Blue Creek, for instance, has special meaning to Yuroks, and we need to find ways to protect it. The Tribal Council needs to communicate with the Yurok People. The one thing I have heard over and over is that the People don t know what is going on inside their government. That needs to change. All of the candidates need to put aside their self-interest and start thinking of ways to benefit all the people, no matter where they live.
Duty comes first.
It s time to put the Jesse Short era behind us. I was away at school, and so was not directly involved in the civil wars that we Yuroks faced after the Jesse Short settlement, and after the Hoopa-Yurok Settlement Act. That time is gone. The past is the past, and we can t change it, but the future we can write for ourselves. We need to make every possible effort to talk to each other, to bring ourselves together, to put aside our family differences.