Podcasts about winnemem wintu

In this soul-satisfying episode, we delve into the profound potential of song to help us align to the rhythm of the Earth, in particular when travelling through difficult passages in life. Join us as our very first guest, Desirae Harp, shares her personal and cultural insights, emphasizing the importance of intention, self-love, and deep listening during the season of stillness and reflection. Show Notes: Desirae discusses her cultural connection to winter and its role as a time of cleansing and preparation. She explores the significance of cold water, snow, and the teachings of elders in attuning to the season's unique qualities. She opens up about her personal journey towards self-forgiveness and self-love during the winter season. She emphasizes the power of deep listening in Indigenous communities, where oral traditions are shared and cherished. The episode concludes with Desirae's heartfelt song that captures her transformative experience by the ocean. We are encouraged to reflect on our own relationship with winter and its wisdom, as well as the significance of self-love and intention in their lives during this season of introspection. Desirae is Onatsátis and Diné. She is a singer/songwriter, community organizer, and educator. She performs original songs that are influenced by her love for hip hop and r&b. She also sings songs in her native language. She currently works for the Sonoma Ecology Center in Northern California where she educates the community about how native people, plants, animals, and waterways are interconnected. She is a lead organizer of an annual prayer journey called Run4Salmon that supports the restoration of wild salmon in California waterways. Connect with Desirae Harp. This is the film we made with Michael "Pom" Preston of the Winnemem Wintu tribe, shortly after I met Desirae: One Word Sawalmem. Opening to the Medicine of Winter.

Filled with anticipation and hope, the indigenous community hopes a rare sighting of a salmon in the creek is the answer to a century of prayers.

This episode of "A Pray For Salmon" begins as Northern California’s Winnemem Wintu tribe faces a turning point in 2004 as the government plans to raise the Shasta dam accelerate. The tribal leaders make a difficult decision to revive an ancient practice: the War Dance. 

A Northern California indigenous tribe’s declaration of war generates global support — Then the faith identity of Dr. J. Robert Oppenheimer.

This installment of A Prayer For Salmon begins with the creation story of the Winnemem Wintu, at a sacred spring high up on Mt. Shasta.

In the next part of A Prayer for Salmon, we travel back to Northern California to continue the story of an indigenous community fighting plans to raise the level of Shasta Dam.

In episode five of A Prayer for Salmon, the Winnemem Wintu and supporters start a two-week Run4Salmon prayer to call salmon back to the waters above Shasta Dam.

What is like when your love for your land sets you apart? Today, we hear from the son of the Chief of the Winnemem Wintu. Then, we go behind the scenes of our podcast about them — “A Prayer for Salmon.” We talk with host Judy Silber about what it was like to report the story of the tribe over 5 years ago. And, we hear a reading from a Bay Area poet.

An elder remembers indigenous life back before Shasta Dam was built. The legality of the proposal to raise Shasta Dam is considered. Meanwhile, Chief Caleen Sisk considers a new strategy to fight back: turning an adversary — the Westlands Water District — into an ally. All of the episodes of A Prayer for Salmon can be found on The Spiritual Edge website.

In the Winnemem Wintu's fight to preserve their way of life, some people helped along the way. Today, we hear from some of those allies who are helping them restore salmon to their native waters. Then, how a writer from the South Bay who grew up watching Star Wars also wrote for the franchise. And, we'll hear a reading from Oakland authors.

In this episode, we hear how a Coast Miwok family is advocating for the native people of Tomales Bay, and we learn about how their personal journey has become part of a broader movement. Then, we re-visit the story of the Winnemem Wintu people and their work to restore salmon to their native waters. We also hear from the allies who are helping them along the way.

Every Thursday, we're bringing you episodes from the newest season of KALW's The Spiritual Edge. It's about the Winnemem Wintu and their fight to protect their sacred sites. Today, the Winnemem Wintu people reach an important milestone and continue their fight to protect the water as a way to ensure their future.

The story continues as Judy Silber explores how the Winnemem Wintu view water and land as sacred entities that must be in balance and believe they were put on Earth to protect and steward their homeland.

Every Thursday, we're bringing you episodes from the newest season of KALW's The Spiritual Edge. It's about the Winnemem Wintu and their fight to protect their sacred sites. Today, we hear episode nine of The Spiritual Edge's newest season. In this segment, the Winnemem Wintu people board a plane bound for Christchurch, New Zealand.

Judy Silber, producer of A Prayer for Salmon, talks about building trust with the Winnemem Wintu tribe as a journalist,

Every Thursday, we're bringing you episodes from the newest season of KALW's The Spiritual Edge. It's about the Winnemem Wintu and their fight to protect their sacred sites. Today, we hear episode nine of The Spiritual Edge's newest season. In this segment, The Winnemem Wintu people decide to hold a war dance, their first in over a century.

We present A Prayer for Salmon: A documentary series from The Spiritual Edge telling the story of the Winnemem Wintu people and their clash with the raising of Shasta Dam.

