In a March 27 letter, the Department of Health & Human Services notified tribal council Chairman Bob Kelly that it intended to “reassume” medical services – taking them over from the tribe. Department of Housing and Urban Development admonished the tribe in an April 4 letter against its most recent efforts to evict from tribal housing some of the people it had removed from Nooksack rolls. The federal government steps in April 29 to provide health care services to the nearly 300 people who have been disenrolled by the Nooksack Indian Tribe. District Court in Seattle in April to dismiss the lawsuit filed by the council as the “Kelly Faction” and characterizing its behavior as “abusive.” District Court judge dismissed the Nooksack Indian Tribe’s $13.7 million lawsuit against the federal government May 11, ruling the council that filed it wasn’t recognized as a legitimate governing body.Īttorneys for the federal government asked U.S.

The National Indian Gaming Commission, citing “numerous violations of the Indian Gaming Regulatory Act,” June 15 ordered the Nooksack Indian Tribe to immediately close its Northwood Casino, its last remaining casino since the tribe shut its Nooksack River Casino in December 2015.Ī U.S. They say they should not be stripped of their tribal identity and the valuable housing, medical and fishing rights benefits that go with it. Her descendants insist George, who died in 1949, was a Nooksack and that a mistake kept her name from the 1942 census the tribe uses to determine membership. Chairman Bob Kelly and his supporters on the Nooksack Tribal Council believe that 306 people facing loss of membership in the 2,000-person tribe based in Deming are descended from the late Annie George.

Northwood casinolunch on friday