The Ojibwe News (Bemidji, Minnesota), 1989-02-15

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Jury finds Glaze guilty in serial
killings of three Indian women
Minneapolis (AP)- Billy Glaze, a drifter who posed as an American
Indian because he said he was fascinated with them, was convicted of
murdering and sexually mutilating three Indian women and was
sentenced to life in prison.
"I'm not the serial killer," Glaze, 45, told Hennepin County Judge
Jonathan Lebedoff following Friday's verdict.
But the judge said he wasn't swayed by Glaze's denial and sentenced
him to three life sentences in prison to be served consecutively.
Glaze was convicted of three counts of first-degree murder and three
counts of second-degree murder in the brutal slayings of Kathleen
Bullman, 19, Angeline Whitebird-Sweet, 26, and Angela Green, 21.
All were beaten and sexually mutilated in Minneapolis in 1986 and
1987. Their bodies were left posed in degrading positions, which led
police to suspect a serial killer.
Glaze said he had no complaint with the jury. But he disputed the
testimony of "the witness that got up there and lied. I never wore no
bandana. I never went into a bar and said those things about Indian
women."
"I'm just not the serial killer, but you do what you have to," he told
the judge.
Glaze's attorney, Michael Colich, asked that Glaze not be taken to the
Stillwater Prison because of threats against his life. Lebedoff said it
wasn't up to him to decide where Glaze would be incarcerated, but
urged corrections authorities to make a decision "consistent with your
safety."
The trial began Jan. 9 with jury selection. The jury got the case around
3 p.m. last Tuesday after hearing two weeks of testimony and
announced its verdict at about 9:20 p.m. Friday.
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White Earth enrollee to be on Star Search
Bud McGregor, a White Earth enrollee who now lives in Nashville,
will be one of the featured performers on the Star Search talent program
Feb. 19 (10:30 on channel 6 in the White Earth area).
McGregor is 12 years old and has been singing country music since he
was four years old. His first appearance on Star Search awarded him a
perfect four-stars. However, he lost out on his second round which is the
one that will be shown on Feb. 19.
McGregor's mother Bobbie is originally from the White Earth
reservation, and the family has many relatives in the area.
McGregor attends school like other children his age, and has tutors
and homework when he's on the road. He has performed his music on
the Nashville Now program, the WE Country Music Fest in 1985 at
Detroit Lakes, and sings every year for the American Heritage
Foundation at the Kennedy Center in Washington D.C. He also
performs at various schools around the country with a message to
students that "You can't be good at what you do, and take drugs and
drink."
Motorcycle helmet bill defeated
Silence erupted into applause and cheers as the House Transportation
Committee announced its defeat of a bill that would require all riders to
wear motorcycle helmets.
The committee voted 14-13 against the bill during a Feb. 8 hearing
held at the St. Paul Technical Institute to accommodate the more than
500 people who attended.
Current law requires riders under age 18 to wear helmets.
Four indicted in marijuana operation
Minneapolis (AP)- The son of a
former St. Paul mayor and three
others were indicted Wednesday by
a federal grand jury in connection
with an indoor marijuana farm in the
same building as a post office.
Indicted on charges of conspiring
to manufacture marijuana were
Charles Paschal McCarty m, 42, St.
Paul; Judd Mathew Mondry, 41,
Bloomington; Gregory Lee
Chambers, 42, Apple Valley; and
William Michael Shahane, 42,
Grand Forks, N.D.
The four were arrested Jan. 17
after state agents raided a two-story
Mendota warehouse owned by
McCarty, son of the late Charles
McCarty, who served as St. Paul
mayor from 1970 to 1972.
Officers said they seized 600
marijuana plants with an estimated
value of $ 1.9 million.
A search warrant also was
executed at McCarty's St. Paul
home, where police found two
upstairs toilets running and filled
with marijuana, according to the
indictment. More than 8 pounds of
marijuana were recovered from the
house, die indictment says.
All four defendants made an
appearance before U.S. Magistrate
Floyd E. Boline and were released
on Bond.
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Volume 1  Issue 39
Copyright, the Ojibwe News, 1989
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February 15, 1989
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A Weekly Publication
Bemidji, Minnesota 56601
Chief Bug-O-Nay-Ge-Shig students travel to D.C.
By Dawne Goose
Correspondent
Four Chief Bug-O-Nay-Ge-Shig
students have been selected to
participate in the Close-Up Program .
in Washington, D.C. April 16-22.
The students will be taking a look
at the U.S. government at work for a
week and then return to tell the other
students of their experience.
The students selected for the,;;
program are Teena Turney, Dawne
Goose, Wendy Jourdain and Joe
Fairbanks.
Turney, a 16 year old from
Onigum said, "It's going to be a fun
and educational experience."
Goose, a 16 year old junior from
Bemidji said, "It will be a fun
learning experience; something I'll
never forget."
Sophomore, Wendy Jourdain, 15,
from Bemidji said, "It should be fun
to go somewhere I haven't been
before."
"It will be a fun experience," said
Fairbanks, 17, from the Sugar Bush
area in Cass Lake.
