Nation

Winnemem Wintu Tribe

Not yet reviewed by this nation. What follows comes from public records and research. It does not speak for the nation.

Recognition, as each source states it

Recognition is a legal and political status that governments assign; it is not a measure of who a people are.

Not on the federal list, California (McCloud River / Shasta County)Wintu signatories to the unratified 1851 Cottonwood Treaty (Reading's Ranch) per tribal timeline; plaintiff in Winnemem Wintu Tribe v. U.S. Department of the Interior, 725 F. Supp. 2d 1119 (E.D. Cal. 2010).source

Native American Rights Fund (NARF) Native-led Litigation and legal advocacy for tribal sovereignty, treaty rights, land and resources Give on their site Website
NDN Collective (LANDBACK Campaign) Native-led LANDBACK campaign (launched 2020; Mount Rushmore closure and return of Black Hills public lands), Indigenous… Give on their site Website
Indian Land Tenure Foundation (ILTF) Native-led Land recovery and control by tribes and individual Indian landowners Website
Decolonizing Wealth Project (Indigenous Earth Fund; California Tribal Land Return) Native-led Reparative philanthropy Give on their site Website

Gifts go straight to each organization; this atlas takes nothing. Listing is not endorsement: how organizations are listed.

courtlistener.com/legal text copy
Winnemem Wintu Tribe v. United States Department of the Interior (E.D. Cal. 2010) Date Filed: July 16th, 2010
sacredland.org/wp-content/uploads/2017/07/Wintu_Timeline.pdfunclassified
1851 Cottonwood Treaty calling for a 35-square-mile reservation for the Wintu, signed August 16 at Reading’s ranch on Cottonwood Creek.