USET 2009

Last week, USET (United South Eastern Tribes, Inc.) met in Arlington, Virginia.

It has been reported to Brokenwing Editorials, that one (1) member of the Council of Elders and four (4) members of the Tribal Council attended the meetings. How many of the members of the Mohegan Tribal Government brought their significant others?

We had been informed that Phil Cahill, C.O.O. (Chief Operating Officer) of the Mohegan Tribal Government, had supposedly said that no unnecessary travel would be happening by Tribal Government elected officials.

I believe, that yes, we (the Mohegan Tribe) should be represented. However, I don't think we need five (5) members of the government to go. Couldn't we have sent just the ones that were on the governing body of USET???

Did the spouse of the Tribal Council or the Council of Elders go? We have been told that the spouse of the Council of Elder paid their own way. If that is true, thank you for doing the right thing. How many other government officials also went? Does anyone know?

In a time of cost cutting, why did these officials go? When the government is laying off people, the elected officials have the money to travel anyway? Did they travel first class air fare? Did they stay in five star hotel? How much did they charge on their charge cards? How many of thousands of dollars did this cost the tribe? Does anyone know? Should they have gone? What do you think?

Editorial Footnote: It was reported to Brokenwing Editorials that supposedly the 4 members of the Tribal Council were Bruce "Two Dogs" Bozsum, Lynn Melerba, Allison Johnson and William Quidgeon. The Council of Elder member was supposedly Marie Pineault.