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Library

Essays, reports, dossiers, civic policy frameworks, and major PDFs.
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Library gathers the site’s essays, reports, dossiers, civic policy frameworks, and major PDFs in one place. It is a reading shelf, not a claim that every document has the same status.

Plainly: use this page when you know you are looking for a paper, report, briefing, or framework rather than the weekly Check-In.

Recent Additions

Newly integrated documents

Dossiers

External case studiesMethod developmentDate-bound

External dossiers are kept separate from local Reports. They preserve method cases and development records that may support future scholarship or tool refinement.

Living Repatriation and the Reconstruction of Peoplehood

Essay / FrameworkWorking paperNot peer reviewed

A repair framework for asking whether return has become livable: whether Native peoples have usable, self-governed, and durable pathways to repair continuity on their own terms.

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Beetle-Kill, Logging, and a New Monument at Medicine Lake

Community briefingSáttítla / Medicine LakeOfficial records + interpretation

A community briefing on Forest Service tree-removal and thinning, Sáttítla Highlands National Monument, sacred landscape protections, and open questions.

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A Data Center at the Former Crystal Geyser Site?

Updated community briefingMt. ShastaUnconfirmed inquiry

A fuller briefing on the old Crystal Geyser site, data-center questions, cooling design, water and power demand, and public review.

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The American Tax Plan

Civic policy frameworkWorking draftNot legislation

A public-return tax framework built around work-wealth parity, real economic power, protected continuity, correction, and public responsibility.

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Fractured Authority and Condition-Control in Gaza

Scope note: this belongs to the Library as an external dossier, not to the local Reports desk for Pit River and surrounding-community conditions.

External case dossierProof of conceptDate-bound

A Gaza original-root dossier preserving a case study, method-development layer, review materials, and source dossier for condition-control analysis.

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Cultural Access & Ancestral Lands

Community briefingCultural accessMiddle-layer protocols

A Northern California briefing on Native cultural and religious access to ancestral lands, the gap between legal recognition and implementation, and what to build.

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Missing, Murdered, and Unsolved

Community briefingMMIP / Native safetyFeather Alert

A Northern California briefing on the MMIP crisis, local Pit River context, Feather Alert rules, and practical safety tools.

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Public Law 280, in Plain Words

ExplainerJurisdiction

A plain-language explainer about California's Public Law 280 jurisdiction structure and why cross-deputization, funding, and data matter.

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The Tribal Bills Report

Legislation watchAB 1881

A public report on California tribal bills with a reminder to re-check live bill status before reposting.

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The Heat Is New. The Distance Isn't.

Rural climateElder check-in

A rural climate and elder-safety briefing about heat, distance, old houses, long roads, and practical check-in webs.

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Field Sheets

Printable toolsCopy masters

Public-use field sheets for event logs, contact/notice logs, discovery protocol, elder check-ins, meeting agendas, and sign-ins.

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The Six Moves

Browser deckMeeting tool

A browser-based deck for turning the cultural access briefing into a working session.

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Established Shelf

Core works already on the site

Seven and 7

Heart textEssay

A meditation on humanity, presence, grief, and responsibility across time.

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Gedin Ch-Lum-Nu / We Are Still the River

EssayPit River / kinship / return

A meditation on lateral violence, Indigenous diaspora, relation, and repair.

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People-Rooted Sovereignty

Governance framework

A framework for sovereignty as durable, people-rooted authority rather than a legal label or grant-management posture.

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Protected Conditions

Framework

A theory of the relations through which meaningful agency is sustained.

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The Audit

Tool / method

A governed protocol for important claims that carry the argument in human and LLM-assisted reasoning.

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Sift

Media-literacy tool

A plain tool for checking source, impact, function, truth, and action before amplifying information.

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