Reel Wamps

Okay, this initial phase of the BIA land in trust approval is huge for us.  BUT there’s no explanation of how we fit under the 1934 Indian Reorganization Act. Gee, wonder why? Federal court rulings and the BIA said we didn’t meet the criteria.  All of a sudden we do? Future legal challenges to the bureau’s decision will be the determiner. According to one tribal member, Genting has so much money they can influence any outcome and make “butterflies and birds fly outta your a– ” They have their own magic act. Oh yes, they do. It’s called millions of dollars.

Despite what Shovel Ready Ceddie says about lawsuits, lawsuits are a huge problem and he admits they are a problem…but that ” they won’t stop the process ”  What process is he talking about? The Genting process?

Regardless, everyone knows a lot of people will be suing and it does slow everything to a drizzle.

Anyway, in addition to SRC, Yvonne, Robbie, Bobbie Foster and Jessie receiving additional undisclosed salaries from the ” Gaming Authority “…now they have another  “Benchmark” that they have met for another raise. For those who are not millionaires already they will be such in a matter of months, while yes, we’re going to say it……you get a couple of hams a year and $35 in groceries a month from the Boston Food Bank. It is not going to change.

First question is, after the month comment period where people can challenge and appeal the decision, and the lawsuits start ….are you going to start building anyway or what since the lawsuits don’t matter?

The biggest question is when are tribal members going to get paid…..ha! They haven’t told you because Genting could care less about anyone in the tribe, but the paid council members of course.  When will we get a check ? You never got an answer 6 years ago you won’t get one now.

And if you thought these people were bad before this..they will be even worse in the future. Get ready for the Apocalypse.

And the truth is LIT means nothing for us because we will not get a dime…not a dime. They will do whatever they want. And definitely under orders from Genting who have no respect for us at all.  Ask the Pequots and the Senecas.  Imagine the Tribal Government  having that power…unless the federal government stops them.

The menu may change though to Green Eggs and HAM.

A government gone rouge

Riddle me this…..Who votes to give themselves huge raises when they don’t have a quorum ? You got it.  The Mashpee Wampanoag Tribal Council officers. Robert Dias did not attend the meeting. Carlton Hendricks  Jr. was there for the start of the meeting but when it was clear they were going to increase their salaries yet again, he left the meeting intentionally, after giving them a few choice words.

This is why the Pechanga Tribe is asking the US Attorney General to investigate the Bureau of Indian affairs.  Tribal nations are suffering under the corrupt leadership of governments that abuse their authority  and hide behind their sovereign status. Basically doing whatever they want. The Bureau has turned a blind eye to this blatant abuse for decades.

We’re just getting a taste of it all.  The horror of the worst in the Tribe taking revenge on us.

Look at these salary raises ;

Shovel Ready Ceddie  $125,000.00 – $147,000.00

Messy Jessie raised to $109,000.00. Messy should be fined for subjecting us to all her wacky ideas and machinations that are just rampant.She finally got the power she craved just like TFL, her old ” Road Dog” (ahem…) but never got the respect.  Memories are to long and vivid in Mashpee for all that.  Too vivid for the both of them.

Big raises and nothing for Tribal members…nothing.

Tah Tah   $66,000.00 – $82,000.00 And get this, she works from home, has 3 assistants and they still can’t get the minutes right or caught up ! But who cares !  This is Rogue Nation.

Robbie Hendricks $71,000.00 – $91,000.00. Course Marge is still running things from home because Robbie is not capable, for a variety of reasons.

The First  Lady Cheryl Frye Cromwell $56,000 -$72,000.00.  Cheryl is such a hypocrite.  It is hard to imagine how she looks in the mirror.  She had it so hard and yet she has zero empathy for those of us that struggle.

Even Bobbie Foster got a raise !  Whatever it is, it’s too much for that guy ! The repo man need not worry…he’ll still be in play. Oh yah, you’ll be glad to know that they got him on his back child support.

