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Feb 26, 2016  Proposition 48, a referendum on so-called “off-reservation gaming” that voters rejected in 2014, likely will not create much more than a few years of delays for the North Fork Mono Rancheria.

Tribal Organization: North Fork Rancheria Band of Mono Indians

Madera, CA

The North Fork Rancheria of Mono Indians plan to build a casino, a 200-room resort hotel, restaurants, an entertainment lounge, retail space and banquet/meeting rooms near Madera, California.

The tribe began their pursuit of this project in 2003 when they signed a development and management agreement with Station Casinos, who will oversee construction and manage the casino operations.

The proposed site is a 305-acre parcel on Avenue 17 just west of the intersection with State Route 99. It is on unincorporated area between Madera and Chowchilla and within the Tribe's ancestral lands.

Construction of the North Fork Rancheria Resort Hotel & Casino Project has not began pending final resolutions to legal issues. A gaming compact between the tribe and the state was signed by Gov. Jerry Brown on Aug. 31, 2012 and approved by the state assembly May 2, 2013. The state senate approved it June 27,2013 and Gov. Brown signed their legislation a week later. A lawsuit was decided March 14, 2014 by a Madera County judge who ruled state process authorizing the casino was constitutional.

In November 2014 a ballot referendum on off-reservation gaming (Proposition 48) was rejected by voters. This effectively stopped construction of this project. A legal challenge was started to determine if the referendum could nullify the tribe's gaming compact with the state.

In November 2015, a U.S. District Court judge ordered Gov. Jerry Brown and the North fork Rancheria to return to gaming negotiations. When that failed a mediator was assigned who decided in favor of the tribe. The state was given till April 11th to agree to the compact, otherwise the tribe could take the compact to the U.S. Interior Department for approval.

In July 2016 the Interior Department gave federal approval to the gaming compact.

Several lawsuits to stop construction are still pending. In the meantime the tribe has no construction timeline. However, it is considering several construction phases during the legal processing. They may begin with ground preparations and a smaller casino until the legal status allows for full-scale construction.

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Federal court ruling allows casino on North Fork Rancheria

July 23, 2018

The U.S. District Court has ruled in favor of a proposed gaming facility that would be tribal owned in Madera County.

The North Fork Rancheria of Mono Indians have been trying to operate gaming on 300 acres of their land. Previously it was approved by the Department of the Interior. Shortly after the approval, a lawsuit was set against the Department and the tribe. Against the casino facility is The Deuce Lounge and the Club One Casino.

The opposing side to the tribe argued that it was not clear who had the right to give permission for the tribe to operate their casino on that land. Part of their case involved the Administrative Procedures Act. They believed that the Department of the Interior was not within their authority to approve the land use.

They also argued that the location of the North Fork tribe's casino would hurt their businesses. Deuce Lounge is located in Goshen. Fresno is the location for Club One.

The North Fork casino would also be classified as a Class II gaming facility. They would also be allowed to offer blackjack, poker, and baccarat. Games where players bet against each other and not the house. Games like slot machines would not be allowed.

Lawsuits to prevent the North Fork from moving forward with casino plans started nearly 13 years ago. This was when an application was submitted to have land placed into trust for the tribe. At that time the tribe knew they had interested in developing a Class III casino. A gaming compact was agreed upon between the governor and the tribe in 2012. Then it became part of Assembly Bill 277. It was signed the following year by the governor. In 2014 the gaming compact was set to go into effect. However, it was sent to the voters to decide and it failed.

The request to begin negations again happened early in 2015. However, the request was denied since a large number of voters rejected the compact.

Another lawsuit was filed. This time by the tribe seeking the state to come to an agreement. After 60 days had passed, and no new agreement could be reached mediation had to take place. In mediation the offer from the North Fork tribe was accepted.

In the court order, the tribe was voted in favor that they could operate a Class III casino without a compact with the state. This occurred in 2016. The order was issued by the secretary of the Interior under Secretarial Procedures.