Every Thursday, we're bringing you episodes from the newest season of KALW's The Spiritual Edge. It's about the Winnemem Wintu and their fight to protect their sacred sites. Today, we hear episode eight of The Spiritual Edge's newest season. In this segment, the Winnemem Wintu people tell their story of how the world began.

Every Thursday, we're bringing you episodes from the newest season of KALW's The Spiritual Edge. It's about the Winnemem Wintu and their fight to protect their sacred sites. Today, we learn about California's history with aggressive agricultural development and how indigenous people who lived here were forcibly removed and killed.

We apologize — the previously uploaded Chapter 11 has an audio glitch. It's now been corrected. To make sure everyone can access the corrected audio, we are uploading it again, here.  Spurred by drought, the U.S. National Marine Fisheries Service accelerates a plan to restore winter-run Chinook salmon to the McCloud River. Chief Caleen Sisk weighs whether to collaborate with federal officials. Salmon spotted on Dry Creek for the first time in 30 years are celebrated as an answer to the Winnemem Wintu's Run4Salmon prayer.

Spurred by drought, the U.S. National Marine Fisheries Service accelerates a plan to restore winter-run Chinook salmon to the McCloud River. Chief Caleen Sisk weighs whether to collaborate with federal officials. Salmon spotted on Dry Creek for the first time in 30 years are celebrated as an answer to the Winnemem Wintu's Run4Salmon prayer.

Today, the Winnemem Wintu and supporters continue their Run4Salmon journey and bear witness to more human built obstacles faced by migrating salmon.

Today, the Winnemem Wintu start a two-week Run4Salmon prayer to call salmon back to the waters above Shasta Dam. They walk the salmon's migration path from the ocean to the mountains.

The federal government is mulling a plan to extend the height of the Shasta Dam in California. That would raise the level of the reservoir, permanently submerging even more of the sacred land cherished by the Winnemem Wintu and other tribes upstream. It also further diminishes hopes of restoring salmon runs to the levels the tribes once counted on as sustenance and ceremony. A new podcast A Prayer For Salmon explores the tribal connections to the rivers and documents efforts to not only halt the dam expansion, but to build momentum to remove the 1945 dam completely. Today on Native America Calling, we hear highlights from the podcast and learn more about the federal plan. Listen or read the latest headlines from National Native News with Antonia Gonzales

The federal government is mulling a plan to extend the height of the Shasta Dam in California. That would raise the level of the reservoir, permanently submerging even more of the sacred land cherished by the Winnemem Wintu and other tribes upstream. It also further diminishes hopes of restoring salmon runs to the levels the tribes once counted on as sustenance and ceremony. A new podcast A Prayer For Salmon explores the tribal connections to the rivers and documents efforts to not only halt the dam expansion, but to build momentum to remove the 1945 dam completely. Today on Native America Calling, we hear highlights from the podcast and learn more about the federal plan. Listen or read the latest headlines from National Native News with Antonia Gonzales

At a sacred spring high up on Mt. Shasta, the Winnemem Wintu recount the beginnings of the world when salmon gave up their voices so that humans could speak. They now feel a special obligation to defend salmon in return for this gift. A biologist details Chinook salmon's catastrophic decline since the arrival of Euro-American settlers to California and the Northwest.  

Earlier this month, KALW's podcast The Spiritual Edge released its latest season. It's called “A Prayer for Salmon." It's about the Winnemem Wintu and their fight to protect their sacred sites and return salmon to waters above the Shasta dam. We're airing episodes on Crosscurrents every Thursday. In episode 4, an elder remembers indigenous life back before the Shasta dam was built. Then, the legality of a proposal to raise the dam's water levels is challenged.

In Part III, we follow the Winnemem Wintu's fight to return salmon to their river, the McCloud. That fight is predicated on strong spiritual and cultural ties to the fish. In the old days, they lit fires alongside the river to help them find their way. But with salmon no longer swimming in the McCloud River, the Winnemem Wintu feel a moral and spiritual obligation to bring them back. The journey is full of ups and downs and includes war dances. border crossings. trucks carrying fish. and ultimately, to everyone's surprise, salmon eggs hatching in the McCloud River for the first time in about 80 years.

When plans for the Shasta Dam Enlargement Project accelerate, the Winnemem Wintu decide to hold a war dance, their first in more than 100 years. Members of the community dream into existence songs, dances and regalia. News of the ceremony, and the tribe that declared war against the U.S. government on top of Shasta Dam, goes around the world. That leads to an unexpected message from Down Under.  

The Winnemem Wintu board a plane bound for Christchurch, New Zealand. With the help of the Maori people, they hold a ceremony on the Rikkaia River and sing to the salmon there. Once back in the United States, Chief Caleen Sisk meets with every government agency she can to push the idea of bringing the New Zealand salmon back home.

