all right so hi i'm julia lang and
i am here in uh mckinleyville and uh up in northwestern california uh the local
river that we have here is called the patawat in the whiat language and this is the
upper end of the wiat territory and then there's a wee art which is the
the the the uh humboldt bay and then not we are no wiki is the humboldt bay and
we are is the eel river and so it's one part of the whole system of all the rivers that
we have up here in northwestern california and this is
uh we outland uh there's so much to
talk about what where could we possibly begin and um i am a member of the karup
tribe and the kurdish tribe is a hokan speaking people uh up river about
60 miles up the the um the klamath river our boundary is at bluff creek and from
bluff creek you go all the way up the river up to the syad valley which is i don't know
80 miles i think up the up the klamath river and included on that river is the salmon river and
lots and lots of major extremes and cree
ks and all of that that feed as tributaries into the climate
and so that it's our land no no sieve than and we call it um uh i've been doing a lot of language
teaching in the last number of years 20 years 30 years actually but really have gotten into
trying to help in the process of creating new speakers it's our new mantra is not to learn
your language but to become a speaker and to create new speakers that's our goal and that and
it's connected with this idea of environment and it's in co
nnected with this idea that we're we're
discussing today this idea of salmon and the water and all of that it's uh what i what i've been uh
saying lately is that the our language is the key that opens the door uh and beyond that door is an
indigenous consciousness an indigenous worldview so this first picture for instance uh
represents that everything that we are and um so actually i guess we did we reverse a slide i
wonder if we can go to the slide two then yeah oh no slide three there tha
t one so this is the
center of the world at high water in the in in wintertime this is uh uh the whole area the center
of the photo there is uh what we call kathy mead and that is the falls and it's now totally
inundated with the river and the mountain to the left there is called and that is uh the one the
the mountain who is above us and it overlooks and is a protector for a cut to me and we say that
that person was once a man and when they were our belief is that we have spirits that wrot
e that
lived here in this world before the human beings arrived and that that person decided to become
this mountain rather than leave the the earth and go across the ocean this land and go across the
ocean to um to the spirit world we call it and so he he decided that he would stay here
and he would stand up above uh up up above and then he decided well what will the
human beings do so this person this mountain taught us everything to live from fishing
hunting all of our livelihood comes
from this mountain so that's very very important to
our cultural uh understanding of a relationship between the human being and the land that this
is all one place now if we go back to the first photo again so here is uh the uh the same
place uh at uh at more normal late fall flows and if you look at the very very center
you can't really see it very well but there's a flat rock down there right in the
very middle of the photograph and that flat rock just off the off the river there that is
the place where the fishermen go so this here is called the imwid the eed as where
all the salmon for the people is is caught families had fisheries all along the klamath
river but this place was the people's uh e and it was owned and operated by and for the indian
people kind of people at qatar mean and and it was owned by uh days so each day was separated into
morning and afternoon and so uh you had rights your family had rights to fish at these places
during the morning and during the a
fternoon and uh so uh family it was very important because you
would catch enough salmon at that point to start to uh for your whole family for the year and
also to be able to provide for other families who were not able uh to uh or who did not have that
fishing right and and then uh for example in the second world war uh my grandmother's
uncle uh uh uncle john johnny pepper was uh one of the only able-bodied men that were
still around at that time he was older man but he was able to uh go
so he inherited all
of these fishing rights uh for these days so every family they would say this is you
you fish for me i have these this this these times and they would go down and fish for the
people and uh then the fishermen would would uh divvy up the fish to the uh to the uh fish
owner the fish day owner we call fish days and so there's a very very important place
okay now we can go to that the next slide yeah this is the down river edge this is asanam
kadak this is uttamine so the d
own river falls and this here is at ike's flat it's on the
left there and on the right is i'll make adam and amikyatum is where we say that the salmon
came from where they when the when the human beings arrived this is where salmon was was uh
actually being uh kept and lynn had uh uh did a big painting with uh high school students
which which she'll show you later which uh which talks of this place and the creation story
associated with it almeida means amma means salmon in ikea means um wh
ere it is made or the place
that it is made and so i'll make amethyadam is uh is the site of the um what they call
the mountain dance and um uh the jump dance uh held a 10-day world renewal ceremony and so
this is a very important place and it's all within you know pretty much shouting distance not
really but i mean it's like within a mile of each each each place is located like say a mile apart
and so this is on the klamath river a little place called some smart a very small little place 2
50
people are there when everybody's home and so it's a it's a small but very powerful place and
