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CHAR-KOOSTA
Newspaper of the Confederated Salish & Kootenai Tribes of the Flathead Indian Reservation
VOLUME 13 NUMBER 22
THE MONTH OF THE GEESE
Tribal Constitution to remain un-amended for now
The voter turn-out for the Feb. 23 secretarial election to amend the Tribal Constitution was so poor that the total of yes and no votes was academic.
The BIA, which was in charge of the balloting, announced Feb. 27 that "a total of 451 valid eligible votes were cast. . ."
The name Char-Koosta is derived from Chief Charlo's and Chief Koostatah's names. They were the Tribes' last traditional chiefs._
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A total of 680 voters had to cast ballots in order for the election to be validated according to federal law. The Feb. 23 effort was 229 votes shy of the goal.
Blame for the defeat of the amendments' passage was laid on a perceived lack of information and apathy.
A relatively few number of Tribal members attended a series of six district meetings sponsored by the Tribal Council to explain the issues. Those
who did attend expressed confusion and distrust about what the amendments proposed to accomplish.
As this is written, the Tribal Council hadn't taken any action about what they propose to do in the way of any second attempt to gain approval of what were described as "housekeeping measures" designed to streamline and modernize the 50-year-old Tribal Constitution.
Here's how you voted:
Total
AMENDMENT AAMENDMENT BAMEMDMENTCvoters
DISTRICTForAgainstForAgainstForAgainstBY District
Arlee36504343434286
Dixon52862762633
Elmo19222219202141
Hot springs6401036123347
Pablo14221422142236
Poison26504135482676
Ronan26452942294271
St. Ignatius27343030303061
TOTALS 1159291195254202242451
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Tribal Law and Order may run out of money
The Tribes' law enforcement and juvenile technician programs may run out of money at the end of June, three months before the end of the fiscal year.
Tribal vice-chairman Jim Steele, Arlee, blames the situation on the BIA's Flathead Agency for failing to "push hard enough for more money" for the
previously mentioned programs plus social services.
The Tribes contracts the three programs from the Bureau under the Indian Self-Determination Act, a ten-year-old law that encourages tribes to take over certain Bureau duties and the accompanying budgets. Contract (Concludes on page two)
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| Title | 1985-03-05 Char-Koosta News |
| Creator | Confederated Salish and Kootenai Tribes of the Flathead Reservation. |
| Subject | Salish Indians --Newspapers.; Kutenai Indians --Newspapers.; Pablo (Montana) --Newspapers.; Kootenai Indians |
| Description | Tribal Constitution to remain un-amended for now; Tribal law and order may run out of money; A few choice words about February from the Flathead Culture Committee; GA clients need to sign up now for new work program; Eye care program policy clarified; Turtle Lake center to be re-opened March 16 with celebration; What went on at the Arlee and Polson district meetings; Crisis Center effort re-organized, needs volunteers; How the personnel Office does its job; Advice and reminders for lakeshore dwellers; Educational Talent Search program serves local area; Applications sought for indian pre-engineering program; Morigeau meets with enginnering students; Swaney chosen for leadership program; Beneficiary responsibility; Spokane Tribe forms enterprise corporation; Major upset in Blood elections; Lakota Times editor featured in Wall Street Journal article; Fort Hall Council member ousted; Indian editor will receive citation from National Press Foundation; Water plans include recommendations for two reservations; Cadets at Indian Police Academy achieve new level in pre-training tests. |
| Publisher | Confederated Salish and Kootenai Tribes of the Flathead Indian Nation |
| Date Original | 1985-03-05 |
| Date Digital | 2008-02-10 |
| Type | text |
| Format | image/tiff |
| Resource Identifier | Y54000361 |
| Rights Management | Copyright (c) Salish and Kootenai Federated Tribes, all rights reserved. |
| Contributing Institution | Salish Kootenai College |
| Contributor | D'Arcy McNickle Library |
| Source | CSKT PN 4883.J6 C4 |
| Language | en |
| Relation | Vol., 13, No. 22 |
| Digitization Specifications | Digitized at the University of Montana Maureen and Mike Mansfield Library; Scanned as master TIFF using Bookeye 3 scanner at 400 ppi, 8 bit grayscale; Optical Character Recognition with Abbyy FineReader Corporate Edition; Derivatives created using Photoshop CS |
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