Privilege to Serve: KBIC Tribal Council incumbent plans to focus on drug abuse

Incumbent candidate Donald Shalifoe Sr. has lived on the Keweenaw Bay Indian Community reservation since he was born and would like to remain one of 12 who make up its governing body, the Tribal Council.

“I have wanted to serve our people for as long as I can remember,” Shalifoe said. “My mother served our people in the early ’70s when I was a child, and I remember how she loved the people of the KBIC. It has been an honor, as well as my humble privilege, to serve our people as a council member for the past three years, as well as Ogima for one of those years.”

Shalifoe is keenly aware of area drug problems and promotes tougher laws for offenders and cultural lessons for youth.

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