Trish looked good and Nita’s handy work was beautiful. The suede shawl was gorgeous, but instead of turtles on the scalloped hem, there were whale tails. The crown was awesome with the imbedded copper…kinda like a pow wow princess.

When Trish Keliinui was crowned as the clan mother of the Steve Peters family it was an event dominated by outside influences. The relatives who had little to do with the tribe or the family chose Trish. They held a shady election run by the cousins who actually shunned the family for decades.

The whole thing was really strange because it in no way represented a ceremony. They called it a “Raising,” but once again the outsiders had nothing to imitate, because it’s not part of our culture. No circle or lifting up of the contributions of each of the 4 elder women in the family. In fact, one daughter made it her business to constantly denigrate her Aunt Anne in these so called “family meetings” That one has a lotta nerve.  Lotta nerve indeed. And clearly a very short memory.

It got stranger and more bizarre as it progressed. There was an MC, and a written program resembling those you get in church titled “Order of Service.” From the podium there was only a tribute to Amelia Bingham and a weird interpretive reading of Robert’s poem.  There was a sprinkling of traditional culture with the medicine pouches given to the 3 clan mothers in attendance. Eight were on the program list. Two on that list were not even Wampanoag and the others have never committed to participate on any level. We give the chairman and his uncle credit because the drumming was very good. The round dance (11) was a majority of women who rarely cross the town line and that was evident. Missing was nearly 30 Peters women and girls.

The relevancy of the event was marked by the absence of the Chief, Medicine Man and 8 Council members. Guess they’re just not into it

The Elders are a powerful force in the Tribe even though the current and previous administration undermined them to the max.

So many who have been scarce, magically appear a few months before election day. And the lies spewed are profound.

David Weeden (Magpie): Elders ask him why he has no grants to pay his salary or the salary of staff etc

David is not even trying to tell the truth. Just hanging on anyway he can to get a check.

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Response: ” I have grant money to pay my salary.”

The lie: He has not produced a self-funding grant for nearly a decade. (Probably because he is not a certified Tribal Historic Preservation Officer, which is required to hold the position.)

More Proof of the lie: Recently, the Cliff Walkers wanted to rob other grants to pay the salaries of David and Natana who haven’t raised a dime to run their programs. Lotta hell was raised on that one and it didn’t go over…yet. But it tells you the mindset.

If you want the proof, ask to see the grant itself.  And there’s a way to validate that too. Good luck!

Paying people who can’t and won’t do their jobs is now a condition of employment at the highest levels of this Tribe. And they keep getting paid from sources we don’t know about.

Other Half Truths

Talia: The 12-acre Wampanoag Village project and blaming everyone else for it coming to a standstill. She has a right to make the case for her role in a very good effort. But she forgot to tell the Elders that she almost scuttled the plan. The town demanded that she be removed from negotiations and replaced because she was impossible to deal with. Her long-standing problems with the town may be in play too.

This election may be our last chance to get on track. When you have 5 council members, and two officers who contribute nothing but cost us millions, somethings gotta give.

The dark side of CK continues to show itself. His selfishness is killing us.

The director of Tribal Housing abruptly resigned yesterday effective immediately.  No doubt another casualty of the Child King’s wrath and penchant for coverups.  He’s been busy for the last serval months wrecking havoc under Resolution 33. CK was restored to dictator status by his Cliff Walkers. Since the Tribal Administrator reports to him he ordered her to fire Talia Landry. The Frye’s began their usual rumor mongering, blaming the Vice Chair who has no such authority. Of course, Talia was in the middle of a scandalous whirlwind (that we will not repeat here) but it is prolific and common knowledge. Sad.

Talia worked for Roxanne in the education department, just like CK’s sister Sassamon. Both have been there a while. Talia’s job description was pretty clear, no one knows what Sassamon does for her paycheck other than be CK’s sister. She was right in there with her brother, acting pretty rachet during the Farm insurrection. We have to say that Roxanne with all her piety and dedication to upholding self-proclaimed Hall Monitor duties, she failed to discipline either one of her employees.  Our best bet was that CK sacrificed Talia to save his sister.

In the end, anyone who has information or tries to investigate expenditures or misappropriations is going to get the hatchet.  Because the Child King has to keep it covered up. Some of the finance employees, the comptroller, and the treasurer have thwarted all efforts to infiltrate the Tribal expenditures. And we still have no budget!

THE FRYEBAL WEB WOVEN

Our Baney Fife, Kevin just can’t bring himself to, “Nip it, just nip it in the bud.” 

We learned that Kevin Frye promised a police report on the Farm insurrection two months ago after tribal law enforcement, council members (Cliff Walkers blocked) and Tribal members asked for the report independently. Nothing. Then, according to sources, a grant of $100K for Housing security to build a cop house and jump start police monitoring on the premises disappeared. Sources added that for some reason, Kevin recently got a retroactive raise going back 2 years.

Wunda who authorized that Kevin?

Tick, tick, tick.  Eleven days until the Child King gets his BOGO.  Buy One Get Outta  jail free. Not hard to connect the dots on that one.

Any questions?

It’s not exactly news but the Meeting House has been pressure washed and painted! A victory for the committee and a notch for Tribal Historic Preservation Officer and Councilman David Weeden. Unfortunately, it took over a year (some say 2 years) to get it done. But it’s done right?  The caveat— since it was his only accomplishment during the year we spent $80 k on his salary and $13 k on the actual project. And it was a struggle to get it done.

MAGPIE’S UNFINISHED BUSINESS

David has proven he is not a serious person. But he still thinks he’s worthy of being on the Council and getting paid for work he does not do.

