Kanaka Bar Band planning for a bright future with dark times ahead

Patrick Michell can see the apocalypse coming — it’s just coming so slowly that people haven’t noticed yet.
The chief of the Kanaka Bar Indian Band is preparing his people for self-sufficiency. Food, energy, skills, the works.
The band has completed a 49.9-megawatt run-of-river power plant that will pay millions into their coffers for decades.
In the meantime, Michell wants to start farming, to break his community’s dependency on imported and processed foods.
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