Kelvin Frank, executive director of United Indians for All Tribes Foundation (UIATF), told members of the city council’s Housing, Human Services, Health and Culture committee that at one time in the organization’s four decade history, UIATF was the most powerful urban Indian organization in the country. “Everybody knew who United Indians was,” Frank said.
In mid-2012, outsiders began to sense UIATF’s power was waning. The organization faced a $400,000 deficit that caused it to cancel its annual powwow for the first time in almost 30 years. ...