As California looks for ways to alleviate drought, the federal government is considering raising Shasta Dam by 18-and-a-half feet in order to store more water in wet years. Behind it, three rivers backup creating Shasta Lake, the largest reservoir in the state. If the dam enlargement proceeds, areas up river from the dam that aren't currently underwater will flood. The Winnemem Wintu people have opposed the dam enlargement project. Much of their ancestral land has already been taken from them and the proposal would flood many of the group's remaining sacred sites. This week, host and reporter Judy Silber takes us on a journey "around the world," a Winnemem Wintu phrase for visiting the sacred sites, to understand what these places mean to their original inhabitants. This episode is part of a series from KALW's The Spiritual Edge podcast called A Prayer For Salmon.  

A Medication Abortion Drug Faces Potential Nationwide Restriction A federal court case underway in Texas this week could have big implications for medication based abortion care across the U.S. The case involves the FDA's approval of the drug mifepristone, which is used as part of a two-drug combination in most medication abortions. The plaintiffs in the case are arguing that the FDA went against its own guidelines regarding drug safety when it approved the medication in 2000, though the overwhelming evidence has shown the drug to be safe and effective. A ruling against the FDA could result in mifepristone prescriptions being banned nationwide. Maggie Koerth, senior science writer at FiveThirtyEight, joins John Dankosky to talk about the case and its implications. They also tackle other stories from the week in science, including investigations of the Earth's inner core, a timeline for astronauts on board the ISS, and efforts to understand what “burnout” actually is.   A New Twist On Sowing Seeds Imagine sowing a handful of seeds on the ground—but instead of needing planting help from a rake or hoe, the seeds can determine for themselves when the ground is fresh from the rain and ready for planting, and burrow their own way into the damp soil. Some seeds, including varieties of Erodium species, can actually do that. They use their self-burying ability to adapt to arid climates. But in a recent study in the journal Nature, researchers describe a package, or wrapper that can give other kinds of seeds self-burying powers as well. The design adapts some of the shapes and techniques used by Erodium into a biodegradable corkscrew made of engineered wood, that can respond to moisture and uncoil to slowly drill a seed into receptive soil. Dr. Lining Yao, co-author of that report and director of the Morphing Matter Lab in Carnegie Mellon's School of Computer Science, joins guest host Regina Barber to describe the seed delivery system, and what remains to be solved before it can be used in the wild.   A Long History Shadows New Fight Over California's Shasta Dam A few years ago, I stumbled onto the story of the Winnemem Wintu people, an indigenous people of Northern California. Theirs is an epic tale and it grabbed hold of me. For several years, I tagged along with them whenever I could. I was around so much, they started teasing me. The large fuzzy windscreens of my recording setup earned me a nickname. The Winnemem Wintu and their close friends call me and my microphone Gray Squirrel. Nickname aside, I never took it lightly that the Winnemem Wintu let me into their space. For good reasons, many Native people are suspicious of outsiders. I understood their openness was special and rare. My greatest hope is that you will hear their story of struggle and resilience, of betrayal and a willingness to still believe in the good things to come – and that it will change you as it did me.Behind the Chief we see the top of Shasta Dam's immense concrete spillway set against a background of dry, rolling hills. Shasta Dam stands 602 feet high. It's the country's 8th tallest. It turned California into the giant, agricultural engine that it is today. It also left a legacy of harm when it flooded the Winnemem and other Wintu people off their land. Read the rest at sciencefriday.com.   Rapper And Scholar Sammus Confronts AI In Hip-Hop Over the last six months, there's been a lot of movement and discussion about the effects that generative AI will have on visual art and writing. But what about its effects on music—in particular, hip-hop? A few years ago, a deep fake of Kanye West rapping a verse from “Bohemian Rhapsody” by Queen went viral. It was created with just a few clicks using the program Uberduck, which can output AI-generated raps from text of the users' choice. And it turns out that the rhythmic qualities that make hip-hop performers' verses so spellbinding is exactly what makes them easier to mimic in deep fakes, as opposed to other genres of music. Guest host Regina Barber talks with rapper and music, science, and technology scholar Dr. Enongo Lumumba-Kasongo, also known as Sammus, about the unexpected crossovers between hip-hop and the growing field of generative AI. She is also an assistant professor of music at Brown University in Providence, Rhode Island.   Transcripts for each segment will be available the week after the show airs on sciencefriday.com.  

Every Thursday, we're bringing you episodes from the newest season of KALW's The Spiritual Edge. In episode 3, we go to Shasta Dam and learn the history behind its construction. Then, we hear from Chief Caleen Sisk about how the federal proposal to raise the dam opens old wounds for the Winnemem Wintu and further threatens their survival.

The Run4Salmon bikes through rural areas in the upper Sacramento Valley where Euro American settlers changed the land to better suit an agrarian economy. The Winnemem Wintu and supporters remember the indigenous people who were forcibly removed and killed. An apology in Redding for the genocide may be well intentioned, but Chief Caleen Sisk insists action must accompany words.  

