1958-09-01 Char-Koosta News

              Loan Program Proving Very Successful
It is most satisfying to know that hrough all the loan applications processed through the Credit office that there would be such an outstanding improvement over a period of years in some of our loan clients. We have reviewed one in particular which we believe will be both interesting and enlightening to many of you.
In June, 1947 an application in the amount of $5,000 was approved for the purchase of 80 acres of land. The borrower has been working in farming all his life and because he and his father did not have sufficient land for the joint operation of farming, he wanted to expand and also be able to have some land of his own to farm. At that time, his total assets equaled $500.00 plus his crops totaling $175.00, and his income for the year totaled $1200.00.
Today, in reviewing a new application from the borrower, we find this: Total Assets, $37,375.00; Expenses $3,695.95, Bills and previous Loan, $4,585.00; Crops, 'Livestock and Per Capita Payments, Asset, $10,175.00 which is the total annual income. He is now planning to purchase more land.
Facts such as this cannot be presented everyday and some people who obtain loans cannot show such improvement due to poor management, crop failures, and no available lands in order to expand.
We know that due to the borrower's hard work and will to improve, the above improvement has been brought about.
In reviewing the Educational Loan Ap-Dlication that have been and are being rocessed through the Credit Office, we ¿oH that the students continuing in College have chosen varied fields of work in which to devote a major part of their lives.
We now have 23 loans from students who are going or have already completed their course of study. We have nine applications pending and which we hope to complete before the year is out.
The fields of study chosen by these applicants are as follows: 12 have chosen Teaching and 5 of these are also planning to be Athletic Coaches or Physical Education Instructors, 3 plan to be Registered Nurses, 3 have interest in Stenographic work, and we have applications for one of each of the following: Dietician, Chemistry, Electrician, Body and Fender, Civil Engineer, Child Leader and Development, Practical Nursing, Social Worker, Business Commercial, I.B.M. Operator, Barber, Attorney, Nuclear Physicist, and one undecided as to which vocation to select.
The Tribe, as a whole can justly be proud that more and more of our young people are wanting to seek higher educations and have chosen wisely the field in which they believe will be best suited to them.
Public Health Ordinance
BE IT ENACTED by the Tribal Council of the Confederated Salish and Kootenai Tribes, in special session this 14th day of August, 1958, THAT:
Any Indian residing on Tribal property who fails to keep the premises upon which they reside clean of debris or any Indian who is found depositing trash of any description upon Tribal property which is not designated as a dump ground area, shall be guUty of defacing Tribal
CHAR-KOOSTA
PUBLISHED BY CONFEDERATED SALISH AND KOOTENAI TRIBES, FLATHEAD AGENCY. MONT.
Vol. 3 — No. 11
September, 1958
National Indian Group Meets in Missoula
Over 250 Indians from all parts of the United States attended the 15th annual convention of the National Congress of American Indians in Missoula in September.
Joseph R. Garry, Plummer, Idaho, president, presided over the week-long sessions which included business meetings, several prominent speakers and religious services.
Climax of the meeting was an address at a banquet on Sept. 19 by Roger Ernest assistant secretary of the interior, the first secretarial representative to ever attend the annual meeting of the Congress.
Mr Ernst announced, the departments policy cf not terminating federal trusteeship until such termination need is clearly demonstrated, clearly understood by those involved and has the consent of the group affected. He pledged full federal responsibility to the Indian people.
Mr Garry was re-elected president at the closing session for the fifth time. Others elected were: Walter Wetzel, Pry-or, Blackfeet chairman, first vice president; Woodrow Wilson, Thomas, Okla., second vice president; Lester Oliver, Whiteriver, Ariz., third vice president; Frank George, Nespelem, Wash., Col-ville, secretary; John Rainier, Taos, N. M., Pueblo, treasurer. Helen L. Peterson, Washington, D. C, was re-appointed executive director.
Rev. Cornelius Byrne, S. J., St. Ignatius, also spoke at the Friday banquet urging the Indians to say no to the federal government until the time they had something to say yes to.
Religious programs during the week included special services at St. Francis Xavier church on Tuesday morning and
property, inducing a public health hazard on the premises and permitting the general appearance of the property to deteriorate. AND:
Upon conviction thereof shall be sentenced to labor for a period not exceed 10 days or shall be fined in an amount not exceeding $25.00, or both.
CERTIFICATE
The foregoing ordinnce was on August 14,1958, duly adopted by unanimous vote, by the Tribal Council of the Confederated Salish and Kootenai Tribes, pursuant to authority vested in it be Section 1(a) and (f) of the Constitution of the Tribes, ratified by the Tribes on October 4, 1935, and approved by the Secretary of the Interior on October 28, 1935, pursuant to Section 16 of the Act of June 13, 1934 (48 Stat. 984). This ordinance is effective as of the date of adoption.
Protestant services at the Methodist church on Thursday morning.
On Wednesday, the group heard Judge Lacy Maynor, Pembroke, N. C. who ur-ed the Indians to use the ballot, which he called the most powerful weapon of the 20th century; the Judge presided over the trial which involved Ku Klux Klan attempts to intimidate the Lumbee Indians in his state.
Other speakers Wednesday were Ash-ton Jones of Broadus, candidate for congress in Eastern Montana district who said the Crows should have received more for the Yellowtail dam site than the $2,500,000 recently authorized by congress.
On Tuesday, the Rep. Lee Metcalf, of Montanas western district was keynote speaker, and pledged war on the Bureau of Indian Affairs on behalf of Indian rights.
Gov. J. Hugo Aronson gave the welcome address Monday opening the conclave and LeRoy Anderson, eastern congressional district also spoke. Mr Garry gave his presidential address at the Monday evening session. He stressed the purpose of the meeting as consideration of the Indian's future.
Convention officials are: General chairman, Walter S. Wetzel of Browning, vice president of the Montana Inter-Tribal Policy Board and chairman of the Black-feet Tribal Council; arrangements and local hospitality chairman, Walter McDonald, president of the Montana Inter-Tribal Policy Board and chairman of the Confederated Salish and Kootenai Tribes.
Convention manager, Edward (Posie) Whiteman of Pryor, chairman of the Crow Tribal Council; assistant convention managers, Jay Morago jr., of Saca-ton, Ariz., governor of the Gila River Pima-Maricopa Community Council, and Walter Voorhees of Schurz, Nev., chairman of the Confederated Tribes of Nevada.
Convention hostess, Mrs Freda Beaz-)ey of Helena, secretary of the Montana Inter-Tribal Policy Board; Finance chairman, Stephen C. DeMers of Butte, treasurer and parliamentarian of the Montana Inter-Tribal Policy Board; director of consultation clinics for tribal groups during convention, William Zimmerman jr. of Washington D. C, former acting commissioner of India Affairs.
Publicity director, Jim Hayes of Tucson, Ariz, newspaperman and former American Friends Service Committee field worker in Arizona; in charge of tape recording, Elizabeth W. Morgan of Chicago, friend of NCAI, and registration director, Hilda Henderson Cragun of Washington, D. C, NCAI staff.