Wiyot Tribe

LAST REMINDER! FRIDAY 6/25 DEADLINE: Tribal citizens and adults with Wiyot ancestry, please fill out this survey to support our grant proposal to the ANA! https://docs.google.com//1pT5YWyYVyQ5n0aXwDvpbNUIt0g/edit We are proposing a project to create a community-based Soulatluk (Wiyot language) curriculum for tribal members/family, and a 2-year school-based curriculum which we plan to pilot at Loleta School.... Email Lynnika Butler ([email protected]) or Marnie Atkins ([email protected]) if you have questions!

California Fish and Game Commission voted unanimously to list summer steelhead in four North Coast watersheds the Eel, Mad, and Mattole Rivers, and Redwood Creek as Endangered under the California Endangered Species Act.

The Wiyot Tribe will be closed on Monday June 21, in observance of Juneteenth.

It was with heavy hearts that the Wiyot Tribal Council voted Monday night to declare a State of Emergency on the Wiyot’s ancestral rivers due to extreme low flows and drought conditions. The Wiyot Tribe shares its name with its ancestral river, the Wiya’t (Eel River). Waterways in the ancestral lands of Wiyot people include Baduwa't (Mad River), Hikshari' (Elk River), Wiya't (Eel River), and Gidughurralilh (Van Duzen River). These rivers are sacred cultural resources to the Tribe and are considered the bloodlines of Wiyot culture, providing nourishment, medicine, spirituality, sustenance, and cultural knowledge to the Wiyot people.

Loleta 06/14/2021 The Wiyot Tribe received $4,666,262.59 on June 09, 2021, from the recovery American Rescue Plan Act of 2021 (ARPA) Treasury’s Coronavirus State and Local Fiscal Recovery Funds. The Tribal Council voted on June 09, 2021, to provide an immediate $7000.00 in direct relief assistance to every Wiyot citizen. Tribal Council voted to release the funds immediately to help support the families who are struggling right now.