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SpilyayTymoo Warm Springs. Oregon Across the Wire Deer to head up gaming commission- MILWAl'KEE (Al')-A federal com mission that regulates llio 274 casinos und other gaming operation on I he nation's In dian reservations will he headed h) Wisconsin native Ada Deer. Deer, the currenl assistant Interior sec retary who heads the Bureau ol Indian Affairs, has been named by President Clinton to also serve as the interim chairwoman of the Na tional Indian Gaining Commission. Last month IX'cr announced her resigna tion as BIA chief but agreed to stay on the job until Clinton names her successor. At the commission. Deer replaces Harold Monteau, 43, the first American Indian to head a U.S. regulatory commission He re signed at the end of January afier a federal law maker criticized him for acting more like a cheerleader than a regulator. The commission, which has 3ft staff ' members and an annual budget of S2 5 mil lion, is responsible for oversight of all Indian ' gambling operations. The operations are lo cated on 1 82 Indian reservations in 28 states. The commission estimates that Indian gaining generates S4.4 billion each year. "It has provided a tremendous economic boost, reduced unemployment, reduced wel fare and increased the incomes ol employ ees." Deer said of Indian gaining The commission was created h the I'JKX federal law ili.it permits tubes, with slate approval, to conduct any form of gambling already allowed in the state in which Nicy are located As the chairwoman of the commission, Deer will have the power to approve casino contracts Two other commissioners, ap pointed by the Interior secretary, serve as advisers to the chairman Deer. 61. a Menominee Indian from Keshena. is the first woman to head the MIA One serious problem the commission faced was a lack of money and staff to peilorni its responsibilities, she said Its primary job is to ensure that tribal gaming operations comply w ith ihe I "X8 law. A recent repoit by the commission found violations of the law at 229 of the 274 Indian gaming establishments throughout Ihe coun try. The problems included backgroundchecks on employees, whether stale approval had been obtained for gambling activities, and w hether appropriate fees had been paid to the gaining commission. Being police officer in tiny Navajo town lonely, scary job- How will welfare reform affect Indians?- MAHNOMEN. Minn. (AP) For nearly ' a year, Lorraine DeGroat and her nine chil dren survived on the lips she made waiiressing at the Shooting Star Casino. They also had a subsidized home and food stamps, but it was the closest to inde pendence she had been in most of her 34 years. Then her car broke down. The divorced mother had no way to get to the casino 21 miles across the While Earth Reservation and was back on SI, 000 a month in govern ment assistance. DeGroat says she desperately wants to get off welfare but is not sure how to do it. Her mother was on welfare, and now her 17-year-old daughter is six months pregnant. : Who ultimately changes the system the state or her tribal government makes no differ ence, she says. The new federal welfare law that requires states to take overpublic assistance programs also allows tribal governments to take on ' welfare reform forthemselves. But will they? The challenge of overhauling welfare may ' ' beeven more daunting on sprawling, isolated "- reservations with few jobs for poor tribal . members with little education and no trans portation or child care. And there are risks. Tribes would be . required to meet the same federal guidelines as the state or face financial sanctions. , "Given our rate of unemployment, it's going to be very, very difficult, if not im possible, to put people to work as they exhaust their benefits from the welfare program," said Bobby Whitefeather, chairman of Ihe , Red Lake Band of Chippewa. So far, no tribal governments in Minne- sola have decided whether to develop their ( own welfare plans. The state has to submit a plan by July 1 ; tribes can jump in at any time. "For the life of me, I can't think of too many advantages (to tribes that administer welfare themselves)," said Sen. Don Samuelson, DFL-Brainerd, author of one of the welfare bills before the Legislature. If they do, part of the federal grant that would have gone to the state would go di rectly to the reservations. State officials say they don't know yet how much that would be, how exactly it would be distributed or even how many American Indians are on public assistance now. They also haven't decided if there would be money given to administer the grants. While the states have a welfare infrastructure in place offices, forms, clerks and other building blocks of bureaucracy tribal gov ernments do not. If unemployment is high enough, tribes might not have to cut people off welfare under the five-year lifetime limit in the fed eral law. Those with more than 1,000 mem bers are exempt if more than half are out of work. According to state figures, none of Minnesota's reservations qualify for the ex emption, although some tribes dispute the numbers. Of the 5,500 people living on the Red Lake reservation