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The original documents are located in Box 4, folder "Pine Ridge - Harper's Ferry Meeting"
of the Bradley H. Patterson Files at the Gerald R. Ford Presidential Library.
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OF
United States Department of the Interior
BUREAU OF INDIAN AFFAIRS
WASHINGTON, D.C. 20245
March
3,
1849
IN REPLY REFER TO:
JUN 7 1976
Memorandum
To:
Dr. Theodore Marrs
Special Assistant to the President
From:
Commissioner of Indian Affairs
Subject:
Proposed Meeting on Pine Ridge sponsored by
American Arbitration Association
Based on conversations between Tom Colosi of the American
Arbitration Association (AAA) and Ted Krenzke of my staff, I
am aware of a proposed meeting tentatively scheduled for June 29
through July 1 at the Wingspread Conference Center at Racine,
Wisconsin, which would be sponsored by AAA and involve
representatives of the Oglala Sioux Tribe and those of the admin-
istration, including particularly the White House, the Justice
Department, and the BIA.
Mr. Colosi has recently met in Minneapolis with a group of Oglala
traditionalists, and on May 28 met with Al Trimble, the newly
seated President of the Oglala Sioux Tribal Council, for purposes
of discussing this meeting. From the Minneapolis meeting
Mr. Colosi reports the desire of the traditionalists to discuss with
the Administration a number of subjects relating to "public safety"
on the Reservation, as well as the matter of compliance by the
United States with the 1868 Fort Laramie Treaty.
The Bureau believes the Administration should take a positive
stance toward participation in a meeting such as is being proposed.
We are encouraged by the indication of involvement by elected
members of the Oglala Sioux tribal government and feel that, in
general, a more favorable climate for dealing positively with the
problems at Pine Ridge now exists than at any time in recent years.
While strong arguments can undoubtedly be made for stating an
immediate willingness of top level Administration attendance at the
June 29 - July 1 session on an unconditional basis, we hold the position
that measurable success from such a meeting would be significantly
enhanced through careful planning and preparation by both sides.
REVOLUTION
AMERICAN
BICENTENNIAL
1776-1976
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As you will recall, the original concept of AAA involvement at
Pine Ridge was to address problems of serious cleavage within the
Pine Ridge community. In approaching this problem, the AAA
indicated they would contact all elements of the community and
attempt to gain their participation in a mediation process. Now the
proposal is considerably different and the focus is apparently on
relations between the Oglala Sioux and the Federal government.
We believe such discussions to be entirely appropriate. However,
to date it appears that AAA's only in-depth discussions have been
with the traditionalists and while Mr. Trimble has indicated
a willingness to participate, there so far has not even been any
discussion of the issues between him and other members of the tribal
governing body, and the group of traditionalists who have been meeting
with AAA. In brief, we continue to believe that any meeting with
Administration representatives should have been preceded by broad
discussion of the issues at Pine Ridge in forums in which all of the
various elements of the community have had a chance to participate.
We are not satisfied that this has taken place to date.
From such a process we would envision the emergence of a fairly clear
determination of the issues which are of most concern to the Pine Ridge
people and which could readily be translated into agenda items for the
meeting. These proposed agenda items should then be transmitted to
the Administration in such a time and manner that they may be given
sufficient consideration to prepare meaningful responses for the meeting.
In general, it is my belief that the Pine Ridge people should be afforded
an opportunity to discuss as broad a range of issues of concern to them
as possible.
In summary, I recommend that the AAA be given a clear indication of
the willingness of the Administration to participate in a meeting of the
kind they have proposed. Since the issues are virtually certain to cross
the lines of various of the Federal agencies, I would urge that you assume
the lead role in such a meeting, with suitable representation from the
BIA, the Justice Department, and any other Federal agency as deemed
appropriate based on the agenda. Prior to the meeting there should
have been substantial discussion of the issues among the varied
elements of the Pine Ridge community. The results of such discussion
should lead to a proposed agenda which should be given to the Admin-
istration sufficiently in advance of the meeting in order to prepare
meaningful responses and determine its participants.
If you concur in this approach, I recommend that you advise
Mr. Colosi accordingly. If you have other views on it, I believe
you and I should get together as soon as possible to discuss the
matter further.
AMERICAN ARBITRATION ASSOCIATION
1730 RHODE ISLAND AVE., N.W., SUITE 509
WASHINGTON, D.C. 20036 (202) 296-8510
50th ANNIVERSARY
1926-1976
THOMAS R. COLOSI
/ ce Pres cert
National Alta is
June 17, 1976
Ms. Bobbie Kilberg
Associate Counsel to
the President
Old Executive Office Building
Washington, D. C. 20500
Dear Bobbie:
In response to your recent request, below I have attempted
to state the positions of the Lakota Treaty Council and
the Elected Tribal Council on issues concerning the Pine
Ridge Reservation. I have also enclosed supporting docu-
ments, from which the positions are drawn.
Both groups recognize and acknowledge serious problems on
the Reservation, of particular immediate concern being
"law and order.' Both see increased economic and political
independence of the residents as the long-term solution to
the problems. The Elected Tribal Council leadership di-
verge from the Lakota Treaty Council leadership on the
basic approach to achieving this goal of greater indepen-
dence.
VIEWPOINT OF ELECTED TRIBAL COUNCIL
Holds the opinion that problems at Pine Ridge are the re-
sult of basic economic depression on the Reservation, due
to a general lack of opportunities open to residents (see
document 1). Seeks the assistance of the Federal govern-
ment in implementing several inter-related plans to alle-
viate economic ills and to strengthen the sense of community
on the Reservation (see documents 2, 3). With aid in es-
tablishing the certain strategic programs outlined, the
Reservation will develop as a viable economic and political
unit. The philosophy of the Tribal Council is well stated
on the last page of document 3.
TORO
GERALD
LIBRARY
Charlotte
Chicago
Cincinnati
Cleveland
Datias
New
Brunswick,
N.J.
New
York
Philade/phia
Phoen
Pitroburgh
San Diego
D.C
HEADQUARTERS: 140 West 51st Street, New York N.Y. 10020
VIEWPOINT OF LAKOTA TREATY COUNCIL
Current problems at Pine Ridge are the result of socio-
economic demoralization of residents of the Reservation
due to alleged violations of the 1868 Fort Laramie Treaty
and other treaties by the U.S. government, and the Indian
Reorganization Act of 1934 (see documents A, B). Seeks
a forum (e.g. Presidential Treaty Review Commission, World
Court, United Nations) to review the actions of the U.S.
government in honoring treaties. Based on this review,
seeks compensation and reparation for violations of the
1868 Treaty and finally, acknowledgement of the Treaty as
authority for sovereignty of Indian residents at Pine Ridge
(see documents C,D,E).
Sincerely,
Thomas R. Colosi
Vice President
Enclosures
Acceptance address of Al Trimble, provided in packet
of materials at meeting at White House, 6/8/76
1
THE PEOPLE OF THE OGLALA SIOUX TRIBE ASKED ME TO LEAD
OUR TRIBAL GOVERNMENT INTO AN ERA OF GREAT CHANGE. THE CHANGES
THEY MANDATE INCLUDE ALMOST EVERY FACET OF THE LIVES WE LIVE ON
PINE RIDGE RESERVATION, BUT THEY ARE NOT COMPLEX SOCIAL OR
ECONOMIC CHANGES WHICH TAX THE SKILLS AND CAPABILITIES OF A
PEOPLE LADEN WITH DEVELOPMENTAL PROBLEMS ALREADY COMPLICATING
THEIR LIVES - ALTHOUGH THERE WILL BE THESE KINDS OF CHALLENGES
TO CONTEND WITH.
THE CHANGES DEMANDED BY OUR PEOPLE ARE THOSE THAT LEAD US
BACK TO A SINGLE DECENCY: TO TIMES so CHERISHED BY OUR OLDER AND
EVEN MIDDLE-AGED PEOPLE, WHEN PEACE AND TRANZQUILITY ON THE
RESERVATION WAS A QUALITY OF LIFE COMMON TO ALL THE PEOPLE. THE
PEOPLE DEMAND NOW THAT OPPORTUNITIES, TO BETTER THEIR OWN LIVES,
BE OFFERED ON THE BASIS OF EQUALITY AND JUSTICE TO MEET THEIR
NEEDS AND DESIRES. THEY DEMAND THAT ALL AREAS OF GOVERNMENT, WHICH
EXIST TO RENDER SERVICES AS THE NEED IS EVIDENT - REGARDLESS OF THE
IDENTITY OF THE PERSON IN NEED.
BASICALLY THEN, THE OGLALA SIOUX PEOPLE ARE DEMANDING NOTHING
MORE THAN THE ABILITY TO PURSUE HAPPINESS AND SATISFACTION IN
THEIR LIVES - WITHOUT THREAT OR PUTDOWN FROM THEIR FELLOW OGLALA
SKOUX CITIZENS.
