Wahyahahnae
I appreciate your honesty about your keyboarding error, however, I am not sure why this was not clarified earlier when I mentioned the US trainer’s response, and it still does not answer how he could have been an “U.S.A. Olympic Candidate - Tae Kwon Do/Karate” years before it was a official sport. I repeat, taekwondo (that’s how the international committee spells it) was not accepted until the 2000 games and Karate still is not official. I have checked the records in the USA Taekwondo archive and can not find his name listed in any official USA tournament as a winner or even as a competitor. If he competed under a different name please do forward that information to clear this up.
I also have questions another statement in that same bio.
Quoting bio - “Co-Chairman of over 29 tribes” What do you mean by over 29” Do you not know how many? Why can this not be listed as an exact number? Not that it matters, because – this statement is not legally possible?
Bottom line, Indian communities (I try to avoid using the term “tribe” when I can) are either recognized or organized, we’ve heard enough about recognized – state or federal. The other option is organized. No matter if we like it or not, if you reside within the borders of the US, pay taxes, have a passport, a driver’s licence, or any number of other elements of the infrastructure you fall under the jurisdiction of the United States Federal government. You break one of their laws you answer to their courts. On a reservation (with the restrictions of Crow Dog – you break a tribal law, depending on your enrolment and residency you may or may not be held accountable – but that’s another long story) Arguments about the justice of this are a mute point, especially in this particular discussion, it is just a fact of life. According to federal law all groups that are entitled to call themselves an tribal nation are subject to “United States Indian Law and jurisdiction” (that entitles you to, not only legal jurisdiction over your land, but the rights to govern your group, set up a government, set enrolment requirements, set taxes, control membership etc. etc.) With acknowledgement of a group, be they organized or fed/state recognized comes the obligation of the US federal government to protect those rights. (Wheeler-Howard/IRA and IFA 25 CA 1451) This includes the right (obligation) to establish a governing body. The leader of this body can be a President, chairman, governor, whatever. But there has to be a government to say that you are a protected entity. To be elected to an administrative position (president, chairman, governor) you MUST be enrolled in that nation. HOWEVER, by federal law, (and by the request of the Indian Nations) you can only be enrolled in ONE – only one, tribal nation. You can be what we call a hyphenated Indian Dine/ Apache/Ute, (I am) but you still can only be enrolled in one of them. You can not enrol in more than one nation, therefore you can NOT be a president, chairman, or governor to more than one nation. So you certainly can not be co-chairman to more than one group, much less 29. It is just not legal. And if you say that you are not under the rules of the US government, then you also are saying that you are not legally an Indian nation in any shape or form.
