News from rural northern California implicates race and ethnicity

Three big stories out of rural far northern California this week arguably show both progress and stasis on matters of race and ethnicity.  The first "progress" story is about the return of a 500-acre redwood grove on the so-called Lost Coast to a Native American tribe, the InterTribal Sinkyone Wilderness Council.  The second progress story is from the Eureka Times-Standard, and it's about the return to the Wiyot Tribe of human Native remains.  The remains are from a massacre more than a century and a half ago, and they have been in the possession of UC Berkeley and the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers.  

The "stasis" story (from the regional Press Democrat) is about the decision by the town of Fort Bragg not to change its name, though it is named after a Confederate general.  A story from a more local source, the Fort Bragg Advocate News, is here.