1974-07-01 Char-Koosta News

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Arlee: The annual Fourth of July Arlee Pow-Wow will be bigger and better this year!!!
For one thing, the flush toilet on the Pow-Wow ground will be in operating condition when the event starts July 2 according to Pow-Wow Committee Chairman Vic Matt. For another thing, the much reviled beer stand on the Pow-Wow grounds won't be working....thus assuring that the toilet will continue to work throughout the five days of Pow-Wow ac-
tivities.
The Tribal Council decided to nix the beer stand this year because, as one councilman put it, "It is more trouble than it is worth."   Quite a few old long-hairs and Indians with families have avoided the Arlee Pow-Wow since the beer stand was started six years ago because, as Bud Barnaby put it, "It just isn't the Indian way."
POW-WOW (Cont. on jpage 5)
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Volume 4 - Number 5    NEW MOON OF THE SARVICEBERRY    July 1,1974
Fed. Spokesman Advises        Frizzell Praises
Using Legal Channels
Ronan: Some 2,000 reservation settlers gathered at the Rc nan High School playing field to hear a high Nixon administration official talk about Indian-white relationships on the reservation.
Kent Frizzell, the Chief Solicitor for the Department of the Interior, told the gathering that friction on the reservation over water, jurisdiction and taxes could only be resolved through the established channels. Frizzell said that if non-tribal members feel they have a grievance, they should take their complaint to court or try to have the laws changed. He recommended that the two sides, the leadership of the organization Montanans Opposed to Discrimination (MOD) and the Tribal Council, attempt to meet and resolve some of the problems.
But several MOD leaders and other speakers at the gathering seemed to disagree with the moderate attitude proposed by Frizzell. Congressman Richard Shoup, a Republican seeking reelection in November, seemed to be telling the gathering what they wanted to hear. "The pendulum of discrimination," he said,"is swinging for Indians rather than against them." He also pointed out that Indians have one advocate in the federal government...that is Reid Chambers of the Department of Interior who attended the gathering with Frizzell...and asked "Where is the non-member advocate?"
Shoup, a two term representative of the western district of Montana, also criticized the semi-soveriegn nation principle in Indian law. He reminded the crowd of his efforts to squash reservation provisions in a Senate passed national planning act (SB2 6 8) and said he believed "There are no soveriegn nations within this nation."
Shoup also sounded a disturbing theme that cropped up in several of the speeches Thursday night...the possibility of
SETTLERS (cont. on page 17)
Council's Attitude
Dixon: Chief Department of the Interior Solicitor Kent Frizzell told the Tribal Council that "you people seem to be handling a touchy situation in a reasonable and rational manner."
Frizzell was talking about the current concern among some non-members on the reservation over the Council's assertion of treaty rights. Frizzell said he told non-Indian members of Montanan's Opposing Discrimination (MOD) that they must abide by the laws and that he would "bring in federal marshals, if necessary, to see that there is law and order on this reservation."
Frizzell and Chief Indian Advocate Reid Chambers met with the Tribal Council June 13, shortly before a mass gathering of non-members in Ronan (see story in next column). The two were in the state for a conference on Indian jurisdiction in Helena and came to the reservation at the beckoning of Congressman Richard Shoup. Shoup had set up a 2 4-hour "whirlwind" tour of the reservation and indoc-FRIZZELL (cont. on page 17)
Tribe-BPA Settle on Power Right of Way
Dixon: The Tribal Council and the Bonneville Power Administration came to terms June 13 on a renewable agreement for power line easements on the utility's Dayton to Hungry Horse line.
The agreement calls for a 25 year lease on existing logging roads to the power transmission lines for a sunn, of $3,750. The agreement works out to $150 per year. After 25 years, the giant government utility will have to re-negotiate with BONNEVILLE (cont. on page 3)