It is important for the El Rancho Community to read examples (ATTACHED) of claims by San Ildefonso Pueblo of services provided to El Rancho to prepare for Tuesday’s PRC Hearing. If you have any experience with the Pueblo that contradicts these claims, PLEASE come speak up. Discrediting these officials and their misleading/false claims is key. The community is now united. We have proven the power in numbers!
PRC JMEC/SAN ILDEFONSO HEARING: April 22, 2014 (Tuesday) @ 9am. PERA Building, Paseo de Peralta, Apodaca Hall (one level below ground level).
The basis for Perry Martinez’s testimony is that Ohkay Owingeh convinced the PRC that they provided many services to Espanola (for mostly non-Indians), therefore including non-Indians within the pueblo boundaries to pay these easement cost was fair.
San Ildefonso has been using Ohkay Owingeh as a precedent to pass the cost to include El Rancho residents. In both cases, non-Indians are the majority paying the easement cost.
That is the reason for Perry Martinez’s and Stephen Martinez’s testimony on services provided to the community.
Our Interveners, George Gomez and Bobby Quintana have disputed these claims in their testimony by submitting statements from El Rancho residents. These are people that have been bullied by the Pueblo, escorted off unfenced pueblo land at gun point, and been given an actual letter from the Pueblo that threatened residents walking on Indian land near their residence. The letter specifically stated that their land was not to be used for recreational purposes of ANY kind. This letter was signed by Stephen Martinez.
NOW THE PUEBLO IS PETITIONING THE COURT TO THROW THIS EVIDENCE OUT!
We need large numbers of protesters who will contradict San Ildefonso’s testimony and who will demand to be given a right to be excluded from this cost recovery method by the PRC.
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