WHATCOM COUNTY, Wash. – The Nooksack Indian Tribe is demanding that the UN retract its call for the federal government to stop the tribe’s evictions of disenrolled members.
The tribe claims a report from the UN Human Rights agency is “riddled with misinformation.”
The Tribe says in a press release that there were only eight people being evicted instead of the 63 reported by the UN.
The Tribe also said that the Bureau of Indian Affairs had investigated the evictions and found that the Nooksack Indian Housing Authority had followed its procedures properly to remove the individuals from tribal housing.
UN human rights experts say many of the 63 people being evicted are elderly, disabled, or suffer from chronic illness.
They live in homes that were built by the tribe with money from the federal department of Housing and Urban Development.