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Evening in the Owens Valley, California | Image: Albert Bierstadt
Here's one answer to LA's "emergency" record snowmelt: give Native people access to their lands.
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KCET is giving away five pairs of tickets to see Native Voices at the Autry’s newest play, "Fairly Traceable." The tickets include admission to the Autry to see the exhibition, “California Continued.”
Iron Eyes Cody, born the Sicilian Actor TK, provides a convenient example of the Ecological Indian stereotype.
To call Native peoples the "original environmentalists" is to mischaracterize their actual relationship to the land.
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From food to fiber, fire boosts the Sierra Nevada's bounty.
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Cultural burning can still play a beneficial role in California's landscape
Salmon jumping at the Ballard Locks, Washington | Photo: Ingrid Taylar, some rights reserved
Salmon connect California's most diverse landscapes. Now we may lose them forever. 
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"Everything I've got is because of the river," says the Yurok fishing guide. "Everything I own."
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California’s salmon can recover on their own, if we let them. And Native people's skills can be an important part of their recovery.
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“We’re salmon people,” says Karuk Tribe member Leaf Hillman. “Our very identity is based on salmon.”
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"How can you heal Indian country? You tell the truth."
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When Tima Link began learning Traditional Chumash basket making, she learned to weave together the knowledge of diverse Native peoples.
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Shasta Dam has almost wiped the world's only winter-run Chinook salmon. The Winnemem Wintu want to bring it back.
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