north of Bemidji, nearly 2,000 are unemployed, Whitefeather said. Many don't have cars to get to jobs. Even if they did, travel costs for the hour-plus com mute to most jobs would take a bite out of a $6-an-hour paycheck, he said. He fears that once stricter requirements kick in. members will move off reservations to seek jobs in metro areas. Stale plans being discussed would require people on welfare to be working or looking for jobs within six months. LuAnne Si. Clair sees no oiher way to get work than lo move off the White Earth reser vation where she has lived most of her life. The small cluster of subsidized homes w here her family and other low-income tribal members reside is surrounded by nothing but miles of snow, rusied-out abandoned cars and packs of does forauing for food. Without transportation, her tribe's Shooting Star Casino where there are plenty of jobs for members is another world away. "There ain't jobs around here. I've lived here 20 years and I can't gel work," said the single mother of five. If her benefits dry up, she said, she likely will move to Minneapolis to clean houses as she has done before. According to the Minnesota Department of Economic Security, several reservations in 1996 had double-digit unemployment rates. The stale as a whole had just 3.9 percent unemployed. Census figures from 1 990 also show wide disparity: American Indian men earned an average 515,327 annual salary, while white men earned $26,317. And among the 50,000 American Indians in Minnesota, nearly a quarter are on Aid lo Families with Dependent Children. Not all reservations have such bleak prospects. For some, casinos have brought jobs and hopes for greater self-sufficiency. Lee Cook of the Mille Lacs Band of Chippewa said only 200 of the 2,900 members living on the reservation are unemployed a number the tribe can take care of itself. "We have 10 times the job opportunities than omer'small Minnesota town's," Cook said. Gambling revenue from its two casinos Grand Casino Mille Lacs and Grand Casino Hinckley has allowed the tribe to build new roads and schools and attract businesses. The gambling money has prompted some resentment from state legislators considering a welfare overhaul: "They're making money hand over fist," said Sen. Dan Stevens, R Moka. "I think Congress' intent was for them to take care of their poor people." Stevens isn 't alone. The issue was brought to national attention recently when "60 Minutes" commentator Andy Rooney said during the show that tribes making money from casinos aren't doing enough to combat poverty. "Why don't the Indian casinos making hundreds of millions of tax-free dollars help theirown people?" he said, referring to Indians at the snowbound Standing Rock reservation in North Dakota. The 17 casinos in Minnesota generate about $3 billion annually in gambling revenue, mostly concentrated among the biggest, urban casinos: Mystic Lake, Prairie Island and Fond du Lac. Joe Day, executive director of the Indian Affairs Council, said gambling revenue is not a panacea for welfare woes. Individual American Indians, like whites, may fall into poverty regardless of their government's wealth. 'Welfare is set up for people who qualify based on whether or not they have the income,'" Day said. "It makes no difference whether oir not there is money being generated by a tribal government." KAVENTA. Art. (AIM Police in Kaycnia don'i like to admit it. but it lerrilles them to think of how Officer lloskie Gene died -his crumpled, beaten body left in the dirt like trash alongside the remote highway in the silent desert night Gene was the only cop on duty when he headed off alone lo a robbery call an hour away on the sprawling Navaio Indian reser vation I le kissed his girlfriend, and promised they would be together at the end of his shift. Soon after, he lost communication with Ihe dispatcher. Hours later, he was found siiangled amid broken beer bottles, his weapon and vehicle stolen. He died as he worked: alone. "Sometimes there might be one or two oilier (cops) out there." said Officer Martin Page, gesturing toward an endless horizon of red rock formations and valleys where radio talk crackles and dies. "That is, if ihey can hear you. When you're dealing with no backup, you're by yourself w herever you go. Thai's just the reality." This is Kaycnia. where five officers pa trol 4. 100 square miles of brutal poverty and uncompromising desert, w here headquarters is a worn-out trailer and the nearest hospital is an hour and a quarter if you speed. They are responsible for 15,270 people. In some ways, police in this dusty, one stop-sign town on the Arizona-Ulah border aren't unlike those inother rural, poor districts around Ihe nation, typically woiking alone and an hour or more from help should they need it. For Navaj i officers, however, the task is compounded by the reservation's horrifying host of social ills: unemployment, alcoholism, suicide and murder rates multiple times the national average. This scenario has been more than chal- i lenging for police here it has been deadly. In the past nine years, three officers were murdered on the job, one committed suicide and