Kashia Band of Pomo Indians Celebrates Return of Ancestral Land

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...

Partner Curtis Berkey speaks at the Conference on Inter-Tribal Trade

On April 22, 2016, Managing Partner Curtis Berkey presented an analysis of the Jay Treaty of 1794 at a conference on Inter-Tribal Trade at the University of Oklahoma Law School.  The conference was organized by lawyers and scholars in the United States and Canada to...

Kashia band of Pomo Indians reacquires a part of its ancestral lands

Berkey Williams LLP represented the Kashia Band of Pomo Indians in a complicated transaction to reacquire a critical part of the Tribe’s ancestral lands.  In early December 2015, the Kashia Band obtained fee title to nearly 700 acres of ancestral land on the coast of...