Reel Wamps

Information is a powerful weapon.  We have tried to make sure tribal members understand what’s happening to us during a time when we have no leadership and complete abandonment of the most basic elements of our traditions.

The extraordinary attempt by Cedric Cromwell to distract tribal members from the serious financial mismanagement and coverup of numerous examples of incompetence and violations of the constitution, is astounding, but not surprising.  He is after all, an outsider along with Aaron and Mark. Like all outsiders, they thought they were smarter than us.

To say the Aaron Tobey conducted an   investigation into financial misappropriation by Glenn, Desi and Shawn is not only silly but pathetic.  Pandering to the media that prints anything  to do with Glenn. What happened to his investigation of his woman Ronda Hughes who had lied on her application and was hiding marijuana on her person (very personal place) when she re entered the country?

Who else of their miniscule support group was accepting big money from the Fisherman’s Fund?

Why do they keep hiring family members who are not qualified to work in for the tribe?

How big is the debt to pimp us out to the Chinese who are hiding behind us as they consume little tribes with weak leaders?

What is the deal with Genting?

We should be worried more about how tribal members get paid under Genting, because GENTING WILL OWN THE CASINO BECAUSE IT IS A COMMERCIAL CASINO NOT A SOVEREIGNTY CASINO BECAUSE WE HAVE NO LAND IN TRUST.

The problem with the state is that that tricky little clause that says if we receive a commercial license we have to promise never to exercise our right to build a sovereignty  casino that guarantees each tribal member over 18 an allotment.

Always squallin' Cedric's elated that he got away with it

Do you think

that Cedric is suddenly sending out casino update letters cause everything is cool.  He’s got quite a few people breathing down his neck  right now. He hasn’t given tribal members an honest answer since he held that clenched fist over his head on Feb 9 with his fraudulent election.

And he can’t even give you an estimate of what your allotment will be, can he? Think about it. He can’t even ball park it. That’s just not part of  the deal.

He knows what his allotment is….him, Aaron, Mark, Marie, Cheryl, Trish and Yvonne are the only ones that have a sure fire allotment in this deal.

They’re getting paid to pimp the tribe.

Better yet do you really want Cedric negotiating this deal?  Glenn did a lot for this tribe and we all know it. His personal mistake pales next to what this administration is doing to us.

Read today’s Globe and see how they see it.  Same way we do.

Another Mashpee Wampanoag man has died.  Peter Hendricks passed away too soon.  His family and friends attended to ceremony and sorrow.  And to show you how little the tribal council cares for our people, not one member of the council other than Carlton Hendricks Jr, offered condolences to his family.  These are the people in charge.  Outsiders who did not know Peter ….or us.

Do you have a tip for us?  Maybe you have a suggestion, a criticism, or just want to say hi!  Give us a shout at elders62@comcast.net.  All is fair, but credible threats will be relayed to the FBI.  We want to be the people’s voice, but we can’t be unless we hear the people’s voice.  Confidentiality will be strictly observed.

Thanks,

Eb

Having tried logic, humor, ridicule, petitions, shouts, whispers, and
more, to wake the Tribal government of the Mashpee Wampanoag Tribe to
the intolerable situation that we, the citizens of this Tribe find
ourselves in, must move on to a more proactive, and potentially more
unpleasant action.  We have already laid out before them our
complaints.  Their recalcitrance in the matters of finance, hiring
policies, and the constitution are well documented.

What I propose today is to remove the present Tribal Council by whatever legal, prudent, and effective way available to us.

First things first.  We are not out to create a new tribe, nor to eliminate the Mashpee Wampanoag Tribe.  The goal is to rid ourselves of an illegitimate executive that rode in on a stolen election, and who has continually violated the constitution, failed to perform their duties faithfully, and moved to steamroll any dissent.  We are not going to allow this to continue.

First of all, we must organize.  We can set up a provisional government-in-exile, as did several Nazi-occupied countries in WWII.  The function of the provisional government will be threefold:

• Be the true voice of the Mashpee Wampanoag People.
• Organize and hold elections to fill all posts in the Tribal government.
• Petition the BIA to recognize those elected as the only legitimate Tribal Government.

Once the Tribal government is in place, the provisional government will dissolve itself.

