#Wiyot Tribe

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Celebrating Health and Wellness with the Wiyot Tribe

MoveStrong Partners with the Wiyot Tribe to Launch State-of-the-Art Outdoor Fitness Park

MoveStrong is thrilled to announce the grand opening of a new FitGround in collaboration with the Wiyot Tribe. Wiyot Tribe officials came together to celebrate the Expansion of the Table Bluff Reservation Community Playground on May 21, 2024, and open the new MoveStrong Outdoor Fitness Wiyot Tribe Community Park.

This brand-new outdoor fitness area, opened with a vibrant ribbon-cutting ceremony followed by a guided training session, is designed to promote health and wellness among tribal members and the broader community.

This project is part of the Tribes five-year plan to expand upon healthy outdoor infrastructure and the completion of Phase 2 of a two-phase project; the first being a renovated children’s playground.

The new FitGround is equipped with versatile fitness stations like the 6-Post T-Rex, over-under posts, an agility ladder and dots, parallel bars, plyo steps, a balance beam, hanging balance discs, and a battle rope station. These features promote strength, endurance, agility, flexibility, and coordination. For detailed instructions and exercise ideas, athletes can simply scan a QR code at each station, ensuring safe and effective use. 

All exercises can be scaled to any fitness level, making it suitable for a broad range of users. 

Wiyot Tribe Education Department invited Abram Benally, Navajo, 2018 Ninja Warrior contestant, Navy Reservist, and owner of Calisthenics Navajo to come out to promote the obstacle course with the kids and teens of the community. He was impressed with the unique setup of the park and looks forward to come back.

MoveStrong and the Wiyot Tribe’s commitment to enhancing physical wellbeing and community connection shines through this initiative. The FitGround creates a welcoming space for everyone to enjoy fitness in the great outdoors. 

This collaboration not only promotes the importance of physical health but also fosters the spirit of community and living. The Wiyot Tribe, known for their rich cultural heritage and deep connection to nature, finds a perfect partner in MoveStrong, whose innovative fitness solutions are designed to complement and enhance outdoor environments for a 

sustainable and engaging way to stay active.

About Company

- MoveStrong is a leading provider of innovative fitness equipment designed to enhance functional strength training for indoor and outdoor areas, including functional strength training equipment, obstacle courses and specialty training accessories and tools.

- We accompany all customers through the whole project with the support of budget, 

design, layout, construction, installation, equipment configuration, specialty surfacing, and education on the  final fitness site for the most efficient use.

- Mainly industrial customers for commercial gyms, outdoor fitness and obstacle courses, including recreation centers, parks, health clubs, schools, military, fire and EMT, law enforcement

- Designed, engineered, and made in USA

For further information and media inquiries visit www.movestrongfit.com or call toll free at 855-728-8700

Links & Further information: 

- https://www.movestrongfit.com/whomovesstrong/2024/5/27/celebrating-health-and-wellness-with-the-wiyot-tribe-movestrong-fitground- https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EXh9ntQ8eYs

[iwanttobepersephone]

Fighting the urge to make random characters in my reincarnation au Native American

In defense: I want to, it's a reincarnation, meaning physical features and heritages can be changed, it's fun, representation of smaller, less talked about tribes is fun and important

Against it: it feels weird to say that Pauline is Wiyot. Why? I don't know. Maybe cause in canon she very much so is not? But also, that's never explicitly stated, I don't think,,,,,, idk. I'm probably gonna do it anyway

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Want to honor Dakota land? With a new voluntary 'tax,' you can.

The wealth-return program, a form of voluntary reparation, is the first of its kind in Minnesota. By Zoë Jackson

Publication: Star Tribune Posted: 29 September 2023

After researching the history of her family's land in Nebraska and her home in Minneapolis, Twin Cities attorney Jessica Intermill wrestled with the notion that she and her ancestors benefited from stolen land.

