Enlarging the dam would deliver more Sacramento River water to Central Valley farmers but a tribe could lose sacred sites and endangered salmon could lose habitat in wet years.

This Sacramento River tributary, held sacred by the Winnemem Wintu tribe, teemed with Chinook salmon before Shasta Dam, built in the 1940s, blocked their annual migrations. “The winter run was ...

This Sacramento River tributary, held sacred by the Winnemem Wintu tribe, teemed with Chinook salmon before Shasta Dam, built in the 1940s, blocked their annual migrations. “The winter run was the ...

Today, the site remains culturally and spiritually important to the Pit River, Modoc, Klamath, Shasta, Wintu, Yana, Siletz and Karuk peoples, according to the U.S. Department of Agriculture.

Caleen Sisk, chief of the Winnemem Wintu Tribe and a former candidate for state Assembly, was told to pay $13,170.79 to In-Home Support Services after prosecutors alleged she submitted time sheets ...

The McCloud River runs through the ancestral lands of the Winnemen Wintu Tribe. About 4,800 acres of "Indian allotments" were taken without compensation after construction of Shasta Dam. (Black ...