Osage Million Dollar Elm casino goes green

Osage Million Dollar Elm casino goes green By Special to E-E Saturday, May 15, 2010 10:20 PM CDT TULSA — Osage Million Dollar Elm casino is going green, but it’s not with cash. Employees are stepping up their game by recycling and making their work place environmentally friendly. “We have dramatically increased the amount of [...]

Appeals court will not hear Osage case

Appeals court won’t rehear Okla. tribe’s tax case By MURRAY EVANS // //

Candidates on Early Childhood Education

Osage News The Osage News asked the Osage general election candidates this question for the week of May 17: If elected what kind of education opportunities will you explore/offer for early childhood education and primary education for our Osage youth? Their answers are below in the order they were received. Every week leading up to [...]

United States is going to say “My bad”

OKLAHOMA CITY (AP) – Two members of Congress are scheduled to read a resolution apologizing to American Indians during a ceremony in Washington, D.C. Sen. Sam Brownback of Kansas and Rep. Jim McDermott of Washington state are joining Representatives from the Cherokee, Choctaw, Muscogee (Creek), Sisseton Wahpeton Oyate, and Pawnee nations in the ceremony Wednesday [...]

Congressional candidates discuss reservation status case, gaming expansion

By Benny Polacca Osage News Click the link to the left During the May 9 inaugural Osage News Political Debates, six of 18 Osage Nation Congress candidates responded to questions on whether they support the ongoing federal court case concerning the reservation status, possible changes to the Nation’s membership requirements, and if they’d support the [...]

County vs Oneida Nation

This is part of the ongoing conflict that has components analogous to our situation. I have attached the comments so that you can take a gander at local sentiment. Madison County offers Oneida Indian Nation nine ‘principles of settlement’ Published: Tuesday, May 18, 2010

Fired editor accuses C&A admin of censorship

This woman is just one of the latest people to have been fired by the C&A administration. That tribe was one of my customers until my business contact was fired because he was associated with the last administration for dating the Chairman’s daughter. He wasn’t even in the executive branch. He worked for the Casino. [...]

Candidate Stats

You can tell a lot by a person by the movie they chose. Taken from the Osage News The Osage News asked all Candidates to participate in a 15-question survey and they were given 20 words to answer each question. Here are their answers: Principal Chief Candidates Carl “Chico” Lee Sellers • Age: 56 • [...]

Sample Ballot & Last Day to Request Absentee Ballots!!!

Click here for sample Ballot Also today is the last day to request absentee ballots so if you have not requested yours do it. Stop reading this and call those fools up. Right now. Quit Reading. Seriously Go. Absentee Voters: The address below will take you to a printable application to request an Absentee ballot: [...]

Interim Gaming Board Appointments

On May 11, Principal Chief Jim Gray announced his interim appointment of Mr. David Conrad and Mrs. Stacy Laskey as members of the Osage Nation Gaming Enterprise Board. This appointment is for an initial term of three years from the date of appointment and is subject to confirmation by the Osage Nation Congress during the [...]

A Letter from the Osage LLC

OSAGE LLC 2009 ANNUAL REPORT TO THE NATION On behalf of the Board of Directors and the staff of Osage LLC, it is with great pleasure that I address you following an extremely productive and successful first year. The original charge that you gave to the company – “to deploy and grow the capital that [...]

Merit Based Pay = Epic Fail

Last Week I was able to attend what will probably be this Congress’ last full session. I am posting this because what I saw and what I think I know about this legislation disturbs me. The legislation I have posted links to is meant to be passed as a package deal. Our congress sought the [...]

Pawhuska Candidate Forum Videos

Principal Chief Candidate Debates May 8th, 2010 Part 1 Part 2 Assistant Principal Chief Candidate Debates May 8th, 2010 Part 1 Part 2 Part 3 Congressional Candidate Debates May 9th, 2010 Part 1 Part 2 Part 3 Part 4 Part 5 Part 6

Northern California Candidate Videos

I have been informed that these are in the process of being updated, and that there are more videos forthcoming. http://northerncaliforniaosage.org/

Polls

The last two polls have been hijacked by people using proxy servers to stuff the ballot. I have already made one request for that behavior to stop and it continued, so until further notice there will be no candidate polls. This poll isn’t even that big of a deal so it is unclear to me [...]