Native American Press / Ojibwe News (Bemidji, Minnesota), 2006-07-14

              INDEX
NEWS AROUND INDIAN COUNTRY 2
NEWS BRIEFS 3
COMMENTARY/EDITORIALS 4
CLASSIFIEDS 7
The question is who
do we want?
page 4
Unnecessary roughing at
Red Lake Pow Wow
page 5
Cast your vote for
Judy Roy
page 4
Vote for Judy Roy
page 4
The people of Little Rock
have to know the truth
page 5
Two candidates,
one obvious
choice to save
Red Lake Rez
- Judy Roy
page 4
Leech Lake financial statements reveal millions are
missing from program funds
VOICE      OF      THE      PEOPLE
By Diane White
CASS LAKE, MN-The Leech
Lake Band of Ojibwe held their
first mandatory Quarterly meeting of the 2007 fiscal year on
July 7, 2006 at the Palace Hotel
& Casino bingo hall. Chairman
George Goggleye set the tone of
the meeting by first requesting the
audience to remain cordial and the
open forum was cancelled. In general the meeting was boring with
approving last quarter's minutes
and this quarter's agenda.
It was no surprise that Goggleye
controlled the tempo and tone of
the meeting so as to not give way
to the people's questions to the
most recent havoc caused by his
Administration. Most recently,
the Band's governing officers and
top managers have begun to receive federal subpoenas. To date,
PRESS sources have received a
hst of names, as follows: Chairman George Goggleye, District 2
Representative Lyman "DeDe"
Losh, former District 1 Representative Burton "Luke" Wilson,
government Controller Burton
Howard, Gaming Controller Dan
Erickson, Executive Director
Rodney White, Marketing staffer
Michael Michaud, former Tribal
Referral Director Chris Bedeau.
and former tribal attorney Frank
Bibeau. It is not known what
precisely the federal investigation
is surrounding.
Chairman Goggleye announced
the opening of the Northern Lights
Express gas station located at the
entry driveway of the Northern
Lights Casino. The gas station
was funded by a business grant
from the Shakopee Mdewakanton
Sioux Community who gave the
Band $ 1,000,000 to build the gas
station. Goggleye stated there
FUNDS to page 6
The Return of the Comeback Kid
Reprinted with Permission of The
City
By Mike Mosedale
Earher today, before a crowd of
some 400 people in a casino bingo
hall, Arthur "Archie" LaRose was
sworn in once again as the secretary-treasurer of the Leech Lake
Band of Ojibwe. For the 35-year-
old LaRose, it must have been a
sweet moment. After all, not only
did he defeat one of his bitterest
political opponents (who also
happens to be his wife's uncle), he
swept all 13 districts. "Those are
some beautiful numbers, man,"
LaRose said appreciatively. "I've
never seen it happen since I've
been following politics."
If the margin of victory was
satisfying, the context was even
more so. Over the course of his
contentious, four-year tenure as
the band's second highest ranking
official, LaRose has been stripped
of his job duties, banned from
setting foot in tribal casinos and
generally been mired in a state of
near constant controversy. Actually, the controversy part goes
back further than four years.
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A product of one of the toughest corners of the reservation
- a blasted out housing project
in Cass Lake known as Track
33—LaRose first made news
back in 1993 after five masked
bandits perpetuated the only ca
sino-heist in Minnesota history.
LaRose, along with four fellow
Leech Lakers, was arrested and
jailed. He maintained his innocence and, ultimately, the case
KID to page 3
Leech Lake tribal officials publicly announce truce,
end bitter feud between Secretary-Treasurer, Council
By Diane White
CASS LAKE, MN-The
Leech Lake Band of Ojibwe
held a ceremony to swear in two
incumbents and the first woman
to hold the office of District 1
Representative at the Palace Hotel & Casino bingo hall before a
packed house on Friday, July 7,
2006. The ceremony was held
just prior to the official opening
of the Quarterly meeting. The
ceremony was hosted by Master
of Ceremonies Jim Allen while
Chairman George Goggleye
and District 3 Representative,
Donald "Mick" Finn were absent
from the stage.
