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 [...]