Subject: Wotanging Ikche--nanews04.004
From: gars@netcom.com (Gary Night Owl)
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      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 Triballaw, INNU-L, NATCHAT & NATIVE-L
               listservers; UUCP & Genie (General Electric) email;
       Newsgroups:alt.native,soc.culture.native,hr.indigenous,bc.general,
           can.general,ncf.sigs.people.first-people,talk.environment,
                     alt.save.the.earth,alt.org.earth-first
 
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   "We can be aggressive and point our fingers and be demanding.  Quite
    often this is what society projects us to be.  Or we can be cunning
    and manipulative.  The idea of what it takes to be a good business and
    entrepreneur is so opposite to what it takes to be a good human being"
   __ Leonard George, Burrard
 
  +- -- -- -- -- -- -- -- -- -- -- -+
  |   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 have been making garden plans, even with heavy frost and biting winds
 greeting us on our daily walk.  Soon it will be time for rebirth, and we
 must be prepared to take part in this celebration of life.
 
   So it is with all things.  We must be prepared to take part in the things
 given us by Creator.  We must remember, as we endure times of pain, that
 all things in life are circles and circles within circles.  No matter how
 tragic or no matter how wonderful life may be now, we will move on into
 the next phase.  We must be prepared for what is coming and leave our
 lessons from where we have been for those who follow.
 
   Look at your seeds and your seed catalogues as you prepare for the coming
 spring.  Look also at the path curving before you and prepare for this next
 rebirth of spirit.
 
 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===
 
 ----------- News of the people featured in this issue ----------
 Part A: Usenet and e-mail            Part B: NATCHAT and NATIVE-L lists
 - Letter to Parole Comm. for Peltier - Conferences and Powwows - online
 - URGENT: Urban Indian Health Cuts   - Return Fort Reno
 - Redefining Native Politics         - Skokomish River Watershed Needs Help
 - The Great Giveaway                 - Why "Indians?"
 - Cherokee Task Force Organized      - Haggling Over Basic Issues
 - Nuxalk Trial Attempt Resumes       - Native Hawaiian Kills Self
 - Innu Ratify Framework Agreement
 - Crazy Horse Update
 - Poem: Coyotes on the Plains
 - Verse: Hawai'ian Book of Days
 - Conferences and Powwows - offline
 
 --------- "RE: Letter to Parole Comm. for Peltier" ---------
 
 Date: Sun, 21 Jan 96 00:29:36 EST
 From: R2JSQ@VM1.CC.UAKRON.EDU (Joe Quickle)
 Subj: Jan 20 - Letter to Parole Comm. for L. Peltier
 
   Newsgroups: alt.native,soc.culture.native,hr.indigenous
 
 I am mailing a copy of this letter to the Parole Commission.
 I ask that you please sign and fax or mail a copy of this
 letter or your own letter of support to the Parole Commission.
 Or sign this and e-mail this or your own letter of support
 to me, and I'll print it and mail it to the Parole Commission.
 Or (better), do both.  -Joe Quickle
 --------------------------
 United States Parole Commission
 5550 Friendship Blvd.
 Suite 420
 Chevy Chase, MD. 20815
 FAX: (301) 492-6694
  
  
 Dear Commissioner,
      I don't know you're legal background - mine is limited - but
 there is a legal concept called "jus tertii," or the rights of a
 third party.  I am writing to you as a third party with
 compelling interest in the case of Mr. Leonard Peltier.
      You see, the terrible blight on our justice system which Mr.
 Peltier has been forced to live with affects not only him, but
 all those who are informed about his case.  The fact that this
 could have happened and is being maintained to this day - not in
 a foreign country but in the U.S. - creates a climate of fear in
 which we all must live.
      I believe we all have a right, an implicit civil right, to
 expect justice from our court system.  Yet this expectation is
 not logically plausible as long as so blatant an injustice is
 upheld.  While this is the case, I am forced to abandon the
 assumption that the system is fundamentally sound.
  
      Your obligation to justice should be reason enough alone to
 immediately parole Mr. Peltier.  But I hope you realize that you
 have a further responsibility to the people of the United States
 to steer us away from this climate of fear, to demonstrate that
 justice, even if long overdue, is still attainable.
      I urge you to reject the past corruption of others, to align
 yourself with the ideals of the U.S. Constitution.  I urge you to
 strike a blow for justice by immediately paroling Mr. Leonard
 Peltier.
  
 Sincerely,
  
 --------- "RE: URGENT: Urban Indian Health Cuts" ---------
 
 Date: 21 Jan 1996 17:37:19 -0500
 From: bgolding@aol.com (BGOLDING)
 Subj: URGENT: Letter re: Urban Indian Health Cuts
 
   Newsgroup: alt.native
 
 The following is a letter drafted by representatives of the nation's Urban
 Indian Health Centers, during a national conference held in Denver, CO,
 January 17-20, 1996.  The letter is a proposed response to Dr. Trujillo,
 head of the Indian Health Service, who asked that we pick one of three
 options regarding fiscal year 1996 appropriations for Urban Indian Health.
 ----------------Letter follows----------------------
 Dear Mr. Trujillo:
 
 On behalf of more than one million urban Indians in America, we are asking
 you to carry our voice to Congress and speak out against the proposed 25%
 cut for the Title V Urban Heath Programs.
 
 Urban Indians have the lowest health care status than any other ethnic
 group in America - even lower than on-reservation Indians.  Presently, 78%
 of our health needs are UNMET by the current funding levels.  Now,
 Congress is asking for even a greater reduction which is unfair.  No other
 racial minority is being subjected to such drastic budgetary actions.  The
 action by Congress is tantamount to "genocide" by legislation.
 
 In this respect, we must reject any proposal to reduce the level of
 funding to Urban Indian Health Programs beyond the FY-95 amount.  Rather,
 in light of the UNMET NEED, we are requesting a 10% increase for FY-96 and
 a 15% increase in FY-97.
 
 If cuts in IHS need to be made, let them be in line items not needed for
 essential health services.  Urban Health Programs should be treated on the
 same equal basis as Tribal Programs when it comes to funding.  If Tribes
 are funded through September 1996 with no cuts then neither should Urbans.
  We are Tribal members regardless of where we live.
 
 Urban Indians:
 ---Represent more than 65% of the total Indian population.
 ---Have a greater user population (144,000 with more than 744,000 visits
 in 1993) than most IHS service areas.
 ---Current funding only serves 22% of the need.
 