WE ALL TOO SADLY REALIZE THAT THE PINE RIDGE RESERVATION IS
DEPECTED NATIONALLY, AND EVEN INTERNATIONALLY AS A COMMUNITY
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WHICH DEPRIVES THESE QUALITIES TO A LARGE SEGMENT OF ITS OWN PEOPLE. WE REALIZE
THAT REGARDLESS OF FACTS WHICH WOULD SHOW THE GREAT MAJORITY OF OUR PEOPLE AS
HONORABLE, DECENT AND LAW-ABIDING, OUR IMAGE IS ONE OF A CORRUPTED COMMUNITY, IN
WHICH ALL OF ONE SEGMENT OF OUT SOCIETY, PRACTICES MISTREATMENT AND TYRANNY OVER
THE REMAINING SEGMENT. TO CORRECT THIS PICTURE WILL REQUIRE THE WILLINGNESS OF
EVERY ONE OF OUR OGLALA CITIZENS TO SET ASIDE MISTRUST AND PREJUDICE - IN FAVOR
OF THE BROTHERHODDS THAT MUST PREVAIL IF WE ARE TO CONTINUE TO EXIST AS A TRIBE
ONE NATION WITH LOVE AND CONCERN FOR ALL OUR BROTHERS AND SISTERS.
TO EQUALIZE THE RENDERING OF OPPORTUNITIES IN SUCH AREA AS JOBS, HOUSING,
BUSINESS ENTRY AND SIMILAR WOULD SEEM MUCH MORE DIFFICULT IN CONCEPT; BECAUSE
OPPORTUNITIES HAVE NEVER BEEN EVEN NEARLY ADEQUATE FOR ALL ON THIS RESERVATION
AND TO RENDER TO ONE IN NEED ALMOST CERTAINLY MEANS TO DEPRIVE ANOTHER OF WHAT
HE HOLDS. BUT WHEN WE SPEAK OF OPPORTUNITY FOR TRIBAL MEMBERS WE DO NOT SPEAK
OF PRIVATE PROPERTY. WE SPEAK OF OPPORTUNITIES AVAILED TO THE PEOPLE BY THEIR
TRIBE OR GOVERNMENT WHICH ARE JUSTIFIED AND ESTABLISHED TO ASSIST THOSE WITH THE
MOST NEED. AND IT IS THIS AREA OF SERVICE THAT THE OGLALA SIOUX TRIBAL GOVERN-
MENT MUST RESPOND WITH REAL CONCERN FOR ITS PEOPLE - TO EFFECT THE CHANGES THAT
ARE DEMANDED. SO WHILE THIS TALK MAY SEEM MORE DIFFICULT THAN THAT OF AMELIORATING
MISTRUST AND PREJUDICE AMONG OUT PEOPLE, IT IS REALLY MORE SIMPLE TO ACCOMPLISH
BECAUSE IT ONLY REQUIRES POSITIVE ACTION ON THE PART OF A DETERMINED TRIBAL
GOVERNMENT AND ITS LEADERSHIP. THIS, I BELIEVE, IS WHAT THE PEOPLE DEMAND IN
PUTTING TRIBAL LEADERSHIP IN OUR HANDS. IF THERE IS ONE SINGLE ELEMENT EFFECTING
THE QUALITY OF LIVING ON THE PINE RIDGE RESERVATION WHICH IS NOT PRIMARILY IN THE
HANDS OF TRIBAL GOVERNMENT TO CHANGE, IT IS THE SYSTEM OF LAW ENFORCEMENT AND
JUSTICE WHICH IS SUPPOSED TO SERVE - NOT DOMINATE - THE COMMUNITY.
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THIS ELEMENT OF TRIBAL LIFE IS NOW CONTROLLED BY THE FEDERAL BUREAUCRACY AND COURTS
WHICH APPEAR MORE DETERMINED TO CAUSE AND MAINTAIN BREAKDOWN AND FAILURE IN THE
PEACEKEEPING PROCESS, THAN IN SUPPORTING A SELF-DETERMINED TRIBAL GOVERNMENT. WE
CAN CHANGE - WE CAN RESTORE TRIBAL AND COMMUNITY CONTROL OF TRIBAL LAW ENFORCEMENT:
WE CAN UPGRADE OUT TRIBAL JUDICIAL SYSTEM; BUT WE MUST EXERT EVERY PRESSURE AND
INFLUENCE AT OUR COMMAND TO BRING ABOUT A MORE EFFECTIVE ATTITUDE ON THE PART OF
THE JUSTICE DEPARTMENT AND THE FEDERAL COURT SYSTEM. TRIBAL GOVERNMENT MUST NOT
CONTINUE TO BE TREATED AS AN UNWANTED STEPCHILD OF THE FEDERAL COURT SYSTEM; THE
JUSTICE DEPARTMENT MUST CEASE TO TREAT OUR PEOPLE AS ALIENS IN THEIR OWN LAND AND
THE FBI MIGHT SOME DAY LEARN THAT CRIMINALITY IS AN EXCEPTION TO OUR CULTURE AND
NOT A PART OF IT. THE GREATER TASK YET MIGHT BE TO CONVINCE THE BUREAU OF INDIAN
AFFAIRS THAT THE UPPER ECHELONS OF ITS LAW ENFORCEMENT DIVISION DOES NOT EXIST AS
A BUREAUCRATIC HAVEN FOR NON-INDIANS WITH LITTLE UNDERSTANDING OF OUR COMMUNITY
NEEDS. IN FACT, ALL THE BUREAU MIGHT LEARN THAT INDIANS DO NOT EXIST FOR THE
PURPOSE OF MAINTAINING THE BIA - BUT THAT THE BIA CAN EXIST ONLY AS IT EFFECTIVELY
SERVES INDIAN PEOPLE.
IN SPEAKING OF THOSE POSITIVE ACTIONS THAT TRIBAL GOVERNMENT CAN AND MUST
TAKE TO BETTER THE QUALITY OF LIVING FOR ITS PEOPLE, RESERVATION DEVELOPMENT, OF
COURSE, IS GENERALLY HELD TO BE THE KEY. WE DO NOT QUARREL WITH THE CONCEPT THAT
INDUSTRIES WHICH CREATE JOBS FOR THE PEOPLE MUST BE SOUGHT AFTER AND DEVELOPED.
THE PINE RIDGE RESERVATION HAS SHOWN SIGNIFICANT DEVELOPMENT AND PROGRESS IN THIS
AREA. WE MUST CONTINUE THIS DEVELOPMENT IN WAYS THAT REACH MORE AND MORE PEOPLE
IN THE OUTLYING DISTRICTS OF THE RESERVATION.
FORD
LIBRARY
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BUT WHILE WE CONTINUE THIS EFFORT WE MUST REMIND OURSELVES THAT OUR MOST
VALUABLE AND P CIOUS RESOURCE; OUR LAND - ALL THE LAND WITHIN THE BOUNDARIES
OF OUR RESERVATION NATION, IS THE MOST UNDERUSED FOR ECONOMIC DEVELOPMENT OF
OUR PEOPLE, AND THE MOST OVER-EXPLOITED BY THE NON-INDIAN PEOPLE WHOM WE HAVE
PERMITTED TO USE AND GAIN OWNERSHIP OF IT. LANDS OF VAST ECONOMIC IMPORTANCE
TO THE TRIBE HAVE BEEN ALIENATED FROM TRIBAL OWNERSHIP. THIS RESOURCE IS
CRUCIAL TO THE TRIBE IF WE ARE SERIOUS AS WE MUST BE ABOUT THE DEVELOPMENT OF
OUR OGLALA NATION. ECONOMICALLY AND MORALLY, THERE CAN BE NO OTHER POLICY OR
DIRECTION THAN TO BEGIN AND SUSTAIN AN AGRESSIVE PROGRAM OF REACQUIRING SIOUX
LANDS WITHIN THE BOUNDARY OF OUR RESERVATION FOR USE BY INDIAN PEOPLE. I MUST
EXPLAIN HERE FOR THE ALARMISTS, THAT THIS IS NOT AN INDIAN MILITANT EFFORT TO
DEPRIVE NON-INDIANS OF WHAT THEY HAVE ACQUIRED ON THE RESERVATION (REGARDLESS
OF THE SORDID, GOVERNMENT-AIDED MEANS WHICH THEY MANY TIMES USED TO ACQUIRE IT,
REGARDLESS OF THE PITIFULLY LOW PRICE THEY FREQUENTLY WERE PERMITTED BY THE
GOVERNMENT TO ACQUIRE IT FOR) THIS IS SIMPLY A HARD-NOSED ECONOMIC DECISION
THAT MUST BE MADE AND CARRIED OUT FOR THE SURVIVAL OF THE OGLALA SIOUX NATION.
AGAIN, TO MOLLIFY THE ALARMIST; IT WILL BE OUR INTENT TO REACQUIRE THIS LAND IN
THE EXISTING MARKET, PAYING THE PRICE ASKED OR BARGAINING FOR THE BEST DEAL AC-
CORDING TO HONORED AND ACCEPTED PRACTICES. WE SUBMIT THAT IT WOULD BE BENEATH
OUR CODE OF HONOR TO ATTEMPT TO REACQUIRE THE LAND IN THE SAME MANNER THAT IT WAS
TAKEN FROM US. WE MUST SIMPLY RELY ON THE FACT THAT PEOPLE, NOT HAVING THE
STRONG SPIRITUAL ATTACHMENT TO OUR LANDS THAT THE SIOUX HAVE, WILL SOONER OR
LATER PUT IT ON THE MARKET AS THEIR NEED FOR ECONOMIC INTERESTS ARISE. WHEN,
AND AS THIS HAPPENS, WE MUST BE PREPARED TO REACQUIRE OUR LANDS. TOWARD THIS END
WE MUST DEVELOP THESE LAND REACQUISITION PROGRAMS AS A TOP PRIORITY - URGING OUT
CONGRESSMEN AND SENATORS TO EXPAND ON PRESENT INDIAN FINANCING PROGRAMS AND TO
DEVELOP SPECIFIC LEGISLATION TO EXPEDITE THE PROCESS.
