It was for $600, and it was payment for the fact that 12 years earlier the government had summarily disbanded his tribe, a small group of mountain Maidu Indians who historically had lived in the Feather Falls area east of Oroville.Īrchuleta is a round, genial man with an open, youthful face and jet-black hair. When Alan Archuleta was 10 years old-he’s 40 now, so it was 1973-he got a check in the mail from the U.S.
