Subject: nanews02.029 From: gars@netcom.com (Gary Night Owl) To: Internet Recipients of Wotanging Ikche Message-ID: _ __ _____ __ _ __ ___ ____ _ __ ___ ' ) / / ') / / ) ' ) ) / ) / ' ) ) / ) / / / / / / /--/ / / / ___ / / / / ___ (_(_/ (__/ ( / (_ / (_ (___/ '__/_ / (_ (___/ ' O ( N A T I V E A M E R I C A N ) O o O ____ _ , ___ _ , ___ O o O / ' ) / / ) ' ) / / ' O o o o o O / /-< / /--/ /-- VOLUME 02, ISSUE 029 O o O __/_ / ) (___/ / ( (___, 16 July 1994 O o O ( N E W S ) O This issue contains articles from NATIVE-L and NATCHAT Mailing Lists, Usenet alt.native Newsgroup, FidoNet Indian Affairs Conference, and by members of the Invisible Band. <----<<<< >>>>----> This newsletter is a way of keeping the brothers and sisters of the Invisible Band and those who share our spirit informed about current events within the lives of those who walk the Red Road. It is archived at the Native American FTP site ftp.cit.cornell.edu in the directory /pub/special/NativeProfs/newsletters; and is being sent to gst@gnosys.svle.ma.us (Gary S. Trujillo) should he wish to include it in his NATIVE-L or NATCHAT lists. "The reason Wakan Tanka does not make two birds or animals or human beings exactly alike is because each is placed here by Wakan Tanka to be an individual and to rely on itself." __ Shooter, Teton +- -- -- -- -- -- -- -- -- -- -- -+ | Indian Pledge of Allegiance | The Indian Pledge of Alleg- | | iance was first presented | I pledge allegiance to my Tribe,| on 2 December '93 during the | to the democratic principles | opening address of the Nat- | of the Republic | ional Congress of American | and to the individual freedoms | Indian Tribal-States Relat- | borrowed from the Iroquois and | ions Panel in Reno, NV. NCAI | Choctaw Confederacies, | plans distribution of the | as incorporated in the United | Indian Pledge to all Indian | States Constitution, | Nations. | so that my forefathers | | shall not have died in vain | Walk in Beauty! Night Owl +- -- -- -- -- -- -- -- -- -- -- -+ O'siyo Brothers and Sisters! Firestorms sweep California and Colorado forests. Floods roll through Georgia, Alabama and Florida. A message is being written. This morning a child woke up hungry. A message is being written. This day an elder will cross over in an empty room. A message is being written. This week a group left Atlanta to join the freedom march and rally for Leonard Peltier. This is also a message. This day each of us can help mend the sacred hoop and keep the promise. Listen to the thunder. Listen to the firestorm. It is not yet too late. Mitakuye Oyasin! Night Owl , , (*,*) Gary Night Owl gars%owlstar.UUCP@mathcs.emory.edu (`-') P. O. Box 672168 gars@genie.geis.com ===w=w=== Marietta, GA 30067, U.S.A. gars@netcom.com ----------- News of the people featured in this issue ---------- Part A: FidoNet, Usenet and e-mail Part B: NATCHAT and NATIVE-L lists - Update - Dine' Resistance - Conferences and Powwows - online - Fresh Start for Mohawk - Elder Paul Tiulana Dies - Truth & Perspective - Wannabes, Tradition, etc. - Good News from Oka - Indians on CD-ROM - Vote in Malibu - Hunger Strike for Leonard Peltier - Mating Legend - Coke Wins, Forests Lose - Akwesasne Woes Roots - Ceremony & Burial Sites - NativeNet Echos - NativeNet BBS List - Poem: A'wiat 'ang - Verse: Hawai'ian Book of Days - Conferences and Powwows - offline ------------------ clip here for news feature -- 8< ------------ --------- "RE: Update - Dine' Resistance" --------- Date: 10 Jul 94 04:08:27 GMT From: milo@scicom.AlphaCDC.COM (Michele Lord) Subj: FWB: Update - Dine' Resistance Newsgroup: alt.native Update Dine' Relocation and Resistance (Please refer to articles in Vol.3, no.2 (April) of the Fourth World Bulletin for contextual background of this update.] Following a confrontation over livestock impoundment, which took place in late March, at Big Mountain, the Hopi Tribe (the tribal government) announced a modification of its lease proposal. The new document contains some minor concessions, but its major provisions maintain a draconian and uncompromising position. Judge Harry McCue, whose task it is to conduct and conclude the mediation process, stated that the revision was to be the last proposal that he would permit. The overall tone of the new document appeared at first to be somewhat conciliatory, as it dropped insulting references to the Dine' from the main body and put such invective as has come to be expected from the Hopi Tribe, along with the provisions for eviction, into the appendix. Although the use of word "lease" was deleted in the new document, the Dine' were given notice that they would still be under Hopi jurisdiction. The idea of the lease was preserved, even if the word itself was not. The document requires that the Navajo Nation (rather than the US government) pay lease fees and develop a new compensation package for the Hopi Tribe. There is also the requirement that the 75-year term of the lease be preserved, placing the burden of renegotiating the "land dispute" on today's grandchildren (both Hopi and Dine', who are completely innocent of all the problems that precede them. The document stipulates, further, a livestock limitation of 2800 "sheep units," subsistence for only about 20 (out of over 280) families. The stock will have to be apportioned by the Navajo Nation, a situation somewhat reminiscent of the starvation rations that Jewish leaders of Nazi concentration camp populations were required to dispense. The document leaves vague the details on grazing, including questions about whether grazing areas will be assigned near peoples' homesites, and whether traditional grazing areas will be preserved. The subject of burials went unmentioned. The proposal was essentially the same as the one the Dine' rejected last December, but this time the approach was designed to instill the fear that if they did not sign, the mediation process would end and evictions begin. Attorney Lee Brooke Phillips, who has officially represented the Manybead plaintiffs in the mediation process (although some Dine' adamantly reject him as their representative), explained that if the majority of resisters "ratified" the document, then mediation would proceed to clarify the Hopi offer. He warned those who wanted to reject the agreement that the Hopi Tribe would try to evict them, if a majority accepted the agreement. On the other hand, if a majority were to reject the agreement, the Manybeads case would probably go back to court, and the Hopi Tribe could be expected to press for a speedup in forced relocation. Judge McCue insisted upon calling the exercise in coercion a "vote." The problem with the idea of "voting," according to Jon Norstog (an employee of the Navajo-Hopi Land Commission, within the Navajo Nation), is that the United States is predisposed to interpret a majority of signatures as indication that the Dine' actually accept the terms of the Hopi proposal. The reality, he thinks, is that the people are only reacting to an ultimatum that demands that if they do not sign, the mediation process will end. On the other hand, if the Hopi Tribe and the US take the position that those who ratified the Hopi offer actually have accepted it the way it was written, then the mediation will probably fail anyway, because the true Dine' position will never be taken into account in formulating the final settlement. The position of the Hopi Tribe is that there will be no further negotiations, according to statements it has given to the press. Meanwhile, the intransigence of the Justice Department almost guarantees