i think that's one of the important things that native people can teach society is that you know
your centers are sacred places and should only be it should not be populated but like you know
like the cities are these days you know these places are sacred and they need to remain natural
they they should not be converted into you know properties for you know um with values going
through the sky
and all of this kind of stuff so anyway i just wanted to kind of start with
those and then we can move on with our photos uh i wanted to show so this is a a
photograph of of a couple at cudamine this here happens to be at um at a place called
everest field uh which is just above cudamine and i wanted to show it because it kind of represents
that first human the first the first human being the first couple and how human beings came into
this world that they came in with the idea that they we
re agreeing to live by the laws that were
contained and passed on in these things called our stories our creation stories piqua the piqua are
in that contains everything that we need the piqua are very are the stories and then associated with
that is the unknown or the medicine formula that is also a basis so the piqua tells us the story of
how it all happened but then the ana tells us how it was used and how to harness the power of the
ikadev that is being talked about in that piqua so the
y had a process so they were able
to say this is their story and now this is the process that they lined out for us to be able
to harness that and it includes everything from the um the salmon the idea of the salmon being
abandoned a woman that they um when they were released at amica room from that house on alban
the salmon went down and they say at the mouth the man's is on one side of the river and and the
woman is at the other side of the river and that the man is kind of more individua
l is individual
kind of uh holding uh protecting and the the woman is the one who calls them in so during the
sabbath runs that this is the one that says okay now and then they come and they the runs begin
and that's where all the anatomists uh fish on the clama so anyway and go uh connect go forward so
uh art is uh there's a very uh for me it's been you know pretty much a lifestyle i've been uh
i make as much money as i need to exist and and live and then you know i try to but in the proce
ss
create as much time as i can in creating artwork and um and my artwork has changed over the years
it evolves it goes one extreme to the next you could say i'm kind of an extremist but in a good
way not too much in a bad way hopefully and uh go ahead and change so this is one example of of a
work that a recent fairly recent work i think from last year in the last uh beginning of last year
i think and uh it represents uh where this is the word that uh ikane asked where to where have
you a
ll gone because they um it's the human beings this is the recurring theme is that the human we
are the human being and we are not nature in the sense that that nature is free nature and that is
the role of the human being to keep nature free uh that's our job you know that's our job is to you
know pro to really promote uh the diversity in the world the natural biological uh diversity in the
world that's our job that's what we're here for and that we and the idea of creating freedom for
natu
re to prosper and to just uh be be itself the nature needs to be free and then the human beings
we will be we are the ones that require laws that we're the ones that are that are bound
by laws uh to uh maintain that relationship with the nature that's our that's the way they
they set it up that human beings will always need to have laws because you know of these things
called greed which we've seen a lot of that lately uh because of these things called uh you know
uh i guess i don't know av
arice and you know uh pro you know pride all these different
things that humans end up feeling and so that's why it's really important that that
our main god and our main principle is is the nature of our land of who we are where we live
where we come from that is the one who is um in in charge and we think of it in terms of a man and
a woman that you know everything comes in pairs as a man and a woman and each has
its role within that natural uh within that particular you know natural worl
d idea
what to where have you gone because we say that they all left the the spirits of the world's left
at one point and uh when we ask for their help that's what we're saying where did you
guys go and then they will reveal to us their location on this land if they're still here
or wherever they are and that we can pray to them and they will guide us they will give
us and all of that okay next slide so uh the idea of resistance the idea of political
the idea of legal these are all kind of
modern modern dilemmas that did not exist it's kind of like being invaded
which is what we are colonial the colonial boot is still pretty much hanging over us in
many places some places that's right the boots right on our necks and so but um the idea of
resistance and um activistic kinds of uh active you know resistance and and protest and uh and uh
is really an important uh part of who we are today if we are to fulfill our role as human beings and
if we don't care about that then maybe th
is isn't as important but if we want to be a human being
if we want to be the kind of person that that we we were told was the ideal person the human
being that that would be protective of nature that would be um a believer in all of
these uh things called culture then in a way this represents us so who is it
it's crane the um the idea of no dapple um there's a psalm that we kind of created there's
a song in our language of the crane and the crane is a funny person because he's a fisherman
and so
he walks along the shores and he's and he catches fish periodically in whatever is in along
the shore and any song is real funny he goes so he says that uh i am um i am alive i live
because of frogs he said if it wasn't for those frogs i wouldn't be around anymore and so um so