Intermill was already working with tribal nations on treaty litigation, but it did not seem like enough.

"Being a bystander is its own moral injury. There's a whole lot of talk of 'I didn't do that, I wasn't here 200 years ago to make that choice,' which is of course true," Intermill said. "We do still benefit from those decisions today."

With the OK from the Lower Sioux Indian Community, Intermill launched an honor tax program, where people can voluntarily contribute to the tribe as an acknowledgement of how they have benefited from Dakota land. The little-known program is the first of its kind in Minnesota and has drawn contributions from more than 100 people since its spring launch.

The idea arose in 2021, when Intermill came across an online webinar called "Beyond Land Acknowledgement" hosted by Native Governance, a nonprofit based in Minnesota working with Native nations. The session offered actionable ideas for participants, and someone mentioned a "land tax program" on the west coast.

The California program, called the Wiyot Honor Tax, is a voluntary tax created by Northern Californians to benefit the Wiyot Nation. Intermill quickly decided that was something she could replicate in Minnesota — if tribal leaders agreed. "I basically built the thing that I wished had already been there," she said.

Intermill started the Mni Sota Makoce Honor Tax program as a material way for Minnesotans to contribute to the Dakota people who were forcibly removed from land in 1862.

Now, she said, anyone can pay a tax of their choosing as way of honoring the land that they are "renting" from the Dakota people that goes toward operations at the Lower Sioux Indian Community, a federally recognized tribe.

As a resident of the Twin Cities, creating a tax that would benefit a Dakota tribe was a no-brainer, Intermill said. Much of the economic violence created when the U.S. broke the Treaty of 1851 and the violence of the War of 1862 that resulted in the forcible exile of the Dakota people from Minnesota took place where the Lower Sioux reservation is today.

Plus, with about 15 years of experience working with the Morton-area community as a lawyer, Intermill, 43, had a long working relationship with tribal leaders including President Robert Larsen.

While Larsen said he had no doubt that Intermill would follow through and use her time to create the program, he said he didn't expect much public interest.

"We didn't think it would be something that would actually produce anything, but Jessica was willing to do this all on her own time. She didn't charge us. And it was her idea. I had never heard of this anywhere else and we thought, 'why not,' " Larsen said.

But Intermill knew there were people who were looking for a way to make reparations, just as she had. For a long time, the best thing she could find was to donate to Native-led nonprofits, she said. But it seemed important to return wealth back to the government, where it was taken from, Intermill said.

Individuals can contribute whatever amount they are comfortable with. Some have pledged to contribute an amount equivalent to their yearly property taxes. A guide on the honor tax website shows that a tax of $33.41 is equivalent to average tax on a trip to the state fair for a family of four, for example. Most often, contributions are recurring and are all over the map, ranging from $10 to hundreds of dollars, Intermill said, though she declined to disclose a total dollar amount.

Lower Sioux is not a nonprofit and funds are considered governmental contributions. Contributions may be tax deductible under federal law, according to the honor tax website.

So far, contributions have come from around the Twin Cities and as far as New York and California. Some people write that they are contributing not solely as reparations, but for the present occupation of Dakota land, Intermill said. Others mention specific ties to ancestral land.

Ian Stade, of Minneapolis, said he decided to contribute because profits from his family's century farm near Fairmont helped him pay for his studies and for a down payment on his home. The fact that the peatland was even available to his ancestors to purchase after they immigrated from Germany made Stade, a librarian, interested in reparations.

"I feel like we we owe something," Stade said. "How did this land become available? Well, through treaties that were pretty unjust when they were signed in 1851 and then the war that pushed the Dakota out of the state."

He contributed .5% of his annual income to the honor tax this year, and plans to do so annually.

Minneapolis contributor Brinsley Davis heard about the California program from a coworker. She wondered whether there was something similar in Minnesota, and found the Mni Sota Makoce Honor Tax online earlier this year even before the website was fully up and running.

