Sonora Pass Drive

“When I’m in the woods, I feel very, very, very free and comfortable. . .”

…If I’m stressed out on work or kids or stuff like that, I’ll go in the woods. Even my parents said, ‘Go in the woods, go do something.’ I can relax, I’m in nature, the bayou’s water. That’s what I love to do, to be out there. I like the animals, and it just kind of relieves me of everything; I go there every day, pretty much. We see a lot in the woods. You always hear stuff. A lot that goes on in the woods has to do with the Spirit World. If you know the language you understand it. Like Bigfoot, or Little People, all that. If you leave it alone, it’s not gonna bother you.”

~ Jonas John, from the book Project 562 by Matika Wilbur

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This place is on the traditional territory of the Me-Wuk (Central Sierra Miwok), Nüümü (Northern Paiute), and Wašišiw Ɂítdeʔ (Washoe) nations. (Crowdsourced info compiled by Native-Land.ca. Please visit the nations’ websites to learn more.) We support indigenous land rights and the Land Back movement.

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