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  2020-03-27

  Yocha Dehe Wintun Nation Chairman Addresses Decision to Declare State of Emergency

  Tribal Chairman Anthony Roberts on the State of Emergency, COVID-19, and securing the Nation's long-term welfare. "We took these steps because it was the right thing to do."
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  2020-04-07

  California Tribe Suggests a CARES Act Funding Model to Better Serve the Smaller Tribes of the State

  “Yocha Dehe respectfully submits Congress directed a different approach in the delivery of funding to tribal governments…A funding formula that rests on population and land base would leave out California tribes, which tend to be smaller with fewer federal land holdings, but whose economies are large, and which are now crushed by the pandemic…tribal economies have little to do with population and land size, and as the data confirms, California’s tribal economies are larger than those in any other state.”