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BREAKING NEWS:
Tribe's contract with training center invalid
by J. Harry Jones U-T San Diego, February 3, 2012
INDIAN COUNTRY — A judge has ruled that a lease between the Los Coyotes Indian tribe and a military training business is invalid and ordered the business to remove all its property from the North County reservation within 45 days.
Intertribal Court of Southern California Chief Judge Anthony Brandenburg said in a ruling issued Thursday (Feb. 2, 2012) that the tribe's former chairwoman did not have the authority to enter into a lease on her own and that the evidence shows the tribe as a whole never agreed to the business partnership...READ the breaking U-T San Diego news article.
Tribal court hears Indians' feud with military training center over evection
by J. Harry Jones U-T San Diego, January 11, 2012
VALLEY CENTER — An acrimonious dispute between members of the Los Coyotes Indian Tribe (sic) and a business that leased part of the North County reservation to operate a military training center and filming business has been unfolding this week in a tiny courtroom near Harrah's Casino in Valley Center.
The dispute became so contentious that it allegedly led two tribal members to burn down a guard shack that then ignited last July's 15,000-acre Eagle fire...MORE.
U.S. and Tribal Leaders to Celebrate Soboba of Luiseño Indians Water Rights Settlement Act Today!
SAN JACINTO, Calif. — On Wednesday, Jan. 11, Assistant Secretary of the Interior for Indian Affairs Larry Echo Hawk, Assistant Secretary for Water and Science Anne Castle, Counselor to the Deputy Secretary Letty Belin and other U.S. officials will join tribal leaders including Scott Cozart, Chairman of the Soboba Band of Luiseño Indians, for a ceremony in San Jacinto, Calif., to celebrate conclusion of an historic U.S.-tribal water rights settlement.
Federal funding recently released under the Soboba Band of Luiseño Indians Settlement Act of 2008 marked the final step in the historic water rights settlement and fulfilled promises made to the Soboba Band and southern California communities when the Act was approved by Congress in 2008...SOURCE | PDF.
Native American Scholar, Cahuilla Historian Katherine Siva Saubel, 91 (1920-12011)
by Guy McCarthy, Nov. 2, 2011, Banning-Beaumont Patch
Dr. Katherine Siva Saubel, a Native American scholar, Cahuilla historian, co-founder of the Malki Museum, and one California's most respected tribal elders, died Tuesday at her home on the Morongo Indian Reservation..."It is windy today, because the wind is looking for her," Kevin Siva, a lifelong resident of the Morongo Reservation, said in a phone interview. "She always told me stories about the wind when I was younger....".
Everett Freeman, the longtime tribal chair of the Paskenta Band of Nomlaki Indians, who led the charge to re-establish his tribe’s sovereign status and then worked to put his tribe on a healthy economic path before he died in 2010, will posthumously receive the Eagle Spirit Award from the American Indian Film Institute. His son, who is the current Nomlaki tribal chair, will accept the award for him at a special ceremony in San Francisco on November 12, Everett Freeman...FULL PRESS RELEASE.
Energy projects spur alarm among Indians
by Guy McCarthy, Nov. 5, 2011, The San Diego Union-Tribune
Alarmed by the growing list of energy projects that are underway or proposed in both counties, three southwestern tribes — including San Diego’s Kumeyaay — are forming the first intertribal group to watchdog the work...SOURCE & FULL BREAKING NEWS ARTICLE.
Burial-Site Battle Pits Kumeyaay Against University
by Dina Gilio-Whitaker August 22, 2011, Indian Country Today Media Network
Ever since the remains of three ancient humans were unearthed in 1976 on property owned by the University of California at San Diego (UCSD), the Kumeyaay people have been engaged in a complex battle to have the remains repatriated to them. This would be against the wishes of many University of California (UC) scientists, who want to keep them for further study, a stance that is now opposed by UCSD administrators. But after decades of wrangling, recent actions by UCSD and the scientists who oppose repatriation have brought the remains once again into the spotlight....
by Michael Gardner, June 27, 2011 (The San Diego Union-Tribune)
SACRAMENTO — The U.S. Supreme Court Monday sided with a North San Diego County Indian tribe that had challenged the state’s bid to exact money from casinos in return for permission to add slot machines.
The court, without comment, declined to hear an appeal of an earlier 9th Circuit Court of Appeal ruling in 2008 that declared the assessment illegal.
The decision is a big win for gaming tribes that had claimed former Gov. Arnold Schwarzenegger’s demands for money in return for gambling expansions amounted to an illegal tax.
Remarks by President Obama at Bill Signing For The Claims Resolution Act — the Cobell v. Salazar Settlement:
"After 123 years of living with what Congress once called the ‘Broken Trust,’ people throughout Indian Country will see Wednesday as a monumental day," said Ms. Cobell, a member of Montana's Blackfeet Nation...MORE.
BO MAZZETTI blames the governor not the DOI
The situation we find ourselves in with the California compacts is not the doing of the Rincon Band or DOI. The person to blame is the governor of the State of California....
CONGRATULATIONS! — Rose Vasquez, Iipay Nation of Santa Ysabel, was crowned Miss Kumeyaay Nation (2010-2011) August 28 at the Viejas Gathering...MORE.
