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VOLUME 16, NUMBER 2
THE MONTH OF THE BITTER ROOT
MAY 26, 1987
Council and commissioners meet formally to discuss Ordinance 44D
Lake County's three commissioners met with the Tribal Council May 22 to ask questions about Ordinance 44D, the Tribes' revised hunting and fishing law.
In the course of the discussion, the commissioners -- Ray Harbin, Mike Hutchin and Don Peterson -- made a suggestion: Would the Council consider delaying implementation of Ordinance 44D until the current Tribal-state negotiations were concluded, or until any litigation, if it came
to that, were to run its course?
The commissioners said if the Council agreed to the delay, the three would make a public gesture of buying Tribal permits - the $10.00, pre-44D ones - in support of the Tribes' jurisdiction over Tribal lands.
The discussion lasted about 45 minutes, with questions on both sides.
Elmo councilman Lawrence Kenmille asked what specific problem
did the commissioners have with the ordinance, which is a slightly revised version of a 20-year-old law anyway.
Hutchin answered that Ordinance 44D assumed jurisdiction over non-Tribally owned land, which was a new policy. Harbin added that many people were concerned with the "verbiage" on the back of the 1987 permits which puts non-Indian permit holders under (Continues on page four)
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According to the Associated Press, Native Americans are being sought in five Montana towns for "speaking parts, good parts" in a new movie. Poison is one of those five towns.
The movie is "War Party" and it's being produced by the same company that made "Platoon", which recently received an Academy Award for best-movie-of-the-year.
The new movie's casting director, Lora Kennedy, will be at the Showboat
Cinema in Poison this Friday and Saturday (May 29 & 30), from 9 a.m. to 6 p.m. Other stops on her itinerary include Kalispell (Outlaw Inn), May 28; Billings (Northern Hotel), June 1 and 2; and Helena (Colonial Inn), June 3-6. She was in Cut Bank May 26 and 27.
"War Party" will be a contemporary story "bad blood between the townsfolk and young Indians in a Blackfeet Reservation town," the AP article said.
£ Going door-to-door for public TV
The stranger knocking on your door this Saturday won't necessarily be wanting to discuss the Bible with you.
He or she will ask instead for a donation in support of public TV on the Reservation.
Volunteers will be canvassing Ronan, Pablo, and St. Ignatius on May 30 for public TV memberships. The sug-
gested levels of contributions are from $25 to $250. The $25 donation entitles the giver to the Public TV Newsletter that will include a guide to the programs available when the stations go on the air. "Incentives" for larger gifts include T-shirts, buttons, and directors chairs with the public TV logo.