[UPDATE] Woman Shot Near Hwy 96 in Northeastern Humboldt
Law enforcement is searching for a suspect or suspects who shot a 29-year-old woman before 6 a.m. today in the area of Mill Creek Road and Hwy 96. According to Samantha Karges, spokesperson for the Humboldt County Sheriff’s Office, they received a call for assistance at 5:52 a.m. from the Hoopa Valley Tribal Police Department regarding a gunshot victim.
Officers with Hoopa Tribal Police had been investigating an unrelated incident when, Karges said there were “reportedly approached by a 29-year-old female gunshot victim for emergency assistance. The victim was transported to a local hospital with an apparent non-life-threatening gunshot injury.”
Karges told us, “Investigating deputies learned the victim had been involved in a domestic altercation at a residence on Mill Creek Road. The victim reportedly drove away from the residence following the altercation. While driving, an unknown subject(s) reportedly shot at the victim’s vehicle, striking and injuring the victim.”
She told us, “This is an ongoing investigation and deputies are still in the area investigating at this time.”
UPDATE: The Sheriff’s Office released an expanded version of the incident information below.
On September 8, 2020, at about 5:52 a.m., the Humboldt County Sheriff’s Office Emergency Communications Center was contacted by the Hoopa Valley Tribal Police Department regarding a gunshot victim located in the area of Mill Creek Road and Highway 96.
According to Tribal Police, officers in the area were investigating an unrelated incident when they were approached by a 29-year-old female gunshot victim for emergency assistance. The victim was transported to a local hospital with a non-life-threatening gunshot injury and is in stable condition.
Humboldt County Sheriff’s deputies responded to the area to begin their investigation. Investigating deputies learned that the victim had been involved in a domestic altercation at a residence on Mill Creek Road. The victim reportedly drove away from the residence following the altercation. While driving, an unknown suspect(s) reportedly shot at the victim’s vehicle, striking and injuring the victim.
Upon arriving at the residence in which the original altercation reportedly occurred, deputies were unable to locate any subjects involved in the incident.
While investigating this incident, Sheriff’s deputies received information that a black four-door Audi possibly associated with this incident had been observed at a convenience store in the Hoopa area. Deputies located a vehicle matching the description provided traveling on Mill Creek Road and attempted a traffic stop. The vehicle fled at a high rate of speed onto Upper Mill Creek Road. Deputies pursued the vehicle but lost sight of it and terminated the pursuit due to poor visibility conditions.
A short while later, deputies received information that Forest Service personnel assigned to the Red Salmon Complex Fire observed the vehicle traveling south on Big Hill Road. Forest Service personnel then re-contacted deputies after discovering the Audi abandoned further down the road. Deputies performed a search of the location and were unable to locate suspects associated with the vehicle.
This is an ongoing investigation. Although initial information indicated that these two incidents were connected, it is still unknown at this time whether these two cases are related. More information will be released when available.
Anyone with information about these cases or related criminal activity is encouraged to call the Humboldt County Sheriff’s Office at (707) 445-7251 or the Sheriff’s Office Crime Tip line at (707) 268-2539.
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Whats going on with Hoopa? Forgive my ignorance, as I’ve only lived in the area about 3 years now. But its seems like its nothing but a constant stream of crime, and drugs? I’m going to get shit for this im sure, but why doesn’t the Hoopa people take more pride in themselves, and police their own and clean up that area? Its a smaller population im sure, so it should be easier to come together as a community right? I don’t know its all around sad.
Nothing new to Hoopa been like that for decades.
Universal Basic Income.
We systematically destroyed their culture. These problems are found on almost every rez in the country. We relentlessly committed genocide, rape, slavery, kidnappings, and perpetuated a culture of terror on these people by the use of violence with guns. We stole their land, food, language, traditions and introduced them to our refined sugars, alcohol and hard drugs. We destroyed the native people here and their very sustainable way of life, on purpose, in every way. Ya, native people are still reeling from this. To me it’s completely understandable.
