Since a small faction has corrupted key positions in our governing body, I find it fitting to discuss the endorsement of the UN Declaration on the Rights of Indigenous Peoples.
"The UN Declaration lays out the minimum human rights necessary for the “survival, dignity and well-being of the Indigenous peoples of the world.” These include the right of self-determination, protections from discrimination and genocide, and recognition of rights to lands, territories and resources that are essential to the identity, health and livelihood of indigenous peoples. The declaration also explicitly requires that these rights and protections are balanced with other rights and interpreted in accordance with the principles of democracy, justice, non-discrimination, good governance and respect for the human rights of everyone. " HERE
What about it Mr. Chairman Macarro, will you support our rights as indigenous people? The Pechanga enrollment committee under your direction, violated my families rights.
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Yes, the enrollment committee violated our rights but Macarro and the tribal council, by allowing biased members of the enrollment committee to vote on our case also violated our rights.
In 2002 relatives of ours and others found evidence of wrong doing on the enrollment committee as well as they challeged the tribal membership credentials of said enrollment committee members.
Once those committee members were illegally cleared from disenrollment by only three enrollment committee members, far less than a legal quorum, which is supposed to be at least 51 percent or 6 from a committee of 10, they were allowed by the committee and the council to vote on our diesnrollment case.
The Pechanga constitution says the rights of an indivdual tribal member are to upheld without malice or predjiduce so clearly by letting enrollment committee members who had been accused of wrong doing by our relatives to vote on our case violated this clause of Pechanga's constitution, regardless if the allegations were true or not.
By the way, to this day we don't know if the tribal council ever follwed up on the allegations against the people who voted us out of the tribe, which included not processing enrollment applications for family members of Pechanga members in good standing.
Some of which have been stuck for years in the illegal moratorium.
One more thing, the Pechanga constitution says open enrollment is supposed to be every January which should make the moratorium unconstitutional but since when does the tribe even follow that document?
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