that Congress will have difficulty in reaching a final settlement. At the same time, at least some people in Congress clearly want the settlement to satisfy the Dine', because they want to avoid the use of force that will almost certainly be required to dislodge the most militant of the Dine' resisters. And those militants, who reject the authority of the Navajo Nation, just as they reject participation in the Manybeads case and the mediation process, and representation by Lee Brooke Phillips, are clear that the only way they will be relocated is by force. Any use of force is certain to be televised and exceptionally embarrassing for the United States. The Dine' were supposed to have ratified or rejected the proposal by late May. They were pressured heavily to meet that deadline. On 3 June, the responses to the ratification exercise were counted. Of 287 forms received, 193 (about 83%) ratified the proposal, 41 rejected it, 53 forms were sent back blank or were torn up or were never delivered (as the Navajo Nation field staff was chased away trying to do so). About a dozen families could not be contacted. Judge McCue has called for another mediation session to take place at an unspecified future date. for more information, contact: The Dine' Alliance PO Box 733 Hotevilla, AZ 86030 (Updates on this situation are posted continuously on the "nativenet" and "alt.native" on-line newsgroups.) ~+*~+*~+*~+*~+~+*~+*~+*~+*~+~+*~+*~+*~+*~+~+*~+*~+*~+*~+~+*~+*~+*~+*+ "When we walk upon Mother Earth, we always plant our feet carefully because we know the faces of our future generations are looking up at us from beneath the ground. We never forget them." -Oren Lyons, Onondaga Nation ~+*~+*~+*~+*~+*~+*~+*~+*~+*~+*~+*~+*~+*~+*~+*~+*~+*~+*~+*~+*~+*~+~* milo@scicom.alphacdc.com Michele Lord Alpha Institute +*+ +*+ +*+ +*+ +*+ +*+ --------- "RE: Fresh Start for Mohawk" --------- Date: Jul-02-94 09:36:00 From: Patrick Lucas (patrick.lucas@f513.n2613.z1.fidonet.org) Subj: Fresh Start for Mohawk FidoNet Indian Affairs Conference ++++++++ A FRESH START FOR TRADITIONAL MOHAWK PEOPLE ++++++++ THE MOHAWK VALLEY PROJECT ========================= The following article is from " SI WONG GEH ", the Friends of Ganondagan newsletter. (Quote's on) For centuries, the Mohawk people had been farmers, raising corn, squash, beans, and other foods. They hunted game and fished the crystal lakes and streams in the Mohawk Valley. Over two hundred years ago they were driven from their home in Central New York State, taking up residence on a reservation known as Akwesasne, on the border between Canada and the U.S. along the St. Lawrence River. The ravages of pollution, politics,and gambling, have taken their toll at Akwesasne. PCB-laced water has made the fish inedible, and the battle over these issues has threatened to destroy the very fabric of traditional Mohawk life. Tom Porter, Sakakwenionkwas (spiritual leader) of his people, had a vision that his people would find a new home. He began to write and speak publicly about finding this place for Mohawks to make a new start. Aware of Tom's search, Dr. Vincent Schaefer, a respected archaeologist, pointed to a 300-acre plot of land in the heart of what had been Mohawk country. Nestled in the hills along the grassy banks of the Mohawk River Canal, this was the refuge for the people and the survival of their culture. The land was bought in July 1993, and the stage is set for the traditional Mohawk people to return to their ancestral lands. `There was a prophecy that one day our great-grandchildren would come home to this valley,'Porter says. `So now we have returned. We call this place * Kanatsiohareke * (Ga na jo' la'y: gay), `Place of the clean pot, ' Porter comments. The word refers to the 12 foot wide limestone potholes in the local creek bed. A sparkling stream flows through a large forest and past the buildings. About 90 acres of tillable fields stretch to the river, which is framed by landmark crags called `Big Nose and Little Nose.' Five families moved to the settlement last Fall, from Akwesasne and reservations in Ontario. Twenty more will join them this Spring. For now they live in the rambling main house and share meals; one day they will build separate homes. The main house will function as the longhouse, the meeting place, and social and religious center of the traditional Iroquois community. They will seek to be self-sufficient. Porter wants to grow organic vegetables, raise beef cattle, and perhaps Buffalo. There is a shop selling books and native crafts, including ash-splint baskets, moccasins, ribbon shirts, and beadwork. Eventually, a learning center and library may be established for those who wish to study Mohawk culture and spirituality. Porter says the community fulfills an old Mohawk prophecy in which hunters bring home two snakes, one gold and one silver. The snakes grow huge and turn on their caretakers. One goes north, the other south, leaving a path of destruction. The Mohawks are told to go to a hill to ward off the serpents. Porter's grandfather says the silver snake is Canada and the gold is the United States. But Porter interprets the story to mean that greed will destroy his people. That's why it is time to go to the hill, Kanatsiohareke. A fund raising office has been set up in New York City at Lotus Fine Arts ( 109 West 27th St., 8th floor, New York, N.Y. 10001, Phone (212) 989-5331, Fax (212) 675-7191) to help support and maintain the community, purchase additional land, augment business plans, and collect items on a wish list. Fund raising events are being planned, including a proposed benefit auction at `Christie's' in December 1994. If you wish to help by donating funds, volunteer time or in-kind goods or services, or for more information please contact Project Director Lloyd Oxendine at the above address (or by E-Mail to Carol Liu at * qladmin@class.org *) contributions are tax deductible. The items listed below are badly needed by the people of this community. If you can donate anything on the list, or if you wish to contribute funds, volunteer, or just be included on the mailing list, contact LLoyd Oxendine at: Lloyd Oxendine, Project Director The Mohawk Valley Project, c/o Lotus Fine Arts 109 West 27th. St., 8th floor New York, N.Y. 10001 Wood Shop Equipment and Supplies: Large table saw, large band saw, large wood planer, glass cutter, lathe, router, drill press, gas welder, scaffolds, lumber, nails, clamps, tool organizers. Office Equipment: Computers, printers, file cabinets, copying machine, paper envelopes, general supplies. Craft Supplies: Beads, string/thread, fabric, animal pelts, display case. Farm Equipment: 4 ton Hay wagon with tires, brush hog, wheel barrows, 4wd tractor, 30-40 hp tractor, set of 3 bottom plows, set of disc chisel plows, set of drags, 2 or 4 row corn planter, corn pickers, 2 0r 4 horse stock trailer, hay bailer (model 320 cap), 500-bushel manure spreader. Bulk Food Items: Potatoes, rice, corn, flour, oatmeal, cheese, pasta, juice, sugar. Plumbing Equipment: Sink drains, 80 gal elec. water heaters (2) Household and Kitchen Items: Airtight wood stoves, wood furnace, large refrigerator, large freezer, band saw for meat, brooms, dust pans and mops, clothes hampers, smoke detectors, fire extinguishers, laundry and dish detergent, bar soap, dishes, large pots and pans, mixing bowls. Other Items: Paint, snow shovels, 3 and 6' fluorescent lights, 35 mm camera, television and VCR, warm clothing. Any considerations are greatly appreciated and will help our Mohawk brothers and sisters return