Every Thursday, we're bringing you episodes from the newest season of KALW's The Spiritual Edge. It's called "A Prayer For Salmon" and it's about the Winnemem Wintu and their fight to protect their sacred sites. In Chapter 2, we hear how a federal plan to expand the reservoir behind Shatsa Dam would flood their land.

The Winnemem Wintu and supporters start a two-week Run4Salmon prayer to call salmon back to the waters above Shasta Dam. The Run follows the salmon's migration path from the ocean to the mountains. It starts in the Bay Area where the Winnemem Wintu and supporters encounter environmental devastation first set in motion 200 years ago.  

As the Run4Salmon continues to travel upstream, the Winnemem Wintu and supporters witness more obstacles faced by migrating salmon. Once a vast marshland, the Sacramento-San Joaquin River Delta was an important haven for juvenile salmon, but now is a gauntlet of human engineering. Chief Caleen Sisk stands up for salmon and water health at a bureaucratic meeting of Sacramento Valley water districts.

In this episode, we bring you the first episode of the The Spirtual Edge's new season "A Prayer For Salmon." In a peaceful protest, the Winnemem Wintu call out the U.S. government for its refusal to acknowledge the destruction caused by Shasta Dam. The protest at the Shasta Dam Visitor Center reveals the Winnemem Wintu's ongoing reality. They are ignored and later a security guard threatens to forcibly remove them.

In Part II, we shift the focus away from the fight against a bigger dam and towards a different struggle: for salmon. The Winnemem Wintu feel a close connection to salmon, a keystone species that impacts the well-being of other creatures and habitat around them. They miss them on the McCloud River where their ancestors fished. We journey alongside the Winnemem Wintu through the San Francisco Bay and up the Sacramento River to witness the obstacles faced by the fish. Along the way, we learn about the historical events that have shaped these waterways and threatened the continued existence of Chinook salmon populations here.

In a peaceful protest, the Winnemem Wintu call out the U.S. government for its refusal to acknowledge the destruction caused by Shasta Dam. The protest at the Shasta Dam Visitor Center reveals the Winnemem Wintu's ongoing reality. They are ignored and later a security guard threatens to forcibly remove them.

We accompany the Winnemem Wintu to sacred sites near the McCloud River. The federal government's Shasta Dam and Reservoir Expansion Proposal threatens these sites and the Winnemem Wintu way of life.

We go to Shasta Dam and learn about the history behind its construction in the 1930s and 1940s. We hear from Chief Caleen Sisk about how the federal proposal to raise the dam another 18 and a half feet opens old wounds for the Winnemem Wintu and further threatens their tenuous survival.

A Prayer for Salmon is coming soon! The series, which has been five-and-a-half years in the making, follows the Winnemem Wintu people as they resist a proposed Shasta Dam Enlargement Project that would flood their sacred sites, and fight to return Chinook salmon to their homeland on the McCloud River, a major tributary of the dam. Over the course of the eleven episodes, A Prayer For Salmon investigates the Shasta Dam and Reservoir Enlargement Project, which gained traction during the Trump years and proposes to raise the 602-foot dam even higher, which would flood important Winnemem Wintu sacred sites. Episodes then take listeners on a journey with the Winnemem Wintu and allies who walk, run, bike and boat on a two-week, 300-mile Run Salmon ceremony that follows the migration of Chinook salmon from the Pacific Ocean to historical spawning grounds above Shasta Dam. The podcast also follows the Winnemem Wintu's nearly two-decade attempt to return Chinook salmon that originated in California, but now swim in New Zealand, to the heart of their homelands on the McCloud River where salmon have not swum for nearly 80 years.

