We need your support for to hold a Coming of Age ceremony in peace and dignity

Our next Coming of Age ceremony is coming up in July. Please watch and share this video to the left, and let Forest Service Chief Tom Tidwell (ttidwell@fs.fed.us) know that you expect his agency to work with us to avoid a repeat of his underlings' disgraceful behavior of last year.

Dancing Salmon Home May Screenings in Northern California

April 29, 2013 / Make A Comment / Uncategorized

Dancing Salmon Home, winner of the American Indian Film Festival best documentary award, will be having screenings around California. Here are some upcoming dates: Thursday, May 9 – ArcataDancing Salmon Home Film ShowingQ & A with the film’s director, Will Doolittle and Chief Caleen Sisk, Winnemem Wintu TribeHumboldt State University7:00 pm Native American Forum (Behavior

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Winnemem Wintu’s Comments Opposing GMO Salmon

April 28, 2013 / Make A Comment / Uncategorized

The Winnemem submitted these comments against GMO salmon to the FDA: ““The Winnemem Wintu object to GE production, as it would certainly impact our obligation to salmon and would change the traditional responsibility to salmon and our relationship that exits for thousands of years. It is also the right of the tribes to expect the same engagement with the nutritional values such as the Omega 3′s to maintain a quality of health. Salmon are part of our traditional exchange with the Winnemem Wintu, the trees, birds, animals, plants and soils as they purify the waters on each of their once in their life journey.”

Winnemem Wintu – The Middle Water People

We are a traditional tribe who inhabits our ancestral territory from Mt. Shasta down the McCloud River watershed. When the Shasta Dam was constructed during World War II, it flooded our home and blocked the salmon runs.

The salmon are an integral part of our lifeway and of a healthy McCloud River watershed. We believe that when the last salmon is gone, humans will be gone too. Our fight to return the salmon to the McCloud River is no less than a fight to save the Winnemem Wintu Tribe.

As salmon people and middle water people we advocate for all aspects of clean water and the restoration of salmon to their natural spawning grounds.

Sawal Mem, Sawal Suhana (Sacred Water, Sacred Life)

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