The Ojibwe News (Bemidji, Minnesota), 1988-11-16

              STATE:
Minnesota deer season
should be good
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Locke to perform in area
Hoop dancer and traditional flutist Kevin Locke will be
performing in the area today and towmorrow.
Locke, a member of the Standing Rock Sioux Tribe, is an
international expert on American Indian culture, especially
the heritage of the Lakota people.
Locke has performed at the Kennedy Center in
Washington, D.C. and has made four professional recordings
featuring the traditional Lakota courting flute and oral
narratives of his native culture.
On Wednesday, Nov. 16, Locke will be at the Bemidji
Middle School at 8:30 a.m. and at the Cass Lake High
School at 1:45 p.m. On Thursday, Nov. 17 he will be at the
Red Lake High School at 1:45 p.m. and at the Beaux Arts
Ballroom on the campus of Bemidji State University at'7
p.m. Admission is free.
Locke's local performances are being sponsored by
Bemidji Area Indian Health Services, BSU's Indian Student
Services-Native Americans Into Medicine Program and
P.I.E.R. 9, Red Lake and Cass Lake High Schools, the
Bemdiji area schools and the Upper Mississippi Mental
Health Center.
Red Lake man killed
in one-car accident
An early Sunday accident has claimed the life of
29-year-old Lyle Laverne Donnell of Redlake.
Donnell w,as travelling on Highway 1 about eight miles
west of Redlake and was killed when he was partially
ejected through the sunroof of his pickup as it rolled over.
According to Red Lake Police, Donnell suffered massive
head injuries and died at the scene.
Frederick Dale Donnell, 29 of Redlake, was a passenger in
the truck and was taken to Red Lake Hospital with a broken
shoulder. The two men were cousins.
Hunter finds remains
of missing woman
A deer hunter has found the remains of Ruth Morrison, a
victim of Alzheimer's disease who wandered from her
rural Solway home four months ago.
Beltrami County Sheriff Orielle Norland said Saturday
the remains were found about two miles from Morrison's
home by Steve McNamara of Solway. McNamara reported
that he left his stand to make a deer drive and found a
&air of slacks, which he suspected might belong to
orrison, Norland said. McNamara took the slacks to
Morrison's family, who identified them as hers, the sheriff
said.
Sheriff's deputies were called and they worked with
McNamara and neighbors to locate the remains Friday.
Coroner Mark Robialater made positive identification of the
remains by comparing them to Morrison's X-rays at the
Bagley Clinic.
Morrison walked away from her home on July 5. An
intense air and ground search was conducted, with more
than 100 people helping state and local authorities.
Backroads: local music series to
be broadcast on KAWE/KAWB
The Minnesota backroads are the inspiration for a new
music series, Backroads premiering on KAWE/KAWB
channels 9 and 22.
Just as the backroads are a metaphor for rural living, they
also serve as a symbol of the music tradition of rural
Minneasota
The series was recorded at KAWE studios in Bemidji.
Each half-hour program features a different act of musicians
from the KAWE/KAWB viewing area. Acts to featured
include John Collins, Carl Baer, Red Freedom, Grant
Wilcox, Known Only Locally and many others.
Backroads\s scheduled to begin airing Nov. 26 at 10 p.m.
The series will be repeated every Monday beginning Nov. 28
at 10:30 p.m.
NATIONAL:
Cocaine reported on
Wisconsin reservation
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FAMILY PAGE:
Cigarette use declining,
cost increasing
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Volume 1  issue 26     Wednesday, November 16, 1988 |
Copyright Ojibwe News, 1988
Red Lake
contract
delayed
60 days
By William J. Lawrence
Publisher
According to informed
sources, the Red Lake Tribal
Council has requested a
60-day delay of the Public
Law 93-638 contracting of all
remaining activities of the Red
Lake Agency (Bureau of Indian
Affairs) which was scheduled
to begin Dec. 1, 1988. The
tribe was granted the 60-day
delay and contracting should
begin Feb. 1, 1989.
One source indicated that
the primary reason for the
delay is the lack of a
coordinated BIA-tribal
transition plan. The purpose of
the transition plan is to make
sure all pertinent events occur
on schedule so that on the day
of tribal contracting there will
be no delay or reduction in
services to Red Lake tribal
members.
Apparently, there has been
a major lack of communication
between the BIA and tribal
staff in preparing for the
transfer of management
responsibilities of the affected
programs. Annual value of the
programs affected is nearly $2
million.
The tribal council has
previously contracted over $1
million worth of programs,
making the value of the
combined tribal contract about
$3 million.
According to federal
regulations, the BIA is
required to assist the tribe in
contracting the desired
programs.
It appears, that in the Red
Lake situation, hostility has
developed between the BIA
staffers who are being laid off
and the tribal council. Most of
the BIA personnel are Red
Lake tribal members.
Sources say that pressure
from the soon-to-be laid off
personnel and their families on
the tribal council has resulted
in a second look by some
council members. According
A Weekly Publication
Bemidji, Minnesota 56601
A dancer rests during the Veteran's Pow Wow last weekend in Cass Lake at the Leech Lake Bingo Palace.
Photo by Aaron Fairbanks (courtesy Ourselves)
to one source, the council is
now split 5-to-5 on whether to
?o ahead with the takeover,
his split is said to be the
primary reason for the two-
month delay.
Perhaps the most notable
missing element of the tribal
council takeover effort is their
failure to mount any type of
recruitment effort to till the
jobs and positions of the
activities affected. Probably
most disturbing is the total
lack of advertising for law
enforcement positions, social
service/professional positions,
and the credit and management positions.
