The Cold Springs tribe is composed of Western Mono Indians, whose traditional homeland is in the southern Sierra Nevada foothills of California. Cold Springs Rancheria is the name of the tribe’s reservation, which is located in Fresno County, California.
Official Tribal Name: Cold Springs Rancheria of Mono Indians of California
Address: P.O. Box 209, 32861 Sycamore Rd. #300, Tollhouse, CA 93667
Phone: (559) 855-5043 or(559)855-8360
Fax: (559) 855-4445
Email: csrancheria@netptc.net
Official Website: http://www.coldspringsrancheria.com/
Recognition Status: Federally Recognized
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Region: California
State(s) Today: California
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Reservation: Cold Springs Rancheria
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Registered Population Today: There are 265 to 275 enrolled members of the tribe.
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Tribal enrollment to the Cold Springs Rancheria of Mono Indians of California is limited to those members listed on the 1960 Plan for Distribution of Assets of the Cold Springs Rancheria roles and their lineal descendants that have a blood quantum of at least one-quarter degree of Californian Indian blood.
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- Big Sandy Rancheria of Mono Indians of California (F)
- Choinumni (U)
- Cold Springs Rancheria of Mono Indians of California (F)
- Dunlap Band of Mono Indians (a.k.a. Mono Tribal Council of Dunlap) (U)
- Mono Lake Indian Community (U)
- Northfolk Band of Mono Indians(U)
- North Fork Rancheria of Mono Indians of California (F)
- Northern Band of Mono-Yokuts (U)
- Picayune Rancheria of Chukchansi Indians of California (California) (F)
- Santa Rosa Indian Community of the Santa Rosa Rancheria (F)
- Table Mountain Rancheria of California (Chukchansi) (F)
- Tejon Indian Tribe (F)
- Tule River Indian Tribe of the Tule River Reservation (F)
- Tuolumne Rancheria (F)
- Wukchumni (U)
- Yosemite Mono Lake Paiute Indian Community (U)
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