From its earliest, modest days when tribal governments were fighting for their fundamental inherent right to conduct gaming on tribal lands and meetings were conducted in hotel rooms, advocacy has been a prime focus for CNIGA. Over the years, CNIGA has not only been central in securing tribal government gaming rights in California, it has successfully advocated on a great number of issues affecting tribal gaming rights. We do this by closely monitoring all three branches of both federal and state government to look for actions that may affect tribal government gaming, and bringing them to the attention of our membership.