Discussion in a special KBC meeting today centered on the major disruption of services and potential bankruptcy of the Kiowa Tribe if the majority, or quorum, of the KBC is recalled. PL 93-638 funding could not be drawn down, which represents the bulk of federal programs services the Tribe administers, and pending major lawsuits against the Tribe in the state of New York could not be responded to resulting in judgements against the Tribe and many millions of dollars lost to the plaintiffs.
As stated and illustrated in the previous posting, the recall charges filed by Tomascina Tsoodle Leader are extremely frivolous, without merit, and potentially very harmful to the Kiowa Tribe. It's a very sad state of affairs when one individual can create such havoc on 13,000 other tribal members. I urge all to seriously consider a revision of our constitution which will strengthen the powers of the Kiowa Indian Council and enable us to determine our own future as a unified body. Our ancestors did not achieve a strong presence on the Plains by allowing one disturbed and dissatisfied woman to determine our fate.
The six of us subject to recall were elected to office by approximately 2,500 of your votes and we hope that all or most of you will vote NO for our recalls. This instability of tribal governance needs to end. Ah ho!
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How can this woman, Thomascine Tsoodle Leader, be given the power to do anything on behalf of the KIC members? Her only self-proclaimed accomplishment that she states at EVERY pubilc forum is that she was a former Kiowa Tribal Princess back in 1910 or sometime. What about her "other accomplishment" of running a brothel at that cock fighting establishment where her and her cohorts said to the media that is was part of the "Kiowa traditional culture"? Is this the type of person that the rest of us has to waste our time fighting? That "DEMOCRACY" group can make her their spokesperson, but DO NOT speak on me or my familys behalf! We are KIC also and we are not going away and leaving our tribal government in your hands.
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