So the Parsonage restoration has been stalled for 3 years.  Ellen Frye Sharp and Magpie are just getting the bids out.  Who knows how long that’s going to take. They both have a very casual work ethic.

The museum is a disgusting mess. It is closed and looks abandoned.  If you look in the window you see a few pictures glued on to some construction paper on cardboard. Look for yourself. And the weetu behind the museum is falling apart. All of this is neglect on the part of the THIPO officer we’re paying.  Nice work if you can get it.

We will never grow if we can’t even get funded projects done. Broadening relationships with other tribes, federal, state and local governments bring collaboration and money.  But the economic development efforts have to be consistent because we can’t survive depending on grants, and we can’t maintain them now under this administration.

The chairman’s buddy Mark Harding is moving around on some projects that no one’s supposed to know about but do.  A reminder here, Mark Harding brought Genting to the Tribe and it nearly destroyed us. CK is easy prey for Harding.  Inexperienced, and lazy, CK always relies on others to do the work cause he won’t hit a lick. Thus he has not done a single project that has contributed to the betterment of this tribe,

Trusting Harding is dangerous.

Nelson continues to work hard on partnerships that benefit the Tribe.

Meanwhile council members are doing the work they should be doing. Nelson Andrews continues to use his relationships in Indian Country to broaden our economic development prospects. He was able strengthen those ties with the Seminoles while on FEMA duty at Dania, Florida. He then headed to Cherokee North Carolina where the Eastern Band Cherokees are interested in a host of partnerships.  The ability for the Tribe to have it’s own manufactured housing business is on Andrews’ radar.

Time to face the realities of our future.

The spending and misappropriation of funds is more than a whisper in the government center.

Be very aware that the budget coverup is real. And what and who is covering up will knock you down.

Now you may think we’re talking about the Child King, Brian Weeden. Well, he’s not the one…. this time. This time it’s his partner in crime, Tribal Chief of Police Kevin Frye. Now, Kevin lives up to his reputation of being scared of his own people.  That’s why we have virtually no law enforcement on tribal lands.  He refuses to have officers monitor housing, the cemetery, or the homeless shelter. Instead, he’s the hatchet man for CK. Conducting bogus investigations that harass tribal members, and council officers.  What he doesn’t do is the real stuff.

That’s because he and CK do more than collaborate.  They collude and have been colluding since Brian got busted on videotape stealing bull rushes and bear rugs from Plymouth Plantation.  Remember this headline in the Boston Globe in mid-December 2022? Remember the headlines all over the country.

Tribe chairman charged with theft of Wampanoag artifacts from Plymouth museum

This was a state felony grand larceny charge that exceeded $10k, nothing to sneeze at.  But the absurdity of his actions was demoralizing for us. CK was unable to keep it covered up.  And in early November 2022, when he sobered up, he had a certain person (we all know who that was) return the artifacts to the police and Plymouth. Oh, and CK tried to justify the theft by saying he was taking our artifacts back. Plymouth had that covered too.  They paid tribal members to make authentic bull rushes and bear rugs.

So damned stupid.  And he dragged young people into the mix as usual without a care.  The scandal was the talk of the tribe for months.  The Council suspended CK until Jan 11 2023.Then he fought his removal effort and was able to hang on dragging out the state court hearings for 8 months during 2023.

We hate to bring it all back up but it’s just to remind you of how CK has undermined the Tribe. Hè just keeps doing his thing with his salacious behavior and contributing nothing to the tribal wellbeing. But he gets that $10K a month.

Guess what? His number one detractor, his number one hater is his recent bestie, the Hall Monitor Roxanne. Yes, in Jan 2023, she did her whole sanctimonious “He’s awful. This is bad for the tribe. No moral compass.” No kidding girl.  You’ve been away from Mashpee too long, cause that boy is God awful.

Ya, but what happened next was beyond disturbing. We won’t go into the litany of repulsive behavior by CK over the last year and a half. We’re going to the most egregious that took place during our celebratory 2024 Pow Wow this past summer.

After inviting a crowd of people from a Hyannis night club, the Child King lead hundreds of the party goers on to the Tribal farmland, pushing past tribal police trucks and officers who tried to stop them. Again, CK lead these people who were drinking and doing God knows what else on to the property. CK had his own insurrection.  His sister Sassamon was driving a car through the crowd with a man hanging on to the car.

It is scandalous.  The Tribal Chairman violated tribal law.  There were numerous witnesses, but

Curtis Frye was the last Native Police Chief. He was respected. It’s hard to understand how Kevin can stay on as Chief in good conscience. But then again, he has no conscience. Maybe it’s a latent DNA thing.

THERE IS NO POLICE REPORT. THERE IS NO INVESTIGATION. THERE IS A PROBLEM. WHY?

THERE IS A COVERUP, BECAUSE COUNCIL MEMBERS AND EMPLOYEES HAVE BEEN STONEWALLED IN FFORTS TO RAISE THE ISSUE.OF COURSE CK RUNS THE CLOCK SO THE ISSUE NEVER MAKES IT TO THE AGENDA. 

IF KEVIN FILES A CHARGE AGAINST CK, IT IS A VIOLATION OF HIS PROBATION THAT ENDS DECEMBER 17, ONLY IF “HE STAYS OUT OF TROUBLE.” KEVIN IS WORKING HARD FOR CK.

KEVIN’S DERELICTION OF DUTY IS AN UNDERSTATEMENT.

WHERE’S THE POLICE REPORT?

More details on Talia’s sad fall from grace, Robin Stamps long awaited resignation as election committee chair and Lovely Winona’s (or newly named Little Genius) new role as CK’s enforcer (without authority).