Thanks to a new program in California, the Iipay Nation of Santa Ysabel has regained ownership of 1,107 acres of ancestral tribal land in San Diego County, SFGate reported.
This August, INSY announced in a press release that it had received the land on the eastern side of the Volcan Mountains. The act was a part of a $100 million program meant to return land in California to the Indigenous tribes who historically managed it.
“This is coming from a place of understanding that the lands that we all live on have been managed and cared for by tribes, and that has been something that has been done since time immemorial,” Geneva E. B. Thompson, deputy secretary for tribal affairs at the California Natural Resources Agency, told SFGate…