Tribe plans to blockade part of Lake Shasta

[walksalone11]

In this thread I mean to kill a few birds with one stone so to speak.

I promised JDog that I would post about our young people working to protect our Culture and Traditions.
I also wish to elaborate a bit about my Niece Lyla, whom I mentioned in an earlier thread and finally to address this Nations fight to save their sacred sites as well as their chance at federal recognition.

My Niece who recently graduated from Stanford, worked as an intern for this tribe and lived amongst them while doing so. She also did her honors thesis on this tribes sacred sites issue. I mentioned that she was unavailable at this time, and wont go into specifics of that other than to say that last week she was on the Piute Rez in Nevada and this week she is in California. I will post more on my Nieces efforts in this thread in the coming days.


The following page tells of this coming weekends efforts by this tribe to protect its traditional Womens coming of age ceremonies.

 http://www.redding.com/news/2012/may/22/tribe-plans-close-part-lake-shasta-during-war-dan/

[falcon9]

In this thread I mean to kill a few birds with one stone so to speak.

I promised JDog that I would post about our young people working to protect our Culture and Traditions.
I also wish to elaborate a bit about my Niece Lyla, whom I mentioned in an earlier thread and finally to address this Nations fight to save their sacred sites as well as their chance at federal recognition.

My Niece who recently graduated from Stanford, worked as an intern for this tribe and lived amongst them while doing so. She also did her honors thesis on this tribes sacred sites issue. I mentioned that she was unavailable at this time, and wont go into specifics of that other than to say that last week she was on the Piute Rez in Nevada and this week she is in California. I will post more on my Nieces efforts in this thread in the coming days.


The following page tells of this coming weekends efforts by this tribe to protect its traditional Womens coming of age ceremonies.

 http://www.redding.com/news/2012/may/22/tribe-plans-close-part-lake-shasta-during-war-dan/

Although I can sympathize with the plight of the Winnemem, they aren't yet a federally-recognised tribe, nor do they have any exclusive rights to the ceremonial area they wish to use, (having been denied a use permit by Parks service in this instance).  While it would be best if there were some mutual respect of traditions, (between infringing upon 'rights' in either direction), a viable solution must consider that someone is going to be infringed upon there.

[walksalone11]

In this thread I mean to kill a few birds with one stone so to speak.

I promised JDog that I would post about our young people working to protect our Culture and Traditions.
I also wish to elaborate a bit about my Niece Lyla, whom I mentioned in an earlier thread and finally to address this Nations fight to save their sacred sites as well as their chance at federal recognition.

My Niece who recently graduated from Stanford, worked as an intern for this tribe and lived amongst them while doing so. She also did her honors thesis on this tribes sacred sites issue. I mentioned that she was unavailable at this time, and wont go into specifics of that other than to say that last week she was on the Piute Rez in Nevada and this week she is in California. I will post more on my Nieces efforts in this thread in the coming days.


The following page tells of this coming weekends efforts by this tribe to protect its traditional Womens coming of age ceremonies.

 http://www.redding.com/news/2012/may/22/tribe-plans-close-part-lake-shasta-during-war-dan/

Although I can sympathize with the plight of the Winnemem, they aren't yet a federally-recognised tribe, nor do they have any exclusive rights to the ceremonial area they wish to use, (having been denied a use permit by Parks service in this instance).  While it would be best if there were some mutual respect of traditions, (between infringing upon 'rights' in either direction), a viable solution must consider that someone is going to be infringed upon there.

The state of California has plans to raise the Shasta dam by 18 feet, which will flood virtually every sacred site of the Wintu tribe. If this happens, tribal recognition will not happen. I will post a video and let Lyla address some of that.....

[walksalone11]

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=T5ZTx7GZmqE