FERC Update on Yuba/Bear Drum Spaulding Relicensing:  In early 2010, the Federal Energy Regulatory Commission received word from PG&E and Nevada Irrigation District that after extensive study, NO TRADITIONAL CULTURAL PROPERTIES had been found on the Yuba or Bear river waterways.  This is after FERC had directed  PG&E and Nevada Irrigation District to "address the significance of Salmon, Ethno-Botany and Ceremonial ways" to the relicensing.

The following video from the Nez Perce provides an enlightening perspective as to the significance of Salmon to all people.

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Thank you to everyone who made last year's Ceremony a great day for humanity and for our Source to Sea Communities throughout Central California.

Please check out the photographs of this years ceremony. 

Please also feel free to submit writings and photographs that speak of your commitment to helping wild salmon return to their indigenous spawning grounds and birthplace.

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BIG RIVER, By Arthur Smoky Jones  

(Sawom Majdy) Buckeye Man

Big River, Big River, where do you come from and where do you go?

You give life to the people and all our bothers, the animals.

You bring Mahi, the Big One, and all his cousins.

You take the thirst from me and bathe me in your coolness.

You bring me the music of your womb and the water bug who dances for you.

You share your gift with all who come.

You know no boundaries for your course is set and no barrier is too big for you.

Your are as gentle as the deer and as ferocious as the grizzly.

My world is very small compared to yours.  

So I ask, "Big River, where do you come from and where do you go?"

A person who prepares himself for Life and Death is a person who has looked about, and has learned the meaning of harmony.

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Education

We encourage school aged children to participate in the 

Calling Back the Salmon Ceremony on the Yuba River as 

well as Indigenous Peoples Days activities.

Teachers are encouraged to contact Calling Back the 

Salmon for more information.

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