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LETTERS TO THE EDITOR
Review tribal
constitution
Editor:
This is to all band members
of the Pit River Tribe.
I would like to strongly
encourage you to review/read
our Pit River Tribal Constitution.
It is the document that
was designed and formulated
and adopted to PROTECT
AND SAFEGUARD OUR
RIGHTS, ALL OF US! In a fair
and impartial manner.
If you have misplaced your
copy, ask for another one!
Nothing in the constitution
can be changed or modified
without the full knowledge
and consent of the membership!
I want to remind everyone
here; Pit River Tribal Government
and sitting on the Pit
River Tribal Council is very
serious business and that
very important and serious
business must be understood
and carried out by the elected
people that sit on the council
FOR THE BENEFIT OF ALL
OF US!
If you are unable to attend
meetings, you have the right
to request the minutes of the
meetings.
Your Band Representative
was elected by you to represent
your best interests and
to protect and safeguard your
rights in an ethical and honorable
manner at all times and
in all issues that are reviewed,
discussed and voted upon at
the council table!
If you have questions or
concerns regarding decisions
made by the council you
have the right and obligation
to your family and yourself
to speak to your representative.
Call 335-5421 or call the
Pit River Indian Health Clinic
1-800-843-7447 and ask the
staff to transfer your call to
the tribal office! I have done
so!
If you feel your band representative
is not communicating
with you and is allowing
regulations, rules, laws
or policies to be modified,
bent, or ignored for their own
benefit or the sole benefit of
relatives or in-laws or friends,
then you must seriously consider
electing a different band
representative.
When band reps choose
to modify, bend or ignore
constitutional mandates and
federal laws for their own
benefit, then they are putting
ALL OUR RIGHTS IN JEOP-
ARDY!
Regarding the removal of
the present tribal chairperson;
ask the council for a letter
dated April 20, 2007 from
the Bureau of Indian Affairs,
Director, Virgil Akins.
This letter explains WHY
the council should have READ
the Pit River Tribal Constitution!
They should have read
Section 5, Recall before they
hired an attorney that cost
US $20,000.00 to remove the
tribal chairperson.
Bottom line! They removed
the tribal chairperson illegally
and had to reinstate the tribal
chairperson. Again, I encourage
you to become involved,
and knowledgeable about
what the council is doing for
you!
FROM WHERE I STAND,
member of the Madesi Band,
Pit River Tribe
-Marina Evans
Member Madesi Band
Pit River Tribal Member
Reached
conclusion
Editor:
To All Madesi Band Pit
River Tribal Members.
After weeks of discussion
with many qualified Madesi
Band Members, many who
can not serve at this time as
they live and work some distance
outside of our ancestral
territiory, I have reached the
conclusion that we must support
and elect Alvin McDaniels
as our Madesi Band Representative
in the upcoming
Pit River Tribal Election!
Alvin is a direct decendent
of Alec and Jenny Patterson
whose home was in Roaring
Creek. Alec Patterson held
the status of Chief in that territiory
at that time in 1900 and
before.
Alvin is a minister by occupation
and he has a keen
legal mind. Consequently
he is always busy helping
others.
Alvin recognizes how
critical it is right now to be
the council member for the
Madesi Band and he is willing
to devote time and energy to
work with other tribal council
members to restore fairness
and impartially in all decisions
made at the council table for
all tribal members.
Alvin is also very knowledgeable
about our tribal
constitution. Brandy McDaniels
has consented to be the
Alternate Madesi Band Councilperson.
Brandy McDaniels
is Alvin’s niece.
Brandy is a well educated
young woman and
has served on the Pit River
Tribal Housing Board as a
board member in the recent
past. She is familiar with the
interworkings of the Pit River
Tribal Council.
Brandy is also busy as she
is working on a second college
degree, however she too
understands how important it
is to actively work with other
band members on the tribal
council to make thoughtful,
fair and impartial decisions
that will secure the protection
and rights of all members of
the Pit River Tribe.
Alvin’s mother and my
mother were first cousins;
their mothers, Sadie Patterson
and Dolly Patterson were
full sisters and they were the
daughters of Alec and Jenny
Patterson of Roaring Creek.
-Marina Evans
Member Madesi Band
Pit River Tribal Member
What surrounds
the leadership
Editor:
To our friends everywhere:
Greetings from Yolo
County, and from those of us
here at the SPECTRE Group
of the Affiliated Obsidian
Nation. It’s been far too long,
since we spoke with you last.
In this communique, we
wish to respond to a letter-tothe
editor published.
The letter was written by a
delusional white man named
Maximum Bob: also known
in some circles as “Robert
Boyce Sr.”
Until very recently, this
individual used to work as a
Tribal Administrator for the Pit
River Tribe (Burney, CA).
Due to space considerations,
we are precluded
from reproducing his meandering
manifesto here, wordfor-word.
Instead, we will address
specific parts of his statement,
as it involves his role
in the corruption controvesy
that surrounds the leadership
of the Pit RIver Tribal Council.
He starts his statement off
with a lie. He writes that he
is speaking in it as an individual,
but nothing could be
further from the truth.
Everything he has said to
the media up to this point has
been as a representative of
his job at the Pit River Tribe.
Now that he has been given
his walking papers by the Pit
River Tribal Membership and
dozens of tribal members
are clamoring for him to be
charged with assault and battery
is no time for him to suddenly
start claiming that he is
“writing this letter as an individual
and not on behalf of
the Pit River Tribal Council.”