to their traditional home and live as they were destined. If you like, you may send contributions to "The Friends of Ganondagan" c/o Ganondagan State Historical Site 1488 Victor-Holcomb Road Victor, New York 14564 ntinued to next message P.S. Items sent to me for storage will be forwarded immediately for distribution to the Mohawk Valley Project as they need these items before another winter. Patrick Lucas 1191 Hook Road Farmington, New York 14425 (716) 742-1716 Wa do! Do hi yi, Qua qui gi FastEcho 1.40+ gin: CIRCUIT BREAKER,Canandaigua,NY (716)394-9164 14.4 (1:2613/513) --------- "RE: Truth & Perspective" --------- Date: Sun, 10 Jul 1994 23:09:54 GMT From: kibby@news.unr.edu (Larry Kibby) Subj: Truth & Perspective Newsgroup: alt.native Regard for philosophical factors in relation to the admittance towards Non-Indian participation in the Tradition, Traditional Belief and Culture arena at this time is being viewed with consideration and respect towards their interest and sincerity. Obvious as it is, truth must be established towards those Non-Indians who do view the logic of the Sacred Circle of Life as to having a value that should not be distorted. These people know who they are and except the regard of protection towards the Tradition, Traditional Belief and Culture of the Native American Indian. Principle fact, is that despite contention that many Native American Indians do not want their Sacred Ways exploited, they are more then aware of the fact that various Non-Indians respect their regard for the preservation and protection of the Tradition, Traditional Belief and Culture, and that these people do not advocate that wisdom, knowledge and understanding, which they have been granted through the teachings of sincere individuals. What is being administered at this time is a view point of regard toward those "phony teachers", whose only goal in life is centered around the value of the dollar, personal or political gain. With the re-draft of S.1021, which is now S. 2269, which has been read twice and referred to the Committee On Indian Affairs, the effort to assure that S. 2269 becomes a determined factor relevant to the further safe-guarding of the Tradition, Traditional Belief and Culture. It is time to put behind us the bias attitudes of discontent, though an effort must be established towards discrediting those individuals and or groups, or organizations, whose only effort is to make a mockery of the Tradition and Traditional Belief. Seventy years ago, when the 1924 Citizenship Act was extended to all Native American Indians, and again in 1945 to those Native American Indian Military personnel, is when such Bills as S. 2269 should have been put in place, but it is common knowledge that the government and other forces were still in the process of making sure that the Native American Indian Community stayed within those boundaries of assimilation, so that full civilization, humanization and christianization would continue. As the Native American Indian people begin to embark on New Era, within the scope of these times, they hope to filter out those people who have no sincere regard for the Tradition, Traditional Belief, or Culture. There cannot be any disregard for the laws that are in place that allow the right to worship in that manner so desired, but an effort can be adjusted towards the unique preservation and protection of the Sacred Circle of Life. Society in general, has not yet excepted the fact that today's Native American Indian people are the descendants of America's First Prisoner's of War, and that within their struggle to maintain their Tradition, Traditional Belief and Culture, is a matter of regard towards having their Freedoms fully re-instated in Honor of their Ancestor's, whose blood does cover this our Mother Earth. Yes, we are citizens, but citizens of our own Nations, with guidance of the Great Spirit, our Grandfather of Life. --------- "RE: Good News from Oka" --------- Date: 94/07/07 18:01 From: Suzan Horovitch (Brave Star) (a.horovitch@genie.geis.com) Subj: Good News from Oka GE Electronic Mail GOOD NEWS STORY FROM OKA Paraphrased from The Gazette, Monday July 4,1994 Just prior to a Lacrosse game where the Kanesatake Eagles are to face the Kahnewake Mohawks, their coach Barry Bonspille gives a passionate pregame pep talk... peppering his talk with French because close to half of his team is non-aboriginal, including unilingual francophones. "We leave politics at the door" he says.. comparing the Eagles to the Canadiens who have both English and French on the team. Seventeen of the Eagles 36 players are non-aboriginal. At home in Kanesatake, the Mohawk players live an uneasy co-existence with non-aboriginal neighbors still bitter over the 1990 crisis that turned the area around Oka into an armed camp. Recent polls show many Quebecers - especially Francophones - have a negative image of aboriginals. Some of the francophone Eagles say friends and relatives questioned their decision to play side-by-side with Mohawks. "On the team, we're all together. We love the sport and we want to win." says Eric Laberge, 23, of Pointe aux Tremble who has been playing lacrosse since he was a child. Bonspille says one of the reasons the team was put together was to help heal the wounds opened during the summer of 1990. People said "Enough politics, enough confrontations, let's play and show people that our lives are getting back to normal",: he said Eagles general manager Garry Carbonnel said some people in Kanesatake also resent the francophones on the Eagles, who didn't win a single game last year. " Now that we're winning, that has decreased". The Eagles, who sometimes practice in a lacrosse box in the disputed Piknes forest near Oka Golf Course play again four other mostly aboriginal teams in the IRoquois Lacrosse Association. Non-aboriginals take a back seat in the running of the Eagles. And the team has set a minimum number of aboriginals who can be on the team: at least 12 of the 25 players who make the final roster will be aboriginal. Carbonnel said having the non-aboriginals has rewards " this lacrosse team has brought the communities closer together with one goal in mind, and that's victory. And there is little or no racism or prejudice." He went on to say that the Eagles are the sort of good-news story that seldom makes the news. --------- "RE: Vote in Malibu" --------- Date: Tue Jul 12, 1994 at 08:07 EDT From: Linda Moore (l.more14@genie.geis.com) Subj: Grass Roots Vote in Malibu Newsgroup: alt.native Edward Albert Jr, the actor ("Butterflies are Free, "Doctor Quinn: Medicine Woman", etc) is trying to get grass roots support for an ordinance being voted on Tues. July 12th so we don't have much time. Anyway, I'll post his own words in a minute then add some more of my own.... ----------------------- Hi friends, my name is Edward Albert and we are trying to get a final city council vote on an ordinance that we have been working on for the last four years. It is to try and protect the Native American sacred sites and educate people to the value of all our heritage in this world of chaos and brutality. We have a priceless and irreplaceable resource that is being destroyed by the greed of people without the long vision that includes the children of our children. At the last moment, a deep-pocketed syndicate of developers have blind-sided us with a very well organized and completely unethical attack. The laws we have made are invulnerable so they are attacking on personal levels of innuendo and rumor. We thought that our law would be