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Gavin Newsom hands over 136 acres of spectacular California coastline to Indigenous tribes
UK Daily Mail ^ | 07/04/2026 | ALYSSA GUZMAN and KELLY GARINO

Posted on 07/05/2026 4:55:46 AM PDT by DFG

A Gavin Newsom-run commission has handed over a spectacular 136-acre California beach back to three Indigenous tribes.

Blues Beach and the Mendocino County bluffs will be handed over to a tribal nonprofit group, Kai Poma, which represents the Sherwood Valley Band of Pomo Indians, Round Valley Indian Tribes and Coyote Valley Band of Pomo Indians.

The historic June 26 move is the first time the California Department of Transportation has returned land back to the Indigenous people, The Los Angeles Times reported.

'This is beyond huge,' J Carlos Rivera, the Sherwood Valley tribal chairman, told The LA Times.

'It's enormous from our tribal perspective that we are basically obtaining the land that our people once lived on before colonization.'

The beach, located south of Westport, offers sweeping ocean views. California purchased the land in the 1960s while expanding Highway 1 to give motorists a scenic view of the shoreline and its rugged cliffs, according to a coastal commission report.

It comes after the California Coastal Commission, which is overseen by Newsom, announced plans to return land to Native American tribes in an effort centered on 'healing and restoration,' according to a press release.

Newsom unveiled more than $100 million in funding for 33 land projects aimed at supporting Native American tribes.

The historic June 26 move is the first time the California Department of Transportation has returned land back to the Indigenous people, The Los Angeles Times reported.

'These awards are an acknowledgment of past sins, a promise of accountability, and a commitment to a better future,' the Democratic governor said in a statement at the time.

Public access has remained largely unregulated in recent years, drawing large crowds to the beach on summer weekends and holidays for camping and parties

(Excerpt) Read more at dailymail.com ...


TOPICS: US: California
KEYWORDS: bluesbeach; california; demagogicparty; gavinnewsom; kaipoma; mendocinocounty; newsom; sociopath

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1 posted on 07/05/2026 4:55:46 AM PDT by DFG
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To: DFG

I hope the Indians build a hotel and gambling casino that only the tribal leaders will control and profit from.


2 posted on 07/05/2026 4:57:39 AM PDT by Ge0ffrey (No.)
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To: Ge0ffrey

I can see the genocide of whites from here.


3 posted on 07/05/2026 5:02:26 AM PDT by Jonty30 (Im so glad I bought bitcoin at $120,000. I wouldnt have have known how else to spend $58000)
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To: DFG

How long before Liz Warren gets her cut for her tribe?


4 posted on 07/05/2026 5:02:46 AM PDT by PGalt (Past Peak Civilization? )
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To: DFG

The indigenous First Nation tribes(Indians) should turn it over to the Clovis people from 14,000 years ago!


5 posted on 07/05/2026 5:05:09 AM PDT by 2nd Amendment
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To: DFG

It is quite possible that those Indians stole (or conquered) that land from other Indians. Newsom should set up a commission to trace the land back to its original owners.

And if the cost of that investigation runs into hundreds of millions of dollars, hey, it’s the California way.


6 posted on 07/05/2026 5:06:37 AM PDT by Leaning Right
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To: Ge0ffrey
I hope the Indians build a hotel and gambling casino that only the tribal leaders will control and profit from.

And toll booths on the roads.

7 posted on 07/05/2026 5:06:52 AM PDT by fso301
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To: Ge0ffrey

“Newsom unveiled more than $100 million in funding for 33 land projects aimed at supporting Native American tribes.”

Meanwhile, Califecal is broke.
I was born in this country as well as my father, grandfather, great grandfather and at least a couple more, one of them came from Germany. I consider myself a “Native American”. Besides, the so-called “Native Americans” were originally from some other place, and they fought amongst themselves and the victor claimed the land as their own. Pretty much similar history all over the world.


