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Picayune Rancheria (Indian reservation (Native American reservation)) |
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| Lat: 37 12 41 N degrees minutes |
Lat: 37.2110 decimal degrees |
| Long: 119 42 03 W degrees minutes |
Long: -119.7000 decimal degrees |
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Note: This is a federally-recognized reservation stewarded by the Chukchansi Indians. The reservation spans approximately 160 acres in present-day Coarsegold, Madera County, California. The Chukchansi people are considered to be the original inhabitants of present-day California, having occupied ancestral territories on the fringes of the San Joaquin Valley and in the foothills of the Sierra Nevada for over 12,000 years. However, increasing settler encroachment by Spanish missionaries and, later, gold miners flocking to the area during the California Gold Rush contributed to the near total displacement of the Chukchansi people by 1900. The Chukchansi Indians did not receieve federal reservation lands until 1912, when land was set aside for the establishment of the Picayne Rancheria. In 1914, the Rancheria was further enlarged to an approxmately 2,000-acre land area. Though the Rancheria was temporarily terminated in 1953 pursuant to the federal Indian Termination Policy, its federal recognition was reinstated in 1983 in accordance with the Tillie Hard case. Since 1983, the Chukchansi people have expanded their land base by purchasing additional lands within their ancestral territories. |
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Madera (county) (P) |
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| Indian reservation (Native American reservation) (preferred, C) |
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| inhabited place (C) |
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