of $2,500 plus accured interest at 1 percent from July 1, to the date of this resolution, from the funds of the Owens Valley Paiute Shoshone Bands revolving credit account in the Sacramento area office. The above resolution was passed at a meeting of the board of trustees held at Bishop, Calif., on February 28, 1952. Request approved and funds transferred by Sacramento area office. (2) Resolution dated November 20, 1952, requesting the improvement of our reservation roads and bridges and to the granting of a right-of-way covering these routes to the county of Inyo. This resolution was duly passed and adopted by the Owens Valley Board of Trustees on November 20, 1952. Request approved and further action pending with county and bureau of public roads. (3) Resolution dated February 20, 1953. Whereas the Owens Valley Paiute Shoshone Bands still owe the United States the sum of $2,500 on its revolving credit loan as evidenced by contract 1-10-Ind-3847 and the Owens Valley Paiute Shoshone Bands now have the sum of $676.93 in their revolving credit account, and the Owens Valley Paiute Shoshone Bands are making no more loans to individuals from this fund, by request of the Sacramento area office, therefore be it resolved to request the area director, and he is so requested to apply the sum of $676.93 on the principal of this contract and accrued interest on $2,500 from July 1, 1952, to the date of the transaction at the rate of 3 percent, from the revolving credit funds account of the Owens Valley Paiute Shoshone Bands, account No. 0-68 in advance of the date payment is actually due. The above resolution was passed at a meeting of the Board of Trustees of the Owens Valley Paiute Shoshone Bands on February 20, 1953. Request approved and funds transferred by Sacramento area office. (4) Resolution dated April 3, 1953, request of payment for the purchase of a public address system for use in the community hall. Payment for same was made through the Sacramento area office. It was made from the repayment house maintenance fund I.I, account No. 0-64, rather than from the allotted tribal fund. Therefore, be it resolved to request the area director and he is so requested to obtain an advance of tribal funds in the amount of $378.75 to repay the house maintenance fund. The above resolution was passed at a meeting of the Board of Trustees of the Owens Valley Paiute Shoshone Bands on April 3, 1953. Request approved and transfer made by Sacramento area office. (5) Seventy separate individual Indian money purchase orders were received for the payment of miscellaneous services for the Owens Valley Paiute Shoshone Bands in amounts varying from $3.57 to $155.28. These were received between July 6, 1951, to the present time. These payments were all approved and individual checks were issued. 12. The following list of resolutions submitted since June 30, 1951, required approval by the Commissioner of Indian Affairs: (1) Resolution dated April 3, 1953, a request that the area director of the Sacramento area office be authorized to deliver to the board of trustees all funds now carried in the account of the special disbursing agent to the credit of the tribe and the area director is hereby requested to obtain all tribal funds now carried in the U.S. Treasury and estimated at $3,200 and turn over such funds to the board of trustees to be used for the following purposes: (a) Salary for our part-time tribal clerk. (b) Cover authorized travel expenses of the trustees or their representatives. (c) Miscellaneous needs. The above resolution was passed at a meeting of the Board of Trustees of the Owens Valley Paiute Shoshone Bands on April 3, 1953. Request approved and matter forwarded to Commissioner of Indian Affairs for approval. (2) Resolution dated February 20, 1953. Whereas Walter and Emily Bernard have never made payments on their revolving credit loan CF No. OV-18 as they were originally scheduled and later extended. The full amount of the balance of the loan amounts to $1,984.68 and accrued interest on that sum since June 11, 1951, immediately due and payable according to paragraph 14(a) of the loan agreement. Be it further resolved to assign this loan agreement to the United States so that it may be referred to the Department of Justice for collection according to applicable laws and regulations. This resolution was passed at a regular meeting of the Board of Trustees of the Owens Valley Paiute Shoshone Bands on February 20, 1953. Request approved by area director and matter referred to Commissioner of Indian Bureau for further action. 