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Minnesota, six other states
Tulsa, Okla. (AP)- The Creek Nation says a 15-minute satellite
bingo game scheduled to begin transmission Friday night in Minnesota
and six other states will offer a $500,000 jackpot.
The game, dubbed MegaBingo, also offers several prize categories.
Besides Minnesota, the game will be shown in bingo halls in California,
Alabama, Louisiana, New Mexico, Wisconsin and Oklahoma.
Officials of Dallas-based Gamma International Ltd., the company
providing management services to the bingo halls featuring the game,
estimate the jackpot will be awarded about every eight to 12 sessions of
the Monday through Saturday telecasts and paid in a 20-year annuity.
The satellite bingo game will be beamed from the Creek Nation's
bingo hall in south Tulsa.
A two-way audio network between each bingo hall and the Tulsa
bingo hall headquarters for the satellite game will allow immediate
communication if the jackpot is won, said Gordon Sjodin, general
manager of the Creek Nation hall.
Minnesotan seen as leading
contender as new BIA chief
Milwaukee (AP)- A member of Wisconsin's Red Cliff Chippewa band
who now lives in Minnesota is a leading candidate to become the next
head of the U.S. Bureau of Indian Affairs, a published report says.
Henry Buffalo Jr., 34, is to be interviewed by Interior Secretary
Manuel Lujan Jr. in about two weeks to serve as his assistant secretary
in charge of the BIA, the Milwaukee Sentinel reported in Thursday's
edition.
He would succeed Ross O. Swimmer as BIA chief.
Buffalo, a Republican, founded the Great Lakes Indian Fisheries
Commission at Odanah, Wis., in 1982. The next year, the group headed
by Buffalo was expanded into the Great Lakes Indians Fisheries and
Wildlife Commission, representing 11 tribes involved in disputes over
tribal hunting and fishing rights in Wisconsin and other states.
Buffalo is a graduate of the University of Wisconsin Law School and
served in the National Indian Gaming Association which lobbied
unsuccessfully to have Congress pre-empt state laws on gambling.
He now lives in Cloquet, Minn., and has represented the Fond du Lac
band of Lake Superior Chippewa in negotiations with the state of
Minnesota about gaming operations.
Naytahwaush man sentenced
John Diablo Gonzalles, 21 of Naytahwaush, was sentenced in District
Court Tuesday to 10 months in jail and 10 years of probation, according
to Mahnomen County officials. Gonzalles will be credited with the time
he served while awaiting trial and sentencing, and will also be required
to pay an $11,000 fine plus resititution.
Gonzalles pleaded guilty Jan. 27 to charges of leaving the scene of a
fatal accident and receiving stolen property.
Gonzalles was driving a pickup on Oct. 15 which overturned on a
county road near Waubun. Rhonda Bellanger, 13 of White Earth, was.
killed in the accident. The pickup which Gonzalles was driving was
reported stolen, along with approximately $20,000 worth of sporting
and outdoor equipment, from a residence in Hackensack.
When a warrant was issued for Gonzalles, after he failed to turn
himself over to his attorney Peter Cannon as he agreed, he fled to
California where he was apprehended by Santa Clara County
authorities.
St. Paul (AP)—A Minnesota
Marine convicted of espionage
"barely had enough intelligence to
fire a weapon, let alone defend
himself against the sophisticated
onslaught of the KGB, according to
a book about the security scandal at
the American Embassy in Moscow.
The book, "Moscow Station—
How the KGB Penetrated the
American Embassy," contends that
former Sgt. Clayton Lonetree of St.
Paul "was a prototypical loser, a
young man who could not make it
even if he were given all the
advantages in the world."
Author Ronald Kessler also wrote
that Lonetree was a "self-pitying,
naive and impudent" man with an
"all-consuming need" to be loved.
"Almost from the day he was bom,
there was a curse on Clayton
Lonetree," Kessler wrote.
Lee Calligaro, Lonetree's attorney,
said Wednesday the book "is the
worst example of yellow journalism
and gross exaggeration ... an effort
to sell books at the expense of a poor
kid from Minnesota.
"Mr. Kessler, to my knowledge,
has never met Clayton Lonetree, and
how he could have a basis to make
those kinds of judgments is beyond
me. I've spent many hours with
Clayton Lonetree and Kessler's
characterization is totally off base,"
said Calligaro, adding that he had
not seen the book but had read
excerpts in the Feb. 20 issue of Time
magazine.
Calligaro said he discussed the
Time article with Lonetree on
Wednesday.
"I don't know that he has had a
chance to have a reaction, but right
now he is distressed by the attention
and feels it very unfair," Calligaro
said.
Archie LaRose feces Otis Gage in main event
Archie LaRose, of the Leech
Lake Boing Club, will face Otis
Gage of Hopkins in the main
event of this Saturday's boxing
card in Cass Lake.
The action will begin at 3 p.m.
in the Leech Lake Veterans*
Memorial Building (Bingo
Palace). Fourteen matches are
scheduled, with additional
matches possible, for th.i
afternoon with teams from White
Bear Lake, Minneapolis, Thunder
Bay and Leech Lake competing.
