This story came to me via American Indian Report blog email alerts. I chuckled a little at the vagueness of the motion, and the Council's unwillingness to be upfront about their reasoning. It is stuff like this that makes me wonder why tribes all seem to be going through the same things. Maybe it is just endemic to young democracies with underdeveloped laws, ordinances and constitutions. I've always believed that there are certain patterns of human behavior that tend to play out the same across cultures, and when stories like this surface...well, ultimately it's affirmation.
http://www.themorningsun.com/articles/2009/03/26/news/srv0000004985476.txt
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This tribe has done has been doing what Grand Ronde has done - allowing enrollment based on one particular base roll.
I lived with a Saginaw Chippewa family for several years when I was young. They were unrecognized by their tribe - because their grandfather was in Canada at the time the roll was taken. Sad, but very true, 1/2 Saginaw Chippewa are not on the tribal roll.
I am selling my first home on land contract to a Saginaw Chippewa
Tribal member. Next time I see him, I'll ask about the letter sent out. Hhopefully he is not on the removal list.
Their distributions are much higher than GR - a few years back - over $60,000.
Yetiva,
As I've learned, these enrollment problems are everywhere. Plus a lot of them seem to be occurring at the same time, like some weird inter-Tribal movement.
Sad.
It is sad. We in fact are excluding our own people. If the blood lines are there - I just can't see how a tribe can eliminate it's own blood.
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