Davis contributed between $100 and $200 and set a calendar reminder to do it annually. For her, the contribution is an additional property tax to acknowledge that the land where she resides has a long history.

"I have this huge privilege of having a house and a backyard ... and that's a land-based privilege," Davis said. "If you just think about who was on the land before you and who was forcibly removed from the land, I think it just makes sense."

The initial response has been a pleasant surprise for Lower Sioux tribal council members who doubted that anything would come of it. While no amount of money can pay for what their ancestors went through, Larsen said the creation of the honor tax is a powerful moment for the reservation.

"There's been so many policies and laws enacted to make sure tribes could not generate generational wealth. We can't own land. It's held in trust. We thought 'why would this be something somebody would support?' — but there are people," Larsen said.

The Morton-area tribe is hesitant to make grand plans for the funds when the amount of contributions they will receive is uncertain. First, they want to expand programs to keep youth busy and safe, Larsen said.

Wayne Ducheneaux, executive director of Native Governance, said he's proud their efforts inspired such a project. A lot of people write land acknowledgements, but seeing actionable steps from non-Native people is important, he said.

"She did a very good job putting that together and doing it the proper way, not assuming the tribe would want the support, not assuming she knew all the right answers," Ducheneaux said.

Already, people have reached out to Intermill expressing interest in creating similar programs for tribes near them. To do that, she stressed the importance of an existing relationship with a tribe based on trust — which takes time to build, she said.

While there are not enough Native people in Minnesota for all white people to have a close relationship with an Indigenous person, Intermill hopes that the honor tax can be a bridge that invites connection with the history of the land and an understanding of tribal sovereignty or government.

"This is a way for a person who is not near the reservation to come into relationship in a meaningful way that works for them, because they get to decide whatever amount, on whatever frequency they want to."

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The latest step in a long-running effort by the tribe to open a casino near Madera, Calif.

The Mono Indians’ quest to bring a gaming property to unincorporated land near the Central Valley town dates back to 2003, when the tribe inked a deal with Station Casinos. Station is controlled by Red Rock Resorts, Inc. and operates nearly 20 gaming venues in Southern Nevada.

Mono’s case – Club One Casino, Inc. v. David Bernhardt – will be heard by the California Supreme Court starting on Feb. 11. According to court documents, the state, including Gov. Gavin Newsom, a Democrat, represented by the attorney general’s office, are tussling with local businesses and other tribal gaming operators that don’t want the Mono Indians to open a casino in Madera.

Currently, there are three gaming properties – the Chukchansi Gold Resort & Casino, Table Mountain Casino, and the Club One Casino – within short drives of Madera.

A request for comment from the North Fork Rancheria of Mono Indians wasn’t responded to prior to publication of this article.

Long Road Mono is seeking to build a 200-room hotel with an entertainment venue, restaurants, and a gaming area that would feature slot machines and table games on property that is within the confines of the tribe’s ancestral land between Chowchilla and Madera.

In 2012, the Native American group reached an agreement with then-Gov. Jerry Brown, also a Democrat. That pact was approved by the California State Assembly in May 2013 and by the state Senate less than two months later. The next year, a Madera County judge dismissed a lawsuit challenging the veracity of the Mono approval, noting California policymakers acted within the bounds of the state’s constitution in granting permission for the tribe to build a casino.

However, a 2014 ballot initiative known as Proposition 48 was approved by Golden State voters, in effect halting construction plans on the Mono gaming venue.

Proposition 48 would ratify gaming compacts between California and two Native American tribes: the North Fork Rancheria of Mono Indians, and the Wiyot Tribe,” according to California Choices. “A ‘yes’ vote on the measure would uphold contested legislation AB 277, which was enacted by the State Legislature and signed by Gov. Jerry Brown in July 2013. A ‘no’ vote would overturn AB 277.”홀짝게임

In 2016, the US Interior Department gave the green light for the Mono effort. Stand Up for California!, an activist group that opposes expanded tribal gaming in the Golden State, later sued the Interior Department, taking that case all the way to the US Supreme Court.

