Dustup in Utah Indian Affairs Post

Here.

An excerpt:

The director of the state Office of Indian Affairs was fired last month for being “insubordinate” and failing to meet expectations, Gov. Gary Herbert said Thursday, the first time the governor has publicly given a reason for the sudden termination.

Tribal leaders were frustrated at the governor’s explanation for firing Forrest Cuch during a Wednesday luncheon. At the afternoon meeting of the Utah Tribal Leaders Council, they drafted a resolution stating that the dismissal “demonstrates a manifest disregard and disrespect for the inherent sovereign authority of Native America Tribes,” and demanded an apology from the governor.

“There is no need to apologize,” Herbert said during his monthly KUED news conference Thursday. “Mr. Cuch knew what the expectations were and he did not reach them.”