 Impacts:
 ---Will result in the inhumane loss of life and unnecessary pain and
 suffering by hundreds of urban Indians.
 ---The general health care status of urbans will reach its lowest levels
 by the loss of jobs, services, etc.
 ---Result in layoffs and subsequent loss of qualified professional staff.
 ---It will cost the government more because Urban Indian clients will
 develop more acute health care needs and put an additional financial
 burden on the IHS, State, County and local governments to service them
 elsewhere or through som other health provider network.
 
 In summary, these proposed budget cuts WILL NOT SAVE THE GOVERNMENT A
 SINGLE DIME; or should we say, "one red cent."
 
 The redman has paid enough for so little.  The U.S. government is
 committing gross negligence and violation of treaty obligations afforded
 to all American Indians whether they live on the reservation or not.
 -------------End of letter-----------------
 If you agree that cuts to Urban Indian Health are intolerable, then please
 contact your local representatives to voice your concerns.  On Monday,
 January 22, 1996, legislators will be discussing the proposed cuts to
 these programs.  Please let your voice be heard!
   Posted by Brian Golding, Chairperson of the Board of Directors
 Sacramento Urban Indian Health Project, Inc. (SUIHPI)
 2020 J Street
 Sacramento, CA  95814
 (916) 441-0918 - voice
 (916) 441-1261 - FAX
 email - bgolding@aol.com
  
 --------- "RE: Redefining Native Politics" ---------
 
 Date: Wed, 17 Jan 1996 04:58:07 GMT
 From: at491@FreeNet.Carleton.CA (Kim Goldberg)
 Subj: Redefining Native Politics
 
   Newsgroups: alt.native,soc.culture.native,bc.general,can.general
 
       Originally published in Canadian Dimension magazine
                 Dec. 1995/Jan. 1996 issue, p.7
  
                 Retransmit freely in cyberspace
                 Author holds standard copyright
   Do not republish without obtaining the author's permission
             Kim Goldberg: at491@freenet.carleton.ca
 
   [Editorial note: Sincere thanks to Kim for granting permission for
                    this article to appear in this newsletter]
 
                   REDEFINING NATIVE POLITICS
  
                     (c) Kim Goldberg, 1995
  
     Since last reviewing B.C. native affairs in this space 
 (Aug-Sept 1995), the seemingly random spate of native 
 blockades over land rights has congealed into a coherent 
 political force with the potential to reshape the land claims 
 process in this province.  It has also delineated a growing 
 rift within native communities as well as the non-native 
 environmental movement.  
     It is called the traditional sovereigntist movement.  And 
 its adherents maintain that no current government holds 
 jurisdiction over the unceded lands of the original human 
 inhabitants, and no Canadian court has the authority to rule 
 on native land disputes.  It's a position with some foundation 
 in white colonial law, although no Canadian judge has so far 
 been willing to entertain an argument based on the esoteric 
 ruling dating back to 1704.  Nevertheless, sovereigntists 
 reject the authority of court injunctions barring them from 
 their ancestral lands.  And they reject the authority of the 
 B.C. Treaty Commission, which is currently negotiating land 
 claims with more than 40 native nations.  
     The sovereigntist position is not generally shared by the 
 elected leadership of most first nations in B.C.  And it is 
 those individuals who are primarily involved in the provincial 
 government's treaty process.  The split between hereditary and 
 elected leadership is the leading edge of a much deeper divide 
 separating traditional, earth-centered natives from those more 
 fully absorbed into the capitalist value system, and whose 
 economic development plans can best be met through the current 
 treaty process.  
     The sovereigntist movement was finally identified by media 
 when Shuswap natives refused to leave a ceremonial Sundance 
 site at Gustafsen Lake, B.C., last summer.  But even then, the 
 full significance of the sovereigntist movement was always 
 diluted by descriptives like "radical fringe," "renegade 
 Indians" or just plain "thugs."  
     At the end of the four-week siege when the natives 
 voluntarily surrendered, the local Cariboo Tribal Council 
 issued a press release echoing the media chorus by dismissing 
 the sovereigntists as "quite simply a case of an individual or 
 a small group deciding to squat on a piece of land..."  But 
 actions and alliances elsewhere in B.C. suggest the 
 sovereigntist position is supported by far more than a handful 
 of "squatters." 
     In August, around the outset of the Gustafsen siege, eight 
 native nations and 24 environmental groups signed a 
 declaration supporting "indigenous sovereign nations" and 
 opposing the B.C. Treaty Commission.  The Juh-Juh Dids 
 declaration, named for the island in Clayoquot Sound where the 
 groups met, also rejected the B.C. government's kinder gentler 
 logging procedures for Clayoquot (which have not ended 
 clearcutting, as originally announced) and demanded "an 
 immediate end to commercial logging in all remaining primary 
 forests."  
     The declaration (which was drafted after native 
 sovereigntists asked environmentalists for help) divided the 
 environmental movement.  Such heavyweights as Greenpeace, 
 Sierra Club and Western Canada Wilderness Committee declined 
 to sign on, while Friends of Clayoquot Sound, Rainforest 
 Action Network, Earth Island Institute and other notable green 
 groups did.  In their attempts to build native alliances, B.C.  
 environmentalists have historically dealt with elected native 
 leaders.  Some groups were obviously unprepared to renounce 
 those leaders or the initiatives of the NDP government with a 
 tight provincial election so near.  
     But the trend to watch is the growing alliance between 
 native sovereigntists and environmentalists, with non-violent 
 direct action being the strategy of choice.  The September 26 
 police raid and arrests of three hereditary chiefs of the 
 Nuxalk nation plus more than a dozen non-native members of 
 Forest Action Network who were all defending a remote stand of 
 rainforest in coastal B.C. may well be the shape of things to 
 come.  
     Kim Goldberg is the British Columbia current affairs
 columnist for Canadian Dimension.
  