judged on its own merit...we were naive. The syndicate has waited until the last minute so we couldn't prepare any defense. They didn't realize we wouldn't roll over, they didn't realize we would fight to the last, that we would put out the call to you and to the fans whose power is unlimited. We are certain of two city council votes, and certain that two will go against us...that leaves one vote to convince, her name is Councilperson Joan House, and she is the swing vote. If she knows that the ordinance has strong grass roots support, she will vote for us. You and I are walking across the pages of tomorrow's history right now. We will walk proudly or with regret depending on the choice you make right now. I plead for your help. The City Council meeting is on Tuesday afternoon. If the vote goes against us, that is the end of it. If the vote goes for us, it is the beginning. Please help by faxing, telegramming, anything, but ASAP for Tuesday. This is my first time on-line, but if this call is answered, it won't be my last. Thank you for your time and attention. We can make a difference, something too rare in our time. Edward Albert. --------- Ok, I'm back. Now, I know this is a vote in Malibu, CA, but if it is passed the ripple will be felt across the country. I can tell you that Edward Albert's commitment is STRONG to support this beyond his own city. What he asked is to keep the FAX, telegram, whatever "generic", something like : "I support the Native American Resource Ordinance coming up for vote on Tues. July 12." Urge the mayor to support the ordinance. Don't mention the fact that you're from someplace other than Malibu..... try to convey the impression that you're from the local area. Here are FAX numbers: Mayor Jeff Kramer 310-457-2542 city Hall 310-456-3356. Address: Malibu City Council Attn: Mayor Jeff Kramer 23555 Civic Center Way Malibu CA 90265 Thanks on behalf of myself and Edward Albert. Remember, this may be starting in Malibu but it will make waves across our land..... Linda..... ------------ Wed Jul 13, 1994 at 07:24 EDT In regard to my earlier post about the ordinance coming up for vote by Malibu city council, the vote has been delayed until they can hold a public town meeting which they will on August 8 (6:30 pm at the Hughes Research Laboratory, 3011 Malibu Canyon Road for those of you in the area). More specific info: this is Ordinance #80: "Establishing Procedures for Identification and Protection of Cultural Resources and Cultural Heritage." So if you can write or FAX before then, your help will be greatly appreciate! Linda.... --------- "RE: Mating Legend" --------- Date: 94/07/10 10:24 From: Suzan Horovitch (Brave Star) (a.horovitch@genie.geis.com) Subj: Mating Legend GE Electronic Mail I am now half way through reading " The Old North Trail; Life, Legends and Religion of the Blackfeet Indians" by Walter McClintock. I am thoroughly enjoying his recounts of his time with the Blackfoot and Peigans at the turn of the century. His descriptions of dress and ceremony are extensive and fascinating. It is amazing that in the west, not all that much had changed in their way of life up until 1880's... so it is only the last hundred years or so..... Very different than the Mohawks here whose complete way of life changed 300 years ago! McClintock tells of a trip where they stopped in to visit with Spotted Eagle... a well known medicine man. He was "specially fond of telling stories about the marvellous adventures of Old Man ( Napi), a mythical character of the Blackfeet, whose contradictory qualities are difficult to understand, or reconcile. .... Many of them were vulgar and even obscene, which have an ethnological value, but cannot appear in a book for general circulation...." but he does tell his version of the introduction of men to women. The Old North Trail: Life, Legends and REligion of the Blackfeet Indians by Walter McClintock University of Nebraska Press.. copyright 1992 : reprinted from original 1910 version ISBN0-8032-8188-9(pbk) OLD MAN INDUCES MEN AND WOMEN TO MATE "Men and women formerly did not live together as they do now, they were in separate bands like animals. Old Man was the means of bringing them together., The women were then camped on Crow Lodge River beside a piskun (a ridge for buffalo jumps) and secured their game by driving them over a high cliff. They were skilled in the art of tanning, and knew how to make good clothes and lodges from skins. The men, on the other hand, killed their game with bows and arrows. They did not know how to tan skins , or sew. Their lodges were made of green hides and their clothes of rough skins, roughly fastened together. When Old Man came to the women's camp, he met the Chief Women and told her about the condition of the men. She asked him to bring the men to their camp, that they might each choose a mate. Old Man led the men to a hill outside the women's camp, where they all stood in line. The Chief Women, who had first choice, came out very shabbily dressed. She walked along the line of men and selected Old Man for her mate. But he did not recognize her in her poor clothes and refused to go with her. The Chief Women was very angry. She returned to camp and instructed the other women to pass by Old Man in their choosing. She dressed in her best clothes and returned again to the men. This time Old Man liked her appearance so much, that he kept getting in her way, seeking to be chosen. But she selected another mate. When the other women selected their mates, Old Man was left out. The Chief Women then changed him into a pine tree. There were formerly three pine trees beside the Women's Piskun. There is now a fourth, which we call Old Man. " --------- "RE: Akwesasne Woes Roots" --------- Date: 94/07/07 18:02 From: Suzan Horovitch (Brave Star) (a.horovitch@genie.geis.com) Subj: Akwesasne Woes Roots GE Electronic Mail Night Owl.... why do I see a connection between this article and the Ste. Marguerite Dam project and why can 't Hydro Quebec and government officials see the connection????? AKWESASNE WOES FIND ROOTS IN SEAWAY POLLUTION From: The Montreal Gazette July 7, 1994 The few golden eagles sighted these days above the Akwesasne Mohawk reserve are small comfort to aboriginal environmentalists. While the return of the majestic bird- which has a special spiritual significance to Mohawks - is a sign of hope, the four decades of pollution that drove the eagles away has scarred both the land and the aboriginal culture living there. "The Mohawks have been, and there's no doubt about it, the most impacted by this pollution," said Daniel Green of a Montreal- based environmental group. "They ate the fish, breathed the air and drank the water. But the bottom line is that nobody cared or cares." The environmental problems at Akwesasne, near Cornwall in eastern Ontario, began in the 1950's when the St. Lawrence Seaway altered the natural flow of the river. Fish spawning patterns and fish populations changed as marshes and the animals that thrived in them died. As part of the Seaway development, the Moses-Saunders power dam upriver from Cornwall generated cheap electricity, which attracted General Motors, Reynolds Co. and the Aluminum Co. of America to the U.S. side of the river. Until their use was banned in 1978, the three companies used polychlorinated biphenyls, which were later determined to be highly toxic chemical compounds, the production of aluminum. The resulting damage had disastrous consequences of the Mohawks. In 1978 Mohawk authorities on both sides of the international border advised