Matthew Leivas
Matthew Leivas is a respected Chemehuevi elder, Salt Song singer, tribal scholar and environmental activist. His detailed and comprehensive knowledge of his people’s history, culture and the landscape they inhabit—along with the varied, complex issues affecting contemporary Chemehuevi people—is most impressive. Leivas was born and raised at Hanks Village, an Indian allotment in the Parker Valley at the Colorado River Indian Tribes (CRIT) reservation.
May 21, 2022
S1E10: Remembering Phil Klasky and Ward Valley
From the mid-1980s until the first months of the 21st Century, a coalition of desert tribes and non-Native activists worked to keep the state of California from siting a low-level nuclear waste dump in the Mojave Desert, on …