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The Osage News will be interviewing on camera the 2012 candidates running for the Third Osage Nation Congress. The sixteenth candidate to be interviewed in our series "Candidate Talk" is Archie Mason.

The Osage Limited Liability Company survived a Congressional bill vote aimed at dissolving the entity during the March 23 Osage Nation Congressional session.

Amid concerns from some Congress members over the LLC’s reported money loses and number of Osages currently hired under the entity’s structure, the Nation’s economic development entity will continue operating, but its status and performance will be revisited next month. The LLC is slated to present an annual report to ON government officials with a Congressional meeting set for April 11.

Osages may have a new structure to dance under at Grayhorse come June.

Legislation filed by Congressman Archie Mason Jan. 4 asks the Second Osage Nation Congress to give $550,000 to the Grayhorse Village Five Man Board for the demolition and construction of a new dance arbor in the Grayhorse Indian Village.

[Editor's Note: This story was updated for clarification purposes on Sept. 23.]

Principal Chief John Red Eagle’s budget for the Office of the Chiefs has been causing some friction between some members of Congress and his staff. His budget contains new job titles for appointed members and he is claiming “Executive Privilege” when asked to provide job descriptions.

On the last day of the 2010 Hun-Kah Session Thursday, the Osage Nation Congress rescinded last week’s board confirmation votes conducted by secret ballot then voted again – in the open – on all board appointees which resulted in dismissals of George Pease and Elizabeth Lohah Homer from the Gaming Enterprise Board.

Thursday’s votes come eight days after the Congress declined to confirm board members Frank Oberly, Pease and Chairwoman Homer in a secret ballot vote on April 7.

Osage Nation Congress Speaker Archie Mason says he will step down from the Legislative Branch’s top post after the upcoming Hun-Kah Session of Congress ends, meaning another congressperson will soo n be presiding with the crack of a gavel.

The Osage Nation Congress selected one of two Osage academic scholars considered for the Editorial Board which oversees the Osage News during its Special Session on Wednesday.

By majority vote, the Congress chose Robert Warrior, director of American Indian Studies at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, as its appointment for the Editorial Board after a congressional committee conducted separate phone interviews with Warrior and Teresa Trumbly Lamsam who sat on the newspaper’s Editorial Council appointed by Principal Chief Jim Gray last year.