One More Step The North Fork Rancheria of Mono Indians believes that a win at the California Supreme Court will set the stage for the tribe to proceed with finally breaking ground on the gaming property.

Mono tribal council member Jacquie Davis Van Huss said in a Facebook post last year that if the group claims victory at California’s highest court, it will then commence financing and pre-construction activities.

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The public support spurred Seidner to another idea: to raise funds to buy back Tuluwat Island, piece by piece. It was a grassroots effort. She and other community leaders held bake sales, sold T-shirts and asked for donations in order to collect the money.

But her efforts were gaining steam. One donor offered to match whatever she raised up to $40,000. And when Seidner spoke about the project at a convention for the National Congress of American Indians, a colleague stood up and slammed a $100 bill onto the table.

“I’m laying down this challenge for you to step up and help the Wiyot tribe,” Seidner remembers her telling the crowd. Her words sparked an outpouring of support.

“We had numerous $1 bills. We had coins, pennies, nickels and dimes. And the next day, the tribes came up with made-out cheques. You know those big cheques they give out? From $2,000 to $5,000 each. And when we added it all up, we had $40,000, and that’s what we needed,” Seidner says. “I was taken aback. I did not know we could do that.”

Published August 9, 2022

[Content note: this article contains descriptions of a massacre of Indigenous people by white supremacists]

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i'm so appreciative to the author(s) who went off in this wikipedia article:

Historical and cultural significance

By 1816, Russian explorers officially named the flower Eschscholzia californica. Since California's statehood in 1850, local residents have embraced it as the California poppy or golden poppy.

[...]

By the 1890s, "Eschscholtzia californica" had transformed from merely the California or golden poppy to the designated state poppy– a shift from a botanical specimen with regional ties to a symbol and agent of the settler state.

Connection to indigenous tribes

The California poppy has been historically used as traditional medicine and cosmetics by some indigenous people in California, particularly those native to the regions where the plant is found.[7] The indigenous peoples of California, in particular, have historical and cultural associations with the California poppy (e.g., Tongva Gabrielino, Cahuilla, Costanoan, Luiseno, and Pomo).[7] These connections involve traditional uses of the plant, cultural significance, and even folklore. While indigenous communities have nurtured the land for generations, establishing ecological conditions conducive to wildflower growth, colonial settlers and their governing structures found the native flower's status as a genuine and intrinsic product of the land appealing.[15]

Tongva (Garbrielino tribe)

In the 19th century, the California poppy held a dual identity, both as a botanical native and as a symbolic representation of California. It was crafted to embody the essence of a "true" Californian, celebrated and used predominantly by the white Californian community.[15] The Native Daughters and Sons of the Golden West played a pivotal role in establishing the California poppy as a cultural icon.[15]

In contrast, the Tongva peoples of the San Gabriel Valley region recognized the California poppy by the term, Mekachaa.[15] Such indigenous communities interpret the Mekechaa as a plant relative, and actively resisted attempts to appropriate its existence through artistic community projects.[15] In Waa'aka', the final plant created by the Tongva's god of creation, Wiyot, was the Island poppy, described as "golden as the sun, bringing beauty to the world."[15]

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Some folks have pointed out (correctly) that my link above doesn’t cut very deep; it’s mostly a manifesto and some old news. Unfortunately, I don’t really have a central authority on the movement to link to. A core element of the idea behind LandBack is that the individual surviving tribes get economic and political control of their individual ancestral territories, so that they may once again apply their individual cultural lenses to the enormous task of Correct Land Management. This is about decentralization of authority.

If you want to cut deeper into the subject, I suggest you look up which tribe is closest to you and see what sorts of priorities local leadership has in mind.

