Tribal leaders called on the Department of Interior to reject the Scotts Valley Casino proposal, which they said is environmentally harmful and undermines their sovereignty, during a news conference Thursday in West Sacramento.
The Yocha Dehe Wintun Nation and the Kletsel Dehe Wintun Nation are both Patwin tribes, whose ancestral homelands span from Yolo to Solano counties. Both tribes said the project could not only harm their ancestral land but threaten their tribal sovereignty.
“For generations, the Patwin people have grown sadly used to secretive federal decision-making that undermines our way of life,” said Anthony Roberts, the Yocha Dehe Wintun chairman.
