Using on reservation rights and laws off reservation only happens when democrat officials allow it. This is as illegal and unconstitutional as all get out.
They can do this at the longhouse , or the other tribal properties but not the Dungeness. They have rights there but not tribal preference rights to employment.
IP or Indian Preference is also a part of the IHS Indian Health Services hiring guidelines. It is a system that is not based on merit or best qualifications. Working in that type system for over 20 years, I personally observed how it fostered resentment and low performance output. What makes Native Americans a step above Non-Natives to qualify as "stewards" of OUR land and waters? I guess the County Commissioners know more than we do as they seem to lean in that direction...as we will see when they turn our county parks over to the authority of the Tribe and hiring will be under the IP system.
Thank you for the great thoughtful response! You are absolutely correct. Preferential hiring practices based upon race do in fact foster an intense resentment within the specific workplace in question and within society in many ways as a whole. My mother was a self-made pioneer in the professional business community at the highest level as an old school personnel executive who worked for decades to find the right Individual for each job position, so I grew up in the business of finding the best Individual for each job (without racial consideration). It would be wise to note that the once honorable field of personnel was perverted by the criminals within our government into the "Human Resource" HR dynamic decades ago, where folks should understand that they are now being "mined like minerals" as slaves rather than hired & rewarded for their abilities and excellence in positions that they are truly qualified for and earned. This all came into play in the late 70's with the absolutely horrific and destructive "Equal Opportunity Laws" that were forced down Americans throats by the federal and state governments~! Of course, most decent Individuals would want all QUALIFIED Individuals to be able to have a chance for all opportunities that they deserve, however as always, these criminals within our government have a VERY different agenda to "dumb down" and make America far less efficient, and worse... Just like the term "The Patriot Act" was intended to trick and deceive the gullible Americans into accepting "punishments" for things that they never did and fewer Individual rights and freedoms of the ever-increasing system of a bigger & bigger government dictatorship, the "Equal Opportunity Laws" were also a scheme to destroy the fabric of the American society. Like most others, I am sure that you have seen a great many who were in jobs who were NOT qualified for the positions that they were in and that can happen for a number of reasons, however the "Equal Opportunity Laws" obviously put those travesties on hyper drive over the decades to the point where now it is very common to see incompetence and failures in management hiring all across the board. In fact, the problem has become SO serious now, that "we" (Americans are suffering that same incompetence in management level themselves and obviously within the government systems all over the US~! This is in part what the great DOGE and other efforts to "drain the swamp" are all about at the current federal level. Folks need to imagine what it would be like for them to work very hard to improve themselves enough to actually be qualified for a job, only to be passed over or completely rejected for that job just because someone else who did not earn that job and was not qualified for that job happened to be hired for their specific race~! As an American Constitutionalist I am averse to and deeply resent "preferential hiring practices" when they deny the best and most qualified Individual from being hired. Every time that an unqualified or even less qualified Individual is hired over others who are the best fit for that job, EVERYONE suffers and the cumulative harm that does to America is FAR worse than the majority of people could possibly imagine~! America can NEVER be great with such atrocities in the economy, which is precisely why the "Equal Opportunity Laws" and other such perversions were all shoved down Americans throats over the decades~! These are definitely NOT "mistakes" or "unintended consequences" by Individuals with so-called "good intentions" but rather they were ALL products of the countless carefully planned "closed door meetings" that the majority of Americans have no clue rule their very lives from behind the evil curtain of government deceit~! Have a great day and thanks for your wonderful comment~!
How in any way, shape or form is this not discriminatory? I guess that Sovereign Nations can technically do this and not be under the scrutiny of US laws and Regulations. Thanks again Jeff....great work.
And yet our elected County Commissioners, who manage our money, go and meet on sovereign land without taxpayer invitations to discuss what? Who knows really since no one is there to see or hear? There is something really wrong with this picture.
It falls precisely under US laws and Regulations. Tribal preference isn’t a loophole. It’s federal law — upheld by the Supreme Court, written into the Civil Rights Act, and rooted in the U.S. Constitution’s recognition of tribal nations as sovereign governments. Jeff could tell you that himself but that would have made great work factual which is not the point around here.
That is completely up to the tribe whether they use information gathered by he Dawes act, lineal descendancy based on their own rolls, being a a Freedman of the one of the tribes known as the five civilized tribes, mixed blood quantum, adoption (and I mean non-tribal, grow up in the tribe, then adopted by council or vote)... It's all up to the individual tribe.
