For years we have talked about the Tribal Court having no authority or jurisdiction, because we have no trust lands, and below is a Federal case that parallels our situation to prove it.
http://turtletalk.files.wordpress.com/2012/07/dct-order-granting-pi.pdf
It further goes to the heart of the challenges this administration faces with its serious issues of legitimacy. The elections fraud, and the tribal courts role in that fraud is alarming. Even with the membership understanding how abusive this group is…. The Tobey Cromwell administration continues to dupe some tribal members into thinking they have some redress when they clearly do not.
It continues to make fools of tribal members who file cases thinking something is going to happen. Nellie Hicks went to tribal court to make a point and she was very effective in doing so.
Tonight Cedric Tobey Cromwell and Mark Harding will make another run at the Federal Charter because it will enshrine them and allow them to be in power indefinitely. They will establish another tribe. It is such an unpopular idea that they had dredge up ” Parables” ( Greg McKinney) to pitch the idea again. He actually thinks he’s going to get something out of this. The approval of the Charter will literally allow Cedric and Company to push us over the cliff.
Not a single tribal member outside the family members of these Council members and staff have benefited (unless it was Indian Health or the Environmental Department) from this administration. The housing loans alone are outrageous, the ” Tribal Goodwill” of millions and millions of dollars to unknown people. The $600k of monthly expenditures by the Council. Outrageous and consistent. They are relentless about getting that pay check and spewing propaganda to the few newspapers that write about their fraudulent actions.
Say what you will about Russell Peters or Glenn Marshall. At least they would face you when you disagreed and cussed them out. They were accountable to you politically and morally. If you’re a “New Jessie Baird” tribal member recently added to the rolls and don’t know what we’re talking about, that tells you about your Johnnie Come Lately status.
With these outsiders, there’s nothing like that accountability. It’s so unconscionable the real Mashpee literally do not know how to react. It is foreign for sure.
We will remember this dark time in our tribal journey when no one stepped up or spoke up except the Elders who were banished and abused. True leaders are at their best when challenged and their people are in trouble.
We are being governed by an illegitimate government that has destroyed the essence of who we are. Sad.
