Resighini Rancheria

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The Resighini Rancheria,^[1] located just south of Klamath, California, is a federally recognized tribe of Yurok people.

On January 7, 1938, Augusta (Gus) Resighini conveyed a tract of 228 acres of land on Waukell Flat to the Government of the United States as part of an effort stated in 1937 by the Bureau of Indian Affairs’ Hoopa Agency called the contractual land acquisition project.^[2] The BIA acquired the land for a yet to be determined group of homeless and landless Indians that came to be knowns as the Resighini Rancheria when the Secretary of the Interior ordered the land “in Trust for such Indians of Del Norte and Humboldt Counties, in California, eligible to participate in the benefits of the (Indian Reorganization) Act of June 18, 1934 (48 Stat. 984) (25 U.S.C. ss 461 et seq. (1970)), as shall be designated by the Secretary of the Interior.”^[3]

In 1975, members formed a tribal government that was approved by the Secretary of Interior.^{[better source needed]}