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Show Page 6 The Ute Bulletin Thursday, June 27, 1974 Tribe Hosts Annual Meeting Of Phoenix Area Health Board The Ute Tribe hosted members of the Phoenix Area Indian Health Board at that organizations quarterly meeting earlier this month. Representatives of tribes served by ten Indian Health Service clinics and hospitals attended the five day conference at Bottle Hollow Resort. Clarice Chapoose represented the Uintah and Ouray Indian Health Clinic. The board acts as an advisory committee to Phoenix Area Health Service Director. Former NCAI Leader Wins Council Seat Leon F. Cook, a Red Lake Chippewa who was president for two years of the National Congress of American Indians (NCAI) and one of the topsiders in the administration of former Indian Commissioner Louis R. Bruce, won a seat on the Red Lake Chippewa Tribal Council at Red Lake, Minn., in elections May 23. Of particular importance to the Ute Tribe was a resolution, passed by the board, stating that training for tribal health boards should be provided at no cost to the tribes. Though the Ute Tribe does not yet have a health board to advise the U and 0 clinic, the area board emphasized the need to have one appointed. Such a board will probably be appointed in July bv the tribal hncino committee, according to Charles Wells, clinic director, and Homey Secakuku, Business Committee representative to the Indian Health Service. Speakers at the conference included Dr. Charles S. McCammon, Phoenix Area Indian Health Service director; Bob Marsland of the Office of Indian Community Resources and Eugene Wilson, Tribal Affairs Officer for the Indian Health Service. Perry Sundust, chairman of the area health board, conducted the conference meetings. During their stay board members toured the U and 0 reservation and enjoyed a cook-ou- t Canyon youth camp. at the Uintah - Was the featured dish at the recent ceokout far the RARBEQUED CHICKEN Phoenix Area Indian Health Beard at the yeuth camp lu Uintah Caayea. The chefa for the evening were from left William Streitz, superintendent of the Uintah and Ouray Agency; Homey Secakuku, Business Committee member; Charles Wells, Service unit director of the Indian Health Clinic; and Frances Ankerpont. Community Health Representative. Senate Adopts Indian Policy; Jurisdiction Returned to Tribes Self-Determina- tion A WASHINGTON, D.C. -(- AIPA)concerted effort in the Senate to shed finally and completely the federal termination policy adopted by the Congress over 20 years ago was reflected in the passage of a resolution May 27 which establishes as national Indian policy, and in the introduction of legislation which would restore civil and criminal jurisdiction to tribes in several states. resolution was The introduced by Senate Interior Committee If Chairman Henry M. Jackson, it wins the approval of the House, the resolution will officially reverse the termination policy adopted by Congress on Aug. 1, 1953. The Jackson resolution would establish that it will be the policy of the federal government to give Indians the freedom and encouragement to develop their individual, family, and community anti-terminati- Voters. Fail to Defeat Election Ordinance at Polls special election held last month which called for a referendum vote on Tribal Ordinance No. 74-0- 1 failed to draw the necessary number of voters to make the election decision finding. The ordinance which prescribes rules and regulations for general The elections, recall petitions, and referendum elections stands as adopted by the Tribal Business Committee last January and as amended in February. The tribal constitution provides that at least 30 per cent of all eligible voters must cast ballots in a referendum vote. One hundred and of a needed 214 ballots twenty-fo- ur were cast in last month's vote on the oridnance. Seventy-nin- e of those voting favored the revocation of the ordinance while 45 voted against .revocation. Ballots were cast in the 'five reservation communities. potential and to determine their own future to the maximum extent possible. It further states that maximizing opportunities for Indian control and shall be a major goal of our national Indian policy." Another significant point in the resolution states that the Office of Management and Budget (OMB) should submit an annual report to the Congress showing departmental and agency expenditures for Indian programs. It also addresses federal policy to Indians to the extent that the resolution recognizes that they should be given equal consideration with other citizens in receiving federal services. On May 30, during the same week as the Senate voted passage of the Indian policy resolution. Sens. James Abourezk, and Mark O: Hatfield, cosponsored legislation to partially repeal which was enacted in Public Law M R-Or- D-S.- 83-28- 0, - LINING UP FOR THE BUFFET SUPPER Are members of the Phoenix Aren Indian Health Board. The local health units hosted the week-lon- g oesoion at Bottle Hollow Resort. The Board is an advissry body to the Area Health Director in NJ1 Phoenix, Aria. The eookout was held in Uintah Canyon. 1953. Public Law 280, which passed Congress at the height of federal termination fever, removed tribal jurisdiction over civil and criminal proceedings to state control in most reservations of California, Minnesota, Nebraska, Oregon and Wisconsin. Alaska was added to this list in 1958. Provisions of the act also enabled nine states to assume' varying degrees of jurisdiction over federal reservations. There were no provisions in PL 280 which required tribal consent for transfers of jurisdiction. Under the provisions of S.3552, the Abourezk-Hatfiel- d bill, the tribal governments would be able to adopt resolutions requesting restoration of federal-tribjurisdiction as it existed before enactment of PL 280. Within 30 days following adoption of the resolution by tribes, the Secretary of Interior would be required to issue a proclamation announcing removal of jurisdiction. ai Within 10 days after issuing the proclamation, publication in the Federal Register would follow and the proclamation would become immediately effective. Many tribes which have lost jurisdiction through PL 280 frequently have complained that they have suffered because of selective law enforcement, inadequate police protection, questionable child custody and adoption procedures, and discriminatory practices in local judicial and corrections systems. Abourezk and Hatfield stated that they would rely on newly aroused Indian awareness" to generate support for the proposed legislation. . National Policy Meeting Reviews Federal Indian Budget Procedures WASHINGTON. D.C. -(- AIPA)-- A National Indian Policy Meeting here June 7 drew over 400 Indian representatives of tribes and organizations to air ways and means to pierce a curtain of obscurity surrounding the process by which the Office of Management and Budget (OMB) in the White House devises its budget on Indian programs, and to determine whether the federal bureaucracy was complying efficiently with President Richard M. Nixon's 1970 Indian Message. three-da- y 5-- Over 400 Indians representing 88 tribes and 78 organizations heard Frank G. Zarb, associate director in OMB for natural resources, energy and science stated I'm not surprised at or lack of consistency (with the Presidents policy). That's always a problem throughout the federal bureaucracy on any important policy." Indian Budget Following the appearance of federal officials and questioning of those officials, the assembly went into closed session to hear and review an alternative system by which federal Indian tribes could assure themselves direct input into the Interior Department's Indian budget during the 16 months it was in the making. Assembled Indians heard for two days specifics on a proposed budget delivery system wherein federally recognized tribes could handle their own budget systems under the requirements of public law. An ad hoe Indian technicians committee told the assembly the Secretary of Interior must advise Indian tribes of all planned budgetary expenditures as well as all projects planned or underway in Indian country, before that budget was submitted to the White House, OMB and the Congress. The alternative system was devised by an interim Indian budget committee consisting of 21 technical and budget specialists. The technicians showed the participants graphs of computerized data on Indian tribal budget priorities established by the tribes themselves over the past year, and compared tribal priorities with priorities embedded in the new BIA budget. Significant variances emerged: the computerized tribal trend rate indicators" showed the tribes wished the highest BIA expenditures to occiir in the area of trust responsibilities-- and protection of land and resources, "rather than on the education of lndizfai. The BIA s tribal resource development budget and Indian human and wigl . (Continued on Page 7) |