The Osage Nation should have plenty of money for Historic preservation and yet my tax dollars are going to a bunch of crooks and thieves. Are the politicians going to call their homes historic sites so they can get an extra bedroom added to their houses? It's funny how the Osage Nation claims sovereignty when subverting laws but they gladly stick their hand out for the American taxpayer dollar.
Pick the pockets of the Shareholders. Or better yet steal their pant. You can give the Osage Nation a billion dollars and they will come up with creative ways to waste the money. The Nation cannot allow any funds to reach the people. Those people with certain names easily make $50,000 to $100,000+ with 1,500 bonuses. Give the Nation more money and those people will make $100,000 to 200,000+ with 5,000 bonuses. The Nation is so corrupt. I'm looking for to it's ultimate demise. And yes dear Osages the Nation will collapse.
They just can't play by the rules. In the end, it's really about whether or not you're sophisticated enough to do so. Perpetrating massive fraud continuously over the years and thinking that you can get away with it with outside parties and counterparties isn't smart, it's just asking for total and complete ruin. I can't get over these entirely phony people who for the most part run the government. Year after year, day after day...
They have no clue how to prioritize spending projects in an appropriate manner. Remember, these are the guys that gave a ton of money to Osage, LLC, to develop that American Statue project a few years back.
The Osage LLC and the other ventures the Nation creates is designed to lose money. They set up a company, bleed it dry, pocket the money, and declare losses for a tax break. The Cronies make all the money and not one red cent is ever offered to the people. The people on the hill are not Osage. They're self-righteous greedy dogs that go around sniffing each other's butts pretending to be important.
I feel a need to set the record straight on the claim that the companies are operated at a loss for a tax break, as it just isn't so. Osage LLC, Tallgrass Economic Development LLC, and all of the subsidiaries are all filed with the IRS as "Governmental Entities" and claimed to be tax exempt entities, even though the IRS website contains information specific to the Osage that such companies would be taxable.
The fact is that the only real problem these companies could face with the IRS is if they failed to file the taxes, as there is no tax owed when all you ever do is lose money.
I'm surprised that the IRS has not classified these businesses as hobbies and shut them down. This often happens when a business operates for a few years and fails to ever make a profit.
I know that! It was that silly Congress who gave it to them in the first place. My point, by way of example, is that we have a spending problem and that problem lies at the feet of the twelve elected members of the Osage Nation Congress who vote to appropriate and give out our money for crazy, mindless, inane stuff like this. They have no idea what they are doing unless this kind of spending is to keep the money away from all of us who aren't part of the special class of Osages who directly benefit from it in Osage County. Once all the money is spent yearly on the budget, then they are in a position to say, "Oh well, sorry, maybe next year." This goes on for four years until one or more of them, just prior to election time, comes up with an idea that will benefit all Osages and then they pass it through the Congress, I am presuming, in the effort to protect their cushy little unconscionably high paying part time jobs. Meanwhile for four long hard years, we suffer while $200,000 to $300,000 is spent, in the main, on them and their families who benefit in Osage County.
These people are so invested in keeping the money in their own hands, they don't even allow themselves to laugh out loud at some of this stuff that comes across the floor of the Osage Congress. If they really are taking seriously a lot of what they spend our money on then we are in real trouble people.
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More on "Killers of the Flower Moon: The Osage Murders and the Birth of the FBI" http://www.cbsnews.com/news/killers-of-the-flower-moon-revisiting-the-reign-of-terror-on-the-osage-nation/?ftag=CNM-00-10aab6i&linkId=37044418
Right now, I'm in the 21st Century and what I'm worried about are these Arses and Idiots running the ONG who have killed our reservation, killed the use of $20,000,000 and counting and are now killing the golden gooses we call the Casinos moving money around so fast, no one knows what's happening!!!!! Where are Grann and Dennison on all these deaths of different kind?
There is no difference between the Feds and the ONG. The Ong treats the Osage people and especially the Shareholders with disdain. Every Chief since Gray has lied to to the people and has done everything possible to to bust the ME. It's about greed and power and the ruination of the Shareholders. Just as the US government stole the native's land, the ONG desperately want's the ME. Through there their own folly the ONG will collapse. Osages don't know how to manage money and would gladly stab each other in the back for personal gain. The ONG is an embarrassment to our history and will be the demise of our future. But that's ok because as long as the people running the ONG get rich then that's all that matters. As a reminder, Raymond Redcorn believes the ONG owns the ME and wants to tax the ME as well. Standingbear would love nothing more that to kill off the Shareholders once and for all. The Puking Dog clan of the ONG are pure evil.
Maria Whitehorn this is for you, yes we do support term limits. These positions are not career positions snd you are in no position to dictate otherwise. We the constituency pays your check. Who else objected so we can vote them out. These are different times Maria, and if you don't think a fact checking non-profit isn't around the corner to fact check you all, keep dreaming because your nightmare is about to come true. No more wasteful spending all the way up to the executive.
Especially when it came to the purchase of the Ranch...of which we will not see a profit in our life time, think about that and the reclamation, what a microcosm of the U.S. we have become no thanks to the Harvard project right? Smh.
So,how did Trump have ties to Russia? What will be the next mantra againt Trump from the Dems? Why isn't the Dems screaming for a investigation, you and I know Obama spied on Trump. Well there you have it. Wikileaks did not lie.
Indian Country leaders testify about funding needs on Capitol Hill Cynthia Boone Council Member, Osage Minerals Council attends. Good for her hope to hear about her trip in her bulletin. https://www.indianz.com/News/2017/05/16/indian-country-leaders-testify-about-fun.asp
The Tribe should be run as a for-profit corporation. A Chief, assistant chief, and three representatives. A new constitution based on turning a profit, rewarding success, and punishing failure. Then base all programs on the for-profit system. Stop subsidizing failure and start teaching people how to take care of themselves.
Yeah buddy you bet a lot of money is being thrown after more money when it comes to the Osage llc and my hide is done being tanned when it comes to the Bluestem Ranch not one profit will be made in our life time and nor is it in trust either because of the 40,000,000. In reclamation fees and this was purchased with our gaming money which is to be used for economic purposes. If our members in Congress and our appropriation committee's do not start dojng a economic impact statement on the next big purpose we are headed for a constitutional convention.
Osage Nation gave $52K to Missouri governor amid gaming push located at Indianz.com
Our Government is corrupt get our Chief out of office what other illegal shenanigans has he done. Congress do your job!!!!! Our money to buy a vote is not t8 be used for this type of behavior.
By law this money is to be used as, To fund tribal government operations or programs; To provide for the general welfare of the Indian tribe and its members; To promote tribal economic development; To donate to charitable organizations; and To help fund operations of local government agencies. Not to donate to another political faction.
The Osage Nation government isn't about helping the Osage people. The nation consist of people who are related to the top decision makers. If you are not related to the ladies in HR, you don't have a snowball's chance in hell of getting through the front door. If you are related, then all you have to do is walk in, get a job and start off at $50,000. The Nation will cut every funding while giving themselves $1,500 bonuses and pay increases when it strikes their fancy. Yes, the Nation is corrupt because it is being run bu corrupt people.
Wow! On two Business Enterprise Boards and getting paid twice at about $18K per year or more x 2 = $36,000? To give their approval and consent, as in advise and consent, to her to sit on two Osage Nation Business Boards, the Osage Nation Congress sure must think she's pretty! http://osagenews.org/en/article/2017/05/31/osage-women-renovate-building-downtown-pawhuska-open-little-rain-song-loft/
Roanhorse is a Gray so she's going get whatever she wants. I wonder how much casino money was diverted under the table to subsidize her business? By the way, who in their right mind is going to pay $200 per night in Pawhuska? I wonder if this is just another money laundering scheme?
FYI - There is intent to modify the ON Ethics Law to permit the TED LLC board members to also serve on the OLLC board. Anyone who has read the Annual Report of these "two companies" (for really, TED is just an alter ego of OLLC) knows that the same board has been in control of both entities the entire time that TED has existed.
In reality, the companies are inseparable from a legal standpoint and TED could be sued for any wrong doing of OLLC in the past. The subsidiary companies are still really named Osage Pinnacle Design Group and Osage Innovative Solutions.
Also, TED claims to be making a "profit" on millions in contracts but continues to ask for - and receive - substantial cash infusions from the ON. If there is truly a profit being made, then where is it going?
This is interesting to say the least. This if trueis what I had posted way back when, if there is any capital be made from said enterprises where is the profits going, sledge fund? And who follows up on these enterprises our own Government?
Tonight on Charlie Rose: Author David Grann, introducing his new book, "Killers of the Flower Moon: The Osage Murders and the Birth of the FBI." www.charlierose.com
Indian-Killer Andrew Jackson’s Indian Removal Act on Display for First Time: https://indiancountrymedianetwork.com/history/events/indian-killer-andrew-jacksons-indian-removal-act-display-first-time/?mqsc=ED3886078
And not one single written word about the cost? http://www.osagenews.org/en/article/2017/06/28/osage-nation-breaks-ground-new-hominy-village-square/
As of today, I'm creating and branding a new Osage acronym: WWGW! The meaning is simple, "WHILE WE GO WITHOUT!" meaning all of the rest of us Osage Nation Members who live outside of Osage County.
Wait a minute this was apart of what we wanted for our local communities and now that we are working to build the infrastructure you complain howdy doody. We should have done this years ago.
There is safety in numbers especially if the cut off point with the Republicans is tribal membership numbers above 50,000 in order to continue to receive Federal funding. There are only three Tribal Communities in Oklahoma with overall membership numbers throughout the United States at this threshold or above and these include the Cherokee Nation, the Choctaw Nation and the Muscogee (Creek) Nation.
It is amazing the road to travel to get to the answers, a world of information and where to begin. But I will attempt to make sense. In simple terms this would be discrimination and would go all the to the SCOTUS. And or in the lower courts affirmative action by the courts would happen yes? Traties are they not binding? Then the obligation is codified by 25 CFR if I have it correctly but the obligation also is written in the U.S Constitution. I think someone is ignorant of IC (Indian Country) I have to say is at least Judge Sotomayor understands IC. The supreme court recognizes that "Domestic Dependent Nations". A good read " THE CONSTITUTION OF THE UNITED STATES APPLIES TO INDIAN TRIBES James A. Poore HI" Our inherent Sovereignty existed before our integration.
They might recognize us but giving tribes money with Casino operations or membership numbers so small as to be considered insignificant to the Federal government is another matter. The value in a government to government relationship is, and always has been, money and how much is available from the Federal government for programs. Doesn't matter that we are taxpayers too. That's part of the good reason there is a public outcry when non-essential spending takes place on the part of Tribal governments where constituents and members of a particular Tribal community are concerned; here on this blog with reference to the Osage Nation government and elsewhere with other Tribal communities, whose members don't benefit first and foremost no matter where they live when spending occurs on the part of a Tribal government, especially when they have income coming in from gaming revenue that is supposed to benefit Tribal members first by law (NIGA). God knows they receive enough money from the Feds using numbers that are 80% Osage living out of the actual service area in Osage County and we don't all see a reciprocal amount coming to us in Tribal funding to all of us despite most of the revenue coming from our gaming operations. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_Native_American_tribes_in_Oklahoma
Thank you for your comment but what I am saying is yes, your point is valid, and in the same breath those questions above need answering relating to the hire Plenary power the U.S Congress has over us concerning our titles in Trust and binding Treaties and obligations by the U.S Government and its fullfillment. This is not just about us. And when I look at the true Reservation is the M.E and its assets. All I am saying is someone is ignorant of the implications that this action would have impacts economically if this decision goes thru. Its more than the Casinos.
Good information: Grapefruit Juice and Some Drugs Don't Mix https://www.fda.gov/forconsumers/consumerupdates/ucm292276.htm?source=govdelivery&utm_medium=email&utm_source=govdelivery
Barnsdall Mayor mullung running for our Congress, With regards to running for tribal office, Moore said: “I have three main areas of focus that I believe would serve the citizens of the Osage Nation. 1.) Improving involvement within our communities. 2.) Exploring financial endeavors for the Nation. 3.) Improving healthcare access for tribal members.” Expound on the vague reasons why you are running. We have involvement in our communities, lame Exploring for new endeavors, wrong, what we need is JOBS JOBS JOBS in our communities our money isn't a open cash drawer when you run for office, accountability and transparency is whatvis needed not more spending. Improving health care access. Really? Thats the federal Governments responsibility. Please explain when we know how underfunded IHS. How about advocate a universal health care access card not just that at the federal level most Indians has access thru the ACA.
8th Special Congressional Day 1 video is located here https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mq1zJmHjRbc Changes to the election law are going to be reviewed and voted on in this Special Session so it's time once again to pay close attention.
Important to note that the Legislation put forward by Alice Buffalohead is not on the roster for us to read: ONCA 17-89, An Act to govern the conduct of Osage Nation elections, including elections for Principal Chief, Assistant Principal Chief, Osage Nation Congress, elections for the retention of Judges of the Osage Judiciary, and other elections required by the Constitution and by law; and to establish an alternate effective date. (Buffalohead) OR ONCR 17-31, A Resolution to approve the Osage Nation Election Board rules and regulations governing elections in accordance with the Osage Nation Election Code. (Buffalohead) See https://www.osagenation-nsn.gov/who-we-are/congress-legislative-branch/legislation We should be having full disclosure as to these changed on the call for this Special Session so that we know what they are doing over at that election office before the Osage Nation Congress votes on it up or down... The last "amended" call for this session was on July 21, 2017. That's plenty of time for this legislation to be posted to the Osage Nation membership on the legislation roster! See the Session today at https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Z5KE_pIH1-k
These two bills have been assigned to the Government Operations Congressional Committee. They should be vetted today: Governmental Operations Committee Meeting – 3:00 p.m. – 5:00 p.., CDST. This Committee Meeting should be available to listen to online live at https://www.osagenation-nsn.gov/multimedia/live-media
Live in Session today, the Congress voted against the bill on the new election bill. Again, the excuse was given that it is easier on the election board to do it this way to match the election filing dates for the Chief and the Assistant Principal Chief. C. Shaw reminded the Congress that there is a Primary involved for that election and no need for the additional time because the Congress does not have a Congressional Primary. Good. I for one do not want a Congressional Primary. From the last election we saw very few who came forward to throw their hat into the ring to serve the Osage people as their representatives.
The new Election Bill, ONCA 17-89 is now up on the website at https://www.osagenation-nsn.gov/who-we-are/congress-legislative-branch/legislation but none of the changes show as redlined to enable the Osage people to determine what the changes were before the bill was voted down...40 pages worth of text and no way to determine at face value what has been changed. As this directly involves the membership, it should be at our convenience and we should be able to have these changes made available to us and at hand. It appears more often than not that the Election Board and the Supervisor are structuring these elections to benefit themselves and not us. Elections are always ditch digging dirty hard work in any event and those on the Board or who work in the Election Office who cannot come up to speed and make the grade should perhaps look to the Osage Nation for another less challenging job? According to the Osage Constitution, this is a government about and for the Osage People. We need the best service we can get from all who work at the Osage Nation on our behalf. If it gets a bit rugged at times, so be it.
