Dear Ms. Rivera-Hernandez,
In addition to the information drafted in the group petition below, I would like to add information pertaining to my personal experience working with Sara Dutschke.
I worked with Mrs. Dutschke on a series of projects through a prominent Indian Law research group.
In addition, prior to her membership with the Ione Band of Miwok Indians, Mrs. Dutschke introduced herself as being of white and African American descent. During traditional introductions she would offer the disclaimer “Although I am not American Indian…” While working with the BIA she participated in a surreptitious agreement in which she used her position at the BIA to establish herself as an Ione Band tribal member, in return for expediting the Casino development process, and leading to her long term financial gain from the Ione Tribe.
Sara Dutschke's track record of corruption and conflicts of interest are well known throughout Indian Country, and her presence on the Commission will only cause further harm to the Native population of California.
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I object to the appointment of Sara Dutschke, a nonIndian to the Native American Heritage Commission. She does not have the trust or interest of Native people and would actually harm rather than benefit Native people in their quest to promote equity in native communities. She has already created disunity and destroyed native families by arbitrarily recommending disenrollment of many legitimate enrolled members. It is imperative to promote native persons who actually are familiar with the process of the Native American people and Federally and non Federally recognized tribes to the Native American Heritage Commission. I strongly disagree with the selection of this person who is not aware or knowledgeable and will undoubtedly destroy Native families and tribes and the legality of their future positions within their tribes.
Sara became Pala's Lawyer though her Aunt Amy, Regional Director BIA Sacramento, because Robert and Amy are friends. They manipulated the Tribe over the years to take advantage of members' lack of knowledge of tribal laws, and in turn helped give complete control to Robert Smith to disenroll a huge family. A family who has proven their blood degree over and over. A family who has been continually part of Pala since they were forced there from Warners. Sara, Pala's lawyer, was paid to destroy the people she worked for, she was supposed to protect, instead she helped to destroy hundreds of people and their families, emotionally and mentally,still affected by it everyday. We have been put through hell for no other reason than greed. And she showed the Chairman how to do it without recourse. She does not care for individual members, only tribal leaders who give her money or enroll her. Please do not appoint her to the Native American Heritage Commission, she will disgrace the ancestors and cause harm to true heritage and it's future.
Sara is not a real Native as she only looks out for herself and can careless about other natives u less it benefits her or makes her look better. She did not grow up with other natives as she does not know our ways or family, community, and pride as a whole not the self pride which she only knows. Sara is not the one who should occupy such a position. Sara has brought shame to the Native community by here work with Robert Smith and helping him accomplish his years long personal agenda of changing tribal members blood degree and using fake documents to do so. These were carried out against Robert Smith enemies King Freeman and Willy Pinks families with help from Sara. She deliberately hurt tribal members and can not be trusted to look out for other tribal members.
Thank you for sharing
There should not be a legit reason to have someone who has no conscience to what she did to the Brittain Family! We stand together here to show the dishonorable people, Robert and Sara have done! Disgrace, disloyal is what we only see in this tunnel vision!
This all comes down to our ancestors. What a shame they truly are!
Dutschke makes Margarita Brittain cry.
Who in their right mind would nominate this destroyer of Indians to a Native American Heritage Council? This wannabe Indian is deceitful and conniving! She only joined Ione Miwoks so she could get rich from tribal gaming. She is on California Tribal Business Alliance, where tribal officers go to learn how to steal from their people. Just look at Leslie Lohse of Paskenta in her orange jumpsuit, the former Treasure of CTBA to see where Sara Dutschke buys her ethics. Reject this assignment post haste and find someone with ethics instead of someone who has been in the pocket of Robert Smith since she left the BIA.
The single most harmful practice in Indian Country is disenrollment. Tribes have a right to determine membership, but this should occur at the application stage and not affect already enrolled members. This was the point of Santa Clara Pueblo v. Martinez, tribes can set their own enrollment policies and the Federal Government should not interfere with their political self-determination.
