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How this tribe got their coastal California lands returned
Source: Raw Story
“The Kashia Band of Pomo Indians has called the coast along what is now Sonoma County, California, home for more than 12,500 years. There, the ‘People from the Top of the Land’ occupied lands that stretched out about 30 miles along the coast near Fort Ross and about 30 miles inland. Like many California tribes, the Kashia were violently removed from the best portions of their lands during the formation of the U.S. In 1915, the Kashia were allocated just 41.5 acres of land for their reservation. But in 2015—100 years later—the Kashia regained ownership of the heartland of its culture: 688 acres of land on the Pacific Coast. ‘We’re a coastal people,’ says Kashia Chairman Reno Keoni Franklin. ‘A number of our ceremonies (...)