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Yurok Tribe

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The Yurok Tribe's website reports regaining Blue Creek in 2025 and the 125-acre 'O Rew from Save the Redwoods League in 2026.

Kind
Tribal government
Native-led
tribal-government
Works with
Yurok
Region
Klamath River / Humboldt-Del Norte, CA
Focus
Blue Creek Salmon Sanctuary and Yurok Tribal Community Forest (47,097 acres); 'O Rew Redwoods Gateway (125 acres, 2026)
Vetting notes
No donation page found on yuroktribe.org; page links to yuroktribalfund.org/MMIP (an MMIP event link), not vetted.

What happened

The Yurok Tribe's website says its mission is to exercise the aboriginal and sovereign rights of the Yurok People to continue tribal traditions of self-governance, cultural and spiritual preservation, and stewardship of Yurok lands, waters and other natural endowments. Joseph L. James is quoted on the site as Chairman of the Yurok Tribe.

Its newsletter archive lists land headlines. The June 2025 edition carries "Tribe Regains Ownership of Blue Creek." Western Rivers Conservancy, the nonprofit that worked with the Tribe, says on its own site that it and the Tribe set up a long-term partnership in 2009 to buy 47,097 acres along the lower Klamath River and Blue Creek, and that in May 2025 they completed the largest single "land back" deal in California history, creating the Yurok Tribal Community Forest.

The tribe's home page also announces a 2026 transfer. A July 28, 2026 press release says Save the Redwoods League transferred 125 acres in the heart of Yurok ancestral territory back to the Tribe, and that the property was conveyed on June 30, 2026. The 'O Rew Redwoods Gateway is a tribally owned and operated recreation area at the southern end of Redwood National and State Parks, open to the public from August 1, 2026.

No donation page is listed on the Tribe's website. A gift to Western Rivers Conservancy or Save the Redwoods League does not go to the Tribe.

Good to know. A tribal government with no donation page; gifts to Western Rivers Conservancy or Save the Redwoods League do not go to the Tribe. Sources date the 'O Rew transfer June 29 or June 30, 2026.

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What the sources say, and how this was checked

Well supported by the sources below.

  1. The mission of the Yurok Tribe is to exercise the aboriginal and sovereign rights of the Yurok PeopleAbout Us - Yurok Tribe
  2. Tribe Regains Ownership of Blue CreekTribal Newsletter - Yurok Tribe
  3. completed the largest single “land back” deal in California historyKlamath River Blue Creek - Western Rivers Conservancy
  4. Save the Redwoods conveyed the property to the Yurok Tribe on June 30, 2026.Yurok Tribe
  5. Save the Redwoods League transferred 125 acres of land in the heart of Yurok ancestral territory back to the Yurok TribeYurok Tribe

Research notes. The Tribe's pages give headlines, not terms, for Blue Creek; acreage and the 2009 and 2025 dates are Western Rivers Conservancy's. Save the Redwoods League's story dates the 'O Rew transfer June 29, 2026; the tribe's page says June 30. No donation page on yuroktribe.org; the yuroktribalfund.org link is an event link and was not vetted.

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Sources

  1. yuroktribe.org/self-description
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