Cold Springs Rancheria of Mono Indians of California#Reservation

The Cold Springs tribe is composed of Western Mono Indians, whose traditional homeland is in the southern Sierra Nevada foothills of California. The Mono language is part of the Uto-Aztecan language family. Acorns are a traditional staple food with great symbolic importance.[http://infodome.sdsu.edu/research/guides/calindians/calinddictmp.shtml#monowest California Indians and Their Reservations.] {{Webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20100726214650/http://infodome.sdsu.edu/research/guides/calindians/calinddictmp.shtml#monowest |date=2010-07-26 }} SDSU Library and Information Access. (retrieved 24 July 2009) Their oral history is included in Mono traditional narratives.

They ratified their current tribal constitution on April 11, 1970, and last amended it in 2001.[http://www.narf.org/nill/Constitutions/coldsprconst/coldsprconst.htm Constitution and Bylaws of the Cold Springs Rancheria.] {{webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20081128165937/http://www.narf.org/nill/Constitutions/coldsprconst/coldsprconst.htm |date=2008-11-28 }} (retrieved 24 July 2009) Their Tribal Council is democratically elected and includes a chairperson, vice-chairperson, secretary-treasurer and three council members. Additionally all tribal members 18 years old or older form a voting general council.

Tribal enrollment to the Cold Springs Rancheria is limited to those members listed on the 1960 Plan for Distribution of Assets of the Cold Springs Rancheria roles and their lineal descendants that have a blood quantum of at least one-quarter degree of Californian Indian blood. Approximately 159 to 193 people lived on the Cold Springs Rancheria, and there are 265 to 275 enrolled members of the tribe.Pritzker, 136-7[http://infodome.sdsu.edu/research/guides/calindians/calinddict.shtml#c California Indians and Their Reservations.] {{webarchive |url=https://web.archive.org/web/20090205040720/http://infodome.sdsu.edu/research/guides/calindians/calinddict.shtml#c |date=February 5, 2009 }} SDSU Library and Information Access. (retrieved 24 July 2009)

The Cold Springs Rancheria occupies {{convert|155|acre|km2}} in Sycamore Valley, located {{convert|45|mi|km}} east of Fresno, California. The lands are close to Tollhouse, California, where the tribe is headquartered.

Other federally recognized Mono tribes are the Tule River Indian Tribe of the Tule River Reservation, the Big Sandy Rancheria of Mono Indians of California, the Northfork Rancheria of Mono Indians of California, Big Pine Band of Owens Valley Paiute Shoshone Indians of the Big Pine Reservation.

The ranchería is served by the Sierra Unified School District.

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• Pritzker, Barry M. A Native American Encyclopedia: History, Culture, and Peoples. Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2000. {{ISBN|978-0-19-513877-1}}

• [https://web.archive.org/web/20081128165937/http://www.narf.org/nill/Constitutions/coldsprconst/coldsprconst.htm Constitution and Bylaws of the Cold Springs Rancheria]

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