Arthur "Archie" LaRose who
won in a landslide over challenger Burton "Luke" Wilson
was sworn in first. In his accep-
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Red Lake walleye trip snags on age-old conflict
By Tom Meersman
Star Tribune
Jerry Mueller went fishing for
walleyes on the recendy reopened
Upper Red Lake but saw his fishing gear seized — boat, motor and
trailer — by tribal officers who
cited the Princeton, Minn., man
for entering reservation waters.
Contending that any entry into
fishing areas reserved for Red Lake
tribal members during a May fishing trip was minor and inadvertent,
Mueller is seeking state assistance
to contest the seizure of equipment
worth several thousand dollars.
Reservation officials, however,
report that Mueller and his son-
in-law were found more than two
miles into tribal waters, and that
their actions constituted "blatant"
trespassing. The tribe has summoned the men to tribal court next
month to face charges. Mueller
said they haven't decided whether
to comply.
He and supporters met this week
with Gene Merriam, commissioner
ofthe state Department of Natural
Resources.
Merriam said there's no question in his mind that the tribe has
jurisdiction over reservation land
and waters.
"We've been operating the same
way for 75 years," Merriam said.
"We got legal advice then that
non-tribal members couldn't fish
on the tribal waters of Red Lake
without permission of the tribe or
the federal government."
Who can fish where
The lake is actually two interconnected basins. Only 48,000
acres of the 275,000-acre lake,
which includes Upper and Lower
Red Lake, is state-owned. The
other 227,000 acres, including the
entire Lower Red Lake, is owned
by the band. Fishing on the tribal
portions of the two lakes is closed
to those who aren't band members.
But Minnesota-licensed anglers
can fish legally on the eastern part
of the Upper Lake. State official
Is recommend boaters use GPS
devices to track their position o! n
the la ke. The state has widely published the coordinates and maps of
the boundary in communities near
the lake.
With walleye fishing closed to all
Bemidji man charged with illegal
possession of machine gun
U.S. Attorney Office - MN
Fifty-seven-year-old Paul Wane
Swan, Sr., from Bemidji, Minnesota, was charged today by
a federal grand jury with two
counts of illegally possessing a
machine gun. The indictment
alleges that Swan was in possession of a Sten Mark I submachine
gun on August 15, 2005.
If convicted, Swan faces a
maximum potential penalty
of ten years in prison and a
$250,000 fine. Any sentence will
be determined by a judge.
This case is the result of an
investigation by the Bureau of
Alcohol, Tobacco, Firearms and
Explosives and is being prosecuted by Assistant United States
Attorney Clifford B. Wardlaw.
Dion Mitchell
Neadeau of Red
Lake indicted
U.S. Attorney Office - MN
Minneapolis - Twenty -one-
year old Dion Mitchell Neadeau,
a resident of the Red Lake Indian
Reservation, was indicted today
by a federal grand jury for possessing with the intent to distribute more than 8.2 grams of crack
DRUGS to page 3
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anglers after the fish populations
collapsed in the late 1990s, the
issue of controlling access to the
lake had not been a hot topic in
recent years.
This spring, however, state and
tribal officials reopened the lake
after years of fish management
and restocking the lakes - and both
fish and anglers have been present
in large numbers. As the fishing
has heated up, contention over the
band's control of the lake has also
begun to simmer again.
This year, a state conservation
officer, in a letter written as a
private citizen, told tribal officials
he doubted their authority over
the lake and offered to violate the
boundary to create a test case.
Indian treaty rights for hunting
and fishing on traditional tribal
lands have sparked tensions in
Minnesota for decades. In 1999,
the U.S. Supreme Court ruled t!
hat eight bands still have special
off-reservation rights to hunting,
fishing and gathering in parts of
east-central Minnesota, including
Lake Mille Lacs, sparking angry
protests by non-Indian anglers.
SNAG to page 5
By BiU Lawrence
Below is a comparison chart,
aligning similar attributes of each
of the two candidates, for the
chairmanship at Red Lake. The
information is gleaned mostly
from the two respective campaign
brochures, and somewhat from
what is commonly known on the
reservation about each person.
We've made this comparison
in order for voters to see the attributes of each candidate, side
JUDY ROY
History
50ish; Born, raised Red Lake
Life-long Red Lake resident
Married 38 years to Vic.
Two children
Three grand children
Raised two nephews
Elementary School: St. Mary's Mission
High School: graduate St. Benedict's
College: College of St. Benedict,
3 Yi years, continuing educ. classes.
Employment Record:
One of 3 tchr. Aides, Teacher, Director at Red Lake Head Start 21 years.
