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YouTube travel vlogger Peter Santenello is back with another video highlighting our beloved Humboldt County!
Just last week, Santenello published a video – “The California Nobody Knows” – about his adventures around Crazy River Farm, the Arcata Farmer’s Market and the redwoods with local farmer and songwriter Brett McFarland.
In his latest video, which has already racked up 152,000 views since it was posted this morning, Santenello travels out to the Hoopa Valley Reservation to chat with locals and learn more about the history of “California’s most secluded tribe.” Sam Jones, a Hoopa tribal member and tattoo artist, takes Santenello on a tour of the rural reservation and introduces him to a few family members and friends who describe the desperate situation facing their community.
“If you want to get down to it, the drug use is pretty rampant,” Jones’ friend Samuel says in the video. “It’s fentanyl and heroin, too. It hinders progress … because if you’re messed up on drugs, you never know the true potential of a person because they’re always, like, shortchanging themselves. Or else they just get taken out too quick because they die. [We]’re losing a lot of bloodlines from people passing away.”
Even so, Jones tells Santenello that he has an “uplifting sense of pride” for his community. “We’ve been here for 10,000 years,” Jone says, looking out over the Hoopa Valley from a vista point. “We’re going to be here forever, you know?”
Click “play” on the video above to tag along on Santenello’s journey to the Hoopa Valley.
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