Thanks, Brian, for spelling these things out. Yeah, treating people like they are less than human never ends well for anyone. Plus, there’s the enforced poverty, where tribes or their members don’t qualify for food stamps or other kinds of safety nets which are normally available for people in need. And then there’s the small business loans that no one ever gets… like financial redlining.
And, hey, Marine, if you want to know more about the totally insane ways that tribal law enforcement officers are not allowed to do their jobs, you should google it. There’s a tangled web of federal and state law that limits what tribal police can do.
Tribes get plenty of federal subsidies. It’s what they do with them that’s the problem.
spot on Thirdeye, new cars every year with subsidy checks. Good paying jobs with benefits at the tribe owned casino’s. Cheap gas from the station on the rez. No fed. taxes. Now they own my favorite brewery. They’re doin all right.
This happened on the Hoopa rez. The Yurok Tribe owns the brewery. Think you’re mixing up the tribes. Just saying.
Cu2morrow…you can maybe get away with that comment if it were true of the local tribes! The wealthy casinos are more of what you define.
-> you don’t have ANY value to those 2 eyes, unless you plug them into your heart + get busy! with your mouth shut except to utter “how can I help you?”
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Are you the Secretary of the Treasury?
Hmmmmmmm……seems like you know alot Bout the tribe whats your connection to the tribe or the reservation people
People like you are what is wrong with this country.
It is you who think they are less than human. It is you who think they need help. It is you who think they can’t take care of themselves.
Take a deep breath, and re-read it.
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“There’s a tangled web of federal and state law that limits what tribal police can do.”
And I don’t recall getting to vote on any of them, so who’s passing these laws….hmmm not the people.
Legislatures.
It’s why we don’t get to vote on anything that matters, or anything that’s actually important… unless it comes up as a ballot initiative, which is only legal in 27 states.
They are a sovereign nation remember? Nobody but natives get to vote on their laws, and I’m not sure even they do. Not sure how the sovereign part works considering they use our judges, our jails, and get federal and state subsidies from our taxes, but they are in-dependent nation.
That makes sense. Again in ignorance I have no clue on how the judicial system works. I just assumed that tribal lands had its own judicial system and police system.Seems we set up the original people of these lands for failure from the get go.
Tribes get more money and benefits than anybody else. I know many members of the Big Lagoon Rancheria who are getting $100,000+ per year from the government. No jobs. They sold their fishing rights to the Klamath to get those checks but considering the state of the Klamath River nowadays, that wasn’t a bad move at all. Brand new Audis and Mercedes every year or few months that are completely trashed in a few weeks. Kids get $30,000 on upon turning 21, at least me friend’s daughter did, some get way more, some less. Don’t tell me its because of a lack of cash, its what they do with it that is the problem. Free money never solved anything.
🙄bullshit!!! That’s a lie!
Yeah? I was engaged to a native Yurok, I know a lot about he financials. Her cousin is a big lagoon native, he told me exactly how much he gets a year from the gov’t. Her daughter received $30,000 upon turning 21, would’ve been $15,000 if she accepted it when she was 18. Tell me my lie, or are you just triggered?
It’s from the tribe, not the government. I am triggered by racist bullshit! Ive driven through the yucatan twice and been there three times. The locals are Mayan and Mayan is their first language.
And where does the tribe get its money? Not from government grants I suppose? And the locals in the Yucatan are Mexican and Spanish is their first language. Do you speak spanish? Would you be able to tell the two apart? lol
Spanish is not their first language
Right on cue, someone throws a white guilt smokescreen. Not all tribes are as pathological as Hoopa. The corrupt, violent local culture is the problem.
ya, can’t deal with the borg invasion two centuries years ago
5, FIVE centuries ago. Europeans began the destruction
Brian sounds like he’s getting a solid edumicatation from a reputable local university. This is what they teach and preach. Pure trash.
Black rifles matter……wow I can barely even write your anonymous user name without being offended……I’ve never been to college. However, i read lots of books. Many, many books on our local history. I suggest you do the same.
Brian you seem to be very knowledgable don’t have to go to fancy college to know what the hell is going on in this stupid f***up world we know have to deal with like all the dam people spreading the virus around like throwing candy at a parade.
Same three people every time.
