Disenrolled Nooksack citizens face eviction

The federal government is investigating the Nooksack Tribe of Washington for potential civil rights and other violations as the tribe proceeds with evicting more than 60 formerly enrolled citizens who had been among hundreds disenrolled.

The tribe is set to begin evictions on Dec. 28 of the 61 former tribal citizens and two of their children who are enrolled, who live in 21 federally funded homes on Nooksack tribal land. They are the last of a group of 306 who gained national attention when they were disenrolled from the tribe in 2018 and still lived on tribal lands.

The tribe says the former tribal citizens must vacate their homes because a tribal policy change in 2019 prohibited non-tribal citizens from living in tribal housing, and that the homes in question are needed for Nooksack citizens.

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