“Every October, the
Tsi-Akim Maidu Tribe conduct their annual Calling Back the Salmon
ceremony. This event celebrates the return of salmon to
the river and the bounty they once provided the tribe, as far back as 2500
years. Today, Englebright Dam blocks salmon from reaching their historic
spawning habitat in the South Yuba and Middle Yuba. The ceremony involves
tribal members spearing a salmon below Englebright, and a group of “spirit
runners” carrying the salmon 10 miles upriver to the ceremony site. Someday,
salmon will be able to access this spot and the rest of their home waters
without the help of spirit runners. As one observer of the spirit runners said,
"Where there is hope there is spirit. Where there is spirit, anything is
possible."
The blogger earlier mentions: “The path and rock walls became increasingly
overgrown with weeds and prickly stickly things…”
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