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Show Uto Studonto Afcurditd High ' School Diplomas Seven tribal members received their high school diplomas during recent graduation ceremonies at boarding Khoob throughout the west and at local ehools. Vicky Chapoooe, Doyle Jenks, Gilford Lee, Ann Santio, Merla Wopaoek, Ouray McCook, Jr. and Larry Black completed their high school educations and made plans for the future. Vicky Chapooee and Doyle Jenks, both graduates of Union High School, have made plans to attend Weber State College in Ogden. Oarij a i -- 1 9CNVI McCook, Jr. CMpktn High pnKiB Two sisters, Gwendolyn Murdock Mojado and Shirley Murdock Reed, were awarded Masters of Social Work decrees during June graduation ceremonies from the University of Utah. Mrs. Mojado is a graduate of Sherman Indian High School in Riverside, Calif, and of Brigham Young University where she earned a Bachelor of Science degree. She also attended San Marcos Junior College. Mrs. Mojado is presently employed at Weber State College where she works with the Upward Bound program. She and her husband. Gilbert, are the parents of five children. Mrs. Reed is also a BYU graduate and received her high school diploma from Allerra High school. She is a former member of the United Council of Urban Indian Affairs board and served on the board of the Rocky Mountain Navajo Housing Project. She and her husband, Julian have five children. 5 Southwestern Indian Polytechnical Institute is the destination of Gilford Lee, a graduate of Phoenix School. Sisters Receive Masters Degrees In Jane Ceremony ( . Indian High Ann Santio and Merla Wopsock, graduates of Sherman Indian High School, are also college-bounAnn will continue her education at San Jose College while Merla will be attending Haskell Jr. College at Lawrence, Kansas. Completing their high school education through the Duchesne School District's Adult High School Completion program were Ouray McCook, Jr. and Larry Black. Larry will continue his education at Southern Utah State College, while Ouray has not yet made any definite plans for the furture. tlm dinner at Battle Haflew laft te right Dayle Jenks, Aaa seated, raw, laft ta right Lena Jaaka, bade raw, left Farraet Cuch, d. Senior Announces Great To Tribo A $115,000 grant from the U.S. Department of Health, Education Welfare to the Ute Tribe's Adult Education Program was announced recently by Senator Frank Moss. The goal of the program will be to provide basic educational skill to Hnit so that they will be better equipped to take advantage of local vocational, college and high school programs, according to Forrest Cuch, education coordinator. The names of 21 Indian tribes are hidden in this maze of letters. The names read forward, backward, up, down or diagonally, are always in a straight line, and never skip letters. We start you off by Underlining ZIA, a New Mexico pueblo. Names may overlap, letters may be used more than once, but not all of the letters will be used. Super skins are expected to score at least 15: Kaliocd PcScy Meeting (Continued from Page 6) services budget would also rise under the new projections, and the BIAs manag-meand services budget and education budget priorities would correspondingly drop. nt se Norman Ross, associate director for human resources on the White House Domestic Council, stood alone before the assembly to hear Indian suggestions and recommendations concerning a proposal by Vice President Gerald Ford to create an Indian Affairs Committee on the Domestic Council, and two Indian advisory councils to government, one consisting of federally recognised Indians and the other of urban and rural Indians. Ross, apparently unprepared beforehand with background study on public Indian options already presented, was at a visible loss when Indian chairmen and counrilmen as well as others rejected the Ford proposal out of hand. Rosa did, however, promise continuing "sessions with various Indian leaders concerning "external consultation on the creation of advisory councils. Let me qualify and add a few caveats, said Ross, stating that the Ford proposal "is not a completed and closed issue, but wed like to see something final established by June 80." (The Ford proposal would replace the apparatus of the National Council on Indian Opportunity (NCIO) in the Vice Presidents Office, due to expire June 80 wide-rangi- ng under federal statute. Washington observers, meanwhile, expected the White House to go ahead unilaterally and create the Domestic Council Indian Affairs Committee effective July 1, beginning of the new fiscal year, and then continue to deal with Indians concerning number-- of the nature and makeup-a- nd Indian advisory, council later.) EarbCommitmeato OMBs Zarb, who will stay in the Indian affairs area for at " least another several weeks, agreed to do continuing work on the following public commitments he made: -- He would attend to any and aU local reservation problems addressed by tribal representatives in writing and would respond to those spedfie problems by June 28, a period of three weeks; . -- He would order an report on how each agency has responded agency-by-agen- ey to the Presidents Indian Message. "It's done, said Zarb; THESE HIDDEN ABOVE: Aiz, Papago, Athabascan, Apache; Navajo, Chickasaw, Hidatsa, Pima, Pawnee, Omaha, Seminole, Sioux, Zuni, Salish, Kowa, Kaw, Porno, Oto, Ute and Cree. TRIBES ARE C 1 Iowa, 974 American Indian Press Association undertake a review of all aaristance laws and domestic federal those laws to deterunder regulations mine whether they recognised tribal governments to be distinct from state and local governments, and to determine what if any legislation requried tribes to -- He would . work through state or local governments. Eastern Indians A CENA resolution seeking the endorsement of the full assembly in its request for federal services was rejected by the leadership of the National Indian Policy Meeting on the grounds that no other resolutions had been passed, that many of the conference participants had begun to depart the city and were absent from the floor, and that the resolution could not at this time be accepted by federally recognised tribes. After a strident debate on the issue a Cena walkout seemed likely. NCAI President Mel Tonasket and NCAI Executive Director Charles Trimble advised against passage of the resolution on the grounds it would not be accepted by the NCAI federal tribes constituency. LaDonna Harris, president of Americans for Indian opportunity (AIO) and her legal advisory Atty. George Crossland also opposed the resolution on the grounds that it was politically unwise within the federal Indian community. The debate was resolved when Ms. Harris and the NCAI officials gave vocal support to the CENA position, and the resolution was tabled. CENA charged in its resolution that Interior and BIA denial of services to Eastern Indians constituted "a discriminatory administrative policy against a law, the 1921 Snyder Act. GENA sought the endorsement of the assembly in pressing Interior to bestow federal tribes, recognition on all including federal services and programs. "In so stating. said the rejected CENA resolution. Sire emphasise that CENA does not wish to take away any status or benefits from any tribe that has such recognition." GENA, however, will now begin formally to prepare its document proposing a federal forum on the issue for submission to Zarb. non-feder- al NTGA Boycott On the last day of the session, Elmer SaviUa (Queehan). a tribal chairman and vice president of the National Tribal Chairmen's Assn. (NTCA) which had boycotted the policy meeting read a resolution to the assembly which had been adopted the night previous by all tribal chairmen in attendance condcming "lack of cooperation by NTCA as an action in direct conflict with the of NTCA. It constitution and called for a special NTCA board meeting June 24 to evaluate the performance and activities" of NTCA's personnel and officers. In other public remarks, Savffla said unless leaders come and learn and take home what they learn, the tribes themselves suffer... And "if you don't come and voice your opinions, you're failing your responsibilities." Seville said continuing NTCA by-la- it . boycotts would put (chairmen) in conflict with themselves. |