Admission for Saturday's
matches is $3 for adults and $1.50
for those 17 years old and under.
The card is sponsored by the
Leech Lake Boxing Club.
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Spy scandal book calls
Lonetree naive loser
Lonetree, now 27, is serving a
25-year sentence at the U.S.
Disciplinary Barracks at Fort
Leavenworth, Kan., for passing
information to KGB agent Aleksiy
Yefimov at the request of Lonetree's
Soviet lover, Violetta Senina.
Transferred to the American
Embassy in Vienna, Lonetree gave
Yefimov additional secrets before
confessing to a CIA agent. During
his court-martial, the prosecution
alleged he received $3,500 for his
work for the KGB.
In the book, Kessler maintains that
Lonetree provided information to the
Soviets beyond that previously
disclosed, including material on how
intrusion-detection systems worked
at American embassies in Moscow
and Vienna, as well as identities of
top CIA personnel.
Kessler issues a scathing
indictment of the U.S. State
Department's lackadaisical attitude
toward security and also criticizes
the Marine Corps, the Naval
Investigative Service and the CIA.
Others close to Lonetree also
disagreed with Kessler's
characterization of Lonetree.
' "I don't agree with him (Lonetree)
being a loser," said Lawrence
Cohen, Lonetree's former defense
attorney. "He's a very fine and soft
and mellow young man, and maybe
he should have been an illustrator of
children's books or something. I just
don't think he should have been a
U.S. Marine."
Cohen, now a Ramsey County
district judge, said he talked to
Lonetree's father, Spencer Lonetree,
on Wednesday.
"He doesn't think it (the book) is
accurate and is disappointed by the
story." ■
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Oral arguments presented in
Lawrence fish case appeal
Oral arguments on behalf of
William J. Lawrence and the
Minnesota Department of Natural
Resources were presented before the
Minnesota Court of Appeals
Tuesday in St, Paul.
Lawrence, publisher of the Ojibwe
News and a Red Lake reservation
enrollee, had appealed his
conviction by a Minnesota District
Court on two counts of illegal sale
and one count of illegal possession
of Minnesota game fish.
Larence, who had a valid
Minnesota wholesale foodhandlers
license, was arrested by DNR agents
on Aug. 30, 1987 near Bemidji with
nearly 5,000 walleye pike in his possession. The fish, which Lawrence
purchased from Red Lake reservation commercial fishermen, were all
legally caught on the reservation.
The fish, which were confiscated
by the DNR, are still allegedly in
their possession in St. Paul.
Bemidji trial attorney, Romaine R.
Powell, who presented the oral
arguments on behalf of Lawrence,
told a two-judge panel that the DNR
lack the authority to regulate
commercial fishing on the Red Lake
reservation. Powell stated that the
only entities that could give the
DNR any authority to regulate the
Red Lake commercial fishing
industry are the Red Lake tribal
government or the U.S. Congress.
He further stated that the DNR's
utilization of a 1949 memorandum
of understanding, between the
Bureau of Indian Affairs and the
Minnesota Department of
Conservation (now the DNR) did
not convey any legal authority to the
DNR to regulate any aspect of the
Red Lake commercial fishing
industry and was therefore invalid.
In addition, Powell stated, that the
memorandum of understanding is
also invalid because the BIA cannot
re-delegate its trust responsibility
over Indian resources to the DNR,
and furthermore that it was signed
by an unauthorized agent of the
BIA.
Powell also told the court that the
DNR's regulatory scheme over the
transport offish from the reservation
discriminates against the Red Lake
fishermen because it limits who they
can sell their fish to; mainly the Red
Lake Fishing Association.
Powell also emphasized that the
DNR's regulation on the transport of
fish from the reservation violated the
reserve treaty rights of the tribe by
making them end at the reservation
border.
Powell asked the court to overturn
the district courts decision holding
Lawrence in violation of the
Minnesota game and fish laws.
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Jourdain
Hospitalized
Red Lake Chairman Roger A.
Jourdain was admitted to North
Country Hospital in Bemidji last
Wednesday.
According to hospital personnel,
Jourdain's condition was listed as
satisfactory but they declined to
acknowledge the nature of his
illness.
According to reservation sources,
Jourdain's health has not been good
for sometime. Last October he was
hospitalized for an apparent heart
attack.
Although hospital personnel
refused to say what Jourdain is
currently hospitalized for, they said
it was not heart related and was not
serious.
State cuts Indian benefits after treaty pact
By Susan Stanich
Staff Writer
Duluth News-Tribune
Some Chippewas have lost welfare
benefits after receiving state
payments for not exercising treaty
hunting and fishing rights in
northeastern Minnesota, and some
Indian officials say the development
violates their understanding with the
state.
County and state officials say the
treaty payments are considered
income and must be included when
determining welfare benefits. Indian
officials disagree, saying the
payments were made to the bands as
sovereign nations and shouldn't be
affected by state welfare rules.
The Bois Forte and Grand Portage
bands voted late last year to divide
about $2 million of their total $3.2
million state payment among their
individual members.
"We told the state we didn't want
them telling us or trying to dictate
what to do with this money," said
Wendell Drift, who was a Bois Forte
official when the state-band
agreement was made. " 'No strings
attached'—that was our agreement.
