Tribal Disenrollment: UPDATE: GRANDE RONDE General Council ADVISED to FOLLOW the LAW: Reinstate Chief Tumulth Descendants

Hearing word from the Grand Ronde community that at their meeting yesterday, they got some sage advice from the Tribal Council's lead attorney ROB GREENE on the Chief Tumulth's descendants decision:

COMPLY with the ruling of the APPELLATE COURT

That would seem to make things much easier during the enrollment committee meeting today.  Please ....stay tuned and pray that they do the right thing.

Here's part of that ruling:
"In light of the undisputed facts regarding the 27 year unreasonable delay in the tribe bringing this action and the reasonably anticipated prejudice and harm that petitioners would suffer if the tribe were allowed to proceed with this disenrollment action we hold that laches prevents the tribe and enrollment committee/board from so proceeding," Robert J. Miller, a member of the Eastern Shawnee Tribe who serves as chief justice of the Grand Ronde appeals court, wrote in the 22-page opinion...

Why is it so difficult to DO THE RIGHT THING?
UPDATE:  REPORTS coming in that the ENROLLMENT COMMITTEE has DONE THE RIGHT THING and brought the Chief Tumulth Descendant BACK on the TRIBAL ROLLS...STAY TUNED for more details. 

United Auburn Indian Community THIEF gets EIGHT YEARS. TRIBES that STEAL from their PEOPLE get FREE PASS

STEAL from TRIBE, you get JAIL.  If Tribes steal from their People...BUPKIS

Prison time for Money Launderer

A key player in a multi-million-dollar fraud scheme targeting the Auburn-based tribe that owns Thunder Valley Casino has been sentenced to an eight-year, six-month prison term.

Bart Wayne Volen, 54, of San Diego was sentenced in U.S. District Court in Sacramento on convictions of conspiring to launder money that was fraudulently obtained from the United Auburn Indian Community and filing false tax information.

At sentencing Thursday, Judge Troy Nunley told Volen that he had stolen from people who had become like family members to the former construction manager of the tribal school and office complex at Indian Hill Road and Auburn Folsom Road in Auburn.


“Bart Volen and his co-defendants used their trusted positions to steal millions of dollars from the UAIC,” said IRS Special Agent Michael Batdorf. “Rather than stopping the fraud, Mr. Volen chose to benefit from it.”

Remember when  United Auburn used THEIR trusted positions and  banished their own people and stole their per capita?   We do

Dora Jones UNSEATED in Chukchansi Elections, A Sign of Good Things to Come?

Dora Jones and Nokomis Hernandez, incumbent members of the Picayune Rancheria of Chukchansi Indians tribal council, were ousted in an election Saturday night.

Their replacements are Heather Airey and Patrick Hammond, two of 17 tribal members who challenged for three seats on the seven-member council.

Incumbent Tom Walker retained his seat.

Dora Jones had been REMOVED FROM COUNCIL BEFORE  and this is a sign of potentially good things 

Tribal disenrollee Cathy Cory commented on the election results:

It must be remembered that Dora jones, and the remaining three holdovers on council--Morris Reid, Dixie Jackson, and Harold Hammond--all were responsible for the mass disenrollments at picayune in 2006-2007 as PRCI tribal council members at that time....until and unless they accept their responsibility in the destruction at Picayune, make amends for this, and bring all people home the circle will remain broken....

Patrick Hammond is an interesting addition to the council, as he also needs to make amends to those disenrolled at picayune in 2006-2007, as he was the enrollment chairman at that time, presented at and participated in the disenrollment "hearings" of these people, and proceeded with the arbitrary and capricious disenrollment of hundreds of chukchansi people. If he truly wants to serve the people of Picayune, he needs to start with making amends to the huge number of Chukchansi people disenrolled with his willing assistance by advocating on this council to bring us ALL home--where WE BELONG!

UPDATE: Supreme Court to Decide Whether OFFENSIVE Names Like Redskins or Slants Can be Trademarked

The Supreme Court agreed Thursday to decide whether The Slants, an Asian American rock band from Portland, Ore., can trademark its name despite the government’s objection that it is an offensive term.

This clash between free speech and trademark protection has drawn wide attention in part because the Washington Redskins football team is locked in the same dispute.

NAVAJO CODE TALKERS

The outcome is likely to determine whether Washington’s NFL team will lose its trademark status. Native Americans have sued the team, contending the name Redskins is offensive and disparaging, and the government office agreed its trademark status should be withdrawn. The team has appealed that decision to the high court.