another was jailed for killing his wife. "They're just like walking on this emo tional roller-coaster," said Capt. Thomas Yazzie, who oversees criminal investiga tions at Kaycnia and Tuba City, another district about 75 miles west of here. "They get burned out. They are asked to do some- . thing that can't be done." ' No one disputes that lack of manpower is what killed Gene one cold night last January , It is also blamed lor the minders of Officers Andy llegay and Ko) Lee Stanley in Decem ber I9K7. To this day. officers fear driving alone down ihe dm roads in Monument Valley, where Stanley was attacked alter checking on a bonfire party Alter his distress calls lo the dispatcher disappeared in Ihe red-rock mountains. Stanley was forced by his youth fill assai Lints to radio Hegay, w ho w as neaiby. The two ollicers were then shot with their own weapons, shoved in Ihe back of a police vehicle and set ablae. "Kaycnia is more risky than other dis tricts," said Officer Calvin Lee Gishie, a stocky. 25-year-old who has come from an other district lo help out. "Like right now, we're the only ones out here " Slopping lo back up a stale Department of Public Safely officer on the highway. Gishie notes the other cop's state-of-the-art computer and radar system. His car has an antiquated radio. Many of the vehicles police rely on to traverse the district's rocky, dirt roads have 1 50,000 miles on them, or more. Officer Jim Tsosi's has a cracked windshield. The lights atop Gishie's spin but ihey don't light up. Because it takes so long for officers lo respond to calls, police say people often abandon the scene of fatal accidents and crimes. By the time an officer arrives at a domestic incident, the fighting may be long over and the victim no longer interested in pressing ihe case. Most people live in remote spots without paved roads, running water or telephones, forcing them lo find the rare neighbor with a cellular phone or actually drive to the police station if they need help. Often hours or days pass before police hear of a crime and are unable to gather evidence. And even when police do arrest people, there's nowhere to put them. The six jails around the 25,000-square-mile reservation can hold less than 60 sen tenced inmates; tribal police make 27,000 arrests each year. In some cases, inmates live in cells meant only for temporary holding. In most cases, they ere freed. "While they're coming in one door, people are being pushed out the other," said Police Chief Leonard Huller "There's really no consideration for what they've done There is just no room." The citizenry knows that the police arc overw helmed. The storeow ner w ho reported the robbery the night of Gene's murder still cries w hen asked about it ; others have blamed him for the killing. Things being what ihey are. ihey say. you shouldn't summon Ihe police unless it's a matter of life or death. "We know how incredibly stretched they arc, sometimes you have to w ail hours," said Lori Hood, w ho runs Kayenia's public health clinic. "But even if they do come, nothing will happen. Folks in town don't have a w hole lot of faith in the police department No one's afraid of the police." Navajo officers mirror their community Alcohol and drug abuse, divorce, domestic violence or suicide seem lo touch nearly every life, from Ihe dispatcher to Chief But ler, who has battled alcoholism and has been divorced three limes. Shortly before he was murdered. Gene shared his home with Officer Martin Page; both men had been having marital problems, and Page said Gene told him lhal his es tranged wife had run over his foot with her car. "He said to me, 'Man, w hat's going on?'" Page recalled. Compared to the national average, unem ployment is five times greater on the reserva tion, average income is three times lower, teen suicide is twice as high. Murder rates are as many as five times those of neighboring counties and several tunes the national aver age. More than 80 percent of all police calls involve alcohol. The drug is illegal on the reservation, leaving people who can't reach border stores to drink concoctions such as "ocean," a mixture of rubbing alcohol or hair spray mixed with water. All this ugliness takes place amid almost breathtaking beauty. For decades, filmmakers, photographers and commercial producers have come to Monument Valley for its huge blue skies, mighty red-rock mountains and sunsets that Montana lawmakers rule against Indians- transform the desert inio a serene orange moonscape "The isolation seems so lovely to me." said Tony Hillcrman. renowned author of 13 mystery novels about Nas ajo cops "Officers have complaints where someone sets on fire a ceremonial thing or something to get back at someone else It's not the kind of thing a Chicago cop would have lo deal with." But police say things have changed. "When I started in 1971. a lot of our lime was taken up with livestock being shot or windmill disputes." Butler said "Now in one w eek I've got two fatal accidents, one suicide and five people killed There are limes when you don't want lo go lo work anymore." When Gene died. Kayenia's officers cried out They felt isolated, they lold Butler, for