Subject: nanews03.034 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 034 O o o o o O __/_ / ) (___/ / ( (___, 26 August 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 & NATIVE-L listservers; Usenet Newsgroups: alt.native, soc.culture.native; UUCP & Genie (General Electric) email 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 "A long time ago my father told me what his father had told him, that there was once a Lakota Holy Man, called Drinks Water, who dreamed of what was to be... He dreamed that the four-leggeds were going back to the Earth, and that a strange race would weave a web around the Lakotas. He said, 'You shall live in a square gray house, in a barren land...' Sometimes dreams are wiser than waking." __ Black Elk, Oglala +- -- -- -- -- -- -- -- -- -- -- -+ | 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! Again I will travel north of where I live to walk the mounds of Etowah and the last home of the Cherokee before the Trail of Tears, New Echota. These places are strong with the spirit of the ancestors who lived here, and sad monuments to the greed of those who came and took this place from them. These places also remind me of how easy it is to divide us and play us against our own for the favors of a few. Do not allow this to be done. Be proud of who you are, walk and do for your people; but remember our numbers are few, and fewer still when we stand divided. Part B concludes resolutions passed during the recently closed Euromeeting..... From: Oliver Kluge <100303.703@compuserve.com> Resolutions of the Euromeeting are usually the result of the work of workshops that deal with special cases. Resolutions are a good means to show government officials that the protest against Human Rights violations of Americas first peoples not only comes from some few individuals, but from a broad variety of organizations across Europe. 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 - Serna Case/ - Trail of Tears, Trail of Joy Accused Killer Finally Jailed - Sunbow 5 Journal - Alleged Zapatista Prisoners - Resolution on Dineh(Black Mesa) Announce Hunger Strike - Resolution on Uranium Mining - Bear Lincoln to Surrender - Resolution on the - Bear Lincoln Turns Himself In Protection of Mt. Graham - Review: Lost Bird of Wounded Knee - Resolution on Innu - Review: Mark Miller's - Lubicon Support Resolution Indian Market Cookbook - Poem: Believe the Dream - Verse: Hawai'ian Book of Days - Conferences and Powwows - offline --------- "RE: Serna Case/Accused Killer Finally Jailed" --------- Date: 95/08/22 01:14 From: Janet Smith (jans@genie.geis.com) Subj: Serna case/Accused Killer Finally Jailed Harvey Phillip Hester, accused killer of Paul and Richard Serna, Apaches living near Chattanooga, Tennessee, finally made one too many mistakes. For almost exactly one year, Hester has been free on bond ($25,000) for double murder charges brought after allegedly forcing the automobile driven by the Sernas into oncoming traffic on Signal Mountain Boulevard. Since that time, numerous hearings and trials have been postponed for one reason or another. He is now slated to stand trial for the Sernas' deaths on September 12. At the time of the incident, he was already on probation for auto theft. Hester alleged that he was chasing the Serna car because he suspected the Sernas had stolen his billfold, and that the Sernas accidentally drove into traffic. Paul Serna's teenage daughter, Angela, who was also in the car, and severely injured in the accident, claims that Hester had started a fight with the Sernas while at a swimming hole because he didn't want to swim with "sand niggers," and that he purposely rammed their car several times while driving. Other witnesses involved in the accident also claim to have seen Hester ram the Serna car. On July 7 of this year, a woman driving a van-load of children stopped a police officer in Chattanooga and informed her that Hester was driving with a gun in his lap. In the preliminary hearing today (August 21), both the officer and the complainant testified that Hester had, in fact, made obscene gestures and pointed the gun at the van because it had "cut him off." When the officer stopped Hester, she stated that he got out of the car and denied having a weapon. A subsequent search of Hester's automobile revealed a cooler full of marijuana on the passenger's seat at and a 38 pistol under the driver's seat. Hester was arraigned on July 10 and bond was set at $6000, which was posted by a local bondsman who claims not to have known of the two first-degree murder charges also pending against Hester. As recently as the second week in August, neither the D.A. prosecuting Hester in the Serna case, nor Hester's probation officer were aware of the July 7 arrest. They were, in fact, informed of it by the Sernas' brother, Michael, who is keeping a careful eye on Hester's activities and the court's for obvious reasons. Today, because probable cause was found that Hester was carrying a gun, in possession of salable amounts of marijuana, and had pointed the gun at a van- load of children, the judge in the case finally decided that he might be a danger to the community if left out on the streets. Apparently the fact that probable cause had also been found that he had murdered two young Apache men and severely injured a young Apache girl had not been not quite as persuasive a year ago. Today, bail was revoked on the new charges and Hester is in jail. If it's any consolation, Tennessee has a "three-strike" law. Three felony convictions will mandate a no-parole life sentence in prison for Harvey Hester. He already has a felony auto theft conviction. Two murder charges are pending. Now felony possession of drugs for resale and felony weapons charges are also pending. If he's convicted of half the charges filed against him, Harvey Hester will spend the remainder of his life behind bars. Information about this case was provided by Michael "Red Hawk" Serna. Along with his own narrative on several occasions, Red Hawk has sent newspaper clippings and copies of court and police documents supporting his story. Red Hawk also sends his gratitude to those of us who have written the governor's office and the DA's office in Tennessee. Both offices have mentioned the onslaught of calls and letters to both him and his wife. Clearly they are aware that there is interest in this case, and surely they will respond to the certainty that they cannot bury this incident quietly and let it fade from memory. Angela is recovering well from her injuries and is living with her mother in California. She has already been flown back to Tennessee to testify once (the case was postponed because Hester's doctor said he was too ill to appear in court), and will return whenever the case is heard. May justice prevail! Evening Star --------- "RE: Alleged Zapatista Prisoners Announce Hunger Strike" --------- From: "CECILIA RODRIGUEZ" Date: Sun, 13 Aug 1995 23:02:45 +0000 Subj: Alleged Zapatista Prisoners Announce Hunger Strike Mailing List: chiapas-l@profmexis.dgsca.unam.mx Dear Director: By means of this letter we want to inform the civic society that the conditions of our imprisonment are uncertain, now that the leadership of the Northern Prison is not resolving our situation in prison. We were brought into the prison on February 10, 1995, and we were put in the entry area, segregated from others for four months. Then on July 6, we were taken to the Center of Observation and Classification (COC). To this day we are still in the COC, a fact that violates the time limits established by law. Because of the facts stated above, we want it to be known that we are willing to start a hunger strike to demand: --That our transfer to the maximum security prison be suspended indefinitely --That the authorities arrange for our lodging in dormitories, or if we are going to be left in the COC, that we be guaranteed full access to all of the recreational, cultural and educational facilities available in this institution --In addition we want to report that we will not agree to participate in any other personality studies. We are not toys and no one is going to treat us like some play thing that they can manipulate at will. We are going to continue playing these games. We want to clarify that the beginning and the end of this strike is subject to the response that we receive from the prison authorities. We ask human rights organizations and non-governmental organizations to become involved in this situation, and that everything be resolved with the least conflict possible. Luis Sanchez Navarrete, Alvaro Castillo Granados, Hilario Martinez Hernandez, Ricardo