Subject: nanews02.043 From: gars@netcom.com (Gary Night Owl) To: Internet Recipients of Wotanging Ikche Message-ID: _ __ _____ __ _ __ ___ ____ _ __ ___ ' ) / / ') / / ) ' ) ) / ) / ' ) ) / ) / / / / / / /--/ / / / ___ / / / / ___ (_(_/ (__/ ( / (_ / (_ (___/ '__/_ / (_ (___/ ' O ____ _ , ___ _ , ___ O o O / ' ) / / ) ' ) / / ' O o O / /-< / /--/ /-- VOLUME 02, ISSUE 043 O o o o o O __/_ / ) (___/ / ( (___, 22 October 1994 O o O O o O K A N O H E D A A N I Y V W I Y A O ( N A T I V E A M E R I C A N N E W S ) This issue contains articles from FidoNet Indian Affairs Conference, NATIVE-L & NATCHAT Mailing Lists, UUCP & Genie (General Electric) e-mail, UseNet newsgroups alt.native & soc.culture.native. Articles appearing have been previously posted for public dissemination and/or permission for inclusion has been secured. <----<<<< >>>>----> This newsletter is a way of keeping the brothers and sisters 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. "Give wisdom and understanding to my leaders. Protect my warriors and bring them back safe. Give to the young, love and contentment. Give health and long life to my old people so that they may remain with us for a long time. Make my enemy brave and strong, so that if defeated, I will not be ashamed. And give me wisdom so that I may have kindness for all. And let me live each day, so when day is done, my prayer will not have been in vain." __ Big Lodge Pole, Blackfeet +- -- -- -- -- -- -- -- -- -- -- -+ | 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! Ann Stewart (Stewartshp@aol.com) sends the following: Gary, please incorporate the following info into your introduction. Obviously, the Canadian media is following this closely and there will be more to come in future weeks, even if it dies in the US media. The Order of the Solar Temple, the Quebec/Swiss cult that has made headlines around the world, is of interest to readers of Native American News for the following reasons. According to an article in The Boston Globe (October 7), Luc Jouret, cult leader, had been investigated in recent years by Quebec police "for suspected stockpiling of weapons, death threats made against Quebec political leaders, the bombing of hydro-electric towers belonging to Hydro-Quebec and attempts to infiltrate the hierarchy of the state-owned utility....His group was also reportedly under investigation for conspiring to bomb Indian reservations in Quebec province." Canadian media have reported that the cult recruited at least 17 utility personnel, held meetings on Hydro-Quebec premises for which the utility compensated employees who attended $CDN3,100 and received $CDN4,400 from the utility for lectures given by Jouret on improving job performance. Jean-Pierre Vinet, a former vice-president of the utility and an aide to current chairman Richard Drouin, is believed to be the last missing cult ringleader. He quit his job after pleading guilty to weapons charges last year. One of the death threats was made against former public security minister Claude Ryan, who was blamed in a 1992 telephone call by a cult member for Quebec's financial problems which the caller said were caused by Ryan's "policies toward redskins" (The Montreal Gazette, October 6). Some people are now asking that Hydro-Quebec reopen its 1993 investigation into the cult, while others say that would be the equivalent of allowing the proverbial fox into the henhouse. -------------------------- Do what you can to help the Cree and Innuit of James Bay. Hydro-Quebec is employing every method they can to flood the homes of these people, the burial places of their dead and a way of life that has come down for as long as memory can recall. Dohiyi Oginalii Night Owl , , (*,*) Gary Night Owl gars@genie.geis.com (`-') P. O. Box 672168 gars@netcom.com ===w=w=== Marietta, GA 30067, U.S.A. gars@igc.apc.org ----------- News of the people featured in this issue ---------- Part A: Usenet and e-mail Part B: NATCHAT and NATIVE-L lists - Milton Born With A Tooth Appeal - Conferences and Powwows - online - Indian Affairs May Change - John Trudell's Tour - Rush's Comments on Native American's - NAGPRA - Letter in Support of - Review: Savage Dreams: Mt. Shasta Preservation a Journey into the Hidden Wars - Running Horse Foundation - Blockade at Torres-Martinez - Want to Dance? - Leonard Peltier Canadian - Poem: Thrust before the Moon News Update - Verse: Hawai'ian Book of Days - New Syndrome? - Conferences and Powwows - offline ------------------ clip here for news feature -- 8< ------------ --------- "RE: Milton Born With A Tooth Appeal" --------- Date: 18 Oct 1994 21:21:40 GMT From: mkreiner@gpu.srv.ualberta.ca (Monica Kreiner) Subj: Milton Born With A Tooth Appeal Newsgroup: alt.native URGENT ACTION REQUIRED Milton Born With A Tooth is currently serving time in jail for defending Peigan land against provincial government action towards the Oldman River. Milton should not be in jail - the politicians who made the decisions to construct the dam without an environmental assessment, sent in armed police officers to trespass on Peigan territory and who continue to violate FEARO (Federal Environmental Assessment Review Office) Panel recommendations, are the ones who should be prosecuted. As an indigenous person, Milton had every right to defend and protect his territory. Milton's legal challenge to the Alberta Court of Appeal and further to the Supreme Court will allow the truth of his case to be brought forward. There are Charter of Rights issues and jurisdictional arguments which will finally test the Government of Canada's fiduciary responsibilities to the First Nations of this land. Alberta and Canada MUST be held accountable to the International Community for their apartheid treatment of First Nations peoples. The Oldman dam is slowly choking the life out of the Castle, Crowsnest and Oldman Rivers. The longer the federal and provincial governments ignore implementing the FEARO Panel recommendations, the more damage there is done to the Peigan people and the environment. To date there is an urgent need to raise $10,000.00 before October 31, 1994 to ensure the Appeal is taken through the Alberta Court of Appeal system. If we get an indication that the funds are forthcoming by the deadline, the appeal will proceed. The MOTHER EARTH DEFENSE FUND is being set up and we hope to have access to a tax-deductible receipt number by the end of this week. Please call to let us know of your commitment as soon as possible. Our eventual fund-raising goal for Milton's case is $50,000.00 to ensure his legal fees are taken care of. The Mother Earth Defense Fund will be set up permanently in 1995 to assist other First Nations to uphold their responsibility as caretakers of Mother Earth. Milton is prepared to fight for truth all the way. We cannot allow him to fight alone. We are appealing to supporters of indigenous peoples and defenders of Mother Earth to take direct action now. Reach into your wallet or cheque book and send us your contribution. Your continued support is greatly appreciated. Please read the enclosed material for background on Milton's case. We would ask that letters be sent to: the Prime Minister of Canada requesting a Federal Inquiry into Milton's case and all matters surrounding the Oldman River dam; Amnesty International urging them to take on Milton's case; Hon. Ron Irwin, Minister of Indian Affairs insisting that Canada uphold their fiduciary responsibility to indigenous people. Please feel free to share the enclosed material with others. Sincerely, Lorraine Sinclair MOTHER EARTH DEFENSE FUND Box 53, 10024 - 82 Avenue Edmonton, Alberta T6E 1Z3 phone (403) 461-9532; fax 450-2665 OF EVENTS CONCERNING THE OLDMAN RIVER DAM 1922 - Lethbridge Northern Irrigation District (LNID) through trespass (the required referendum of the Peigan people was not held to cede land) took possession of site on the Peigan Nation reserve to construct the weir and irrigation canal. 