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VOL. 19 NO. 39
'Serving the Fort Peck Reservation
OCTOBER 6, 1988
Voter registration effort
The move is on to register 1275 or more Indian people on the Fort Peck Reservation to vote this November in state and national elections.   -
At least a dozen tribal employees are out registering voter across the reservation under the coordination of Lillian Christian and Bill Whitehead. Christian said the total number registered has not been added together as of yet.
The Fort Peck tribes have declared Sept. 26 to October 7 as Voter Registration Weeks for the Fort Peck tribes. The deadline to register to vote in the November general election is Tuesday, October 11 at the end of the day. A person must be 18 years old and a resident of Montana.
Each Reservation community has a goal to meet, according to Christian.
In Frazer, the goal of 100 is almost met, according to Christian. Registration there "is pretty well covered", with about 30 left as a lot registered during their school elections, she said.
Tribal employees who may register voters during the work day in lieu of their regular duties will be going door to door, said Christian. The goal in Oswego is 50.
In Wolf Point, Whitehead said voter registration may be set up at the Casino during bineo games Friday, Saturday and Sunday nights, as well as at the Oct. 19 regular community meeting. A lot of the voter registration was already Hone earlier this year by
Iris Anderson, who went door to door doing a community survey which included registration, said Whitehead, Wolf Point's goal is 300.
In Poplar, Garrett Big Leggms and Deloris Red Eagle are registering A & S Tribal Industry employees. Red Eagle is registering from 7:30 a.m. to 8:30 a.m. in the cafeteria, and Big Leggins is down there from 4:30 p.m., to 5:30 P.M. Big Leggins registered 36 ASTI employees Tuesday evening, and another 10 more going door to door. He said he is shooting for total registration of the ASTI night shift.
Big Leggins is also registering voters in his office in the triba Building. Tribal Personnel director Trivian Rodriguez has been assigned to go to all tribal programs. There are over 300 tribal employees.
Going out every evening, Big Leggins said Poplar's goal is to register 600 people.
Christian said the Head Start and West Electronics employees are already covered and they will be going into the schools on the reservation on Tuesday, October
11 to register seniors who are 18 years old.
Goals in the other communities are 125 for the Brockton-Ft. Kipp areas and 100 in Riverside.
After voter registration, the next phase the project will get into is voter education;and getting out the   vote,   said   Whitehead.
Meetings are being set up to handle the next phases,  he said.
Montana Vietnam Veterans Memorial � was in Wolf Point Sherman Park last week on a stop in its tour of the state before settling in Missoula. Also on display were the names of Montana soldiers killed and missing in action in Vietnam. There were 316 Montanans killed, of which 7 were Indian. Of the 21 MIAs, one if from Roosevelt County. Franklin Chopper, Brockton, is listed among those gave their life.
October � Domestic Abuse Awareness Month_
Domestic Abuse Law Passed
Section 216. Domestic abuse.
(1) Any person who:
(a) intentionally causes bodily injury to a family member or household member; or
(b) attempts by physical menace to put a family member or household member in fear of serious bodily harm, or by physical menace causes another to harm himself or herself.
is guilty of domestic abuse.
(2) For the purpose of this section, "family member or household member" means a spouse, former spouse, adult person related by blood or marriage, or adult person of the opposite sex residing with the accused.
(3) Domestic abuse is a Class A misdemeanor, but shall be treated as a felony for purposes of Section 201(b) (3) of Title II of this Code, which permits arrest based on probable cause. Those arrested and charged with domestic abuse shall not be released from custody except at arraignment as described in Section 402 of Title II.
(4) For any conviction of domestic abuse, the Judge may require mandatory counseling as part of the sentence, and shall require mandatory counseling as part of the sentence of any person convicted of a second or subsequent offense of domestic abuse.
(5) Whenever a law enforcement officer is called to the scene of a reported incident of domestic violence, but he does not make an arrest, he shall file a written report with the Chief of Police setting forth the reason or reasons for his decision.
Section 217. Notice of rights to victim upon arrest in domestic violence situation.
Whenever a police officer arrests a person for domestic abuse as defined in Section 216, if the victim is present, the officer shall advise the victim of the availability of a shelter or other services in the community and give the victim a copy of the following statement:
"IF YOU ARE THE VICTIM OF DOMESTIC ABUSE, the tribal prosecutor can file criminal charges against your abuser. You have the right to go to court and file a petition requesting any of the following civil orders for relief:
(1) Under Chapter 4, Title IV of the Tribal Code of Justice:
(a) an order restraining your abuser from abusing you;
(b) an order directing your abuser to leave your household.
(2) Under Section 304 or 304a of Title VI, Tribal Code of Justice:
(a) an order awarding you or the other parent custody of or visitation with a minor child or children;
(b) an order restraining your abuser from molesting or interfering with minor children in your custody; or
(c) an order directing the party not granted custody to pay support of minor children or to pay support of the other party if there is a legal obligation to do so."
POPLAR�The Fort Peck. Tribal Executive Board declared October as Domestic Abuse Awareness Month.
On September 12, the board approved of the Domestic Abuse' Ordinance, amending the Tribes Code of Justice to include sections 216 and 217.
To make sure the tribal law is understood in this area, the Tribes Family Services Program has set up in-service training with various entities, such as the BIA Law Enforcement, Sheriff's Department, Headstart, BIA Social Services, school counselors, juvenile officers and court personnel, Spotted Bull Treatment Center, Ft. Peck Housing, FPCC and NAES College, and A&S Tribal Industries.
