Spilyay Tymoo
September 21,1979
Page 5
Indian News Notes
by Vince Lovett
of The Bureau of Indian Affairs
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TANK TOTING—Land Operations personnel Dean Elliot, Lester Poitras, M ike M arcotte,and
Ray Welch, maneuver a 5,000-gallon water tank close to the water pump on Miller Flat. The tank
and pumphouse, which is under construction, are located about one mile west of Joyce Quinn's
house next to the highway.
Spilyay Tymoo Photo by Stwyer
Water project awaits funding
Five troughs and pipeline to Miller Flat area was quite the
be installed on Miller Flat for o p p o site of the M u tto n
cattle are waiting for the next Mountains, which has the
fiscal year to begin (October 1) water but not grass. This past
when more funds become sum m er 250 horses were
available. A 5,000 gallon water rounded up and removed from
tank and pump have already the range.
been set up and the pumphouse
The need for watering places
is under construction.
was recognized after a rabbit
The troughs will be set up bruch spraying project was
throughout Miller Flat, where, completed. A good kill on the
according to Mike Marcotte, brush allowed the grass to
Range Conservationist, there is come up better and faster. And
not enough watering places and now, the grass is there but not
plenty of good grass. Miller cattle. Marcotte said that there
Flat is one of the best grazing probably won’t be any cattle up
areas on the reservation, he there until next spring.
said. But the twq watering
The range conservationist
places are about five miles isn’t sure when the troughs and
apart and the cattle won't stay pipeline will be put in because
and graze where the water is the chore of drafting up a
not available.
contract to see who will install
Marcotte noted that the them has to be completed yet.
He also has to determine where
the pipeline and troughs will
go. “Hopefully, this fall we’ll go
in and start laying some
pipeline,” M arcotte said.
Three of the troughs will be
for the immediate future and
two will be installed at a later
date.
M arcotte says that by
installing a pipeline fencing
could be prevented. “You can
control to which trough will
have water,” he said. “Instead
of fencing you can just turn
valves.”
Next year. Land Operations
will be burning sagebrush on
the eastern side of Miller Flat.
Burning is cheaper than
s p r a y in g , a c c o r d in g to
Marcotte. Spraying is only
done on places with good grass,
that way it will minimize on
seed, he added.
Wade president of Indian arts school
Jon C. Wade, an enrolled Assistance for the Bureau of
member of the Santee Sioux Indian Affairs since 1975. He
Tribe, has been appointed had previously been Superin
President of the Institute of tendent of the Phoenix Indian
American Indian Arts (IAIA) S c h o o l a n d e d u c a t i o n
at Sante Fe, New Mexico, assistance officer for the BIA’s
Acting Deputy Commissioner Aberdeen, South Dakota area
of Indian Affairs Sidney Mills office.
The art institute, started in
announced.
Wade has been director of 1962, is a post-secondary
the division of Education school serving Indians from all
tribes.
Wade, 40, completed course
requirements for a Ph.D. in
Educational Administration at
the University of Minnesota in
1971. He received a Bachelor of
Science in mathematics at
Northern State College, South
Dakota and a Master of Arts
from the University of South
Dakota.
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THE SHIP WAS GOING TO LAND the next morning so many
of the passangers spent a lot of time in the bar. After some time
had passed one of the guys mistakingly embraced a strange
woman. He apologized by saying, “Excuse me, I thought you were
my wife.” “What a fine husband you must be, you stupid, drunken
sot,” said the angry lady.
“There, you see?” said the drunk, “ you even talk like my
wife.” YIKES
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THERE WERE THESE TWO LADIES talking one day and the
first said, “You know, I was awakend by a man crawling in my
bedroom window.” Second lady said, “Good heavens, did you
scream?” First lady: “What, and wake my room mate.”/ YIKES
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SIXTEEN TONS OF ILLEGALLY SOI<D SALMON FROM
HOOPA RESERVATION CONFISCATED:
Interior Secretary Cecil Andrus said September 6 that Fish and
Wildlife Service agents had confiscated almost 16 tons of Chinook
salmon believed to have come from the Hoopa Valley Indian
Reservation in northern California where subsistence fishing is
allowed, but commercial fishing has been prohibited this year.
The seizures began on August 13. in Reno, Nevada, when David
G. Patterson of Klamath, California allegedly sold 1,000 pounds
of salmon to a U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service undercover agent. In
three subsequent actions almost 12 tons were confiscated in San
Francisco and Eureka, California.
On August 31, Service agents arrested Patterson, Ronald
Webster and his wife, both of Klamath, after they allegedly sold
more than 6,700 pounds of salmon to another undercover agent in
Reno. The three individuals will be arraigned September 13 in
U.S. District Court in Reno.
Secretary Andrus said “Federal and State enforcement agents
have uncovered massive, illegal operations involving fish from the
Klamath—an activity which in conjunction with heavy ocean
fishing threatens not only future runs of the species, but the future
livelihood of both Indian and non-Indian commercial and sport
fishermen.” Andrus added, however, that efforts to crack down
on illegal sales of fish from the river “will bear little fruit in the
long run if commercial offshore take was 150 tons greater this year
than the previous year.
Fish and Wildlife officials said they expect additional arrests
and apprehensions to be made in as many as five states in the near
future.
BARLOW SAYS LAW WILL BRING RADICAL CHANGES
IN INDIAN EDUCATION:
The BIA’s Director of Indian Education Programs, Earl
Barlow, said that the control of BI A school programs is being
transferred to Indian people under a new law being implemented
this fall.
Barlow, interviewed for the Denver Post, said that the Indian
Basic Education Act will cause radical changes in Indian
education. Administrative control of the BI A schools, he said, will
be turned over to Indian school boards, “which will derive their
authority from tribal councils. We are just in the process of setting
up those boards now.”
Barlow said funding for the schools a . II now be based on
a weighted per-pupil formula designed to create an equitable
distribution of funds. Barlow said thè local school boards “will
determine how to spend the money—how much for curriculum,
teachers’ salaries, staff development and so on.”
For public schools serving Indian students, there is now a
requirement that the public schools, to be eligible for “impact aid”
funds, must work in concert with Indian tribes to develop policies
and procedures to meet the educational needs of Indian children.
This is the first time, Barlow noted, that strings have been
attached to these funds, and “there is some tension” among public
school educators as a result.
TR IBA L A T T O R N E Y S A S S E S S BO LD T CASE
DIMENSIONS:
Bob Johnson of the Indian Voice wrote: “Now that the dust has
settled around the U.S. Supreme Court’s upholding of Judge
George H. Boldt’s 50-50 decision on dividing the fish between
Indians and non-Indians, it is time to see exactly what we ended
up with on the Indian side.”
Johnson asked Alan Stay and Thomas Schlosser, attorneys for
the Small Tribes Organization of Western Washington, to assess
the gains the losses for Indians in the case. They listed the
following gains: 1) For the first time the fishing right has been
defined in way that the State of Washington cannot subvert;
2) This gives tribal governments a reason for functioning that is
linked to tribal economics and enforcement of the right among
their own fisherman;
3) The wealth that inheres to the salmon resources will be
redistributed now, with the Indians coming into their fair share as
spelled out in the treaties and upheld by the courts;
4) Alredy a lowered crime incidence is reported, and there is a
realistic alternative to alcoholism andunemployment through the
fishing industry and its related spinoffs.
Under losses the attorneys cited the possibility of future inter
tribal litigation because the court did not get into any allocation
plan for the equitable distribution of the Indians’share among the
different tribes.
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