Laytonville Rancheria

Laytonville, California

Cahto Indians

Above- former Tribal Chairman Gene Sloan speaking at a "Indian Day" Civil Rights rally, September, 2005 Sacramento, CA

1906- my great-grandfather's house on Laytonville Rancheria

In May 1995, the Cahto Tribe of the Laytonville Rancheria in northern California opened the Red Fox Casino. By September, the great-grandson of Chief Bill Ray, Gene Sloan, and 25 of his family members were handed notice that they’d been disenrolled.

…There is nowhere to turn. Countless years in the U.S. courts and appeals filed to the BIA have not stemmed the increasing trend to split investment and gaming revenues among the remaining members by reducing the number of people payments had to be shared among.

…They take away our culture, our heritage, but they cannot take away our bloodlines or our ancestry,” said Sloan  click here to read entire story

     Below- my great-grandfather Bill Ray