A call to the Red Lake
Agency administrative staff for
information on the tribal
contracting confirmed the lack
of communication between the
agency and the tribe, a lack of
knowledge of what was
expected of them, and a lack
of interest in assisting the
tribal council.
Sources indicated that
Washington attorney Fran
Ware is running the tribal
council takeover effort.
Sources also indicated that
Contract/ page 2
Bemidji rejects federal grant for low-income housing
Bemidji, Minn. (AP) - The City
Council has rejected a federal grant
of nearly $1.5 million for housing for
large, low-income families, even
though a city official says the
community needs such housing.
The council's rejection came
largely because "we don't feel the
city of Bemidji wants to be in the
home ownership business," said
Council Member Rosemary Given
Amble.
The grant would have been used
to buy 20 homes that need little
rehabilitation and would have been
rented to families who could not
otherwise afford to buy or rent.
The northern Minnesota city has
about 180 low-income families waiting for public housing assistance
and 50 to 60 of them need three
bedrooms or more, said Jim Klein,
director of the city's Housing and
Redevelopment Authority.
"I have people who have contacted us who have 10'^even 12
people in a family on a very low
income," he said.
The waiting list is two to three
years long, he said, and "realis
tically, some of those people will
never see housing."
Nevertheless, the council voted
6-1 Monday night to reject the
grant. "We want our residents of
Bemidji to own those homes if we
can possibly achieve that," Amble
said.
The city's only publicly owned
housing is 100 units for the elderly,
Klein said.
"We know that when someone
has a vested interest they're going
to take care of that home," Amble
said. "We're concerned about the
number of rentals we've had that
have had out-of-town owners that
really are not taking care of the
houses, and neighborhoods are
being just destroyed as a result."
The city had expressed interest in
a grant to build 20 houses of three
bedrooms or more, but was told
that it had little chance of winning a
grant for that purpose from the U.S.
epartment of Housing and Urban
Development (HUD). Instead, HUD
last month approved a $1,468,400
grant to buy existing houses.
Bemidji is the center of an
economically depressed area and
also gets "a lot of pressure" from
students at Bemidji State
University, Klein said.
Amble said the city should seek a
grant that wil,l help poor families
buy their own homes over a long
period of time.
But Klein said many of the needy
families could not afford to buy or
keep homes, even with help, and
some would not want to. "These
types of families basically become
alienated from the system," he said.
Bellecourt ordered released
New York, N.Y. (AP) -
Minnesota Indian activist
Vernon Bellecourt has been
ordered released from prison
after spending nearly two
months there for refusing to
testify before a grand jury,
his attorney says.
Attorney Ronald Kuby,
with the Center for
Constitutional Rights in New
York City, said U.S. District
Judge T.S. Ellis III of the
East District of Virginia on
Wednesday ordered
Bellecourt's release after a
vote by the grand jury.
Bellecourt, 57, a leader of
the American Indian
Movement, and Robert
Brown, leader of an
Afro-American activist
group in Washington, D.C,
were jailed in September.
They refused to testify in
connection with a case
involving six Libyan students
and two travel agencies
connected with a conference
in Libya inkApril 1987.
The conference was
designed to show support for
the Libyan people on the
anniversary of the U.S.
bombing of Libyan leader
Moammar Gadhafi's
compound.
Bellecourt was jailed in
Alexandria, Va, Sept. 21.
Bellecourt and Brown
attended the conference with
about 250 Americans and a
total of 1,000 supporters from
around the world.
Trie Libyari students~were
involved in setting up satellite
communications between
Washington, D.C, and Tripoli.
In mid- October, the
students pleaded guilty in a
plea bargain to a U.S. license
infringement. They were
subsequently deported and
are in Libya.
At that point, Kuby
contended that the case was
resolved and that Bellecourt
and Brown were being held as
political prisoners.
Bill Means, another leader of
the American Indian Movement, also was subpoenaed to
testify before the grand jury
with Bellecourt and Brown.
Means had visited Libya a
year earlier. He and   Belle-
cour t wren t. there as
members of the International
Indian Treaty Council, in
support of the Libyan
people.
Means testified and
returned to Minneapolis, but
Brown and Bellecourt were
jailed.
Brown and Bellecourt were
transferred to the Metropolitan Corrections Center
in New York City, after
Bellecourt organized the
inmates at the Alexandria,
Va., prison to go on a
hunger strike to protest the
food.
Bellecourt's wife, Janice,
said in Minneapolis that she
expected her husband to
arrive home Thursday.
Lotteries no longer
prohibited in Minnesota
St. Paul, Minn. (AP) - State lawmakers already are
considering what form a state lottery should take, but one
legislator who strongly opposes the idea says a lottery "has
a long way to go."
"I don't think there is anything automatic about the
lottery," Rep. James Rice, who ledthe lottery opposition,
said Wednesday. He also said he will try to prolong lottery
hearings during the 1989 legislative session to keep
Minnesota out of the gambling business.
Rep. Tom Osthoff, DFL-St. Paul, a leading lottery
advocate, said, "Rice is right; it's going to be tough."
Tuesday's vote only removed the prohibition on lotteries
from the state Constitution. Rice and Osthoff said many
questions remain, including: What kind of game will it be?
Should it be run by the state, or by a private company?
Should it be heavily advertised or not? What should be the
payback for players?
Most lawmakers said if a lottery bill is approved by
mid-March, Minnesotans could be buying lottery tickets
next fall.
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