Indian Cultural Organization

04/04/2026

Two years ago, Newsom touted a partnership with the Winnemem Wintu tribe to restore dwindling salmon. Now — the state is ending its support, with no new funding in sight.

02/07/2026

A little belated, but please check out our 2025 wrap up! Thank you to Chief Sisk, Bekah Olstad, Gary Mulcahy, and our whole CRS crew for all your hard work and dedication to the salmon and the Winnemem Wintu. The work continues…💙🐟💦

2025 Wrap-Up: Against Rising Challenges, the Winnemem Wintu Advocate to Bring the Nur Home January 21, 2026January 21, 2026 Dessa Drake In 2025, the Winnemem Wintu Tribe continued work to bring the Nur (salmon) home to the Winnemem Waywaket (McCloud River). We continued advocacy to rematriate the wi...

07/25/2025

https://indiancultural.org/2025/07/25/press-release/

Press Release Posted on July 25, 2025July 25, 2025 by Dessa Drake The Winnemem Wintu Tribe Welcomes 80,000 Salmon Eggs To McCloud River This Summer This is the fourth year the Winnemem Wintu has co-led the reintroduction of endangered salmon into the river, and they continue to advocate for the crea...

11/13/2024

We are so honored to be a returning grantee partner with Decolonizing Wealth Project! Thank you for your support of our efforts to preserve and maintain Winnemem Wintu culture and lifeways.

Today, the Decolonizing Wealth Project (DWP), through its Liberated Capital fund, announced the distribution of $865,000 to 18 Indigenous-led organizations and tribes across California as part of its multi-year California Truth and Healing Fund (CATH) initiative. With 13 returning grantee partners and five new tribes and organizations joining this cohort, grantees will use the funding to advance their efforts, including critical work to uplift California Indian boarding school testimonies and narrative projects, capacity building for land trust and landback efforts, archaeological tribal data collection, engaging California Native youth, and more.

Now in its third year, the fund has distributed over $2.1M to California Native American tribes and organizations advance their own truth and healing programs in local communities across the state. While the fund is private and independent of the State of California, it leverages the work of The California Truth & Healing Council, created by Executive Order N-15-19, by providing California tribes and Native-led organizations with resources to participate in the state’s process and holds the government accountable to deliver on its promises to Native people.

“When we look back at history, at how wealth has been accumulated, it’s been extracted from Indigenous communities, Black communities, low-wage workers who have been exploited, mostly people of color and we need the rest of the world to understand our experiences, to take ownership and to be a part of the healing with us,” said Edgar Villanueva, CEO of Decolonizing Wealth Project. “We are resourcing folks here in California to be at the table, to hold the state accountable to deliver on its promises to Native people so that the state can go beyond apology and actually put its money, its policy, and its power behind healing in a way that is driven by the self-determination of Indigenous people in California.”

Read the full press release: https://decolonizingwealth.com/news/cathf2024 or grab the link in our bio.

05/10/2024

As schools wind down for this year and begin planning for next year, don’t forget to INDIGENIZE your curriculum!

While our curriculum is geared toward 4th grade, it is completely appropriate for 3rd grade classes in Shasta and Siskiyou Counties, and our homepage includes a link to high school curriculum.

Mini-lessons are for learners of all ages - there’s something for everyone!

04/26/2024

We are so grateful to be one of the awardees - thank you, Strategic Growth Council! We look forward to this opportunity to build capacity within our tribe.❤️

Groundbreaking Tribal Capacity Building Pilot Program awards six tribal applicants, igniting climate solutions across the state.

03/10/2024

For the Nur, for the sčədadxʷ
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sčədadxʷ (salmon) is an animated short featuring Billy Frank Jr. that takes the viewer up the river through the eyes of the salmon showing its pristine envir...

01/12/2024

Beautiful piece from our salmon restoration team!💙

2023 Wrap Up: Great Steps Forward to Bring the Nur Home Posted on January 1, 2024January 11, 2024 by ICO Upper McCloud River (Winnemem Waywaket) — photo by Rupa Mayra The Winnemem Wintu Tribe has had a busy year in 2023 reintroducing Winter Run Chinook to the Winnemem Waywaket (McCloud River). In ...

12/13/2023

Making a meaningful impact! and have allocated $1.7 million to empower Indigenous-led initiatives for community healing and climate action. Join us in celebrating these efforts to drive positive change. Read more: https://decolonizingwealth.com/news/2023climatehealing/

"The Winnemem Wintu continue to fight to decolonize our land and knowledge as we work toward salmon restoration, language restoration, and building tribal capacity through training and jobs along our river, the Winnemem Waywaket. As a non-federally recognized tribe, the funds from the California Truth and Healing Fund will help us to continue this work through our non-profit, Indian Cultural Organization," said CATH Grantee Partner Dessa Drake, Executive Director of Indian Cultural Organization.