1. Organization IX. AGUA CALIENTE RESERVATION (a) Agua Caliente Band of Mission Indians, Riverside County, Calif. (referred to in your questionnaire as Palm Springs Tribal Organization). This band bas no written constitution or bylaws. It operates through a tribal council consisting of five members. (b) There are no known political factions as such in the band. There are no organized interests that seem to control the actions of those who have been elected to manage the interests of the tribe. There is one individual who is married to a member of the council, and who is influential in all matters concerning the band. This individual is not a member of the band and his opinions and influence are those of a healthy minority. (c) There is neither noticeable conservative nor advanced social groups among these Indians. With the exception of gatherings for funerals, which are limited to family groups, they no longer observe their ceremories or gather in social groups of any type. (d) Since 82 sections of the reservation are located within the city limits of the city of Palm Springs, cooperation is maintained with the local city government in such matters as zoning, planning, flood control, and the enforcement of law and order. On October 5, 1949, Congress passed an act to confer on the State of California jurisdiction over the lands and residents of the Agua Caliente Reservation (Public Law 322, 81st Cong., 1st sess.) effective January 1, 1950. Under this act the Indians are subject to the civil and criminal laws of California, but the act prohibits (unless specifically authorized by the Congress) the alienation, encumbrance, or taxation of the lands of the reservation, whether tribally or individually owned, so long as the title to such lands is held in trust by the United States. Cooperation with county and State governments is maintained on a civil and criminal matters for those areas of the reservation which are not within the city limits of the city of Palm Springs. The tribal organization maintains unemployment insurance, paid for through the State, for any employee which they may hire from time to time. Records for this insurance are maintained by the Sacramento area office. (e) Evidences of trend toward greater assumption of responsibility is limited to a very few of the individual members. The majority of the members either lean heavily on the Department for their welfare and government or are rather indifferent. About 5 percent of the total adult membership are progressive in their thinking and willing to take the initiative in matters regarding their government and individual welfare. By and large, the majority are not concerned one way or the other so long as their immediate needs for food and shelter are conservatively met. 2. Officers (a) Council members have tended to succeed themselves for the past few years. This is in a large measure due to the small number of eligible adult members. Approximately only one-half (or 14) of the adult members are willing to participate in tribal matters. (b) Generally there are no close ties in blood or marriage between councilmen and tribal employees. One exception, however, is that the foreman of the tribal work force is an ex-husband of the chairwoman of the present council. (c) With but few exceptions, tribal resources are not leased or assigned to tribal members or their close relatives. (d) Character requirements have never been required for membership in the tribal council. 3. Membership and voting (a) The average percentage of the Indians of this band of voting age who have participated in tribal elections in the last 2 years represents 82 percent. (b) There are 28 Indians of voting age in this band at present, and of this number there are 5 registered voters. (c) Since 1934 the band has made one adoption and one removal; there have been 10 deaths and 50 births. (d) The total membership-men, women, and children of the band is 85 st the present time. Of this figure, 25 have not resided on the reservation or its immediate vicinity in the last 6 months. (e) All of the adult members of the band have fixed family names with fixed post office addresses. (f) The tribal roll is current; it was taken from the per capita payroll, as of June 1953. (g) A copy of the 1934 roll and a copy of the current roll is attached. 4. Income and accounts (a) The tribe has not taxed its members in the last year. (b) Income for the tribe is derived from the following sources: Leasing of the tribal mineral springs bathhouse and the tribal trailer park to non-Indians; operation of a tollgate at the entrance of Andreas and Palm Canyons, which are scenic spots and picnic areas for tourists and the general public during 8 months of the year; the leasing of tribal land to individuals. (c) Few, if any, of the members work for wages but rather rely on their share of the tribal income, together with the land rentals that they collect on their own allotments. (d) The tribal economic position has improved considerably since 1934 primarily because of the growth and development of the resort city of Palm Springs, which has created a demand for land space and increased the income from land