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Regarding “Disbarred Colville Tribal Spokesperson,’ ...Chairman [Erickson] continued, “The Colville Tribes will always protect its members...People who think they can prey on our community without suffering consequences are badly mistaken.” — Tribal Tribune March 17, 2023 pp A1,9. Really? Nope! FYI, whistle-blowing is a ticket to “black-ball,” while embezzlers rise in the heap. Harms by a scheming, grifting-colonized-preying CBC, Office of Reservation Attorney (ORA), historical Executive Direction & Public Safety Directors (ED; PSD), Tribal...
If 2023 Colville Business Council (CBC) candidates know, let alone understand, what organized racketeering is, can they attack its head, the colonized CBC, on the Colville Indian Reservation (CIR)? “Part of the Organized Crime Control Act of 1970, the Racketeer Influenced and Corrupt Organizations Act (RICO) makes it unlawful to acquire, operate, or receive income from an enterprise through a pattern of racketeering activity. Geared toward ongoing organized criminal activities, the underlying tenet of RICO is to prove and prohibit a pattern o...
7 candidates for Colville Business Council (CBC), what do you commit to your claim as a “candidate for change”? What change? Year after year, “change” turns out to be about another face replacing the same dysfunctional-type council member. It is extremely rare a council candidate shows up with an original idea. Let’s start here: On behalf of the Tribes and Tribal Members, the CBC may file legal claims for damages against corporations and other governments. Orion Donovan-Smith, orionds@spokesman.com, Spokesman Review 8/4/21 reported,...
Autonomous Sinixt recently self-identified as Autonomous, despite functioning as autonomous for over 35 years in British Colombia (BC). Beginning with the occupation at the Vallican Heritage Site, to prevent road construction from destroying one of our ancient burial and village sites, our deceased Elder, Eva Adolph Campbell Orr, led a collective of Sinixt Peoples to occupy this site: The longest, ongoing peaceful occupation of unceded Indigenous lands in Canada. Our Sinixt ancestors’ spirits, and descendants’ attention towards overcoming the 1...
Local media were notified (Feb. 21) that “By a 8-6 vote, the Colville Business Council (CBC) today approved the expulsion of CBC Andrea George.” CBC expulsions are authorized by the CBC Ethics Code and the Colville Tribal Constitution. Is the Ethics Code implemented ethically under the Law and Order Code? For instance, can a council member be expelled for promoting the passage of the Ethics Code itself? A few years ago, a tribal trial judge had already drunk the kool aid of consent-complicity by ruling to violate the Colville Tribal Law and...
American narcissism-exceptionalism is the most habitual exporter of terror around the globe by the cruelties out of Congress and the White house. Exports of military arms and environmental poisoning of foreign Peoples and their lands creates collateral damage by destroying those Peoples’ ways of life. Yemen, Syria, Honduras, Venezuela, Brazil, Columbia, Guatemala, the former Czechoslovakia, Puerto Rico, Haiti, Palestine, Okinawa, Philippines, Standing Rock, Alberta Tar Sands, Canada declaring Sinixt Peoples extinct — all have been targets of...
Cathy’s craven role in “money-changing” the U.S. Tax Code to aid “The Money-Changer’s Tax Paradise” in offshore tax shelters is shameful! The $1.5 trillion-dollar tax giveaway is the biggest tax giveaway to giant corporations in modern history, a bill so insulting to working families that it actually provides Wells Fargo — the same company that is guilty of creating millions of fake accounts to cheat its customers — the largest tax break of all. Cathy’s Tax Paradise on earth is a secret she doesn’t tell anyone in her usual newsletters in snai...
Doublespeak supports the unfair and morally obscene Is Congresswoman Cathy McMorris Rodgers ignorant about what is going on, literally, on the ground? She gives “doublespeak” about her support for the destruction of public lands in supporting House Resolution 3990 and in support of the newest House bill on budget and tax reform. First, on the budget, Congresswoman Rodgers’ support would do deep harm to tens of millions of working families, women, kids, the sick, the elderly, and the poor. It cuts Medicaid by more than $1 trillion over 10 years...
