4/8/2002 BOARD OF SELECTMEN Minutes

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Board of Selectmen Minutes—verbatim April 8, 2002 Public Convent: Selectman green: I'd just like to correct an inaccuracy that had I read in the Enterprisg a few weeks ago when it was stated that the Board of Selectmen supported federal recognition under a limited basis. I think that we need to understand, and maybe that understanding doesn't exist, but,that federal recognition can't be slighted or shortened, it is what it is and once the procedure is finished, we will have a resolve. It will be a positive finding for the Tribe or a negative finding for the Tribe. But without discussions, the only person that could intervene and that is the Tribe to male conditions of the federal recognition so, I just wanted to make that clear to the public, Selectman Reveille: I'm with you Chuclie, because I have gotten some feed back on the subject, Is this an appropriate bine to do this?I've got some feed back too that I understood that some members of the Tribal Council were upset because I had said that several of the Board of Selectmen favors social and cultural recognition, etc. and of the federal benefits that go with that, but that we are not in favor of recognition with national, with sovereign nation status.and it was presented to nye life this was a surprise, and that has pretty much been our position even since at least 1999 when we first started discussing this with Russell Peters, etc, but at that point there was no active consideration at the BIA...your right in saying Chuck, your right 1n saying arthe BIA,.it's a different situation, versus a legislative process where it would be more of a negotiated process, but our position has consistently been and just to confirm by.. our newspaper articles, letters and everything all the way back through September 2 of 1999 where we have been Pretty consistent in what we have said in that respect so I just didn't want.anybody to thinly, especially those in the Tribal Council that itsbeen a new slant. That has been our position for the last three years.. The other thing while we are tallying about it is, my in correction that . appeared in the paper was that I was quoted as saying that it would result in town to town relationships and really it isn't. It's nation to nation relationships. The town and the state are pretty much out of k if the Tribal Council were to recd m*ze the sovereign nation status,they would deal only with the United Mates of America..