8 posted on 07/05/2026 5:08:14 AM PDT by Omnivore-Dan (have to )
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To: DFG

I have no problem with this program outside of ...
“Newsom unveiled more than $100 million in funding for 33 land projects aimed at supporting Native American tribes.”

You’re giving it away and yet you need funding for the non-Native Cal-DOT?


9 posted on 07/05/2026 5:08:34 AM PDT by Cletus.D.Yokel (The Democrats' official policy is now, “Hate, Violence and Murder". Change my mind.)
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To: DFG

Let me explain how this works.

Newsome gives them the land. They sell the land to the Chinese. IN time, China owns the entire West Coast and takes it from the US.


10 posted on 07/05/2026 5:09:09 AM PDT by Jonty30 (Im so glad I bought bitcoin at $120,000. I wouldnt have have known how else to spend $58000)
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To: Leaning Right

I was born here as well as my father, grandfather, and so on. I consider myself a “Native American”. Where’s my money?!


11 posted on 07/05/2026 5:10:51 AM PDT by Omnivore-Dan (have to )
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To: thinden

You don’t need to hire Christian Wolff to see the folly here.


12 posted on 07/05/2026 5:11:16 AM PDT by Cletus.D.Yokel (The Democrats' official policy is now, “Hate, Violence and Murder". Change my mind.)
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To: Ge0ffrey

Time to get a Federal Judge to go after Gavin and declare this an illegal decision.


13 posted on 07/05/2026 5:11:59 AM PDT by mfish13 ( )
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To: Omnivore-Dan

> I consider myself a “Native American”. Where’s my money?! <

Not so fast, pal. You can’t just declare yourself to be eligible.
You’ve got to take a few steps first.

Step 1: Contact Elizabeth Warren. Find out how to present yourself as an Indian.
Step 2: Contact Barack Obama. Find out how to forge the legal documents you’ll need.

Not very difficult, actually.


14 posted on 07/05/2026 5:21:14 AM PDT by Leaning Right
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To: Leaning Right

It is quite possible that those Indians stole (or conquered) that land from other Indians. Newsom should set up a commission to trace the land back to its original owners.


Possible? It is a statistical certainty. Tribal boundaries change all the time. Tribes get conquered, wiped out, assimilated with regularity.

It is impossible to know the “original owners”. We don’t even know for certain when humans first colonized North and South America, but it is looking to be over 20,000 years ago.


15 posted on 07/05/2026 5:36:10 AM PDT by marktwain (----------------------)
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To: Jonty30

” IN time, China owns the entire West Coast and takes it from the US.”

Only if we’re lucky.


16 posted on 07/05/2026 5:36:33 AM PDT by brownsfan (We are already on the slippery slope.)
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To: DFG

I predict cheap cigarettes and a resort casino in the near future....


17 posted on 07/05/2026 5:36:47 AM PDT by trebb (So many fools - so little time...)
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To: Ge0ffrey

Newsom unveiled more than $100 million in funding for 33 land projects aimed at supporting Native American tribes.

...blix folks will have to wait for their reparations..


18 posted on 07/05/2026 5:37:52 AM PDT by Steven Tyler
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To: Leaning Right

***Indians stole (or conquered) that land from other Indians.***

That would probably be the tribes found at the Tierra del Fuego in South America. Probably first across the Bearing Straits, then driven out by stronger tribes who were then driven out by even stronger tribes who were then driven out by stronger tribes for the last 12 000 years till there was no place left to run.


19 posted on 07/05/2026 5:39:47 AM PDT by Ruy Dias de Bivar (REOPEN THE CLOSED MENTAL HOSPITALS! Closed in the 1970s, murders by crazies sky rocketed!)
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To: 2nd Amendment

“The indigenous First Nation tribes(Indians) should turn it over to the Clovis people from 14,000 years ago!”

As I say on many of this type of thread the ‘Native Americans’ ancestors came here and killed and ate the previous inhabitants.


20 posted on 07/05/2026 5:45:07 AM PDT by dljordan (Yeah, I'm a BooYou must be able to hit the bullseyemer and it's all my fault you whiny little bitch.)
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