JOINT STATEMENT OF CHIEF FRANK
FOOLS CROW AND FRANK KILLS
ENEMY ON BEHALF OF THE
TRADITIONAL LAKOTA TREATY
COUNCIL BEFORE HONORABLE LLOYD
MEADS SUB-COMMITTEE ON INTERIOR
AND INSULAR AFFAIRS. (September 10,
1976)
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TRIBAL COUNCILS UNDER I.R.A.
On all our reservations today, there are tribal
councils operating under the 1934 Indian
Reorganization Act. These councils were placed
on the reservations by the United States
Government to replace our traditional councils.
These puppet governments are often times the
most corrupt governments around and bring out
the very worse in the whiteman system of
governments. Councilmen on these puppet
governments always represent the view of the
whiteman because they are indoctrinated by the
whiteman to act like this. These type of people
are on the council because very few of our
traditional people vote in these whiteman
elections. I am told that only 30 percent of our
people vote. These councilmen do not represent
the majority of the people on the reservation.
Naturally, many of them are here today to urge
the acceptance of this bill, as they have been
brainwashed to do by the whiteman.
JOINT STATEMENT OF CHIEF FRANK
FOOLS CROW AND FRANK KILLS
ENEMY ON BEHALF OF THE
TRADITIONAL LAKOTA TREATY
COUNCIL BEFORE HONORABLE LLOYD
MEADS SUB-COMMITTEE ON INTERIOR
AND INSULAR AFFAIRS. (September 10,
1976)