I would appreciate some clarification regarding the public comment rules being enforced during Board of Health meetings.
During the most recent meeting, Dr. Berry stated that she is not permitted to respond directly to public commenters. However, she then addressed Mr. Seegers by name and responded to several of the points he raised during his testimony. It was only after Mr. Seegers attempted to reply that Commissioner French intervened and stated that dialogue was not permitted.
I'm trying to understand the rule being applied. It appears that Board members and staff are allowed to address members of the public directly, but members of the public are not permitted to respond once government officials have engaged them. If that is the rule, could you please identify the policy, statute, or Board rule that authorizes this practice?
Commissioner French has described himself as a "free speech absolutist," so I'm also curious how this approach aligns with that philosophy. From an outside perspective, it appears to create a one-way conversation in which government officials may challenge or respond to citizens, while citizens are prohibited from responding in kind.
I'm also wondering how this compares to past practices. During discussions about renaming the courthouse, members of the audience spoke directly from the gallery, and Commissioner French invited some individuals to come forward and address the commissioners outside the normal public comment process. Were the same rules governing public dialogue in effect at that meeting? If so, how were those interactions consistent with the current interpretation of maintaining order, respecting the agenda, and prohibiting dialogue?
My goal is simply to understand what the governing rules are and whether they are being applied consistently regardless of the topic or the speaker.
Thank you for your time, and I look forward to your clarification.
The commissioners did not respond to a letter asking why they haven't asked that charges be brought against leaders from the Democratic Party who caused thousands of dollars of damage while vandalizing public lands.
Here is today's email to the county commissioners and Health Officer Berry:
Dear Commissioners and Health Officer Berry,
If a resident reviews publicly available data—such as information published by the Department of Health and Human Services—and believes they have identified an error or inconsistency, what is the appropriate way to raise those concerns?
Many residents feel that when they question official narratives or present conflicting data, they are quickly dismissed, labeled as spreading misinformation, or shouted down rather than engaged in a substantive discussion. At the same time, county officials rarely respond to emails, and Dr. Berry has indicated she does not engage in direct conversations with critics.
If the goal is to build public trust and correct misinformation, shouldn't there also be a clear avenue for good-faith questions and challenges? What process do you recommend for residents who have legitimate concerns and want to have a respectful, evidence-based discussion?
Rule 10: The price of a successful attack is a constructive alternative. Avoid being trapped by an opponent or an interviewer who says, "Okay, what would you do?"
Dr. Berry could be related to Dr Fauci. They seem to hold some similiar characteristics. They both manipulate the truth and hide the real stats. Thanks Jeff for showing again how the left is so afraid of Jake. Stealing from the homeless is a far fetched lie. They are really stealing from us.😎
jedj, actually, I think it was about 5 or less years ago, my older son, who was dressed scuffily (is that a word?) was approached in PA to sign some kind of petition. He was offered $15 for his signature. He said no, but how illegally blatant is this run-a-way voting getting to? Hey, if you took the Covid shot you could get some free beer, free___ this or free___that. The worse part was that Native American's and Health Care workers were at the top of the first ones to get injected. The death rate was high in the Native communities, most likely from the vaccination, but the side affects are still coming to the surface. It was the first time in history, for the first of Covid, nobody died from the flu. Huh?
The bleeding heart liberals thought it was only fair for minorities to go first. That alone should have been a giant neon flashing red sign. Since when is gov't ever fair?
Denise, also the native communities pushed hard to be the first to get the vaccines using "we are more vulnerable to diseases", citing smallpox. To me it is was a tragedy because the first vaccines out were the worst ones issued by certain pharms. People weren't ever given facts other than "you'll die" if you get Covid. It divided my family horribly, and to this day hasn't been resolved. I missed family gatherings and a wedding because I didn't get a shot. BTW, every member who got the shot also got Covid and lived through it. Fauci should be hung.
Native communities? What does that mean? Is this in reference to indian tribes (their own terminology), being exposed to Smallpox by european explorers/settlers a couple hundred years ago? They are no more "vulnerable", after a couple hundred years of exposure than anyone else; we're talking about the SARS-CoV virus here, not Small pox. Yes, let's address misinformation, shall we? On all fronts, including leadership, not based on skin pigmentation, or a card conveniently played everytime common sense eludes the speaker.
Hero sandwich maybe. Get real we are the stomping ground for druggies. I hope u were being sarcastic. If not you have gotten a low bar for heroes. Like maybe u would have to frequent a bar for that comment !
Is the below comment by Health Officer Allison Berry not the most asinine statement of the year?
“She explained that some people from outside the area travel to the west end intending to die by suicide because of Clallam County’s natural beauty”
Ah yes, our locally paid poet laureate should create a poem in honor of those suicides that are surrounded by the ‘natural beauty’ of syringes, boofing kits, squalor and trash. Is it the same natural beauty that 4PA “steals” from the other residents who are also enjoying the natural beauty?
