{"id":3122,"date":"2019-12-04T22:41:37","date_gmt":"2019-12-04T22:41:37","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/atnitribes.org\/climatechange\/?p=3122"},"modified":"2019-12-04T22:53:54","modified_gmt":"2019-12-04T22:53:54","slug":"how-yurok-and-karuk-traditions-sustain-delicate-balance-of-north-coast-species","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/atnitribes.org\/climatechange\/2019\/12\/04\/how-yurok-and-karuk-traditions-sustain-delicate-balance-of-north-coast-species\/","title":{"rendered":"How Yurok and Karuk Traditions Sustain Delicate Balance of North Coast Species"},"content":{"rendered":"<section  class='av_textblock_section av-k3rvkvsu-2d0502dc703f89c480396934243899d3 '   itemscope=\"itemscope\" itemtype=\"https:\/\/schema.org\/BlogPosting\" itemprop=\"blogPost\" ><div class='avia_textblock'  itemprop=\"text\" ><p><strong>[Excerpt]<\/strong> The founding documents of the Yurok Tribe, the basic laws that guide the decisions and actions of tribal leaders and citizens, are much older than the Tribe\u2019s 1993 constitution. The people\u2019s true legal and moral bedrock consists of their stories told and their ceremonies conducted starting in the remote past; stories and ceremonies so old their ages can\u2019t be accurately measured; stories and ceremonies that have animated Yurok lives since time immemorial.<\/p>\n<p>These stories, ceremonies, and certain associated works of art and music continue today to express and shape Yurok people\u2019s relationships and responsibilities to their ancestral territory \u2014 including the Bald Hills, adjacent redwood forests, the Klamath River, and the Pacific Ocean \u2014 and Yurok people\u2019s relationships and responsibilities to other people in and around the Klamath region.\u00a0Those relationships and responsibilities are too complex to be adequately encapsulated in a constitution or a collection of written laws.<\/p>\n<aside class=\"klaside style-pullquote align-left\">\u201cOur connection with this land, with this river, is so deeply ingrained that it\u2019s hard to explain,\u201d says Yurok tribal heritage preservation officer Rosie Clayburn.<\/p>\n<\/aside>\n<p>Yurok relationships with other people and with land, water, animals, and plants are difficult to articulate in straightforward, linear English sentences because those relationships form an extremely complex, dense network of moral obligations. People care for all of their family members, and their kin \u2014 including condors and salmon \u2014 reciprocate the care.<\/p>\n<p>Tribal condor biologist Tiana Williams describes Yurok people\u2019s connection to their ancestral territory as multidimensional. \u201cIt\u2019s a web more than a line,\u201d says Williams. \u201cReturning condor to Yurok ancestral territory is really bringing a member of our community, our family, home.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWe feel like the salmon is related to us, we feel like the condor is related to us\u2026 It\u2019s our place, culturally and ceremonially, to protect them,\u201d Clayburn says about the deep connections with every species within Yurok homelands.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.kcet.org\/shows\/tending-nature\/how-yurok-and-karuk-traditions-sustain-delicate-balance-of-north-coast-species\">Read more here&#8230;<\/a><\/p>\n<\/div><\/section>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":3000,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[14],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-3122","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/atnitribes.org\/climatechange\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3122","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/atnitribes.org\/climatechange\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/atnitribes.org\/climatechange\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/atnitribes.org\/climatechange\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/atnitribes.org\/climatechange\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=3122"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/atnitribes.org\/climatechange\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3122\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3123,"href":"https:\/\/atnitribes.org\/climatechange\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3122\/revisions\/3123"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/atnitribes.org\/climatechange\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/3000"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/atnitribes.org\/climatechange\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3122"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/atnitribes.org\/climatechange\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3122"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/atnitribes.org\/climatechange\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3122"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}