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News from Inchon Country Pgge 9 Spilyay Tyrooo February 8, 2012 Navajo teams up with lab on energy policy Telecom Dedication I f gm i FLAGSTAFF, Ariz. (A P ).-. The Navajo Nation has entered into an agreem ent with a na tional laboratory to study car bon capture, clean coal technol ogy and renewable energy on the vast reservation. The tribe signed the three- year agreement with Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory last week. Navajo President Ben Shelly says the reservation is rich with natural resources that could be researched by leading scientists and engineers, and developed for the benefit o f the tribe. Linder the agreem ent, the tribe and the laboratory also could look into power plant de sign, combustion and geother mal technologies, and energy security, among other things. The Navajo Nation is revis ing its energy policy. The reser vation has large deposits o f coal and uranium, along with poten tial for wind and solar energy but it historically hasn't been a major player in developing the resources. Sen. wants council on Alaska Native languages The Wasco Dancers perform at the dedication ceremony of the Warm Springs Telecom. Dave McMechan/Spilyay Objectors of Indian trust deal decry open letter H E L E N A , M ont, (AP) - class-action lawsuit named after Carol G ood Bear says she wor Elouise Cobell, the Blackfeet ries for her safety after the at w om an from M o n tan a w ho torneys who negotiated a $3.4 spent nearly 16 years trying to billion settlement over misspent hold the U.S. governm ent ac Native American land royalties c o u n tab le fo r m o re th an a published the phone numbers century’s worth o f mismanaged and addresses o f the four people Native American accounts. The plaintiffs’ attorneys are objecting to the deal. G ood Bear, o f New Town, led by Dennis Gingold o f Wash N.D., started receiving angry " ington, D.C. Gingold said Mon phone calls about a week ago, day that he was preparing for after the letter went out. She has oral arguments and could n ot since u n p lu g g e d h e r h o m e c o m m e n t o n th e le tte r. * - phone and started screening her Cobell died in October, just m onths after a federal judge cellphone calls. “To put my name out there approved the largest govern for the public, I think that’s scary m ent class-action settlement in that these attorneys would use U.S. history. U nder the settlement, $1.4 this tactic and intimidate me into dropping my appeal,” she said. billion would go to individual “I d o n ’t have p ro tectio n . I f Native American account hold somebody is upset about all this ers. Some $2 billion would be and comes at me with a gun, used by the government to buy up fractionated tribal lands from what am I supposed to do?” The attorneys who published individual owners willing to sell, the Jan. 20 open letter represent and then turn those lands over up to 500,000 plaintiffs in the to tribes. A nother $60 million SKYN STYLE (Located At Plaza next to Deli) Open 7 Days a week!!! 10am-6pm M-F 10-4 Sat & Sunday BLAZER TICKETS ARE BACK!!!!!! Stop by & Enter your name for a pair of Blazer tickets today! (See store for more details) Native Jewelry Southwest Jewelry Name Brand clothing Native T-shirts Cell Phones Name Brand shoes would be used for a scholarship fund for young Natives. The settlem ent took a year to push through Congress, then m onths for final judicial ap proval. After the settlement was approved, G ood Bear and three other people filed separate ob jections, each for different rea sons. Those appeals must be heard by a federal appeals court be fore any money from the settle m e n t c a n b e d is trib u te d , with the first scheduled to be heard Feb. 16. T h e p la in tiffs ’ a tto rn ey s w rote in their letter th at the “hopes and wishes o f 500,000 individual Indians” had been de layed by those four people. If it wasn't for them, the first pay ments would have been made before Thanksgiving, the letter said. “T here is little do u b t th at they do n ot share the desires or care ab o u t th e needs o f the class, o v er 99.9 p e rc e n t o f whom support a prom pt conclu sion to this long-running, acri m onious case,” the attorneys wrote; The letter went on to list the names, phone numbers and ad dresses o f G ood Bear; K im berly Craven o f Boulder, Co,; Charles Colom be o f Mission, S.D.; and M ary Lee Jo h n s o f Lincoln, Neb. The attorneys in vited people to “ask them di rectly about their motives” and cautioned them to “please be civil in your communications.” JUNEAU, Alaska (AP) _ A bill from state Sen. D o n n y Olson o f Nom e would help pre serve and revitalize the 20 N a tive languages o f Alaska Olson recommends in SB130 that the state create the Alaska Native Language Preservation Council, which would advise the g o v e rn o r on p ro g ram s and projects that will make the most o f resources available to Native groups. The bill was before the State A ffairs C om m ittee Tuesday. R epresentatives from