Nooksack Human Rights Saga Reaches Year 10; Winter Housing Evictions Proceed Despite UN, US Calls for a Halt

Today marks year ten of a campaign to purge over 300 Nooksack members and take their homes. Evictions proceed despite the United Nations and United States each calling for a halt.

EventsLast Real IndiansDecember 12, 2022Nooksack

22 Nooksack 306 Households Facing Illegal Eviction From HUD Homes

63 Nooksack tribal members comprising 22 HUD households are presently facing eviction by Nooksack politicians despite the BIA and HUD both requesting a pause to those proceedings.

FeaturedLast Real IndiansDecember 4, 2021Nooksack, Last Real Indians, Disenrollment

National Congress of American Indians Passes Historic Tribal Citizenship Protection Measure

“The resolution powerfully affirms both sides of the tribal citizenship coin: The Indigenous human and civil right to belong and the inherent Tribal sovereign right to decide who belongs,” said Shannon O’Loughlin, a Choctaw Nation citizen and Director of the Association of American Indians Affairs (AAIA).

FeaturedLast Real IndiansNovember 16, 2020Disenrollment, Nooksack, Gabe Galanda, NCAI

Disenrollment is an Existential Threat

In order to stop annihilating ourselves with our own hands and our outdates laws we need to understand why all these regulations were created and where they came from. Current attorney for the Nooksack 306 disenrollees, Gabe Galanda emphasizes, “Disenrollment is an existential threat to Indian people throughout the country.”