For specific examples of LandBack action in practice, here’s a short list of accomplishments that qualify:

The Wiyot people have lived for thousands of years on Duluwat Island, in Humboldt Bay on California's northern coast. In 2004 the Eureka City Council transferred land back to the Wiyot tribe, to add to land the Wiyot had purchased. The council transferred another 60 acres in 2006.

The Mashpee Wampanoag have lived in Massachusetts and eastern Rhode Island for thousands of years. In 2007, about 300 acres of Massachusetts land was put into trust as a reservation for the tribe. Since then, a legal battle has left the tribe's status—and claim to the land—in limbo.

In October 2018, the city of Vancouver, British Columbia returned ancient burial site (the Great Marpole Midden) land back to the Musqueam people. The land is home to ancient remains of a Musqueam house site.

In July 2020, the Esselen tribe purchased a 1,200-acre ranch near Big Sur, California, as part of a larger $4.5m deal. This acquisition, in traditional lands, will protect old-growth forest and wildlife, and the Little Sur River.

Land on the Saanich Peninsula in British Columbia was returned to the Tsartlip First Nation in December 2020.

Management of the 18,800-acre National Bison Range was transferred from the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service back to the Confederated Salish and Kootenai Tribes in 2021.

In August 2022, the Red Cliff Chippewa in northern Wisconsin had 1,500 acres of land along the Lake Superior shoreline returned to them from the Bayfield County government. This came after the tribe signed a 2017 memorandum of understanding with the county, acknowledging the Red Cliff Chippewa's desire to see their reservation boundaries restored in full.

Link to Wikipedia page with sources

Look; if you don’t support LandBack, you probably don’t understand what is actually being proposed. Everything I have read and heard has been very reasonable and fair. The only folks talking about revenge campaigns are White Supremacists trying to drum up fears. The movement is co-axial with a lot of the ideas in the Ecological and Green movements. It’s a decolonizing measure. It has the potential to benefit lots of people, including non-Natives, given that many of the proposals would dramatically improve air and water quality and increase access to food across economic class lines. These folks have good ideas. I am asking you, politely, to just, take a look

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Keep your Thanks: Here’s the justice queer Native Americans really hunger for

The “first Thanksgiving” of 1621 between the Mashpee Wampanoag tribe and English Pilgrims at Plymouth, Massachusetts wasn’t as friendly as people think. In fact, many Native Americans feel that the occasion marked the start of 400 years of colonization and oppression. Some choose instead to observe the Friday after Thanksgiving as Native American Heritage Day, a day for recognizing Indigenous communities and their contributions to the nation. Many present-day queer and Two-Spirit Native American activists are working to reclaim Indigenous lands, rituals, culture, and mental health. While some public events have begun reciting “land acknowledgments” — defined by NPR as “formal statements recognizing Indigenous communities’ rights to territories seized by colonial powers” — some see such statements as a well-intentioned but empty gesture, while others see them as a necessary first step towards restorative justice. On that road to justice, however, here are some of the political goals sought by Indigenous activists: Related: Watch this adorable gay Native American couple break barriers with a pow wow dance The couple, who met on the pow wow circuit, have performed couples “sweetheart” dances, and are in awe of the warm responses they have received. Legal recognition by federal and state governments Get the Daily Brief The news you care about, reported on by the people who care about you: Subscribe to our Newsletter Some tribes were forced into reservation territory and allowed sovereignty to oversee its land, businesses, and governance. But other tribes haven’t been legally recognized at all — something that severely limits tribe members’ ability to claim ancestral lands and receive financial restitution. The federal government didn’t legally recognize the aforementioned Mashpee Wampanoag tribe until 2007, even though the tribe had existed for 12,000 years beforehand. Others continue to fight for legal recognition, even though their existence may already be well documented in historical records. Restoring ancestral lands Many tribes desire sovereignty over the lands that their ancestors once inhabited. This includes the Lakota Sioux, whose ancestors lived in the Black Hills, an area that now contains Mount Rushmore. The tribe oversaw the hills until the U.S. government violated a treaty, massacred their tribe members at Wounded Knee, and then carved the faces of four former U.S. presidents into the mountainside. Predictably, many state and federal governments oppose restoring tribal lands, but it can be done. In 2015, the federal government pledged to restore 300 acres to the aforementioned Mashpee Wampanoag tribe, though former President Donald Trump’s Department of the Interior reversed the decision in 2018. In 2009, the Wiyot people of California’s northern coast raised $106,000 to buy 1.5 acres on their ancestral land of Duluwat Island. The Eureka City Council voted to give the tribe 240 additional acres of island that the city had controlled. Around 2020, a United Methodist Church in Ohio also returned some land to the Wyandotte Nation. This restoration can neither completely restore the ecological damage nor the lost relationships the tribes once had to their lands. But for many, it’s an important way to ensure that tribe members have a home and community dedicated to preserving their culture. Preserving Indigenous knowledge Although Indigenous communities only comprise an estimated 5% of the world’s population, they safeguard an estimated 80% of the planet’s biodiversity, according to the World Wildlife Federation. This safeguarding includes centuries-old practices of hunting, agriculture, and preservation that foster a respectful, reciprocal relationship with the land while providing sustainable alternatives to widespread deforestation, fossil fuel use, industrial over-farming, and species’ extinction. These are particularly important considering the increased natural disasters that have… http://dlvr.it/SzHt8r