They agreed to do the raises after they paid $35,000.00 for a survey justifying it.  Of course the company completely ripped them off, by comparing apples ( MWT ) to other cities and tribes that in no way resemble us in size, income or tax base.  Which means since we are not self sustaining, and we are not a gaming tribe, there is nothing to compare us to.  And this Council has less than 1,000 people to actually govern, ha ha..or whatever.

No one knows exactly what any of them do. They can’t even return a phone call. They don’t come to work.  In fact no one comes to work except the people in the health department under IHS.

$790,000.00 a year in salaries for people who do absolutely nothing for us. They vote themselves a raise without having a quorum ( legal number of people present) to do it. NO RULES.

We owe $130,000,000.00 to the Chinese. Robbie was bragging that Genting will loan us up to $250,000,000.00.  Jesus.  Have they no shame?

That’s a lot a yard work boy. Rogue Nation on blast.

Land in trust is complicated.  One way to fix the Carcieri decision is for  the Congress to change the law to allow the Department of Interior / BIA to take land into trust for all tribes regardless of when they were recognized. According to the BIA, we were not under federal jurisdiction prior to 1934, so that congressional change is what we need.

The Congress has been dragging its feet on fixing  this law for six years and now that there is some sign of Congressional activity. It’s so minimal, it actually makes matters worse.  There is one bill that works for us that has been stuck in a committee since February.  Now the Republicans are throwing amendments around that gut the bill.  One says that for the BIA to take a a secondary parcel of land ( like Taunton) into trust the land has to be contiguous or connected to Mashpee for example.  Good luck on getting 1 acre from Sandwich, Osterville or East Falmouth, let  alone freakin Tauton which is the one place we don’t even have historic ties to. Again were trying to take Taunton into trust and we never lived there.  Brilliant.

No wonder the BIA is silent.  We are rediculous  all the way around.  Not us but the Fryebal Council and Shovel Ready !

The other amendments only allow LIT for housing and to establish governments but no gaming.  Lastly you have a hostile Republican Congress that is not interested in giving Native Americans anything…nada.  They are totally threatened by any people of color and do not want to give any land back period. Let aone gaming. Natives do not vote for Republicans and they just hate us.

Lastly, the bills can’t get out of committee with or without these bad amendments (that kill the original intent).

Arlinda keeps gettin’ paid to deliver a blank.  Great work if you can get it.

Arlinda Locklear and Mashpee Wampanoag Chairman Cedric Cromwell better know and Shovel Ready Ceddie ( for obvious reasons) rely on the fact that most tribal members, like those all over the country, don’t understand the legislative process, so they keep lying about the process and get away with it.They keep borrowing $10 -$11 million every 3 months to keep getting paid while millions of dollars go to places and people other than tribal members. Very very dangerous business with the feds watching.

Another thing.  Where are we building this casino?  We don’t own ANY land.  We are paying millions to people in Taunton to hold on to land rather than buy it outright  because we don’t have the LIT.  Renting crappy land we will never own in the town know as the home of the state nut house.  You could use a deal like that eh?

We’re paying Shovel Ready’s “special assistant” Lew $17k a month to do what? White lawyers

He’s been “Shovel Ready Ceddie”  for 6 years and can’t break ground. No land or license, just false promises.

and a former congressman hundreds of thousands of dollars each month to do nothing.

Arlinda said that something was going to happen by September…maybe.  How about they stop paying her until something materializes cause that bill is dead and she knows it.  Even if it got out of committee, it would have no support for final passage.

You get a ham and some lame parties 3 times a year.  The Government Center is home to the Fryebal Council and a few rejects from other families.

If we had a real Medicine Man we might stand a chance in at least trying to serve our people.  We need to do more than pretend this is not happening and retreat to being old Mashpee and ignoring the slime that that has taken over the tribe we have worked to establish for 32 years.