women of child bearing age and children under 15 not to eat fish taken from the St. Lawrence River. The advisory remains in effect. Airborne fluoride killed much of the cattle and eventually aboriginal farming on the reserve ground to a halt. Akwesasne environmentalist Henry Lickers said. "By then, people had stopped eating fish, farming had all but ended and the marshes that had sustained a trapping industry of about 22,000 to 30,000 muskrat pelts a year along with some beaver and marten had decayed," said Lickers. Efforts by both Canada and the United States to clean up the pollution are about to get under way, but Lickers said the pollution has poisoned the Mohawk culture. A bitter battle erupted in 1990 over legalized gambling, followed shortly by the 78-day Oka standoff. Both incidents, he said, point out an example of environmental change bringing about violent conflict. " The traditional economy was breaking apart and the beginnings of the trouble of 1990 and the big blowup at Oka were taking place, " he said. And while U.S. environmentalists gear up for the cleanup, they, too, acknowledge the extent of the damage. " The Seaway was a huge trauma for the Mohawks way of life,: Lisa Carson of the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency said. " Historically, they have been badly hurt." --------- "RE: Ceremony & Burial Sites" --------- Date: Sun, 10 Jul 1994 22:45:57 GMT From: kibby@news.unr.edu (Larry Kibby) Subj: Ceremony & Burial Sites Newsgroup: alt.native New Lennox, Illinois; Mount Graham, Arizona; Mount Vernon, Indiana and numerous other sites, which are under attack, must be a focal point of concern towards the support of having S. 2269(Native American Cultural Protection and Free Exercise of Religion Act of 1994) endorsed on a National Level. Distorted view points, have been put into place over the years by the Judeo-Christian parties, who do not wish to see the "Native American Cultural Protection and Free Exercise of Religion Act of 1994", made Public Law. What makes this a reality are those many formulated Christian fund- amentalists of the Wise-Use Movement, such as: the Citizens for Equal Rights Alliance; Inter-State Congress for Equal Rights and Responsibilities; United Property Owners of Washington(state); and Protect Americans Rights and Resources. There are probably many more that I am not aware of, but for now those are the most active and they do have a very strong lobbying group in D.C. If S. 2269 is going to survive, then the obvious voice must be promoted towards those groups and or organizations, whose only intent is to destroy that in which we seek. Another factor in relation to this, is that those anti-Indian organizations have directed their own people into the Native American Indian Communities to distort the value of the Tradition, Traditional Belief and Culture, through means of continued advocacy, that the Judeo-Christian philosophy is significant towards the recognized religions of the land and that it is blasphemy to view the Tradition and Traditional Belief as a Religion. In the May/June edition of the "Honor Digest", (reproduced without permission); "Coalition allies of the Wise-Use, besides the anti-Indian groups, are County Governments, many Christian fundamentalists, the gun lobby, motorized recreation vehicle advocates and property right protectionists. The first step to countering a movement is to recognize it. Stay alert in your area. Keep us informed with any clippings about "Wise-Use", especially as it pertains to Indian Rights and lands. And stay tuned-we'll report to you regularly about the movements plan to undo Indian Sovereignty and erode tribal land bases." As a strong advocate of the Tradition, Traditional Belief, I will continue to promote regard for the preservation and protection therein of. There are many people who view the Tradition and Traditional Belief of the Native American Indian as a waste of time and effort, and there are even those Christian Indians who stand in-line towards that advocacy, so a strong voice of concern must be established, so that the Native American Cultural Protection and Free Exercise of Religion Act of 1994(S.2269) is put into place. We know who our friends are, they are those who continue to support our endeavors and will never turn their back on us, nor will they stab us in the back. They understand our regard towards those other Non-Indians who are out to destroy the Tradition, Traditional Belief and Culture. 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our male ancestors Woman child of our female ancestors and stretched before them a thread unbroken by the winds not eaten by the shadows they were the ones who put my heart into this life who went with me to the river and dreamed my canoe that day the Thunder was heavy I took my stick and touched him from far away touching him I passed from there to here can you see where we have carried him? (migration phase) Turtle Heart turtle@aicap.s21.com American Indian Computer Art Project BBS 619-374-2100 Land of Kaw-ii-su ancestor: Land of Light --------- "RE: Verse: Hawai'ian Book of Days" --------- Date: 94/07/10 15:44 From: Kepola (dfsanders@genie.geis.com) Subj: A HAWAI'IAN BOOK OF DAYS, week of July 3-9. GE Electronic Mail A HAWAI'IAN BOOK OF DAYS, week of July 17-23. IULAI (July) (Hinaiaeleele) 17 The mountain slopes have turned green with the blessing of rain. 18 A dragon kite soars and ripples in the summer breeze. 19 Sculptures are formed of the shifting sand ... and swiftly erased. 20 Accept what must be ... only if you cannot make it better. 21 With each lesson learned, stand a little taller. 22 No victory is beyond our grasp. 23 Rise with the dawn if you would take full measure of the new day. (c) Copyright 1991 by D. F. Sanders Me ke aloha i ka nani, ... Moe'uhanekeanuenue (With love and beauty, ... Rainbow Dream) --------- "RE: Conferences and Powwows - offline" --------- Date: Thu, 14 July 94 08:00 -0500 From: Janet Smith (Evening Star) (jans@genie.geis.com) Subj: Upcoming conferences and powwows not previously posted to Mailing Lists NATCHAT or NATIVE-L GE Electronic Mail =POWWOWS / EVENTS / OPPORTUNITIES= =:=:=:=:=::=o=o=o=::=:=:=:=:= From: Wattsjb@SGAQ@USAFA@sgmail.usafa.af.mil (Jon Briggs Watts) Subject: Colorado Springs, CO PowWow 16-17 July The Colorado Springs Lone Feather Council will be hosting a Pow Wow on 16 and 17 July 94. It will be at the Penrose Equestrian Center (From I-25, Exit 141, west on Hwy 24, Left on 8th, Right on Rio Grande). Admission is $3.00 a day, $5.00 for a weekend pass. Seniors over 60- $2.00. Under 6 yrs. - free. Proceeds benefit the Lone Feather Council Native American Scholarship Fund. Grand Entries: Sat - Noon & 7 p.m. Sun - Noon EVERYONE IS WELCOME! HOPE TO SEE YOU THERE! =:=:=:=:=::=o=o=o=::=:=:=:=:= From: Dale McMillen Subject: FREE PELTIER, WASH DC, JULY 15-16 --- ooo --- ooo --- ooo --- ooo --- ooo --- ooo --- ooo --- ooo --- FREE LEONARD PELTIER WEEKEND JULY 15th and 16th WASHINGTON, DC --- ooo --- ooo --- ooo --- ooo --- July 15 9:30 a.m. Walk for Justice (see below) arrives in Washington DC. Assemble to walk through DC at Lady Bird Johnson Park, Arlington, Virginia. noon to 6:00 p.m. Rally at Lincoln Memorial Overnight Prayer vigil at Lincoln Memorial July 16 11:30 a.m. to 10:00 p.m. Concert at Lincoln Memorial WALK FOR JUSTICE is a spiritual walk which left Sacramento, California, February 11 and has covered 3,800 miles in five months. Its purpose is to raise public awareness to a variety of Native American issues including treaty rights, religious freedom rights, grave desecrations, protection of sacred sites, nuclear waste dumping on native lands, native prisoner rights, and the sports team mascot issue. In addition, signatures are being collected requesting President Clinton to grant executive clemency to Leonard Peltier who has now wrongly spent 18 years in prison for he death of two F.B.I. agents on the Pine Ridge Reservation in South Dakota in 1975. Defense attorneys for Peltier, including former Attorney General Ramsey Clark, have been seeking a retrial owing to dishonest proceedings, falsified documents, and the withholding of information by the prosecution. As all legal avenues have now been closed, the only chance Peltier has is presidential intervention. HOW YOU CAN HELP: 1. Call Bill Clinton at 202-456-1111 and ask him to free U.S. Political Prisoner Leonard Peltier. 