What is it about this that the Board and the Election office doesn't get? In the last Congressional election, there were a shocking number of ballots that were under voted. What that means is that the Osage Nation electorate was unsatisfied with the candidate choices that were there to vote for in this particular past election. We need more choices, not less and nothing should be done by the Election Board or the Supervisor to narrow the number of candidates who represent the Osage people. If this is an attempt at changing filing dates to sneak up on us to add a Congressional primary in the legislation at some future date, snap that idea in half right now.
I'd be happy if these election people would quit working on the election bill and the rules and the regulations because they are always loaded with more and more penalties for those who run for office. I don't care if the election team work in the light, either. I'd like them to quit work on all these changes and get down to the hard work at hand when the time comes for the elections and not complain about the work load. Sheesh!
Why is it that dedicated, meaningful, important hard work is so difficult to come by with some of the Osages? They want to control things and run them but not do what's necessary to work hard and make a success of it. Complaints about this have been going on for as long as I've been around and that's a long time. Getting down to business with them is difficult a lot of the time. Reliably unreliable is what a cousin of mine used to say way back in the day. I heard they have been crafting that election bill to keep out as many outsiders from running for office and work as little as possible. Like that recount where they were only counting the ballots of the candidate paying for the challenge. You never heard such flimsy excuses for why this was the right thing to be doing when a practice like that's as crooked as a dog's hind leg. Why they weren't all fired on the spot for even trying to float an idea like that is just amazing to me. The last recount brought and paid for by that Red Eagle who ran for office did come up with some ballot count differences as I recall. Correct me if I'm wrong on this.
Well, well, well... GOOD! I'm glad that the Osage Nation does know how go to Court to bring a quiet title law suit. This proves they do know about it and can get it done... http://www.osagenews.org/en/article/2017/08/04/osage-nation-wins-former-railroad-land-lawsuit-state-court/
Osage Congress passes resolution opposing federal budget cuts impacting Indian Country: http://www.osagenews.org/en/article/2017/08/10/osage-congress-passes-resolution-opposing-federal-budget-cuts-impacting-indian-country/
Important Osage Nation Burial Assistance Fund Notification: https://www.facebook.com/OsageNews/photos/a.153834188010750.33094.134873493240153/1530262373701251/?type=3&theater
Newt Gingrich: America needs to be better prepared for a nuclear attack: http://www.foxnews.com/opinion/2017/08/11/newt-gingrich-america-needs-to-be-better-prepared-for-nuclear-attack.html
News five minutes ago -- India and China Fracas Brewing Up: http://www.npr.org/sections/thetwo-way/2017/08/11/542904162/india-steps-up-alert-amid-heightened-tensions-with-china
Reference: "Just as in Whitehorn, the Court put emphasis on the fact they were not going to consider standards created by the federal or state government and would be developing “a uniquely Osage jurisprudence.” http://www.osagenews.org/en/article/2017/08/14/supreme-court-issues-opinion-declaratory-judgement-case-nations-budgeting-practices/ If this is true then why does it say this: "The Osage wrote a constitution in 1881, modeling some parts of it after the United States Constitution.[53]" https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Osage_Nation
Especially when the prior Osage Supreme Court said this in SCO-2015-01, STANDING BEAR V. WHITEHORN, 03-08-2016 SLIP OPINION "The Osage Constitutions of...1881...reflect our efforts to self-govern and avoid the forced implementation of federally-created government structures by organizing under a document similar to the United States Constitution." SCO-2015-01, STANDING BEAR V. WHITEHORN, 03-08-2016 SLIP OPINION Explore/Download https://www.osagenation-nsn.gov/who-we-are/judicial-branch/supreme-court Do these Supreme Court Justices really know the history of the Osage people or just the prevailing hype?
I know for certain that at the time of the Osage Government Reform Commission when and while still at work that there was definite representation and justification to me -- when I said that a Constitutional form was too big a government for only 5,500 registered Osage Nation members at the time -- that a Constitutional form of government was chosen because it is based on the U.S. Constitution including legal precedents set out so that we wouldn't be flying blind or having to reinvent the wheel. This was a willful representation to me that is being kicked out from under all Osage Nation members, myself included, leading to what I believe amounts to a fair and level charge of Judicial “bait and switch” by SCOTON Justices Meredith Drent and Drew Pierce who I wasn't aware were even around in the 2005/2006 time period when the Osage Nation Constitution was being framed and heavily touted. Drent was out in California in 2009 and before. View the Message of the President at http://www.calindianlaw.org/uploads/2/8/4/5/28458371/cila_newsletter.2009.04.12.pdf She was also admitted to the State Bar to practice law in Washington in 2015 https://www.lawyer.com/meredith-drent.html#contact Don't see that she was anywhere around when the framers of the Osage Constitution or the Project Coordinator, Hepsi Barnett, working with the OGRC, who was selling this form of government to the Osages with everything she had available to her Big Time including the backing of the Harvard Project where she later won an award from them in 2008. http://honoringnations.tumblr.com/post/142012753534/throwbackthursday-to-one-of-the-2008-honoring Hepsi’s known to be an Osage’s Osage and the go-to-gal for the ONOs (Osage Nation Organization) https://www.facebook.com/hepsi.barnett.1 Nor do I recall Drew Pierce being anywhere near the process either. Does anyone else? Says he's been hanging around Cotter, Arkansas working as an attorney since 1995 though. https://www.manta.com/c/mm4s672/pierce-drew-attorney
Like I said this is not a Government for the people and the Osage were sold a bill all right. And change needs to come we see the writing on the wall sorta speak and this can all be un done and maybe I should just go ahead and file suit on behalf of the Headright owners. Thinking about it, thinking about it and Hespi in my bokk is a radical and no friend to the Osage.
So when is this recent Justice's Opinion going to become available to the Osage People? https://www.osagenation-nsn.gov/who-we-are/judicial-branch/supreme-court ???????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????
Norman Drew Pierce: http://www.okbar.org/members/EthicsCounsel/StandardsProfessionalism.aspx http://www.okbar.org/members/EthicsCounsel/LawyersCreed.aspx http://www.okbar.org/public/Complaint.aspx https://www.arkbar.com/for-public/faqs#LawyerComplaint
Elizabeth L. Homer http://homerlaw.com/attorneys.html https://www.dcbar.org/attorney-discipline/for-the-public/file-an-attorney-complaint.cfm https://www.nmdisboard.org/ComplaintAboutLawyer.aspx
Some may also be members of the American Bar Association, Federal Bar Association, Native American Bar Association as well as the Osage Nation Bar Assocation: Order Establishing Grounds for Recall of Judicial Officers ~~ https://www.osagenation-nsn.gov/who-we-are/judicial-branch/administrative-orders https://www.americanbar.org/groups/professional_responsibility/resources/resources_for_the_public.html For a review of the ABA Canons of Judicial Ethics ~~ https://www.americanbar.org/groups/professional_responsibility/resources/judicial_ethics_regulation.html
So when is this recent Justice's Opinion Standing Bear v. Angela Pratt going to become available to the Osage People? https://www.osagenation-nsn.gov/who-we-are/judicial-branch/supreme-court ??????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????? What are they hiding? Did these office workers get bonuses and raises in the Judicial Branch when the posting of this Opinion has taken so long?
Might be time to say a prayer... "Mad Dog" Mattis: If North Korea fires missile at US, it's 'game on' http://www.foxnews.com/politics/2017/08/14/mattis-if-north-korea-fires-missile-at-us-its-game-on.html http://www.foxnews.com/world/2017/08/14/kim-jong-uns-disappearance-sparks-concerns-missile-launch-could-be-imminent.html
Will not happen. This guy has issues all right and action will be had one way or another. Karma. He's in hiding because the real threat that he has brought apon himself and his nation and the collaboration with other countries, come on. He is by far no worse than Sadam. He will be sniped out. This has been coming for a long time but why did Obama choose to do nothing and now the Iran deal going south? What was Obamas legacy again an do not say these lawsuits or Cobell they were on there way of being settled by there own right. Obama care busted as I said it woukd from the beginning, this was medicaid on steroids. And who has tompay for that debacle our Grandchildren. Not funny.
Bloody awful to even have to put this up on the Blog but there it is... http://www.foxnews.com/us/2017/08/15/nuclear-attack-preparation-us-government-provides-survival-tips.html
Well I have always been a prepper. You have 15 mins if that to get out of town. So be packed with enough for three days. Be sure to be armed. Have water sticks. They will last a year and you can drink from almost anything. Do not go looking for your family members meet at yhe place designated if at all possible. Mine is a mountain peak the highest one near our home and or last gas station headed out of town for example. Have a contingency plan, or back up plan but be quick. Looks to be bunkers are in the future if so have at least a three year supply? But not in our life time will we see the world as we know it to come to an end.
Thanks! Appreciate your input. In advance of a nuclear event, you should also look into Potassium Iodine tablets that protect the thyroid gland. CAUTION: Some people may be ALLERGIC to iodine! I am and cannot take these tablets. Be sure to have plenty of water in advance as well. See https://www.usaemergencysupply.com/information-center/self-reliance/emergency-water-storage
Watch Quarantine, you just do not want to get backed up in a corner, or ten clover lane. Eye opening for sure. Masks are in order as well besides the potassium tablets. All great information. No more than thirty pounds on your back pack. Leaves maybe two pair of jeans a jacket and sleeping bag outside of the other things you may have to carry. First aid, food and water. A two way radio is very necessary, batery and solar powered with a cell phone charger with a hand crank as well. Cheap and good to have. Thats why I will be on the highest mountain if there is no fall out of course. Hope this helps as well.
The Osage Agency has all phone numbers down due to the flood that resulted from the rainstorm that took place last week. I called, in desperation, to the Hotline number listed at https://www.bia.gov/WhoWeAre/RegionalOffices/EasternOklahoma/WeAre/Osage/index.htm and was able to get through to the person who answered the phone. I have asked that the Osage Agency list alternative numbers with cell phones at the URL listed above and hope that they will put up an emergency notice for contacts with the various departments of the Osage Agency so that business as usual can resume for those of us who need to get in contact with them in future.
Why hasn't the Osage News picked up on this situation and reported it as a public service to the Osages and others who need to get in touch with the various Osage Agency departments? Does it always have to be egocentric pats on the back, horn tooting and high-fives with this paper coming from those who run it?
What's going on with the Osage News and the "Application Error" Message? "Application error An error occurred in the application and your page could not be served. If you are the application owner, check your logs for details." Is anyone else getting this too at http://www.osagenews.org/en/?
WOAH! I binged this new Netflix Series with a 10 star rating and it's a "Kick-Bum" project that really left me reeling. Hope we don't get sucked into anything like this, if and when we open gaming in Missouri! See https://www.netflix.com/title/80117552 and http://variety.com/2017/tv/news/ozark-renewed-season-2-netflix-1202527992/
Never heard of or seen this series but sounds interesting, and I'm going to watch it cause I like that Bateman guy.
So I'm taking a "guess," is the laundry laundering stealing from the casino big time? If so, if we have our own Osage auditors, won't we be in total charge of any questionable entries or missing entries? I'm against hiring outside companies and then finding clitches a year later, then long drawn out law suits and never getting any money back or convictions.
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"The average savings account has a measly 0.06% APY (annual percentage yield, or interest), and many of the nation's biggest banks pay rates as low as 0.01%."
All the while not paying us, FDIC-Insured Institutions Earn $48.3 Billion in the Second Quarter of 2017 alone: https://www.fdic.gov/news/news/press/2017/pr17061.html
Current URL to the Osage Agency: https://www.bia.gov/regional-offices/eastern-oklahoma/osage-agency The phones have been down for three weeks across the board. The Agency rents from the Osage Nation government and it's up to them to get the Osage Agency cell phones (Tracfones as an example) on a temporary basis for all the departments at the Agency, if need be, as the landlord of the property, until the problem can be corrected and the land lines are restored to service.
If the Nation, meaning StandingBear, really cares about the mineral estate, he would do what a proper landlord would do and get the Osage Agency people the cell phones they need to conduct business in a professional manner with the outside world. Instead, he's already given $50k + for the campaign of the Missouri governor and this month hired a lobbyist. Throw away cell phones for each department at the Osage Agency run about $10 for the phone and $25 for 60 airtime days. https://shop.tracfone.com/shop/en/tracfonestore/phones/tf-alcatel-pixi-glitz-p5-reconditioned https://www.tracfone.com/shop/plans Even if it's 10 offices total, that's $350 all in for two months worth of airtime with the problem solved.
So it's campaign ‘dark money’ now we're getting involved with Chief ??????? http://www.kansascity.com/news/politics-government/article164069087.html
By the way, if Trump won't let Federal land-into-trust go forward and take place, how are we going to be building any new casino anywhere? Why even throw money at this with lobbying until the Nation is assured that Osage land can and will continue to be taken into trust? Take care of your own Osage shareholder's income Chief and forget about the pie in the sky and all these pipe dreams you continue to come up with all the time. Election time comes up in December of t h i s ` y e a r !!!!!!
What the living hell? "They also say A New Missouri improperly accepted a $50,000 donation for the Osage Nation tribe, which wants to build a casino in Missouri." http://www.missourinet.com/2017/06/14/bipartisan-group-of-mo-lawmakers-want-governors-ethics-investigated/ "A bi-partisan group of state Senators wants Governor Eric Greitens investigated for corruption." Chief, are you getting us in hot water again?
Congressional Special Session today: https://www.osagenation-nsn.gov/news-events/news/5th-osage-nation-congress-convene-9th-special-session No Agenda is available at this time. It has to do with release of natural gas at Pawhuska High School. Live, they are on the phone with Eddie Eddie Streater of the BIA to figure out who is responsible and who will be responsible for taking care of the problem. BIA is out and the EPA is involved and the Osage Nation is trying to figure out how they are involved and who has the liability. The State is involved as well with doing the hiring to take care of the problem. School is not open today and we're (Osages) being perceived as responsible therefore we're in a bind? https://www.osagenation-nsn.gov/multimedia/live-media
Woah! The State of Oklahoma wants us to legally indemnify them to move forward to take care of the problem? We're being backed into a corner? WALK AWAY from this or get more information before we agree to indemnify anyone. If the State has jurisdiction to hire the contractors then they have the liability. Now with Erwin using scare tactics on this natural gas leak and bad gas too? Please!!!!!!!!! The problem is bad enough as it is without Erwin carrying on like this.