Hernandez Lopez, and martin Trujillo Barajas (translated by Cindy Arnold, National Center for Democracy, Liberty and Justice) --------- "RE: Bear Lincoln to Surrender" --------- Date: Wed, 16 Aug 1995 14:58:45 -0700 From: nwilson@mail.mcn.org Subj: ROUND VALLEY NEWS - Bear Lincoln to Surrender UUCP email NEWS RELEASE Aug. 16, 1995 For immediate release: Contact: J. Tony Serra, attorney, 415-986-5591 Surrender of Bear Lincoln at Pier 5 San Francisco law office of J. Tony Serra. Gov. Pete Wilson has offered a $100,000 reward for information leading to the apprehension and conviction of Native American Eugene Bear Lincoln, who was the subject of a recent America's Most Wanted TV broadcast. Law enforcement is charging him with killing a police officer during a shooting incident on the Round Valley Indian Reservation in Mendocino County on April 14, 1995. Another Native American, Leonard Acorn Peters, was killed by police who falsely believed that he was involved in a previous homicide. For the last four months, the Indian community in Round Valley has been subject to a state of siege marked by systematic and unlawful activities of the Mendocino County Sheriff's Department. Threats, physical abuse of elders and pointing guns at children are examples of excessive force used, all under the guise of searching for Bear Lincoln. On Wednesday, Aug. 16, 1995 at 7 p.m., at the law offices of J. Tony Serra, Bear Lincoln will come forward to vindicate himself and to testify on behalf of Leonard Peters. He will surrender himself into the custody of Detective Roy Gourley of the Sonoma County Sheriff's Department, who has headed law enforcement investigations of the Round Valley incidents. Present will be Indian activists, Lincoln family members and attorney Tony Serra with other members of the legal team. Defense attorney Serra promised a vigorous defense. "We accuse law enforcement of the murder of Leonard Acorn Peters," Serra said, "and the attempted murder of Eugene Bear Lincoln." Released by Edwina Lincoln, 1 p.m., Wed. Aug. 16, 1995 --------- "RE: Bear Lincoln Turns Himself In" --------- Date: Fri, 18 Aug 1995 01:01:20 -0700 From: Nicholas Wilson Subj: ROUND VALLEY NEWS: Bear Lincoln Turns Himself In UUCP email Bear Lincoln Turns Himself In and Challenges the Justice System Transcript of video by Nicholas Wilson of news conference at the law office of J. Tony Serra, Pier Five, San Francisco, California, Wednesday, August 16, 1995. At 7:18 pm, Dennis Jennings introduces himself as a cultural consultant on Native American affairs to the Serra law firm. He says he will facilitate the event and introduces Tony Serra. Tony Serra speaks: "In a few moments Bear Lincoln will be here. He's not surrendering, he's challenging. He' submitting to the jurisdiction because he will be vindicated. Our perspective of the case is that Acorn was murdered, and Bear, there was an attempted murder. We're not here submitting or surrendering, but challenging. We believe we have a very strong. case. We believe that when all the facts are out he will be vindicated; he will be found not guilty. He will be a historical symbol, and we invite the litigation. "We have an agreement with Capt. Willits of the San Francisco Police Department that he will be allowed to be present before you and to say a few words. He will then be taken into custody and held in the San Francisco County Jail, and later transported to Ukiah to be arraigned presumably in the early part of next week. "We welcome your continued support. The media is very significant in spreading the word because we believe we have a truly righteous case here. This is a case of one more episode in a continuing saga of genocide for American Indians, and we will prove that, and we wait for our day in court." Dennis Jennings introduces Bear Lincoln's family: his mother Lucille Lincoln, his aunt Le Vine (sp?), girlfriend, daughter. He introduces Pat Lincoln to speak for the family. Pat Lincoln speaks: "I'll say a few words on behalf of my cousin and my family in Round Valley. Many things have been happening since April 14. We've been persecuted by the police. Various other families have been persecuted by the police. Mendocino and Sonoma County police and various other agencies have come onto the reservation and done warrantless searches, pulling guns on children, abusing our elders. We cried out to the world: 'Somebody help us.' Nothing happened. "They were after my cousin. They were going to kill him. The word was 'Shoot to kill.' Now he's going to turn himself in. Hopefully you people here are going to protect him. "Now he wants to clear his name, our family's name, and he's going to come in to prove he's not running away because he's guilty. He's coming in, like a man, like a warrior. "What about my brother, my friend, Acorn, who got murdered? Who killed him? Who did it? Why did they do it? That's what makes us mad. On our own reservation we were subjected to this. It's just like back in the 1800s. We had to stay in our homes. Police had us at gunpoint, had guns to our children's heads. Where was justice? "The police keep coming out with these phony stories, like America's Most Wanted came out with bullshit stories, that somebody told them that happened, that are not the truth. They didn't even have the integrity to dig in and find out the real truth about what's going on on the reservation. And it continues today; they're persecuting us, our family, relatives, friends. Because we're saying that these things happened. This went wrong. All we're asking is for them to give us some justice, and Bear some justice. For better relationships on the reservation. We don't want to be persecuted any more. We don't want to fear for our children's lives. We're standing up and saying that's not going to happen any more." Dennis Jennings introduces Nilak Butler, saying she has worked to free Leonard Peltier, is a key Native American strategist, and has been working with Greenpeace in the Nuclear-Free Future campaign. Nilak Butler speaks: "The situation we're looking at here today is a situation we see across this country. You're hearing the voice of a generation. This didn't start a few months ago. It started a long time ago. You're looking at cultures that are in conflict. Conflict over protecting and respecting ways of life, and against a way of life that can destroy all of us with technological madness and destruction. It's all interwoven. You can not take it apart. "For many centuries now we've seen the courts, the laws, and what is called the judicial system used as a deliberate weapon. This is documentable. Look at your history and law books. (Abridged here; she cites a historical case of Indians being given meat poisoned with strychnine at a treaty gathering, resulting in over 2000 deaths.) "It takes great courage to come in and stand up against the odds. When I hear the stories of what's going on up at Covelo now, it's the same thing as Pine Ridge in 1975. It's the same situation where you have a Native person murdered and nobody cares. In our situation it was Joe Stuntz. Here it was Leonard Peters. But we're considered expendable. And we're saying we're NOT! "I can't say I believe in justice. You can't give back life. You can't give back time spent in jail. But we can say there's going to be a lot of people watching what comes down here now. We've seen situations where our people have been slaughtered in jail, and it's yet to be resolved." She admonishes the media for just publishing the official line in past cases, and challenges them to do their jobs with accountability. Dennis Jennings introduces Philip De Jong, attorney who will be assisting with the case. Philip De Jong speaks: "I've been an attorney in Ukiah for about 20 years. I had the experience of defending Pat Lincoln in a similar situation involving the excesses of law enforcement. Trials are a search for truth. The defense team looks for an opportunity to bring the truth out in front of twelve people with open minds able to perceive the truth. That process worked for Pat Lincoln, and I think it can work again, and Bear Lincoln will be vindicated." He is asked about a possible change of venue and replies that it hasn't been decided yet. Asked if he thought Bear Lincoln could get a fair trial in Mendocino County he replies, "I don't know." Dennis Jennings says, "It's a testament to the strength and righteousness of Bear Lincoln's cause that he has evaded the law with the support of Indians, whites, Mexicans, blacks, people of all races of Mendocino County throughout these months. If I had to say anything publicly it would be to thank the children for feeding him. A