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Show . Thursday, August 29, 1974 He Uto Bribtk Utah Indian Beauty Pageant Planned for Early Autumn The majestic Timpanogos Mountains .will be the backdrop for the Fifth Annual Miss Indian Utah Pageant slated for early fall. Pageant Director Jan McNeil announced the competition will be staged Sept. 7 at the Sundance Ski Resort in Provo Canyon. The title carries a $1,000 scholarship to the winner and $500 scholarships for each of the two alternates selected by the panel of judges. According to Mrs. McNeil, the pageant judging will begin promptly at 8 a.m. on Saturday. The contest is open to young women who are residents of Utah or students enrolled in one of the universities, trade schools, or other schools in Utah, or young women who are working and who have been living in Utah for at least three months prior to the pageant. The title holder is required to remain in Utah for at least one year. $1,520; Maine, $10,817; Michigan, $8,259; Minnesota, $58,412; Mississippi, $14,675; Montana, $124,625; Nebraska, $14,366; Nevada, $29,992; New Mexico, $152,378; New York, M0,87i North CamUM, Dakota, eav.oxu; Uklahoma, $17,180; Oregon, $16,885; South Dakota, $177,590; Texas, $6,096; Utah, $10,904; Virgina, $602; Washington, $86,846; Wisconsin, $23,971. $54,572; and Wyoming, - V..; f , ' at Fort Duchesne. The Tribal structure far the tribal .Fred Conetah is heading a Nixon's Policy Assessed as Years End in History Self-Determinat- beauty; Indian talent presentation; question response (finals ot only); and knowledge of national Indian movements and problems. An arts and crafts exhibition will be featured during the pageant. Sales, demonstrations and Indian food booths will be displayed by various Indian groups. A buffet supper will be served from 4:30 p.m. to 7 p.m. and the pageant finals will follow at 7:30 p.m. at the Sundance Summer Theater. Reservations for the dinner and pageant may be made directly to the Sundance Resort at Hie deadline for applications is Sept. 2. Application forms may be obtained from the Ute Tribe Public Relations Office in Fort Duchesne. . 225-410- Ute Named To Commission Ute Tribe was recently appointed to the Governors Commission on the Status of Women. Irene Cuch, tribal administrative officer, was named by Utah Governor Calvin Hampton to complete a one-yeunexpired term caused by a vacancy on ar the Commission , . ' The Commission, which was created by Executive Order in 1968, includes a membership of 15 women appointed by the Governor. In addition to her responsibilities at the tribal offices, Mrs. Cueh serves on the Board of Directors of the National Council on Aging, the Governors Comprehensive Health Planning Board, and is a former member of the National Council on Indian Opportunity.. Indian Preference Task Farce Created ' Following the- recent Supreme Court decision on Indian preference, Michael J. Reid, cheif of Interiors Office of Personnel Management, has been named to head a task force of Interior, HEW, IHS and - personnel staff to assess the impact of recent Mancari and Freeman decision on the BIAs policy of Indian preference. HEW and Interior interpretations are presently at variance, said Reid, and one' job of the task force will be to establish uniformity there. Working groups will be developed to weigh changes in regulations. possible further legislation, and procedural changes necessary. BLA WASHINGTON, D.C. -(- ion AIPA)- In the days immediately following the unprecedented and historic resignation of President Richard M. Nixon under a dark cloud of scandal and certain impeachment in the House of Representatives and conviction of charges in the Senate, a review of the Nixon years in Indian affairs is in order. The Nixon administration, beginning January 20, 1969, has been in the eyes of even the most critical observers one of the most active in Indian affairs since Indian New Deal" that of the under Democratic President Franklin D. Roosevelt in the 1930s and 1940s. The Nixon Indian policy itself, defined without as Indian termination, meant essentially giving so-call-ed federally recognized tribes greater A prominent businesswoman of the i DECADES OF UTE HISTORY -- des provide transitional employment for $3,650; Kansas, $2,425;' Louisianna. , Judging will be based on the moccasins, authenticity of dress-indudress, jewelry, hair, and accessories; poise and personality; above average knowledge of tribal customs,, traditions and heritage; ability and skill to do traditional Indian arts and crafts, i.e., bead work, weaving, cooking, sewing, preparing wool, tanning, etc.; natural e, California. $39,361; Colorado, $12,947; Florida. $8,184; Idaho, $22,869; Iowa, f- - one-hal- Comprehensive Employment and Training Act (CETA). Initial allocations, made for the fiscal year ending June 30, excluded funds for Indian any urban and communities. But under appropriations requests totalling $42 million for the current fiscal year, both reservation and Indian communities will be receiving allocations in the next eleven months. Initial allocations to tribes were tiny, according to Jack Hashian, spokesman for the Office of Indian Manpower Programs, but, said Hashian: We decided to divvy it up regardless of how it would look. Our understanding is that they, (the small reservations) would form area-widstatewide and interstatewide consortia in order to qualify