The Ute Bulletin from Fort Duchesne, Utah • 6

Young Ute Actress Featured On Movie Magazine Cover ii'-s S. and is a member of the Los Angeles Drum and Feather Chib. It was through the L.A. Indian Center that Lynna Marie was auditioned for the movie. Her grandmother, Mrs.

Arrowchis, said Lynna has been asked to do a Disney movie as well as various television commercials. While her mother is considering the commercials, she said Mrs. Murdock is not sold on movie life for Lynna who must be on set from 8 a.m. to 6 p.m. whether or not she is in the scenes being filmed.

It is also necessary to hire a private tutor for her during filming. Mrs. Murdock stated it is a very strenuous routine for a first grader. Mrs. Arrowchis said, although the movie was not what the title led one to believe, she did enjoy seeing her granddaughter on the screen and sat through the movie twice when it was shown in Vernal A six-year-old granddaughter of a Ute tribal member who made her movie debut last spring is featured on the cover of a TV-Movie magazine.

Lynna Marie Murdock, granddaughter of Mr. and Mrs. Bishop Arrowchis, La-point, starred with Burt Reynolds and Sarah Miles in The Man Who Loved Cat Dancing. According to a story in TV-Picture Life magazine (November issue), Lynna Marie visited at length with Rey- nolds and Dinah Shore at the premiere of the movie. The story stated Lynna reminded Dinah of her children when they were young.

The little movie star is the daughter of Mr. and Mitchell Murdock of Los Angeles, Calif. Mrs. Murdock is the former Joyce Arrowchis, a member of the Ute Tribe. The little girls father is a Kickapoo-Shawnee from Oklahoma who is employed by General Motors in L.A.

AND THE WALLS CAME TUMBLING DOWN When the second explosion in a month rocked the Whiterocks laundromat Oct.6. Debra and Evelyn Hoopes, danghters at Mr. and Mrs. Janies Hoopes, were in the building at the time of the explosion. Although the girls do not redly recall how they got out of the building, neighbors who saw them crossing the street with smoke coining from their hair, theorized their flight was prompted by the force of the explosion.

They were uninjured except for slight of their hair and eyebrows. It is bebeved the explosion was caused by a gas leak in the rear of the complex which, ironically, did not burn. The first explosion Sept. 20 caused slight damage and believed to be ttfllfj ill um wav. Hm Imntwlramai wii viMlt it til tins of ths fint'MCldcilte NEW IMAGE? She Crashed the Academy Now Playboy Magazine SI 51 'i SAN FRANCISCO, Cal.

(AIPA) Indian Actress Sacheen Littlefeather, who posed in the nude for a three-page full-color photo essay in the October issue of the Playboy magazine, gets some criticism for her decision to appear nude but says she has no regrets. I still have the same friends and live the same way, she says, but maybe it's still too soon to tell. One older Indian woman told me recently, Indian women don't pose in the Thats a bunch of bull. Indian women do everything everybody else does. They smoke Indian time -a day and a half before the ceremony.

The reason he did mas that I 'am a member of the Screen Actors Guild, working with its Minority Image Committee. I'm an official in the San Francisco chapter. Im not a militant or a radical. I didnt 'Sp 3As-'vV-v'' 'v'k X' 2 K' SOMETHING NEW Has been added for the convenience of bench and Whiterocks residents. The Indian Bench Trading Post, located exactly half way up the Whiterocks highway, is tenadvely slated to open Nov.

15, according to the owners, Mr. and Mrs. Lester Chapoose. The 40 76 foot steel building will house a grocery store featuring a complete line of grocery and household needs and a beauty parlor with two stations. Gas pumps may be installed at a later date, according to Chapoose.

do it for ego, publicity or more movie roles. I did it from my heart because Hollywood has had a hand in dealing with the Indian unfairly. Theyve created the savage image. Theyve made over 3,000 films with Indians in them and theyve profited economically. One thing for sure.