The next lawsuit was then to determine if the Department of the Interior acted within their rights by granting the permission. Opposition argued that the this was not investigated.

Ultimately the courts sided with the tribe and closed the case to any further lawsuits.

North Fork Rancheria's casino plan wins another step forward

April 13, 2018

A recent ruling by the federal appellate court has moved plans forward for the proposed casino for the North Fork Rancheria of Mono Indians. The casino would be developed four miles north of Madera and off of Highway 99.

On April 10 the Circuit Court panel in Washington, D.C. decided that a ruling made by a lower court should be upheld. In that lawsuit the Interior Department was challenged over a decision to approve land be taken into trust for the tribe. The court sided with the tribe ruling that the department acted within the proper authority.

Stand Up For California was the group of organizations and residents that opposed the casino project. A petition was circulated to stop it from being developed. The issue for the lawsuit by the group was due to the land being taken into trust illegally. One reason was that the proposed casino site property was not considered tribal land. North Fork is located nearly 35 miles from the proposed site.

However, it was decided by the federal appellate court that the land was lawfully taken into trust by the Interior Department. The North Fork tribe was within their right to move forward with their casino project. It was decided by the panel that the previous court ruling was consistent with the law.

When completed, the $250 million casino will operate 40 table games and 2,000 slot machines. In time, there will also be multiple restaurants and a hotel added.

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North Fork Mono Indians and the Madera City casino

March 12th 2008, over 800 people packed the Madera County fairgrounds in a open forum about the North Fork Mono Indians proposed $250 million Indian casino just outside the city limits of the city of Madera.

Their were overflowing opponents and supporters in attendance at Weds. nights meeting at Hatfield Hall. A local area newspaper wrote this about the proposed North Fork Mono $250 million dollar casino project:

“It would give Madera governments $118 million over 20 years to offset problems caused by the casino. It would jump-start the construction industry with almost 2,500 temporary construction jobs. It would add almost 1,500 full-time jobs when the casino and hotel open. Another 2,300 Madera-area jobs would be created because of the economic spinoff of the mega-casino.”

Now that is great for some people and the economy of the local Madera city area, but there is one large problem that most people living in the area are not aware of.

THAT AREA, AROUND THE CITY OF MADERA, WAS A YOKUT HOMELAND, AND NOT MONO.

So this deal is really an unfair proposal for the original Native Americans who lived around the Central Valley city of Madera. I have read a comment by someone who wrote that this is really a ‘claim jumping’ by a tribe that is putting a big huge, large casino right smack dab in another tribes homeland without giving the original Indians of Madera city an opportunity to do so first. This is unfair and not right for the original tribes of the area who were Yokut, not Monos, to be left out. Just because the North Fork Mono live in Madera County does not mean they are the Indians that were in the Central Valley Plains and even in the foothills of Madera County. The North Fork Mono were located in the farthest eastern corner of Madera County in the high Sierra Nevada. They are called “North Fork” Monos for a reason, because they are from the North Fork of the San Joaquin River in the Sierra Nevada. Here is the Yokut and Mono map from the Handbook of the Indians of California by Kroeber, with North Fork and the city of Madera circled;

You can see the dark gray line which is the border line between the Monos and the Yokut tribal groups. Madera is smack dab in the Yokut territory.

Even worse is the the fact that the Chukchansi Yokuts had a reservation IN the same spot the North Fork Monos want to put their big humongous casino. Yet the Chukchansi’s did not invade another tribal area and put a casino there, they stuck to an area that they were forced to live on to build their casino. So why do the North Fork Mono get to build a big large casino in their, the Chukchansi’s home territory?

You can see the Chukchansi Yokut had a reservation in the same spot the Monos want to build their casino.

You can find the Madera City Yokut reservation here under Google; Indian Land Cessions: List of States/Territories then hit California, which will take you to a page that has numbers and links, go to the bottom of this page and hit the line titled “Next Page” and then it will take you page 2. Then hit No. 26. You will see this;

Date:November 19, 1859
Tribe:Chow-chilla, Poho-neche, Chook-chancie, et al.

