1973-07-01 Char-Koosta News

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SALISH KOOTENAI AND PEND'd ORI ELLES TRIBES
CHARLO
KOOSTAHTAH
KOOSTA
SMIM 11 (Salish: News)
Volume 3 - Number 5        NEW MOON OF THE SERVICEBERRY  (July 1 ,1973)    Pricel5 cents
Powwow Starts Monday, Rodeo Gets Off Tuesday
Arlee: The traditional early July Arlee Pow-Wow gets under way tomorrow (July 2 ) with dancing and games and will continue through July 8 with contests and a two day rodeo.
Games and dancing will continue throughout the seven day course of the Pow-Wow with the $1500 Championship Indian Dance Contest slated for July 7. Rodeo events will start July 3 at 7 :0 0 p.m. and will continue through July 4 starting at 2 :00 p.m. Final go rounds for rodeo prizes will be held during the evening of July 4.
The annual Fourth of July Parade will begin at noon at the north end of Arlee and will promenade down main street (Highway 9 3 ) one time and end at the Pow-Wow
grounds east of town. During the parade, traffic will be routed west of town to avoid a bottleneck on the highway.
Dance contestants are asked to register for the championship by noon, July 3. Rodeo contestants must also be entered by noon, July 3.
Dancing and the dance contest this year will be held in a new 80 by 120 foot steel beam roofed pavilion at the east end of the Pow-Wow grounds. The new building will be fenced in and admission to the dancing will be $ 1 for adults and 5 0 cents for children. Dance tickets will be good for the entire seven days of the Pow-Wow.
The rodeo, in its second year as a Pow-Wow attraction is also to be held on new turf. The TOT) yard cyclone fenced
all steel chute arena will seat 2,0 0 0 spectators and is regarded as one of the best in the area. The Indian Rodeo Cowboy's Association rodeo last year attracted some 150 performers from all over the northwest and Canada. Admission to the rodeo will be $2 for adults and $1 for children per day.
New buildings on the Pow Wow grounds will also include a fully enclosed concrete block teen center. .. a roofed dining area with five concession stands ....a fence enclosed beer stand ....nine outhouses and one rest room....and a first aid station and office. The improvements, which will also include a well, watermain and camping spigots, were paid for by a $ 1 3 0 ,0 0 0 judgement fund appropriation by the Tribal Council.
Pow Wow planning this year was delegated to an indépendant Pow-Wow committee. The committee was appointed by the Council last summer to draw up plans and oversee improvements to the Pow-Wow grounds and to supervise the event. The job of building/a new rodeo arena and scheduling rodeo events was appointed to a rodeo committee./The two committees worked together and shared the budget./
Camping facilities, including water, wood, meat and spuds and tipi poles, have been provided on the east side of the grounds. Tipis will be clustered just east of the main dance pavilion with trailers and tents located further east. Parking and traffic will be routed around the camp to prevent disturbance to campers.
More on POW-WOW starting on page 6 — A look at pow wows past,, Program, map, pictures
Results of Saturday's 90% Payout Election
Tribal Member voters went to the polls Saturday to decide whether or not to distribute 90 per cent of reservation revenues.
The ballot at the eight reservation polling places gave voters the choice of approving the following ordinance:
"Be it enacted by the Tribal Council of the Confederated Salish and Kootenai Tribes; that:
1. Ninety percent of tribal income shall be paid out per capita.
2. Ten percent of trival income shall be retained for administrative putposes to be expended as the Tribal Council determines in the Tribe's best interest.
3. No expenditure shall be made from reserve funds unless approved   by the people in a referendum".
Results of the election were:
B-U-L-L-E-T-I-N
PASSED.  ABOUT 40 PERCENT OF THE ELIGIBLE VOTERS BALLOTED 363 FOR THE MEASURE,  217 AGAINST.
Tribal Budget $490,637, A Pinch Above 10 Percent
Dixon (June 15): After a month of budgetary dieting, pruning and hacking, the Tribal Council Friday approved a$490,637 operating budget for fiscal year 19 7 4.
The Council had deliberated over the budget so long in an attempt to squeeze it within the ten percent tribal expenditure target set in February. As approved, tne budget is some $68 thousand over the ten percent figure of $ 4 8 8,3 5 0. However, an accounting error discovered later reduced expenditures some $50,130 and the use of federal revenue sharing monies brought the budget within $2,283 of the target figure.
The $ 4 8 8,3 5 0 represents ten percent of $4,883,499, which is the estimated tribal income for fiscal year 1974.
The bulk of tribal revenues ... $3,500,000...will come from timber and another $ 1,10 6,6 9 5 will be provided from business leases ($ 9 5 0,0 0 0 of that from the Montana Power Company lease for Kerr Dam).
The budget must still be approved by the Department of Interior before the funds can be transferred from the tribe's account with the U.S. Treasury. It is also contingent on the results of the June 30 tribal resolution referendum to distribute 90% of reservation revenues.
If the 9 0 % proposition passes (the election was held while Char-Koosta was going to press, see page one for results) tribal expenditures will have to be reduced to ten percent. This would mean the $2,283 deficit
(cont. on page 3)