Chumash singer who came in support of Bear sings and plays a drum. As the song nears its end, Bear Lincoln enters through a rear doorway and embraces his family one by one. Bear Lincoln speaks: "Leonard Peters and myself were ambushed by police. I'm here to prove my innocence in court. That's all I can say now." Dennis Jennings removes a feather from Bear's head and a necklace from his neck. Someone calls out, "Bear, we've heard the cops' story. When do we hear yours?" "Soon," he replies. Bear turns to face the police officer, who asks him to turn around and place his arms behind him. He does so and is handcuffed and led out through the back door. Outside, Bear is placed in a waiting San Francisco Police car, while a dozen TV and still camerapeople record the scene. The car drives away. The time is 7:38 pm. Contributions are needed for the defense of Eugene Bear Lincoln, and may be sent to: Red Alliance Defense Fund P.O. Box 593 Covelo, CA 95428 --------- "RE: Review: Lost Bird of Wounded Knee" --------- Date: Mon, 21 Aug 1995 01:53:43 -0700 (PDT) From: cherokee@WOLFE.net Subj: Lost Bird of Wounded Knee UUCP email Book Review Lost Bird of Wounded Knee by Renee Sansom Flood After reading this, my first thoughts were that I wish I hadn't been asked to review it. I simply do not know where to begin. I don't believe any review can do justice to a book which I consider to be one of the most brilliantly researched, spiritually written novels I have had the honor to read. THAT having been said....I feel anything beyond this point is not worthy to describe the messages contained within its covers. Arvol Looking Horse, nineteenth-generation Keeper of the Sacred Calf Pipe of the Lakota Nation, opens the journey with, "This is a spiritual journey, a turning point for our people. This journey, for years to come, will mean a better life for our children, so that things don't happen to them like they did to Lost Bird." That sums it all up. I cannot find words to better describe this novel. Page after page reveals facts not previously known about the planned extermination of the Sioux Nation. I was enthralled with Renee's research, which revealed so many new important revelations gathered from Wounded Knee Survivor's descendants...and felt, at times, that I was being told things only revealed to those that the People feel are honorable enough to know. We began our journey at the reburial of Lost Bird in the sacred Wounded Knee Cemetery after years of searching for her remains which were found in a cemetery in Hanford, California. I applaud Renne as she honestly opens herself up to criticism, revealing her visions during her search, never ceasing in her efforts to find the small child who appears to her, guiding her quest. The reader is painstakingly taken, step by tortuous step, explaining the events leading up to the massacre, and I found myself becoming more and more angry as I see more clearly, the greed and political corruption behind the murders of innocent people. Zintkala Nuni,(Lost Bird) was estimated to be about 4 months old when her Mother was deliberately hunted down while attempting to flee the scene of carnage at Wounded Knee. It was evident to those who accidentally found her four days after the massacre, after blinding blizzards, that the last act of her Mother (evidence suggests it might have been Black-Day Woman, the youngest and last wife of Chief Sitting Bull) was to protect the child by laying over her in death. The miracle of this tiny girl's survive is astounding, especially considering the fact that she had no food...no liquids...freezing temperatures...yet live she did...and I was to wonder, throughout the book if that necessarily was a blessing. Brigadier General Leonard Wright Colby, commander of the Nebraska National Guard, arrived on January 5, 1891, four days after the burial of those who had been slaughtered, and immediately realized the political significance that adoption of Lost Bird would have on his career. He was to point out, countless times, that she symbolized the Spirit of the People, courting the empathy of the public. Thus...without consulting his wife Clara, who was the founder of Woman's Tribune Newspaper and a leading active supporter of the women's suffrage movement, he uses devious and illegal means, including bribery and forgery to legally adopt Zintkala Numi on January 20th. Although his wife's name appears on the legal document, she had no inkling she was now the Mother of a Indian female infant. He had not bothered to inform her. But, Clara, always obediently blind to her egotistical, self-serving husband merely accepts his decision and becomes devoted, and the only person in Lost Bird's life that cares for her. Chairperson for the National American Woman Suffrage Association, Clara is portrayed as a selfless, all forgiving woman who tries to balance her family life with total commitment to the suffrage movement. If I had any concerns about this book, it would be that I found it hard to believe St. Clara was blindly faith and gullible about a adulterous husband who flaunted his mistress in her face, always defended him without fail. I found myself more than a little upset with Clara, who was always off to another lecture or meeting, feeling appropriately guilty at leaving the child in the care of a variety of incompetent caretakers (including the one that had her husband's illegitimate son..yeah that one...whom she supported and befriended for years) This savagely dysfunctional relationship was to be the cause of Lost Bird's chronic depression, to the point of self mutilation in later years. Now called Zintka, we watch this child desire to learn of her People...her heritage...and frustrated at being taunted, cursed and belittled..become disobedient and wild...never happy in the white world and eventually, when she returns to her native land...not accepted there either. Leonard is out becoming Asst. Attorney General of the United States...becomes tribal attorney in Oklahoma eventually stealing lands...involved in graft...and spending all of Clara's hard earned monies...never giving her money to raise the child. Estranged for years, (Clara won't hear of a divorce) he openly lives with his mistress and disavows Zintka when she is no longer an asset to his career. Taken to Europe, introduced to countless society figures, we begin watching as this small child instinctively attaches to any Indian visitor who comes to see her in her Washington, D.C. home. At an early age, it is evident the child is clairvoyant. Facing cruel racial prejudice, treated as a prize and never feeling as if she belongs anywhere, we see her advancing from nightmares to a deep depression that totally incapacitates her...at the age of 10. Shuttled between a variety of private schools, including a government boarding school, she is finally sent to a reform school when she is found to be pregnant. There is, I think, strong indications that this child has been sexually abused by her Father. She is placed in the Milford Nebraska Reformatory, a place for unwed mothers, and as with all the girls there, is "sentenced" to a full year of confinement. "If a girl came to the home in need of discipline, her arms were forced into a reddish brown leather straitjacket that buckled tightly across the back. A dark attic room in one of the dormitories, not big enough for a bed, was used for solitary confinement. (The building is still standing and the room is testimony to its one time horrors) The plastered ceiling of a small, unventilated cell sloped inward on both sides. A tall girl could only stand up straight in the middle of the room.....women were tied for hours with their hands up..sometimes scratching the ceiling plaster with their fingernails....On April 22, 1908, Zintka lost her child, a stillborn baby boy." We are horribly moved into the world of boarding schools where children are whipped with hemp ropes, water hoses...Indian boys chained to their beds at night, underfed...child labor, exhausted, hungry...and often whipped to death....many sexually abused by pedophiles who sought jobs where they could prey on the innocents. Zintka continues to search for what she can never quite grasp....and we see her being passed from man to man, used...abused....and I can only smile as I realize the justice that her highly infectious sexually transmitted disease has rendered when she is used by a Seattle group of "Sportsmen" under the pretext of adopting her as a mascot for their "club". She staggers through a maze of abusive relationships, the death of a child, the denial and neglect of her Father, her return to her People in search of an