California Tribal News

Dear tobacco colleagues,

You are receiving this email because you are a CTPP funded Tribal Competitive Grantee or LLA where you have Tribal Nations within your county jurisdictions. 

PHEI’s Wellness Initiatives for Native Nations (WINN) project shares the belief of the California Tobacco Prevention Program and many others working in tobacco education throughout the State: All individuals have the right to be protected from the dangers of secondhand smoke (SHS) where they live, work, and play. WINN will work with Tribal Nations throughout California including diverse, low-income and rural communities. WINN’s Primary Objective is to reduce exposure to secondhand smoke by means of the adoption and implementation of smokefree policies that prevent smoking, vaping, or commercial tobacco use within 25 feet of doors, windows, and buildings and /or preventing smoking and commercial tobacco use indoors at tribal worksites throughout California. 

We are excited to launch our California Tribal Newsletter and are looking forward to collaborating and supporting your efforts alongside ours.

Sincerely,

The Absence of October's Job Report Shows Why Native American Communities Need Better Data

On November 19, the Bureau of Labor Statistics announced that, as a result of the government shutdown, it would not release its October jobs report—the first time in the report’s 77-year history that it would not be published. 

Yosemite National Park is Home to Seven Traditionally Associated American Indian Tribes: Members Continue Stewardship Traditions

Yosemite National Park officials announce that Yosemite is home to seven Traditionally Associated American Indian tribes: the Southern Sierra Miwuk Nation, the Bishop Paiute Tribe, the Bridgeport Indian Colony, the Mono Lake Kootzaduka’a Tribe, the North Fork Rancheria of Mono Indians of California, the Picayune Rancheria of the Chukchansi Indians, and the Tuolumne Band of Me-Wuk Indians.

Sacramento Kings to introduce land acknowledgment at games

The Sacramento Kings are celebrating Native American Heritage in November by becoming one of the few NBA teams to have a land acknowledgement at games.

Indigenous youth activist reflects on ‘surreal' COP30 climate summit

Last week, Indigenous youth activists who were a part of the historic first descent of the undammed Klamath River participated at COP30. At the international climate summit at Belem in Brazil, they spoke to the power of dam removal.

California Voice: Museums and universities must reunite ancestors’ remains with tribes

Imagine your relatives’ bones stored in the basement of an unfamiliar university or museum.

Boxes of ancestors and artifacts are often stacked on top of each other, for use in research, education or just curiosity. Mostly they are ignored or forgotten, left to collect dust.

For Land’s Sake

Not long ago, there was a short list of local developers who could pull off big projects. Their names were Lukenbill, Benvenuti, Tsakopoulos, Petrovich and a few others. Successful people with deep community roots, they had big ideas and access to money. They got things done.