EMILIO REYES

PO BOX 1670
NATIONAL CITY, CA 91951

Amy Dutschke
Regional Director

April 29, 2016

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Bureau of Indian Affairs

Pacific Regional Office
2800 Cottage Way
Sacramento, CA 95825

USPS CERTIFIED MAIL - 7015 1730 0001 5138 4419

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 Trasks as they are affiliated with another Tribe, Mesa Grande. Nevertheless, the
Bureau refused the challenge and enrolled the Trasks 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 Trasks 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 Trasks are not California Indians and your agency continues to accept the Trasks
as California Indians. My research has proven the Trasks have Mexican Indian ancestry from both sides
of the parents 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 its
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 BIAs
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