1987-07-07 Char-Koosta News

              VOLUME 16, NUMBER 7
MONTH OF THE CAMAS
JUNE 30,1987
Arlee pow wow schedule announced ^»^ppcjp»
The 89th annual Arlee Celebration begins tomorrow (July 1) with Campers Day and begins drawing to a close on Sunday with the adult categories' final rounds.
The pow wow isn't all dancing, however, notes Phillip Paul, one of the event's organizers. There will be a drumming competition, too, as well as a stick game tournament.
Everything officially begins on Thursday evening, with a memorial service at 7:00 p.m. (although the contest registration desk will be open at noon). Intertribal dancing will commence after the services, as will the stick games and card games.
Friday will feature two sessions of intertribal and preliminary contest dancing, with grand entries set for 2 and
7 p.m.
Saturday will be especially busy: The stick game tourney, where teams will compete for $1,500 in prize money, begins at noon. The special Snake Dance begins at 2 p.m. "This dance is the grand entry dance for the Flathead Tribe," Paul explained. Dance finals for all of the under-18 categories begin (Concludes on page two)
Elders attend in-stream flow hearing in Helena
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Some 60 Tribal elders and others had a chance last week to see the U.S justice system up close, when they travelled to Helena to sit in on a hearing in federal court.
At issue was Reservation water: How much water does the irrigation project have to leave in streams within its system for the protection of the native fisheries?
After a three-hour trip in a chartered bus, the elders sat in a warm, crowded court room and listened to three
attorneys question hydrologists and fisheries biologists about the current irrigation season, especially the conditions of the Jocko division.
The hearing was the result of a legal protest filed by the Joint Board of Control against the BIA and the Tribes. The JBC complained that minimum in-stream flow levels proposed for this summer favored the fish over the farmers ~ even though this year's levels were based on last year's, which were (Continues on page two)
Quarterly meeting is still on, though --
Offices close for the Fourth
Tribal, BIA and IHS offices will be closed Friday, July 3, in observance of the 4th of July.
HOWEVER: 1987's third quarterly Council meeting will take place that day as planned, beginning at 9 a.m. in the Michel Building on the SKC campus in Pablo.