{"id":5458,"date":"2020-12-07T13:18:02","date_gmt":"2020-12-07T18:18:02","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.indianz.com\/News\/?p=5458"},"modified":"2020-12-07T14:41:43","modified_gmt":"2020-12-07T19:41:43","slug":"colorado-river-indian-tribes-elect-amelia-flores-as-chair","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/indianz.com\/News\/2020\/12\/07\/colorado-river-indian-tribes-elect-amelia-flores-as-chair\/","title":{"rendered":"Colorado River Indian Tribes choose new leadership"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class=\"embed-responsive embed-responsive-16by9\">\r\n<span class=\"embed-youtube\" style=\"text-align:center; display: block;\"><iframe loading=\"lazy\" class=\"youtube-player\" width=\"640\" height=\"360\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/ol4vxFPDzVY?version=3&#038;rel=1&#038;showsearch=0&#038;showinfo=1&#038;iv_load_policy=1&#038;fs=1&#038;hl=en-US&#038;autohide=2&#038;wmode=transparent\" allowfullscreen=\"true\" style=\"border:0;\" sandbox=\"allow-scripts allow-same-origin allow-popups allow-presentation allow-popups-to-escape-sandbox\"><\/iframe><\/span>\r\n<\/div>\r\n<figcaption class=\"figure-caption\">Amelia Flores: <a href=https:\/\/youtu.be\/ol4vxFPDzVY>&#8216;We broke the glass ceiling&#8217;<\/a>\r\n<\/figcaption>\r\n<div class=\"h3-responsive font-weight-bold\">Colorado River Indian Tribes Elect Tribal Leaders<\/div>\r\n<div class=\"date\">Monday, December 7, 2020<\/div>\r\n<div class=\"source\">Source: Colorado River Indian Tribes<\/div>\r\n<div class=\"source-links\"><a href=https:\/\/www.crit-nsn.gov\/>crit-nsn.gov<\/a><\/div>\r\n<p><\/p>\r\nPARKER, Arizona &#8212; Voters of the <a href=https:\/\/www.crit-nsn.gov\/>Colorado River Indian Tribes<\/a> (CRIT) have elected Amelia Flores as Tribal Chairwoman and five members to the Tribal Council.\r\n<p><\/p>\r\n The vote was held December 5th. The results are unofficial until the vote is certified Monday, December 7th. \r\n<p><\/p>\r\nIn addition to the Chairman\u2019s post, there were four open seats to serve four year terms on the Tribal Council and a single open seat to serve a two year term.\r\n<p><\/p>\r\nTribal members cast ballots via the mail and in person, in an election process that carefully followed health and safety protocols.\r\n<p><\/p>\r\n<div class=\"fb-post\" data-href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/Amelia-Flores-for-Chairman-111472204106779\/photos\/111489257438407\" data-width=\"552\" style=\"background-color: #fff; display: inline-block;\"><\/div>\r\n<P><\/P>\r\n<a href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/Amelia-Flores-for-Chairman-111472204106779\">Amelia Flores<\/a> was elected Chair from a field of five candidates. Each received the following number of votes according to the unofficial tally.\r\n<p><\/p>\r\n<div class=mx-4>\r\nRichard Evans 56<BR>\r\n<strong>Amelia Flores<\/strong> 434 <i class=\"fas fa-check\"><\/i> <BR>\r\nDwight Lomayesva Jr. 188<BR>\r\nGranthum Stevens 66<BR>\r\nDennis Patch 274\r\n<\/div>\r\n<p><\/p>\r\nJohnson \u201cJD\u201d Fisher, Jaymee Moore, Tommy Drennan, and Robert \u201cBobby\u201d Page were elected to fill four open seats for four-year terms on the Tribal Council from a field of 17 candidates. Each received the following number of votes according to the unofficial tally.\r\n<p><\/p>\r\n<div class=mx-4>\r\nTimothy Mariscal 74<BR>\r\n<strong>Johnson \u201cJ.D.