identity, her show business career, her spiral downward on the Barbary Coast, left to care for a husband and two ailing children. She suffers from chronic infections throughout her life, unable to fight off the white man's diseases due to her lack of immunity....she struggles..falls...runs...falls...over and over in her life. Her dream of a happy marriage is shattered when she discovers her first husband has given her syphilis. I now understand more fully the purpose of the "lost bird" society...a organization dedicated to finding Indian Children who have been adopted out of the tribes. I am taken to heights...dropped...and find myself running a maze of emotional responses. My only suggestion would be to have down played all of the material of the suffrage movement. I found myself distracted and often frustrated as I would try to follow and was taken off in a direction that was not as relevant to the story as it was portrayed. I found myself skipping through many pages of the distractions that dwelled on suffrage leaders in my determination to continue with Lost Bird's story. At age 30....she flew away...and even in death was captured away from her people. Moved by Renee's beautiful description of her reburial I found myself hoping...believing, that this lost bird finally knows who her real Mother was and is united with the People she sought for a lifetime... I closed this book....depressed...saddened....and with much gratitude that Renee has granted us this gift. I thank her for moving my heart and opening it. This book will take a strong heart to read. I recommend this if you are prepared for the journey...the sadness and to learn the lessons...Renee has given you a way to travel...Read this book....hear the song of a broken hearted little bird..and remember the melody. --------- "RE: Review: Mark Miller's Indian Market Cookbook" --------- Date: 20 Aug 1995 19:15:59 GMT From: brock@ucsub.colorado.edu (Steve Brock) Subj: Review of Mark Miller's Indian Market Cookbook Newsgroup: alt.native MARK MILLER'S INDIAN MARKET COOKBOOK: RECIPES FROM SANTA FE'S COYOTE CAFE by Mark Miller. Ten Speed Press, P.O. Box 7123, Berkeley, CA 94707, (800) 841-2665, FAX: (510) 524-4588. Illus- trated, index, menu index, glossary. 217 pp., 27.95 cloth. 0- 89815-620-3 Put away those tired old cookbooks with their ordinary recipes - it's Indian Market! Miller's fifth book, published to commemorate Santa Fe's Indian Markets past and present (begun in 1922, the 1995 Indian Market takes place the week of August 20), is a sensual celebration of southwestern fare guaranteed to send the taste buds to heaven, though at times they may feel they're in the other place. Each year at Indian Market time, Miller and his Coyote Cafe staff prepare several special menus of traditional and contemporary fare to showcase the region's cultural heritage. New Mexican Blue Corn Muffins, Fresh Corn Soup with Chile Pasado, Roast Chicken Picadillo with Quinoa Grain Salad, Sweet Lobster and Melon Marengo, Blackfoot Buffalo Ribeye, and Navajo Peach Crisp are just a few of the book's highlights, which includes commentary on the area's cultural and culinary resources, as well as dazzling presentation and archival photographs. Also included is a list of where to procure ingredients and an index of past Coyote Cafe Indian Market menus, going back to 1987. Many of the recipes are complex and require hefty preparation times (too bad Miller's staff of 80 doesn't make house calls), so I won't recommend it to novice pan rattlers. To those with plentiful kitchen experience, receiving this book, penned by the man who wears a chef hat and cowboy boots, will be a rare delight. Grade: A. Also by Miller: "The Great Chile Book" (1991), "The Great Salsa Book" (1994), "Coyote Cafe" (1989), and "Coyote's Pantry" (1993), as well as a series of culinary posters. --------- "RE: Poem: Believe the Dream" --------- Date: Tue, 08 Aug 1995 14:28:37 EDT From: BTRU93A@prodigy.com (MS BROOKIE M CRAIG) Subj: Believe the Dream UUCP email Fly to me Moondancer through mist of morrows never seen I hear the whispers of the silent and live the death of those who dreamed Night sun light the Journey's path Eagle guide my way Four winds lift me safely past Dark Brother's wrath this day SPirit Child dance the dream to melodies the Elders sing Hold tight the gift of dark and light to guide you through the thunderous night For I believe the Dream I hear the songs of dreamers stilled It echos past the distant hills and whispers colors to my soul and lifts me far beyond the sky... I fly...I fly... I hear the melodies that Dreamers feel when hope sparks through the fear I kept the fire to warm your soul I hear..I hear.. Fly to light with me tonight I will not let you fall Let go the pain, feel warmth again The sacred elders call Believe the Dream...Believe the Dream Whisper to the stars Hold close the love I bring to you no matter where you are. ( on a sandy beach, moonlit night on the Makah Reservation) --------- "RE: Verse: Hawai'ian Book of Days" --------- Date: 95/08/20 17:36 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 August 27-September 2 AUKAKE (August) (Mahoe-mua) 27 Listen always for the answers to questions you have never asked. 28 The flower is nature's work of art. 29 Life is a continuous cycle of learning. 30 Curiosity is the seed of knowledge. 31 New ideas can help preserve old traditions. KEPEKEMAPA (September) (Mahoe-hope) September was the time when the plume of the sugar-cane began to unsheathe itself. 1 If your heart tells you that you can soar with your dreams, let no one persuade you otherwise! 2 In even the tiniest seeds are found all the secrets of life. (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, 24 Aug 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: Robey Clark To: 'NWTribalEd' Subject: ATNI Calendar of Events--September Date: Friday, August 18, 1995 1:56PM CALENDAR OF EVENTS information gathered by Affilliated Tribes of Northwest Indians (ATNI) Sep. 1-3th Northwest Indian Championships, Taholah, Washington. Contact: 360/276-8211, ext. 271. Sep. 1-4th Numaga Indian Days Celebration, Reno, Nevada. Contact: 702/324-4600. Sep. 1-4th Spokane Indian Days, Tribal Fairgrounds, Wellpinit, Washington. Contact: 509/258-4060. Sep. 1-4th Puyallup Tribe's Annual Pow Wow & Salmon Bake, Tacoma, Washington, 2002 E. 28th Exit 135, off I-5. Sep. 1-4th Lebanon Pow Wow, Lebanon, Oregon. Contact: 503/258-6193. Sep. 1-4th Wee-Gitchie-Ne-Me-E-Dim (Big Dance) Pow Wow, Cass Lake, Minnesota. Contact: 218/335-8289. Sep. 1-4 Awokpamani Omaha Traditional Pow Wow, Poplar, Montana. Contact: 509/258-4060. Sep. 1-4th Kla How Ya Days, Marysville, Washington. Contact: 206/653-4585. Sep. 1-4th Pyramid Lake Rodeo & Elders Day, Nixon, Nevada. Contact: 702/574-0140. Sep. 1-4th Labor Day Pow Wow, Ethete, Wyoming. Contact: 307/856-6117. Sep. 1-4th Shoshone Indian Fair, Ft. Washakie, Wyoming. Contact: 307/323-9423. Sep. 2nd Nee-Mee-Poom Sapatqayn, Nez Perce, NYP, Spalding, Idaho. Contact: 208/843-2261. Sep. 8-9th North American Indian Alliance's 21st Annual Pow Wow & 6th Annual Aids Fun Run, Butte, Montana. Sep. 7-9th Our Land, Our Health: An Environmental Health Conference, Yakima, Washington, Contact: Andy Ross at 503/228-4185. Sep. 8-9th Annual Southern Ute Tribal Fair & Pow Wow, Ignacio, Colorado. Contact: 1-800/772-1236. Sep. 9-16th Pine Nut Festival, Schurz, Nevada. Contact: 702/773-2306. Sep. 10-14th Annual ATNI Conference, Red Lion Hotel, Seattle Airport, Seattle, Washington. Contact: Nolee Olson at 503/230-0293. Sep. 11-17th Pendleton Round-Up and Rodeo, Pendleton, Oregon. Contact: 1-800/524-2984. Sep. 12-13th Infrastructure Assistance Coordination Councils Annual Conference "Strategies for Building our Communities", Wenatchee Coast Hotel and Convention Center. Contact: 360/586-7656, Cris Glen. Sep. 14th Oregon Rural Tourism Development Workshops, The Quality Inn, Baker City, Oregon. Sep. 15-17th Painted Eagle Pow Wow, Wellpinit, Washington. Contact: 509/258-9062. Sep. 15-17th Annual Salmon Homecoming Celebration, Seattle, Washington. Contact: 206/386-4300. Sep. 18-20th NPAIHB Health Statistics & Research Project Conf., Monarch Hotel, Clackamas, Oregon. Contact: 503/228-4185. Sep. 22 -24th National Indian Days, White Swan, Washington. Contact: 509/865-2800. Sep. 2-24th Annual Black Eagle Pow Wow, Spanaway, Washington. Contact: 206/491-8917. Sep. 24-26th 7th National Native American Conference on Inhalants, Alcohol, Tobacco, and Other Drugs, Big Bear Lake, California. Contact: 405/325-4127. Sep. 25-28th-->1995 Tribal Leaders Economic Summit & Trade Forum, Shilo Inn, Portland, Oregon. Contact: Nolee Olson at 503/230-0293. ------------------------------------------- From: Robey Clark To: 'NWTribalEd' Subject: ATNI Calendar of Events--August Date: Friday, August 18, 1995 1:54PM CALENDAR OF EVENTS information gathered by Affilliated Tribes of Northwest Indians (ATNI) Nolee K. Olson (503) 230-0293 AUGUST Aug. 21-25th NPDES Permit Writers' Course, Best Western, Bellevue, Washington. Contact: 703/917-8241. Aug. 22-23th Washington State Indian Policy Advisory Committee, Executive Inn, Fife, Washington. Contact: Liz Mueller at 360/683-1109. Aug. 24-28th Third Annual Westen Summit on Indian Health Care "Transition through Collaboration" Airport Hilton Hotel, Salt Lake City, Utah. Contact: Judy Edwards at 801/538-9432. Aug. 25-27th Spokane Falls Northwest Indian Encampment & Pow Wow, Riverfront Park, Spokane, Washington. Contact: 509/535-0886. Aug. 25-27 Makah Days, Bay View Ave., Neah Bay, Washington. Contact: 206/645-2201. Aug. 25-27th NIAA Fast Pitch Championships, Sacramento, California. Contact: 916/264-7776. Aug. 25-27th Oil Discovery Celebration, Poplar, Montana. Contact: 406/448-2546. Aug. 25-27th Native American Heritage Days, Ft. Laramie National Historic Site, Wyoming. Contact: 307/8372221. Aug. 26th Lakota Oyate-Ki Indian Culture Club Pow Wow, (7:00 a.m.