Brief recess... This looks very bad and is a very bad precedent to set. Rushing forward to cure a problem on non-reservation non-Osage land is a disastrously terrible idea especially for the future of the Osage Mineral Estate. There are larger issues here than the immediate problem. Let the State take care of this because we don't want to have them take jurisdiction and demand that we get involved with indemnity issues every time this happens in the future. DON'T give into the pressure!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
What? If the EPA gave the OK to go back to school, what's the problem? http://www.kswo.com/story/36209277/pawhuska-public-schools-will-resume-monday-following-geothermal-well-leak
"The Pawhuska Public Schools are scheduled to start classes Monday, August 28, 2017. Both the State Fire Marshal and the EPA have confirmed there are no current air quality hazards. Elementary and Indian Camp schools will have welcome tables set up Monday morning, in place of back to school night. We would like to again, thank our patrons for your continued patience and understanding." https://www.facebook.com/ppshuskies/
Stephanie Erwin!!!!!! What the hell are you saying if both the Fire Marshall and the EPA have given confirmation that there is no current air quality hazards out there where the well is located? You are really getting a bad reputation for grandstanding for bad ideas lately. With election time up ahead, I'd watch it if I were you. Scare tactics after the problem has already been neutralized? Good G**!!!!!!!!
The Osage Nation Congress actually voted for the resolution, ONCR 17-32 giving the natural gas on all geothermal wells to the State of Oklahoma without a royalty paid to the Headright owners? Outside of what the Minerals Council agreed to in the first place on only one well at the school? Are you kidding me? Listen to this! https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=f0FTC4bkVTU Don't you dare do anything but veto this damn resolution thing Chief or your current job is a thing of the past come June of next year. The BIA is tasked by U.S. Congressional Act with the approval of all agreements involving minerals coming out of the ground be it oil or natural gas. That means it's against the highest law of the land to take this responsibility away from the BIA and waive it away with a Legislative wand. I can't believe these people and their high crimes and misdemeanors.
The latest is the Chief actually signed this putrid sucker and the next sound you're going to hear in the ballot box from the Shareholders is his job going right down the drain. And Kugee changed his vote from no to yes!
This should have been looked over by our attorneys for a solid month as there was no rush since there was no longer any danger out in the ball field. This was not the agreement the Minerals Council approved in the first place for only this particular well! Now we have the Oklahoma Corporation Commission breathing down our necks in future to recover any natural gas coming from any geo-thermal well drilled in Osage County? The Osage Congress does not have the authority to make a deal with the State like this in the first place. BIA is top dog here and trumps the Osage Nation government where all minerals in Osage County are concerned. And what if geothermal wells are the wave of the future? If that's the case, the Nation just sold out the headright owners!
They waived the right of the Minerals Council to collect a royalty on natural gas from all geothermal wells! Who the hell gave them the right to do a thing like this when it's the BIA who approves all transactions associated with minerals including oil and natural gas by law and the Federal law trumps the State government and the Tribal governments too? I'm so sick of these train wreck dolts who always manage to do the most stupid thing possible that they or anyone else for that matter could ever think of doing anywhere on the planet. Yes. High crimes and misdemeanors sizes it up perfectly.
Every single one of these elected officials who voted yes and who signed off on this resolution are unfit to serve from the date and time of this legislative action forward.
The EPA did not know what to do about the wells during the big earthquake, they followed the advice of the Oklahoma Corporate Comm. Now, they're still questioning their involvement with us, yet, they have say so authority over us.
How do you take control of our own "property" if it's held in Trust? The Trustee always controls the property on behalf of and for the benefit of the beneficiaries in every legal trust arrangement on this side of the planet, especially at the Federal level with an Indian Trust relationship handled and administrated by the BIA. Do you really want our Chief going to Washington, D.C., to end the Mineral Estate Trust we have now with the BIA exercising some kind of hybrid trust responsibility out in limbo somewhere that won't include any legal protection in Federal or State Court and us having to legally defend every move we make with attempting to get paid on the oil and gas taken out of the ground with attorneys like Gentner Drummond telling all the land owners to lock up their gates and the Osage Nation running things like they've run the Osage, LLC at a loss of $19,000,000 and hundreds of thousands of dollars going to the Osage Nation Energy Services LLC which hasn't done a single thing but collect hefty paychecks monthly for the Board Members and buy a building? Another coup is taking place right out from under us, people, and don't think it isn't. See Jim Ryan to OSAGE FOR FISCAL RESPONSIBILITY on July 19, 2017. Beginning with the statement: "Because this statement is so relative and important,I am reposting here."
https://www.facebook.com/groups/234024393278360/
If you think the Osage Nation won't make an absolute mess of our minerals estate, read this:
There is more pomposity in this photograph than you will see anywhere else in the entire world. These two Osage Nation elected officials are the culprits who are attempting to take away your current Mineral Estate Trust now managed by the BIA and the Office of the Special Trustee, make no mistake about that!
As bad as that is with the BIA, and indeed it is very bad, try and wrap your mind around what a catastrophe it will be with the Osage Nation in charge.
Under a new regime, the minute we try to run to the BIA to protect us they will say and rightly so, “Sorry, you wanted to run it, you’ve got it now so you protect yourselves, just like everyone else does in the business world.”
If nothing else, remember this: Pride is not competence!
Poor Jim Ryan. He really appears to be such a dupe. I once had a conversation with StandingBear where he said everyone was going to move home. I thought he was delusional at the time but what I believe he was really indicating to me was this; if we want any money coming from the Osage Tribe now the Osage Nation, we'll have to move home to get it. Does Jim Ryan plan to move back to Osage County, does anyone know?
So what do we get in benefits from the $800,000 in raises for FY 2107 for Osage Nation employees that the members of the Osage Nation Executive Branch and members of The Osage Nation Supreme Court so righteously support? I don't see that we benefit at all. The employees eat up the funds with raises and unearned bonuses in the Osage Nation Treasury that should be going to all of us in membership benefits and then there is nothing left to fund the health and education member benefit programs.
How much did we pay out for this sucker to the detriment of member health and education benefits? https://www.facebook.com/OsageNews/photos/a.153834188010750.33094.134873493240153/1546784158715739/?type=3 The thing looks like it's there to advertise the Motel Super 8! Only the Osage Nation government elected officials would buy into this...
Nice placement of the arrow. https://www.facebook.com/osagetraillegacy/photos/a.1695244944038459.1073741830.1654036954825925/1997906853772265/?type=3&theater
Classes at the WAH ZHA ZHI CULTURAL CENTER will begin soon. See https://www.facebook.com/OsageNews/photos/a.153834188010750.33094.134873493240153/1547969748597180/?type=3&theater
How some people get treated! As of April 2017, the e-edition of the Bigheart Times has been out of commission to downloads online. We purchased a year's subscription that will expire in the first week in September 2017. Do you think that the editor and owner of the BHT would e-mail us with a refund or send us a print copy in lieu of what we paid for and have not received in the last four months? Not so... It seems that there are some bad cheloveks (Russian for hombres) sitting right at their desks at the Bigheart Times office too.
Like I wrote earlier, see Ozark at https://www.netflix.com/title/80117552 and http://variety.com/2017/tv/news/ozark-renewed-season-2-netflix-1202527992/
With Russia vacating the Russian Embassy in San Francisco and burning their documents as I write this comment, and the report of Klaxon sirens going off in Japan in the last 24 hours, I’ve got to tell you, I am getting to be largely concerned about this situation. In the event of a thermonuclear war, see the map for missile silo sites that are considered to be prime targets if Russia should join the fight. See http://diyprepping.com/wp-content/uploads/2017/06/life0602.jpg Driving away from these locations if war is declared by either North Korea, Russia or the USA may well be the only option to avoid drifting fallout unless you are within range of an area that is subject to an electro-magnetic pulse (EMP) and everything electronic becomes no longer operational including vehicles. A very bad business indeed if the balance shifts and the scales tip in the wrong direction...
I have been hearing about EMP on talk radio for over 10 years at least, about how vulnerable we are, and trying to bring it to the attention of the government to "act on." Politicians have written books about it, to no avail. (Unless it's a top secret and there is a secret technology to stop such a missle.)
Probably the first reaction is "panic," and a run on to grocery store. The shelves will be empty in a few hours or less. Did you see on the news last week where a "video" showed a woman pulled out a gun and pointed face blank on another woman over a merchandise at a Walmart?
If there is an EMP attack, considering on the extent of damage and area, there's no telling how long it will stay down, so at least put a little water and food back.
What's all this about the definition of acceptable adult birth certificates, Congressman Tillman? ONCA 17-91, An Act to amend 21 ONC §1-102 of the Osage Nation Membership Act to define birth certificate; and to establish an alternate effective date. (Tillman)
I guess we'll never know because, according to the Legislative Calendar for today, they held two committee meetings of the Osage Congress at the same time right after the Session and taped only one of them. The Rules and Ethics Committee got broadcast. The Membership Committee meeting did not. I guess they thought we don't need to know about what happened in that one.
Here we go with Whitehorn and a merit bonus bill, ONCA 17-105, for $352,100 (!!!) and this does not include yearly raises for the employees. If the employees are at a level of 530 in number then that's approximately $650 per person. Do you believe that every person you have dealt with in the Osage Nation government in the last 12 calendar months deserves a bonus at this exorbitant level?
WOW! ONCA 17-99, An Act to provide an appropriation to the Executive Branch of the Osage nation for Fiscal Year 2018 in the amount of sixty one million four hundred fifty three thousand twenty four dollars ($61,453,024); and to establish an alternate effective date. (Whitehorn) With the Casinos not making as much income, where is all this money coming from? Keep in mind that this is just the Executive Branch Budget.
Today's Session is located at https://www.youtube.com/watch?time_continue=3&v=8ty6EJw8w3Q The Gov/Ops Committee Meeting will be held today from 1:00 to 4:00 p.m. Listen in at https://www.osagenation-nsn.gov/multimedia/live-media
Question for the members of the Supreme Court of the Osage Nation:
What does this passage indicate and suggest in the Osage Constitution as to the power of the Legislative Branch to make changes to line items in fiscal budgets for all branches of the Osage Nation government?
Article VI - Legislature, Section 13 Paragraph 2: "If a bill presented to the Principal Chief contains several items of appropriation of money, he may veto one or more of the items while approving the bill. At the time the bill is signed, the Principal Chief shall append to it a statement of the items vetoed, and the vetoed items shall not take effect. If the legislature is in session, he shall transmit to Congress a copy of the statement, and the items vetoed shall be separately reconsidered. If on reconsideration, any item is approved by three fourths (3/4) of the members elected to Congress, it is a part of the law notwithstanding the objections."
I submit that the Osage Nation Congress has the power to make adjustments to any and all budgets on a line item basis whether the Judicial or the Executive Branch likes it or not. Furthermore, these legal opinions on this subject of the Osage Nation Supreme Court are in and of themselves unconstitutional and have robbed the Osage people of the power to have a say through our Legislative Representatives as to how our money is being spent! VOTE AGAINST RETAINING EVERY SINGLE SUPREME COURT JUSTICE OF THE OSAGE NATION IN THE UPCOMING ELECTION IN JUNE OF 2018 !!!!!!!!!!! I am sickened unto death of this continuous Osage "Gavotte" that the Executive and Judicial Branches have been doing on top of the heads of the members of the Osage Nation Congress and therefore, on all of us members of the Osage Nation. Here's one Osage precedent we can set and that's to throw all three of these Supreme Court Justices right out the front door of the Judicial building to land flat on their keesters.
Some Constitutional passages outlining some things the members of our esteemed Osage Supreme Court and Big Chief/Little Chief are unfamiliar with it seems: LINE ITEM VETO of the Chief LINE ITEM VETO OVERRIDE OF THE CONGRESS
If the Osage Congress can't make changes to the budget line items in any way it sees fit, why is this passage, Article VI - Legislature, Section 13, Paragraph 2 included in the Osage Nation Constitution?
From the Campaign of the Osage Nation Membership to oust the current sitting Supreme Court Justices of the Osage Nation. Add your voice here and vote against retention of these three Justices come June of 2018.
I hope to run in June thanks for the update and change needs to come back to the Osage People where we can hold ourselves accountable to the Osage people and make some hard amendments to the our Constitution. We need to bring moral integrity back to our Tribe for the Osage peole ,of the Osage people and by the Osage people. It is the Osage who our Sovereign not the other way around.
To read both Slip Opinions of the Osage Nation Supreme Court where our Congress is all but denuded of its principal and primary power of the purse which is the most important, serious and vital function of our Legislative body giving it the ability to curb and control government overspending. go here: https://turtletalk.wordpress.com/2017/08/16/osage-nation-supreme-court-decision-in-separation-of-powers-issue-redux/
SCO-2016-01 STANDING BEAR V PRATT SLIP OPINION 8-11-17 SCO-2015-01, STANDING BEAR V. WHITEHORN, 03-08-2016 SLIP OPINION Posted here too https://www.osagenation-nsn.gov/who-we-are/judicial-branch/supreme-court
Do yourself a big favor. Read these Slip Opinions which also involve legal precedent where the SC Justices have indicated that we don't have to follow legal precedents in other courts. Campaign of the Osage Nation Membership to oust the current sitting Supreme Court Justices of the Osage Nation
"Just as in Whitehorn, the Court put emphasis on the fact they were not going to consider standards created by the federal or state government and would be developing “a uniquely Osage jurisprudence.” http://www.osagenews.org/en/article/2017/08/14/supreme-court-issues-opinion-declaratory-judgement-case-nations-budgeting-practices/
Top of the meeting is the Audit presentation today in Congressional Session. Live now at https://www.osagenation-nsn.gov/multimedia/live-media Unmodified opinion on financial statements. Agenda for today is located at https://www.osagenation-nsn.gov/who-we-are/congress-legislative-branch/sessions
This is a must listen on demand when it becomes available at https://www.osagenation-nsn.gov/who-we-are/congress-legislative-branch/sessions. It's very interesting especially since there is a question about why the Diabetes grant accounting was not up to snuff and other items that were reported as well. Congressman Supernaw is on it as usual this is good. There was also an unresolved matter brought up by Congresswoman Edwards as well.
Great bill introduced by Congressman Edwards today with reference to some controls being set on the Supreme Court and their wide ranging lack of Judicial focus and discipline as to specific questions to prohibit them from expansion on such questions brought before the Osage Nation Supreme Court. This does not go far enough however, as we need an Osage Nation statutory complaint process made available to the Osage people when they cross the line on items in their Slop Opinions.
Still by God struggling with the projected revenue number as a result of the Executive Branch! 13 years have gone by and we still don't have a resolution to this all important Congressional mandate in the Constitution.
