ROB BISHOP: HOUSE COMMITTEE on NATURAL RESOURCES Chairman and Assignments

Today, House Committee on Natural Resources Chairman Rob Bishop (R-UT) announced subcommittee chairmen and assignments for the 115th Congress. Chairman Bishop issued the following statement:

“This Congress presents a rare opportunity to advance new and better policies for taxpayers. We’ve spent the time to identify the right team of leaders to build upon prior successes and advance creative ideas in this new environment to benefit people. From empowering states, tribes and local communities to enhancing land, water, energy and resource management, and in partnership with new executive leadership, I am proud to make these announcements and eager to tackle the important work before the committee.”

Subcommittee on Indian, Insular and Alaska Native Affairs:

Doug LaMalfa, Chairman
Don Young
Jeff Denham

Senate Panel APPROVES Rep. Ryan Zinke to Serve as Secretary of the Interior.

Photo office of Rep. Zinke

Senate panel approves President Donald Trump's pick of Montana Rep. Ryan Zinke to serve as Interior secretary.



From Native Sun News:

BIA DIRECTOR AMY DUTSCHKE: Should She Be the First of MANY to Be Terminated

I've been asked to put together a list of stories about current CA Regional Director of the Bureau of Indian Affairs Amy Dutschke.  A petition is being written to ask for a full housecleaning?  PLEASE take a look at ALL the links.

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BIA Director Dutschke's Conflict of Interest  show her helping her family at Wilton Rancheria

ZUCKERBERG halts SUITS Against NATIVE HAWAIIAN. LAND GRAB over

Mark Zuckerberg is officially dropping the lawsuits he filed against hundreds of Hawaiians that would compel them to sell their inherited "kuleana" land.

Zuckerberg and his wife Priscilla Chan announced the news in an open letter printed in the Kauai newspaper The Garden Island on Friday.

U.S Attorney Looking to SETTLE San Pasqual Descendant Lawsuit and Provide JUSTICE

The true San Pasqual descendants have been royally screwed by the Bureau of Indian Affairs and the United States.  We've reported about the lawsuit filed against BIA,  and now there's an ....inkling of positive news.

From a San Pasqual faction FB Page (REZTALK) here's what attorney Alexandra McIntosh, who has been working extremely hard to support the rights of San Pasqual people harmed by those with NO blood of the band:

UPDATED Wilton Rancheria and City of Elk Grove Celebrate CASINO Prematurely. The Issue is NOT Settled at ALL

While the City of Elk Grove and Mayor Steve LY are mesmerized by dollars signs from the proposed Wilton Rancheria Casino, it seems the champagne corks they are popping is a tad...premature.  As we see in this letter:

What the city doesn't mention that the issue is FAR FROM SETTLED. Why would the city MISLEAD their citizens?  If they start lying NOW, wait until later, when they talk about traffic concerns, "no significant increase" in criminal activity and it's good for us.

Natives NOW Concerned About Possible TERMINATION Because of TRUMP? After being AWOL on Disenrollment.

REALLY, now that TRUMP is President, (don't say WE didn't warn you) here comes the concern about loss of federal recognition?

Where the f**k you been?

 

While THOUSANDS of us have already been TERMINATED via disenrollment. And tribes were wielding sovereignty like a cudgel to bludgeon the opposition, where was the concern?

Counter Current has this story up:


Saglutupiaġataq’s administration apparently began mobilizing to pursue the privatization of Indian lands as early as October 2016 with the formation of his 27 member Native American Affairs Coalition. The Coalition is chaired by “Cherokee” pretendian Rep. Markwayne Mullin. Like the termination policy of more than 60 years ago, the Coalition contends that impoverished tribes are saddled by federal regulations that stymie self-reliance and prosperity. Tribal lands should be privatized, it argues, so that American Indians can pursue development projects that lift them out of poverty. 

The termination era of 1953 to 1968 shows us that tribal lands and thus tribal governments, peoples, and cultures remain vulnerable to the whims of Congress. There is a strong possibility that American Indians may soon be fighting against a renewed and calculated assault on their political, cultural and spiritual existence.


Be vigilant for ALL abuses, not just from our blowhard President.  Stand up for THOSE who have been harmed by their own tribal councils.

Read and SHARE this POST:  Comprehensive details of Disenrollment

Nooksack Tribes Kelly HOLDOVER COUNCIL Subject of RICO Lawsuit

This could be the plan of attack for all tribes that have used their membership to garner federal dollars, and then not inform the government that they are out, or continuing to deny benefits to those under disenrollment actions, while still "counting them" as members to enrich the tribe or themselves:

Nooksack Protesters to the Criminal Actions of the
Bob Kelly Faction.

READ the SUIT HERE:

Since at least March 2016, Defendants Kelly, George, Smith, Solomon, Johnson, and Canete (collectively, “Holdover Council Defendants”) have falsely behaved and represented themselves as the Nooksack Indian Tribe (“Tribe”) or Nooksack Indian Tribal Council (“NITC”).
RICO Defendants’ acts and omissions were deliberate and part of a scheme that began by December 2015 to defraud Plaintiffs of money, property, and benefits of monetary value by depriving them of Tribal citizenship through false pretenses and representations. 

