California Is unique in the way the General Allotment Act of February 8, 1887 (25 U.S.C. 334) has been implimented. Wheras the Act worked to enable the theft of millions of acres of Treatied Indian Territory throughout the United States, especially in what is called now the State of Oklahoma from the rightful and legal owners - Indian Nations, the Act was put into use to deed precious bits of land around the state [of California] to a few Indian occupants who never never enjoyed the dubious pleasure of lands acknowledged in treaty after treaty with the United States for as long as the rivers would flow, and so on. How this came to pass and where we are today is the subject of this page. Two of these [allotments] lie in Indian Canyon [Indian Country], manifestation of the ongoing government-to-government relationship between the Canyon Community of California Indians and Federal Government the United States.
Original territory onder the control of an Indian FROM that territory is defined as Indian Country under U.S. law and is covered by a special legal status.
The 1988 Individual Indian Allotment consists of 123 acres of steep canyon side, a homesite, the sacred waterfall area and a small livestock (goat) raising operation. This was deeded into Federal Trust for an individual Indian - Ann Marie Sayers, after an 8-year-long ordeal in 1988.