Executive Administrator for
Red Lake Tribal Council 4 years
Record of Public Service
Tribal Secretary-12 years
Red Lake School Board Member 15
years, Chairman - 6 years
St. Mary's Mission School Board
Minnesota Council on Quality Education, appointed to 3 terms (12 years),
by both Democrat and Republican
governors.
Nat'l Indian High School Advisory Brd.
Nat'l Tribal leaders Diabetes Comm.
Qualifications for public office
Over 40 years of service to Red Lake
Reservation—Head Start, Tribal
Council, School Board.
Board Member, Homeless Shelter,
Red Lake College Board of Regents
Multiple other board positions.
CANDIDATES to page 7
by side. You have only the two
candidates to choose from. Only
one can serve as the Red Lake
Chair. It's important to know
the differences and vote your
choice.
We leave it to the voters to decide from the comparison which
candidate is the most qualified to
serve Red Lake members. Note:
the blank lines and spaces indicate
there is no information available
to fill in for those items.
BUCKJOURDAIN
History
40ish, Bom Raised	
Red Lake resident	
Married years to_
children
_grand children
years
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Employment Record:
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Record of Public Service
Tribal Chairman-2 years
Qualifications for public office
Two-year term as Chairman
Beaulieu's
campaign letter
inaccurate
By Bill Lawrence
Press/ON has received a copy
of Harlan "Hay Bales" Beaulieu's
campaign letter to the Little Rock
Voters. We believe it contains
several inaccuracies and omissions that need to be addressed.
Two letters to the editor express
some concerns and we won't
repeat them here. Harlan's statement, "Our casino expansion loan
will be paid as projected;" is what
prompts us to make a comment.
According to the 2001 Gaming
audit, prepared by Miller, McDonald, Erickson & Moller, Ltd.,
the total amount of indebtedness
for the casino expansion project
was $26,637,721 as of 9/30/01.
Despite paying an accelerated rate of from $4-5 milhon a
year, we are still, according to
the 2005 Gaming audit, done by
Brady Martz & Associates, at
$19,144,155.
The repayment schedule indicates repayment has been
stretched out to sometime after
2010, whereas the original repayment schedule was sometime
after 9/30/06—4 years beyond the
current projected pay back time.
The only amount of debt that
was paid down last year, in 2005,
was $516,090. It doesn't appear
possible that paying off that loan
at the rate of $500,000 a year will
pay it off anytime soon.
If the Council, of which Harlan
was a member, had only approved
an expansion of the casino, without the hotel and water park, we
would be a lot better off financially and maybe we could have
paid per capita.
Harlan, as a member of the Fab
4, you are responsible for pushing
the tribe into that poor investment
that we are all paying for now.
LETTER to page 2
DUI arrest by
tribal PD
questioned
Reprinted with permission
of the Mille Lacs Messenger
By Vivian Clark
The jurisdiction card has been
played once again in Mille Lacs
County. However, this time the
hand is being dealt by a different
set of players.
In 2004 a stop for excessive
speed made by a tribal police
officer on Hwy. 169 outside of
trust land boundaries resulted
in a DWI arrest of a 53-year-old
Minneapolis man.
DUI to page 2
Abramoff, 4 others sued by tribe
over casino closing
By Rick Lyman
HOUSTON - An Indian tribe
sued the former superlobbyist
Jack Abramoff and Ralph Reed, a
candidate for lieutenant governor
in Georgia, on Wednesday, seeking millions of dollars in lost revenues from a casino that the Texas
tribe said had been fraudulently
closed.
The suit, in Federal District Court in Austin, says Mr.
Abramoff, Mr. Reed and three
other men mounted a fake religiously themed moral crusade in
2001 to defeat a bill in the Texas
Legislature that would have legalized gambling in Indian casinos.
Their real motive, the suit adds,
was to promote the gambling interests of a tribe in Louisiana that
was paying them to represent its
interest in a competing casino.
Two former Congressional
aides who pleaded guilty to corruption charges along with Mr.
Abramoff were also named in
the suit: Michael Scanlon, who
worked for the former House
majority leader Tom DeLay of
Texas; and Neil Volz, formerly
SUED to page 2