Native American Press / Ojibwe News (Bemidji, Minnesota), 2002-07-26

              INDEX
NEWS AROUND INDIAN COUNTRY     2
NEWS BRIEFS 3
COMMENTARY/EDITORIALS 4
CLASSIFIEDS 6-7
McCaleb names
Brian Burns new
CIO for Indian
Affairs
page 3
DIW food shelf
usage continues
to grow
page 3
Walking Shield
homes are not "as
advertised"
page 4
Leech Lake wants
boycott Secretary/
Treasurer, limit RTC
meetings
page 3
Commentary
Changes in Red Lake
page 4
Red Lake
chairman-elect
Brun
hospitalized
Red Lake chairman-elect Gerald
"Butch" Brun was hospitalized on
Friday evening, July 19th.
Brun suffered a mild heart attack on Friday evening. When
Press/ON visited him at North
Country Hospital in Bemidji on
Monday, July 22nd, Brun was up
and around. A spokesperson for
Brun says that he will be released
from the hospital on Thursday,
July 25"1, and that he is expected
to be fully recovered in time for
his inauguration on August 13th.
Pretrial detention increasing
overcrowding in tribal jails
By Jeff Armstrong
The inmate population of
tribal jails increased more than
10% last year, pushing many
such facilities up to and beyond
their holding capacity, according
to a recent Justice Department
study.
Although nearly one in five of
the 68 jails in Indian Country—
including that of Red Lake—is
currently under a court-imposed
civil rights decree related to
overcrowding and inhumane
conditions, tribal jails were operating at 91% of their capacity
in 2001, up from 86% the previous year.
About 1.7% of all tribally-de-
tained persons attempted to end
their lives while in custody last
year, with reports of attempted
suicides rising 12% from the
year 2000 and 64% since 1998.
The total number of deaths in
tribal jails remained at two, but
both were apparent suicides last
year, while only one inmate
death was so designated in the
year 2000.
At their peak population in
June, tribal and BIA-operated
reservation jails held 126% of
their maximum number of pris-
DETENTION to page 3
Federal District Judge denies Lac Vieux Desert Band request
for injunction: Detroit to proceed with casino agreements
By Jean Pagano
Reporting from Detroit
The Lac Vieux Desert Band of
Lake Superior Chippewa (the
Band) was once again in Grand
Rapids Federal District Court
Judge Robert Holmes Bell's courtroom on July 16lh. The Band was
requesting that Judge Bell stop the
city of Detroit from approving permanent casino development agreements via the use of an injunction
against the City. Judge Bell denied
the injunction, and now the Band is
now setting its sights on the 6th Circuit Court of Appeals in Cincinnati.
The Band was first in Judge
Bell's courtroom in 1998 asking
the court to strike down the city of
Detroit's casino gambling law as
unconstitutional. The judge issued
a summary judgement against the
Band and the case began its long
road back and forth from the Court
of Appeals all the way to the
United States Supreme Court. The
Supreme Court denied the city of
Detroit's writ of a certeriori earlier
this year and placed the issue back
in Judge Bell's lap. The judge sided
with the city of Detroit, as he has
each time the Band has petitioned
the court. Last month, Judge Bell
once again ruled against the Band
in the matter of casino licensing
and the Band's legal counsel threatened an appeal.
With Judge Bell's denial ofthe
injunction, the Band is once again
off to the 6th Circuit Court of Appeals to ask the Appellate Court to
issue the injunction and, once
again, to review Judge Bell's most
recent decision.
The city of Detroit moved ahead
with plans to issue permanent licenses after Judge Bell's decision
last month against the Band. At
stake is a share in the almost $200
million of gambling revenues that
the city's three casinos generate
each year. The selection process
was found to be unconstitutional by
the Appellate Court in a previous
appeal from the Band. The city of
Detroit relies heavily on the 9.9%
of gambling revenues that it receives from the three city casinos.
The Band, while not involved in
the original bids for a Detroit casino license, would now like to be
able share in the revenues.
Marion's Story
By Maxine V. Eidsvig
In the June 7,2002, issue of
Press/ON there was a story ofthe
early lace makers on the Lower
Sioux Reservation near Morton,
Minnesota. The article ended with
a brief mention of Marion Ross, the
granddaughter of Jeanette Crooks
Campbell. Marion Ross (aka
Lorraine Bucholz) has been trying
since October 29,1998, to transfer
her enrollment from the Flandreau
Santee Sioux Tribe to the Lower
Sioux Indian Community.
Records indicate that there is
good reason for Marion's desire to
be enrolled in the Lower Sioux Indian Community, although there
are those who will contend that it is
only for per capita that she seeks
enrollment. Marion was bom on
the Lower Sioux Indian Community on March 19,1920, to Amelia
Jones Bucholz and Otto Bucholz.
There are birth, baptismal, and
school records to verify that she as
well as her mother and brothers,
were indeed residents ofthe community. Her grandmother, Jeanette,
was also bom and raised on the reservation and is listed on the census
rolls ofthe Mdewakanton Band of
Sioux Indians of Minnesota of
1886. Until the Indian Reorganization Act of 1934 was enacted, there
were no other formal census rolls
where one could be listed.