1987 - Federal and provincial governments issue licence and permit to construct the Oldman dam despite local environmental groups requesting the federal government to do an environmental assessment. 1987-90 - Friends of the Oldman River (FOR) is formed. They work within the legal system first to demonstrate that the province did not follow proper procedures in issuing a construction permit which is ruled in their favour yet work on the dam continues. FOR lays a complaint leading to charges under the Federal Fisheries act which are stayed. FOR appeals to the Federal Court asking that the federal license be quashed and a federal environmental assessment be undertaken but despite winning this case, the province continues construction on the dam. FOR applies for a court injunction to which the judge puts off his decision indefinitely. Summer, 1990 - The Lonefighter Society of the Peigan Nation mounts a major protest and begins healing the Oldman River by working on their own lands (46 km downstream of the dam) to divert part of its flow back into an original (pre-1922) river channel, diverting the river around the LNID canal. Aug. 29, 1990 - The Alberta Government claims title to the Peigan lands upon which the LNID weir and irrigation headworks are located, claiming ownership of the entire Oldman River and river bed as it passes through the Peigan lands. Sept. 6, 1990 - Provincial officials, and a fully armed and camouflaged, 50 - 80 member RCMP tactical squad "invades" Peigan Nation reserve and surround the Lonefighter Society camp. A stand-off occurs on Sept. 7th, and two shots were fired in the air warning the RCMP that they were trespassing. Sept. 12, 1990 - Milton Born With A Tooth is arrested in Calgary. Nov./Dec. 1990 - The federal government finally announces the appointment of an Environmental Assessment and Review Panel. Dec. 1, 1990 - Provincial officials and RCMP tactical squad in winter camouflage enter the Peigan Nation reserve and carry out work to undo the rehabilitation work done by the Lonefighter Society. Mar. 1991 - Milton Born With A Tooth is convicted on seven fire- arms charges stemming from the two shots fired into the air on Sept. 7, 1990. He appeals. May, 1992 - The Environmental Assessment Review Panel report makes its first recommendation that the dam be decommissioned. The Federal government rejects this but commits to implementing the remaining 22 recommendations. None have been implemented to date. Mar, 1994 - A 12-member jury finds Milton Born With a Tooth guilty after an unusual handling of a "hung jury" verdict. After four days deliberating and upon the reading of the verdict, one juror refuses to agree. However, the judge immediately returns the jury to its deliberations and after about another 90 minutes, a second verdict is given. Fall, 1994 - Milton Born With a Tooth is refused sentencing by a native sentencing circle. He receives 16 months in prison. Appeal of his trial and sentence to a higher court hinges on raising the $10,000 needed in court fees. The Deadline is October 31, 1994. Write letters requesting a full federal inquiry to: Hon. Sheila Copps, Deputy Prime Minister and Minister of the Environment House of Commons Ottawa, ON K1A 0A6 FAX (613) 992-2727 Hon. Ron Irwin Minister of Indian Affairs House of Commons Ottawa, ON K1A 0A6 FAX (819) 953-4941 Write letters encouraging support for Milton Born With A Tooth and the Lonefighter struggle to: Jim Sinclair, President Congress of Aboriginal Peoples 384 Bank St., 2nd Floor Ottawa, ON K2P 1Y4 FAX (613) 230-6273 Angela Wright Amnesty International Canadian Desk 1 Easton Street Longon, U.K. WC1X 8DJ FAX 011-44-71-956-1157 Please send copies of any correspondence to Lorraine Sinclair c/o the Mother Earth Defense Fund. --------- "RE: Indian Affairs May Change" --------- Date: 10-06-94 09:34:08 From: CRYSTAL (crystal@f157.n369.z1.fidonet.org) Subj: Indian Affairs May Change FidoNet Indian Affairs Conference Forwarded from "LEGAL_LAW" Originally by Martin Eble Originally to All Originally dated 3 Oct 1994, 21:20 DC - The House moved Monday to streamline the recognition process for Indian tribes and reform the American Indian trust fund. The Indian Federal Recognition Administrative Procedure Act, passed by voice vote, is designed to reduce the costs and time needed when tribes petition the government for federal recognition. It establishes the Commission on Indian Recognition to take over the work now done by the Bureau of Indian Affairs and sets time guidelines for considering petitions. If the commission fails to act within a specified time, the petitioners would be able to appeal to a U.S. District Court. There are now 545 Indian tribes recognized by the federal government and thus eligible for aid from the Bureau of Indian Affairs. Among current criteria are whether a substantial portion of the group lives within a specific area and whether it has maintained an established tribal authority over its members throughout its history. Currently, many groups unhappy with the BIA recognition process take their petitions to Congress in hopes of getting quick action. A separate bill would create a new office within the Interior Department to ensure reform of the American Indian Trust Management. The bill would allow tribes easier access and more control over trust funds and allows more options for investment of funds. The federal government has held funds in trust for Indians since 1820, and the BIA now controls trust funds of more than $2.1 billion In a third bill, the House bars the BIA from withdrawing recognition of a federally recognized Indian tribe or Alaska native group without congressional approval. All three bills still need Senate action. --- Origin: NIGHT COURT * Your Legal Resource Center * (1:369/157) --------- "RE: Rush's Comments on Native American's" --------- Date: Fri, 14 Oct 94 16:24:24 PDT From: JWERRET@Pactime1.PacBell.COM (Barefoot) Subj: Rush's comments on Native American's Newsgroup: soc.culture.native The following is an extract of a post in alt.politics.greens I thought the readers of this group might like to see it...John "Limbaugh's Reign of Error" was printed in extra!, the publication of Fairness and Accuracy in Reporting. "fair" was launched in the summer of 1987 with the financial assistance of The New World Foundation (nwf) which gave fair a $2,500 grant that year, according to nwf's 1987-1988 annual report. The Chair of nwf's board in 1987 was Hillary Rodham Clinton. (Mrs. Clinton, a board member since 1982, resigned in March of 1988.) What follows is a rebuttal to the fair allegations printed by the Big Five print media outlets: the Associated Press, The Los Angeles Times, The Washington Post, The New York Times and usa Today. RESPONDING TO FAIR's CHARGES PRINTED BY MAJOR PRINT MEDIA OUTLETS fair's charges as reported by The Los Angeles Times on June 29, 1994 (except for those covered elsewhere in this response): 6. Native Americans LIMBAUGH: "There are more American Indians alive today than there were when Columbus arrived or at any other time in history. Does this sound like a record of Genocide?" FAIR: "According to Carl Shaw of the U.S. Bureau of Indian Affairs, estimates of the pre-Columbus population of what later became the United States range from 5 million to 15 million. Native populations in the late 19th century fell to 250,000 due in part to genocidal policies. Today the U.S.'s Native American population is about 2 million." REALITY: The facts support me. fair is repeating the liberal myth that American Indians were systematically wiped out by white genocide. In See, I Told You So (from which fair takes my statement), I myself point out that while "there were certainly atrocities against Indians by white people," the full picture indicates that "life was far from utopian for these people" and that "there were just as many _ and probably to a greater degree of savagery _ committed by other Indians" (p. 68). As for Indian population in the New World, Robert Royal, author of 1492 And All That: Political Manipulations of History, writes: "Estimates of pre-Columbian