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Show ThurajJjwwbwjWTS The Ute Bulletin Milwaukee Tulsa EXCHANGE OF IDEAS AND RENEWED DEDICATION To promote Indian education stimulated delegates to tlie NIEA convention. An estimated 3,000 Indian educators and interested people attended the fifth annual at the Marc Plaia Hotel in Milwaukee, Wise. Nov. Display 14-1- Milwaukee - 7. beadwork lined the fourth floor lobby and main lobby. national 5 TRADITIONAL GATHERING OF TRIBES Highlighted the Fifth Annual National Indian Education Association meeting. A modem dance sparked the previous night when it entertained the delegates. Traditional Indian foods were also sold at the pow wow held in the mflUou dollar ballroom of the Eagles Club in Milwaukee. booths containing brochures and containing traditional NCAI Meeting Pi W Indian Education (Continued from Page 4) Association Conference Largest Participation The NCAI drew its largest participation since 1969 when NCAI had convened in Albuquerque, N.M., and experienced its first vociferous opposition from younger and more militant Indian voices. Those voices, coupled with public stridency over divisions in the national Indian community, shipwrecked the 1971 convention in Reno, Nev., and left the future of the organization itself in doubt. Although the long shadow of Indian activism loomed large over the convention hall here, authorized tribal council voting delegates had more than doubled in numbers since 1972, however. Observers viewed the increased tribal presence as a reservation vote of confidence in NCAI, putting it squarely back on the road again as a major voice and spokesman for reservation tribal interests. Summit Meeting Top leadership of the American Indian Movement (AIM) attended the public, sessions as well as the closed preliminary meeting behind the proposed upcoming summit meeting in the offing. The AIM leaders themselves had attracted scores of Indians to the convention site. And behind the scenes, plans moved ahead in a series of secret gatherings of chairmen and militants to schedule the upcoming summit. Melvin White Eagle, chairman of 'the Standing Rock Sioux Tribe of the Dakotas, was the first chairman to agree to the advisability of a summit. Four other chairmen then followed suit. These were Quinault Tribal Chairman Joseph De La Cruz, Salt River Chairman Paul Smith, Quechan Tribal Chairman Elmer BRAVING THE BRISK, CRISP FALL AIR - Of Wisconsin was the Ute delegation to the Fifth Annual Convention of the National Indian Education Association at Milwaukee. A side trip to visit two Ute students at Kemper Hall in Kenosha gave the entourage left to right Noma Denver, Caenna Jenks, Helen Wash, Carieen Ignacio and Daisy Jenks, an opportunity to see the countryside and the campus of the private prep school by Lake Michigan. The fifth annual meeting of Indian educators disseminated information through workshops and speakers including the three nominees for Deputy Commissioner for Indian Education and . representatives from educational programs throughout Indian country. Savilla, and Mississippi Choctaw Chairman Phillip Martin. Although the press was excluded from the secret deliberations, AIPA learned that AIM made a statement of purpose" on its organization to the chairman, and also aired proposals for a moratorium on militant activities extending from two months to a full year. It was understood by both parties, on the word of the AIM leaders, that AIM viewed itself as embroiled in and nearly immobilized by a host of court actions against its membership arising from the events of late 1972 and 1973. Ernest L. Stevens chaired the secret preliminary sessions. Until this past January he. was a top BIA official, and is now a member of American Indian Consultants, Inc., of Phoenix, Ariz. The nomination of Morris Thompson as Indian Commissioner by the White House to the Senate was announced to the assembly by Bradley F. Patterson Jr., special White House minority affairs assistant. Thompson later arrived here to j meet informally with convention dele-- , gates pending his confirmation hearings in the Senate. |