For a worthy cause: https://www.facebook.com/harvestmoonamericanindianfestival/photos/a.151248558297409.39367.104366912985574/1452633754825543/?type=3&theater
Important Appropriation Committee Meeting! Data gathering information for how they come up with these outrageous figures for compensation pay scales for base salaries, raises and bonuses for our employees in spite of what we can actually afford at https://www.osagenation-nsn.gov/multimedia/live-media We need to start looking at the size of the pot for yearly distribution before we insist on being competitive with pie-in-the sky pay scales as to the science (?) of how they come up with these figures. If these employees directly service the Osage people where it concerns direct services to the entire membership then such employees become valuable and also the fact that they hire from within on average is another consideration. Why is it even necessary to be so focused on being competitive as a justification when they don't usually hire from the marketplace outside the Tribal community especially since there is Osage preference to begin with? You apply these employment "science" measures on a scale based on who you need to hire if you can afford to hire them. The value of an employee is directly related to how well they service the Osage Nation member with government services and if they are needed to provide direct services to the membership. If the income is fixed and the services are not increased to the membership, at some point, this eventually gets turned upside down where the cost of the employee is denying the membership the increases they need to have yearly improvements to or more direct services made available for them as a whole. Where in the “merit metrix” increase and market scale "science" for that analysis? Don’t the membership “merit” first and foremost? Services to the people first and employees to service those direct services to accommodate those services next. Any other plan is turned on its head. At what point do these employees become harmful to the future of direct services and therefore harmful to the entire membership? When is someone going to come up with the “science” for that metric where the employees just flat out just cost too much for what service they provide to the point to where direct benefits have to be scaled back in order to be able to afford all these employees who cost too much in the first place? Give me the percentages and value for that metric and then you will be making sense for once in the midst of all this dismal convoluted nonsense to provide excuses to justify the full scale robbing and looting of the Osage Nation Treasury on the part of greedy government employees and and those who justify that greed with scientific analysis metrics and models that are nothing other than smoke and mirrors. Listen on demand when available here http://mixlr.com/osage-nation/showreel/
When does leprosy become cancer? FROM THE TREASURER, WE ARE NOW EIGHT POINT THREE MILLION DOLLARS OVER PROJECTED REVENUE WITH LEGISLATIVE REQUESTS ALONE!!!!!!!!!!! THE CHIEF AND ASSISTANT CHIEF ARE TOTALLY RESPONSIBLE FOR THIS BECAUSE THE BUCK STOPS WITH STANDING BEAR FIRST AND RAYMOND REDCORN SECOND.
SALARIES TAKEN OUT OF DIRECT ASSISTANCE? DOES THIS MEAN DIRECT SERVICES? WHAT DOES DOING THIS MEAN TO THE MEMBERS OF THE OSAGE NATION? IF THE OSAGE MEMBERSHIP SEES A DOWNGRADE TO DIRECT SERVICES BECAUSE OF THE OVERALL COST OF THESE FAR TOO EXPENSIVE EMPLOYEES, THE CHIEF AND ASSISTANT CHIEF SHOULD LOSE THEIR JOBS. AT SOME POINT, PANDERING FOR VOTES FROM THE OSAGES WHO LIVE BACK HOME TO THE DETRIMENT OF ALL OSAGE NATION MEMBERS NATION WIDE IS GOING TO BACKFIRE ON YOU CHIEF BECAUSE THOSE WHO LIVE OUTSIDE OF OSAGE COUNTY OUTNUMBER THOSE WHO LIVE IN THE OSAGE BY A RATIO OF TEN TO ONE. GET YOUR ACT TOGETHER AND COME UP WITH BUDGETS FOR YOUR BRANCH OF GOVERNMENT THAT ARE WITHIN THE LAWFUL PARAMETER SET BY THE CONSTITUTION ITSELF. TAKE THE MONEY AWAY FROM EVERYTHING WHICH DOES NOT INVOLVE A DIRECT CONNECTION TO DIRECT SERVICES FOR THE TOTAL POPULATION OF OSAGE NATION MEMBERS. THIS ISN'T A REQUEST -- IT'S AN INSTRUCTION!
OMG! And they sit through this BS and politely object with what makes sense (we can't afford it) and let the reporter of this report, peppered with all these preposterous cutting edge buzzwords that whirl all around them, without saying out loud with finality that there is no money to justify these "to scale" base pay structures, yearly raises and merit bonuses because we don't have the money to pay for them. They wonder why we think they are stupid. It's because they behave as if they are. Who in the world is this polite when their intelligence is being so grossly insulted and they are being treated like such fools?
Chelsea Manning is now a fellow at Harverd really? This man was convicted of giving confidential information to wikileaks is no patriot, what he did was criminal no doubt, ues president Obama pardoned him, why beca5he felt sorry he had a rough child hood...give me a break he is a traitor to the U.S no if ands and buts straight out. So disappointed in Harvrd. Protect the criminal.
Today, I want to pay tribute and my deepest respects to the Cassini Mission to explore the planet Saturn that ended earlier this morning when the spacecraft, in its Grand Finale, entered the atmosphere of Saturn and was no more. I want to share the photograph of those shown in the URL below who worked on this science mission with a spacecraft of their creation that actually ascended and descended through the very rings of Saturn among so many other things that it accomplished in the furtherance of our knowledge of Space science. Think about that and try to wrap your mind around it…
What I learned from this mission is that there are extremely intelligent, mature and forward thinking people on this planet who can come together and work toward a dream that they could make not only come true but happen in wondrous ways that not even they could hope to imagine. Yes, Star Wars and Star Trek and cartoon characters are fine entertainment but these men and women of the Cassini mission are the real action figures, the real action heros, the real Titans of our times, make no mistake, and I don't want this very important fact of our lives to go without credit and without being honored, especially today with the end of the Cassini mission. These are the people on this planet whose leadership by example should be emulated by those who are at the high school, college and at the university level in this country and who are at comparable educational levels world wide and I sincerely hope that this mission will direct the attention of all those who provide guidance for these young people to have them look very seriously in the direction of these very human beings who, in cooperation together, have accomplished such an astonishing marvel on earth and in the heavens. https://saturn.jpl.nasa.gov/resources/7696/
And to the magnificent Cassini Spacecraft, because it is known as a "she," while clapping and standing on my feet, I shout aloud, "BRAVA!" https://saturn.jpl.nasa.gov/news/3121/nasas-cassini-spacecraft-ends-its-historic-exploration-of-saturn/
$30,000 + for a new Osage Nation Foundation? I don't think so... More money for items we really don't need. We have a Cultural Center for what this person on the phone is talking about and the last thing we need to do is duplicate services here. This is a perfect example of unnecessary spending that is rampant and widespread in every single budget we have in government. What I see here is just fine and nothing more is needed. http://www.osagefoundation.org/
Hahahahaha! The man on the phone in the Congressional Commerce Committee meeting is the man (Mr. Webb) who handles the web site now so I take it that he will directly benefit from this $30,000 + amount to be spent on a new web site for the Osage Nation Foundation. Boo-yah for him! Zip for the Osage Nation members!
Oh good! More of the same words this year as last year and the year before and the year before that from the Osage Nation Energy Services, LLC to the tune of $102,373.
The only heavy lifters around here are the members of the Osage Nation who pay for an entity that does nothing but spend the Osage people's money while we go without. We have heard start up information about how they are going to structure themselves years ago when this damned thing was formed five or more years back. Give us a break will you? I should have known when I saw who's sitting there who's on the Board...
HEY! We seriously committed ourselves to economic development $20,000,000 ago, Eddy Red Eagle, when you and the other certain members of the Osage Nation Congress gave the Osage, LLC all that seed money years ago. Who do you think you're kidding? Not me, so you can hit the road with this hooey, pal!
HOORAY! HOORAY! HOORAY! WE WON THE WIND FARM DECISION AT THE 10TH CIRCUIT COURT OF APPEALS: Osage Nation secures landmark decision in dispute over construction of wind farm https://www.indianz.com/News/2017/09/18/osage-nation-secures-landmark-decision-i.asp
What is important to note is this sentence: “The Osage Nation, acting through OMC [Osage Minerals Council] in fact owns the beneficial interest in the mineral estate that is the subject to the appeal,” Judge David Ebel wrote in the panel’s 27-page decision. “The district court’s decision forced OMC to watch from the sidelines as Osage Wind disrupted the mineral estate…”
I read the above sentence to mean that from a governance standpoint, the Osage Minerals Council is firmly in predominance and therefore in the cat bird seat where the running of the OME is concerned and any other part of the ON government including the Legislative, the Executive Branch and Judicial Branch of the Osage Nation must proceed through the OMC where and when matters of minerals are concerned. This chain of command is now firmly established in a Federal Court decision at the appellate level. Federal law and clarifications on that law trump Tribal law period. The decision is located at https://www.indianz.com/News/2017/09/18/15-5121.pdf See also http://www.osagenews.org/en/article/2017/09/19/10th-circuit-rules-osage-minerals-council-can-seek-damages-wind-farm/
When in Rome, Enel? You ain't in Roma. You in the Osage now and the verdict has come down from on high in the Queen City of the High Plains.
Hey Chief. Get out your beggin' bowl. Wheel and deal all you want with the Osage Court and end run your agenda through the Congress but STAY OUT OF MINERALS BUSINESS!
This clearly appears to be a squatter's trespass in a pure act of attempted theft from the Osage Nation on the part of Enel. I knew that when they sped up their construction to get those ugly spires up in the air. Cut 'em off at the knees. No mercy. Teach these companies from foreign nations who try and take advantage of us how the cow eats the cabbage. Damages and a continuing rental amount due monthly and payable on every single wind turbine built on the land underneath as a result of not being able to drill there to find oil and gas with a proper lease to an oil and gas producer which is permanent loss of income as a result. Plus all court costs and attorney's fees back for every single court action we have had to take to defend ourselves against Enel from the beginning.
Don't know if you know it or not but our very own Osage Casino Hotels in Ponca City and Skiatook are real gems. I'm fairly traveled and as boutique hotels, I'd put them up against any I've seen anywhere in the world and I believe I'd win. They are beautiful in design and layout. Very functional with great flow and remarkably artistic in appearance. Wonderful ambiance all around. I stayed at a motel in Missouri and once my business was finished there, I came back to the Skiatook property with a HUGE sigh of relief. Get there and stay there for a night or a weekend. The food is delicious, the gaming parlors have lots of gaming machines to choose from and the hotel rooms are simply wonderful. I left the last morning and another couple staying in one of the rooms on my floor were as full of praise for their stay there as my own. I'm really proud of these two gaming and hotel facilities and I hope you will be too. Great for a getaway or a week of R&R. Or just for fun, what the heck! I loved it and I know you will too. Can't wait for the new hotel to open at the Osage Casino in the Tulsa location. I'd suggest booking your reservation for the Grand Opening today at 1-877 246-8777. Support our gaming operations now and in the future. When we support them, we all benefit. http://www.osagecasinos.com/
Watch for any news on Trumps executive order today regarding possibly giving states authority to Federal lands and water rights???????????
ReplyDeleteon press releases on doi.gov website, it explains the executive order, looks like it's only about monuments on government property
DeleteScary
DeleteYep!
Deletefyi - April 27, 2017 -- www.doi.gov -- "Secretary Zinke Announces $32.6 million in Historic Preservation Grants to State and Tribes"
ReplyDeleteThe Osage Nation receiving $29,894.
"...grants to more than 160 tribes for cultural and heritage preservation projects on their tribal lands."
Good!
DeleteThe Osage Nation should have plenty of money for Historic preservation and yet my tax dollars are going to a bunch of crooks and thieves. Are the politicians going to call their homes historic sites so they can get an extra bedroom added to their houses?
ReplyDeleteIt's funny how the Osage Nation claims sovereignty when subverting laws but they gladly stick their hand out for the American taxpayer dollar.
Gotta pick a pocket or two...
DeletePick the pockets of the Shareholders. Or better yet steal their pant.
DeleteYou can give the Osage Nation a billion dollars and they will come up with creative
ways to waste the money. The Nation cannot allow any funds to reach the people.
Those people with certain names easily make $50,000 to $100,000+ with 1,500 bonuses.
Give the Nation more money and those people will make $100,000 to 200,000+ with 5,000 bonuses.
The Nation is so corrupt. I'm looking for to it's ultimate demise.
And yes dear Osages the Nation will collapse.
They just can't play by the rules. In the end, it's really about whether or not you're sophisticated enough to do so. Perpetrating massive fraud continuously over the years and thinking that you can get away with it with outside parties and counterparties isn't smart, it's just asking for total and complete ruin. I can't get over these entirely phony people who for the most part run the government. Year after year, day after day...
DeleteThis is what comes when you think you're the smartest guys in the room. We've heard that one before and know exactly where it leads.
DeleteAll politicians think they are entitled.
DeleteThey have no clue how to prioritize spending projects in an appropriate manner. Remember, these are the guys that gave a ton of money to Osage, LLC, to develop that American Statue project a few years back.
DeleteIt looks to me the Nation is more concerned about the Osage's image as a tribe to the public than the needs of the members in these hard times.
DeleteTo AnonymousApril 29, 2017 at 4:37 PM
DeleteThe Osage LLC and the other ventures the Nation creates is designed to lose money.
They set up a company, bleed it dry, pocket the money, and declare losses for a tax break.
The Cronies make all the money and not one red cent is ever offered to the people.
The people on the hill are not Osage. They're self-righteous greedy dogs that go around sniffing each other's butts pretending to be important.
I feel a need to set the record straight on the claim that the companies are operated at a loss for a tax break, as it just isn't so. Osage LLC, Tallgrass Economic Development LLC, and all of the subsidiaries are all filed with the IRS as "Governmental Entities" and claimed to be tax exempt entities, even though the IRS website contains information specific to the Osage that such companies would be taxable.
DeleteThe fact is that the only real problem these companies could face with the IRS is if they failed to file the taxes, as there is no tax owed when all you ever do is lose money.
I'm surprised that the IRS has not classified these businesses as hobbies and shut them down. This often happens when a business operates for a few years and fails to ever make a profit.
To the poster at April 29, 2017 at 4:37 PM, Osage LLC actually turned down the $2.5 million allocated to build The American statute.
DeleteI know that! It was that silly Congress who gave it to them in the first place. My point, by way of example, is that we have a spending problem and that problem lies at the feet of the twelve elected members of the Osage Nation Congress who vote to appropriate and give out our money for crazy, mindless, inane stuff like this. They have no idea what they are doing unless this kind of spending is to keep the money away from all of us who aren't part of the special class of Osages who directly benefit from it in Osage County. Once all the money is spent yearly on the budget, then they are in a position to say, "Oh well, sorry, maybe next year." This goes on for four years until one or more of them, just prior to election time, comes up with an idea that will benefit all Osages and then they pass it through the Congress, I am presuming, in the effort to protect their cushy little unconscionably high paying part time jobs. Meanwhile for four long hard years, we suffer while $200,000 to $300,000 is spent, in the main, on them and their families who benefit in Osage County.
DeleteThese people are so invested in keeping the money in their own hands, they don't even allow themselves to laugh out loud at some of this stuff that comes across the floor of the Osage Congress. If they really are taking seriously a lot of what they spend our money on then we are in real trouble people.
