From: Steven Haberfeld < steven@indiandispute.com>
To:
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Sent: Wednesday, May 21, 2008 10:34:35 AM
Subject: FW: INVITATION - Tribal member Philip
Brendale speaks on KBRA
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Subject: RE: INVITATION - Tribal member
Philip Brendale speaks on KBRA
Dear Frank Wallace,
Ed Bartel, Roger Nicholson, and the Klamath Basin
Alliance:
P 1 I just received
your invitation to come and listen to Philip
Brendale to speak about the Klamath Basin
Restoration Agreement and lend weight to your
opposition.
P 2 The Settlement
Agrement that you so vehemently oppose was crafted
by a cross-section of stakeholders in the Klamath
Basin who spent huge amounts of their time and money
to talk the problems through, to put the old
grievances aside, and to come up with a way to
live and work together in relative harmony. After
two and a half years of open hearted and sincere
regard for people who had different interests, over
twenty-five different stakeholders found a way to
put together a package deal that would work to some
satisfactory degree for all concerned. The
Agreement is fair and balanced with everyone giving
up something significant in exchange for something
in return that would help offset the sacrifice they
have made. These parties were constructive and
creative and were tired of the rancor, the lengthy
and costly court battles, the nasty behaviour that
hurt peoples sensitivities and undermined
relationships. They sought a different way of
solving problems, and should be heartily
congratulated.
P 3 You were
invited to participate in this wholesome activity
but instead you were never prepared to participate
in the "give and take" of the negotiation process.
You did not listen and look for common ground like
everyone else did. You stuck to your non-negotiable
demands and failed to learn another way of being. It
is clear now that you were driven by your baseless
hatred of the Indian people who have lived in the
Klamath Basin for centuries, since "time immemorial"
according to the courts. It is clear now that no
proposal could have satisfied you short of taking
the Klamath Tribes' water and giving them nothing in
return. The whole basis of your relentless
opposition to this hard won settlement is that the
Settlement Agreement set aside certain benefits for
the Klamath Tribes just as was done for every other
participant in the negotiations. Because of your
hatred for the Indian people and your narrow
context, you are willing to reject a Settlement
Agreement that has solved some very thorney
problems, a Settlement Agreement that promises to
bring predictability and economic viability to the
agricultural community, that promises to restore
water quantity and quality that will benefit tens of
future generations of your fellow citizens, that
will bring back the natural beauty and health of the
rivers, lakes, springs and streams, and that will
restore eco-systems in ways that will once again
support fish and wildlife.
P 4 Thanks but no
thanks. Philip Brendale has for years had his own
private axe to grind but he is not entitled to come
to the Klamath Basin area to lend your distorted
arguments and deliberate misinformation any
credence. He does not realize how you are using
him, and you should be ashamed for doing so. The
truth should be known.The Klamath Tribes were
terminated in 1956 by the federal government. The
Tribes were deprived of their land base and means of
economic livelihood--they were forced to sell over
1.2 million acres of rich timberland. Much of it
ended up in the hands of private landowners and the
rest went to the federal government to manage. This
policy of "termination" was later judged to be
misguided and the Congress restored the Klamath
Tribes to full legal status in 1986. No land was
returned, however, and the Tribes have had to
complete their own restoration process. Purchasing
private forest lands as part of a comprehensive
economic development strategy is a right all
citizens in a democratic country enjoy. To begrudge
the Tribe from doing so, to falsely attribute
ulterior motives to the Tribe for having an interest
in private forest land, only reveals that your
motives are not pure and that you have learned
nothing from your fellow citizens who chose to
embrace uniquely American values, to treat all
people with dignity, and to finally bury race
prejudice once and for all.
Have the courage to
look into your heart and discover and dissolve the
hatred that is eating at you. You will be healthier
and happier men for it.
Steven Haberfeld, Ph.D.
Executive Director
Indian Dispute
Resolution Services, Inc
1621 Executive Court
Sacramento, CA 95864
(916) 482-5800
(916) 482-5808 Fax
"Working things out
by talking things through"
From:
Ed Sheets [mailto:ed@edsheets.com]
Sent: Tuesday, May 20, 2008 8:47 AM
To: Subject: FW: INVITATION -
Tribal member Philip Brendale speaks on KBRA
I am forwarding information about a meeting
sponsored by the Klamath Basin Alliance.