- 2:30 p.m.), Oregon State Penitentiary, Salem, Oregon. Call for clearance and approval at 503/378-2289, please leave message on voice mail. Aug. 26-27th 3rd Annual Celebrating Traditions, Alton Baker Park, Eugene, Oregon Contact: 503/984-1454. Aug. 26-27th Pow Wow, Sacramento, California. Contact: 916/421-0657. Aug. 28th 3rd Annual Dream Catcher Open, Salt Lake City, Utah. Contact: 801/328-8515. Aug. 28-29 Tobacco Education Training, Hampton Inn, Bellingham, Washington. Contact: Kerri Lopez or Lynn Delorme at 503/228-4185. ------------------------------------- From: Peter Guanikeyu Torres Newsgroups: soc.culture.native Subject: Spiritual Unity of the World "Eagles to the East" Hello World; We will be holding the World Unity Gathering at the Tuckahoe Village & Farm in NewField New Jersey. Date: Augest 23rd to the 27th 1995 Mission Statement: The Spiritual Unity of the is a gathering of the indigenous people and tribes of all nations of humanity, uniting spiritually through their tradition and philosophies of life, bringing balance and harmony. The annual gathering is a time to share prayers, stories, teachings and ways of life of all cultures from the past and present, for the enlightenment and upliftment of humanity. For More Information contact the Eagles to the East Steering Committee. Louis Skyman....215-386-3800 Nyjah...........215-925-8899 Peter Guanikeyu.609-825-7776 Ed Brown Turtle.609-476-4811 Thank You, Peter Guanikeyu -------------------------------------- From: Gary Powers Newsgroups: soc.culture.native Subject: HEALING GLOBAL WOUNDS POW WOW Fourth Annual HEALING GLOBAL WOUNDS POW WOW Washington, D.C. 1995 Friday, 29 September 7:00PM-10:00PM Saturday, 30 September 1:00PM-10:00PM Sunday, 1 October 1:00PM-5:00PM +++MUSIC+++ +++DANCING+++ +++FOOD+++ +++CRAFTS+++ OPEN TO THE PUBLIC All Drums and Dancers Welcome No Alcohol, Drugs, Weapons or Attitudes ***On the Mall: Constitution Avenue, between 14th and 15th Streets, N.W. For more information, contact: Native Youth Alliance -- 1832 Park Road, N.W., Washington, D.C. 20010 Tel. # (202) 234-8631 -- Fax # (202) 234-8632 _DONATIONS APPRECIATED_ ------------------------------------- From: Indian Agriculture To: IND-NET Cc: EIRP@coopext.cahe.wsu.edu Subject: Ninth Annual National Indian Agriculture Symposium The Ninth Annual National Indian Agriculture Symposium will be held in Billings, MT, October 8, 9, 10, and 11, at the Billings Sheraton Hotel and Radisson Northern Hotel. This year's Symp- osium is being hosted by the seven Billings Area Tribes: Black- feet Nation, Chippewa Cree Tribes of the Rocky Boys' Reservation, Crow Tribe, Fort Belknap Indian Community, Fort Peck Tribes, Northern Cheyenne, and Shoshone-Arapho Indian Tribes. American Indian leaders, farmers and ranchers from across the continental United States and Alaska will be in attendance. This is an informational conference on agricultural issues and services available to Indian communities. IAC Symposium attendees will have an opportunity to find out more about the various national and regional agricultural activities that occurred throughout the year, and how the organization's work assists them with their own agricultural projects and enterprises. It also provides the Tribes an opportunity for input on the IAC's direction for the coming year. This year's theme is, "Indian Agriculture Under the Big Sky," and the entire event will focus on this theme. The agenda includes workshops on Livestock, Marketing and the "Made by American Indians" trademark, and USDA agency services to Indian Country plus an array of other important topics. An Exhibit Session and Market is being held in conjunction with the Symposium and Tribes, tribal enterprises, agriculture related businesses, as well as American Indian artisans will be displaying their services and products. The hours are Monday, October 9, 8 am to 4:30 pm; Tuesday, October 10, 9 am to 4:30 pm and Wednesday, October 11, 9 am to Noon, and the Exhibit Session and Market is open to the public at no charge. Each year the IAC produces a Symposium dedicated to the enhancement of Indian agriculture. The IAC is an organization, chartered in 1987, with 84 dues-paying member Tribes, who together control more than 80% of the 54 million acres owned by Indian people and Indian Tribes in the contiguous United States, and approximately half of the 44 million acres in Alaska. It is governed by a board of directors composed of elected tribal representatives from each of the twelve regions of Indian Country, reflecting the diverse character of Indian agriculture. The IAC is active primarily in promoting the conservation, development and use of Indian resources for the betterment of Indian people. Information on this year's Symposium and Exhibit Session & Market, or the IAC may be obtained by contacting the IAC at 100 North 27th Street, Suite 500, Billings, MT 59101, (406) 259-3525. Or you can send a message via e-mail to: indianag@coopext.cahe.wsu.edu ### Hope to see you all in Billings for this informational and fun-filled event!! Kristie ------------------------------------------- From: Indian Agriculture To: IND-NET Subject: First Annual Native American Days Festival-Vacherie, Louisiana Thunder-Rainwater Productions will hold its first annual Native American Days festival on September 16-17, 1995, at Laura Plantation in Vacherie, Louisiana. An authentic southeastern Indian winter house built with local natural materials is the centerpiece of the festival, which features the Chickasaw National Dancers, storytellers, and artists. Booth space is still available to CDIB artists and artisans at no charge to them this year. The booths are under tents and are tent feet by ten feet (10' x 10') square. All vendors must bring their own displays and seating. Set-up is Friday, September 15, and break- down is Sunday, September 17 after 5 pm. Spaces must be reserved now to assure availability. Interested CDIB vendors can contact James Thunder Culwell to reserve a space at Native American Days. Laura Plantation accepts no responsib- ility for losses while at the festival, and vendors are responsible for collecting all applicable sales taxes. James Thunder Culwell can be reached by calling (504) 652-8618. #### ========================================================================= -------------------------------------------------------------------------- --//--//--//--//--//--//--//--//--//--//--//--//--//--//--//--//--//--//-- 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: Janet Smith, Oliver Kluge, Debra F. Sanders, Brookie M. Craig, Steve Brock, Nicholas Wilson, Cecilia Rodriguez for moonlight@igc.apc.org, Sunbow5(Release), --//--//--//--//--//--//--//--//--//--//--//--//--//--//--//--//--//--//-- ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ all items below this line have already been distributed by our brother, Jay Brummett, via the NATIVE-L or NATCHAT mailing lists. --------- "RE: Trail of Tears, Trail of Joy - Sunbow 5 Journal" --------- Date: Wed, 16 Aug 1995 16:06:44 -0400 From: sunbow5@aol.com Subj: Trail of Tears, Trail of Joy - Sunbow 5 Journal Mailing List: NATIVE-L (native-l@gnosys.svle.ma.us) Day 54 - Sunbow 5 Journal - Tuesday, 8/15/95 He walked alone, praying. Through the dark, over both Grandmother and Grandfather mountains, under the faint light of the stars and a waning Moon, Tom Dostou journeyed alone on a Night