The First Ceremony

January 2006

On a damp January morning in 2006, a gathering of about 25 people, some science and nature preservation folk, 12 or so  Tsi Akim Tribal members,  joined together with a Spiritual Messenger to pray, offer their intentions and commitment, to help the Indigenous Salmon People return to their ancestral homeland.  In October of 2006, Chairman Ryberg of the Tsi Akim Maidu would begin an annual ceremony at Bridgport State Park to carry on this prayer.