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TRIBAL NATIONS Tribal governments in San Diego County and The current government-to-government The U.S. Constitution and treaties SANDAG are working together to develop relationship is a federal/tribal relationship. For recognize Native American Tribes as separate and independent political and implement innovative government-to- the most part, government-to-government communities within the territorial government strategies to address transportation relations between tribes and regional planning boundaries of the United States. and other regional planning issues. agencies, local governments, and counties is
voluntary. SANDAG is committed to engaging FEDERALLY-RECOGNIZED There are 17 federally-recognized tribal nations TRIBAL NATIONS IN SAN DIEGO tribal governments in the regional transportation with jurisdiction over 18 reservations within Barona Band of Mission Indians planning process. Campo Band of Mission Indians San Diego County – the most in any county in (Continued on reverse) Ewiiaapaayp Band of the United States. The 17 sovereign domestic Kumeyaay Indians nations in San Diego are from four cultural/ Iipay Nation of Santa Ysabel ethnic groups: the Kumeyaay/Diegueño, Inaja-Cosmit Band of Mission Indians the Luiseño, the Cupeño, and the Cahuilla. Jamul Indian Village of California Native American reservations currently make La Jolla Band of Luiseño Indians up approximately four percent of the region’s La Posta Band of the Kumeyaay Nation land base. All of the reservations are located Los Coyotes Band of within the unincorporated eastern portion of Cahuilla/Cupeño Indians the county. Manzanita Band of the Kumeyaay Indians SCTCA Chairman Robert Smith and former Mesa Grande Band of SANDAG Chair Mary Sessom signing the 2007 MOU. Mission Indians Pala Band of Mission Indians Pauma Band of Luiseño Indians Pechanga Santa Rosa Or e Co Reservation Reservation Rincon Band of Luiseño Indians Cahuilla Torres-Martinez Reservation Reservation R ers de Co
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SANDAGregion local jurisdictions and tribal governments. This government-to-government dialogue, establishes priority actions for the Borders Committee to pursue in partnership with the SCTCA.
The Interagency Technical Working Group on Tribal Transportation Issues This working group serves as a forum for all of the region’s tribal governments to discuss and coordinate transportation issues with various regional public planning agencies, Interagency Technical Working Group on Tribal Transportation Issues meeting at the Jamul Tribal Hall. including SANDAG, Caltrans, the County of San Diego, the Metropolitan Transit SOUTHERN CALIFORNIA TRIBAL On January 26, 2007, the Southern California CHAIRMEN’S ASSOCIATION (SCTCA) System, and the North County Transit District. Tribal Chairmen’s Association (SCTCA) The SCTCA is a multi-service, non-profit This working group, in collaboration with corporation established in 1972 by a and SANDAG signed a Memorandum of the Southern California Tribal Chairmen’s consortium of 17 federally-recognized Understanding incorporating the SCTCA as Indian tribes in Southern California. Association, reviews current activities and an advisory member on the SANDAG Board Its mission is to protect, establish, and plans being implemented by SANDAG exercise the inherited and preserved of Directors and Policy Advisory Committees and the tribal governments in an effort sovereign rights of tribal governments. (Transportation, Regional Planning, Public As an intertribal council, the SCTCA to coordinate programs, address issues of Safety, and Borders). Tribal leaders are now serves as a forum for a wide variety of concern, and ensure that the needs and issues issues for tribal governments in part of the regional decision-making process of tribal governments are incorporated into the region. at a policy level, offering a tribal perspective the transportation planning process at the to complex regional issues. regional level. Borders Committee Activities Underway The SANDAG Borders Committee advises »» Collaborating on the development of the Board of Directors on policy issues San Diego Forward: The 2021 Regional related to transboundary planning from three Plan. perspectives: interregional, binational, and »» Implementing the Intraregional Tribal tribal. Through periodic Tribal Summits, the Transportation Strategy through the Committee facilitates consultation between Interagency Technical Working Group on Tribal Transportation Issues. »» Facilitating interagency exchange of information, training, and data collection for improved transportation planning and grant writing. »» Informational presentation series to Policy Advisory Committees on other tribal initiatives in planning.
2018 San Diego Regional Tribal Summit
September 2019
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