Sent: Monday, May 19,
2008 4:51:52 AM
Subject: INVITATION - Tribal member Philip
Brendale speaks on KBRA, brought to you by Basin
Alliance
The Klamath Basin Alliance, Inc. invites
you to a meeting on the Klamath Basin
Restoration Agreement featuring tribal
member Philip Brendale.
MAY 27, 2008, 7:OO P.M. at Shasta View
Grange
(Corner of Shasta Way and Madison)
Expert in tribal law and Federal Indian
Policy (FIP), Cowlitz Tribal member
Philip Brendale, grew up on Indian
reservations. As a young man, he watched
the obstacles that tribal government
placed before his grandfather as he
exercised his legal right to transfer
his allotted land to fee land.
As a result of these injustices, Philip
has studied FIP, tribal government and
court case histories for 45 years. He
took the Tribes to the United States
Supreme Court and won the Brendale case,
a ruling that gives zoning jurisdiction
to counties. He also won a district
court case allowing non-tribal members
to access roads and private properties
within a closed section of the Yakima
Reservation where they had been denied
access.
Philip's wife Sandra has been an
activist for the rights of citizens for
nearly 17 years. She attended school in
the middle of Indian Country and is an
Eagle Forum trained lobbyist and media
expert with extensive experience. She
hosted a local TV show for three years,
IF NOT YOU…THEN WHO? She taught others
how to lobby from home and often took
viewers to lobby in person. She headed
several citizens' committees and is
Yakima's leading taxpayers' advocate.
Brendale has also mentored and advised
citizens' groups on how to prevent
tribal expansion and how it affects
communities economically and socially.
Philip and Sandra founded "Brendale
Belzer, Federal Indian Policy Trouble
Shooters." He mentored Cherokee, Elaine
Willman, author of
Going to Pieces; the Dismantling of the
United
States of America,
regarding tribalism and tribal law.
Administrator for the town of Hobart,
Wisconsin, Willman served as chair for
CERA/Citizens for Equal Rights, was a
member of Toppenish City Council, and a
teacher in the Masters Programs of
Public and Business Administration. With
a 15 year career in city planning and
administration, she encourages all city
and county representatives to attend
Bredales's presentation. "You must
protect their constitutional, civil and
property rights from inappropriate
goverment decisions, whether from
federal, state, county, city or tribal
governements. Government decision-making
is a very seperate issue from respect
for culture".
Philip will explain how tribal
expansion, the purchase of 92,000 acres
of the Mazama Tree Project included in
the Klamath Basin Restoration Agreement
with federal funds for the Klamath
Tribes, would affect all citizens of
Klamath County. The Tribes could place
this property into federal trust thus
paving the way to an interagency trade
with the U.S. Forest Service for up to
690,000 acres of their old reservation
which they previously sold. Sandra will
tell us what we can do about it.
The future of our community is at stake
so please join us for an interesting
evening with the Brendales. There will
be an opportunity at the conclusion of
the presentation for comments and
questions.
The Klamath Basin Alliance, Inc. Frank
Wallace, Chairman
541-798-5759
541-882-6562
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5/24/08 To PhD Steven Haberfeld from a KBC
News editor,
FYI, KBC News, Klamath Basin Crisis, is
the Voice
of Klamath Irrigators
and their Community,
voices of
farmers, ranchers,
miners,
loggers
and
fishermen.
We allow peoples' voices to be heard because we believe in
America, even if they do not all have the same opinions.
First, the Brendale presentation was an invitation only meeting since the
room is small. Your invitation did not come from Basin
Alliance (BA) but by someone who was invited, who sent this
to their email lists. Basin Alliance will try to first
accommodate their invited guests, then if there's room
others may attend. You did not receive an
"invitation to come and listen
to Philip Brendale to speak about the Klamath Basin
Restoration Agreement and lend weight to your opposition"
because I don't
think anyone at BA had ever heard of you before your letter.
