Is this how they do away with Indian Child Welfare Act laws? Disenroll the child and they are no longer Indians?!?!? Repulsive!

There was an Act that initially terminated nearly 500 members of the Uinta band from the Ute Indian Tribe of Utah? AND the Utes of mixed descent were part of a PLANNED FEDERAL TERMINATION of the TRIBES but the program was subsequently abandoned...???? I lived and taught school for a year in Utah and never though the Mormon's could do anything so heinous. The FEDERAL government planning termination of tribes makes me sick. Blacks brought over as slaves have been treated better than the Aboriginals in this country from the very beginning. At least Blacks were considered good enough to keep alive, even though they had no civil rights their work was valued and they were bought and sold. Many were treated very poorly, but were kept alive to work. Some had better housing than Indians did. What did the Federal government do to the Aboriginals they stole their land from? They did their best to kill off as many as they could. They are still treated poorly and this HAS to stop. It's sickening in this day and age that the federal government doesn't recognize all the tribes and value and prize the people here before them who took care of the land and knew how to live off the land. They were doing just fine till the first white men arrived and wanted their land. Look at them now? There's in-fighting about blood quantities for those tribes who have gaming rights. If the government finds there is something they want about the land a reservation is on, they are still trying and taking it away from the tribes. When is this madness going to stop? Wake up people!!!! The Aboriginals of this country deserve our respect, gratitude and deserve to be compensated for being the most oppressed of any race in this country.

6-28-12 If the Reporter, Carol Berry, had read the Briefs submitted to the 10th Circuit Court of Appeals and not just scanned the contents of the Court's discussion in the Order and Judgment this News Article would be quite different. The Richita Hackford Case presented was actually a jurisdiction issue seeking an injunction against the State of Utah Law Enforcement Officers for abuse of power alleging the State has no jurisdiction on the Uinta Valley & Ouray Reservations. Hackford was denied the injunction on procedural matters the Court stating: "It may be cited, however, for its persuasive value"... which says the so-called mixed-blood Utes are not Utes but Shoshone Indians of Utah. They hold the only treaty rights on the U & O Reservatons and they have never been a part of the Historic Confederated Band of Ute Indians of Colorado who were to be terminated by Act of Congress in 1951. (P.L. 120 (65 Stat. 193)) The Uinta Band of Utah Indians is the only charter members of the Federal Corporation d/b/a the "Ute Indian Tribe" of the Uinta & Ouray Reservation created under the IRA of 1934. It is a separate and distinct entity from the Utes of Colorado including those living in Utah who are only allottees after 1880. The Utes living on the U & O call themselves the Northern Ute Tribe which is not a federally recognized Tribe by IRA standards. The Secretary of the Interior was given authority in the 1951 Ute Termination Act to approve and implement the Ute Ten-Year-Plan for termination. When that Plan was submitted in 1954 it was P.L. 671 (68 Stat. 868) and the Utah Shoshone Indians found themselves administratively recreated and redefined as "Mixed-blood Utes" who would be terminated in 1961 by administrative act of the Secretary of the Interior. Their Treaty Estate was "bootstrapped" to the Confederated Ute Termination Act by implication by Utah Mormon lawyers and politicions in 1951 for self-enrichment. The Mormon Church included itself in this case by complaining that Hackford had their official title wrong which is the "Corporation of the President of the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints", a state incorporated "Corporation Sole" that is the Holding Company for the money collected from the many aggregate community church corporations around the world. It also is an Investment Company for said collections. The Uinta Valley Shoshone Indians of Utah have never been "expressly" terminated by any Act of Congress. Through fraud, the so-called "Mixed-blood Utes" (whoever they are) were administratively terminated but under the pretense and pretext of P.L. 671 in 1954, their assets were not! If anyone wants the details to this travesty they can communicate with the Tribe by going to AffiliatedUteCitizens.org Sincerely, A concerned citizen