National Indian Education Association Conference 2008, Interview #1 Enrollment Issue

[UniSantae]

NO ENROLLMENT = LACK OF RIGHTS = LOSS OF IDENTITY

[Choctawu]

The Choctaws in Florida have the same problem and they were the first nation of Choctaw Indians

[cocopuff236]

thats messed up

[IndeImagiNative]

This is very true. I am concerned about this as well.

[MistofRain752]

Will patiently wait for you to post part II.

[MistofRain752]

Oh Robert, I soooo agree with you! Yes we do need to band together! I too am not looking for BENEFITS I just want to be able to say I don't need a card to prove who I am!!

[qklsjdv]

one thing I wonder. what if a person gave up there United States citizenship because they are Indian. I know you can still work because in America, you can be an Alien and still work legaly, I think you have to get a green card. but if Imagration finds you. where would take you? back to the reservation?

[qklsjdv]

where already alians in our own country

[DocDreamy]

It doesn't work that way. We can go off the reservation without a green card. Immigration doesn't go after natives.

[qklsjdv]

I have some relitives that are Full blooded and they speak indian fluently but they wont enroll because they think that they would be selling out as an indian

[rcuevas235]

In Pechanga's case, people that were adopted into the tribe, turned on true Pechanga people and worked to disenroll people.

Pechanga has a compact expansion coming before the California voters. We are urging a no vote.  Check out Original Pechanga's Blog....

[Muddyfoot]

... hanging my head... our ancestors must be doing the same.... so sad that we (collectively speaking) would turn against each other over money....

[rcuevas235]

To learn more about California disenrollments google ORIGINAL PECHANGA BLOG and you will get a blog that discusses what tribes like Pechanga have done to their people.

Greed makes some do ugly things.

MYSPACE also has Paulina Hunter of Pechanga... take a look, tell your friends.

[MissionIndian]

Also dissenrolling indians who were recognized as members of the tribe for 100's of years, alotted land on there res at its creation and still live on the lands. At its creation members said they knew us as members of the Tribe via signed depositions . Now they say the tribe was mistaken to believed us as a member. They say that the gov was wrong to give us an allotment on the res as a Pechanga Indian. That our listing on the orig Pechanga Reservation record as a member was also a mistake.