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Show Schedule Page 2 Indians Of S.L. County Study Commission LEGAL BRIEFS Begin To Unite Meetings individuals because they are ions available to adequate records overpay their taxes unaware of deductthem or do not keep to substantiate deductions. If you are not already doing so, begin now to keep records of your expenses for next year's filing. Many 0 Are you satisfied with your local government? Do you feel Do fully represented? by Robert Hadley commissioners know about your area? you want to improve your local government, attend the open public meetings of the Salt Lake The natives are restless, the Native American people of this land called America. There is a County Government stirring among them, If modernization Study Commission. Check this tenative list for the meeting you might attend. Get out and say what you think before someone else does it for you! More information on this schedule and the study group itself is available by calling 328-702- June 19 - West High Speaker: -- Conrad Harrison, City Commission. June 26 - Kearns - Speaker: G. Ellsworth Brunson, Chamber of Commerce Government Study July 3 - Brockbank Jr. High -- Speaker: Earl Baker, County Assessor July 10 - Hillcrest School Speaker: David Evans, Chairman, Utego July 17 Cottonwood School Speaker: David Brinton, Manager, SLC Suburban Sanitary District -- -- -- July 24 Holiday -- July 31 - - Speaker: Tom Duggar, Association of Neighborhood Councils Granger Meetings will begin at 7:30 p.m. Please attend. For further information, call 328-7028. moves of dying people in a society. It certainly is a movement to remind white America of the debt they still owe to the Indian people, an appeal to their consciences for too many wrongs left unjustifed. It is a movement cutting across all tribal customs and differences and a non-carin- g drawing Indian people together as never before. Through the white man's technology and mass media, there is more awareness among the tribes of trouble spots in Indian Country, sometimes as soon as they occur. As a result, communication takes place and a sharing of problems and is solutions. A sense emerges. In this way have the tribal people of America been creating this new Indian consciousness, slowly and quietly. It is only recently that signs of it have appeared, sometimes violently like the Wounded Knee takeover by the American Indian Movement. AIM membership is mostly L Center located at 11 South 400 West. The Walk-ioperates as a reference point for urban Indians, resident and transient. From here, n Friday, June 16 a Knights of Columbus Hall E. 9:00 p.m. Live Music .50 donation Mixes Available All Singles Invited housing, legalities, alcoholism, and health. Even though there are facilities available for alleviating these problems, most Indians are unaware of them. In addition, Indians in an urban environment undergo a period of disorientation during which time even a seemingly ' ... 1.; ' W' 1 The United Council is composed of representatives from ten Indian organizations in Salt Lake City. They are the Inter-triba- l Dancers, the Rocky Mountain Navajo Club of Midvale, the Blue Feather Club from the Intermountain School in Brigham City, the Indian Alcoholism Counseling and Recovery House Program in Salt Lake City, the Red American Student Organization on the University of Utah campus, the Uintah and Ouray Reservation in Fort. Duchesne, Utah, the All American Indian Council of Salt Lake City, the Inter-triba- l Indian Student Organization, Weber State College, in Ogden, Utah and two independent members. - c I At-v J si- ,Ur - ' t e , t ;l4' 1 Youth Exchange Environmental Ideas use planning, energy crisis, natural by Bertha Daniels, resources, community 4-- Extension Bureau beautification, health This was the title given to a statewide 4-Youth Conference held in Logan, June 4 through June 7. The conference was sponsored by the Utah State University sanitation were well covered. Wednesday evening the young people and their leaders were served a banquet in the Walnut Room with Amy Newman as mistress of ceremonies. Extension and Environment and Man Program (funded by the Rockefeller Foundation). "Who says we can't do A talk entitled "A Perspective of " was given by Mrs. Fern S. Kelley. Mrs. Kelley is from Utah H problems?" the eight representatives from Salt Lake County - namely Kent Schmidt, Joyce Kay Olsen, Gaylene McDougal, Russell Smart, Annette Timpson, Mary Jo Sharp, Robyn Heuser, and Paul Lehmitz. 4-youth from all over the state of Utah gathered on the Utah State H University campus to exchange ideas with the professionals in the environmental fields. Brenda Steadman and Amy Newman from Salt Lake County were among the eight conference planning committee under the direction of Dr. Gerald Olson and Amy Kearsley, State Extension 4-Supervisors. To start the conference, Brenda presented a H sense, the moving together of Indian people across America is only a fulfilling of prophecies made by medicine men before white men arrived on this continent. These long ago prophets foretold of the sufferings the Indians would undergo at the hands of the white man. But that there would be a revival of the Indian Spirit, such that Indian People would regain their rightful place and shine as a free people once again. s; : ' about our something environmental cheered In a y: ' 'V ' I I:; awareness program to instill and maintain pride in being Indian. An example of such a coalition in the Salt Lake Valley is the United Council of Urban Indian Affairs. The United Council was ranging from unemployment, 'V n recreational and cultural d, formed two years ago with the specific purpose of combaung the problems afflicting the Indian population in Salt Lake C ty. These problems are common to all Indians who leave the rural settings of the reservations for the cities seeing bette. opportunities. Instead they encounter problems : Indians receive help in locating a job, an apartment or just a chance to meet other Indians. Plus there is country. "Single's Dance" 21 urban-oriente- is n system of things. But they are also more impatient that their elders with the unfairness of that system in its dealings with Indians. No less committed to the Indian cause are other coalitions, councils and organizations of Native American people across the sponsor Over of unity The United Council maintaining an Indian Walk-i- meaning that they are more familiar with the white man's Parents Without Partners $1 ctirring characterized by bold moves like the recent siege of Wounded Knee. Or they might be the last desperate young and 3638 So. 13th a simple task like ordering coffee in a cafe can become a chore. slide tape entitled "Eye Opener" and this really opened eyes in realizing what we are doing to the earth. The youth were welcomed by University President, Glen Taggart. The keynote speaker, Dr. Cyrus M. McKell, entitled his address, "Youth, Awake! The Sky is Falling." The week progressed with seminars, field trips, and recreation of all kinds. Such subjects as land and 4-H- where she started her leadership She retired this year career in 4-and with her husband has returned to make her home in Salt Lake. Thursday morning the group assembled in the auditorium to discuss "The Challenge Back Home." "You are the leaders of tomorrow," says Dr. Gerald Olson and as was mentioned several times at the conference, "the future is in your hands." Nature observation hikes were conducted up Logan Canyon and a box lunch was served at Upper Spring Hollow. Everyone was homebound by 1 :30 p.m. The opportunity to brain storm with the professionals is one more way Utah State University activities has of through 4-putting the spotlight on youth. This conference was provided at no H cost to the youth involved. All rooms and board expenses were apid by the 4-- department in each county. Dan Trujillo and Bertha H Daniels were the assigned Extension Staff personnel responsible for the representatives from Salt Lake County who attended the Conference. 4-- H Youth |