population figures have become heavily politicized with scholars who are particularly critical of Europe often favoring wildly higher figures. High starting points make Indian deaths by disease, warfare, and mistreatment all the greater. David Henige has dubbed this Native American Historical Demography as Expiation.' Yet despite their mistreatment by Europeans and devastation by European diseases (large numbers of Indians died as disease passed along trade routes, 80 percent without ever seeing a white man), some Indian groups are more populous today than in 1492. There are now more than 30 million Indians in Latin America alone, and there are several times more Iroquois in North America than at first contact." _ Robert Royal, "Hello Columbus: America Was No Paradise in 1492," Policy Review, Fall 1992, p. 44. As for instances of "genocidal policies," Royal asks: "Genocide? Where? I don't know of any instances of Indian genocide. Mistreatment, yes. Warfare, yes. Deaths related to diseases caught from Europeans, yes. But systematic genocide, policies of genocide, no. Where are these policies? Where is the proof? The fact is, activists who spout off such claims of genocide have no proof. It's amazing what they can get away with "by interview". John again - I have seen it posted that Rush's email address is: 70277.2502@compuserve.com, although I haven't tried it myself --------- "RE: Letter in Support of Mt. Shasta Preservation" --------- Date: 18 Oct 94 02:21:47 GMT From: milo@scicom.AlphaCDC.COM (Michele Lord) Subj: Letter in Support of Mt. Shasta Preservation Newsgroup: alt.native [This a letter to the Keeper of the National Register of Historic Places (P.O. Box 37127, Washington, DC 20013-7127) from Carol Geary. -Michele] To the Keeper: I urge you to uphold the decision to make the entire Mount Shasta a Historical District. If you come to meetings of developers in this area who have no concern for the history, please try to educate them. The history is bound up with the natural environment and seeing the mountain as a tremendous yet vulnerable natural resource for all people and creatures for all time. Here are my points: + Keep the entire mountain, down to the towns (not just above 8,000 feet), whole and protected as it is. + Sacredness is self-evident (do not require proofs from a shaman). + Native American history merits eligibility to preserve Mount Shasta. The Native American Coalition represents the earliest known inhabitants of the area. Their request to hold the mountain sacred is based on their values and understanding of how to live in harmony with nature. In their defense, they seek to provide scientific evidence that the mountain is sacred and has always been precious. They quote from anthropological and ethnographic reports of myths and shamanism. They propose doing another such study. You need to keep in mind that sacredness is self-evident and is difficult to demonstrate. Anyone who goes past Mount Shasta by land or sky is awed by the presence of Mount Shasta. That basic awe is the testimony to what we must preserve. The Native Americans have kept it correctly. In your role as Keeper, you must assure that the natural undeveloped Mount Shasta continues to be available to our descendants. One look at the shorn slopes of the ski butte convinces me that commercial skiing is destructive on Mount Shasta. It destroys the growth on the land and the view. Watching ski mobiles tearing up the earth with their wheels and hearing the air of the sky violated with the motorized sound is evidence that the people doing it do not respect the essence of Mount Shasta's beauty. Scientific proof of the sacred has problems. Problem one is that a shaman is not going to reveal a sacred site. It is intensely private and personal. Given the history of missionaries who destroy what they don't understand, any shaman must protect a holy site by keeping it secret. A holy site has to be approached with a holy attitude. Therefore, I urge you to be very careful about requirements to identify sacred sites. Another problem is names. Ancient Hebrews understood that there can be no name for what is most holy. Once named, a thing is part of creation; you cannot name the creator. Also unnamable are things that are beyond our understanding. So while place names might prove a use of a place, the lack of names does not prove the opposite. There are many aspects of Mount Shasta that remain unnamable. Its vastness continues to render us speechless and confound our conceptualizations. Honorable Keeper, do not become confused by requests to carve up Mount Shasta, to use it up, or to dissect it with scientific study. Please honor Mount Shasta by maintaining the historical district designation. ~+*~+*~+*~+*~+~+*~+*~+*~+*~+~+*~+*~+*~+*~+~+*~+*~+*~+*~+~+*~+*~+*~+*+ "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 ~+*~+*~+*~+*~+*~+*~+*~+*~+*~+*~+*~+*~+*~+*~+*~+*~+*~+*~+*~+*~+*~+~ + Alpha Institute + Tel: 303-343-4114 alphai@scicom.alphacdc.com + P.O. Box 110998 + Aurora CO 80042 + Fax: 303-360-9118 +*+ +*+ +*+ +*+ +*+ +*+ --------- "RE: Running Horse Foundation" --------- Date: 14 Oct 1994 17:40:33 GMT From: walkerde@spot.Colorado.EDU (Deward E. Walker Jr.) Subj: Running Horse Foundation Newsgroup: alt.native October 14, 1994 Dear Friends: The Running Horse Foundation is a non-profit corporation incorporated under the laws of the State of Colorado. Although we do not believe land can be owned, the Running Horse Foundation is dedicated to the protection of American Indian spirituality by purchasing land in the name of "the unborn man and woman" in order to provide a place for present and future generations to practice traditional ways, respecting and honoring our ancestors, Grandmother Earth, all animals, plants, and living creatures in a sincere, accepting, and humble way. Arkansas Mountain is located in Boulder County, Colorado. It is and has been a sacred place for American Indians who come to the Mountain to worship their ancestors. Yet, this sacred place is in danger of destruction through the development of houses on the Mountain. The pressure to develop and alter our pristine Earth in the name of profit is tremendous. In order to save Arkansas Mountain from impending development we must raise $50,000. We need your help to accomplish our goal of purchasing land located on Arkansas Mountain so that we can preserve this sacred place -- free from development of any kind -- for our children. Your contribution is essential to our cause. We are in the process of filing for federal tax exemption under section 501(c)(3) of the United States Tax Code, and expect that we will receive it. Your contribution to The Running Horse Foundation will be tax deductible when we receive our tax exempt status. We will keep you advised of our progress in this regard. Please help us save Grandmother Earth. Your contribution may be sent to: The Running Horse Foundation c/o Greene, Meyer & McElroy, P.C. 1007 Pearl Street Suite 220 Boulder, CO 80302 Please make all contributions payable to The Running Horse Foundation. Thank you. Sincerely, Bruce J. Woodhull, President The Running Horse Foundation (303)421-6384 Federal Employer Identification No. 84-1260548 --------- "RE: Want to Dance?" --------- Date: 10-09-94 09:02:00 From: Frosty Deere (frosty.deere@f502.n167.z1.fidonet.org) Subj: Want to dance ? FidoNet Indian Affairs Conference From the Editorial of THE EASTERN DOOR October 7, 1994 Quebec Premier Jacques Parizeau has recently stated that the province's territory is inviolable and the possibility of Native lands seceding from a possible new country of Quebec will not be discussed. Yet, an article in the French Press states that the first shot in the negotiation battle between Natives and Quebec has been fired by the Cree, who will not negotiate with the province because Quebec territorial borders are not to be discussed. The Crees are being described as belligerent and unreasonable. Once again, the French media is manipulating the truth to manufacture support for