Walk. His steps guided him to the sunrise. Afterward, resting, he observed: "It was beautiful, but a hard walk in some ways. I am psychologically tired from the months of preparation and the ongoing stresses of walking and making arrangements. That has taken a lot. Something like this really calls on you to reach deep. Last night as I walked I saw again how important the Sunbow 5 walk is, and how committed we have to be. It's going to take everything. I have to be prepared to make the ultimate commitment to complete it, even be prepared to die. That's some of what I understood as I walked through the night. "These are very sacred mountains we are in. They have a long history, and they have been wounded in many ways through disrespect, and a lot of horrible things have happened here in history. It's very important to pray as you travel through. "At one point late in the night I felt called to a particular rock, and I laid down on top of it. At that time I was given a vision of these mountains, of this whole Appalachian chain. I saw and felt myself in relationship with the most sacred of the mountains: Khatadin in Maine, Washington and Monadnock in New Hampshire, Wachusett in Massachusetts, Ragtop (Old Rag), Grandmother and Grandfather Mountain, and some others. It was a very powerful vision, and it showed a lot. "These mountains are not respected anymore. In times past they were used for vision, and people would come to them only to fast and pray, and to open themselves to the Mystery. Now they are hardly ever used that way. In my vision I could see that this is something that is missed by the spirit of the mountains -- as if they were lonely for that kind of human striving and contact. It would be good if it would happen more now. That would help with the deep healing that the people of this planet need to do. " During the day, the main group of walkers moved on through the heat, down the Blue Ridge Parkway as far as Crabtree Meadows State Park, NC. Several of the walks commented on how, when they walk through some of the tunnels that have been blasted, they feel as if they are in the belly of the mountain -- and that the bellies are aching. They said they could feel what has happened to the Earth. The walkers found their campground comfortable, and enjoyed a spaghetti dinner while making plans to move on at daybreak to the Peace Chamber at the Foundation for Earth's Ancestral Voices in Swannanoa, NC. James Duncan called from Chattanooga, TN, to say that he would join the walk on Wednesday. From March through May of this year he completed a long walk he called "The Trail of Joy." James, his wife, and their five daughters all walked from Tahlequah, OK to New Echota, GA. Their walk reversed the pathway Cherokee peoples were forced to walk in 1838 in what is often called "the drive away," or "The Trail of Tears." The Trail of Tears came about when pressure from settlers seeking to take over Cherokee lands reached a crescendo in 1828-30. At that time Georgia passed laws extinguishing the government of the Cherokee, outlawing their traditional capitol at New Echota, and distributing their lands. These laws were in direct violation of numerous legally binding treaties between the tribe and the US government, and also an explicit ruling of the Supreme Court. However, US President Andrew Jackson harbored an abiding and undisguised scorn for Native peoples. He publicly refused to honor the treaties, and instead advocated an Indian Removal Act. Thus, the nation broke its vow and set the stage for the forced displacements of hundreds of thousands of Native peoples, including the Cherokee, to barren lands far west of the Mississippi. Walking the trail of tears, poorly fed and equipped, relentlessly driven, the Cherokee lost over one-quarter of their population to sickness, exposure, and mistreatment. Eventually they were settled in Eastern Oklahoma at Tahlequah. That is where James Duncan was born some 46 years ago, a direct descendant of some of the people who walked that sad trail to the west so many years ago. What James Duncan and family strove to do with their walk this spring, was to bring the journey home: to reverse the pathway and bring the spirit back toward the East with a walk of prayer and understanding. "We wanted to try and heal some of the pain and sorrow and bitterness," he explained. "And so that is why we walked the Trail of Joy. "We need to open our eyes to the fact that we are one people, one nation. If we are divided, it's because we let it happen. We are all brothers, this we know. We have to come into harmony with ourselves first, before we can come into harmony with others. That is why we walked. We walked to pray and to help with the healing." James will be sharing the story of the "Trail of Joy" with the Sunbow 5 Walkers over the next few days. He will also tell them of the "DeSoto Walk" that he is planning for the Spring of 1996. With his family and all who are interested, he will make a prayer and healing pilgrimage from the Mississippi River, where the conquistador Hernando DeSoto died in 1542, back to Tampa, FL, the starting point of his march of death and destruction through the Southeast. About this upcoming walk, James would say only "It is time for healing." The Sunbow 5 Walk for the Earth will move on past Asheville, NC, on Thursday, and head for the Qualla Boundary -- present-day headquarters of the Eastern Band of the Cherokee Nation -- by Friday. -S.M. ******** ******** ******** ******** Copyright, 1995, Sunbow 5 Foundation. This Journal tells the story of the Sunbow 5 Walk for the Earth, which began June 23, 1995 on First Encounter Beach, Cape Cod, MA, and will conclude February, 1996 in Santa Barbara, CA. For general information on the walk, send a request to info@sunbow5walk.org or visit our World Wide Web site: http://www.sunbow5walk.org/sunbow5 The Sunbow 5 Circle mailing list publishes regular journal reports from the Walk, and also discussion about and planning for the walk. You may join the Circle by sending e-mail to: majordomo@sunbow5walk.org The text of your e-mail message should read only: subscribe circle People who wish to receive only the Journal, with no discussion and no other e-mail postings, may subscribe to the Sunbow 5 Journal list. To subscribe send e-mail to the same majordomo@sunbow5walk.org address. The text of your e-mail message should read only: subscribe journal There are no charges for the mailing lists, or for any Sunbow 5 Walk information. General information: Sunbow 5 Walk, 13619 Inwood Rd., Suite 300, Dallas, TX 75224. Freely given donations to support the Walk may be sent to the Sunbow 5 Foundation, P.O. Box 954, South Orleans, MA 02662. All donations are tax-deductible. --------- "RE: Resolution on Dineh(Black Mesa)" --------- Date: Tue, 1 Aug 1995 14:32:55 EDT From: 100303.703@compuserve.com (Oliver Kluge) Subj: Resolution on Dineh Mailing List: NATIVE-L (native-l@gnosys.svle.ma.us) EUROMEETING 95 Planning Session of Support Groups of North American Indigenous PeopleS RESOLUTION ON THE PROTECTION OF THE BLACK MESA PLATEAU July 29th - Aug 1st, Les Geneves sur Coffrane, Switzerland WHEREAS, the Office of Surface Mining conducted an Environmental Impact Study (EIS) 1990, for both the Black Mesa / Kayenta mines was totally incomplete in regards to sacred sites, burial sites, ceremonial sites, and social-economical adverse impacts to the Dine and Hopi life traditional styles. AND WHEREAS, Peabody Coal Company received a permit on July 6th 1995 by the Office of Surface Mining for another five years to operate on the Black Mesa / Kayenta mines despite the opportunity of public hearings and scientific evidence raised by the residents of the HPL area. AND WHEREAS, the Office of Surface Mining, and both the Navajo and Hopi Tribal governments have failed to produce proper reclamation policies which would perpetuate traditional medical practices. That contaminated ponds and soil, has a toxicological effects on vegetation, livestock and public health, as well as of inter-active toxicological effects of selenium, copper and other heavy metals in both surface and groundwater sources of the Black Mesa region. AND WHEREAS,the Office of Surface Mining has explicitly allowed Peabody Coal Company to ignore protections for graves, religious, cultural and archaeological sites and requirements to minimize land disturbance. WE THEREFORE, demand Peabody Coal Company to stop its mining activities on Black Mesa immediately, if this is not possible, Peabody's permit should be re-evaluable if pending studies prove that there exist health problem. These tests are being carried out by Navajo and