You wrote the article. Why are you fishing so hard?
It really sounds like tribal preference is determined by tribal enrollment which is determined by race. If jobs are being awarded by tribal preference which is determined tribal enrollment, they are really being awarded by race.
Loophole is: Sovereign vs Citizenship. To be a citizen you must be under the jurisdiction of the United States. The Tribes can't have it both ways. Nothing written can't be unwritten that's why we have amendments. These loopholes will have to be amended.
Who do you think they signed a treaty with? Why do you think congress has plenary power over the tribes nationwide? Where have you been? Do you eat TV dinners every night?
Plenary means… “attended by all”. Jeff is explaining that “all” are not invited. Exacty…. Thank you Jennifer…. Let’s work around the loophole. It has been abused…. Unfortunately. If there isn’t a transparent look into where ALL of our taxpayer dollars are being spent, I believe we are being ripped off. Without transparency I do not believe there can be truth. Stay safe out there
Kevin thanks, but would you please clarify. While I was working on federal projects, the bidding process was also based on “minority” preference….
Ie: woman owned business, minority owned business etc. I do not believe there was constitutional law invoked. This was based on qualifying as a minority business. What lacked was the vetting process.
While I thought that was skewed as well that is t what I believe Jeff is referring too. As a white male I also worked for the tribe at some point as an inspector. There was no hiring point that required me to be a “documented tribal member” and I was hired. That is the case I see as being discriminatory….. the basis of holding or hiring only based on your race. Even if you do not agree I would love to hear if I were a Black or Samoan if I would be allowed to apply for this job. Thanks in advance.
The BIA has that when the BIA does a program. Using a different agency and using federal grant money outside the BIA program is a discrimination. The language you refer to is any business or enterprise on or near a reservation.
"Nothing contained in this title shall apply to any business or enterprise on or near an Indian reservation with respect to any publicly announced employment practice of such business or enterprise under which a preferential treatment is given to any individual because he is an Indian living on or near a reservation."
Your reparations model operating outside the BIA and the reservation is a problem. Just because Democrats wanted to acquire reparation's using other federal agencies and grants does not mean you can extend your loophole off the reservation.
This sovereignty that allows Tribes to be overtly racist and exclusionary has got to stop. As a "sovereign nation", what prevents them from amassing firearms and explosives to wage "jihad" against all others? OK, hyperbole aside, how is it that a TAXPAYER-FUNDED program is allowed to be racist and exclusionary? Under what laws? Doesn't EQUAL OPPORTUNITY not apply to the Tribe? This favoritism has GOT to stop!
When Kristi Noem was Governor of S Dakota, before becoming Sec of Homeland Security,
she was banned from most of the S Dakota Tribe lands for inquiring into accusations that some tribal leaders were benefiting from drug cartel activities. This was never proven, but I imagine she isn't done yet.
With all the extremism currently at play in the world your hyperbolic example may unfortunately be a possibility.
The USDA has announced a plan to eradicate something like 450,000 Barred Owls over 10 years with night vision scoped rifles, baiting, etc. You really can't make this stuff up.
If the Forest Service is arming up to kill naturally occurring wildlife anything is possible!
Thank you for this. I worked for one of the largest corporations in US back in the 70’s at the heights of discrimination complaints. My office investigated complaints from Oregon border to Bakersfield including Bay Area internally alongside the EEOC (state) and FEPC (federal). Laws have changed over the last 50 years and the Conscent Decree expired in the 80’s that afforded aggressive hiring practices for minorities & females that governed businesses. I have included below what I believe should be applicable and it is very clear thank you:
Section 703(i) of Title VII of the Civil Rights Act of 1964, as amended, 42 U.S.C. § 2000e-2(i)(1982), provides an exception to Title VII’s general nondiscrimination principles allowing certain employers under certain circumstances to exercise an employment preference in favor of American Indians.(1) That section provides as follows:
Nothing contained in this title shall apply to any business or enterprise on or near an Indian reservation with respect to any publicly announced employment practice of such business or enterprise under which a preferential treatment is given to any individual because he is an Indian living on or near a reservation.
The statutory language makes it clear that an employer seeking to avail itself of the Indian preference exception must meet three conditions: (1) the employer must be located on or near an Indian reservation, (2) the employer’s preference for Indians must be publicly announced, and (3) the individual to whom preferential treatment is accorded must be an Indian living on or near a reservation. Neither Section 703(i) nor any other section of the Act, however, defines the terms “Indian reservation” or “near.”