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IT MUST BE MENTIONED, THAT ONE IMPORTANT COLLATERAL BENEFIT TO REACQUIRING
INDIAN LANDS WITHIN THE RESERVATION - WILL BE THE DIMINISHMENT OF EFFORTS BY
ANTI-TRIBAL GOVERNMENT FORCES TO COMPEL INDIANS TO ACCEPT STATE JURISDICTION.
THE FORMULA IS VERY SIMPLE; FOR EVERY ACRE OF RESERVATION LAND RETURNED TO INDIAN
OR TRIBAL OWNERSHIP AND TRUST STATUS, THE POSITION OF THE STATE JURISDICTION
FORCES IS WEAKENED. WITH THIS PROCESS OF DIMINISHING THE STATE'S TAX BASE ON
THE RESERVATION, SOON WILL DISAPPEAR THE NON-INDIAN INTEREST FORCING STATE
JURISDICTION ON THE RESERVATION. THIS IS A CHALLENGING ASSIGNMENT FOR TRIBAL
GOVERNMENT, BUT NOTHING COULD BE MORE EXCITING AND SATISFYING TO THE TOTAL INDIAN
COMMUNITY.
MOST OF THE NEWLY ELECTED OFFICERS AND COUNCILMEN GAINED THEIR VOTERS SUP-
PORT BY PROMISING THE RETURN TO CONSTITUTIONAL TRIBAL GOVERNMENT, AND THE RETURN
OF POWER TO THE PEOPLE. THIS CAN ONLY BE MANIFESTED BY PROMPT MOVES BY TRIBAL
GOVERNMENT TO ASSIST THE DISTRICTS TO DEVELOP WORKABLE LOCAL CONTROL OF SERVICES;
AND TO RENDER TO ALL DISTRICTS THEIR RIGHTFUL SHARE OF TRIBAL PROGRAMS AND FUNDING
RESOURCES, TO THE MAXIMUM EXTENT CONSISTENT WITH THE CONSTITUTION OF THE TRIBE AND
OTHER LAWS. TOWARD THIS END, THE TRIBAL GOVERNMENT MUST EXTEND OFFICES AND SERVICES
TO THE DISTRICTS AND THE BUREAU OF INDIAN AFFAIRS MUST RESPOND BY REINSTATING THE
BIA DISTRICT ADMINISTRATORS WHICH WERE so HEEDLESSLY DISMANTLED BY THE BUREAU IN
THE PAST YEAR.
MUCH HAS BEEN SAID ABOUT THE RELATIONS OF THE OGLALA SIOUX TRIBE WITH OUR NON-
INDIAN NEIGHBORS. WE HAVE BEEN DEPICTED AS BURDENSOME TO THE VARIOUS SURROUNDING
COMMUNITIES, AS THREATENING VIOLENCE TO VISTORS ON OUR RESERVATION; AND AS CLEARLY
UNREADY TO MAINTAIN SELF-GOVERNMENT. THOSE NON-INDIANS ON THE RESERVATION, WHO
HAVE BEEN SUCCESSFUL IN MAINTAINING A COLONIALISTIC EXISTENCE PRIOR TO THE ERA OF
INDIAN DEMANDS FOR FULL CITIZENSHIP AND CIVIL RIGHTS, HAVE NOW EMERGED AS CITIZENS
DEMANDING THEIR CIVIL LIBERTIES. THIS, AFTER GENERATIONS OF EXPLOITING INDIAN
RESOURCES WITH BOTH OVERT AND TACIT ASSISTANCE OF THE FEDERAL GOVERNMENT. IN OTHER
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WORDS, WHEN INDIANS ARE ACCORDED EVEN THE MOST ELEMENTARY RIGHTS - THEN THESE
COLONIAL TYPES WANT SUPER-RIGHTS. THE ANSWER TO THESE TYPES IS TO REALLY AC-
CORD THEM ALL THE CIVIL LIBERTIES THEY CAN STAND. WE SHOULD PASS THE NECESSARY
TRIBAL ORDINANCES TO BRING THEM UNDER TRIBAL JURISDICTION; JUST AS THEY MUST
ACCEPT THE JURISDICTION OF ANOTHER SOVEREIGNTY WHERE THEY MIGHT CHOOSE TO RESIDE
AS NON-CITIZENS.
IN OUR DEALINGS WITH OUR NON-INDIAN NEIGHBORS WE HAVE TOO LONG SOUGHT TO BE
TREATED AS EQUALS. THIS HAS BEEN NON-PRODUCTIVE AND HAS USUALLY RESULTED ONLY
IN THE DEMAND THAT WE CONCEDE MORE AND MORE OF OUR HERITAGE, OUR LANDS, RESOURCES
AND SELF RESPECT.
THIS TOO, WE SUBMIT, CAN BE RECTIFIED BY A CHANGE IN ATTITUDE ON OUR PART.
WE SHOULD DEMAND RESPECT BY TREATING OUR NEIGHBORS AS OUR EQUALS. WE WOULD DO
so BY INSISTING ON FULL SERVICE OR VALUE FOR USE OF LANDS AND FULL RECOGNITION
FOR THE CONTRIBUTIONS WE MAKE AS A COMMUNITY.
IN CONCLUDING, I WISH TO STATE THAT I AM GREATLY HONORED TO ACCEPT THE CHAL-
LENGE, AND THE POSITION, DIRECTED TO ME BY THE PEOPLE OF THE OGLALA SIOUX TRIBE.
IT IS A GREAT INSPIRATION TO BE DIRECTED TO SERVE THE PEOPLE - IT IS WITH A HUMBLE
APPRECIATION OF OUR GREAT NEEDS THAT I TODAY ACCEPT THE PRESIDENCY OF THE OGLALA
SIOUX TRIBE.
2
A PROGRAM
FOR
THE PINE RIDGE INDIAN RESERVATION **
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December 10, 1976
** Provided by Al Trimble at meeting at White House, 6/8/76
PROPOSAL
To establish a high level Federal agency task force to coordinate the
immediate implementation of a broad range of specific Federal programs on the
Pine Ridge Indian Reservation designed to create both short and long term em-
ployment opportunities and strengthen the economy of the Tribe and thereby eradicate
the root causes of the violence and misery on the Reservation.
The Need
The Pine Ridge Indian Reservation ranks high now on the agenda of the
Bureau of Indian Affairs. In addition, because of the national and international
attention that has been focused on the Reservation in recent years, Pine Ridge,
even though it is a small community, can be said also to be on the domestic
agenda of the White House. President Ford's recent meeting with an alleged Chief,
Frank Fools Crow, is illustrative of the fact that Pine Ridge is, indeed, a matter
of national interest and concern.
Much of the discussion of the Pine Ridge Reservation has centered on the
high rate of violent crimes. It should be noted, however, that contrary to the
impression sometimes left by the media, persons knowledgeable of life on the
Reservation agree that these crimes are not connected with political disputes.
Rather, the shootings that do take place on the Reservation seem to be the result
of personal feuds and of the tension created by the misery and the hopeless human
conditions that exist.
The initial response to the Law and Order problem on the Pine Ridge Reserva-
tion has been to consider sending in more police. But when one closely examines
and understands the underlying causes of the violence on the Reservation, it be-
comes evident that an increased police force, by itself, will not solve the problem.
The Pine Ridge Reservation, located in the southwest corner of South Dakota,
is the second largest Indian Reservation in the country. The unemployment rate
on the Reservation, which has a population of over 12,000 people, is over 60.
A study prepared at the request of the Secretary of the Interior found in a report
dated June 24, 1975, that in over one-third of the Indian households on the Pine
Ridge Reservation, no one works. About 40% of those who were employed were found
to be significantly underemployed. In sharp contrast, non-Indians on the Reserva-
tion and in nearby communities enjoy reasonable standards of living. Most Indians
on the Reservation face a life of poverty and dispair with little hope of meaningful
employment.
It is in this context, therefore, that we recommend that instead of relying
solely on increased law enforcement activities to curb the violence on the Re-
servation, we develop and implement immediately a program that reaches the root
causes of violence. What is recommended is a comprehensive Federal effort to put
people on the Reservation to work and to provide them with a basis for improving
their standard of living.
Pine Ridge Development Task Force
A broad range of Federal programs could be funded on the Pine Ridge Reservation
to provide immediate job training and employment opportunities for members of the
Oglala Sioux Tribe, to construct needed community facilities on the Reservation
and to broaden the economic base of the Tribe and thereby strengthen the future
economy of the Reservation.
To coordinate the planning and implementation and to accelerate the initiation
of the programs, a high level committment by the Ford Administration is necessary.
It is recommended that the White House direct the Secretaries of Interior, Labor,
Commerce, Housing and Urban Development, Agriculture, Transportation and Health
Education and Welfare, the Attorney General and the Director of the Office of
Management and Budget to commit their respective departments to a joint effort
on the Pine Ridge Indian Reservation.
To assure that the commitment is fulfilled and that specific Federal Projects
are expeditiously implemented, it is suggested that a coordinating group be created
chaired by a designee of the Secretary of the Interior and whose members would in-
clude designees of the other departments mentioned above. It is recommended that
the designee of the Oglala Sioux Tribe be a member of this group.