UPDATE:   The Supreme Court rejected an appeal by the Redskins, who hoped to reverse an earlier U.S. Patent and Trademark Office ruling that canceled the team’s trademarks based on a policy that “prohibits registration of marks that may disparage persons or bring them into contempt or disrepute.”

In their appeal, the Redskins cited a list of ridiculously offensive trademarks, including DUMB BLONDE beer, CRACKA AZZ SKATEBOARDS, WHITE GIRL WITH A BOOTY apparel and OH! MY NAPPY HAIR shampoo. The team argued the nickname was not offensive to Native Americans, even though the PTO canceled the team’s six trademarks at the request of Native American activists who found the term offensive and, by definition, “a ‘redskin’ is the scalped head of a Native American, sold, like a pelt, for cash.”

Bureau of Indian Affairs SUED for $89 Million for ViOLATIONS of ADMINISTRATIVE PROCEDURES ACT and BREACH of Fiduciary Duty

A long simmering complaint of the real San Pasqual Descendants is reaching it's boiling point.  And we have the complaint linked below. 

The Bureau of Indian affairs has wrongfully enrolled non-San Pasqual Indians to the San Pasqual tribe, which is destroying and eroding the culture and tradition of this great tribe.  Director Amy Dutschke seems to have put the BIA in an awkward position with failure to notify the true San Pasqual descendants. 55  pages of responsive documents received via FOIA show once again they never gave notice to the true San Pasqual descendants enrolled by the SAN PASQUAL TRIBE in 2005.   So WHAT were they trying to do?

The 90 or so plaintiffs contend that the BIA have statutory rights to be federally recognized as members of the tribe. They are filing the suit to protect those rights.

Indian Country Today Chooses APARTHEID Reservation Leader as One of 50 Faces of Indian Country

The estimable news site Indian Country Today has chosen Mark Macarro and his 2nd wife Holly Macarro as one of 2016's 50 Faces of Indian Country .  Well, as my cousin reminded me, Time Magazine chose Hitler as their man of the year, and Ayatollah Khomenei, too, so I guess there is precedent.  Disclosure:  I have been published in ICT , thank you very much.  

Holly and Mark Macarro

Now don't get all hot and bothered saying I compared Macarro to Hitler, get real. But Macarro is a tyrant, he does run an apartheid reservation, he does support segregation on the Temecula Indian Reservation.

Macarro is quoted in the glowing piece: 

“Our Payómkawichum/Luiseño Bands have endured much in the span of America’s history—especially when so many did so much to make us disappear,”

This is exceptionally rich, considering Macarro is responsible for making over 20% of the tribe DISAPPEAR, via disenrollment of two large families in 2004 and 2006.   

Holly Macarro has been working DILIGENTLY to steal water rights from reservation allottees that have been stripped of citizenship rights.  Effective? Not so much, as her attempts have been stalled by a few of us who had to stay at Holiday Inn Express, rather than the first class accommodations the $250,000 a year Pechanga pays her...uh, her firm.  So, it's been over $1 million..for failure.

Did the sand of time cloud the judgement of the ICT staff? Or was the NICE advertisement (pg.17) paid by Pechanga a factor?  

Mark Macarro, one of the 50 faces of Indian Country, but not a good face.

NOOKSACK Tribal Appeals Courts RULE: Galanda Broadman Must be Allowed to Practice in Tribal Court

I LOVE the smell of Justice in the Morning, it SMELLS like....VICTORY.

Law360 reports:  The Nooksack Tribal Court of Appeals on Wednesday said attorneys from Galanda Broadman PLLC must be allowed to practice in tribal court and represent members in a pending disenrollment battle, ruling a lower tribal court illegally denied them their right to challenge disbarment.

Gabriel S. Galanda, Anthony S. Broadman and Ryan D. Dreveskracht, who are seeking to represent disenrolled members of the tribe in another tribal court suit, haven’t been able to contest their disbarment, even after the appeals court previously found the tribe's chief of police in contempt for refusing to jail a clerk for the Nooksack Tribal Court who wouldn’t let the attorneys file their suit, according to the appeals court's order.

BOOM!

A three-judge panel ruled Wednesday that while it was unclear whether the attorneys have already been disbarred by the tribal council or disbarment proceedings are underway, the attorneys clearly had standing to bring their due process claims against the council.

