A 6-PERSON MAJORITY SEEKS TO DISENROLL THREE LARGE FAMILIES FROM THE NOOKSACK INDIAN TRIBE DUE TO THEIR FILIPINO BLOODLINES (AND NOT GAMING PER CAPITA)

LEAD BY KELLY, AN ADOPTED NOOKSACK INDIAN, A 6-PERSON MAJORITY SEEKS TO DISENROLL THREE LARGE FAMILIES FROM THE TRIBE DUE TO THEIR FILIPINO BLOODLINES (AND NOT GAMING PER CAPITA)


Deming, WA – On Friday, a group of enrolled Nooksack Tribal Members filed suit in Nooksack Tribal Court against a group of Tribal Councilpersons and enrollment department officials led by Tribal Chairman Bob Kelly, to prevent them from taking further illegal action to disenroll 306 Nooksack Tribal Members from the Tribe. Those 306 enrolled Nooksack members descend from the Rapada, Rabang and Narte-Gladstone Families.

“This is purely and simply a matter of tribal family politics and vengeance.But it is of the grossest kind. That is because Bob Kelly and his faction are attempting to eliminate us from the Tribe because we are part Filipino,” said the Families’ spokesperson, Moreno Peralta. “It is racism and cultural genocide that we are facing.”

Tribal Elder Sonia Lomeli, a 74-year-old diabetic who needs kidney dialysis, is now at risk of losing her health care along with her membership. She fears dying. Tribal Elder Norma Aldredge fears losing her home, in her retirement. She has already been treated for physical and emotional reactions to her proposed disenrollment, having broken out in a full-body rash. Terry St. Germain, who has never had a career other than in Treaty fishing, worries about how he will feed his eight

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