The Task Force should be in existence for not more than one year and should
meet at least once each month to coordinate and supervise the development of the
specific projects. It is suggested that limited staff be made available by the
Commissioner of Indian Affairs to assist the Task Force in meeting its res-
ponsibilities.
The focus of the mandate of the Task Force will be to coordinate the immediate
implementation of several Federal programs on the Pine Ridge Reservation. It is not
intended to be a study or planning group, but rather an action-oriented group whose
primary responsibility is to assure the initiation of job-oriented programs.
Federal Programs
The first responsibility of the Task Force should be to develop an agenda of
Federal programs to be initiated on the Pine Ridge Reservation and to develop a
specific timetable for the implementation of these programs. These projects should
include the following.
1. Department of Labor
Putting people to work is the most critical problem on the Reservation. A
comprehensive effort encompassing all able-bodied people on the Reservation would
help create longterm employment opportunities for these persons and would unquest-
ionably be an investment which would pay off in terms of reduction of the costs
of other Federal programs.
The Department of Labor should, with the cooperation of the Bureau of
Indian Affairs, set up a three-year employment program on the Reservation. An
effort should be made to ensure that all unemployed persons able to work are
registered for employment assistance. The basic funds for the programs should
come from Title III of the Comprehensive Employment and Training Act as well
as Title X of the Public Works and Economic Development Act. In addition, the
programs should coordinate the employment aspects of the other programs set forth
below.
2. Department of Commerce - Economic Development Administration
(a) Oglala Sioux Tribe Parks Board
The Tribe has entered into an agreement with the National Parks Service
whereby the Tribe has agreed to allow the Park Service to use certain tribal
lands for the Badlands National Monument in exchange for a position of the entrance
fee that will be charged to the Monument. The fee will be paid over to the Oglala
Sioux Tribe Parks Board which is a development corporation organized by the Tribe
to formulate and develop tourism for the Reservation, particularly in the Badlands
National Monument area. Revenue generated by the fee arrangement will be used by
the Board to develop recreation resources wthin the Reservation. To maximize the
revenue potential of tourism in the MOnument area, the Tribe would like to develop
certain concessions on the Reservation.
Projects designed to increase tourism revenue funded through the Economic
Development Administration under the Public Works and Economic Development Act of
1965 include projects to:
(1) Improve and upgrade the Cedar Pass concessions;
(2) Develop a commercial campground;
(3) Construct a visitors center;
(4) Construct a commercial hotel; and
(5) Develop the site of Wounded Knee
The present building which houses the tribal offices is totally inadequate
to meet the present needs of the Tribe. It is old and does not have sufficient
office space to provide facilities for tribal officials responsible for administer-
ing various trital programs. Funds should be provided through the Economic Develop-
ment Administration under the Public Works and Economic Development Act of 1965
to construct a new Tribal Office Building designed to provide offices for most
tribal officials.
3. Department of Housing and Urban Development
(a) Community Facility
A community center is needed on the Pine Ridge Reservation to serve both
community purposes and to supplement the tourism facilities to be developed by
the Parks Board.
Community block grant funds should be used to construct a multipurpose
community facility in Pine Ridge.
(b) Housing
The lack of sufficient decent, safe and sanitary housing on the
Reservation remains a critical problem. Although it is estimated that between
1,500 and 2,000 units must be built to meet the current housing needs, the rate
of construction on the Reservation is between 100 to 200 units per year.
The construction of a substantial number of additional self-help housing
units should be funded for the Pine Ridge Reservation.
4. Department of Agriculture
(a) Land Acquisition Enterprise
The Tribe established in 1959 a Land Acquisition Enterprise for the
purpose of acquiring interests in land within the Pine Ridge Reservation for the
use and improvement of the economic standing of the Tribe. Tribal land has been
pledged to the Enterprise, and land has been purchased for the Enterprise with
Tribal funds with the proceeds of loans of $4 million from the Farmers Home Ad-
ministration. The Enterprise now generates a substantial surplus of income, and
the Tribe has applied for an additional $3 million loan from the Farmers Home Ad-
ministration with which it intends to purchase additional land.
Approval of the $3 million loan from the Farmers Home Administration should
be expedited to enable the Tribe to stabilize its land base through the purchase
of additonal land within the Reservation.
(b) Conversion to Agricultural Production
Most of the Tribe's general income is derived from leasing its land for
grazing purposes. This land generates income of approximately $1.30 per acre.
The amount of income produced by tribal land could be increased substantially if
the land were used instead for agricultural purposes. Some 300,000 acres of
tribal land has been identified as being capable of supporting agricultural pro-
duction, and the Tribe would like to initiate steps to convert its grazing units
into agricultural land. Current and projected world food demand suggests that
this would be a highly profitable enterprise for the Tribe. However, to success-
fully convert its land to agricultural use, technical assistance and financial
assistance will be necessary.
A program to convert grazing land on the Reservation to farm use should be
immediately funded.
5.
Department of Transportation
(a) Rural Bus Demonstration Project
Most of the residents of the Reservation live in widely scattered
villages. Since there is no public transporation system on the Reservation,
residents must rely on private vehicles for transportation. Many must pay as
much as $20 to hire a private vehicle to travel to Pine Ridge Village where
tribal and Bureau offices, the hospital and most retail establishments are located.
The Tribe wishes to develop an efficient, though limited, system of bus transporta-
tion on the Reservation to connect the residents of the Reservation's outlying
areas with the essential goods and services and employment opportunities available
at Pine Ridge Village.
The Rural Bus Demonstration Project application that is being submitted
by the Tribe to the Department of Transportation to enable the Tribe to establish
a tribal bus system should be funded.
(b) Secondary Road and Street Improvement
Approximately 25 miles of secondary roads in each district of the
Reservation are in need of improvment. In addition, sidewalks, curbs, gutters
and pavement are needed in Pine Ridge Village.
Road and Street improvement programs should be funded through the Federal
Highway Administration or the Economic Development Administration.
6.
Department of Health, Education and Welfare
(a) Intensify and Coordinate Ongoing Education and Indian Health Service
Programs.
For example, the schedule for construction of schools on the Reservation
should be accelerated. General support through the Office of Native American
Programs should be increased.
(b) Home for the Elderly
Funds should be provided to maintain and operate the home for the
elderly on the Pine Ridge Reservation.
(c) Child Day Care Center
A child day care center is needed in Pine Ridge Village. A facility
to provide full-time day care should be built. Since it may be possible to
utilize some of the facilities in the home for the elderly, it is suggested that
the day care center be build in the vicinity of the home for the elderly. In
addition, this would permit contact with the children for those persons in the
home who so desire.
Funds will be needed to construct, maintain and operate the child day
care facility.
7.
Department of Justice - Law Enforcement Assistance Administration
Construction of the correctional facility in Pine Ridge and the Police
substations in the various villages should be expedited.
8.
Department of Interior - Bureau of Indian Affairs
Existing support programs should be extended and expanded, particularly
support for the project now under way to develop and implement a centralized and
fiscal management system for the Tribe.
Provided by Al Trimble at meeting at White Hous e, 6/8/76
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THE PINE RIDGE REDEVELOPMENT PLAN
GOVERNMENTAL & ECONOMIC CENTRALIZATION
A new Tribal Government facility should be developed to
better serve the entire reservation population governmentally
and economically.
The present location of Pine Ridge as the seat of tribal
government negates many aspects of reservation development.
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The present seat feeds off the Nebraska trade centers
and drains capital flow from the reservation.
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Eighty percent of all reservation job opportunities
are centered around. Pine Ridge and realistically
available to only about 20% of the reservation pop-
ulation.
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Eighty percent of all salary is immediately spent, or
banked and then spent, in Nebraska (all money spent
on the reservation is banked off the reservation) -
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There is practically no second, third, or fourth
turnover of money on the reservation (as occurs in
Nebraska, or other off-reservation communities).
A centralized trade location will move the money inward
and encourage its use and re-use on the reservation. Private
business development will encourage local expenditure in all res-
ervation communities and will pay for additional jobs for more and
more local expenditures.
EXAMPLE: New community - Tribal government = 75 jobs
"
"
- Business
= 35 jobs
"
- Gov't Services
= 20 jobs
130 jobs
This, based on informal finger counting, should stand up
fairly well in comparison with the similar businesses established
and operating.
The construction of such a new governmental community with
the surrounding business development can utilize 200 to 300 persons
for more than a year, if including the government trade facilities
GOVERNMENTAL & ECONOMIC CENTRALIZATION - 2
in all the major communities of the reservation.
All district headquarters communities need local government
centers and business facilities (mini-malls) .
The Oçlala Sioux people badly need a tribal symbol of res-
ervation pride and identification. Like Brazilia, the Oglala
people need a new tribal government community developed to foster
a sense of progress and development.
THE PINE RIDGE REDEVELOPMENT PLAN
LANDS REACQUISITION
The reacquisition of all alienated Indian lands within
the exterior boundaries of the Pine Ridge Reservation would
include 1,066,000 acres at the current market value of approx-
imately $120 million.
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At current productivity, 640 acres of farming land
can support a family of five, once placed in oper-
ation.
- At current productivity, 7,680 acres of grazing land
can support a family of five, once placed in oper-
ation.
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Alienated land is 65% farmland, amounting to 692,900
acres. This should be equivalent to 1,083 farming
units of 640 acres each, or 1,083 farm management
jobs potential.