2. Call the Washington Peace Center at 202-234-2000 to find out how you can help (post flyers, etc.) 3. Call the press and ask them to cover Leonard Peltier and the Walk for Justice. 4. Call PBS (Channels 22, 26, and 32) and ask them to show "Incident at Oglala", the documentary in Leonard Peltier by Robert Redford. 5. Join the Walk for Justice on July 15. For more information, contact the Washington Peace Center at 202-234-2000. =:=:=:=:=::=o=o=o=::=:=:=:=:= From: Patrick Lucas The following is a list of festivals and events covering July 9th thru November 11th, 1994. These events are put on by the Iroquois Nations and are located in the northeast and Canada. Iroquois Showcase- Date: July 9th-10th. Time: 10:00 a.m.- 6:00 p.m. Location: Iroquois Indian Museum Caverns Road Howes Cave, New York Events: Demonstrations of several types of Iroquois arts and crafts including beadwork, cornhusk dolls, pottery and more. Special children's activities. Story telling and nature walks. Phone: 518-296-8949 Border Crossing/Commemoration of the "Jay Treaty" Date: July 16th. Location: Hyde Park- American side-Niagara Falls, New York =:=:=:=:=::=o=o=o=::=:=:=:=:= From: anchor.esd.sgi.com!lyn (Lyn Dearborn) Subject: BIG TIME AT PT REYES ALL WELCOME: 14TH ANNUAL BIG TIME FESTIVAL HONORING THE ELDERS SATURDAY July 16, 1994 11:30 am - 4:30 pm AT KULE LOKLO, A COAST MIWOK CULTURAL EXHIBIT POINT REYES NATIONAL SEASHORE TRADITIONAL NATIVE CALIFORNIA INDIAN DANCERS, NATIVE SKILLS, DEMONSTRATIONS, CRAFTS, ARTWORK, FOOD AND DRINK. FREE ADMISSION - SPONSORED BY POINT REYES NAT'L SEASHORE & THE MIWOK ARCHAEOLOGICAL PRESERVE OF MARIN (MAPOM). FOR MORE INFORMATION CALL 415/ 663-1092 =:=:=:=:=::=o=o=o=::=:=:=:=:= From: Michael Subject: Circle of Writers From: lee.francis@ase.com (Lee Francis) Native writers and storytellers are invited to become participants in Wordcraft Circle -- "to ensure that the voices of Native writers and storytellers --past, present and future-- are heard throughout the world." For additional information about Wordcraft Circle, please contact: Lee Francis, Ph.D (Laguna Pueblo) National Director Wordcraft Circle of Native Writers & Storytellers 2951 Ellenwood Drive Fairfax, VA 22031-2038 VOICE/FAX: (703) 280-1028 email: lee.francis@ase.com AOL : DRFRANCIS =:=:=:=:=::=o=o=o=::=:=:=:=:= Send notices of forthcoming powwows, conferences and gatherings to: jans@genie.geis.com gars@netcom.com ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ all items below this line have already been distributed by our brother, Gary Trujillo, via the NATIVE-L or NATCHAT mailing lists. --------- "RE: Conferences and Powwows - online" --------- Date: Thu, 14 July 94 08:00 -0500 From: Janet Smith (Evening Star) (jans@genie.geis.com) Subj: Upcoming conferences and powwows already posted to Mailing Lists NATCHAT or NATIVE-L = Powwows and Gatherings From the Internet listserv groups= Original Sender: Rio Lara-Bellon Mailing List: NATIVE-L (native-l@gnosys.svle.ma.us) Fort Missoula 1st Nations POW-WOW and CELEBRATION "The Finest Plains Pow-Wow in the Northwest Rocky Mountains" Pow-Wow Grounds at the Historical Museum at Fort Missoula, Missoula, Montana Date: July 29-30-31, 1994 1st Grand Entry - Friday Night at 7:00 PM Prize Money * Specials * Drum Money * Concessions * Arts & Crafts * Food * Raffles * Stick Games * Giveaways * =================================================================== =================================================================== NORTHERN CREE - HOST DRUM =================================================================== =================================================================== Everyone Welcome For more information call 406/721-9071 or write: Fort Missoula 1st Nations Pow-wow Committee 315 S. 4th St. East Missoula, MT. attn: Tony Woods Sr., Director. =========================================================================== =:=:=:=:=::=o=o=o=::=:=:=:=:= Original Sender: delphi.com!JACKTATUM Mailing List: NATIVE-L Indian Summer Pow Wow and Festival; Sept. 16,17,&18; Bartlesville, Ok Saluting the Native American Culture. Delaware, Shawnee, Osage, Cherokee and other regional tribes are hosted. LACROSSE TEAM: Applications now being accepted for the Lacrosse Tournament Contact: Vicki Proctor (918)336-3378 Allan Longacre (918)337-2787 =:=:=:=:=::=o=o=o=::=:=:=:=:= Original Sender: hkoehler@web.UUCP Mailing List: NATIVE-L (native-l@gnosys.svle.ma.us) Jun 27, 1994 ATLATL ANNOUNCES NATIVE ARTS NETWORK 1994 A BIENNIAL CONFERENCE Atlatl, the National Service Organization for Native American arts, announces NATIVE ARTS NETWORK 1994, to be held in Portland, Oregon October 13-16, 1994. The theme of the conference is THE ARTIST AS COMMUNITY HEALER. This theme will address the role of the arts in society as a positive force that can bring our minds and bodies into balance and harmony, benefiting both individual and community. For the first time, NATIVE ARTS NETWORK 1994 will include two tracks-- one for Cultural Organizations and one for Native American artists. The conference will be arranged around issues, with regional representatives from Atlatl's Second circle national advisory board addressing how each issue has an impact on art from their geographic area. Issues have been grouped in the following categories: Economic Forces, Political Forces, Social Forces, International Forces, and Community Forces. W. Richard West, Director of the National Museum of the American Indian will give the opening keynote address. Scholarships are available for Native Americans interested in attending. For more information contact the Atlatl office at (602)253-2731. Contact: Wendy Weston-Ben, Atlatl, 2303 North Central Ave - Suite 104 PHOENIX AZ 85004 (602)253-2731, Fax 256-6385 National Service Organization for Native American Arts -----------------//------------------------ Posted by Harold P. Koehler, hkoehler@web.apc.org 43 Napoleon Drive, LONDON ON N5V 4A8 Canada --------- "RE: Elder Paul Tiulana Dies" --------- Date: Wed, 13 Jul 1994 06:25:03 GMT From: "Ghost Wheel" Subj: Elder Paul Tiulana Dies Mailing List: NATIVE-L Paul Tialana dies >From the Associated Press, Anchorage, via Northland News. Anchorage - Eskimo elder Paul Tialana died in late June at the Alaska Native Medical Center (ANMC), a few days before his 74th B-day. He had been ill with liver cancer. Lydia Hayes of the CIRI Foundation said Tiulana was "one of the outstanding forces for passing Native traditions to the next generation. He embodied those traditions as an exemplary composer, artist, dancer and drummer." Tiulana led the acclaimed King Island Dancers for nearly 50 years. His ivory and mask carvings were such a high quality that they can be found in museum