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Tribal
Business Council Approves Tribal Business Council
Resolution #01-126-MWJR proposing increase
to nine (9) TBC Members
...The
Tribal Business Council has determined that, as
the elected governing body of the Three Affiliated
Tribes, it could provide more representation of
and improved services to the membership of the
Tribes through an increase in the membership of
the Council from seven (7) to nine (9) members,
which increase would be realized by providing
for the election of the positions of Council Secretary
and Treasurer at large by all eligible Tribal
voters; and
...That the Tribal Business Council hereby directs
the Legal Department of the Three Affiliated Tries
to draft the actual language of the proposed Constitutional
amendments...a prospective resolution wherein,
additionally, the Secretary of the Interior would
be requested to call and conduct a Secretarial
Election on the proposed amendments.
Tribal
Elders submit Petitions to the Tribal Business
Council
Delores
Sand and Viola Schettler presented petitions to
be acted on by the Tribal Business Council.
…"We the undersigned, Elder members of the Mandan,
Hidatsa and Arikara Tribes, hereby petition the
Three Affiliated Tribal Council to honor our requests
as follows:
- We would like
the elderly money on a monthly basis with a
voucher or purchase order system to be used
for clothing, groceries, utility bills, rent
and medical expenses. By this system, all elderly
members would benefit equally from what the
funds were intended, was we are not satisfied
with the present budget.
- We are requesting
the Elders Organization Board and staff be stopped
from using our funds by creating such high paying
jobs that do not benefit all of the elders.
We feel the majority of the money is being used
on administration and the majority of the elderly
are left out, both on and off the reservation.
Also, these jobs are overlapping services with
other programs on the reservation.
- We request
the Three Affiliated Tribal Council to re-evaluate
the charter creating the Elders Organization,
Resolution #00-125, as too much authority
has been given to 13 people and all the elders
of the Ft. Berthold Indian Reservation's voices
are not being heard. An Immediate response to
our petition is requested.
The TBC recognized
and accepted the petitions for review.
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