MISSION INDIAN FEDERATION RESEARCH
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FRAMED POSTER: 12-feet wide • Framed in California RedWood Sequoia: Available for spectacular presentation • I speculate the photograph will look great at 24-feet wide (in three 8' mounted panels)
TEXT -- Logos -- Photos -- may be re-worked for tribal identity.
Incredible super scan -- picture is 10,000 pixels wide full resolution.
Easily prints photographic sharp at 12 feet (below):
MIF 1920 photo by Avery Edwin Field: original 1920 photographic print courtesy of Ben Magante, Pauma Yuima Band of Mission Indians. 2010, Gary Ballard did a high-resolution scan and digital restoration, including the archival printing.
FINE ART ARCHIVAL PRINTS AVAILABLE (this is a beautiful detailed high-resolution scan from an original photograph).
MISSION INDIAN FEDERATION:
 The Mission Indian Federation (MIF) was Southern California's most popular and long-lived grassroots political organization.
From the early 1900s, officially 1919-1965, its members addressed some of the most difficult political and legal questions of the 20th century affecting Native Americans.
The MIF asserted American Indian rights to internal sovereignty, and rejected Bureau of Indian Affairs (BIA) paternalism. The MIF's clashes with the federal government's BIA employees in the Mission Indian Agency (MIA) continually had its members in court, but occasionally the confrontations turned violent.
The organization "resisted the work of the Indian service in the spirit of ousting a foreign power from the native soil or beating off an invasion of a foreign power."
- -1934, John Collier, Commissioner of Indian Affairs
Drawing its membership from reservation and non-reservation California Indians of Southern California, the MIF could best be described as a quasi-governmental, pan-Indian organization purporting to represent the collective will of Southern California's reservation peoples....
The MIF's purpose was to end Mission Indian Agency abuse and paternalism and to bring equal rights, justice, and "home rule" for Southern California's Indians....
-Above excerpts: SCHOOL OF HUMANITIES University of California, Irvine (please click HERE for for more detailed facts, personal accounts and historical information about the Mission Indian Federation MIF).
Above Riverside County historical photo pictures a group of Mission Indian Federation 1908 conference attendees standing in front of the Mission Inn, Riverside, CA.
Note: Above Riverside Municipal Museum photo caption titled and dated this photo 1908 -- 11 years BEFORE some historians state the MIF was officially established in 1919....
JONATHAN TIBBET
MIF Founder:
1856-1930
JONATHAN FRANKLIN TIBBET was born January 5, 1856 on his father's ranch in the vicinity of San Gabriel... Tibbet's youth was spent tending cattle and horses and learning from the Indians of the area. Tibbet was taught their tribal languages and came to speak 11 dialects along with fluent Spanish. As a young man Mr. Tibbet served as a scout and the chief of scouts for the U.S. Army....
- -Excerpts from a biography by Richard A. Hanks
Jonathan Tibbet held meetings and conferences at his residence in Riverside, California, pictured in this vintage 1900s California Indian historical photograph.
ADAM CASTILLO:
President MIF
1885-1953
 One of the most revered presidents of the MIF was President Adam Castillo, a well-known Cahuilla Indian activist.
Adam Castillo also served as chairman of Soboba Band of Mission Indians, Soboba Indian Reservation near San Jacinto, CALIF. In 2003 the band changed its name to the Soboba Band of Luiseño Indians, as did many other tribes, dropping the word “Mission”.
From the early 1900s the Mission Indian Federation operated under the leadership of Adam Castillo until his death in 1953. The organization was the compelling influence in the redressing of economic, political, and legal grievances of the American Indian peoples.
The Mission Indian Federation under the leadership of Mr. Castillo successfully challenged the United States Government and won some major political victories.
The first was the dismissal of charges against 57 members of the Mission Indian Federation for “Conspiracy against the U.S. Government” by the U.S. District Courts in Los Angeles, California in 1923. The Government’s contention was that the 57 members of the Mission Indian Federation were promoting “Bolshevistic Doctrines”.
INDIANS COULD NOT BE U.S. CITIZENS UNTIL 1924:
Native American Indians could not become United States citizens until 1924 -- Indian Citizenship Act of 1924 -- the members of the Mission Indian Federation helped influence that change.
MIF members also pursued many other unfair local, state and federal policies that discriminated against Indigenous Americans, including hard-fought tribal sovereignty issues, and securing Indian rights promised under the 18 Unratified Treaties of 1851-1852 Between the California Indians and the United States Government, said Ernie Salgado Jr., Soboba tribal member and executive director of Ahmium Education, Inc.
RESEARCH SITES:
AMERICAN TRIBAL SOVEREIGNTY -- American tribes practiced their own forms of government for thousands of years before European intrusion and the formation of the United States government. The Constitution of the United States, U.S. Supreme Court, federal and state laws, as well as historical treaties all support the tribes' present-day legal rights to self-government and certain forms of tribal sovereignty....
LINKS to facts, historical pictures, information for research about the Mission Indian Federation
OFFICIAL SITE (another great website erased): www.missionindianfederation.com
History, Biography, Conference
SCHOOL OF HUMANITIES University of California, Irvine
General Description, Mission and Ideology, Membership and Organizational Structure, The Appeal of the MIF
RIVERSIDE METROPOLITAN MUSEUM
Indian Posters & Documents, Antique Historical Photographs.
At least one of these websites are still up -- go Riverside!
 This is an original California Indian Education CALIE.org Mission Indian study guide.
An Ernie C. Salgado project.
Professional Web blog by GBALLARD.
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