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500 acres of California forestland returned

to indigenous tribes
5 hours ago

MAX FORSTER/ SAVE THE REDWOODS LEAGUE

A redwood at Tc’ih-Léh-Dûñ

A group of native tribes in California has regained ownership of more than

500 acres of redwood forestland they were forcibly removed from centuries
ago.

Save the Redwoods League, a non-profit, said the property is now owned by
the Sinkyone Council, which represents "the original stewards of this land".
Formerly known as Andersonia West, the forest in Mendocino County will
return to its original name: Tc'ih-Léh-Dûñ.

The name translates to "Fish Run Place" in the Sinkyone language.

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"Renaming the property Tc'ih-Léh-Dûñ lets people know that it's a sacred
place; it's a place for our Native people," said Crista Ray, a board member of
the Sinkyone Council, in a statement on Tuesday.

"It lets them know that there was a language and that there was a people who
lived there long before now."

A habitat corridor critical to many endangered species and home to towering

old-growth redwoods , Tc'ih-Léh-Dûñ now adds to about 180,000 acres of
protected lands along the Sinkyone coast.

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This is the second time Save the Redwoods League has entered into a
conservation agreement with the Sinkyone tribes.

In 2012, it donated 164 acres of redwood - just north of Tc'ih-Léh-Dûñ - to

them.

"We believe the best way to permanently protect and heal this land is through
tribal stewardship," said the League's president and CEO Sam Hodder in a
statement.

"In this process, we have an opportunity to restore balance in the ecosystem

and in the communities connected to it, while also accelerating the pace and
scale of conserving California's iconic redwood forests."

The Council and League plan to apply "a blend of Indigenous place-based land
guardianship principles, conservation science, climate adaptation and fire
resiliency concepts and approaches" to the newly tribal land.

The League bought the land in 2020 for $3.55m (£2.63m) through a
conservation program set up by the Pacific Gas & Electricity utility company,
one of the state's largest private landowners.

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