The Ojibwe News (Bemidji, Minnesota), 1990-06-20

              Former IHS Director
convicted in federal court
The appeal of Alan Allery, former
Bemidji Area Indian Health Service
Director, was denied in the Federal
District Court of Appeals in St.
Louis, Missouri, on June 4th. Allery
was indicted for three counts of
filing false travel vouchers in 1989.
Court documents indicate that the
court "had disposed on the case June
4th, 1990". A decision was made by
the court not to grant his appeal to
be exonerated of the conviction
made by the 8th Circuit Court.
The ruling of the lower courts to
convict Allery was upheld,
effectively denying the appeal. He
will be incarcerated within 3 to 5
weeks.
Prosecuting Attorney Jim Lachner
said that "the 8th circuit denied his
appeal on both grounds.They
affirmed the court below, affirmed
his conviction".
A mandate will go to the District
Court, and once that is returned and
filed, the Bureau of Prisons and the
U.S. Marshall's office will be
contacted. Allery will be taken into
custody onces the Bureau finds a
Alan Allery
placement for him.
Allery was indicted on three
separate counts of filing false travel
vouchers, and was sentenced to a
year and a day in prison for
convictions on two of those counts..
"The issue of when he will begin
serving his time is pending on the
Eighth Circuit Appeal," said
Lachner.
Baseball:
The Red Lake Warriors
finish a great season
The Red Lake Warriors finished the 1990 baseball
season with a stunning record after winning a place in
the state tournament by beating Roseau and Bagley in
the Region 8A competition held last week.
The Warriors took Roseau 7-6 in 10 innings and
Bagley 9-7 to take the Region 8A title.
The wins, against highly ranked teams, set the stage
for the state tournament held in St. Cloud. Although
they were defeated by the Waseca Bluejays, the
Warriors finish a grand season of baseball.See page 10.
Softball:
The White Earth Powwow
Softball Tournament
This year's Powwow tournament drew a great many
local teams to the fields in and around White Earth.
The Roy Lake Men's Team finished undefeated; the
Pine Point II Women's Team and Mahnomen Old
Timer's Team took first in those tournaments. For
teams, all-stars and MVP's seepage 10.
Scott Roy, of Roy Lake, was chosen as the MVP daring last weekend
Powwow Softball Tourney in White Earth.     (photo by M.Boswell)
Brun sworn in as
new Tribal Chairman
Ojibwe News staff
In the continuing power stuggle at
the Red Lake Indian Reservation,
the man who defeated Roger
Jourdain announced that he was
sworn in to begin his term as tribal
chairman last Thursday evening.
Gerald "Butch" Brun took the oath
of office just hours after Jourdain
lost a critical appeal in tribal court.
Jourdain will contest his defeat at
a second tribal court hearing on July
16th said Marjorie A. Roane, his
attorney.
Jourdain is expected to argue that
more than 300 absentee ballots went
uncounted while still other ballots
were mishandled. "We have another
chance," Roane said.
However, the decision by Tribal
Judge Margaret Treuer was on
Thursday was a serious setback for
Jourdain, who seeks to maintain the
power he has held for the last 31
years.
Treuer's ruling allowed Brun to
assume his chairmanship while the
challenges continue regarding the
validity of the election. Brun
contends that the other new officers
will be sworn in at the next Tribal
Council meeting on June 21st.
Brun has spoken with the current
Brun/ see page 2
1990
White
Earth
Pow-Wow
Princess
Pageant
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This year's White Earth Pow Wow featured an annual Princess Pageant. The girls are all from
the White Earth Area and are judged for dress, dance, and cultural knowledge. This year's
contestants were: (From left oto right) Anna Fox 14, Francisca Smith 15, Cheyenne Norcross 9,
Robin Jones 13, Karen Jones 13, Sarah Wells 15, and Michaelene Norcross 15. Last year's Pow
Wow Princess was Vanessa Jones. (Photo by Mark Boswell)
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Founded in 1988
Volume 2 Issue 23
June 20,1990    |
Copyright, the Ojibwe News, 1990
Bemidji, Minnesota 56601
A Bi-Monthly Publication
McArthur wins White Earth Sec/Treas post
 Rawley, Eid, Fox protest election results	
By Mark Boswell
Editor
Eugene "Bugger" McArthur beat
incumbent Jerry Rawley by a twelve
vote margin in the race for the office
of Secretary/Treasurer in the White
Earth General Election.
In the June 12 election Rawley
recetyed 753 votes to McArthur's
765wy^hird candidate, Oscar
"Sum'v^h" Oppegard, garnered 402*
votes.
The end of Rawley's two terms as
Secretary/Treasurer came as a surprise
to some who were close to the race. A
May 31 article printed in the Detroit
Lakes Tribune quoted a White Earth
spokesperson who believed that
Rawley "had it in the bag"
The race, expected to gain a large
number of votes for Rawley, was
influenced greatly by absentee votes.
Traditionally, MCT elections are
won through the absentee tally. In
the past, candidates have won soley
on the count of additonal absentee
votes.
This was not the case in the race
for Secretary/Treasurer as McArthur
swept both Rawley and Oppegard
for on-reservation votes, and carried
heavily in absentee votes as well.