rentals to the individual allottees. A majority of members have rented their allotments for business and residential sites. (e) The tribal organization has had an accounting of its finances at each of its monthly tribal council meetings. These funds are held in a tribal account in the Sacramento area office. (f) Each member of the band, man, woman, and child, has been allotted 47 acres of land. The 47-acre allotment is comprised of a 2-acre townsite lot, a 5-acre site of irrigated land, and a 40-acre tract of desert grazing and in addition to the 47 acres of allotted land to each individual member, the band holds as assets some 24,000 acres of desert and mountain land, including several scenic canyons and a mineral spring over which has been erected a bathhouse. These assets have a grand total value estimated at $10 million, or a per capita value of $117,637. 5. Enterprise and organizations (a) The tribe currently operates a tollgate at the entrance of Palm and Andreas Canyons which are visited by tourists and the general public for 8 months of the year. The tribe employs a tollgate keeper, a fire patrol guard, and a crew of four men to maintain the trails and the roads, picnic facilities, and the policing of the general area. The fee charged for entrance to the canyons has varied from year to year but currently the charge is 50 cents per adult and 25 cents per child. The mineral spring bathhouse is leased to private interests for an annual consideration of $18,000. The Palm Springs Trailer Village is leased to private interests for an annual consideration of $27,000. (b) There are no other organizations among the members of the tribe. 6. Land use (a) There is no tribal land under assignment to the heads of member families and only a few isolated instances of the leasing of tribal land to individual members. (b) There have been no assignments or exchanges in this tribe since 1934. (c) The only transfer in this tribe from allotment to tribal status is that of a 40-acre allotment exchange which has not yet been consummated. None of the lands in this tribe are classified as submarginal. (d) There are no known deficiencies in regard to land records. (e) A map is attached showing the details of land status on the reservation as to allotted, tribal and patented. 7. Law and order (a) Tribal resolutions have developed on a local level only, and are in no way affected by State law. (b) The domestic relations of the tribesmen are handled by themselves or with the assistance of the District Agent upon their solicitation. (c) Child delinquencies are dealt with on the local level and if these are not effective, such matters are turned over to the State or county agencies, since the State of California now has jurisdiction of all criminal and civil matters within the reservation. (d) The reservation is now under the jurisdiction of the State of California and all crime is handled by the State and its subdivisions. (e) The most prominent religious affiliation of the members of the tribe is Catholic. (f) There is no tribal code of law and order for this tribe since it is under the jurisdiction of the State of California. 8. Reports and documents (a) Complete up-to-date assemblages of tribal documents may be found at the Sacramento area office in Sacramento, Calif. These documents include minutes of council meetings, financial reports, resolutions, tribal rolls, allotment records. land-use records, land appraisals and sale records, as well as probate and inheritance records. (b) Full written records of the proceedings of the council are kept at the agen-y office. Copies of such minutes are sent to each adult member of the tribe as well as to the Sacramento area office. (c) There are no known deficiencies in regard to the tribal records. (d) Copies of all birth and death certificates are in the agency office in Palm Springs. Records of marriages or diseases are not being maintained. Some Indian custom marriages still occur among members of this tribe. 11. The following is a list of the council resolutions passed since June 30, 1951. which have required review by the area director: Subject Sale of Shannon Page house to Mose Clinton for $200. Appointment of fireguard at $2,400 per annum and purchase fire equipment Distribution of fund for widening of Indian Avenue from city of Palm Spring in per capita payments to all tribal members. Approval of 10-year lease to Texas Co. for oil and gas drilling. J. B. Ring authorized to sign the Texas Oil Co. 10-year lease for the tribe. New Fiesta House by architect and contractor at estimated cost, $20,000. 