Members of the St. Croix Chippewa Tribe of Wisconsin helped celebrate the Cumberland School District celebrate Native American Week in April 2016. Photo from Facebook
The St. Croix Chippewa Tribe of Wisconsin is trying to remove as many as 16 people from the rolls. The number seems low in comparison to the hundreds of others facing removal elsewhere in the country. But the tribe has a relatively small membership of about 1,000 and a generous per capita payment -- $10,000 a year for elders and $4,800 a year for others, according to The Washburn County Register -- so the disenrollments are being viewed with skepticism. "It’s vindictiveness. It’s greed. It’s an abuse of authority," Tony Ammann, who is among those facing removal, told the paper. "We need to put a stop to this system where decisions are being made in secret.” Five people have challenged the removal process and will go up for a hearing on July 20, the paper reported. Get the Story:
Banished from the tribe (The Washburn County Register / Inter-County Leader 7/15)
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