I would like to know which family or clan has the largest number of applications stuck in the Moritorium on enrollments at the Temecula Band of Mission Indians Reservation.
The moratorium is illegal as it violates the bands constitution, which calls for open enrollment every January.
What Family or Clan are you from and how long have you been in the moratorium?
What are your feelings, and why do you think the illegal moratorium is in place?
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Pechanga
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Also IF the General Membership feels that the Moratorium is legal because they voted it in, this can not be true if only the enrollment committee can make enrollment decisions (the council's reason for going ahead and disenrolling the Hunter family, even though the General Assembly voted to stop it).
I've always thought that was what we should be asking. Of course it's wrong to dis-enroll, but its just as wrong to deny rights. The enrollment committee has been messing with peoples lives for too long. Doesn't say much for the rest of the tribe, shows how much they care, letting themselves being controlled by the enrollment committee and the council.
Today I ran into a tribal elder who off the top of my head I can't remember his name or what family he is from.
Anyway, I told him it wasn't fair what happened to us who were disenrolled and although he agreed, he commented to me that he just didn't get involved in "those things."
It is like his head is stuck in the sand and I hope for his and his family's sake that his family is not on the hit list for disenrollment because after all we, the Hunters, were disenrolled in 2006 after the tribe had voted in 2005 to stop disenrollments.
The CPP could very well be plotting who their next victims will be.
But even if this man's family is never on the chopping block he knows wrong was done but he will not do anything to help right these wrongs.
That seems to be a common attitude among tribal members, even those who had nothing to due with the disenrollments, that if it doesn't involve them, they don't seem to think it is a big deal.
They just live their lives and forget about their brothers and sisters who have suffered at the hands of their tribal government (and some of the victims are literally their own family blood who are stuck in the moratorium).
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