 --------- "RE: The Great Giveaway" ---------
 
 Date: Wed, 17 Jan 1996 04:55:05 GMT
 From: at491@FreeNet.Carleton.CA (Kim Goldberg)
 Subj: The Great Giveaway (to mining)
 
 Newsgroups: ncf.sigs.people.first-people,alt.native,soc.culture.native,
             talk.environment,alt.save.the.earth,alt.org.earth-first
 
            Originally published in the Nanaimo Times
                    Nanaimo, British Columbia
               Tuesday, January 16, 1996, page A7
  
                 Retransmit freely in cyberspace
                 Author holds standard copyright
             Kim Goldberg: at491@freenet.carleton.ca
 
   [Editorial note: Sincere thanks to Kim for granting permission for
                    this article to appear in this newsletter]
  
                       The Great Giveaway:
           A flawed process led to province's approval 
                      of northern B.C. mine 
  
                     (c) Kim Goldberg, 1996
  
     If the B.C. government's approval last month of the 
 proposed Huckleberry copper mine in northwestern B.C. is 
 allowed to stand, then the government's new Environmental 
 Assessment Act should be renamed the Giveaway to Mining Act.  
     So flawed was the process leading to the mine's approval 
 that the Cheslatta Carrier Nation has petitioned B.C. Supreme 
 Court to set aside the decision, citing numerous errors and 
 oversights.  
     The petition, filed by Sierra Legal Defence Fund's staff 
 lawyer Karen Wristen on behalf of the Cheslatta, claims the 
 province's energy minister (Anne Edwards), environment 
 minister (Moe Sihota) and government staff failed to abide by 
 the requirements of the Environmental Assessment Act in 
 accepting the mining company's incomplete project report and 
 subsequently granting the project approval certificate.  
     The case, which Wristen expects will be heard within eight 
 weeks, is significant because the Huckleberry project was the 
 first of 19 proposed mining developments to be reviewed under 
 the new Act proclaimed last June.  The outcome of this 
 petition will set the tone for all future environmental 
 reviews.
     According to the petition, Huckleberry Mines Ltd., whose 
 proposal is more than two years old, has still not "submitted 
 cost projections for long term monitoring and maintenance of 
 the facility after closure... conducted fish tissue sampling 
 to determine background levels of mercury and other metals...  
 provided modeling of long-term pit water quality... or 
 assessed the impact on humans of mine discharge."  
     Yet all of this information is required by the project 
 report specifications.  
     Nor were the Cheslatta allowed to fully participate in the 
 environmental review or to have their concerns properly 
 addressed, states the petition, despite the fact that the 
 proposed mine is located on traditional Cheslatta territory, 
 which obliges the government to involve the Cheslatta in the 
 review process under the Environmental Assessment Act.  
     And herein lies the real tragedy as well as the moral 
 crime behind the government's approval of this $137 million 
 development.  
     The government's failure to follow its own law when faced 
 with the wrath and $500,000 media campaign of the mining 
 industry (the same industry that led the charge against Dave 
 Barrett's New Democrats in the 1975 provincial election) is 
 truly pitiful.  
     But this government's spinelessness translates to a much 
 uglier quality when one factors in the 55 years of continuous 
 victimization the Cheslatta have suffered at the hands of 
 mining and logging companies who have consistently been given 
 free rein over Cheslatta territory.
     With the bones of their ancestors lying at the bottom of a 
 lake thanks to Alcan's Kemano project, with their original 
 settlement flooded and burned, with the caribou nearly 
 eradicated courtesy of large-scale clearcut logging, and with 
 loss of wildlife habitat in their territory continuing daily, 
 surely the Cheslatta have sacrificed enough already.  
     "Our resources have been taken from our territory by 
 industry, and all of our people are suffering," Cheslatta 
 Chief Marvin Charlie said when contacted for this column.  
 "Some of our people are living in condemned homes with rats 
 coming through holes in the floor.  Our health care is poor.  
 Our employment is very low... And now this Huckleberry mine is 
 threatening our territory." 
     The Cheslatta are tired of industry extracting everything 
 from Cheslatta land, returning nothing to the people and 
 destroying evermore wildlife habitat in the process, says Chief 
 Charlie.  
     The Huckleberry open pit copper mine is slated to yield 
 15,500 tonnes of ore daily for 17 years.  The estimated market 
 value of the mineral resources is $1.3 billion.
     But when the Vancouver and Japanese companies owning the 
 mine finally depart Huckleberry Mountain, they won't be 
 leaving the green stuff behind, just 90 million tonnes of 
 tailings and 70 million tonnes of waste rock.
  
     Kim Goldberg is a Nanaimo Times columnist.
  
 --------- "RE: Cherokee Task Force Organized" ---------
 
 Date: Sat, 20 Jan 1996 08:38:36 -0800
 From: cwyob@mailhost.galstar.com
 Subj: FYI---Cherokee Task Force Organized
 
   Newsgroups: soc.culture.native,alt.native
 
 The following press release was received by the Cherokee Observer on January 
 17, 1996.  Contact person-Robin Mayes can be reached at 918-456-5761.
 
      TAHLEQUAH, OKLAHOMA- Monday afternoon, January 15, Barbara Starr-Scott 
 and Nick Lay, tribal councilmembers from District 5 and 8, met with  Cherokee 
 community representatives, regarding their concerns about the numerous 
 "scandals" surrounding the Cherokee Nation. 
     Later, at the tribal council meeting, those Cherokees 
 {including traditionalists, activists,elders, lawyers and businessmen} 
 expressed concern to Principal Chief Joe Byrd over the many irregularities 
 such as  bogus loans, bingo profits and  Mankiller's parting gifts to her 
 closest aides.  
      "The scandals are an albatross around the neck of this administration" 
 Chief Byrd was told.  He responded to the packed chamber that he too was 
 concerned and agreed something needed to be done.
      Joseph Muskrat,lawyer and Cherokee Nation tribal member, told Chief Byrd 
 that a task force had been formed.  "We must let the leaders govern the 
 Nation and move us forward.  Take off the albatross and give it to the task 
 force.  Let them investigate the wrongs.  Those who have committed crimes 
 should be prosecuted; those who have committed civil wrongs should be sued, 
 and those who have been wrongfully accused should be acquitted.  Then we will 
 bury the albatross."
      Councilwoman Barbara Starr-Scott said that "the government should never 
 do what it will not allow people to see.  A task force will bring the facts 
 into the open for all the people to see."
      "Cherokee people were always the leaders in the Indian world"  added 
 Cherokee Elder Paul Thomas, from Pryor Creek.  "These scandals are making us 
 the laughing stock of Indian Country."
      Brice Downing, Cherokee Elder of Tulsa, said, "Mankiller left us her 
 albatross and spent all the money.  I hear the Nation is broke.  We came here 
 to help."
      Cherokee Traditionalist/Elder Jess Bluebird, of Sperry said "This is the 
 right course to follow and we cannot be deflected."  His wife Mary 
 interpreted for him and then added, "This administration cannot be known as 
 the one that swept everything under the carpet."
      "Chief Byrd, this is not your albatross," Muskrat said.  "The wrongs 
 were committed by Mankiller and her people, not by you.  This administration 
 and this council must not adopt their sins as its own and become a part of 
 them.  You must take off the albatross and give it to the task force so they 
 can bury it," he said.  "Then you can move forward and govern."
      Chief Byrd concluded by saying, "Don't wait until the next council 
 meeting.  Bring your proposals to the Executive Committee so we can get 
 started on them right away."
      Mary and Jesse Bluebird went up to Chief Byrd and embraced him.  "You 
 can do it, son, you can do it.  We're counting on you," said Mary.
 +++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++
 This press release was posted courtesy of your only independent Cherokee
 newspaper:
 The Cherokee Observer
 P.O. Box 1301
 Jay, OK.  74346-1301
 cwyob@mailhost.galstar.com
 
