Serrell Smokey is chairman of the Washoe Tribe of Nevada and California, which recently purchased significant portions of ancestral land in the Sierra region. This land return marks one of the largest tribal reacquisitions in modern California history. The property—more than 10,000 acres of sagebrush scrublands and juniper and pine forests, once known as Loyalton Ranch—will now be stewarded by Indigenous hands. He said the land is not just prope…
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