Constitution must be upheld
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Editor,
We the membership want to vote on the dam. Do we want to buy it back? Do we want to lease it out? We’re here and this is one of the biggest things that will cause our chiefs to stand and hold their war clubs high, and sing songs of greatness and burn the sweet grass to cover us with sumesh as in the old days. This dam was pushed on them with the same big ideas and lies, but they knew there was more bad than good that would come to our people. Those who spoke out then were shut down while the white man's words came as a flood. The flood is still here. We just get to hear it from our own people and they’re still telling us the same old crap. So all you members that didn’t get to sign and be heard, get out and find one of us with the petitions. We are at the end of the trail that leads us to this reservation. Now we can be the first members that stand up to have a say in one of the biggest decisions; to let our tribal council members know that they work for us, and our rights are not for sale. The constitution needs to be upheld. Read it, learn what it says. There is a reason it was put into place. Our chiefs let it be put into effect, and there is no such wording in it anywhere about Robert’s Rules of Order, so there will not be any resolutions made to give the tribal council any voting power if there’s not two-thirds of the tribal council in the room. To our legal department: know what our constitution says and follow it word for word before changes are made.
Jocko Hendrickson
Arlee
