Subject: nanews03.018 From: gars@netcom.com (Gary Night Owl) To: Internet Recipients of Wotanging Ikche Message-ID: _ __ _____ __ _ __ ___ ____ _ __ ___ ' ) / / ') / / ) ' ) ) / ) / ' ) ) / ) / / / / / / /--/ / / / ___ / / / / ___ (_(_/ (__/ ( / (_ / (_ (___/ '__/_ / (_ (___/ ' O ____ _ , ___ _ , ___ O o O / ' ) / / ) ' ) / / ' O o O / /-< / /--/ /-- VOLUME 03, ISSUE 018 O o o o o O __/_ / ) (___/ / ( (___, 6 May 1995 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 Chiapas-L, NATCHAT, INNU-L & NATIVE-L Mailing Lists, Genie (General Electric) & UUCP email, Usenet newsgroup soc.culture.native & alt.native Articles appearing have been previously posted for public dissemination and/or permission for inclusion has been secured. Letters of authorization are on file. A list of those granting permission to repost their words in this issue are listed at the end of part A. I thank each of you for allowing your words to be shared with the people. <----<<<< >>>>----> 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 part A is being sent to the NATIVE-L mailing list, one of the NativeNet lists managed by Gary Trujillo (gst@gnosys.svle.ma.us). It is also echoed on AISESnet, IND-NET, and EIRP listservers and archived by AISESnet. Thanks to Marc Becker, mbecker@uclink2.berkeley.edu, issues of Wotanging Ikche/Kanoheda Aniyvwiya are now being archived at a World-Wide-Web site. The URL is http://ukanaix.cc.ukans.edu/~marc/journals/nanews/ This is a test site, and at some point in the future the location of these files will change. Thanks to Phil Duran, duranp@wsuvm1.csc.wsu.edu, issues are now being archived at the Washington State University gopher in the following directory: gopher.wsu.edu /WSU Campuses Info /Public Services /Native Peoples "The great man wanted only a little, little land, on which to raise greens for his soup, just as much as a bullock's hide would cover. Here we first might have observed their deceitful spirit." __ Deleware oral tradition describing the arrival of the Dutch at Manhattan Island +- -- -- -- -- -- -- -- -- -- -- -+ | 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! We enjoyed a great powwow this last weekend at Wind Creek, Alabama. In addition to the joy of being part of a good powwow, there was also sorrow. Two of the members of one of the drums, Southern Warrior, lost sisters in the Oklahoma City bombing. There will be no comment this week. I am taking a moment of silence as a memorial to all families who suffer such tragedies, and invite each of you to join me. Peace! Night Owl , , Gary Night Owl gars@genie.geis.com (*,*) P. O. Box 672168 gars@netcom.com (`-') Marietta, GA 30067, U.S.A. gars@igc.apc.org ===w=w=== NativeNet Node 90:133/2501 FidoNet 1:133/2501 ----------- News of the people featured in this issue ---------- Part A: Usenet and e-mail Part B: NATCHAT and NATIVE-L lists - Apache War Bonnet - Conferences and Powwows - online - Grants Pass Update/Indians Demonstrate - Oklahoma and Native Americans - Wisconsin Attacks So-called - Kiowa Elections EPA-Indian Threat - Cherokee Star Legends - Journal of the Month (Red Ink) - Shootings in Chiapas - Chief Katie Rich Convicted on Contempt - Police Harass Round Valley - Innu Reaction to Triple Low-Level Flights Reservation - EIR Bill Reported Out by Mass. Energy Committee - Anti-Indian Movement in the Northwest - Poem: Paper Eagles - Verse: Hawai'ian Book of Days - Conferences and Powwows - offline --------- "RE: Apache War Bonnet" --------- Date: 95/05/01 23:52 From: George A. Wiman (g.wiman@genie.geis.com) Subj: Apache War Bonnet GE Electronic Mail [Editorial Note: I thank Karen Tinder, wherever she is, for doing an honorable thing.] Dear Wandering Eagle, DANVILLE, ILLINOIS 25 years ago, Karen Tinder was given an unusual bonus by her employer as a reward for good work; a 90-year-old Apache war bonnet. For all these years, she has held onto it, valuing it as a true piece of American history. The bonnet bears white buttons sewn on leather, and turkey feather clusters. The stitching is done in sinew, and the feathers are in groupings of fours, representing the four directions of the Earth. The 120-year-old bonnet reputedly belonged to Taza, son of the legendary Apache chief Cochise. Tinder returned the bonnet to the Apache nation, giving it to Mildred Cleghorn, chairman of the tribe. "I couldn't believe it when I saw it. I felt like crying," said the 84-year-old Cleghorn. "It is definitely the real thing, and I was really excited." - Geo --------- "RE: Grants Pass Update/Indians Demonstrate" --------- Date: Mon, 01 May 1995 00:05:34 EDT From: JKHT97A@prodigy.com ( CATHERINE WINDSOR) Subject: Update: INDIANS DEMONSTRATE.... UUCP email -- [ From: Catherine Windsor * EMC.Ver #2.10P ] -- The following article appeared in the the Saturday morning edition of The Medford Mail Tribune, April 29, 1995. The story is written by reporter Vicki Guarino and is presented here in its' full and original text. Only the spelling of the man Harelson has been corrected. This article is reprinted with permission and the blessings of the Tribune newsroom editor. This article is the 3rd in a series covering the archaeological and ancestral desecration of a cave burial site in Nevada. INDIANS DEMONSTRATE AS HARELSON CHARGED: The Associated Press GRANTS PASS -- American Indians protested outside the Josephine County Courthouse during the arraignment of an insurance salesman accused of raiding an ancient Indian burial site in Nevada. Jack L. Harelson, 54, of Grants Pass [OR] was arraigned Thursday on charges of artifact theft, tampering with evidence and corpse abuse. Authorities found the partial remains of two Indian children who died 200 years ago buried in his back yard. A variety of other artifacts, some buried with the children, were found at a home in Lebanon [OR]. Witnesses have told authorities Harelson unearthed the items from a cave in the Black Rock Desert between 1981 and 1984. "This kind of desecration has been going on for 500 years," said Pete Meseth of Portland, a member of the Willamette Valley Sacred Sites Preservation Committee. Meseth was among about a dozen Indians who protested outside as Harelson appeared before Judge Gerald Neufeld. Harelson did not enter a plea. Instead, Neufeld continued the proceedings until June 12. Harelson initially was held in jail, but had been released after posting $15,000 cash toward a $150,000 bail. ------End of Story------ So, it continues. I will keep you posted with updates as they occur. Dohiyi Oginalii, Grizzly Bear Woman / 8:52 pm pst --------- "RE: Wisconsin Attacks So-called EPA-Indian Threat" --------- Date: Sat, 29 Apr 1995 10:00:12 -0500 From: gwchism@students.wisc.edu (Glen Chism) Subj: Wisconsin article UUCP email Thanks for your interest. I hope that this is appropriate for your needs. Wisconsin Attacks So-called EPA-Indian Threat Glen Chism Eight Republican Wisconsin State Legislators headed a press conference Wednesday, April 26, 1995 to "warn" the citizens of Wisconsin about a "threat" from Environmental Protection Agency "targeting" of Wisconsin for potential class redesignation of air quality on Tribal lands. The press conference participants were particularly concerned with the current application by the Forest County Potawatomi in northeastern Wisconsin for Class I air quality redesignation. Some business leaders from northeast Wisconsin also spoke out against the "unfair," "unjustified," actions of "a few greedy Indians." Secretary of the Wisconsin Department of Natural Resources George Meyer also spoke in support of the organizers of the press conference at the state capital. Representative Lorraine Seratti said, "This 'redesignation' isn't about cleaner air in Wisconsin. This is about another arbitrary federal mandate imposed without justification or public input." Representative Tom Ourada expressed fears of the "threat to Wisconsin's overall economy" and "worry about the economic well-being of these areas." Seratti's comment is baffling in that it does not acknowledge that air quality class redesignation is not a promulgation of regulations from the EPA. The EPA is simply being asked to recognize a sovereign governmental petition to assume air quality authority and to redesignate the air quality class of their lands within the exterior boundaries of their reservation. The Potawatomi want to be treated like a state as expressly spelled out in 1982 'Indian' amendments to the Clean Air Act. The state of Wisconsin is continuing to attempt to block Tribes assuming on-reservation environmental protection authority because it would give the Tribes some roles in development issues near reservation boundaries. (e.g., if development is proposed upstream or upwind of a reservation, its pollution discharge permit would have to meet Tribal standards, therefore giving the Tribe a say in an development in areas that the state now has full authority). Development interests (especially corporations like Exxon, which is in the process of gaining permits