Anthony Roberts, Tribal Treasurer of the Yocha Dehe Wintun Nation has been appointed as a Director of the 40th District Agricultural Association, Yolo County Fair Board by Governor Edmund G. Brown Jr.
At a special tasting for restaurateurs, vendors and media in Sacramento, we introduced our new line of premium Capay Valley grown food products under the Séka Hills brand. Séka Hills means blue hills in our Patwin language.
UCP of Sacramento and Northern California received a $25,000 grant from the Yocha Dehe Community Fund to empower people with developmental disabilities in three programs serving Yolo County. Funding will support UCP’s respite program, transportation program and Woodland adult day program.
The citizens of the Yocha Dehe Wintun Nation have sworn into office their newly elected Chairman, Tribal Officers and Council Members to lead their sovereign nation for the next three years.
Starting as an idea and a survey to tribes in 2009, the California Tribal College initiative now has the backing of 25 of the 109 federally recognized California tribes, who hope to enroll their first students as early as February 2012.
The college doesn’t have a permanent home yet, and its permanent name is yet to be determined. But it does have momentum.