You guys should just start your own chapter… cake walks might get you some money for new sheets.
Name-calling is a sign that you have no argument.
Yep. No argument. Just an observation.
I like cake walks and throw in some adult musical chairs and pun the tail on a donkey’s ass now that would be a great party.
I couldn’t have said it better. Negative comments are only rubbing salt into an old wound. They still get no respect. We think more of an arrow head than the natives stuffed on the reservations.
Yah, Gangas Kahn messed with my ancestors a while ago. We survived and moved on. A few hundred years from now who will know the difference. People have been conquering others forever….even native americans.
Guest, you need check your history and your timeline if you think the offenses committed on the Hupa were done centuries ago. Two centuries ago there was not a single white person residing in Humboldt county. The disgraceful and heinous crimes committed against the Hupa and all other tribes of the area is much more recent history and to brush it off as being so far in the past and comparing it to offenses committed by Ghengis Khan, nearly 1000 years ago is a stretch for sure.
Brian, I respect your points you have made here today, however there is to much scape goating happening , when people are taught that they can pass blame on failures based upon the past. I believe that the past should not be disregarded but that success is measured in spite of the past. Challenges over came are things to celebrate blaming failures upon history is providing a pass on responsibilities .
Speaking on history lands were won and lost by war since the beginning of time , normally in the past the warriors were killed off and the rest of the losing population was kept for slaves or trading .
Brian, a couple of centuries ago diseases introduced by the Spanish spread like wildfire and I am sure that had a affect on this area. If you are serious, put your money where your mouth is and deed your white guilt property back to the natives.
Is that what you’re scared of? They’re coming for your guns, I mean your deeds?
Look up what the Spanish did to the native people just south of the border. I will get a lot of flack for this and be called racist, but if you look at it from a purely historical point, the natives here were very very lucky that they were invaded and conquered by the English instead of the Spanish. All the natives south of the US/Mexico border were completely annihilated, their culture completely destroyed, what was left of them were 100% assimilated, and the rest were enslaved and slaughtered. Needless to say, the natives of Central and South America have ceased to exist, and haven’t existed for centuries.
People have been conquering, enslaving, and slaughtering other people since time immemorial. The only reason the Natives of North America are still around today is because they were invaded and conquered by a less ruthless people than their neighbors of Central and South America. Its very rare in the context of history that a conquered people are allowed to continue to live much less retain their culture.
Your ignorance is staggering
Then please correct me if I’m wrong? I have seen whats left of indigenous cultures in Central and South America. Most of their culture is in museums, all they have left is piecing together what history they can from history written by the very people who conquered them. Supposedly there are people who haven’t been conquered, like the native Kogui of Colombia, but even though they weren’t “conquered,” all of their old religious buildings are now big ruins that tourists take pictures of and all their gold is in museums. There really isn’t much left of any indigenous culture south of the border. There are supposedly “mayans” in the Yucatan still, but none of them know mayan, just a very incomplete dialect mixed with Spanish, all of their temples are tourist sites, and they are afforded nothing from the government. Please explain my ignorance to me, I love to learn
I’ve been to the Yucatan. The locals are Mayan and that’s their first language. You are talking about things you know jackshit about. You are either lying or speaking from a place of total ignorance 1911. The things you’ve said are racist and ignorant! You say you like to learn. Try learning before talking about other cultures that you don’t know about or understand. Speak from knowledge, not ignorant bigotry!
As have I. There are some indigenous people there, but where is their culture? The locals in the Yucatan are actually Mexican, with a few new-age mayans mixed in. Lol Racist and ignorant, you are triggered. I went there to learn, thats why I went to all of the ruins. You hear that? Ruins? Did you go and see them as well? There are people of Mayan decent there, but they have been mixed with Spanish blood. Some are more Mayan than others, but there are no pure mayan blood lines left, unlike the natives in North America. There are multiple “Mayan” languages that are spoken around the Yucatan, about 8 different dialects, but they were reconstructed from about 5000 known individual Maya inscriptions on buildings, monuments, and bark paper, as well as post-Conquest literature about Mayan languages that were written in latin.
