A Message From Chairman Tony G. Lopez III

​WELCOME!
 ​We are on the crest of a new dawn, moving forward on power and endurance of our shared values and deep desire to forge the road to economic recovery and a sustainable foundation for success for our tribal future. Board members have been hard at work with research and discovery efforts to begin piecing together circumstances and events which lead to the loss of our right to inhabit our native lands and the imposed termination of our legal ownership and tribal jurisdiction over our protected land. This is a complicated and tiresome task- one we have all been working together on for generations- and we are closer than ever to finishing that puzzle, 
So be Strong of Heart, in Mind, in Body, and of Spirit and we will succeed! 

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Understand the Earth and you understand who you are, Speak with the wind and you hear the wisdom of our past, Study the animals and you will know the world surrounding you! 

Tribal legends passed down from our ancestors tell us that our people once lived on two different worlds. We only know the one story of this one world and do not yet know the story of the other world, perhaps it was the arrival of the Europeans and the descent of their unknown world which is symbolized in our story as the second unknown world.  

The story of the world we know tells us who we were and how we became- we learn this in the telling of this our past journey as narrated by our guide, the Coyote. It is told by Coyote because from him we were shown the path to "Maara."  

Our story is in song and only because it has lived, and still lives in an intangible form have we been able to hold onto it- and to keep it - as such it is one of only a bare few remnants of our spirit string that we can each hold onto, and can also hold up together today. We recognize that there is a larger wisdom to our story and a wealth of opportunity in it for a better understanding the origins of us, as it is told in song. So when we sing this, we sing our story, and we celebrate our journey and of our people. 

Tribal legends passed down from our ancestors tell us that our people once lived on two different worlds. We only know one story of this one world and do not yet know the story of the other world, perhaps it is symbolized in this story of our past by the arrival of the Europeans.

The Serrano story of who we are and how we came to live here is narrated by our guide, Coyote and it is Coyote who showed us the path to "Maara."  Our story is in song and only because it lives in intangible form have we been able to hold onto it- and to keep - so it is one of only a bare few remnants of spirit string that we can each hold onto, and also hold up together today. We recognize that there is a larger wisdom to our story and a wealth of opportunity to better understand the origins of us in this story. So when we sing this, our story, we do so in celebration of journeys and our people.