There is more info defining Indian reservation on or near. Does this apply here? A free filing with either agency, EEOC/FEPC would result in knowing whether preferential posted hiring practice for American Indians would or should be acceptable.
Just because it's the law, doesn't make it right. But, thank you, Don, for the pointer to the laws that benefit the po' ol' downtrodden Indian, who ONLY makes $365K/yr or 6x what the average tax-paying citizen makes.
I think this asks a bigger question: where is all this heading? Could it lead to preferential treatment because of tribal enrollment? Promotions based on that? Inequity in treatment of employees? Is this racist? I am confused as to how this is openly allowed.
Where is all this heading, preferential treatment…….we are already there. When government contracts are handed to JST, ie., management of the spit, HFH & others without bid process, yes, we are already there.
Anyone canpurchase land in USA. That means if you got the money all land in private ownership is for sale. A green card holder can, a tourist, a foreign corporation backed by a foreign country say like Saudi Arabia or China can. Case in point the mill in Port Angeles.
But not everyone gets their land through money given to them by grants and then can turn it into a trust and then doesn't have to pay property taxes and then passes the cost onto "anyone who purchases land in the USA".
Foreign investors still have to pay property taxes.
Again, this is a U.S. taxpayer funded program that allows a sovereign nation to discriminate. Does the invasive green crab really care what your skin color or ancestry is, what religion you are, how old you are, or what your sexual orientation is? No! So why does AmeriCorp care? How did these crab get here in the first place?
For whatever reason this made me think of the suggestion to the CRC regarding transparency with NGO organizations. This idea was born on the inability to track taxpayer dollars once they leave the hands of the county, or have to be accountable to the citizens. If the county used those dollars internally, then as citizens we get to know how they are spent, and who did what with them. The popularity of course with NGO'S, by activist elected officials, is they can funnel taxpayer dollars to effect public policy and programs in the shadows, exempt from public scrutiny.
I don't see it called out on the list so maybe it was rolled into the one I'm referring to labeled, "Transparency with Non Governmental Organizations."
This isn’t a living-wage job…it’s for 6 months making $600 a week, and it excludes people over the age of 25.
I worked for AmeriCorps for a summer doing trail work. The seven of us all lived in one old forest service house, had some bulk item food items provided for us like rice and beans, and we made a stipend of $600 a month. And at the end, we all got about $2,200 to put towards college. It was a great opportunity, but definitely a summer gig.
And no surprise, Elon Musk and DOGE is going after AmeriCorps…
“WASHINGTON — One of the largest federal civil service organizations has let go of scores of young volunteers, The Post has learned — shortly after the Department of Government Efficiency (DOGE) visited the agency’s headquarters.
Volunteers with AmeriCorps’ National Civilian Community Corps (NCCC) program were abruptly sent notices Tuesday instructing them to pack up and go home, according to a memo obtained by The Post.” April 15, 2025
I can't count the numbers of hours, days, I've volunteered for trail work over the years. I'd even take time off from work to participate, and took training to be able to lead efforts. Any time I encountered Americorps workers on the trail I'd thank them for their hard work because I knew the monetary compensation was minimal for the effort, but as youth the trade-off seems fair.
It appears that Americorps has rot which is unfortunate that internally it would allow behaviors that threaten it's existence, so it makes sense that it's under scrutiny. Hopefully it all gets worked out but I can imagine that the DOGE types could look at the advocacy and money going to say WTA and question if we need two groups engaging in the same activities due to double overhead costs. Something to ponder anyway. Thanks for putting time in out there. I appreciate it when I'm out on the trails.
It's usual for bottom layers to feel the bite first when cut backs occur, when the real problems are with upper MIS-management. Sometimes programs need to be dismantled and then reformed.
If programs aren’t managed properly and fairly then they need to be reorganized so they do. We can’t continue to allow the unmanaged corruption to continue. Hopefully there will be better checks and balances put in place to continue the use of our tax dollars more effectively in the future.
Morgan, thank you for that article. As read, it is still unclear if the cuts extend beyond the youth program, or if its going to be gutted entirely. I wonder if the funding has already been allotted or would still be available for this job? I guess we will wait and see.
I'm waiting to see when a percentage of Neanderthal genetics is necessary.... because talk about the most trod upon group of Late Pleistocene humanoids, ever. Didn't most of our ancestors largely eradicate them?
