Esselen Tribe Regains Land 250 Years After Being Removed
Last week, the Esselen Tribe of Monterey County closed escrow on 1,199 acres (485 hectares) about 5 miles (8 kilometers) inland from th...
More Than 1 Thousand Acres Of Esselen Ancestral Land Returned To Tribe
One of the smallest tribes in the U.S. has been given some of its land back. NPR’s Lulu Garcia-Navarro speaks with Tom Little Bear Naso...
More Than 1 Thousand Acres Of Esselen Ancestral Land Returned To Tribe
The Esselen Tribe of Big Sur, Calif., numbered perhaps only a thousand people when Spanish missionaries arrived in the 1700s. They were...
Esselen Tribe Regains Ancestral Land in Big Sur After 250 Years
You may have never heard of the Esselen tribe, but the relatively small Indigenous group lived for about 8,000 years in one of our coun...
Esselen Tribe closes deal on Big Sur land, but won’t build on it
WITH THE news that the Esselen Tribe of Monterey County has acquired a 1,200-acre property in Big Sur for $4.5 million, the obvious que...
After 6,000 Years, Native American Tribe Finally Wins Big Sur Land Back
The area that the Esselen Tribe recently re-acquired last week sits along the Little Sur River, nestled within the hills of Big Sur. Th...
After 6,000 Years, Native American Tribe Finally Wins Big Sur Land Back
The Esselen Tribe of Monterey County inhabited land across the Big Sur coast of California for more than 6,000 years — until several ce...
After 250 years, Esselen Tribe regains a piece of its ancestral homeland
After 250 years, the Esselen Tribe of Monterey County is returning home. A $4.5-million land deal, brokered by Portland-based environme...
The Esselen Tribe of Big Sur regain some of their land
This is not about our Peninsula, nor the Pacific NW. But the story how this tiny West Coast tribe, almost wiped out and by most people ...
250 Years Later, Big Sur Land Returned To Tribe: Report
A 1,200-acre property occupied by the Esselen Tribe of Monterey County 250 years ago has been returned to the tribe.
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