Do they still worship their old gods at their old temples, Local Farmer? Do they still possess all the gold of their ancestors Local Farmer? They had to reconstruct their own language from hieroglyphs on their old temples and from old literature that the Conquistadors wrote about the Mayan language in latin. It also contains a healthy mix of good old Spanish.
Their culture was decimated and what little they have has been reconstructed from knowledge that their ancestors wrote on temples that are now ruins and from text written by the very people who conquered them. They no longer retain their ancestral land, it has been turned into either a tourist site, or it is currently under archeological discovery.
The natives there have nothing compared to the natives here. The Mayans, Aztecs, Zapotecs, Incas, Olmecs, all were wiped out by disease and conquest. Now, care to share some knowledge with me, so that I can be better educated? I love history, and I have just shared quite a bit of information with you that you may not have known otherwise, care to share actual info? Or are you just going to scream more about racism and bigotry and try to tell me I don’t know anything about something I actually know quite a bit about?
Also, Local Farmer, you didn’t provide me with a single shred of information to learn from. You just said I was wrong and then called me names. Thats pretty childish and sad. So please, when adults are trying to exchange information, just keep playing video games in your parent’s basement.
Well said Brian.
Brian speaks the truth. Pay attention people
More left-wing drivel perpetuated by brainwashed, college Marxist morons who deplore their own race. Indians are given MASSIVE handouts just like blacks and THAT is the reason they’re doing so shitty. Eventually these woke college douche bags will have their way, and white people too will be completely dependent on the government, living in squalor, and incapable of standing on their own two feet. They will mindlessly blame capitalism for the socialist predicament they created and advocated for so arrogantly.
Those of you who have convinced blacks that they have no chance in life and that this country is so horribly racist are utter and complete lying assholes. Your tales of “systemic racism” are the reason for the daily violence in the streets that has destroyed, and continues to destroy the lives of tens of thousands. You are creating hate between the races while claiming to be against racism. You seek another victim class every chance you get, sowing the seeds of discord and ensuring the failure of what was once an exceptional country, contrary to your ignorant beliefs. Native Americans (as well as every other race on the fucking planet) were warring and slaughtering each other long before Europeans got here. So to those of you who want to blame the white man for all of your problems (especially white college Marxist douche bags), GO FUCK YOURSELF! Look in the mirror if you want to assign blame. I didn’t slaughter or enslave anyone.
https://youtu.be/pQ4lnDy2xnQ
“A woman is shot, I think that means its time for my daily (hourly?) anti-lib rant”.
You parents must be proud.
Seek help. Really.
Look at this incel racist [edit] You are so sad bro get a therapist.
And humboldt county is just a different level of normal. Shits weird everywhere you look if you’re looking hard enough.
Reply to Rollin, these people believe in stripping the individual of the ability to stand on their own two feet and then relish in blaming the system after they have advocated for the means of the destruction of the individual for the furthering of the “collective.” Once somebody is convinced that they are unable to have forward progress in life due to the system, and then start receiving checks from the supposed system that is oppressing them, they have absolved all desire to beat the system and regain their individual self, instead becoming part of the “collective” or another cog in the wheel. Those people cannot and never will be able to be reasoned out of their position because they were never reasoned into it in the first place. We just have to listen to their voice being added to the “collective” echo chamber.
1911, you are spot on. It’s encouraging to see that there are a few out there who get it, too few to matter I’m afraid.
” white people too will be completely dependent on the government, living in squalor, and incapable of standing on their own two feet.”
That day is now and it’s nobody’s fault but our own! Can’t blame black and brown people for the ignorance of white fragility. Keep ranting that racist pro-capitist crap as the Fed keeps bailing out the corporations and buying govenment debt on our dime.
Who is we? You and people you acted with?
I didn’t do any of those things. Most of the people who read this comment almost certainly didn’t either.
I don’t dispute that those the things you wrote about were done, but it seems like you are not clear on who did them.
I think Brian is quite clear on who benefited from them.
