Anecita Agustinez has served as the tribal policy advisor for the Department of Water Resources since August 2013. Agustinez has over 30 years of advocacy experience on behalf of California’s Native American tribes. She provides policy support and recommendations regarding tribal issues to the director and chief deputy director and has been actively engaged with our projects and programs, assisting with tribal consultation and development of the DWR Tribal Consultation Policy.
We discussed how best to engage with tribes, including how to find tribes in your area, government-to-government relations, tribal consultations, and more.
- DWR’s Guidance Document: Engagement with Tribal Governments
- Native Land Digital Map App: https://native-land.ca/
- California Native American Heritage Commission https://nahc.ca.gov/
- EXECUTIVE ORDER B-10-11 | Governor Edmund G. Brown Jr. (ca.gov) https://www.gov.ca.gov/wp-content/uploads/2019/06/6.18.19-Executive-Order.pdf
- OPR and NAHC have consultation guidance and also AB52 consultation guidance AB 52 and Tribal Cultural Resources in CEQA (ca.gov) https://www.opr.ca.gov/docs/20200224-AB_52_Technical_Advisory_Feb_2020.pdf
- North Coast Resource Partnership (an example of an organization with tribal participation): https://northcoastresourcepartnership.org/
- California Tribal Historic Preservation Officers: https://ohp.parks.ca.gov/?page_id=27626
- Statement of Administration Policy Native American Ancestral Lands https://www.gov.ca.gov/wp-content/uploads/2020/09/9.25.20-Native-Ancestral-Lands-Policy.pdf
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