DeleteCool jazz for a sublime Sunday afternoon if you have Amazon Prime:
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50 Must-See Modern Native American Movies and Performances:
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NOTICE! Tallgrass is hiring Osage Students:
ReplyDeletehttps://www.osagenation-nsn.gov/news-events/news/internship-opportunity-osage-students
Smart Growth America Planning Workshop:
ReplyDeletehttps://www.osagenation-nsn.gov/news-events/news/smart-growth-america-comes-pawhuska
https://www.facebook.com/OsageNews/photos/a.153834188010750.33094.134873493240153/1430496070344549/?type=3&theater
DeleteCollege ACT/SAT Prep: https://www.facebook.com/osageeducation/photos/a.1845962132327095.1073741827.1845452142378094/1931639280426046/?type=3&theater
ReplyDeleteMore on "Killers of the Flower Moon: The Osage Murders and the Birth of the FBI"
ReplyDeletehttp://www.cbsnews.com/news/killers-of-the-flower-moon-revisiting-the-reign-of-terror-on-the-osage-nation/?ftag=CNM-00-10aab6i&linkId=37044418
Right now, I'm in the 21st Century and what I'm worried about are these Arses and Idiots running the ONG who have killed our reservation, killed the use of $20,000,000 and counting and are now killing the golden gooses we call the Casinos moving money around so fast, no one knows what's happening!!!!! Where are Grann and Dennison on all these deaths of different kind?
DeleteTo Anonymous May 8, 2017 at 12:18 PM
DeleteThere is no difference between the Feds and the ONG. The Ong treats the Osage people and especially the Shareholders with disdain. Every Chief since Gray has lied to to the people and has done everything possible to to bust the ME. It's about greed and power and the ruination of the Shareholders. Just as the US government stole the native's land, the ONG desperately want's the ME.
Through there their own folly the ONG will collapse. Osages don't know how to manage money and would gladly stab each other in the back for personal gain.
The ONG is an embarrassment to our history and will be the demise of our future. But that's ok because as long as the people running the ONG get rich then that's all that matters.
As a reminder, Raymond Redcorn believes the ONG owns the ME and wants to tax the ME as well.
Standingbear would love nothing more that to kill off the Shareholders once and for all.
The Puking Dog clan of the ONG are pure evil.
Maria Whitehorn this is for you, yes we do support term limits. These positions are not career positions snd you are in no position to dictate otherwise. We the constituency pays your check. Who else objected so we can vote them out. These are different times Maria, and if you don't think a fact checking non-profit isn't around the corner to fact check you all, keep dreaming because your nightmare is about to come true. No more wasteful spending all the way up to the executive.
DeleteEspecially when it came to the purchase of the Ranch...of which we will not see a profit in our life time, think about that and the reclamation, what a microcosm of the U.S. we have become no thanks to the Harvard project right? Smh.
DeleteEgocentric purchase for sure.
DeleteTexas Meetings of the Osages:
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Take a good look at this post on Facebook:
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Learn something important;
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So,how did Trump have ties to Russia? What will be the next mantra againt Trump from the Dems? Why isn't the Dems screaming for a investigation, you and I know Obama spied on Trump. Well there you have it. Wikileaks did not lie.
ReplyDeleteIndian Country leaders testify about funding needs on Capitol Hill
ReplyDeleteCynthia Boone Council Member, Osage Minerals Council attends. Good for her hope to hear about her trip in her bulletin.
https://www.indianz.com/News/2017/05/16/indian-country-leaders-testify-about-fun.asp
Log on to this article, not that we do understand our rich history. But Indian Policy came from these dreadfully actions.
ReplyDeletehttps://www.indianz.com/News/2017/05/19/steven-newcomb-the-racist-and-toxic-root.asp
The Tribe should be run as a for-profit corporation.
ReplyDeleteA Chief, assistant chief, and three representatives.
A new constitution based on turning a profit, rewarding success, and punishing failure.
Then base all programs on the for-profit system. Stop subsidizing failure and start teaching people how to take care of themselves.
Wipe the slate clean and start fresh.
One four words on that idea... Osage, LLC.
DeleteFour letters for why that failed:
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Reward success and punish failure. Not, "pretend failure didn't happen then change subject".
"Punish failure" isn't in their vocabulary. Forget about it and still run with the same agenda is and will be until something is done to stop it.
DeleteYeah buddy you bet a lot of money is being thrown after more money when it comes to the Osage llc and my hide is done being tanned when it comes to the Bluestem Ranch not one profit will be made in our life time and nor is it in trust either because of the 40,000,000. In reclamation fees and this was purchased with our gaming money which is to be used for economic purposes. If our members in Congress and our appropriation committee's do not start dojng a economic impact statement on the next big purpose we are headed for a constitutional convention.
DeleteNot purposes, puchases.
DeleteOsage Nation gave $52K to Missouri governor amid gaming push located at Indianz.com
ReplyDeleteOur Government is corrupt get our Chief out of office what other illegal shenanigans has he done. Congress do your job!!!!! Our money to buy a vote is not t8 be used for this type of behavior.
By law this money is to be used as, To fund tribal government operations or programs;
DeleteTo provide for the general welfare of the Indian tribe and its members;
To promote tribal economic development;
To donate to charitable organizations; and
To help fund operations of local government agencies. Not to donate to another political faction.
The Osage Nation government isn't about helping the Osage people. The nation consist of people who are related to the top decision makers. If you are not related to the ladies in HR, you don't have a snowball's chance in hell of getting through the front door. If you are related, then all you have to do is walk in, get a job and start off at $50,000. The Nation will cut every funding while giving themselves $1,500 bonuses and pay increases when it strikes their fancy. Yes, the Nation is corrupt because it is being run bu corrupt people.
DeleteThis is just one instance where our money should not go to a political entity or person. And this sets a precedent that we are buying a vote.
DeleteWow! On two Business Enterprise Boards and getting paid twice at about $18K per year or more x 2 = $36,000? To give their approval and consent, as in advise and consent, to her to sit on two Osage Nation Business Boards, the Osage Nation Congress sure must think she's pretty!
ReplyDeletehttp://osagenews.org/en/article/2017/05/31/osage-women-renovate-building-downtown-pawhuska-open-little-rain-song-loft/
The Osage Nation Ethics Law as codified at 15 ONC § 6-206 prohibits any individual from serving on two or more boards concurrently.
DeleteRoanhorse is a Gray so she's going get whatever she wants. I wonder how much casino money was diverted under the table to subsidize her business? By the way, who in their right mind is going to pay $200 per night in Pawhuska? I wonder if this is just another money laundering scheme?
DeleteFYI - There is intent to modify the ON Ethics Law to permit the TED LLC board members to also serve on the OLLC board. Anyone who has read the Annual Report of these "two companies" (for really, TED is just an alter ego of OLLC) knows that the same board has been in control of both entities the entire time that TED has existed.
DeleteIn reality, the companies are inseparable from a legal standpoint and TED could be sued for any wrong doing of OLLC in the past. The subsidiary companies are still really named Osage Pinnacle Design Group and Osage Innovative Solutions.
Also, TED claims to be making a "profit" on millions in contracts but continues to ask for - and receive - substantial cash infusions from the ON. If there is truly a profit being made, then where is it going?
This is interesting to say the least. This if trueis what I had posted way back when, if there is any capital be made from said enterprises where is the profits going, sledge fund? And who follows up on these enterprises our own Government?
DeleteSorry aboht the above post. Back in earlier posts who is following the money trail?
DeleteTonight on Charlie Rose: Author David Grann, introducing his new book, "Killers of the Flower Moon: The Osage Murders and the Birth of the FBI."
ReplyDeletewww.charlierose.com
http://www.bbc.com/news/av/world-us-canada-40721016/the-murder-investigation-that-made-the-fbi?SThisFB
DeleteNIGC Orders Immediate Casino Closure:
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Indian-Killer Andrew Jackson’s Indian Removal Act on Display for First Time:
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And not one single written word about the cost?
ReplyDeletehttp://www.osagenews.org/en/article/2017/06/28/osage-nation-breaks-ground-new-hominy-village-square/
As of today, I'm creating and branding a new Osage acronym: WWGW! The meaning is simple, "WHILE WE GO WITHOUT!" meaning all of the rest of us Osage Nation Members who live outside of Osage County.
Wait a minute this was apart of what we wanted for our local communities and now that we are working to build the infrastructure you complain howdy doody. We should have done this years ago.
DeleteThere is safety in numbers especially if the cut off point with the Republicans is tribal membership numbers above 50,000 in order to continue to receive Federal funding. There are only three Tribal Communities in Oklahoma with overall membership numbers throughout the United States at this threshold or above and these include the Cherokee Nation, the Choctaw Nation and the Muscogee (Creek) Nation.
DeleteIt is amazing the road to travel to get to the answers, a world of information and where to begin. But I will attempt to make sense. In simple terms this would be discrimination and would go all the to the SCOTUS. And or in the lower courts affirmative action by the courts would happen yes?
DeleteTraties are they not binding? Then the obligation is codified by 25 CFR if I have it correctly but the obligation also is written in the U.S Constitution. I think someone is ignorant of IC (Indian Country) I have to say is at least Judge Sotomayor understands IC. The supreme court recognizes that "Domestic Dependent Nations".
A good read " THE CONSTITUTION OF THE UNITED STATES
APPLIES TO INDIAN TRIBES
James A. Poore HI"
Our inherent Sovereignty existed before our integration.
They might recognize us but giving tribes money with Casino operations or membership numbers so small as to be considered insignificant to the Federal government is another matter. The value in a government to government relationship is, and always has been, money and how much is available from the Federal government for programs. Doesn't matter that we are taxpayers too. That's part of the good reason there is a public outcry when non-essential spending takes place on the part of Tribal governments where constituents and members of a particular Tribal community are concerned; here on this blog with reference to the Osage Nation government and elsewhere with other Tribal communities, whose members don't benefit first and foremost no matter where they live when spending occurs on the part of a Tribal government, especially when they have income coming in from gaming revenue that is supposed to benefit Tribal members first by law (NIGA). God knows they receive enough money from the Feds using numbers that are 80% Osage living out of the actual service area in Osage County and we don't all see a reciprocal amount coming to us in Tribal funding to all of us despite most of the revenue coming from our gaming operations.
Deletehttps://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_Native_American_tribes_in_Oklahoma
Thank you for your comment but what I am saying is yes, your point is valid, and in the same breath those questions above need answering relating to the hire Plenary power the U.S Congress has over us concerning our titles in Trust and binding Treaties and obligations by the U.S Government and its fullfillment. This is not just about us. And when I look at the true Reservation is the M.E and its assets. All I am saying is someone is ignorant of the implications that this action would have impacts economically if this decision goes thru. Its more than the Casinos.
DeleteNot to miss!
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Osage Nation Museum and Osage Nation Prevention Program to host outdoor movie nights!
ReplyDeletehttps://www.osagenation-nsn.gov/news-events/news/osage-nation-museum-and-osage-nation-prevention-program-host-outdoor-movie-nights
https://www.osagenation-nsn.gov/news-events/events/night-museum-outdoor-movie-series-0
Good information:
ReplyDeleteGrapefruit Juice and Some Drugs Don't Mix
https://www.fda.gov/forconsumers/consumerupdates/ucm292276.htm?source=govdelivery&utm_medium=email&utm_source=govdelivery
PDF: https://www.fda.gov/downloads/ForConsumers/ConsumerUpdates/UCM567226.pdf
DeleteBarnsdall Mayor mullung running for our Congress, With regards to running for tribal office, Moore said: “I have three main areas of focus that I believe would serve the citizens of the Osage Nation. 1.) Improving involvement within our communities. 2.) Exploring financial endeavors for the Nation. 3.) Improving healthcare access for tribal members.”
ReplyDeleteExpound on the vague reasons why you are running.
We have involvement in our communities, lame
Exploring for new endeavors, wrong, what we need is JOBS JOBS JOBS in our communities our money isn't a open cash drawer when you run for office, accountability and transparency is whatvis needed not more spending.
Improving health care access. Really? Thats the federal Governments responsibility. Please explain when we know how underfunded IHS. How about advocate a universal health care access card not just that at the federal level most Indians has access thru the ACA.
I'm guessing being on the Osage Congress pays better than being the mayor of Barnsdall.
ReplyDeleteAnother instant Osage.
ReplyDelete8th Special Congressional Day 1 video is located here
ReplyDeletehttps://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mq1zJmHjRbc
Changes to the election law are going to be reviewed and voted on in this Special Session so it's time once again to pay close attention.
Important to note that the Legislation put forward by Alice Buffalohead is not on the roster for us to read:
DeleteONCA 17-89, An Act to govern the conduct of Osage Nation elections, including elections for Principal Chief, Assistant Principal Chief, Osage Nation Congress, elections for the retention of Judges of the Osage Judiciary, and other elections required by the Constitution and by law; and to establish an alternate effective date. (Buffalohead)
OR
ONCR 17-31, A Resolution to approve the Osage Nation Election Board rules and regulations governing elections in accordance with the Osage Nation Election Code. (Buffalohead)
See https://www.osagenation-nsn.gov/who-we-are/congress-legislative-branch/legislation
We should be having full disclosure as to these changed on the call for this Special Session so that we know what they are doing over at that election office before the Osage Nation Congress votes on it up or down...
The last "amended" call for this session was on July 21, 2017. That's plenty of time for this legislation to be posted to the Osage Nation membership on the legislation roster!
See the Session today at https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Z5KE_pIH1-k
For today's agenda see https://www.osagenation-nsn.gov/who-we-are/congress-legislative-branch/sessions
DeleteThese two bills have been assigned to the Government Operations Congressional Committee. They should be vetted today:
DeleteGovernmental Operations Committee Meeting – 3:00 p.m. – 5:00 p.., CDST. This Committee Meeting should be available to listen to online live at https://www.osagenation-nsn.gov/multimedia/live-media
Turn up the sound in the meeting please!
DeleteLive in Session today, the Congress voted against the bill on the new election bill. Again, the excuse was given that it is easier on the election board to do it this way to match the election filing dates for the Chief and the Assistant Principal Chief. C. Shaw reminded the Congress that there is a Primary involved for that election and no need for the additional time because the Congress does not have a Congressional Primary. Good. I for one do not want a Congressional Primary. From the last election we saw very few who came forward to throw their hat into the ring to serve the Osage people as their representatives.
DeleteThe new Election Bill, ONCA 17-89 is now up on the website at https://www.osagenation-nsn.gov/who-we-are/congress-legislative-branch/legislation but none of the changes show as redlined to enable the Osage people to determine what the changes were before the bill was voted down...40 pages worth of text and no way to determine at face value what has been changed. As this directly involves the membership, it should be at our convenience and we should be able to have these changes made available to us and at hand. It appears more often than not that the Election Board and the Supervisor are structuring these elections to benefit themselves and not us. Elections are always ditch digging dirty hard work in any event and those on the Board or who work in the Election Office who cannot come up to speed and make the grade should perhaps look to the Osage Nation for another less challenging job? According to the Osage Constitution, this is a government about and for the Osage People. We need the best service we can get from all who work at the Osage Nation on our behalf. If it gets a bit rugged at times, so be it.