So the sins of our great grandfathers, for which we’ve made up for in free land, education, money, law and tax waivers, housing, and employment benefits, somehow still translate to “it’s why we’re shitbags” 130 years later? Bullshit. Lots of ethnic groups have had strife, hell, lots of individuals have had strife. You overcome or you don’t. You don’t blame your current failings on ancient history. BLM, I’m talking to you, too
At some point natives need to put it behind them and take responsibility for their actions. It is an eaay excuse to fail and spend generarion after generation being professional victims. Insted of whining about the past get off your asses and make a better life for you your family and your tribe. Before you call me a racist like you are thinking i have native blood.
What’s this ‘We’ crap. I had nothing to do with it.
Well said Brian, that explanation isn’t exactly what they tried to teach us in school but I agree w you 100%
Drugs herion and meth have consumed Willow creek Hupa the whole trinity valley in wc the Terrence, hodgsen subdivision and surrounding neighborhoods have been turned up side down it’s odd to me people want to move there it’s a waste land that’s going to be consumed by wildfire and the law is no help
While the dominant cultures remains untouched by the scourge of drugs😂😂😂😂😂
Yes, and please let people know that was sarcasm on your part. The number dead from Oxycontin overdose all over America in both Indian and White communities is significantly more the the number of deaths from Covid-19.
Indian love
It’s called being suppressed and living in a concentration camp…
I’ts also called being sold out by corrupt tribal members. It’s also called embracing drugs instead of working with what you have for the betterment of your tribe.
Lots of us are pretty good at damaging our tribe whether the tribe is called Hupa, Humboldt, California or the US. We do it for lots of reasons but always because we believe our personal grievances are more important and other have it better.
People act as if these thing happen only in Hoopa, it’s everywhere. Eureka, McKin, Fortuna. How do you know they don’t take pride in their Rez. And you talk about corruption, drugs thieving, get the news paper or FB and see what’s going on, on the Coast. You don’t know anything about these people so please do us a favor if your so incline to don’t talk about or assume what you don’t know. Not much of an ass chewing I was trying to be nice.
True. The more in another’s eye is always worse than the beam in ours.
Smfh… they did patrol our own land until the sheriffs office took over and now look…
Poverty rate:
https://datausa.io/profile/geo/hoopa-ca/
You mean our European-American ancestors did those things, unless you yourself have done them…
You mean our European-American ancestors did those things, unless you yourself have done them…
my neighbor(10 years ago at age 35) a proud member of the Sons of the Pioneers told me “Yeah we took it from them, they didn’t know what to do with it….” this bully is alive today Not an ancestor yet.
They only report the bad things for the most part. Have they reported on how the school is still serving food and working to distribute homework. Or how about Monday night market. Or how many people do take care of thier own. There are many people here that will give you the shirts off their back but they choose to report all the negative. Eureka and surrounding cities have the same violence and much more. But it is not reported on. We are just the minority and they want to keep us down when no race is any better.
Been that way for a long time.
Let us know when you figure it out.
Amazing cultural difference for sure.
“We” identify with those before us, consider ourselves One. There is no need to exaggerate beyond that, with far fetched “well then that means” hypotheticals. It simply just is.
Non-indigenous people separate themselves from their ancestors more often than not. That is intriguing to me.
I am curious as to the parties involved in this incident; as I feel compelled to mention, to the stereotyping/bias view of Hoopa, a lot of acts that happen involve people who do not originate specifically from Hoopa, yet are labeled aa such.
Good news never sells. You dont hear about the hard workers, the innovators, our youth striving to hurdle through sociological and economical hardships, earning Gates scholorships and earning their degrees. There is a lot of good here, it is overshadowed though.
That is how it has always been.
It is a small, rural area. We receive minimal services here, because it is hard to get here, and even more difficult to get services to people who need it…we have sort of been ingrained not to trust outsiders. When we encounter an impasse of negative perspectives, it reinforces our outlook, everytime.
I can say, personally, for myself, I hope everyone awakens their sense of compassion and humanity in this especially perplexing time. I just heard my loved ones in Hoopa may have to evacuate soon. Loved ones in the southern counties from us also in danger from fire.
In its twisted way, disasters equalize us.
Be good to your fellow human, that is all.
Awesome perspective, Thank you.