 --------- "RE: Nuxalk Trial Attempt Resumes" ---------
 
 Date: 23 Jan 1996 09:56:56 -0800
 From: samuel@wimsey.com (Stephen Samuel)
 Subj: Nuxalk Native trial attempt resumes
 
 Summary: Judge issues warrants, Government acknowledges/ignores native rights
 
   Newsgroups: bc.politics,soc.culture.native,alt.native
 
 January 23, 1996        Nuxalk Trial resumes.
 
   The attempted trial of Nuxalk natives and their supporters resumed this
 week as Justice Smith issued bench warrants for the 22 defendants who
 walked out of the courtroom last month. The 22 defendants including
 Hereditary Nuxalk chiefs, elders and most of the elected band council were
 on trial for violating an injunction kicking them off of their land.
   The trial got off to a rocky start on December 4/95 when Madame Justice
 Saunders removed herself from the trial. Natives and friends had raised
 many questions about her (or any BC Judge) sitting in on the trial while
 maintaining any sort of semblance of independence or impartiality. Ms.
 Saunders had issued the original injunction barring the natives from
 protecting a site known to them as "Ista" -- the place where their
 Smayusta (an equivalent to our bible) says that the first Nuxalk woman
 came to earth. She used this as reason to step down.
   Justice Saunders was replaced by Justice Smith who refused to accept
 arguments regarding the constitutionality of the court issuing orders for
 the arrest and removal of  natives, and their supporters from unceded
 native territory. He also refused to step down as prejudiced. After
 evidencing great difficulty with a request to officially acknowledge that
 the Nuxalk people before him were human, Justice Smith ordered the trial
 to continue. Shortly after that point, the defendants and observers
 quietly walked out of the courtroom. Justice Smith adjourned the trial in
 response.
   Chief Qwatsinas (whom the courts call Ed Moody) spoke outside the
 courtroom -- but inside the courthouse of  the inability of the Canadian
 justice system to give native people a fair and impartial trial.
 "Native people don't fit in the White Man's court.  Native laws
 don't fit in the white man's court.", he said before leading
 people out of the courthouse.
   Justice Smith, after a second adjournment -- where he threatened to issue
 bench warrants for the defendants -- adjourned the trial to January 15 --
 when he threatened again to issue bench warrants.  On January 15, as
 International attention seemed to focus on the trial the case was again
 delayed to this Monday (Jan. 22) where he finally issued bench warrants
 which come active this morning (Jan. 23).
   Lawyer Paul Hundel who had represented most of the defendants (the
 Hereditary chiefs represented themselves) resigned.
 _____________
   Note: On January 9, 1996 the BC government issued a press release
 acknowledging that the Nuxalk people have continuing aboriginal rights to
 the land for which they issued destruction (logging) permits. The
 government also admitted that the Nuxalk have refused to even TALK ABOUT
 giving up their title. 
   Nonetheless, the BC government, somehow claims the right to deny them
 their rights to the land until such time as they can force the Nuxalk
 people to give it up.  It is the unwillingness of the BC and Canadian
 government to respect these aboriginal rights which appears to be at the
 center of this fight.
   For more information, you can contact the House of Smayusta (The Nuxalk
 traditional government) in Bella Coola at (604) 799-5376,
 {Fax=(604)799-5707}
   Forest Action Network which is representing their white supporters can be
 reached in Bella Coola at (604) 799-5800  {Fax=(604) 799-5830}  
   In Vancouver (where the trial is based) FAN can be reached at739-4782
  --
 Stephen Samuel (604)876-0426 samuel@wimsey.com http://www.wimsey.com/~samuel/
 I finally understood that the derogatory term "Indian giver" referred, not
 to the Indians themselves, but, rather, to our treatment of the Indians.
 
 --------- "RE: Innu Ratify Framework Agreement" ---------
 
 Date: Wed, 24 Jan 1996 11:17:05 -0400
 From: Larry Innes <es051322@Orion.YorkU.CA>
 Subject: Innu Ratify Framework Agreement
 
 Mailing List:    INNU-L <INNU-L@odie.ccs.yorku.ca>
 
 FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE                                           24 January 1996
 INNU RATIFY FRAMEWORK AGREEMENT
 
   (Sheshatshiu) Innu people have voted to ratify the Framework Agreement in a
 referendum conducted in Sheshatshiu and Utshimassit (Davis Inlet) over the
 past two days.
   Sixty eight percent (68%) of the eligible voters in the communities
 participated in the referendum. 88% of the participating voters were in
 favour of the proposed agreement, while 12% were opposed.
   "The results of this referendum are a clear indication that Innu people
 are prepared to participate in good faith negotiations with Canada and
 Newfoundland. The Framework Agreement represents a major step in this
 process.", said Daniel Ashini, Director of Innu Rights and Environment.
 "Future agreements will still have to be ratified by the Innu people, and
 the Innu will have to be assured that their rights are being recognized to
 continue in the process."
   The ratification of the Framework Agreement means that the Innu Nation
 now has a mandate from the Innu people to enter into substantiative
 Agreement-in-Principle (AIP) negotiations with Canada and Newfoundland. The
 Newfoundland government ratified the Framework Agreement late last year.
 The Agreement now goes to the Federal Cabinet for ratification by Canada.
  
