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Show r. My it, i7s ftte fa &eaatip 2efeea HtadUional 0eneacay A Ute beauty queen recited wedding vows June 9 in a wedding at St. Elizabeth's Episcopal Church, semi-tradition- al Whiterocks. Miss Linda Ridley, daughter of Mr. and Mrs. Benton Ridley, became the bride of Douglas Vanderhoop, son of Mr: and Mrs. Earl Vanderhoop of Gay Head, The Rev. Gerald Mason performed the ceremony before an altar adorned with blue wild flowers. For her wedding Miss Ridley was attired in a gown of white satin styled similar to the Ute dance dress trimmed d with ribbons and accented with a silk scarf and beaded belt. Her jewelry was a bone chocker and a beaded necklace and she carried a bouquet of roses and carnations with lace ribbon streamers. Trudy Ridley, sister of the bride, attended her as maid of honor. She wore her dance dress of green velvet and accented her attire with her beaded jewelry. Also in velvet dance dresses of turquoise blue were the bridesmaids, Babes and Debbie Ridley, also sisters of the bride. Completing the bridal entourage were Onnalisa Ridley, little sister of the bride, and Thea Akins, Gay Head, Mass., niece of the groom, who served as flower girls. Kevin Ridley, nephew of the bride, carried the rings to the altar. The grooms father was his best man. Groomsmen included David Giles, cousin of the groom; and Elliott and Tibbs Ridley, the brides brothers. The newly weds greeted guests at the Whiterocks Gym and were honored at a pow wow with entertainment by Francis Wyaskets drum group and the Northern Ute Singers. Mrs. Forrest. Cuch, cousin of the groom, and Mrs. Gerald Martinez presided at the guest book. The wedding feast was prepared and served by Mrs. Glenn Tom, Mrs. Albert LaRoae, and daughter Clare, and Mrs. Johnny Black with help of many friends of the family. guests included Mr. and Mrs. Alfred Nagitsy and family, Mr. and Mrs. Frank Nor ah, Fort Washakie, Wy&; Mr. and Mrs. Samuel Nipwater, Mr. and Mrs. John Big Knife, Crowheart, Wyo.; Mr. and Mrs. Earl Vanderhoop, Mrs. Thelma Weisburg, and Miss Alberta Jeffers, aunt of the groom from Gay Head, Out-of-sta- te multi-colore- 0 o Tribe, B.I.A. Bid Farewell at Picnic a The bride is a graduate of Union High School, Roosevelt. She attended Utah State University, Logan, for two years, and was the first to hold the title of Miss Indian USU. She was also named Miss KIYO at the University of Montana and Bliss Congeniality in the Bliss Indian Utah Pageant She was alternate Miss Ute Tribe in the 1972 tribal pageant Mr. Vanderhoop, a teacher at the Whiterocks Head Start Center, is a graduate of Arizona State University, Tempo. He also studied at Cape Cod Community College, Hyannis, Blass., where he majored in liberal arts. He is a member of the Wampanoag Tribe and came to Utah to teach in the fall of 1972. The couple are spending the summer in Gay Head which is located on Blarthas Vineyard Island in Btassachusetts. They will return to Whiterocks when school resumes. July 9. Bids Let On Fab Budding, Industrial Park they hate to work. ft BIBS. DOUGLAS VANDERHOOP She is the farmer Uada Ridey National Water Commission d Submits Report Long-Awaite- The Tribe will provide matching monies for the construction of the new Ute Fab building, however, the Industrial Park was financed 100 percent by the Economic Development Administration. An picnic was the setting Dennis A. Blower, Bureau of Indian for a farewell party June 29 when tribal Affairs Reservation Programs Officer, and BIA employees gathered to extend indicated construction of these projects best wishes to Mr. and Mrs. Ed Emmons should commence in 60 to 90 days. and son, Clift The Tribes Economic Development Tribal Chairman Homey Secakuku and office announced this week the Ute InBIA Superintendent Bill Streitz were had been awarded grants from dian Tribe diefs-at- r large, grilling hot dogs and ham- the Economic Development Administraburgers in toe Emmons' yard for some 60 tion and from the Four Corners Regional guests. Picnic trimming were potluck and Commission for the construction of a new refreshments were provided by the host40,000 square foot building for the Ute ing groups. Ltd. Fab, The Emmons family left two weeks ago EDA provided $470,000.00 for the confor Sells, Ariz., where he has