Some of “we” do that. Some of “we” are remarkably hateful but then that is their complaint about their ancestors. Forgotten is ΓΝΩΘΙ ΣΑΥΤΟΝ (know thyself), ΜΗΔΕΝ ΑΓΑΝ (nothing in excess), and ΕΓΓΥΑ, ΠΑΡΑ ΔΑΤΗ (surety brings ruin)
Amanda for Council … can I get a hell ya !
Very well said.
Wisdom comments like this are why it is often worth the time to parse through the partisan mudslinging in the comments here with patience. Thank you.
There are extra benefits for tribal members. Free medical at tribal medical facilities for one. Also, there are tribal TANF, tribal food stamps, tribal General Assistance, per capita, and many others. Some are a choice for tribal members to get either one they choose. Some they must prove to the tribe they were denied for regular benefits before tribal benefits kick in. Some are just because they are members. There are school supply allotments and lots of other benefits as well. Anyone who says there are less benefits for tribal people are just plain ignorant or lying. It’s time to move forward as a county and live as Americans, not as separate tribes.
What Mark said:
https://datausa.io/profile/geo/hoopa-ca/
Poverty = 41.5 %
So much for all those supposed “benefits.”
After working with this population for 15 years, I have no sympathy left for them. Almost none have the drive to look for work. Alcohol and drugs are their number one priority. They could change this through the huge amount of help available, but most don’t want it. Direct quote from a Hoopa homeless person I tried to help… Question: Why are you homeless? ANSWER: “All my family and friends won’t let me stay with them anymore because I drink all their drinks, smoke all their smokes and eat all their food. They will let me pitch a tent in the yard, but I can’t even use their bathroom because of it.” This is commonplace and a typical situation. This was only one of hundreds over 15 years. If they won’t help themselves, at least enough to have family and friends that trust them, I too have to give up. There is no future for Hoopa unless there is a total change. Everything in “What Mark said” they brought upon themselves and have to want change or it won’t happen. It’s much easier to blame others than take responsibility for themselves.
Dude so your like a racist that works on the government dime to help people but you don’t believe in the people you work with. Talk about systemic racism. Sounds like you embody it. Then you spew this one tribe crap. Wow.
I no longer work with them. And it isn’t their race, it’s their mentality I gave up on. It’s exactly the same for the homeless who camp wherever they want, trash the place, panhandle for drug money or even worse, rob and steal for it. I was a full time worker for the County and according to Guest’s list below I was well below poverty level for a household of one the whole time, while I had a family of three. But at least I was working. And I didn’t try to blame anyone for it either.
I don’t apologize for despising laziness, drug abuse or any number of things that has caused these people their problems, nor do I care to be of assistance. I put in my time… way more than most of the blabbermouths on this site.
You really know how to paint yourself into a corner with all that hate.
And that comment coming from a self proclaimed expert on all subject matter who commonly spews hate, hmmmmm.
You’re really special, aren’t you?
You need to not lump ALL the people together it’s unfair to do so. So you have become discouraged with what you have had to work with. You have no idea what they have gone thru. My Grandsons are honorable men who believe in the land, believe in their culture. They love their family and look up to the Elders for guidance. Evidently you haven’t met everyone on the Rez. My Grandsons will go out to fish and then bring back what they caught. Back to the Elders or others who would appreciate the fish with out being asked. They would never be rude or unkind to their Elders. So before you lump all of Hoopa into this disgusting category you’ve invented try going out and meet the rest of the Hoopa Tribe you’ve insulted with the crap you just said.
What counts as income to determine pverty rates?
$97,200 = Poverty line for a family of four
$47,520 = Poverty line for an individual
$28,000 = Median household income in Hoopa
https://www.healthforcalifornia.com/covered-california/income-limits
Getting a break on health insurance from the state of California is not poverty. In fact the figure you quoted is more than 300% more than the federal poverty level and means that recognized tribe members earning under that do not pay deductibles, coinsurance, etc. The federal poverty level for a family of 4 is $26, 200 in 2020. Not that there aren’t poor people in Hoopa but they usually qualify under Medical Expansion without cost. Poor in Califrnia is a complicated thing.