In the first half-hour “First Voices Radio,” Co-Host Anne Keala Kelly (Kanaka Maoli) talks with Mikilani Young, Kanaka Maoli cultural practitioner and kahu. Their conversation begins with a prayer for one Hawaiian elder, and then goes onto the cultural and spiritual connections between Indigenous peoples, the protection of Mauna Kea, and Mikilani Young's own prayerful path, living here on Turtle Island, thousands of miles away from the Hawaiian Nation. Mikilani's courageous approach to the practice and teaching of Indigenous Hawaiian ways is both suited to, and challenged by, the times we live in — sharing, but not selling, giving, but being discerning so as not to exploit or diminish the mana of her own knowledge. Her path is a prayerful, thoughtful balance between human needs that adhere to the soulful premise of existence, while maintaining and honoring the Creator's guidance. Mikilani's journey has taken her to many First Peoples Nations (Tongva, Winnemem Wintu, San Carlos Apache, Kumeyaay, Acjachemen, Pomo, Coastal Miwuk, Klamath, Moduc, Maidu, Colville Confederated Tribes, Wabanaki Confederacy, Kewa Pueblo, Tonoho O'odham, Akimel O'odham, Hopi, Lakota, Nakota, Dakota, Warm Springs, Diné, Mohawk, Yavapai, Payómkawichum, Kwatsáan, Tatavium, Lisjan Ohlone, Wintun, Onasatis). She is at her most grateful and skilled when she can be a unifier of people across and beyond the land she lives on, and joyous because she lives with complete trust that her ancestors guide her path. Mikilani formed the non-profit United Pillars of Aloha as well as Kaiapuni Ho'ola Piha Sanctuary in service of Mother Earth and the unborn generations. More about Mikilani can be found at: mikilaniyoung.com. In the second half-hour, we feature several selections from First Voices Radio's “Top Listener Favorite Songs of 2022.” Production Credits: Tiokasin Ghosthorse (Lakota), Host and Executive Producer Anne Keala Kelly (Kanaka Maoli), Co-Host Liz Hill (Red Lake Ojibwe), Producer Malcolm Burn, Studio Engineer, Radio Kingston, WKNY 1490 AM and 107.9 FM, Kingston, NY Tiokasin Ghosthorse, Audio Editor Kevin Richardson, Podcast Editor Music Selections: 1. Song Title: Tahi Roots Mix (First Voices Radio Theme Song) Artist: Moana and the Moa Hunters Album: Tahi (1993) Label: Southside Records (Australia and New Zealand) (00:00:22) 2. Song Title: Star People (feat. Jim Cuddy) Artist: Vince Fontaine's Indian City Album: Code Red (2021) Label: Rising Sun Productions, Winnipeg, MB, Canada (00:29:55) 3. Song: Reap & Sow Artist: One Way Sky EP: Soul Searcher (2021) Label: Akimel Records (00:33:50) 4. Song: Ball and Chain Artist: Xavier Rudd & J-MILLA Album: Xavier Rudd: Jan Juc Moon (2022) Label: Virgin Music Label and Artist Services Australia (P&D) (00:38:55) 5. Song Title: 1492 Artist: Earth Surface People EP: 500 Years (2021) Label: Underwater Panther Coalition (00:43:50) 6. Song Title: The States I'm In Artist: Bruce Coburn Album: Bone on Bone (2017) Label: True North (00:53:05) AKANTU INSTITUTE Visit Akantu Institute, an institute that Tiokasin founded with a mission of contextualizing original wisdom for troubled times. Go to https://akantuinstitute.org/ to find out more and consider joining his Patreon page at https://www.patreon.com/Ghosthorse. 

Today we learn how an endangered species of salmon is finally getting help after 80 years. The fight of the Winnemem Wintu people to return salmon to their homelands. Then we hear how a fire at an encampment in West Oakland brought firefighters to the scene for the 90th time in a year. And, we'll hear a reading from a San Bruno author.

Protocols are the basic set of rules that define how information can be exchanged whether it is a biological cell or the transfer of data between computers, even cryptocurrency. This week we explore the theme of Infinite Possibility, represented by the delphinium, and learn about spiritual protocols from Michael Pom Preston from the Winnemem Wintu tribe of Mt. Shasta in Northern California. He claims spiritual responsibility to the winnemem wywakit (McCloud River) and this is the spiritual background that he speaks from. He is also an enrolled member of the Susanville Indian Rancheria in Susanville California as a descendent of the Wada Ticutta Numu (Seed Eater Paiute), Modoc, and Ilmawi/Madesi Pit River tribes. He shares how ceremony and spiritual enlightenment are the highest technology there is, even in our day-to-day life. There are rules to it and spiritual bypassing is not allowed as a matter of physics.Collect the Delphinium Infinite Possibility NFT.Find encouragement to practice with the Gratitude Blooming cards in our metagarden community on discord: https://discord.gg/MeRrhxKax4We appreciate your support and help so we can bloom! Please take a moment to give us 5-stars and share a review. You can always email us at hello@gratitudeblooming.com. We want to hear from you! Give the gift of the Gratitude Blooming card deck at www.gratitudeblooming.com

