Culture

The smell of fry bread wafted from the chapter house as Alyson Shirley greeted the people of her community she calls family.

Man revives an art almost as old as humans

Though she will use it occasionally for accents, the Maidu part of jewelry maker Liz Wallace does not happily work with gold because of her ancestors’ horrific experiences during the Gold Rush when bounties of 25 cents were put on the heads of Native children and women.