Papago Indian news., January 10, 1958, Image 1

About Papago Indian news. (Sells, Ariz.) 1954-19??

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KITTS PL/.? .POSSIBLE SITE
iJ.tllou.3Ll t!ie final selection will not be announced until June 1, officials of
the national Science Foundation interested in locating an observatory on one of thrte
sites in Arizona nave been conferring with tribal, district, and agency personnel in
regard to possible terns for the bitt ? s Peal. site.
j.t is understood tnat an area oi 209 acres will be required for the proposed
buildings and Zixiediate surroundings, ho wever, the Foundation staff seeks to have
use of an additional 2400 acres surrounding the 209 acres to near-by land. If the
■*-itt roan sicG is chosen, tiic foundation wi Sixes to lence tue inner area as a protect
ive i.ieasure.
Under the Present tribal and agency set-up, the leasing of reservation land oust
be approved by agency officials and the size of the proposed observatory site is such
that an Act of Congress is required, however, no action can or v/ill be taken until
district and tribal councils, in that order, act favorably on the leasing of the land
co the Foundation, CaovJLd the site be chosen and the lease acted upon favorably by
district and tribal councils, the Foundation hopes to get the larger area for a
guaranteed 25-year period subject to renewal and the inner area for a guaranteed 99-
year period.
The otner two sites under consideration for the proposed observatory &po one in
the Ilualpai Fountains near .Indian and one in the i.ornon Fountains near Flagstaff.
There is a test telescope now on each of the sites.
—ecent guests of the Foundation at the Fitt Pea.': site included: A1 Hartinez
and Larry iaquel, Cchucl: Toak district delegates; lark Fanuel, tribal 6harnean; and
Lyuan rnest, realty assistant, representing the xud!an Service and 16 other interest
ed reservation persons. After being luncheon guests of the test observatory personnel,
■che visitors were shown the. planet Venus through the present telescope. A. b. Heine!,
observatory director, was in charge of welcoming the visitors and discus single ssibi/
j-oas-ng aiiangei.ieucs —x uxj.c .itv Pocu: sice is chosen.
TUBA I. C T h T R AN ANSWER? "STAR" EDITORIAL
In reply to an editorial which appeared on December 31 in the "Arizona Daily
Star", Tribal Chairmen Mark Manuel wrote the following letter-to-the-editor. At the
tjme the r T ndian News went to press, Mr. Manuel»s reply had not yet appeared
in the "Star".
MQn becomber 31, 1957 your paper carried an editorial lamenting the leasing of
lacK of understanding on the part of Tucson people of the financial and economic
coneits on cf the Papa-o be,
~vo u asiy why the ri.be is rot usinr the-'r funds to sink wells and do the job "or
tie ms elves. '"hat jVnds? "he Panago n 'r ? ie has no funds, its income as a trite beinp
barely sufficient to support the small strHf and tribal office. The average income
of the Pena re Tribe for the last few years has been only about -‘“30,(P0.00 per year,
corn!nr in from leases and sales on cattle. This amount is not sufficient to
pay the necessary functions to properly administer the business of the tribal office
and tale care of tae needs cf thousands of *hen you read of themi" 1 11" 1 ion
dollars from aco per b ; a at hn hv-er T eservatf on, thi s does not mean that the
tribe has that money to use for development of ? ts tr*b?l lands, fan Xavier lands
are owned by dlotteer tnere w-io individually will receive the money, and it does not
belon- to the thousands cf Papamos who live on the main reserva t ion, which is west of
Sen Xavier.
You c ' w ‘ i< we do net nire technical advisers to develop our reservation* That’s
•? u ®t what we need and TT ant to do under our Tribal organization. We don’t even have
enough funos in the iribal budget .for a lawyer* Whenever we have money, we intend to
retain an attorney and a technical adviser, who will help develop income mosslbiTitles
cn * ie reSi '’sy. r at on. The Association for Fepapo Ai fairs, a group of Tucson friends of
the Pa pa os, have been tryinp for six months to secure contributions in the city to
vive us enough money to hire an adviser to work full time for the Tribal office to
study the many possibilities for income to the tribe and jobs on the three million
acres of + r?.bal land, which is not now being hardly developed at all. We think that
if we had such a man, he would work out proper development of cur mineral resources
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