Look I can deal wth drug addits, criminals and even corrupt politicians. I got to draw the line on dogs and other animals in public establishments serving food.
Talk about triggered. Thing is us with the real names would be smart to take the information that is provided on this never ending saga of projects with other like minded - triggered people with real names and focus heads together to follow thru together with one common goal.
Some of the places that I would focus on first Starbucks and maybe sunny farms. My latest encounters.
Great comment on the dog issue. A few years back at Home Depot, I asked a cashier who gets sued when a customer is bit by someone else’s dog; is it Home Depot or the individual? She looked at me like she had never considered someone getting hurt by a dog on the store’s property. That’s the mindset of people who allow it; they are clueless.
Clallamity Jen, there is worse. The homeless peeing on a grocery store's outside pumpkins. The ratio of dog attacks to homeless attacks on people can't be really compared. It it nil to none. I do understand people's fear of dogs. I much more understand the fear of people who are significantly more afraid of the homeless than a dog attack. Article? Fear factors? In only the way you can do it : )
Then again, with land back, the choices of NATURAL BEAUTY SUICIDAL LANDS ARE SHRINKING. Harm reduction is financially aiding tribal land back also in Clallam County as we speak.
August 1, 2026 Native Business News: New land tracker pilot reveals cost of rebuilding tribal land bases
Minnesota tribes paid an estimated $7 million in property taxes on tribally owned fee land in 2023, according to a new Center for Indian Country Development analysis that highlights one of the ongoing costs of rebuilding tribal land bases.
The study, presented at CICD’s 2026 data summit, also found that tribal land purchases in Minnesota grew 25% between 2014 and 2023. Yet only a portion of that acreage has been transferred into trust, leaving tribes to shoulder significant tax burdens on land they have had to buy back.
The study is based on a CICD initiative called the Tribal Indian Land Tracker, or TILT, a parcel‑level database built from publicly available county assessor records. Matt Gregg, a senior economist at CICD, described the Minnesota project as a first step toward expanding the database nationwide.
“Tribes are rewriting their narrative away from Native land dispossession and towards Native land restoration,” Gregg said.
The Minnesota pilot analyzed land records for all 11 federally recognized tribes in the state from 2014 to 2023. CICD found fee land purchases accounted for much of that growth, with 21.4 percent of tribal acreage held in taxable status in 2023.
Tribal governments and enterprises paid an estimated $7 million in property taxes that year. Gregg said the numbers represent a lower‑bound estimate because TILT does not capture trust consolidation recorded only in Bureau of Indian Affairs files.
Casey Lozar, CICD executive director, said the Minnesota findings may reflect a broader national trend. He said more tribes are positioned to acquire land than at any point in recent decades, but those decisions are increasingly shaped by data.
For the Fond du Lac Band of Lake Superior Chippewa, the numbers reflect a long‑running strategy that blends fee land acquisition with structured trust consolidation. Land Information Manager Emilia Holstine said the band uses the American Indian Probate Reform Act’s purchase‑at‑probate process to buy trust interests as they pass through inheritance.
Doing so helps reduce future fractionation, the continued division of ownership interests among heirs that can slow tribal land restoration.
Holstine said accurate data is essential for making those decisions. Fond du Lac spent years collecting GPS coordinates for boundary markers to correct analog maps that were off by hundreds of feet. The band now maintains a digital system that tracks ownership, wetlands, contested histories and resource information for each parcel.
“We try to purchase as much trust land as we can to prevent it from leaving trust status,” Holstine said. “Having that robust data set to work off of is extremely helpful.”
On the Rosebud Reservation, the Tribal Land Enterprise has been consolidating trust land since 1943. Executive assistant director Adelita Guerue said the office targets tracts where the tribe holds at least 51% ownership, the threshold needed to control a parcel under federal rules. She said inconsistent data from counties, the state, and the BIA complicates efforts to expand the land base.
Those differences aren’t mere acres,” Guerue said. “They’re thousands of acres.”
Land Tenure Foundation President Howard Valandra said tribes need long‑term acquisition plans that survive changes in administration. He noted that Rosebud purchased roughly 10,000 acres of fee land per year during his tenure in the 1990s, then placed those parcels into trust.
If you have a good plan and you implement it, it can outlast the transitions and the changers,” he said.
Gregg said CICD plans to expand TILT nationwide to build a national data set and clearer view of tribal land reclamation.
If not the most "asinine statement of the year", certainly in the Top 3. Perhaps "Dr" Barry's next ploy will be the Suicide Assistance Program, funded by you know who!
Anyone, (but not Dr Berry) that has personal experience with someone that is suicidal, probably realizes the location of their death is not a priority.