Attorneys and judges have extended the legal purview of the enrollment process to include protection of tribal leaders that wish to terminate the citizenship of already enrolled members. This is causes great damage to the community, and destroys the heritage of tribes. Sara Dutschke is at the forefront of this movement to damage communities and destroy tribal heritage. It is a twisted form of revisionist history to go into the past and change long-standing determinations of enrollment.
This appointee cannot be allowed to contaminate the NAHC with the immoral opinion that tribal leaders need not obtain the consent of the members to remove them from the polity and thereby deny them recourse to illicit actions. Disenrolled members have their rights to participate in the tribe revoked! They cannot bring corrective action against those who removed them.
We all must work to oppose this enemy of Indians!
IF CONGRESS WOULD GET OFF OF THEIR LAZY ASSES,
AND MAKE THE RIGHT DECISIONS CONCERNING THE CORRUPTION IN INDIAN COUNTRY AND THE ILLEGAL
DISENROLLMENTS BY THE CORRUPT LEADERS WE COULD ALL BE HAPPY AGAIN.
Would you share Robert’s last name?
We have been affected both by Sara’s work with the non-natives that she represents who stole our Tribal Identity at Shingle Springs, and now her dirty work breaking ground for a casino being built outside of Ione Miwok Land and instead on our Ancestral Nisenan Territory. She is doing this from Ione, the tribe where she and Amy Dutschke took over the tribal government years ago. Amy opened the Ione rolls and added 70 BIA office members and Dutschke family members that have now ballooned to 700!!!!! and removed the traditional board. Amy Dutschke did this dirty work from her position at the BIA.
Word is they had a family member who was “supposedly” heading our federal recognition application for the last 20 years, move grave markers on a very old family cemetery of ours in Plymouth, and where Ione is now building the mega casino.
When I called Amador county to request the FEIR for the casino project 3 years ago, a project that had already been in court for 20 years, the county said that Ione was refusing or ignoring to submit and it sat for all of those 20 years, but that they would really like to get their hands on it as well.
Of course now the FEIR shows up! I’ve not had a chance to get a copy but will soon.
Side note: a completely unrelated Italian LLC held that Plymouth property for Dutschke/BIA for that entire 20 year time period. I believe he is linked to the mob, but have not yet found evidence.
Fast forward to 2024 and the 20 year case against them was not taken up at the Supreme Court, so they’ve begun breaking ground. How does this SH** happen?
Word now is that the Imposter Shingle Springs and Sara are paying their dues to our family member Cosme for messing with the gravesites and having meetings with him - after he disenrolled all of the actual members from his “rolls”. He even disenrolled his own family members. (Sound like the work if someone we know?)
This past year Regina Cuellar, the Chair of the Imposter Single Springs, announced that they purchased a piece of land that lies within their ancestral Territory of “PASUNE” in downtown Sacramento. And Regina so much as admitted she is not us. (Many of us know their family history and they have attempted to change their identity over and over, but they may have one historical Passune Ancestor). She admitted she is not us.
So, I recently attended and spoke at the California Truth and Healing Council held at their Red Hawk Casino. I tried to come in a good way and to still speak on these the truth on the atrocities taking place. I started by saying, “we all know there is conflict on this land. Red Hawk Casino lies within our families Ancestral Territory, the land you built in our name. Your people now know what it is to be know and protect a piece of your Ancestral Land (Pasune), so where do we go from here”. I then welcomed them to come to the table with our people to find solutions. And guess who they’ve reached to! Cosme, who did their dirty work.
She and her aunt took over Ione’s government by force and are building a casino on our family land yet she is on the board for NHAC?
She and her Aunt may have had graves moved or markers moved. How does this happen?
She s as nd her aunt have disenrolled historical tribal members all over! California
All of these crimes from Casino Tribes are those about to become casino tribes.
Please excuse any typos etc. I’m trying to post this from my cell phone.
My prayers go out to all those affected by this criminal mob. I suggest we have a gathering of tribes affected and work together with legal council to send these criminals to jail and restore Indigenous Justice.
Laura3510@gmail.com
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