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Show Page 3 The Ute Bulletin Friday, December 8, 1972 PEOPLE POWER Introducing CAP Youth Coordinator By Barry Inscore As a new Tribal employee of only three months, I feel that it is time for me to acquaint the people with the reason I am here and the things I hope we can accomplish. I have been asked t develop a program which will meet the needs of the Youth on the Reservatin. There are currently many agencies on the Reservation which deal with the Youth, but they lack the coordination to meet all of the needs of our young people. That ;s why I was hired. addition to working for coordination programs, I have been asked to a program of activities to aid the out carry e and Youth in developing their their goals in life. We hope to do this by fostering pride in individual abilities and in the heritage of their ancestors. Hopefully, we can recapture or rekindle some of the old Indian attitudes, skills, and beliefs that have been lost or discouraged in the past. This DOES NOT mean returning to the past, or to old ways of doing things. It means simply to take pride in what we are and maintain the good parts of the Indian way: I must say here that this program was not developed by me - a coming here to teach the Youth how to be Indians. It was given over to me by the an self-imag- non-India- n -- Community Presidents, the Business Committee, and the Community Action Program. It is a People Program. It cannot get off the ground without the support of and participation by the people. Our horizons are limited only by the leadership, initiative, and imagination of our leaders. Some ideas we are already working on of the Uinta Youth are Scouts, Camp, a survival school, singing and dancing groups, a Youth Center, tutoring and counseling programs, and many others. We need leaders, we need participants, we need people. I can not and will not do anything alone. I ask only to use my skills and knowledge to help YOU develop our most precious and most powerful natural resources - our children. There is not a person on earth who does not have something in himself-- a skill, a talent, or an attitude which cannot benefit others. There is not one person who does not have some time to give to helping others. The work is challenging. The work is hard, but the rewards one receives from helping others toward a better, more meaningful life are too great to be measured by words. Share your ideas with us. Give a couple of hours per week to the Youth. Help us solve the great problems which are before us. Contact me in the Tribal offices Ext. 59 or 33, or just walk in and chat I'm in the Operation Mainstream-NYoffice, just inside the door. Power to the People, From the People, and Of the People! -- t contract "turn key FUTURE SITE-housing for the elderly and Tom homes is pointed out to construction executives by Appah, Ute Tribe vice Paul to president of First Security Murphy, Housing Authority Director, of Ute and member Bank, Roosevelt, Housing Authority Board; Wayne D. Tewe, executive vice president of B. B. Andersen Company, Kansas and Missouri;. Adrian Godrey, Marketing Manager of Boise Cascade, Idaho; Dick Reed, Special Project Coordinator, Boise Cascade; and Murray W. Pierce, Sales Representative of Mountain Fuel Supply Co., Price. The executives met with the Tribal Housing Authority to discuss plans for the 10 elderly homes and 30 turn key houses and present their plans. Selection of the company will be made in conjunction with Housing and Urban Development and Federal Housing Adminstratioo in Salt Lake City. The homes will be located north of the Circle" and north of "Little Madeline M. Brock Chicago. Drain Ditch May Eliminate Mosquito Breeding Area Funeral services were conducted Nov. 11 at 2:30 p.m. in the Randlett Episcopal Church for Madeline Carol Martinez Brock, 30, of Lapoint, who died Nov. 8 in a Roosevelt hospital after a sudden illness. She was born Nov. 2, 1942, in Ft. Duchesne to Herbert and Alice Wyasket Martinez. She married Jackip Brock. Survivors include her husband, sons and daughters, Steven, Darwin, Clair, Gregory, Loy Kay, Jacqueline, Luella, Rondina, all of Lapoint; a brother, Gerald, Whiterocks. Burial was in the Randlett Cemetery. Jonas Accawinna Funeral services were conducted Nov. 20 at 1 p.m. in the Randlett LDS Indian Branch Chapel for Jonas Accawinna, 34, of Randlett, who died Nov. 16 in a Salt Lake illness. City hospital after a long-terHe was born May 25, 1938, in Ft. Duchesne to Jim Wash and Ruby Alhindra Accawinna. He married Virginia Redcap who died Nov. 22, 1972. Survivors include his son, Nathaniel, Randlett; parents, Randlett; sisters, Mrs. m Vincent (Margaret) Cuch, Ft Duchesne; irs. Roger (Jane) Redfoot, Arcadia; Mrs. illiam (Melba) Appawora, Myton. Burial was in the Ft Duchesne O Mrs. Accawinna Funeral services 27, at 1 p.m. in the Chapel for Virginia na, 36, of Randlett were conducted Nov. Randlett LDS Branch Lee Redcap Accawinwho died Nov. 22 in a Roosevelt hospital after a short illness. She was born Feb. 13, 1936, in Ft. Duchesne to Betty Redcap. She married Jonas Accawinna, who died Nov. 16, 1972. Survivors include sons, Eugene Washington, Towaoc, Colo.; Nathaniel Accawinna, Randlett brothers and sisters, Merlin R. and Florine Kochamp, Whiterocks; Helena C. Nephi, Oakland, Calif. Burial was in the Ft Duchesne C Presidential Appointee (Continued from Page 1) Mrs. Cuch is chairman of the Title I Parent Advisory Board, Todd Elementary and West Junior high schools; and serves on the Uintah Basin Education Council. She also is a member of the Investment Committee of the Ute Tribe which screens all proposals submitted to the