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January 19.1981 Page 5 a • ♦ / h ♦ a ♦ / • • Appointments made to Arts Commission A Hermiston resident has been appointed and a Portland resident reappointed to the Oregon Arts Commission. Gov. Vic Atiyeh appointed Doris Bounds, Hermiston, and reappointed R onna Pope, Portland. Both will serve four- year terms. Mrs. Bounds, who was a commission member from 1969-77, is chairman of the b o a rd an d s e n io r vice president. Inland Empire Bank, Hermiston. She will r e p la c e E lle n B a r to w , Prineville, whose term ends January 17, 1981. Mrs. Pope has served on the seven-member com m ission since her appointment January 18, 1977. She is chairman of the c o m m issio n ’s long range, planning committee. Commission duties include assisting and strengthening art programs and activities to promote board public benefit- and high artistic and scholarly standards recognizing and g iv in g o p p o r tu n itie s to individual O regon artists; encouraging private and local initiative and financial support for art; and stressing art education. Mrs. Bounds is a past directo r of the N ational Association of Bank Women, past treasurer and executive council member of the Oregon Bankers Association, and past director and treasurer of the In d e p e n d e n t B ankers of Oregon. She is an Oregon Arts Foundation director, member of the Oregon Lewis and Clark Trail Committee and the Governor’s Listening Post Advisory Board, a Pacific N orthw est Indian C enter Trustee, President of the Roger J. Bounds Indian Foundation, and a member of the Pendleton Round-Up Association and the Hermiston Development Corp. Mrs. Pope is chairperson of the collection and exhibition committee of the Portland Art Museum; a member of the board of Pacific Northwest magazine, a board member of the American Federation of the Arts, New York City, a past d ire c to r o f the O regon Symphony Board and past member of the Portland Dance Theater board, and a founder and co-chairperson of the Port Gam ble H istoric M useum Committee. Mrs. Pope is a member of the Board of Overseers, both of Lewis and Clark College, Portland. A graduate of Hermiston High School, Mrs. Bounds is a g ra d u a te o f S ta n fo rd University and holds a master of arts degree from Columbia University. A graduate of Foxcroft School, Middleburg, Va., and an honor graduate of Briarcliff College, Briarcliff Manor, N.Y. Mrs. Pope has also studied at Columbia and Portland State Universities. Indian concerns given high priority The American Indian Task Force of the Small Community and Rural Development Policy (SCRD) has focused its activity on four high priority concerns o f A m e r ic a n I n d i a n s , according to an updated report fro m D e p u ty A s s is ta n t Secretary Thomas Fredericks. As task force co-chairman, he identified the four concerns as (1) tribal consultation, (2). in fo rm a tio n system s, (3) Federal assistance manage ment systems (FAMS), and (4) housing. The Administration esta blished the Indian Task Force last A ugust to im prove coordination and delivery of Federal services to American Indians. In the area of trib al consultation, the task force is developing two plans. One will outline consultation practices for actions of the task fofce itself; the other will be an ongoing guideline for all Federal agencies that provide resources to American Indians. Second, the task force is p la n n in g to develop an information system to improve tribal access to data that will help tribes plan, budget, and o p e r a te p ro g ra m s m ore effectively. The third priority of the task force is implementing F A M S , a s y s te m f o r simplifying disbursing and accounting procedures of Federal funds delivered from a variety of federal programs to one organization. The Bureau has been a partner of the Office of Managment and Budget, the Department of the Treasury, and the General Accounting Office is developing FAMS. The Bureau will be the management agency for the four tribes and one inter-tribal organization partricipating in the pilot FAMS program, which is being tested during fical year 1981. Fourth, the task force is initiating actions in the area of Indian housing. It is reviewing the 1976 intergovernmental agreement among Housing and Urban Development, Indian Health Service, and the BI A, as well as exploring the feasibility of interagency effort to survey housing conditions with regard to energy consumption on reservation. No reduction of excise tax This year Pacific Northwest Bell customers won’t find the usual one percent reduction of the federal excise tax on telephone service on their bills. President Carter has signed legislation to keep the tax at the 1980 le v e l- tw o - p e r c e n t- through 1981. From the mid-1950’s until 1972, the excise tax was 10 percent on most local service TOE NESS “When I look at this congregation, I ask myself, where are the poor?” The preacher said, but when I look at the collection plate I say, “Where are the rich!” YIKES SS'SS SS SS and long