we adapted that during this the dakota pipeline um uh period uh uh back on the planes what's that
been almost two years ago by now and uh recent you know uh they it finally got shut down and they
said so it's
been really great so crain's a pretty powerful person if if we think about it that you
know because we adapted his song and we said uh it's because of water that i am alive as a
human being so we were able to kind of take that um tradition no song and and be
create a new way of looking at um at our uh our activism that we're just being
ourselves we're not trying to be anybody else you know we're not trying to be uh leaders of this
and that you know we're gonna be home i mean we're gonna we'
re home bodies uh if you think about
it i in northwestern california i think we're all pretty much homebodies and that's you know the
way we are so uh next slide hopefully i'm not gone too far over time uh this here's another painting
that i recently did um uh it represents um it was a steelhead uh uh a call for art to uh create
steelhead uh something representing steelhead so you know as i was thinking um i have a uh my
painting process is to just bomb a canvas with color could be one colo
r a couple of
colors uh and just kind of smoosh it all all around and then stand back and look and see
what story is in there that's trying to come out and so i do do do it that way i did it so in
the far far back you can see some different colors brown colors and um and suddenly uh
and i got all of these uh there's a local photographer who does a lot of underwater um
photography of anadromous fish salmon steelhead and sturgeon eels and all of that and um so i was
watching those and you kn
ow just having a really hard time how do you be so literal you know uh
preserving protecting the water and the land and all that how can you be so literal i have a hard
time doing that some people are really graphically strong like lyn you'll find out later she's
able to take a lot of different ideas like that and combine them in a in a really clear
graphic way i tend to kind of i i tend to think i don't know how i think really to be honest
and uh but so this is what happened so um the stee
lhead and salmon have this kind of
a it's a really light red line along the length of their body so the first thing that really
happened was that red circle and so i i just i just did it i had no clue what i was doing so
and i was like oh that is the side that's just that's that line on the side of the fish and um
and it's kind of that that color and so based on that everything just kind of came together and
it just within you know a day or two it was done and it combines all of those thing
s the depth of
the water the the flow the the interconnectedness and all of that and so anyway that's kind of
uh was my submission for that um particular um uh call for art see sarah douglas and then
finally uh i work a lot with youth and i think that's kind of one of the um the great things i
guess uh you know i said with when it comes to language our goal is to create new speakers and
in working with youth the goal is creating new uh human beings and so uh working with youth
we've done l
ots of things in fact where kateri have previously worked in their um their kind of
break room or i don't know what that room was that was off on the not on the side you were on but
on the other side a long room there conference room of some sort anyway we would go in there
and we used to do uh youth programs for years and uh one of the things we would do is
periodically is to pull out a big piece of canvas and then create this create these um canvases
uh paintings and so one was because it
's sacred so this is a uh i don't know i think they're
they were all under 18 and i think there were maybe eight was just the the youngest that
they were uh all these youth and then so we painted this thing and so because it's sacred
and that was one of the things about the river uh why is it sacred it's because it is
sacred it is sacred it's a sacred thing the water and um and then surrounded around that
is the human beings and our relationship with it nature and then how each of us as hum
an beings
are connected with uh with that nature as well so anyway there's all but done by a bunch of kids and
it was like wow that's really nice you guys did a fantastic job so um i don't know why the ear is
down there but i guess you have to listen too so i'm ready now to listen to other folks and
um so i thank you very much uh um brittany to um uh for inviting me uh to this there's
a bunch of other things um i wanted to end with this this is one of our youth that we've
been working with
and uh zoe uh so this was her first ceremony in a in in a way i don't know
if she had danced with the tolerance or not yet but uh this was at chop a number of years
ago and um it was all everybody had finished up and everyone was sitting and getting ready
to pack up and go home because the ceremony is just that uh you could see some of the other
youth up in the right hand corner up there this was uh people from the river schools this
is uh the klamath and salmon river schools they would ha
ve periodic gatherings
on the salmon river in this case and uh we would uh you know tell them stories
and and try to give some kind of value cultural knowledge pass it on to all the
young people so that's a really i think where we are now is really working with youth
and language and connecting them with that vast body of knowledge known as indian indian
culture and indian law so thank you very much um so without further ado i'm going to hand
it over to lynn to give her presentation and ta
lk so lynn are you ready uh yes
great let me be sure i get this right okay there you go so ayuki koda nana tui lynn i'm a member of the hoopa tribe and a
descendant of the karuk and yurok people and um like julian said where do you start
um i never thought like khateri i never think of myself as an activist
so much but an artist i am and you know other things my grandmother now and um