DeleteSession is adjourned.
DeleteWhat is it about this that the Board and the Election office doesn't get? In the last Congressional election, there were a shocking number of ballots that were under voted. What that means is that the Osage Nation electorate was unsatisfied with the candidate choices that were there to vote for in this particular past election. We need more choices, not less and nothing should be done by the Election Board or the Supervisor to narrow the number of candidates who represent the Osage people. If this is an attempt at changing filing dates to sneak up on us to add a Congressional primary in the legislation at some future date, snap that idea in half right now.
DeleteI'd be happy if these election people would quit working on the election bill and the rules and the regulations because they are always loaded with more and more penalties for those who run for office. I don't care if the election team work in the light, either. I'd like them to quit work on all these changes and get down to the hard work at hand when the time comes for the elections and not complain about the work load. Sheesh!
DeleteWhy is it that dedicated, meaningful, important hard work is so difficult to come by with some of the Osages? They want to control things and run them but not do what's necessary to work hard and make a success of it. Complaints about this have been going on for as long as I've been around and that's a long time. Getting down to business with them is difficult a lot of the time. Reliably unreliable is what a cousin of mine used to say way back in the day. I heard they have been crafting that election bill to keep out as many outsiders from running for office and work as little as possible. Like that recount where they were only counting the ballots of the candidate paying for the challenge. You never heard such flimsy excuses for why this was the right thing to be doing when a practice like that's as crooked as a dog's hind leg. Why they weren't all fired on the spot for even trying to float an idea like that is just amazing to me. The last recount brought and paid for by that Red Eagle who ran for office did come up with some ballot count differences as I recall. Correct me if I'm wrong on this.
DeleteChairman Waller is on HBO's, "Vice" right now.
ReplyDeleteIt will repeat later on this evening on HBO2W.
DeleteWell, well, well... GOOD! I'm glad that the Osage Nation does know how go to Court to bring a quiet title law suit. This proves they do know about it and can get it done...
ReplyDeletehttp://www.osagenews.org/en/article/2017/08/04/osage-nation-wins-former-railroad-land-lawsuit-state-court/
Osage Book Club Meeting:
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Osage Congress passes resolution opposing federal budget cuts impacting Indian Country:
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Important Osage Nation Burial Assistance Fund Notification:
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Storm Shelter Rebate:
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Northern California Osage Summer Gathering
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More on Osage Murders and published books:
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Newt Gingrich: America needs to be better prepared for a nuclear attack:
ReplyDeletehttp://www.foxnews.com/opinion/2017/08/11/newt-gingrich-america-needs-to-be-better-prepared-for-nuclear-attack.html
News five minutes ago -- India and China Fracas Brewing Up:
Deletehttp://www.npr.org/sections/thetwo-way/2017/08/11/542904162/india-steps-up-alert-amid-heightened-tensions-with-china
Reference:
ReplyDelete"Just as in Whitehorn, the Court put emphasis on the fact they were not going to consider standards created by the federal or state government and would be developing “a uniquely Osage jurisprudence.”
http://www.osagenews.org/en/article/2017/08/14/supreme-court-issues-opinion-declaratory-judgement-case-nations-budgeting-practices/
If this is true then why does it say this:
"The Osage wrote a constitution in 1881, modeling some parts of it after the United States Constitution.[53]"
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Osage_Nation
Especially when the prior Osage Supreme Court said this in SCO-2015-01, STANDING BEAR V. WHITEHORN, 03-08-2016 SLIP OPINION
"The Osage Constitutions of...1881...reflect our efforts to self-govern and avoid the forced implementation of federally-created government structures by organizing under a document similar to the United States Constitution."
SCO-2015-01, STANDING BEAR V. WHITEHORN, 03-08-2016 SLIP OPINION Explore/Download
https://www.osagenation-nsn.gov/who-we-are/judicial-branch/supreme-court
Do these Supreme Court Justices really know the history of the Osage people or just the prevailing hype?
I know for certain that at the time of the Osage Government Reform Commission when and while still at work that there was definite representation and justification to me -- when I said that a Constitutional form was too big a government for only 5,500 registered Osage Nation members at the time -- that a Constitutional form of government was chosen because it is based on the U.S. Constitution including legal precedents set out so that we wouldn't be flying blind or having to reinvent the wheel.
DeleteThis was a willful representation to me that is being kicked out from under all Osage Nation members, myself included, leading to what I believe amounts to a fair and level charge of Judicial “bait and switch” by SCOTON Justices Meredith Drent and Drew Pierce who I wasn't aware were even around in the 2005/2006 time period when the Osage Nation Constitution was being framed and heavily touted.
Drent was out in California in 2009 and before. View the Message of the President at http://www.calindianlaw.org/uploads/2/8/4/5/28458371/cila_newsletter.2009.04.12.pdf
She was also admitted to the State Bar to practice law in Washington in 2015
https://www.lawyer.com/meredith-drent.html#contact
Don't see that she was anywhere around when the framers of the Osage Constitution or the Project Coordinator, Hepsi Barnett, working with the OGRC, who was selling this form of government to the Osages with everything she had available to her Big Time including the backing of the Harvard Project where she later won an award from them in 2008.
http://honoringnations.tumblr.com/post/142012753534/throwbackthursday-to-one-of-the-2008-honoring
Hepsi’s known to be an Osage’s Osage and the go-to-gal for the ONOs (Osage Nation Organization)
https://www.facebook.com/hepsi.barnett.1
Nor do I recall Drew Pierce being anywhere near the process either. Does anyone else? Says he's been hanging around Cotter, Arkansas working as an attorney since 1995 though.
https://www.manta.com/c/mm4s672/pierce-drew-attorney
Like I said this is not a Government for the people and the Osage were sold a bill all right. And change needs to come we see the writing on the wall sorta speak and this can all be un done and maybe I should just go ahead and file suit on behalf of the Headright owners. Thinking about it, thinking about it and Hespi in my bokk is a radical and no friend to the Osage.
DeleteSo when is this recent Justice's Opinion going to become available to the Osage People?
Deletehttps://www.osagenation-nsn.gov/who-we-are/judicial-branch/supreme-court
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Time to seriously file a complaint?
DeleteMeredith Descygnes Drent:
http://www.wsba.org/Licensing-and-Lawyer-Conduct/Discipline/File-a-Complaint-Against-a-Lawyer
http://www.calbar.ca.gov/Public/Complaints-Claims/How-to-File-a-Complaint
Norman Drew Pierce:
http://www.okbar.org/members/EthicsCounsel/StandardsProfessionalism.aspx
http://www.okbar.org/members/EthicsCounsel/LawyersCreed.aspx
http://www.okbar.org/public/Complaint.aspx
https://www.arkbar.com/for-public/faqs#LawyerComplaint
Elizabeth L. Homer
http://homerlaw.com/attorneys.html
https://www.dcbar.org/attorney-discipline/for-the-public/file-an-attorney-complaint.cfm
https://www.nmdisboard.org/ComplaintAboutLawyer.aspx
Some may also be members of the American Bar Association, Federal Bar Association, Native American Bar Association as well as the Osage Nation Bar Assocation:
Order Establishing Grounds for Recall of Judicial Officers ~~ https://www.osagenation-nsn.gov/who-we-are/judicial-branch/administrative-orders
https://www.americanbar.org/groups/professional_responsibility/resources/resources_for_the_public.html
For a review of the ABA Canons of Judicial Ethics ~~ https://www.americanbar.org/groups/professional_responsibility/resources/judicial_ethics_regulation.html
So when is this recent Justice's Opinion Standing Bear v. Angela Pratt going to become available to the Osage People?
Deletehttps://www.osagenation-nsn.gov/who-we-are/judicial-branch/supreme-court
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What are they hiding? Did these office workers get bonuses and raises in the Judicial Branch when the posting of this Opinion has taken so long?
SCO-2016-01 STANDING BEAR V PRATT SLIP OPINION 8-11-17
DeleteSCO-2015-01, STANDING BEAR V. WHITEHORN, 03-08-2016 SLIP OPINION
https://www.osagenation-nsn.gov/who-we-are/judicial-branch/supreme-court
Might be time to say a prayer...
ReplyDelete"Mad Dog" Mattis: If North Korea fires missile at US, it's 'game on'
http://www.foxnews.com/politics/2017/08/14/mattis-if-north-korea-fires-missile-at-us-its-game-on.html
http://www.foxnews.com/world/2017/08/14/kim-jong-uns-disappearance-sparks-concerns-missile-launch-could-be-imminent.html
Will not happen. This guy has issues all right and action will be had one way or another. Karma. He's in hiding because the real threat that he has brought apon himself and his nation and the collaboration with other countries, come on. He is by far no worse than Sadam. He will be sniped out. This has been coming for a long time but why did Obama choose to do nothing and now the Iran deal going south? What was Obamas legacy again an do not say these lawsuits or Cobell they were on there way of being settled by there own right. Obama care busted as I said it woukd from the beginning, this was medicaid on steroids. And who has tompay for that debacle our Grandchildren. Not funny.
DeleteBloody awful to even have to put this up on the Blog but there it is...
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Well I have always been a prepper. You have 15 mins if that to get out of town. So be packed with enough for three days. Be sure to be armed. Have water sticks. They will last a year and you can drink from almost anything. Do not go looking for your family members meet at yhe place designated if at all possible. Mine is a mountain peak the highest one near our home and or last gas station headed out of town for example. Have a contingency plan, or back up plan but be quick. Looks to be bunkers are in the future if so have at least a three year supply? But not in our life time will we see the world as we know it to come to an end.
DeleteThanks! Appreciate your input. In advance of a nuclear event, you should also look into Potassium Iodine tablets that protect the thyroid gland. CAUTION: Some people may be ALLERGIC to iodine! I am and cannot take these tablets. Be sure to have plenty of water in advance as well. See https://www.usaemergencysupply.com/information-center/self-reliance/emergency-water-storage
DeleteGOOD! See http://www.foxnews.com/world/2017/08/15/guam-residents-relieved-for-now-after-north-korea-tones-down-missile-threat.html
DeleteWatch Quarantine, you just do not want to get backed up in a corner, or ten clover lane. Eye opening for sure. Masks are in order as well besides the potassium tablets. All great information. No more than thirty pounds on your back pack. Leaves maybe two pair of jeans a jacket and sleeping bag outside of the other things you may have to carry. First aid, food and water. A two way radio is very necessary, batery and solar powered with a cell phone charger with a hand crank as well. Cheap and good to have. Thats why I will be on the highest mountain if there is no fall out of course. Hope this helps as well.
DeleteThe Osage Agency has all phone numbers down due to the flood that resulted from the rainstorm that took place last week. I called, in desperation, to the Hotline number listed at https://www.bia.gov/WhoWeAre/RegionalOffices/EasternOklahoma/WeAre/Osage/index.htm and was able to get through to the person who answered the phone. I have asked that the Osage Agency list alternative numbers with cell phones at the URL listed above and hope that they will put up an emergency notice for contacts with the various departments of the Osage Agency so that business as usual can resume for those of us who need to get in contact with them in future.
ReplyDeleteWhy hasn't the Osage News picked up on this situation and reported it as a public service to the Osages and others who need to get in touch with the various Osage Agency departments? Does it always have to be egocentric pats on the back, horn tooting and high-fives with this paper coming from those who run it?
DeleteWhat's going on with the Osage News and the "Application Error" Message?
Delete"Application error
An error occurred in the application and your page could not be served. If you are the application owner, check your logs for details."
Is anyone else getting this too at http://www.osagenews.org/en/?
WOAH! I binged this new Netflix Series with a 10 star rating and it's a "Kick-Bum" project that really left me reeling. Hope we don't get sucked into anything like this, if and when we open gaming in Missouri!
ReplyDeleteSee https://www.netflix.com/title/80117552 and http://variety.com/2017/tv/news/ozark-renewed-season-2-netflix-1202527992/
Never heard of or seen this series but sounds interesting, and I'm going to watch it cause I like that Bateman guy.
DeleteSo I'm taking a "guess," is the laundry laundering stealing from the casino big time? If so, if we have our own Osage auditors, won't we be in total charge of any questionable entries or missing entries? I'm against hiring outside companies and then finding clitches a year later, then long drawn out law suits and never getting any money back or convictions.
PUBLIC SERVICE ANNOUNCEMENT!
ReplyDeleteSafe eclipse viewing:
https://www.osagenation-nsn.gov/news-events/news/solar-eclipse-safety-wah-zha-zhi-health-center-optometrist-encourages-safe-and-fun
https://www.facebook.com/WHCqualitycare/?hc_ref=ARSym9PJbuCK365TAeBbG1B4t6ZJR7s1SE4pAsZIYp5eqwVG1FjELsjoYpgYXIP1nmE&fref=nf
"The average savings account has a measly 0.06% APY (annual percentage yield, or interest), and many of the nation's biggest banks pay rates as low as 0.01%."
ReplyDeleteAll the while not paying us, FDIC-Insured Institutions Earn $48.3 Billion in the Second Quarter of 2017 alone: https://www.fdic.gov/news/news/press/2017/pr17061.html
Current URL to the Osage Agency:
ReplyDeletehttps://www.bia.gov/regional-offices/eastern-oklahoma/osage-agency
The phones have been down for three weeks across the board. The Agency rents from the Osage Nation government and it's up to them to get the Osage Agency cell phones (Tracfones as an example) on a temporary basis for all the departments at the Agency, if need be, as the landlord of the property, until the problem can be corrected and the land lines are restored to service.
The BIA Spill Hotline (918) 287-3107.
DeleteIf the Nation, meaning StandingBear, really cares about the mineral estate, he would do what a proper landlord would do and get the Osage Agency people the cell phones they need to conduct business in a professional manner with the outside world. Instead, he's already given $50k + for the campaign of the Missouri governor and this month hired a lobbyist. Throw away cell phones for each department at the Osage Agency run about $10 for the phone and $25 for 60 airtime days.
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https://www.tracfone.com/shop/plans
Even if it's 10 offices total, that's $350 all in for two months worth of airtime with the problem solved.
https://www.columbiamissourian.com/opinion/guest_commentaries/editorial-osage-nation-checks-to-governor-have-sticky-implications/article_431e51e6-4ac4-11e7-985d-878f199991e2.html
http://www.news9.com/story/36205585/oklahomas-osage-nation-pushes-bid-for-missouri-casino
So it's campaign ‘dark money’ now we're getting involved with Chief ???????
http://www.kansascity.com/news/politics-government/article164069087.html
By the way, if Trump won't let Federal land-into-trust go forward and take place, how are we going to be building any new casino anywhere? Why even throw money at this with lobbying until the Nation is assured that Osage land can and will continue to be taken into trust? Take care of your own Osage shareholder's income Chief and forget about the pie in the sky and all these pipe dreams you continue to come up with all the time. Election time comes up in December of t h i s ` y e a r !!!!!!
