AIRRO Demonstration & Court Update
This entry was posted on 10/12/2006 5:47 AM and is filed under uncategorized.
We had an excellent AIRRO gathering today with 60 to 70 people carrying signs outside the NCAI conference in the morning, and a rally on the Capitol steps this afternoon. Tribal leaders know that we are serious and are not going away. Some leaders are starting to talk about an Indian supreme court or regional court to solve disenrollment within Indian Country before we get too much more traction with congress and the state gambling commissions.
Supporters gathered from Canada, Seattle, southwest (Hopi & Navajo), Onieda from New York and lots from California.
We are not alone! Visit
www.airro.org and join, please.
Also take heart in the fact that a US Federal Judge in Sacramento has agreed to hear a case involving enforcement of the Indian Civil Rights Act in Quair v. Sisco: "Roselind Quair and Charlotte Berna, life-long Tachi-Yokut women, were disenrolled and banished from the Santa Rosa Indian Rancheria located in Kings Country in June 2000 after Mr. Berna, the Tribal Treasurer, called for an indeptendent audit of the Casino's profits and Ms. Quair consulted a lawyer after she was sexually assulted by a tribal member. The lawsuit was filed against the tribal officials responsible for illegally stripping Petitioners of their Indian citenship and through banishment, taking their property rights without providing basic civil rights that are guaranteed by the ICRA." (Patrick Guillory, Attorney at Law, Dolores Park Law Offices 415.285.1882)