Marion was away at the
Flandreau, South Dakota Indian
boarding school at the time the representatives ofthe BIA traveled to
the various Indian reservations in
Minnesota and South Dakota in
1934 to assist the communities in
forming governments under the Indian Reorganization Act, which reversed the policy of allotment and
encouraged tribal organization.
These representatives signed off on
the tribal rolls prepared by tribal
members. Since Marion was
physically at Flandreau, she was
listed at Flandreau and for sortie '
reason her mother and brothers
were also listed at Flandreau even
though they had always resided at
Morton. In 1973, the Flandreau
Santee Sioux Tribe wrote the
Lower Sioux Community and
asked for verification that the
Lower Sioux Community had enrolled the Bucholz family—
Amelia and her children, including
Marion. In June of 1979, the
Lower Sioux Community "reaffirmed the membership" of 24 individuals, all of who had sought
enrollment much earlier. In
March of 1980, the BIA affirmed
the membership of the 24 individuals. The hst included Amelia
and five of Marion's brothers but
not Marion. There is no logical
explanation as to why Marion was
not included.
Enrollment may not have
seemed important to most people
in the 1930s so there were those
who did not bother to follow up to
see that they and their families
MARION to page 3
Red Lake attorney
files for Cass
County judge seat
David Harrington of Turtle
River, attorney for the Red Lake
Band of Chippewa, filed on Friday,
July 19th, to run for the Cass
County District Court judgeship
currently held by Judge Michael
Haas. Haas, appointed to the
bench in 1976, did not file for reelection.
The judicial race in for Haas's
place on the bench in Walker, Minnesota has turned into what regional pohtical writers have called
a "free-for-all," with five candidates mnning. In addition to
Harrington, candidates for the
judgeship are Robert Tiffany of
Park Rapids, Ted Lundrigan of
Pine River, Steven Bolton of Park
Rapids, and Jay Sommer of
Walker.
As tribal attorney, Harrington
has been a vigorous adherent to the
doctrine of "tribal sovereignty," referring to his position as federally-
approved attorney for the Red Lake
Band as the "Red Lake Nation Legal Department" in an amicus brief
filed with the U.S. Supreme Court
in the case United States Department ofthe Interior, et al, petitioners, v. Klamath Water Users Protective Association, respondent
(2000). Harrington's wife,
Kristine Kolar, is a state pubhc
defender in Bemidji, also in the
9,h Judicial District.
Doctors find a way to bridge cultural gap
By Judy Nichols
The Arizona Republic
TUCSON - Albert Bighorse is
lying on the operating table, his
eyes taped shut, a machine
breathing for him, another circulating his blood. His chest has
been cut open. Inside, his heart
lies gray and motionless.
Dr. Jack Copeland's gloved
hands are in the chest cavity,
gently positioning a vein from
Bighorse's leg. The vein, speckled with black where tiny offshoots have been cauterized, will
serve as a new route for blood,
bypassing blocked veins.
The remarkable meeting of
these two men, one a traditional
Navajo rancher and medicine
man from one of the most isolated parts of the United States,
the other an internationally renowned heart surgeon, is the result of the Native American Cardiology Program, a partnership
of government, university and
private sources.
The program is the lifework of
Dr. James Galloway, who saw
the explosion of heart disease in
Native Americans and found a
creative way to help.
Galloway joined the Indian
Health Service in the early 1980s
as an internist working with the
Hopi and White Mountain
Apache tribes. For decades, he
and others had been told that Native Americans were immune
from heart disease, and even into
the 1970s the incidence was low.
But in the '80s, Galloway saw
the beginnings of an epidemic fu
eled by diabetes, obesity and
high blood pressure.
Although heart disease was declining in other populations
through diet, exercise and aggressive treatment of high cholesterol and high blood pressure,
it was on the rise in Native
American populations, only recently exposed to fast foods,
high-sugar sodas and sedentary
lifestyles.
Some heart disease was hard
to detect because diabetes, another epidemic among Native
Americans, affects the nervous
system, masking the pain normally caused by heart problems.
The Indian Health Service
wasn't ready for the onslaught.
DOCTORS to page 6
Former Seven
Clans Casino
blackjack
dealers indicted
for theft
Minneapolis - Two former
blackjack dealers at the Seven
Clans Casino in Warroad, Minnesota were indicted by a federal
grandjury for theft from a gaming establishment on Indian
lands.
The grandjury alleged in the
indictment that Conrad Dale
THEFT to page 6
Kendall: State already recognizes
tribal court
byJoelPatenaude
Messenger Staff Writer
Mille Lacs County Attorney
Janelle Kendall is leading her peers
statewide in opposition to 'blanket'
recognition of tribal court rulings and
judgments by state courts.
As co-chair ofthe Indian law committee ofthe Minnesota County Attorneys Association (MCAA),
Kendall said she will help the organization draft a position paper outlining
concerns for giving 'full faith and
credit' to tribal court decisions. She
said she expects the sheriffs' association to raise similar worries.
