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Community Builds Canoe Around Native Leader’s Dream

Community Builds Canoe Around Native Leader’s Dream

Community Builds Canoe Around Native Leader’s Dream

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A Natural Tar that Seeps From Cracks Along the Coast

A Natural Tar that Seeps From Cracks Along the Coast

A Natural Tar that Seeps From Cracks Along the Coast

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3:03

How Native Cuisine Fits Into the Berkeley Food Scene

How Native Cuisine Fits Into the Berkeley Food Scene

How Native Cuisine Fits Into the Berkeley Food Scene

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The Delicate Balance Needed Along the Pit River

The Delicate Balance Needed Along the Pit River

The Delicate Balance Needed Along the Pit River

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Potawot Health Center: A Holistic Approach to Healing

Potawot Health Center: A Holistic Approach to Healing

Potawot Health Center: A Holistic Approach to Healing

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Tribe Responds to Baby Antelope Deaths and Ecosystem Changes

Tribe Responds to Baby Antelope Deaths and Ecosystem Changes

Tribe Responds to Baby Antelope Deaths and Ecosystem Changes

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How the Tolowa Dee-ni’ Study Ocean Toxicity

How the Tolowa Dee-ni’ Study Ocean Toxicity

How the Tolowa Dee-ni’ Study Ocean Toxicity

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Café Ohlone Brings Indigenous Presence Back to the City

Café Ohlone Brings Indigenous Presence Back to the City

Café Ohlone Brings Indigenous Presence Back to the City

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Cheryl Seidner and other members of the Wiyot tribe at a hearing for Terra-Gen's wind farm proposal. | Still from "Tending Nature" episode "Guarding Ancestral Grounds with the Wiyot"

Cheryl Seidner and other members of the Wiyot tribe at a hearing for Terra-Gen's wind farm proposal. | Still from "Tending Nature" episode "Guarding Ancestral Grounds with the Wiyot"

Guarding Ancestral Grounds with the Wiyot

Season 3 Episode 1

26:39

Someone reaching into the water at Bonanza Spring in the Mojave Desert. | Still from "Tending Nature" episode "Preserving the Desert with the NALC"

Someone reaching into the water at Bonanza Spring in the Mojave Desert. | Still from "Tending Nature" episode "Preserving the Desert with the NALC"

Preserving the Desert with NALC

Season 3 Episode 2

24:40

A hand holds an olive branch at the Séka Hills olive grove. | Still from "Tending Nature" episode "Reclaiming Agriculture with the Yocha Dehe Wintun Nation"

A hand holds an olive branch at the Séka Hills olive grove. | Still from "Tending Nature" episode "Reclaiming Agriculture with the Yocha Dehe Wintun Nation"

Reclaiming Agriculture with the Yocha Dehe Wintun Nation

Season 3 Episode 3

26:39

Native Foodways with the Cultural Conservancy

Native Foodways with the Cultural Conservancy

Native Foodways with the Cultural Conservancy

Season 3 Episode 4

26:39

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Tending Nature

The Making of Traditional Plant Medicine

After tending to and collecting clippings from medicinal plants in the wild, the Syuxtun Plant Mentorship Collective meets to make traditional medicines from purple sage, we’wey and olive oil. Founder Julie Cordero-Lamb shares why the group was named after the former Chumash village that once stood in what is now Santa Barbara.

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