gotten and unprotected. Since then, they have been promised a few more officers from the next graduating class. But no dramatic change is on the way. About 81) percent of the Navajo police department's money comes from the federal government, through the Bureau of Indian Affairs. In recent years, the tribe has asked for about $30 million a year, but has received only about $17 million. On Ihe one hand, BIA officials say. Congress has cut back on law enforcement funding everywhere; on the other, the tribe badly mismanages the money it gels. They note the tribe usually ends each year with about a million dollars in unspent funds. The Navajo can "make the necessary changes themselves," said Wilson Barber, who administers BIA funds for the Navajo Nation. "I think the focus on the dollars is being used as a crutch as to why they can't manage." Other BIA officials disagree. The tribe, they say, could use all it requests, and more. Either way, life for Kayenia cops isn't likely to change soon. "There isn't a lot of prestige in being a police officer in a traditional society. So you do it because you love it," said Tsosi. And Gene did, said Yazzie. "I went to his graduation and just con gratulated him. He said it was what he always wanted, to be a police officer," he said. "Despite all the problems, it was all he ever wanted to be." HELENA (AP) Bills allowing some school districts to give a hiring preference to 1 Indians and requiring the state to erase the word "squaw" from names of public prop- ' erty were killed by. lawmakers Friday. House members turned back efforts to bring the bills, each tabled by committees, to v the floor for debate by all representatives. '' Rep. Bill Whitehead, D-Wolf Point, said ' race played a role in the defeat of his hiring bill. "Race is an issue for some extremists in here," he said. "There's some people you're ": just never going to get to. Their constituents l: may be just like themand that's really scary." s In the 46-48 vote to iteav.e.Jiis.,bi, in Rep. Beverly Barnhart, D-Bozeman, said the proposal will provide Indian students with more role models. But Rep. Rick Jorc, R-Ronan, objected to extending a hiring preference to Indians who are not members of a tribe. That would give an advantage to applicants with very little Indian blood, he said. A bill requiring the state to find new names for geographic features and places with names that include "squaw" fared worse than Whitehead's measure. It was rejected by the House, 41-54. Rep. Diane Sands, D-Missoula, said her bill would remove an insulting term attached lo dozens of public sites around the state. Canadian, US fishermen meet in Vancouver- committee, all the opponents were Reoubli- Although most people may believe "squaw" can. All 35 Democrats and 1 1 Republicans refers an Indian woman, it also is slang for a voted for the bill. . Whitehead's bill would have applied only to those school districts at least partly within " Indian reservation boundaries. It permitted, but did not require, an advantage be given to an enrolled member of a tribe or a descendent of an enrolled member. The preference could be applied only when an Indian job applicant was equally ' qualified with a non-Indian applicant. Whitehead said the bill could help the ' unemployment problem on reservations, ' where the jobless rate is sometimes 80 per-' cent. Four schools in his district have 320 jobs and only 60 of them are held by Indians, ' he said. Having more Indians in teaching posi tions will show Indian children they can aspire to be more than manual laborers, he '' said. And, Whitehead added, "who better to teach Indian children?" Indian women's vagina, she said. Rep. Bob Ream, another Missoula Democrat, urged the bill be saved as a recog nition that the term is outdated and insulting to Indians. "Times have changed and we have to change with the times," he said. However, Rep. Shiell Anderson, R Livingston, saw no need for the bill. Most people do not consider the word derogatory and the public would continue to use the old familiar names even after they were changed, he said. Rep. Alvin Ellis Jr., R-Red Lodge, said, "This is nothing more or less than censor ship. "We have many terms that are place names that may not be politically correct," but changing such traditional labels would sacri fice some history of the state, he said. Sands replied, "This is not an issue of censorship, it's an issue of respect and honor of women and Native American people." VICTORIA, British Columbia (AP) Fishermen and processors from British Columbia and the United States will be getting together again Monday for talks aimed at ending the Pacific Salmon Treaty impasse. After a getting-to-know-you session in Portland, Ore., earlier this month, participants agreed to meet at a Vancouver hotel and continue talking. Those who work with the salmon have been asked to make progress where politi cians have failed. They're trying to come up with a deal for dividing the salmon that migrate along the Pacific coast. Little progress was reported at the Port land gathering, but participants left feeling hopeful. "I have to assume things are progressing positively because