Feds may step in/Goshutes vote to shut down tribal business (nuke storage)

[NVMojo]

September 3, 2006

SOUTH SALT LAKE - The door was locked, the lights out and unopened mail stacked on the reception desk at the Skull Valley Goshutes business office here.
It's exactly what members of the tiny Indian tribe had directed last weekend when they voted to accept the resignation of one leader, bar another from doing official business and take the rare step of asking the federal government to supervise an election.
The leadership of the organization behind a multibillion-dollar plan to store nuclear reactor waste has been in dispute for a long time. But now, it's in meltdown.
Last week, the U.S. Bureau of Indian Affairs acknowledged that the Skull Valley Goshutes government - which has no constitution or formal legal system - is in a shambles and needs help. The BIA tries to stay out of tribal business as a matter of policy. But, in this case, the agency is looking into what role it can play in an election.
"It's unusual for us to do that in this day and age," said Allen S. Anspaugh, the agency's Phoenix regional director. "Time is of the essence, because right now, they really don't have a government."

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