The state of California is offering $100 million in grant funds for Native American tribal groups to help them acquire land and implement nature-based solutions towards climate change.
Announced Monday, the California Natural Resources Agency said the program will help tribal groups purchase ancestral land, expand knowledge on traditional practices and build projects that both preserve biodiversity and protect culturally-relevant natural resources.
California Secretary for Natural Resources Wade Crowfoot said the program was created after conversations with tribal leaders during the steps to conserve 30 percent of state land by 2030.
“We are really excited to establish this first-of-its-kind state program to support tribally led solutions to our biggest environmental challenges,” Crowfoot said.
“It is a concrete example of our progress supporting tribal leadership to steward our natural resources,” he added.
Just this March, Gov. Gavin Newsom announced a $100 million budget proposal towards tribal nature-based climate solutions during a California Truth & Healing Council meeting, which was later approved in the state budget.
The program also builds on a $1 million Tribal Small Grants Program developed by the California Ocean Protection Council, which is meant to ensure tribes can conserve, manage and steward land.
“California Native people, our homelands and sacred places have long felt the harmful impacts of our removal from the places we have lived and thrived in since time immemorial – we have heard these harms shared statewide through the California Truth & Healing Council process,” said Governor’s Office of Tribal Affairs Secretary Christina Snider-Ashtari.
“The Tribal Nature-Based Solutions grant program is a step in the right direction to begin to address some of the historical wrongs committed against California Native peoples, return lands to tribal ownership and stewardship and support tribes in their efforts to restore balance to their homelands,” Snider-Ashtari added.
Funding will be set aside for two different types of projects — the priority being time-sensitive, shovel-ready land return projects that are partially funded, and the second being non-time sensitive projects. Projects on accelerated timelines have until Aug. 28 to apply for the program, and the latter has until Sept. 29.
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What the hell ! Why does it have to be about tribal natives.Everything is about race now.They should take care of there own land that they wanted so bad.They make there own laws there own police force.And no taxes!!!!!!This state is gone very bad.
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… purchase “ancestral lands” and then put a casino on it!
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Climate change/global warming is a lucrative hoax!!
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Maybe Elizabeth Warren can stop by and tell us how her fake Native American ancestors would deal with a fake climate crisis.
Are they blankin joking? Then a California Truth & Healing Council meeting? I have a feeling they wouldn’t know the truth if it hit them up the side of the head. No worry just a hundred million.
Government is a racket.
Rob Peter to pay Paul, keep a taste for yourself.
Think of it as dividends for all that campaign contribution money.
Campaign contributions have better return than stock market.
Wow…Ca again leading the way with Woke racism! Tribal my butt…get over the tribal Indian bs already!
How are Californian’s responsible for the wrongs committed against the Indians? It was the Spanish conquistadors that took their land, and forced them into slave labor. The conquistadors took Indian women and children and forced them into slavery, and sold them to the wealthy as servants. The Franciscan missionaries forced the men to build the missions, and those that resisted were killed.
The tribal people have their tax free indian casinos, don’t give them any money!
Nature-based solutions
Biodiversity
Culturally-relevant
Truth and Healing
Shovel-ready
Only five cliches in one press release. They must have written this in a hurry.
Healing with our money, without our input. An Ocean Protection Council and a Tribal Affairs group? Did we elect them? WTH!
All said … I do feel empathy for what the natives endured … #darkdays
Mistreatment & slavery was, and still is in many communities and countries abominable! But, Yes, life without even knowledge of, much less use of things, like forged steel or the wheel… must have been terrible.
sounds like they are letting “tribal” groups purchase land with money gifted to them from the rapidly shrinking pockets of we taxpayers. My suspicion is that we will see an abundance of casino hotel/solar farms popping up. I am also sure these tribes know not to claim various vineyards in, say St Helena, or a certain 129 acre vineyard in Napa (unless acquired for greater than $28 million), as ancestral land
Those first thirteen comments are among the most racist, ignorant comments I’ve seen on this site and that’s saying something. No tribes are being given land, natural climate solutions are certainly preferable to shutdowns and cutoffs, and I’m pretty sure no rain dancing or firewater is involved. Get over yourselves.
dennis doyle is a racist for using racism as an insult to people who are laughing at 🤡 🌎. Way to make a spectacle of yourself for the woke circus 🎪 viewers such as myself. You are truly a gem dennis. Your woke self is the but of every joke here. You’re the least paid comedian on the planet right now. Native americans are anyone born in America fool. I am most definitely native to this land as much as any indian.
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YOU are the ignorant one! Do you not know what a “grant” is?
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It’s free money”. No repayment necessary.
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And you must suffer from “White Guilt”.
All that being said, it does sound like a money waster. But not because of the Native American aspect. Just ineffective.
It’s my tax dollars clown. I have a right to be disgusted.
I keep trying to tell you readers that we are going to go broke if we don’t stop this madness.
I agree with the Grant Program for Tribal, to implement Nature based Solutions, but here’s my exception to the Program. The term Climate Change.
The term is less Political now, never liked the term/phrase as many know it caught wind so-to-speak in the 70’s in the Scientific Literature and to me is blamed all on humans and is purposely overlooked in what Nature processes..i.e. such as change in the Sun’s Energy and Volcano eruptions that also effect the Earth’s Climate.
Scientists don’t agree about Climate Change causes and Global warming and I would hope to see Mr. Crowfoot protect the Natural Resources and manage the Politics as I see Climate Change being forced into this Program.
I gotta be careful here as apparently anything I do today will be something all my descendants will have to answer for!
What a concept…. “born guilty”…… responsible for my all my ancestors misdeeds and treachery against every other race on the planet… even if they didn’t do any of it.
Nobody warned me about this before birth!
Tribal lands weren’t stolen they were given fair deals with firewater and rifles..
Now they have tax free casino’s, their own police force and their own laws on what land they have. They deserve no more and certainly not a 100 million dollar grant.
I know a Native American that boasts he gets a large 5-digit check every month from casino profits. Sounds like tribes don’t need handouts.
They sure like to waste our money or give it to their cronies.
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