Besides working for the Vallejos as a vaquero, in the 1870s he was a ranch hand for Cayetano Juarez in Napa. Jackson’s order goes to a BIA now overseen by Interior Secretary Deb Haaland, named in 2021 by President Biden as the first Native American to serve as a cabinet secretary.Īugustine, whose Pomo name was Shuk, was born in the early 1830s near Clear Lake and as a child was brought to Mission San Francisco Solano in Sonoma. Judge Jackson termed the 2019 ruling, issued by John Tahsuda, a deputy assistant BIA secretary, “arbitrary and capricious.” Tahsuda was an appointee of Ryan Zinke, a controversial Interior Department secretary under ex-President Trump. Also at or near the interchange are a major shopping center and the Six Flags Discovery Kingdom theme park. It’s on the northeast side of the busy Interstate 80-State Route 37. 30 decision rejected a key part of the BIA’s 2019 ruling against a petition for the project on 128 acres located on the flank of Hunters Hill overlooking Vallejo. District Judge Amy Berman Jackson, in her 61-page ruling directing reconsideration of the proposed Vallejo casino and housing project, held that the federal Bureau of Indian Affairs “failed to grapple with the inescapable historical fact that Scotts Valley was a tribe that had its recognition and land stripped away by the federal government and its people scattered to the winds.” In his award-winning 2016 book An American Genocide: The United States and the California Indian Catastrophe, author Benjamin Madley said the Bloody Island Massacre “may rank among the most lethal of all Native American massacres in the history of the United States and its colonial antecedents.” Several hundred men, women and children died in the 1850 Clear Lake attack. Mariano Vallejo and his brother Salvador, herding cattle on land that included the future site of the city of Vallejo. The Scotts Valley Band of Pomo Indians case focuses in part on a little-known Pomo chief named Augustine, who survived the Bloody Island Massacre and also was head vaquero for Gen. Citing “inescapable” historic facts, a federal judge in Washington, D.C., has revived plans for a proposed $700 million Indian casino in Vallejo sought by a Pomo tribe whose Northern California ancestors were slaughtered at Clear Lake by U.S.

Vallejo casino update