The Future of Small Town California part VI: Mt. Maidu Country

Aired on The California Report Magazine on July 29, 2011 (with a photo slideshow).

http://www.californiareport.org/archive/R201107291630/c

For this story in the series I headed up the Feather River to the mountains of Plumas and Lassen Counties. This story starts before towns we see on a map today even existed; before Greenville or Taylorsville, this land was filled with the villages of native Mt. Maidu people. But Gold Rush prospectors, developers and government agencies honed in on their land. Their population declined, and so did their access to the land for traditional practices. Now Mt. Maidu are now working to regain formal stewardship of their homeland.

With a reporter's notebook:

http://www.californiareport.org/archive/R201107291630/cx

Station-Indie "Do-si-do"

Published in the Association of Independents in Radio AIRblast, July 2011.

http://www.airmedia.org/PageInfo.php?PageID=669

I couldn't be doing my small town series if it weren't for the relationship I have with KQED's The California Report, and they wouldn't have reporting in some of the state's far-flung places without this series.