You sent me to the dictionary. Glad you did, now I believe we are at the end of glacial period and on to form a new human race and no worries with a chance of a new beginning. :)
Only the crooks in government and their preferred "special interest groups" can hire based solely upon racial or gender makeup~! This evil sick practice is dead wrong regardless of who inflicts it upon ANY workforce, and it not only fosters a deep resentment in society, but it destroys the workplace efficiency and leads to a Domino of countless injustices and even dangerous & deadly outcomes in numerous cases~! Dysfunction always leads to more dysfunction~! Wake up America~! Sincerely, Mike
I worked for a consortium of tribes (9, in total) in eastern California for years. Indian hiring preference was and is a mandate, in part due to the significant funding our project received from Indian Health Services, a division of the federal government's Health and Human Services. While all open jobs posted referenced the performance qualifications needed, we only veered our hiring from the Native community when there were no qualified candidates. Like it or not, while I understand your position, Mr. Tozzer, I hope what I've shared shows that yours is an incomplete narrative for your readers.
Is there something inaccurate in this article? It looks like what you experienced in your previous work (that non-tribal applicants would be considered) is no longer the case. No experience necessary, but race matters... that's the policy now.
While I can't speak to the "no experience" comment, my main point is that race does play a role here: Congress authorized Alaska Native and American Indian hiring preference clauses back in 1934. I'm fairly confident that if there were no qualified AN/AI applicants for the position, others would certainly be considered. Whether the word "preference" was omitted from the job posting due to semantics or by deliberate choice is unclear—but either way, I understand you see this differently. I also believe that our perspectives on this can co-exist. :)
Is the primary goal of this program to eradicate an invasive crab or to give preferential treatment to a particular race? Maybe I don't know what the main objective is.
Mary, this job differs completely from Indian Preference. Indian Preference means, as you say, if no natives apply, then a non-native can be hired. This job description completely eliminates non-native applicants.
The Tribe is fostering and adding to outside citizens resentment by cutting out all competition, raising our taxes and not being open and honest through transparency.
As if this is the way we did it in California makes it right? (Gag me) DEI has been going on for many years. But it never was and never will be ok. Used to be subtle. Hidden in ways like not putting the job offer where all could see it. Ect... But now. As Jeff pointed out. They dont need to hide there contempt. Not when you have corrupt government in your pocket. They want to be their own country? How about some Trump tarriffs on them...
I’m sure the tribe also provides the housing for anyone who is hired for this job. Discrimination for other motel/hotel merchants? It is beyond asinine how anyone local cannot remove the green crab species.
If any business put down specific races that they would only hire, God help you.
Using on reservation rights and laws off reservation only happens when democrat officials allow it. This is as illegal and unconstitutional as all get out.
They can do this at the longhouse , or the other tribal properties but not the Dungeness. They have rights there but not tribal preference rights to employment.
It would be completely illegal in the “real” world. But there I go again thinking Clallam County operates like the real world, my bad.
IP or Indian Preference is also a part of the IHS Indian Health Services hiring guidelines. It is a system that is not based on merit or best qualifications. Working in that type system for over 20 years, I personally observed how it fostered resentment and low performance output. What makes Native Americans a step above Non-Natives to qualify as "stewards" of OUR land and waters? I guess the County Commissioners know more than we do as they seem to lean in that direction...as we will see when they turn our county parks over to the authority of the Tribe and hiring will be under the IP system.
Hi Jennifer~!