the policies of the provincial government. We are sure to see more of this type of journalism as the province moves down the referendum road. Parizeau's assertion betrays his statements that he will have open and unprecedented negotiations with Quebec's Native Nations. He reminds everyone that the PQ recognized Natives as Nations in 1985 and that not even the Federal Government has done that. If Parizeau wants to have real discussions with Native People then there should no pre-conditions to what can be discussed. A Nation to Nation relationship is based on mutual respect for one another's point of view. Each may not agree with the other's perspective, but they are still civil enough to have reasoned discussions with one another. Mutual respect is a clear sign of civilization from our point of view. This seems to be a concept that escapes the provincial government and several of its representatives. Witness Richard LeHir's comment about Native people not having contributed anything significant to society, therefore not meeting his definition of "civilized". By not allowing any debate on Quebec territorial borders the province is the party that is being belligerent. Their position neither encourages discussion nor builds confidence, but lends to more distrust and suspicion. Keeping the position on borders seems to be just so much posturing for the electorate than reasoned diplomacy. Parizeau would show more sincerity and gain credibility by agreeing to unqualified discussions with Native Nations. Of course, he would face the wrath of the media. How uncivilized! --- SLMAIL v4.0 (#1349) Origin: Igloo Station (514) 632-5556 (1:167/502) --------- "RE: Poem: Thrust before the Moon" --------- Date: 12 Oct 1994 12:55:07 -0500 From: turtle@aicap.s21.com (Turtle Heart) Subj: Thrust before the Moon Newsgroup: alt.native There is a man there somewhere that man is right there he is laying down he is stretched down there he is wrapped in skins he is wrapped in songs he works with feathers he carries songs that have been singing dropped before the moon can rise dropped where the corn is growing he is wrapped in skins he is wrapped in songs he lives deep under the drum the drumming before the moon can rise right there where he is (Buffalo Song) Tobacco Indian ________________________________________________ Turtle Heart turtle@soft21.s21.com (Ahnishinabeg) American Indian Computer Art Project BBS 619-374-2100 PO Box 111 Johannesburg CA 93528-0111 Land of Kaw-ii-su ancestor: Land of Light --------- "RE: Verse: Hawai'ian Book of Days" --------- Date: 94/10/14 03:05 From: Kepola (dfsanders@genie.geis.com) Subj: A HAWAI'IAN BOOK OF DAYS, week of October 23-29 GE Electronic Mail A HAWAI'IAN BOOK OF DAYS, week of October 23-29 OKAKOPA (October) (Ikuwa) 23 Teach me the magic of the night. 24 Those we love are near to us in spirit. 25 Tread gently upon the dew-pearled grass of morning. 26 It is never too late to change, to learn, to grow. 27 The sunlight weaves dappled patterns of leaves upon the grass. 28 Only the wind can speak my true name. 29 The leaves sigh with the wind's caress. (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, 20 October 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= The powwows (at least those reported on the Net) are dying down, but we do have some conferences coming up for people with special interests and notice that poet/activist/performer John Trudell is going on a concert tour on the West coast along with a rock group, including a schedule of his appearances. I've had the pleasure of hearing John Trudell speak at the NAJA Conference in Atlanta and look forward to an opportunity to see him perform -- Evening Star. My listings come from several sources: Internet newsgroups and mail list groups, Fidonet, GEnie and the occasional e-mail regarding an upcoming event. Also, I check several publications. The best national list is in =News from Indian Country=. =The Spike= has an excellent regional list for the eastern states. ----------------------------------------------------------------------- From: soc.culture.native Sender: nntp@acsu.buffalo.edu Native Health Conference An International Conference on the State of Native Health Research Including: - Prevention of HIV/AIDS: Results from the First Nation HIV/AIDS and Health Survey -- Ted Meyers - Traditional and Alternative Approaches to Health Care -- Joe Jacobs - Cancer Surveillance in Native Communities -- Arthur Michalek - The Hanta Virus -- Raymond Reid - Foundations of a Culturally Syntonic Approach to Prevention of Developmental Disabilities in Native Communities: Results from the INCHES Project -- Edward Starr Where: Native American Center for the Living Arts (the Turtle) 25 Rainbow Boulevard South, Niagara Falls, New York When: November 14 and 15, 1994 Registration Fee: $50.00 (Free for all full time students) Deadline to register: November 1, 1994 (Space limited to first 150 participants, please respond promptly.) For more information, contact Ron Lelito :(716)-645-2517 Fax # :(716)-645-3837 Sponsored by: Region II Rehabilitation Continuing Education Program, Native American People's Alliance, and SUNY@Buffalo. Newsgroups: soc.culture.native Sender: news@newsbf01.news.aol.com ---------------------------------------------------------------------- CONCERT TOUR WITH JOHN TRUDELL & BAD DOG Native American poet, activist, and performer John Trudell will tour with Bad Dog in November. The tour begins in Seattle Monday/November 14, ending in San Francisco Thursday/November 24. Tickets available @ the door. Trudell, a Santee Sioux political activist will perform in his traditional 'spoken word' style accompanied by Quiltman, Mark Shark, and Billy Watts (members of Graffiti Man Band). Bad Dog is an indigenous traditional drum and song, preindustrial strength rock band - Rant and Roll with an Attitude! Opening for Trudell & Bad Dog are "Child's Voice," an indigenous youth band comprised of Song & Star Trudell and Tee Wah Nee Salme. For more information: email: zola976@aol.com Tour Schedule: Mon/Nov 14 Seattle, WA, Nippon Kan Theatre Tues/Nov 15 Olympia, WA, Capital Theatre Thur/Nov 17 Portland, OR, Northwest Service Centre Fri/Nov 18 Eugene, OR, Kate Auditorium, Agate Hall, Univ. of Oregon Sat/Nov 19 Medford, OR, Craterion Theatre Mon/Nov 21 Arcata, CA, Brew & Beat Tue/Nov 22 Garberville, CA, Mateel Community Centre, Redway, CA Wed/Nov 23 Mendocino, CA, Crown Hall San Francisco, CA date to be announced ---------------------------------------------------------------------- From: STEWARTSHP@AOL.COM@INET00# Internet Gateway Conference: "Universal Human Rights: Accountability and Enforcement" Date: Saturday, December 10, 9-4 Location: The Kennedy Library, Boston MA: Includes a workshop on indigenous peoples' rights featuring Naw Louisa Benson (US representative, Democratic Alliance of Burma and Karen National Union) and Ted Moses (UN Ambassador, James Bay Cree Nation). To register call The Coalition for a Strong United Nations at 617-576-3871. ----------------------------------------------------------------------- From =News From Indian Country= Oct 21-23 6th Meherrin Powwow, Winton, NC Info: 919-358-4275 Oct 22 17th Autumn Powwow, Milwaukee, WI Info: 414-229-5880 Oct 22-23 7th AITA, Toledo, Ohio Info: 419-249-2601 Oct 28 American Indian Heritage Powwow, Chicago, IL Info: 312-996-4515 Oct 28-30 Mid-Columbia River, Celilo, OR Info: 503-298-1559 Oct 28-30 1st Annual Manitoba First Nations Peoples Powwow Winnipeg, Manitoba, Canada Info: 204-847-4511 Oct 28 AICA Fall Benefit Powwow, Greensboro, NC Info: 704-464-5579 Oct 29 Arkansas NASA Powwow, Fayetteville, AR Info: 501-582-2260 Oct 29-30 12th MI Celebration, Detroit, MI Info: 313-535-2966 Oct 29 2nd Intertribal Fall Gourd Dance, Norman, OK Info: 405-321-8070 SNEAK PREVIEW OF THANKSGIVING EVENTS: Nov 24-25 24th Thanksgiving Homecoming, Atmore, AL Info: 205-368-9186 Nov 25-27 Indian America, South Tucson, AZ Info: 602-622-4900 Nov 25-26 5th Prairie Blvd. Potawatomi, Topeka, KS Info: 913-966-2255 ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ all items below this line have already been distributed by our brother, Jay Brummett, via the NATIVE-L or NATCHAT mailing lists. --------- "RE: Conferences and Powwows - online" --------- Date: Thu, 20 October 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: tlink.ness.com!1-1 (Deanna #1 @1) Mailing List: NATIVE-L (native-l@gnosys.svle.ma.us) Event: RIVER LEAF POWWOW Date: October 22-23, 1994 Location: Afton, VA at Van Rypers Lake, off Highway #151 Gates open 10AM to 5PM both days Info: contact Two Bears at 804-263-8553 Admission $4 for adults, $2 for children, with $1 off admission for contributions to the food and clothing drive for Natives in need. --------- "RE: John Trudell's Tour" --------- Date: Fri, 14 Oct 1994 16:38:00 EDT From: infi.net!jsd (Dick Shovel, Ltd.) Subj: John Trudell's Tour Mailing List: NATIVE-L (native-l@gnosys.svle.ma.us) A recent post re Trudell's tour noted that he is a "charismatic" speaker. The comment reminded me that, inasmuch as he has passed through the fire, Trudell's charisma is well founded. IMO it is important to keep the following specifics in mind when listening to his very powerful music. This data comes from Agents of Repression by Ward Churchill and Jim Vander Wall, ISBN 0-89608-293-8 (paperback), list price - sixteen dollars: "The Peltier assassination effort appears to be only one of several abortive but deadly FBI counterintelligence operations directed at the remnants of AIM during the late 1970s and early 1980s. Another, even grimmer example concerns the death of the family of AIM's last national chairman, John Trudell: "In February 1979, Trudell led a march in Washington, D.C. to draw attention to the difficulties the Indians were having. Although he received a warning against speaking out, he delivered an address from the steps of the FBI building on the subject of the agency's harassment of Indians...Less than 12 hours later, Trudell's wife, Tina, his three children, and his wife's mother were burned alive in the family home in Duck Valley, Nevada - the apparent work of an arsonist. "Further detail is added elsewhere: "On the Shoshone-Paiute Reservation of Duck Valley, straddling the Nevada-Idaho border, at 1:30 a.m., February 12, 1979, a fire ripped through the house of Arthur Manning and his family. Manning was a member of the Duck Valley Tribal Council who was actively working for Shoshone-Paiute treaty rights. Opposition to Manning included the local tribal police chief, Benny Richards, a former member of the Wilson goon squad on Pine Ridge [and brother of intended Peltier assassin Chuck Richards; both are of the Pine Ridge 'Manson Family'], and the local BIA Director John Artichoker, also from Pine Ridge. Manning's wife, Leah, was a coordinator for social services on the reservation. Their daughter, Tina, had been working actively in a local campaign to preserve the tribe's water rights at Wilhorse Reservoir; she was opposed by the local BIA, Elko COunty [and] Nevada officials, the water recreation industry, and local white ranchers. Tina's husband was John Trudell, national chairman of AIM [from approximately 1974-80]. The Trudell's had three children: Ricarda Star [age five], Sunshine Karma [three], and Eli Changin Sun [one]...The fire [caught] the entire family asleep. Dead were Leah Hicks-Manning, her daughter Tina, and the three young children. Arthur Manning survived the blaze. The BIA issued a statement saying the fire was an accident. Trudell believes his family was murdered. "The basis for Trudell's belief rested in his AIM activities in general, and with regard to the Peltier case in particular. "During the Peltier trial in Fargo, North Dakota, Trudell had returned to the courtroom one day when a marshall informed him that he would not be allowed inside. An argument ensued, and Trudell was evicted. He was later arrested for the incident, charged with contempt of court, convicted before [U.S. District] Judge Ronald Davies, and sentenced to sixty days in jail. He served his time in five institutions in three states [a matter clearly reminiscent of the handling of Leonard Crow Dog]. While in Springfield Prison in Missouri, he was told by a fellow inmate that if he did not stop his Indian rights work his family would be killed. "Of course, as is indicated above, the Mannings had no shortage of enemies at Duck Valley, any one or group of which might have perpetrated the fatal arson (assuming it was arson - despite the obvious basis for suspicion, and Trudell's repeated allegations in this regard, no formal investigation of the fire was ever conducted by the FBI). However, given the overall context of apparent illegalities involved in the FBI's anti-AIM operations, and the concomitantly high stakes which would be involved in their disclosure, more than usual heed should be paid to Trudell's contentions: "When I got sent up for sixty days, that time in Fargo, I was approached by another inmate, a guy I didn't know, and he started talking about my public statements. You can't go around talking that shit, he says, you better get out of the country. You don't know these crazy bastards [the FBI] - they could kill your wife and children. Well, I was suspicious of the guy's so-called warning at the time; that was a message John Trudell was supposed to receive. I know who did it. What I still don't understand is why; it was so unnecessary. But it was arson, and it was deliberate - an assassination. Those people did a terrible thing; they should think a long, long time about what they did. "Trudell has explained that, in essence, he believes the death of his family was 'set up' by the FBI as part of its strategy to silence his and other AIM members' attempts to draw broad public attention to the Bureau's pattern of abuses concerning AIM in general and Pine Ridge in particular [see earlier post entitled AIM, Pine Ridge, and the FBI]. He attributes the emphasis placed upon himself and his family in this regard not only to his high position within AIM, but to the FBI's assessment of his special talents as a speaker/organizer, repeated over and over in the investigatory documents amassed on him between 1969 and 1979 (some 17,000 pages of which were released in a FOIA suit in 1986): "Trudell is an intelligent individual and eloquent speaker who has the ability to stimulate people into action. TRUDELL is a know hardliner who openly advocates and encourages the use of violence [i.e., armed self-defense] although he himself never becomes involved in the fighting...TRUDELL has the ability to meet with a group of pacifists and in a short time have them yelling and screaming 'right-on!' In short, he is an extremely effective agitator." Said by Trudell in 1980: "When I go around in America and I see the bulk of the white people, they do not feel oppressed; they feel powerless. When I go amongst my people, we do not feel powerless; we feel oppressed. We do not want to make the trade...we must be willing in our lifetime to deal with reality. It's not revolution; it's liberation. We want to be free of a value system that's being imposed upon us. We do not want to participate in that value system. We don't want change in the value system. We want to remove it from our lives forever...We have to assume our responsibilities as power, as individuals, as spirit, as people... "We are the people. We have the potential for power. We must not fool ourselves. We must not mislead ourselves. It takes more than good intentions. It takes commitment. It takes recognizing that at some point in our lives we are going to have to decide that we have a way of life that we follow, and we are going to have to live that way of life...That is the only solution there is for us." Peace...Jordan --------- "RE: NAGPRA" --------- Date: Wed, 12 Oct 1994 10:24:04 -0600 From: "Deward E. Walker Jr." Subj: NAGPRA Mailing List: NATIVE-L (native-l@gnosys.svle.ma.us) NAGPRA stands for The Native American Graves Protection and Repatriation Act. The following is taken