The students will fly with the
moderator, Jerry Laird, from
Bemidji to Minneapolis. From their
they'll fly to Washington. They wi!
be travelling with another group o:
students from a local community.
All participants will have the
chance to meet many new people
from around the nation.
The trip should be an exciting timssL
filled with personal-challenges and jMam tkrough direct involvement and
world of opportunities. It will" gain a real-world perspective on
influence the course of their future government and current issues. The
decisions about their education and students will also gain a better
careers. understanding of their opportunities
Teena Turney, Dawne Goose, Wendy Jourdain and Joe Fairbanks will soon be on their way to Washington.
Close-Up, the students will
in the American democratic
government.
The students will get to talk with
the nation's leaders during the daily
seminars scheduled during the
program. They will have the
opportunity to question senators,
reporters, lobbyists and policymakers.
At the end of the week's stay,
there will be a dance to wish all the
participants a happy farwell.
Commissioner urges end to Indian nicknames
St. Paul, Minn.- Minnesota';
education commissioner is urgirg
schools to drop Indian.nicknames,
but an Indian leader said that is rot
necessarily a good idea.
"If your school district has an
Indian mascot, emblem or symbol,
please report your progress tovard
removing them," Commissioner
Ruth Randall and state Boaid of
Education president Marjorie
Johnson said in a letter last week.
They said the names were
"offensive to persons of American
Indian culture" and reminded
districts of a board resolution
adopted last year encouraging
removal of Indian mascots.
But Chip Wadena, president of the
Minnesota Chippewa Tribe and the
White Earth Indian Reservation,
criticized the board for not
consulting tribal officials.
Wadena and other Indian leaders
said last Tuesday that they want the
right to keep such mascots when the
schools' students are predominantly
American Indian. They also said that
Indian themes are not a problem if
handled with respect.
Wadena said the White Earth tribal
council is supporting the Mahnomen
School District, which is within the
reservation, in retaining its "Indians"
nickname. About 38 percent of
Mahnomen High School students are
Indian.
But Phil St. John, a member of
Concerned American Indian Parents
who has led a campaign against
using Indian names as mascots, said
such names are derogatory and
portray Indians in "an animalistic,
warlike image."
St. John contacted the News Friday
and said he was very upset with
Wadena's comments.
"He didn't have the right to speak
for the people of White Earth," St.
John said.
St. John said that when he and
other concerned parents started to
pursue the matter, they didn't intend
for it to become a political battle.
"I don't think it should be
political," said St. John. "I see it as a
humanistic issue."
St. John said that Wadena's
attitude is typical of many Indian
people who he claims have been
assimilated into the white society.
"Our biggest hurdle is going to be
overcoming the attitudes of our own
people," said St. John.
Although many schools that have
retained their Indian nicknames and
mascots claim they do so out of
honor and respect for the Indians, St.
John says he doesn't buy into that
idea. If anything, St. John said he
sees it as the non-Indians way of
celebrating their victory over the
Indian people.
Last month, the Minnesota Civil
Liberties Union threatened to sue 50
public schools for civil rights
violations if they don't change their
Indian mascots.
(Compiled from Associated Press
and staff reports.)
A mosaic of conflicting interests
By William Lawrence
Publisher
Restoration of the legal jurisdiction of 32,000 acres of
land in northern Minnesota (see map) to the Red Lake
tribe was verified and signed into the law on Jan. 11,
1989 by then Secretary of Interior Donald P. Hodel.
The 32,000 acres of restored land was ceded to the
federal government along with an additional 224,000
acres by the Red Lake tribe on Sept. 20, 1904 (33
Statute 46). The evolution of the ownership of the Red
Lake ceded land is a patchwork of 25 federal statutes,
five executive orders, one international treaty and
numerous other federal and State of Minnesota leases
and regulations.
In addition to divesting the Red Lake band of over
2,000 acres of land, this statutory mess made it all but
impossible for anyone to make any meaningful use of
these lands.
Fortunately for the tribe, several of the federal statutes
contain provisions that allowed surplus land to return to
tribal control (Indian Reorganization Act of 1934) and
gave the tribe veto power over conveyance of certain
lands to the State of Minnesota (Volstead Act of 1908).
On June 29,1973, the Red Lake Tribal Council passed
resolution 109-73 requesting that the United States
withhold from sale or disposition approximately
121,000 acres of land now under federal ownership in
the ceded Red Lake reservation area.
The council also requested that the Secretary of the
Interior take action to the land restored to the Red Lake
tribe by restoration or purchase. This request would
affect 33,000 acres in Koochiching County, 5,000 acres
located in the Northwest Angle, 1,038 in Roseau County
and 81,700 acres within the Beltrami County wildlife
management area.
The News has learned that the Bureau of Land
Management is currently investigating certain land-
ownership conflicts. The question of whether the
revocation of lands affected by executive orders should
be returned to tribal ownership or maintain as public
lands.
By what authority these lands were withdrawn and
whether the Red Lake band was justly compensated is
being considered. The origin and acquisition of other
parcels of land that were not restored to tribal ownership
that are currently administered by the BLM.
In the near future, the News will publish a more
detailed review of the Red Lake ceded land ownership
situation:
Land parcels
restored to Red
Lake tribe