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Show Page 8 The Ute Buletia Nnon Dudgot Gives Indian Bureau Now Look for FY 75 WASHINGTON, D.C. -(- AIPA)- The Bureau of Indian Affairs (BIA) hopes to contract out to Indian tribes, organizations and individuals nearly $159 million, or of its $684,682,000 appropriation request to the Congress for the coining fiscal year submitted by President Richard M. Nixon. To achieve this end, a new look" has programmed and budgeted work. If any been given to the BIA's budget for fiscal tribe decides against contractual year 1975. In the categories of Education, arrangement, the services which they Indian Services, Tribal Resource Dewould have otherwise received will not be terminated or diminished. velopment, General Management and Facilities Operations and Construction, a President Nixon in his January State of new line item has been added which reads the Union message to the congress also Direct Indian Operation. underscored this point, stating: Looking The dollars shown next to the phrase forward, I shall ask that the BIA make are the amount of that program the BIA specific plans to accelerate the transfer of hopes to contract to Indians. Thus, the significant portions of its programs to BIA is requesting $219 million for Indian Indian tribal management, although I education. The BIA will control repeat my assurance that, while $119,234,000 of that amount, and accelerated, these transfers will not be forced on Indian tribes not willing to $67,675,000 will go into Direct Indian Education Operations to be controlled accept them. by Indians through contracting. It is also stressed by the Nixon Although for bookkeeping reasons, and BIA budget officials administration says BIA budget officials, Direct Indian that appropriate administrative costs Operations" does not appear under the incurred by the tribe, organization or category of Road Construction, the BIA in carrying: our the work individuals does hope to contract with Indians for will be included in that contract under $3,486,000 of its fiscal year 1975 Road contract. Construction operation. However, the ability of the BIA to The only BIA program area for which include administrative overhead costs in Indians will not be able to contract is contracts with tribes is directly those Trust Responsibilities and Services, to related the projected 10 percent because these programs involve the personnel reduction. The BIA estimates approval function over the disposition of that nearly $20 million of the $159 million trust assets- -a function which has to be it hopes to contract will be earmarked for performed by an employee of the federal these administrative overhead costs. government. This figure of 120 million almost equals The new look of the BIA budget, amount of savings the BIA will realize the coupled with the 10 percent rollback in from the 10 percent personnel BIA Area Office and Agency personnel announced by Indian Commissioner Morris Thompson on Jan. 8, are only attempts to position the BIA so that Bdlcdoor tribes which desire to do so will find it easier to contract to run BIA programs, (Csafiooad frws Page 5) insists the Nixon administration. He recently spent several weeks going This positioning is stressed repeatMexico, Yucatan and Guatemala through edly in the new fiscal year budget- - For where his music provided a natural bond. example, under Education in the BIA the saw of the Mayans. They I mysteries budget one finds the following phrases: have a of life-l- ots of different way . In accordance with the policy of live lots and of They by planting. hunting funds estimated for direct live in ours. I saw tribal operations but, at the discretion of their ruins and toe the some similarities tn features between tribes, not used for direct Indian the Plains Indians. the and Mayans education operations, will be otherwise to learn was from each eager expended by the BIA to carry out Everyone other. They wanted to meet this Norte Americano Indio. ' The Mayans have their own language, and some speak Spanish. They like to hear songs. " Hes also been up on Canada's Stoney Reserve in the Province of Alberta north of Montana for the traditional medicine" gatherings there in the heart of the summer for the past few years. Tents are new eight-pag- e NEW YORK, N.Y.--raised, fires are lit, and the sacred things bulletin published quarterly by the examined. Any Indian who has the Association on American Indian Affairs feeling to inquire into traditional spiritual beliefs and traditional ceremony-th- is (AAIA) entitled INDIAN FAMILY be something to try to get to see, would DEFENSE focuses on the removal of in families the from their Indian children deeper side of existence... the good what AAIA calls the child welfare feelings. " (There is a deep streak of the Indian crisis. According to an AAIA survey of in him. Earlier he had said: blues states with large Indian populations, There's an optimistic side to existence, of all 25 and Indian 35 percent between to a lot of things over which I but relate families from children are separated their man has no control. Man is in for a pretty and placed in foster homes, adoptive homes or institutions-a'n- d the problem is sudden and severe shock. It has to do with mans sanity and stability. So many calls child welfare AAIA the worsening. crisis "perhaps the most tragic aspect of things are pulled toward helplessness--thing- s American Indian life today. happen despite a man's will. Beneath it all, the basic establishment of The first issue of INDIAN FAMILY nature is reacting.) DEFENSE includes a perspective article Westerman has been moving comet entitled The Destruction of Indian like across the country and the things abduction on brief a the Families, story hes seen and heard have