I’ve never heard a hospice patient say” can you drive me to the Columbia River where I’d like to throw myself off a cliff so I have a good memory”. In the acute throws of a suicidal episode, you do all you can to keep them alive. Uncommon would be them caring what they leave behind. Some people spend much time thinking about their death.
It’s those that act quickly without support and make a permanent decision over a temporary problem without allowing input from loved ones. Many drugs cause suicidal ideology, so the county providing everything but the drug, is like putting a gun the hands of a person during a drug induced mental episode, when they know bullets are sold the next street over.
After the first townhall this spring, Mike French clarified to us that he was against the Pharma industry regarding the opioid crisis, but supported Pharma during the COVID crisis, where they blocked therapeutics, killed with Remdesevir, and injured countless individuals with the shot. The recently-released Fauci diaries along side Fauci's one sentence Senate testimony mantra tells all, “On the advice of counsel, I respectfully decline to answer. . . ."
The love/hate relationship with Pharma tells us something important. It's become all too clear now why leaders struggle to think for themselves and employ critical thinking. If they say something not aligned with their friend-group and their political tribe, some how they will be excommunicated, even if it means inconsistencies and supporting evil.
Harm reduction provides the same opportunity, but they just fall back on their tribe's set narrative, failed in many cases and anti-science as it is. Hopefully, one day, even locally here, the leaders who helped perpetuate these various crises will have their opportunity to either repeat Fauci's mantra or better yet fess up with a, "I'm sorry, I didn't do my job. 'Do no harm' is my first obligation."
Donald Trump may disagree with Mr Zelenka about Remdesivir. When the President was hospitalized with COVID-19 in October 2020, doctors at Walter Reed National Medical Center said a 5-day course of Remdesivir may have saved his life. Remdesivir remains a preferred treatment for serious COVID.
DT is not a doctor and neither am I. But studies have shown that Remdesevir does stress the liver. Mr. Fauci just happened to have been studying it in Africa the year before, and was aware of the potential negative impacts. And therapeutics were essentially disallowed at the time, even ones that the NIH itself had promoted (Ivermectin). Anyone saying otherwise was blocked, banned, censored, and essentially squished. I was one of them. All the while, we were told to stay out of the sun, lock down, and hide and shiver in terror while numbers screamed upwards on CNN. Thankfully, I didn't fall for any of the nonsense and I don't have the injuries that so many do who took the shot, and many of whom presently are still denied help. www.react19.org
During that madness, I downloaded the weekly mortality data and VAERS data and did own analysis. Early on the discrepancy was shocking, obvious, and clear. I sent my analysis to Dr. Berry regularly, who ignored me.
The doctors who treated President Trump at Walter Reed--presumably some of the nation's finest--said Remdesivir played a major role in his recovery. His subsequent physicals have shown no liver damage. If I'm ever hospitalized with COVID I'll say, "I'll have what President Trump had."
People should mostly certainly have the right to be treated medically in their preferred method, and most especially to know what's available. Trump took hydroxychloroquine (and maybe other therapeutics) when he got covid. I took Ivermectin when I got it.
Trump said he took hydroxychloroquine in May 2020 as a prophylactic. He caught Covid four months later. Doctors at Walter Read said they did NOT use hydroxychloroquine in his treatment.
Berry is, as usual, full of doo doo claiming addicts come to Clallam to Suicide. They come here because of her harm reduction policies and the enabling culture inherent within the county commission. Please, I’m begging you people: vote French out. Then Ozias and then what’s his name that sits quietly on the fence.
Gayle, I believe her policies could replace her word 'suicide' with 'homicide', it's a matter of what type:
Homicides can be divided into many overlapping legal categories, such as murder, manslaughter, justifiable homicide, assassination, killing in war (either following the laws of war or as a war crime), euthanasia, and capital punishment, depending on the circumstances of the death.
Rule 1: Power is not only what you have, but what an opponent thinks you have. If your organization is small, hide your numbers in the dark and raise a din that will make everyone think you have many more people than you do.
I do not know what kind of a one on one provider Dr. Berry might be. I do know she has proven herself wholly incompetent of medical leadership. Dr. Berry punished citizens smart enough to not inject unsafe and ineffective experimental toxins by taking their jobs, travel rights and public venue access. Ironically I believe she means well, but she has been too effectively brainwashed and propagandized by industry controlled educational institutions. My guess would be she excels at writing prescriptions, but fails to cure anyone. Symptom treatment is very profitable where cures are not. Harm reduction which she emphatically supports enables addiction. Touting a reduction in overdose deaths is an empty brag. Keeping people addicted, but less likely to die from an overdose is a prolongation of agony. She effected complete obedience to the Federal COVID treatment protocol which was a 100% failure record without exception. Again perhaps naively, but she and they caused the death of millions; not from COVID, but from a combination of a toxic "vaccine" and a designed to kill treatment protocol. Much like Dr. Berry, our Hospitals also followed the failed protocol. Not to help the sick, but to gain the generous "COVID" bonuses involved handed out by our Government. Be reminded that there has been no explanation for why historically reliable influenza diagnoses' impossibly disappeared during COVID. Surely it was not because a COVID diagnoses was handsomely bonused where a flu diagnosis received nothing.
