California ‘land-back’ deal hands giant area near Tahoe to tribe
- Posted on February 11, 2026
- By San Francisco Chronicle
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California ‘land-back’ deal hands giant area near Tahoe to tribe

What was long a liability for the city of Santa Clara is now a stunning new asset for a California tribe, in the form 10,274 acres of ancestral land in the Sierra Nevada, north of Lake Tahoe.