 --------- "RE: Crazy Horse Update" ---------
 
 Date: Tue, 16 Jan 1996 23:42:47 -0800 (PST)
 From: rpgough@aol.com (RPGough)
       (by way of derrico@legal.umass.edu (Peter d'Errico))
 Subj: CRAZY HORSE UPDATE: MCLU & LIQUOR
 
 Mailing List:    TRIBALLAW (triballaw@thecity.sfsu.edu)
 
      As time allows, on behalf of the Estate of Tasunke Witko,
 periodic "Crazy Horse Updates" will be posted on the progress in
 both the Tribal Court and Minnesota appeals involving the
 unwarranted use of the name on Hornell & Heileman's malt liquor.
 We have appreciated all of the responses and notes of encouragement
 and support.  Those interested in directly participating in these
 efforts should contact the Crazy Horse Defense Project, by
 telephone at 612/870-9006 and by FAX: 715/425-7000.
      Papers served this week upon the Estate of Tasunke Witko, Seth
 H. Big Crow, Sr. Administrator/Intervenor provide particulars of
 the recent challenge of the Minnesota decision prohibiting the
 false and misleading use of the name of Crazy Horse on a malt
 liquor label.
 + + + +
 RE:  Hornell Brewing Co., Inc., et al v. Minnesota
      Department of Public Safety, Liquor Control
      O.A.H. Docket No. 3-2400-9058-2
   On December 27, 1995, the Minnesota Civil Liberties Union (MCLU)
 [Randall D.B. Tigue, Volunteer Attorney, MCLU, 2620 Nicollet
 Avenue, Minneapolis, MN 55408 (612/874-9903) and Kathleen Milner,
 Legal Counsel, MCLU, 1021 West Broadway, Minneapolis, MN 55411
 (612/522-3894)] along with the attorneys for Hornell and Heileman
 Brewing companies (Relators) [Lawrence I. Fox, Thomas J. Mavin, and
 T. Raymond Williams, 1211 Avenue of the Americas, New York, N.Y.
 10036-8701] as co-counsel, filed a Petition for Writ of Certiorari
 in the Minnesota Court of Appeals against the Minnesota Department
 of Public Safety, Liquor Control Commission (Respondent) [Jeffery
 F. Lebowski, Assistant Attorney General, Suite 500, 525 Park
 Street, St. Paul, MN 55103-2106] and the Estate of Tasunke Witko,
 Seth H. Big Crow, Sr., Administrator (Intervenor) [Robert P.W.
 Gough, P.O. Box 25, Rosebud, South Dakota 57570 and Kenneth E.
 Tilsen, Hamline University School of Law, 1536 Hewitt Avenue, St.
 Paul, MN 55104-1284].
   The Statement of the Case of the Relator provides the following
 description of claims, defenses, issues litigated and result:
      The present action was an administrative action to revoke the
      brand registration of "Crazy Horse Malt Liquor", on the ground
      that the brand label stated or implied in a false or
      misleading manner a connection with an actual living or dead
      American Indian Leader, within the meaning of Minnesota
      Statutes Section 340A.11(d)[sic].  The department, in a
      contested case hearing pursuant to the Administrative
      Procedures Act, determined that the label did so falsely state
      or imply a connection with a dead American Indian Leader, to-
      wit "Crazy Horse."
 Issues proposed to be raised on appeal:
      a.   Is Minnesota Statutes Section 340A.311(d) facially
      unconstitutional and unconstitutional as applied, as a
      violation of the First and Fourteenth Amendments to the United
      States Constitution, and Article I, Section 3 of the Minnesota
      Constitution?
      b.   Does the statute in question deprive Relators of equal
      protection of the laws, in violation of the Fourteenth
      Amendment to the United States Constitution?
 + + + +
      The brand label is considered "commercial speech" which has
 more limited constitutional protections under the 1st Amendment
 than does "political speech."  Alcohol is a highly regulated
 product, and under the 21st Amendment, state governments have
 greater regulatory power than does the federal government.  In the
 context of commercial speech, the government may be permitted to
 prohibit misleading speech that might otherwise be protected.  See,
 Virginia State Bd. of Pharmacy v. Virginia Citizens Consumer
 Council, Inc., 425 U.S. 748, 771-772, 48 L. Ed. 2d 346, 96 S. Ct.
 1817 (1976).
      The outcome of this legal challenge will determine whether the
 Minnesota statute is constitutional.  If the law is upheld, then it
 could serve as a model for similar legislation throughout the
 country.
      Amicus briefs anyone??
 
 --------- "RE: Poem: Coyotes on the Plains" ---------
   
 Date: 30 Jul 1994 18:07:09 -0500
 From: turtle@aicap.s21.com (Turtle Heart)
 Subj: Coyotes on the Plains
  
   Newsgroups: alt.native
          
 Coyote
 stands there below the mountains
 where the sun shines on the birds
 of morning
 drinking coffee, his feet still cold
 
 a basket filled with
 stone points
 for arrows and other kinds of sticks
 is set to a certain red
 at the first light of day
 rolling into sky
 his breath is long and slow
 watching the turtle
 up in the mountain
 
 there in that rocky castle
 i could meet him
 i could sing him
 I could give him another bowl to carry
 further on down the mountain
 I would greet him
 but I go the other way......................tobacco indian
 
 -- 
 Turtle Heart  turtle@soft21.s21.com  (Ahnishinabeg)
 American Indian Computer Art Project BBS 619-374-2100
 Land of Kaw-ii-su ancestor: Land of Light
 -- 
 --------- "RE: Verse: Hawai'ian Book of Days" ---------
   
 Date: 96/01/19        21:08
 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 January 28-February 3
 
                            IANUALI
                           (January)
                            (Kaelo)
                               28
 If I feel hunger or thirst, the land will provide; if my spirit is troubled,
 the wind and the sea will comfort me; if I am afraid, Pele will protect me.
                               29
 Each morning is a celebration of beginnings.
                               30
 The stars, na hoku, guide me at night -- they show me the way to my destiny.
                               31
 The will of my ancestral spirit, my 'aumakua, speaks in all that I
 say or do.
 
