Xo-kenesh

LAND ACCESS

The Wailaki relationship with Xa-cho (Eel River) has been damaged since at least the 1850s: there are no federally owned reservation lands along Xa-cho within traditional Wailaki homelands.

We have been with working with state park, Six Rivers National Forest, Bureau of Land Management, non-profits, private landowners and allies - stewarding the land with native traditional land practices along with modern land use practices. ŁEE-NA-KUL-DUŁAI ~ Coming Back Together Again.

Native Health in Native Hands is revitalizing Wailaki cultural practices in their ancestral territory, Southern Humboldt. The group has embarked on a historic collaboration with State Parks, but is it enough to right the wrongs of the past? KMUD’s Lauren Schmitt reports...