for a proposed massive zinc-copper mine near two reservations) want to deal with a state with a pro-development governor, not pro-environment Tribal programs. Several other Tribes in Wisconsin are in the process of applying for assumption of Clean Air and Clean Water authority on their reservations The press conference organizers are calling for a three-way route to rectifying the perceived problem. First, state legislation will be proposed requiring the Wisconsin Department of Natural Resources to notify the public of Tribal applications and to facilitate public input into the process. Second, state legislators will request that the U.S. Congress repeal or "refine" the 'Indian amendments' of the Clean Air, Clean Water and Safe Drinking Water Acts. Thirdly, since actions on these environmental acts cannot take place at will, the legislators are calling for a federal legislative moratorium on promulgation of any environmental authority to U.S. Tribes until actions on the Indian amendments are achieved. The anti-federal government and anti-Indian tone to the rhetoric presented by these 'leaders', could easily build another 'threatening' atmosphere for the Tribes in northern Wisconsin. These tactics led to violent, racist protests in the 1980's that came very close to intimidating Chippewa Tribal leadership in Wisconsin into giving up much of their treaty affirmed natural resources rights. The politician at the press conference tried very hard to make this issue seem LIKE IT DOESN'T INVOLVE THE TRIBES IN ANY WAY. They seem afraid that if they let this anti- Indian genie out of the bag that Indian bashing would hurt their pro- business objectives. Obviously, right now it is much more in vogue to bash the EPA and the federal government's 'over regulation' than it is to bash the Tribes. These attacks and those on federal legislation protective of the environment, supported by the head of the chief environmental protection body in Wisconsin, should be a concern of the citizens of this state. Persons wishing to voice their concerns can contact Lorraine Seratti (608)266-3780 or Tom Ourada (608)266-7694 For more information on the press conference, the history of Tribal consideration in federal environmental legislation, or current Tribal environmental initiatives please feel free to contact me at 608-255-1191 or gwchism@students.wisc.edu. --------- "RE: Journal of the Month (Red Ink)" --------- Date: 2 May 1995 19:35:42 GMT From: brock@ucsub.Colorado.EDU (Steve Brock) Subj: Journal of the Month (Red Ink) Newsgroups: alt.native,soc.culture.native JOURNAL OF THE MONTH APRIL, 1995 "Journal of the Month" is a continuing series in which literary reviews and other periodicals are profiled. This month's journal is "Red Ink," published by students at the American Indian Graduate Center at the University of Arizona, Tucson. "Red Ink" was established in 1989 by George Joe and Steve Danzer under the guidance of Dr. Robert K. "Uncle Bob" Thomas, Cherokee elder and professor of American Indian Studies. The publication has had a rocky beginning and was issued intermittently until last year, but has always remained a journal of high quality, both in design and content. "Red Ink," now guided by faculty advisor Dr. Tom Holm (Creek/Cherokee), Associate Professor of American Indian Studies, Glenn Johnson (Cherokee), Director of the American Indian Graduate Center, and a nine-member editorial board. The Spring, 1995 edition will announce the addition of two additional faculty advisors: Dr. David E. Wilkins (Lumbee), Assistant Professor of Political Science and Dr. Barbara A. Babcok, Regents Professor of English. The purpose of the journal is to function as "an interdisciplinary outlet for creative temperament and scholarly thought," written for (and by) anyone with an interest in Native American issues. Recent issues have contained articles and essays on the sterilization policies of the Indian Health Service, thoughts on the depictions of Native Americans in western movies, Lakotas and the Supreme Court, and oral histories from the American Indian Language Development Institute. Each issue also includes poetry, fiction and book reviews. Published twice or three times per year (Spring and Fall or Spring, Summer and Fall depending on levels of funding), subscriptions to "Red Ink" are $10 for individuals, $15 for departments, and $20 for libraries and museums. All subscriptions are for three issues. "Red Ink" is accepting manuscript submissions in the form of articles, reviews, creative writing, poetry, graphic art, and photography, as well as letters to the editor and opinion pieces. More information is available from the American Indian Graduate Center, 1610 E. Seventh St., Tucson, AZ 85719, (520) 792-8104 or (520) 621-7989, FAX (520) 623-3233. At present, "Red Ink" doesn't have an e-mail address, but questions, comments, etc., may be sent to Glenn Johnson, whose e-mail address is gwjohn@ccit.arizona.edu. --------- "RE: Chief Katie Rich Convicted on Contempt" --------- Date: Fri, 28 Apr 1995 17:37:19 -0300 From: Larry Innes Subj: CHIEF RICH CONVICTED ON CONTEMPT & RELEASED Mailing List: INNU-L + Chief Katie Rich, Nympha Byrne and Justine Noah Convicted on Contempt + Utshimassits Chief Katie Rich, Nympha Byrne and Justine Noah appeared in Newfoundland Supreme Court today in Happy Valley-Goose Bay. Following summations from the defence and prosecution lawyers, Judge Seamus O' Regan found the three women guilty of contempt for their part in the December 1993 eviction of the court and RCMP from the community. The judge sentenced the three women to time served, and released them from custody. Rich and Byrne had spent the past week in the Stephenville Correctional Centre for Women after refusing to sign an undertaking. Innu Nation Peter Penashue stated after the trial "We got what we expected. The Innu will never obtain justice from a system that we have never consented to, one that consistently refuses to recognize our rights." FOR MORE INFORMATION: Katie Rich (709) 478-8827 Larry Innes es051322@orion.yorku.ca (direct to me) Environmental Advisor innu@web.apc.org (general to Innu Nation) Innu Nation P.O. Box 119 Sheshatshiu, Nitassinan (Labrador) Phone: (709) 497-8398 via Canada A0P 1M0 Fax: (709) 497-8396 --------- "RE: Innu Reaction to Triple Low-Level Flights" --------- Date: Tue, 02 May 1995 17:22:53 -0300 From: Larry Innes Subject: Innu Reaction to Gov't Decision to Triple Low-Level Flights Mailing List: INNU-L FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE May 2, 1995 "Innu Not Surprised by Government Decision to Triple Low-Level Flights" (SHESHATSHIU) Innu Nation's Director of Innu Rights and Environment, Daniel Ashini, said today that he is not at all surprised at the federal government's response to the Panel recommendations regarding military flight training over Quebec and Labrador. "This is the logical conclusion of an eight-year rubber-stamping process," said Mr. Ashini. "It is not at all surprising that the government agrees with the Panel's recommendations to triple the number of training flights when the government is the proponent of the training in the first place." Mr. Ashini added, "The government stacked the deck during the environmental review process by appointing all the Environmental Assessment Panel members, three of whom were former federal government bureaucrats. Then, we had kangaroo-court environmental hearings where the Panel heard mostly from the military, politicians, bureaucrats and other people in favour of the training. It's completely understandable that the Panel capitulated to the Department of National Defence (DND) in making its recommendations. The recommendations were so sympathetic to DND, it's hardly any wonder Cabinet accepted them almost outright. It's as if DND wrote the recommendations themselves." According to Mr. Ashini, "the government's decision to expand the number of training is extremely irresponsible. Contrary to its own recommendations, the Panel noted that not very much is known the impact of the flight training on wildlife. That's why they proposed 15 years of research on this topic. But the government wants to go full-steam ahead with the training on the basis of very little environmental data. This shows that the government's commitment to environment protection is a smokescreen." Furthermore, said Mr. Ashini, "this decision to increase the training is extremely prejudicial to our position at the land rights negotiating table. DND will doing everything in its power to make sure that the flight training is protected at the table. So we have in effect lost a major portion of our territory to flight training. In conjunction with the present frenzied mineral exploration activity at Voisey Bay, forestry proposals, hydroelectric dams and other industrial activities, there isn't much of our traditional land being left for the Innu people." As for the proposed research Institute, Mr. Ashini said "We are very worried that the Institute will