                           PEPELUALI
                           (February)
                           (Kau-lua)
 February was the time when the anae, the mullet, spawned.
                                1
 If you want to see the stars, you have to look up!
                                2
 In the first golden light of dawn, nothing is impossible!
                                3
 Music is the key to the inner spirit.
 
               (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, 25 Jan 96 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
 
 Chautauqua Newsletter<Ondamitag@aol.com>
 Subj:  Chicago Area Event
 
 Just received this from the College of DuPage, Glen Ellyn, Illinois:
 The College of DuPage, in Glen Ellyn, Illinois has designated the week of
 January 29th thru Feb. 2nd as Native American Week, in celebration of Native
 Culture.  Starting with the 3rd Annual Friendship Pow-Wow on January 13th,
 which drew over 2,000 people, the College will kick off the week with 
 Keynote Speakers, Mshkolahnee-Manito & Peatohah-Nape Tamsah, a Traditional 
 Shawnee couple who will share some of their experiences, as Traditionals, 
 in keeping their culture-heritage alive and continuing, in this modern time.
 Presentations will take place in the College SRC building, Room 2800, at
 2-4pm & again from 7-9pm, Monday, Jan. 29th.
 Additionally, a Film Festival will take place in the SRC building, Rm #1024,
 with a variety of Documentary Films being shown. These will be held from
 Monday thru Thursday, 12 noon-2pm & 7-9pm. Faculty members will lead
 discussions of the films afterward.  The Public is Invited.
 For further information please contact the College of DuPage information
 office thru (708) 858-2800 and-or (708) 942-3078.
 -------------------------------------
 From: b.zygo@mail.utexas.edu (Brian H. Zygo)
 Newsgroups: alt.native
 Subject: Texas A&M Powwow
 
 Texas A&M University Native American Student Association 
                         &
 American Indian Science & Engineering Society
           4th Annual Pow Wow
 
   February 9 - 10, 1996
   Louis Pierce Pavilion
   College Station, Texas
 Friday Evening (Feb. 9)
 ------------------------
   Gourd Dancing             7:00 - 8:30 pm
   Intertribal Dancing       8:30 - 10:30 pm
 Saturday (Feb. 10)
 --------------------
   Gourd Dancing             2:00 - 5:00 pm
   Intertribal Dancing       7:00 - 11:00 pm
 Head Staff
 ------------
   Head Singer -->          Cliff Queton           Crowly, Tx
   Head Gourd Dancer -->    Ernie Kauahquo         Hobart, Ok
   Head Man Dancer -->      Lyndon Alec            Livingston, Tx
   Head Lady Dancer -->     Amber Clark            College Station, Tx
   MC -->                   Alva Roughface         San Antonio, Tx
   Arena Director -->       Gary Cornett           League City, Tx
 Co-Hosted by:   American Indian Veterans of North Texas
 ------------    Gulf Coast Tia-Piah Society
 TRADERS BY INVITATION ONLY!!!
 Directions:  College Station is located on Highway 6 between Houston and
              Waco.  Take Business Hwy 6 (Texas Avenue) and head west on
              George Bush Drive.  Louis Pierce Pavilion will be on George
              Bush Drive, on the South, just west of Wellborn.
 For More Information Call:
         Dept. of Multicultural Services (409) 845-4551
         Richard Burgess (409) 589-2726
         Amber Clark (409) 779-8214
 As Always --> No Drugs or Alcohol Permitted
 ---------------------------------------------------------
 Date: Sun, 21 Jan 1996 19:13:33 -0500
 Chautauqua Newsletter<Ondamitag@aol.com>
 Subj:  Waters Family Pow-wow
 
 Waters Family Pow-wow- February 24, 1996
 Watonga Multi-Purpose Building, Watonga Oklahoma
   2:00 pm Gourd Dancing
   5:00 pm Supper
   7:00 pm Grand Entry
 MC Clinton Youngbear
 Head Man- Lydell White Pume
 Head Lady-  Mynoma Davidson
 Head Teen Man-  Patrick Sharp
 Head Teen lady-  Crystal Mason
 Head Little Man-  Tristen WhiteBuffalo
 Head Little Lady -  Anna Helen SpottedWolf
 Host Northern Drum - River Bottoms Jrs. WY
 Host Southern Drum - YellowJacket  OK
 Special Tiny Tot contest
 Grass Dance Contest
 Special Teen Mens Traditional
   For more information contact
   Clinton YoungBear (405) 884-2417
   Waters Family (303) 388-8820
 ----------------------------------------------------
 From: rshyatt@horizon.hit.net (R H)
 Newsgroups: soc.culture.native
 Subject: Walnut Valley Intertribal Pow-wow
 Date: Wed, 10 Jan 1996 12:23:27 +0500
 
 July 5,6,& 7.1996 First annual Pow - wow in Winfield Ks. $10,000 prize
 money in all categories. for more information e-mail me your Name and
 address.
 
 April 13&14, 19996. First annual Southwestern & Native American Arts and
 Craft show. Winfield Ks. For more details e-mail me your Name and address.
 ----------------------------------------------------
 From: berryj@Okway.okstate.edu (John Berry)
 To: Ind-Net@listproc.wsu.edu, NetRez-L@listproc.wsu.edu
 Subject: D-FW area Wordcraft Conference(FWD)
 Original Sender: talley@netcom.com (Pat L Talley) 
 Mailing List:    NATIVE-L (native-l@gnosys.svle.ma.us)
      
   "Words With Wings:  From Print to Performance" is a Wordcrafters 
 Conference being held at Mountain View College in Dallas, Texas on 
 February 23-24, 1996.
   Several workshops will be conducted as part of this conference which is 
 targeted toward teachers, librarians, students, community workers, as 
 well as the general public.
   The workshops and presenters are:
     Writing and illustrating children's books - Murv Jacobs & Beatrice 
     Harrell 
     Native Women:  Voices of Traditions & Power - Dr Rayna Green & Joy 
     Harjo 
     Native Screenwriting - Robert Conley
     Storytelling & Tribal Values - Joy Harjo
     Writing as a Career and Getting Published - Dr. Lee Francis, Robert 
     Conley, Joy Harjo
     Wordweaving the Vision - Beatrice Harrell
     Fiction & Poetry by Native American Women - Rayna Green & Joy Harjo 
     Washington Internships for Native Students - Dr Lee Francis
     Where Do We Go From Here? - Robert Conley
   Registration deadline is by close of business on 2-14-96
 Registration fees:
 $25 for both days includes refreshments, lunch and information packet 
 $10 per session  (does not include lunch)
 $10 for lunch only
 $10 for college students with ID
 $5  for high school students with ID
   For information contact Frank McLemore or Glenda at 214-296-9431, Peggy 
 Larney at 214-565-5402.
 Send registration to:
 TAN/TCCO, INC
 PO Box 542231
 D/FW, Texas  54354-2231
   TAN/TCCO is a non-profit organization.
   Evening activity with guests will be on Friday February 23, from 8:00 - 
 10:30 p.m. at Sequoyah's Book and Coffee House, 5930F Royal Lane, Dallas, 
 TX and is open to the general public.  Book signing will be conducted 
 also at this time.
 --------------------------------------------------------
 Date: Sun, 21 Jan 1996 19:13:33 -0500
 Chautauqua Newsletter<Ondamitag@aol.com
 
