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r i More News from Inclín Country Pgge 9 Spily^y Tymoo July 27, 2011 Recond salmon ran at Kenai River ANCHORAGE, Alaska (AP) - An astonishing number of red salmon were counted in the Kenai River to the delight of dipnetters who were hauling them in two and three at a time. On one Sunday, 230,600 salm on— nearly all o f them reds— passed the sonar counter 19 m iles upstream from the mouth of the river. Those are the fish that got past the commercial nets, the dipnetters and the rod-and-reel fishermen in the lower river. “It was unbelievable. I’ve heard stories but I never ex pected anything like this,” Chuck Pratt, 46, who works as a fish biologist at the Fort Richardson hatchery, said. “People were getting doubles and triples,” Pratt said. “I had a trip le, three doubles and a single” in a short time span. A noth er large batch o f salmon was counted midday the following day, with about 73,000 salmon reaching the counter, compared with 79,000 by that time the previous Sunday. Fishery managers estimated Crittenden tops Soap in Cherokee race O KLAH O M A CITY (AP) — While a new election has been ordered in the close and hard-fought race for p rin cip al c h ie f of Oklahoma’s largest American Indian tribe, one thing is cer tain: If incumbent Cherokee Nation C hief Chad Smith wins another term, he won’t serve with his running mate. Tribal councilman S. Joe Crittenden defeated Smith's running mate, Chris Soap, in a ru n o ff for the deputy c h ie f’s post, according to vote totals the tribal election commission certified Sunday. Crittenden received 6,478 votes, or 53.2 percent, while Soap, received 5,706 votes. C ritten d en lik ely w ill serve for a time as interim principal chief because the tribal Suprem e Court has ordered a new election be tween Smith and longtime tribal councilman Bill John Baker and it's unlikely to be held before Sm ith's term ends Aug. 14. The court or dered the new election after four vote counts in the prin cipal ch ief’s election each yielded different results. Soap, the stepson of the late, legen d ary C herokee C h ief Wilma Mankiller, led a four-can- didate field during the original Ju ne 25 election for deputy chief with about 47 percent of the vote. Crittenden received only about 36 percent, but the other two candidates in the race, Callie Hathcoat and Raymond Vann, endorsed him in the run off, as did Baker, who cam paigned without a running mate during.the general election. Baker celebrated Crittenden’s victory in the runoff and used it to take another swipe at Smith as the two look ahead to the principal chief’s election. “I think Joe’s win... further proves that Cherokees are ready to take our nation from good to great,” Baker said in a state ment. “As Soap ran hand-in- hand with Chad Smith I think this is yet another blow to Smith’s attempt to hang onto power for a fourth term.” Soap acknowledged “the vot ers have chosen a different di rection for the Cherokee Na tion” and said he respected that decision. “The future of our people is far more important than any one election,” Soap said in a statement. “There is no doubt that we are facing a difficult time in the history of our nation. But we have endured difficult times be fore, and we have p re vailed.” The most recent recount in the tribe’s election for prin cipal chief put Smith ahead by four votes. But the tribal Supreme Court threw out that election’s results Thurs day, saying it was impossible to determine with a math ematical certainty which can didate won. Smith is respon sible for setting the date of the new election, but hasn’t yet done so. Tribal Attorney General Diane Hammons said in an opinion dated Friday with a new election unlikely to be held before Sm ith’s third term ends, the office will becom e em pty and the deputy chief will serve as principal chief until a new one is installed. that less than a third of the num ber of salmon expected to make it into the riv er had com e through by late that day. “There are going to be plenty more good days of dipnetting to come,” Pat Shields, acting area management biologist for Upper Cook Inlet commercial fisheries, said. Navajo casinos exempt from reservation tobacco ban W IND OW ROCK, A riz. (AP) — Navajo Nation lawmak ers have voted to prohibit smok ing in public places on the vast reservation with an exemption for tribal casinos. But Navajo Nation President Ben Shelly has said the measure doesn’t go far enough to pro tect the health of tribal mem bers. The Tribal Council voted 14- 5 in favor .of the measure last week during its summer session in Window Rock. Under the bill, tribal lawmak ers can reconsider the casino exemption once gaming officials pay off their financing debts. The bill now heads to Shelly for his consideration. Tulalips unhappy with Microsoft project name TULALIP, Wash. (AP) - Washington’s Tulalip Tribes are unhappy that M icrosoft has decided to use their name as the internal label for a new social media project. Tribal officials are discussing the issue with company officials, and Microsoft Corp. said the name was never intended to leak outside the Redmond software company. “Tulalip is an internal project code name for the online site Socl.com, which is an internal design project from one o f Microsoft’s research teams that was mistakenly published to the Web,” a Microsoft spokesman said in an email to The Daily Herald. “We have no more in formation at this time.” Democratic state Rep. John McCoy, a Tulalip tribal member, heard that some Microsoft em ployees involved in the project live on or near the Tulalip res ervation. “By all accounts, it’s an in ternal project at Microsoft and not a public thing. But in reality they should not have named it Tulalip,” McCoy said. “I have no idea what our tribal officials plan to do, but techn ically these Microsoft employees infringed on the Tulalip name.” John Echohawk, the execu tive d irecto r o f the N ative American Rights Fund, agrees. The Colorado-based nonprofit law firm he oversees is dedicated to d efen d in g the righ ts o f American Indian tribes and in dividuals. “It’s really a matter of com mon courtesy, not to say any thin g o f the le g a litie s,” Echohawk said. “It’s the tribes’ name and nobody should run off and use the name without permission.” McCoy laughed when a re porter floated the idea of a new casino game called “Microsoft.” “Well, they take plenty of people to court over intellectual property rights,” McCoy said. Last week, bloggers from around the world speculated that perhaps M icro so ft launched “Tulalip” as a social net working service to compete with Facebook and Google+. The intro ducto ry page at Socl.com said, “With Tulalip, you can Find what you want and Share what you know easier than ever.” Spring Chinook quota nearly met on Imnaha River (AP) — The state of Oregon last week ordered an emergency closure of fishing of spring Chi nook on the Imnaha River. The Oregon Department of Fish and Wildlife ordered the closure to go into effect at sun down last Saturday. The C hinook quota was nearly met the previous week- end, as a four-fish bag limit was put in place to make up for poor fishing conditions earlier in the season. Claims Filing Assistance in the $760 million Keepseagle Indian Farmer/Rancher Settlement DATE: August 2-3,2011 TIME: Between 9:00 a.m. • 5:00 p.m. DATE: August 5-6,2011 TIME: Between 9:00 a.m. - 5:00 p.m. LOCATION: Klamath Tribes 501 Chiloquin Blvd. Chiloquin, OR LOCATION: Confederated Tribes of Warm Springs 1233 Veterans Street Warm Springs, OR What is this About? The class action settles claims that the USDA discriminated against Native American farmers and ranchers see king farm loans or loan servicing. Who is Included? The Settlement includes: • Native American farmers who: o Farmed or ranched (or attempted to) any time from 1981 to late 1999. , o Tried to get a farm loan or loan servicing from the USDA. o Complained about discrimination to the USDA either directly or through a representative. • Heirs of the above. How Much Money Can I Get? You may be eligible fora payment of up to $50,000 or more and full or partial loan forgiveness. To receive a payment, you must file a claim by December 27.2011 To get help in filing a claim, attend a meeting or call: 1-888-233-5506 or visit: www.lndianFarmClass.com
