Indian Attacks Government

Indian attacks government By Rosanne Harvey to become a seperate are not," Mackey said. biUty, the Indians must rely on posed a $22 mllUon cut In the STAFF WRITER organization, hopefuUy under the "The Indians do not, by na non-Indian supporters for train American Indian program which Robert Mackey, a Santee Soulx Office of Management and Budget, ture, concur with the destruction ing, Mackey said. Management would make educational grants and executive director of the Ne Over 300 treaties have been of property, but we do feel that skills, training In health, educa impossible to get. braska Indian Commission, said written by the government se the message has to get out and Uon, law and rehabilitation are The proposed cut would also Wednesday the Bureau of Indian parating the Indians from their perhaps from this destruction especially valuable In work on further decrease the quality of Affairs (BIA) "has no intention land and resources and, with a something good will happen," he the reservation and with tribal reservation schools and create of ever initiating a program which change in the BIA, perhaps the said. councils, Mackey said. severe problems for worthwhile would be a success" for the • Indians could get some of the The vandals should be brought The Nebraska Indian Commis educational programs just be Indians. speciai help they need, Mackey to justice, according to Mackey, sion, which J^fkey heads, has ginning. explained. because their actions were out "History has proved this be been instrug|||^H|ln the appro- Mackey explained that on all He made a distinction between side the law and "we're trying prlaUon o'lf^^V^ million In three Nebraska reservations, a cause they've had 130 years to the "aggreslon" necessary for to work within a system that has funds and prdPI||n <or the San program is underway to hire In estabUsh a program to better the the Indians to survive and the t)een thrust upon us, and to sur tee, Winnebago and Omaha of dian teachers In place of white lot of the Indians. They have had "miUtancy" connected with the vive we have to learn how to Nebraska. Instructors; a situation that has milUons of dollars available to recent takeover of the BIA of work within the system." made learning for Indian children bring about programs for the In fices In Washington. Mackey was hired by the three dians which have not been ful Although it might be the In tribes In June, 1970, and left even more difficult. The march on Washington, dian's "wildest dream" to his job with the General Electric fiUed. Mackey feels, was a manifesta IVIackey suggested different or t)ecome autonomous. It Is at this computer program in Arizona. "We cannot believe that the tion of the frustration the In ganizations UNA could contact point "impossible" Mackey said. The commission Is autonomous Bureau of Indian Affairs at this dians, especially the young, feel with their complaints and The Indians have not had the and the state's governor has no time would care or even consider with their treatment by the BIA. problems. training in the professlonai flelds authority to hire or fire the a worthwhile program for the He explained, however, that At a meeting of the History benefit of the people," Mackey that would allow the mto function. director, although "he'd like to," most Indians did not concur with Mackey said. Club on Thursday afternoon, said. violence and would probably think "Perhaps 25 years would give Mackey deUvered a speech called The BIA Is "In confUct with the ransacking of the BIA was us enough time to train the ne IVlackey spoke to the campus "...the grass grows green." He the program of helping Indians "vandalism, which would be, in cessary doctors, nurses, tea chapter of United Native Ameri spoke to history and anthropo and supervising their re any language,, wrong." chers, counselors and adminis cans and their advisor Wednes logy classes both mornings of sources," according to Mackey, The Involvement of Indians In trators and people who know day afternoon. He stressed unity, his visit. and is "a part and parcel of activities that might be tabled something about the development organization and Identity for Impressed by the quesUons the exploitation of these Indians militant can be attributed to their for the land and resources. We UNA. students asked, Mackey felt that and their resources." wish te artlculatethat something have people who are skilled in The students discussed their the atmosphere at CSUN might Mackey said the BIA should is terribly wrong. The United these things, but we're too few," problems with the BIA whose be conducive to succesful pro be removed from the jurisdiction States government Is supposed to he explained. grants fund their education. The grams Involving native American of the Department of the Interior be dealing with our problems and Until they have enough capa- Nixon administration has pro students. Vol. 17, No. 42 Califomia State University, Northridge Friday, December 8, 1972 Foreign students still have tuition deficit By Jim Tanksley action from the California legis nia Supreme Court. students are compounded, Aguilar Maxine Sacanli, Anna Enrlquez, STAFF WRITER lature. The foreign students must also said. Because of their unfamiliar- Jose Carillo, Priscilla Jones, The drive to raise money for In an effort to raise the re raise $5,091 due for the Fall 1972 ity with the English language, Mario Martinez are only a few of California State University, maining funds a dance will be semester by the end of the 1972- most foreign students must spend the many dorm residents who are Northrldge foreign students to held at 8 p.m. tonight In Rincon 73 academic year. Failure to meet more time studying than their concerned with the foreign stu cover tuition Increases Is making Hall. A live band, The Mountain the payment deadlines could re American counterparts. This dents money drive and have of progress, but the 38 affected stu Jam, will perform and interna sult In disenrollment of the stu gives them less time to work to fered their services. Maxine dents are stUl in def IcU by $7,000 tional food and refreshments will dents. pay for tuition. said that she realizes the impor tance of cultural exchange and ofthe needed $21,000. be served. Donations will be $1. Alberto Aguilar, International The majority of the 156 for Students Club president, said that wants to help in any way pos So far, $3,629.53 has been Earlier, the legislature acted eign students attending CSUN are sible. raised by contributions, fund the extension of the payment dead able to afford the tuition increas to extend from Dec. 1 to Jan. 1 All of the residents working with raising events and an appropria lines only temporarily delays the es. But hardest hit by the increa the deadline for payment of the International Students said tion from the Associated Students. $15,800 due retroactive to Fall pressure put on the foreign stu ses are juniors and seniors who dents. came to CSUN when tuition rates that they fear that many of them In addition, $9,300 has l)een 1971, when the tuition for foreign will acquire a negative feeling students was raised trom $20 to were relatively low and did not made available to the students In Aguilar, a junior journalism foresee large tuition hikes. towards this country if they are the form of a loan from the col $37 per unU. major from Mexico, said foreign forced to return home and denied lege foundation, a revolving fund Payment was delayed pending students must not only work to According to Aguilar, the tui an education because of finances. set up In 1970 to help foreign the results of a class action suit raise money due for previous tion increase for foreign students The residents want to help eli students meet the tuition in brought by a foreign student to semesters but must also raise may mean disenrollment for as minate this feeling by working creases. However, definite guide prohibit the tuition increase. The money for the Spring semester many as 1,200 of the 4,400 for directly with the problem and hop lines for the use of the college students lost the suit last Octo- tuition. eign students in the California ing to affect the outcome on a po foundation loan are awaiting l>er In a decision by the Califor The problems of the foreign State Universities and Colleges. sitive liasis. Page 2 Northridge Dally Sundial December 8, 1972 Gai programs stall Gai said the day-care center stages. By Michael R. Forkash One A.S. senator said that any NEWS EDITOR has top priority. One of the prin None of the four major pro cipal problems in establishing it, member of the A.S. could ini mises outlined in Associated Stu according to the A.S. president, tiate action, not only the presi dents President Dennis Gal's is in obtaining the proper li dent. "People know the persona campaign for that post last April censes from the Department of lities (in the senate). They are have to date been fulfilled. Social Welfare and making sure responding to these personalities, Gal's platform as outlined In they follow federal and state not the structure," the Sundlal, along with the goals guidelines. The third item on Gal's ori and promises of seven others Neither Gai nor Walter Bol ginal campaign platform, bring who tried for A.S. President, linger, associate dean of stu ing big name performers and called for alleviating frustration dents, assisting with the center speakers In, Is handled through on campus by Implementing a plans, could say when It would the Cultural Affairs Office.

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