\u201d Fisher 412 <\/strong> <i class=\"fas fa-check\"><\/i>   <BR>  \r\nLeo Scott 234<BR>\r\nWoodrow Sharp 314<BR>\r\nRichard Dillon Esquerra 63<BR>\r\nJimmy Alcaida 227<BR>\r\nAmanda Barrera 241<BR>\r\nAnthony Stone Jr. 115<BR>\r\nTommie Miller 167<BR>\r\nTimothy Stevens-Welsh 266<BR>\r\nEtta Anderson 76<BR>\r\n<strong>Robert \u201cBobby\u201d Page<\/strong><i class=\"fas fa-check\"><\/i>  317<BR>\r\nChance Fisher 115<BR>\r\n<strong>Tommy Drennan 371<\/strong> <i class=\"fas fa-check\"><\/i> <BR>\r\nValerie Welsh-Tahbo 308<BR>\r\nLori Knighton 211<BR>\r\n<strong>Jaymee Moore 385<\/strong> <i class=\"fas fa-check\"><\/i> \r\n<\/div>\r\n<p><\/p><div class=\"mt-1 mb-1\"><ins class=\"adsbygoogle\" style=\"display:block; text-align:center;\" data-ad-layout=\"in-article\" data-ad-format=\"fluid\" data-ad-client=\"ca-pub-8411603009680747\" data-ad-slot=\"6394965691\"><\/ins><script>(adsbygoogle = window.adsbygoogle || []).push({});<\/script><\/div><p><\/p>\r\nJosephine Tahbo was elected to fill a two-year term on the Tribal Council from a field of five candidates. Each received the following number of votes according to the unofficial tally.\r\n<p><\/p>\r\n<div class=mx-4>\r\n<strong>Jermaine \u201cBoyda\u201d Fisher<\/strong> 247 <i class=\"fas fa-check\"><\/i> <BR>\r\nDaphne Hill-Poolaw 103<BR>\r\nJosephine Tahbo 333<BR>\r\nErica James 111<BR>\r\nDaris Laffoon 212    \r\n<\/div>              \r\n<p><\/p>\r\nThe Tribal Council will hold a special meeting on Monday December 7th at 9:00 am to make the vote official.\r\n<p><\/p>\r\n<HR><EM>The Colorado River Indian Tribes include four distinct Tribes &#8211; the Mohave, Chemehuevi, Hopi, and Navajo. There are currently about 4,572 Tribal members. The CRIT Reservation was created in 1865 by the Federal Government for \u201cIndians of the Colorado River and its tributaries,\u201d originally for the Mohave and Chemehuevi, who had inhabited the area for centuries. People of the Hopi and Navajo Tribes were relocated to the reservation in later years. The reservation stretches along the Colorado River on both the Arizona and California side. It includes approximately 300,000 acres of land, with the river serving as the focal point and lifeblood of the area.<\/em><HR>\r\n<img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/indianz.com\/News\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/12\/07\/ameliaflores.jpg\" alt=\"ameliaflores\" class=\"invisible\" height=\"0\" width=\"0\" \/>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Voters of the Colorado River Indian Tribes have elected Amelia Flores as chairwoman and five members to the governing council.","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":5472,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"ngg_post_thumbnail":0,"_vp_format_video_url":"","_vp_image_focal_point":[],"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[14,31],"tags":[919,42,38,918,56,44],"class_list":["post-5458","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-politics","category-press-release","tag-amelia-flores","tag-arizona","tag-california","tag-crit","tag-elections","tag-women","no-wpautop"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/indianz.com\/News\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/12\/07\/ameliaflores.jpg","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/pcoJ7g-1q2","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/indianz.com\/News\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5458","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=5458"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/indianz.com\/News\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5458\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/indianz.com\/News\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/5472"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/indianz.com\/News\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=5458"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/indianz.com\/News\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=5458"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/indianz.com\/News\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=5458"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}