Tribe. of the Roosevelt Irene is Business and Professional Women's Club. . About NCIO on board with Mrs. the.'NCIO Serving Cuch will be seven Indians, all of whom are new to the board this year and will serve one and two year terms. Included on the board are David Lester, Creek, Oklahoma; Robert Jim, Chairman of the Yakima Tribe, Washington; Buffalo Tiger, Chairman of the Misouskee Tribe, Florida; Robert Louis, Governor of the Zuni Tribe, New Mexico; Paul Smith, Chairman of the Salt River Community, Arizona; and Webster Two Hawk, Chairman of the Rosebud Sioux Tribe, South Dakota, and president of the National Tribal Chairmens Association. NCIO was established to provide a mechanism for involvement by the Indian people in the Federal policy and program formulation process. The Council has four principal functions: (1) to encourage full use of Federal programs to benefit Indians; (2) to envice-preside- nt Pima-Marico- courage interagency coordination and cooperation; (3) to measure impact and progress of Federal programs; and (4) to suggest ways to improve such programs. The Council serves as a direct communication link between the Indian people and the very top of the United States Government. Other than Vice President Agnew as chairman and the eight Indian members, the Council also includes eight leaders of the Federal Government. NCIO is also served by a permanent staff which has Robert Robertson as the Executive Director. Staff members include Dale Wing, Assistant Executive Director Fort Peck (Montana) Sioux; Daniel McDonald, also assistant director, Flathead (Montana); John Jollie, Assistant Director, Turtle Mountain, Chippewa; Mrs. Evelyn W. Pickett, Staff Assistant, Cherokee; Mrs. Effie Boyd, secre- tary; and Miss Lauren secretary, A coma Pueblo. M. Abeita, low-ren- Of 722-226- 3 OBITUARIES s' The mosquito population at Ft. Duchesne should drop considerably in the next two summers and the land next to Highway 88 between Fort Duchesne and Highway 40 will have firmer footage. The improvement will be due to a change in the water level caused by a e long drain ditch being dug on both sides of Highway 88 in the boggy half-mil- area. Although no considerable change in the terrain will be noticable for about a year, among the problems the ditch will remedy will be pooling and land saturation which provides breeding places for mosquitos, plus the seepage of water into basements in the Agency property. Within the year the water table should be lowered enough that the boggy grass will die around the area and the land will be suitable for development and construction of homes. Laying Plastic Pipe Richard Hull, BIA Area Water Engineer, Phoenix, provided technical consultation on the project which is a joint venture of the Ute Tribe, BIA and Public Health Service, funded by the Tribes Mosquito Control, Environmental Health Budget. The draining will be accomplished by embedding a perforated plastic pipe into gravel approximately 10 feet in the ground. The ditch will then be covered for safety purposes. The increase the safety of the present ditch which runs parallel to the new ditch, it will be fitted in to approximately the same depth as a road ditch. Possible Development Prompting the drainage, which has been discussed for several years, is the proposed construction of 30 turn key contract homes north of Little low-ren- t, homes for the Chicago and 10 low-reof the Fort located north directly elderly Duchesne Circle. A Tribal mobil home park also has been discussed for development in the nt AIPA Awards International Indian Newspaper The editor of the Akwesas-ne- e Notes which serves the Mohawk Nation, New York State, was awarded the non-India- n Marie Potts Journalism Achievement award at the first annual convention of the American Indian Press Association. Indian journalists gathered at the New Albany Hotel, Denver, Cola, in The Ute Bulletin staff attended the three-da- y meeting, which featured Vine Deloria Jr., among the guest speakers. About the Award The $500 journalism prize was created to honor Marie Potts, California Maidu, who has published the newspaper, Smoke Signals, in California for 29 years and is the dean of American Indian journalists. Akwesasnee Notes is the first international Native American newspaper in history, with readers throughout the Western Hemisphere and Europe. It was begun in 1969 and is currently threatened with shutdown on the St. Regis Mohawk Reserve. The award recepient, Jerry Gambil, or Rarihokwats, as he is known to the Mohawk Nation, was chosen by board members of the American Indian Press Association. improved area. Indian Computer Experts Visit Accounting Department Arrows to automation is progress as viewed by the Indian owned Corporation, Amerind Management and Data Systems Inc. of Albuquerque, N. M. Representatives of the Corporation conferred with tribal officials last month to discuss a feasibility study and analysis of the current computer operations of the Ute Tribe. and Jeff Floyd Correa, vice-preside- Arneach, marketing representative observed the tribal accounting depart- ment and met with Albert LaRose, Accountant, and with Enterprise managers. Corea said they have no contract with the tribe but will take the data gathered here and compile it and give an objective recommendation on services, cost estimation, and project a time period. The Albuquerque-baseoperation is in staffed with experts the fields of acand ecadministration counting, business onomics of which sixty percent are Indian. A half a million dollar contract was recently awarded to the Corporation to verify and convert records for the Federal Aviation Agency in Oklahoma City, Okal. d |