for funds. The new allocations are earmarked to one-thir- '' , Contestant must be of f, or Indian American blood. more, Contestant must be between the ages of 18 through 26, and must have turned 18 prior to entering the contest. Contestant must be single, and must have never been married. Contestant is required to pay a $5 entry fee which is payable the day of judging. Contestant is required to wear the authentic dress of HEIR tribe (can be traditional or modern) during the contest Contestant must not have a police record, or convicted on a felony charge. Contestant must be of high character and qualified to represent Indian people. WASHINGTON. D.C. -(- AIPA)- The Office of Indian Manpower Programs in unemployed and underemployed Indians on state and federal reservations, and to provide training. to enable persons to move into unsubsidixed jobs, said Hashain. According to new guidelines, not more d of persons participating in than the use of the new funds can presently fill a professional capacity, with the exception of schoolteachers. Preference is to be extended to veterans, welfare recipients, and former Labor Department manpower trainees. The Offiee of Indian Manpower Programs has required at least a 6.5 percent unemployment on each qualifying reservation, with a reservation population of at least 1,000 persons. On a state by state basis, following are amounts allocated for all tribes within that state: Alaska, $5,800; Arixona, $817,198; f ? Other eligibility requirements for the pageant are: Labor Department Funds Employment Program for Tribes the Labor Department has allocated a total of $1,855,000 to 214 state and federal Indian tribes under Title II for public service employment of the - control over their existence without ending the federal trust responsibility. On July 8, 1970, Nixon sent his Indian Mmus to Congress, and accompanying it was a package of eight bills set for enactment there. The famed Nixon Indian message, perhaps one of the d by presidential messages Indians in recent history, made the a major phrase of stated: the and time, phrase "It it long past time that the Indian policies of the federal government begin to recognize and build upon the capacities and intigktt of the Indian people. Both at a matter of justice and at a matter of enlightened social policy, we must begin to act on the basis of what the Indians themselves have long been telling us. The time has come to break decisively with the past and create the conditions for a new era m which the Indian future is determined by Indian acts and Indian decisions. . . among the Indian be encouraged can and must people without the threat of eventual termination. In my view, in fact, that is the only can effect-- , way that be fostered. ively This, then, mast be the goal of any new national policy toward the Indian people: to strengthen the Indians sense of autonomy without threatening his sense of community. We must assure the Indian that he can assume control of his own life without being separated involuntarily from the tribal group. And we must make it dear that Indians can become independent of Federal control without being cut off from federal concert. --.m.juvnu support. . . most-quote- . "Self-determinati- on Nixon 1909 to 1974 The federal Indian budget increased dramatically since 1969 under the Nixon administration to an overall $1.6 billion dollar figure in the current fiscal year budget requests. From 1969 to the current fiscal year in the Bureau of Indian Affairs (BIA), funding for that agency rose from $249 million to $635,million. Building on precendents set in previous administrations, the Nixon administration increased the number of Indians positions across the lidding high-levfederal bureaucracy. BIA Area Directors themselves are now predominantly American Indians, and Indian superintendents have become a hallmark of the el Nixon yean. Load Ratonis Sometimes with the initiative of the Nixon administration, sometimes with its support and sometimes despite its opposition, major land restorations have occurred few Indian groups: Taos Pueblo received its historic Blue Lake back in 1970, Mt. Adams was returned to the Yakimas in 1972, the Alaska Natives received 40 million acres of land under the Alaska Native Land Claims Act of ,1971, the Warm Springs Tribe obtained the 60,000-acr- e McQuinn Strip in 1972, the Tonto Apaches were granted land in Arizona, the Fort Mojave Tribe in the last few months was restored lands involved in a longstanding controversy, Menominee country in Wisconsin was restored to federal trust status, and the Colvilles and Spokanes in Washington were restored jurisdiction over the lake surface area along the Columbia River. (The Offiee of Management and Budget in ' the White House, however, opposed other portions of the Nixon sdministra--; sub-- 'i tion over return of certain of marginal lands to a number tribes.) so-call- ed NowOfficM In the eyes of some, the creation of new offices in the bureaucracy is one measure of responsiveness of human needs. Following widespread Indian discontent in the Dakotas , and the Southwest in 1972, the Offiee of Indian Rights was created in the Justice Department in April of 1972 to protect the dvfl rights of Indian people. An Indian Desk was created in the offiee of minority Busineas Enterprise (OMBE) in the Commerce Department, a new Offiee of Native (Continued on page 5) . |