The Mono Lake Kutzadika Paiute tribe has dwindled from 4,000 members to just 83 since white ranchers and gold miners began pouring into the basin in the 1850s.
Tribal leaders still face the long and expensive process of gaining federal recognition. latimes.com/environment/st…
Tribal leaders still face the long and expensive process of gaining federal recognition. latimes.com/environment/st…
“Stress is an understatement,” said Charlotte Lange, 67, chairwoman of the tribe that despite being unrecognized maintains a tribal organization and holds monthly meetings. “We just want a place to call home, and time is running out.”
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The Mono Lake Paiutes are among roughly two dozen unrecognized and landless tribes in California that have initiated petitions for federal recognition by the Department of Interior’s Bureau of Indian Affairs.
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Few of those efforts are likely to succeed, experts say, because they usually cost hundreds of thousands of dollars, require extensive documentation and research by anthropologists, historians and tribal members, and can take a decade or more.
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“Luckily, the Mono Lake tribe is well documented and has a strong case,” said Dorothy Alther, an attorney with California Indian Legal Services who is representing the tribe on a pro bono basis.
“But these things take years,” she added.
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“But these things take years,” she added.
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