Years and years ago, I asked a friend of mine, Julian Lang, who's Karuk, his thoughts and ideas about

what happened in California. Anytime I'm right, I usually pull this quote out that Julian wrote about why native people

were able to be so resilient, why native people were able to persevere against everything

that was trying to eradicate their existence

and diminish them as survivors.

All these forces from Washington, D.C.

were not a match for the love that Native people had

and have for their families, for their culture, for their beliefs,

that the forces of Washington were no match for that power and strength of love.

And I think that is so true because that's the driving force for me.

That's why I'm working to try to save our family home on Felix Cove,

trying to get it recognized for the history of our family to persevere and the resilience.

Why I'm venturing out in introducing myself to family members that I don't know, why I'm making

connections with people who have an interest in Point Reyes National Seashore.

So it's this undeniable force that's in front of me that makes it actually easy where I meet

someone that might be able to help me, that knows someone else that might be able to help me.

That's been my life since September when I started to really kind of dive deep in this.

It's an amazing force, and I think it's the love for my mom, which extends to the love

for her mom and family, which has to extend back to the generations of her ancestors, of their

love for their family and the love of their home.

It must have been so beautiful before these people kicked us out.

We used to be full of the devil. We'd throw the chickens in the bay and we rode all the calves that they could find.

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