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LYNWOOD, Calif. (AP) — Long
lefore California banned racial pref-
jences, there was Patrick Chavis, a
jack medical student swept up in
ineofthe earliest court cases over af-
irmative action.
Chavis, who grew up in South
;entral Los Angeles, not only sur-
ived the Bakke case, which went all
jeway to the Supreme Court in the
|70s, but was hailed as the embod-
lent of affirmative action as it was
aeant to be when he opened an of-
icein a poor Los Angeles neighbor-
ood instead of a well-to-do suburb.
Today, however, the 45-year-old
fjstetrician-gynecologist is tem
porarily barred from practicing loc
alise of alleged negligence in the
lead) of a liposuction patient, and
rides are using him as a weapon to
itack affirmative action.
“A cautionary tale about the dan-
prs of preferential treatment,” Mark
asswell, contributing editor at Al-
ire magazine, wrote in a Wall Street
Journal opinion piece Wednesday.
Civil rights groups that once tout
ed Chavis said his problems should
not be used to argue against affirma
tive action.
“It’s never wise to rely solely on
anecdotal information to justify pub
lic policy,” said Oren Sellstrom of the
San Francisco-based Lawyers Com
mittee for Civil Rights. “A single ex
ample does not constitute data.”
Whatever the larger social im
plications, Chavis is in very deep
trouble.
Court files show he has been
sued at least 21 times for alleged
malpractice. He has settled some
of the cases without admitting
wrongdoing. He declared bank
ruptcy in March. Before that, he
failed to pay child support. He has
been through two bitter divorces,
with an alimony trial pending.
Worst of all, he could permanent
ly lose his medical license and even
face criminal charges in the death of
Tammaria Cotton, a 43-year-old
court clerk.
In a recent interview, Chavis de
nied all the allegations against him.
He said his accusers at the state Med
ical Board relied on incomplete
records from a hospital he has
clashed with numerous times, and
on selective interviews with his ene
mies, including his ex-wives.
All of the Medical Board investi
gators who have questioned him are
white, as are the administrators at the
hospital where he once worked, he
said.
“That’s racism, I don’t care what
you say,” Chavis said. “They wouldn’t
do that to a white guy.”
In October, Chavis will face ad
ministrative hearings on whether he
should lose his license over Cotton’s
death.
Cotton suffered severe blood
loss and died of cardiac arrest in
June 1996, hours after Chavis re
moved fat from her abdomen, but
tocks and thighs.
Investigators allege Chavis was in
competent and negligent. Among
other things, he allegedly failed to
monitor Cotton’s blood pressure or
hospitalize her when it dropped.
Deputy Attorney General Richard
Avila said at a hearing this summer
that Chavis “abandoned patients at
critical points in their recovery.”
Chavis blames the woman’s
death on her husband, Jimmy,
who he says propped her up after
surgery against his orders, causing
a fatal plunge in blood pressure.
State medical reports confirm Jim
my Cotton moved his wife into a
wheelchair after the liposuction.
Chavis acknowledges that he had
left his office for his home, where an
other patient was recovering.
“There’s a good possibility that if I
had been there standing guard over
them, this probably wouldn’t have
happened,” he said. “But I left my
competent nurse there.”
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He Lacs Band of Chippewa in Minnesota is
neof the most successful tribes in America,
asinos trimmed unemployment and welfare
ills and helped build new schools and a clinic.
Yet the tribal government still gets $1.4 mil-
ion a year from the Bureau of Indian Affairs —
highly $1,000 for every tribal member,
j Meanwhile, a few hundred miles west, some
ithepoorest Americans, South Dakota’s Oglala
.lidRosebud Sioux, get about $200 per member
|om the B1A.
An AP analysis of the Indian agency’s arcane
aiding systems shows wide disparities, with the
[ best, best-located tribes frequently the best
ided, up to $2,000 per member, while some
bes get less than $ 100.