Poverty rate for Humboldt = 20 %
Poverty rate for Hoopa = 41.5 %
People in Hoopa are twice as poor as the rest of Humboldt.
https://datausa.io/profile/geo/hoopa-ca/
And back again to the graphic posted- most income that is not earned or investment personally does not count in determining poverty- housing assistance, health care, tribal profit from enterprises, tribal grants, etc . It’s a different system with different problems but poverty on the Hoopa reservation does not mean the same as poverty off it.
And people in general in California are poorer than the rest of the country. Is that the evil white man’s fault to?
https://www.sandiegouniontribune.com/opinion/the-conversation/sd-california-poverty-rate-20180913-htmlstory.html
Alf for mayor ….can I get a hell ya !
No you can’t!
But you can get a fuck no and a get a life!
“Free medical at tribal medical facilities” – like the free pile after a garage sale …ought to just shut up and be grateful that it’s free, right?
FWIW, I’m looking forward to improved high-speed rural internet with other opportunities to benefit the Hoopa and other tribes. The FCC has been opening up mid-band spectrum this year for the 5G FAST Plan, while reserving the sweet 2.5 GHz range for rural tribes. It appears the Hoopa got their bid in.
https://www.fcc.gov/25-ghz-rural-tribal-maps
ISTR that tribes will also get first dibs on the 3.5 urban spectrum (which I think they can resell to ISPs such as suddenlink, etc.)
https://www.fcc.gov/5G
Amanda you are a very articulate young lady and prove the positive things you say about your people just by your own way of writing and speaking.
Your interest in non-indigenous people being unconnected to their ancestors is an intriguing point. One of my ancestors came to Northern California in the 1800’s, a white man who lived in the small town of Shasta (near Redding, not the Shasta of Lake Shasta) and was a prospector. I studied the way Native Americans were treated in that area and was horrified, but was never able to find out my own ancestor’s position on that. I did find that one of his ancestors was the only white man to ever be a member of the Council of the Six Nations, so I fervently hope he had an enlightened view. Other than that, my relatives were mostly Quakers who supposedly got along well with Native Americans. But white people have long held a mistaken belief in their “superiority”, whether they admit or not, even liberals who claim to be free of discrimination. I think it comes out of the 1600’s when Cromwell drove the Scottish and Irish out of their lands. They needed an excuse, other than pure greed! White people in California believed in that way of thinking (and some still do).
Sarah,
That was an enlightening message to read. Thank you.
I always share on my personal social media the story of how I felt upon finishing the book “Bury My Heart at Wounded Knee” by Dee Brown. I was around 14/15yrs old. I became enraged, emotional; I was so sad, but also felt so betrayed by my school teachings. None of the context of the book was ever brought to our awareness. I felt lied to. We always learned of the great armies, the glorified generals, and the “hostiles” who threatened their contribution to the foundation of the United States American nation.
I learned I am a descendant of “hostiles,” locally around the same time. The “Bald Hills Indians” – Chilula. I learned of their survival horror stories; and I knew in my core that most of what I was indoctrinated with about “hostiles” throughout U.S. history was half truth at best.
Those realizations made me insecure for a long time, and I struggled with my ethnic identity for a long, long time. I used to cry myself to sleep because I knew the prejudices against me as an Indigenous American (I am a Hoopa Tribal member). I used to wish I could change my looks to be more “white.”
I held on to my pride through avid ceremonial attendances, encouragement from my elders and listening to them speak our language. While I felt perplexed about my tribal identity, I also knew that my culture was unique and I found that so beautiful. The beauty resonated very strong, and so my pride remained. I would be discouraged by the name calling I experienced, misrepresentations of my culture, the mocking, the labeling, etc. The thing that fortified my resilience was knowing I myself could be counterproductive to all of it.
The people in my life worked hard. They strived to be recognized as hard workers, while also being true to our heritage – give without expecting in return, help even if you know they dont like you, think of the people before yourself.
I molded myself from that (and more).