1953 budget in amount of $79,540 plus per capita payments, $24,000. Appointment of Warren Linville as manager and coach of Palm Springs Inde R/W to Southern California Gas Co. and Southern Counties Gas Co. of Cali fornia to install 30-inch gas main across secs. 2, 4, 12. Increase in price for erection of new Fiesta House from $20,000 to $30,000 an* Hatchitt's Market-$50 approved for groceries for George Norte funer Request for $800-removal of trees due to wind damage. Request for $150-burial expense for Nicholasa Sol and instructions, re inente from lots 55 and 56 in sec. 14. Tribal meeting in March for nominations of committee members. Naming new streets for Indians. Nicholasa Sol property, be reserved from allotment until expenses for funeral Oiling and grading of roads-Andreas. Arenas, Amado, and El Segundo. Directs fireguard to check all houses and businesses and ask to see permit r Appropriation of $361.56 from tribal funds for funeral expenses of Genevieve Cancels Resolution 89 and 97-request for $31,000 for construction of Fiesta Authorizes funds of $800 in Resolution 99 be paid from Taylor Trailer Park Signs for Palm Canyon, etc., authorizing payment of bill, $413.92. Flood control granted to the Riverside County Flood Control and Water Cservation District, no cost to Indians. Payment of architect's bill, $1,678.20. Budget for administration, maintenance operation, $55,167; per capita payu $48,000; total, $103,167. Certify election, Mar. 25, 1952. Request for $5,000 to pay for survey of sec. 14 and others. Beautify and maintain tribal cemetery. H.R. 4961, bill to make Palm Canyon National Monument, opposed. Apr. 1, 1952 Official designation of cemetery is "The Jane Augustine Patencio Memorial do. 121 122 130 131 132 133 do. Apr. 19, 1952 Cemetery." Indian representative to attend city council and planning meetings. Return of baseball equipment to tribe. Authorizes agent to purchase 2 steno chairs and to replace or repair coolers. Agent instructed to prepare and send out minutes of each council meeting. Tribe will not pay water bills after May 30 or for tenants in Patencio Camp. Appropriate $3,000 for oiling of roads. Appropriate $75 for fence in Palm Canyon. Reimburse tribal council members $10 for attendance at tribal council meetings; Appropriate $150 to pay water bill and FHA improvement loan for Nicholasa No fires allowed in Palm, Andreas, or Murray Cxnyon. No fishing allowed in Andreas or Murray Canyon except by Indians. Large palm trees removed from Indian Ave, to be transplanted on the bathhouse grounds, smaller ones in cemetery. Pipes for marking allotment lines, request $600 from trial funds. Lease of Ind an lands for oil and gas exploration in secs. 2, 4, 6, 8, 10, 12, 14, 20, 22, 24, 32, and 34, T. 4 S., R. 5 E., SBBM. Closing of bathhouse and canyon, June 1 to Oct. 1, 1952. Agent to inform public. When electric service is available in sec. 35, agency should apply for service to tollgate. Protest to Congress re Res. 311, H. Res. 440. Allocation of $323.96 from tribal funds for purchase of extra road oil. Construction plans for property facing Indian Ave, should be OK'd by council. Admission price to canyons to be raised to 50 cents for adults and 25 cents for Application for Southern California Gas Co. right-of-way be approved. Bathhouse not to be opened until roadwork done or near enough for use. State of California Highway Department rights-of-way approved. The tribal cemetery to be restricted to sole use of Agua Caliente tribal members Guy A. Birney to have permission to explore for rubies in Palm Canyon. Bathhouse to be leased on a 1-term basis. Annual report to be prepared by agent and printed at tribal expense. Parking lot to be built on lots 3, 4, 13, and 14, sec. 14 (no more permits). Council in favor of extending trust patent to allow full 25-year tax-free period. Council requesting Department to advertise for bids to dig for precious stone in Council opposed to proposed sale of secs. 2, 4, 10, 12, 14, 22, 24, 26, 34 T. 4 S., Favoring legislation to allow a long lease for the bathhouse. Favoring legislation to allow a long-term lease for public school site. No more overnight fire permits in canyons. Propositions on ballot-Sale of sec. 18 to allow per capita payments and dividends from Tahquitz R/W. Request city to issue no building or business permits until after tribal council has reviewed plans. Granting of road rights-of-way-city will maintain roads-submit to Congress same time as bathhouse and school lease. Request for road right-of-way in sec. 35 along half section line-Edward Furer. 12. There were no tribal resolutions passed by this band since June 30, 1951, requiring approval by the Secretary of the Interior. 1. Organizations X. PINOLEVILLE IMPROVEMENT ASSOCIATION (a) Pinoleville Improvement Association of the Pinoleville Rancheria, Mendocino County, Calif. (referred to in your questionnaire as the Pinoleville tribal organization). This association has a written constitution prepared under the provisions of the IRA. Business is conducted through an executive committee consisting of seven committeemen. (b) There are no political factions in this rancheria. |