ORLEANS, California An elemental smell wafts through the Klamath mountains in early autumn woodsmoke. Despite the U.S. Forest Service’s intermittent bans on lighting fires in the forest, the Karuk Tribe is maintaining its cultural practice of intermittent burns to conserve their traditional lands in northern California. With the Tribe’s oversight, a partnership with the Forest Service and […]
Acclaimed artist and revered Karuk singer and dancer Brian D. Tripp began his journey home on
May 13, 2022, at the age of 77. Born April 6, 1945 in Eureka, the third son of Amos
Tripp and Violet (Donahue) Tripp, he was raised in Klamath, where he and his brothers talked
fondly about all their boy