{"id":1341,"date":"2025-10-13T12:05:19","date_gmt":"2025-10-13T12:05:19","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/1341\/"},"modified":"2025-10-13T12:05:19","modified_gmt":"2025-10-13T12:05:19","slug":"fresno-county-area-renamed-to-honor-native-heritage-and-a-small-but-powerful-duck-cbs47-and-ksee24","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/1341\/","title":{"rendered":"Fresno County area renamed to honor Native heritage and a small, but powerful duck | CBS47 and KSEE24"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>FRESNO COUNTY, Calif. (<a href=\"https:\/\/www.yourcentralvalley.com\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">KSEE\/KGPE<\/a>) \u2013 Ball Ranch has a new name that honors the space\u2019s culture and history.<\/p>\n<p>On Friday, the San Joaquin River Parkway and Conservation Trust announced the property has been officially renamed K\u2019uik\u2019ui Ranch. <\/p>\n<p>K\u2019uik\u2019ui is the name of a small but powerful duck in the sacred Gashowu Yokuts texts. The story goes that when the earth was first formed, K\u2019uik\u2019ui dove down into the water and carried sand to the surface, forming all the land and the mountains. <\/p>\n<p>The trust says the name change aligns with AB 2022 (Ramos 2022), which directs public agencies to prioritize names that honor and recognize tribes, cultures, and Indigenous languages specific to the geographic region.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cBy moving away from names tied to prior ownership and instead uplifting Native languages and stories, the conservancy and trust affirm their shared commitment to cultural respect and inclusive stewardship,\u201d the trust said.<\/p>\n<p>\t<a href=\"https:\/\/www.yourcentralvalley.com\/news\/local-news\/native-student-scholarship-fresno\/?ipid=promo-link-block1\" class=\"promo-link__link\" target=\"&quot;_blank&quot;\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\"><br \/>\n\t\tCentral Valley Native American students eligible for $1,000 scholarship\t<\/a><\/p>\n<p>The name was whittled down from 86 others suggested during a community naming contest in 2024. K\u2019uik\u2019ui was ultimately chosen for its cultural resonance and symbolism of beginnings.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cNames carry deep medicine. Choosing K\u2019uik\u2019ui honors the story, the land, and the spirit that have always been here,\u201d said Michelle Pipkin, Community Garden Coordinator at the Fresno American Indian Health Project. \u201cFor those of us who work with the plants and gather from the river, it\u2019s powerful to see a name that speaks our language and carries our teachings forward. It reminds us that everything begins with the land.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\t\t\t\tSuggest a Correction<\/p>\n<p>\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\tClose Modal<\/p>\n<p>\t\t\t\t\t\tSuggest a Correction<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"FRESNO COUNTY, Calif. (KSEE\/KGPE) \u2013 Ball Ranch has a new name that honors the space\u2019s culture and history.&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":1342,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[31],"tags":[2018,112,622,114,113,2019,2021,2020,2022,2023,2024,2025],"class_list":["post-1341","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-fresno","tag-ball-ranch","tag-fresno","tag-fresno-county","tag-fresno-headlines","tag-fresno-news","tag-gashowu-yokut","tag-kuikui","tag-kuikui-ranch","tag-native","tag-san-joaquin-river","tag-san-joaquin-river-parkway","tag-yokut"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1341","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1341"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1341\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/1342"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1341"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1341"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1341"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}