Thank you for the great thoughtful response! You are absolutely correct. Preferential hiring practices based upon race do in fact foster an intense resentment within the specific workplace in question and within society in many ways as a whole. My mother was a self-made pioneer in the professional business community at the highest level as an old school personnel executive who worked for decades to find the right Individual for each job position, so I grew up in the business of finding the best Individual for each job (without racial consideration). It would be wise to note that the once honorable field of personnel was perverted by the criminals within our government into the "Human Resource" HR dynamic decades ago, where folks should understand that they are now being "mined like minerals" as slaves rather than hired & rewarded for their abilities and excellence in positions that they are truly qualified for and earned. This all came into play in the late 70's with the absolutely horrific and destructive "Equal Opportunity Laws" that were forced down Americans throats by the federal and state governments~! Of course, most decent Individuals would want all QUALIFIED Individuals to be able to have a chance for all opportunities that they deserve, however as always, these criminals within our government have a VERY different agenda to "dumb down" and make America far less efficient, and worse... Just like the term "The Patriot Act" was intended to trick and deceive the gullible Americans into accepting "punishments" for things that they never did and fewer Individual rights and freedoms of the ever-increasing system of a bigger & bigger government dictatorship, the "Equal Opportunity Laws" were also a scheme to destroy the fabric of the American society. Like most others, I am sure that you have seen a great many who were in jobs who were NOT qualified for the positions that they were in and that can happen for a number of reasons, however the "Equal Opportunity Laws" obviously put those travesties on hyper drive over the decades to the point where now it is very common to see incompetence and failures in management hiring all across the board. In fact, the problem has become SO serious now, that "we" (Americans are suffering that same incompetence in management level themselves and obviously within the government systems all over the US~! This is in part what the great DOGE and other efforts to "drain the swamp" are all about at the current federal level. Folks need to imagine what it would be like for them to work very hard to improve themselves enough to actually be qualified for a job, only to be passed over or completely rejected for that job just because someone else who did not earn that job and was not qualified for that job happened to be hired for their specific race~! As an American Constitutionalist I am averse to and deeply resent "preferential hiring practices" when they deny the best and most qualified Individual from being hired. Every time that an unqualified or even less qualified Individual is hired over others who are the best fit for that job, EVERYONE suffers and the cumulative harm that does to America is FAR worse than the majority of people could possibly imagine~! America can NEVER be great with such atrocities in the economy, which is precisely why the "Equal Opportunity Laws" and other such perversions were all shoved down Americans throats over the decades~! These are definitely NOT "mistakes" or "unintended consequences" by Individuals with so-called "good intentions" but rather they were ALL products of the countless carefully planned "closed door meetings" that the majority of Americans have no clue rule their very lives from behind the evil curtain of government deceit~! Have a great day and thanks for your wonderful comment~!
Sincerely, Mike
How in any way, shape or form is this not discriminatory? I guess that Sovereign Nations can technically do this and not be under the scrutiny of US laws and Regulations. Thanks again Jeff....great work.
You're welcome :)
And yet our elected County Commissioners, who manage our money, go and meet on sovereign land without taxpayer invitations to discuss what? Who knows really since no one is there to see or hear? There is something really wrong with this picture.
Yes, there is a weasel in the hen house!
It falls precisely under US laws and Regulations. Tribal preference isn’t a loophole. It’s federal law — upheld by the Supreme Court, written into the Civil Rights Act, and rooted in the U.S. Constitution’s recognition of tribal nations as sovereign governments. Jeff could tell you that himself but that would have made great work factual which is not the point around here.
And how does one qualify for this tribal preference?
Enrollment is determined by the tribe itself, not the federal government
And how is enrollment determined by tribes?
That is completely up to the tribe whether they use information gathered by he Dawes act, lineal descendancy based on their own rolls, being a a Freedman of the one of the tribes known as the five civilized tribes, mixed blood quantum, adoption (and I mean non-tribal, grow up in the tribe, then adopted by council or vote)... It's all up to the individual tribe.
You wrote the article. Why are you fishing so hard?
It really sounds like tribal preference is determined by tribal enrollment which is determined by race. If jobs are being awarded by tribal preference which is determined tribal enrollment, they are really being awarded by race.
Jobs are being awarded by race. That's racist.
Enrollment should be replaced with entitlement.
Loophole is: Sovereign vs Citizenship. To be a citizen you must be under the jurisdiction of the United States. The Tribes can't have it both ways. Nothing written can't be unwritten that's why we have amendments. These loopholes will have to be amended.
Words are not magic.
Who do you think they signed a treaty with? Why do you think congress has plenary power over the tribes nationwide? Where have you been? Do you eat TV dinners every night?
Plenary means… “attended by all”. Jeff is explaining that “all” are not invited. Exacty…. Thank you Jennifer…. Let’s work around the loophole. It has been abused…. Unfortunately. If there isn’t a transparent look into where ALL of our taxpayer dollars are being spent, I believe we are being ripped off. Without transparency I do not believe there can be truth. Stay safe out there
Kevin thanks, but would you please clarify. While I was working on federal projects, the bidding process was also based on “minority” preference….
Ie: woman owned business, minority owned business etc. I do not believe there was constitutional law invoked. This was based on qualifying as a minority business. What lacked was the vetting process.