but when i started thinking about it and looking back on my life i realized well i was born in a
family of
activists starting with my grandfather who did many things to help our you know our
people his people through education through um you know trying to bring back culture and all these
different things and it filtered down through his children and his grandchildren and i'm thankful
for that experience those experiences in growing up and what i learned not just from him but other
relatives ants that were basket weavers and also contemporary artists and um there was a time when
it was hard to
gather materials for baskets and so my aunt and some of her sisters and other women
started a pottery guild and they used natural um clay from our area even though traditionally
our ancestors were not potters but they started doing pottery using the native clay and
incorporating the basket designs onto the pottery because at that time there wasn't very many people
still weaving and it was hard to get materials but then that changed later on and my aunt decided
we needed to have our basket c
lasses and so um she was able with others to get that started
and then started making other types of jewelry using traditional materials and incorporating
baskets basket medallions in that and kind of started this whole whole art form more of
a contemporary you might say art form uh that's gone continued on today and it's actually
grown throughout california so there's a lot of people that are um doing this type of
art form using traditional um items so um anyway my father was an activist
in a lot of different levels both you know locally as well as nationally especially
in indian education and so i was surrounded by these people and influenced my my life in a lot of
ways but also there was um through that there was activism going on like when i first started
college in the early um well it was late 60s early 70s that's the time of the civil rights and then
a lot of other things came from that including um you know the native people with american
indian movement and alcatraz
and many other things and uh my father was involved in getting
a university started all indian university at uh in davis called dqu so there are many things
going around around me that influenced my life but i was an artist at heart and
when i started college i wanted to study a lot of different things i didn't
know what i wanted to do but i ended up in art and one of the people that was an influence
on me was a navajo artist he was a teacher i took a couple classes from him you
know and
i was at that time i was just learning a lot of different things about art but
he um motivated me and inspired me to do art that was related to my own culture and my own indian
identity and that's kind of where i took off as far as art in the direction that it has grown
and become and who i am now as an artist and this piece this is moving forward you
know many years ahead i had an opportunity to teach a class at mckinleyville high with
native students and through a grant through the humbol
dt area foundation locally and so i
got this grant to do a collaborative piece with people in the community and so i chose
to work with these students at mckinley high and i chose the theme of salmon as to to teach art so it was a regular art class but i
chose salmon as a theme so we started out with um well this piece isn't with front
that the students did but this was that process of working with those students was
kind of an inspiration for me to really look at the importance of salmon i
n our tribal
people's lives not just traditionally but today and so um this was one of the pieces
that i did myself and i'll get to the other pieces that i did with students
but this one here swim up the river has a little short palm it's called swim
up the river don't go with the flow but let's see swim up the river don't go with the flow we'll find our way home again it's not far to
go so this piece was about of course the salmon going up to their spawning grounds but it was also
about u
s as human beings that sometimes we have to swim against the river swim against the current
in order to do the right thing that we have to stand up for what we believe in and do the right
thing in terms of our environment and taking care of the world and the earth so that's what this
one is about so you can change it to the next one this represents the uh klamath river
that julian showed some photographs um of and it's called chamyach ich ishyat
and it's a it's a part of a prayer that is to
ld at the end of our traditional stories during
the winter time and it has to do with bringing or praying for the salmon to return in the spring
and the stories were told during the wintertime and so um you know it made sense like during the
winter time when we don't have the salmon running and we don't have all the resources available
as far as food that was really important to ensure that we have the return of the salmon
in our rivers because salmon was you know one of our main sources of
food and we also did
ceremonies as julian mentioned and kateri regards to the jump dance and we also have
a ceremony called the white deerskin dance which is those are both considered world renewal
ceremonies to bring back balance into the world to give thanks for all the things that the earth
has provided in the past year or a couple of years and to pray that we have a future of resources
with the waters the river the salmon and all the life that the rivers give and the deer represents
t
he really the spiritual realm but it also connects us to the earth and reminds us that we
are connected to both the spiritual world above us and the earth below us and that we are part of it
all it's all connected so we can go on to the next julian mentioned a story about how the salmon came
to be and they're at the place at ame-kyotum and how the salmon um in the story that there were two
old women that were hiding the salmon underneath their house in the water below their house and so
all
the uh beings below did not have the salmon and and coyote had learned about these women so
