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Show DIACoianrisioizor Knisos Two Kotivo Aiibncons To Top Posts office since last Dec. 3, Indian no 8ttin h administrative ?fcllrmS confirmations of his nominees to 1 ". Thompson has boon stung publicly for the lapse of time sines his arrival at the ' BIA - - GvS properties. Yet to be publicly named by Thompson are three additonal directorates: Dirsctar sf Csnsrsl Msasgemsat and FacMtiss Opsntiam This BIA program provides for the general managerial' functions for approximately 140 officers nationwide in 27 states. It also provides for the repair, maintenance and operation of fadlitiea which support the BIAs g programs. The new fiscal yer budget for this division will be $62,998,000. General management functions include executive direction, management ' administrative sendees, safety management, operation and maintenance ef BIA facilities, and provision ef facilities owned or leased by BIA helm and announcement of his appointments. Thompson on his side has had to contend with recent legal decisions related to the matter of hiring and promotion of qualified Indians, rejection of some of his mmin t by higher-up- s and cumbersome CSC procedures. By the second week of May, two of Thompson's top five BIA division were formally announced, and three more were in the offing. Now filled are the directorships of the Office of Trust Responsibilities and the Office of Tribal Resource Development. To be filled in the next several weeks are the Offices of Indian Education. Indian Services and far-flun- General Management and Facilities Me now . tbs BIAs the Administration estates of deceased Indians, and Operations. (G8A), Adminstrative costs of centralinventory of trust or restricted estates Named by Thompson were: ised housekeeping work and general Dsniol D. McDonald, Director of Tribal highest-rankin- g woman management costs at the local levels are 'as Thompson's Resources Development: A Montana official of includes the position drafting finance on a reimbursable fnxn the n Flathead, 46, McDonald comes to the BIA issues and other program activities served. An papers on ongoing from the National Council on TnHUw presentation of the BIA's policies goals Islets Pueblo administrator, Abe Zuni, is Opportunity (NCIO), where he served as and objectives to the Indian and filling this position on an interim basis. director of iiitrffpvrnnMmt.p) relations. public. Ms. Duchesneaux, Dfrecter ef Indian Fdnwtisn: Dr. McDonalds new role is aimed at and policy affaires former congresisonal James Hawkins, appointed to this post American Indian for the stimulating . reservation economies correspondent under the tenure of former Indian Press Association (AIPA), holds a B.A. in through the development and use of Commissioner Louis R. Bruce, formally tribal resources, and at helping Indians to government, is a published author and still holds the position, but William participate folly in the economic life of journalist and has done extensive work Bonham has served for serveral the tribal community and the nation at ' as for national Indian organizations both acting director. There are pressures outside and inside the federal governlarge. from key congressmen and senators on ment. Program areas in McDonald's diyison the Hill to retain Hawkins in the post, wQl be business enterprise, credit, direct and counter-pressurhave developed Thompson's most controversial assignemployment, road maintenance, forestry ment to date has been that of Newton against Hawkins from Indians. and agriculture, minerals, mining,' The BIA's Indian Education Division, irrigetjaivfad. power, Director employwith a new budget of $219 mflUon,' ment services are provided to some 5,200 educates 58,000 students through its own individuals and families. Maintenance on school system, provides financing to 28,000 miles of reservation roads was 14,700 college students, has 8,500 Indians in its adult education program, and funds previously carried on by another , i. General Services . BIA-India- non-Indi- an . i es . department during the past year. -- approximately 8,425 adult vocational training students. It supports countless Indian students under Joimsoo-OMalle- y he held the same position in Nevada. In May of 1970 he joined NCIO in the nations capital. needs of Indian children. Financial assistance is extended to public schools Act under the 1984 Johnson-OMalle- y Martin Seneca, Director ef Trust Responsibilities: A. member of New Yorks Seneca Tribe, Seneca was an assistant law professor at the University of Utah in Salt Lake City prior to his appointment by Thompson. Seneca is a former White House Fellow, special assistant at HUD, and an associate attorney in a Washington law firm. He also served as chairman of American Indians for Nixon in 1972 with the