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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
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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
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Indian News Notes
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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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