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Pacifica Evening News
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Monday, October 13, 2025 6:00 pm
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1:00:12
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| From the KPFA News Department
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| Wailaki Tribe
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| Wailaki Tribe Story On Indigenous People's Day
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In honor of Indigenous Peoples’ Day, we bring you a powerful story of cultural revival from Northern California — where members of the Wailaki Tribe celebrated the historic return of a traditional redwood canoe to the Eel River for the first time in nearly 170 years.
The event, held in June 2024, marked the culmination of years of work to reclaim ancestral traditions nearly erased by colonization — bringing together Native elders, youth, and community members in a moving celebration of resilience, healing, and pride.
The Wailaki people are the original inhabitants of the lands now known as Mendocino, Humboldt, and Trinity counties. Unlike many tribal nations, the Wailaki remain federally unrecognized as their own tribe— meaning they have no reservation, no official tribal offices, and no dedicated land base to harvest traditional foods or carry out ceremonies. During California’s genocide era, Wailaki families were forcibly relocated to the Round Valley Reservation, where seven different tribal nations were confined together — each with distinct languages and cultures — creating layers of trauma that still echo through generations today. To hear the full story listen at www.kpfa.org 10-13-25 6-7pm
Yet through that pain, a story of renewal has taken shape. Three years ago, Wailaki members founded a nonprofit called Native Health in Native Hands, devoted to revitalizing cultural practices in their ancestral territory. In partnership with California State Parks, they gained access to fallen redwood trees — allowing them to carve and launch their first traditional canoe in more than a century and a half.
Perry Lincoln, the organization’s director, comes from a family who has lived along the Eel River since time immemorial. The eight-mile canoe journey followed the river past the very village where his grandfather once lived — a place his family, like many others, was cut off from after private land ownership along the river was transferred to settlers, opportunities long denied to Native people.
On a bright summer day in the small riverside town of Alderpoint, along the Eel River — the third-largest watershed in California, stretching across five counties —
the Wailaki redwood canoe once again touched the water. It was a moment of homecoming, of ancestors remembered and traditions reborn.
This story first aired on KMUD Radio, broadcasting from the unceded territory of the Wailaki people — and tonight, we share it here on KPFA and KPFK.
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