18 Treaties that the United States has broken.

We cannot pretend to forget that the First People of San Francisco the Muwekma Ohlone and hundreds of other tribes in California have not been given their due rights. 18 treaties signed between the U.S. government and the tribes were never ratified. It is time that Congress ratifiy the treaties because they were signed. It is time that Congress put the California Tribes on the Federal Register. We cannot have justice when a whole section of our population is hurting. Very soon Congress with admit that the Nation did wrong when it lynched many African Americans. Congress apologized when it did harm to the Japanese and imprisioned them. Congress did admit its guilt before on other important issues - but now is the time to give the First People of California and the tribes who really own this land - their Federal Rights and soverign rights to own and rule their own domain. We have many California Tribes that are hurting and as I said the time is ripe to give them their full rights and permit them to make progress.

Hetch Hetchy and the SFPUC

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The San Francisco Public Utilities Commission (SFPUC) has failed to have a meaningful dialog with the constituents of San Francisco and the extended Bayarea. While the Hetch Hetchy system has suffered for many years because of defered repairs and manintence - we now have a SFPUC Manager Susan Leal who is not an engineer and has surrounded herself with inept, ignorant, and arrogant staff. They are around her for the money not to address and improve the system. The current figure of over 4 billion dollars raised by various bond measures will be used to attend to Hetch Hetchy. While the repairs, replacement and upgrade of the Hetch Hetchy is warranted - the best way to address the issues at hand - is by having qualified engineers - not inept, ignorant, and very arrogant staff as we have seen around Susan Leal of the San Francisco Public Utilities Commission. The Hetch Hetchy system provides clean drinking water to ove 4.2 million people all over the Bayarea and that includes San Francisco.

Hetch Hetchy Capital Improvement Project

The waters that over 2.4 million Bayarea residents get from Hetch Hetchy was stolen from the First People the Miwoks when the Raker Act was passed in 1913. The filthy rich folk from San Francisco used undue influence in Congress to steal the land and water in the middle of a National Park called Yosemite - just so that the folks from San Francisco could get all the water and more from the Hetch Hetchy project. The First People always consider the pure, pristine, healing waters from the source very Sacred. Considering this a fact - I do mind people using Hetch Hetchy water to drink. I consider it an affront when it is used by the uncaring folks to flush their toilets. It is time we do not use good Hetch Hetchy water to water our lawns. It is time we do not use clean Hetch Hetchy water to wash our cars. And of course not to flush our toilets. There is much talk about sustainable practices - but those with forked tongues have always spoken about one thing and meant another. Time to restore Hetch Hetchy to its old glory. Time to tear down the barriers and the concrete walls that do not belong in the Sacred Hetch Hetchy Valley.

Hetch Hetch Waters and the Miwoks

The San Francisco Public Utilities Commission is looking to revamp the Hetch Hetchy system that provides clean drinking water to millions of people to many Bayarea counties including San Francisco. There are others that want to drain Hetch Hetchy and restore it to it former glory just like John Muir wanted it. The Miwoks respect the Hetch Hetchy Valley and consider the waters from the source pure and holy. The valley should be restored to its former glory. The water that is diverted should fill the rivers so that the fish may swim freely and the riparian bluffs show off their former glory. The First People of the area including the Miwoks should be given back their rights and the former stolen land restored to its former glory.

Jay Johnson - contemporary Miwok Chief

Jay Johnson - contemporary Miwok Chief

Jay Johnson - contemporary Miwok Chief

Jay Johnson - contemporary Miwok Chief

The National Park Service

In recent time the National Park Service that purports to Preserve and Protect have done all in their power to drive away the Miwoks from the Yosemite National Park. A few years ago the NPS promised to build homes for the Miwoks - but they first fooled the Miwoks who lived in the valley to move to a location far remote. When the Miwoks moved the NPS as all Whites do turned their backs and never ever kept the promise made to the Miwoks. Do you think this is right?

1833

Whites first laid their eyes on the Yosemite Valley in the fall of 1833. Captain Joseph Walker and a party of trappers searching for a route across the Sierra Nevada chanced to look down upon the Yosemite Valey from the south. A few years later Chief Tenaya and his tribe encountered the Whites and the worst nighmare of their lives. The Whites stole Yosemite Valley and to this day those few who have links to the Yosemite Valley through thousands of years mourn the day the Sacred Valley was defiled by the Whites. In subsequent years thousands of Miwoks were killed for no reason. Do you think this is right?

The Miwoks rules Yosemite Valley for 10,000 years plus