distance calls. From 1973 through 1980 the rate was reduced one percentage point each year. The o rig in al legislation, passed in 1970, called for the entire tax to he repealed by January 1, 1982. Cocoa Meeting The next Central Oregon Council on- Aging Board of directors meeting will be held at 1:30 p.m. in the Redmond There was this office secretary who said to her boss, “Are you sure Extension Office located at 922 your wife knows that I’m coming home with you for dinner W. Highland, on January 15, tonight?” “I’ll say she does, this morning I argued with her for ,1981. As always, the public is about an hour about it.” YIKES invited. SS SS SS SS Indian News Notes vm*io«,,. WATT VOICES SUPPORT FOR TRIBAL SOVEREIGNTY; REAGAN'S STATEMENTS ON INDIANS: In a press conference December 24. Interior Secretary designate. James W att called the selection of an Assistant Interior Secretary for Indian Affairs a “high priority,” and voiced support for tribal sovereignty. The following day the Arizona Republic published an interview with Watt in which he said: “President-elect Reagan, during the campaign, issued a ringing affirmation of our national government’s obligation to Indian tribes, the tribe’s clear legal right in self-government, and the government-to-government relationship that exists between the United States and the tribes. He is. as he has said, 'opposed to the abrogation of Indian treaties and the termination of the unique relationship between the Federal government and the tribes.’ I enthusiastically support this position.” Watt told the Republic he will recommend that Reagan “promptly nominate an Assistant Secretary for Indian Affairs, after consultation with tribes.” The Republic reported that Watt’s statements were in reaction to a letter of opposition to his appointment as Interior secretarv that 176 Indians signed on December 17. Watt told the Arizona Republic he considers it “vital that an early start be made to créate jobs and improve the tribal economics, to remove bureaucratic barriers to Indian’s self-determination, and to strengthen the department’s accountability to the public, the Congress, and the tribes.” American Indian cultural heritages “are precious to the tribes, and to our nation,” he continued. “They must and will be respected. Working together, the Reagan administration and the tribes will set forth an agenda for action that is both practical and far-reaching.” INDIANS JOIN ENVIRONMENTALISTS IN OPPOSING WATT FOR INTERIOR JOB: American Indian leaders expressed opposition to the expected nomination of James C. Watt as Secretary of Interior. A telegram signed by 176 Indians, some of whom were reportedly meeting December 17 in San Diego, California, to plan further actions, was sent to President-elect Reagan. The telegram endorsed a letter sent to Reagan by Erica Clary, director of an Indian-owned consulting firm, in which she said Mr. Watt had taken several “anti-Indian actions” that raised doubt about his objectivity in serving as trustee of Indian interests as Secretary of the Interior. One ol those signing the telegram was delfin Lovato, director of the All Indian Pueblo Council and an out-spoken, pre-election Reagan supporter. Lovato told reporter Patricia Koza,“Wewant the President-elect to be aware of our concerns.” Environmentalists groups have also expressed opposition to Watt, the 42-year-old president of the Mountain States Legal Foundation, which is supported by oil and business interests and has filed scores of lawsuits supporting business over environment. Such groups as the Friends of the Earth, the Sierra Club and the Wilderness Society have announced their intention to fight the appointment of Watt. Watt’s organization filed an amicus curiae brief against the Jicarilla Apache tribe’s right to impose a severance tax on oil and gas taken from reservation lands. In brief. Watt and his associates argue for a very limited view of tribal sovereignty. They assert that the concept of representative government precludes unfettered tribal jurisdiction over non-members of the tribe. The brief argues that statements about Indian tribes “impute a degree of sovereignty to Indian tribes which, if carried to their logical extreme, will effectively create separate enclaves within this country that exercise all but a few of the attributes of statehood, but without the traditional safeguards to protect individuals from governmental excesses.” AMERICAN INDIAN INAUGURAL BALL IS FEATURE FOR 1981 NCAI ANNUAL MEETING: An American Indian Inaugural Balk January 20 will kick off the 1981 annual executive council meeting for the National Congress of American Indians, to be held January 21-23 in Washington, D.C. The first inaugural ball was held in 1977 because of the desire of local Indian groups to host a special event for the many American Indians who were participating in the inaugural activities for President Jimmy Carter. The ball was considered highly successful and was attended by many Indians and Alaska Natives. 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