Ask one simple question of all of these people who are in love with control……
During their time in office, have things improved, or simply gotten much worse?
I would love to create a spread sheet showing the downward spiral of Clallam County and over lay it upon their time spent in office. What do you suppose we would see?
They claim to be able to fix things suggesting that they have control, but the first thing they'll cling to when it goes wrong is that it was out of their control.
If you're case is strong it's supported by evidence/facts, and it can weather attack. Welcome the attack then, it'll shine the light on the strength of your position, or just shut down dialogue because it's weak.
By not allowing Berry to respond French has done science, and Dr. Berry a disservice.
Science demands ALL evidence is considered and weighed.
In this post he talks about believing in evidence, but is it just his version of science he wants us to believe in?
His actions show desperation where he's making the mistake of thinking that control is strength, when all that it does is highlight how weak his knowledge and understanding are. That's scary, someone who can't admit that they don't know everything.
From Mike's FB post:
"I believe in evidence-based approaches to policy making, the importance of community feedback..."
What we see in Clallam County is a model that prioritizes supply distribution and maintenance of use, with no corresponding plan to help people get off drugs. The partnership with the tribe is consistently described as “treatment,” yet the underlying framework does not include a path to sobriety. It is a closed loop — grant dollars flow in, supplies flow out, and the cycle continues without measurable progress toward recovery.
This is not a sustainable or humane system. It is not serving the people trapped in addiction, and it is not serving the broader community. We need leadership willing to evaluate these programs honestly, to acknowledge what is not working, and to build a model that includes real treatment, real accountability, and real outcomes, real metrics, not twisted “numbers” and how “they” compute the numbers to fit their agenda.
No more trying to talk to these people, show them at the ballot box!
One picture of seriously needing help I can't forget is the fella laying on the sidewalk by the ballet school barefoot and black toe hands up in claws. It breaks me heart that "do gooders" let him get to that point. Along with letting him be seen like that by a child.
That picture breaks my heart too. And that picture is the definition of compassion for these "leaders" in this county. Did they reach out to help him? He got his clean needles or clean meth pipes or maybe doses of narcan and what we see is now mental health issues. Just keep doing the same thing over and over and keep the grant dollars flowing in and the jobs of those grants which claim to help these people. Pictures do speak a thousand words.
I don't consider aiding and abetting a treatment.Giving addicts synthetic drugs is just a prolonged way for clinics to make more $$$ this is why clinics do it, just follow the $$$ and ad it up.
A second email sent today:
Good morning Dr. Berry and Commissioner French,
I would appreciate some clarification regarding the public comment rules being enforced during Board of Health meetings.
During the most recent meeting, Dr. Berry stated that she is not permitted to respond directly to public commenters. However, she then addressed Mr. Seegers by name and responded to several of the points he raised during his testimony. It was only after Mr. Seegers attempted to reply that Commissioner French intervened and stated that dialogue was not permitted.
I'm trying to understand the rule being applied. It appears that Board members and staff are allowed to address members of the public directly, but members of the public are not permitted to respond once government officials have engaged them. If that is the rule, could you please identify the policy, statute, or Board rule that authorizes this practice?
Commissioner French has described himself as a "free speech absolutist," so I'm also curious how this approach aligns with that philosophy. From an outside perspective, it appears to create a one-way conversation in which government officials may challenge or respond to citizens, while citizens are prohibited from responding in kind.
I'm also wondering how this compares to past practices. During discussions about renaming the courthouse, members of the audience spoke directly from the gallery, and Commissioner French invited some individuals to come forward and address the commissioners outside the normal public comment process. Were the same rules governing public dialogue in effect at that meeting? If so, how were those interactions consistent with the current interpretation of maintaining order, respecting the agenda, and prohibiting dialogue?
My goal is simply to understand what the governing rules are and whether they are being applied consistently regardless of the topic or the speaker.
Thank you for your time, and I look forward to your clarification.
The commissioners did not respond to a letter asking why they haven't asked that charges be brought against leaders from the Democratic Party who caused thousands of dollars of damage while vandalizing public lands.
Here is today's email to the county commissioners and Health Officer Berry:
Dear Commissioners and Health Officer Berry,
If a resident reviews publicly available data—such as information published by the Department of Health and Human Services—and believes they have identified an error or inconsistency, what is the appropriate way to raise those concerns?
