The Fresno Bee from Fresno, California • 40

8-C THE FRESNO BEE Friday December 10 infill Indians Question Right Of United States To Sell Strathmore Rancheria Central California Indians arc i government for louses on those wondering whether the Federal unoccupied lands how much It Poverty Fighters Elect Mrs Hood Ing his rights as an Indian to quire It still Is pending?" Kelley other Indians filed on the acre-the unoccupied land jasks aRe ater ae wa an' first application wasi At the public bid opening in denied with the statement that Sacramento this week which Charlie could appeal to Wash-'Kelley and Charlie attended all jop an BCCOunting of funds re- Government has the right to amounts to since 1923 and who gets it Specifically the council is in Mrs Irma Hood of 2577 unoccupied Indian lands upon terosted in a 38-acrc parcel of land acquired for the tribesmen by the government near Strathmore in Tulare County many years ago and which since has been leased to a nonlndian They particularly are Intcr-esicd in why Uncle Sam adver- ington" Kelley says "The law is clear: Indians have the right to settle on unoccupied lands if Uth St Calwa has been elected representative to the Fresno County Economic Opportunities Commission from Poverty Area No 3 (Calwa-Malagn) Mrs Louis Arriaga of 3fi51 Ward St Malaga was elected as the alternate representative from the area which a member of the Mono Tribe has on application pending to make It his own The Indians through their California Indian Coordinating Council also have asked so far without success what happens to the money taken by the they themselves are landless" tised this parcel for sale to the Kelley says the council ho represents and of which Charlie is a member was started a year ago after California's Indians voted affirmatively on a proposal to settle their age-old land differences with the government by accepting payment of about $29 million The members of the council fought an unsuccessful battle against ratification of the proposal which In effect would settle claims for lands taken from the Indians 112 years ago This Indicates a value of 47 cents an acre as of 1853 and would mean payment of about $800 to each Indian now on the rolls County Demos Will Meet To Solidify Ranks seven bids were held unacccpt-Ceived from leases since then able The lowest was a re-jand got a real brush-off" Kcl ported $100 and the highest says "We got a letter buck $23200 Bureau officials say alloying this Information 'is not were below the appraised value readily available' and adding which was not disclosed Hence 'that the Strathmore acreage no sale lease realized $1000 in 1965" Never Utilized Kelley says Kelley and Charlie contend No Indian has in fact ever the 38 acres in question were occupied any of the acreage purchased in 1923 as an admin- The law stipulates that all The appeal was sent several weeks ago to Leonard Hill the area director who Kelley says acknowledged it Nothing more has been heard except that the appeal is under consideration "What right has the bureau then to offer to the highest bidder this particular acreage at highest bidder without as Clayton Kelley puts it "letting us Indians in on It" Kelley a Mono from Tollhouse says a fellow tribesman named Albert Charlie of Porterville heard of the impending sale and immediately filed on application with the federal 0 Give Mom That New money realized from the sale of Indian lands must go into a fund for later disbursement to the Indians istrative center for an Indian Rancheria near Strathmore but never was utilized for that purpose They also understand that Bureau of Indian Affairs claim- a time when an appeal to ac 1966 Frigidaire Refrigerator Roomy top freezer 2-door with full-width shelves! i Three or four score of the 'county's leading Democratic party workers have been invited to a luncheon tomorrow In Par-dint's restaurant In an effort to hash out Interparty problems present a united front In the 1966 elections i Considering that Democrats 'have an edge in registration of more than 2 to 1 over and the county's congressman state senator and two assemblymen are Democrats would seem the Democrats I should have no cause for alarm Especially since the state and national administrations are firmly in the hands of Demo-Jcrats However the lengthy battle between Democrats who support the California Democratic Council and those who do which basically a battle between political liberals and took a turn this year which brought more man-on-the-'street Democrats into the fray I Tomorrow's meeting was set up by John Krebs chairman I of the Fresno County Democratic Central Committee as an off-the-record session However Krebs said today the news will be welcome to cover the meeting 1 Committee members Rep Sisk State Sen Hugh Burns and Assemblymen George Zenovich and Charles Gar-'rigus are scheduled to attend along with other leading party workers Among the items scheduled for discussion are the registration of voters and raising campaign funds i I frhKilUUUhj FDA-1 3TKT 131 cuft (NEMA standard) 4 color or whit' FRIGIDAIRE shelves are 100 usable-let you store more! 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