Protest BIA in Sacramento: Halt eviction of Miwoks from land

Protest The BIA & Stop the MIWOK Tribe from EVICTION OF THEIR LAND!!!


People's NEED over Corporate GREED!!!


Start Time: Wednesday, January 6, 2010 at 10:00am
End Time: Thursday, January 7, 2010 at 3:00pm
Location: The John Moss Building/CCA-Bureau of Indian Affairs (B.I.A)
Street: 650 Capitol Mall
City/Town: Sacramento, CA

Description
Please come with your Drums & Songs, Banners & Picket Signs & Especially Friend s & Family 2 support the Miwoks
The 15th is expected to be the day eviction starts! Sign up there to be put on call for when the THE COPS MAY RAID!!!
Time 2 hold those accountable to the people who are being affected. Dont let the Miwok families become homeless. If you are about families and tribal sovereignty, please show your solidarity.
Our hearts go out to the Indigenous families who continue to preserve their languages, cultures and land to pass on to the future generations.
2 DAY PROTEST & Press Conference
Where: John Moss Building - Central Calif. Agency/Bureau of Indian Affairs 650 Capitol Mall, Sacramento, Calif. 95814
When: Wednesday, January 6th, 2010 & Thursday, January 7 th, 2010
Time: 10:00 A.M. to 1:00 P.M. (each day) followed by a 1 hour Press Conference (each day)
For more info contact the California Valley Miwok Tribe at (209) 931-4567
http://www.californiavalleymiwoktribe-nsn.gov/
PRESS RELEASE:

Picket the Central California Agency-Bureau of Indian Affairs
The California Valley Miwok Tribe invites you to join us in our open protest against the local Bureau of Indian Affairs, Dept. of the Interior, Central California Agency
Our Tribe is a federally recognized Tribe that is listed in the Federal Register as an Indian Entity Recognized and Eligible to receive services from the United States Bureau of Indian Affairs.
The Central California Agency — BIA is illegally trying to re-organize a federally recognized Tribe that has never been terminated, that has a Custom and Tradition Tribal Constitution ratified by the Tribe in March 2000. The local BIA has been illegally withholding our Mature Status 638
Contract since 2008 and by refusing to confirm to the California Gambling Control Commission who our duly elected Chairperson is, BIA has caused the CGCC to illegally withhold the Tribe's Revenue Sharing Trust Fund Monies (RSTF) since 2005.
Our civil rights have been violated. The local BIA is also violating federal law.
We (the "Tribe") have no money to fund our Tribal Programs, all employees have been layed off since Dec 2007. The Tribe cannot pay its bills, and the only Tribal Property (1% acres of land at 10601 Escondido Pl., Stockton, CA 95212) has been foreclosed on. The Sheriff's Department is scheduled to evict the Tribe and its members off the Tribal Property on January 15, 2010.
We are demanding that our funding be released immediately so we can save our Tribal Property and not be homeless. We are demanding fair treatment by the Bureau of Indian Affairs. We are demanding that an investigation into the inappropriate actions and treatment of our Tribe, by the Bureau of Indian Affairs.
The Dept of the Interior - BIA mission is to "protect and honor its trust responsibilities to American Indians, Alaskan Natives and Affiliated Island Communities", so why have they failed so miserably with protecting the California Valley Miwok Tribe? Come join us, voice your concerns and issues. Show strength in UNITY!!
Where: John Moss Building - Central Calif. Agency/Bureau of Indian Affairs 650 Capitol Mall,

Sacramento, Calif. 95814

When: Wednesday, January 6th, 2010 & Thursday, January 7 th, 2010

Time: 10:00 A.M. to 1:00 P.M. (each day) followed by a 1 hour Press Conference (each day)

For more info contact the California Valley Miwok Tribe at (209) 931 -4567