- Alienated land is 35% grassland, amounting to 373,000
acres. This should be equivalent to 48.58 ranching
units or 7,680 each, or 49 ranching management jobs.
The solid potential then is for more than 1,100 agribus-
iness management jobs, with more than 2,000 potential submanagement
jobs.
This does not count the private sector agribusiness jobs
that can become available or be developed concurrent with the
other development of the private sector on the reservation.
It is proposed that a twenty-year plan be developed for
Indian land reacquisition for the Pine Ridge Indian Reservation.
The politically-beneficial effect to this program would be
the diminishment of the State's jurisdiction drive -- to further
alienate Indian lands for eventual termination of trust relation-
ship between the Federal government and Indian tribes.
THE PINE RIDGE REDEVELOPMENT PLAN
LAW ENFORCEMENT
Law enforcement should ideally be controlled in the local
community being served, whether on a community, district, or res-
ervation basis.
It is proposed that some $500,000 of the present law
enforcement budget be utilized to develop an overall tribal
reservation basis. Each district will select policemen for
employment and be able to dictate the termination of policemen's
services if performance or conduct is not satisfactory.
The BIA will use the remainder of the budget to maintain a
mobile police force similar in function and performance ability
to state patrol forces. This force will serve the village of
Pine Ridge and will also patrol all reservation main roads in
a pattern making them available to reinforce local district
policemen when needed.
The tribe will also contract to maintain all detention
facilities and communications.
It is anticipated that the Law Enforcement Assistance Admin-
istration (LEAA) will be needed to initially equip the tribal
forces with cruisers, communications and other equipment, and
paraphenalia.
LIBRARY
THE PINE RIDGE REDEVELOPMENT PLAN
TRANSPORTATION
Transportation development on the Pine Ridge Reservation
has heretofore meant generally developing the necessary surface
arterials needed to serve the reservation and its economic growth
at a schedule about ten years behind other county and state
entities of similar need.
A change of priority will be necessary only in making a
new governmental center optimally accessible to all areas of the
reservation. This will include 45 miles of road not previously
planned for, at a probable cost of $2,700,000.
Pine Ridge has the first class runway (concrete surface
of 5,400 and 3,600 ft. lengths) needed to accomodate commuter
and air taxi planes up to the size of a business jet. However,
there are no locally based planes nor service facilities avail-
able. FAA approved facilities must be developed, both to provide
a vital transportation link with regional airports at Rapid City,
Pierre, South Dakota, and Chadron, Nebraska.
In addition, ther is a need for air ambulance service and
air freighting services.
To complement the developed airport at Pine Ridge, stabilized
turf airstrips should be built at or near the district communities
on the reservation.
THE PINE RIDGE REDEVELOPMENT PLAN
ECONOMIC DEVELOPMENT
We have had the cart before the horse these many years in
attempting to develop industry on the Pine Ridge Reservation as
a means of bettering the lives of our people. We have brought
in a number of industries, putting people on payrolls to receive
money which they promptly spend off the reservation because we
lacked the private business sector to use and hold the money on
the reservation.
By and large, we have been content to permit the original
non-Indian entrepreneur to continue to dominate this area of the
economy. The non-Indian entrepreneurs, their families, and non-
Indian friends and relatives have also held the majority of the
jobs in this area of the economy. The same has largely been true
in the farming and agribusiness areas.
By aggressively entering their area of economic develop-
ment, developing new businesses on the reservation, and gaining
Indian ownership of these businesses, we can move to develop
and stabilize our overall economy. This means more jobs for
the people now jobless or underemployed. It means that money
stays in the community longer to pay for additional jobs.
When we have developed conditions for the local economy to
grow, then we have better conditions for real, not transient,
industrialization. Furthermore, it will take place in the dis-
tricts where there has been little exposure to full true employ-
ment opportunities.
THE PINE RIDGE REDEVELOPMENT PLAN
HOUSING
Considering that minimal housing needs are less than 50%
met at this time, continual amelioration of the need will be an
important part of the new Tribal government community. Both
low rent and home ownership types of projects should be incorp--
orated; but the latter would take on more importance as these
would appeal to the sense of responsibility we are seeking to
foster in creating both permanent job situations and the perm-
anent job holder to fill the jobs.
While designing homes toward an attractive model community,
social and pride in ownership factors must also be addressed
LOW rent homes should be as attractive and desireable as the
owned home. Disadvantages of the "cluster" low rent HUD homes
should be designed out with more land space and sense of privacy
designed in. This can be accomplished mostly by using one to
two acres ranchettes with all homes permanently fenced. This
would encourage the private utilization of the surrounding space
for gardens, horses, poultry raising, fruit trees, etc.
Homes that become the pride of the owners or users also
become respected by others. When this catches on, then emulation
and competition develops. This becomes the corner stone of the
real stable community.
Then, of course, it takes a job or stable source of income
to maintain the home --- another direction toward a desireable end.
THE PINE RIDGE REDEVELOPMENT PLAN
SUMMARY
In the final analysis we do not believe that the growing
population of the Oglala Sioux Tribe will be amenable to con-
sider options other than reservation life until the tribal
resource is fully available to tribal members and used by them.
By that time, through the process of education and in-
dividual growth, plus the element of satisfaction gained through
tribal participation, our people will have acquired the basis for
exercising true options: To leave for better opportunities, or
to stay and compete for what is available.
When this happens, the Federal Government will have no
need for relocation programs to cities and urban areas; or for
other designs to ger Indians into the "mainstream."
Documents A through E were provided to the White House in
a letter from Larry Red Shirt, 6/14/76
A
TO:
Oglala Sioux Tribal Council
Pine Ridge, South Dakota
FROM: Lakota Treaty Council
Larry Red Shirt
Executive Coordinator
DATE: April 19, 1976
Mr. Chairman, members of the Council, and members of the Oglala
Lakota Nation, who are present at this meeting here today:
I am honored for the opportunity of addressing this elected Council
of our Nation. First, on behalf of the Chiefs and Headmen of the Oglala
Lakota Nation, I extend a handshake and congratulations to each and every
one of you in your successful venture in this elective system.
As it involves and affects the future of our Nation and the future
of coming generations, I feel it is extremely important to present to this
Council the position and the progress that the Lakota Treaty Council has
made in respect of gaining recognition of the 1868 Fort Laramie Treaty.
Before I proceed any further, for the benefit of those present that
¿o not know or who have forgotten, I would like to explain briefly the
"Interpretation and meaning of the "1868 Treaty" and also the term "Tradition-
alist" as it applies to the members and constituency of the Lakota Treaty
Council.
The Lakota Treaty Council believes and clings to our way of life as
our Forefathers lived it. A way of life, with basic human principles and
doctrines, although humble in its nature, have been recognized by other in-
deginious peoples as one of the greatest in the world. It is our hope that
"truth" itself will peel away the layers of ignorance which is the result of
a hundred years of brainwashing." Thus, we recognize that one of our greatest
tasks is the re-education of our own people.
In the 1860's the "Great Lakota Nation" along with its allies initiat-
ed a resistance (so called Red Cloud's War) that halted the invasion and so-
called "Westward Expansion of the Wasin Icula: Time and time again, the Lakota
proved invincible and victorious. The U.S. Government after realizing that it
was costing them 2 million dollars to kill one Lakota and the fact that the
"Civil War" had just put a big dent in their pocketbook, decided to push for
a peaceful settlement.
Subsequently, both Nations agreed to the terms and entered into a
Treaty. What is to be known as "The 1868 Fort Laramie Treaty."
Even today we are bound to that same Treaty not only by the natural
laws that govern us, but because our Forefathers blessed the Treaty with the
"Sacred Pipe".
Even today the people of the United States Goverment are bound to
that same Treaty because U.S. Law says treaties are "on par and equal to the
constitution" as "Supreme Law of the land".
The 1868 Treaty is binding on both Nations as defined under Intern-
aional Law.
I'Kce Wica sa or a "Traditionalist is a person who has retained his
concept of self and his spiritually through the "Sacred Pipe" despite con-
centrated efforts by the "Wasin Icula" through his socio-religious system
which sought to destroy the culture and religion of the Ikce Wicasa.
Language and Religion has been the sustaining factor which has pre-
served our culture. When the "White Buffalo Calf Maiden" delivered the
"Sacred Pipe" to our people in the dim recesses of history, the central mes-
sage was "When the people no longer believe in this Pipe, they as people will
no longer exist.
Since the inception of the reservation era, the Federal Government has
continually attempted to discredit and destroy the die-hard Traditionalist
who has maintained his identity and his stubborn insistance that the United
States Government honor the terms of the 1868 Treaty. Today, we, the members
of the Lakota Treaty Council stand proud as visible evidence that they have
failed miserably in this attempt.
Subsequent to June 26, 1975 when the land of Oglala Lakota was again
invaded and occupied by forces of the United States Government who with their
sophisticated weaponry subjected many innocent Oglala to unnecessary acts of
intimidation and harassment for the"alleged" killing of two of their trespas-
sing agents. The cries of distress by the people prompted the traditional
leaders to seek alternate solutions to end the violence.
The consensus of the combined leadership of Chiefs, Headmen and Spiritual
leaders was the need for an immediate meeting between the heads of the two
nations to undertake necessary steps to resolve the underlying issues which
fermented these and other acts of violence.
The Traditional leadership felt that all problems could be traced di-
rectly to the continued violations of the terms of the 1868 Treaty by the
United States Government.
