{"id":1267,"date":"2020-09-25T08:38:53","date_gmt":"2020-09-25T13:38:53","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.indianz.com\/News\/?p=1267"},"modified":"2020-09-25T08:46:20","modified_gmt":"2020-09-25T13:46:20","slug":"native-sun-news-today-northern-cheyenne-tribe-heads-into-election-season","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/indianz.com\/News\/2020\/09\/25\/native-sun-news-today-northern-cheyenne-tribe-heads-into-election-season\/","title":{"rendered":"Native Sun News Today: Northern Cheyenne Tribe heads into election season"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class=row><div class=col-md-6>\r\n<div class=\"fb-post\" data-href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/councilmanspottedelk\/photos\/a.2178994275753696\/2676311079355344\/?type=3\" data-show-text=\"false\" data-width=\"auto\"><blockquote cite=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/councilmanspottedelk\/photos\/a.2178994275753696\/2676311079355344\/?type=3\" class=\"fb-xfbml-parse-ignore\"><p>Thank you Northern Cheyenne Tribal Board of Health for setting up at the Post office to provide face mask \ud83d\ude37, hand&#8230;<\/p>Posted by <a href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/councilmanspottedelk\/\">Lane Spotted Elk- Northern Cheyenne Tribal Council<\/a> on&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/councilmanspottedelk\/photos\/a.2178994275753696\/2676311079355344\/?type=3\">Thursday, August 20, 2020<\/a><\/blockquote><\/div>\r\n<\/div><div class=\"col-md-6 align-self-end\"><figcaption class=\"figure-caption\">Lane Spotted Elk: <a href=https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/councilmanspottedelk\/photos\/a.2178994275753696\/2676311079355344\/?type=3&#038;theater>&#8220;Thank you Northern Cheyenne Tribal Board of Health&#8221;<\/a><\/figcaption>\r\n<\/div><\/div>\r\n<div class=\"h1-responsive\">Northern Cheyenne Primary Election set for October<\/div>\r\n<div class=\"byline\">By Clara Caufield<\/div>\r\n<div class=\"source\">Native Sun News Today Correspondent<\/div>\r\n<div class=source-website><a href=https:\/\/www.nativesunnews.today\/>nativesunnews.today<\/a><\/div>\r\n<P><\/P>\r\nA primary election for the <a href=http:\/\/www.cheyennenation.com\/>Northern Cheyenne Tribe<\/a> is scheduled for October 1, 2020. Several key seats are open: Tribal President; Tribal Vice-President; Chief Judge, two Trial Judges and five (out of ten) Tribal Council seats. <P><\/P>\r\nThe number of candidates for each seat in the Primary is unlimited, voting for Tribal Council seats at the district level. Other seats are open for reservation-wide voting. The two top-vote getters for each open seat will run against one another in a reservation-wide election on November coinciding with the Federal and State Elections. <P><\/P>\r\nInterestingly, several incumbents including the Tribal President, Vice-President and one Tribal Council member are not seeking re-election, some candidly admitting their frustration with Tribal Government. <P><\/P>\r\nCandidates who filed for each office, paid the required filing fee and declared eligible by the Tribal Voter\u2019s Committee are as follows. In addition, write-ins are legal in the Primary, but not in the General Election. <P><\/P>\r\n<div class=\"mt-1 mb-1\"><ins class=\"adsbygoogle\"\r\n     style=\"display:block; text-align:center;\"\r\n     data-ad-layout=\"in-article\"\r\n     data-ad-format=\"fluid\"\r\n     data-ad-client=\"ca-pub-8411603009680747\"\r\n     data-ad-slot=\"6394965691\"><\/ins>\r\n<script>\r\n     (adsbygoogle = window.adsbygoogle || []).push({});\r\n  <\/script><\/div><p><\/p>\r\n<div class=\"h5-responsive sub\">Tribal President<\/div>\r\n Curtis Elkshoulder, Jr. (Manager of tribal convenience store); Donna Marie Fisher (self-employed caterer and former Ashland District Tribal Council member); Rudolph King, Jr. (retired law enforcement and Tribal Judge); Lafe Haugen (former Housing Authority Director); Gene Small (rancher and Executive Director of Tribal Land Authority); Patricia Tallbull (retired, former Tribal Social Services Director and Muddy District Tribal Council member). \r\n<P><\/P>\r\nIn addition, William Walksalong has declared via Facebook a write-in candidacy. He is currently the Chief Administrator for the Tribe a former Lame Deer District Council member and past Tribal President.