The Chairman of the Pala Band of Mission Indians wrote a letter to the San Diego Reader in response to an article written by Siobhan Braun titled Can you find the big secret in this casino? Reservation’s reservations.
You can read all of Chairman Smith's letter here under the heading Attention to Detail:
San Diego Reader Editorial Inbox - Attention to Detail by Robert Smith
Part of Chairman Smith's letter reads:
"Additionally, the blood requirement to receive a land allotment in 1913
for any Native American was 50 percent. This was determined by the
federal government, not by the Pala tribe."
Margarita Brittain received an allotment in 1913 along with all her children which makes her children 1/2.
Here is the 1913 Allotment roll. Margarita Brittain is listed as 4/4 and her children as 1/2. Thus all the disenrolled members of Pala are eligible for enrollment under Pala's Constitution as they posses 1/16 Blood of the Band.