we're having another meeting said Ian Todd, executive sec retary to the Pacific Salmon Commission. Participants must report their progress by March 15 and decide whether this new, informal process is worth continuing. It will be at least the fourth attempt to solve the dispute over allocation provisions in the Pacific Salmon Treaty. In the latest round of negotiations, groups from British Columbia, Washington state, Oregon, Alaska and the American Indian tribes divided into groups representing the southern and northern fisheries. It was something of a concession on Canada's part. In the past, Canada has been able to use Washington stale and Oregon to gang up on Alaska. Without unanimous agreement of each American group, there can be no agreement. That has been Ihe snag in previous ne gotiations, because Alaska had little incentive to deal: Many of the fish, including those bound for Oregon and Washington state, are believed to pass by Alaska. That has led to concerns that negotiations may progress among southern fishery workers but stall in the north. But one official close to the Canadian side said there will be no agreement without the north. "Canada's position is we're looking for the full-meal deal," said the official, who asked not to be named. Under the treaty, fishermen in each country are supposed to catch only the salmon that spawn in their rivers. Canada says U.S. fishermen catch some six million Canadian fish, costing the Cana dian industry up to $70 million. The United States denies the allegations, and blames poor conservation on Canada's part. Gaming compacts subject to legislative ratification PHOENIX (AP) When Indian gaming compacts come up for renewal, they may be subject to legislative ratification under a law unanimously endorsed Friday by the Senate Finance Committee. The bill would allow the governor to Baby coho release subject of judge's order- PORTLAND, Ore. (AP) A federal judge has given the U.S. government and the states of Oregon and Washington 10 days to come up with another 1 million hatchery raised baby coho to release this spring in the Columbia River above Bonneville Dam. U.S. District Judge Malcolm Marsh issued a temporary restraining order February 20 telling government fishery agencies to report back to him with a plan or come up with an acceptable reason for not increasing the upriver coho releases. He scheduled a hearing for a preliminary injunction for 8:30 a.m. March 4. Marsh sided with four Columbia River Indian tribes that accused the federal gov ernment and the two states of violating a 1988 agreement that was an outgrowth of the landmark United States versus Oregon case that established the Indians' right to a fair share of the river's salmon runs. The tribes had said Ihe plans to release more than twice as many coho below Bonneville than above it violated the agree ment, known as the Columbia River Fish Management Plan, by failing to support fish runs in the upper portions of the river, where the Indians have their traditional fishing grounds. The Indians want nearly 9 million coho released above the dam. But representatives of the stale of Oregon said lhal, because of a shortage in brood stock, only about 7 5 million were available. They argued that specific numbers of coho weren't required under the plan. About 16 to 17 million hatchery coho are to be released below Bonneville Dam. Marsh noted that the Columbia River management plan was 10 years in the making and said that he does like anyone tinkering with it. He said the states had developed other fish programs in the lower Columbia that siphoned off a share of Ihe young coho at Ihe expense of the upriver releases. The temporary restraining order had been sought by the Yakama, Warm Springs, Umatilla and Nez Perce tribes, all of whom have treaty rights to Columbia River salmon. "The case is really about equity," said Rick Taylor, spokesman for the Columbia Inler-Tribal Fish Commission. "The tribes were asking only lhal the terms of the Co lumbia River Fish Management Plan me implemented." The shortage of brood slock is blamed on a cold-water virus and last year's heavy rams and floods. Most of I he coho would have lo be trucked upriver from hatcheries to be released at various points above Bonneville, the farthest downriver dam on the Columbia. Representatives of the Oregon IX-partmcnt of Fish and Wildlife weren't immediately available for comment. Books need to be returned . The Small Business Development Center has a concern to assist all ! community members with their li brary services, these books contain information for all individuals to uti . lize to their full potential. The Small i Business Center would greatly ap preciate the return of it's property books, so that other peopleparties ' could have an equal chance at view ing Entrepreneur criteria from the Small Business Development Cen ter library. If there's books being used on a daily basis by certain individuals, you are entitled to re-checkcontinue further use if preferable. The growing number of Native American Entrepreneurs are count ing on you. To reply on this subjectissue: Warm Springs Small Business Development Center 2107 Wasco