The above document with numerous supporting attachments was hand delivered by Mr. Tofpi to Mr. Deerinwater, Director of the Southern Plains Regional Office, on Monday, August 30th.
  Mr. Tofpi is entitled to appeal the decision released by the Superintendent of the Anadarko Area Office, Robin Phillips, wherein she issued a directive of recognition of certain members of the the Kiowa Business Committee following the controversial recall election of Mr. Tofpi, and the controversial annual elections for new officers of the Business Committee.
  The filing of Tofpi's appeal will most likely proceed to the Interior Board of Indian Appeals which is located in Arlington, VA.  The IBIA is an appellate review body and it's administrative judges decide appeals from a wide array of decisions rendered by the BIA including tribal government disputes.  IBIA decisions are final for the Department but even their decisions can be further appealed to U.S. district courts.
  Mr. Tofpi expressed his determination to advance his appeal as far as necessary to seek redress for the numerous violations perpetrated against him by the Kiowa Hearing Board and the Kiowa Election Board in his recalll, and also for the highly questionable decisions rendered in the matter by the BIA. 
  The appeal process dictates that the controverted elections are not a done deal and that Tofpi could be reinstated as Kiowa Tribal Chairman sometime in the near future.
  Click on the above document images for easier viewing and, stay tuned.
    
 
 

KBC Recalls

  The above document was composed and presented to me by an individual whom I trust to be knowledgeable of governmental processes, and especially those of Kiowa tribal government. The document clearly states the recall procedure as directed by our Kiowa Constitution & By-laws, and the Kiowa Hearing Board Ordinance. 
  This step procedure was blatantly disregarded by appointed Kiowa Hearing Board members in the recent recall filing against Donald Tofpi, and in the recall filings against seven(7) members of the Business Committee (myself included). 
  The real culprit behind our inability to effectively govern ourselves is our outdated Constitution which allows for the continued violations and resultant instability. The recall process, as presently structured by our Constitution, allows for one individual to jeopardize all federal program funding and economic development activity for the rest of our 12,000 + population.  I personally am not against a recall option when needed, but there should be certain Constitutional constraints which assure uninterrupted governmental services and economic development.
  The recent decision issued by Anadarko Agency Superintendent Robin Phillips in the Donald Tofpi CFR Court case dismissal is in the appeal process and more evidence will be presented and questions raised regarding violations of our Constitution at the Tribal and BIA levels.  I will provide info here on the appeal as it progresses, and on the current recall situation, so, stay tuned.
  Click on document image (once or twice) for easier reading.
   

Stay Tuned, Some More...

  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. 

Time Out...

    

"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!

p.s.:  Click on image to enlarge for easier viewing.

 

Stay Tuned.........

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.

Stay Tuned.........

  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.

Stay Tuned........

  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..........