Questions Worth Pondering

Why did Bernard Bouschor, when chairman of the Sault Tribe, offer
millions to the Nipmucs to assist them in their goal to achieve
federal recognition but not make that same offer to the Mackinac
Bands?

About 4.5 million is the figure I was given that the Sault Tribe
paid to the Nipmucs for a percent of their casino profits that never
materialized.

Why not give back the Mackinac Band's $15 million of the land clams
money plus interest that was set aside by the federal government
so the MB can use it for their own recognition in order to protect
the interests of MB members?

Silly question, isn't it! Could it be that once they took everything
from the Mackinac Bands leaving them with no negotiating power there
was no remaining need to deal with the MB once they had stripped them
of all their assets.

There is no record of any agreement between the Mackinac Bands and
the Sault Tribe and no vote by the MB members to become part of the
Sault Tribe as well as no vote by the ST members to adopt so many
more members into their tribe. But when individual Mackinac Band
members were offered the opportunity to have medical and dental
care they took it and joined the Sault Tribe only to have their
benefits limited and their rights threatened.

But were Mackinac Band members ever really Sault Tribe members?
Even though the MB members were told they would be members
of the Sault Tribe, the Sault Tribe always made it distinctively
clear that the MB members were seperate from the Sault Tribe. The
MB members did not have the same rights as the ST members since
only a small portion of the MB had representative government in
the form of a director that would represent their best interests
and because there was no agreement between the two tribes, the
Mackinac Bands continued to maintain their distinction as a seperate
tribe.

The Sault Tribe did not act in good faith on behalf of the Mackinac
Band members but misled them in order to lay claim to MB property and
then didn't include them in the Constitution which left the MB members
(and still does) vulnerable to disenrollment.

Did the Sault Tribe board misappropriate and mismanage the funds
that rightfully belong to the Mackinac Band members? We keep asking
but we have not gotten an answer. Some fool said "Silence is Golden"
but to whom? It seems that the Sault Tribe leaders have taken that
quote as their motto. Nothing lasts forever,,,including silence.