[movestrongfit]

Celebrating Health and Wellness with the Wiyot Tribe

MoveStrong Partners with the Wiyot Tribe to Launch State-of-the-Art Outdoor Fitness Park

MoveStrong is thrilled to announce the grand opening of a new FitGround in collaboration with the Wiyot Tribe. 

This brand-new outdoor fitness area, opened with a vibrant ribbon-cutting ceremony followed by a guided training session, is designed to promote health and wellness among tribal members and the broader community.

The new FitGround is equipped with versatile fitness stations like the 6-Post T-Rex, over-under posts, an agility ladder and dots, parallel bars, plyo steps, a balance beam, hanging balance discs, and a battle rope station. These features promote strength, endurance, agility, flexibility, and coordination. For detailed instructions and exercise ideas, athletes can simply scan a QR code at each station, ensuring safe and effective use. 

All exercises can be scaled to any fitness level, making it suitable for a broad range of users. 

MoveStrong and the Wiyot Tribe’s commitment to enhancing physical wellbeing and community connection shines through this initiative. The FitGround creates a welcoming space for everyone to enjoy fitness in the great outdoors. 

This collaboration not only promotes the importance of physical health but also fosters the spirit of community and living. The Wiyot Tribe, known for their rich cultural heritage and deep connection to nature, finds a perfect partner in MoveStrong, whose innovative fitness solutions are designed to complement and enhance outdoor environments for a 

sustainable and engaging way to stay active.

About Company

- MoveStrong is a leading provider of innovative fitness equipment designed to enhance functional strength training for indoor and outdoor areas, including functional strength training equipment, obstacle courses and specialty training accessories and tools.

- We accompany all customers through the whole project with the support of budget, 

design, layout, construction, installation, equipment configuration, specialty surfacing, and education on the  final fitness site for the most efficient use.