April 20, 2022 — Attendance was low at the first hybrid in-person zoom Board of Supervisors meeting in two years yesterday. After public comment, which ranged from unresolved issues in the cannabis department to dissatisfaction with the covid response, the Board received an update from state officials on the scientific review of Jackson Demonstration State Forest, which the Board requested last year. At the close of the presentation, the board voted unanimously to request representation on the Jackson Advisory Group, or JAG, though it hasn't been determined if that means an appointed representative or a supervisorial liaison. The JAG advises CalFire and the Board of Forestry on the management of JDSF. Last month, two new members joined the group. Reno Franklin is the chairman of the Kashia Band of Pomo Indians in Sonoma County, and has served on the National Indian Health Board and is a member of the Advisory Council on Historic Preservation. Joanna Nelson, the director of science and conservation for the Save the Redwoods League, joined the JAG with the intent of advising “on the development of improved, science-based restoration management practices,” according to an announcement by the conservation group. There was no written material accompanying the presentation by Deputy Director of California Natural Resources Jessica Morse and Demonstration Forest Manager Kevin Conway, of CalFire. Morse spoke about who will be involved in the scientific review. Dr. Elizabeth Forsberg, who is a PhD scientist with the Nature Conservancy, was appointed to the Board of Forestry in September. She will be running the management sub-committee of the Board of Forestry. “As to this board's request specifically around reviewing the science, the forest and wildfire resilience task force at the state has a science advisory panel made up by PhD forest scientists from the UC's and other institutions, and we've asked them to do a scientific review of the Jackson,” Morse said. “That study is underway right now, and they'll be reporting back to us in the coming months.” Marie Jones, a member of the Mendocino County Climate Action Advisory Committee and a county planning commissioner, wanted more detail. “I would love to actually see what the proposal is for the scientific study of JDSF,” she said. “It sounds a little haphazard, and like the advisory group will actually be doing some of the work. Is it possible to provide us with an outline of the proposed study so that we can look at it and be sure that our issues will actually be looked at?” Morse reminded supervisors that the board of forestry voted last year to review the JDSF management plan with an eye toward tribal co-management. But David Martinez, a longtime activist with Winnemem Wintu heritage, said he hasn't seen evidence of it yet. “I've been out into the forest many times, especially in the Caspar 500 and Soda Gulch,” he said. “What I see is the road building and the destruction of sacred sites, cultural properties, and I see the proposed destruction of cultural gathering zones. And it's all been approved and okayed. It is not okay to destroy the historical properties of the Pomo people. And the Yuki peoples. Everything in their management plan says they can do these things because it is necessary for forest product production. This has to change,” he insisted. That might be possible, with a different funding stream. Morse said this year there is a $10 million budget for the demonstration forests, “so that there's not any pressure to be able to harvest trees. We've asked for additional funding in this year's current budget before the legislature so that these demonstration forests can just have a steady income, so that their costs are covered and that they can be these world-class forests that we need them to be.” She added that, “There are some studies happening on carbon sequestration and climate resilience that these new investments are going to be focused on.” Conway said Calfire plans to use some of the money for a fuels reduction project on road 408-409 near the Caspar scales; improve trail signage; and conduct fire resiliency work, like completing a long-planned fuel break along Three Chop Ridge, and re-introducing prescribed fire to the forest. “We're also going to be engaging with some scientists to try to answer some of the questions that the community has about our forest management and climate change,” he said. He also reported on CalFire's efforts to engage the community, including the activists who have brought the logging to a standstill. “We have not entered into any timber sales in 2022, in order to give us an opportunity to give a public tour of the sales prior to going out,” he said. “We have also been slowing down our submittal of new plans…we had three members of your climate action advisory committee come out and look at the forest. We've done five community tours.” But Jones remained dubious about what she called the mission of the forest. She said that, “The climate action committee was taken on tour of the site by the Mendocino Redwood Company,” a prominent lumber company in Mendocino and Humboldt counties. “The fact that CalFire notes this as a project that they did illustrates to me the lack of separation of the forest industry and CalFire's management of JDSF. A lot of the talk this morning was about, seems like CalFire thinks there's a problem in communication. And I don't really think that's the problem. I think the problem is much more fundamental than that. And it's the mission and the role of this publicly owned property that composes 50,000 acres in our county, and the value that it can provide in terms of addressing climate change, providing jobs in the tourism and recreation industry. And those things are negatively impacted by the relentless focus on cutting down trees.”

Our new series tells the story of the Winnemum Wintu people of Northern California and it centers around their clash with one of California's most important infrastructure sites: Shasta Dam. Shasta Dam played a big role in reengineering California's water by moving it from north to south, changing the landscape forever. The water has built California's Central Valley into a farming empire. But in addition to the harm it caused the Winnemem Wintu, it decimated salmon populations. Now the Winnemem want to bring them back. They also want to stop a federal project that would raise Shasta Dam even higher- a prospect the Winnemem say could destroy what remains of their culture by flooding important sacred sites.  This isn't necessarily going to be a piece of traditional journalism where you hear from one side and then you hear from the other. The way we think about it is that the American way of seeing things is presented to us every single day. We know that point of view. So the whole point of this documentary is to help people see things in a different way. We want people to come away with an understanding of the Winnemem Wintu, who they are, and what they're fighting for.   A Prayer for Salmon is coming soon.

