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  1. Journey of Hope the debut novel by Nita Welch Owenby goes live on June 1st

    https://www.youtube.com/shorts/acAJwqXF3BU JOURNEY OF HOPE Prospector’s Rainbow by Nita Welch Owenby On January 24, 1848, a single glint of gold at Sutter’s Mill ignited the greatest adventure in American history. Thousands raced west—forty-niners chasing dreams of instant riches, leaving everything behind for the wild promise of California. Boom towns exploded overnight. Lawless saloons roared. Claim jumpers lurked in the shadows. And in the rugged Northern California gold fields, […]

    midnight-publishing.org/2026/0

  2. From June, 2025... #California’s #YurokTribe gets back ancestral lands that were taken over 120 years ago

    By Associated Press
    PUBLISHED: June 5, 2025 at 9:34 AM PDT

    ON THE KLAMATH RIVER, Calif. (AP) — "As a youngster, Barry McCovey Jr. would sneak through metal gates and hide from security guards just to catch a steelhead trout in #BlueCreek amid northwestern California redwoods.

    "Since time immemorial, his ancestors from the Yurok Tribe had fished, hunted and gathered in this watershed flanked by coastal forests. But for more than 100 years, these lands were owned and managed by #TimberCompanies, severing the tribe’s access to its homelands.

    "When McCovey started working as a fisheries technician, the company would let him go there to do his job.

    " 'Snorkeling Blue Creek … I felt the significance of that place to myself and to our people, and I knew then that we had to do whatever we could to try and get that back,' McCovey said.

    "After a 23-year effort and $56 million, that became reality.

    "Roughly 73 square miles (189 square kilometers) of homelands have been returned to the Yurok, more than doubling the tribe’s land holdings, according to a deal announced Thursday. Completion of the land-back conservation deal along the lower #KlamathRiver — a partnership with #WesternRiversConservancy and other #EnvironmentalGroups — is being called the largest in California history.

    "The Yurok Tribe had 90% of its territory taken during the #CaliforniaGoldRush in the mid-1800s, suffering massacres and disease from settlers.

    " 'To go from when I was a kid and 20 years ago even, from being afraid to go out there to having it be back in tribal hands … is incredible,' said McCovey, director of the Yurok Tribal Fisheries Department."

    Read more / listen:
    pressdemocrat.com/2025/06/05/c

    #NativeAmericans #LandBack #YurokNation #IndigenousNews #KlamathRiver #KlamathRiverRestoration #TraditionalFoods #WaterIsLife #IndigenousFoodways #Genocide #SettlerColonialism #AncestralLands

  3. From June, 2025... #California’s #YurokTribe gets back ancestral lands that were taken over 120 years ago

    By Associated Press
    PUBLISHED: June 5, 2025 at 9:34 AM PDT

    ON THE KLAMATH RIVER, Calif. (AP) — "As a youngster, Barry McCovey Jr. would sneak through metal gates and hide from security guards just to catch a steelhead trout in #BlueCreek amid northwestern California redwoods.

    "Since time immemorial, his ancestors from the Yurok Tribe had fished, hunted and gathered in this watershed flanked by coastal forests. But for more than 100 years, these lands were owned and managed by #TimberCompanies, severing the tribe’s access to its homelands.

    "When McCovey started working as a fisheries technician, the company would let him go there to do his job.

    " 'Snorkeling Blue Creek … I felt the significance of that place to myself and to our people, and I knew then that we had to do whatever we could to try and get that back,' McCovey said.

    "After a 23-year effort and $56 million, that became reality.

    "Roughly 73 square miles (189 square kilometers) of homelands have been returned to the Yurok, more than doubling the tribe’s land holdings, according to a deal announced Thursday. Completion of the land-back conservation deal along the lower #KlamathRiver — a partnership with #WesternRiversConservancy and other #EnvironmentalGroups — is being called the largest in California history.

    "The Yurok Tribe had 90% of its territory taken during the #CaliforniaGoldRush in the mid-1800s, suffering massacres and disease from settlers.

    " 'To go from when I was a kid and 20 years ago even, from being afraid to go out there to having it be back in tribal hands … is incredible,' said McCovey, director of the Yurok Tribal Fisheries Department."

    Read more / listen:
    pressdemocrat.com/2025/06/05/c

    #NativeAmericans #LandBack #YurokNation #IndigenousNews #KlamathRiver #KlamathRiverRestoration #TraditionalFoods #WaterIsLife #IndigenousFoodways #Genocide #SettlerColonialism #AncestralLands

  4. From June, 2025... #California’s #YurokTribe gets back ancestral lands that were taken over 120 years ago

    By Associated Press
    PUBLISHED: June 5, 2025 at 9:34 AM PDT

    ON THE KLAMATH RIVER, Calif. (AP) — "As a youngster, Barry McCovey Jr. would sneak through metal gates and hide from security guards just to catch a steelhead trout in #BlueCreek amid northwestern California redwoods.

    "Since time immemorial, his ancestors from the Yurok Tribe had fished, hunted and gathered in this watershed flanked by coastal forests. But for more than 100 years, these lands were owned and managed by #TimberCompanies, severing the tribe’s access to its homelands.

