Letter to the Editor: Vote for new tribal council at Rocky Boy

Editor,

I would hope that the people vote wisely for once in their lives and vote for those who are not currently in office. I also hope they do not vote for anyone else who was in the Rocky Boy tribal council previously.

We do not need the same old replay of the past which nearly destroyed this reservation. I have decided not to run this time around and not because I didn’t have the money to file but because someone must do what I do.

When I find that someone who will replace me on the outside, looking in, then I will consider running. However, without such a person as me looking in and then actually doing something about it, then my job remains here, with the real tribal members who are concerned and not those who want friends and family in there just to get a free meal ticket or money donation by abusing that several times over.

I will endorse those candidates once I hear what they have to say. I hope some of you take my lead on that. I would like to nit-pick each candidate and tell you about those individuals and why they won’t get my vote. Those in power right now refused a certified letter sent to them to be on the agenda for a council meeting, showing they are hiding things.

Do not vote for such people who violate rights such as that.That means all nine who are presently seated.

Not one spoke up or tried to get me on the agenda to address the water contamination on-going. Not one! So right there tells you I will not endorse these nine people. Crooks are crooks, and they violated my rights not to speak in a tribal meeting.  

Russell Houle Sr.

President North Central Montana American Indian Movement

Rocky Boy