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.
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.
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?
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.
Just get a loan through an American Indian loan company. Anyone ever see the commercials? They will lend you five grand at 118% interest! Such a deal!
Sigh