Many residents feel that when they question official narratives or present conflicting data, they are quickly dismissed, labeled as spreading misinformation, or shouted down rather than engaged in a substantive discussion. At the same time, county officials rarely respond to emails, and Dr. Berry has indicated she does not engage in direct conversations with critics.
If the goal is to build public trust and correct misinformation, shouldn't there also be a clear avenue for good-faith questions and challenges? What process do you recommend for residents who have legitimate concerns and want to have a respectful, evidence-based discussion?
I would appreciate your guidance.
Rule 10: The price of a successful attack is a constructive alternative. Avoid being trapped by an opponent or an interviewer who says, "Okay, what would you do?"
Dr. Berry could be related to Dr Fauci. They seem to hold some similiar characteristics. They both manipulate the truth and hide the real stats. Thanks Jeff for showing again how the left is so afraid of Jake. Stealing from the homeless is a far fetched lie. They are really stealing from us.😎
Jedj, Homelessness is a gift that keeps on giving (but to whom?)
To the left my friend. More votes they can obtain when they hand out the freebies. Ballots for free but not filled out by the homeless.
jedj, actually, I think it was about 5 or less years ago, my older son, who was dressed scuffily (is that a word?) was approached in PA to sign some kind of petition. He was offered $15 for his signature. He said no, but how illegally blatant is this run-a-way voting getting to? Hey, if you took the Covid shot you could get some free beer, free___ this or free___that. The worse part was that Native American's and Health Care workers were at the top of the first ones to get injected. The death rate was high in the Native communities, most likely from the vaccination, but the side affects are still coming to the surface. It was the first time in history, for the first of Covid, nobody died from the flu. Huh?
The bleeding heart liberals thought it was only fair for minorities to go first. That alone should have been a giant neon flashing red sign. Since when is gov't ever fair?
Denise, also the native communities pushed hard to be the first to get the vaccines using "we are more vulnerable to diseases", citing smallpox. To me it is was a tragedy because the first vaccines out were the worst ones issued by certain pharms. People weren't ever given facts other than "you'll die" if you get Covid. It divided my family horribly, and to this day hasn't been resolved. I missed family gatherings and a wedding because I didn't get a shot. BTW, every member who got the shot also got Covid and lived through it. Fauci should be hung.
Jennifer, I'm sorry to hear that your family is still fractured from COVID. I pray one day you can heal and see one another again.
Native communities? What does that mean? Is this in reference to indian tribes (their own terminology), being exposed to Smallpox by european explorers/settlers a couple hundred years ago? They are no more "vulnerable", after a couple hundred years of exposure than anyone else; we're talking about the SARS-CoV virus here, not Small pox. Yes, let's address misinformation, shall we? On all fronts, including leadership, not based on skin pigmentation, or a card conveniently played everytime common sense eludes the speaker.
And they both make my skin crawl whenever they open their noise holes. I always follow my gut & when someone makes my skin crawl like that- I run
OH BULLSHHEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEETTTTT.
Dr. Berry is a HERO.
Hero sandwich maybe. Get real we are the stomping ground for druggies. I hope u were being sarcastic. If not you have gotten a low bar for heroes. Like maybe u would have to frequent a bar for that comment !
I don't approve of drug use.
To paraphrase a great college football coach... COVID SUCKS, BUT SO TOO DOES ADDICTION AND POLLUTION!
I agree with coach😎
Is the below comment by Health Officer Allison Berry not the most asinine statement of the year?
“She explained that some people from outside the area travel to the west end intending to die by suicide because of Clallam County’s natural beauty”
Ah yes, our locally paid poet laureate should create a poem in honor of those suicides that are surrounded by the ‘natural beauty’ of syringes, boofing kits, squalor and trash. Is it the same natural beauty that 4PA “steals” from the other residents who are also enjoying the natural beauty?
Assisted suicide?
Insisted Suicide?
Look I can deal wth drug addits, criminals and even corrupt politicians. I got to draw the line on dogs and other animals in public establishments serving food.
Talk about triggered. Thing is us with the real names would be smart to take the information that is provided on this never ending saga of projects with other like minded - triggered people with real names and focus heads together to follow thru together with one common goal.
Some of the places that I would focus on first Starbucks and maybe sunny farms. My latest encounters.
Oh ya i did see this dog peeing on the lumber rack at homie depot
or riding in the cart.
Ugh!!
Great comment on the dog issue. A few years back at Home Depot, I asked a cashier who gets sued when a customer is bit by someone else’s dog; is it Home Depot or the individual? She looked at me like she had never considered someone getting hurt by a dog on the store’s property. That’s the mindset of people who allow it; they are clueless.
