Los Angeles Times
Companies set up by members of a self-described and state-recognized Creek Indian tribe in Alabama have received more than $240 million in federal minority-business contracts, despite a determination by the U.S. Bureau of Indian Affairs that there is no credible evidence the group has Native American ancestry, a Los Angeles Times investigation has found.
Federal contracts worth an additional $273 million have gone to two companies run by a member of a different Native American group in Alabama with no federal recognition as a tribe.
The ability of company owners with questionable Native American identity to obtain more than half a billion dollars in taxpayer funded minority-business contracts reflects a nationwide failure by agencies overseeing programs set up decades ago to help socially and economically disadvantaged minority groups. Including the Alabama outlays,
The Times has found more than $800 million in federal contracts awarded to companies whose owners made unsubstantiated claims to be Native American, although the total is almost certainly higher. The contracts were for construction, computing and other projects in 27 states, including California. More
Fauxcahontas sounds like THEIR perfect Chieftain! 🙄
They all become native american when it comes to the big casino money. Tribes materialize from nowhere.
Same thing with the blacks who were told to say that they were farmers. Free government money was given to blacks who never had a row to hoe, so to speak. It was a sham, socialist government program by Obama just to transfer money from those who had made it to those who wanted it. I hope Obama burns in hell.
The term ‘Native American’ is purposefully ambiguous.
I was born a white guy in Akron. Am i not a ‘native American’? My nativity was within the 48 states.
And yes, there were only 48 states until I was about 5
years old.
Using that standard I predict a huge increase of the native American population in the 2020 census.
Plus I also have high cheekbones like my PaPaw.
In my ass.
Vile Federal Government…I dealt with a tribe to sell a golf course with no indian blood, a Greek manager and enough money to pay me the obscene amount of wampum I asked for…not a problem… First they had to create a tribe, so they solicited by newspaper people in NYC who had no record or knowledge of their parents and then filed papers attesting to genetic claims of the Pequot indians…all across this country this scam worked and why was this concept even possible except for sub human Democrat guilt removal..
I was a member of the Pee & Squat tribe (Or was it the other way around?)!
when I go on trips I say we’re the Faucowie Tribe, telling everyone “Where the Faucowie?”
… the answer is always the same … “Wanna build a casino?”
Kemosabi full of shit.
Well, God willing and the Creek don’t rise, these crooks will soon be in jail.
I’m a member of the Awraparound tribe.
Hihowareya, hihowareya?
The Los Angeles Times printed a news story?
was that some kind of reportin’ goin’ on there? I’m shocked.
SHOCKED I SAY.
(just triggered thousands of liberals)
The taxpayers are getting scalped by these phony Indians.