he i'm not going to do the old story but he was able to trick them and release all the salmon from
underneath the house into the rivers and this is a piece i did with the students at mckinleyville
high they painted all the salmon sitting at their desk and then we glued the salmon onto the piece
but they also were involved in painting the whole the whole piece and this is a six by six foot
panel and
we did four of them during that year and again it was a whole year of the the theme was
about the salmon and the importance of the salmon to our ancestors and then bringing up
bringing us to the current time it also included a piece that i didn't that's not part
of this powerpoint but it shows the traditional methods of salmon fishing that our ancestors
did and also up into the present day of gill net fishing and also a ceremony we call the first
salmon ceremony that would happen um with al
l of the tribes in our area the huppah the
iraq the karu did a salmon ceremony to um bring back the salmon at the beginning
of the salmon runs in the in the spring and um so it was a very sacred ceremony as we
were all i guess of all mention the sacredness of the waters of the rivers and of the um of the
salmon to our people the these are all the this is the life force of our people this these rivers and
the life that it provides for our people okay next this was another one we did about th
e life cycle
of the salmon from the spawning fish in the corner in the right laying the eggs and then all the
stages of the salmon as they're growing and eventually moving swimming um down the river
to the mouth of the river of the klamath river and going into the estuary where they um get
acclimated into the water to fresh water and the salt water mixed in estuary and then they
eventually swim out into the ocean and they remain there from five to seven years before they
come back to their
original spawning ground at different places on the river each each fish
knows where to go so it's pretty amazing okay and this was also another piece we did again
they're like six feet by six feet canvas panels and this was to show what's been going on
more recently concerning our salmon and the issues around the water and the dams that are on
the river klamath river throughout the klamath river basin that goes from the northern
california up into the lower part of oregon and this was in
2000 uh six and seven and
during that time there was um some hearings going on regarding the removal of the dams um on the
on the klamath river and these are issues that are still going on today and haven't been
totally resolved we still have the dams and there's been um legislation passed to remove the
dams but it takes money and it takes a government effort as well as a lot of other people to do
that so we're still waiting for that to happen but this is a very educational moment for
not
only the students but for myself a couple of students and myself went to one of
the hearings and so the issues had to do with you know our tribal sovereignty and fishing rights
and water rights but there we were up against farmers in oregon that are using the
water same water source for farming and then the commercial fishermen so there
was different people that have a stake in this water and during that year of 2002 there was
a big fish kill that happened on the rivers uh on the klamath ri
ver that had
to do with warm temperatures from from drought and also this parasite that grows
um that really grows a lot during warm you know temperature rises and then because of the dams the
low also the low water um you know levels and so that combination created this large large um
fish kill and then of course other farmers also wanting that water for their farming so anyway it was a very um educational experience
for all of us and brought awareness to us uh me more so than i had in the
past and uh
you know something looking at the water and looking you know because i grew up with
salmon like many of us did and you know you could kind of take it for granted that'll always
be there but it we can't take it for granted okay this is just a painting i did you know having
to do with salmon and the salmon returning to their spawning ground okay this is a piece i did that has to do with the
same issues around salmon and swimming against the current like i mentioned in the other p
iece that
i did and in the lower right hand corner different kinds of industry that affect our environment from
the oil extraction and industry to the uranium nuclear power plants and the dams
on the on the rivers and how the devastation the effect it ha can have on our
waters our rivers our salmon and other life source um sources that are in the rivers and that we
are connected in this way to the salmon you know it's kind of like they're the salmon are like the
canary in the cave you know
what happens to them affects our lives and so in the center is the
the fetus of a human being as well as the eggs of a salmon so you know we're connected in this
way and we one affects the other what we do affects the the water the health of the water
the rivers and the salmon and their lives affect ours because they have given us and still
do you know as a food source and beyond okay this was a response to what was happening in north
dakota at standing rock and um that julian had a piece
that had also to do with this but you know
it's uh something that affects even though it was far away it has it affects all of us indigenous
people and it was a really good time to educate a lot of youth and tribal people from all over
there was people that went there from california from our area tribal people that went there
to stand with the native people there uh just and to uh there was families that went and cooked
for people and people that you know gave sacrifice and stayed there a
long time from different tribes
and different not just tribal people but others as well but it brought a lot of awareness and
just recently there was um i don't know what the all the technical or all the details about it but