    "When McCovey started working as a fisheries technician, the company would let him go there to do his job.

    " 'Snorkeling Blue Creek … I felt the significance of that place to myself and to our people, and I knew then that we had to do whatever we could to try and get that back,' McCovey said.

    "After a 23-year effort and $56 million, that became reality.

    "Roughly 73 square miles (189 square kilometers) of homelands have been returned to the Yurok, more than doubling the tribe’s land holdings, according to a deal announced Thursday. Completion of the land-back conservation deal along the lower #KlamathRiver — a partnership with #WesternRiversConservancy and other #EnvironmentalGroups — is being called the largest in California history.

    "The Yurok Tribe had 90% of its territory taken during the #CaliforniaGoldRush in the mid-1800s, suffering massacres and disease from settlers.

    " 'To go from when I was a kid and 20 years ago even, from being afraid to go out there to having it be back in tribal hands … is incredible,' said McCovey, director of the Yurok Tribal Fisheries Department."

    Read more / listen:
    pressdemocrat.com/2025/06/05/c

    #NativeAmericans #LandBack #YurokNation #IndigenousNews #KlamathRiver #KlamathRiverRestoration #TraditionalFoods #WaterIsLife #IndigenousFoodways #Genocide #SettlerColonialism #AncestralLands

  5. From June, 2025... #California’s #YurokTribe gets back ancestral lands that were taken over 120 years ago

    By Associated Press
    PUBLISHED: June 5, 2025 at 9:34 AM PDT

    ON THE KLAMATH RIVER, Calif. (AP) — "As a youngster, Barry McCovey Jr. would sneak through metal gates and hide from security guards just to catch a steelhead trout in #BlueCreek amid northwestern California redwoods.

    "Since time immemorial, his ancestors from the Yurok Tribe had fished, hunted and gathered in this watershed flanked by coastal forests. But for more than 100 years, these lands were owned and managed by #TimberCompanies, severing the tribe’s access to its homelands.

    "When McCovey started working as a fisheries technician, the company would let him go there to do his job.

    " 'Snorkeling Blue Creek … I felt the significance of that place to myself and to our people, and I knew then that we had to do whatever we could to try and get that back,' McCovey said.

    "After a 23-year effort and $56 million, that became reality.

    "Roughly 73 square miles (189 square kilometers) of homelands have been returned to the Yurok, more than doubling the tribe’s land holdings, according to a deal announced Thursday. Completion of the land-back conservation deal along the lower #KlamathRiver — a partnership with #WesternRiversConservancy and other #EnvironmentalGroups — is being called the largest in California history.

    "The Yurok Tribe had 90% of its territory taken during the #CaliforniaGoldRush in the mid-1800s, suffering massacres and disease from settlers.

    " 'To go from when I was a kid and 20 years ago even, from being afraid to go out there to having it be back in tribal hands … is incredible,' said McCovey, director of the Yurok Tribal Fisheries Department."

    Read more / listen:
    pressdemocrat.com/2025/06/05/c

    #NativeAmericans #LandBack #YurokNation #IndigenousNews #KlamathRiver #KlamathRiverRestoration #TraditionalFoods #WaterIsLife #IndigenousFoodways #Genocide #SettlerColonialism #AncestralLands

  6. From June, 2025... #California’s #YurokTribe gets back ancestral lands that were taken over 120 years ago

    By Associated Press
    PUBLISHED: June 5, 2025 at 9:34 AM PDT

    ON THE KLAMATH RIVER, Calif. (AP) — "As a youngster, Barry McCovey Jr. would sneak through metal gates and hide from security guards just to catch a steelhead trout in #BlueCreek amid northwestern California redwoods.

    "Since time immemorial, his ancestors from the Yurok Tribe had fished, hunted and gathered in this watershed flanked by coastal forests. But for more than 100 years, these lands were owned and managed by #TimberCompanies, severing the tribe’s access to its homelands.

    "When McCovey started working as a fisheries technician, the company would let him go there to do his job.

    " 'Snorkeling Blue Creek … I felt the significance of that place to myself and to our people, and I knew then that we had to do whatever we could to try and get that back,' McCovey said.

    "After a 23-year effort and $56 million, that became reality.

    "Roughly 73 square miles (189 square kilometers) of homelands have been returned to the Yurok, more than doubling the tribe’s land holdings, according to a deal announced Thursday. Completion of the land-back conservation deal along the lower #KlamathRiver — a partnership with #WesternRiversConservancy and other #EnvironmentalGroups — is being called the largest in California history.

    "The Yurok Tribe had 90% of its territory taken during the #CaliforniaGoldRush in the mid-1800s, suffering massacres and disease from settlers.

    " 'To go from when I was a kid and 20 years ago even, from being afraid to go out there to having it be back in tribal hands … is incredible,' said McCovey, director of the Yurok Tribal Fisheries Department."