Hopi Tribal government, Department of Surface Mining, Department of Energy and Environmental Protection Agency in co-operation with Dine Alliance, Dine C.A.R.E., Peabody Watch, and Greenpeace. --------- "RE: Resolution on Uranium Mining" --------- Date: Tue, 1 Aug 1995 14:32:55 EDT From: 100303.703@compuserve.com (Oliver Kluge) Subj: Resolution on Uranium Mining Mailing List: NATIVE-L (native-l@gnosys.svle.ma.us) EUROMEETING 95 Planning Session of Support Groups of North American Indigenous PeopleS Resolution of the Uranium Workshop Taking into account that approximately 70% of the world's uranium resources are under indigenous peoples land, Whereas indigenous peoples have been and continue to be the first victims of uranium mining and thereby the first victims of the nuclear fuel chain, Considering the detrimental effects of uranium mining on the health of workers, population in the vicinity of the mines and mills as well on the health as on the social structure / societies of the respective indigenous peoples, as testified by indigenous witnesses on many different occasions, the most comprehensive at THE WORLD URANIUM HEARING in 1992, WE, the participants for the Euromeeting 1995, DEMAND THAT - the mining and processing of uranium is stopped immediately. We call upon the Governments and the people of the states of Europe and on the European Union - to stop their policy of importing uranium from other parts of the world, - to take financial responsibility for the detrimental effects created by uranium mining in the past through compensation of workers and participating in the reclamation of those uranium mining sites where uranium has been exploited under European participation or has been exported to European states, - to help in the creation of environmentally sound and socially acceptable economic opportunities for the respective communities as a sign of the new partnership between European states and Indigenous peoples as adopted by the European Parliament. --------- "RE: Resolution on the Protection of Mt. Graham" --------- Date: Tue, 1 Aug 1995 14:32:55 EDT From: 100303.703@compuserve.com (Oliver Kluge) Subj: Resolution on the Protection of Dzil Nchaa Si An(Mt. Graham) Mailing List: NATIVE-L (native-l@gnosys.svle.ma.us) EUROMEETING 95 Planning Session of Support Groups of North American Indigenous PeopleS Resolution on the Protection of Dzil Nchaa Si An(Mt. Graham) Knowing from testimonies by medicine people of the San Carlos Apache Reservation and from various anthropological sources that the mountain range known as Mt. Graham is regarded as sacred by the San Carlos Apache people; Knowing that the San Carlos Apache are threatened by the loss of their cultural identity and their traditional values if the practise of their traditional religion is prevented by the construction of the Mt.Graham International Observatory (MGIO); Knowing that the San Carlos Apache Tribal Council, the elected government of the San Carlos Apache, has expressed its strong opposition against the telescopes by passing four resolutions, the last one from June 13, 1995. Knowing that occupying the site results in a profound desecration of another people's sacred place; We are convinced that the right to religious practice and the respect for the beliefs of a human being or a group of people is a fundamental human right (and to be regarded higher then possible scientific gain of knowledge). Knowing that the University of Arizona has been joined by the Max Planck Institute for Radio Astronomy, the Astrophysical Institute of Arcetrif Florence, the Vatican and is being considered by the Council of German Observatories; Knowing that the construction of the MGIO represents the first peacetime exemption by Congress from all U.S. cultural and environmental laws and that this fact is well known to the European partners; Knowing that several studies show that superior or equivalent sites for astronomical research exist elsewhere We are convinced that especially scientists should consider the consequences of their actions for all creation. We therefore demand of all institutions involved - the immediate and complete withdrawal from dzil nchaa sm an (Mount Graham), - the de-construction / tearing down of the already installed facilities, - and an apology to the San Carlos Apache people, who have been treated most disrespectfully. moved by Nys Eggert, INFOE Institute for Ecology and Action Anthropology, Germany seconded by Pierrette Hurni, INCOMINDIOS Switzerland passed unanimously by the plenary of the10th Euromeeting of Support Groups of North American Indigenous PeopleS Dionys Zink, Chairperson August 1, 1995 --------- "RE: Resolution on Innu" --------- Date: Tue, 1 Aug 1995 14:32:55 EDT From: 100303.703@compuserve.com (Oliver Kluge) Subj: Resolution on Innu Mailing List: NATIVE-L (native-l@gnosys.svle.ma.us) EUROMEETING 95 Planning Session of Support Groups of North American Indigenous PeopleS Resolution about the Innu in Nitassinan. Whereas since time immemorial the Innu have been the inhabitants of the area now used by Canadian, German, Dutch and British air forces for military flight training; And whereas they have never signed a treaty with the government of Canada giving away their land, or given Canada any authority to use their land and airspace for resource developments like military flight training, logging or building dams. And whereas during the last United Nation Working Group on Indigenous Populations in Geneva, the delegation of Canada ,reviewing the developments pertaining to the promotion and protection of human rights and fundamental freedoms of Indigenous Populations, repeated the statement made at the inaugural ceremony for the international Decade, during which was stated that Canada's Aboriginal policy is following two broad themes: Building a new partnership which is based on trust, mutual respect and aboriginal participation in decision-making; and strengthening Aboriginal communities through initiatives designed to build stronger, healthier and more self-reliant communities And whereas the Canadian Department of National Defence (DND) spend $10 million to study the impacts, the Environmental Assessment Panel reported that uncertainty remains with respect to both the environmental and health effects of low-level flying and the effectiveness of the DND's avoidance program; And whereas on May 1st of this year, the Canadian government conditionally approved an increase in the number of annual military training sorties from 7,000 to 18,000, including 15,000 low-level sorties and an expansion of the Low-Level Training Area (LLTA's) from a 100,000 square kilometers to a 130,000 square kilometers with additional bombing ranges; And whereas these decisions were made with complete disregard for the rights, safety and future of the Innu people, and without adequate protection for the environment on which the Innu strongly depend for their livelihood, the continuation of their traditional way of life, and their existence as a distinct people; And whereas the Innu people have stated, that low level flying is seriously affecting their physical, psychological and spiritual health and the natural and human environment, and is contributing to the further collapse of Innu culture and society, and as such is considered genocide And whereas the Panel reported that these uncertainties, along with the social tension and polarization around the project, were such that a first reaction might be that the project should not proceed; And whereas the Panel concluded that the economic benefits of the project to the largely non-aboriginal community of 8,600 people in Happy Valley-Goose Bay outweighed the rights of the Innu and environmental protection; And whereas the Canadian Cabinet supported the recommendation of the Panel to establish an Institute to monitor the military flight training and to gather more information about the environment, including Aboriginal land use; And whereas the Innu Nation is not opposed to the idea of an Institute, and even made a proposal to the Canadian Government regarding how the Institute should be structured before their decision of May 1st; And whereas the Canadian government completely ignored this proposal and a request for a technical meeting; And whereas decisions were taken without any further discussion with, or notification to the Innu people; And whereas the Dutch, German and British governments have to follow strict laws and regulations to ensure the safety of their citizens when conducting military flight training over their own territories; Now therefore the participants of the Tenth Annual Meeting of Support Groups for