In an effort to update, inform, educate and expose, the California Valley Miwok Tribal Chairperson Silvia Burley on behalf of her people’s and at the direction of the duly elected tribal council will now make periodic addresses concerning her beleaguered tribe in the fashionable style of what came to be known as the fire side chats initiated by then President of the United States Franklin Delano Roosevelt.
In this video, the Chairperson will allude to what is currently being perpetrated against the tribe and its citizens, the local corrupt branch of the federal government behind these actions and of the negative impacts within the tribe’s service area in which the tribe being denied valuable resources is powerless to assist in addressing.
The initial action they have choose to pursue is the theft of the tribe outside the legal definitions authorizing them to do so, making up the steps and procedures of how they will do it along the way in their nefarious recreation of a, ( Secretarial Election ). This is how the actual law reads, Federal Indian Law, Part 81.6 To request a secretarial election (1) A duly adopted tribal resolution, tribal ordinance, or other appropriate tribal document requesting the Secretary to call a Secretarial election, or, in the absence of an existing governing document or if authorized or required by the existing government documents, a petition that has been verified by the Bureau as having the minimum number of required signatures of tribal members; and (2) The exact document or amended language to be voted on; and (b) The tribe must submit a list in an electronically sortable format with names, last known addresses, dates of birth, and voting district, if any, of all tribal members who: (1) Will be 18 years of age within 120 days of the date of request; and (2) Meet any other voting restrictions imposed by the tribe’s governing document for voting in the Secretarial election.
FIRST: The tribe never submitted a document, resolution, ordinance or any kind of a request whatsoever. Nor did the tribe ever request from it’s adult citizen’s signatures that are required before the BIA can take this type of action.
SECOND: No document was ever submitted to be voted on and if one is to someday appear it will be a fabrication of the BIA, but following the rules it is supposed to exist before the process even starts because that is what is being voted upon. (2)(b) The actual tribe and her citizens did submit information but only to enjoin this process to have standing to file suit against the Bureau of Indian Affairs and their acting agents in this façade. (1) N/A (2)
Here the BIA seeks to violate the voting restriction’s act by allowing an overwhelming number of individuals that are not citizen’s, have never been enrolled, and most have never requested application’s for enrollment. A few previously have but never returned or returned unopened. The tribe rejects the right of any non-citizen to be able to vote in something that was not requested and against the will of the tribe in accordance with the tribal laws of all federally recognized tribes of the United States.
Quoting former President Ronald Reagan who once said, ” The nine most terrifying words in the English language are: I’m from the Government and I’m here to help “. In reference to the BIA, their words ring as empty and hollow as their heads.
Thank you,
The California Valley Miwok Tribe
