Leander teams up with Pala Interactive for North American content distribution
BY Press Releases ON July 18, 2018
TAGS: LEANDER GAMES, PALA INTERACTIVE
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London, 18-July: Leander has expanded its exposure to the North American market after signing a distribution deal for its content with Pala Interactive LLC.
The deal will see Leander’s extensive catalogue games and those of its partners available for play on the CanPlayCasino offering. An online gaming website powered by the Pala Interactive gaming platform and operated by the Abenakis du Wolinak first nation.
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About Pala Interactive
Pala Interactive is an online social and real money gaming software development company that was founded in 2013 in anticipation of the burgeoning social and real money gaming opportunity in the United States. Focused on delivering an excellent player experience through our proprietary platforms for our partners and customers, Pala Interactive plans to be a material market participant in both the US online social gaming and regulated realmoney online gaming markets. Pala’s majority shareholder is the Pala Band of Mission Indians which owns and operates the Pala Casino Spa and Resort in Pala, California.
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Another great deal that Robert Smith has made for his people, they must be getting lots more per-capita with all these great ventures Robert makes, since the tribe is the owner of everything.
The only thing that the Tribal Members are getting from these ventures is they are getting "FUCKED".
Nobody is disputing a tribes sovereign right to determine its own membership which means a tribe can set the criteria for enrollment and then every member must qualify based on the enrollment criteria. In Pala that’s not what’s happening and the BIA should be able to step in and not trample on Pala’s right to determine its own membership. You see Soboba, Cahuilla, Morongo, and Pala all enroll Margarita Brittain descendants but only Pala enrolls with MB listed as 1/2 Cupeno and the other 3 tribes enroll with her as 4/4 Cupeno the way it has always been. So even tho a tribe can determine the qualifications for enrollment who determines natives blood degree?? Isn’t the BIA suppose to be the record keepers of all natives and have a central data base where each original allotee and every native has their blood degree on file? This should be the final say on natives blood degree and then each tribe can enroll members using whatever qualifications they like but all have to use the same data base for Native Americans blood degree. Pala has enrollment qualifications which are a direct descendant of an original allotee in the 1895 or 1913 rolls and at least 1/16 Cupeno. In order to make the disenrolled not meet these qualifications they lowered Margaritas blood degree and never gave the tribe or BIA a reason why??? So the BIA is not interfering with Pala’s enrollment by demanding they list MB as FULLBLOOD like the BIA,Dept of Interior records state. They are not telling Pala to change their enrollment criteria just that they have to be correct and accurate when using natives blood degree and lineage. A birth certificate and census is not something you can just change it is fact and every tribe should have to use the correct data. Imagine your state Governor made a law that only Mexicans can live in California. That is California setting the rules for who can live in their state (like a tribes membership). Your mom is Mexican and your dad is white so you could live in California but then the Governor says no your not Mexican your only white you need to leave the state. Even tho you have documents and census records stating your race over the years the Governor doesn’t have to accept it or even look at it. Or he does look at it and says this is incorrect you are only white not Mexican so you need to leave California. Same thing that is happening in Pala. If the Federal government said its California’s choice to decide who can live there and they can’t interfere. The Federal government isn’t really interfering in California’s law by looking at your records and telling California you are half Mexican and it is a fact so they need to list you as such. Now then if California has to except the truth that you are Mexican and can stay in the state then it is also their right to change the law so that only Irish can live in the state and the Fed’s can’t intervene that is California’s right. As long as they use the correct census for every person and not change them to suite their needs like in Pala.
Nobody is disputing a tribes sovereign right to determine its own membership which means a tribe can set the criteria for enrollment and then every member must qualify based on the enrollment criteria. In Pala that’s not what’s happening and the BIA should be able to step in and not trample on Pala’s right to determine its own membership. You see Soboba, Cahuilla, Morongo, and Pala all enroll Margarita Brittain descendants but only Pala enrolls with MB listed as 1/2 Cupeno and the other 3 tribes enroll with her as 4/4 Cupeno the way it has always been. So even tho a tribe can determine the qualifications for enrollment who determines natives blood degree?? Isn’t the BIA suppose to be the record keepers of all natives and have a central data base where each original allotee and every native has their blood degree on file? This should be the final say on natives blood degree and then each tribe can enroll members using whatever qualifications they like but all have to use the same data base for Native Americans blood degree. Pala has enrollment qualifications which are a direct descendant of an original allotee in the 1895 or 1913 rolls and at least 1/16 Cupeno. In order to make the disenrolled not meet these qualifications they lowered Margaritas blood degree and never gave the tribe or BIA a reason why??? So the BIA is not interfering with Pala’s enrollment by demanding they list MB as FULLBLOOD like the BIA,Dept of Interior records state. They are not telling Pala to change their enrollment criteria just that they have to be correct and accurate when using natives blood degree and lineage. A birth certificate and census is not something you can just change it is fact and every tribe should have to use the correct data. Imagine your state Governor made a law that only Mexicans can live in California. That is California setting the rules for who can live in their state (like a tribes membership). Your mom is Mexican and your dad is white so you could live in California but then the Governor says no your not Mexican your only white you need to leave the state. Even tho you have documents and census records stating your race over the years the Governor doesn’t have to accept it or even look at it. Or he does look at it and says this is incorrect you are only white not Mexican so you need to leave California. Same thing that is happening in Pala. If the Federal government said its California’s choice to decide who can live there and they can’t interfere. The Federal government isn’t really interfering in California’s law by looking at your records and telling California you are half Mexican and it is a fact so they need to list you as such. Now then if California has to except the truth that you are Mexican and can stay in the state then it is also their right to change the law so that only Irish can live in the state and the Fed’s can’t intervene that is California’s right. As long as they use the correct census for every person and not change them to suite their needs like in Pala.
