InterTribal Sinkyone Wilderness Council
Since 1986, InterTribal Sinkyone Wilderness Council has worked to return indigenous tribal stewardship to lands that, 150 years ago, were violently taken from Native peoples. The Council, a consortium of 10 federally recognized sovereign tribes, conducts its work to honor the Sinkyone Indian ancestors who have gone before us, and for the sake of generations yet to come. Returning Indian stewardship to Sinkyone has been a process of community activism, intertribal organization, and collaboration. This process halted clearcut logging in Sinkyone's coastal rainforests, and led to establishment of America's first InterTribal Indian Wilderness. (read more)


InterTribal Sinkyone Wilderness Council
In December 2006 the InterTribal Sinkyone Wilderness Council celebrated its twentieth anniversary. The Council may be the best-known example of Indian land conservation in the U .S. It was formed in 1986 to protect threatened Sinkyone coastal redwoods from further logging and to return local Indian stewardship to this land. In 1997 the Council purchased 3,845 acres for the first InterTribal Wilderness area, which has been permanently protected through conservation easements. The Council conducts its work in collaboration with a wide variety of project partners. (read more)