Pechanga Injustice: Paulina Hunter's Descendant James Appel, Walks On at 65 Without A Tribe

Sad news this morning that our cousin, James  Appel, walked on.  James was a good Christian family man, who worked his entire life, part time the last few years as a locksmith. He raised three sons and he has two grandchildren. He had a fondness for astronomy, sharing it with his brother Kent. And he loved fishing, which he did with his brother Stan.  A longtime resident of Oregon, he would attend tribal meetings in Temecula, CA, something many resident members didn't do.

A sad loss for the family and another Paulina Hunter Descendant to DIE, without the justice of restoration to the rightful place in the tribe, thanks in large part to Pechanga Chairman Mark Macarro.

James used to comment frequently, under the nom de plume LUISENO.  One of his comments was so good, it deserved his own post.  I'm reprinting it here, in his honor.

Cousin Luiseno laid out how a "witch hunt" was started by a lie, perpetrated by Yolie McCarter and Basquez Crime Family Members.   The lies were easily disproved which should have halted all disenrollment activity.   Please read.

There were several statements that were stated as "fact" in the letter provided to the enrollment committee. This "information" was said to be enough to start the disenrollment process going.

1). They stated as a "fact" that a search of the public record revealed that Paulina Hunter never lived on the reservation, and that she was not on any of the reservation census records.

Tribal Disenrollment: Grand Ronde Council Thinks Courts Are ONLY Good When they RULE THEIR WAY?

Tribes like Grand Ronde LOVE Sovereignty, except when other tribes like Cowlitz exercise theirs.   And I'm sure they love the courts, when they rule THEIR WAY, instead of on the side of JUSTICE.

The Statesman Journal has the continuing story of the Chief Tumulth descendants, who were ruled as tribal members, yet the council has yet to re-install them as required.

On August 5, the tribal appeals court ordered that 66 of the 86 dis-enrolled individuals be re-enrolled; 13 of the 86 had dropped their appeals and seven had passed away during the process.

The decision by the appeals court sharply divided the tribe and became the center of campaigns throughout the reservation. Members of the enrollment board — a board separate from the council and charged with overseeing enrollment issues — came out publicly against reinstating the family. Tribal chairman Reyn Leno questioned the appeals court decision on social media and the August 31 council meeting where Anderson spoke descended into a heated debate over why the board had yet to act. Council members said they were removed from the process and the decision was for the enrollment board to make.

According to tribal counsel Robert Greene, the enrollment board is, in fact, responsible for handing the re-enrollment. However, the tribal council has stepped in before, according to councilman Chris Mercier. He said in 2013 council vice president Jack Giffen requested that the enrollment board meet outside of its schedule to re-enroll members of the tribe in time to vote. He was running for re-election at the time.

The enrollment board is not scheduled to meet until the end of the month, 16 days after the September 10 elections and 52 days after the appeals court ordered the family to be re-enrolled.

Grand Ronde officials declined to comment on the matter.

Does the issue become clearer?  We can't have these people VOTE! Who cares about disenfranchisement, as long as we WIN, right?   This council should join
SPITWAD    READ MORE at the Statesman link above, and color the Grand Ronde council.....deplorable

Reps. Ken Calvert, Jared Huffman and Duncan Hunter Letter on Pechanga STEALING Reservation Allottees Water Rights

Well, they've done it again.  Congressman Ken Calvert has literally carried Pechanga's Water Bill, which we've opposed for 6 years, now designated HR 5982, which will eliminate water rights to reservation allottees that live on the reservation, yet have been stripped from their tribal citizenship, and all rights included.

Apparently, Calvert doesn't care about civil and human rights abuses, the apartheid system on the reservation, not the segregation and elder abuses. Even the BIA's AMY DUTSCHKE admitted that we have RIGHTS. WE ARE STILL waiting to be informed, Mark Macarro intimated in a letter to the House Natural Resources committee that we were kept informed.  He LIED again...

I've published a letter just sent Reps. Calvert, Hunter, Ruiz and Huffman...Please consider sending a fax too.

