Clarence Atwell Jr., Date of Birth, Date of Death
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US Tribal leader and politician
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About Clarence Atwell Jr.
- Clarence Atwell Jr.
- (November 30, 1945 – February 28, 2013) was an American Tachi Yokut tribal leader and politician.
- Atwell served as the Chairman of the Tachi Yokut of Santa Rosa Rancheria from 1967 until 2009.
- Atwell has been widely credited with improving the standard of living on the Santa Rosa Rancheria reservation during his forty-two year tenure as Chairman of the Tachi Yokut.Atwell was born on Tachi Yokut land, under a tree, on November 30, 1945.
- His father was a medicine man.
- He was raised by his grandmother, who only spoke the Tachi language.
- She taught Atwell indigenous Tachi Yokut traditions and hunting techniques.
- Clarence Atwell would later become a medicine man like his father.
- As an adult, Clarence Atwell Jr.
- held bear dances and sweat lodge throughout California.Clarence Atwell died from cancer at Adventist Medical Center in Hanford, California, on February 28, 2013, at the age of 67.
- His first wife, Audrey, died in 2000.
- He was survived by his second wife, Jeanette, whom he married in 2002.
- He had two children from his first marriage: Kaya Atwell, and Rufus Atwell.
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