A Northern California tribe's sacred land is now back under their ownership, thanks to the help of a conservancy group
it helped the tribe to be rewarded a grant through the California Natural Resources Agency that covered the purchase of the land.
"It is with great honor that our tribe has been called by our Ancestors to become stewards of these sacred indigenous lands once again," Tom Little Bear Nason, Tribal Chairman of the ETMC, said in a"These lands are home to many ancient villages of our people, and directly across the Little Sur River sits Pico Blanco or 'Pitchi', which is the most sacred spot on the coast for the Esselen People and the center of our origin story.
"The old-growth redwoods on this property are genetically adaptive to the warmer dry climate of Big Sur," Doroff said."These trees will be important for the future effort to assist in redwood survival." The Little Sur River runs along one side of the property with a tributary jutting onto the land, which is a spawning ground for the South-Central California Coast Steelhead,
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