Street PO Box 945 WarmSprinas, OR 97761 (541) 553-3592 553-3593 (fax) Comp. Plan Statement Continued from page 8 the needs. The one wc have on the about slock control and protecting Deschutes could be a backup water the river. And here, we're over here, system. I think a lot of our range ' building fences around the Meadows problems, wc could do a lot better on'' to put livestock where it's the head- our runoii....mi siock ponas. incy waters ol the Clackamas River. I would provide water protection, flood protection. A small culvert at CC since 1964. We have the same flood control system on the reservation. Our people in the community have not learned from '64. Wc'rcslill with the same thing. Wc look it over, nothing's changed, nothing's been done. Even after the first flood on Tcnino Creek, you think people would go down and clean out the culvert. But no, they waited until the water was running over the road and then they were putting their life at risk. Our open range policy, wc have a problems out on the range. Wc have people building fences on Clackamas Meadows to put li vestot k in there. We're defeating our whole purpose on the reservation by going against our own teaching. Wc just went lo battle on the John Day River think wc should stay out of the lim bcrand leave thatup to the wildlife to take care of that. Wc can look back at different areas where wildlife arc running. Wc have a lot of law en forcement on our w i Id 1 i fc. Wc need a better commitment from our people than what wc do have today because we're going to end up with zero be cause the sportsman arc not involved. The altitude has lo change among our people first before there's going to be a change with anybody. It has lo start with each other, one at a time. We're not going to have any wildlife pretty soon. Same with the river. We're losing. The whitcman is tell ing us whal wc should do. The whitcman is telling us how w e should runourrivcr. Wcown Shcrar's Bridge and they're telling us whal they want us to do down there. When we're ihe owners, wc should be idling the pub lic this is the way it's going to be and this is how we're going to run it. I'm afraid thai going into having a state park at Shcrar's, they could put stipulations on thai. Same thing with recovering Bear Springs up Ihcrc, wc need lo get that developed ourselves. Put it in the hands of the Tribes. Not let forestry tell us what we should do and we're not ready and all that. I think our people really have to work at what they have. Improve a lot more activi ties in our community. Attend more public meetings, district meetings. Our younger people under 35 have lo slarlcomingoul. Wccan'ldcpcndon grandma and grandpa. Some of these families don'l have that family leadership anymore. So ihey have to step out in action themselves lo bet ter the lifestyle in this community and make il a healthy environment for ihcir own children. They can'i expect the Tribe to do il forihcm. Wc have to do it." I.ylf Khoan continue negotiating gaming future compacts but would require ratification of the agree ments by the House and Senate. The measure (SB 1 1 77), sponsored by Sen. Scott Bundgaard, would take effect on Jan. 1 , 2003 the first year the original 10-year gaming compacts would begin coming up for renewal. Arizona originally began allowing casi nos on the reservations to give Indian econo mies a short-term boost and to help them attain self-sufficiency, the Glendale Repub lican said. He said future legislatures may want input on whethercasinos will be allowed to continue operation. People speaking on behalf of Indian com munities said the legislation undermined an initiative passed by voters in November. Proposition 201, which passed by a 64-to-36 percent margin, requires the governor to issue a gaining compact within 30 days of a request by any tribe that doesn't have a compact. The proposition was initiated by the Salt River Pima Indian Community after the gov ernor refused to enter into a compact with the community that is adjacent to southeastern Phoenix suburbs. "The Legislature is striking out large por tions of the statute before the ink is dry on initiative." said tribal spokesman Kevin Moran. Bundgaard disagreed. "I don't think this flies in the face of Proposition 201." he said. "People have the right to have a say in this through the Legis lature. We're interjecting the Legislature into the compact process." The Salt River tnhe sued the governor Wednesday after he offered the group a gam ing compact that contained limiting provi sions not in other compacts. It included a requirement thai any casino location be acceptable to the state Gaming Department. The tribe wants the same com pacts given to other Indian communities. The Arizona Supreme Court has agreed to hear arguments on the case next month Moran said the tribes are concerned thai this new legislative move could impact the lawsuit down the line. Bundgaard said that is why he included the delayed effective date, lo make sure Ihe Salt River community would not have the rules changed in midstream Moran said there are no guarantees that the disagreement be tween the governor and the tribe will be resolved b then.