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“Indian country has been waiting for well over a decade for a meeting of this caliber with the President of the United States,” said Joe A. Garcia, National Congress of American Indians president.
 
Leaders of all 564 federally recognized tribes will be invited, an announcement said, adding that they will be given the opportunity to interact directly with the president and other top administration officials. Each federally recognized tribe can send one representative.
 

The Yocha Dehe tribal community and government gathered at the 42nd annual celebration of Native American Day in Sacramento.

About 300 gathered at the capitol building, including many Californian tribes, residents and legislators. 

Tribal Chairman Marshall McKay addressed the importance of the holiday and Yocha Dehe youth spoke to the crowd in their traditional dialect, Patwin. 

Yocha Dehe Wintun Nation is the proud winner of WateReuse’s 2009 Project of the Year Award for our Cache Creek Desalination Facility. We are the first tribe to win an annual award from the WateReuse Association. 

Steve Sakurai has been hired as our new chief investment officer. Sakurai brings more than 20 years of finance and sustainable development experience to the position.

Sakurai has worked in private and public sectors, and is most known for his financing and investment expertise. He has structured, facilitated and issued in excess of $3 billion of financing across various asset classes and across multiple real estate segments.