Another scheduled speaker is John Petoskey, who will explain how his Grand Traverse Band of Ottawa and Chippewa Indians in Michigan used casino profits to invest in Traverse City and clean up urban blight. The Morris K. Udall Foundation for Scholarship and Excellence in National Environmental Policy is a federal agency established by Congress in 1992 to honor Udall's 30 years of service in the House of Representatives. The Udall Center for Studies in Public Policy is a research and outreach unit of the University of Arizona. The price includes lunch and dinner on Friday and lunch on Saturday. For more information, call the Udall Center at 621-7189.
Tribes determine their own membership and set up their own governments.
But in reality, most tribes operate as quasi-sovereign nations since they still rely on U.S. government subsidies and programs for such crucial functions as welfare, health care and housing. Both the tribes and the federal government are working on increasing Indian self-governance by turning federal programs over to the tribes themselves.