collections throughout the country. He was also recognized for his work in teaching the old ways to a new generation, and effort that earned him the Alaskan Federation of Natives' "Man of the Year" award in 1983. He was born June 20, 1921, on King Island, 90 miles west of Nome. --------------------------------------------------------------------------- There is more info in the Nome Nugget. Send email to 26-10408@wwiv.fred.com for more info. Ask for Jimmie Carisle, he works for King Island Native Corps. Quyanna.. --------- "RE: Wannabes, Tradition, etc. " --------- Date: Mon, 11 Jul 1994 14:10:08 CDT From: wkyuvm.wku.edu!BOHUSKI Subj: Wannabes, tradition, etc. Mailing List: NATCHAT (natchat@gnosys.svle.ma.us) Greetings, In a recent post, Joseph Uher suggested, indirectly, that it might make more sense (my words) to learn to live in relation to the land that one walks today rather than that of his ancestors, ancestors who, in Joseph's case and in mine, originated in distant lands that were physically very different from the land to which we were born. No, Joseph, I do not think your comments were way off base; I share very similar feelings. When I read about the cultures of northeastern Europe, the home to all of my grandparents, I feel disconnected from them except through the book I am reading; I am only an observer, a "student" of cultural history. But when I read about the cultural and philosophical ideals of the indigenous people who lived, grew, and developed for so many generations in the northeastern U.S., where I was born and raised, I am strongly drawn to, and into, the words. I draw a great deal of (mental) strength and comfort from the beliefs and ideals of those people who lived in such close contact with the same land from which I sprung; at some internal level, I know that I share in the values practiced by my "geographical" ancestors, if you will. I cannot explain why I feel this way, only that I do. And I see no reason to shut myself away from the wisdom of Native Americans, only to exchange it for that of a culture to which I feel no connection at all. I do not wish to "steal" from the cultural, moral and philosophical ideals of the original inhabitants of the land to which I was born, but rather to honor those people by learning more of their values, by learning about the bases for these values, and by practicing those values in my own life since I find those with which I grew up to be lacking in so many important ways. Peace, Tom Bohuski - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - Comments from NativeNet moderator, Gary Trujillo (gst@gnosys.svle.ma.us): I'd like to commend Tom very highly for this and for his "Indians on CD-ROM" article (which you should receive at about the same time as you get this one) because they bring up some very important issues that I had the opportunity to talk about just last night with an American Indian elder in Maine who has developed some educational curriculum for teaching about specific Native peoples. Though she did stress that her own current priorities have to do with helping the young people in her own immediate family and community, this woman did recognize and acknowledge the importance of finding ways to educate non-Native people about the history of the places they now call home and also about the lives and cultures of the original inhabitants of these lands. The purpose of my conversation with this Penobscot woman, who lives in her ancestral homeland of what is now called Maine, who has experience as a teacher and curriculum developer, was to solicit her interest in a project aimed at designing and using educational materials which would be collected and developed to enable some telecommunications programs to be launched. These programs would ultimately involve the use of picture and sound exchanges, as well as real-time computer-based video conferencing among students, as well as e-mail-mediated learning experiences. I'd like to invite anyone who might be interested in assisting with the setup and operation of such projects to get in touch with me as soon as possible so you can be added to the "electronic outreach" (for lack of a better term) mailing list, which is presently populated with just over forty people, some of them experienced educators, curriculum developers, and experts on computer and multi-media technology. There is a lot of planning to be done, decisions to be made and tasks to be performed in our efforts to get this project launched. (I'll be visiting the director of the Native American Students Center at the Harvard Graduate School of Education later this week, and plan to discuss this project with him.) I agree with Tom that it's reasonable and important for people to know something about the land where they live and the original inhabitants of that land. I hope this project, whose central method is to get help and guidance from the elders within Native communities, and to hear from them what they feel is the best and most accurate representation of their people can provide at least one mechanism for educating all of us about one another. Speaking of education, I'd like to remind all of you that we have a mailing list devoted just to educational issues. That NativeNet list, called "NAT-EDU," can be subscribed to by sending a message to the address "listserv@indycms.iupui.edu" containing: subscribe nat-edu Your Name where "Your Name" is replaced by your own name. --------- "RE: Indians on CD-ROM" --------- Date: Mon, 11 Jul 1994 14:13:29 CDT From: wkyuvm.wku.edu!BOHUSKI Subj: Indians on CD-ROM Mailing List: NATCHAT (natchat@gnosys.svle.ma.us) Greetings, I guess it was inevitable--the multimedia industry has discovered Native America. A co-worker just showed me a review for a CD-ROM called "Touring Indian Country," based, it claims, on the book "Indian America: A Traveler's Companion," by Eagle/Walking Turtle. It is described on being "light on history & culture" but (unfortunately) "EXCELLENT for those wishing to visit a tribal reservation." It even includes, for each 'tribe' mentioned, the geographical location of that group plus a phone # for "visitor info." I'm afraid this will mean an increase in the number of ogling curiosity- seekers in the near future. I can't help wonder what people expect to see on a visit to a reservation. Guided bus tours, perhaps? Perhaps very few people will want to shell out $40 for a CD-ROM about Indians, but you can be sure that more will follow, and then....? Regards, Tom Bohuski - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - Comments from NativeNet moderator, Gary Trujillo (gst@gnosys.svle.ma.us): Again, I feel Tom has identified a critically important question here. One question I'd like to get answered is that of how accurate these CD-ROM materials are and from whose perspective they're written and who profits from their sale. I'm hoping that one of the outcomes of the project I described in my attached comments to Tom's previous message is that we can develop our own CD-ROM and other "multi-media" educational materials and/or work with developers of that material to ensure that the materials are as accurate as possible, that they adequately reflect the views of indigenous peoples, and that profits from sales of those materials benefit the people whose lives and cultures are being described. --------- "RE: Hunger Strike for Leonard Peltier" --------- Date: Thu, 7 Jul 1994 21:55:00 PDT From: American Indian Movement Subj: Hunger Strike for Leonard Peltier Mailing List: NATIVE-L (native-l@gnosys.svle.ma.us) OGLALA