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Cheryl Seidner has helped the Wiyot tribe reclaim their land and ceremony decades after a massacre stole both.
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Cheryl Seidner has helped the Wiyot tribe reclaim their land and ceremony decades after a massacre stole both.
Sign at the front of Table Bluff Reservation. | Photo courtesy Wiyot Tribe. ### Press release from the Wiyot Tribe: Loleta— 06/14/2021 — The Wiyot Tribe received $4,666,262.59 on June 9 from the recovery American Rescue Plan Act of 2021 (ARPA) – Treasury’s Coronavirus State and Local Fiscal Recovery Funds. The Tribal Council voted on June 9 to provide an immediate $7,000 in direct relief assistance to every Wiyot citizen. Congress has allocated Coronavirus State and Local Fiscal Recovery Funds to tens of thousands of eligible states, local, territorial and Tribal governments. These ...