http://www.washingtonwatch.com/bills info@washingtonwatch.com http://www.pjdoland.com/chai/?v=0.1 http://www.washingtonwatch.com/bills/show/111_HR_3084.html#148991 The sad part about the enrollment issue is that my family members, as descendants of Louise Tawakon, listed as the daughter of Thomas Tawakon Jr, and his wife Francois Walla Walla, who along with her brother Pierre, the Tawakons had before they were married in the Catholic Church in Dayton, OR appear to be the children of Louise Chinook, who died the same year that the Tawakons were married as was buried at Fort Vancouver, so they were adopted children in that scenario, but a differet type of adoption from adopting inlaws into the tribe. Whatever the case, honesty would have been best instead of robbing our family members or asking us to donate our time and effort into helping out the Lower Chinook Tribe as good intent failed.... 148991@http://www.washingtonwatch.com Wed, 25 Nov 2009 05:03:58 EST http://www.washingtonwatch.com/bills/show/111_HR_3084.html#148381 In summary i believe that somewhere along the line the meaning of Federal recognition was misunderstood by the Lower Chinook Nation and the fact that being honest about who they consider tribal members, including inlaws, would have been better than trying to trick well-intended persons like my family out of their identities and property in the hopes that the US govt. wouldn't discover the discrepancy, as it did. Being restored after being Federally recognized then derecognized is like being in terminated status like the Siletz, who when restored did not get back their hunting and fishing rights. The Lower Chinook Nation should not be in the same situation,so their full hunting and fishing rights established commensurate with other Federally recognized tribes should be returned. Likewise their situation should not deny full treaty rights to Upper Chinooks enrolled in Federally recognized tribes who have established fishing stations and hunting rights in their ancestral locations.... 148381@http://www.washingtonwatch.com Tue, 24 Nov 2009 17:02:26 EST http://www.washingtonwatch.com/bills/show/111_HR_3084.html#148294 The Chinook were told by the US govt.they would have to change their enrollment rules to reflect their acual practice of enrolling sister-in-laws like Rose La Frambois and her descendants,otherwise they wouldn't be enrollable in their tribe.Rose LaFrabois lived in Cathlamet,home of the Wahkiakums and their chief Tim Tarabochia who asked me to write the letter of support. In the meantime my family heirlooms were looted and my father ,a Yakama Tribal member,eventually deceased by the same group of people who evidently had been arrested for drug charges in Pacific County that thought by being listed as the descendants of Suzzanne Tawakon and Amable Petit, even though they were not our relatives as Tawakons, they could steal our family heirlooms and award themselves the same,and claim they had the right to our fishing rights as Cascades in the Columbia River Gorge, even though that is not Lower Chinook territory,after robbing my late father of his salmon dipnets as a traditional fisherman.... 148294@http://www.washingtonwatch.com Tue, 24 Nov 2009 15:40:36 EST http://www.washingtonwatch.com/bills/show/111_HR_3084.html#147268 My letter for Federal recognition of the Chinook Indian Nation sent on August 7, 2000 to Holly Reckord,Branch of Acknowledgement, Bureau of Indian Affairs, Washington . D.C.; outlined who my family members were and that we were always identified as Chinook, as our enrollment records from the Yakama Nation list us as Cascade Chinook, an Upper Chinook group from the now Bonnville Dam area. After Federal recognition came reversal from the Federal government that the persons enrolled in the Chinook Indian Nation living in Bay Center could not trace their ancestry back to the tribes from Ilwaco or Dahlia removed to Bay Center. 238 people were listed as being descendants of Suzanne Tawakon and Amable Petit,sister of Thomas Tawakon Jr,my ancestor, who were actually descendants of Rose LaFrambois, a sister in law of the Scarborough family and not Chinook, but Sioux, Cayuse, and French. This shouldn't be grounds for reversing recognition to cheat the Chinook out of hunting and fishing rights.... 