from _CRM_ Volume 17 No. 6 1994: Archeology and the Federal Government. The Native American Graves Protection and Repatriation Act (P.L. 101-601; 104 Stat. 3048, 25 USC 3001 note.), signed into law on November 16, 1990, requires Federal agencies and museums to inventory human remains and associated funerary objects and to provide culturally affiliated tribes with the inventory of collections. The Act requires repatriation, on request, to the culturally affiliated tribes and establishes a grant program within the Department of the Interior to assist tribes and Native Hawaiian organizations in repatriation and to assist museums in preparing the inventories and collections summaries. It also makes the sale or purchase of Native American human remains, whether or not they derive from Federal or Indian lands, illegal. -------- "RE: Review: Savage Dreams:a Journey into the Hidden Wars" -------- Date: Sat, 15 Oct 1994 08:57:00 PDT From: Robert J Paton Subj: new book: shoshone and yosemite indians Mailing List: NATIVE-L (native-l@gnosys.svle.ma.us) new book Savage Dreams: a Journey into the Hidden Wars of the American West by Rebecca Solnit Sierra Club Books 1994 the jacket blurb reads: In 1851, a war began in what would become Yosemite National Park, a war that has yet to come to a real conclusion. A century later and about a hundred and fifty miles away as the crow flies, another war began when the US government began setting off nuclear bombs at the Nevada Test Site, in what was a called nuclear testing program but functioned as a war against the land and people of the Great Basin. The first part is about the Nevada Test Site and the Western Shoshone nation. She honors the activism at the Test Site to halt testing, and she honors the long fight of the Western Shoshone to reclaim their territory. This of course focuses on the struggle of the Dann sisters who have struggled to show the dishonesty of the US government dealing with them. But she learns something vital, that all Euro-Americans have to learn, that is that the land is there for us to learn from and struggle to protect. She writes: I remember looking down the length of Crescent Valley and startling myself by thinking, No one ever took the land. It's still here, it never went anywhere, only the people come and go. The idea of ownership begins to fall apart when it comes to land, for a possession is something under one's control and which one has a right to control: Land undermines both these concepts, being beyond control and above it morally... When land is sold, it is the people that move, not the land--the expression is that it has changed hands. And even the idea of a piece of land is an abstraction: No wall or ditch can break up the continuity of the surface of the earth; it does not really become pieces. Then there is Yosemite. it has long been hailed as the preeminent landscape. the isolated and aesthetically pleasing place. in Rebecca Solnit's new book our perceptions about this place are challenged as she relates the story of the warfare that led to the European entry into Yosemite. This war continues today against the original inhabitants of the area, the Awahneechee. She writes: Yosemite National Park is the very crucible and touchstone for American landscape, and I thought that if I could understand what happened...within it, I could begin to see the peculiarities, blindnesses, raptures, and problems that constitute the Euro- American experience of landscape. Yosemite is one of the most famous landscapes in the world, and it is usually pictured as a virgin wilderness...It is hardly an exaggeration to say that no place on earth is more central to landscape photography and landscape preservation. What has been left out of the picture, then, says a lot about how we understand landscape. Nothing in any of these images or any of these agendas suggested that Yosemite was a battleground before it was a vacation destination...What does it mean...that the images which shaped the popular view of the place are similarly segregated, that the gap between our view of landscape and of history is full of lost stories, ravaged cultures, obliterated names? (pages 221-2). She talks about how the Euro-American sense of place comes from photos and calendars, and she refers to how the native inhabitants continue to not be allowed to live in Yosemite. Only strangers are allowed. Our alienation from nature is so complete that we simply go to see it. There is a conceptual gap that native people have been talking about for some time and it is refreshing to see a Euro-American bring up these challenges. Euro-American environmentalists must support Native peoples land rights. Check out the book. Support the Mariposa Indian Council in getting Federal recognition and therefore access to their homeland, Yosemite. Support the Western Shoshone and the Dann sisters in their ongoing struggle for the sovereignty of Newe Segobia, the Western Shoshone nation. --------- "RE: Blockade at Torres-Martinez" --------- Date: Mon, 17 Oct 1994 08:08:00 PDT From: Indigenous Environmental Network Subj: BLOCKADE AT TORRES-MARTINEZ 10-17-9 Mailing List: NATIVE-L (native-l@gnosys.svle.ma.us) EMBARGO UNTIL 9:15 A.M. MONDAY, OCTOBER 17TH, 1994 ON SITE PHONE: TRIBAL MEMBERS AGAINST SLUDGE (415) 519-7154 (415) 699-3256 INDIANS BLOCKADE ILLEGAL SEWAGE SLUDGE FACILITIES Thermal, CA. -- Tribal leaders and members from the Torres-Martinez Desert Cahuilla Indian Tribe of Southern California have begun a non- violent blockade of the illegal sewage sludge facilities on their land. At 9:30 a.m., following a ceremonial blessing, tribal members and supporters began fencing off the entrance to the facilities and established a human blockade to keep trucks out. Additional barriers are being constructed from railroad ties and barrels. In response to the fire that burned for a week at the sludge facility, and the failure of federal agencies to enforce federal environmental law and shut down the illegal sludge operations, the tribal members have begun a dramatic escalation of their protest to protect their land, environment, and sovereignty. Los Angeles and Orange Counties continue to send sewage sludge to the illegal facilities located on the reservation, in violation of tribal Cease and Desist orders and federal law. The City of San Diego refuses to remove half a million tons of transported from city facilities and illegally dumped on the reservation. We, the tribal members of the Torres-Martinez Reservation are taking a stand to stop the sludge dumping on our Reservation, said Alec Dominguez. The government never lifted a finger to help us, so we have no alternative but to exercise our sovereignty and enforce tribal and federal law. Joining the protest and blockade are supporters from many Southern California reservations, Dine C.A.R.E., from the Navajo (Dine) Nation, U.N. Observers from the International Indian Treaty Council, Elders from the Colville Reservation of Washington State, Greenpeace, California Communities Against Toxics and others. --------- "RE: Leonard Peltier Canadian News Update" --------- Date: Tue, 11 Oct 1994 08:05:00 GMT From: lpdccfd@web.apc.org Subj: Leonard Peltier Cdn. News Update Mailing List: NATIVE-L (native-l@gnosys.svle.ma.us) STATEMENT BY THE LEONARD PELTIER DEFENSE COMMITTEE, CANADA OCTOBER 12, 1994 INTERNATIONAL INDIGENOUS PEOPLES' DAY IN SOLIDARITY TO DEMAND JUSTICE AND FREEDOM FOR NORTH AMERICAN POLITICAL PRISONER LEONARD PELTIER On Oct. 12, 1994, the native students' associations and the Leonard Peltier Defense Committee Canada are organizing a series of public awareness events at universities all across Canada to demand freedom for Leonard Peltier and in commemoration with 502 years of resistance by North American indigenous peoples from colonial occupation and repression. Oct. 12 was proclaimed by the American Indian Movement as an international day of solidarity with indigenous peoples in protest of Columbus, whose "discovery" of North America in 1492 initiated the mass