Hello Everybody,

My name is Cora Jean Jech. I will be 78 years old in January. I have 7 children and 14 grandchildren and 6 great grandchildren. I have lived in Pawhuska, Oklahoma all of my life. This is a small town and I probably know about one-half the people who live here. I was born in Hominy, Oklahoma the child of Charles Big Elk and Nancy Rogers. My parents divorced when I was a baby therefore l was adopted by my second cousin Cora Leahy Mundy and H.H. "Doc" Mundy. When l was young my dad Charlie died. I then became a ward of the government. My Osage headright interest came from my dad, Charles Big Elk. Even though I was adopted, the Indian agency had control over my Osage money. Doc Mundy was appointed my guardian. So you can see the BIA had authority over my income for many years.

Things continued on business as usual until 2006 when the "New Constitution" came into being. This constitution is a poorly written document, and in my opinion was meant to defraud the Osage headright owners out of their property interests.

The Minerals Council is suppose to uphold the 1906 Act and handle our business separate from the Constitution but the new government is trying to swallow us whole and take our property rights away from us. Five of the present minerals council voted that the Minerals Trust is owned by the Osage Nation. According to the 1906 Act our Chief and Assistant Chief are elected by headright owners only. Now we have non-shareholders voting. Jim Gray and John Red Eagle were elected by the Headright owners and non-headright owners ignoring the 1906 Act.

A lawsuit is being filed in Federal Court in Tulsa. We will be suing the U.S. of America Dept. of the lnterior, Ken Salazar, Secretary of the Interior of Bureau of Indian Affairs, Larry Echohawk Assistant Secretary of Interior of Bureau of lndian Affairs. The whole purpose of this lawsuit is to totally separate the Osage Minerals Trust from the Constitution. We stand on our own according to the 1906 Act but some of the present minerals council do not adhere to that. lf we don't act for ourselves to right this wrong we will be done away with and our headrights as we have known them for 100 years, we will cease to exist. ls this what you want?

We need your help. We need litigants to join us in this lawsuit, the more the better. We need money to file this suit. People, this is our last chance to correct the wrong that is being done to us and to separate our Trust forever from this happening again.

Sincerely,

Cora Jean Jech
1414 Grandview
Pawhuska, OK 74056
918-287-1819