Family Services is also sponsoring a Domestic Violence Awareness Seminar on October 18 at the Poplar Cultural Center from 10 a.m. to 2 p.m. The seminar will bring out the many factors which contribute to domestic violence and where help is available. Lunch will be served.
In the meeting with the Sheriff's Department, it was said that the Tribes ordinance is almost identical to the state's and they saw no problem in it's enforcement.
ASTI Task Force
POPLAR � The Task Force formed to look into complaints from the A&S Tribal Industries production workers has been reset to this Friday, October 7 at 10 a.m. in the A & S Tribal Industries conference room.
Representing the tribal chairman's office on the Task Force is chairman Raymond White tail Feather, assistant Garrett Big Leggins, and in-house counsel Bob McAnally; representing the Tribal Executive Board is Caleb Shields, Ray Eder and Gene Culbertson; representing the A&STI Board of Directors is Bill Youpee, Norman Hollow and Stanley Yellowrobe; and representing ASTI
management is general manager Bill Neuman, Darryl Boyd and Chuck Garfield.
Neulman said no production worker representatives will be on the Task Force as that was the agreement between the Tribes and ASTI.
However, the chairman's assistant Big Leggins said there was no formal agreement about excluding production workers that he knows of unless one was made between the chairman and Neulman during a meeting between the two last Thursday. Big Leggins said it has been the concern of the Iribal txecutive Board, since the first initial meeting with ASTI last spring, that Droduction workers be represented.
The meetings of the Task Force will be closed sessions.
Wolf Point house fire takes life of man
WOLF POINT � Fort Peck tribal member Leonard "Cus" Rolland Dupree, 32, was found dead Sunday, Oct. 2, inside a smoke-filled house at 225 Benton Street in Wolf Point.
Dupree apparently died in the house fire that was spotted by Roosevelt County Sheriff's Deputy Michael Speer while on routine patrol about noon on Sunday, according to BIA special investigator Tim Smith. Since Dupree is anvenrolled member of the Fort Peck Tribes, the BIA and FBI are working on the death investigation with the Montana State fire marshal and the Sheriff's Department.
Upon further investigation, fumes from a jug of gasoline apparently ignited, Sheriff's Lt. Bob Neumiller said. The fire started near a plastic jug of gasoline in a room in the small house, he said.
Neumiller was unsure why Dupree brought the gas into the house. Dupree struck a match, which apparently ignited the fumes and a flash of fire apparently burned Dupree and the room area, Neumiller said.
Dupree was overcome quickly and was found a short distance
from the gasoline jug, he said, with apparent cause of death appearing to be asphyxiation.
Fourteen Wolf Point volunteer firefighters answered the call, said Fire Chief Warren Evans. They saw no flames and little smoke when they arrived at the small one-story frame house, but were told someone might be inside.
Equipped with masks and air packs, firefighters went in to search as quite a bit of smoke filled the house, which had all its doors and windows closed, Fire Chief Evans said.
Dupree was located in a doorway of the living room. Although an ambulance crew was at the scene, Dupree was already dead.
The fire was put out in a few minutes. There was smoke damage throughout the structure, but the flames were in living room furnishings, including a stuffed chair and a mattress, said Evans.
The cause of the fire was still under investigation and an atopsy was scheduled in Billings. However, the fire was believedtc be accidental, according to Sheriff's Department Detective Lt. Bob Neumiller.
The victim was a smoker and may have started the fire accidentally on his clothing or on the mattress, said Neumiller.
WOLF POINT-Scene of a fire, caused by gasoline fumes ignited, that lead to the death of a 32 year old man. This home is located one block south of main street in Wolf Point.
Tribal delegation goes to D. C.
POPLAR � Tribal chairman Ray White Tail Feather and Reservation Safety Committee chairman Arlyn Headdress went on a delegation to Washington, DC October 3-5 for a meeting on Oct. 4 regarding the PON I Project and a meeting with Westinghouse IRD.
The Tribes are seeking written assurances that the Fort Peck Tribes will receive fun-
Trie Family Service Program traditional counselor Floyd Youngman, FSP director Iris All Runner and the Tribes In* house counsel Bob McAnally at an in-service training with the Roosevelt County Sheriff's Department this week regarding the Domestic Abuse Law passed by the Tribes.
ding as verbally promised for a juvenile detention center facility to be built on to the tribal jail through the PONI Project. Fort Peck was assured that they were to be a "model project' , one of the first such in the nation for Indian tribes, in the facility construction.
However, according to Headdress, when the Federal Register came out with the tribes listed who will receive funding, Fort Peck was not on the list.
Westinghouse IRD (Institute for Resource Development, INC) has been providing assistance to both private and public sector clients in the U.S. and abroad in such areas as quality and productivity technology transfer, local area networks, and information management microcomputer applications.
During the last year, they have been providing hands-on, practical assistance to several tribal-owned businesses. Their assignments included valuation of businesses proposed for acquisition; developing business plans and assisting with their implementation; and improving the operating performance of underachieving companies.
According to the chairman's administrative assistant Garrett Big Leggins, the meeting with Westinghouse IRD will be to introduce them with the Tribes industry capabilities of both West Electronics and A&S Tribal Industries and their success.