EMILIO REYES

PO BOX 1670

NATIONAL CITY, CA 91951

Amy Dutschke April 29, 2016

Regional Director PAGE 1 OF 2

Bureau of Indian Affairs

Pacific Regional Office

2800 Cottage Way

Sacramento, CA 95825

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Dear Amy Dutshcke,

I am in receipt of your letter dated February 17, 2016 regarding the Trask Challenge. In your letter you

state no action will be taken. In your letter you also state this was based on Richard Steward v. Pacific

Regional Director, IBIA 204 (8/19/2015). As you are aware, the San Pasqual Constitution vests the U.S.

Department of Interior, Bureau of Indian Affairs with final authority regarding enrollment in the San

Pasqual tribe.

On January 6, 2015, I submitted a Trask challenge to the Bureau of Indian Affairs, Southern California

Agency. By letter dated, February 17, 2015, the agency refused to take action and requested to send the

challenge to Allen Lawson, a Trask descendant. The agency is clearly aware the enrollment committee, is

Allen Lawson. Due to the inaction of this agency, subsequently the Trask challenge was submitted to the

Bureau of Indian Affairs, Regional Office on October 6, 2015.

As you know, the San Pasqual Enrollment Committee submitted the first challenge to the Bureau of

Indian Affairs, Southern California agency on August 11, 1960. The enrollment committee found at least

5 historical inaccuracies. The copies are included herewith. The San Pasqual Enrollment Committee

refused to enroll the Trask’s as they are affiliated with another Tribe, Mesa Grande. Nevertheless, the

Bureau refused the challenge and enrolled the Trask’s in the San Pasqual Tribe.

As you remember, on October 1, 2014 a San Pasqual descendant, Huumaay Quisquis, an enrolled Tribal

member, Roll # 290, submitted also a Trask challenge. These copies are included herewith. The Southern

California Agency also refused to take action. The Bureau of Indian Affairs has been served with at least

three (3) challenges, which require action by the Bureau of Indian Affairs under 25 CFR 48.14 (d).

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All 3 Trask challenges have been refused by the Southern California Agency and the Pacific Regional

Office. Please be reminded that the Trask’s are not San Pasqual Indians and are affiliated with Mesa

Grande notwithstanding their Mexican Indian ancestry. Your agencies are accepting these historical

errors.

Be also reminded, the Trask’s are not California Indians and your agency continues to accept the Trask’s

as California Indians. My research has proven the Trask’s have Mexican Indian ancestry from both sides

of the parent’s lineage, and do not have “blood of the band.” These Mexican Indians are obtaining

United States Federal and Tribal benefits as members of the San Pasqual Tribe.

The Trask family took over the reservation by Frank Trask in 1909. He was hired as the caretaker of the

San Pasqual reservation by Amos Frank. Frank Trask was a white descendant who married a Mexican

Indian from Baja California, Mexico, who at that time, was living at the Mesa Grande Indian reservation.

By not taking action in this matter, the real San Pasqual descendants continue to be kept out has it’s

been for decades. Nevertheless, the Trask family have been successively achieving their wrongdoing

from 1909 to the present day. In addition, the Bureau by not taking action is non-compliant to the BIA’s

own policies under the Indian Affairs manual in which is mandatory for Indian Affairs employees. To

date, the Bureau of Indian Affairs has taken no action, which is also a breach of fiduciary duty to the San

Pasqual Indians and descendants. The inaction of the Bureau will never be forgotten.

Unless the Regional Director takes action or merits of this written request within twenty (20) days of

receipt of this request, or establishes a date by which action will be taken, then additional appeals shall

be filed as provided by statue.

Respectfully,

Emilio Reyes

Researcher – Film | History Student

Enclosures

CC: Javin Moore, Superintendent, Bureau of Indian Affairs, Southern California Agency

Diane Feinstein, California Senator, United States Senator

Viola Brooks, Tribal Operations, Office of Tribal Government Services

Michael Black, Director, Bureau of Indian Affairs

Lawrence Roberts, Acting Assistant Secretary-Indian Affairs, DOI

Hankie P. Ortiz, Deputy Bureau Director, Office of Indian Services

Kamala D. Harris, Attorney General, California Department of Justice