Native American

The Chumash community has asked California to protect more of the Pacific around the Channel Islands and to formalize a co-management framework.

For years, significant environmental policies under the Newsom administration have been decided behind closed doors, diminishing the public's role in key state decisions.

For now, the only place you’ll find grizzlies in California are in zoos or on the state flag.

California Indian Nations College in Palm Desert sees a bright future for its community-centered approach to higher education for Native students. Recently accredited, the college supports two proposed bills that would add tribal colleges to the official definition of higher education in California as well as ensure units are transferable to and from other colleges.

A judge’s temporary ruling in a costly battle between gambling halls and casino-owning tribes is likely not the end of the dispute. California politicians are likely the biggest winners of a prolonged gambling stalemate.

Native American students who also identify as another race, such as Black, white or Asian, are counted as “two or more races,” not Native American.

Cal State campuses have mixed records in returning Native remains and artifacts to tribes. Campus officials say they are working diligently to follow legal mandates but the process can be arduous, especially for non-federally recognized tribes.

AB 2356 has been postponed. If passed it would return Tolowa Dunes State Park to the Tolowa Dee-ni’ Nation but still preserve public access.

Pres. Donald Trump is pressuring Redwood National and State Parks to tag tribally-centered books and material critical of American history.

Assemblymember James Ramos proposed giving Tolowa Dunes State Park, 4,300 coastal acres in Del Norte County, to the Tolowa Dee-ni Nation.