'The reasons are not justified, none of them. Laura Wass with the American Indian Movement says disenrollments are happening across California, thinning the tribe so fewer families can get a bigger piece of the jackpot.
The family is among more than 70 that will appear before the tribal council later this week, at the Dry Creek Rancheria headquarters in Santa Rosa. They said it's confidential, and they can't talk about it.
KPIX 5 asked Dry Creek's board of directors why. The Cordova's are getting kicked out of their own tribe through a process called disenrollment. 'They have no reason to go after our children! For what? It's just money and greed, that's all,' said Cody Cordova. The entire Cordova family could get wiped off the tribal rolls.
Now her brother, her cousins and all their children received letters.