Stand for something or fall for anything.We need someone who is not afraid to lead us out of this mess and legally challenge the horrific debt of $130m that we never approved.

The TA makes a cool $110 a year, to do nothing and you get a ham and little else.

So the new Tribal Administrator David Thundereagle fired Quan Tobey yesterday.  There are several versions of what went down.

Version 1:

Quan did not attend a mandatory meeting was called in…and was fired.

Version 2

Quan wouldn’t write a job description…..and was fired.

He was in the middle of finishing a $200 K grant.  As the Director of Natural Resources, Quan made significant headway with our aqua farming programs and  had quite a good reputation with the Bureau  of Indian Affairs and the Environmental Protection Agency . Though not a traditionalist, Quan did a superior job of maintaining our fishing culture that we have depended on forever.

He is clearly the only department head who was legitimately doing business on our behalf.  No lying, no exaggeration of education or credentials, because he has a college education and knows his business. The majority of the people in charge of tribal government have nothing more than a high school education and most don’t have that.  The ones who have a college diploma are holding high paying jobs, are very young, raised White and have absolutely no idea what they are doing in a very sensitive position….you who we are talking about.

And the person who is supposed to take over this spot is in no way qualified to do the job.  The man has been coveting job for a long time.  After blowing through the money, the new man will have to answer to feds for fraud.  Something to think about but these people think they’re invisible.  Example, ever wonder why the very important 184 housing program is still shut down for almost 18 months. Can’t even get a storm door fixed but you have all these people over there collecting checks to turn you away. Yah. That 184 theft is still hoovering over housing.

Quan was a good example to our kids, and the adults.

It’s another “DAMNED SHAME” moment because this TA Thundereagle is not accountable to us….or anyone actually.  He has no contract and made it clear he doesn’t want one…He apparently has a habit of walking away whenever he pleases.   At least that is his reputation. And like all the others has a career path that leaves a huge mess behind.  He makes # 6  (or 7 if you count Leon’s deuce terms) in our cachet of less than competent TA’s.

In a government without rules,or Elder guidance,  gouging lawyers, scam artists, and a cadre of scallywags, you have to wonder how the so called leaders can look themselves in the face. Course it’s not like they’re people any of the true Mashpee associate with. Pretenders. Lonely pretenders.

The Tribal Court being what it is…..nothing, has a lot of nothing going on. It has a

As a former Minnesota Assistant Attorney General, newly appointed Mashpee Supreme Court Judge Yellowhammer should know a scam when she sees one

new Supreme Court Judge Terri Yellowhammer who joins the old ones getting paid to participate in a process that in legal terms is “moot,” or “not real.”

The court rulings are not enforceable because we can’t get our land into trust.  As we all know by now, LIT completes the most important part of our sovereignty that validates our government and more importantly the court. As you can see we really don’t have any way of getting justice against the corrupt Council unless we go to a federal court or the FBI shows up. That’s why we can’t resolve true legal matters in the tribal court…serious issues are handled by state courts and a lot of times it does not work out well for us.  ICWA is a huge problem needless to say.

LIT is a  fantasy postponed for over 5 years by Shovel Ready Ceddie and his very expensive White lawyers (and one NDN Arlinda). These Boston firms lead by a former governor and Congressman do absolutely nothing but bill us for stuff a law clerk knows will be thrown out. They’re frantic now because they know the state has made clear they don’t believe in the LIT fantasy and they’re giving the casino license away. Last November Arlinda Locklear said we would see

Arlinda couldn't get her Lumbee tribe recognized nor can she get our LIT..She is getting a fat check for $10K a month

LIT in 90 days.  By March she and Messy Jessie said June

Messy Jessie "Master of Charades" searches the heavens for her next scam

or July. Well? The time frames evaporate and new ones appear….that’s the only thing that is certain in the LIT saga. The BIA has no preliminary decision standing by which is the normal step before an affirmative decision is made.  There’s just silence. The state Gaming commission knows what the silence means.