NIEA Announces Executive Director
July 6, 2010, Washington, DC- Colin Kippen has been selected by the National Indian Education Association (NIEA) board of directors to serve as its new Executive Director. He will undertake the leadership of NIEA, the largest Indian education organization... full PRESS RELEASE. CIEA E-Newsletter Vol. 2 Issue #5: September 20, 2009
This issue celebrates the success of our friends and colleagues in the success of the Bill on Banning In Stream Dredge Gold Mining! Congratulations and thank you to everyone for your hard work. Press Release and details are below, read on…
Support AB 544 (Coto) Teaching Credential: Native American Indian Languages (a form .doc letter to download and mail)
Dear Governor Schwarzenegger, I write this letter to ask for your support and signature for the Law of AB 544 (Coto): Teaching Credential: American Indian Languages. Across California there are stories of young tribal members decades ago being punished for speaking their native language. California tribes are working hard to reverse this loss of native languages with after school programs, as a Foreign Language alternative, and on weekends, but this is not enough. Native languages need to be taught as part of the school curriculum. To do this we need certified Native American Language Teachers...
Soboba 62-year water struggle not over yet!
Just when the Soboba Band of Luiseño Indians thought their water battle was over with the signing of the Soboba Band of Luiseño Indians Settlement Act by President George W. Bush on July 31, 2008 the Obama administration has decided that it doesn’t have the money to pay the tribe the $11 million dollars the federal government owes the tribe as its part of the settlement with the tribe....
Edwin "Thorpe" Romero elected Chairman of Barona Tribe.
Vice Chairwoman Brandie Taylor congratulates Chairman-elect Romero, wishes good relationship with new Barona council.
FEATURE NEWS:
TRIBES FACE ECONOMIC GLOOM
Gaming Tribes react to 2008 world financial crisis, "The new game in town is 'Competition' and it will be brutal..." by Ernie C. Salgado, Jr.
YOUNGSTERS DISCOVER NATIVE CULTURES BY COMPUTER
HUMBOLT STATE UNIVERSITY — Native American youth are discovering their often-lost tribal languages and cultures using the very same global information network that sometimes seems to submerge their traditions in homogenized pop culture. They are also learning how to restore and preserve their heritage with key software programs...
KUMEYAAY.COM Has transformed itself into an important daily news blog blogging current important news stories and newsfeature articles about California Indians in San Diego County, Sourthern California, central and northern California covering federal state city tribal governments, news on the reservations, gambling casinos and generally all news stories that informed Native Americans should read about.
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NAVAJO TIMES ONLINE
"The Navajo Times was established by the Navajo Tribal Council in 1959 as a newsletter. The first issue of the Navajo Times newspaper was published in 1960. Its mission is to inform the Navajo people of events, news and issues of importance to them, whether from within the boundaries of the Navajo Nation or throughout the United States...".
Public Law 280 Forum
Soboba Indian Reservation — August 11, 2008, almost 55 years to the day of August 15, 1953, when Public Law 280 was implemented on all the Indian Reservations in California. It was also the same year Adam Castillo passed away. I mention this only because Mr. Castillo was not only the Tribal Chairman of the Soboba Band of Mission Indians (as it was known in the old days,) he was also the President of the Mission Indian Federation...
Soboba Tribe Settles 62-Year Watter Struggle
On July 31, 2008 President Bush's signature the Soboba Band of Luiseño Indians Settlement Act into law ending a sixty two year old Soboba Tribal water rights dispute involving the Eastern Municipal Water District and Metropolitan Water District. Tribal Chairman Adam Castillo filed the original lawsuit in 1946...
CHAIRMAN ROBERT SALGADO Receives National Award
The National Indian Gaming Association awarded Chairman Salgado the Wendell Chino Humanitarian Award at the group's annual conference in San Diego....
Judge Blocks New Rentals at Mobile Home Park
RIVERSIDE - A federal judge Monday ordered a crowded trailer park that houses thousands of Riverside County's poorest residents to stop new people from renting space there...
PECHANGA Tribal Councilman Pico Suffers Heart Attack
Gabriel Pico, 41, of Temecula, Calif., between Los Angeles and San Diego, died Monday evening from injuries he suffered about 2 a.m. Saturday, the coroner's office reported...
SHOOTOUTS ON SOBOBA INDIAN RESERVATION
SAN JACINTO, California — Authorities are conducting investigations into running gun battles on the reservation in which young Soboba tribal memembers were shot and killed in the second deadly deputy-involved shooting on the Soboba Indian Reservation in as many weeks — BREAKING NEWS! http://www.humboldtbeacon.com/ci_10127920?IADID
UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA RIVERSIDE
High school seniors that want to attend college, UC Riverside Indian education programs for qualified students...One-Stop-Admissions Day.
HOW UCSD SPENT OVER $500,000 on a Home that Never Happened
University House is built on historic Kumeyaay Native American burial grounds...feud between the prestigious San Diego university and the Kumeyaay-Digueño Indians persists...
JAMES RAMOS ELECTED CHAIRMAN
The San Manuel Band of Mission Indians announced last week the appointment of James Ramos to the tribe's top position of chairman.
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