Cultural Writing. Native American studies. This issue of NEWS FROM NATIVE CALIFORNIA includes articles on the California fish kill by Barry Wayne McCovey Jr., Laura Pena, and Margaret Dubin, the Western Shoshone homeland by Beverly R. Ortiz, the Indian Canyon Storytelling Festival by Sharon Beals and Ann Marie Sayers, and the importance of the shell to California Indians by Sylvia Berker Thalman, Margaret Dubin, and Les Field.