Nooksack Indian Tribe in Disenrollment Fight

Gale Courey Toensing
April 11, 2013
Ethnic cleansing – the forced removal of a population from a designated piece of territory – is nothing new in America...

Disenrollments Boost Pechanga Per Capita Monthly Payments to $30K

ICTMN Staff
May 16, 2012
Members of the Pechanga Band of Luiseno Indians recently received a jump in their monthly per capita payments from $22,431 to $30,000, CBS2 News reports ...
David E. Wilkins

Depopulation in Indian Country, 21st Century Style

A strange thing is happening in and across Indian country: the number of federally recognized tribal nations continues to increase—the Tejon people of California were readmitted to the ranks in early January of this year, bringing the number of such groups to 566—while the population figures for...

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March 19, 2012

Growth of Northwest Tribes Outpaces General Population

ICTMN Staff
February 09, 2012
Membership in Northwest tribes has grown faster than the general population, reports Northwest News Network. This growth has strained some tribes and strengthened others...

Gaming Revenue Blamed for California Tribes Disenrolling Members

ICTMN Staff
December 14, 2011
Roughly two dozen California tribes have disenrolled more than 2,500 Indians in the past decade on the basis of not having proper ancestry, according to estimates by Indian advocat...

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