the President. Committee to In his new capacity, Seneca, 82, will the BIAs program designed to carry out the BIAs trust and legal responsibilities to protect the rights of Indians in their trust property and those rights affecting trust property which are afforded by tribal In addition, this office carries out the Re-Ele-ct The application for housing project Utah 7 will be submitted to the Housing and Urban Development offices by the Ute Housing Authority announced Housing Director Thomas Appah. The Low Income Mutual Help Turnkey Home Ownership Housing will get underway next March. The closing date for applications on this project is June 80, 1974 and is open to enrolled members of the tribe with annual incomes not exceeding $8,000. Appah said each participant will be 1-- funding. The BIA operates federal school facilities where public schools are not available or cannot meet the special e enrolling Indian children were Indian lands result in financial problems for the local school district, and where tax-fre- other special problems exist. The Education Division also provides higher education scholarship grants to Indian students and adult education programs. -Director of Indian Services: Thompson's appointee will administer a new budget of $96,804,000 on programs to promote the welfare and development of individual iwdUn and Indian communities, such as the provision of municipal-typ- e governmental services, and assists tribes in Sodal services, housing, law enforcement, tribal governmental development and activities relating to youth and the elderly are program areas under Indian Services. This division is responsible for the provision of general welfare authorities vested in the Interior assistance to some 78,000 needy Indians, various laws concerning Secretary by Indian trust property and to provide Indians the services they need to nuke decisions required of them in the and to application of these various laws, trust the carry out programs to facilitate responsibility. Seneca's new division will have a budget of $17,885,000. Some trust responsiof bility program areas indude protection water and rights, treaty , hunting, fishing land title and records certification, preparation and finalisation of appraisids doods oflndian. land, rights-of-wa- y leases, preparation and approval of of permits documents, pulling together family histories for use in probates of the non-direct- reviewed with Housing Coordinator John Brenn. All applications will then be forwarded to H.U.D. for final approval. He further added the project will be reservation wide. All homesites are required to be located on tribal or allotted Unde- - The building location must meet the approval of the Public Health Service in reference to sanitary facilities. Interested persons may contact Mr. Brenn or Mr. Appah at the BIA Plant Management offices in Fort Duchesne. GsisicICeuidftbstiq In accordance with Article VI, Section 2 and By-Lo- ws of the Constitution Council of the Ute Tribe the regular General 1 t Building Fort Duchesne, Utah Multi-Purpo- se Thompson has already named Ignatius L. Billy (Pomo) of Hopland, Cal., as his - an appointment Personnel Director effective Feb. 18. Billy, 57, holds an A.B. degree in political science, and haa held 1 Lunch will specialist positions in the Veterans Administration (VA) and has served in personnel and labor relations with the Interior Department since 1968. Karen Rae Dueheneaux (Cheyenne River Sioux) was named Special Assistant to the Commissioner. Her work n I positions, or r required to fill out an Exhibit I and a preliminary questionaire, signed and meeting is set for May 27 at 10 O'clock A.M. and for overseeing the governmental activities of some 800 Indian tribal governments. Raymond V. Butler is presently acting director of this division. In other . Homes Scheduled For Construction will adminster a new fiscal year budget of $57,609,00. A 1968 graduate of Montana University, McDonald wu BIA specialist on industrial development at Gallup, N.M., from 1968 to 1967, and from 1967 to 1971 McDonald . Interior staff aide' Edwards, a long-tim- e in Indian affairs, on Mar. 21 as chairman of an Interior Department task force which is cataloging unresolved Indian issues within the Interior, determining areas of conflict of interest within Interior's many agencies, and developing guidelines and procedures for resolving Indian issues in the future. A nationwide gathering of Indian tribal and political groups, with the significant exception of the National Tribal Chairmen's Association (NTCA), on Apr, 1 25 in a special Petition to the President of the United States asked that Edwards and four other individuals in Indianj' affairs be removed from their posts, because they have extensive records of compromising Indian interests. .. be served- - I |