Roughly 73 square miles of ancestral homelands once belonging to California’s Yurok Tribe have been returned to them ...

After more than two decades and millions of dollars, the Yurok Tribe today has regained control of its ancestral lands.

The lands that will go back to the Shasta Indian Nation include not only the Copco Reservoir footprint around what was known as Ward’s Canyon Ranch but the old ... of land to California tribes ...