the tribe’s cultural resources director. “We kind of don’t give
up.”
For the tribe, redwoods are considered living beings and traditionally only
fallen trees have been used to build their homes and canoes.
“As the original stewards of this land, we look forward to working together
with the Redwood national and state parks to manage it,” Clayburn said. “This
is work that we’ve always done, and continued to fight for, but I feel like the
rest of world is catching up right now and starting to see that Native people
know how to manage this land the best.”
The property is at the heart of the tribe’s ancestral land and was taken in the
1800s to exploit its old-growth redwoods and other natural resources, the tribe
said. Save the Redwoods League bought the property in 2013 and began working
with the tribe and others to restore it."
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