The new project, nearly seven years in the making, will see 10 apartments and 13 single family houses built in the Campbell Field Subdivision area. The current subdivision will grow in size. The new area will be nearly three times as large. Read More →
Hoopa Valley Tribal Chairman, Leonard Masten Jr. ordered all tribal departments and employees to stop “any activity that encourages or allows old trailers to be relocated onto the reservation.”
Masten said the order was in response to the growing problem of old trailers that were past their useful life being “donated” to tribal departments or tribal members as a way to cheaply dispose of them. Read More →
K’ima:w Medical Center’s plan to construct a new Senior Nutrition and Community Center got the green light from community members during a public hearing sponsored by the Hoopa Valley Tribe on Thursday, Feb. 7. Read More →
Teacher Kim Hyde and four of her students from Orleans Elementary School got the chance to watch history in the making, when they received tickets for the inauguration ceremonies of President Barack Obama and Vice President Joe Biden. Read More →
The Karuk Tribe’s acting Tribal Historic Preservation Officer (THPO) Jaclyn Goodwin announced early this month that the Tishawnik Ceremonial Grounds, located just south of Orleans, has been determined eligible for the National Register of Historic Places (National Register). Read More →
In this era when members of Congress and corporate executives try to whittle away the old people institutions of Social Security and Medicare, it’s useful to take a break at the Senior Lunch the Karuk Tribe offers five days every week. Read More →
It was a cold clear day on Friday, November 9 in Orleans. After lunch, school children from Kindergarten through the eighth grade sat quietly in groups under the oak tree in front of the Orleans Elementary. Elders and a handful of uniformed veterans sat in chairs and stood under the eaves of the entryway. Looking over their flocks, teachers watched and waited, but the overall tone was already one of tribute and honor; a tenor that was to serve as the baseline throughout the Veteran’s Day celebration. Read More →
Salmon River folk came together last week to support one of their own whose cabin burned down, apparently as part of a burglary, while he was away. Read More →