What the living hell?
Delete"They also say A New Missouri improperly accepted a $50,000 donation for the Osage Nation tribe, which wants to build a casino in Missouri."
http://www.missourinet.com/2017/06/14/bipartisan-group-of-mo-lawmakers-want-governors-ethics-investigated/
"A bi-partisan group of state Senators wants Governor Eric Greitens investigated for corruption."
Chief, are you getting us in hot water again?
Free Harvest Day!
ReplyDeleteSee https://www.facebook.com/OsageNews/photos/a.153834188010750.33094.134873493240153/1543168392410649/?type=3&theater
Congressional Special Session today:
ReplyDeletehttps://www.osagenation-nsn.gov/news-events/news/5th-osage-nation-congress-convene-9th-special-session
No Agenda is available at this time. It has to do with release of natural gas at Pawhuska High School. Live, they are on the phone with Eddie Eddie Streater of the BIA to figure out who is responsible and who will be responsible for taking care of the problem. BIA is out and the EPA is involved and the Osage Nation is trying to figure out how they are involved and who has the liability. The State is involved as well with doing the hiring to take care of the problem. School is not open today and we're (Osages) being perceived as responsible therefore we're in a bind?
https://www.osagenation-nsn.gov/multimedia/live-media
Woah! The State of Oklahoma wants us to legally indemnify them to move forward to take care of the problem? We're being backed into a corner? WALK AWAY from this or get more information before we agree to indemnify anyone. If the State has jurisdiction to hire the contractors then they have the liability. Now with Erwin using scare tactics on this natural gas leak and bad gas too? Please!!!!!!!!! The problem is bad enough as it is without Erwin carrying on like this.
DeleteBrief recess... This looks very bad and is a very bad precedent to set. Rushing forward to cure a problem on non-reservation non-Osage land is a disastrously terrible idea especially for the future of the Osage Mineral Estate. There are larger issues here than the immediate problem. Let the State take care of this because we don't want to have them take jurisdiction and demand that we get involved with indemnity issues every time this happens in the future. DON'T give into the pressure!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
DeleteThe County of Osage and the State of Oklahoma should be handling this just like any other hazard on school property; In-house and done ASAP.
DeleteWhat? If the EPA gave the OK to go back to school, what's the problem?
Deletehttp://www.kswo.com/story/36209277/pawhuska-public-schools-will-resume-monday-following-geothermal-well-leak
"The Pawhuska Public Schools are scheduled to start classes Monday, August 28, 2017. Both the State Fire Marshal and the EPA have confirmed there are no current air quality hazards. Elementary and Indian Camp schools will have welcome tables set up Monday morning, in place of back to school night. We would like to again, thank our patrons for your continued patience and understanding."
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Congress! Don't pass any bill or approve anything if the problem is solved!
DeleteChief, take that paper in your hand and burn it.
DeleteStephanie Erwin!!!!!! What the hell are you saying if both the Fire Marshall and the EPA have given confirmation that there is no current air quality hazards out there where the well is located? You are really getting a bad reputation for grandstanding for bad ideas lately. With election time up ahead, I'd watch it if I were you. Scare tactics after the problem has already been neutralized? Good G**!!!!!!!!
DeleteCONGRESS! Don't even think about it!
DeleteThe Osage Nation Congress actually voted for the resolution, ONCR 17-32 giving the natural gas on all geothermal wells to the State of Oklahoma without a royalty paid to the Headright owners? Outside of what the Minerals Council agreed to in the first place on only one well at the school? Are you kidding me?
DeleteListen to this! https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=f0FTC4bkVTU
Don't you dare do anything but veto this damn resolution thing Chief or your current job is a thing of the past come June of next year. The BIA is tasked by U.S. Congressional Act with the approval of all agreements involving minerals coming out of the ground be it oil or natural gas. That means it's against the highest law of the land to take this responsibility away from the BIA and waive it away with a Legislative wand. I can't believe these people and their high crimes and misdemeanors.
The latest is the Chief actually signed this putrid sucker and the next sound you're going to hear in the ballot box from the Shareholders is his job going right down the drain.
DeleteAnd Kugee changed his vote from no to yes!
This should have been looked over by our attorneys for a solid month as there was no rush since there was no longer any danger out in the ball field. This was not the agreement the Minerals Council approved in the first place for only this particular well! Now we have the Oklahoma Corporation Commission breathing down our necks in future to recover any natural gas coming from any geo-thermal well drilled in Osage County? The Osage Congress does not have the authority to make a deal with the State like this in the first place. BIA is top dog here and trumps the Osage Nation government where all minerals in Osage County are concerned. And what if geothermal wells are the wave of the future? If that's the case, the Nation just sold out the headright owners!
DeleteThey waived the right of the Minerals Council to collect a royalty on natural gas from all geothermal wells! Who the hell gave them the right to do a thing like this when it's the BIA who approves all transactions associated with minerals including oil and natural gas by law and the Federal law trumps the State government and the Tribal governments too? I'm so sick of these train wreck dolts who always manage to do the most stupid thing possible that they or anyone else for that matter could ever think of doing anywhere on the planet. Yes. High crimes and misdemeanors sizes it up perfectly.
DeleteEvery single one of these elected officials who voted yes and who signed off on this resolution are unfit to serve from the date and time of this legislative action forward.
DeleteThe EPA did not know what to do about the wells during the big earthquake, they followed the advice of the Oklahoma Corporate Comm. Now, they're still questioning their involvement with us, yet, they have say so authority over us.
DeleteInformation on Texas Osage Meetings:
ReplyDeletehttp://www.osagenews.org/en/article/2017/08/28/two-texas-osage-associations-hold-october-meetings/
How do you take control of our own "property" if it's held in Trust? The Trustee always controls the property on behalf of and for the benefit of the beneficiaries in every legal trust arrangement on this side of the planet, especially at the Federal level with an Indian Trust relationship handled and administrated by the BIA. Do you really want our Chief going to Washington, D.C., to end the Mineral Estate Trust we have now with the BIA exercising some kind of hybrid trust responsibility out in limbo somewhere that won't include any legal protection in Federal or State Court and us having to legally defend every move we make with attempting to get paid on the oil and gas taken out of the ground with attorneys like Gentner Drummond telling all the land owners to lock up their gates and the Osage Nation running things like they've run the Osage, LLC at a loss of $19,000,000 and hundreds of thousands of dollars going to the Osage Nation Energy Services LLC which hasn't done a single thing but collect hefty paychecks monthly for the Board Members and buy a building? Another coup is taking place right out from under us, people, and don't think it isn't.
DeleteSee Jim Ryan to OSAGE FOR FISCAL RESPONSIBILITY on July 19, 2017.
Beginning with the statement: "Because this statement is so relative and important,I am reposting here."
https://www.facebook.com/groups/234024393278360/
If you think the Osage Nation won't make an absolute mess of our minerals estate, read this:
https://www.facebook.com/EdwardsOsageCongress/photos/a.1018517008240344.1073741827.261039170654802/1431290890296285/?type=3&theater
There is more pomposity in this photograph than you will see anywhere else in the entire world. These two Osage Nation elected officials are the culprits who are attempting to take away your current Mineral Estate Trust now managed by the BIA and the Office of the Special Trustee, make no mistake about that!
https://www.facebook.com/osageofficeofthechiefs/photos/a.205194073238823.1073741828.201021936989370/321678568257039/?type=3&theater
As bad as that is with the BIA, and indeed it is very bad, try and wrap your mind around what a catastrophe it will be with the Osage Nation in charge.
Under a new regime, the minute we try to run to the BIA to protect us they will say and rightly so, “Sorry, you wanted to run it, you’ve got it now so you protect yourselves, just like everyone else does in the business world.”
If nothing else, remember this: Pride is not competence!
Poor Jim Ryan. He really appears to be such a dupe. I once had a conversation with StandingBear where he said everyone was going to move home. I thought he was delusional at the time but what I believe he was really indicating to me was this; if we want any money coming from the Osage Tribe now the Osage Nation, we'll have to move home to get it. Does Jim Ryan plan to move back to Osage County, does anyone know?
DeleteSo what do we get in benefits from the $800,000 in raises for FY 2107 for Osage Nation employees that the members of the Osage Nation Executive Branch and members of The Osage Nation Supreme Court so righteously support? I don't see that we benefit at all. The employees eat up the funds with raises and unearned bonuses in the Osage Nation Treasury that should be going to all of us in membership benefits and then there is nothing left to fund the health and education member benefit programs.
DeleteHow much did we pay out for this sucker to the detriment of member health and education benefits?
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The thing looks like it's there to advertise the Motel Super 8! Only the Osage Nation government elected officials would buy into this...
Nice placement of the arrow.
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Seriously worthy of your attention:
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Classes at the WAH ZHA ZHI CULTURAL CENTER will begin soon. See
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How some people get treated!
ReplyDeleteAs of April 2017, the e-edition of the Bigheart Times has been out of commission to downloads online. We purchased a year's subscription that will expire in the first week in September 2017. Do you think that the editor and owner of the BHT would e-mail us with a refund or send us a print copy in lieu of what we paid for and have not received in the last four months? Not so... It seems that there are some bad cheloveks (Russian for hombres) sitting right at their desks at the Bigheart Times office too.
https://www.facebook.com/130472647019594/photos/a.131103656956493.25571.130472647019594/1420838537982992/?type=3&theater
Indianz.com, Aug. 28, "Nottawaseppi Huron Band helps investigage large bank fraud scheme at casino"
ReplyDelete"...defendants deposited fraudulent checks into accounts at the Bank of America. They then used debit cards to make withdrawals..."
(law enforcement refers to this scheme as "Cracking Cards")
Like I wrote earlier, see Ozark at https://www.netflix.com/title/80117552 and http://variety.com/2017/tv/news/ozark-renewed-season-2-netflix-1202527992/
DeleteHere we go...
ReplyDeletehttp://www.cnn.com/2017/09/03/asia/north-korea-nuclear-test/index.html
If this is an explosion, it's caused a fairly big earthquake.
This is insane!
Deletehttp://www.cnn.com/2017/09/03/asia/north-korea-nuclear-test/index.html?adkey=bn
With Russia vacating the Russian Embassy in San Francisco and burning their documents as I write this comment, and the report of Klaxon sirens going off in Japan in the last 24 hours, I’ve got to tell you, I am getting to be largely concerned about this situation. In the event of a thermonuclear war, see the map for missile silo sites that are considered to be prime targets if Russia should join the fight. See http://diyprepping.com/wp-content/uploads/2017/06/life0602.jpg
DeleteDriving away from these locations if war is declared by either North Korea, Russia or the USA may well be the only option to avoid drifting fallout unless you are within range of an area that is subject to an electro-magnetic pulse (EMP) and everything electronic becomes no longer operational including vehicles. A very bad business indeed if the balance shifts and the scales tip in the wrong direction...
See also See also https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/d/df/SM-65_Atlas_Missile_Sites.png
DeleteI have been hearing about EMP on talk radio for over 10 years at least, about how vulnerable we are, and trying to bring it to the attention of the government to "act on." Politicians have written books about it, to no avail. (Unless it's a top secret and there is a secret technology to stop such a missle.)
DeleteProbably the first reaction is "panic," and a run on to grocery store. The shelves will be empty in a few hours or less. Did you see on the news last week where a "video" showed a woman pulled out a gun and pointed face blank on another woman over a merchandise at a Walmart?
If there is an EMP attack, considering on the extent of damage and area, there's no telling how long it will stay down, so at least put a little water and food back.
NOTICE! The Fifth Osage Nation Congress FY2017-2018 TziZho Session begins tomorrow!
ReplyDeletehttps://www.osagenation-nsn.gov/news-events/news/tzizho-session-begin-september-5th
Opening remarks are located at https://www.youtube.com/watch?time_continue=1&v=yf0MH80D75s
DeleteWhat's all this about the definition of acceptable adult birth certificates, Congressman Tillman?
DeleteONCA 17-91, An Act to amend 21 ONC §1-102 of the Osage Nation Membership Act to define birth certificate; and to establish an alternate effective date. (Tillman)
I guess we'll never know because, according to the Legislative Calendar for today, they held two committee meetings of the Osage Congress at the same time right after the Session and taped only one of them. The Rules and Ethics Committee got broadcast. The Membership Committee meeting did not. I guess they thought we don't need to know about what happened in that one.
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Here we go with Whitehorn and a merit bonus bill, ONCA 17-105, for $352,100 (!!!) and this does not include yearly raises for the employees. If the employees are at a level of 530 in number then that's approximately $650 per person. Do you believe that every person you have dealt with in the Osage Nation government in the last 12 calendar months deserves a bonus at this exorbitant level?
ReplyDeleteParts 1 and 2 of today's Session:
Deletehttps://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NhcFX9XELT0&feature=youtu.be
Committee Meetings for today are located at http://mixlr.com/osage-nation/showreel/
DeleteWOW! ONCA 17-99, An Act to provide an appropriation to the Executive Branch of the Osage nation for Fiscal Year 2018 in the amount of sixty one million four hundred fifty three thousand twenty four dollars ($61,453,024); and to establish an alternate effective date. (Whitehorn) With the Casinos not making as much income, where is all this money coming from? Keep in mind that this is just the Executive Branch Budget.
ReplyDeleteToday's Session is located at https://www.youtube.com/watch?time_continue=3&v=8ty6EJw8w3Q
ReplyDeleteThe Gov/Ops Committee Meeting will be held today from 1:00 to 4:00 p.m. Listen in at https://www.osagenation-nsn.gov/multimedia/live-media
Question for the members of the Supreme Court of the Osage Nation:
ReplyDeleteWhat does this passage indicate and suggest in the Osage Constitution as to the power of the Legislative Branch to make changes to line items in fiscal budgets for all branches of the Osage Nation government?
Article VI - Legislature, Section 13 Paragraph 2:
"If a bill presented to the Principal Chief contains several items of appropriation of money, he may veto one or more of the items while approving the bill. At the time the bill is signed, the Principal Chief shall append to it a statement of the items vetoed, and the vetoed items shall not take effect. If the legislature is in session, he shall transmit to Congress a copy of the statement, and the items vetoed shall be separately reconsidered. If on reconsideration, any item is approved by three fourths (3/4) of the members elected to Congress, it is a part of the law notwithstanding the objections."
I submit that the Osage Nation Congress has the power to make adjustments to any and all budgets on a line item basis whether the Judicial or the Executive Branch likes it or not. Furthermore, these legal opinions on this subject of the Osage Nation Supreme Court are in and of themselves unconstitutional and have robbed the Osage people of the power to have a say through our Legislative Representatives as to how our money is being spent! VOTE AGAINST RETAINING EVERY SINGLE SUPREME COURT JUSTICE OF THE OSAGE NATION IN THE UPCOMING ELECTION IN JUNE OF 2018 !!!!!!!!!!! I am sickened unto death of this continuous Osage "Gavotte" that the Executive and Judicial Branches have been doing on top of the heads of the members of the Osage Nation Congress and therefore, on all of us members of the Osage Nation. Here's one Osage precedent we can set and that's to throw all three of these Supreme Court Justices right out the front door of the Judicial building to land flat on their keesters.
