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Graton Rancheria
Graton Rancheria
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The Graton Rancheria was a 15.45-acre (62,500 m2) property in the coastal hills of northern California, about two miles (3 km) northwest of Sebastopol. Its current address is 10091 Occidental Road, Sebastopol, California . The site is about 1.5 miles (2.4 km) southwest of the hamlet of Graton, population 1,815 in 2000. The area is a few miles west of Santa Rosa, the largest of Sonoma County's nine cities and the County seat, population 147,595 in 2000.
The federal government established the Graton or Sebastopol rancheria in 1921, for the benefit of “Marshall and Sebastopol bands of homeless Indians”. But no one lived there in 1921, and by mid-1937, no Indians had occupied the land. Only a handful of people lived there between 1937-52, and just three men lived there in 1952. Two of them were Pomo, and the third was 1/4 Shasta, from Siskiyou County.
The three residents voted unanimously in 1959 to terminate government ownership of the rancheria, and to receive the land as their own private property. The government completed transfer of the property to them or their heirs in 1966.
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Graton Rancheria
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Federated Indians of Graton Rancheria
In 1992 the tribe was established as the Federated Coast Miwok; then upon restoration, renamed the Federated Indians of Graton Rancheria. The tribe consists of both and people.