While I thought that was skewed as well that is t what I believe Jeff is referring too. As a white male I also worked for the tribe at some point as an inspector. There was no hiring point that required me to be a “documented tribal member” and I was hired. That is the case I see as being discriminatory….. the basis of holding or hiring only based on your race. Even if you do not agree I would love to hear if I were a Black or Samoan if I would be allowed to apply for this job. Thanks in advance.
The BIA has that when the BIA does a program. Using a different agency and using federal grant money outside the BIA program is a discrimination. The language you refer to is any business or enterprise on or near a reservation.
https://www.eeoc.gov/laws/guidance/policy-statement-indian-preference-under-title-vii
"Nothing contained in this title shall apply to any business or enterprise on or near an Indian reservation with respect to any publicly announced employment practice of such business or enterprise under which a preferential treatment is given to any individual because he is an Indian living on or near a reservation."
Your reparations model operating outside the BIA and the reservation is a problem. Just because Democrats wanted to acquire reparation's using other federal agencies and grants does not mean you can extend your loophole off the reservation.
This sovereignty that allows Tribes to be overtly racist and exclusionary has got to stop. As a "sovereign nation", what prevents them from amassing firearms and explosives to wage "jihad" against all others? OK, hyperbole aside, how is it that a TAXPAYER-FUNDED program is allowed to be racist and exclusionary? Under what laws? Doesn't EQUAL OPPORTUNITY not apply to the Tribe? This favoritism has GOT to stop!
When Kristi Noem was Governor of S Dakota, before becoming Sec of Homeland Security,
she was banned from most of the S Dakota Tribe lands for inquiring into accusations that some tribal leaders were benefiting from drug cartel activities. This was never proven, but I imagine she isn't done yet.
With all the extremism currently at play in the world your hyperbolic example may unfortunately be a possibility.
The USDA has announced a plan to eradicate something like 450,000 Barred Owls over 10 years with night vision scoped rifles, baiting, etc. You really can't make this stuff up.
If the Forest Service is arming up to kill naturally occurring wildlife anything is possible!
Since you asked, here is the EEOC’s statement on Indian Preference.
https://www.eeoc.gov/laws/guidance/policy-statement-indian-preference-under-title-vii
Thank you for this. I worked for one of the largest corporations in US back in the 70’s at the heights of discrimination complaints. My office investigated complaints from Oregon border to Bakersfield including Bay Area internally alongside the EEOC (state) and FEPC (federal). Laws have changed over the last 50 years and the Conscent Decree expired in the 80’s that afforded aggressive hiring practices for minorities & females that governed businesses. I have included below what I believe should be applicable and it is very clear thank you:
Section 703(i) of Title VII of the Civil Rights Act of 1964, as amended, 42 U.S.C. § 2000e-2(i)(1982), provides an exception to Title VII’s general nondiscrimination principles allowing certain employers under certain circumstances to exercise an employment preference in favor of American Indians.(1) That section provides as follows:
Nothing contained in this title shall apply to any business or enterprise on or near an Indian reservation with respect to any publicly announced employment practice of such business or enterprise under which a preferential treatment is given to any individual because he is an Indian living on or near a reservation.
The statutory language makes it clear that an employer seeking to avail itself of the Indian preference exception must meet three conditions: (1) the employer must be located on or near an Indian reservation, (2) the employer’s preference for Indians must be publicly announced, and (3) the individual to whom preferential treatment is accorded must be an Indian living on or near a reservation. Neither Section 703(i) nor any other section of the Act, however, defines the terms “Indian reservation” or “near.”
There is more info defining Indian reservation on or near. Does this apply here? A free filing with either agency, EEOC/FEPC would result in knowing whether preferential posted hiring practice for American Indians would or should be acceptable.
Just because it's the law, doesn't make it right. But, thank you, Don, for the pointer to the laws that benefit the po' ol' downtrodden Indian, who ONLY makes $365K/yr or 6x what the average tax-paying citizen makes.
I think this asks a bigger question: where is all this heading? Could it lead to preferential treatment because of tribal enrollment? Promotions based on that? Inequity in treatment of employees? Is this racist? I am confused as to how this is openly allowed.
Where is all this heading, preferential treatment…….we are already there. When government contracts are handed to JST, ie., management of the spit, HFH & others without bid process, yes, we are already there.
Waking up is hard to do and often painful.
We all are in a bit of cognitive dissonance about how corrupt the world was/is/is becoming.
