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Indian Tribe Now Excluded From Sacred Site In California Marine Life Protection Initiative

By Howard M. Friedman

Under California's Marine Life Protection Act Initiative, new regulations that became effective on May 1 set aside 21 Marine Protected Areas. The San Francisco Bay Independent Media Center yesterday reported that on April 30, Native American tribal leaders held a ceremony to bless a site that is sacred to the Kashia Tribe of Pomo Indians who are now excluded from gathering seaweed and fishing in the area. The site on Stewarts Point (called "Danaka" by the tribe) is referenced in the tribe's creation story. Some 25 tribes are pressuring California to address tribal ceremonial and subsistence rights as part of the MLPA process.

Full post as published by Religion Clause on May 12, 2010 (boomark / email).