He also writes: “the Tribal
government has an inherent
obligation to administer its
duties in such a manner as
to benefit the overall whole
society of its membership.”
We agree with this statement
wholeheartedly; our
only question being how
does this sentence relate to
Maximum Bob and the Tribal
Government Gravy Train that
he has glommed onto at the
Pit RIver Tribe
The recent historical record
illustrates in vivid detail how
most of the benefits he’s talking
about (paychecks, housing,
jobs, no-bid contracts,
etc.) have gone not to “the
overall whole society of its
membership” but to those
people fortunate enough to
be connected to the tribal
council’s inner-circle.
In his statement, and in
speaking about (his interpretation
of) tribal government,
he writes: “It’s not about who
can tell the best lie. This
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statement on his part is ludicrous
to the point of being
delusional, seeing as how he
has been feeding the public,
and the print media, and the
tribal membership nothing
BUT lies ever since the news
broke about his assault upon
Marena Martinez.
Ms. Martinez as the reader
may recall, is the representative
of the Hamawi Band of
Pit River people.
This is the same “tribal
administrator” who sneered
to the Silent No More protesters
who were manning
a picket line outside tribal
headquarters on the day of
the assault-and-battery incident:
“that’s right, I’m going
to take all of your money. I’m
going to stuff it into my pockets
‘till they’re overflowinng
with money, and there’s not a
damned thing that you can do
about it BECAUSE YOU’RE
SO STUPID!”
This is the kind of treatment
that he doles out to the
dumb, stupid, backward Indians
who oppose him when
he thinks no one’s looking.
But it’s a whole different
story when it comes time for
him to grease the wheels of
the print media. Then, his
behavior switches dramatically
and schizophreniclly.
All of a sudden, we start
getting statements like this
from him in the letter-to-theeditor
section of the local
newspaper: “Government is
about... social, economic,
educational and spiritual
advancement.”
To which we are compelled
to say: “jerk yourself
off on your own time, Bob -
not ours.”
He goes to exaustive
lengths to highlight the deplorable
state of tribal affairs at
Pit River prior to his coming
on board as administrator.
Yet he does his readers
a grave disservice in failing
to mention how he himself
has no prior experience AS a
bonafide tribal admiinistrator.
Nor does he tell us when
all of the sloppy, greedy, arrogant,
and inept Indians of the
previous administration left
the picture and were replaced
by the current, heroic tribal
council we have, at present.
Good Indians or bad Indians;
then as now: Maximum
Bob’s super-exclusive little
circle on the Pit River Tribal
Councl hasn’t done a thing
to help make the situation
better.
Because of its stultifying
lack of true leadership ability,
the 2007 Pit River Tribal
Council has only succeeded
in making everything on every
level, worse.
Boyce would like the public
to believe that great strides
are being made at the council
level to move the tribe forward.
But in reality, no such
strides exist.
The council lives in a
bubble world of its own creation.
In this environment, it
remains secure from the criticism
of its own members.
Because it must cling so
desperately to what little
power it does have, the council
remains super-resistant to
change.
It subscribes to an us-vsthem
mentality, as such, it’s
“leadership” lost touch with
the Pit River People a long
time ago.
With regard to his statement:
And some of the accusations
are so absurd as to
defy imagination: I, the Tribal
Administrator, assaulted a
Council Member on the sidewalk....
We are not troubled
by Boyce’s continued bleatings
of denial regarding the
assault and battery that he
committed upon one of our
people.
He knows what he did;
and we know what he did;
and soon, the entire World
is going to know what happened
that day and why.
The Iron Hand of True History
will write how justice was
done here. There is no place
in This World or The Next for
insects like Boyce to hide.
In trumpeting his innocense
so clumsily, Boyce screwed
things up for his supporters
at the tribal council.
How did he do this
By admitting the videotape
in question is still locked
away out of the public’s reach
at tribal headquarters.
So far, the only people that
have ever been allowed to
see the tape are the cops and
the tribal council.
No one, including the general
public, the print/broadcast
media, or the Silent No
More Peoples protest movement
is being allowed to view
the tape for themselves.
If they could see the tape
for themselves, they could
decide for themselves if the
assault and battery charges
are justified.
But, goes Boyce’s point-ofview,
since the tribal council
has already made that decision
for everyone concerned,
Lady Justice can just go
screw herself.
Why is the council being
so secretive about this evidence
If Boyce and his cronies
at the tribal council truly had
nothing to hide, the videotape
would have been made avallable
to the public months
ago.
But it hasn’t been made
available to anyone except
the people who made it.
Hmmmm....did we hear
someone say “doctored evidence”
If the Affiliated Obsidian
Nation ever gets our hands
on the Wizard of Elmore Videotape,
we’re going to put it
on YouTube.
This is exactly what the
tribal council is afraid of, that’s
why they keep sitting on it like
a 600 pound gorilla: THEY
CAN’T AFFORD TO LET
THE TRUTH CONTAINED
IN IT BE SHOWN TO MIL-
LIONS OF PEOPLE CLEAR
ACROSS AMERICA.
This is our statement. The
words are ours, and they are
the truth.
And having said all that we
would, we will be leaving you
- for now.
We are the Hope: We
Are This Nation; the Affiliated
Obsidian Nation,
OUR ENDEAVOR NEVER
SLEEPS.
-Steve Jerome-Wyatt,
Acknowledged Spokesman