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Middle Aged (35-54)Accents
North American (General) North American (US General American - GenAM) North American (US West Coast - California, Portland)Transcript
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There was a time when housing on this Santa Ynez reservation consisted of a scattering of trailers, lean twos and tumbleweeds. Florencia Tormenta, grandmother of tribal chairman Vincent Tormenta, raised her large family in a two room house without electricity or running water. Vice Chairman Richard Gomez, another grandson of Florencia Tormenta, remembers visiting his grandparent's on the reservation. At one point, the reservation source of water had been declared unfit for human consumption. Tribal members had to walk to the creek to fill buckets of water for use in their homes. A Santa Ynez shoe mash tribe held a variety of fundraisers to bring running water to the reservation. It took a few years of car washes, fashion shows and barbecues. But in 1969 the Santa Ynez Reservation finally secured running water. It's hard to imagine, but that was only 45 years ago, many years after water arrived. The first of the U. S. Department of Housing and Urban Development homes were built on the reservation. Providing adequate housing for tribal membership in their families is one of the greatest challenges facing the tribe today, with some tribal families living off the reservation away from their tribal community and other tribal families living in crowded conditions. The problem has become urgent, however. The tribe believes it has a solution. In 2010 the tribe purchase 1390 acres of ancestral land known as camp, for that parcel is located just two miles from the reservation. Building homes on Camp four would allow tribal members to live together as tribal families under their own tribal government. It would also create a meaningful community revitalization effort that rebuilds tribal culture, customs and traditions. In 2012 tribal chairman Vincent Tormenta addressed Congress about the importance of placing the Camp four land into federal trust to accommodate the plan for tribal housing.
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Girl Next Door, Host/Interviewer, Narrator, Storyteller, Upper Class, Authoritative, Believable, Caring, Educational, Genuine, Informative, Narrator, Serious, Thoughtful, Warm, North American (General), North American (US General American - GenAM), North American (US West Coast - California, Portland)