CALL YOUR ATTORNEYS Disenrolled...and SHARE this with your teams. Oh, no wait...just sit back and don't get involved....that's a better plan right?

Statement of Standing Rock Sioux Tribe David Archambault on Trump Approval of DAPL and Rep. Steve King (R-Doofus)

Contrast with Rep. Steve King (IA)

"I don’t find a legitimate reason for the protesters to be there. I mean they’re arguing that there might be Native American artifacts under the lake (Oahe), and the only way you get into the lake is to bore down through there to put the pipeline underneath the lake. So I think that they’ve taken a stand on something that is not a principled stand at all."

HONOR the EARTH....find another way.

Republican Native Americans Jostling for Positions in the new TRUMP Administration

WHICH one, will protect the individual Indian?

It wasn't that long ago when  all the discussion was on who HILLARY's choice for Native American advisers was the discussion.  Most people, including me thought she'd blow and GOP, including Trump out of the water..nope, she was a disappointing candidate at best.  But at least HOLLY COOK MACARRO didn't get into a position of power...

Rob Capriccioso has a post up in Indian Country Media Network on the REPUBLICAN Natives jockeying for position.   Carlyle Begay Navajo and former GOP congressman from AZ, seems to have a leg up, as White House adviser, but from comments on some Facebook pages, seems to have drawn the ire of many leftist Natives.

But what about AS - IA candidates?


PLEASE SAY NO TO CARL ARTMAN, he was HORRIBLE to those of us looking for justice.

Here are some other candidates, what is your opinion?

Jerry Ward - a former Alaska state senator, who was called on by the Trump transition team to become a tribal liaison in the fall.

Jana McKeag, a Cherokee Nation citizen with extensive federal and legal Indian policy experience;

Gavin Clarkson, a Choctaw citizen with an esteemed background in academia focused largely on tribal economic policy and development.

WILL ANY support and protect the thousands of individual Indian people from throughout Indian Country have been victimized by arbitrary and unjust acts of tribal officials?

Supreme Court DENIES Review in Aguayo v. Jewell Case of BIA FAILURE of Trust Responsibility

Sad news in Aguayo v. Jewell the Supreme Court Denies review of 9th Circuit Court of Appeals ruling in Aguayo v. Jewell

Read more about the Aguayo Case Here  and we wrote about the EPIC FAILURE of the BIA in the matter  HERE

President Trump to MOVE FOREWARD on #DAPL

From Sean Spicer's Press Conference:

HILLARY would have done it too...

"I'm not going to get in front of the President's executive actions," Mr Spicer said, "but I will tell you that areas like the Dakota and Keystone pipeline areas that we can increase jobs, increase economic grown, and tap into America's energy supply. That's something that he's been very clear about."

Raise your hands if you thought it would be different?  Yeah, me neither. 

NORTH DAKOTA wants it, at least, their politicians do.

However, North Dakota congressman Kevin Cramer said Mr Trump could easily overturn the Environmental Impact Study (EIS), ordered by Mr Obama, that prompted the denial of permit.

“With the Dakota Access Pipeline, I would expect ... that the EIS will be rescinded," he told a Fox radio affiliate in Fargo.  "I expect [the EIS] will be rescinded quickly, that the easement [to drill under Lake Oahe] will be ordered and issued, you know, maybe as early as Monday. And I would expect that Dakota Access could begin finishing that line within a week. That’s my hope, and that’s my expectation."

NOOKSACK TRIBAL ELECTIONS: SURPRISE KELLY FACTION Wins!

The BIA has already declared this NULL AND VOID.

Amazing what a tribe can do when they control the votes via disenrollment.

This election means nothing and changes nothing. The BIA, HUD and IHS are all still going to take over programs and services in March 2017.  Will the new Justice Department look into the violations of civil rights?

WILL THE BIA KEEP their SPINE STIFF?  Remember the NOOKSACK TRIBAL COURTS WORDS?
THIS COURT THEREFORE FEELS COMPELLED TO RECOGNIZE THE LAST COURT ORDER BEARING ON THIS ISSUE THAT WOULD BE RECOGNIZED AS VALID BY THE UNITED STATES GOVERNMENT, AND THAT ORDER IS THE ORDER OF THE NOOKSACK COURT OF APPEALS AT ISSUE HEREIN  

Pechanga Indian Reservation: Travel Opinion Piece A Casino, Some History and DISENROLLMENT

An opinion piece in the Inland Empire Community News gets the story out about disenrollments while ostensibly discussing travel  BY G.W. Abershold PhD.  He gets some history incorrect, but it's good to have it okur ther

The Pechanga Resort and Casino is an Indian Casino on the Pechanga Indian Reservation in Temecula, California. It is the largest casino in the State of California. With 3,400 slot machines and about 188,000 sq. feet of gaming space.

Stella and I joined a bus load of people from the Highland Senior Center the other day for the Pechanga Casino. One hour to get there and one and a half to come home-traffic was bad.