We hadn't.
We at KBC know that Off-Project representatives Edward
Bartell and Roger Nicholson are not part of the decision to
bring tribal member Philip Brendale to talk in Klamath Falls
about tribalism and tribal expansion and the Klamath Basin
Restoration Agreement. They have never met
the man or corresponded with him as far as we know. They are
invited to attend by BA as were several other interested
community members.
BA invited Philip to speak. You say in your Paragraph 3
that they "were invited to participate in this wholesome
activity of creating an agreement." We at KBC saw the
Klamath Settlement protest VIDEO
where Roger's group was not allowed at the settlement
table. Basin Alliance was not allowed at the table either,
however the Klamath County Commissioners assured them that a
land gift to the Klamath Tribes would not be decided in
another closed-door negotiation as attempted a few years
ago.
It is apparent in your P3 that you write this letter as a
venue to blast Bartell's point of view in the Settlement
meetings, as he is the only one you address in this letter
that attended those settlement sessions. We at KBC are not
seeing a connection with why you are detailing your dislike
for Bartell in a letter about Brendale, when Bartell has
nothing to do with Brendale, BA's invitation, or Brendale's
appearance here.
Philip Brendale is 100% Native American and is a tribal
member who was not allowed access to his property by a
corrupt tribal government, took his case to the Supreme
Court and won. You say BA is "using him" in one
sentence, and say
"he is not entitled to come
to the Klamath Basin area..."
in another.
Philip must be an intelligent
man if he won a Supreme Court case, so I doubt he would
allow us farmers and ranchers to "use him." But if
you fear for his welfare, perhaps you should warn him of
BA's "prejudiced" "hateful" intents.
Why would you state
that Brendale is not "entitled to come to the Klamath area?"
Has tribalism expanded so far that you have the power to
tell us who we can invite and what race or opinion they may
have? Perhaps some farmers and ranchers would like to hear
people other than those you want to permit us to talk to. In
our America, freedom of speech is not a "racist" "hateful" sin.
If BA has "race
prejudice" and "hatred," why, Dr. Haberfeld,
would they invite an Indian to speak to us about documented
effects of tribalism and tribal expansion?
You are correct in saying the
Tribes sold their land base. If you had done your homework
you would know that they voted to sell. There was one man
who did not sell his land; they had a choice. Our generations of
families, some tribal, live here and have a memory of these
things.
You state: "Purchasing
private forest lands as part of a comprehensive economic
development strategy is a right all citizens in a democratic
country enjoy" or we are "race prejudiced"
if we don't agree. Does
that mean that since we whites sold land, the federal
government should buy it for us again, and if you don't
agree, that makes you "race prejudiced?"
The Klamath Tribes have spoken
openly of wanting to expand gaming and their land base,
create logging operations and power production, enforce
their senior water rights that they want, and trade a
federal land gift for the Winema Fremont National Forest.
When you state in P 4, "
to falsely attribute ulterior motives to the Tribe for
having an interest in private forest land, only reveals that
your motives are not pure..."
seems a bit judgmental and
unfair when in fact they have stated their motives.
In P 3, among other claims, you
state that, "Settlement
Agreement that promises to bring predictability and economic
viability to the agricultural community..." Since the Upper
Basin has given up around 100,000 acres of ag land in the
Upper Basin already, and of the 50,000 that remain of their
surface irrigated land, the
settlement agreement demands 30,000 acre feet more. Their cattle industry had been
decimated already, and evaporation has doubled the water use
by making swamps. Yes, there would be "predictability" that ag would mostly vanish. Where would their "economic
viability" come from?
How does your bullying by name calling and character
assassination of our neighbors gain the confidence of all
parties?
It seems you and others have such a fear of people
listening to voices other than their rulers, you are
resorting to some ugly tactics.
Ph.D Steven Haberfeld, Executive Director, Indian Dispute
Resolution, we don't need your hostile treatment of
our fellow farmers and ranchers who want to keep farming and
ranching, and want to live side by side with our neighbors,
the Klamath Tribes, with equal rights for all, and not for
rights based on race.
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