North American Indigenous Peoples, representing 25 organizations from 10 European countries, strongly urge the Dutch, German and British governments to: 1) treat the Innu equal to their own citizens, and observe the same laws and regulations concerning military flight activities in Canada as they are obliged to meet in their own countries; 2) postpone renewal of the Multinational Memorandum of Understanding until the environmental viability of current training levels and possible increases has been determined by the Institute; 3) recognize the Institute and its work only if: - it is to be a regulatory Institute with decision-making power, so that crucial environmental studies and decisions about military low-level flying are not only made by the Canadian Department of Defence; - it is not based on the the philosophy of adaptive management, which runs contrary to the protection of the environment and disregards Innu rights and safety; - Innu have an important decision-making role in the Institute, because they are the people most affected by low-level flying; - the Institute is structured so that decisions require a majority of all of the members plus a majority of the Aboriginal members; 4) cap the present sortie levels in the present zones; 5) renew the present MMOU only if the Institute decides that current or increased levels of low-level flying are environmentally viable, and then only with current sortie levels in the present zones on a year to year basis, until the future of low-level flying is determined in a comprehensive rights agreement or sub-agreement between Canada and the Innu Nation. Moved by Seconded by Mirjam Niemans, Suzan Trubsbach Innu Support Group BIG MOUNTAIN Aktionsgruppe Passed --------- "RE: Lubicon Support Resolution" --------- Date: Tue, 1 Aug 1995 14:41:14 EDT From: 100303.703@compuserve.com (Oliver Kluge) Subj: Lubicon Support Resolution Mailing List: NATIVE-L (native-l@gnosys.svle.ma.us) EUROMEETING 95 Planning Session of Support Groups of North American Indigenous PeopleS LUBICON SUPPORT RESOLUTION 7-31-95 WHEREAS in 1899 the Government of Canada made a treaty with indigenous peoples in the area surrounding the traditional Lubicon territory purporting to extinguish indigenous land rights in northern Alberta; AND WHEREAS traditional Lubicon lands were isolated, inaccessible and geographically unknown to the Government of Canada at the time the Government of Canada entered into treaty with the indigenous peoples in the area surrounding the traditional Lubicon territory; AND WHEREAS the Lubicon people were consequently missed by the Canadian government treaty party, have never signed a treaty with the Government of Canada extinguishing Lubicon ownership of traditional Lubicon lands and therefore retain unceded aboriginal title to traditional Lubicon lands; AND WHEREAS the Government of Canada first established contact with the Lubicon people in 1939, officially recognized that the Lubicon people are a distinct indigenous society with land rights and promised to establish a Lubicon reserve; AND WHEREAS the Lubicon people have been seeking unsuccessfully to negotiate a settlement of Lubicon land rights with the Government of Canada ever since first contact in 1939; AND WHEREAS indigenous societies negotiating land settlement treaties with the Government of Canada have historically been allowed to determine their own membership -- which has in turn traditionally been used to calculate reserve land quantum; AND WHEREAS successful negotiation of Lubicon land rights and establishment of a Lubicon reserve was effectively blocked for a number of years by the Alberta Provincial government demanding the right to play a role in determination of the traditionally related issues of Lubicon membership and reserve land quantum; AND WHEREAS in October of 1988 then Alberta Provincial Premier Getty resolved the long-standing dispute between the Lubicons and the Provincial government over membership and reserve land quantum by proposing to base the amount of land which the Provincial government would be prepared to transfer to the Federal government for purposes of negotiating a settlement of Lubicon land rights and establishing a Lubicon reserve on what the Premier and Lubicon Chief Ominayak as two honourable men could agree was "fair". AND WHEREAS the Premier and the Chief met in a northern Alberta community called Grimshaw and agreed to a reserve land quantum of 95 square miles; AND WHEREAS the reserve land agreement between the Premier and the Chief is called the "Grimshaw Accord" after the community in northern Alberta where it was made; AND WHEREAS all that basically remained to achieve settlement of Lubicon land rights following the "Grimshaw Accord" was for the Federal government to negotiate reserve construction and financial compensation with the Lubicon people -- as well as of course for the Federal government to request transfer of the 95 square miles agreed at Grimshaw. AND WHEREAS Federal officials deliberately broke down settlement negotiations January of 1989 with a so-called "take-it-or-leave-it" settlement offer which they knew in advance was unacceptable since it did not make adequate provision for the Lubicons to once again become economically self-sufficient -- a conclusion not only of the Lubicons but of Premier Getty and independent observers such as the Lubicon Settlement Commission of Review; AND WHEREAS following the break-down of negotiations in January of 1989 the Federal government sent agents into northern Alberta to try and organize the political overthrow of duly elected Lubicon leadership; AND WHEREAS when the effort to politically overthrow duly elected Lubicon leadership failed Federal officials commenced a well-documented campaign to dismember Lubicon society by creating two new Indian Bands in the surrounding area and trying to entice individual Lubicons into joining these new Bands by offering them what Federal officials openly called "little bribes". AND WHEREAS following Premier Getty's departure from office in 1992 Provincial officials also became actively involved in the effort to tear Lubicon society asunder through "little bribes", spreading disinformation about settlement issues and negotiations among the Lubicon people, making unlikely promises to Lubicons who cooperate with initiatives designed to undermine duly elected Lubicon leadership, rubbing raw resulting tensions and divisions within Lubicon society, encouraging and supporting dissent, and, most recently, attempting to fragment Lubicon society still further by organizing government sponsored dissenters into a proposed new third Band. AND WHEREAS Provincial officials are now falsely claiming that the "Grimshaw Accord" was based on membership allegedly reduced by Federal government creation of the two new Bands, that the "Grimshaw Accord" should therefore effectively be abdicated, and, as Provincial officials insisted before Premier Getty resolved the long-standing dispute over land and membership with the "Grimshaw Accord", that the Provincial government should be involved in determination of Lubicon membership and reserve land quantum; AND WHEREAS representatives of European Support Groups were in Alberta when the Grimshaw Accord was made and know that it was not based on membership but was rather based on a proposal by Premier Getty to set the question of membership aside and instead base reserve land quantum on what the Premier and the Chief could agree was "fair"; AND WHEREAS abdication of the Grimshaw Accord would push things back to a point to before Premier Getty resolved the long-standing land and membership dispute between the Provincial government and the Lubicons, would significantly reduce any hope of ever achieving an equitable settlement of Lubicon land rights and would effectively reward both levels of Canadian government for blatant divide and conquer tactics which no decent human being could possibly countenance; NOW THEREFORE the participants of the Tenth Annual Meeting of Support Groups for North American Indigenous Peoples representing 25 organizations from 10 European countries hereby resolve to work to ensure that the Alberta Provincial government: 1.)honour the Grimshaw Accord made between Premier Getty and Chief Ominayak in October of 1988; 2.)stop spreading deliberately deceitful misinformation about the basis and nature of the Grimshaw Accord; 3.)cease efforts to destabilize Lubicon society by creating, encouraging and supporting dissent; 4.)Cooperate with hopefully sincere current efforts by the Federal government to negotiate a fair and equitable settlement of Lubicon land rights. Passed