Trust Reform

The Hoopa Valley Tribe has been very vocal regarding the Interior's Trust Reform proposal. Being opposed to BITAM, the Hoopa Tribe provided one of the first alternatives to BITAM in a well developed document presented at the first Trust Reform hearing. If you would like to view more information regarding this subject please visit our Self-Governance page, Trust Reform Page, or the other links provided on these pages.

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Trinity River Flows

The Trinity River Mainstem Fishery Restoration Record of Decision, (ROD), which was signed on December 19, 2000, would have increased flows down the Trinity River by 25 to 48 percent of the average annual inflow to Trinity Reservoir; however, in March 2001, a preliminary injunction limited the Lewiston Dam release to the Trinity River to 368,600 acre-feet while a Supplemental Environmental Impact Statement/Environmental Impact Report is prepared to further analyze impacts resulting from implementation of the ROD. The recent ruling is in response to a request to the court to modify the Preliminary Injunction filed by the Hoopa Valley Tribe and the Yurok Tribe seeking increased releases to the Trinity River this year for fishery restoration purposes.

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H/Y Settlement Act

Public Law 100-580, 102 Stat. 2924 (Hoopa Yurok Settlement Act) was enacted on October 31st, 1988 by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States of America. Through this act became the partition of the Hoopa and Yurok Reservations. These partitions became known as the Square (Hoopa), and the Extension (Yurok). According to this Act, the resources of each partition belonged to the corresponding Tribe. The Act also developed the Settlement Fund which is held in escrow until the funds could be dispersed according to the Act provisions.

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Click Here for Tribal Attorney Tom Schlosser's HYSA Files

Click Here for More Information on the Short Cases

Self-Governance

The Hoopa Valley Tribe, as a sovereign nation, maintains a special relationship with the United States. The Tribal membership has delegated the exercise of Tribal sovereign powers to the Hoopa Valley Tribal Council through the Hoopa Consitution. This website provides an overview of the exercise of Hoopa sovereign powers, as applied by the Hoopa Tribal Government. It is intended to inform interested parties of how our Tribal Government functions, thereby providing the greatest opportunities to effectively apply the Tribe's inherent powers. The more knowledgeable we are regarding how Tribal powers are derived, and how those powers are exercies through our Hoopa Governmental process, the more effective we will become at protecting the Tribe's long-term interests, values and inherent sovereign powers and the more prepared we will be to meet the challenges of the future.

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Click Here for the Hoopa Tribal Self-Governance Handbook