Passage of this resolution supports the enactment of HR 3824 seeking to recognize this tribal group as a Band of Mission Indians. This tribal groups claim flies in the face of a letter dated January 16, 1888, by Indian Commissioner J. D. C. Atkins who was asked to inventory and identify for Congress the Mission Indians living in California. This letter is reproduced in Senate Report No. 74, 50th Congress, 1st. Session.