We speak with Chief Caleen Sisk, the Spiritual Leader of the Winnemem Wintu Tribe, whose ancestral territory includes what is now known as the McCloud River watershed below “Buliyum Puyuk” aka. Mt. Shasta in Northern California. Since 2000, Chief Caleen has helped maintain the cultural and religious traditions of the Tribe and continually advocates for salmon restoration, the Human Right to Water and protection of Indigenous sacred sites. She and her tribe are currently working with Maori of Aotearoa (New Zealand) and federal fish biologists to return the now nearly extinct California Chinook salmon to the McCloud River. Run4Salmon Facebook Page: https://www.facebook.com/run4salmon/ Interview originally recorded in 2017. Interview by Carry Kim Hosted by Jessica Aldridge from SoCal 350 and Adventures in Waste Engineer: JP Morris and Blake Lampkin Executive Producer: Jack Eidt Show Created by Mark and JP Morris Music: Javier Kadry Episode 51

The Trump administration is laying the groundwork to enlarge California’s biggest reservoir. But the project runs afoul of both state law and the Winnemem Wintu tribe, which says the expansion would end up submerging its sacred sites.

Oakland teachers are ready to strike. We hear voices from the Defend Education march and rally on Saturday. From Making Contact: a look back at a few of the gender and human liberation warriors we lost last year, including Japanese American researcher Aiko Herzig-Yoshinaga, Brazilian LGBT and feminist activist politician Marielle Franco, LGBTQ and prison activist Ray Hill; Burmese indigenous environmental activist;Saw O Moo, Kiilu Nyasha, Black Panther, feminist activist and radio host; and acclaimed radical novelist Ursula Le Guin. And from Radio Curious, Christina Amestad Aanestad interviews Caleen Sisk-Franco, the Spiritual Leader and Chief of the Winnemem-Wintu tribe in Northern California, about ancient puberty rites for young women which the tribe resurrected a few years ago, after not performing it for 80 years. The forest service refuses to grant the tribe private access to their ancestral land along the McCloud river, because they are an “unrecognized” tribe, but the tribe realized that if they did not figure out how to bring back the ritual, it will be lost as the oldest members die out. Tune in Monday at 1:00 pm on KPFA 94.1 FM or online anywhere at www.kpfa.org. Or check out our blog kpfawomensmag.blogspot.com to hear it in our archive. The post Womens Magazine – January 14, 2019 – Keeping Collective Memory Alive appeared first on KPFA.

Now in its third year, the Run4Salmon is a 300-mile trek on foot, motorboat, bikes, horses and kayaks from the mouth of the Sacramento River, north to Shasta Lake, to send out prayers and raise awareness about their fight. It’s led by Winnemem Wintu chief Caleen Sisk, and is meant to be a spiritual journey to stop the Shasta Dam heightening, and bring back nearly extinct salmon. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

If you’ve eaten produce from California, then you’ve probably been nourished by waters from the McCloud River, also known as the Winnemem River, that feeds into irrigation canals to grow your food. If you’ve enjoyed the beauty and power of Mt. Shasta and the surrounding area, then you’ve been nurtured by the waters that flow […]

If you’ve eaten produce from California, then you’ve probably been nourished by waters from the McCloud River, also known as the Winnemem River, that feeds into irrigation canals to grow your food. If you’ve enjoyed the beauty and power of Mt. Shasta and the surrounding area, then you’ve been nurtured by the waters that flow […]

When I first watched Lyla June Johnston's music video, "All Nations Rise," it gave me  chills and I felt an immediate calling  to interview her for the Rising Women Leaders podcast.   Lyla's video  soon went viral on Facebook, with over 1.6 million views, providing a powerful platform for Lyla to share her message of compassion, peace and prayer during turbulent times.  I spoke with Lyla just days after she returned from Standing Rock last month.   I left this interview feeling filled with so much hope, passion, and devotion to our Mother Earth as well as my own dreams and ambitions.  I hope you will find the same. Please take the time this week to listen to the  full episode, and I encourage you to share it with your friends.   The time has come for us all  to rise together. Love,  Meredith "What you think of as failure is actually a success ...because you tried... Creator doesn't want you to be  perfect, Creator just wants you to try." In this episode Lyla shares: Her experience at Sacred Stone Camp at Standing Rock Her powerful story of overcoming  dark times of drugs, numbing and sexual abuse to find her light and power to be of service in this life A powerful prayer circle where she received clear messages from her guides The message she has for women who believe they have something powerful to share and give in their lives What we can do to cleanse ourselves of fear The role of prayer plays  in moving through turbulent times How the Purification Lodge Ceremony has affected her life A closing prayer in her native language Links in this episode: Lyla's Artist Fan Page Lyla's Music Lyla's Website and Writings Women At Standing Rock Lyla is calling in assistance,  management and administrative support in organizing her performances and speaking opportunities.  If you feel called to learn more, please contact her here. Lyla's Bio: Lyla June Johnston was raised in Taos, New Mexico and is a descendent of Diné (Navajo) and Tsétsêhéstâhese (Cheyenne) lineages. Her personal mission in life is to grow closer to Creator by learning how to love deeper. This prayer has taken her on many journeys and materializes in diverse ways. She is a student of global cycles of violence that eventually gave rise to The Native American Holocaust and the destruction of many cyclic relationships between human beings and nature. This exploration birthed her passion for revitalizing spiritual relationships with Mother Earth and cultivating spaces for forgiveness and reconciliation to occur between cultural groups. She is a co-founder of The Taos Peace and Reconciliation Council, which works to heal intergenerational trauma and ethnic division in the northern New Mexico. She is a walker within the Nihigaal Bee Iiná Movement, a 1,000-mile prayer walk through Diné Tah (the Navajo homeland) that is exposing the exploitation of Diné land and people by uranium, coal, oil and gas industries. She is the lead organizer of the Black Hill Unity Concert which gathers native and nonnative musicians to pray for the return of guardianship of the Black Hills to the Lakota, Nakota and Dakota nations. She is the also the founder of Regeneration Festival, an annual celebration of children that occurs in 13 countries around the world every September. In 2012, she graduated with honors from Stanford University with a degree in Environmental Anthropology. During her time there she wrote the award winning papers: Nature and the Supernatural: The Role of Culture and Spirituality in Sustaining Primate Populations in Manu National Park, Peru and Chonos Pom: Ethnic Endemism Among the Winnemem Wintu and the Cultural Impacts of Enlarging Shasta Reservoir. She is a musician, public speaker and internationally recognized performance poet. Lyla June ultimately attributes any achievements to Creator who gave her the tools and resources she uses to serve humanity. She currently lives in Diné Tah, the Navajo ancestral homeland which spans what is now called New Mexico, Colorado, Utah and Arizona. She spends her free time learning her engendered mother tongue, planting corn, beans and squash and spending time with elders who retain traditional spiritual and ecological knowledge.

