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View in browser | indiancountrytoday.com The best way to enjoy the newsletter is by clicking the 'Download PDF' link below! Download PDF January 27, 2022 Top Stories Judge refuses to delay release of DAPL documents By Associated Press Thousands of documents related to security during the pipeline construction are to be released ... continue reading [AP Photo/David Goldman, File] Hoping for an [...]
January 2022 Food For Tribal Families Program
On Wednesday, January 26th, 2022, the Food for Tribal Families started off the new year. This distribution was very late as a fatal accident blocked the main thoroughfare between the Motherlode counties of Amador and Calaveras. This was not the way to start the new year and our sympathies go out to the families of those affected. This distribution [...]
January 2022 USDA Food Distribution
Tribal Offices, Tribal Land, Avenida Central, La Grange, Ca. 95329 This month's USDA Food Distribution was held on Thursday, January 20th, 2022. This was the first distribution of the new year and we hope a fresh beginning of many more to come. Many have come to rely on this much needed program but all recipients are always [...]
California Valley Miwok Tribal Elder Forced by Insidious BIA Officials to Stay Her Disenrollment
In this video, California Valley Miwok tribal elder Mildred Burley is being forced to not only prove she is Native American, but also her blood degree and genealogy in an effort to stop the BIA from conducting an illegal tribal disenrollment of not only herself, but of all federally recognized citizens of the California Valley Miwok Tribe. The BIA has [...]
Last of Indigenous News For 2021
DEC 27, 2021 Imagining a new kind of news organization LETTER FROM THE EDITOR MARK TRAHANT Almost four years ago I took a new job and set out to revive Indian Country Today. I wrote at the time: “We can invent a new kind of news organization, one built on the currency of imagination.” Wrong. I did not imagine [...]
December 2021 Food For Tribal Families Program
On Friday, December 17th, 2021 the California Valley Miwok Tribe made a very late delivery to its Food For Tribal Families Program Director, Mildred Burley. The reason for such a late delivery is that the Central California Agency Bureau of Indian Affairs is once again trying to steal the tribe and disregard the wishes of the tribes [...]
December 2021 USDA Food Distribution
Tribal Offices, Tribal Land, Avenida Central, La Grange, Ca. 95329 This month's USDA Food Distribution was held on Monday, December 13th, 2021. The weather was very extreme with cold temperatures, gale force winds and intermittent rains throughout the event. Again with the stimulus checks? The tribe knows very few who have received one and knows [...]
Initial Illegal and Out-of-Compliance Attempt by Local BIA/CCA to Steal and Re-organize Miwok Tribe
This video below depicts what the tribe is hopeful will be another failed attempt by local Central California Agency / Bureau of Indian Affairs officials to illegally steal our tribe so that San Francisco oligarchs which include a current United States Senator and her billionaire developer husband to have a monopoly over gaming with a mega casino located in the [...]
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NOTE: PLEASE CLICK ON FLAG ICON BELOW TO OPEN SITE November 29, 2021 Fifty years ago the United States made a dramatic policy u-turn. Candidates running to lead the Colville Confederated Tribes ran on a platform rejecting termination as federal policy. They won. And Congress listened. By 1972 new legislation was enacted to restore a terminated tribe, the Menominee of [...]
University of the Pacific invites California Valley Miwok Tribe
On Friday, November 19th, 2021, the California Valley Miwok Tribe attended a previously scheduled event to share the unique life experiences of its eldest tribal citizen, Mildred burley. On behalf of the University, Ms. Tracy Patton Executive Director Community Involvement Program, Equity and Inclusion at the University of the Pacific, invited the tribe and worked with the tribe in coordinating [...]