What Native-held lands in California can teach about resilience and the future of wildfire

By Nina Fontana, Researcher in Native American Studies, University of California, Davis
Beth Rose Middleton Manning, Professor of Native American Studies, University of California, Davis

It took decades, stacks of legal paperwork and countless phone calls, but, in the spring of 2025, a California Chuckchansi Native American woman and her daughter walked onto a 5-acre parcel of land, shaded by oaks and pines, for the first time.

This land near the foothills of the Sierra National Forest is part of an unusual category of land that has been largely left alone for more than a century. The parcel, like roughly 400 other parcels across the state totaling 16,000 acres in area, is held in trust by the federal government…

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