523 acres of redwood forest have been returned to a group of Native American tribes in California. According to a statement from Save the Redwoods League, the ancestors of the tribes were involuntarily removed from the land generations ago.
The land will be renamed Tc’ih-Léh-Dûñ, which means “Fish Run Place” in the Sinkyone language. The Sinkyone people lived on the land in California for thousands of years, traveling, hunting, and fishing throughout their territory before being removed in the 1800s.
Tc’ih-Léh-Dûñ is in Mendocino County, within the North Cost area of the state.
Original post by Margaret Osborne/Smithsonian Magazine
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