Posted on 05/16/2012 7:19:02 AM PDT by BenLurkin
Dances with Slot Machines. Just think! In 100 years, the ground where these casinos stood will be considered “sacred” ground.
An Indian chief named Bob Smith is complaining about someone else's blood line? This is about the dough.
Now that has a ring to it.
Love of wampum is the root of all evil...
It is the ultimate punishment - there is no appeal for disenrollment, no authority other than the tribe itself. The standards applied to disenroll these two clans can be applied to even more families in the tribe, hence the very muted response on both reservations - first, there's the increase in tribal checks, but second, protest too loudly, and the ax could come down on you.
The biggest irony is that the Pala family was the one which fought so hard to prevent a full scale casino from being built on the reservation, stating that once it is built, the tribe will then start finding reasons to eject members to increase the take for those who remain.
As for San Manuel - their tactic is to delay enrollment for the children of tribal members, a delay that becomes even longer if a family has more children. And Morongo has already told some tribal members that if they have any more children, they too could find themselves on the bus to Pechanga, a reference, of course, to the disenrollment.
Let's have them elect their own tribal leaders who can interpret and administer these goodies. They would have a built-in incentive to kick as many out of the tribe as possible.
The people thus excluded might be bitter enough to leave the reservation, get an education, get jobs and contribute to the government revenue flow by contributing taxes rather than consuming them.
This worked pretty darn well for my father's people. We're now into the third and forth generations and, as far as I can count, there isn't a single bed-wetting liberal among us.
Gomez says that congress must amend the Indian Civil Rights Act to allow courts to hear the cases.
I'm not saying Mr. Gomez does or doesn't have a legitimate beef. But that's a very interesting solution he is proposing.
He's asking the Federal Government to overrule the Tribal Council and thereby effectively dissolve its sovereignty by said overrule.
The bennies the Tribal Council distributes are generated based on its sovereign immunity from the very courts to which Mr. Gomez is seeking relief from the rules of the Tribal Council. So, in the unlikely event he is successful, the entire tribal structure could come crashing down.
I think I have the name of a new band right there!
Sounds like what the Creek Indians did to my niece and nephews. My sister (now deceased) married a Creek Indian and later the tribe disowned the 3 kids them because they weren’t 100% pure Creek.
Thus they can’t take a share of the casino cash.
So let me get this straight. I am supposed to care what someone who doesn't know the difference between "Your" and "You're" thinks?
Some tribes are already in a bind when it comes to determining who is qualified to be a member. Their namesm (or the names of their ancestors) are on the Dawes Rolls. Even there they have problems with Indians marrying into the tribe and leaving descendants with less than 1/32 Cherokee (for example), even though they might be substantially more Indian than most Cherokees.
Pechanga was named by a white trapper/trader named (I believe) Jedediah Smith. The original Pechanga is actually located in Nikel Oblast in Russia. It's a river in the Sapma, or Sa'ami homeland ~ belonging, in general, to the Skolt tribe.
I still haven't figured out why Jedediah named the place. The Indians are mistreating the name and should be forced to quit using it.
Are there actually 100% Creek people?
I knew a guy in college, whose grandmother was said to be 100% Creek. He looked it, except that he Robert Goulet blue eyes. He was extremely good looking, with those blue eyes, high cheek bones, black hair and dark skin.
I wonder if he’s getting money for being a Creek.
They looked pretty doggone Indian ~ may be some schisms in Creekdom!
They should just go broke, like my wife’s tribe — Mescalaro Apache.
She’s 100%, born on reservation, Apache who came back to be the town doctor.
The only thing we’ve ever gotten is free ski lift tickets.
What does a Creek look like? I thought that my friend looked like an Indian, except for his blue eyes.
Some tribes exist because of treaty obligations.
Others because of political expediency and only casual connections to tribes recognized due to treaty obligations.
There really isn't a consistent across the board approach when you get down to evaluating the smallest of tribes, which are typical in California.
There isn't even total consistency among the larger tribes (Navajo, Sioux, Cherokee), but you get much more of it.
The west coast tribes, in particular, suffered the fewest deprivations from the white man (with the possible exception of the Utes and Navajos, but that was more a function of their religious white neighbors) but are among the greatest beneficiaries in scooping up bennies which tribal recognition makes possible. That, and the large concentration of paleface neighbors to patronize their casinos and gas stations.
More then just the Tribal Council for his own tribe, what he’s proposing would destroy the sovereignty of EVERY tribe in the US that has it.
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