The removal of a Native American on the Los Angeles Board of Water and Power Commissioners is 'a slap in the face,' Indigenous groups say.
Cynthia Ruiz, the first Native American ever to serve on the Los Angeles Board of Water and Power Commissioners, got some bad news from City Hall recently.say she was being removed after serving just one year on the panel that oversees the Department of Water and Power.
What followed was a moment of shock and uncomfortable silence, Ruiz said. The former head of the city’s multibillion-dollar retirement fund system believed she was making progress in easing 122 years of tension between the DWP and Owens Valley tribes over water rights and land use in the eastern Sierra Nevada watershed.The one-two punch was thrown an hour later via an email from Mayor Karen Bass.
“We are in shock that Cynthia, the first Native American to serve on that commission, was replaced by a white man when she was not even a full year into her four-year term,” said Teri Red Owl, executive director of the Owens Valley Water Commission.
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