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In return, they’d receive a smaller slice— 43.7 million acres and 962.5 million dollars.

But the act also said the state could claim any 104 million acres of public land it wanted, so long as it was “vacant, unappropriated, and unreserved.”

Four years later, with funding from the state Wildlife Conservation Board and the Sierra Nevada Conservancy, the tribe got the deed of over twelve hundred acres of that land, what they call Kolo kam’ap, or “the place of the duck.”