California Heritage: Indigenous Research Project

The purpose of all CHIRP activities is to preserve, protect, and perpetuate Nisenan culture. This project supports the purchase of essential forestry equipment for CHIRP's recently formed Tribally-led Land Stewardship Crew, which is designed to return beneficial fire to our Tribal landscapes.

The purpose of all CHIRP activities is to preserve, protect, and perpetuate Nisenan culture. To these ends, CHIRP has formed a Tribally-led Land Stewardship Crew to return beneficial fire to our Tribal landscapes. This project serves to increase the capacity of the Crew through staffing support.

This grant funding will support our HOMELAND RETURN project where we are acquiring 232 acres of our Ancestral Homeland.