Clallamity Jen, there is worse. The homeless peeing on a grocery store's outside pumpkins. The ratio of dog attacks to homeless attacks on people can't be really compared. It it nil to none. I do understand people's fear of dogs. I much more understand the fear of people who are significantly more afraid of the homeless than a dog attack. Article? Fear factors? In only the way you can do it : )
Then again, with land back, the choices of NATURAL BEAUTY SUICIDAL LANDS ARE SHRINKING. Harm reduction is financially aiding tribal land back also in Clallam County as we speak.
https://tribalbusinessnews.com/sections/real-estate/15702-new-land-tracker-pilot-reveals-cost-of-rebuilding-tribal-land-bases
August 1, 2026 Native Business News: New land tracker pilot reveals cost of rebuilding tribal land bases
Minnesota tribes paid an estimated $7 million in property taxes on tribally owned fee land in 2023, according to a new Center for Indian Country Development analysis that highlights one of the ongoing costs of rebuilding tribal land bases.
The study, presented at CICD’s 2026 data summit, also found that tribal land purchases in Minnesota grew 25% between 2014 and 2023. Yet only a portion of that acreage has been transferred into trust, leaving tribes to shoulder significant tax burdens on land they have had to buy back.
The study is based on a CICD initiative called the Tribal Indian Land Tracker, or TILT, a parcel‑level database built from publicly available county assessor records. Matt Gregg, a senior economist at CICD, described the Minnesota project as a first step toward expanding the database nationwide.
“Tribes are rewriting their narrative away from Native land dispossession and towards Native land restoration,” Gregg said.
The Minnesota pilot analyzed land records for all 11 federally recognized tribes in the state from 2014 to 2023. CICD found fee land purchases accounted for much of that growth, with 21.4 percent of tribal acreage held in taxable status in 2023.
Tribal governments and enterprises paid an estimated $7 million in property taxes that year. Gregg said the numbers represent a lower‑bound estimate because TILT does not capture trust consolidation recorded only in Bureau of Indian Affairs files.
Casey Lozar, CICD executive director, said the Minnesota findings may reflect a broader national trend. He said more tribes are positioned to acquire land than at any point in recent decades, but those decisions are increasingly shaped by data.
For the Fond du Lac Band of Lake Superior Chippewa, the numbers reflect a long‑running strategy that blends fee land acquisition with structured trust consolidation. Land Information Manager Emilia Holstine said the band uses the American Indian Probate Reform Act’s purchase‑at‑probate process to buy trust interests as they pass through inheritance.
Doing so helps reduce future fractionation, the continued division of ownership interests among heirs that can slow tribal land restoration.
Holstine said accurate data is essential for making those decisions. Fond du Lac spent years collecting GPS coordinates for boundary markers to correct analog maps that were off by hundreds of feet. The band now maintains a digital system that tracks ownership, wetlands, contested histories and resource information for each parcel.
“We try to purchase as much trust land as we can to prevent it from leaving trust status,” Holstine said. “Having that robust data set to work off of is extremely helpful.”
On the Rosebud Reservation, the Tribal Land Enterprise has been consolidating trust land since 1943. Executive assistant director Adelita Guerue said the office targets tracts where the tribe holds at least 51% ownership, the threshold needed to control a parcel under federal rules. She said inconsistent data from counties, the state, and the BIA complicates efforts to expand the land base.
Those differences aren’t mere acres,” Guerue said. “They’re thousands of acres.”
Land Tenure Foundation President Howard Valandra said tribes need long‑term acquisition plans that survive changes in administration. He noted that Rosebud purchased roughly 10,000 acres of fee land per year during his tenure in the 1990s, then placed those parcels into trust.
If you have a good plan and you implement it, it can outlast the transitions and the changers,” he said.
Gregg said CICD plans to expand TILT nationwide to build a national data set and clearer view of tribal land reclamation.
Is this the same state accused of stealing billions and sending it to Somalia? Steal the land, steal the money, accepted thievery?
Rule 2: Never go outside the experience of your people. The result is confusion, fear, and retreat.
If not the most "asinine statement of the year", certainly in the Top 3. Perhaps "Dr" Barry's next ploy will be the Suicide Assistance Program, funded by you know who!
Dennis O, at this point if she would make that offer, I would consider it. LOL
Anyone, (but not Dr Berry) that has personal experience with someone that is suicidal, probably realizes the location of their death is not a priority.
I’ve never heard a hospice patient say” can you drive me to the Columbia River where I’d like to throw myself off a cliff so I have a good memory”. In the acute throws of a suicidal episode, you do all you can to keep them alive. Uncommon would be them caring what they leave behind. Some people spend much time thinking about their death.
