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Padilla and Schiff objected when regulators moved to weaken tribal consultation. They haven’t said how they’ll vote on a Senate bill that would narrow it by law.
The Senate takes its first vote on the permitting bill S. 5653 on Nov. 9. Its Title III would rewrite Section 106 of the National Historic Preservation Act, and tribal leaders meeting…
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California’s new tribal contracting law opens a door for tribes. It stops at the federal list.
AB 2187, signed Sept. 25 and passed without a single no vote, lets state agencies hire tribes directly for consulting and stewardship work without competitive bidding. The core exemptions name only “federally…
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California says tribes without federal recognition are sovereign too. Its stewardship tools still sort them by status.
On Wednesday the California Natural Resources Agency briefs the state Water Commission on its tribal consultation policy, which covers tribes without federal recognition “as appropriate.” The agency’s own documents show where that…
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Shasta elders want a say in Salmon River restoration. California’s fast track for restoration projects doesn’t require anyone to ask them.
Shasta Konomihu elders in Siskiyou County have asked to be consulted under AB 52 on Salmon River restoration work. Their request runs into a gap that reaches all the way to Ohlone…
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California’s Native heritage commission is rewriting the rules for sacred sites. Tribes without federal recognition would have to prove themselves first.
The Native American Heritage Commission has released draft rules for its confidential Sacred Lands File that would let only tribes on its contact list submit sites on their own, and would re-review…
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Washington is rewriting Section 106. Tribes without federal recognition, already consulted only by invitation, could lose even that.
A bipartisan Senate permitting bill would rewrite the National Historic Preservation Act’s review process, and the Senate’s first vote is set for Nov. 9. Separately, the Advisory Council on Historic Preservation has…
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Prop. 45 would write tribes like the Muwekma Ohlone out of California’s environmental review. Voters decide Nov. 3.
Proposition 45, a builder-backed rewrite of the California Environmental Quality Act, would let “essential” projects consult only with federally recognized tribes. In parts of the Ohlone homeland, that could leave no tribe…
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In 1927, Washington declined to buy the Muwekma Ohlone land. A century later, California helped them get about 150 acres back.
The Muwekma Ohlone Tribe says Bella Madeira, about 150 acres in the East San José foothills once marketed for estate homes, has come home. State records show the purchase was funded by…
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The Muwekma Ohlone brought fire back to an oak woodland. A new study says the soil came through.
In January, the Muwekma Ohlone Tribe held its first cultural burn in nearly 150 years, at Stanford’s Jasper Ridge preserve. A peer-reviewed study co-written by the Tribe’s leaders finds the low, careful…
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The Bidwell Mansion burned. Now the Mechoopda are asking for the land beneath it back.
Nearly two years after fire gutted Chico’s Bidwell Mansion, the Mechoopda Indian Tribe has laid out a plan to take back the state park, rename it and raise a Maidu village where…
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47 years after it first asked, the United Houma Nation carries a new recognition case to Interior
On Oct. 15, Principal Chief Lora Ann Chaisson hand-delivered a supplement to the United Houma Nation’s federal acknowledgment petition, which has sat under a proposed negative finding since 1994. The Houma case…
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The federal paper trail of California’s Indian people is being boxed up for Colorado. California has sued to stop it.
The National Archives plans to close its San Bruno facility, on Ramaytush Ohlone land, and ship its Bureau of Indian Affairs records to Denver. On Oct. 14 California sued to block the…
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Thousands rise before dawn on Alcatraz, on Ohlone land, as a new prison threat looms
More than 2,000 people crossed the Bay in the dark for the 47th Indigenous Peoples Day Sunrise Gathering on Alcatraz. Speakers denounced Gov. Newsom’s vetoes and the President’s push to reopen the…
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