Very good point
It just shows the injustice in pala
Reporting Abusive Schemes and Their Promoters
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Indians tribes represent one of the fastest growing segments of our nation's economy, with an annual increase in employment of over 20% in recent years. They also have very unique issues arising from treaties, and inherent sovereign rights applicable only to tribes. The growth in tribal economies, the fact that tribes are not subject to federal income tax, and the self-governance rights of tribes, has made them an area where unscrupulous individuals can gain a foothold for illegal and/or unethical activities that include tax schemes.
Many schemes occur without the direct knowledge of the tribe, and/or without an understanding of the consequences by the tribe. They are a major concern for both the Service and Tribal governments who are struggling to protect their sovereignty and fledging enterprises, and maintain the support of Congress and the general public. These concerns are magnified by increasing attempts by promoters to use the tax and legal status of tribes to shelter transactions from taxation and oversight.
Many of the identified schemes cross jurisdictional boundaries and involve issues regulated by multiple entities - states, federal agencies, and even other IRS operating divisions. They require a coordinated approach that promotes consistency and communication. These emerging issues create a need on the part of the office of Indian Tribal Governments (ITG) to address these issues, but we rely heavily on assistance from tribes and the public in helping to identify them.
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Schemes
Embezzlement from tribal enterprises
Use of fictitious corporate status to avoid the filing of Forms 1099
Conversion of tribal assets/property for personal use
Disguising of enterprises to appear as tribally-owned, so as to evade federal taxation and/or various federal or state laws
Improper sheltering of taxable gains by passing third party transactions through Indian tribes
Improper treatment of net gaming revenue, including misclassified distributions to tribal members
Selling memberships in tribal groups not recognized by the federal government, and purporting such membership confers special tax benefits
Claiming Native American individuals are not subject to federal taxation under any circumstances
Misrepresentation of federal status of a tribe to attempt to obtain tax advantages
Misrepresentation of treaty provisions to claim improper tax relief
Focus: Conversion of tribal assets/property for personal use
A tribes right to determine membership is based on whatever criteria that the tribe sees fit to use. The BIA does have records, but they are not always correct, the right to determine membership also allows the right to correct faulty bloodlines and documents that determine membership. In all, the federal government determines how they recognize tribes as federally recognized, and within federal law there are different definition of what constitutes and Indian and what does not. Leaving the federal government the right to determine which documents and therefore which definitions of Indian is dangerous. Soboba, Morongo, and Cahuilla may very well use documents to determine total Indian blood, but the blood that they are using to define membership is not MB, it is Luiseno, Serrano, and Cahuilla, so the difference in MB's blood is not really a factor for federal issues, just tribal, which should be changed at the tribal level. The BIA can only advise tribes, they cannot interfere.
@ 11:12am
You are correct and the BIA did make a recommendation to the Pala EC after reviewing the documents sent to them and their own documents to continue membership for the Brittains due to no evidence being provided to support the disenrollments. Did the EC except the BIA recommendation or provide any documents. NOPE!
The IRS has all the financial statements for the last 3 years that were handed out at the meetings and they are still investigating according to them.
However any more info that they can use will help the investigation so please don't hesitate to send them any and all info that you may have.
Along with any photos of the use of the Pala jet with who ever uses it for personal gain.
The BIA does interfere, they are against the Individual Indian and all about tribal leaders who give them kickbacks. They call Robert the second anyone who was disenrolled contacts them for info or paper work. They purposely take forever to get it sent, and they somehow lose registered mail. They know many many things about Robert that would put him behind bars but it is obvious that he has stuff on Amy, so she fights anyone who is against Robert. They outright LIE and give false paperwork, or leave the most crucial page out of a file. They are allowing tribal members to be hurt, controlled, and threatened by a corrupt tribal leader, The BIA is an evil governmental entity that has been getting away with its own kind of corruption for too long, and they never admit guilt, they turn it around on the accuser and drive them into debt trying to fight them.
The BIA is Robert Smiths safe haven.
They provide false paper work for him, change blood degrees for him,
back up his corruption for him, call him when someone is requesting info on Membership issues.
The reasons that they do this is they can claim that all these issues are considered issues that are internal Tribal issues and therefore the BIA can't get involved.
Plus they receive a reward from him that pays for some of their finances and build their personal bank accounts.
That's why they back him on issues like membership.
The Regional office that's run by his sister Amy never helps the people only the leaders that support them and feed them.
I know that people in Pala are really getting fed up with the way that they are treated by Robert Smith and Theresa Nieto.
Some are even supporting the Disenrolled Members are they fully understand that Smith and Nieto used the 1928 applications which is against the tribal so called Constitution and the Articles of Association which were the governing documents, and more than likely still are.
Some of the people that didn't understand any thing as to why they
did the disenrollments know understand.
hello everyone,
I just finished talking to another group of Elders in Pala and I am happy with the way they asked questions about the disenrollments that were done in Pala.
They now fully understand how Smith and Nieto used the 1928 applications for their own agenda.
Most of them are very upset about it and will back whatever we decide is the best route to take to clear this all up.
I will post more later on when I meet with another group in the coming days.
Stay strong and know that some of us are still working hard to get the General Membership to understand what happened and why and what could happen in the future if this is not corrected.
How much will this venture cost the Tribe when it all goes wrong after
a while.
Any and all ventures that concern the future of the Tribe should be approved by the entire adult members before any contract are signed by the current EC.
No matter how small or how big, the General Membership should be the ones that make the final decision on the outcome of said ventures,
and not learning about them through second hand info and then lied to by the EC about the whole issue after the fact.
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