21st Century genocide of Chukchansi Indians
From For All Nations, a regular contributor at www.pechanga.info and the forum there. Come take a look.
Sad to say, most of the tribes violating the tribal, civil, and human rights of their people through moratorium and/or disenrollment ARE violating their tribal constitutions... for instance, at picayune there is no clause for--or mention of--disenrollment at all in the constitution...and even though the tribe was required to hold quarterly meetings of the membership according to the constitution, the tribal council just quit holding these meetings at all...this allowed a very small and vocal (read threatening and intimidating) group of tribal members who attended the monthy tribal council meetings, in this case the distributees and their descendants designated in the tilley-hardwick decision--to control every decision that was made.
these people demanded those they decried as "illegal aliens" be disenrolled...and they were.... following the disenrollments, the "new" enrollment committee at picayune then illegally enrolled at least 70 people early this year--even though these people were supposedly in moratorium, and were without approval of the tribal council (which is also required by the constitution)--and these 70 people remain illegally enrolled today while over 600 legally enrolled, BIA record verified as chukchansi, (previous) tribal council approved tribal citizens remain disenrolled....
It seems that any tribe desiring to violate their members simply twists their tribal constitution interpretation against them when it is convenient, and then ignores or blatantly violates that same tribal constitution whenever that suits their purposes as well... and each change within the tribal council at election time brings the possibility of a different interpretation of the constitution, interpretations which tribes are increasingly utilizing in an ex post facto manner in order to steal the very birthright of their own people...their own blood... not to mention that virtually all of the tribal constitutions were written by cils (california indian legal services), and have absolutely nothing to do with the customs and traditions of the tribe itself...just another tool of genocide which the tribal governments themselves are too blinded by greed to realize that they are actually uilizing in truly destroying their own culture and history...
3 comments:
for all nations
well said
i do believe that in the near future there will not be any
Native American's left in those tribes.
After all the disenrolling, banishments and moratiums are completed, all you will have left are the corrupt "phony indians"
no customs, traditions or language
it simply cannot survive.
For all your relations sake,
keep fighting and bring on the truth.
The ousted Picayune members are weak. We never hear much about them, they are not very outspoken.
How does passivity get them what they want or deserve?
Why would politicians want to, or rather feel the need to do what is RIGHT?
Some of the statements in your post are very inaccurate. This is not an attack on you personally but the facts should be spoken as they really are. You wrote: "this allowed a very small and vocal (read threatening and intimidating) group of tribal members who attended the monthy tribal council meetings, in this case the distributees and their descendants designated in the tilley-hardwick decision--to control every decision that was made." This is not the case at all. The distributees were actually disenrolled themselves for 10 years, illegally!!! They have no voice in the tribe at all. The founders of the tribe are voiceless and those now in power love it. Those in power are there through corruption & twisting the meaning of a poorly written constitution. The distributees know what the essence of the constitution is. Yet they are ignored because those in power don't like the answers. Just because someone is Chukchansi does not mean they are from Picayune. To qualify for enrollment you need to be a "Distributee" Or a Chukchansi with alottment lands, or you need to be Chukchansi with a "Special Relationship" to the tribe, Being of Chukchansi blood only does not qualify a person for enrollment. These 2 loosely written words "special relationship" are the root cause of the enrollment crisis. The distributees know the essence of these words, they were the ones there when the constitution was drafted. Those in power ignore this fact because it does not fit into their plans.
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