Английская Википедия:California Valley Miwok Tribe
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The California Valley Miwok Tribe is a federally recognized tribe of Miwok people in San Joaquin County and Calaveras County, California.Шаблон:Sfn[1] They were previously known as the Sheep Ranch RancheriaШаблон:Sfn or the Sheep Ranch Rancheria of Me-Wuk Indian of California.Шаблон:Sfn The California Valley Miwok are Sierra Miwok, an indigenous people of California.Шаблон:Sfn
Government
The tribe conducts business from Stockton, California.Шаблон:Sfn The current tribal administration is:
- Silvia Burley, ChairpersonШаблон:SfnШаблон:Sfn
- Anjelica Paulk, Vice-ChairpersonШаблон:Sfn
- Rashel Reznor, Secretary/TreasurerШаблон:SfnШаблон:Sfn
According to the tribe's website, it is currently governed by a tribal/general council that meets monthly.Шаблон:Sfn Officers are elected for six-year terms, with the tribe electing a vice chairperson in 2015 and both a chairperson and a secretary/treasurer in 2017.Шаблон:Sfn
History
Membership of the tribe was very low throughout the 20th century. In 1916, the federal government purchased Шаблон:Convert at Sheep Ranch, California for the benefit of 12 named members of the tribe.Шаблон:Sfn They were described by the Indian agent who arranged the purchase as "the remnant of once quite a large band of Indians in former years living in or near the old decaying mining town known and designated on the map as 'Sheepranch' ".Шаблон:Sfn In 1935, the only Indian recorded as living on the ranchería was Jeff Davis.Шаблон:Sfn Davis was recorded as voting in favor of the Indian Reorganization Act on June 8, 1912.Шаблон:Sfn
By 1966, Mabel Hodge Dixie was identified as the only adult member of the tribe living on the ranchería.Шаблон:Sfn The Bureau of Indian Affairs developed a plan to distribute the tribe's assets to her that year under the 1958 California Rancheria Act, but never declared the tribe terminated or treated it as such.Шаблон:Sfn In 1994, Mabel's son Yakima Dixie identified himself as "the only descendant and ... recognized member of the Tribe."Шаблон:Sfn
Legal and membership disputes since 1999
From the late-1990s there was a long-running dispute over the government, membership and status of the California Valley Miwok Tribe. On August 5, 1998, Yakima Dixie accepted Silvia Burley as a member of the tribe, along with her two daughters and granddaughter.Шаблон:Sfn Burley provided information tracing her ancestry to Jeff Davis, who had been listed as the only member of the tribe in a 1913 census; she had contacted Dixie at the suggestion of the Bureau of Indian Affairs.Шаблон:Sfn At the time of Burley's admission in 1998, the tribe was not "organized" as defined by the Indian Reorganization Act, and the BIA recommended that, given its small size, the tribe should form a general council, a simpler structure than formal organization.Шаблон:Sfn
A general council of all adult citizens was formed on November 5, 1998, and by late 1999 a dispute had arisen between Burley and Dixie.Шаблон:Sfn Between 1999 and 2010, each party appealed to the BIA to support its view and to intervene on the grounds that the other had not involved the "whole tribal community" of both enrolled citizens and potentially enrolled citizens.Шаблон:Sfn For much of this period, the BIA took the view that it had a duty to intervene in the tribe's affairs on behalf of potentially enrolled citizens of the tribe.Шаблон:Sfn In this respect, the BIA became the adjudicator between the claims of the competing parties, determining which decisions were valid and which members constituted the tribe's government.Шаблон:Sfn In a December 22, 2010 decision, the BIA completely reversed its opinion, deciding that it had no obligation to represent the interests of potentially enrolled tribe members, and that therefore the BIA was free to wash its hands of involvement.Шаблон:Sfn the BIA advised the parties that, "continuing this imprudent dispute risks potential adverse consequences well beyond the Tribe and its descendants".Шаблон:Sfn The BIA noted that "it is equitably appropriate for the CVMT to reach out to potential citizens..." but that it is not a duty of the federal government to impose this requirement on the tribe.Шаблон:Sfn This decision was reaffirmed by Larry Echo Hawk, assistant secretary of Indian Affairs, in a detailed letter to the parties on August 31, 2011.Шаблон:Sfn
The California Gambling Control Commission made distributions to the tribe worth $1.1 million per year from the Indian Gaming Revenue Sharing Trust Fund from July 2000 through August 2005.Шаблон:Sfn Following the BIA's intervention in the tribe's affairs, the CGCC decided to cease distributions to the California Valley Miwok Tribe and instead to hold them in trust.Шаблон:Sfn In a 2007 letter, the commission told the tribe it would release the funds after the BIA recognized the governing body and the tribe resolved its leadership dispute.Шаблон:Sfn However, the funds were not released following the 2011 BIA decision to recognize Burley as the tribe's chair, prompting Burley to sue the commission in state and federal courts.Шаблон:Sfn A non-member of the tribe, Chadd Everone, who describes himself as a "deputy and consul general" for Yakima Dixie, has countersued to prevent distribution of the funds to Burley's group, contending that Dixie never resigned as chair of the tribe.Шаблон:Sfn Court filings by Burley's group claim that Everone is manipulating Dixie and wants to use the gaming distributions "as security" to attract outside investors for a project to build a tribal casino.Шаблон:Sfn They allege that Everone intends to bring the tribe under his own control with Dixie as a "puppet" chair of the tribe.
See also
References
Sources
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External links
Each side in the ongoing dispute over governance has its own web presence. The tribal government run by Burley maintains its presence on LinkedIn and Facebook, with an archive of its former official -nsn.gov site still viewable on the Internet Archive. The current official site is located at californiavalleymiwok.us and an additional informative site at californiavalleymiwoktribe.us. The opposing side (Everone) has a web presence at CaliforniaValleyMiwok.com. Both sites contain both tribal announcements and news releases supporting the legal position of the relevant faction.
- ↑ "Tribal Office Locations." California Department of Transportation: District 10. Retrieved May 29, 2012.
