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View in browser | ictnews.org February 27, 2023 Deb Haaland celebrates decades of Indigenous education By Kalle Benalllie The AIM occupation of 1973 endures in a new generation of Native activists at Standing Rock and other protests ... continue reading Women of Wounded Knee: ‘Why Creator gave me my life’ By Kalle Benalllie A special project [...]
February 2023 Food For Tribal Families Program
On Sunday February 19th, 2023, the California Valley Miwok Tribe delivered this month's Food For Tribal Families distribution to its Program Director Mildred Burley. This month's distribution although sizable was stocked with an immense amount of frozen items including but not limited to hams, steaks, roasts, poultry, fish, frozen dinners, frozen chicken and frozen fish fillets and [...]
February 2023 USDA Food Distribution
Tribal Offices, Tribal Land, Avenida Central, La Grange, Ca. This month's USDA Food Distribution was held on Thursday the 16th of February 2023. It was a good distribution with great weather and an abundance of food for the many that depend upon this program. Programs such as these were initiated outside of the BIA's purview as to [...]
January 2023 Food For Tribal Families Program
Chairperson Silvia Burley of the California Valley Miwok Tribe stands with this month's delivery. On Thursday, January 26th, 2023, the California Valley Miwok Tribe initiated the first of this years deliveries to the Food For Tribal Families Program. It was once again a good delivery with an abundance of food stocks and various drinks including milk, tea, [...]
January 2023 USDA Food Distribution
Tribal Offices, Tribal Land, Avenida Central, La Grange, Ca. The January USDA Food Distribution was held on Thursday, January 19th, 2023. It was a great distribution and marks another new year in this long running program instituted under tribal leadership to address nutritional needs of tribal citizens due to deficiencies originally created by CCA/BIA ex-superintendent Troy Burdick [...]
California BIA once again attempting theft of local federal tribe
On January 8th, 2023, the California Valley Miwok Tribe met with all tribal citizen's and families in securing the proper documents for delivery to the tribe's legal representation, Peebles Kidder Bergin & Robinson LLP. Once again, the tribe is being threatened by the Bureau of Indian Affairs / Central California Agency. The local BIA is once again hellbent on orchestrating [...]