Organization
California Indian Basketweavers Association (CIBA)
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The California Indian Basketweavers' Association, a Woodland nonprofit, works to keep basketry traditions alive, including by seeking Native access to traditional gathering sites.
- Kind
- Native cultural nonprofit (501(c)(3))
- Native-led
- yes-self-described
- Works with
- California Indian basketweavers and tribes statewide
- Region
- California; CA
- Focus
- Access to traditional gathering sites on public and tribal lands, basketry traditions, cultural fire education
- Registry
- EIN 68-0290749 (ProPublica: California Indian Basketweavers Association, Woodland CA, 501(c)(3))
What happened
The California Indian Basketweavers' Association (CIBA) is a nonprofit based in Woodland, California. ProPublica's Nonprofit Explorer lists it under EIN 68-0290749, with tax exemption issued in October 1993. CIBA's site says it grew from a 1986 effort that began with a small group of women weavers and held a first informal gathering of weavers in June 1991. It says its membership is now nearly 1,000 people.
CIBA's work is cultural, not a land purchase program. Its own history page says that Mission, Spanish, Mexican and American systems cut weavers off from traditional gathering territories and that some families found former gathering sites inaccessible because of public and private land laws. In its vision statement, CIBA lists a goal of "increasing California Indian access to traditional cultural resources on public and tribal lands and traditional gathering sites."
The same statement lists working with public agencies, monitoring and discouraging pesticide use in gathering areas, and raising public awareness. The site also carries pages on cultural fire and pesticides.
CIBA's pages describe no land it holds or has returned. Its role in land return, as its pages describe it, is advocating for access and healthy gathering areas.
Good to know. This group works for access to gathering sites, not land ownership or return.
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What the sources say, and how this was checked
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By increasing California Indian access to traditional cultural resources on public and tribal lands and traditional gathering sites
CIBA - Our Visionfound former family gathering sites inaccessible to them, due in part, to incomprehensible public and private land laws
CIBA - HistoryToday CIBA has grown its membership to nearly 1,000 people.
CIBA - About UsTax exemption issued: Oct. 1993
ProPublica Nonprofit Explorer - California Indian Basketweavers Association
Research notes. Land-access advocacy, not land return. Board page was under construction, so leadership is unverified; CIBA describes itself as an organization of California Indian weavers. Donation: checks payable to the Association per CIBA; confirm the payee at checkout.
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- Vetting notes
- 2026-10-17: ProPublica hit (Woodland CA, same address as site). Site vision text commits to increasing California Indian access to traditional gathering sites. Board page "Under Construction" so leadership not verified beyond self-description. Donation page on ciba.org, checks payable to the Association; also Square site link. Land-return role is access advocacy, not title. Source: https://ciba.org/our-vision/ ("By increasing California Indian access to traditional cultural resources on public and tribal lands and traditional gathering sites")
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