 Western Michigan University Pow-wow
 
 Western Michigan University  Kalamazoo, Michigan -  March 30th  and 31st.
 This is a contest pow-wow.  Host Drum is Chinodin (Sault, Ontario).   Call
 (616) 373-1466 for more info.
 
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 Notice of Copyright Clearance by Contributors:
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 be reposted in order to help mend the Sacred Hoop:
 Janet Smith, Debra F. Sanders, Joe Quickle, Brian Golding(Urgent request),
 Cecilia Rodriguez, Linda & Marvin Summerfield(Cherokee Observer),
 Turtle Heart(Healing the Sacred Hoop with Song Poems), Kim Goldberg,
 Mary Sheldon, Stephen Samuel(Nuxalk Press Release), Joseph Thompson,
 Robert P. Gough via Peter d'Errico, Larry Innes,
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   ~ Part B of this newsletter (not included) has already been distributed
     via the NATIVE-L or NATCHAT mailing lists.
  
 --------- "RE: Conferences and Powwows - online" ---------
  
 Date: Thu, 25 Jan 96 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
 
   GE Electronic Mail
 
 Original Sender: lilikoi@cats.ucsc.edu (Josette Kehaulani Kauanui)
 Mailing List:    NATIVE-L (native-l@gnosys.svle.ma.us)
  
   **CALL FOR SUBMISSIONS**
 THE 5TH ANNUAL WOMEN OF COLOR FILM AND VIDEO FESTIVAL
  
 University of California, Santa Cruz
 May 16-18 1996
   The annual UCSC Women of Color Film and Video Festival features 
 film/video screenings and conversations with independent film makers, 
 videographers and visual media artists.  Over the past four years this 
 festival has drawn diverse audiences and has been a crucial venue 
 for discussions about the production and circulation of images of women 
 of color.  This year the theme of the festival will organize itself around 
 visual representations of "rupture"; rupture of identities and 
 subjectivities as well as the (dis)ruption of dominant paradigms of race, 
 class, gender, and sexuality.  Works sought include, but are not limited 
 to, those dealing with threats to Affirmative Action, indigeneity, 
 immigration, resistance, hybridity, queer-ness, despair, desire, 
 transgressions, and erotics.
   **SUBMISSION GUIDELINES**
 1. Only 1/2' VHS tapes will be accepted for preview.  Although reasonable
 care will be taken to protect submission tapes from loss or damage,
 neither Kresge College nor UC Santa Cruz assume responsibility for tapes
 submitted for consideration.
 2. Please label submission tapes (inside and out) with the title of the
 work, filmmaker's name, address, phone number and date of submission.
 Please label the spine of all tapes submitted with the name and length of
 the work.
 3. Submissions will not be considered unless accompanied by information
 requested below for entry.
 4. Do not use fiber-filled envelopes when mailing.
 5. Final program decisions will be made by March 15, 1996.
 6. Please note, there is no entry fee for the festival, however, preview
 tapes of works not accepted for screening in the festival will be
 returned only if you have enclosed a stamped, self-addressed envelope for
 return.
 7. You certify that you hold all necessary rights for the submission of
 this/videotape to the Festival.
 8. You certify that the information provided on the submission form is
 true and correct.
 PLEASE SEND ALL MATERIALS, POSTMARKED NO LATER THAN **FEBRUARY 15, 1996**
 TO:
    Women of Color Film & Video Festival
    Kresge College-UCSC
    Activities Office
    1156 High Street
    Santa Cruz, CA 95064  USA
 For more information:
 phone 408-427-3466
 email: maylei@cats.ucs---
    (continue below for information requested for entry application)
 ENTRY APPLICATION
  
 Title:________
  
 Language: _______Subtitled?______
  
 One Sentence Description (or longer if available):_____
  
 Year completed:______ Running Time:_______
  
 Format (1/2" 3/4" 16mm):_______
  
 Director:___________
  
 Producer:___________
  
 Writer:_____________
  
 Principal Cast:________________
  
 Screening History:______________
  
 Contact Person:_________________
  
 Address:________________________
  
 Phone:__________________________
  
 Fax:_________________
  
 Return Address:_________________
  
 Please submit a complete list of production credits,
 a short synopsis, b&w still and other relevant publicity
 materials with your preview cassette.
 
 I have read and agreed to the submission guidelines of
 the 5th Annual Women of Color Film and Video Festival
  
  
 Signature:______________________  Date:______________
 
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 From: native-l@gnosys.svle.ma.us
 Subject:      "A Healing Way" symposium (Bloomington, Indiana, 9 February)
 Original Sender: sflynn@indiana.edu (Sondra Flynn)
 Mailing List:    NATIVE-L (native-l@gnosys.svle.ma.us)
 
 A HEALING WAY
 Native American Symposium
         A Healing Way is a Native American Symposium
 focused on discussing the healing ways of the Anishnaabe
 Ojibway and their application in mental health and
 chemical dependency treatment today.  This Symposium
 is for Natives and Non-Natives, Professionals and
 Non-Professionals alike.
 Speakers:
   Robert Palmer, M.D.
   Blackwolf Jones, M.S., C.A.S.
   Maryellen Baker
   Bill Satory
 Friday, February 9, 1996
 9:00 am to 4:30 pm
   Bloomington Convention Center
   302 South College Avenue
   Bloomington, IN
 $25.00 (by 1/31/96 please)
   For more information or
   Send registration to:
   A Healing Way Symposium
   CPC Valle Vista
   Bedford Counseling
   1108 5th Street, Suite C
   Bedford, IN  47421
 Attn:  Beth York, M.S.
        or e-mail me
        -Sondra Flynn
                        Trouble no man about his religion,
                               respect his views and demand
                               he respect yours
                                                                --Shawnee
 ---------------------------------------------------------------------------
 Original Sender: seidner@laurel.humboldt.edu (seidner cheryl)
 Mailing List:    NATIVE-L (native-l@gnosys.svle.ma.us)
 