be just another public relations exercise for DND. DND could well end up stacking all the board members of the Institute so that it will be impossible for it to be impartial and objective. As it stands, the Institute will not have any teeth. What we need is a regulatory agency that will have the power to impose environmental restrictions on DND and terminate the training should independent research prove once and for all that wildlife and people are being harmed. The First Nations of Quebec and Labrador who are affected by the training must be given adequate representation on the board of the Institute." Finally, Mr. Ashini said, "this is just another sad chapter in the history of relations between Europeans and First Nations. The more powerful impose their laws and steal our lands. The only difference between the massacre at Wounded Knee and DND's behavior in the 20th century, is that cultural genocide against the Innu is being covered up with fancy public relations in the form of environmental review processes. A hundred years from now, people will look back and recognize more clearly how lands were stolen from the Innu people, and how we fought every way we could to stop this from happening." Larry Innes es051322@orion.yorku.ca (direct to me) Environmental Advisor innu@web.apc.org (general to Innu Nation) Innu Nation P.O. Box 119 Sheshatshiu, Nitassinan (Labrador) Phone: (709) 497-8398 via Canada A0P 1M0 Fax: (709) 497-8396 --------- "RE: EIR Bill Reported Out by Mass. Energy Committee" --------- Date: 25 Apr 95 21:37:17 EDT From: Ann Stewart <75361.1143@compuserve.com> Subj: EIR Bill Reported Out by Mass. Energy Committee UUCP email 25 April 95, State House, Boston - This afternoon the Massachusetts legislature's joint energy committee reported H 2552 out favorably. The bill would require out-of-state hydroelectric producers who want to sell power to Massachusetts to submit environmental impact information for review by the Executive Office of Environmental Affairs. Four years ago the bill was drafted in response to growing concerns over the lack of environmental information available on the proposed Great Whale River hydroelectric project in James Bay, Quebec. The first phase, La Grande, begun in the 1970s and still under construction, was built by Quebec's state-owned utility Hydro-Quebec without any environmental reviews. "This is a wonderful piece of news, coming so quickly after Earth Day," said Paul Kress, lobbyist for Massachusetts Wildlife Federation. At a March hearing on the bill, Deputy Chief Kenny Blacksmith of the Grand Council of the Crees told the committee: "The people of Massachusetts, your constituents, must have the information they need to decide whether the environmental impacts, and especially the social and human rights impacts, of these projects are too high a cost for them to accept if they are buying Hydro-Quebec's power." He added, "American interests are also best served by higher, rather than lower environmental standards in Canada. Lower standards constitute subsidies that distort economic relations between the US and Canada and result in loss of opportunities for American producers and workers." The bill now moves to the House Ways and Means Committee. Its legislative sponsors are State Senator Robert Durand (D-Marlborough) and Representative James Marzilli (D-Arlington). This information is supplied by Stewartship, which is registered as an agent of the Grand Council of the Crees with the US Department of Justice (#4632), where the required registration statement is available for public inspection. Registration does not indicate approval of the contents by the US government. --------- "RE: Anti-Indian Movement in the Northwest" --------- Date: 95/04/27 15:15 From: Nancy Thomas (gelamp.mm@genie.geis.com) Subj: Anti-Indian Movement in the Northwest GE Electronic Mail Hope you can use this. Nancy [The Anti-Indian Movement in the Northwest is on the rise once again, partially due to the recent decision regarding shellfish rights of Indian Nations. This "article" appeared in a local free paper.] TRADE INDIANS CASINOS FOR FISH Found in "Forum" Vol 3, No. 3, April 1995 (anonymous letter to the editor) Indian rights, especially those rights that have been "granted" by federal judges of late, (Rafeedie and Boldt, among others), have become heated topics for debate among diverse sectors of the electorate. Not much of the rhetoric has been kind to the indians. Indians are perceived as being granted special rights. Rights that are above and beyond those granted the rest of the citizens. Rights that, in fact, infringe upon the enjoyment of the rights of the rest of us. When an indian suddenly has the "right" to walk on a commercial oyster grower's beaches, trample his cultivated bed of imported japanese oysters, and scoop up half of the crop without ever having put anything into the production of those oysters, then something is very rotten in the State of Washington. The indian has gotten rights at the expense of the non-indian. Reverse discrimination is taking place, and at a heavy cost to those losing the use and enjoyment of their formerly private property. Defenders of the indian will argue that these are rights that were specifically reserved for the indians by treaty and therefore never should have been stolen from them by a greedy state government and sold to private citizens in the first place. The defenders are right. And, of course, they are taking advantage of the rampant bending of the treaty clauses to suit liberal viewpoints about how to protect the beleaguered, yet noble, savages. I believe the treaties were written with the intent of guaranteeing that indians could live in Washington as they always had. That they would have enough fish and game to stock their tables, and enough trade goods to barter for things they couldn't make or catch. They were guaranteed that this would be able to be accomplished in the traditional indian ways and with traditional indian means of doing so. The treaty didn't grant the indians nylon gill nets to choke off salmon runs to the rivers, as has been done. It didn't grant them rights to hunt game and sell the meat. It didn't grant them the authority to control private timber sales on private lands. It didn't grant them the rights to do anything OFF THE RESERVATIONS! Not even dig clams! Yet, now we are supposed to sit back and allow this to happen, too. I am not at all pleased. We are dealing with a situation in which a treaty was written to put an end to killing. One group, "the white man" was taking a whole lot of land from another in an undeclared war. The treaty was well-meaning, perhaps, but it was written in a simpler time, with simpler language, and no real understanding of how fast the future was flying at them. The non-indians thought of the Indians as willing to always live in their traditional ways. Hunt & fish in quantity equal to what they were taking when the white men arrived. They didn't expect the Indians to have use for anywhere near "Half of all the fish, etc". So into the treaty goes magnanimous verbiage, meant to sound impressive, sort of like Hollywood, I guess. Now we're stuck with the consequences. We are also faced with the unrealities that prevail as a result of our country's "Indian Policy". The treatment of Indians under the old B.I.A. was perfidious. "Indian Agents" stole from the indians to enrich themselves. Indians were promised schooling, medicine, and everything else under the sun to supposedly make them self-sufficient in modern society. The actual fact of the matter is that the policy created a race of dependents. Non-motivated, discriminated against, second-rated every step of the way. The indian, if he ever was a noble savage, certainly is not today. Many white people feel that they have been, through tax dollars, feeding and clothing irresponsible indians for a century or so, and are fed up with what they see. Driving past indian reservation towns and seeing pile upon pile of garbage in the yards, nearly new aluminum and fiberglass gill net boats rotting on the beaches, houses falling apart because the owners don't give a damn, and on and on ad nauseam. White people, or any non-indians for that matter, are appalled. They think that these are the people who will be walking on their beaches, taking their oysters. They think that these are the people who are taking half their salmon. It Ain't Necessarily So. We, as non-indians, have been paying the way for a whole lot of paler faces. A person only has to be 1/8th indian to qualify for all the rights of a full-blooded indian. That person doesn't necessarily have to be a member of a treaty tribe to receive rights, either. The famous Franks, of Frank's Landing fame, according to a Daily Olympian story, are Montana Indians. Yet they struggled mightily for their rights to fish the Nisqually. A lady in Shelton who is a Yakima indian was happily helping her 100% white husband, and her sons, fish Squaxin fish country until it