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Show Thursday, Page 4 14, 1974 recreation Ute-Ovn- ed with REX Store Opens In IVhiterocks Rex LaRose Recreation Director By The second individually-owne- d Ute business opened its doors for business Feb. 2 in Whiterocks. The Indian Bench Grocery and Beauty Salon on the Whiterocks Road, five miles north of Highway 40, is owned and operated Ftbriry by Lester The tribal mens and womens teams are planning to participate in several basketball tournaments during the coming weeks. The girls' team has been invited to the Fort Hall Womens tourney 3 and to the Cedar City on February affair the following week. The girls are defending their crown. The men will play at Ethete, Wyoming this weekend and are scheduled to play their first game at 7:00 p.m. Saturday and Isabelle 21-2- Chapoose. The 40x76 foot store offers a full line of grocery and household items. Dry goods will be stocked in the near future, according to Mr. Chapoose. The beauty salon, scheduled to open within a few months, will be operated by Mrs. Chapoose. Business hours for the grocery store are 9 a.m. to 7 p.m. daily. 6-- Quits Awarded In ' Teen Club Raffle Winners of the recent quilt raffle sponsored by the Fort Duchesne and Randlett Teen Club were Jimmy Murray of Fort Duchesne and Allen Andrew of Roosevelt. The club raised over $100 for future activities through the project. The quilts were made by club members and ladies from the A.A. Center. Natiline Santio, assisted by Katherine Jenks, leads the girls organization. evening. The Ute Tribe 2 team will participate in the Cedar City mens division on Feb. 28 and March 1 and 2. The Chiefs will play at Fort Hall on March 9 and hope to improve over last years sixth place finish. We have also been invited to enter a high school-ag- e team in the annual event at Wind River, Wyoming on March 9 and are hoping to have all high school age boys out on Monday and Wednesday evenings from 5:30 to 7:00 for practice. 7-- Bingo FIRST IN LINE - Homey Secakuku, right, Ute Tribe Business Committe Chairman, was among the first customers of the new Indian Bench Grocery and Beauty Salon during an open house Feb 2. Helping Mr. Secekuku are Isabelle Chapoose and her sister-in-laLeya Gardner, Left. -- w, Hoopas Await Decision On Appeal For Lands The bingo games will resume at Randlett Friday Feb. 15 and at the Fort Duchesne Learning center on March 1. It is hoped a large crowd will come out and enjoy the games. This is primarily an adult event but we will allow the young people to play as long as they do not create any disturbance or disrupt the games. Conduct There have been several meetings held regarding the conditions of the new building and it has been decided that vandalism and disruptive conduct will not be tolerated and offenders will be removed from the building with the possibility of legal action very likely. This means that parents will be liable for any damage that their child may do and that it is their multi-purpo- The WASHINGTON, D.C. Hoopa Tribe of California is awaiting word from the U. S. Supreme Court that the court will hear its appeal from a decision rendered last Oct. 17 by the U. S. Court of Claims. The decision would force the tribe to share its revenue and government with nearly 3,000 Yurok Indians to the north. The Hoopas are outraged by the October claims court decision. Said Hoopa Tribal Chairman Peter Masten Jr.: It is our hope that our request for a hearing before the U.S. Supreme Court will be granted and that our desire to follow due process of law will be observed. As it now stands, we are faced by an unfair claims court decision that not only threatens to destroy our economy, but our ancient cultural values as well. This unjust decision we cannot accept. The Court of Claims has agreed with the Yuroks that an 1891 presidential Executive Order adding Yurok-owne- d lands to the Hoopa Reservation gave the Yuroks the right to share in all the assets of the enlarged reservation. The Yurok suit had been brought against the United States, because the Hoopas as a tribe enjoyed immunity from being sued and because the Hoopas did not have the resources to pay $16 million in retroactive payments sought by the Yuroks. The U.S. attorneys and the Hoopas take the position that the addition of the Yurok lands to their reservation, a tract of land called The Square, was only a technicality getting around an 1864 Act of Congress which forbade the creation of more than four reservations in the state of California. Since 1933, the timber on The Square" has been harvested and sold with the proceeds going only to the enrolled members of the Hoopa Tribe. The Yuroks sued the U. S. for its failure to include them in the distribution of monies from these sales. The U.S. could be liable for as much as $16 million in back payments. The Hoopa Tribe attempted to intervene in this suit and become with the U.S., but the of Court Claims would not permit it. The Hoopas were permitted, however, to submit amicus curiae or Triend of the court testimony. And now they have been permitted to become in the Supreme Court appeal. The Hoopa Indians are concerned because the claims court decision will not only mean the U.S. will have to make retroactive payments to the Yuroks, but also it will mean that they will become voting members of the Hoopa Tribe. Thus, the 1,345 Hoopas would become a minority on their own reservation. The Hoopa outrage at the claims court decision stemmed from the fact that, as they insisted, the Yuroks took allotments on the two tracts of land which were added to the Square by the executive order, then sold those allotments for a tidy sum. The Hoopa did not ask for, nor were they granted a share in the funds derived from these sales. For many reasons, the Hoopas never allotted most of the laud in The Square. It has been held all these years in communal ownership. Now, claim the Hoopas, the Yuroks are back after squandering their lands, trying to share in the fruits of the intelligent management of Hoopa resources.' The origins of the dispute between the Hoopa and Yurok Indians lie in actions taken by Congress and the executive branch of the federal government in the treaty lands was intended to give all the Indians vested rights in all the lands. If the Court of Claims decision is left to stand, the potential ramifications for all tribes is such that two national Indian oganizations, the National Congress of American Indians (NCAI) and the Continued on page 5 se responsibility to keep them under control. Minor offenses will result in banishment from the tribal building for a time. Crescent City Klamath 1860s. The Hoopas date their claim to a "vested right" in The Square" from an 1864 treaty they and three other related Indian bands signed with a representative of the U.S. government, one Austin Wiley. The Wiley Treaty" was never ratified by Congress. However, the Hoopas obeyed the provisions of the treaty by ceasing their hostility toward the U.S. and remaining on the reservation and the like. The Yuroks disparage the Wiley Treaty, stating that lack of ratification by Congress bars it from being considered a treaty in the constitutional sense. They insist that the 1891 Executive Order which added the lands at the mouth of the Klamath River and a strip of land in between to the Hoopas' Eureka A DISPUTE between two California Indian and 1L- - v-- rj which may be heard in the U.S. Supreme CourT UdsWrT tracts ef lands outlined on the map above. The that 1864 Act Congress and an unratified Executive Treat7"nve onlTfe -mnnbCT. W trike rfckt." I. -- ti. ..! TVS? strips ef land to The Square" made all of the land one reservation --.- jf Indians upon it vested righto to an the reservation land. -- AIPA Newsmap. |