This year’s newly elected Tribal Council will be taking their seats as of December 10, 2009.  Congratulations to the 5 candidates who had received the most votes out of the 8 candidates who ran. 
George Gholson 109,
Margaret Cortez 86,
Bill Eddy 85,
Cleveland Casey 83,
Virginia Beck 58,
other candidates included
Richard Casey 51,
Jesse Davis 37,
Lisa McDarment 29.

The recognized Tribal Council held the 2009 Elections according to the Tribal Constitution and the Tribal Election Ordinance.  All Tribal Council meetings and actions taken had been held with quorum at our regularly scheduled Tribal Council meetings.  The Enrollment and Election Committees had made sure that our candidates for Tribal Council had been eligible and that all eligible Tribal members were able to cast their vote.

The Election had been overseen by the Election Committee, Independent Observer – Marko Horvat from the firm of Daniells, Phillips, Vaughan, and Bock, and several Tribal members throughout the entire day.  The ballots were counted immediately following the closing of the polling site, 111 ballots had been accepted.  One ballot was not accepted for having incorrect serial numbers and 3 ballots arrived after the deadline.

With no appeals having been submitted, the Election Report had been accepted by the recognized Tribal Council and then certified as the Official Election Results.  A copy of the Official Election Report shall be made available to any Tribal members who want to see a detail of all actions taken to ensure a good election.

The Timbisha Shoshone Story ...

The Shoshone are part of a great language phylum known to linguists as Aztec-Tanoan. Evidence indicates Aztec-Tanoans were probably a component of the hunter/gatherer Cochise Culture of southwestern New Mexico, southeastern Arizona, and northern Mexico. This culture began about 10,000 years ago, and lasted to about 500 B.C. But since this period began about the time of the end of the last Ice Age, flora and fauna were becoming sparse and even extinct and many tribes, including the Uto-Aztecan ancestors of the Shoshone, apparently fissioned about that time from this Cochise Culture.