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Show Votana PuMshed by Ule Tribe Number Fort Dueheene, Utah MOM Thursday, August f, 1073 UtesNewLodge pern To Adventure Seekers Uteland is growing and spreading out Capitalizing on natural resources and sharing the scenic beauty of the Uintah and Ouray Reservation, the Utes have opened a vacation retreat in the heart of Desolation Canyon. Florence Creek Lodge was officially delivered the dedication followed by the ribbon-cuttinby Irene Cuch, Tribal dedicated last month when Tribal repAdministrative and member of Officer BIA and Utah resentatives, personnel Indian OpporCouncil on the National officials of Trails Ute were State guests & and framer U 0 and Rivers. tunity Superintendent Stan Lyman, now of the Phoenix Area A caravan of seven vehicles traveled e route to the Utes' newest Office. the float trip Reservations for a four-dacomplex, floating the last seven miles in down the Green River from Ouray to the rubber rafts on the Green River. Florence Creek Lodge are available from Tribal Chairman Homey Secakuku Ute Trails and Rivers Enterprise. This gave the opening speech at the dedication package, which will especially appeal to program followed by Frank Arrowchis, urban dwellers, includes air transportamanager of Ute Trails and Rivers Enterfrom the resort to the launching tion prise. Other speakers included Bill Freeman of the Washington BIA Central sight of Ouray and return from Green & 0 Superintendent Bill River City to the resort. All facilities, Office; U Streitz; John A. Artichoker Jr., Phoenix including lodging at the Resort, are Area Director, Frank Timbimbo, Utah provided. For the less adventuresome, a smaller Governor Hampton's representative; John Kwiatkowski, Bureau of Land package is available. This trip involves a r float trip of seven miles and is Management; Elwyn DuShane and Fred launched from the mouth of Chandler Conetah, Ute Tribe Business Committee Canyon. and Budge Wilcox former owner of the (Additional history and pictures of the Florence Creek Ranch who reminisced Lodge and area may be seen on pages 6 & about the areas colorful past. 7). BIA Programs Officer Dennis Mower g 120-mil- y ISOLATED CANYON RETREAT - Opened last mouth by Ute Trails and Rivera enterprise, features modem accomodatioea at the end of a wideness trail. Smartly decorated rooms end a louuge is a welcomed sight to visitors who 120 miles through breathtaking canyon drive or brave the Green River rapids scenery. aitra-eomfwtab- le two-hou- Indian Members Take Oath In Summer Ceremony JtfCfO A national swearing-i- ceremony delayed by the turmoil in Indian country took dace last week in Albuquerque, N.M. U. S. District Court Judge Edwin L. Mechem administered the oath of office to eight Indian members ofh National Council on Indian Opportunity including Ute Tribal Member, Mrs. Jasper (Irene) Cuch. Certificates awarded by President Richard M. Nixon were presented through the federal judge to each new member following the brief ceremony in the Albuquerque Federal Building. in receiving grants available to tribes The national Council on Indian Opporwhich is attributed by lack of tribal tunity was established by a 1968 Execuincome for some tribes and the deadline tive Order to provide a mechanism for involvement by the Indian people in the dates for submitting proposals. A project initiated by NdO will review Federal policy and program process. A what the Federal government is dong in unique section in the federal government, the membership consists of eight Indian assistance programs and identify promembers and eight cabinet members and blems. Director Bob Gar lock of the Federal Indian Domestic Assistance Prois directed by Spiro The main functions of the council grams Study Project will do a field are to encourage full use Of Federal survey with 70 tribes. encourto benefit Indians; to programs PRIME RESOURCE age interagency coordination ami cooperThe controversial subject of Indian ation; to measure impact and progress of water rights was presented by Lotario Federal programs; and to suggest and recommend to improve existing proJerry Ortega who represented Interior Solicitor Ken FrizzelL He said Indian grams. n Vice-Preside- nt Ag-ne- REVIEWS FUNCTIONS The New Mexico organization meeting July 26, 27 and elected Yakima Tribal Chairman Robert Jim as the Chief Indian Member. Jim has 16 years experience in the tribal council and six of those years as chairman. In humor, he referred to himself as Landslide Jim", a title bestowed on him as he won a tribal election by one vote. A vote by acclamation selected Zuni governor Bob Lewis . convened of New Mexico as vice-chie- f. The need for Indian involvement dominated the two-da- y July session at the Southwest Indian Polytechnic Institute. A big problem for the council is the budget cut as there will not be enough money to accomplish the goals to help Indian people. The delivery of Federal programs to Indian tribes was another problem area to be debated. Small tribes have difficulty water rights exist because of Federal law and not state law and accordingly the Federal District court has jurisdiction to hear water rights cases. Several water rights cases were cited by Ortega including the Aiken Case on the Ute Mountain Reservation. He urged the NCIO members to request the Justice Department to reconsider Judge Finesilvers decision and an appeal be taken in the Aiken case. Ortega told the Council to be concerned with the quality of water rather than the quantity and to be concerned for water rights now before it becomes law. Other topics covered in the Council meeting were civil rights, the status of the reorganization and realignment of the Bureau of Indian Affairs, the protection of natural resources, and revenue sharing. A resolution stating the NCIO will work with national Indian organizations (Continued on Page 9) Papago Beauty Queen Named 20th Miss Indian America A vivacious, petite, Papago beauty queen was named the 20th young woman to wear the coveted Miss Indian America crown at the Annual Indian Days in Sheridan, Wyo., the end of last month. Maxine Norris, whose Papago name Ho' Hoc A Mai means Butterfly stated My goal in life is to teach health on the Papago reservation when interviewed in the Miss Indian America Pageant In a telephone interview the new Miss Indian American said I feel honored and I feel good to be able to represent my people. She will interrupt her school year at Arizona State University where she is a junior mqjoring in secondary health education for a year to represent the. 600,000 native American Indian people in' the UB. She earned an Associate of Arts degree from Central Arizona College. - Maxine entered the Miss Indian America competition as Miss Indian Ariand Miss Papago 1972-7- 3 zona 1978-7and in addition as honor attendant for Louise Edmo. She appeared in the July, 1978, issue of Redbook magazine in an article entitled 14 Arizona Women: How old They Stay Beautiful. The Mr. of is Mrs. and the daughter queen Max Henry Norris of Casa Grande, Ariz., and she has two brothers. e maiden from A Owyhee, Nev. was selected the alternate for Miss Norris. Clare Manning is the reigning Miss Indian Nevada and is a third yer student at the Univesity of Nevada. che is the daughter of Chairman and Mrs. Arthur Manning. Claralynn West, White Mountain Apache, from Show Low, Ariz. was named Maxine Norris. . .Mils Indian America (Continued on Page 3) 4 21-ye- ar Paiute-Shoshon- |
