<div style="font-size:1rem;font-family:'-apple-system', HelveticaNeue;word-spacing:1px;border-color:rgb(49,49,49);color:rgb(49,49,49);">63 Indigenous persons living on Nooksack tribal lands in northern Washington State are facing eviction from their low-income HUD homes. 
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<div style="font-size:16px;font-family:'-apple-system', HelveticaNeue;word-spacing:1px;border-color:rgb(49,49,49);color:rgb(49,49,49);"><font face="arial, sans-serif" style="font-size:1rem;font-family:arial, sans-serif;border-color:rgb(49,49,49);">As reported by <a href="https://indiancountrytoday.com/news/historic-winter-weather-delays-nooksack-evictions" target="_blank" style="font-size:1rem;border-color:rgb(66,133,244);color:rgb(66,133,244);" rel="noreferrer noopener">Indian Country Today</a>, the "<span style="font-size:1rem;border-color:rgb(51,51,51);color:rgb(51,51,51);">timing of the evictions comes amid 'historic circumstances' – during the Christmas and New Year's holidays, amid a surging COVID-19 pandemic, just months after historic flooding and days after record-breaking winter weather."  </span></font>
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<div style="font-size:1rem;font-family:'-apple-system', HelveticaNeue;word-spacing:1px;border-color:rgb(49,49,49);color:rgb(49,49,49);"><font face="arial, sans-serif" style="font-family:arial, sans-serif;border-color:rgb(49,49,49);"><span style="font-size:1rem;border-color:rgb(51,51,51);color:rgb(51,51,51);">As part of a political power grab, Nooksack politicians claim t</span></font>he "Nooksack 63" <font face="arial, sans-serif" style="font-family:arial, sans-serif;border-color:rgb(49,49,49);"><span style="font-size:1rem;border-color:rgb(51,51,51);color:rgb(51,51,51);">are "non-Indians" who do not belong in the tribe, where they have lived as citizens for decades.</span></font>
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<div style="font-size:1rem;font-family:'-apple-system', HelveticaNeue;word-spacing:1px;border-color:rgb(49,49,49);color:rgb(49,49,49);">The Nooksack 63 are homebuyers or homeowners under federal HUD programs. But their low income housing units and the equity they have paid into their homes are being taken by those politicians without due process of law or any right to a lawyer and without just compensation, as required by federal Indian civil rights and housing laws.
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<li style="border-color:rgb(49,49,49);"><span style="font-size:1rem;border-color:rgb(0,0,0);color:rgb(0,0,0);">23 year homeowner: Olive Oshiro, age 85 (pictured) and her daughter Elizabeth, 57, son-in-law, granddaughter Olivia, 28</span>
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<li style="border-color:rgb(49,49,49);"><span style="font-size:1rem;border-color:rgb(0,0,0);color:rgb(0,0,0);">15 year homeowner: Michael Rabang, age 79, a recent widower </span><span style="font-size:1rem;border-color:rgb(0,0,0);color:rgb(0,0,0);">(pictured)</span>
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<li style="border-color:rgb(49,49,49);"><span style="font-size:1rem;border-color:rgb(0,0,0);color:rgb(0,0,0);">15 year homeowner: Norma Aldredge, age 74 (pictured) and her husband Eugene, 84</span>
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<li style="border-color:rgb(49,49,49);"><span style="font-size:1rem;border-color:rgb(0,0,0);color:rgb(0,0,0);">14 year homebuyer: Michelle Roberts, age 56 (pictured) and her wheelchair-bound husband Rupert, 57, and son Raddinanc, 26</span>
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<li style="border-color:rgb(49,49,49);"><span style="font-size:1rem;border-color:rgb(0,0,0);color:rgb(0,0,0);">13 year homebuyer: Francisco Rabang, age 80 and his wife Wilma Rabang, 70 (pictured)</span>
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<li style="border-color:rgb(49,49,49);"><span style="font-size:1rem;border-color:rgb(0,0,0);color:rgb(0,0,0);">12 year homebuyer: Alex Mills, age 30 and his spouse Caril, 30, and sons Noe, 12, Jayden, 11, Maximo, 4, Kai, 2</span>
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<li style="border-color:rgb(49,49,49);"><span style="font-size:1rem;border-color:rgb(0,0,0);color:rgb(0,0,0);">11 year homebuyer: Saturnino Javier, age 49, and his son Saturnino Jr., 26, daughter Alycia, 14, and son Louis, 4</span>
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<div style="font-size:1rem;font-family:'-apple-system', HelveticaNeue;word-spacing:1px;border-color:rgb(49,49,49);color:rgb(49,49,49);">All proceeds will go towards defending the Nooksack 63 from eviction and otherwise making sure they do not become homeless.
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