there right now that there has been a stop to that pipeline temper at least temporarily and as
well as i think two uh two or three others in the united states and beyond maybe um so um you
know there there's there was a huge impact on what by those people standing up fo
r what they
believed in because it's so important to their life the water and the effect of
these pipelines on our water sources and that's throughout the united states and canada and
probably beyond that so it's really important to educate ourselves to become aware and to stand
up for these the rights of the water and okay this is a piece i did for a california indian
conference that took place at humboldt state university and um you know it has to do with
family and you know our ancestor
s and the relationship that we have to the world
around us to our environment to the wildlife and to the water and to the food
sources that the earth has provided for us and to that we are a living people that have a
living culture that still is part of us today that we nurture and we value as sacred and um you
know there's many of us who are have been involved like my family for probably 45 years
or so in cultural revitalization um that i feel a privilege to have been a
part and continue
to be a part in revitalizing our ceremonies such as our flower dance
ceremonies which is a girls puberty ceremony for our young women that's um we had we um were
able to bring back julia and i were kind of instrumental in getting that started for the
karuk um peoples we've since 1996 when my daughter was coming of age and another friend of
ours kim moon and we were able to after much research and and making regalia and many many
other things language included prayers and a lot of things of
trying to revitalize a ceremony
that hadn't taken place for over 120 years and where we didn't have living people to be able
to give us a map of what to follow that we had to do that on our own and we were able to do that and
we were continuing to do that ceremony today and since that time um uh the tribes the local tribes
in the area besides the karuk the huppah the urak the uh tala um the snungwe that i want
to mention that the talawah had theirs the same like the year before we did um bu
t anyway
that's been a beautiful thing and as well as other ceremonies that continue to be um flourish with
many efforts from many people throughout the years that in bringing these ceremonies back and it's
wonderful to see young people being involved and people not only singing songs from our
ancestors but creating new songs and people like criteria that are weavers you know like
our ancestors that are teaching you young people to become involved in their culture i feel that
being involve
d in culture is a form of activism so i say to kateri you are definitely an
activist and you know anyone that you know takes up their culture and teaching others and
for our children our grandchildren and our future generations you're activists and our ancestors
were activists in resisting in in surviving all the things they had to survive whatever they
had to do you know and each each generation evolves and and rises up to the whatever's
going on the changes that need to happen um and part
of that is culture and taking care
of our environment our waters and we have to learn our histories know our history so we know
what our ancestors went through what they did and how their spirit is what kept them going
the spirit of the land you know the spirit of the earth that's where their strength comes
from and that's the strength that we have that we can continue on to you know to
continue with who we are and our culture okay and this was a piece i did last summer that's
at humboldt
state university is a grant through native american studies um katja i want
to say thank you to katja rizzling baldy that she had believed she was the one
that wrote the grant and there was a building called the native forum on campus
that was built somewhat like a traditional at least to look on the outside like a traditional
house as you can see in the picture and on the lower right hand side um traditional native
house from our area and anyway there's a lobby area in the back of this th
is building which is
a then the forum is a gathering place so we have whole classes as well as other events especially
native uh people coming together from not only on campus from but from the community and beyond
and that's where the conference was held that i mentioned earlier earlier the california indian
conference and anyway in the lobby um they wanted to um create a space that educates people to the
people of our area of northern california who we are and educate the people that are
on campus
the students that are coming to campus and others and so in the middle is a is a map of
northern california i wanted to show some of the tribal territories the traditional aboriginal
territories of our peoples in northern california and the languages that the word
for people in our different tribes so it has the name of a tribe let's say karuk but
it also has our traditional word for people at odd so i wanted to use our some of our
languages to show that and then show how we are
connected to our environment
to the mountains the rivers the ocean and then we have i wanted to show some of the
culture through our ceremonies and our basket weaving and um some of the other things that
are important to us at wildlife um there's the eagle on one side and our woodpecker on one side
and then in the middle is the condor and i want to mention the condor because the condor is returning
the yurok tribe has put in a lot of effort to make this happen over the last several years to
bring back the condor to our area which has was almost extinct in california the california
condor and then there were efforts made in different parts especially in southern
california to bring those back so anyway i know i'm running out of time so
i am i think that's just about it
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