A letter was sent to the President and a delegation of traditional
leaders was sent to Washington, D.C., to meet with the President but when they
arrived, they were met with apposition in full force in all areas.
Perseverance and dedication to the task prevailed and the traditional
leadership did meet with the President of the United States and his Aides on
November 10, 1975.
From this meeting the traditional leadership received from the President
the assurance that a Fools Crow-Ford sanctioned Presidential Treaty Review
Commission would be established.
The American Arbitration Association have been accepted by the respect-
ive parties to act as mediators in the forthcoming discussions concerning the
1868 Fort Laramie Treaty and domestic issues.
Although the Lakota people have suffered greatly especially in these
past few years, it is time that the people put aside past differences and unite.
With the strengthening and unification of our people can we take
positive steps to insure that "Divide and conquer" tactics will not work
anymore with the Oglala. We have suffered enough.
We the Lakota Treaty Council invite all true Oglala to lift up
their heads and look to the future of our children and the unborn. The
Lakota people must recognize who the real enemy is, that we may defend
ourselves.
We ask for your support in our struggle to find justice and free-
dom for our people. Support the 1868 Treaty. Though a long hard road
lies ahead of us - we walk forward with our heads up to confront the many
obstacles as a true Oglala.
With the guidance of Tunkasila, Wakan Tanka we shall win! The strug-
gle goes on.
Ho. Hechetu Yelo.
Pilamaye Pi Yelo.
Ogle Luta
Ogle Luta
Larry Red thit
B
WHEREAS it is B historical Fact that the United States government
by ibsrate purpose and design has violated the articles contained
in i:, 1863 Treaty OF Ft. Larmie; and
WHEREAS said Treaty was negotiated on behalf OF the United States
government by a presidential commission;
WE ARE OF the conviction that there exists the need for the preside
to appoint a commission with Full authority to act on his behalf, to
meet with the delegates OF the Sioux Nation For purposes oF reviewing
said Treaty and to take corrective measures partaining to such violatio
The delegates of the Sioux Nation who have come to Washington For
the sole purpose OF impressing upon the President OF the United States
that a need does exist to review this Treaty, hereby, in chronological
order list the priorities OF their mission;
1. The creation OF a Presidantial Treaty Review Commission, espec-
ielly in regard to Articles 1 and 2.
2. The removel OF the United States armed Forces, such as the Fed-
eral Bureeu of Investigation, with their sophisticated weaponry who are
on our lands in direct violation OF Article 1 of the Treaty OF 1858,
Signe
4. We demand amnesty For all Wounded Knee, Custer, Sioux Falls and
related cases,
5. The suspension OF the prosecution OF Indian people by the United
States Attorney General's OFFice, including the suspension OF all ection
by the Federal Bureau OF Investigation and the Grand Juries, until a
determination is made by the Joint Commission OF the United States and
the delegates OF the Sioux Nation in regard to the Treaty OF 1868.
5. The suspension of operations OF the present Oglala Sioux tribal
council which is an outgrowth of the Indian Reorganization Act [Wheeler-
Howard] OF 1934, and is in direct violation OF the 1868 Treaty Article
2 which precludes the United States From enecting lews pertaining to the
Sicux Nation.
The Fect that many mixed bloods Indians presently reside on the
reservation is another violation OF said Treaty, [Articles 2 and 12 D
the Treaty of 1868 and Articles7 OF the Commissioners proposition to
the Oglala Sioux under the Treaty OF 1868, made at the Red Cloud Agenc
September 7, 1876.]
Continued violations of said Treaty by the United States govern-
ment does not abrogate said Treaty nor do such acts lend support to
the idea that such acts are legal.
We are the traditional governing body OF the Oglala Sioux Nation.
iie have come because OF the desires of our people to honor Article 1
OF said Treaty. We come in PEACE.
C
SUPPORT AND ASSISTANCE
FOR
LONG RANGE GOALS AND OBJECTIVES
How the Oglala Sioux Tribal Council can assist the Lakota Treaty Council
to gain recognition on the 1868 Fort Laramie Treaty.
1. Resolution of Total Support in gaining recognition of the 1868 Fort
Laramie Treaty as defined and interpreted by U.S. Law, Lakota Law
and International Law.
2. Approve and support the concept of the Presidential Treaty Review
Commission.
3. Reject all overtures to have the Sioux Nation to accept the Black
Hills Claim.
4. Logistical support by the Oglala Sioux Tribal Council when specifi-
cally requested by Lakota Treaty Council.
5. Recognize, acknowledge and support the International Indian Treaty
Council and the efforts of Jimmie Durham in New York City, who is
working deligently to have the 1868 Fort Laramie Treaty presented
to an international Forum i.e. United Nations -- Possibly the World
Court.
STATEMENT OF THE POSITION OF THE OGLALA BAND OF THE GREAT
D
TETON NATION, MOBRIDGE, SOUTH DAKOTA, JUNE 1974
We, the traditional descendants and official representatives of the
Oglala Band of the Great Teton Sioux Nation, pursuant to Article VI
of the September 17, 1852 Treaty of Ft. Laramie with the Sioux, etc.,
do issue the following document as a position of policy:
IT HAS ALWAYS BEEN OUR BELIEF AND POSITION THAT ACTS ON BEHALF
OF THE UNITED STATES GOVERNMENT, SUBSEQUENT TO THE TREATY OF
1868, DID NOT DIMINISH OUR INHERENT RIGHT TO GOVERN OURSELVES
AS A SOVEREIGN NATION.
IT IS ALSO OUR POSITION THAT ALL ACTIONS TAKEN BY THE UNITED
STATES GOVERNMENT ON THE 1863 TREATY HAVE BEEN ILLEGAL AND
CONTRARY TO THE PRACTICES OF INTERNATIONAL LAW AND THE USUAL
RELATIONSHIP BETWEEN SOVEREIGN NATIONS.
We, the Oglala Band of the GREAT TETON NATION recognize the basic
need to establish a list of priorities in regards to the 1868 FT.
LARAMIE TREATY. These priorities are:
1. RECOGNITION OF THE TREATY
A. We want TOTAL RECOGNITION of the Treaty and nothing less
1. All lands west of the east bank of the Missouri River
and east of the Bighorn Mountains.
2. Dams and revenues derived from them, including recreation
e.g. the Black Hills, etc.
3. Reparations for violations and damages to the land and
people.
2. PROPOSED SOLUTIONS
We will take the Treaties to:
A. the World Court
B. the United Nations
C. Official support from Nations throughout the world and rec-
ognition as an independent Nation.
3. PLAN FOR IMPLEMENTATION OF SOLUTION
A. Need to establish an organization of national, international
scope to be utilized as a vehicle to implement the recommend-
ations of the various workshops of this First International
Treaty Convention.
B. Establishment of a team of international lawyers and the trad-
itional chiefs and headmen to present solutions to the gov-
ernment and international communities.
4. EDUCATION OF OUR PEOPLE
A. To show that the chiefs are truly recognized as spokesmen of
the people.
B. The practice of living as traditional people.
C. Forcing our tribal councils to take direct action on treaties.
LAST EFFORT TO NEGOATIATE WITH U. S. GOVERNMENT
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CONTACT: Lakota Treaty Council
(605)348-4393
P. 0. Box 2337
Rapid City, South Dakota 57701
Oglala Communications Center
(605)348-5846
Washington, D. C. Contact
(202)234-1616
An Oglala Lakota delegation of Traditional Chiefs, Headmen, District
Chairmen and other influential representatives of the Pine Ridge Reservation
arrived in Washington, D. C., on Saturday, August 30, 1975. The Oglala
delegation will not leave Washington, D. C., until they have met with the
President of the United States to demand the immediate enforcement of the 1868
Ft. Laramie Treaty, thereby re-establishing the sovereignty of the Oglala
Nation.
Continued economic deprivation and the U. S. Government interference with
religion, culture and the traditional form of government have prompted the
Oglala Nation to take positive actions to halt the gross violations of the 1868
Treaty. Violence, disruption of harmony and the creation of factionalism on
the Pine Ridge Reservation are the result of imposed legislation without the
full consent of the Oglala Nation, as specified in the Treaty.
Past negotiations with the different governmental department have proven
ineffective because of insensitivity, inexperience, disrespect and total ignor-
ance of the problems faced by the Oglala people.
Over-reaction to an alleged incident on the reservation on June 26 by
governmental forces resulted in unnecessary loss of lives, considerable property
damage and endangering the life of every individual on the Pine Ridge Reservation.
Total disregard for individual rights and freedom in the investigative process
conducted by the F.B.I. strengthened the unification of traditional people to
stand as one against further invasion.
The Oglala Nation with the sacred pipe send a prayer and 2 call for help
to all four directions, to Grandfather the Great Spirit, to Grandmother Earth,
and to all life in between, to stand in support of the actions taken by the
Lakota Nation.
Mr. Frank Starr
Secretary
Oglala Sioux Executive Board
Box 468
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Pine Ridge, South Dakota 57770
Mr. Edwin Fills the Pipe
Councilman
Oglala Sioux Executive Board
50th ANNIVERSARY
Box 468
1926-1976
Pine Ridge, South Dakota 57770
Mr. Vincent Brewer
Councilman
Oglala Sioux Executive Board
50th ANNIVERSARY
Pine Ridge, South Dakota 57770
1926-1976
Mr. Albert Trimble
President
Oglala Sioux Tribe
Box 468
50th ANNIVERSARY
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Pine Ridge, South Dakota 57770
Washington, D.C.
