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Artist: Cindy Buero, (Nevada City Rancheria Nisenan Tribal Member)
Collection: VTA 2024: Story of Land, Water, and People
Description:
“The gold rush significantly influenced the history of California and the United States. For us, the Nisenan, it meant genocide. Before the gold rush, thousands of Nisenan people hunted, fished, and took care of each other here, right here. This was and still is our Homeland.
What is now the Yuba River, was once ˀuƀa seo, and Nevada City was known as ˀustomah. Changes were being made. In certain areas, restrictions were put in place, to keep the Nisenan from hunting and fishing; so there was hunger.
The uninvited brought diseases and weapons that had never been seen before. The uninvited brought death.
My piece is called, The Wash. In mining, the wash is when they separate the gold from the tailings. The good stuff from the bad. And so the story goes...
Print Dimensions: 12” x 12”
Artist: Cindy Buero, (Nevada City Rancheria Nisenan Tribal Member)
Collection: VTA 2024: Story of Land, Water, and People
Description:
“The gold rush significantly influenced the history of California and the United States. For us, the Nisenan, it meant genocide. Before the gold rush, thousands of Nisenan people hunted, fished, and took care of each other here, right here. This was and still is our Homeland.
What is now the Yuba River, was once ˀuƀa seo, and Nevada City was known as ˀustomah. Changes were being made. In certain areas, restrictions were put in place, to keep the Nisenan from hunting and fishing; so there was hunger.
The uninvited brought diseases and weapons that had never been seen before. The uninvited brought death.
My piece is called, The Wash. In mining, the wash is when they separate the gold from the tailings. The good stuff from the bad. And so the story goes...
Print Dimensions: 12” x 12”