At Sunday’s annual Autumn Harvest Fundraiser at Hacienda Hay & Feed in Carmel Valley, the tribe will invite the public to enjoy music, indigenous food and cultural activities. Families ca… ...

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This week, the Esselen tribe in Northern California completed the acquisition of a 1,200-acre ranch near Big Sur. The $4.5 million purchase, which was facilitated by an Oregon-based environmental ...

After 250 years, the Esselen Tribe of Monterey County is returning home.. A $4.5-million land deal, brokered by Portland-based environmental group Western Rivers Conservancy, will return a 1,199 ...

The Big Sur Land Trust’s recent acquisition of the 5,105-acre Basin Ranch for $8.68 million more than doubles the land owned and managed directly by the Trust while also allowing it to be in … ...

The Esselen Tribe of Big Sur, Calif., numbered perhaps only a thousand people when Spanish missionaries arrived in the 1700s. They were sent to missions to be converted, where most perished from ...

In a deal rich with historic significance, the Esselen Tribe of Monterey County closed escrow to purchase 1,199 acres in Big Sur as part of a $4.5 million acquisition involving the state and an ...

A Native American tribe has reclaimed a small part of its ancestral lands on California’s scenic Big Sur coast that were lost to Spanish colonial settlement nearly 250 years ago. The Esselen Tribe of ...

Tom Little Bear Nason, chairman of the Esselen Tribe of Monterey, plays a flute in the burnt-out trunk of the “Learning Tree” at Camp Pico Blanco in Big Sur, Calif., on Monday, Sept. 25, 2023.

The Esselen Tribe of Monterey County (ETMC) closed escrow on a $4.5 million deal with Western Rivers Conservancy (WRC), an environmental group, to purchase nearly 1,200 acres in Big Sur.

Western Rivers Conservancy has facilitated the transfer of a 327-acre property to the Esselen Tribe of Monterey County for permanent conservation and stewardship. The property is located at the ...