Mr. Jim Red Willow
Wamblee, South Dakota
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1730 Rhode Island Ave. N.W.
Washington, D.C. 20036
Chief Fools Crow
Kyle, South Dakota 57752
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Mr. Matthew King
Box #32
Kyle, South Dakota
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Mr. Louis Bad Wound
712 Allen Street
Rapid City, South Dakota 57770
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Mr. Frank Kills Enemy
Kyle, South Dakota
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Mr. Francis He Crow
Pine Ridge, South Dakota 57772
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Washington, D.C. 20036
Mr. Eugene White Hawk
Manderson, South Dakota
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Kyle, South Dakota
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mr. Patterson
Federal Government Representatives
White House
Dr. Theodore Marrs, Special Assistant to the President for
Human Resources
Bobbie Greene Kilberg, Associate Counsel
Bradley Patterson, Jr.
Janet Brown, Assistant to the Deputy Director, Domestic Council
H.P. Goldfield, Office of Counsel to the President
Department of the Interior
Dennis Ickes, Special Assistant to the Under Secretary
Theodore Krenzke, Director, Office of Indian Services, BIA
Les Gay, Tribal Government Services, BIA
Scott Keep, Attorney, Office of the Solicitor
Gene Suarez, Chief, Division of Law Enforcement
Ken Sayers, Division of Law Enforcement, Aberdeen Area Office
Office of Management & Budget
Paul O'Neill, Deputy Director
Department of Justice
Doris Meissner, Chairperson, DOJ Task Force on Indian Matters
Miles Flint, Acting Chief, Indian Resources Section, Land &
Natural Resources Division
Craig Decker, Indian Claims Section, Land & Natural Resources
Division
Dale Wing, Indian Coordinator, Law Enforcement Assistance
Administration
Benjamin Cook, Chief, Criminal Section, Investigative Division, FBI
Department of Health, Education & Welfare
Jerry Bathke, Special Assistant to Director, Office of Native
American Programs
Native American Representatives
Frank Starr, Secretary, Ogiala Sioux Executive Board
Edwin Fills the Pipe, Councilman, Oglala Sioux Executive Board
Vincent Brewer, Councilman, Oglala Sioux Executive Board
Albert Trimble, President, Oglala Sioux Tribe
Jim Red Willow
Chief Fools Crow
Matthew King
Louis Bad Wound
Frank Kills Enemy
Francis He Crow
Eugene White Hawk
Birgil Kills Straight
Larry Red Shirt, Lakota Treaty Council
Agenda for Wednesday, June 30, 1976
9:00 a. m. - 12:00 noon
(1) Law Enforcement Problems: Department of the Interior
Department of Justice
(2) Land Issues: Department of the Interior
Department of Justice
12:00 noon
Lunch
1:30 p.m. - 4:30 p.m.
(1) Economic & Education Issues: Department of the Interior
Office of Management & Budget
(2) Treaty Issues: Department of the Interior
Department of Justice
Office of Management & Budget
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50th ANNIVERSARY
1926-1976
THOMAS R. COLOSI
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Vice President
National Affairs
Harpers Ferry, West Virginia
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June 29 - July 1, 1976
AGENDA
TUESDAY, June 29
6:00 p.m.
DINNER
7:30 p.m.
GENERAL SESSION
Brief Introductory Remarks and
Discussion of Agenda
Separate meetings
Expressions of Concerns, Plans
and the Position of the Elected
Tribal Council Representatives
QUESTIONS AND ANSWERS
DISCUSSION
9:30 p.m.
ADJOURN
WEDNESDAY, June 30
8:00 a.m.
BREAKFAST
9:00
GENERAL SESSION
AU: Pau:- how The
Expressions of Concerns, Plans and
the Position of the Lakota Treaty
Council Representatives
QUESTIONS AND ANSWERS
DISCUSSION
12:00 noon
LUNCH
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June 29 - July 1, 1976
WEDNESDAY, cont'd.
1:00 p.m.
SEPARATE SESSIONS
3:00 p.m.
GENERAL SESSION
Responses from Federal Government
QUESTIONS AND ANSWERS
DISCUSSION
6:00 p.m.
DINNER
7:30 p.m.
SEPARATE SESSIONS
American Arbitration Association
Representatives Meeting with
Various Groups Separately in Order
to Discuss the Implications of the
Parties' Respective Positions
THURSDAY, July 1
8:00 a.m.
BREAKFAST
9:00 a.m.
SEPARATE SESSIONS
Continuation of Previous Evening's
Activities
11:00 a.m.
JOINT SESSION
Summary and Discussion of Future
Plans
12:00 noon
LUNCH
1:00 p.m.
ADJOURN
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Revised Agenda
TUESDAY, June 29
6:00 p.m.
DINNER
7:30 p.m.
AAA representatives will meet with
various groups in order to discuss
the implications of the parties'
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respective positions.
WEDNESDAY, June 30
8:00 a.m.
BREAKFAST
9:00 a.m.
GENERAL SESSION:
Law and Order
Land Issues
Expressions of concerns, plans and
position of the Lakota Treaty Council
and the Elected Tribal Council.
Responses from the Federal Government
DISCUSSION
12:00 noon
LUNCH
1:00 p.m.
GENERAL SESSION
Economic Plans
Treaty Questions
Expressions of concerns, plans and
position of the Elected Tribal Council
and the Lakota Treaty Council.
Responses from the Federal Government
DISCUSSION
6:00 p.m.
DINNER
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Harpers Ferry, West Virginia
304-535-6321
7:30 p.m.
SEPARATE SESSIONS
AAA representatives meeting with
various groups separately in order
to discuss the implications of the
parties' respective positions.
THURSDAY, July 1
8:00 a.m.
BREAKFAST
9:00 a.m.
SEPARATE SESSIONS
Continuation of previous evening's
sessions.
10:30 a.m.
SUMMARY AND DISCUSSION OF FUTURE PLANS
12:00 noon
LUNCH
1:00 p.m.
ADJOURN
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HARPERS FERRY
June 29 - July 1, 1976
Participants
REPRESENTATIVES OF LAKOTA TREATY COUNCIL
Mr. Louid Bad Wound
712 Allen Street
Rapid City, South Dakota 57770
Mr. Birgil Kills Straight
Kyle, South Dakota 57752
Mr. Larry Red Shirt
629 Wilsey Street
Rapid City, South Dakota
Mr. Jim Red Willow
Pine Ridge, South Dakota
Mr. Eugene White Hawk
Manderson, South Dakota
REPRESENTATIVES OF ELECTED TRIBAL COUNCIL
Mr. Vincent Brewer
Mr. Wayne Tapio
Councilman
Pine Ridge, South Dakota
Oglala Sioux Executive Board
Pine Ridge, South Dakota 57770
Mr. Marvin Ghost Bear
Pine Ridge, South Dakota
Mr. Edwin Fills the Pipe
Councilman
Oglala Sioux Executive Board
Box 468
Pine Ridge, South Dakota 57770
Mr. Frank Starr
Secretary
Oglala Sioux Executive Board
Box 468
Pine Ridge, South Dakota 57770
Mr. Albert Trimble
President
Oglala Sioux Tribe
Box 468
Pine Ridge, South Dakota 57770
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June 29 - July 1, 1976
Participants
REPRESENTATIVES OF FEDERAL GOVERNMENT
Ms. Janet Brown
Mr. Peter R. Taft
Assistant to the Deputy Director
Assistant Attorney General
Domestic Council
Land and Natural Resources
Room 235
Division
Old Executive Office Building
Department of Justice
Washington, D. C. 20500
10th and Constitution Avenue
Washington, D. C. 20530
Ms. Bobbie Kilberg
Associate Counsel to the President
Mr. Morris Thompson
Old Executive Office Building
Commissioner
Room 106
Bureau of Indian Affairs
Washington, D. C. 20500
1951 Constitution Avenue, N.V
Washington, D. C. 20245
Mr. Theodore Krenzke
Director
Ms. Mary Wagner
Office of Indian Services
Special Assistant to the Dept
Bureau of Indian Affairs
Attorney General
1951 Constitution Avenue, N.W.
Department of Justice
Washington, D. C. 20245
10th and Constitution Avenue
Washington, D. C. 20530
Dr. Theodore Marrs
Special Assistant to the President
Mr. Kenneth Sayers
for Human Resources
Agency Special Officer
The White House
Bureau of Indian Affairs
Washington, D. C. 20050
Aberdeen, South Dakota
Ms. Doris Meissner
Mr. Jerry Bathke
Chairperson, Task Force
Special Assistant to the
on Indian Matters
Director
Department of Justice
Office of Native American
10th and Constitution Avenue, N.W.
