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Show -4- - Its Wildlife Federations Presses For Government Study Of Indian Fishing, Hunting Rights Local Tidbits Spring wedding bells rang for Wilson Taveapont and Patricia Silva as they spoke their marriage vows before Associate Judge Norma Jean Gray on April 15 in Fort Duchesne. The bride is from Ignacio, Colo. Mrs. Rose Van of Los Angeles, Calif, is visiting with her sister Mrs. Carrie Taveapont in Fort Duchesne. She motored from southern California with her son and family, the Wilford Parriettes. The Parriettes then traveled to Minnesota before returning home. cadet at the Bureau of Indian Affairs Indian Police Academy is Richard Mountain of the Ute Tribal police force. will continue his Officer Mountain training at Brigham City until the end of June. A new ( I If you have received correspondence with strikeovers or typing, the chances are that the bosses have had to type their own correspondence while the clerks and secretaries were in Brigham City refining their office techniques and office skills. Students at the National Indian Training Center on the Intermountain Campus the week of April 14 were Becky Nielson, Community Action Program; Sandy Bywater, Economic Development Administration Planners Office; Sherrie Chapoose, Juvenile Court; Charlene Nephi, Fish and Game; Denese Thompson, Alcoholism Program; Shirley Frost, Alcoholism Program; Bonnie Van, Bottle Hollow Resort; Percelins Gardner, Bottle Hollow Resort; and Jane Taveapont, Tribal Switchboard Operator. Joan Noble Heavyrunner was recenty appointed as a member of the credit committee for the Tribe's Short-Terlanding Program. She will replace Myron Accuttoroop who was elected to the Business Committee. Manpower Programs Director Linda Garcia and JoAnn Murray, secretary, were in Albuquerque, N.M. last week visiting with Mary McCook who is a student at the Job Corps Center for Women. Miss McCook has been with the Job Corps for two months. She is studying to She was recently be a Uts Bubtis PA (AIPA) - The federal government should undertake with all possible haste a study of existing treaties with all tribes of American Indians with the intent of determining and making changes which are necessary to achieve the goal of equal rights for all its citizens and to insure conservation of fish and wildlife services. So declared Resolution 32 passed during the 39th annual convention of members of the National Wildlife Federation (NWF) here Mar. 15, which had been introduced earlier by NWF delegates from the states of Nevada and Washington. The NWF action nationwide in the was reported press and triggered a storm of reaction from Indian tribes and organizations. Said the NWF resolution in part: The National Wildlife Federation is dedicated to the principles of sound, scientific wildlife management... This organization upholds the Constitution of the United States of America, including those provisions which state that all citizens must receive equal treatment under the law, regardless of race, creed or color; Special privileges have been granted to minority groups who are citizens of the United States... Recent federal court decisions relating to Indian treaties and fishing and hunting rights have provided superior rights to treaty Indian peoples; ...these superior rights are creating serious adverse problems for the scientific management to fish and wildlife resources." Within a week of the passage of the NWF resolution, representatives from the Native American Fights Fund, Institute for the Development of Indian Law, Americana for Indian Opportunity,' National Congress of American Indians, Sierra Club and the American Friends Service Committee met with NWF officers in the nations capital to determine what NWF was going to do about its treaty resolution. It appeared from that meeting that NWF officers would soon request the Interior Department and perhaps its sub agencies, the Bureau of Indian Affairs, the Interior Solicitors Office and the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service to undertake the treaty rights study. There are problems where the rights ' of people other than Indians are being downgraded, said the NWF conservation director to the group, and that isnt right either. It's gone far beyond what originally was intended in the treaties. Are Indian citizens of the country or PITTSBURGH, not?" AIO President LaDonna Harris warned NWF officials that presented with two certificates for health on were the edge of a racial thing in and counselors aid. seeking to dismantle the treaty rights of Indians to hunt and fish. Another NWF official expressed his concern that a lot of shades of Indian Tribal Administrative Officer Irene blood, including individuals with only Cuch was one of the featured speakers at one thirty-seconthe Utah State University Indian Week degree of Indian blood, activities. She delivered a speech on were exercising treaty rights to fish in womens role in tribal government on the state of Washington, where a 1974 federal court decision reaffirmed the Monday which kicked off the week-lonon celebration the Logan campus. right of some Washington state tribes to fish outside their reservation boundaries Ms. Cuch has attended USU and in usual and accustomed on serves Governor's the places currently Commission on the Status of Women. specified by the treaties. Atty. Lee Price of the Institute for the Development of Indian Law warned that it was property rights, not civil rights of Indians that the NWF was assailing. Another NWF official said that the federation urged using only the harvestable surplus of fish for all purposes, and that the matter of the of fish stocks in many depletion The deadline for articles to be waterways was largely a matter of published in the next Ute Bulletin will be management of the fish resources. He said NWF was concerned not by Indians and to articles Please bring all fishing on their own reservations, but by picture before office that the Public Relations fishing off the reservations. The National Wildlife Federation is time. clerk-typis- located at 1412 16th ST., Washington, conservation DC 20036. The in 1936, formed which was organization, has strong ties with sports and game fishermen's lobbies in various states. The organization has affiliate chapters in all 50 states, plus Guam, Puerto Rico and the Virgin Islands. It publishes the magazines National Wildlife, International Wildlife and Ranger Rick for children as part of its environmental education non-prof- it programs. NWF President and Board Chairman is Walter L. Mims. Thomas L. Kimball is executive vice president. The wording of the NWF resolution here in Pittsburgh echoed the wording of an earlier resolution adopted by the Internationl Association of Game, Fish and Conservation Commissioners during its annual convention last Sept. 13 in Honolulu, Hawaii. The IAGFCC is thus also on record urging a special study of the Indian treaty rights question, but it asked Congress rather than the executive branch to conduct the study. NWF officials in the meeting with Indian representatives said they would Sonja Cuch To Attend Girls' State Sonja Cuch, daughter of Mrs. Russell Cuch of Lapoint, has been chosen to represent the Uintah and Ouray Unit of the American Legion Auxiliary at Girls' State. Miss Cuch, a junior at Union High School, will be among 350 girls from throughout Utah attending Girls State which will be held June 8 15 at Southern Utah State College in Cedar City. -- Girls' State is a mock political state where young women learn about the workings of government by participating as government leaders. Annual Bear Dances Announced A YOUNG MAN'S FANCY TURNS TO LOVE IN THE SPRING - So goes a n cliche; however, in Ute country the Utes fancy turns tc Bear Dances. water also Along with the coming of flowers and buds, of young life, of spring run-ocomes the time for the celebration of spring in the traditional way of Bear Dances. A common scene at the four communities of Ouray, Randlett, Whiteroclcs, and for the first time in many years a dance at Fort Duchesne, will be the traditional line-u- p of -- non-India- ff dancers. The dates and places for the annual Ute Bear Dances have been e) t. be willing to work with Indian tribes and organizations and would welcome those groups as participants in the study. announced. April d 24, 25, 26, May 27,1975 1,2, 3,4,1975 g Deadline Announced Fort Duchesne, Utah Charlie A twine. Chief Pete Mt. Sheep, Sub-Chi- Ouray, Utah Archie Serawop and Wallace Tabbee, Chiefs ef The corral will be constructed in the field south of the Ute Ceramic Shop off Highway 40. THE DATES FOR Feasts will be served on the last day of the dances. THE RANDLETT AND WHITIROCKS BEAR DANCES HAVE NOT BEEN ANNOUNCED YET. |