It’s those that act quickly without support and make a permanent decision over a temporary problem without allowing input from loved ones. Many drugs cause suicidal ideology, so the county providing everything but the drug, is like putting a gun the hands of a person during a drug induced mental episode, when they know bullets are sold the next street over.
in retrospect all of are dying faster thanks to the policies of CC
After the first townhall this spring, Mike French clarified to us that he was against the Pharma industry regarding the opioid crisis, but supported Pharma during the COVID crisis, where they blocked therapeutics, killed with Remdesevir, and injured countless individuals with the shot. The recently-released Fauci diaries along side Fauci's one sentence Senate testimony mantra tells all, “On the advice of counsel, I respectfully decline to answer. . . ."
The love/hate relationship with Pharma tells us something important. It's become all too clear now why leaders struggle to think for themselves and employ critical thinking. If they say something not aligned with their friend-group and their political tribe, some how they will be excommunicated, even if it means inconsistencies and supporting evil.
Harm reduction provides the same opportunity, but they just fall back on their tribe's set narrative, failed in many cases and anti-science as it is. Hopefully, one day, even locally here, the leaders who helped perpetuate these various crises will have their opportunity to either repeat Fauci's mantra or better yet fess up with a, "I'm sorry, I didn't do my job. 'Do no harm' is my first obligation."
Donald Trump may disagree with Mr Zelenka about Remdesivir. When the President was hospitalized with COVID-19 in October 2020, doctors at Walter Reed National Medical Center said a 5-day course of Remdesivir may have saved his life. Remdesivir remains a preferred treatment for serious COVID.
DT is not a doctor and neither am I. But studies have shown that Remdesevir does stress the liver. Mr. Fauci just happened to have been studying it in Africa the year before, and was aware of the potential negative impacts. And therapeutics were essentially disallowed at the time, even ones that the NIH itself had promoted (Ivermectin). Anyone saying otherwise was blocked, banned, censored, and essentially squished. I was one of them. All the while, we were told to stay out of the sun, lock down, and hide and shiver in terror while numbers screamed upwards on CNN. Thankfully, I didn't fall for any of the nonsense and I don't have the injuries that so many do who took the shot, and many of whom presently are still denied help. www.react19.org
During that madness, I downloaded the weekly mortality data and VAERS data and did own analysis. Early on the discrepancy was shocking, obvious, and clear. I sent my analysis to Dr. Berry regularly, who ignored me.
The doctors who treated President Trump at Walter Reed--presumably some of the nation's finest--said Remdesivir played a major role in his recovery. His subsequent physicals have shown no liver damage. If I'm ever hospitalized with COVID I'll say, "I'll have what President Trump had."
People should mostly certainly have the right to be treated medically in their preferred method, and most especially to know what's available. Trump took hydroxychloroquine (and maybe other therapeutics) when he got covid. I took Ivermectin when I got it.
Trump said he took hydroxychloroquine in May 2020 as a prophylactic. He caught Covid four months later. Doctors at Walter Read said they did NOT use hydroxychloroquine in his treatment.
Communism is show its face more and more, thanks for showing your true colors to more of us Mr. French and Dr. Berry!! Vote Jake!!
Thank you for all your hard work Jeff and Jake and everyone else.
Berry is, as usual, full of doo doo claiming addicts come to Clallam to Suicide. They come here because of her harm reduction policies and the enabling culture inherent within the county commission. Please, I’m begging you people: vote French out. Then Ozias and then what’s his name that sits quietly on the fence.
Gayle, I believe her policies could replace her word 'suicide' with 'homicide', it's a matter of what type:
Homicides can be divided into many overlapping legal categories, such as murder, manslaughter, justifiable homicide, assassination, killing in war (either following the laws of war or as a war crime), euthanasia, and capital punishment, depending on the circumstances of the death.
She sure has her defenses lined up to thwart her own professional requirements to stay neutral and consider all evidence.
Good morning Jeff and Doggers,
All I can say is Aloha smoothies rocks and on Mike French...respect is earned and never achieved by lies!
Thank you Jakes for the great smoothie and Mr. Seegers for your willingness to stand up against the fraud that Mike and Mark embrace.
Thank you Jeff and all Doggers, gave a great day!
When County officials become the ONLY ones who can define and prefer, "stakeholders":
they also become the ONLY ones who MUST define and marginalize ALL others as MISTAKE holders!!
This is the same national schtick we started hearing when Obama won, and both parties cling to it at the expense of the citizens.
I'm tired of it. I want balance. I want a true representative of the people.
I'm voting for Jake Seegers exactly for these reasons, reasons I believe resonate with other reasonable voters.
Go ahead and vote for Jake Common Since and he's the Wedge we need. Vote Vote Vote
Rule 1: Power is not only what you have, but what an opponent thinks you have. If your organization is small, hide your numbers in the dark and raise a din that will make everyone think you have many more people than you do.
Chicanery, noun Sophistry; mean or unfair artifices to perplex a cause and obscure the truth. - Noah Webster 1828
Ron showing his age is all...😁
And his perceived superior intellect.