\r\n<P><\/P>\r\n<div class=\"h5-responsive sub\">Tribal  Vice President<\/div> \r\nSerena Brady Wetheralt; Dana Eaglefeathers (construction contractor, former Busy District Chairman and incumbent Busby Tribal Council member); Sheldon King (former bus driver, current head of tribal propane company and former Busby Tribal Council member); Sterling Small, rancher, former MT State Representative and former Tribal Health Program Director) and Aljo Strangeowl (retired Tribal Housing employee and former Busby Tribal Council member).\r\n<P><\/P>\r\nElection polls will be open in each district, however considering the <a href=\/covid19\/>COVID pandemic<\/a>, tribal members are urged to download a request for an <a href=http:\/\/www.cheyennenation.com\/nct\/legislative\/20\/Application%20for%20Absentee%20Ballot%202020.pdf>Absentee Ballot<\/a> from the Tribal website and conduct a mail-in ballot. Also, due to COVID traditional campaign strategies such as community feasts provided by the candidates, public and district meetings and debates have largely been curtailed. \r\n<P><\/P>\r\n<div class=\"card mb-3\">\r\n  <div class=\"row\">\r\n    <div class=\"col-md-4\">\r\n      <a href=\"https:\/\/www.nativesunnews.today\/\">\r\n\t\t  <img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/indianz.com\/News\/2016\/09\/12\/nativesunnewstoday.png\" class=\"img-fluid\" alt=\"native sun news today\"\/>\r\n\t\t<\/a>\r\n    <\/div>\r\n    <div class=\"col-md-8\">\r\n      <div class=\"card-body\">\r\n        <h5 class=\"card-title\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.nativesunnews.today\/\">NATIVE SUN NEWS TODAY<\/a><\/h5>\r\n        <p>\r\n           Support Native media!\r\n        <\/p>\r\n\t\t<p>Read the rest of the story on Native Sun News Today: <a href=\"https:\/\/www.nativesunnews.today\/articles\/northern-cheyenne-primary-election-set-for-october\/\">Northern Cheyenne Primary Election set for October<\/a>\r\n\t\t<\/p>\r\n\t\t<p>\r\n\t\t\t<div class=\"source-links\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.nativesunnews.today\/\"><i class=\"fas fa-link fa-xs\"><\/i> nativesunnews.today<\/a>\r\n&nbsp;<a target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/nsweekly\"><i class=\"fab fa-facebook fa-xs\"><\/i> nsweekly<\/a>\r\n<\/div>\r\n\t\t<\/p>  \r\n      <\/div>\r\n    <\/div>\r\n  <\/div>\r\n<\/div>\r\n<P><\/P>\r\n<HR><EM>Clara Caufield can be reached at acheyennevoice@gmail.com<\/em><HR>\r\n<p><\/p>\r\n<strong>Note: Copyright permission <A href=\"https:\/\/www.nativesunnews.today\/\">Native Sun News Today<\/A><\/strong>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"The president and vice president of the Northern Cheyenne Tribe aren&#8217;t seeking re-election, a sign of frustration with the government on the reservation.","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":1272,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"ngg_post_thumbnail":0,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_vp_format_video_url":"","_vp_image_focal_point":[],"_jetpack_feature_clip_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[1,14],"tags":[5,56,249,2,268],"class_list":["post-1267","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-national","category-politics","tag-coronavirus","tag-elections","tag-montana","tag-native-sun-news-today","tag-northern-cheyenne","no-wpautop"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/indianz.com\/News\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/09\/northerncheyennetribe.jpg","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/pcoJ7g-kr","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/indianz.com\/News\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1267","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/indianz.com\/News\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/indianz.com\/News\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/indianz.com\/News\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/indianz.com\/News\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1267"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/indianz.com\/News\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1267\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/indianz.com\/News\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/1272"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/indianz.com\/News\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1267"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/indianz.com\/News\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1267"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/indianz.com\/News\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1267"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}