was discovered that she wasn't a treaty indian. No problemo! The Squaxins adopted her into their tribe. Now her white husband fishes every chance he gets for his mandated treaty share of the catch. You got it? White man catches indian fish because wife adopted by tribe. Who do you think runs the indian casinos, the indian hatcheries, the indian fish companies? Clue: They don't live in junk heaps on the "Res". It really is ridiculous. When those indians show up on private oyster beds to get their share, how are you going to know that they aren't really white folks from across town who want a piece of the action. After all, you only have to claim that you are an indian to be one. Nobody ever checks. It is not politically correct to do so! The situation will only get worse. I think that there are two possible solutions to the dilemma. The first is a ridiculous tongue-in-cheek proposal. It is to begin a new indian war. We could start by shooting whoever shows up to dig clams & oysters and escalate it into full swing by burning a few villages, pillaging, and all of that sort of thing. Then, when it became evident that no one wanted the bloodshed to continue, a new peace treaty would be fashioned. The new treaty would be fair to all remaining. Reservations would be preserved, although slimmed down. Lands recently awarded to indians, such as in Tacoma, would be returned to the public, modern fishing, hunting, boating, and other gear would be stripped from the indians, and they would have their lives restored to the state at which it was before the white man came. No automobiles, TV's, radios, light bulbs, telephones, or other modern conveniences would be allowed. No books. No Booze. No food stamps. Presumably, everyone who feels that the indians got too much from the last treaties, and current interpretations thereof, would now feel righted. This should get us back to where the original treaties placed us. It's a solution that no one should contemplate. What we really want is for the indians to be on the same footing as everyone else. No special rights. No discrimination Indians, and nons, are laboring under the misconception that all this is supposed to be fair. The indian can rightfully claim that his land, fish, game and everything was stolen from him. It was. That's war. And a lot of lying, cheating & backsliding at the same time. It was probably not unlike the way Genghis Khan and his hordes rolled over Europe. They just took what they wanted. Killed the resistance. But this is America. We fought the Japanese and Germans, then built them up to be formidable world powers. Let's do the same for the Indians! So here is my solution. Indians want unlimited casino gambling on the reservations. The rest of us want them out (As a special interest group) of fishing, clamming, crabbing, logging, land claiming and everything else. Let's make a grand compromise. Trade the unrestricted (although still taxed) right to casino gambling for all the rights, other than the rights to the current reservation lands, granted in former treaties. Indians would be strictly U.S. citizens. Give them all the rights and responsibilities that that entails. No special assistance. No hand-outs. What they get in the future, they earn themselves. Like everyone else. And that should be easy. The casinos now in operation have long waiting lines of people wanting to get in to gamble. Washingtonians want more! Since the state government ridiculously keeps this type of activity illegal to non-indians, this is the way to have what we all want. Happy indians making a ton of money on casinos, not caring about the fish and crabs. Happy non-indians throwing as much money as they could at the crap tables, shows, and other extravaganzas! Who knows? Maybe taxing indian casinos could pay for all of the schools, like Nevada. Maybe having one entity controlling fisheries might bring recovery of the fish runs into focus. Who knows Kemo Sabay? I say, "Let's try it!" --------- "RE: Poem: Paper Eagles" --------- Date: 1 Aug 1994 22:57:11 -0500 From: turtle@aicap.s21.com (Turtle Heart) Subj: Paper Eagles Newsgroup: alt.native eagle holds the sky between his feathers and turtles like to eat yellow flowers and dream down where it is warm near the roots of the sacred tree tobacco indian -- 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 Land of Kaw-ii-su ancestor: Land of Light --------- "RE: Verse: Hawai'ian Book of Days" --------- Date: 95/04/27 23:24 From: Debra F. Sanders (dfsanders@genie.geis.com) Subj: Verse: Hawai'ian Book of Days GE Electronic Mail A HAWAIIAN BOOK OF DAYS, week of May 7-13 MEI (May) (Ikiiki) 7 Feel the winds blowing through you, cleansing your spirit of all sorrow. 8 The joyous heart has as many blessings as the stars in the sky, na hoku. 9 Give me the wings of a bird, and I will possess all the world! 10 My heart leaps with the dolphins in the incredible blue of the ocean. 11 Sing to me a song of beginnings in this land of many rainbows! 12 Never be content with what is -- always seek to realize what might be. 13 Never close your mind to possibilities. (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, 4 May 95 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 From: john.farrington@psl-online.com (John Farrington) Newsgroups: soc.culture.native Subject: Pow-Wows May 6 '95 Alabama-Coushatta Tribe Benefit Pow-Wow (Texas) Bring a covered dish dinner at 5:30 PM, gourd dancing at 6:30, Grand Entry at 7:45. In the Indian Village Gym on the reservation, 90 miles north of Houston on hwy 59 to Livingston, then about 17 miles east on U.S. hwy 190 to museum & Indian Village entrance (a mile or so past the ballpark) on the right, go in 1/4 mile to the gym. Info: 409-563-4391 (Sharon Miller), campground reservations: 800-444-3507. May 19-21 Sacred Spring Pow-Wow & Western Swing Concert (Texas) At the Southwest Texas State University Stadium, San Marcos (between Austin & San Antonio off I-35). Sponsored by First American League, TX Dept. of Agriculture, SW TX University & City of San Marcos. Admissions: Pow-Wow $5 per day; Western Swing awards: $18; Aquarena Springs: $15.95; All events special: $36. Pow-Wow: Friday 10 AM: Smoking Ceremony. Saturday 11 AM: Grand Entry. Sunday 1PM: Grand Entry/Pow-Wow Contest. Over $35,000 in prize money, 16 dance categories. Head Singer: Billy Evans Horse Head Man Dancer: Monroe Tsatoke Head Lady Dancer: Georgette Horse MC's: Hammond Motah, Wallace Coffey, Thomas Chibitty Arena Directors: Stratford Williams, Patrick Redbird Pow-Wow info: Oklahoma - (405) 588-2741 (R.C. Ahtone) Texas - (512) 396-2400 (Lucky Tomblin) General info: 800-782-7653 ext 177, (512) 396-2495, (512) 392-8115 May 20-21 '95 Choctaw-Apache Tribe of Ebarb (Louisiana) 2nd Annual Pow-Wow (Times not listed - call tribal office for information.) By the west-central LA/TX border, near the Toledo Bend Reservoir on the Sabine River, about 64 miles south of Shreveport on US 171 to Zwolle, then 7 miles west on hwy 482 to Ebarb (about 3 miles before reservoir). Drum: Bravehearts Head Man Dancer: Douglas Williams, Jr., Alabama-Coushatta Head Lady Dancer: Julia Morris, Alabama-Coushatta Head Gourd Dancer: Henry Johnson, Choctaw MC: Bertney Langley, Koasata Arena Director: Thomas Muskrat, Western Cherokee Info: (318) 645-2588 (Tribal office) May 27-28 '95 Intertribal Council Of Houston 6th Annual Texas Championship Pow-Wow Gourd dancing 12 noon to 2 PM, Grand Entry at 3 PM. Contests to evening. At Traders Village, 7979 N. Eldridge Road, west of Houston. From West Loop 610 (around Houston) go on hwy 290-W 8-1/2 miles northwest to the Eldridge exit, go on feeder to 2nd light (Eldridge), then left 4 blocks to the entrance on the right. Parking $2. Over $6000 in prize money plus awards. Contests both days: Fancy War Dance, Northern Traditional, Southern Straight, Grass, Ladies Buckskin, Ladies Cloth, Ladies Northern Shawl/Jingle Dress, Junior Boys & Girls, Little Boys & Girls, Tiny Tots. Tipi contest (full size). Head Drum: Ponca Tribal Singers from Whiteagle, OK Head Man Dancer: Steve Little Cook, Ponca Head Lady Dancer: Audrey LeClair, Ponca Head Gourd Dancer: Ed Ketcher, Cherokee MC: Walter Celestine, Alabama-Coushatta Info: (713) 464-1164 (Intertribal Council office) (713) 890-5500 (Traders Village office) Arts & Crafts exhibitors - $75 per booth before May 1, $100 after. June 2-3 '95 Alabama-Coushatta Tribe 27th Annual Pow-Wow (Texas) Friday & Saturday - at the reservation ballpark: go 90 miles north of Houston on hwy 59 to Livingston, then about 16 miles east on hwy 190 to the ballpark entrance on the left (the museum & Indian Village entrance is a mile or two farther east). Arts & crafts set up in AM, gourd dances at 6:30 PM, Grand Entry at 7:45 PM. Host Southern Drum: Alabama-Coushatta Woodland Singers. Visiting Drums invited. Head Man Dancer: Gary Tomahsah, Comanche. Head Lady Dancer: Rebecca Gwynn, Sac & Fox. Head Gourd Dancer: Cliff Queton, Kiowa. M/C: Stratford Williams, Wichita-Caddo. Arena Director: Alva Roughface, Ponca. (In addition, there will be gourd dances 2-5 PM on Saturday at the Indian Village museum & tourist complex, a mile or two east of the ballpark to the entrance on the right, go 1/4 mile in to the parking lot.) Info: 409-563-4391 (Sharon Miller or Bryan Williams) Campground reservations: 800-444-3507 June 9-11 '95 Red Earth Pow-Wow (Oklahoma) At the Myriad Convention Center & Plaza, downtown Oklahoma City. Over $55,000 in prizes, 32 dance categories. Times not listed - call. Dancer registration (fee $10) at the Convention Center, Thurs. 