UPDATE: BREAKING NEWS: Picayune Rancheria Laying Groundwork for More Indian Termination Acts

UPDATE:    Patrick hammond, former chair of the enrollment committee at picayune and recently elected to his second term on the PRCI council, has been formally removed from the council following a hearing before same...





Sources from the Picayune Rancheria, which operates the Chukchansi Gold Casino, already well known for their brazen act of Indian Termination, (elimination of 50% of their tribal members) is laying the groundwork for MORE destruction of Native Americans.   Also will eliminate child care.....  read below for the Picayune Rancheria's "Indian Way" of doing business.

The Picayune Tribal Council has submitted a petition to amend the Enrollment Ordinance to require DNA testing for tribal membership. This same proposal also removes language that secures the tribal membership of the current enrollment, paving the way for hundreds of further disenrollments of those Chukchansi still recognized at Picayune. This proposed amended Enrollment Ordinance was brought forward at the monthly tribal meeting April 25th, 2011, which was attended by only 35 tribal members. Written input will only be accepted until May 25 by the executive secretary to the council, at which time the recently installed tribal council will vote on--and undoubtedly approve--this proposal resulting in almost immediate implementation of new dismemberment hearings, as well as rulings on/disenrollments of those brought to hearing in 2007 with no decision rendered.

Furthermore, a resolution was passed at the April 21, 2011 business meeting held by the tribal council "Resolution 2011-32- ADOPTION OF POLICY FOR DEFINITION OF AN ELIGIBLE CHILD" which immediately has denied eligibility of the children of a certain group of members within the tribe "petitioners" from receiving any tribal benefits or funding-- including childcare and inclusion in the tribal pre-school program.

Both the proposed amendment to the Enrollment Ordinance and this resolution were developed, and in the case of the resolution passed, without notice to tribal members of any plan for change. Furthermore, funding for the children of the "petitioners" has been stopped immediately without written advance notice to those affected.

The blatant violation of the tribal, civil, and human rights of those at Picayune continues with the focus on those most unable to defend themselves--our children, our future generations.

The Indian way? Non-existent in tribes such as Picayune, whose corrupt tribal governments exist today only to decimate their own People, destroy their own culture, and defile their own ancestors in their insatiable lust for power and their unending greed.  This is a tribal casino to avoid, immediately.

Picayune Rancheria's Grant Program Leaves Some Disappointed

The Picayune Rancheria of the Chukchansi Indians' Community Grant Program awarded close to $1 million to a variety of organizations across Madera County.

The rancheria has awarded grants to government, schools and nonprofits through the Community Grant Program since 2007 and will continue to do so through 2016 under an agreement with Madera County.

Not everyone was happy when the grants were announced.

"I have to express my disappointment in the grant allocations," said Madera County District 2 Supervisor David Rogers of Chowchilla. "Sixty percent are being given to the eastern part of Madera County and not a single one of the nine grant requests from District 2 were on the slate and it was very disappointing."

We say:  WHY accept money from a tribe that has destroyed 50% of their own membership? The tribe deserves your SCORN, Madera County, not you going to them for handouts.   If they will cheat their own people, no wonder they will cheat YOU.

Join us in a protest of Tribal Civil Rights Violations at the Pechanga Resort and Casino

45000 Temecula Parkway, Temecula CA   June 2 at 4 p.m.

DNA Proof of 99% Good Enough for OSAMA BIN Laden, but Not for Redding Rancheria in the FOREMAN FAMILY MATTER?

With our recent good fortune at killing Osama Bin Laden, we get proof at 99% that Osama Bin Laden's match to relatives is 99%.  That serves as proof enough to: The President of the United States, The Speaker of the House and the Attorney General.

To the corrupt leaders, including Tracey Edwards, of the Redding Rancheria, which forced the Foreman family to dig up two relatives to match DNA samples, 99% was not enough:

From Carla Foreman Maslin:

My tribe conjured up a rumor re: my family's genetics (lineal descendancy). We followed their rules that they changed every day because we gave them all the documentation they requested.
Went thru the hearing... process & jumped thru all unnecessary hoops only to be told in the end that they wanted miticondrial DNA. The proof we provided verified it.

Then they wanted genomic DNA, which meant to unearth our ancestors. It was done. And after the scientific evidence which proved we are lineal descendants above 99%, they still went against there own laws & kicked all members of my family out of our tribe. Go figure!

It was such a shock thru the country &  beyond that many articles were written about it. It still has profound affects on my family that some have literally killed themselves or gotten sick over it.

SHAME on the Redding Rancheria Council for diminishing this founding family

American Indian Rights & Resource Organization (AIRRO) in United Nations Report

Good news from Geneva, Switzerland, in the Summary prepared by the Office of the High Commissioner for Human Rights report to the United Nations, AIRRO is mentioned.

The American Indian Rights and Resources Organization (AIRRO) is a Native American rights organization which is dedicated to the protection, preservation, and enforcement of the human rights of individual Indians throughout United States Indian Country.

Please view AIRRO's website at http://www.airro.org/ and consider becoming a member.

Abuses by tribes such as the Pechanga Band of Luiseno Indians, Redding Rancheria, Picayune Rancheria, Enterprise Rancheria, Snoqualmie (WA) have led to the growth of this organization.