Programs
Washington, D. C. 20530
Department of Health, Educat
and Welfare
Mr. Paul H. O'Neill
Deputy Director
Office of Management and Budget
Executive Office Building
Washington, D. C. 20503
Mr. Brad Patterson
The White House
Washington, D. C. 20050
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June 29 - July 1, 1976
Participants
REPRESENTATIVES OF AMERICAN ARBITRATION ASSOCIATION
Mr. Scott Buchheit
316 Linn Street
Ithaca, New York 14850
Major Robert Charland
52 Park Terrace
Sherrill, New York 13461
Mr. Thomas R. Colosi
Vice President
National Affairs
American Arbitration Association
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Administrative Assistant
American Arbitration Association
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Manager, Urban Affairs
Rochester Gas & Electric
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Intern
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Mr. Joseph Stulberg
Director
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American Arbitration Association
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Participants
INVITED RESOURCES
Bill Lazoré
Oren Lyons
Andy Paul
Truety Commal
humal describents or relatues of
the tradetional chifs j Headwin who
signed the 1868 Teats, Foundy
the Black Hitls Trusty Counil
Labota Treate, Cover't - 1000s of
year old - stell intact charging
to a way of life, relegion, cultur,
land bars, reational voserienty 5-
of the lobata reation.
We are vat Allls - we are the tradeleousl
gout hady UO are a soverlign people,
Law Enforcement
Trimble
Justice. Relations w DoJ "muacceptable"
DoJ wants Intial Council To "atore for Wounded
Knee" Wants to take our, Lowr Order
We career w Trunble or this you't
We are trying to couniliate our defferences w the
eluted Gunal - our argument is with claim
Fud Coul-
FBI pravoia -- wonts to harren -r hall
our people
"Nature annuion Saledority Connuttee"-
" coritelpro" still in effect. "Operation Biten"-
to Squarle terroust activity. "neteusive marstigations
are another name for comitelpro.
2000 dog-solities" story - guerilla worfare traing
alleard; source cursure, this titetype is a that list
for AIM." 9 "tagets of terrousin" alleged.
Stall Cap - Pune
FI Roudall Dam
ass. for of SD
Surpring Et town as S.D.
Mr Rushmos
Harran Fame of Was
Scous Fells
LIERARY BENALD ?) road
B/A Brilding Buildings
6/15/76 Teletype
Ry dimonstration - Seat to CAs arong
6/18/76 T= Oglala ategnes committee identified
as a throus group + ulled "daregerous"
wk was " aggression by the military
Kangle re Truible proporal to local coubol:
BIA indorses this
Goglola originally coutracted e BIA to
take over how El function r them 0 few you
ago asked Big to take of back. they did
Taska Four looking with this now; the
peoblems may have been - 25.- fuaural
abour for haw. inforcement.
Contral unwol is endorsed & we
want will tu sof down u tribe to arrange &
In the meantines, we woul a Lau of
program which reflects the wishes of the consumity.
Suarez
We were churp steappiel for money
Had 150,000 -200,000 put give. Now CMB2
be are of x $900,000 per year - the Legining of a
profermoual program -BiAa technical Source to
the tube, Indian Palie academy traumes. We have
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LIBRARY
Tenalte a noverbrual community does
and of this Size does not and
60 following
a) We would 6-7 poluerium transfured No action
get
bl the Jobin curreat investagentors should 6
offe to take laser to courts - raths ther the
FBI do of these all BIA employees
Venzhe all (a) -- all are working on of Cope of au be
dow valuntarily. 2, persibly 3 may Sr themselves.
Otherwise i advise action; but forwer rubs
opply.
Sugers 60 = 34 unformed policies 8 CIDs
2 will 50y. our are have too much
the cerð foil if offert staff. are paliceman
community control Do S true - our CIDS
do usb fall w US attoney joint TO
IRI I lou do this job as well as some of
the aguits People who bire there con doo bill
job
We are talking w the 34 other foliciance we
used work a our provided offer TO show
lausult them that this would read red of in a
Badll Psycllo testury for policement?
Sumez Policern are badley andepaid - wakes
my differult
Red Shut you roles 8 regs bat as important
as people getting patted
AT- - Devirportenste # of ansters we fulblouds.
KS= We an records his 2 areaius
Cook We want Indian FBI agusts We have
some 2 would more
Bad W: Pat a Neugstrate all the Re.
DM, would liho to do this - but
first then rest bea coult facility
that is Q prequisite
Veryor CSOs for Pine Ridge
Kr. - We are willing to sit dava w AT
2 TE any trues - to tells
Trabal contracting self Did act has Some grout
money of help. trebs 90 ready,
HT: Re (SOs - - you can have too money
fature --svouping everywhere.
RS How about & liavon offers wal,
whom TBI Cau check rumon
before suding out teletypes
Cook: Will chulk unto this
BOK-BITO- - Saund like a good caia
hand
At, Way & to claegines the 35-40 f
land on Reservation 1,066,000
access ( - to be pud back nets
trebal or Industrial Indian wriship
19th Centery "Dimushure A" Louis
State of SD soep there Caus
ded
SC Cont Said that there
lown did dimush the hake Travens
Resulation. ala Rosebud
Bad Wound - 14 hand Issue
Support AT this efforts ab
reacquisition -to continue as 9 will entity.
Complaints about fed good
a) 8/9/1888 act - bad mused
Marriage loud recent to trebe of
Indian wowar suarree a non - India, &dies.
b) Classification of Fedeaus as "inconpation"
c) Opening ap Redian laud in contrasmon
8 usity new was changed
of 1868 - Conger did
ats catified -
Trimble 5 trying to work within his
System -trepues to de his but Bub we
dout believe in that system - A was
unposed on Indian -r you have vot
is tenquished our somerighty
1868 Treaty Can be changed only
by war or by negatiation
(not
counectation.) you US boat has
done neither.
acts of longers stealing any lands
are illegal.
We ao not 05 ategues - we up
hakata restirnals
(accepted by Justine)
/RA was with by only a minuty
habate restron has only one
beauch of gout - your has 3. "Iam in A
only as a stop goy preasure - -bub 10 se A
change."
L6' If Congress day not act oy
the of ctr Tasty
Communion" , thus. what?
LBW: We will vat ceverl are Strategy
BOK: Other nections
LBW: Tlouf at Nebudge agaid me
would concentrate on Twenty of 1868
and of eluted trebal councils pictured
they would have & at or the goul
side only.
LIN
AAA
USG
Trumble Commust
About
Wanted to restore Constitutional foot
Caly Constitutions we have 5 as
/RA Carest - - whils LIM offsen.
2 hool talked w LIN people - ary
of wout avairby.
See IRA Combtabor provide for
change. LIN people are more right than
wrong".
Execution Pauses to make
improvedent -
examples!
a) firing transferring policement those
1C would vat write a alle
tusly
US rute would wake recommendation
to lougen bat its members have taken are
oacts to support the 05 constitution
Elected officerls would be
write the 05 gout or could
Next step E a letter from
" hoose to work with us"
the GRF adminition
Ec. Dec
2tc supports economy
amelopant person
BKS', Hearthy Treaus exploid problem laudlock
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Welfaw reforces
OF THE
United States Department of the Interior
BUREAU OF INDIAN AFFAIRS
WASHINGTON, D.C. 20245
March
3,
1849
IN REPLY REFER TO:
Office of Indian
Services-400
BCCO #4747
JUL 1 1976
Memorandum
To:
Dr. Ted Marrs
Special Assistant to the President
From:
Commissioner of Indian Affairs
Subject:
President A1 Trimble's Request for Certain
Law Enforcement Actions
Secretary Kleppe has requested us to respond to your request for a
copy of our response to the above request of Al Trimble.
To date, we have not given Mr. Trimble a definitive response to
his request. Essentially it is asking that we administratively transfer
about six police officers from the Reservation. This presents us with
a number of very complicated issues which we are trying to resolve
as soon as possible.
We shall furnish you a copy of our response when it is made.
Morris Thompson
HAERICAN REVOLUTION WICENTENNAL
1776-1976
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ASHINGTON DC 20510
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OMMISSIONER MORRIS THOMPSON
OUR MEETING WITH YOU AND SECRETARY KLEPPE THE IMPRESSION WAS
ECEIVED THAT THE BUREAU OF INDIAN AFFAIRS WOULD ACT DIRECTLY
DMYNISTRATIVELY TO RESOLVE CERTAIN PROBLEMS TOWARD RESTORING PEACE AND
ORMALCY ON THE PINE RIDGE RESERVATION. PRIMARY AMONG THE ARE4S OF
CONCERN WAS THE ADMINISTRATIVE REASSIGNMENT OF CERTAIN POLICE OFFICERS
INC SUPERVISORS. DESPITE IMPROVEMENT IN THE POLITICAL CLIMATE AT PINE
IDGE, THE POLICE SITUATION APPEAR TO BE STALEMATED WITH LITTLE ATTEKPT
THE BUREAU TO IMPROVE THE SITUATION. WE FEEL OUR ASSESSMENT IS
ORPORDRATED AY PROFESSIONAL VIEWERS OF THE SITUATION. PUBLIC ACCOUNTS
F POLICE INEFFECTIVENESS ARE AGAIN REGINNING TO APPEAR IN PUBLIC
CONDUITS. WE DU 501 FEEL THAT OUR NEW ADKINISTRATION SHOULD BE HAMPERED
THIS 488001ATION BY INNUENDO. WE SINCERELY REQUEST YOU ACT TO
LLEVIATE THE KNOWN PROBLEMS SITUATION ON THE PINF RIDGE RESERVATION,
ARRON COPIES TO SENATOR JAMES ABOUREZK, CONGRESSMAL JAMES ABNOR,
SENATOR GEORGE MCGOVERN, DOCTOR MARKS, WHITE HOUSE DEPARTMENT OF
JUSTICE, AND THE NATIONAL CONGRESS OF AMERICAN INDIANS
SUBERT is TRIMBLE
PRESIDENT
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