8 June: 12 noon-6PM; Friday 9 June: 8 AM-6 PM; Saturday 10 June: 8 AM-12 noon. Parade Friday 9 June, 11:30 AM. Invited Drums: Southern: Northern: Cozad Family (Anadarko, OK) Blacklodge (White Swan, WA) Rosehill (Stroud, OK) Mandaree (New Town, ND) Yellowhammer (Ponca City, OK) Dakota Travels (Manitoba) Southern Thunder (Pawnee, OK) White Fish, Jrs. (Saskatchewan) Info: (405) 427-5228 (Red Earth, Inc.) June 17 '95 Texas Cherokee Intertribal Pow-Wow Bring a covered dish dinner at 5:30 PM, gourd dancing at 7 PM, Grand Entry at 8 PM, in St. Jerome's Catholic Church gym, 8825 Kempwood, Houston, TX. Go west on I-10 (Katy Freeway) 2-1/2 miles past West Loop 610 to Bingle exit, then right on Bingle about 4 traffic lights (2-1/2 miles) to Kempwood, then left to church. Info: 713-429-9991 (Billy Silver Hawk Busby or Dana Busby) June 17 '95 Bayou Indian Festival (Louisiana) ** NOT A POW-WOW ** , but will have pow-wow style competition dances 9 AM - 11 PM, arts & crafts, country & western singers. Admission $2. At Jennings I-10 Park, Jennings, LA, about 34 miles east of Lake Charles on I-10. Sponsored by the Bayou Indian Federation & the city of Jennings. Info: 800-264-5521 June 23-25 '95 Memphis Pow-Wow (Tennessee) Native American Intertribal Assoc., American Indian Council of Tennessee, American Indian Assoc. of Millington, American Indian Affairs of Ripley. At Shelby Farms Show Place Arena, 105 Germantown Road, Memphis, TN. Info: 901-725-6869. Vendors call 901-635-0003. Sept. 16-17 '95 2nd Annual Corpus Christi Intertribal Pow-Wow (Texas) Saturday: Grand Entry at 12 noon & 7 PM Sunday: Grand Entry at 12 noon. In the Memorial Coliseum, South Shoreline Blvd, Corpus Christi, Texas Info: 512-883-9980 (Vivian Trammel) $2 admission, competition prize $5000 + =========================================================================== From: Christopher.A.Newell@dartmouth.edu (Chris) Newsgroups: soc.culture.native,alt.native Subject: Dartmouth College 23rd Annual Pow-wow Pow-wow season is just around the corner...everyone's gettin' feverish. Get our voices ready, repair those moccasin blowouts and come here and let us host you for our best ever.... DARTMOUTH COLLEGE 23rd ANNUAL POW-WOW Location: Hanover, NH on the Green (for the first time EVER!!) Rain Location:Thompson Arena Saturday, May 13 and Sunday May 14, 1995 Grand Entry is at noon on both days Head Man Dancer: Marvin Burnette Head Woman Dancer: Muriel Lewis Master of Ceremonies: TCHIN !!!!Host Drums!!!! _Thundercloud_ from Wisconsin and _Eagle Whistle_ from North Dakota FREE ADMISSION Community Dinner on Sunday Many Arts& Crafts Vendors Camping Grounds Available Children's Dance and Giveaway NO DRUGS OR ALCOHOL!!! Host Hotels Days Inn (603)-448-5070 Airport Economy Inn (800)-433-3466 (Ask for the Pow-Wow Rate!!!) Dance Competition for Prize Money!!!! Contest Categories: Women's Traditional Men's Traditional/Grass Dance Women's Fancy Shawl/Jingle Dress Men's Fancy Dance Tiny Tot Exhibition All DANCERS AND DRUMS INVITED Organized by Native Americans at Dartmouth for more information, contact the Pow-Wow Committee (603) 646-2110 Or e-mail me at Christopher.Newell@dartmouth.edu ======================================================================= From: micah@stega.smoky.ccsd.k12.co.us (Micah Champagne) Newsgroups: soc.culture.native Subject: Cherry Creek Pow-wow 2nd Annual Cherry Creek Title V Indian Awareness Pow-wow This is on May 13, 1995. It's put on by a group of parents and students in the Cherry Creek School District. We call ourselves H.O.O.P., it stands for Hope of Our People. The Emcee will be Tom Wind, Arena director is Acey No Braid, Host Honor Guard is Intertribal Veterans Group, Host Northern Drum is Eagle Mountain, Rapid City, SD., Host Southern Drum is Colorado Intertribal, Boulder, CO., Security is provided by American Indian Movement (Ted Roy), the Head Young Man Dancer is Kullo Sam, the Head Young Woman Dancer is Tiffany Phelps. There will be Student dance contests, which will be split up as kindergarten to 4th grade, 5th to 8th grade, and 9th to 12th grade. Within these groups it will be split up between men and women, then traditional, fancy, and grass for the men, and traditional fancy and jingle for the women. There will also be a special ladies fancy shawl, for 13 yrs. and older, in honor of Head Young Lady Tiffany Phelps. Cash prizes for first (9th-12th $100, 5th-8th $75, k-4th $50), second (9th-12th $75, 5th-8th $50, k-4th $30), and third (9th-12th $50, 5th-8th $25, k-4th $20). Point system will be used. All Drums and Dancers welcome. Arts and Crafts space available for a fee of 20.00. We are also looking for donations of any kind. It can be money or an item. We will be holding a silent auction, for all of the item donations we get. If you have anything you would like to give us call Debbie Phelps at (303) 752-9407. This will be at the Cunningham center in Denver, Colorado. It's at the corner of Mississippi and Dayton, west of Havana. The adress is 9659 E.Mississippi Ave. Denver, Co. THERE WILL BE NO DRUGS AND ALCOHOL ALLOWED!!!!! ========================================================================== From: Wanblisapa@aol.com Subject: Gathering of Elders Announcement Anpetu Waste, Kola (Good Day, Friend)! Gerald Ice has asked me to send the following announcement/invitation to you for distribution to all qualified individuals who might be interested in participating. Feel free to distribute this to anyone you know who fits that description. Pilamaya (Thank you)! Canku Luta Mani (Walk the Red Road)! Wanbli Sapa (Black Eagle) GATHERING OF ELDERS, SPIRITUAL CAMP We are inviting all Elders, Staff Carriers, Spiritual Leaders, Pipe Carriers, and Medicine Men to Attend This Gathering. WHO: Elders to talk about future guidance for all younger generations, and to bring back our Seven Sacred Rites WHAT: To refresh our minds to the Lakota Way of Life WHEN: 8:00 am to 5:00 pm every day, Noon break 12:00 to 1:30pm WHERE: Gerald Ice's residence, Wounded Knee, South Dakota WITH RESPECT TO OUR TRADITIONAL LAKOTA WAYS, NO ALCOHOL, DRUGS, AND WEAPONS PLEASE COME PREPARED FOR CAMPING. FOR INFORMATION, PLEASE CALL (605) 867-1591 ============================================================================= From: kibbey@nntp.sierra.net (Larry Kibbey) Newsgroups: soc.culture.native,alt.native Subject: Keepers Conference KEEPERS OF THE TREASURES CONFERENCE MAY 8-11, 1995 The Keepers Of The Treasures will hold its fourth annual cultural preservation conference and membership meeting May 8-11, 1995 in Sioux Falls, South Dakota. The conference will be held at the University of South Dakota and is being co-hosted by the Yankton Sioux Tribe. The theme of this years conference is "Honoring Our Cultural Lifeways-Past, Present and Future." For further information contact: Mary Stuart McCamy-Irion Keepers Of the Treasures Washington, D.C. (202) 673-4207 ======================================================================= From: FROSTY.DEERE@igloo.magicnet.com (FROSTY DEERE) Subject: Summer is a coming.......... She:kon Kwe Kwe.... A few notes.... Well if anyone happens to be in the Area of Kahnawake Mohawk Territory, located in Quebec just 10km south of Montreal, around the weekend of July 8 and 9, there will be a Pow-wow called "Echo of a Proud Nation." ========================================================================== Subject: Cry of the Eagle Indigenous Conference Original Sender: hkoehler@web.UUCP Mailing List: NATIVE-L (native-l@gnosys.svle.ma.us) CRY OF THE EAGLE - "PROPHECIES & PREPARATION -------------------------------------------- May 12, 13, 14, 1995 May 12: McMaster University, Ewart Angus 106 May 13 & 14: Six Nations, Chiefswood Park Many nations have received signs that explain the time we are now in. It is a critical crossroads for Indigenous people. It is time to share our knowledge with one another. The spiritual knowledge gives us direction and guidance as we move into the next millennium. We need to unite our energies for the seventh generation to have peace. MASTERS OF CEREMONY Friday: Steve Hill - Onondaga Saturday: Amos Keye - Seneca, Faithkeeper Sunday: Sadie Buck - Seneca, Clanmother - presentations by - CREE NATIONS HAUDENOSAUNEE NATIONS Elder Steve Moosnmin Chief Arnold General Chief Ernest Sundown Chief Leon Shenandoah Hobbema Elders LIL' WAT NATION James Bay Cree Elders Fraser Andrew The Sasknorthern Drum HOPI NATION MAYAN NATION Elder Thomas Banyacya