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Thursday Night Talk: the Yurok's Endeavor to Reclaim Tribal Lands

KHSU | By Tom Wheeler,

Published April 2, 2019 at 3:46 PM PDT

On the latest Thursday Night Talk, host Tom Wheeler spoke with Frankie Myers, Vice Chairman of the Yurok Tribe, and Daniel Cordalis, Yurok tribal attorney. They discussed the Tribe's efforts to regain possession of lands within their aboriginal territory and the effect of land on tribal health, culture and sovereignty. Thursday Night Talk airs every Thursday at 7pm only on KHSU.

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Tom Wheeler

Tom Wheeler is the Program Director and Staff Attorney at the Environmental Protection Information Center. Tom graduated from the University of Washington School of Law with a concentration in Environmental Law. When he’s not nerding out over the Endangered Species Act (his all-time favorite law), Tom is probably plunking the banjo, playing ping-pong with his wife, Jenna, or petting his cats, Fatty and Trim. Tom can be reached at tom@wildcalifornia.org.

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Michael Roccaforte

Michael Roccaforte is a KHSU Operations Coordinator and hosts the World and All Things Considered. He started out as a KHSU Experience student in 2015. He then graduated from HSU in 2016 with a Journalism degree and is happy to be working in Humboldt County at KHSU since.

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