147268@http://www.washingtonwatch.com Mon, 23 Nov 2009 20:09:46 EST http://www.washingtonwatch.com/bills/show/111_HR_3084.html#144150 I was asked in 1997 to write a letter of support for the Lower Chinook Nation to obtain Federal recognition, before I was aware of the situation regarding adopting in of inlaws and giving them my family's identities, so I have some concern about enrollment procedures. The current bill is not Federal recognition as it denies the Lower Chinook Nation the Boldt decision fishing rights which has stood for over 30 years in Federal Court, as well as hunting rights,trapping rights, NAGPRA, aboriginal title to land ,NAGPRA, and many other rights which all Federally recognized tribes have. As such it is unconstitutional. I personally would not have voted for fishing only twice a year for ceremonial purposes or funerals instead of a share of fish under the Boldt decision and have ceremonial fisheries managed by the WA state Dept of Fisheries instead of the tribal fishery program and the allocation taken from the state's recreational and commercial fishing allocation for nontribal members.... 144150@http://www.washingtonwatch.com Fri, 20 Nov 2009 19:40:08 EST http://www.washingtonwatch.com/bills/show/111_HR_3084.html#135126 Bigman is my Native American name and I support this bill. But please exclude casinos from this bill because it's a sin of greed. We must give our respects to the Native Americans and their ancestors. Some of them have even converted to Christianity.... 135126@http://www.washingtonwatch.com Thu, 12 Nov 2009 16:17:41 EST http://www.washingtonwatch.com/bills/show/111_HR_3084.html#121890 Please support the Chinook Restoration Bill HR3084. There has been three generations working on Chinook Federal Recognition. We are fast loosing those from the second generation.It is time to correct this injustice and restore status to once was the biggest Tribe in North America. I strongly feel that our surrounding communities are ready as well!... 121890@http://www.washingtonwatch.com Mon, 02 Nov 2009 13:47:55 EST http://www.washingtonwatch.com/bills/show/111_HR_3084.html#72845 The Chinook people have diligently tried to preserve their culture and their history. They have had managed to survive without the any of the support which might have come with federal recognition. Non-recognition put the Chinook Tribe at a distinct disadvantage in their efforts to preserve their culture. Is this right, is it fair? I do not think it is and I hope you agree and vote for the long-overdue recognition of the Chinook Tribe.... 72845@http://www.washingtonwatch.com Thu, 01 Oct 2009 16:41:47 EDT http://www.washingtonwatch.com/bills/show/111_HR_3084.html#67462 Please support this bill.Let's get it done!It's the right thing to do!Come on Congress the Chinook have waited to long for this,right the wrong.... 67462@http://www.washingtonwatch.com Fri, 18 Sep 2009 19:42:34 EDT http://www.washingtonwatch.com/bills/show/111_HR_3084.html#66546 please realize that our people still exist and always have we deserve whats owed to us my great grandmother sara ero fought for this as well as my father charles jones waiting for this and now me and my two children and it will just go down the kine but we will still be here so do whats right... 66546@http://www.washingtonwatch.com Tue, 15 Sep 2009 05:12:38 EDT http://www.washingtonwatch.com/bills/show/111_HR_3084.html#63413 Please support this bill as it is the right thing to do. Our people have waited a very long time for this. Our Elders are dying and we lack good healthcare How many decades have we waited for our tribe to be a federally recognized tribe---The time is now Please support this bill as it is the right thing to do. Our people have waited a very long time for this. Our Elders are dying and we lack good healthcare How many decades have we waited for our tribe to be a federally recognized tribe---The time is now... 63413@http://www.washingtonwatch.com Tue, 28 Jul 2009 16:53:43 EDT http://www.washingtonwatch.com/bills/show/111_HR_3084.html#62949 