Fernando Hernandez Mayan Elder Mayan Healer DAKOTA NATION INNU NATION M'Dewakanton Dakota Elder Elizabeth Penashue Elder Chris Leith Kathleen Nuna LAKOTA NATION ALGONQUIN NATION Elder Dave Chief Elder William Commanda Joseph Chasinghorse Arvol Lookinghorse: ORANG ASLI NATION Keeper of the Sacred Pipe MALAYSIAN RAINFOREST Drum: Pejito Wakta Anthony Williams-Hunt OJIBWAY NATION CHEYENNE NATION Eddie Benton Banai Steve Brady: Keeper of MP Elijah Harper the Sacred Buffalo Hat Archie Mosay Bill Red Hat: Keeper of the Sacred Drums Sponsored by the McMaster University Indigenous Studies Program, McMaster First Nation Student Association, E.A.G.L.E. Project - AFN, Six Nations Community, Fort Erie Friendship Centre and the Grand River Polytechnical Institute. REGISTRATION: No Pre-registration - $25.00 for a three day pass or $10.00 per day. Camping facilities available at Chiefswood Park, Six Nations. ACCOMMODATION: Days Inn Brantford Quality Inn/Travel Lodge The Bear's Inn Shuttle bus service Shuttle bus service Ohsweken 519-759-2700 519-753-7371 519-445-4133 TRANSPORTATION: Village Taxi 519-445-2525 airport and events (prebooking required) TRAVEL AGENT: Six Nations - Constance Jamieson 1-800-363-0941 Aboriginal Owned Fash Travel CRAFT BOOTHS: Norma General: 519-445-4225 INFORMATION: Indigenous Studies, McMaster University, Hamilton 905-525-9140 Ext 27615 or 27426 or 27459 Grand River Polytechnical, Hagersville 905-768-0448 Friday May 12 - Hamilton - Opening Ceremonies @10:30 close 5:30pm McMaster Medical Centre, Ewart Angus Theatre,1200 Main W Hamilton "PROPHECIES: PIECING TOGETHER OUR NATIONS' KNOWLEDGE" Delegations to determine agenda and presentations Two Films: HOPI PROPHECIES and WIPING THE TEARS Dinner for elders - By Grand River Polytechnical Institute: Six Nations Community Hall, Ohsweken Social to Follow: ALL WELCOME. Saturday May 13 - Six Nations - Chiefswood Park (Highway 54) Opening Ceremony: 10:00am -(rainsite) Six Nations Community Hall "THE ORIGINAL INSTRUCTIONS: TAKING ACTION TO SPIRITUALLY UNITE INDIGENOUS NATIONS Delegations to determine agenda and presentations Dinner at Six Nations Community Hall for elders - delegations "CONTEMPORARY NATIVE MUSIC CONCERT" McMaster Student Association Fund Raiser Six Nations Community Hall 8:00 TO 11:00pm Featuring: Murray Porter, Chanti Pearce, Elizabeth Hill, Josh Miller and Three Wheel Drive - admission $10.00 DOOR PRIZES AND RAFFLE Sunday May 14 - Mother's Day Opening Ceremonies 12:00 Chiefswood Park (rainsite) Six Nations Community Hall "HONOURING OUR MOTHER: WOMEN'S ROLE IN PROPHECIES & PREPARATION" Fundraiser - Play "STOLEN LAND" - performed by Ground Zero Production - Proceeds to Cry of the Eagle Closing remarks of delegations Dinner for elders/delegations: Six Nations Community Hall provided by The Native Cuisine Entrepreneur Program Social to follow: Community Hall - Give Away - ALL WELCOME. -----------------//--------------------------- Posted by Harold P. Koehler hkoehler@web.apc.org at the request of Dan Smoke. ========================================================================= -------------------------------------------------------------------------- --//--//--//--//--//--//--//--//--//--//--//--//--//--//--//--//--//--//-- Notice of Copyright Clearance by Contributors: The following have granted permission for their original articles to be reposted in order to help mend the Sacred Hoop: Debra F. Sanders(Kepola), Janet Smith(Evening Star), George A. Wiman, Medford Mail Tribune(via Catherine Windsor), Glen Chism, Steve Brock, Larry Innes, Turtle Heart(Mending the Sacred Hoop with song poems), Nancy Thomas, International Indian Treaty Council(Press Release), Glenn Welker, Elbert Walston, John Berry, Kevin Meagher --//--//--//--//--//--//--//--//--//--//--//--//--//--//--//--//--//--//-- ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ 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, 4 May 95 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 = Subject: PCA/ACA call for papers Original Sender: nelson@urvax.urich.edu Mailing List: NATIVE-L (native-l@gnosys.svle.ma.us) CALL FOR PAPERS POPULAR CULTURE ASSOCIATION Twenty-Sixth Sixth Annual Meeting and AMERICAN CULTURE ASSOCIATION Eighteenth Annual Meeting March 24 - 27, 1996 Riviera Hotel, Las Vegas, Nevada << AMERICAN INDIAN LITERATURES AND CULTURES >> We invite individual submissions focusing on such issues as: Storytelling and the Oral Tradition Political/Religious/Economic Issues Poetry/Fiction/Autobiography Teaching American Indian Literatures Historical Contact Issues We especially invite the participation of American Indian scholars and writers Send 200-250 word abstracts by September 1, 1995 to: Elizabeth Hoffman Nelson SUNY Binghamton PO Box 477 Brocton, NY 14716-0477 716/792-9405 \ e-mail: nelson@cs.fredonia.edu ======================================================================= Subject: New England Pow-wows Original Sender: crowley@selp.ultranet.com (Edward Crowley) Mailing List: NATIVE-L (native-l@gnosys.svle.ma.us) The following is a list of Pow-wows for the Mass. Center for Native American Awareness, the Worcester Inter-Tribal Indian Center Pow-Wow and the Worcester Inter-Tribal Indian Center Pow-Wow. Please call to confirm time and dates. May 6 Children's Earth Day Endicott Park, 57 Forest St, Danver, MA (Native Am. Program presented by MA Center for Native American Awareness) (617) 884-4227. * No Traders May 13-14 Mass. Center for Native American Awareness Annual Sigonomeg Pow-Wow, Pratt Farm, Route 105, Middleboro, MA (617)884-4227. May 27-29 Mass. Center for Native Americans and Mass. Pow-wow Society Planting Moon Pow-Wow, Topsfield Fairgrounds. Rte. 1, Topsfield, MA (617) 884-4227. June 2-4 Worcester Inter-Tribal Indian Center Pow-Wow, Memorial Field, Rte. 56, Rutland,MA (508) 754-3300. June 17-18 Worcester Indian Cultural Art Lodge Annual Pow-Wow, Pratt Junction, Sterling, MA (508) 754-3300. June 23-25 Mass. Center for Native American Awareness, Weekend of Cultural Workshops & Lectures. Westford, MA. Call for brochure & registration info. (617) 884-4227. * No Traders July 15-16 Mass. Center for Native Americans and Mass. Pow Wow Society Annual Towwakeeswush Pow-Wow, Middlesex County 4-H Fairgrounds, So. Chelmsford Rd., Off Route 110, Westford, MA (617) 884-4227. July 29 Mass. Center for Natlve Americans to present Pow-Wow at the Town of Newburyports' Yankee Home Coming, Newburyport, MA (617) 884-4227. September 9-10 Mass. Center for Native American Awareness Annual Chief Red Blanket Memorial Pow-Wow, Plug Pond, Mill Street,Haverhill, MA (617) 884-4227. November 18 Mass. Center for Native American Awareness National Native American Heritage Day Pow-Wow, Sanborn Middle School, Old Marlboro Road, Concord, MA (617) 884-4227. (11AM) -=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=- Subject: ODAWA POW WOW, Ottawa, CANADA Original Sender: armstj@inac.ca (Jennifer Armstrong) Mailing List: NATIVE-L (native-l@gnosys.svle.ma.us) 19th ODAWA POW WOW: RESPECTING the DRUM DATE: May 26-28, 1995, Friday to Sunday LOCATION: Ottawa, Ontario, CANADA at the Nepean Tent and Trailer Park. For more information, call Doug Comegan (613) 728-0537 or (613) 238-5891. ========================================================================== From: berryj@Okway.okstate.edu (John Berry) Subject: Powwow Texas Mailing List: NATIVE-L (native-l@gnosys.svle.ma.us) To all, =================================<>=================================== SACRED SPRING & WESTERN SWING POWWOW AND CONCERT Friday - Sunday May 19, 20, 21 San Marcos, Texas Southwest Texas State University Stadium Between Austin and San Antonio off I-35 $Over 35,000 in Prize Money$ Powwow Princess - Sharon Bailey Head Singer - Billy Evans Horse Head Man Dancer - Monroe Tsatoke Head Lady Dancer - Georgette Horse M.C.'s - Hammond Motah Wallace Coffey Thomas Chibitty Arena Directors - Stratford Williams Patrick Redbird Powwow Judges - Gary McAdams Hank Kostzuta Smoking Ceremony - Friday 10:00 AM Spring Dedication Grand Entry - Saturday 11:00 AM Grand Entry/Powwow/Contest Sunday 1:00PM Sponsored by: First American League, Texas State Dept. of Agriculture, SW Texas U., Hays County and City For more info, call...1-800-782-7653, ext. 177 1-512-396-2495 or 1-512-392-8115 ===================================<>================================= John Berry --------- "RE: Oklahoma and Native Americans" --------- Date: Mon, 24 Apr 1995 10:59:49 -0700 From: contra@u.washington.edu (Kevin Meagher) Subj: Oklahoma and Native Americans Mailing List: NATCHAT (natchat@gnosys.svle.ma.us) Hello; What occurred in Oklahoma is unforgivable. Anyone so ignorant as to kill innocent children should and ought to die. That aside I must comment on the actions of the Federal Government as well as President Clinton in response to the bombing. The FBI will soon have the ability (promised by President Clinton) to infiltrate any group deemed as a "terrorist" in nature. Now I ask you, what constitutes a "terrorist" organization? Is