AUGUST 11, 1978 PAGE 5
National Indian
News Briefs
WASHINGTON GOVERNOR CALLS INDIAN DEMAND
‘IMPOSSIBLE’:
Governor Dixy Lee Ray of Washington says some Indian tribes
are making “impossible” demands when it comes to fishing and
water rights in the Pacific Northwest. “They want control of
everything affecting the environment of fish,” she told the United
Press International in Spokane.
The Governor said she is having a difficult time finding out what
treaty Indian tribes are asking, but that tribal demands are
“extensive.” She defended her recent statement that Congress should
renegotiate century-old treaties with Indian tribes by declaring that
“times have changed.”
SCHOLAR INTERPRETS ‘Walk’ AS ASSAULT ON TRIBAL
GOVERNMENTS:
A commentary on “The Longest Walk,” written by Wilcomb E.
Washburn, author of The Indian in America and director of the Office
of American Studies at the Smithsonian Institution, was published in
the New York Times on July 20.
Washburn asserted that “Walk” leaders used Indian opposition
to the anti-Indian legislation “to promote the cause of one element of
Indian people, those opposed to established tribal government,
against another, those elected to represent Indian people through
such governments.”
Washburn attributed the “carefully constructed spiritual,
religious, educational, and non-violent character” of the “Walk” to
the “increased sophistication of AIM leaders, particularly of Dennis
Banks who conceived the idea.” Washburn, referring to the elevation
of Russell Means and other AIM leaders “to the status of statesmen
dealing directly with the President and his top advisers” said that the
“Federal Government has once more demonstrated that it is more
concerned with the feelings of its enemies than of its friends.”
Washburn concluded: While asserting the needs for Indian people
to control their own destiny, the radicals have undermined Indian
sovereignty as it had been shaped and expanded in recent decades by
the Supreme Court, and by the Executive and Legislative branches of
government. That churches, well-wishers, and the Federal Govern
ment have allowed themselves to share in this assault demonstrates
not only a failure of will, but an absence of intelligence.
TOE NESS. ’
THERE WAS THIS POLLOCK who really wanted to go back to
his home country of Poland, but he just didn’t have the money. One
day he saw this ad in the paper which read, “Crews for Poland, $35.
Departs tomorrow.”
He packs some clothes the next morning and rushes down to the
dock. The Captain asks him aboard and said, “You are the first to
come.” The Captain gives him $35. and takes him below. There was
this long row of seats bn each side of the boat. Thé Captain seats him
and shackles his feet to the floor and his hands to an oar. Finally all
the seats were filled and a guy starts to beat a drum and yells at all
the guys to keep in rhythm with the beat.
Finally they reach Poland where they were unshackled and set
free. As they were leaving, the Captain was standing by the plank.
The first Pollock asked the second, “Are we supposed to tip the
Captain?” The second said, “I don’t know, I’ve never been on a
cruise before.” YIKES
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HERB DECIDED TO PLANT some shade trees in front of his
house. He goes to the store and buys some trees, reads the directions
carefuly and digs a hole in his yard, puts in a tree, packs some dirt
around it, sprinkles fertilizer around it and waters it.
Herb then goes to his neighbor Larry’s yard, digs a hole, starts to
put a tree in when Larry peeks out of the window and sees what Herb
is doing. Larry runs out and asks Herb, “What the heck you doing?”
Herb said, “I’m planting trees, the instruction say to plant the trees
one yard apart.” YIKES
SS SS SS
THERE WAS THIS AGING beauty who asked her old boy friend,
“Do you think I look younger when I don’t wear mÿ BRA?” Her boy
friend looked at her for a while and said, “I’ll have to agree with you,
it’s drawn all the wrinkles out of your face.” YIKES
SS ss ss
A DRUNK WAS HECKLING a Minister by saying, “Do you
believe that St. Peter beard the rooster crow three times?” The
minister said, “I’ll ask him when I go to heaven.” Ah! said, the
drunkj “What if he is not there?” “Well, if he is not there, you can
ask him.” YIKES
Tonasket Running For U.S. Congress
(From the BIA office of Information)
Mel Tonasket, a member of the Colville Business Council and former president of the National
Congress of American Indians,has announced that he plans to seek a seat in the United States House of
Representatives as the member for the 5th District of the State of Washington.
Tonasket, who will run as an independent, said in a Yakima Nation Review interview, “My primary
objective is to beat (Rep. Tom) Foley,” the incumbent. Tonasket said Foley “has totally lost interest in
Indians — he never had it. He did support six Colville termination bills. There’s no doubt he doesn’t like
Indians.”
The 5th District runs vertically along the Washington-Idaho border and embraces 13 complete
counties and a portion of another. Urban areas in the district include Spokane, Walla Walla, Clarkston,
and part of the Tri-Cities. The Colville, Spokane and Kalispel Reservations are within the district.
New Forest Manager To
Transfer From Hoopa
Two men who have shared
the job of acting forest manager
since Gunther Heeren left his
B.I.A. post in April were passed
up for the top spot in favor of thè
forest manager on the Hoopa
Reservation in California.
Ken Engelbretson will start
work on August 28, at the height
of logging and fire seasons.
than within a particular depart
ment.
Engelbretson and his wife,
who is Indian, will occupy a
government home on the camp
us. The Superintendent’s re
quirement that the forest mana
ger live on the reservation for
fire protection purposes was a
problem for some of the appli
cants who had money tied up in
The Superintendent’s office personal homes.
said that Bob Bolton and Bill
As assistant manager and
Apgar were two of four appli manager of the Hoopa forest
cants considered for the job, but lands since 1963, Engelbretson
that despite their familiarity oversaw an annual allowable cut
with the reservation’s forest, of 50 million board feet and
new blood might enhance the about 25 permanent and tempo
working relationship between rary employees, as compared
the Bureau and the Tribes, the with Warm Springs’ 81 million
mill, and loggers in manage board feet and 65 employees.
ment of the vital resource.
A spokesman for the super
Apgar also noted that the intendent said that Engelbretson
B.I.A. has a certain fondness for has the “experience and techni
transfers, meaning that an em cal know-how” required but also
ployee is more likely to be pro the diplomatic skills to enforce
moted to another reservation regulations effectively.
It will not be an easy time
for a new forest manager to
start, noted Apgar. Not only will
logging be in full swing and
forest fire hazard at its peak,
but most of Engelbretson’s em
ployees will be out in the field.
Bolton and Apgar held the
management post in alternating
months, giving each of them the
opportunity to keep up with their
own jobs in timber sale admini
stration and timber manage
ment, respectively. Their agreed
policy during the interim was
“continuity of direction,” said
Bolton.
They are both philosophical
about the selection of a mana
ger. Since Apgar worked with
Engelbretson at Hoopa for sev
eral years, he is optimistic about
the new arrangement. He ex
pects no major policy changes
but warned, “If you’re looking
for another Gunther, don’t.”
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WHEN YOU SEE a married couple out for a walk, if one is two
steps ahead of the other, that’s the one who is mad. YIKES
OUIZ
ANSWERS ON PAGE 10
1. In what year did the
Kah-Nee-Ta lodge and conven
tion center open?
2. The Tribes bought a pri
vately-owned saw mill on the
reservation. What year was
that?
3. In the 1800’s the Warm
Springs Scouts were organized.
What year did they scout the
Modoc war? Was it 1869, 1885 or
1873?
4. In what year was the first
boarding school established in
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