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Kashia's coastal homecoming anchors PBS Documentaries' week

Coming Home follows land return, cultural renewal and a journey to ancestral artifacts in Russia.

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After 170 Years, This California Tribe Returns Home | Full Documentary

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0:18The opening ceremony marks the return of land at California's Kashia Coastal Reserve in 2015.
5:45Otis Parrish explains reciprocity: gathering food from the land carries a responsibility to give back.
20:15Jerry Pinola recalls childhood discrimination and being unable to speak his language at school.
27:02Tribal leaders recount efforts to repurchase coastal land from the Richardson family.
32:27Kashia delegates travel to Russia and view ancestral artifacts at St. Petersburg's Kunstkamera Museum.
47:29Volunteers clear grass and weeds by hand to prepare a ceremonial dance circle at Met-ti-nee.

PBS Documentaries posted four videos, with its largest new audience gathering around a coastal homecoming. Coming Home: From Shadowland to Spiritworld, by Daniel Golding and J. Mitchell Johnson, opens at a land return ceremony on the Kashia Coastal Reserve in California, then follows the people carrying that history forward.

Martina Morgan weaves a basket beside the coast and recalls creation stories passed down by elders. Jerry Pinola explains his return to traditional dance and works on dance whistles and abalone necklaces with his daughter. The relationship to the land is practical as well as spiritual: "When we go out there and pick up berries and food and stuff, we have to give back," elder Otis Parrish says.

Posted as "After 170 Years, This California Tribe Returns Home | Full Documentary," the film has reached roughly 53,000 views. Its journey extends beyond California to Russia, where Kashia delegates visit ancestral objects in a St. Petersburg museum. It also confronts discrimination, family loss and the history of violence against Native people, giving the return of coastal land a much wider human context.

The shorter uploads took markedly different routes into culture: Fernando Hurtado introduced Luis Muñoz, the Mexican American luthier behind Olivia Rodrigo's heart-shaped guitar; Jason examined algorithmic feeds; and Mark Kendall explored the fist bump. That newest greeting explainer now has the second-strongest daily viewing momentum, behind Coming Home. An older portrait of boxer Andy Dominguez remains active too.

The channel added about 2,000 subscribers over the week, although daily views are running below their usual pace. Among nearby documentary channels, The Atlantic had a particularly busy viewing week, while American Experience's daily audience stayed close to its norm. For PBS Documentaries, the week's clearest focus was the Kashia film, whose story connects a land transaction with the continuing work of preserving language, dance and community.

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