Vallejo’s spokeswoman Joanna Altman said the city agrees with Tahsuda’s decision. “In our view, we met the significant historical connection,” Bergin said. military about the Band living in the area which would become the city of Vallejo. Tahsuda concluded the tribe did meet numerous tests required under the Indian Gaming Regulatory Act, including being a restored tribe, and showing modern and temporal connections to the parcel.īergin said by phone that the Band’s 2016 application to the Department of the Interior included expert reports about the Band’s ancestor working and living in the area, census records, and a letter from a land owner during the 19th century complaining to the U.S. The Scotts Valley Band is “really upset about the decision,” tribal Chairman Shawn Davis told the Times-Herald on Tuesday.

“As such, the distance between the Vallejo parcel and the Band’s historic Rancheria, standing alone, does not evince a significant historical connection.” “The parcel is located approximately 90 driving miles (75 straight-line miles) southeast of the former Scotts Valley Rancheria, near the present-day city of Lakeport,” Tahsuda wrote.

Tahsuda ruled the Band couldn’t prove occupancy or subsistence use in the vicinity of the parcel, nor is the parcel located within the boundaries of the Band’s last reservation under a ratified or un-ratified treaty. Headquartered in Clear Lake, the Band had applied for a federal lands designation for the property, which would have allowed them to pursue gaming operations. John Tahsuda, principal deputy assistant secretary for Indian Affairs, issued a 19-page decision in February concluding the Scotts Valley Band of Pomo Indians failed to show a “significant historical connection” to the parcel of land along Interstate-80 and Columbus Parkway. A Native American tribe’s plan to build a Las Vegas-style casino on 128 acres in North Vallejo was rejected earlier this year by the United States Department of the Interior but tribal leaders say they aren’t giving up on the project.

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