As a 35yr old now, I am an exceedingly proud Indigenous woman. Most people who have come here for work or school, or by chance, have conveyed their admiration for my home land. They leave with good hearts. Any of those who have negative commentary about my people, my valley, and/or my culture usually are projecting a deep seeded, unsettled darkness within themselves; he/she is an imbalanced person. I cant be angry at them, I have to forgive them.
For all of the horror on both sides of (local) history, I do know we are all here together at the same time for a reason. I strive to light that reason with humanity and positivity.
I recently read “An American Genocide: The United States and the California. Indian Catastrophe, 1846–1873” by Benjamin Madley (recently, actually 2yrs ago). It is an eye opener, very heartbreaking, but a truth that needs to be absorbed. So many of my historical family narratives made a lot of sense upon my discovery through each chapter of that book, I recommend it for you. 🙂
Thank you for a healthy exchange. I am not one of those people perpetually angry at “white” people. There are so many good friends of mine, open minded, timid to have the dialogue with me, but once engaged we have great talks. I love that. Thats the sort of hope we all need to cultivate ❤️
Wow! What a beautiful comment. Thank you.
Stunning statement. Well done.
Amanda I look forward to reading the books you write.
Thank you Amanda, for replying to my comment. To be honest, I just now read it because I was dreading negative comments from “haters”! I do have the book you recommend but have not tackled all of it cover to cover because … well for me it is pretty painful to read about the misdeeds of “my” race. I won’t pretend to have any Native American genes, that I know of, but my father was part Irish and my family may have suffered some stigma because of it. I can compare that to your situation, in that I too have come to accept that part of my heritage and am curious to learn more. Also, the prospector who lived in Shasta was 100% French Canadian and probably suffered some prejudice in early California because of that. I am also proud of that even though his family were poor Maine farmers. The story of the French Canadians is interesting, in that they were pushed out of Canada by the British after the “French and Indian” War. Some went to New Orleans where they are now called “Cajuns” and others remained close to home like my relatives. The exile from their home in Nova Scotia (they were called “Acadian” at the time, shortened to “Cajun” in New Orleans) cost them their prosperity.
The only way to stop drugs, crime, violence everywhere is a giant asteroid hitting the earth.
In all the shooting up of runaway vehicles I have done, I have never hit anyone. Im a bad shot I guess.
Go on back to your bedroom and your video game! The adults have adult things to talk about.
Please don’t speak to law enforcement with such disrespect, shooting at stuff is much harder than it looks, unless it’s at very close range.
What a horrible situation! To extricate yourself from a violent domestic dispute only to be shot at by some random person out in the middle of nowhere as you flee the situation that had absolutely nothing to do with the shooting… Probably some racist white man..
Not every tribe has a casino like the Wiyots. And not every tribe is recognnized and registered like the Wylaki. But BIA is promoting casinos as a means of financial self sufficiency for the tribes. The reality is casinos are a form of cultural genocide entrapping many into debt. Even tribes with casinos do NOT have per capita income benefiting tribal members like the Yurok. The tradition of genocide still lives on to this day as a Native American cannot testify against a white man in court. Much emphasis on “Black Lives Matter” forgetting whose land you are living on. Our government’s policy on immigration shows what a short term memory most white folks have completely forgetting history.
All the comments about this article is a bunch of b.s
I don’t think getting a check for being a tribal member is as good as having a business or a career. Opportunities are available but they involve leaving the reservation. My friend Robert Townsend the last full blooded tribal member on his res got his degree in electrical engineering from Berkeley but he wasn’t happy in the white mans world. He said he had to be with his people. Went back to his tribe and was later murdered by other tribal members while cutting firewood. Pale tribal members at that many people of native ancestry are barely half native. Bobby was dark as hickory wood that kid Moon that shot the guy while hitchhiking was pale as the moon look at him next to a picture of Sitting Bull or Geronimo. Damned if you do damned if you don’t.
It all comes down to the people themselves there’s always gonna be this that and whatever they get this and that good or bad in the end just like Covelo had a bad name for quite some time it’s the people over and over again that make a bad name for these places that ultimately ruin it and the name for most of the people at least doing what’s right and getting by without causing front page news criminal corrupt shit like many cities out there there’s always someone or number of people that allow this to keep happening and it seems to never end anywhere..