6/19/2023 0 Comments Laverna nature preserve![]() Snooks died in 2009, about ten years after her husband, Leo Cantrell, a WWII veteran and fellow Native American from Shasta. As Snooks explained to a reporter, Lassen Volcanic’s features were “the spiritual lakes and mountains of the Atsugewi.” Snooks became an Elder of the Atsugewi band of the Pit River Nation and continued to spread Atsugewi culture and environmental consciousness throughout her community. Snooks and her family also emphasized their cultural ties to the park environment. “I never try to make a basket unless I know the design,” Snooks explained. Snooks tied her culture’s spirituality to the way she designed her baskets. 3 Snooks and Jenkins served as consultants on a project surveying Atusgewi language, cultural stories, and traditions, including basket weaving. Snooks’s mother joined LaMarr in her cultural preservation work in the mid-1950s, followed by Snooks and her sister Laverna Jenkins in the 1970s. Her aunt, Boonookooeemenorra (or Selena) LaMarr began working as a naturalist and Atsugewi cultural interpreter at Lassen Volcanic in 1952, leading demonstrations in basket weaving and acorn pounding. 2Īs an adult, Snooks responded to this experience by actively claiming Indigenous culture, following in the footsteps of female elders. Snooks lost the ability to speak Atsugewi fluently and experienced the alienation and loneliness that was common among boarding school students. Like thousands of Native American children who attended boarding schools created by the US federal government to promote assimilation, Snooks was separated from her elders and prohibited from speaking her Native language. At the age of twelve, Snooks and several siblings began attending the Sherman Institute, a boarding high school for Native American students, located in Riverside, California and far from their Northern California origins. After McGarry’s death, Snooks’s mother ran a farm to support her six children and mother. ![]() Snooks was born on May 20, 1927, to Atsugewi parents, Karrahtahtmenoo (or Dessie) and McGarry Snooks. She was part of an extended family of women who pursued this work at Lassen Volcanic National Park and other sites in a concerted effort to reject the US assimilation campaigns that they had endured as children. Lillian Bernice Snooks was at the forefront of the late-twentieth century campaign to preserve Atsugewi culture and traditions. NPS/Dave Ashcroft Article Written By Emma Chapman ![]() Soon after the cemetery, there is a parking area for the preserve on the right (west side of road).Lillian Snooks demonstrating Atsugewi crafts in 1996. Notice Ocean Hill cemetery on your right. Go 3.5 miles south of the Round Pond Post Office (which is the same as 3 miles north of New Harbor Center). The small parking lot had several cars parked in it the hot, May day I visited.ĭirections: Take Route 32 south from Round Pond. This is a lovely piece of land, and popular. You can climb down onto them if you wish, and peer into tidal pools. The trail sits on the forest edge, above the rocks. This Coastal Rivers Conservation Trust preserve includes 3,600 feet of craggy, dramatic coastline and 2.7 miles of trails. Magnifique! A quiet mile of walking through the woods is a lead-up to a thrilling section of the Atlantic Coast. For the final hundred yards, you can begin to smell the salt and hear the crashing surf. ![]() Sights: forest, rocky headlands, Muscongus Bay.
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