#Indian canyon

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Friends, Indian Canyon has a new fundraiser rolling, with the goal of getting to safe housing for Native elders on the land with ADA needs. If you can, please consider sending something their way? It’s such an important sacred place and these elders deserve to be safe in their living accommodations on ancestral land.

Fundraiser link: https://www.gofundme.com/f/indian-canyon-elders-ada-dwelling-safety-needs

Also here’s a blog post from Kanyon Sayers-Roods with more info about the current situation and needs at Indian Canyon:

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Indian Canyon by Cara Romero

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Kanyon Sayers-Roods speaks about the support needs at Indian Canyon: “Maintaining the Canyon is no easy task. We have a sacred obligation to tend our ancestral homelands and be good Ancestors-In-Training.”

The Indian Canyon community is in need of funds to help with off-the-grid land maintenance and resources needed to care for our two elders, both of whom are in failing health and require ongoing care.

The primary goal for this fundraiser is $6,000. This will support the purchase of a reliable, high-quality log-splitter for firewood to keep these elders warm and to provide for ceremony for years to come. If we raise enough funds, we will also direct funds toward desperately needed upgrades and repairs, such as the over 20-year old solar power system and other crucial infrastructure projects.

Who is handling these funds?

The Coru Cathubodua Priesthood (a Celtic polytheist religious order) is organizing this fundraiser. Your contributions will be received by the Priesthood’s nonprofit GoFundMe account, and then passed on directly to Indian Canyon. We are serving as the organizers for this fundraiser simply in order to relieve some of the labor of fundraising so that the very busy Indian Canyon folks can focus on other tasks. 100% of all funds raised by this fundraiser will be passed on to Indian Canyon through their registered 501(c)(3) non-profit organization, Costanoan Indian Research, owned and held by the Indian Canyon Chualar Tribe of the Costanoan-Ohlone People, aka “Indian Canyon Nation” since 1985.

Check out the donor gifts that have been donated to benefit this fundraiser! :D

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Wide Open Spaces in Yosemite National Park by Mark Stevens Via Flickr: While walking across a grassy meadow in Yosemite Valley with a view lookin to the northwest to more distant ridges and peaks. This setting would normally include Yosemite Falls, but the autumn timeframe had dried up the waters of the falls and river. So my focus was on capturing the setting present with the grassy meadow, forest of trees, and then mountainside and finding a balance with the angle of the image captured. I did some initial post-processing work making adjustments to contrast, brightness and saturation with DxO PhotoLab 5. I then exported a TIFF image to Nik Color Efex Pro 4 where I added a Polarization and Pro Contrast filter for that last effect on the image captured.

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Kalisan Canyon, Socotra Islands / Yemen (by Kristina Makeeva).

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Palm Springs CA

29 January 2023

The winds were strong on the I-10 corridor near the wind turbines - Indian Canyon Drive was actually closed between the interstate and Palm Springs due to blowing sand. I was concerned about my planned early morning ride in Palm Springs, but it turned out not to be an issue with nothing more than a gentle breeze.

I parked at Victoria Park and rode south through, or just west, of downtown, up into Indian Canyons area. I paid my $7 senior fee at the booth and rode the pavement up to Andreas Canyon and then all the way to the parking lot at Palm Canyon. These provided the only real hills of the day, both on empty roads.

The second half of my loop was on a mix of bike lanes and bike paths farther east and past the airport. The streets and neighborhoods of Palm Springs don’t do much for me and certainly didn’t lend themselves to photos, so most of my pictures are from the Indian Canyons section.

I guess the whole ride was about two hours. I tossed the bike back in the car and headed back to Desert Hot Springs where we were staying. We packed up and were in San Diego by dinner, but not without having stopped at Bombay Beach, Slab City, and Borrego Springs.

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American Auto Trail-Castle Gate to Duchesne Road (Helper to Duchesne UT)

American Auto Trail-Castle Gate to Duchesne Road (Helper to Duchesne UT) https://youtu.be/qNJOq1dMvio This auto trail explores U.S. Highway 191 from Helper, through Castle Gate, to Duchesne, Utah.

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We're organizing this fundraiser to gather funds for a wood splitter that is greatly needed for care of elders at Indian Canyon, an important site of Indigenous revitalization in California.

Your contributions will help in revitalizing Indigenous Ohlone land and culture, supporting connection and learning about the natural environment and bringing Indigenous knowledge forward. Please contribute what you can, and please share this link far and wide!

Donation link here: https://gofund.me/4a5be3d1

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I snuck in a late spring hike in Cheat River Canyon yesterday, before the dreaded heat dome builds in early next week. Between Brazil's Pantanal going up in flames and the massive heat spikes in North America and elsewhere, I wonder what will be left of this planet's beautiful wild places in twenty to thirty years. For now, I celebrate and cherish every day the glorious diversity of living things that nature has gifted us. This includes the magnificent poke milkweed (Asclepias exaltata), a shade tolerant member of the dogbane family, which feeds and hosts a great many of those living things, such as the extraordinary Himmelman's plume moth (Geina tenuidactylus). Or the comical-looking rock harlequin (Corydalis sempervirens), which clings to the rocky outcrops of the canyon. And the exquisite downy skullcap (Scutellaria incana), a gregarious summer mint that associates with wild bergamot and tall thimbleweed at forest edges. And how about the peculiar dangling flowers of Indian cucumber (Medeola virginiana) or the pale, ghostly stems and bracts of the parasitic Indian pipe (Monotropa uniflora), just now emerging from the forest floor? In a couple of weeks, the rhododendron bloom will start in the canyon and summer will be in full swing.

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A little sun

8/14/24

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This week we’re highlighting some of the beautiful gifts we’ve assembled for donors to this fundraiser. You can receive a handmade ceramic cup from Brennos Gunn of Strixian Creations. These donor gifts have been donated at the expense of the artist so that 100% of proceeds from the fundraiser can be passed on directly to Indian Canyon.

Support Indian Canyon on Gofundme here:

https://www.gofundme.com/f/keep-the-fire-at-indian-canyon