a way that has worked since the beginning

To be Nisenan is to be in relationship with the land - to exist in a world where memory is rooted in place and where true knowledge is taught by the Earth herself.

To be Nisenan is not to own the land but to belong to it, to grow from it, and to change with it.

To be Nisenan is to know that, despite great upheaval and chaos, the stars carry the voices, traditions, and living culture of those who came before.

To be Nisenan is to recognize the voices of our ancestors as they echo through the stones, sing with the sounds of the rivers, and whisper to us on the winds.

- The Nisenan are a group of Native Americans and Indigenous People of California from the Yuba River and American River watersheds in Northern California and The Central Valley of California