May 16, 2012 / Make A Comment / Uncategorized
We are looking for volunteers to help us in the kitchen, help with set up and help with block the river for our upcoming War Dance May 24 – May 27 to protect our Coming of Age ceremonies from public harassment and abuse.
Read the post to learn about the details, our needs for War Dance, a food donation list and a cultural guide to ceremony.
May 7, 2012 / Make A Comment / Uncategorized
Winnemem Wintu Chief and Spiritual Leader Caleen Sisk will be a featured speaker at this unique opportunity to learn about current struggles of Native peoples to protect sacred land in Northern California and ways that you can lend support
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)
The Bureau of Reclamation released a preliminary study on a proposed raise that could submerge up to 40 of our sacred sites, threatening our very existence.
Because our religion and identity is tied to our traditional lands, we can only be Winnemem here.
The dam raise is also a losing proposition for everyone except Big Ag. Read more here -
www.shastadamraise.com. 
