Event explores plight of Mendocino County’s missing and murdered indigenous people

by Sydney Fishman, Bay City News July 31, 2025July 28, 2025

Khadijah Britton's photo and a reward for her return is posted on a sign on Hatchet Mountain Road in Covelo on Wednesday, Dec. 4, 2024. Britton, a member of the Round Valley Indian Tribes, was last seen in Covelo on Feb. 7, 2018, while allegedly being forced into a car at gunpoint by her ex-boyfriend. Her case has been a touchpoint for the missing and murdered Indigenous Peoples movement, which seeks to raise awareness about the disproportionate rate of Native Americans that are taken or murdered in the United States. (Sydney Fishman/Bay City News)

THE NOYO BIDA TRUTH PROJECT, formerly known as Change Our Name Fort Bragg, will hold an event Saturday in Fort Bragg featuring Dr. Tatiana Cantrell, the Missing and Murdered Indigenous People director for the Pinoleville Pomo Nation.

The Noyo Bida Truth Project is a nonprofit that aims to educate Mendocino County residents about the history of the name Fort Bragg, which has a connection to the Confederate Army General and slaveowner Braxton Bragg.

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