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Film Clips
- Dancing Salmon Home 15 min. trailer — Dancing Salmon Home is a feature-length documentary about the Winnemem journey to New Zealand in 2010 to dance and sing to McCloud River salmon and re-unite with their sacred fish.
- One Word: Sawalmem film (20 minutes) – Co-directed by Winnemem Wintu tribal member, Michael Preston and Natasha Deganello Giraudie, this film invites us to consider how the healing of the planet could be facilitated by shifting our relationship with the Earth.
- The Magical Fish — Winnemem Wintu Chief Caleen Sisk describes the life cycle of salmon in a talk at La Peña in Berkeley in 2017 (5 minutes)
- Standing on Sacred Ground — The Winnemem of California — Winnemem Wintu efforts to stop federal government plans to raise the height of Shasta Dam (29 minutes)
- Remove the Dams to Save the Salmon? — short film from National Geographic focused on the Snake River in Idaho (7 minutes)
Multimedia
- Standing on Sacred Ground Teacher’s Guide: Winnemem Wintu from the Sacred Land Film Project— for high school classes but useful for 4th grade as well. Free downloadable pdf file (25 pages).
- Graphic: Map of proposed salmon passage route
- Graphic: Sacramento River Watershed Map
- Poster image: Chief Caleen Sisk, The Salmon Will Run
Winnemem Wintu History and Culture
- Winnemem Wintu Tribe’s website
- Winnemem Wintu Tribal Timeline
- Long Time Past: Baird Hatchery and the McCloud Wintu
Previous Press Coverage
- When Salmon Speak: The Winnemem Wintu and Winter-run Chinook (October 2016) by Chief Caleen Sisk and Gary Mulcahy
- A Native Plan to Restore the Winter Run Chinook (October 2016)
- Salmon to Swim Above Shasta Dam for First time in 80 Years (September 2015)
- Tribe travels across the Pacific to recover lost salmon species (August 2011)
Salmon background articles
- The Winnemem Wintu’s Salmon Return Plan (2017)
- Will They Go the Way of the Buffalo? Vanishing Salmon Could Doom Tribes’ Cultures (June 2017)
- California Drought – Protecting Salmon (August 2015)
- Extinction Looming for Most of California’s Salmon and Trout (May 2017)
- To Protect Native Culture, Bring Back the Salmon (October 2016)
- The droughts hidden victim: California native fish (August 2015)
- As salmon vanish in the dry Pacific Northwest, so does Native heritage (July 2015)
- Chinook Salmon in New Zealand (November 2008)
- Running the Salmon Home: The Winter-Run Chinook Salmon (August 2017)
- Running the Salmon Home: Lifeways and Waters of the Winnemem Wintu (August 2017)
- Running the Salmon Home: Celebrating the Women Leading the Way (September 2017)
Gallery of historic Winnemem and contemporary Run4Salmon photos
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Teaching Native Issues in California
Teaching about California Missions: how the law has changed
The mass deaths, forced labor and destruction of Native communities that resulted from contact with the Spanish mission system has long been a blind spot in state curricula. Since 2016, when the State Board of Education adopted the History-Social Science Framework, fourth grade teachers in California are obligated to reexamine traditional classroom lessons and practices that glorified, romanticized or presented a limited view of the missions. The following resources can assist teachers who are seeking to follow the standards and make them relevant to their own communities:
- Capitol Public Radio: Mission Project Protests Help Spur Changes
- 4th Grade Missions Curriculum Projects: A Thought Experiment for Parents, Teachers and Students by Esselen/Ohlone writer Deborah Miranda
- California Missions Native History interactive web resource for teachers from the California Indian Museum & Cultural Center
- Two articles from News From Native California, Vol. 28, No. 2, Winter 2014/15—Saying Our Share: Surviving the Missions (issue is out of print, downloadable PDF files courtesy of editor Terria Smith)
- Educating Elementary School Children About California Missions and the Perpetuation of Genocide by Nichole Meyers Lim
- The Truth Shall Set Us Free by Vincent Medina, Chochenyo Ohlone
- A Time of Resistance: California Indians During the Mission Period, 1769-1848 by Sarah Supahana, Klamath-Trinity Joint Unified School District Indian Education Program, 1997