it any group who disagrees with the government? Is it any group who is openly and actively critical of U.S. policy? I don't know, or at least the FBI hasn't as of yet offered the citizens of this country a definition. I assume that the reasoning behind affording the FBI unspecified but supposedly unlimited money and power in infiltrating organizations is to prevent the same useless acts of violence upon innocents that has occurred in Oklahoma. But with President Clinton's statements it appears that the FBI will have the power to openly and aggressively ignore the Bill of Rights amendment whereby all people have the right to "peacefully" assemble to voice their grievances. Bringing me back to the question of what defines a terrorist group? If the purpose of this power given to the FBI is to prevent "terrorist acts" from occurring, which logically it is, then the FBI can and must define an organization as "terrorist" before it commits any terrorism. Therefore the FBI will have the unchecked ability to solely distinguish any group it sees fit as "terrorist" in nature and destroy that group before it every commits one act of "terrorism." "Well Good!", you say, except unfortunately the FBI has a long history of violating Constitutional Rights WITHOUT open Presidential consent. Furthermore the FBI can and will define (as it has in times past) any group viewed as counter insurgent to governmental control as terrorist even if it's not. A good example of this is its attack against the American Indian Movement during the siege of the second Wounded Knee. I say that a group is terrorist if and only if it has a history of terrorism. The Governments maneuvers to define "terrorist groups" any other way is an attempt to deny us our right to peacefully assemble under the guise of community protection. The President and the FBI are presently manipulating the emotions of the nation in an attempt to easily gain support in attacking anti-government and anti-FBI organizations. This includes hundreds if not thousands of groups that have never once committed an act of terrorism. To continue to the detriment of many Native American rights organizations they will unfortunately fall under this category as was and is the case of the AIM. During the siege of Wounded Knee no outside media was freely allowed in to the Wounded Knee compound or any where else in the vicinity of activity. The Government said it could not guarantee the safety of reporters and that the media would only hamper an effective investigation. Look at Oklahoma! Reporters are crawling all over the place and are even being allowed into a very unstable building to trump all over any potential evidence as of yet undiscovered. I know that the circumstances surrounding both are not quite the same, but the following pt. is still valid. The bombing in Oklahoma serves the government's purposes. It allows the FBI to justify force in the future against organizations that supposedly propose a threat to public safety. Simultaneously Wounded Knee only had the potential of revealing what they truly are-Murders-geared and designed to prevent internal insurgency. Wake up people and do not get caught up in the emotional manipulation that is presently being lavished upon us. Prevent the lose of our Constitutional right to peacefully assemble. How can you convict someone before they've committed a crime? You can't! Kevin Meagher (Contra) PS Note I'm not devaluing the lives of those who died in Oklahoma. I want justice as well. But if YOU truly support justice then ALSO remember the lives of 65 innocent civilian Lakota natives who were killed during and following the FBI's siege of Wounded Knee and whose deaths have never been investigated. --------- "RE: Kiowa Elections" --------- Date: Mon, 1 May 1995 16:06:35 -0500 From: berryj@okway.okstate.edu (John Berry) Subj: Kiowa Elections Mailing List: NATIVE-L (native-l@gnosys.svle.ma.us) To all, ------------------------------- The Kiowa business committee has approved putting the housing authority commissioners on the ballot for the first time. In the past the tribal chair appointed them. Elections on June 3 will include these positions. Terms are for 1 year. ---------------------------------- John Berry --------- "RE: Cherokee Star Legends" --------- Date: Fri, 21 Apr 1995 15:02:12 -0700 From: relative@ix.netcom.com (Elbert Walston) Subj: Native Cosmos: Cherokee Star Legends Mailing List: NATIVE-L (native-l@gnosys.svle.ma.us) Here are a few short versions of some Cherokee stories. Hope it helps. The Cherokee have a story of the milky way. The people had been grinding corn into meal. Several mornings they noticed that some of the meal had been stolen during the night. The people decided to hide and see who was stealing their meal. They waited. Sure enough a dog came from the north a started eating the meal. The people came out and started beating the dog. The dog yelped and started running toward his home in the north, the meal was dripping from his mouth. It left a white trail where we now see the Milky Way, the Cherokee call it Giliutsunstanunyi (Where the dog ran). This is an abbreviated version, hope it helps. There are a couple versions of this one but this is the only one I know. Another one about the stars is the Origin of the Pleiades and the Pine. In the before time the were 7 boys who spent all their time playing gatayusti (stone wheel and stick game). Their mothers tried to get them to do other things besides play the game but it did no good. One day the mothers gathered some of the stones used to play the game and boiled them in the pot with the corn for dinner. When the boys came home to eat the mothers gave them the stones and told them that since they liked playing with the stones more than working the cornfields they could eat stones for supper. This made the boys angry. They went to the townhouse to publicly complain about their mothers. "As our mothers treat us this way, let us go where we never trouble them anymore." They did a dance and prayed for help. The mothers were afraid something was wrong and went to look for the boys. As they approached the townhouse they saw the boys and noticed that their feet were not on the ground and rising.When the mothers got to the boys it was too late, they were already above the townhouse, except for one, whose mother grabbed him with a pole. He struck the ground so hard that he sank into the earth and it closed over him. The others continued to circle the and rise into the air. They finally reached the sky and became what we call the Pleiades(Anitsutsa -the Boys). The people were sad and grieved. The mother of the boy in the ground came every morning and cried over her son. After some time a green sprout came up. It became a tall tree, it became a pine tree. The pine tree and the stars are of the same nature, they both hold in themselves a bright light. Elbert Little Smoke "There is no substitute for death where change is involved." --------- "RE: Shootings in Chiapas" --------- Date: Mon, 1 May 1995 10:09:11 EST From: gwelker@mail.lmi.org Subj: Shootings in Chiapas Mailing List: chiapas-l@profmexis.dgsca.unam.mx Mailing List: NATIVE-L (native-l@gnosys.svle.ma.us) The following was compiled in response to a request for information to refute Mexico's Foreign Affairs Minister Gurria who recently stated in a meeting in New York City with representatives from 37 countries that no shots had been fired since January 1994. SHOTS FIRED BY MEXICAN FEDERAL ARMY AND PRI SUPPORTERS IN CHIAPAS Excerpts from Preliminary Report on Human Rights Violations in Chiapas from February 9, 1995 through April 9, 1995, published by Frey Bartolome de las Casas Human Rights Center TANIPERLA Members of the Federal Army intimidated and threatened various residents. The Army occupied this village with tanks, jeeps, trucks and helicopters, including its school. Three men working in their fields were shot at by soldiers; the whereabouts of two men are unknown. LA GRANDEZA February 18, 1995 GILBERTO JIMENEZ HERNANDEZ was murdered, and SEBASTIAN MENA LOPEZ, RAMIRO ALFONSO HERNANDEZ AND MANUEL JIMENEZ GOMEZ were detained by the Federal Army. According to the widow, Elena Gomez Encin and other witnesses present, the abuses occurred after the villagers had fled from La Grandeza for fear of the Federal Army. The Army caught with these, tied up some of them, and shot Gilberto Jimenez. TAPACHULA February 11, 1995 HIPOLITO HERNANDEZ VELAZQUEZ was assassinated as part of the persecution against the coffee production and marketing cooperative, ISMAM, in the coastal and sierra areas of the state. It is assumed that cattlemen are involved in this murder. The Attorney General has not conducted any investigation, and the responsible people remain at-large. TILA. March 4, 1995 PASCUAL SANCHEZ, A twenty-five year old chol indigenous community member, was shot and killed by Jesus Celis Guillen, town mayor, using a high- powered weapon exclusively used by the Armed Forces, according to various