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Tribes celebrate yucca harvest as climate change, encroachment threaten sacred tradition

Official protection could help the chaparral yucca thrive, tribe leaders say. But public education also is needed.

Isabella Delgadillo, and women in the Me-Wuk Indian tribe from Yosemite, perform a basket dance during the intertribal Yucca Harvest Festival on the San Manuel Reservation in Highland on Saturday, April 29, 2023. (Photo by Mindy Schauer, Orange County Register/SCNG)
Isabella Delgadillo, and women in the Me-Wuk Indian tribe from Yosemite, perform a basket dance during the intertribal Yucca Harvest Festival on the San Manuel Reservation in Highland on Saturday, April 29, 2023. (Photo by Mindy Schauer, Orange County Register/SCNG)
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Official protection could help the chaparral yucca thrive, tribe leaders say. But public education also is needed.

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