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The Guardian - US
The Guardian - US
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Hallie Golden

Beer and baseball: Yurok Tribe tells its story through landmark sports deal

cans of undammed on a table. the cans show water rushing in a river
Undammed is a hard seltzer from Mad River Brewing Company. Photograph: Courtesy Mad River Brewing

These days, you’ll see them sprinkled across Oracle Park, the stadium of the San Francisco Giants: bright blue cans with images of a steelhead fish flapping above a waterway, a deer with its head to the ground or a dam in the Klamath River.

The cans are produced by the Mad River Brewing Company, owned by the largest federally recognized Indigenous nation in California, the Yurok Tribe. And in April, they became the first tribally owned craft beer sold in a major league sports stadium.

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