N ative Tribal school district files complaint over alcohol inquiry BOISE (AP) J A school dis trict on the F ort Hall Indian Reservation says two o f its best basketball players were wrong fully accused o f consuming al c o h o l an d ask ed to tak e a Breathalyzer test before a game in Clark County. T h e S h o sh o n e-B an n o ck School District has filed a com p lain t w ith th e Id ah o H igh School Activities Association over the Jan. 13 in cid en t in Dubois. A th letic d ire c to r L yndon City of Sheboygan pursuing casino plan SHEBOYGAN, Wis. (AP) - The city o f Sheboygan is pur suing a casino d evelopm ent agreement with the owners o f the Blue H arbor Resort and the Sokaogon Chippewa tribe. C larem o n t N ew F ro n tie r R eso rt, th e S okaogon M ole Lake and the city would develop a casino near Lake Michigan in Sheboygan’s South Pier District. An off-reservation casino would need federal approval, which could be a lengthy process, A contract approved by the Redevelopm ent A uthority last week requires the tribe; resort owners and the city to reach a development agreement in 180 days. The city would sell land on the South Pier to Claremont for the casino. I f the project does not get federal approval, the city would have the option o f buy ing back the land. T he S okaogon C hippew a Community is a 1,200-member tribe w ith a reservation near Crandon. Olda. Gov. asks tribes to drop water rights suit OKLAHOM A CITY (AP) - Gov. M ary Fallin w ants two tribal leaders to dismiss their law suit against the state over tribal w ater rights in so u th eastern Oklahoma. Fallin last week sent a letter to C h ie f G reg Pyle o f th e Choctaw N ation and Gov. Bill A noatubby o f the Chickasaw Nation. Fallin asks them to dis miss their federal lawsuit and allow an ongoing mediation pro cess to resolve disputes between the state and the tribes. In exchange, Fallin says the state will not file a separate state court action to determ ine the groups and linguists voiced their support and called for lawmak ers to do what they can before time runs out. Lawrence Kaplan, a Native language professor at the Uni versity o f A laska Fairbanks, says teaching students from an early age and working fast while elderly Native speakers are alive is paramount to avoiding extinc tion o f languages. , T he bill was held pending further dialogue w ith N ative groups. extent o f tribal water rights in their historic territories. T he tribes said in statement they hope a resolution can be reached at the table. T he lawsuit asks a federal judge stop the state's plan to sell water storage rights to Sardis Lake to Oklahoma City. Smith says he intervened when Clark County Sheriff Bart May approached the two student ath letes with a Breathalyzer test, saying an audience member had reported they smelled o f alco hol. Smith says he felt the inter rogation o f the players, who are N ative A m erican, m ay have been racially motivated and the district is considering a civil rights complaint. The sheriff denies the claim, saying he acted ap propriately. Tribes object to mining bill HURLEY, Wis. (AP) - A fed eral agency says it’s looking into w h eth er W isconsin violated treaty rights by n o t consulting w ith tribal governm ents that m ight be affected by a state mining bill. T he B ureau o f Indian A f fairs says it’s co n ducting an inquiry after at least one tribal governm ent asked it to get in volved. The contentious mining bill would streamline the state’s com plex mine-permitting process. O fficials from the Lac du Flambeau, Red Cliff, Bad River and Menominee tribes claim the law m aking p ro c e ss ig n o re d treaty rights. Navajo Code Talker dies in Ariz. W IN D O W ROCK, A ri zona (AP) a A nother Navajo C ode T alk er has died. Thurm on Begay says his fa ther, Sgt. Jimmie Begay, died Wednesday after a fall. He was 86. Begay was one o f about 420 Navajos trained to trans mit messages in a code based on the then-unw ritten N a vajo language. T h e C ode Talkers sent thousands o f messages w ithout error on Japanese troop movements, battlefield tactics and other communications, helping to win World War II. Jimmie Begay enlisted in 1942 at age 17 and served in the 1 st Marine Division, 2nd Battahon. He eventually re turned to the Navajo reser vation and retired from the Navajo Forest Products In dustries in 1985. Neb. tribe’s computer co. wins $84M contract W INNEBAGO, Neb. (AP) - The Winnebago Tribe’s informa tion technology company has won an $84 million Air Force contract to provide support at Robins Air Force Base in G eor gia. Ho-Chunk Inc., which is the tribe’s economic developm ent unit, announced the new con tract for All Native Systems last Wednesday. Ho-Chunk C EO Lance M or gan says the company’s proven perform ance on past govern ment contracts helped it win this one. All Native Systems is an in form ation technology service provider that Ho-Chunk created in 2005. Ho-Chunk says it has 26 sub sidiaries and m ore than 1,400 employees in 10 states and five foreign countries.