- Mainly industrial customers for commercial gyms, outdoor fitness and obstacle courses, including recreation centers, parks, health clubs, schools, military, fire and EMT, law enforcement

- Designed, engineered, and made in USA

For further information and media inquiries visit www.movestrongfit.com or call toll free at 855-728-8700

Links & Further information: 

- https://www.movestrongfit.com/whomovesstrong/2024/5/27/celebrating-health-and-wellness-with-the-wiyot-tribe-movestrong-fitground

- https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EXh9ntQ8eYs

[workingclasshistory]

On this day, 26 February 1860, the Wiyot massacre took place when white settlers attacked and murdered up to 250 Indigenous Wiyot people at Tuluwat, on what is now known as Indian Island, California. The Wiyot people had never had conflict with white settlers, and so did not expect an attack, and on the day it occurred most of the young men of the tribe were away gathering supplies. The settlers armed themselves with clubs, axes, knives and a few guns and attempted to systematically murder everyone on the island: mostly women, children and the elderly. Over the coming days more Wiyot people were murdered in the area. While many white people criticised the murders, no one was prosecuted for them, and one journalist who wrote an editorial condemning the murderers was forced to leave the area due to death threats. After the killings, the surviving Wiyot were prohibited from returning to their land. Many of the survivors did try to resist, launching attacks on nearby white settlements, but they were eventually removed to reservations. However, they and their descendants never gave up the fight for their home. The Wiyot tribe purchased a parcel of their old land in 2000, and in 2019 was given back the bulk of the remaining land by the city. Learn more about Indigenous genocide and resistance in this book: https://shop.workingclasshistory.com/products/500-years-of-indigenous-resistance-gord-hill Photo: Wiyot gathering in 2014, by Nick Adams https://www.facebook.com/workingclasshistory/photos/a.296224173896073/1660764444108699/?type=3

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Mythic Hawk (Egypt), Rick Bartow, 1999, Minneapolis Institute of Art: Art of Africa and the Americas

slightly abstracted image; hawk's head at top on large, hulking, sketchy human silhouette in orange with green and yellow; rust ground; salmon-colored border; scratching in LLC; white symbol in URC; dark brown frame Rick Bartow is a well-known Native American artist from the Wiyot and Yurok tribes of Northern California. He traces his artistic influences to Marc Chagall and Francis Bacon. His interest is in depicting human and animal forms through painting and sculpture. His work is also inspired by his military service in Vietnam, with some reference to his Native American heritage. He often depicts transformational scenes, such as this work, a figure with a hawk head. According to the artist, hawks have made appearances at important times in his life. They appeared to him a few days before his uncle passed away, and are often near his studio. Size: 24 x 23 5/8 in. (60.96 x 60.01 cm) 29 13/16 x 28 7/8 in. (75.72 x 73.34 cm) (outer frame) Medium: Acrylic on panel

https://collections.artsmia.org/art/110964/

[democracyatwrk]

Economic Update: Native Americans & American Socialists

On this week's show, Prof. Wolff present updates on global supply chain slow-downs; student costs/debts in US, UK far higher than in most peer nations; FED adds inflation to the ways its policies worsen income and wealth inequalities; and lastly, higher gun sales and violence since 1990s despite the dramatic declines in violent crime rate. The second half of the show features an interview with Michelle Vassel (administrator of Wiyot tribe) and David Cobb (Director of Cooperation Humboldt) on their ongoing political collaborations.

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“With five words, it became official — Duluwat Island is being returned to the Wiyot people, for whom it is the physical and cultural center of the universe, a sacred piece of land with the power to bring balance to all else. “Unanimous yes vote. Motion carries,” said Eureka City Clerk Pam Powell, drawing a standing ovation from the hundreds of people who had filled the Adorni Center this morning to watch the city take the unprecedented step of returning 200 acres of land stolen generations ago to the Wiyot Tribe, which has called the North Coast home since time immemorial. 

This morning’s vote, which was years in the making and captured international headlines, paved the way for, about 90 minutes later, Eureka Mayor Susan Seaman and Wiyot Tribal Chair Ted Hernandez signing a deed of trust, formally transferring ownership of the largest island in Humboldt Bay. The emotional ceremony saw multiple generations of local residents gathered in the Adorni Center to witness the historic vote, many wiping tears from their eyes.”

Read the full piece here

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Rick Bartow ~ Native American artist, affiliated with the Wiyot and Yurok tribes of Northern California.