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AUGUST 1, 2023
Smoke Signals
Audit finds mismanagement
at Chemawa Indian School
CONFEDERATED TRIBES OF GRAND RONDE
OFFICIAL BALLOT
TRIBAL COUNCIL ELECTION
SEPTEMBER 9, 2023
01
MATTHEW
ADVISORY
QUESTIONS
QUESTION #1
Vote For No More Than One (1)
Should the Tribe change the current
enrollment requirements?
YES
CHRISTOPHER G.
MERCIER
NO
SAMPLE
SAMPLE
HALLER
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Vote For No More Than Three (3)
.
QUESTION #2
Vote For No More Than One (1)
Do you support the Tribe moving
towards Lineal Descendancy for
enrollment?
YES
NO
QUESTION #3
SAMPLE
CANDIDATES FOR
TRIBAL COUNCIL
pointing to your choice like this:
SAMPLE
SAMPLE
TO VOTE: Complete the arrow
BAILEY
LISA MARLENE
NO
QUESTION #4
Vote For No More Than One (1)
Do you support repealing and replacing
the 1999 Constitution Amendment
requirements including: parent on the
roll at the time of application, parent on
the roll at time of birth and the Indian
blood tied to the Restoration Roll
ancestor requirement?
YES
NO
QUESTION #5
Vote For No More Than One (1)
What Constitutional Amendment
Election would be your top choice for
Tribal Council to pursue next?
Lineal Descendancy
SAMPLE
SAMPLE
LENO
YES
SAMPLE
CHRISTOPHER
Do you support the Tribe in moving
towards 4/4 blood quantum applied to a
specific roll or date for enrollment?
4/4 Blood Quantum
Repealing and Replacing the 1999
Constitution Amendment requirements
including: parent on the roll at the time
of application, parent on the roll at time
of birth, and the Indian blood tied to the
Restoration Roll ancestor requirement.
None of the Above
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LANGLEY
SAMPLE
MICHAEL A.
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SAMPLE
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VERONICA
MONTANO
SAMPLE
Vote For No More Than One (1)
SALEM – An audit released Tuesday, July 18, by the U.S. Department of
the Interior’s Office of Inspector General found poor accounting practices
and oversight at Oregon’s only federally-run boarding school, Chemawa
Indian School in Salem.
The audit, requested by Oregon Sens. Ron Wyden and Jeff Merkley,
is titled “The Chemawa Indian School Did Not Account for Its Financial
Resources, and the Bureau of Indian Education Did Not Provide Financial
Oversight.”
The audit found problems with how Chemawa administrators managed
an almost $600,000 fund in its Student Enterprise Account, a bank the
school operated to safeguard money that belongs to individual students.
The audit identified money missing from student accounts, including a
$319,000 shortage in the school’s accounting records compared to $219,000
in bank statements.
The audit also looked at a $2.2 million sample of Chemawa’s spending
of government funding over a two-year period and labeled more than 25
percent of that spending “inappropriate and potentially wasteful.”
Bureau of Indian Education Director Tony Dearman concurred with
almost all of the inspector general’s 26 recommendations.
“This new report confirms the worst fears of anybody advocating for
Tribal students at the Chemawa School to be well educated and well cared
for by the adults entrusted with these young lives,” Wyden said about the
audit’s findings.
He added that he will continue pressing for fixes at Chemawa Indian
School.
Includes information from Oregon Public Broadcasting
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