Tribes, activists rally in Sacramento over water rights – Eureka Times-Standard, 7/5/23
The rally featured speakers and tribal representatives from across the state, including from the Hoopa Valley Tribe and Karuk Tribe, both with ancestral lands in Humboldt County. The group called on Gov. Gavin Newsom to realign the state’s water rights system to greater favor management from tribes and less diversions for agriculture.
“Our social well-being, or our physical or cultural or spiritual well-being, it all runs parallel to the salmon and if the salmon are doing good, we’re not doing good,” said Jason Jackson-Reed, an executive assistant with the Hoopa Valley Tribe.
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