The Tribal Council has asked the Tribal Court for an advisory opinion on holding a special election to fill the potential Treasurer vacancy. Marie Stone requested documents from the Council hearing where she was removed three weeks ago. She has yet to file suit. The Council is not waiting for her to make up her mind.
Creative, cost saving, energy efficient, environmentally sound solar canopies part of the Trbes’ move forward. CDC gets the credit.
The Tribal Community Development Corporation presented a solar energy project that it has been working on for a while. It was well received and quite innovative in concept and design. The first to benefit are the residents in tribal housing. and tree based solar canopies would become part of the parking lots generating energy for the government center. There’s a little more to fine tune before the project is back next week.
INDIANS IN THE NEWS
Ojibwe Minnesota Lieutenant Governor Peggy Flanagan was the
Flanagan’s Republican opponent says she
“savaged” him by denouncing his position against abortion when a woman is raped.
target of a racial slur when her Republican opponent called her a “savage.” Matt Birk is the culprit. He was addressing a Right to Life group and commented that “two wrongs don’t make a right,” when justifying abortion in cases of rape. Flanagan said Birk’s position “denies survivors the choice to end their pregnancy and force them to live the lives their rapists chose for them rather than ones they wanted for themselves.” On Twitter Birk said Flanagan tried to ” “savage” him for his remarks. He reluctantly apologized later. Flanagan is a citizen of White Earth Band of Ojibwe.
Native nations are supporting legislation to legalize and decriminalize cannabis in the United States. The bill was introduced in the US Senate Finance Commitee by Majority Leader Chuck Shumer and other leaders. It is designed to bring uniformity to cannabis regulation nationwide. “The ultimate goal of this historic plant medicine legislation is the ability of our native people to choose their own path and thus their own future without interference by the states,” William Snell, executive director of the Rocky Mountain Tribal Leaders Council, said. The legislation provides extensive grants, and funding for enforcement, healthcare education and a long list of guidelines designed to regulate a huge new industry.
The 6 tribes of the Chippawa Nation will decide whether to stick with blood quantum enrollment.
Minnesota Chippawa removes blood quantum enrollment requirement. Since 1961, children had to have 1/4 Chippawa blood to be enrolled. The approval of the nonbinding referendum that allows the 6 tribes of that nation to decide if they want to lift that blood qualifier. Blood quantum tribal rolls are declining as is the Chippawa. They will now decide whether stick with blood quantum, go back to direct lineage to the original rolls were calculated after the passing of the Indian Reorganization Act of 1934.The federal government required the quantum measurement for tribes to receive services.
