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  The above financial summary was previously posted here but with individual names blocked.  This information was illegally obtained by a tribal member who reproduced and distributed it at an annual KIC meeting a couple of years ago, so it isn't newly released here.  A record of that individual's actions regarding this matter will be posted on the Kiowa Tribes website, http://kiowatribe.net/, and also on this site in the near future, so, stay tuned.
p.s.:  click on the summary for enlargement and easier reading. 

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"Those We Left Behind"    30"h x 40"w      Acrylic on Canvas

  Ancient accounts of the Kiowa Tribe tell of a large fearsome creature which occupies the deep mountain lakes and waterways within the Kiowa's old northern habitat which is now the Canadian Rockies of British Columbia, Canada.  The Kiowas call this creature Zone Ait Ghahnay, which describes a terrible being having large teeth.  This creature is said to attack and devour unwary travelers of those waterways, both animal and human.

  Zone Ait Ghahnay appears in the Kiowa stories of Spider Woman and Zy Day Tahli, the "Split Boys", and it also appears in several 18th Century paintings by Kiowa artists Zone Tahm, Silverhorn, and others.  Ancient representations of this Water Monster appear on stone features throughout the northern Rocky Mountain region, and numerous accounts of encounters with the creature are told by the tribes which remain in the north.  The cover of a famous Kiowa tipi also displays two large paintings of the Water Monster.

  When the Kiowas moved onto the northern plains in the early 1600's, an argument between two chiefs caused one of the bands to return to the northwest and the old mountain habitat of the Kiowas.  Those people are known as Azan Tanhop, "Those Who Went Away Dissatisfied."

  The above painting is the first i've been able to (nearly) finish in two years, and is included in the newly published 2011 Native American Art Calendar.  I have other art and art related projects in progress but moving in slow motion due to my involvement in tribal governmental business.  I will include future postings here of some of my 'other' activities when tribal business allows some deviation.

  My wife, Allie, is selling the calendars for $15 which include 13 other well known and established artists and their works.

  I sorely needed this break, wheeeeew!

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The above check copies are included as EXHIBIT A with the previous posted CFR Court Case No. CIV-10-A44.  Due to space limitations only a few of the check copies are shown, but payout totals for the defendents shown are:
Helen Poolaw  -  $1,600.00
Dwayne Davis -  $3,951.26
John Bear       -  $24,829.00
The payments came from a Kiowa Casino Operations Authority account.

All documents shown are Court Records and are available for public access.

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  Exhibit A, showing $$$ payouts and names, will be posted seperately and soon. 
  If you have trouble viewing the document(s), click on the text image for enlargement.

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  The above is from a spreadsheet provided to us (KBC) by an attorney for a Limited Liability Corporation(LLC) that is currently contesting Kiowa Court jurisdiction in Federal Court.  Columns for several months have been deleted due to space limitation but the item totals appear in the far right TOTAL column, and totals represent claimed expenses for the months July, '07 through September, '08.
  Tribal individuals named and the initials of one individual have been blocked pending review by federal invesigators. 
  The entity which was the primary party on the Kiowa side was the Kiowa Economic Development Board, as listed above.  The total KEDB advances of $166,990.00 were never deposited with nor reported to the Kiowa Finance Office and an accounting of those monies was never provided to the Tribal Treasurer. Though the KEDB claimed autonomy from Kiowa governance, they "passed the buck" to the Kiowa Tribe when it came time to pay the bill. 
  The total expenses being claimed by the LLC, $1,337,899.73, is just a small portion of development costs which was written into a development/management loan agreement signed by the then Chairman of the KEDB, the then Chairman of the KBC, and the President of the LLC. The LLC projection of total development costs was over $80,000,000.00 and the agreement granted the LLC total control of all Kiowa gaming until the loan was repayed.  The LLC is working feverishly to move their claim to a court of arbitration where the development/management agreement will be enforced in their favor, or the Kiowa Tribe will be liable for repayment of the $1M+ bill submitted to the KBC, plus attorney fees. 
  There are many questions of fraud, embezzlement, and other extremely negative factors appearing in the history of this situation and the present KBC has their work cut out in trying to resolve the case in favor of the Kiowa Tribe. The history of the KEDB's involvement in this mess and their mishandling of large sums of money is complicated and will require diligent effort to uncover the full story of how we were sucked into this quagmire.
  Again, click on the spreadsheet image for enlargement and easier reading and, stay tuned..........
   
 

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  View previous posting of June 3.  The above financials represent only a small portion of tribal monies and missing property currently being reviewed by Federal investigators.  Individual names are currently blocked but some belong to previous Kiowa Business Committee, Kiowa Hearing Board, and Kiowa Election Board members, some are currently serving in various tribal appointments and capacities, and some are even running for office in the upcoming June 19 election.

  Our greatest losses are in the gaming area and questioned totals are in the millions of dollars. Federal auditors first alerted the KBC to numerous "red flags" showing up in gaming audits of 2008, then a series of meetings began a more thorough look at the mismanagement and outright embezzlement of tribal gaming monies.

  The investigation phase will continue for an indeterminate amount of time and more information will be released to the kiowa Indian Council as soon as allowable, and in a forum which will not impede the investigations.

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The above is from the annual Kiowa Indian Council Issues Election of June 1, 1991.  More to follow on this.