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		<title>Coming of Age Ceremony food donations</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Our Coming of Age ceremony for Alicia Scholfield will be held July 20-23 at the McCloud Bridge campground in the Shasta-Trinity National Forest.

Dancing will be every day.

The cook tent is open for the duration of the ceremony, and we will feed ceremony guests. Be sure to bring snacks and please bring a food donation (list below). Try to bring your own plates and silverware or ]]></description>
		<link>http://www.winnememwintu.us/2013/06/15/coming-of-age-ceremony-food-donations/</link>
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		<title>Press Release: Winnemem Wintu Seek Volunteers, Donations to Hold Coming of Age Ceremony in Peace and Dignity</title>
		<description><![CDATA[The Winnemem Wintu tribe is seeking volunteers and donations to help enforce a half-mile closure of the McCloud River to maintain the peace and dignity of their upcoming Coming of Age ceremony for 16-year-old Alicia Scholfield July 20-23.

Previous ceremonies have faced documented harassment, but the U.S. Forest Service, which now manages the former Winnemem village site where the ceremony takes place, has yet to respond to the tribe’s list of needs and requirements to hold a ceremony.
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		<link>http://www.winnememwintu.us/2013/06/10/press-release-winnemem-wintu-seek-volunteers-donations-to-hold-coming-of-age-ceremony-in-peace-and-dignity/</link>
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		<title>Dancing Salmon Home May Screenings in Northern California</title>
		<description><![CDATA[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 &#38; A with the film&#8217;s director, Will Doolittle and Chief Caleen Sisk, Winnemem Wintu TribeHumboldt State University7:00 pm Native American Forum (Behavior ]]></description>
		<link>http://www.winnememwintu.us/2013/04/29/dancing-salmon-home-may-screenings-in-northern-california/</link>
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		<title>Winnemem Wintu&#8217;s Comments Opposing GMO Salmon</title>
		<description><![CDATA[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.”]]></description>
		<link>http://www.winnememwintu.us/2013/04/28/winnemem-wintus-comments-opposing-gmo-salmon/</link>
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		<title>Our Dancing Salmon Home documentary to premiere in Redding</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Dancing Salmon Home, winner of the American Indian Film Festival best documentary award, will have it's premiere screening in Redding on Friday, April 12 at Shasta College! Buy your tickets today!]]></description>
		<link>http://www.winnememwintu.us/2013/03/17/dancing-salmon-home-premiere-reddin/</link>
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		<title>Come Rally for Justice for Chief Sisk &#8211; 8 a.m. Oct. 16</title>
		<description><![CDATA[The Winnemem Wintu are calling for supporters, allies and friends to come rally in support of Chief Caleen Sisk as she has her court date for two unjust citations she received July 4 from the U.S. Forest Service for holding ceremony.

The rally will be held at 8 a.m. Tuesday, Oct. 16, outside the East California Federal Courthouse at 2689 Bechelli Lane, Redding, CA.
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		<link>http://www.winnememwintu.us/2012/10/06/rally-for-justice/</link>
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		<title>Press Release: BIA Meeting Will End Chief Sisk&#8217;s Twenty-Four Day Fast, Wednesday, July 11th</title>
		<description><![CDATA[On Friday, July 6th, Dr. Virgil Akins, Superintendent, BIA of Northern California agreed to meet with Winnemem Wintu Tribal Chief and Spiritual Leader, Caleen Sisk to discuss the issues surrounding a ‘technical correction’ to restore the tribe’s status as a federally recognized tribe.

The tribe lost their recognition due to a bureaucratic error in the mid-80s, and the California State Assembly, through AJR -39, and the California Native American Heritage Commission have long urged the federal government to restore that recognition.

The meeting, scheduled for Wednesday July 11th, will end the twenty-four day fast that Chief Sisk and her nephew Arron Sisk, who have sought the BIA’s intervention into the U.S. Forest Service’s inability to protect the Tribe’s recent Coming of Age Ceremony on the McCloud River arm of Shasta Lake.
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		<link>http://www.winnememwintu.us/2012/07/09/press-release-bia-will-end-chief-sisks-twenty-four-day-fast-wednesday-july-11th/</link>
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		<title>Chief&#8217;s letter to BIA Regional Director: &#8220;It&#8217;s time for the BIA to stop the human rights abuses against us.&#8221;</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Winnemem Wintu Chief and Spiritual Leader Caleen Sisk sent a letter to BIA Regional Director Amy Dutschke, urging her to intervene and close the ceremonial land to outsiders from outsiders during our Coming of Age ceremony June 30-July 3.

"By keeping the Winnemem Wintu, a tribe with a long history of government-to-government relations with the U.S., in your “unrecognized” status, you are by proxy authorizing human rights violations against our tribe and the disruption of our ceremony]]></description>
		<link>http://www.winnememwintu.us/2012/06/29/1201/</link>
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		<title>Video: A Winnemem Mother&#8217;s Heartfelt Appeal for a River Closure</title>
		<description><![CDATA["I should be thinking about getting everything ready, like her ceremonial skirt and attire, thinking good thoughts and not worrying about what might happen. . . I'm a little emotional because that's my baby. It just makes me worry . . . that we can't get the river closed for just four days."]]></description>
		<link>http://www.winnememwintu.us/2012/06/09/a-winnemem-mothers-heartfelt-appeal-for-a-river-closure/</link>
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		<title>Former Forest Service Attorney: &#8220;River closure is legally and morally justifiable action.&#8221;</title>
		<description><![CDATA[However, over all, the U.S. Forest Service does not do the right thing when it comes to respecting cultural diversity and cultural preservation. You can find the legal justification needed for a temporary closure, even if just on the basis of public safety, given the disreputable behavior of the public toward this ceremony in the past. So it is not a matter of if you can but if you will. Better yet, consider doing the right thing for the right reasons.

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		<link>http://www.winnememwintu.us/2012/06/04/former-forest-service-attorney-river-closure-is-legally-and-morally-justifiable-action/</link>
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