Justice has never flourished on the Colville Indian Reservation (CIR) for tribal members, although federal Department of Justice (DOJ) and Bureau of Indian Affairs (BIA) funds are intended for the very purpose of providing law and order for the benefit and protection of Colville Tribal Members (CTM). Before I mention one major Colville Business Council-administered injustice, let me first show you how tribes may find justice from time to time: On page 3 of the Colville Tribal Tribune February 3, 2017, is a partial story of how Canadian company...
There are a lot of TV and print and talk shows about terrorism here and terrorism there. It is a serious matter, terrorism is. What makes it worrisome is that it is not well defined, and it seems some government officials want it that way. Some of you may not recognize total censorship or censorship as terrorism. The Peoples got punished over the last few years for having an opinion about corruption in Colville tribal government from the top down. Letters to the editor were removed from our tribal newsprint in total. The “Clowncil” and its sta...
In order to get around the censorship of the Colville tribal members’ newspaper, the Tribal Tribune (TT), I want to specifically thank publishers for printing reports about sordid tribal Colville Business Council (CBC) conduct. So what part of the “Clowncil” trying to protect an impeachable chief judge of the Colville Tribal Court is incompetence-based racketeering? “Grifting” definition: grift (grft) Slang n. 1. Money made dishonestly, as in a swindle. 2. A swindle or confidence game. v. grift·ed, grift·ing, grifts, Grifter v.intr. To...
“As The Stomach Turns” is possibly how many of us Tribal Members felt, who read the Bill Of Impeachment content against former Colville Tribal Court Chief Judge Scot Stuart in November 2015. While we read it with interest, many of us rolled our eyes with the anticipation of another routine Clowncil effort in FAIL. Sure enough, we could see right away, the Clowncil would avoid its duty to lawfully impeach under the weight of the most numerous, immorally disgusting, and egregious of offenses as outlined in the Bill of Impeachment. The usual sus...
It’s one thing to be ignorant of one’s own stupidity and incompetence, but TR 2016-217 rubs it in the face of the Colville Tribal Peoples, a cruel insult to the members of the CCT who are ashamed, especially, of the criminal racketeering by Tribal Government. Such racketeering is a result of the influences of conspiratorial corruption, cronyism, and nepotism institutionalized within tribal government, the racket that spans the corporate-council relationship. (Editor’s note: The writer refers to a tribal resolution passed May 5, approving a loa...
Yes, at the March 6, 2013 Colville Tribal Council Management and Budget Committee Meeting, where Committee Chair Billy Nicholson held court and Mike Finley, Council Chair, sat next to, and huddled with, Billy, censorship was far beyond them saying (paraphrase) “People don’t want to read these opinions.” It’s important to review this because of the Council’s stated motives for censorship. The first cause for censorship of Letters To The Editor (in the Tribal Tribune) that came out of the Clowncil’s collective mouth was, “It’s too expensive,...
There is a lot of TV and print and talk shows about terrorism here and terrorism there. It is a serious matter, terrorism is. What makes it worrisome is that it is not well defined and it seems some government officials want it that way. Some of you may not recognize total censorship or censorship as terrorism. The Peoples got punished over the last few years for having an opinion about corruption in Colville Tribal Government from the top down. Letters-to-the-Editor were removed from our tribal newsprint in total March 2013. The Clowncil and...
Much has been written to (the Tribal Tribune) in editorials about theft, embezzlements, unfair hiring and cronyism. We can write about it until we turn purple as evidently some majorities of Colville Tribal Members don’t seem to concern themselves. Some merely respond, “who isn’t on the take?” Well let’s turn to whether or not we even have a conscience left for our own guidance. Taking child sexual assaults as an example, when did we give up on that as a tragedy to that child? When did we give up providing services to that child who would and...