California's record drought has given new life to old proposals, such as building more dams and weakening environmental protections. Terra Verde speaks with Eric Wesselman of Friends of the River and Chief Caleen Sisk of the Winnemem Wintu tribe. The post Heart of Dryness: California's Drought – April 11, 2014 appeared first on KPFA.

A small Indian tribe in Northern California tell their story of their struggle to prevent the flooding of their sacred land.

A small Indian tribe in Northern California tell their story of their struggle to prevent the flooding of their sacred land.

Colleen Sisk Franco and Mark Franco have been struggling for their rights to hold their sacred ceremonies on the land of the Winnemem Wintu people. Colleen Sisk Franco is the Chief and Spiritual Leader of her people, the Winnemem Band of the Wintu people who are of the McCloud River area of Mt. Shasta in California. Mt. Shasta is one of the most 20 sacred mountains on the earth. The Winnemem Wintu people are from inside the mountain and came out through the spring in order to take care of the watershed from the spring all the way down until it becomes the McCloud River. The water is very pure and doesn't need to be purified as most of the water in the world does. This is more important than ever these days when there is almost no pure water to drink and water is being privatized. Without pure water we can't live.They've been working with the forest service for thirty years to preserve the meadows where thousands of tourists go to Mt. Shasta to ski and go to the springs often damaging the fragile ecosystem and root system in the meadows and polluting the water. Some areas are getting so damaged they're not able to use them for ceremonies to help preserve the sanctity of the sacred there. The Winnemem are asking people to realize that when they visit sacred places they don't have to bless the places. They are there to bless you so leave your trinkets and sacred objects at home. Just leave your prayers with the water and you're walking the same way tribal people do. The Franco's say they are caught between the dominant culture that is based on having "rights" while the Native cultures are more based on "responsibility". Now global corporations, like Nestle, Coca Cola, Danon are getting water "rights" to privatize water and as they take the water out of the springs and aquifers they deplete the water that's there for you and for me. So they've been involved in a struggle to keep these companies from coming in and taking water, leaving little or none for you and me unless we pay.The people sing to the water at the spring once a year to let the the water know they're there. Then others say if the Winnemem can go to the spring this means that others should be able to go there too. However, the Francos say that non-Winnemem often don't realize it's a sacred space. and say that they wouldn't go into someone else's sacred space and do whatever they want. some people even put remains of eight cremations in the spring and the Winnemem had to clean them out because they pollute the water with pollutants from the cremations.National Park Services, Forest Service, and Dept. of Interior can be helpful but Mark finds it frustrating to get them to understand and write helpful legislation and then by the time they understand they retire and the native people have to start over again. They declared war on the US Government in 2004 and had a war dance to stop the destruction of the McLeod River and the delta area and to the using of the backing up of the sacred water above the dam stopping salmon, their relative, from coming back up.The Francos live about ten miles from Shasta because the Government took their land and flooded it and they had no place to live-for the second time. When California became a state there were over 14,000 Winnemem on the McLeod river. By 1900 there were only 395. Today there are only 130 Winnemem who carry on and have only the Winnemem Religion guiding them. They all go to the ceremonies and are supported by other Wintu people. They also get support for their issues from the Lakota, Hopi, and many other tribes and non-native people in Oregon, Washington, and Environmental groups in the Bay Area are their support base.Recorded October 2006.