extermination of millions of the original peoples of Turtle Island as the victims of a deliberate and systematic campaign of genocide. It is in a true spirit of resistance that as indigenous peoples we have survived today by honouring our history; by defending and maintaining our true identity. One sacrifice, one victim of this century's North American governments' campaign of terror and destruction against indigenous peoples is Leonard Peltier, a 50-year-old Lakota-Chippewa, who had the courage to defend his people's rights and freedoms when they were under attack; while on the same day, corrupt tribal chairman Dickie Wilson was selling away one-eighth of the reservation lands. For his courage in defence of the people, he was targeted and has endured almost 19 years of false imprisonment for the alleged murder of two F.B.I. agents on June 26, 1975 without ever having had the right to a fair trial. Even U.S. authorities have admitted they do not know who shot the agents. Today the Canadian government, in an unprecedented development, has agreed to review his false extradition at a critical time when his request for clemency and freedom could be decided by the President of the United States. Over the years, the work of the Leonard Peltier Defense Committee in Canada has focussed on lobbying for official endorsements along with commitments for support from organizations and networks from across Canada and internationally. We are asking for all people to renew their appeal to the Canadian government to register its strong objection over the fraudulent mishandling of the 1976 extradition. We are asking for a truthful accounting of the extradition process that failed Leonard Peltier along with certain actions the federal government can take to redress this wrong. This could include reconsidering Leonard's original request for political asylum; a request for his return to Canada and the government's recommendation for clemency as a strong form of international pressure. The fact is we have been lobbying native organizations for many years approaching various peoples' movements, including native students in Canada who are today forced to define their future in a country where their own families and nations are still struggling to take control of their rights and jurisdictions. Earlier this year at Trent University in Peterborough, Ontario, native students from across Canada gathered to assemble their own nation-wide federation. We asked them to commit themselves to support Leonard's freedom which was enthusiastically received at several student gatherings this year resulting in native students joining us from across Canada in organizing public awareness events at universities and colleges on Oct. 12. We are pleased to report an estimated 15 different locations --from St. Thomas University in Fredericton, New Brunswick to Camosun College in Victoria, B.C. which will present a full update with petitions and latest letter-writing campaign; information on what people can do; documentary films; posters and speakers. It is our hope that the aboriginal students of this country will lobby and organize with the LPDC-Canada for a broader Indian support effort of this historic case. Aboriginal students are a natural link to their families and communities. We, together can develop an effective lobbying plan that could begin by forwarding sample resolutions and updated information which can then be presented to their nation councils for endorsement. As we build understanding amongst our people, this case continues to mark a very serious violation of the rights and freedoms of all peoples. It is our hope that we can continue to make further connections with students in different countries. Since 1989, our defense committee has organized four lobbying tours of different European countries with long time overseas support contacts. In March of 1992 at the oldest university in the world in Bologna, Italy, a strong presentation of Leonard's case was made to university students by our comrade and lawyer Lew Gurwitz (who sadly after 20 years of commitment suddenly past away on Aug. 28, 1994). Students there agreed to be part of an international movement to free Leonard Peltier. So we talked about this idea with students in numerous universities as we travelled through Italy, Germany, Switzerland, Holland and elsewhere; always building upon the possibility of a global, co-ordinated example in demand of Leonard's freedom from students united around the world. Leonard Peltier's case has been presented before the United Nations human rights sub-committees each year since 1977. His case has been raised twice for debate and discussion in Canada's Parliament; received official endorsement from the federal New Democrats; and has reached the highest courts in both Canada and the United States. It has been presented before numerous governmental commissions on human rights in many countries; adopted by Amnesty International as the example of a North American political prisoner; recorded and adopted in the human rights policy of the Canadian Labour Congress; and the subject of numerous books, in particular, In the Spirit of Crazy Horse by Peter Matthiessen (Viking Press; 1992) and film documentaries, including Incident at Oglala by R. Redford (1992, release). In November 1993, representatives of the Canadian defense committee testified and presented 18 years of documentation and evidence of injustice to the Royal Commission on Aboriginal Peoples, with an appeal for the commission to take a position of lobby and support. The commission presented a letter to the Justice Minister of Canada asking him to call for a full ministerial review of the circumstances surrounding the original extradition of Leonard Peltier. We thank the aboriginal commission for its support and its immediate response which we understand goes far beyond their mandate. We look forward to the final outcome of the report and its findings some time in 1995. It is this kind of effort that helps us to present this case for official endorsement to all our aboriginal peoples. We are presently lobbying to Jim Sinclair of the Aboriginal Peoples Congress based in Ottawa, once again putting all the pieces together for what we know could well be the most powerful, unified lobby ever in demand for justice and freedom for Leonard Peltier. We are also working in a collective, researching all of the avenues regarding our position of lobby in Canada with the United States Congress as numerous senators and representatives of Congress joined together as recent as 1991 and filed a formal, legal intervention recommending a new and fair trial. However, Congress was never lobbied on behalf of Canada and there are numerous actions that Canada could take now that we can prove the United States government fabricated evidence and presented false affidavits to a Canadian court. We would lobby the United States Congress on the basis of these facts and with the intent to strengthen our international lobby by simply pointing out that if it could happen to us, it could happen to any country; and therefore we have as a global family a human responsibility to denounce this terrible miscarriage of justice; find the solution and free Leonard Peltier! We would like to send our many thanks to all the people who continue to support this honourable struggle. We thank our comrades and friends in Italy, Germany, Holland and elsewhere for their tremendous, effective political lobbying. We thank Leonard's Canadian lawyer-representative, Dianne Martin, who will be speaking on Oct. 12 at Osgoode Hall, York University in Toronto. Dianne will also be trying to forward questions to Allan Rock, Canada's Minister of Justice who is giving a public lecture on this same day at the university. Good-Luck Dianne!! We thank Brian Wright-McLeod and many others who will be speaking in Leonard's defense on this historic day all across this country. We send our prayers to our brother, Leonard Peltier and all those who have chosen to sacrifice