December 2024 Southern California Tribal News

Articles:

  • November, Native American Heritage Month
  • The Department of the Interior, Indian Affairs, the National Endowment for the Humanities and the Smithsonian Institution, are working to record the impacts of Federal Indian Boarding Schools
  • The U.S. Army recognized the invaluable contributions of American Indians and Alaska Natives to the military
  • Governor Newsom signed a new law on California Native American Day
  • The San Manuel Band of Mission Indians awarded grant to UCLA Law's Tribal Legal Development Clinic
  • The Pauma Band of Mission Indians was awarded a Tribal Victim Services Set-Aside grant
  • State of California’s Coachella Valley Mountains Conservancy donated 320 acres of ancestral land in the San Jacinto Mountains to the Agua Caliente Band of Cahuilla Indians
  • Kewet Event in Palm Springs
  • The AMR-Morongo Air Ground Tribal Alliance, won the 2024 California Ambulance Association Service Excellence Award for Innovation
  • The Soboba Band of Luisenyo Indians hosted the California State Fire Marshal’s course for Incident Management of High-Rise Fires
  • The Pala Band of Mission Indians has re-elected Robert Smith as Tribal Chairman, Theresa J. Nieto as Treasurer, and Shelia L. Smith-Lopez as Committee Member
  • Soboba Band of Luisenyo Indians Vice Chairwoman Geneva Mojado was honored as one of the Emerging Leaders of Gaming 40 Under 40
  • Youth and staff from the Soboba Tribal TANF program traveled to San Antonio, Texas, for the 2024 AISES conference
  • Noli Indian School’s College and Career Fair at the Soboba Sports Complex
  • 28th Annual Morongo Charity Golf Tournament
  • The 11th Annual Morongo Open Ranch Rodeo
  • Fundraising efforts sent Ete’tish Arviso (Soboba member), to Cooperstown, New York; Baseball Hall of Fame and Museum
  • Soboba Casino Resort's third annual Oktoberfest
  • The Morongo Band of Mission Indians 38th Annual Thanksgiving Outreach program
  • Students from the Soboba Tribal Preschool and Noli Indian School on the Soboba Reservation celebrated Native American Heritage Month
  • January 3-5, 2025: 22nd Annual Pechanga Pow Wow
  • January 25, 2025: Singing of the Birds by the Agua Caliente Band of Cahuilla Indians
  • January 23, 2025: The Agua Caliente Cultural Museum in Palm Spring
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