{"id":57438,"date":"2020-01-10T12:00:00","date_gmt":"2020-01-10T21:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.juneauempire.com\/news\/incumbents-mostly-keep-their-seats-in-douglas-indian-association-election\/"},"modified":"2020-01-10T12:00:00","modified_gmt":"2020-01-10T21:00:00","slug":"incumbents-mostly-keep-their-seats-in-douglas-indian-association-election","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.juneauempire.com\/news\/incumbents-mostly-keep-their-seats-in-douglas-indian-association-election\/","title":{"rendered":"Incumbents mostly keep their seats in Douglas Indian Association election"},"content":{"rendered":"

Douglas Indian Association’s newly elected tribal council members will all be familiar faces, according to unofficial results from the annual election held this week.<\/p>\n

The five top vote-getters for five open tribal council seats were Barbara Cadiente-Nelson, 40 votes; Kevin Allen, 38 votes; Christopher Coronell, 34 votes; Darryl Williams, 32 votes; and Norman Sarabia, 26 votes, according to totals shared with the Empire by Georgia Finau, administrative research assistant for DIA.<\/p>\n

The Douglas Indian Association is a federally recognized tribe with 700 tribal members that represent the T’aaku Kwáan and A’akw Kwáan clans in Douglas and Juneau. A total of 67 people voted in Wednesday’s election.<\/p>\n

All apparent council-elects except for Allen were <\/a>incumbents<\/a>, and Allen is a member of the Juneau School District Board of Education and involved with Alaska Native Brotherhood\/Alaska Native Sisterhood.<\/p>\n

Allen said in a phone interview he hoped to use his experience with those organizations during his time on the board.<\/p>\n

[Douglas Indian Association holds tribal council elections<\/a>]<\/ins><\/p>\n

“With the election, I was kind of surprised by how many I had received,” Allen said.<\/p>\n

However, he said his recently deceased grandmother did a lot of work for DIA as tribal administrator, and her legacy may have been a positive for voters. This was Allen’s first time running for tribal council since he said tribal rules preclude someone younger than 21 from running. Allen is 21.<\/p>\n

Finau said the election results will likely be certified during a meeting next week.<\/p>\n

Officer positions will be decided after the results are certified and council members are sworn in for their two-year terms.<\/p>\n

A total of eight candidates were in the running for five openings on DIA’s nine-member tribal council.<\/p>\n

Robert Paulo received 22 votes, Joseph Owen received 19 votes and John Morris Sr. received 17 votes, according to the unofficial results. Morris was an incumbent, according to DIA’s website<\/a>. <\/p>\n

No write-in candidate received more than two votes, according to unofficial results.<\/p>\n

• Contact reporter Ben Hohenstatt at (907)523-2243 or bhohenstatt@juneauempire.com. Follow him on Twitter at @BenHohenstatt<\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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