Podcast
A chat with Tribal Affairs Secretary Christina Snider-Ashtari

CAPITOL WEEKLY PODCAST: We’re joined today by Christina Snider-Ashtari, Tribal Affairs Secretary to Governor Gavin Newsom and head of the Governor’s Office of Tribal Affairs. Snider-Ashtari was first appointed to the position in 2018 by Governor Brown and previously served as Executive Secretary of the California Native American Heritage Commission. We spoke to her about both governors’ approaches to Tribal policy, about the California Truth & Healing Council, and about the deep Native history on Alcatraz, which President Trump has suggested might be returned to use as a federal prison.
Plus, Who Had the Worst Week in California Politics?
1:03 Capitol Weekly story update
2:05 Ai Conference
3:17 Capitol Insiders Survey
4:45 Christina Snider-Ashtari
7:16 Appointed February 2018
10:32 Governor Brown
11:40 Differences between Brown and Newsom
13:43 Governor Newsom’s apology for genocide of California Indians
16:52 Alcatraz
18:10 Red Power movement
22:19 California Truth & Healing Council
26:02 “Nothing was here, then gold was found, then people came”
29:25 What has been the response of the Tribes?
33:56 #WWCA
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