Grantee Database
Table Mountain Rancheria
Grant Year
2025-26
Grant Program
General Operating Support
Award Amount
$13,800.00
Project Description
With support from the California Arts Council, Table Mountain Rancheria will continue to develop its museum project, which is currently in the design stage. During the 2025-2026 fiscal year, key staff will revise its policies and procedures and draft the museum’s strategic plan, which will include increased accessibility to onsite exhibitions. The funds will be used for research visits to California collections where Native culture and history are presented to the public. Awarded funds will also support the reinstallation of exhibitions in the Rancheria’s Fort Miller buildings (1851-1865), where the history of the Alta California missions, early American military and settler occupation, and unratified treaties are presented from the Native perspective using photographs, artifacts, and didactic materials. These buildings, alongside its educational Native plant trail, form the first phase of the tribe’s museum complex.
Organization Summary
Table Mountain Rancheria offers a variety of public and community-based programs such as workshops and classes on California Central Valley Native art practices and languages, exhibitions on local history and California Native basket weaving at CSU Fresno and Fresno City College, and at the Tribes annual intertribal powwow. Table Mountain Rancheria also maintains a series of historical mid-19th century structures known as the Fort Miller buildings that were relocated, reconstructed, and restored on tribal land as the site of educational exhibitions and tours for local community members and school-aged children. Adjacent to this site is a Native plant trail and reconstructed structures modeled on those used by tribal ancestors that collectively serve as an educational resource and include a cedar bark house, a grass house, and the excavated site of a sweat lodge once used by local Native doctor William Taucha. Table Mountain Rancheria also maintains an archive of local historical documents, photographs, recordings, videos, and transcribed oral histories, which is open to tribal members and researchers by appointment.
Organization
Table Mountain Rancheria
Address
23736 Sky Harbour Road
Friant
93626
County
Fresno
Region
Central Valley
Phone
(559) 325-0351
Congressional District
20th District of California
State Assembly District
CA 8th Assembly District
State Senate District
CA Senate District 12