And the gap between tribes grows as annual
aiding increases are made at the same rate for
,try reservation.
BIA officials say it’s politically impossible for
im to redistribute the money. And distrustful
ies— rich and poor—don’t want any change.
The Senate, nevertheless, will debate legisla
tion this month that could lead to relatively
withy tribes getting less of the BIA money flow.
All tribes have needs but the tribes with the
gitaiest needs and poorest situations should be,
Jtrfieleast, given some level of preference,” said
Sen,Slade Gorton, R-Wash.
Gorton inserted a provision in the Interior De
partment’s 1998 appropriations bill that would
ttjuire tribes to begin reporting their income to >
‘ieBIA. It’s a first step toward requiring the fed-
falagency to fund tribes according to need.
Interior Secretaiy Bruce Babbitt has said he
.mild recommend a veto of the appropriations
fill if Gorton’s provision stays in.
Opponents such as Ron Allen, president of
|e National Congress of American Indians, ex-
lained: “You can’t come in and fix a problem like
tlisovernight in such a blatant and callous way.
It’s fundamentally wrong.”-
Tribal leaders argue that the federal govern
ment is obligated to care for Indians in perpetu
ity and that basing funding on need would dis
courage tribes from trying to improve themselves.
‘I don’t think they could guarantee us we
“All tribes have needs but the tribes
with the greatest needs and poorest
situations should be, at least, given
some level of preference.”
SLADE GORTON
UNITED STATES SENATOR
wouldn’t be hurt by this,” said William Kindle,
president of the Rosebud Sioux, whose barren
reservation has one of the nation’s highest pover
ty rates. “They’ve never kept their word with us.”
More than 200 Indian leaders are coming to
Washington this week to lobby against Gorton’s
provision and a second, equally unpopular, mea
sure that seeks to strip tribes of their immunity
against lawsuits.
The BIA funds almost every function of tribal
government on reservations, including social
services, law enforcement, land management
and road maintenance. This year the bureau dis
tributed $681 million to 554 tribes.
When the BIA started funding tribes in the
1930s the money was apportioned according to
population, but that changed in the 1960s and
1970s.
Tribes with influential representatives in
Congress, such as former Sen. Warren Magnu-
son of Washington, longtime chairman of the
Senate Appropriations Committee, got more
money. So did tribes that took over manage
ment of BIA services or won rights to water and
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other natural resources and needed federal
money to enforce them.
That extra money subsequendy was built into
the tribes’ annual funding base regardless of
whether the tribes’ needs changed.
The result: tribes that have been the most suc
cessful in developing natural resources, starting
casinos, resorts and other businesses, or in lob
bying Congress are also among the best funded
by the BIA. Often that means tribes rich in tim
ber or those located near major cities.
Tribes in theFacific Northwest receive nearly
twice the amount per capita that tribes in the
Dakotas get on average and nearly eight times
the share for the Cherokee and other tribes in
eastern Oklahoma.
In Oregon, the Confederated Tribes of Warm
Springs, which has one of the lowest unemploy
ment rates in Indian country, an estimated 12
percent, received $3.6 million in BIA funding this
year. That's more than $1,230 for each of the 2,900
tribal members living on or near the reservation.
New Mexico’s Mescalero Apache tribe, which
operates a popular mountain resort and has vir
tually no unemployment, got $941 per tribal
member.
The small Mille Lacs tribe, located on one of
Minnesota’s premier fishing lakes less than two
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that draw 130,000 gamblers a week.
“It was hard to control and keep the per-capi-
ta allocation system going,” said Michael Ander
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secretary for Indian affairs. “To right that in the
1990s and to try to achieve equity ... is going to
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Even when Congress has tried to address the
funding disparity it hasn’t always hit the mark.
BIA was given $2 million this year to distribute to
tribes deemed “small and needy.” All the tribes
that shared the money were small—under 1,500
members — but not all were needy.
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