The video above shows a literal boatload of douchebags buzzing a Wintu coming-of-age ceremony on the McCloud River in 2006. 

Over the past six years, the U.S. Forest Service has twice issued a “voluntary closure” for a small section of the river in a half-assed effort to allow the Wintu to peacefully perform the ceremony — an ancient rite of passage for young women that has only recently been revived. Sadly, the “voluntary” aspect of the Forest Service’s closure all but ensures that some of the most awful human beings yet seen on the planet will eagerly seek to transgress it. 

The Forest Service has to date refused to issue a mandatory closure for the ceremony because the Winnemen Wintu is not a federally recognized tribe. That may change. Tribal representatives picketed a Forest Service office in Vallejo Monday with support from the Hupa, Yurok, Karuk and other native California nations. There they met with the service’s regional forester, who promised to respond to their request for a four-day closure of 300 yards of river this summer by May 1.

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(Tip o’ the hat to @SCraigTucker.)