The Winnemem Wintu Tribe will hold a rally at the Federal Courthouse in Redding to call for justice and for the court to rescind  the punitive citations served on Chief Caleen Sisk at the end of the traditional Balas Chonas (Coming of Age Ceremony) in July.

DA won't file hate crime charge against Shasta Lake man

The Shasta County district attorney's office won't prosecute a Shasta Lake man who was suspected of attacking an 18-year-old Native American while yelling racial slurs at him last month, a decision his mother said stems from bigotry.

Despite requests from the teen's family members that Charles Petrisevac, 36, be prosecuted with a hate crime, Senior Deputy District Attorney Kelly Kafel said Wednesday that won't happen.

Justice Denied

A tangled bureaucracy has left tribal communities facing an epidemic of violent crime

Colleen Keane

September 4, 2012

Dear Allies,

We need your support in providing comments to East Bay Regional Park District (EBRPD) as they update their master plan. Aside from providing comments by October 11th, we ask you to join us for a public meeti
ng with EBRPD on September 11th.

Athabasca Chipewyan First Nation and the Tar Sands

Updates and info on ACFN's case against Shell Oil

“Since 1941 most of our ceremonial sites have been buried beneath the still waters of Lake Shasta,” said Sisk. “We ask that the Forest Service grant us this one small dignity by allowing our girls to enter womanhood in privacy at one of our last remaining traditional ceremonial sites.”

Photo of Caleen Sisk, Chief of the Winnemen Wintu Tribe, meeting with U.S. Forest Service Regional Forester Randy Moore at his Vallejo office on April 16. Photo courtesy of Winnemem Wintu Tribe.

Save the Peaks Coalition v. United States Forest Service

Thu Jan 5 2012 (Updated 01/06/12) Sunrise Ceremony, March, Court Hearing, & Press Conference to Save the San Francisco Peaks

On December 17, approximately 75-100 community members protesting the desecration of Rattlesnake Island, the spiritual center of the Elem Pomo community, marched to the Piedmont mansion of John Nady, the owner of Nady Systems, who has been one of those pushing for the development of the island as the location of two luxury-style vacation homes.