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The Nooksack Tribe’s efforts to expel 306 former citizens reached a new deadline. The tribe is working to evict more than 60 people from tribal housing. Many of them are children or elders and have few other housing options. Federal officials express their intention to respect tribal sovereignty, but also request the tribe hold off on the evictions temporarily.
Guests:
Michelle Roberts (Nooksack tribal member) – Nooksack tribal member and a member of the Nooksack 306
Gabe Galanda (member of the Round Valley Indian Tribe) – managing lawyer at Galanda Broadman
Billie Rabang – an elder in Nooksack housing
Cisco Rabang (Nooksack) – an elder in Nooksack housing
Break 1 Music: Lummi Morning Song (song) Chenoa (artist) Spirit of Salishan (album)
Break 2 music: Converge (song) PIQSIQ (artist) Live from Christ Church Cathedral (album)
As a citizen of the Monacan Indian Nation . we are facing similar corruption. Nine of us have been suspended / disenrolled unlawfully.
The 9 have been instrumental in hold feet to the fire and making citizens aware of what’s going on within our tribe . So as a way to silence our voice we have been disenrolled . One citizen who is raising her grandchildren has lost her house and is facing homeless. . Another citizen who is an elder has been arrested for trust passing on land that the Monacan Nation. . His own land . . These act are being done by a leadership that has been removed by the citizen of our Nation . Kenny Branham refuses to step down .
It has sadden us to see we are being attacked by our own over greed and money . We have suffered so much for so long . Let stand together in this fight . No one can take away our blood line or birth right .