"(Our attorney) told us—we asked
that question specifically—it would
be tax-free and county-free, and
nobody had any right to that money
if a certain percentage ended up in
per capita," he said. "And now
they're cutting people off, taking
their monthly income away."
Bois Forte officials met last week
with St. Louis County commissioners to register their complaint.
About 2,300 Bois Forte members
Holmes.
When the payments came through,
county officials asked the state to
rule whether they should be
considered the same as any other
income in determining welfare
eligibility, said Darrell Rude,
assistant commissioner of county
social services.
"This is all state money,
just making a big circle'
-Wendell Drift
got $450 each, and about 830 Grand
Portage members received $1,500 to
$2,000 each, to abide by most state
laws when hunting and fishing in the
Arrowhead Country.
The third band in the state-band
agreement—Fond du Lac—spent its
$1.85 million collectively, mosdy on
debts for tribal enterprises.
The unemployment rate at Bois
Forte is almost 80 percent, Drift
said. About half the people at Bois
Forte get some kind of public
assistance through St. Louis County,
said Bois Forte News Editor Axel
The state ruling—that the
payments should be considered
income—has been seconded by the
St. Louis County Attorney's Office,
he said.
Robert Zeleznikar, county social
services director, said county
income guidelines are dictated by
state and federal rules, and the
county has no say in the matter.
"I wish they (the Indians) could
keep the money," he said.
The state provides from 40 percent
to 90 percent of the money for the
various public assistance programs,
Rude said. Grand Portage members
complained in November that the
state was attempting to recoup its
losses in the hunting and fishing
agreement payments by withdrawing
welfare payments.
In cases where the federal
government makes payments to
individual Indians for past treaty
claims, the money is excluded from
being counted as income for state or
county welfare benefits, said Jeff
Wallace, St. Louis County public
defender and former Fond du Lac
band attorney.
But those federal regulations
specifically concern federal—not
state—money; and they relate to
claims—not the leasing of treaty
rights, Wallace said.
Zeleznikar said his office has
encouraged tribal members to
appeal.
Bois Forte officials were at an
out-of-state meeting and unavailable
for comment Monday.
"This is all state money, just
making a big circle," Drift said. "For
people on welfare, what are they
gaining? If I'd have known it was
going to hurt people like that, I'd
have made a different agreement."
Mother of murder victim wants to know if Glaze was the killer
Minneapolis (AP)—If Peggy
Erickson could talk to Billy Glaze,
the 45-year-old drifter convicted
Feb. 10 of murdering three
American Indian women, she would
ask just one question: Did he kill her
daughter?
Neither Glaze nor anyone else has
been charged in the killing of
Erickson's daughter, 20-year-old
Faye Ann Erickson, who died more
than 2 1/2 years ago.
But Peggy Erickson, 63, is
convinced that Glaze did it.
"Somebody asked Mom what she
would say if she could talk to Billy
Glaze," said Laura MacLean, 25,
Peggy Erickson's daughter and Faye
Ann's sister. "She said the only
thing she would say is, 'Did you do
it?' so she could go to her grave."
However, police and members of
the American Indian Movement
patrol dispute Erickson's claim that
Glaze is Faye Ann's killer.
Peggy Erickson would not consent
to an interview, but MacLean and a
daughter-in-law, Jackie Scholtes, 27,
spoke for her. They said they
support her "100 percent" in her
conviction.
Faye Ann's nude body was found
June 14,1986, propped against steel
racks in a Minneapolis parking lot.
She had been strangled and raped.
She reportedly had been seen last
shortly before 1 a.m. that day
leaving a Minneapolis bar with two
men. Some reports had her being
pushed into a pickup truck.
Erickson, MacLean and Scholtes
note there are several similarities to
the murders of Faye Ann and
Glaze's victims: Kathleen Bullman,
Angeline Whitebird-Sweet and
Angela Green. Ms. Whitebird-Sweet
was formerly from Ashland, Wis.
All were Indians and all had been
beaten and sexually assaulted. Faye
Ann's murder occurred only a
month and a half before Bullman's
and well within the time
investigators have confirmed that
Glaze was in Minneapolis.
Also, MacLean said police told her
mother after Glaze was in custody
that there was a good chance that he
was Faye Ann's murderer.
"They said they were going to take
care of this case after the other three
girls," MacLean said. "But they
couldn't find any evidence to
indicate that Glaze did it."
Police say there are too many
dissimilarities between Erickson's
slaying and the other three to make
the connection to Glaze.
Capt. Carl Johnson said Erickson's
body was not mutilated, as were the
other women's; it was not posed, as
were the others; and Erickson
probably was not killed where her
body was found, as were the others.
Bill Means, chairman of the AIM
patrol board, said patrol members
didn't link Faye Ann's killing with
the others because "She wasn't the
type known to frequent the areas that
these women who knew Glaze were
hanging around."
That's not enough to convince
Faye Ann's mother and sisters.
"Who's to say that she (Faye Ann)
wasn't the start of everything?"
Scholtes said. "He might have
changed his pattern after Faye Ann."