The devil is at work full-time.
😱🙏🏼😁
If the Tribe can get away with this, what prevents them from excluding non-tribal members from buying real estate in Clallam County?
The Tribe is still buying up Clallam County property, as they acquire it, it will become unavailable to non-tribal members.
Anyone canpurchase land in USA. That means if you got the money all land in private ownership is for sale. A green card holder can, a tourist, a foreign corporation backed by a foreign country say like Saudi Arabia or China can. Case in point the mill in Port Angeles.
But not everyone gets their land through money given to them by grants and then can turn it into a trust and then doesn't have to pay property taxes and then passes the cost onto "anyone who purchases land in the USA".
Foreign investors still have to pay property taxes.
Again, this is a U.S. taxpayer funded program that allows a sovereign nation to discriminate. Does the invasive green crab really care what your skin color or ancestry is, what religion you are, how old you are, or what your sexual orientation is? No! So why does AmeriCorp care? How did these crab get here in the first place?
They came as larvae on the hulls and in the ballast water of ships being dumped into the water.
Years ago the San Francisco Bay was estimated to have only 15% of its native marine life left because of all the invasive species.
The Ocean is one body of water. If the species can withstand local conditions it can thrive there. Law of nature.
Some things can also drift in on kelp mats or other debris in the Ocean but most of it comes on/in ships.🚢👀
Thank you!
For whatever reason this made me think of the suggestion to the CRC regarding transparency with NGO organizations. This idea was born on the inability to track taxpayer dollars once they leave the hands of the county, or have to be accountable to the citizens. If the county used those dollars internally, then as citizens we get to know how they are spent, and who did what with them. The popularity of course with NGO'S, by activist elected officials, is they can funnel taxpayer dollars to effect public policy and programs in the shadows, exempt from public scrutiny.
I think it's a good amendment and I support it.
I assume you refer to the "American" amendment to the CRC, and agree that it should be near the top of the proposals.
I don't see it called out on the list so maybe it was rolled into the one I'm referring to labeled, "Transparency with Non Governmental Organizations."
thanks
Total BS, any person should be eligible if Qualified. I think a federal investigation should take place to investigate the tribe
Land grabs, and the Clallam County commissioners. It’s our tax dollars being spent!!
This isn’t a living-wage job…it’s for 6 months making $600 a week, and it excludes people over the age of 25.
I worked for AmeriCorps for a summer doing trail work. The seven of us all lived in one old forest service house, had some bulk item food items provided for us like rice and beans, and we made a stipend of $600 a month. And at the end, we all got about $2,200 to put towards college. It was a great opportunity, but definitely a summer gig.
And no surprise, Elon Musk and DOGE is going after AmeriCorps…
“WASHINGTON — One of the largest federal civil service organizations has let go of scores of young volunteers, The Post has learned — shortly after the Department of Government Efficiency (DOGE) visited the agency’s headquarters.
Volunteers with AmeriCorps’ National Civilian Community Corps (NCCC) program were abruptly sent notices Tuesday instructing them to pack up and go home, according to a memo obtained by The Post.” April 15, 2025
https://nypost.com/2025/04/15/us-news/volunteers-with-americorps-youth-program-let-go-after-doge-visit/
I can't count the numbers of hours, days, I've volunteered for trail work over the years. I'd even take time off from work to participate, and took training to be able to lead efforts. Any time I encountered Americorps workers on the trail I'd thank them for their hard work because I knew the monetary compensation was minimal for the effort, but as youth the trade-off seems fair.
It appears that Americorps has rot which is unfortunate that internally it would allow behaviors that threaten it's existence, so it makes sense that it's under scrutiny. Hopefully it all gets worked out but I can imagine that the DOGE types could look at the advocacy and money going to say WTA and question if we need two groups engaging in the same activities due to double overhead costs. Something to ponder anyway. Thanks for putting time in out there. I appreciate it when I'm out on the trails.
https://edworkforce.house.gov/news/documentsingle.aspx?DocumentID=409787
It's usual for bottom layers to feel the bite first when cut backs occur, when the real problems are with upper MIS-management. Sometimes programs need to be dismantled and then reformed.
If programs aren’t managed properly and fairly then they need to be reorganized so they do. We can’t continue to allow the unmanaged corruption to continue. Hopefully there will be better checks and balances put in place to continue the use of our tax dollars more effectively in the future.