    Read more / listen:
    pressdemocrat.com/2025/06/05/c

    #NativeAmericans #LandBack #YurokNation #IndigenousNews #KlamathRiver #KlamathRiverRestoration #TraditionalFoods #WaterIsLife #IndigenousFoodways #Genocide #SettlerColonialism #AncestralLands

  7. A Native Community Preserves its Food Traditions

    Members of the Tolowa Dee-ni’ Nation are keeping #TraditionalFoodways alive in the face of #ClimateChange and human impact.

    By Allie Hostler
    November 21, 2017

    Excerpt: "Changes in tribal food systems and lifeways began in 1853 as the #CaliforniaGoldRush brought a mass incursion of #WhiteSettlers. Making way for the newcomers and addressing the '#IndianProblem,' California paid a bounty for Indian scalps, which proved to be more lucrative than panning gold. The first session of the California State Legislature passed the Act for the Government and Protection of Indians in 1850, which legalized removing Natives from their land and separating Native families.

    "Ceremonies were ambushed and villages were burned. In 1856, the U.S. government forcibly removed 1,834 #Tolowa to coastal concentration camps. By 1910, like many California tribes, the Tolowa population had dwindled—from more than 10,000 to just 504. Despite the 14th Amendment, the Act for the Government and Protection of Indians was not fully repealed until 1937.

    "Relying on the knowledge held by the few families refusing to give up their traditional ways, the Tolowa persevered.

    " 'My family managed to hold tight to our food, language, ceremony, songs, beliefs, and protocols,' says Jones. 'We fought to keep connected. We purposefully protected and passed along this way of being so it didn’t die.' "

    Read more:
    civileats.com/2017/11/21/a-nat

    #SolarPunkSunday
    #IndigenousFoodSovereignty
    #TraditionalFoods #FoodSovereignty #Foodsecurity #IndigenousAgriculture #TolowaDeeni#AnimalProducts #IndigenousFoodSecurity #IndigenousFoodSystems #LandBack
    #Reclaiming #Decolonize #CulturalErasure #Genocide #CulturalSurvival

  8. Hello Fellow Mastolorians!

    In the 1830s, Americans thought tomatoes were poisonous, and many people refused to have anything to do with them. But within the space of just 10 years — without TV, radio or the Internet — consumer perception and behavior completely changed. This bodes really well for infosec pros concerned about how to improve consumer security behaviors.

    #ICYMI — I joined Carey Parker, host of the consumer security and privacy podcast Firewalls Don't Stop Dragons for a light-hearted discussion on a serious topic: password security. Listen in to find out what the history of tomatoes in the U.S. can teach infosec professionals about educating consumers on good password hygiene.

    More than 9,700 people have read this blogpost so far!

    Grab a few tomatoes 🍅​🍅​🍅​, have a listen (or read the transcript), and let me know what you think!

    loistavainfosecurity.com/blog/

    @FirewallDragons
    #OneTimePads
    #CaliforniaGoldRush
    #Passwords
    #Passphrases

  9. I recently wondered if there were any people from the Tuscarawas County, Ohio area that decided to try and find riches in the gold rush(es) of the American West. In doing so, I stumbled upon the sad story of William Watson. #California #GoldRush #LocalHistory #OhioHistory #19thCentury #1800s #CaliforniaGoldRush #MiningHistory @histodons

    noel-poirier.com/2023/01/30/wi

  10. Hello Fellow Denizens of Infosec.Exchange!

    In the 1830s, Americans thought tomatoes were poisonous, and many people refused to have anything to do with them. But within the space of just 10 years — without TV, radio or the Internet — consumer perception and behavior completely changed. This bodes really well for infosec pros concerned about how to improve consumer security behaviors.

    #ICYMI — I joined Carey Parker, host of the consumer security and privacy podcast Firewalls Don't Stop Dragons for a light-hearted discussion on a serious topic: password security. Listen in to find out what the history of tomatoes in the U.S. can teach infosec professionals about educating consumers on good password hygiene.

    More than 9,700 people have read this blogpost so far!

    Grab a few tomatoes 🍅​🍅​🍅​, have a listen (or read the transcript), and let me know what you think!

    loistavainfosecurity.com/blog/

    @FirewallDragons
    #OneTimePads
    #CaliforniaGoldRush
    #Passwords
    #Passphrases

  11. Hello Fellow Denizens of Infosec.Exchange!

    In the 1830s, Americans thought tomatoes were poisonous, and many people refused to have anything to do with them. But within the space of just 10 years — without TV, radio or the Internet — consumer perception and behavior completely changed. This bodes really well for infosec pros concerned about how to improve consumer security behaviors.

    #ICYMI — I joined Carey Parker, host of the consumer security and privacy podcast Firewalls Don't Stop Dragons for a light-hearted discussion on a serious topic: password security. Listen in to find out what the history of tomatoes in the U.S. can teach infosec professionals about educating consumers on good password hygiene.

    More than 9,700 people have read this blogpost so far!

    Grab a few tomatoes 🍅​🍅​🍅​, have a listen (or read the transcript), and let me know what you think!

    loistavainfosecurity.com/blog/

    @FirewallDragons
    #OneTimePads
    #CaliforniaGoldRush
    #Passwords
    #Passphrases

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