been assignstruction of the Industrial Park which is ed as administrative manager on toe 100 percent financing. EDA also provided Fapagoo Reservation. He held that posi- $271,000 towards construction of the Ute tion at the U & 0 Agency for the past six Fabs new building with the Four Corners years having come to the Bureau of Regional Commission providing $130,600. Indian Affairs from the U.S. Border Bids were opened this week with the Patrol in Nogales, Ariz. low bid for the Industrial Park comma: Mrs. Emmons was affiliated with the from Schoeker Construction Company for Day Care and Head Start programs the amount of $44226.90. The low bid during toe most of their time at U ft 0. for the new Ute Fab building was to She was presented with a beaded neckThorup Bros. Construction for $666,772. lace from the Tribe and Mr. Emmons received a beaded bolo tie. The BlA's gift Overhead in the hallways to the family was on oil painting by Ute of Tribal Offices: I know the Artist Lynn Taveapont Mr. Emmons assumed his duties at some girls who need a but Sells on BOL job - The National Water Commission in its WASHINGTON, D.C. - (AIPA) final report to the President and Congress on national water resource problems has agreed to some Indian demands concerning Indian water rights as long-await- ed they relate to national water issues but rejected other Indian demands. these righto in conjunction with other The National Water Commission, tribal resources. When warranted by the which submitted its final report to the of such studies, litigation should results President and the Congress on June 19, instituted be by the United States in was created by Congress in 1968 to tribe to adjudicate its Indian of behalf the "review water resource development prowater rights. Congress should appropriblems and opportunities for the nation as to support the studies and the funds ate and a whole, A number of Indian tribes draft a litigation. organizations testified against Second, "Prior to the authorization of report and its recommendations prepared n water Commission federally assisted this any spring at a early ty the final a resource in adjudication held project, the hoe capital public meeting e Ten pages .of the report are should be made of all Indian water rights which when exercised could substantially devoted to a discussion of Indian water affect the water supply for the project. recommendasix includes This rights. Third, "Existing water uses on Indian tions for actions to be undertaken by the Reservations, whether or not they have three brandies of the federal governyet been adjudicated, should be quantifment, as well as state governments and ied and recorded in state water rights Indian tribes. records for the purpose of providing The National Water Commission Consuch use. All adjudications or of notice cluded that then is increasing danger of other Ending similarly should be reconflict between Indian and When requested to do so by a corded. uses of water. The problem arises from the n tribe, Secretary of the Interior water the fact that many file notice of the existence of also toould in resource projects rely on supplies water rights with the Indian with unquantified which Indians have water rights official." state appropriate earlier priorities. Fourth, "Jurisdiction of all actions afTo avert these continuing conflicts, the fecting Indian water rights should be in Commission ' made six recommendathe U.S. District Court for the district or tions: dntricto in which lie the Indian Reservaof Indian the At any First, request tion and the water body to be a indicatribe the Secretary of the Interior or such ted. Indian tribes may initiate such acother federal officer as the Congress may tions and the United States and affected designate should conduct studies in coIndian tribes may be joined as parties in of Indian with the tribe the operation any such action. The jurisdiction of the water resources, and the human resourdistrict court in such actions federal ces available to its Reservation. An obshould be exclusive, except where Article ject of the studies should be to define and Constitution of HI the grants jurisdiction quantify Indian water rights in order to develop a general plan for the use of an (Continued Page 6) . non-India- 579-pag- non-India- n non-India- |
