{"id":60571,"date":"2021-02-14T22:12:24","date_gmt":"2021-02-14T22:12:24","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.mixedracestudies.org\/?p=60571"},"modified":"2021-02-14T22:12:26","modified_gmt":"2021-02-14T22:12:26","slug":"twin-sisters-sue-wampanoag-tribe-over-disputed-membership","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/?p=60571","title":{"rendered":"Twin sisters sue Wampanoag Tribe over disputed membership"},"content":{"rendered":"

Twin sisters sue Wampanoag Tribe over disputed membership<\/strong><\/em><\/a><\/p>\n

Cape Cod Times<\/a>
\nHyannis, Massachusetts<\/em>
\n2020-09-27<\/p>\n

Jessica Hill<\/strong><\/a>, News Reporter<\/p>\n\n\n\n
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\nTwin sisters Kayla, left, and Katie Balbuena outside their East Falmouth<\/a> home. The sisters have filed suit against the Mashpee Wampanoag Tribe<\/a>, arguing that tribe has wrongly taken them off its membership roll. Steve Heaslip\/Cape Cod Times<\/em><\/small><\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<\/tbody>\n<\/table>\n

MASHPEE<\/a> \u2014 Twin 20-year-old sisters are taking Wampanoag<\/a> tribal leaders to court after they were removed from the tribal membership roll.<\/p>\n

Kayla and Kaitlyn Balbuena are suing the Mashpee Wampanoag Tribe Enrollment Committee<\/a> in Tribal Court after the committee removed them from the tribal roll about a month ago.<\/p>\n

\u201cWe don\u2019t want to sue our tribe,\u201d Kayla said, \u201cbut we just want to fight for our rights back.\u201d<\/p>\n

The Balbuena sisters filed the lawsuit on Sept. 15. The sisters, who live in East Falmouth<\/a>, argue that the tribe’s enrollment department placed them on a pending list and have taken away their rights as tribal members based on hearsay and falsehood.<\/p>\n

The enrollment committee and Rita Lopez, the enrollment department director, did not respond to a request for comment. Jessie \u201cLittle Doe\u201d Baird, vice chairwoman of the Mashpee Wampanoag Tribal Council<\/a>, also did not respond to a request for comment.<\/p>\n

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

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