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Another housing program for residents — Are your housing costs too high? If so, the Salish and Kootenai Housing Au thority may be able to help. SKHA is seeking applications for the Section 8 Voucher Program. If your family’s total income is less than estab lished limits on file at the Housing Au thority office, and you now live within the exterior boundaries of the Flathead Indian Reservation or plan to move here, please consider making an appli cation. WHO SHOULD APPLY— Yon mav qualify for the program if: • You are a family of two or more persons. • You live alone and are at least 62 years of age qt are handicapped, dis- VOTING, from page one: Josie Smith, Tribal Complex (Personnel Office), 675-2700 Renee Roullier, 675-4800, Sal ish Kootenai College POLSON — Lillian “Tinka” Di- Pasquale, 883-5461, across from the Flathead Lake Senior Citizens Center Dean Wall, 883-9351,388 Fulk erson Lane, east of Poison BIG ARM, ELMO, DAYTON — Sadie and Carole Saloway, 849-5507, in Elmo HOT SPRINGS — Gloria Riech, 741-2842 DIXON — Eileen Decker, 246- 3238, Old Agency CSKT’s Char-Koosta News EDITOR: Patti M. Blomquist REPORTER: Charmel R. Michel Printing by Char-Koosta Printing Pablo, MT 59855 The Char-Koosta News (ISSN 0893-8970) is published weekly by the Confederated Salish and Koote nai Tribes, P.O. Box 278, Pablo, MT 59855, as a free-of-charge service to enrolled Tribal members. Second-class postage paid at Pablo, MT 59855, and at additional mailing office. POSTMASTER: Send address changes to Char-Koosta News, P.O. Box 278, Pablo, MT 59855 (phone: 406/675-2700). Articles may be reprinted from the Char-Koosta News, but please give us proper credit. abled or have been displaced by govern ment action. • Your total income is less than the income limits established and on file at the SKHA office (call John Salcido at SKHA to see). • You now live on the Flathead Indian Reservation. (Preference may be given to enrolled members of the CS&KT.) If you would like additional informa tion, please call Carrie Irvine immedi ately at 675-4491 (area code 406). A TNI BACKGROUND: unity between the differing tribes, and sharing information and support. This latter purpose is important be cause of Congress’s and the courts’ authority to make policy concerning one tribe that may affect others. “What hap pens to one tribe may set precedence for other tribes,” explains Velda Shelby, coordinator of the Oct. 4-7 conference in Kalispell.’Tribes don’t stand alone.” “Now is the time to reclaim our his tory of oratory, responsibility and the circle,” adds interim executive director, Ramona Soto Rank. “We need to talk with each other even if we don’t always agree. ATNI, like Tribal governments, is only as strong as the people who support it.” Business is handled through resolu tions and a system that assigns votes to tribes based on their population. With 6,000-plus enrolled members, the Sal ish and Kootenai Tribes have 20 votes. CSKT’s delegates are Pat Lefthand and alternate Laurence Kenmille. ATNI isn’t only for tribes, however. Individual Indians are encouraged to apply for membership for a small fee. Membership includes the right to initi ate action (resolutions) on issues and the right to vote. In 1987’s action plan, ATNI’s efforts were grouped into five broad categories, each with one or more committee: cul tural affairs, economic development and employment, human and social services, natural resources and environ ment, and Tribal governance. So far in 1988, approved resolutions Statue postscript: The 12-foot-tall Montana Vietnam Memorial statue is continuing its tour of the state by heading east, following a line of pins on a map marked with the hometowns of 315 people who were killed or are missing in action in South east Asia. The statue’s recent tour of 15 northwest towns, including six here on the Reservation, raised about $4,000 of the $45,000 still needed to finish paying for it. A parade and formal dedication is planned for Nov. 11 in Missoula, the bronze’s permanent home. For more information, or to make a donation, call the Montana Veterans Memorial Committee at 1-800-443-4954. have touched on: substance abuse, Chemawa Indian School, housing, the Indian Child Welfare Act (ICWA), the Indian Religious Freedom Act (IRFA), recognition of the Coquille and Samish nations, an apology from a number of churches about past injustices, fishing rights of individuals, taxation of income from Tribal resources, self-govemance, the IHS, radioactive waste disposal, and the Democratic and Republican parties’ Indian policy platform. Something new this year was the decision to expand ATNI’s membership base to include tribes from Wyoming, Colorado, North and South Dakota, Utah, Nevada, northern California and two Canadian provinces. Depending on which tribes respond to the invitation to join, the Salish and Kootenai Tribes may lose their status as the farthest-east members. This isn’t the first year the Tribes has hosted an ATNI conference, by the way. Back in 1981, the Salish and Kootenai hosted two meetings — one at Kicking Horse in March, and one at the Arlce pow wow grounds in August. The sec ond meeting featured then-Assistant Secretary of Indian Affairs Ken Smith as principal speaker. The issues of concern back then? Indian water codes, disfavor of a pro posed dam on the Kootenai River, James Watt (Smith’s controversial boss), the ICWA and IRFA, federal budget cuts, hazardous waste disposal, CETA, Chemawa, and something called the Sagebrush Rebellion. v ^ T a m m m y m T A j r s r r m SEPTEMBER 28,1988 - CSKT’s Char-Koosta News, Pablo, MT - PAGE 3
