WATER DRIVE FOR MANDAREE (ND) RESIDENTS
5-1-14
A Water Drive for Mandaree Residents of Mandaree (ND) on the Fort Berthold Reservation is taking place with distribution scheduled for the weekend of May 3 sponsored by the Fort Berthold Safety Watch. Even before the recent deterioration of Mandaree's water quality, residents have been regularly buying bottled water and jugs of water for drinking and cooking purposes because of concerns about water safety caused from oil drilling and fracking in the area. In the past two weeks residents have reported yellow-brown tap water that is oily and smelling like rotten eggs. EPA officials responded to concerns and Fort Berthold Rural Water confirmed that they had been flushing the distribution system. The Fort Berthold Safety Watch is asking for donations of bottled or jug water with plans on doing future drives. Contact Cedar Gillette, Amber Finley or Lisa Casarez if you would like to donate/help hand out water.
FEDERAL WHISTLE BLOWER SAYS AUTHORITIES ARE UNRESPONSIVE TO ALLEGATIONS OF CHILD NEGLECT AND ABUSE AT SPIRIT LAKE
February 22, 2013
"A federal whistle-blower alleges that most cases involving at-risk Spirit Lake Nation children cited in earlier reports have not been investigated or dealt with by responsible federal, state or tribal authorities."
"In his undated 12th “mandated report,” a copy of which was obtained Friday by Forum Communications, Thomas Sullivan alleges that “most of those children remain in the full time care and custody of known sex offenders, addicts and abusive families.”
"Sullivan, regional administrator in Denver of the federal Administration for Children and Families, began filing his “mandated reports” more than eight months ago."
"The eight-page 12th report, apparently filed this week with ACF supervisors in Washington, D.C., and others, again details specific cases of sexual and other physical abuse and what Sullivan said was the unwillingness of local authorities to respond appropriately to them."
"Citing cases where he said children “were removed from physically and sexually abusive homes based on confirmed reports of abuse,” Sullivan alleges that “neither the (Bureau of Indian Affairs) nor the FBI have taken any action to investigate or charge the adults in these homes for their criminally abusive acts.”
"Many of the adults in those homes “are related to or are close associates of” Tribal Chairman Roger Yankton or other Tribal Council members, he wrote."
"Yankton did not respond to calls or emails seeking comment."
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