Morgan, thank you for that article. As read, it is still unclear if the cuts extend beyond the youth program, or if its going to be gutted entirely. I wonder if the funding has already been allotted or would still be available for this job? I guess we will wait and see.
I'm waiting to see when a percentage of Neanderthal genetics is necessary.... because talk about the most trod upon group of Late Pleistocene humanoids, ever. Didn't most of our ancestors largely eradicate them?
You sent me to the dictionary. Glad you did, now I believe we are at the end of glacial period and on to form a new human race and no worries with a chance of a new beginning. :)
It wasn't my ancestors, we were passive Troglodytes, I swear on it.
Only the crooks in government and their preferred "special interest groups" can hire based solely upon racial or gender makeup~! This evil sick practice is dead wrong regardless of who inflicts it upon ANY workforce, and it not only fosters a deep resentment in society, but it destroys the workplace efficiency and leads to a Domino of countless injustices and even dangerous & deadly outcomes in numerous cases~! Dysfunction always leads to more dysfunction~! Wake up America~! Sincerely, Mike
I worked for a consortium of tribes (9, in total) in eastern California for years. Indian hiring preference was and is a mandate, in part due to the significant funding our project received from Indian Health Services, a division of the federal government's Health and Human Services. While all open jobs posted referenced the performance qualifications needed, we only veered our hiring from the Native community when there were no qualified candidates. Like it or not, while I understand your position, Mr. Tozzer, I hope what I've shared shows that yours is an incomplete narrative for your readers.
Is there something inaccurate in this article? It looks like what you experienced in your previous work (that non-tribal applicants would be considered) is no longer the case. No experience necessary, but race matters... that's the policy now.
While I can't speak to the "no experience" comment, my main point is that race does play a role here: Congress authorized Alaska Native and American Indian hiring preference clauses back in 1934. I'm fairly confident that if there were no qualified AN/AI applicants for the position, others would certainly be considered. Whether the word "preference" was omitted from the job posting due to semantics or by deliberate choice is unclear—but either way, I understand you see this differently. I also believe that our perspectives on this can co-exist. :)
Is the primary goal of this program to eradicate an invasive crab or to give preferential treatment to a particular race? Maybe I don't know what the main objective is.
The entire idea of the program is a paid internship. The idea that this is somehow about race only reflects a misunderstanding of tribal sovereignty.
Silly me, I thought it was about eradicating an invasive species.
"Hypocrisy as strategy"
Mary, this job differs completely from Indian Preference. Indian Preference means, as you say, if no natives apply, then a non-native can be hired. This job description completely eliminates non-native applicants.
The Tribe is fostering and adding to outside citizens resentment by cutting out all competition, raising our taxes and not being open and honest through transparency.
Sign said: Federally recognized Tribe, Band, or Village. ONE NATION?
As if this is the way we did it in California makes it right? (Gag me) DEI has been going on for many years. But it never was and never will be ok. Used to be subtle. Hidden in ways like not putting the job offer where all could see it. Ect... But now. As Jeff pointed out. They dont need to hide there contempt. Not when you have corrupt government in your pocket. They want to be their own country? How about some Trump tarriffs on them...
Lloyd, I'm absolutely waiting for Trump's tarriff's sheriffs to come knocking!
I like the sound of that. Tarriff Sheriff....
Oregon encourages all to destroy these crabs but WA prohibits it.Pat Neal wrote of this craziness in the pdn in past months.
Undoubtedly, America corps will be paying who to eradicate them.
I’m sure the tribe also provides the housing for anyone who is hired for this job. Discrimination for other motel/hotel merchants? It is beyond asinine how anyone local cannot remove the green crab species.
Put a limit on them for non-natives...gone!
Perfect reply !
I am not a math person so take this with a grain of salt.
They claim we have around 77,000 residents in CC.
That number will be substantially higher as the census is only done every 10 years.
'Nozia' was 'credited' with around 16,000 votes (computer tabulation Highly suspect)
16,000/77,000 (I know not all are voting adults) means that around 20% of the population determined what will be happening for the rest of us.
Even if it's 30-40% it is still nowhere near a majority of people being represented by 'the system'.
'The System' is corrupt and broken and we are being run by NWO-globalist puppets.
There is a bill going to Ferguscums desk today, 1531 that is going to mandate vaccinations!
You might want to text, call or email the governor's office to demand a veto on that!
People being too lazy to fill out a paper isn't evidence of corruption lol