themselves on the 11th and 12th through a spiritual fast for justice with a vigil organized outside Leavenworth prison in Kansas. Many thanks to the aboriginal students and to all students in general who have taken on the responsibility of helping us organize this important day; thanks to Renee Shilling and representatives of the newly formed Canadian Federation of Aboriginal Students; the Canadian Federation of Students and CFS-Ontario; our thanks to the people of the Turtle Island Support Group, Toronto; Roseanne Marble of Curve Lake; Tariq Hassan-Gordon; Jen Metcalfe; and the people of the Anti-Colonial Action Alliance, Peterborough. We send our prayers and thanks always to the sacred Drum for its guidance -- for the Drum has marched with the indigenous people all through our history and holds testimony of this historic case of injustice. So, for the drummers and singers who continue to honour and carry on the struggle, the sacred message of the drum to the people calls for freedom for Leonard Peltier and justice for all.,. we thank you. + + + + + + + + + + + + FACT: THE PINE RIDGE INDIAN RESERVATION, SOUTH DAKOTA had the highest murder-death rate per capita in the United States between 1973 to 1976 as a result of the F.B.I. and U.S. government's terror and assault. It was on Pine Ridge on June 26, 1975 that Leonard Peltier and others defended themselves in a shoot-out that resulted in the deaths of two F.B.I. agents and an Indian man. LEONARD PELTIER is a victim; a truly courageous and honourable man -- a man who thought never for himself -- always doing what had to be done for the people. No one yet has publicly proven otherwise. With all the war games that were being perpetrated by the State against the people at the time; when the Elders were in danger and the People had no where to turn to put a stop to the violence, corruption and bloodshed: they called for the American Indian Movement to help. What kind of people in this day and age would leave their comforts; their families and friends in order to defend and try to ensure the safety of the old people: Well, Leonard Peltier was one of those men. LET US PRAY THAT WE WON'T HAVE TO WAIT 100 YEARS BEFORE WE FINALLY HONOUR HIM. On behalf of the LPDC-Canada, we thank you all for your time and your courage, Frank & Anne Dreaver A special friend who we recently lost and miss very much, once said: "THIS IS NOT ONE OF THOSE CASES WHERE WE ARE TRYING TO SAY:LOOK, IT'S 18 YEARS AND MAYBE HE KILLED A COUPLE OF POLICE AGENTS, BUT IT'S 18 YEARS. WE'RE SAYING IT'S 18 YEARS; NOBODY EVER PROVED THAT HE EVER KILLED ANYBODY; HE DIDN'T EVER KILL ANYBODY AND HE'S STILL IN JAIL." LEW GURWITZ, Nov. 1993, Toronto, Canada ___________________________________________________________________________ FOR MORE INFORMATION, CONTACT: LEONARD PELTIER DEFENSE COMMITTEE, CANADA, 43 CHANDLER DR., SCARBOROUGH, ONTARIO CANADA M1G 1Z1; (TEL/FAX) (416) 439-1893; SEND E-MAIL VIA APC NETWORKS TO: lpdccfd@web.Apc.Org. UNIVERSITIES AND COLLEGES IN SUPPORT OF LEONARD PELTIER ACROSS CANADA LIST OF PARTICIPATING EVENTS AND SITES: 1. UNIVERSITY OF TORONTO at First Nations House, 6 - 9 pm 563 Spadina Ave., 3rd floor, Toronto, Ontario Featuring film & speaker: Brian Wright-McLeod/native rights activist- broadcaster. Sponsored by the University of Toronto Native Student Association; lpdc-cdn. & Turtle Island Support Group. 2. OSGOODE HALL LAW SCHOOL, YORK UNIVERSITY, Toronto, Ontario film & speaker: Prof. Dianne Martin, Cdn. attorney for Leonard Peltier Sponsored by the aboriginal law students and native student association/lpdc-cdn. 3. TRENT UNIVERSITY, Peterborough, Ontario and Market Hall, downtown Peterborough. Opening ceremonies with Rice Lake Singers, 11 am; press conference with LPDC representatives, 12 pm; lecture/discussion with university students of Native Studies, 1:30 pm; film screening, 2 pm; theatre performance, 4:30 pm; discussion & dinner, Peterborough native friendship centre, 6:30 pm; guest speakers: Frank & Anne Dreaver; native broadcaster, Dan Smoke; Cheryl Barney of the Stl"atlimx nation, B.C., 8 pm; dance with Reggae Cowboys, 9 -1 am. Sponsored by The Anti-Colonial Action Alliance; with the assistance of native students. 4. UNIVERSITY OF WESTERN ONTARIO, London, Ontario film & speaker; sponsored by first nations student association/lpdc--cdn. 5. UNIVERSITY OF CALGARY, Calgary, Alberta film & speaker; sponsored by the native student association; LPDC-cdn. 6. UNIVERSITY OF ST. THOMAS, Fredericton, New Brunswick film & speaker: Gkisedtanamoogk of the WABANAKI NATION Sponsored by the native students association/lpdc-cdn. 7. UNIVERSITY OF REGINA, Regina, Saskatchewan film & speaker: sponsored by the native students assoc/lpdc-cdn. 8. ALGOMA UNIVERSITY, Sault Ste. Marie, Ontario 9. CAMOSUN COLLEGE, Victoria, B.C.; Camosun College Student Society/native students 10. CARLETON UNIVERSITY, Ottawa, Ontario; Carleton University Students' Association 11. CANADORE/NIPISSING COLLEGE, North Bay, Ontario; Canadore/Nipissing Native Assoc. 12. LAKEHEAD UNIVERSITY, Thunder Bay, Ontario; Lakehead Native Students' Association 13. MALASPINA UNIVERSITY, Nanaimo, B.C.; Malaspina University College Student Union 14. SASKATCHEWAN INDIAN FEDERATED COLLEGE, Regina, Saskatchewan 15. MOUNT ROYAL COLLEGE, Calgary, Alberta 16. CONFEDERATION COLLEGE; Oshki Ansishnawbeg Student Association For more information, contact the LPDC-Canada at 416-439-1893 (tel/fax) ore-mail at lpdccfd@web.apc.org. --------- "RE: New Syndrome?" --------- Date: Tue, 18 Oct 1994 10:07:22 -0400 From: Charles.P.White@jpl.nasa.gov Subj: NEW SYNDROME? Mailing List: NATCHAT (natchat@gnosys.svle.ma.us) I'm not a shrink. Nor a practicing anything (say fool maybe.) But I think I have identified a psychological condition that exists among our people. I would like to coin this condition/syndrome as P.I.S. for Pale Indian Syndrome. (To use in a sentence you could say, "He's PIS'd".) There are two observed types of people that have Pale Indian Syndrome. The first type "A-PIS" knows that they are Indian. They know which tribe they come from, they may even been raised with their Indian relatives on the reservation. The A-PIS manifests itself by keeping a low profile within the community and down playing or disassociating with the Indian culture so as not to draw attention to themselves. The second type "B-PIS" don't know how much Indian they are or even what tribe they are from. They just know they are Indian because someone in the family told them. It's important to separate a B-PIS from a Want-A-Be (wannabee) because the B-PIS *IS* really Indian where as the wannabe is a total non-Indian that simply wants to be known as Indian. The B-PIS also manifests in a way of self denial and disassociation (where as the wannabe wants and seeks association). There is no known cure or treatment for someone with PIS. However, acknowledgement, inclusion, and recognition have been known to dispel the syndrome with some success. It is important to note that even if the PIS has been quelled in the individual to the point where the PIS'd victim feels full acceptance, a simple "wrong look" or misinterpreted "joke" could cause a full relapse of Pale Indian Syndrome. Environments where major outbreaks of PIS can be found include geographical areas where strong racism caused by outside non-traditional influences exist. Another area where PIS survives is where there are many wannabees trying to force themselves into acceptance (which never is successful). In this environment those that suffer from PIS don't want to be falsely acclaimed of being a wannabee, so therefore it is easier to allow the PIS to fester. In my observations, I have noted darker skinned Indian brothers and sisters that have PIS due to even darker brothers and sisters causing a PIS environment. Just some thoughts (grin). --Charles Phillip Whitecoyote, Ojibway. WHITECOYOTE@JPL.NASA.GOV "We Ojibway's are known as the loudmouths of the bunch. We hold our banner a little higher than the rest," Adam Fortunate Eagle.