{"id":80095,"date":"2025-12-03T18:35:08","date_gmt":"2025-12-03T18:35:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/80095\/"},"modified":"2025-12-03T18:35:08","modified_gmt":"2025-12-03T18:35:08","slug":"former-nomlaki-chair-appointed-to-ca-native-american-heritage-commission-colusa-sun-herald","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/80095\/","title":{"rendered":"Former Nomlaki Chair appointed to CA Native American Heritage Commission | Colusa Sun Herald"},"content":{"rendered":"<p dir=\"ltr\">SACRAMENTO \u2013 Governor Gavin Newsom has appointed Andrew \u201cDru\u201d Alejandre, of Corning, as the executive secretary of the California Native American Heritage Commission.<\/p>\n<p dir=\"ltr\">Alejandre has been the tribal liaison at Emic Health Services since 2024 and co-founder and vice president of the Tribal Leadership Council since 2024. He was the chairman of the Paskenta Band of Nomlaki Indians from 2026-25 and council secretary from 2014 to 2016. The tribe owns and operates Rolling Hills Casino and Resort in Corning.<\/p>\n<p dir=\"ltr\">He is the board chair of Tepa Companies and the Tribal Leadership Council Foundation. He earned a Bachelors of Fine Arts in Graphic Design from the Art Institute of Sacramento. This position does not require senate confirmation and the compensation is $152,064. Alejandre is a Democrat.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"SACRAMENTO \u2013 Governor Gavin Newsom has appointed Andrew \u201cDru\u201d Alejandre, of Corning, as the executive secretary of the&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":80096,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[32],"tags":[7,45907,45905,45911,45910,45909,22264,45912,45904,45906,121,123,122,13864,11754,435,45908],"class_list":["post-80095","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-sacramento","tag-california","tag-indigenous-peoples-of-california","tag-indigenous-peoples-of-north-america","tag-indigenous-peoples-of-the-americas","tag-mission-indians","tag-native-american-tribes","tag-native-americans","tag-nomlaki","tag-paskenta-band-of-nomlaki-indians","tag-political-divisions-of-the-united-states","tag-sacramento","tag-sacramento-headlines","tag-sacramento-news","tag-society-of-the-united-states","tag-tribes","tag-united-states","tag-united-states-department-of-the-interior"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/80095","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=80095"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/80095\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/80096"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=80095"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=80095"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=80095"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}