CSKT Council should be held accountable
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Editor,
I read in the Char-Koosta News where a tribal member wrote that the councilmen are our chiefs and we should respect them. Chiefs don’t take from their tribal members a six-figure salary each and every year. At a district meeting, a tribal member asked why the council members get such a large salary. The councilman answered, “Because it’s a dangerous job.” Even if said as a joke, do our tribal members have to endure these kinds of comments? Respect goes both ways, and our councilmen should show respect to the tribal members they so wanted to represent.
We have sat back and not paid attention as the councilmen have made it impossible to buck them at any level. Everything in the tribal constitution is positioned one way — toward the council’s advantage. What government does this to the people whose best interests they claim to have at heart? You vote these people in because they promise change and big things for the tribes. Alas, when voted in, they follow their own agenda and don’t listen to the majority of the tribal members. Let’s make them accountable; it’s time.
Victoria Israelson
CSKT member
Roseburg, Ore.
