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Dakota East Associates
Objective Public Relations
33 Essex Street
Hackensack NJ 07601
201-489-5057

By Joe Campagna <aconcert@carroll.com>

News Release
August 3, 1998

World News Business, Arts & Entertainment


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services and organizations.

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For Immediate Release



USA - A Native American Indian non-profit corporation which was set up
to provide Native American broadcasting, nearly 8 years of organizing,
is facing a decision that involves splitting up or uncertainty.

The corporation is not currently under application with the FCC. United
Native Culture & Language Exchange (U.N.C.L.E.) - the NJ non-profit
Corporation I.D. Number 0100-5593-08, reg 6/23/93). The corporation is
also known by one of their their registered trademarks "United Native
American Television Broadcasting". There are also several legally filed
an used alternate names for the entity.

U.N.C.L.E. is accepting public comment on a pending decision whether or
not to file for 501(3)(c) or amend corporate filing to a profit-making
corporation. The public comment period starts August 7th and ends on
November 11, 1998. During this time U.N.C.L.E. will also look at
corporate offers for its extensive broadcast plan which has been
supported by American Indian people and since as 1992.


The address for comment is U.N.C.L.E. P.O. Box 3130, Fort Lee NJ 07024,
or by email via "mailto:uncle@unat.org"

All comments must include real name and address information: city, state
country. Comments will not be published for public view without request
and confirmed permission. All other will remain in NPO corporate record.


Further information for release to news agencies:


The company is wasting no time to begin finding experienced officers
suitable for a broadcast corporation, as well as possible investment
capitalists. Should comment by the public be favorable for either profit
or commercial based. So far the corporation which is now American Indian
controlled has had favorable native support of their plans for a cable
television broadcast pilot and international entertainment, educational
and native news channel. A plan which would empower American Native
peoples, as well as help save and expand an American Indian arts and
crafts market. Dateline NBC is reported to be in production of a special
segment which exposes counterfiet American Indian goods that threagten
Native economies and decieve the world public on authenicicty.



A change over to a profit-making corporation would allocate U.N.C.L.E.'s
trademarks and its intellectual properties to create a new "partnership"
corporation which would accept tribal, as well as outside private and
corporate investment. If formed. The new profit-making offshoot would
not likely be Indian owned and operated as would be subject to outside
investment. However, the cultural aspects of what is politically
acceptable for TV, news, and content would be selected by Native
American employees, and much generated by the native American public, as
the existing non-profit would want to stipulate some conditions of its
original plan to maintain support of American Indian peoples and become
an employer of same, said a spokesman. The non-profit corporation was a
cooperation between Indian and non-indian people and mostly indian
controlled or directed.



The corporation insists it is the first of its kind to create a
comprehensive plan for a type of public broadcasting that is both
non-profit and beneficial to tribal/band economies while can stimulate
the growth of privately owned Native operated entertainment and arts.

U.N.C.L.E. seeks to protect its plans and communications as intellectual
property to try and ensure the integrity of the concept before even the
plan is turned over to its choice of a for-profit corporation and by
negotiating key elements remain in the bylaws of a subsequent for-profit
corporation as a stipulation to any agreement to turn over the
properties.

The corporation was first formed to fund children's'' cartoons in native
languages and form an intertribal council not "tribal-council
controlled" to help protect the integrity of Native cultures,
traditions, arts, and their intellectual properties through mutual
support. The recent success of the Miramax film "Smoke Signals" by
Sherman Alexie has helped prompt a very high activity in the interest
and production of Native Film and in film festivals. Mr. Alexie was a
member of two of the corporation's internet four mailing lists where
many Native American Indian, educators, authors and filmmakers
communicate. The corporation is also unique in that these same lists
have been used by U.N.C.L.E. staff and volunteers to help take
U.N.C.L.E. off the ground as some organizing of the American Indian
Broadcasting plan was done on these lists. However "United Native
American Television Broadcasting" the U.N.C.L.E. property has had much
difficulty finding the voluntary expertise needed to form a broadcast
company and in any case intends to reorganize or negotiate all
associated trademarks, alternate names, and it's plan.



Any change could involve a potential split of the corporation and
thereby establish a new board of directors to be selected on
entertainment and broadcast industry experience, as well as educational,
and administrative. This to create a for-profit broadcasting
corporation.



UNATBC has registered the new marks American Indian Broadcasting "tm",
and United American Indian Broadcasting, and has filed for these as
legal "alternate names" with the secretary of state which are expected
to be filed soon. This because confusion regarding definition of terms
"Native American" and "American Indian". Some Native people insist both
terms mean any peoples indigenous to the Americas and are synonymous yet
some Natives prefer one designation to another or even the term
"Aboriginal" as in the Canadian Indigenous nations. It has also been
suggested that if there is such a thing as tribal sovereignty or
autonomy that Canadian and American are irrelevant terms and merely
geographic designations with separate dealings for government to
government relations. Alaska Native peoples also seem designate
themselves according to geographic preference and nation as "Alaska
Natives".



Under part of the original corporate plan, all members of any Alaska,
US. or Canadian tribes and bands would have the option to claim one
common share amounting to a total of 51% of the first common stock as
would be the amount put aside as would be 10 million shares to ensure
that future generation would receive a share each at time of birth.
Dividends on the remaining part of 51% of stock would go toward
non-profit purposes. One share of a percentage of common stock would be
issued for free by request of any tribal member should the deal go
through as possible that way. The remainder would be placed on the open
market. In addition, all registered owners of common shares would have
an annual meeting via a report and reply questionnaire to allow their
suggestions to be put into the overall policy of the company. The
questionnaire would be developed in accordance with board activities and
member letters throughout each year. The voting majority would be a
board and investment capitalists controlling preferred shares.

If the corporation goes "for-profit" or splits into two separate
entities, maintaining the Indian Educational staff for a committee to
advance scholarships for native peoples as U.N.C.L.E. as a non profit
U.N.C.L.E. would not be able to benefit from the profit corporation. The
for-profit corporation then owning the marks "United Native American
Television Broadcasting" a.k.a United Native - Aboriginal Television,
Indian Guitars, as well as other international and other trademarks,
would be hoped that the new profit corporations still set aside
percentage of its profits to Native Alaska, American Indian, and
Canadian Aboriginal Americans (Native Americans) including Innu, Inuit,
and Metis peoples' non-profit organizations and associations in good
standing which provide needed public services to Native peoples and
committees.



For additional information contact:
Dakota East Associates
Objective Public Relations
33 Essex Street
Hackensack NJ 07601
201-489-5057



The address for comment is U.N.C.L.E. P.O. Box 3130, Fort Lee NJ 07024,
or by email via "mailto:uncle@unat.org"