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Thousands of Native Americans have been banished from their tribes, including elders, teachers, and children. "You're No Indian" explores issues surrounding disenrollment, and how casinos may be fueling a quiet civil war in Indian country.
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00:00It was put in front of all the natives that everyone would benefit from Indian gaming.
00:07It hasn't turned out that way.
00:09Imagine spending your whole life connected to a community and then being told your entire family were no longer recognized by them.
00:17What is tribal disenrollment?
00:19Disenrollment is the elimination of an indigenous person's citizenship in their tribe.
00:25Why would anyone be disenrolled?
00:28Oh, casino money.
00:30Casinos play the biggest role in disenrollment.
00:34The accumulation of extreme wealth is what's driving the disenrollment.
00:39If we are a tribe of 1,000 and the number of members is reduced in half to 500, the remaining 500 tribal members just doubled their income.
00:47It's over money.
00:51You're taking out every single generation.
00:54They disenroll your ancestor and everyone who comes behind them in the lineal descent is gone.
00:59Disenrollment is the new genocide of Indian people.
01:04It is corruption.
01:05They're a bunch of vultures.
01:07There is nothing to protect Native Americans.
01:10Disenrollment is not a bad thing to me.
01:12They're not disenrolled.
01:13They didn't belong to begin with.
01:14They're counterfeit.
01:15It's Indians doing it to Indians.
01:18It's Indians doing it to Indians.
01:21It needs to change.
01:22We'll be extinct if we keep that.
01:24We need the people to stand up and fight.
01:27A little takeover of the tribal office.
01:29Is it true that you hired a militia to storm a casino?
01:34Armed men stormed into a casino for a takeover.
01:39Why are we doing this to each other?
01:45I expect bloodshed.
01:50Protests have turned violent.
01:51We're going to continue fighting until we get back into our tribe.
02:01They tried through war, through disease, through starvation, through boarding schools.
02:05And now, what's the newest issue?
02:07Enrollment.
02:07I am disenrolled.
02:09By disenrolling, they're saying you're no Indian.
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