![Pa’ashi in April 2023. Image courtesy of the author.](https://i0.wp.com/openrivers.lib.umn.edu/wp-content/uploads/2023/11/Picture1_Tulare-Lake-1-scaled-e1699664045814.jpg?fit=330%2C199&ssl=1)
The Return of Pa’ashi: Colonial Unknowing and California’s Tulare Lake
The early morning sun shone off the water. I parked at the “Flooding Ahead” sign and walked past deep gouges in the ground. The teeth marks of a bulldozer’s blade were still visible where it had dug in to strengthen the walls of an earthen berm along the edge of what was once a ditch and is now simply a slough meandering along a larger expanse of lake…