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More than 17,000 acres of ancestral lands were returned to the Tule River Indian Tribe, part of a state effort to address historical wrongs committed against Native Americans.

The return will enable a host of conservation projects, including reintroduction of Tule elk.

The total purchase price for the land was not immediately made public.

In the scrub-brush foothills between the long flat fields of the San Joaquin Valley and the mighty peaks and Sequoia forests of the Sierra Nevada, state leaders and elders from the Tule River Indian Tribe gathered Wednesday to mark the return of 17,000 acres of ancestral land to Tule River Indian tribe.

Gov. Gavin Newsom’s office called it “the

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