Berkey Williams LLP is delighted to announce that Janet Bill has been elected to serve on the Tribal Council of the Picayune Rancheria of Chukchansi Indians. Council Member Bill was formally sworn in to tribal office on October 25, 2021. Ms. Bill served as the Firm’s...
The Tenth Circuit held on September 30, 2020 that aboriginal water rights are alive and well in the state of New Mexico. The federal district court had concluded that Spanish colonization extinguished the rights of Jemez, Santa Ana, and Zia Pueblos to the waters of...
At the association’s 18th annual conference at the Pechanga Resort and Casino in Temecula, CA, Ms. Erica Costa was nominated and elected to the Board of Directors of the California Indian Law Association (CILA). CILA is a volunteer based 501(c)(3) non-profit...
Rovianne Leigh joined the Amah Mutsun Tribal Band, Amah Mutsun Land Trust, and Mid-Peninsula Regional Open Space District to present at the 2018 California Land and Water Conservation Conference this March. The presentation focused on the ground-breaking stewardship...
The Yurok Tribe recently designated Scott Williams to be its representative on the Board of Directors of the Klamath River Renewal Corporation. The sole mission of the Corporation is to secure the removal of the four major dams on the Klamath River. The Corporation,...
On Saturday, June 25, 2016, the Kashia Band of Pomo Indians celebrated with prayer, dance, and food the return to Tribal control of a piece of its ancestral lands, now known as the Kashia Coastal Reserve. The Reserve is on the Northern California coast contiguous to...
