INTIMIDATION and STALKING of NATIVE AMERICAN Women at NOOKSACK Tribe, By the POLICE CHIEF?

Hey, let me do a little target practice around your house. Rather than a firing range like all responsible gun owners.   The NRA would want you to be responsible, the Nooksack Tribe, apparently is okay with shooting guns around homes, as long as it's the home of someone suing their police.

Nooksack Police Chief Michael Ashby SUED for Assault On Nooksack Tribal Council Member

Carmen Tageant

Nooksack Tribal Interim Police Chief Michael Ashby has been named in a lawsuit brought forward by current Nooksack Tribal Council member Carmen Tageant.

The Seattle law firm Galanda Broadman leads the case.

Tageant alleges that Ashby, formerly a police officer with the Ferndale Police Department, physically assaulted and battered her in Deming as she attempted to file for reelection to the council a few months ago.

“As Ms. Tageant approached the front door of the Elections Board Office, defendant Ashby saw her, with application materials in hand, and locked the front door,” court documents state.

9th Circuit Judge: Nooksack Tribe Run By a TIN POT DICTATOR; BIA STILL Recognizes Leader Bob Kelly

Almost a year after being called out for "abuses of power," the Nooksack Tribe has won recognition of its leadership amid a long-running disenrollment dispute.

The Trump administration on Friday affirmed the results of a recent election in which voters filled four vacant seats on the council. The move marks the first time since 2016 that the tribe, based in Washington, has had a valid governing body.

Watch 9th Circuit video here

"The Nooksack people have spoken and we look forward to continuing our responsibility to serve our people," Chairman Bob Kelly said in a news release after the tribe received word from the Bureau of Indian Affairs.

And...NOOKSACK TYRANT BOB KELLY SPEAKS: DISENROLLMENTS TO CONTINUE

Before the results are even certified, we now see what the NOOKSACK plans are:

Nooksack tribal chairman Bob Kelly said he plans to start a new round of disenrollment hearings this week following an election that seemed to favor incumbents but was clouded by allegations of fraud.

Kelly and his council allies have been trying for five years to kick roughly 300 members out of the tribe, launching a divisive dispute about lineage and power that has gotten national attention, sparked federal intervention and raised broader questions about tribal disenrollment nationwide.

Nooksack CHILDREN again DENIED School Supplies From CORRUPT LEADERS

Yes, another new school year...ANOTHER year of 50+ Nooksack students, make that certain Nooksack students DENIED school supplies from the tribe.  Indian Child Welfare...means NOTHING to Bob Kelly and his unlawful cohorts.  We wrote about the child abuse beginning back in 2014

Unfortunately, there's a need for a GOFUNDME page to help these children who were unlawfully disenrolled, be prepared for school.  You can go to it from HERE

National Indian Gaming Commission FAILURES ARE A THREAT TO TRIBAL SOVEREIGNTY

ABJECT FAILURE as a
Commission

HAROLD MONTEAU writes in INDIAN COUNTRY TODAY  AGAIN about the failures of the NATIONAL INDIAN GAMING COMMISSION 

The greatest threat to tribal sovereignty is the failure of tribes to abide by the laws they have made to govern themselves when the application of those laws do not give individuals or governing bodies the result they desire. Observing the Rule of Law only when it suits your needs or desires is actually lawlessness. It is no excuse that we live in a country whose government has been drifting into lawlessness powered by the corrupting influence of money. Tribal nations need to rise above and set and keep a higher standard.

These are dangerous times for Indian tribes with tribal sovereignty and sovereign immunity under fire, sometimes because of abuses by the tribes themselves. Employing tribal sovereign immunity to victimize and disenroll tribal members is just one of those abuses, sometimes aided by the inaction of the Federal trustee which has trust obligations to Indian tribes and their aggregate individual Indian members.

Like the rest of Indian Country, I have followed with interest how a small faction of Nooksack ‘leadership,’ and its non-Indian and Indian surrogates, have gutted the entire Nooksack Tribal Government and Tribal Courts in the process of disenrolling about 300 Nooksack Indians from the tribe, in an attempt to maintain control by what is known as the Holdover Council. After a long history of having turned its back on thousands of disenrolled Indians and flouting its trust responsibility to disenrolled Indians for decades, the United States has finally said enough is enough. It will not recognize a tribal decision to disenroll some 300 tribal members by a tribal council sitting in violation of its own constitution and laws.

READ the full article a the link above and more about the NIGC HERE

Nooksack Judge Ray Dodge Asked to RESIGN from NAICJA For Conduct Unbecoming, NON Compliance of ICRA

More embarrassment for the Nooksack Tribe and it's unelected, null and void council. The new judge, RAY DODGE, they installed to their court, after the previous judge, Susan Alexander ruled against their wished, has now been asked to RESIGN from the National American Indian Court Judges Association

MONEY QUOTE:  In sum, NAICJA does not view your Nooksack Tribal Court judicial appointment as valid. Further, while you have occupied the position of Chiefe Judge at Nooksack, proceedings do not appear to have been conducted in compliance with the federal ICRA or fundamental tenets of tribal due process at law.    
OP:  That's gonna leave a mark....and give the Department of Justice some leverage.

