Talk:Federated Indians of Graton Rancheria

message: Tribal chairman Greg Sarris is a complex man.  He is a middle-aged, successful college professor and author, who associated with local Indians as a boy in suburban Sonoma County, California, and built a professional career on writing about them.  He was adopted as an infant by a Santa Rosa white couple, and has written that he discovered as an adult that his paternal grandmother was a local Indian.
Sarris organized the Federated Coast Miwok in 1992, after a Pomo Indian announced plans to build an Indian casino in Sonoma or Marin County; but the Miwok never had a relationship with the U.S. government.  However, the government had owned the Graton Rancheria between 1921 and 1966, and made it available to homeless Indians in the area.  The Federated Coast Miwok was renamed the Federated Indians of Graton Rancheria, and began to lobby Washington for recognition.
A 2000 act of Congress made the FIGR a sovereign Indian nation; and under Sarris' leadership, the FIGR is in partnership with Station Casinos, Inc. of Las Vegas, Nevada, to build a resort hotel/casino complex in Rohnert Park, California, about 50 miles north of San Francisco.  It is therefore difficult for a knowledgeable, unbiased, and sincere observer to edit the FIGR page without at least suggesting that Sarris organized the FIGR, and lobbied for its federal recognition as a sovereign Indian "tribe", primarily to build an Indian casino.
Some members of the FIGR may be descendants of members of Marin and Sonoma County Indian bands, and/or of the handful of known residents of the Graton Rancheria (1921--66); but that does not make the FIGR the heir of, or the natural successor to the Coast Miwok, Bodega Miwok, Southern Pomo, or any other known aboriginal or historical Indian group.  Whatever status the new tribe has as a sovereign Indian nation--especially, any right to receive land in trust from the federal government, and to operate an Indian casino under California state law--was created by the Omnibus Indian Advancement Act (P.L. 106-568) passed by Congress in 2000, and signed by President Clinton.
If other editors disagree with the facts cited here, I hope they will make their case on this discussion page, before making any significant changes to the FIGR page itself.  Mukrkrgsj 00:01, 2 March 2007 (UTC)
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message: This sentence seems odd "As early as 1830, a Filipino married a Coast Miwok wife";  please name those people and cite a source.   The whole article would like nicer with some images.Goldenrowley (talk) 08:23, 13 July 2020 (UTC)
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