California: Tribes Express Coastal Gathering Rights In Ancestral Territory

California: Tribes Express Coastal Gathering Rights In Ancestral Territory   Tribal members will meet at several locations on Saturday to practice traditional harvest   Armed with only tribal identification cards, Native Americans from Tolowa Country to the Wiyot Nation will be assembling on culturally critical beaches Saturday to harvest marine resources.   “We don’t perceive traditional tribal gathering of ocean resources to be some kind of delinquent activity, but the state and feds do,”...

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