These shameless shysters have made millions by over billing us in the Genting racket. The so called tribal leadership keeps getting paid to run all that money through the tribe.

What did Cheryl say? “The Fryes’ll be rollin’ in the doe!”

The First Lady never dreamed of riding so high after being so low.....

Damn right girl!  Can’t get a clean election…can’t get rid of you and all your relatives who have infested the government with all your extensive education, sophistication and brilliance. You have made us so proud with all your empathy to our sick tribal members, one beloved member who recently passed away. And the prosperity, the abundance you have brought to our families and our fledgling tribal community.

Right.  So tribal members filed a challenge to the latest crooked election where the First Lady won by keeping people from voting (because they would not have voted for her). Well her great White lawyers told, the tribal court that the the challenge was filed by “dissidents” who don’t like the leadership. Yes that’s true. But the court’s role is to resolve legal disputes.Aside from the argument being valid,  the majority of those members are from the same families that fought to get our land back and to get us Recognition.  The government of the United States thought we were “dissidents” in both of those instances.These new White Overseers say the tribal members should be sanctioned for filing the suit.  Oh yah….so how is that enforced?

                                      Kickin’ the Quahog down the path….

Well the court wants no part of the case because  they know that we know that the judicial system is a sham.  The judges want the pay check to do nothing, but don’t want to be held accountable for rendering unenforceable decisions. So, they want the case to go to the Peacemakers who are some of the nutty-ist  people in the tribe. The Peacemakers were supposed to be  Elders from each family because they are wise, will be fair and people will respect their decisions. When you have outisders running the tribal government…well they don’t want the Elders involved. And we all know that Carol Lopez and her daughter Marie are not exactly credible…okay…that’s a duo on the panel that makes the whole thing ridiculous.

These White lawyers are paid to insult us and degrade us in the phantom court. They are paid handily.  Arlinda makes about $10,000 a month to tell us that LIT is just over the horizon about every 3 months. Whatever she’s doing it ain’t much cause there is no legislation in Congress that has a chance of passage to fix the Carcieri ruling. We pay a lawyer named Burr $30,000 a month to review the bills of the other lawyer thieves. Fox in the hen house indeed. The tribal government has failed us and become a caretaker of the people who have worked against us since time immemorial.

Watch out for the FRYEPATROL !

$130,000,000 later, and we’re worse off than we were before recognition. You get a ham, and a monthly ration from the food pantry (that’s sponsored by the Boston Food Bank no less).With that kind of debt,  tribal members should be able to go into the pantry weekly. Instead you’re greeted by Donna Johnson and her sister Ca ( who loaded the voter rolls with pending tribal members for Ceddie )who do nothing but pass judgment  and gossip about everyone…They’re on Fryepatrol. Beware, the Fryepatrol is watchin’.

No one would go down there if Natalie weren’t there.

The Curse of the Pond and “Goshes”

Generations of Mashpee speak in hushed tones about the Pond and it’s consumption of strangers….White people mainly.  They talk about how they can’t remember a Native drowning in the enormous lake, but many White tourists perished for some

The Pond .. a sanctuary for Mashpee Wampanoag but treacherous for outsiders.

reason. That Pond drops off wicked bad and it was like the shock of it is so stunning it appears as though they’re sucked  under. Natives standing on the gray sand would watch in silence…then, someone would beat it out into the black water to save the pitiful victim. But if no one were around it spelled trouble every time. Whites capsized in the middle of that lake and it was too bad cause they couldn’t make it to shore…not a Mashpee. Mashpee don’t capsize and if they couldn’t swim shore to shore, they didn’t accept the dare to race. We learned to swim in that lake or suffered constant humiliation. Course it was too much and you were a prolific  swimmer in short order.

It’s sad because we never learned from this longstanding childhood lesson of tradition and survival. We’re still saving the White man but won’t save ourselves.