… Tayaba, who also serves as the tribe’s director of traditional ecological knowledge, has become a prominent voice in the fight for equitable water management and the preservation of tribal cultural practices. … The Shingle Springs Band of Miwok Indians, traditionally fishing people along the Sacramento and American rivers, have been actively involved in legal challenges against state water policies they believe are detrimental to Delta ecosystems. Under Tayaba’s leadership, the tribe sponsored Assembly Bill 2614, which aimed to add tribal cultural uses of water to the state water code.