California Gaming Tribes Oppose Indian Civil Rights
This entry was posted on 10/24/2007 4:00 PM and is filed under uncategorized.
Simply amazing! Large gaming Tribes in California have voted to oppose the Indian Civil Rights Resolution that will be presented to the California Democratic Native American Caucus November 16, 8 PM, Anaheim at the Hilton
Hotel
PLEASE - California Indians - join and attend. The more
the merrier. You should have seen the Tribal Council's faces when they
saw all of us in San Diego.
However, in order to
join the Native American Caucus, you must be a registered Democrat and pay the
membership fee. (Or request a waiver.) You can request a membership application by going to: http://www.nativeamericancaucus.com/signup.shtml
It would be great to get
more Caucus members who believe in Indian rights issues.
If you have additional
questions about the Caucus go to their website at: http://www.nativeamericancaucus.com/index.shtml
I was informed earlier today that CNIGA, the Indian Gaming Lobby in California,
moved and passed to oppose/object to the California Native American Civil
Rights and Equal Economic Opportunity Legislative Initiative Resolution which
was passed by the Native American Caucus of the California Democratic Party in
July. CNIGA members were urged to attend the up-coming Native American Caucus
meeting on Friday, November 16 at 8:00 pm. CNIGA also sent
out a memo to its member tribes that the Native American Caucus would be
re-considering the California Native American Civil Rights and Equal Economic
Opportunity Legislative Initiative resolution at the November 16 meeting.
The CNIGA memo, dated October 1, 2007, not only lists the time and date
of the Native American Caucus meeting and states the caucus is expected to
reconsider the Resolution, it provides this information at a time when the
members of the Native American Caucus have not even been noticed of the time.
place, or agenda of the Caucus meeting. We should not
be surprised with this though. Members of the Executive Board of the
Caucus are also members of CNIGA and have held key positions in CNIGA. In
addition, CNIGA member tribes such as Pechanga, Redding, and others are leading
the way in denying basic rights to their people. Here is a link to the
CNIGA memo: http://www.electhaze.com/documents/CNIGA%20Memorandum%20Regarding%20the%20CDP%20Native%20American%20Caucus%20meeting%20Nov%20%2016th%20at%208PM%20-%202007-10-01.pdf