struck him in a of a young Oglala Sioux girl by two particular way. "It does something to you Christian women in Wisconsin, baby n families who to have notoriety, he confesses. "Theres farms" of thereby boost their income, court and a lot offrustration. Just like every other legislative actions in the making, tribal American. Tm becoming increasingly and intertribal initiatives to halt this frustrated by the inaction of the to respond trend, and a refusal by the BIA to release government to respond-a- nd correctly. critical statistics'll the problem. Overall "The more we see America fall apart, one which a bleak and tragic picture-a- nd more we look to our own communities the bodes ill for the cultural identity survival see to if they are secure. But the white of the Indian child. For a free subscripclass and the lower class get middle DEFAMILY tion write: INDIAN 432 Park Ave. South, FENSE, AAIA, poorer, and look whats happening to call: Or 10016. N.Y. (212) New York, Indians. Rural schools are being shut down, needed services are being lost and one-four- th - Sow - Are dewoastrstod by oatnadi workers left LIFE SAVING TECHNIQUES Mrs. Geo McCoy and Mrs. Louise Cock. BIA Criminal Investigator Robert Gahrk conducted four session course in fractures, bleeding and aonth-t- o mouth resuscitation and cardiac pulmonary resuscitation external heart massage but mouth. Ressud-Ann"a special mannequin designed with a meter measuring the air intake and hand pressure, was used by the Community Health Representatives Mrs. Ruby Black, Mrs. Ingrid Wopaock, Mrs. Frances Ankerpout, and Mrs. Betty Cuch, Mainstream worker, to illustrate the combination reouadtation techniques. e, It's Members Only For Big Game Hunt, Officials Say lor deer, elk and antelope and will be in effect until further notice. Aerial and ground studies of migration ratios will be patterns and continued by the tribal fish and game department to determine future game population and policy. Acting on the recommendation of the Tribal Fish and Game Advisory Board, the Business Committee has again closed tribal lands for big game hunting to all persons who are not members of the Ute fawn-buck-d- Tribe. The restriction indudes hunting in an almost tragic state. Theres a belief that the BIA will provide services. But the BIA is mutilated by AIM and not yet back up on their knees. The life-nee- ds and necessities are just not there. Theres lots of repetition and bureaucracy underneath a desire for something better. Between guidlines and innovation where Indian problems get hung up." . New Quarterly Focuses on Child Welfare Crises A non-India- 689-872- 0. . InAm Activism "A lot of people," he replies, even in the Indian world put down Wounded Knee. It was by no means all negative-- it increased awareness of Indian needs on n the part of the public. The central question about Wounded Knee is what AIM asked, not what AIM did. The issues are valid and reaL We all must pay more heed to the issues. Now we have the AIM trails the issues of the American Indian being taken to court. A good legal defense gives ns a better long shot. " He admires a great many people, but foremost among them are the lawyer-brotheSam and Vine Deloria, Eugene Crawford (a fellow tribesman to boot) and LaDonna Harris of Americans for Indian Opportunity (AIO). 7 admire all those Indians who believe in the cohesion of a stable starting point and basis of Indian life, he says. Theres still some futileness in the Indian world. non-India- rs li fit Purfon cbi When he sings concerts, he receives the standard fees of the concert circuit. But over half his time is now devoted to benefit performances, and those who invite him to sing expect him to play for free, including the provision of his own travel. "I wish benefits included a fare and a small fee, " he muses. Mine are complete freebies. ' There are not enough dollars in the Indian world and we have to track white dollars. But a lot of people think I make a lot of money. I dont. I have no steady job. It comes when it comes-wh- en I do a concert and such. And I have conflicts m a controversy with Perception over royalties on his two recordings for Ive never been paid. There have been breaches on both sides, and you just make an settlement. ; Td rather get it said than see what I can get out of it." Now hes looking ahead to the recording of his third album, despite the problems. "The first album maybe had too much meter and articulation. Maybe in this next one I'll use my own slur style, which I think is more relaxing... and better. " What does he think is the hardest aspect of his national prominence as one of the best known Indian balladeers in which out-of-co- i V America? Saying the right thing even when I'm nervous and unprepared. . Jewelry Class Slated to Begin For Ute Youth . A Provo based manufacturer of Indian jewelry is recruiting Indian youth for training slated to begin this spring. . The training course is second in a series of instruction available to Indian youth who are 16 years of age and over, Ute students Danny Shavanaux and Leo Cesspooch are currently enrolled in the first class. At the end of the four month training period Rhodes Enterprises will hire students completing the course at a starting salary of $2.25 an hour. According to Mrs. Anne Platt of the BIA Education Offioe there are 15 slots to be filled for the spring class which will begin May 5. The Utah Division of Rehabilitation Services will cover tuition and fees of $575 if the student qualifies for rehabilitation. In addition each student will receive $59 each week for living expenses through the manpower Development Training Aet. Interested persons may contact Lewell Martin at the Ute Tribe Alcoholism and Drugs Program, ext. 42, for further information. 722-226- 3, f , |