We can, and must, restore order and decency to our Tribal government

Do you agree?  You can email us at elders62@comcast.net

The cast of characters:

1.  Paula Peters
2.  Mark Harding
3.  Cedric Cromwell
4.  Cheryl Frye Cromwell
5.  Aaron Tobey
6.  Carol Lopez
7.  Marie Stone
8.  Yvonne Frye Avant
9.  Carolyn Turner
10. Patricia Keli’inui
11. Kevin Frye
12. Peter “Great Gagfly” Kenney
13. George Brennan (Cape Cod Times)
14. “The Tobey Girls”
15. Amelia and Steven Bingham
16. Winnie Johnson Graham

The story goes something like this:

Paula “Princess” Peters, after an unsuccessful run at the Tribal
chair, and an even less successful run at Glenn Marshall’s affections,
apparently decided to take a different tack.  Using her connections
with 12, 13, 14, and 15, She helped to precipitate the downfall of
Marshall.

During the 2009 election fraud, Paula acted as 3, Cedric Cromwell’s
campaign manager, and boasted about it later.

Paula is the life partner of our thief-in-chief, 2, Mark Harding.

Cheryl Frye Cromwell, 4, is a council member and also is the wife of Cedric, 3.  Hers is another story.

Aaron Tobey, 5, is the vice chairman, and was also on the ticket with
3, as well as Marie Stone, 7, who is the daughter of Carol Lopez, 6,
who was the campaign manager for Aaron, 5.  Marie, AKA “TaTa,” is a
story all by herself, but I won’t go into the burning of a car in
Wareham.  No, I’ll save that one.

Aaron is cousin of Cedric, also 14.

As soon as the votes were “counted” in the fraudulent 2009 election,
Trish Keli’inui, 10, the chairman of the election committee, ran off
to Dino’s sports bar to celebrate with Cromwell & Co. instead of
securing the ballot box and putting it under lock and key.  Also,
Kevin Frye, 11, a Mashpee Police officer and the man on duty at the
polls, abandoned his post, leaving an unsealed ballot box for anyone
to tamper with.

The day after the fraudulent election, Cromwell and his team sealed
off all offices, allowing his close allies to enter any of the
offices.  In one gross violation of election protocol, Cromwell
CERTIFIED HIS OWN ELECTION.  In the past, and wisely, the membership
committee would compare sign-in sheets with the Tribal rolls and then
certify the election.  The ballot box would be sealed and stored.

When Cromwell finally allowed access to the offices, it was discovered that locked file cabinets holding sensitive and confidential member files had been rifled through, and cabinets were left unlocked.  Only one person, Carolyn Hendricks Turner, 9, knew the location of the hidden keys.  She is the sister of Yvonne Frye Avant, a council member and sister of ofc. Kevin Frye.

In that Wednesday, when Patty Oakley, planned to reenter her office, she called on Paul Mills, chair of the Elder’s Judiciary Committee and videographer for the Tribe’s cable TV show to accompany her as a witness and to videotape the conditions of the office and its files for her legal protection.

When Cromwell got wind of the taping, Cromwell accosted Mills, with
Yvonne as a witness, and in a threatening manner told Mills that he
was “no longer on the committee.”  Mills left the property to protect
the tape and privately owned video equipment.  Subsequently, Aaron
Tobey demanded of Mills the “return” of the privately owned tape.  The
tape is still available as evidence.

Well, I think many of you know the story from there — mass firings
and hiring of incompetents who supported the junta, adding of very
questionable “members” who could never pass muster with their
applications, the harassing of council members who were not o    n board
with the junta, ad nauseum.  They stole the Elder’s van and money.
They bought a worthless piece of junk in the form of a “bobcat” from
Winnie, 16, for what purpose I’ll never know.

Cedric Cromwell has no respect for tradition — banging on a drum and
singing “hyahyahyayah” does not make you Mashpee.  Wearing a clown hat
and saying a few words in our old language does not make you Mashpee,
not when you cuss out elder women and refer to a female Tribe member
as a “motherfucking bitch.”  Excuse my français.  Cedric needs to
spend some time sitting down listening and less standing up talking.

I hope I haven’t confused anyone with all the numbers and such, but I
can’t imagine being able to follow this tale of woe without a
scorecard.  You all need to realize how really serious this problem
is.  These people have got to go.