Ancient Redwood Forest , In California Will Be Returned to , Indigenous Tribal Group.<br />Fox News reports that the descendants of <br />Native American tribes on the Northern <br />California coast will reclaim 500 acres of forest. .<br />The land includes ancient redwoods <br />that have towered over the landscape <br />since their ancestors walked the land. .<br />On January 25, the Save the Redwoods League announced <br />that a section of the Lost Coast will be transferred <br />to the InterTribal Sinkyone Wilderness Council. .<br />The organization of 10 tribes will reportedly be <br />responsible for protecting the area dubbed Tc’ih-Léh-Dûñ, <br />or "Fish Run Place," in the Sinkyone language.<br />It’s a real blessing. It’s like a healing for <br />our ancestors. I know our ancestors are <br />happy. This was given to us to protect, Priscilla Hunter, Chairwoman of the Sinkyone Council, via Fox News.<br />Fox News reports that the transfer is part of the Land Back movement to return Indigenous lands to the ancestors of those who originally dwelled there. .<br />The league reportedly paid $37 million to protect <br />part of the Lost Coast from a lumber company <br />that wanted to use the land for logging. .<br />According to Fox News, the land was <br />last logged 30 years ago and still <br />has a large number of old-growth redwoods. .<br />This is a property where you <br />can almost tangibly feel that <br />it is healing, that it is recovering. , Sam Hodder, President and CEO <br />of the Save the Redwoods League, via Fox News.<br />This is a property where you <br />can almost tangibly feel that <br />it is healing, that it is recovering. , Sam Hodder, President and CEO <br />of the Save the Redwoods League, via Fox News.<br />You walk through the forest and, even <br />as you see the kind of ghostly stumps <br />of ancient trees that were harvested, <br />you could also in the foggy landscape see <br />the monsters that were left behind as well <br />as the young redwoods that are <br />sprouting from those stumps, Sam Hodder, President and CEO <br />of the Save the Redwoods League, via Fox News
