In northern California, the Eureka City Council voted by unanimous consent to approve the return of a portion of Indian Island north of the Samoa Bridge on Highway 255 to the Wiyot People of the Table Bluff Reservation. At a very emotional meeting, United Indian Health Services representatives Jerry Simone and Maria Tripp spoke of the healing — not only of the Wiyot, but the entire community of Eureka and Humboldt County as well — which will come from this historic action. After 145 years, the Wiyot descendents of the massacre that occurred on a fatal night in 1860 will be able to once again hold their World Renewal Ceremony on Indian Island. To learn more about the 1860 massacre that almost wiped out the Wiyot tribe, read Bill Kowinski’s poignant story from the San Francisco Chronicle of February 28, 2004.