The Palm Springs Desert Sun published excerpts of an August 3, 2011, interview with Richard Milanovich, who was the longtime chairman of the
Agua Caliente Band of Cahuilla
Indians of California.
The interview was the last sit-down that Milanovich gave to the paper. He died last week at the age of 69.
"QUESTION: Long before voters passed gaming propositions, your tribe actually come into its own with work your mom and the rest of the tribal council did as well with regard to land development.
ANSWER: Well, yes. Because when the first tribal council was formed, it was the first all-woman tribal council in the country.
So as I was growing up as a young man, I was being educated to understand what it meant to serve your people — and how to avoid pitfalls or traps that had been established by the city fathers, state government, federal government by listening to my mother and others who were involved in the process to understand better what, how politics was actually working."
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Q&A with Agua Caliente Tribal Chairman Richard Milanovich
(The Palm Springs Desert Sun 3/19)
Also Today:
Tribe couldn’t be ignored under Milanovich
(The Riverside Press-Enterprise 3/19)
Valley Leader And Philanthropist Richard Milanovich To Be Remembered
(KESQ-TV 3/19)
Related Stories:
Tribute: Richard Milanovich was a powerful voice
for tribe (3/16)
Funeral services set for
Richard Milanovich, Agua Caliente (3/15)
Editorial: Saluting Richard Milanovich's legacy of
leadership (3/13)
Richard Milanovich,
Agua Caliente chairman, passes at 69 (3/12)
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