Martin Rizzo-Martinez

In California's largest landback deal, the Yurok Tribe reclaims sacred land around Klamath River More than 17,000 acres around the Klamath River in northern California,have returned to the Yurok Tribe, completing the largest landback deal in California history.

In biggest land-back deal in California history, the Yurok get back the final piece of 73 sq mi of their homeland on the state's far northern Klamath River. Good piece by Grist highlights how this Yurok land deal is just part of the extraordinary changes taking place in this part of N America.

I went with AMLT to the San Benito grasslands yesterday and there were so many incredible plants! #CaliforniaNativePlants

I hope everyone realizes that scrubbing historical references from web sites is no different than burning books

This is how it’s done, university presidents!

Does Your Local Museum or University Still Have Native American Remains? Use this database to find out where Native American remains were taken from and which institutions report still having them. Check on institutions near you.

Pro Publica updated its database of compliance with returning Indigenous ancestors under NAGPRA. While some sincere efforts were made by places such as Dept. of the Interior, there are others incl. Harvard (5,400) and Berkeley (4,700) with 1000s of remains. projects.propublica.org/repatriation...

My only criticism of George Orwell’s 1984 is that it wasn’t titled 2025.

U.S. Department of Education’s 14-Day Ultimatum on Equal Opportunity: Will Universities Surrender or Resist? Craig TrainorActing Assistant Secretary for Civil RightsUnited States Department of Education400 Maryland Avenue, S.W.Washington, D.C. 20202 Dear Acting Assistant Secretary Trainor, I write to you …

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The Reality of Settler Colonialism - Boston Review Writers like Adam Kirsch mock the idea to demonize critics of Israel. The phenomenon itself remains.

Excellent review of Adam Kirsch's On Settler Colonialism by @samuelhayimbrody.bsky.social .

www.bostonreview.net/articles/the...

I lost my job. USDA Forest Service. My probation was up next week. I did everything right. I took a GS-7 role with a master’s degree just to get my foot in the door. I spent years doing seasonal fieldwork for low pay, working in remote places, gaining experience, and building skills, just for a chance at a permanent position. I was about to be a GS-9. I wrote NEPA reports. I conducted field surveys. I worked fire support. I dedicated myself to this work because I believed in it. Public lands don’t manage themselves. The wildlife, watersheds, and forests we protect don’t just stay protected without people on the ground making it happen. My coworkers and I took on that responsibility, often in places most people never think about but that matter more than they know. And now? Just like that, I’m out. Edit: I’ve consistently supported progressive policies and have voted Democrat in every national and local election since I was 18. I do appreciate folks asking, I have some coworker having a serious 'leopards ate my face' moment right now.

This comment on r/fednews really stood out to me. Trump and Musk want people to think they're firing do-nothing "bureaucrats," but they're really getting rid of people dedicated to serving this country and keeping it operational. I hope these stories get told.

hey bluesky, if you're a historian please give this a read and consider signing.

www.historiansforpeace.org/2025/02/08/p...

The Empire Self-Destructs We share the pathologies of all dying empires with their mixture of buffoonery, rampant corruption, military fiascos, economic collapse and savage state repression.

The Empire Self-Destructs | Chris Hedges

We share the pathologies of all dying empires with their mixture of buffoonery, rampant corruption, military fiascos, economic collapse and savage state repression.

chrishedges.substack.com/p/the-empire...

Chris Hedges: The Western Way of Genocide The genocide in Gaza portends the emergence of a dystopian world where the industrialized violence of the Global North is used to sustain its hoarding of diminishing resources and wealth.

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Navajo alarmed by reports of Indigenous people caught up in Trump immigration raids Group takes steps to protect members after ‘traumatizing’ reports of people being stopped or detained by agents

The fact that Native Americans are being caught up in immigration raids seems like the ultimate insult--one that shows how the logic of settler colonialism turns Indigenous people into foreigners in their own homelands.

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And then there's this nice piece from the MAH History Journal, by the late great Stan Stevens, Frank Perry, Barry Brown and Rick Hyman. Well worth the read:

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Ships and wharves of old Santa Cruz | Ross Eric Gibson, Local History Beach Flats had been a supply depot for the Santa Cruz Mission, with storage piles for its heavier trade goods of leather, roof beams, and clay roof-tiles, traded with Spanish ships.

BTW, The article this map was shared in, Ships and Wharves of old Santa Cruz by Ross Eric Gibson, can be found here:

www.santacruzsentinel.com/2022/08/21/s...

I’ve seen a few. This is the most recent one, from Ross Eric Gibson’s SC Sentinel article a few years ago. It doesn’t include anything beyond Santa Cruz though.

Very interesting, thanks for sharing! I had always suspected that it was more of a Nor Cal (wharf) v So Cal (pier) difference.

#indigisky #booksky

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