Several people who claim to have Pechanga ancestry held a protest on Monday against the Pechanga Band of Mission Indians.

The group wants the financially-successful tribe to lift a moratorium on new enrollments. They say they are entitled to a monthly per capita payment, reported to be $15,000 per member.

One of the protesters, Joe Liska, filed a lawsuit to stop the per capita payments, saying the tribe never submitted a plan to the Department of Interior. The tribe failed to respond to the suit and a default judgment was entered for Liska.

But the tribe's plan appears to have been recently approved, The Riverside Press-Enterprise reports.

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Descendants want Pechanga tribe to accept them as members (The Riverside Press-Enterprise 4/6)
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Relevant Links:
Pechanga Band of Luiseno Indians - http://www.pechanga.com

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