Some Constitutional passages outlining some things the members of our esteemed Osage Supreme Court and Big Chief/Little Chief are unfamiliar with it seems:
DeleteLINE ITEM VETO of the Chief
LINE ITEM VETO OVERRIDE OF THE CONGRESS
If the Osage Congress can't make changes to the budget line items in any way it sees fit, why is this passage, Article VI - Legislature, Section 13, Paragraph 2 included in the Osage Nation Constitution?
From the Campaign of the Osage Nation Membership to oust the current sitting Supreme Court Justices of the Osage Nation. Add your voice here and vote against retention of these three Justices come June of 2018.
I hope to run in June thanks for the update and change needs to come back to the Osage People where we can hold ourselves accountable to the Osage people and make some hard amendments to the our Constitution.
DeleteWe need to bring moral integrity back to our Tribe for the Osage peole ,of the Osage people and by the Osage people. It is the Osage who our Sovereign not the other way around.
To read both Slip Opinions of the Osage Nation Supreme Court where our Congress is all but denuded of its principal and primary power of the purse which is the most important, serious and vital function of our Legislative body giving it the ability to curb and control government overspending. go here:
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SCO-2016-01 STANDING BEAR V PRATT SLIP OPINION 8-11-17
DeleteSCO-2015-01, STANDING BEAR V. WHITEHORN, 03-08-2016 SLIP OPINION
Posted here too https://www.osagenation-nsn.gov/who-we-are/judicial-branch/supreme-court
Do yourself a big favor. Read these Slip Opinions which also involve legal precedent where the SC Justices have indicated that we don't have to follow legal precedents in other courts.
DeleteCampaign of the Osage Nation Membership to oust the current sitting Supreme Court Justices of the Osage Nation
"Just as in Whitehorn, the Court put emphasis on the fact they were not going to consider standards created by the federal or state government and would be developing “a uniquely Osage jurisprudence.”
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Top of the meeting is the Audit presentation today in Congressional Session.
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Unmodified opinion on financial statements.
Agenda for today is located at https://www.osagenation-nsn.gov/who-we-are/congress-legislative-branch/sessions
This is a must listen on demand when it becomes available at https://www.osagenation-nsn.gov/who-we-are/congress-legislative-branch/sessions. It's very interesting especially since there is a question about why the Diabetes grant accounting was not up to snuff and other items that were reported as well. Congressman Supernaw is on it as usual this is good. There was also an unresolved matter brought up by Congresswoman Edwards as well.
DeleteGreat bill introduced by Congressman Edwards today with reference to some controls being set on the Supreme Court and their wide ranging lack of Judicial focus and discipline as to specific questions to prohibit them from expansion on such questions brought before the Osage Nation Supreme Court. This does not go far enough however, as we need an Osage Nation statutory complaint process made available to the Osage people when they cross the line on items in their Slop Opinions.
DeleteStill by God struggling with the projected revenue number as a result of the Executive Branch! 13 years have gone by and we still don't have a resolution to this all important Congressional mandate in the Constitution.
DeleteFor a worthy cause: https://www.facebook.com/harvestmoonamericanindianfestival/photos/a.151248558297409.39367.104366912985574/1452633754825543/?type=3&theater
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ReplyDeleteData gathering information for how they come up with these outrageous figures for compensation pay scales for base salaries, raises and bonuses for our employees in spite of what we can actually afford at https://www.osagenation-nsn.gov/multimedia/live-media
We need to start looking at the size of the pot for yearly distribution before we insist on being competitive with pie-in-the sky pay scales as to the science (?) of how they come up with these figures. If these employees directly service the Osage people where it concerns direct services to the entire membership then such employees become valuable and also the fact that they hire from within on average is another consideration. Why is it even necessary to be so focused on being competitive as a justification when they don't usually hire from the marketplace outside the Tribal community especially since there is Osage preference to begin with? You apply these employment "science" measures on a scale based on who you need to hire if you can afford to hire them. The value of an employee is directly related to how well they service the Osage Nation member with government services and if they are needed to provide direct services to the membership. If the income is fixed and the services are not increased to the membership, at some point, this eventually gets turned upside down where the cost of the employee is denying the membership the increases they need to have yearly improvements to or more direct services made available for them as a whole. Where in the “merit metrix” increase and market scale "science" for that analysis? Don’t the membership “merit” first and foremost? Services to the people first and employees to service those direct services to accommodate those services next. Any other plan is turned on its head. At what point do these employees become harmful to the future of direct services and therefore harmful to the entire membership? When is someone going to come up with the “science” for that metric where the employees just flat out just cost too much for what service they provide to the point to where direct benefits have to be scaled back in order to be able to afford all these employees who cost too much in the first place? Give me the percentages and value for that metric and then you will be making sense for once in the midst of all this dismal convoluted nonsense to provide excuses to justify the full scale robbing and looting of the Osage Nation Treasury on the part of greedy government employees and and those who justify that greed with scientific analysis metrics and models that are nothing other than smoke and mirrors.
Listen on demand when available here http://mixlr.com/osage-nation/showreel/
The BS emergency alert system alarm is blaring on this fatuity North America wide!
DeleteWhen does leprosy become cancer? FROM THE TREASURER, WE ARE NOW EIGHT POINT THREE MILLION DOLLARS OVER PROJECTED REVENUE WITH LEGISLATIVE REQUESTS ALONE!!!!!!!!!!! THE CHIEF AND ASSISTANT CHIEF ARE TOTALLY RESPONSIBLE FOR THIS BECAUSE THE BUCK STOPS WITH STANDING BEAR FIRST AND RAYMOND REDCORN SECOND.
DeleteSALARIES TAKEN OUT OF DIRECT ASSISTANCE? DOES THIS MEAN DIRECT SERVICES? WHAT DOES DOING THIS MEAN TO THE MEMBERS OF THE OSAGE NATION? IF THE OSAGE MEMBERSHIP SEES A DOWNGRADE TO DIRECT SERVICES BECAUSE OF THE OVERALL COST OF THESE FAR TOO EXPENSIVE EMPLOYEES, THE CHIEF AND ASSISTANT CHIEF SHOULD LOSE THEIR JOBS. AT SOME POINT, PANDERING FOR VOTES FROM THE OSAGES WHO LIVE BACK HOME TO THE DETRIMENT OF ALL OSAGE NATION MEMBERS NATION WIDE IS GOING TO BACKFIRE ON YOU CHIEF BECAUSE THOSE WHO LIVE OUTSIDE OF OSAGE COUNTY OUTNUMBER THOSE WHO LIVE IN THE OSAGE BY A RATIO OF TEN TO ONE. GET YOUR ACT TOGETHER AND COME UP WITH BUDGETS FOR YOUR BRANCH OF GOVERNMENT THAT ARE WITHIN THE LAWFUL PARAMETER SET BY THE CONSTITUTION ITSELF. TAKE THE MONEY AWAY FROM EVERYTHING WHICH DOES NOT INVOLVE A DIRECT CONNECTION TO DIRECT SERVICES FOR THE TOTAL POPULATION OF OSAGE NATION MEMBERS. THIS ISN'T A REQUEST -- IT'S AN INSTRUCTION!
DeleteOMG! And they sit through this BS and politely object with what makes sense (we can't afford it) and let the reporter of this report, peppered with all these preposterous cutting edge buzzwords that whirl all around them, without saying out loud with finality that there is no money to justify these "to scale" base pay structures, yearly raises and merit bonuses because we don't have the money to pay for them. They wonder why we think they are stupid. It's because they behave as if they are. Who in the world is this polite when their intelligence is being so grossly insulted and they are being treated like such fools?
DeleteChelsea Manning is now a fellow at Harverd really? This man was convicted of giving confidential information to wikileaks is no patriot, what he did was criminal no doubt, ues president Obama pardoned him, why beca5he felt sorry he had a rough child hood...give me a break he is a traitor to the U.S no if ands and buts straight out. So disappointed in Harvrd. Protect the criminal.
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DeleteHarvard getting a pretty good lashing and should. This guy put CIA officials in harms way.
DeleteToday, I want to pay tribute and my deepest respects to the Cassini Mission to explore the planet Saturn that ended earlier this morning when the spacecraft, in its Grand Finale, entered the atmosphere of Saturn and was no more. I want to share the photograph of those shown in the URL below who worked on this science mission with a spacecraft of their creation that actually ascended and descended through the very rings of Saturn among so many other things that it accomplished in the furtherance of our knowledge of Space science. Think about that and try to wrap your mind around it…
ReplyDeleteWhat I learned from this mission is that there are extremely intelligent, mature and forward thinking people on this planet who can come together and work toward a dream that they could make not only come true but happen in wondrous ways that not even they could hope to imagine. Yes, Star Wars and Star Trek and cartoon characters are fine entertainment but these men and women of the Cassini mission are the real action figures, the real action heros, the real Titans of our times, make no mistake, and I don't want this very important fact of our lives to go without credit and without being honored, especially today with the end of the Cassini mission. These are the people on this planet whose leadership by example should be emulated by those who are at the high school, college and at the university level in this country and who are at comparable educational levels world wide and I sincerely hope that this mission will direct the attention of all those who provide guidance for these young people to have them look very seriously in the direction of these very human beings who, in cooperation together, have accomplished such an astonishing marvel on earth and in the heavens.
https://saturn.jpl.nasa.gov/resources/7696/
And to the magnificent Cassini Spacecraft, because it is known as a "she," while clapping and standing on my feet, I shout aloud, "BRAVA!"
https://saturn.jpl.nasa.gov/news/3121/nasas-cassini-spacecraft-ends-its-historic-exploration-of-saturn/
$30,000 + for a new Osage Nation Foundation? I don't think so...
ReplyDeleteMore money for items we really don't need. We have a Cultural Center for what this person on the phone is talking about and the last thing we need to do is duplicate services here. This is a perfect example of unnecessary spending that is rampant and widespread in every single budget we have in government.
What I see here is just fine and nothing more is needed.
http://www.osagefoundation.org/
"$30,000 + for a new Osage Nation Foundation web site?"
DeleteHahahahaha! The man on the phone in the Congressional Commerce Committee meeting is the man (Mr. Webb) who handles the web site now so I take it that he will directly benefit from this $30,000 + amount to be spent on a new web site for the Osage Nation Foundation. Boo-yah for him! Zip for the Osage Nation members!
DeleteOh good! More of the same words this year as last year and the year before and the year before that from the Osage Nation Energy Services, LLC to the tune of $102,373.
DeleteThe only heavy lifters around here are the members of the Osage Nation who pay for an entity that does nothing but spend the Osage people's money while we go without. We have heard start up information about how they are going to structure themselves years ago when this damned thing was formed five or more years back. Give us a break will you? I should have known when I saw who's sitting there who's on the Board...
DeleteHEY! We seriously committed ourselves to economic development $20,000,000 ago, Eddy Red Eagle, when you and the other certain members of the Osage Nation Congress gave the Osage, LLC all that seed money years ago. Who do you think you're kidding? Not me, so you can hit the road with this hooey, pal!
DeleteHOORAY! HOORAY! HOORAY!
ReplyDeleteWE WON THE WIND FARM DECISION AT THE 10TH CIRCUIT COURT OF APPEALS:
Osage Nation secures landmark decision in dispute over construction of wind farm
https://www.indianz.com/News/2017/09/18/osage-nation-secures-landmark-decision-i.asp
What is important to note is this sentence:
Delete“The Osage Nation, acting through OMC [Osage Minerals Council] in fact owns the beneficial interest in the mineral estate that is the subject to the appeal,” Judge David Ebel wrote in the panel’s 27-page decision. “The district court’s decision forced OMC to watch from the sidelines as Osage Wind disrupted the mineral estate…”
I read the above sentence to mean that from a governance standpoint, the Osage Minerals Council is firmly in predominance and therefore in the cat bird seat where the running of the OME is concerned and any other part of the ON government including the Legislative, the Executive Branch and Judicial Branch of the Osage Nation must proceed through the OMC where and when matters of minerals are concerned. This chain of command is now firmly established in a Federal Court decision at the appellate level. Federal law and clarifications on that law trump Tribal law period.
The decision is located at https://www.indianz.com/News/2017/09/18/15-5121.pdf
See also http://www.osagenews.org/en/article/2017/09/19/10th-circuit-rules-osage-minerals-council-can-seek-damages-wind-farm/
When in Rome, Enel? You ain't in Roma. You in the Osage now and the verdict has come down from on high in the Queen City of the High Plains.
DeleteHey Chief. Get out your beggin' bowl. Wheel and deal all you want with the Osage Court and end run your agenda through the Congress but STAY OUT OF MINERALS BUSINESS!
This clearly appears to be a squatter's trespass in a pure act of attempted theft from the Osage Nation on the part of Enel. I knew that when they sped up their construction to get those ugly spires up in the air. Cut 'em off at the knees. No mercy. Teach these companies from foreign nations who try and take advantage of us how the cow eats the cabbage.
DeleteDamages and a continuing rental amount due monthly and payable on every single wind turbine built on the land underneath as a result of not being able to drill there to find oil and gas with a proper lease to an oil and gas producer which is permanent loss of income as a result. Plus all court costs and attorney's fees back for every single court action we have had to take to defend ourselves against Enel from the beginning.
No Agenda available for today's session but it's live now at https://www.osagenation-nsn.gov/multimedia/live-media
ReplyDeleteUnited Osages of Southern California Fall Meeting:
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Back to our Missouri Homeland:
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BRAGGING RIGHTS! Something GRAND to CROW ABOUT:
ReplyDeleteDon't know if you know it or not but our very own Osage Casino Hotels in Ponca City and Skiatook are real gems. I'm fairly traveled and as boutique hotels, I'd put them up against any I've seen anywhere in the world and I believe I'd win. They are beautiful in design and layout. Very functional with great flow and remarkably artistic in appearance. Wonderful ambiance all around. I stayed at a motel in Missouri and once my business was finished there, I came back to the Skiatook property with a HUGE sigh of relief. Get there and stay there for a night or a weekend. The food is delicious, the gaming parlors have lots of gaming machines to choose from and the hotel rooms are simply wonderful. I left the last morning and another couple staying in one of the rooms on my floor were as full of praise for their stay there as my own. I'm really proud of these two gaming and hotel facilities and I hope you will be too. Great for a getaway or a week of R&R. Or just for fun, what the heck! I loved it and I know you will too. Can't wait for the new hotel to open at the Osage Casino in the Tulsa location. I'd suggest booking your reservation for the Grand Opening today at 1-877 246-8777. Support our gaming operations now and in the future. When we support them, we all benefit.
http://www.osagecasinos.com/
Worth watching:
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