This Bill is illegal, unethical and immoral. It does NOTHING to honor my people. It strips us of our Indigenous rights and treats us as Children to a Federal Government that has done nothing to ensure us of a survival of our heritage. It strips our lands away from us, denies us our hunting and fishing rights and was "agreed" to by ONE tribe out of the 13 that constitute our Nation. It is an abomination and nothing more than ethnic cleansing, homogenizing our diversified cultural traditions to one, take it or leave it, future. This is a bad bill which honorable people should neither endorse nor sign. Read it, see what we are supposedly "willingly" giving up! What Indian would willingly trade their heritage for such a paltry return? See my letter at http://northcoastoregon.com. I am the great-grandson of Chief George Charley, last of the Chief's on the lower Columbia to challenge the US government to fish our traditional grounds. This bill does nothing to honor him or his memory.... 62949@http://www.washingtonwatch.com Mon, 20 Jul 2009 19:09:05 EDT http://www.washingtonwatch.com/bills/show/111_HR_3084.html#62875 Please vote yes. Jean and Walt expressed my feelings exactly.... 62875@http://www.washingtonwatch.com Sun, 19 Jul 2009 12:36:43 EDT http://www.washingtonwatch.com/bills/show/111_HR_3084.html#62849 Please vote yeas on this Chinook Restoration Bill...It has been a long time coming and please remember that the Chinooks assisted Lewis and Clark on their arrival at the mouth of the Columbia Ricer!... 62849@http://www.washingtonwatch.com Sat, 18 Jul 2009 20:25:33 EDT http://www.washingtonwatch.com/bills/show/111_HR_3084.html#62629 The Chinook Nation, long recognized and respected by historians, Pacific Northwest residents, visitors to the region, and even by government in a variety of ways, justly deserves the formal recognition that this bill would belatedly provide.... 62629@http://www.washingtonwatch.com Wed, 15 Jul 2009 16:16:15 EDT http://www.washingtonwatch.com/bills/show/111_HR_3084.html#62619 Please vote Yes on the Chinook Nation Restoration we have been waiting years it is the right thing to do let us get on with our lives. Thank You... 62619@http://www.washingtonwatch.com Wed, 15 Jul 2009 15:16:18 EDT http://www.washingtonwatch.com/bills/show/111_HR_3084.html#62597 Please make HISTORY by voting YES to the Chinook Nation Restoration. It will help right a wrong done many years ago and to the present.... 62597@http://www.washingtonwatch.com Wed, 15 Jul 2009 10:22:08 EDT http://www.washingtonwatch.com/bills/show/111_HR_3084.html#62572 Please vote yes and support the Restoration of the Chinook Nation. This is a correction to US policy long overdue.... 62572@http://www.washingtonwatch.com Tue, 14 Jul 2009 22:44:59 EDT http://www.washingtonwatch.com/bills/show/111_HR_3084.html#62321 Please pass this bill! It is the right thing to do!! Show your support for the Chinook Nation with a yes vote!!... 62321@http://www.washingtonwatch.com Thu, 09 Jul 2009 15:39:09 EDT http://www.washingtonwatch.com/bills/show/111_HR_3084.html#62320 Please support the Chinook Nation! Pass this bill!... 62320@http://www.washingtonwatch.com Thu, 09 Jul 2009 15:36:51 EDT http://www.washingtonwatch.com/bills/show/111_HR_3084.html#62319 Now is the time to make things right! Support the Chinook Nation with recognition! We have been waiting for this for a long time! Support us with a yes vote!!... 62319@http://www.washingtonwatch.com Thu, 09 Jul 2009 15:35:28 EDT http://www.washingtonwatch.com/bills/show/111_HR_3084.html#61931 I strongly feel that Bill H.B. 2576 should be restored. We are very hurt that our recognition was given to us, then taken away. We are still here, and we are still waiting. What do we tell our children? These children work very hard making their own canoe paddles they harvest grass from the water and learn to cure them. They make baskets,hats and many other things. We have a plank house where we celebrate Winter Gathering. We've invited other tribes from around the area. they recognize us, why don't you... 61931@http://www.washingtonwatch.com Fri, 03 Jul 2009 11:49:42 EDT