Description of cession or reservation:Superintendent McDuffie reports abandonment of Fresno River reservation.

Historical data and remarks:Special Agent J. Ross Browne reported, Nov. 4, 1859, that this reserve, so far as the agricultural portion of it was concerned, consisted of a farm which had been rented of private parties since 1854. It was originally established as a temporary Indian reserve and no official survey was, so far as known, made of its boundaries although by report of Superintendent Henley, Aug. 15, 1857 it was stated that he had selected it as the last of the five permanent reserves authorized by act of Mar. 3, 1853. Its location is laid down (but by what authority is not known) on a map of California in the Indian Office files bearing number 186. The location thus indicated is accepted for want of a more definite one.

View maps:California 2
Designation of cession(s) on map:423

Then hit the California 2 link on the page and it will take you to a page with a map of California. On the bottom of map there is a “Zoom In” hit that and hit the location of Madera and this is what you will see;

http://memory.loc.gov/cgi-bin/map_item.pl?style=law&data=/gmd370m/g3701m/g3701em/gct00002/ca000008.sid&title=California+2&itemLink=r?ammem/hlaw:@field(DOCID+@lit(llss/4015/822/314))

Here is the photo of that Chukchansi and Chowchilla Yokut Reservation;

So if you look under Indian Land Cessions you can find Indian Land number 423. The Yokut people’s Madera city reservation located around the same place the North Fork Monos want to put their casino, in another tribes ancestral homeland. Is that fair?

Here is another early California Indian map of the American Indians of the state.

Here is a map created of the Native tribes of California by California Indian ethnologist Alfred Louis Kroeber;

Hit thumbnail to view larger version.

Here is the Central California Area and the languages in the top right corner;

Viewing the map you can see that the North Fork Monos, classified as Western Monos, are up in the mountains, while the area around the city of Madera is Yokut. They don’t even speak the same language. In the top right corner of Kroeber’s map you can see that the Yokuts and Monos don’t speak the same language. They also have a different culture.

Here is an updated version of the map;

This map is used by the State of California’s Indian Commission. The North Fork Monos are the Monaches on this map, which is yellow. There is even a Foothill Yokut band that is in between the Monos and the Central Valley Yokut.

Here is the link to the map by Kroeber;

Here is a link to the Madera County Indian 1910 census;

The only Indian living around the city of Madera was a Yokut family, who has no family members in the North Fork Mono tribe.

Going down the 1910 Madera County Indian census you can see the Yokuts that were forced into the foothills, then you can see the North Fork Mono, living at, you guessed it, North Fork.

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This would mean that the Chukchansi-Chowchilla Yokut people have an ancestral and Native right to that area that the North Fork Mono now want to put a large casino at.

North Fork Mono representative Jacquie Van-Huss said that they have more members than both Table Mountain tribe and the Chukchansi Yokut Picayune band combined. That does not mean anything when that is still the Chukchansi – Chowchilla Yokut ancestral homeland. What does having more members mean? When the area in question is still not the North Fork Mono area, but the home of the Chukchansi. The Yokuts even had a reservation there.

Mono Chairwoman Fink said in a newspaper that”The site is in a rural area within the Tribe’s historic land.” The site is in the ancestral tribal area of the Yokut tribe not the North Fork Mono. Their ancestors are buried there and if not for the white expansion, which pushed the Yokuts up into the foothills of Madera County, many of the Yokuts would still be living there.

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The North Fork Monos should build a casino in their own tribal homeland and not “claim jump” another tribal homeland, but then if they built a casino high up in the Sierra Nevada they wouldn’t be able to make as much MONEY if they built it on Hwy 99.

But is it fair to the original Yokut Indians who called that area home? Casino Station and Madera County should be contacting the original Indians of that area, the Picayune Chukchansi Yokuts.

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Why doesn’t the North Fork Mono acquire land at North Fork? Oh, no big casino. So you take another tribes homeland for your casino? That is not right or fair.

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