03 27 17 NAICJA Letter to Raymond Dodge by Original Pechanga on Scribd

Nooksack Chairman Bob Kelly Put On Notice of Contract Recision and ReAssumption

EPIC FAIL at NOOKSACK

Since March 2016, the Nooksack tribe has NOT had a duly elected council. Here The Department of Health and Human Service puts Nooksack Chairman BOB KELLY on notice that they will be reassuming services after their failure to provide services to those unlawfully disenrolled (Nooksack 306). We have that embedded here:

03 27 17 IHS Reasssumption Letter to Robert Kelly Jr by Original Pechanga on Scribd

#StopDisenrollment

NOOKSACK BUSINESS COUNCIL: LOSERS on APPEAL

WHO is the Nooksack attorney?
Appeals court MIC DROPS the Nooksack Tribe's attempt to say the court has NO JURISDICTION in bold below and linked here  SILENCE from Sen Maria Cantwell on this abusing tribe

Our Supreme Court's decision is binding on remand. Notably, NBC filed a
counterclaim for declaratory relief.57  It would be incongruous for NBC to assert the trial court had jurisdiction to grant its declaratory claim but lacked the jurisdiction to deny it.

UPDATE! NOOKSACK People to Hold Meeting to TAKE BACK THEIR TRIBE from Kelly Faction's Corruption

After months of Bob Kelly and some council members maintaining positions PAST their expiration date, it appears the NOOKSACK people are working to TAKE BACK THEIR TRIBE.   We've written about the corruption of the Bob Kelly Faction....now, it looks like tribal citizens are at the end of their rope,  From a Facebook post.   THIS EFFORT has NOTHING TO DO With the Nooksack 306 issue.

Dear Nooksack People,

By now you have heard rumors that there is going to be an Emergency General Council Meeting on July 14th at the Deming Logging Show. The rumor is true. Please attend! The time is NOW! The plan is to discuss holding an election to fill the 4 seats for Vice Chairman, Treasurer, and the 2 councilman positions. 

We want to hear from you--the people. You are the VOICE! This ex-councils position was to listen to the voice of the people. The people are the ones who VOTED them in. The people are the ones with the POWER to vote them out. 

NOOKSACK Tribal Court Clerk REFUSING U.S. MAIL Filings

The Nooksack Court Clerk has now "REFUSED"  U.S. Mail-filings from 306 

(1) the Court of Appeals
(2) the Tribal Court
(3) the Tribal Court Judge. Recall she has "REJECTED"  in-person filings.

These "REFUSED" mail-filings included response papers as to why the Clerk should be held in contempt of the Appeals Court's rulings.

STAY TUNED for MORE injustice at Nooksack

1800 GET SCREWED Nooksack Tribe Won't Do Disenrollment TO YOUR FACE:

Got this from the Nooksack 306 who have been fighting the corruption of Bob Kelly.. 

BOB KELLY, AGRIPINA SMITH, RICK GEORGE, Katherine Canete, ROBERT SOLOMAN are some of the council members.

We don’t need to look you in the eye while we violate your rights to confront your accusers.

360 592 5164 is the number of the Nooksack Tribal Office, call and leave a message as to what you think of their cowardice.

Nooksack Tribal Leaders Bob Kelly FIRES Accounting Staff. Also VIOLATES Tribal Court's Ruling on Support Checks for 306

From the Nooksack 306 Facebook Page:

Not only has the Kelly Faction violated the Tribal Court's ruling by refusing to cut Christmas support checks to the 306 families, but today they fired the Tribe's accounting staff. 

On a day when the Tribe was closed, the Kelly Faction had the Tribal Police deliver all of the employees' belongings to their homes. Bob Kelly and his followers will stop at nothing!  But in the end, they WILL be held accountable. 

Fundraiser For Nooksack 306 in Tacoma WA. Please Share with Your NorthWest Friends

Here is a good chance for all to get some good food, learn about the issues with the Nooksack 306 and help fight against disenrollment.  Please share on twitter.  

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LEARN MORE ABOUT what the NOOKSACK TRIBE is doing:

http://www.originalpechanga.com/2013/09/nooksack-306-march-against-their.html

http://www.originalpechanga.com/2013/09/nooksack-306-will-have-idle-no-more.html

http://www.originalpechanga.com/2013/04/ethnic-cleansing-in-indian-country-in.html

http://www.originalpechanga.com/2013/08/nooksack-tribal-court-of-appeals-has.html

Kevin Washburn, BIA, Has Open Letter from NOOKSACK 306

Assistant Secretary Kevin Washburn was sent a letter from the Nooksack 306, the latest embarrassment to Indian Country with pending disenrollment from the Nooksack Tribe of Washinton State.
It is TIME for the BIA and the Senate Indian Affairs Committee, headed by Senator Cantwell to take a look at the violations of civil and human rights in Indian Country.

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Good Afternoon,

I am writing in regards to a couple of actions that the Nooksack Tribeis taking against enrolled Tribal members.

On August 28th, 2013 a letter was sent to a couple of tribal members informing them that they are no longer being considered eligible for housing because enrollment status is not certain. The certainty of
this these tribal members as of today is that are recognized by the federal government as an enrolled tribal member.

Also, at the end of August enrolled tribal members, recognized by the federal government were denied the return to school funds. It is unclear if these funds were taken from the JOM funds, but members were asked to complete that form.

In my opinion I believe these actions are clearly in violation of the rights, if not other violations of the members needing housing and the children that were excluded from receiving funds.

In your positions of being advocates for all tribal members I respectfully ask that you investigate the legitimacy of these actions.

Sincerely,
Michelle Roberts
Nooksack Tribal member #880