witnesses. The Mayor and his family are now fugitives. IBARRA The Army invaded the village with helicopters and firing shots. They detained and tortured two men and a thirteen-year old boy. They ransacked homes, the clinic, the church, and the school. SANTA ELENA The Army occupied this village with helicopters and firing shots. They established a permanent base camp with cannons, trenches and tents in the village, and barbed wire surrounding the village. Villagers are required to seek permission from the Army to leave the village. Soldiers contaminated the village water supply and ate up all the village's food supplies. Soldiers forced women villagers to do their laundry and make them tortillas. LOTE OCHO, SALTO DE AGUA, MARCH 14 In the communal farm, Lote 8, connected with Teoquipa, Bascan, in the municipality of Salto de Agua, there was a confrontation between members of the PRI and the PRD, which resulted in 4 people being killed and various people injured. During the gunfire, no one could enter the community since the road was blocked. The dead are: Juan Mendez Torres, Pedro Mendez Torres, Pedro Mendez Arcos, Jorge Alfonso Arcos Alvaro. The bodies remained in the street for two days until the rural judge and other people moved them indoors, waiting for the competent authorities to arrive. In the face of possibly being attacked, the families of the murdered peoples, along with others, took refuge in another community. RIO BLANCO BETWEEN PUJILTIC AND VENUSTIANO CARRANZA, VENUSTIANO CARRANZA, MARCH 27, 1995 On March 27 members of the public security, presumably accompanied by the white guards from the municipality of Venustiano Carranza, killed two members of the Campesino Coordinator of Popular Struggle (CCLP) and injured four others when they tried to take back the lands that had been given by presidential decree in 1985. The events took place between the villages of Pujiltic and Carranza in the middle of a bridge known as Rio Blanco. Nine patrols of the Public Security were posted there, preventing the passage of the campesinos. According to members of CCLP, they tried to go by on foot, but they were attacked by the police. At night tension remained high in Venustiano Carranza, and as a result members of the Federal Army came in with tanks and weapons to restore public order. Up until 7:30pm shooting could be heard in the areas near the lands in conflict. VICENTE GUERRERO, ALTAMIRANO REPORTED MARCH 21 Members of the Federal Army arrived in this community with helicopters, tanks and planes shooting bullets and grenades to scare the residents. The soldiers told them that they had to ask for forgiveness from them to save their lives; the soldiers said that they were going to take away the children. They searched the village's houses, stealing their belongings and killing chickens. The situation in the community is precarious; they do not have food nor are they able to boil water because they do not have any dishes. The men do not go to work in the cornfields because they are afraid. (translated by Cindy Arnold, National Commission for Democracy in Mexico) --------- "RE: Police Harass Round Valley Reservation" --------- Date: Fri, 21 Apr 1995 22:48:14 -0700 From: International Indian Treaty Council Subj: Police Harass Round Valley Reservation Mailing List: NATIVE-L (native-l@gnosys.svle.ma.us) Covelo, California Round Valley Indian Reservation For Immediate Release April 20, 1995 Round Valley Indian Reservation residents have been living in a state of terror given the severe and illegal harassment suffered at the hands of the Mendocino County police investigating the shooting deaths of three people on the reservation earlier this week. Many households have felt it necessary to evacuate their children from the valley for fear of their safety and families are evacuating their homes in remote areas. Various Round Valley Indian families will be meeting with the American Civil Liberties Union later this week to determine what action to take given the unjust treatment they have suffered at the hands of the police. INCIDENTS OF POLICE MISCONDUCT INCLUDE: #1 The family of the purported assailant were pulled from a pickup truck and guns placed at their heads including a five year old child, a three year old, and two infants. The five year old child asked the policeman if he was going to shoot her. #2 A 65 year old crippled mother of the purported assailant was thrown to the ground and verbally and physically abused, she was left severely bruised. This family was trying to leave the area because of the gunfire they heard that night of the incident. #3 The grandmother to these children stated to the police as she was trying to obey the police that she was crippled and could not walk fast. The police officer stated "didn't f**king care" and pushed her to the ground. The police knocked out windows of her home and discharged firearms in the home hitting the cradleboard of one of the infants. #4 Police have entered many Indian homes without warrants with guns cocked, searching each room. #5 A 99 year old elder had a machine gun pointed at her as the police searched her house. The young children present were terrified. #6 The police pulled a 95 year old man out of his truck at gun point and "roughed him up" for no reason. #7 At least fifty homes have been searched without warrants and with guns drawn and cocked. This does not include counting the countless vehicles that have been stopped at gun point. #8 Police have gained entry to homes without warrants, stating to the occupant that if they gave them permission to enter they wouldn't have to get a warrant, which if they obtain, and then found something, would prohibit the residents from returning to their homes. Many people did not consent to these searches, but police searched anyway. #9 While parents were away at a press conference the police interrogated minors in their homes and entered and searched the home and had guns pointed at the children the whole time. This home was previously searched the day before. #10 A minor was taken into custody without the parents knowledge. #11 A mentally disabled man was harassed by the police and thrown to the ground. #12 The people of the Round Valley Indian Reservation live in constant fear of the law officers that have pledged to serve and protect all residents of Mendocino County. The reservation residents are treated as criminals. #13 Leonard Peters, the man shot and killed by the police had nothing to do with the earlier shooting of Gene Britton which drew the police to the reservation, police were looking for Arylis Peters, who fled the scene of the killing of Gene Britton. Two of the assailants in Britton's murder were apprehended immediately and Arlis Peters turned himself in the next day. Leonard Peters, the brother of Arlis Peters was therefore unjustifiably murdered by the police and the man they are now searching for may be the only witness to his murder. #14 An eyewitness to the body of Leonard Peters, the crippled grandmother pushed to the ground by the police, stated that "from the waist on up he was completely blown away." She was asked at this time by the police if the body was Arlis Peters. The police didn't even know who they were killing and they thought they had killed Arylis Peters. An Indian man is now being hunted through the mountains of Mendocino County for whom the order has been given to "shoot to kill." This directive was heard on various scanners of individuals in the valley. This man also happens to be the only witness to the killing of Leonard Peters at the hands of the police. The identity of this man was not known to the police until several days subsequent to the shooting of Leonard Peters, which indicates that he was never seen by the police at the time of this incident. The police were stopping individuals and accusing them of being the suspect even though there was no similarities of appearance. Example: A tribal employee was on his way to the store while on the job and was stopped by the police. There were several police around him and they had machine guns pointed at him. His physical appearance was not similar to the suspects except for that fact they were both Native American Indians. The family of Leonard Peters has not been allowed to see the body of Leonard Peters to this date, 6 days later nor have they been told when the body will be released to them. The family of Leonard Peters is asking for contributions for an investigation and that a letter writing campaign be undertaken to the proper congressional authorities for the purpose of an investigation of the murder of Leonard Peters, the protection for the Round Valley Reservation residents from further police harassment and for the prevention of the murder of yet another Indian man who must be presumed innocent until proven guilty according to the laws of our country. Contact: Leona Luna 707-983-6956 P.O.Box 806 Covelo, California 95428 Pat & Edwin Lincoln 707-983-6530 P.O.Box 593 Covelo, CA 95428