Uggg She is so hard to listen to. As bad and French's demeanor during the 1st debate.
She just sounds like there is a giggle just waiting to come out when she talks.
By the way both she and French treated Jake very badly again.
And after chastising Jake, they addressed a person in the gallery by his name!
Denise, was the name an animal, insect or a dip? LOL Had to say that after reading Clallamity Jen's article today ; )
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ACAB = All Callaways Are Bemused
I’m waiting for Dr. Berry to start pleading the fifth. LOL.
"Under the advice of Mike French, I respectfully..."
I do not know what kind of a one on one provider Dr. Berry might be. I do know she has proven herself wholly incompetent of medical leadership. Dr. Berry punished citizens smart enough to not inject unsafe and ineffective experimental toxins by taking their jobs, travel rights and public venue access. Ironically I believe she means well, but she has been too effectively brainwashed and propagandized by industry controlled educational institutions. My guess would be she excels at writing prescriptions, but fails to cure anyone. Symptom treatment is very profitable where cures are not. Harm reduction which she emphatically supports enables addiction. Touting a reduction in overdose deaths is an empty brag. Keeping people addicted, but less likely to die from an overdose is a prolongation of agony. She effected complete obedience to the Federal COVID treatment protocol which was a 100% failure record without exception. Again perhaps naively, but she and they caused the death of millions; not from COVID, but from a combination of a toxic "vaccine" and a designed to kill treatment protocol. Much like Dr. Berry, our Hospitals also followed the failed protocol. Not to help the sick, but to gain the generous "COVID" bonuses involved handed out by our Government. Be reminded that there has been no explanation for why historically reliable influenza diagnoses' impossibly disappeared during COVID. Surely it was not because a COVID diagnoses was handsomely bonused where a flu diagnosis received nothing.
Keeping people addicted, but less likely to die from an overdose is a prolongation of agony. ---1,000,000% and is disgusting.
Ask one simple question of all of these people who are in love with control……
During their time in office, have things improved, or simply gotten much worse?
I would love to create a spread sheet showing the downward spiral of Clallam County and over lay it upon their time spent in office. What do you suppose we would see?
They claim to be able to fix things suggesting that they have control, but the first thing they'll cling to when it goes wrong is that it was out of their control.
Lol!
Perfect example being the complete shit show surrounding the Bite of Seattle events!
Hereinafter known as the Bite of Shit festival.
Good one!!!🤣
MK....then ask for forgiveness
If you're case is strong it's supported by evidence/facts, and it can weather attack. Welcome the attack then, it'll shine the light on the strength of your position, or just shut down dialogue because it's weak.
By not allowing Berry to respond French has done science, and Dr. Berry a disservice.
Science demands ALL evidence is considered and weighed.
In this post he talks about believing in evidence, but is it just his version of science he wants us to believe in?
His actions show desperation where he's making the mistake of thinking that control is strength, when all that it does is highlight how weak his knowledge and understanding are. That's scary, someone who can't admit that they don't know everything.
From Mike's FB post:
"I believe in evidence-based approaches to policy making, the importance of community feedback..."
https://www.facebook.com/share/p/1CtnkMbZxJ/
Mike says one thing, and does another.
I can't take more of his Napoleon complex. I'm voting for Jake Seegers.
But French and taxes always show up!
Sure does.
What we see in Clallam County is a model that prioritizes supply distribution and maintenance of use, with no corresponding plan to help people get off drugs. The partnership with the tribe is consistently described as “treatment,” yet the underlying framework does not include a path to sobriety. It is a closed loop — grant dollars flow in, supplies flow out, and the cycle continues without measurable progress toward recovery.
This is not a sustainable or humane system. It is not serving the people trapped in addiction, and it is not serving the broader community. We need leadership willing to evaluate these programs honestly, to acknowledge what is not working, and to build a model that includes real treatment, real accountability, and real outcomes, real metrics, not twisted “numbers” and how “they” compute the numbers to fit their agenda.
No more trying to talk to these people, show them at the ballot box!
100%
One picture of seriously needing help I can't forget is the fella laying on the sidewalk by the ballet school barefoot and black toe hands up in claws. It breaks me heart that "do gooders" let him get to that point. Along with letting him be seen like that by a child.
That picture breaks my heart too. And that picture is the definition of compassion for these "leaders" in this county. Did they reach out to help him? He got his clean needles or clean meth pipes or maybe doses of narcan and what we see is now mental health issues. Just keep doing the same thing over and over and keep the grant dollars flowing in and the jobs of those grants which claim to help these people. Pictures do speak a thousand words.
Ruin the the city and clallam county and the environment .
I don't consider aiding and abetting a treatment.Giving addicts synthetic drugs is just a prolonged way for clinics to make more $$$ this is why clinics do it, just follow the $$$ and ad it up.