Rawley demanded a recount of the
ballots after the results were made
official last week, but was denied
such action by the White Earth
General Election Board. Requests
for recounts of ballots in past
elections have all been denied.
4<?arley M. Jasken, a member of the
election board said that the request
for a recount was respectfully denied
by the board. "We felt that we had
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Eugene "Bugger" McArthur
done as good a job as was possible."
Jasken said that nearly fifty people
witnessed the counting of the ballots
at the White Earth Humanities
Center in the early morning hours of
Wednesday, June 13. Janice Murray
and Jane Tibbits were other Election
Board members in attendance.
Two protests to the White Earth
General Election were verified by
Richard Tanner, a Tribal Judge from
Cass Lake. Tanner indicated that he
"received two protests of election
from the same reservation." These
protests were filed by Jerry Rawley
for the Secretary/Treasurer race; and
another was filed seperately on
behalf of District I incumbent
Sharon Eid and Alfred "Ray" Fox.
Filing of such protests must be done
within seven days of the election. As
of press time it is not known what
action has been taken on either of
these protests.
Rick Clark of rural Lengby took
the District I race by a wide margin
with 271 votes. Fox followed with
186 votes, and the incumbent Sharon
(Ojibwe News photo)
Eid received 91 votes, and Pete
Thompson garnered 65 votes.
District II Representative Steve
McArthur will remain seated after
her swept the ticket with 254 votes.
Of the six candidates in that race,
only Kelly Bunker came close with
148 votes.
For a full tally of election
results from all six Minnesota
Chippewa Tribe Reservations
see page 2.	
Recent developments in Wild Rice Country
By Frank Bibeau
Contributor
A number of recent developments
in Wild Rice country show hope for
"natural" wild ricers this season. The
three main developments were;
Governor Perpich signed the
"Manomin Act" into law creating the
"Minnesota Natural Wild Rice
Promotion Advisory Council;" the
rebirth of a Harvester/Processor/
Marketer organization, the
Minnesota Hand Harvested Wild
Rice Association; and a federal
lawsuit against Gourmet House, a
paddy rice company owned by
Anheuser Busch.
The Minnesota Natural Rice
Promotion Advisory Council will be a
Council for the promotion of wild rice,
but more importantly it will work on
the economic re-development of the
natural wild rice industry. The
advisory council must include
representatives of natural wild rice
harvesters, natural rice processors,
natural wild rice dealers who are
enrolled members of Indian tribes and
who are residents of Minnesota.
Advisory council functions shall
include but not be limited to
addressing the issues of trademarking,
labeling, package, consumer
awareness and marketing techniques.
The Minnesota Hand Harvested
Wild Rice Association (MHHWRA)
is an organization to serve those
strictly involved in natural wild rice
harvesting, processing and marketing,
and is totally independent of any
reservation, business or the state of
Minnesota. The goals of the
Association are to unite people in the
natural wild rice industry and keep
everyone informed through quarterly
newsletters about changes in the
wild rice laws, who is buying green
rice, where, and for how much, who
will process your green wild rice and
where anyone can buy finished
natural wild rice. Membership is
open to the public. The next meeting
will be held in Bena, Minnesota, at
2:00 p.m. June 23 at the Community
Center. Harvesters are encouraged to
attend as the three harvester board
members will be elected.
Litigation presently entitled
Voyaguer Trading Company v.
Gourmet Hose was filed in Federal
District Court, Duluth, Minnesota in
April of 1990. Gourmet House is a
subsidiary of Anheuser Busch
Agricultural Division, which has
been operating in Minnesota for
about 5 years. Charges include false
and deceptive marketing, predatory
and destructive pricing and improper
labeling. A group of marketers have
joined the suit, represented through
the MHHWRA by Blue-Dog Law
Offices. Additional charges will
include violations of Federal Codes
regarding selling goods in imitation
of Indian Made, and operating
without a MN/DNR wild rice dealers
license. The second product line for
Gourmet House, based in Grand
Rapids, Minn., is Onamia wild rice,
which displays two Indians in a canoe
hand harvesting wild rice. Gourmet
House's manager has admitted in
news articles that they buy rice from
all over the country and that he
could not be certain what rice is in
what packages.
"Trying to cling to the past is not
only self-defeating for Indians, but
also a little hypocritical," according
to a Los Angeles Times article. Dan
Erickson, manager of United Wild
Rice, the paddy growers cooperative
which supplies the Minnesota paddy
rice to Gourmet House was quoted
as saying, "They live in our houses
and drive our cars, if they want to
live in teepees or wooden huts with
fires and furs, that's fine, but they
can't live in both worlds."
This type of cultural exploitation
by multi-national corporations
demonstrates that 'white collar
crime' is here in Minnesota.
Membership in the
hand-harvesters' association is open
to the public. Three harvester board
members will be elected at the June
23rd meeting, and hand-harvesters
interested in participating in the
election are encouraged by the
association to attend.
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strawberry moon.
more
An interview with Vine Deloria Jr., author of
Custer Died for Your Sins: A Political Manifesto
and social critic by Robert Allen Warrior
.See page 8