{"id":52097,"date":"2017-03-06T03:04:26","date_gmt":"2017-03-06T03:04:26","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.mixedracestudies.org\/?p=52097"},"modified":"2017-03-06T03:04:26","modified_gmt":"2017-03-06T03:04:26","slug":"native-american-tribal-disenrollment-reaching-epidemic-levels","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/?p=52097","title":{"rendered":"Native American Tribal Disenrollment Reaching Epidemic Levels"},"content":{"rendered":"

Native American Tribal Disenrollment Reaching Epidemic Levels<\/strong><\/em><\/a><\/p>\n

VOA News<\/a>
\n2017-03-03<\/p>\n

Cecily Hilleary<\/strong><\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n
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\nFILE – Protesters hold hands in prayer in Temecula, Calif.<\/a>, at a rally protesting the disenrollment of tribal members, Saturday, May 21, 2005. More than a hundred ousted members of tribes from California<\/a> and five other states gathered to denounce being disenrolled.<\/small><\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<\/tbody>\n<\/table>\n

All across Indian Country, Native Americans are being evicted from their tribes, with little warning and little legal recourse.<\/p>\n

Take, for example, the Pechanga Band of Luiseno Mission Indians<\/a>, a federally-recognized tribe of Luiseno Indians<\/a> living on a reservation in Temecula, California<\/a>, part of the territory where their ancestors lived for 10,000 years.<\/p>\n

If you want to be a member, you must prove direct lineage to one or more of the original ancestors forced onto the reservation in the early 1880s.<\/p>\n

Pechanga Indian Rick Cuevas traces his ancestry to a woman named Paulina Hunter, who was granted a lot of land on the Pechanga reservation in the late 1800s. He and his family have lived on the reservation as full tribal members for decades.<\/p>\n

But in the early 2000s, the tribal council decided to posthumously disenroll Hunter and, by extension, about 180 of her descendants…<\/p>\n

…An alien concept<\/strong><\/p>\n

Disenrollment is not native to indigenous cultures, who Galanda said traditionally understood \u201cbelonging\u201d in terms of kinship and personal choice, not \u201cblood quantum,\u201d a measurement introduced by the U.S. government.<\/p>\n

\u201cThe U.S. introduced its concept of who\u2019s an Indian by declaring, under the Indian Reorganization Act of 1934<\/a>, that an Indian must be in residence in a reservation likely established by the treaties of the 1800s and be of one-quarter Indian blood,\u201d he said. \u201cThe challenge today is that many tribes, if not most tribes, use the Federal government\u2019s criteria for who\u2019s an Indian.\u201d…<\/p>\n

Read the entire article here<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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