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Haa maruawe,
My name is Kathryn Briner and I am Comanche. Specifically, I am a first-degree descendant of the Comanche Nation. This means that I am the child of an enrolled citizen of the Comanche Nation. We are from the Pewenofkit and the Mahseet families. I am also Kiowa and Apache. Thank you so much for taking the time to read this and considering a donation.
In 2019, I became the Director of the newly-established Comanche Nation Language Department. I am honored to have served our people in this position and to have facilitated classes and building the foundation for moving forward in our language journey together.
While the majority of this experience has been positive, as many of you know, I have faced extreme lateral violence in our community since the date of my hire and it has escalated in the last year. Tribal administration did nothing as my employer to stop the lateral violence. There are now multiple legal fronts that have to be sought to make this lateral violence stop. These include harassment, stalking, defamation of character, and violation of HR policies.
For example, the Vice-Chairman of the Comanche Nation has been unfairly targeting me due to my activism about language and our charter school and has attempted to silence me and ostracize me by the adoption of a tribal resolution that unfairly targets me in my role as a community language worker and my ability to make a living, in general. This resolution was passed (3-2) and no reason was given for the resolution nor was there any due process or notice given about the resolution. He has also communicated with potential employers to tell them that that I am committing ethnic fraud and a "Pretendian." This is simply not true. He has written extensively about decolonization of enrollment so for him to attack me in this way is totally non-sensical, hypocritical, and ugly. There is currently a petition taken out by a tribal citizen for signatures to recall the Vice-Chairman for multiple wrongdoings within the tribal government.
I have finally found a qualified attorney with the background to take on these battles which has been a struggle here in southwest Oklahoma.
I’m respectfully requesting your support for a legal fund in order to protect myself, my family, and my good name. All donations will go towards this fund.
Thank you to everyone who contributes, I deeply appreciate all of you and any and all support.
Thank you for your time,
Kathryn Pewenofkit Briner
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