A mle proposing that state courts
recognize tribal court decisions is
now before the rules committee of
the Minnesota Supreme Court 'This
rule would have us, at the county
level, back up tribal court orders. But
if the tribal court doesn't have jurisdiction in the first place, that can put
us in a bad position,' Kendall said. 'It
can involve the civil liability of our
jail and peace officers.'
The outgoing county attorney -
Kendall is currently running for the
same position in Steams County - has
KENDALL to page 8
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Military surplus houses relocated from Grand Forks Air Force Base sit near the west end of Red Lake reservation
last spring, awaiting renovation as a part of the Operation Walking Shield project.
Walking Shield
operations at
Red Lake
by Clara NiiSka
From a mihtary perspective,
Operation Walking Shield provides invaluable training for
troops who, as Maj. Gen. Gene
Andreotti explained to the
Bemidji Pioneer in May, are ■
often required to drop into a
"third world" country for 'nation building.'
The mission statement ofthe
Walking Shield American Indian Society describes its goals
of "improving the quality of
life and creating positive futures for American Indians
who hve on our nation's Indian
Reservations by providing
shelter to the homeless, medical assistance to the sick, food
and clothing to the needy, educational support for the children, community development
assistance and humanitarian
support. Since the organization was founded in 1986, the
society has created a large collaborative network of federal
agencies, foundations, corporations and individuals in an
effort to improve the quality of
life and the hving conditions of
Native American Indians on
reservations across the country." Additional information
about the society is posted
online at http://
www.walkingshield.org/
Photo courtesy Master Sergeant Charles Farrow, Camp Ripley, Minnesota
Army National Guard soldiers based at Camp Ripley, C Co/142 Engineer
Battalion unload drywall from a semi-trailer and carry it into a house they are
building on Red Lake reservation. They were performing their annual training
on the rez while participating in Operation Walking Shield.
photo: Michael Barrett, R.L. Nation News
Military personnel working on one of the four homes being built on-site on Red
Lake reservation as a part of Operation Walking Shield. Forty 'previously
occupied' homes were also relocated to the rez from Grand Forks Air Force
Base in North Dakota as a part of the project.
In the July 12lh issue ofthe
tribal council's newspaper, the
Red Lake Nation News,
freelance writer Michael
Barrett detailed the background and progress of the
Walking Shield housing
project, a 'new village' built
about three miles north of the reservation south boundary. Barrett
was also sharply critical of those
committing vandalism at the nascent Walking Shield village, describing their behavior senseless,
"primitive" and "savage."
The project is a joint operation
between the Red Lake tribal
council, the Walking Shield
American Indian Society, and the
U.S. mihtary, including Army National Guard soldiers from Camp
Ripley, Minnesota, reserve Navy
Seabees, and engineers from an
Army Reserve unit in New
Hampshire.
Kerry steers Native American
Small Business Act out of committee
Washington D.C.—Senator
John F. Kerry, chairman of the
Committee on Small Business
and Entrepreneurship, today
held a successful mark-up to
move Senator Tim Johnson's
Native American Small Business Development Act, among
other legislation, to the Senate
Floor.
The Native American Small
Business Development Act,
H.R. 2538, which was voted
out of committee by unanimous
roll call vote, would create the
Office of Native American Affairs (ONAA) at the Small
Business Administration, and
two assistance programs to foster small business development
in Native American Communities
The ONAA, to be headed by
an assistant administrator, will
be given the responsibility of
helping Native Americans and
their communities start, operate, and grow small businesses,
increase employment opportu
nities, increase access to capital,
and gain the necessary management and technical skills to be
successful I the small business
marketplace.
The two assistance programs
that would be established by the
bill, the Native American Small
Business Development Program
and the Native American Development Grant Pilot Program, are
designed to give Native Americans the tools and funding to
survive in their small business
ventures.
The bill is based on Congressional findings including that
"approximately 60 percent of
Indian tribe members and
Alaska Natives live on or adjacent to Indian lands, which suffer from an average unemployment rate of 45 percent."
The bill provides for grants to
"Small Business Development
Centers." This grant money is
to used to develop such small
KERRY to page 6
Raincloud
indicted on
assault charges
Minneapolis - A federal grand
jury in Minneapolis returned an indictment charging Brandon Eugene
Raincloud, age 25, from Ponemah,
on assault charges.
Raincloud was charged with one
count of assault with a dangerous
weapon and two counts of assault
resulting in serious bodily injury.
The grandjury alleged in the indictment that on February 3,2002,
Raincloud assaulted another member
ofthe Red Lake band, Larissa Lynn
Raincloud (nee Kingbird), using a
baseball bat, his fists, and his feet
If convicted, Raincloud faces a
maximum potential penalty often
years in prison and/or a $250,000
fine on each count ofthe indictment
Any sentence would be determined
by a judge based on the federal sentencing guidelines.
The case is the result of an investigation by the Federal Bureau of Investigation and Red Lake Law Enforcement
Assistant United Slates Attorney Nicole
Engisch is prosecuting the case.
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