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“We are trying to recover from colonization,” said Amy Bowers Cordalis, a lawyer for the tribe and executive director of the Ridges to Riffles Indigenous Conservation Group.

From Los Angeles Times • Jun. 14, 2025

The agreements offer an example of how government agencies should work with Native leaders to restore ecosystems, said Daniel Cordalis, co-principal of Ridges to Riffles, an Indigenous conservation group.

From Los Angeles Times • May 4, 2023

She'd meet him up to the Riffles there by that big bunch o' yaller pines we passed.

From The Spinner's Book of Fiction by Various

But the boys reached the Riffles a little while after this, and, in the excitement of hauling out a number of fish, for the sport was good, they forgot about the queer old man.

From The Heroes of the School or, The Darewell Chums Through Thick and Thin by Chapman, Allen

They got their suits from the dock house where they kept them, and soon were in their boat rowing for the swimming hole, just below the Riffles.

From The Heroes of the School or, The Darewell Chums Through Thick and Thin by Chapman, Allen