WOMAN PLEDGES HUNGER STRIKE TO DEATH TO FREE LEONARD PELTIER Lavonne White, full blood Oglala Lakota mother of two began a water-only fast and prayer vigil on June 16, 1994. From the Sun Dance grounds at Oglala, on the Pine Ridge Reservation in South Dakota, Lavonne has made the solemn vow to fast, to the death if necessary, unless and until President Clinton takes concrete steps towards the release of American Indian Movement Leader Leonard Peltier. Peltier has been held in federal prison eighteen years for the killing of the FBI agents during a shoot-out on the Pine Ridge Reservation on June 26th, 1976. Amnesty International describes Peltier as a political prisoner, land has called for his release. "I believe wholly that he is innocent," said Lavonne. Ms. White, age 30, is a deeply spiritual woman committed to the cause of her people. Through without nourishment since beginning her vigil, her spirits remain high. Physically, however she is beginning to show signs of strain. She has lost seven pounds, and while blood tests remain fairly normal, she is passing the threshold beyond which grave, permanent injury can be expected. Lavonne began her hunger strike after consulting with traditional Lakota spiritual leaders regarding a vision she received several years ago. "It took a long time, in prayer and thought to do this," she said. "I'm letting go of the vision in this way," She is determined to follow through on her vow. "I will remain true to my Purpose. I have drawn up a will." The White House has yet to acknowledge the hunger strike. The Justice Department has said that Peltier's request for Executive Clemency "is under active consideration," but will not comment on the status of the request. In taking this action, Lavonne is walking in the footsteps of her lineage; She is a direct descendant of Chief Lame Deer, granddaughter of the Lakota Holy Man John fire Lame Deer, and a blood relation to the great Oglala warrior Crazy Horse. In a statement last week, Lavonne said: "If I should die, I will die with truth in my heart and on my lips, and I will cry for the people of the Earth, for the governments have become monsters with lies and wrong doings piled high as the heavens." She asks for prayers for Leonard Peltier, and for President Clinton Amnesty International, 60 Members of Congress, Nelson Mandela, Mother Teresa, Rev. Jesse Jackson and the World Council of Christians and Jews are among the tens of Millions worldwide who have called for Leonard Peltier's immediate release. Supporters are encouraged to call the White House to voice their concern. time is short. Emotional support can be sent to Lavonne White, c/o Inez Two Elk, PO Box 366, Oglala SD 57765 For more information: Contact L.P.D.C. (913) 842-5774 --------- "RE: Coke Wins, Forests Lose" --------- Date: Wed, 6 Jul 1994 00:48:00 GMT From: Pratap Chatterjee Subj: 50 years late coke wins, forests lose Mailing List: NATIVE-L LONANYC DEVELOPMENT: Half Century Role of World Bank and IMF debated An Inter Press Service Feature By Pratap Chatterjee WASHINGTON, Jun 30 (IPS) - Fifty years ago this weekend some 800 economists, politicians and assorted officials arrived at a hotel in a remote forest in the northeastern part of the United States to plan the world's economic future. The three-week long meet of the United Nations Monetary and Financial Conference at the Mount Washington Hotel in Bretton Woods, New Hampshire, boasted free Coca-Cola dispensers and stunning views of the sprawling White Mountains. Then U.S. Secretary of the Treasury Henry Morgenthau welcomed the delegates with the challenge of creating ''a dynamic world economy in which the peoples of every nation will be able to ... enjoy increasingly, the fruits of material progress on an earth infinitely blessed with natural richness.'' The 160 delegates from 44 countries, and their support staff of 640, then set about drawing up agreements to create the two Brett on Woods institutions -- the World Bank and the International Monetary Fund (IMF). Today these two institutions lend some 40 billion dollars annually to help poor countries 'develop' and achieve Morgenthau's vision. But the reviews of how successful they have been are mixed. Some maintain that the Bank and the IMF are the paragon of hope for the poorest in the world, while others say they are the source of poverty and act as a neo-imperialist force. Indeed, the Coca-Cola and the one million acres of forest that were easily accessible to the delegates fifty years ago have become symbolic of the two views on the success and failure of the institutions. Figures released by the U.S. government show that last year Coca-Cola won 58 million dollars in contracts from the Bank and one of its sister institutions, the European Bank for Reconstruction and Development. It would be stretching the imagination to claim that the free dispensers had any role in promoting the new contracts, but a number of U.S. companies from Newmont Mining corporation in Colorado to General Motors of Michigan have won contracts worth hundreds of millions of dollars from the Bank and its affiliates. Much of the opposition to the Bank and the IMF often plays on the awarding of these contracts. Critics say that the material progress that Morgenthau wanted the Bank to promote has enriched corporations like the big mining and timber companies but at the expense of the planet's finite supply of resources. To coincide with the 50th anniversary, at least seven books are being released criticising the role of the Bank, such as one co-authored by Susan George, of the Amsterdam-based Transnational Institute. Morgenthau's vision of material progress has become a doctrine that is above question, she says, and now it threatens the very natural richness that he spoke of fifty years ago. ''The religion of 'development' cannot be validated or invalidated ... (i)t does not matter whether it 'works' or not, nor how many unimportant people's lives are damaged or destroyed, nor how much nature may be abused because of it,'' she says. In a tongue-in-cheek play written by former Greenpeace staffer Andre Carothers, loosely based on George's forthcoming book and performed in this city earlier this month, the Bank's management is played by two evangelical preachers called Jim and Tammy Pay Banker, whose missions are to promote development. ''In my dark days of doubt, I questioned the holy word of the Bank. I questioned development. Can hundreds of different countries with diverse cultures and values be forced to develop the American Way? Can the future of these countries be determined by a couple hundred bankers living in Washington, D.C.?'' said one of the main characters. Lewis Preston, the Bank's current president, challenges the mounting criticism of the Bretton Woods institutions. He is scheduled to deliver a paper in three weeks, entitled ''The World Bank group at the threshold of the twenty first century: Embracing the Future.'' ''Just as the world is changing, the Bank group is changing rapidly ... (T)he momentum for change will help to build an even more efficient, flexible institution,'' he will say, according to a draft version seen by IPS. On the occasion of the 50th anniversary the Bank released a special promotion kit Wednesday that quotes many world leaders praisi ng its achievements, such as Ronald Reagan, the former president of the United States. ''The World Bank and the IMF have contributed enormously to the spread of hope -- to a better life throughout the world community ,'' he is quoted as saying.(ENDS/IPS/PC/DC/94)