Letter to Congressman Ken Calvert and Duncan Hunter OPPOSING HR 5982 Pechanga Water Rights Bill

Rep. RAUL RUIZ: Standing Rock Sioux Not Properly Consulted: Meanwhile Ruiz Supports Pechanga Tribe In Their THEFT of WATER

YOU CAN'T MAKE THIS STUFF UP and you won't see it on the OTHER Pechanga news site:
After traveling to North Dakota to see how a proposed oil pipeline might affect a local Sioux tribe, Rep. Raul Ruiz Rep. (D-Palm Desert) is asking for a congressional hearing to determine whether the Standing Rock Sioux were properly consulted before the Army Corps of Engineers approved permits for the project.

Meanwhile, back in his HOME STATE, Rep. Raul Ruiz is on board to support the THEFT of water rights to reservation allottees of the Temecula Indian Reservation.  He seems to conveniently forget  that the trust responsibility of the U.S. Government to INDIANS isn't just to the chiefs and chairmen.  It's to ALL native Americans. 

Pechanga Tribe needs WATER for 

Swimming Pools, not reservations allottees

HUNDREDS of Native Americans will have their water rights stolen if the Pechanga Water Rights Bill HR 5984 Passes.  We've been fighting for 6 years to be heard, to be consulted, to be recognized.  Either Rep. Ruiz is incompetent, or turning a blind eye.   I'm betting on the latter...you?

Native Rights Matter: Fundraiser Apparel Sale... Please, HELP!

We KNOW everyone can't come, but many more can HELP, via this fundraiser for NATIVE LIVES MATTER     Please, share with your friends....

HOODIE

Tees are also available.  Great to send to our Native Brothers and Sisters in Standing Rock...

GRAND RONDE Will GO TO US SUPREME COURT to VOID Sovereignty Rights of COWLITZ Tribe

Speaking out of both sides of their mouth, the Grand Ronde tribe, which abused its own people's rights via disenrollment of Chief Tumulth descendants, now seeks to abuse the sovereignty rights of the COWLITZ tribe.

From USAToday:

Oregon’s Grand Ronde tribe is appealing to the U.S. Supreme Court to halt construction of a 368,000-square-foot casino in La Center, Washington, after the U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals denied its request on July 29.

"The council has made the decision to approve an appeal to the U.S. Supreme Court," tribal attorney Rob Greene said. He expects to file this fall.

The tribe estimates it will lose 41 percent of its revenue if the Cowlitz tribe’s Ilani casino is permitted to open. Tribal officials said they are looking into other revenue sources in response to the estimate.

Currently, Grand Ronde gives 6 percent of the revenue from its Spirit Mountain Casino to the state through the Spirit Mountain Community Fund. According to the fund's grant archive, the tribe issued 34 grants totaling over $1.5 million in January. Recipients included the Center for Hope and Safety in Salem which received $75,000, and the Child Center which offers mental health services for children. It received $100,000. To date, the fund has given $71.6 million.

So, sovereignty is only good if it doesn't cut into revenues?

STANDING ROCK: EVEN CORRUPT TRIBAL LEADERS Take Time to Protest Desecration of Remains. NOT SO FAST Chairman Potter

Standing Rock is SO SERIOUS that even corrupt, despicable "leaders" like Redding Rancheria's JACK POTTER, took the time to attend the protest against the desecration of Native American REMAINS.

Jack Potter helped disenroll the family of the first tribal chairman...but NOT until AFTER they forced the Foreman family to desecrate their ancestor for DNA. YES digging up her remains.  Yet, he's in NDakota, to protect SIOUX ancestors from being desecrated....?

As Carla Maslin put it, It's like being RAPED, then going to the RAPIST for JUSTICE.. MR. CHAIRMAN, do MORE right THINGS...bring the FOREMAN'S home where they belong.

Jack Potter
Redding Rancheria Chair

From a Foreman family member's FB page.

Seriously this is the biggest joke Jack Potter helped disenroll My husband Bobby Foreman and his family from there Tribe Redding Rancheria Win River Casino and if it wasn't for my late Father in law Edward Foreman Sr (Bob) there would be no Tribe or Casino!

My heart aches for the Native Americans who fighting this injustice with the pipe line, but to have a person like Jack Potter going up there and saying he supports them in their injustice is a slap in the face for all of the Native Americans who going or gone through this kind of injustice. Shame on you Jack and Redding Rancheria Win River Casino you're so evil and corrupt, our family will never give up on the fight and justice is coming soon!

Many of you may not of heard of our story of injustice, back in 2004 my husband's family's civil rights were violated, they were kicked out of there tribe Redding Rancheria Win River Casino, go to our family's website and read what we have had to go through and are still going through. along with other Native Americans

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