The Tachi Yokut, who are the Indigenous people of California’s Central Valley, sing a song that describes how Lake Tulare pushes the people away and pulls them back, as wet and dry years cause the lake to flood and recede.Leo Sisco, chairman of the Santa Rosa Rancheria Tribal Council, grew up hearing stories about the lake, which the tribe calls Pa’ashi. “When it would rise, it was a sign for us to go to higher ground, and when it recedes, come back,” he told Al Jazeera.This past winter and spring, storms, heavy rains and record snowpack in California sent water rushing through the Central Valley, where it settled on the low-lying impermeable clay bed of Lake Tulare.
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