Shes added a new dimension to the Indian image in the most striking way possible the bare facts. Ufe Secures SBA Loan For Business Venflure Our Most Deadly Enemy I am more powerful than the combined armies of the world; I have destroyed more men than all the wars of the nation; I am more deadly than bullets, and I have wrecked more homes than the mightiest of guns; I am the worlds slyest thief, I steal millions of dollars each year; I spare no one, and I find my victims Marlboro cigarettes, they fly in airplanes, ride in Mustangs, and many live in suburban houses. This is 1973. We have to face these facts. The body is a gift of the Great Spirit.

She posed for Playboy, she says in order to have the money to go to Europe to attend a theater festival. Many traditional people feel that other people who pose tn the nude in that kind of magazine are awfuL The Playboy pictures were art photography, not pornography. Tm not Linda Lovelace. It was strictly a business agreement. I needed the money to get to Europe and back, I went with other Indians to the International Theater Festival in Nancy, France.

Playboy treats all their people fantastically. Ms. Littlefeather was born in Salinas, south of San Francisco, where her parents had just moved from the White Mountain Apache Reservation in Arizona. Due to a mixup in birth records at the Salinas Hospital, she explained, her parents had to seek legal recourse to get them straightened out. Rumors that she was not an Indian began circulating in a national scandal rag, the National Enquirer, after the Academy Awards ceremony in Hollywood this past March when she was asked by Actor Marlon Brando to decline the Oscar in his place.

She appeared that night in a full buckskin dress and hair ties and outraged many of the top film stars and industry executives with her one-minute speech. And shes had a lot of problems resulting from her stand-in for Brando. Jane Fonda thinks shes been boycotted for her political work, but shes got nothing on me. Brandos a big name. They cant get at him, but they can get at me.

They can take it out on me and use me as a whipping post. But why should an actress who cares about her people be defamed? Sacheen says her Oscar appearance uxisn't my decision. Brando chose me among the rich and poor alike, the young and the old, the strong and the weak; widows and orphans know me; I loom up to such proportions that I cast my shadow over every field of labor, I lurk in unseen places, and do most of my work silently; elected to the Tribal Business Committee. Mrs. Chapoose, the former Isabell Gardner, received her cosmetology training at Weber State College, Ogden.

She was recently employed three years as medical records clerk at the Indian Health Clinic, Roosevelt. SPECIALTIES Chapoose stated the Trading Post will have a full line of grocery and household items but, at the present, will not stock dry goods. A limited selection of local beadwork will be on sale when the supply permits. Mrs. Chapoose plans to employ a licensed beautician to assist her in the salon.

Patriot Publishes Book Hank Adams, The river rights patriot, will soon have his first bode published by Harold Rinehart Winston. Its title which is as complex as the man is: "I Am in the Bronze and in the Grave A Journal of Experience of an American Indian who has shared six centuries of struggle in quest of justice.1 A mid-November grand opening is planned for a new Ute owned and operated business on the reservation. The Indian Bench Trading Post and Beauty Salon, owned by Mr. and Mrs. Lester Chapoose, will be managed by Mrs.

Chapoose. A licensed beautician, she will also operate a two-station beauty salon. Mrs. Gary (Betty) Poowegup has been employed as cashier in the store. The 40x76 foot steel building was secured through a Small Business Administration loan granted to the couple who also used $15,000 personal finances for the venture.

The building, a Garco Prefab, was constructed by Calvin Squire, Roosevelt. Experience in Business Chapoose, presently serving as vice chairman of the Ute Tribe Bumness Committee, gained his business experience at Grand Central Stores, Salt Lake City. He attended Southern Utah State College three years as well as Steven Henegar Business College, Salt Lake City. He was employed by the Tribal accounting department until July of 1972 when he was named Administrative Officer for the tribe. In April of 1973 he was iuu naL NUT; I am relentless; I am everywherein the home, on tl street, in the factory, in the offic and on the sea; TCCIV IUC I destroy and crush, I give nothing take all; I am your worst enemy.

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