    Greetings to you from Wiyot Country.  We are located about 86 miles south
 of the Oregon border on the coast of California.  We are approximately
 272 miles north of San Francisco.
    There will be a candlelight vigil for those people who died in a
 massacre in 1860, 136 years ago.  The massacre took place in the early
 morning of February 26th.  The small village was asleep, resting after
 what we now believe was a seven day event, held in the evening called the
 World Renewal, where all people were welcome.  It was the start of our
 new year.  The village was called Tuluwat on an island in Humboldt Bay.  
 The island today is called Indian Island.
    For the passed for years, we have been gathering on Woodley Island
 because of the restrictions and the inability to get folks to the village
 site.  This year will be no different.
    There are still bad feelings between the Native Americans and the
 non-Indians.  There needs to be a healing in this community and others
 like it, where there has been similar sadness.  Through this vigil I
 believe the healing process can begin.  This will be our fifth gathering,
 with each year comes new awareness of ourselves and those around us.
    At the vigil there will be a time of prayer and there will be those who
 come and share their songs and poetry.  The Humboldt State University 
 Student Drum participates as our anchor.  We will hold the vigil rain 
 or moonlight so be prepared.
    The Indian Island Candlelight Vigil:
 When:Saturday, February 24, 1996
 Where:Woodley Island, Eureka, California
 Time:6:00 p.m. to 8:00 p.m. pst
 Bring:A candle
 Be prepared for a cool and/or wet evening
 Questions?  You may call
 Cheryl Seidner (707) 733-5572 after 6 p.m. pst
 Marylee Rohde  (707) 442-2762
   I hope to hear from you or better yet to see you there, cawoks, cas
 
 --------- "RE: Return Fort Reno" ---------
 
 Date: Sat, 20 Jan 1996 08:33:53 0800
 From: thompson@mind.net (Joseph Thompson)
 Subj: Return Fort Reno (Oklahoma)
 
 Mailing List:    NATIVE-L (native-l@gnosys.svle.ma.us)
  
 Dear Friends of the Native American Community,
  
   The Cheyenne and Arapaho Tribes of Oklahoma seek your support on an
 issue which is now of critical importance to our people. We are seeking
 the return of tribal lands which were taken by the United States
 government in 1883. These lands were originally taken for the purpose of
 building a military fort for the protection of the Cheyenne and Arapaho
 people. In 1908, the War Department declared the lands surplus. It is
 our contention that the lands should have reverted back to the Cheyenne
 and Arapaho Tribes at that time. Over the past 67 years, we have
 exhausted all of the judicial and legislative remedies available, to no
 avail. We now seek the return of our land through an Executive order
 from the President of the United States.  The Cheyenne and Arapaho
 Tribes of Oklahoma need you to voice your support at this critical
 juncture. We ask that you:
         1.) Please take the time to read the following letter to the
 President of the United States, William Clinton, from the Cheyenne and
 Arapaho Tribes of Oklahoma
         2.) Send a letter or e-mail to the White House expressing your
 strong support for the Cheyenne and Arapaho Tribes of Oklahoma in our
 efforts to regain possession of the Fort Reno lands through an Executive
 order. (Details on how and what to send to the White House will be found
 at the end of the following letter to the President.)
 
         Cheyenne and Arapaho Tribes of Oklahoma
 __________________________________________________________________
 January 16, 1996
  
 The Honorable William J. Clinton
 The President of the United States
 The White House
 1600 Pennsylvania Avenue, NW
 Washington, DC 20500
 
 Dear Mr. President,
  
   My name is Franklin Harrison. I am an American citizen. I served proudly
 with the U. S. Army and I am a decorated Vietnam Veteran.  I am also a
 Native American of the Arapaho Nation.  Since my honorable discharge
 from the military in 1970, I have dedicated myself to helping the
 Arapaho people rise up from the poverty and destitution under which we
 have suffered for over a century.  As a representative of the Tribal
 Business Committee of the Cheyenne and Arapaho Tribes of Oklahoma, I
 wish to inform you of my intent to help my people in the recovery of the
 lands of Ft. Reno, Oklahoma. It is my belief that the very survival of
 the Cheyenne & Arapaho Nations is dependent upon on the reclamation and
 development of this property. Please allow me a moment to give you a
 brief historical overview of the Fort Reno lands and our efforts to
 regain it.
   The original Cheyenne-Arapaho reservation of Oklahoma was established by
 an Executive order signed by President Ulysses S. Grant on August 10,
 1869. On July 17, 1883, a total of 9,493 acres, located within the
 boundaries of this reservation, were set aside through an Executive
 order signed by President Chester A. Arthur for the Fort Reno Military
 Reservation. The Cheyenne and Arapaho Tribes found the idea of a
 military fort appealing, as it would offer them protection from harsh
 winters, bands of renegade Indians, and other lawless factions of the
 West. For many years, the Tribes camped just outside the Fort.
   The Executive order which established Fort Reno contained a provision
 which had been recommended to President Arthur by the Commissioner of
 Indian Affairs and by the Secretary of the Interior, through a letter
 from the Secretary of War, Robert T. Lincoln dated July 17, 1883. It
 states: "That whenever any portion of the land so set apart may be
 required by the Secretary of the Interior for Indian purposes, the same
 shall be abandoned by the military upon notice to that effect to the
 Secretary of War." The military abandoned Fort Reno in 1908 turning it
 over to the Quartermaster Corps. It is the contention of the
 Cheyenne-Arapaho Tribes of Oklahoma that the Fort Reno lands should have
 reverted  back to tribal ownership at that time.
   The Cheyenne-Arapaho Tribes of Oklahoma have made several attempts to
 re-acquire the Fort Reno lands, both judicially and legislatively.
 Judicial action, instigated in 1929, extended over more than ten years
 and was subsequently dropped, yielding no results.    On April 21, 1948,
 the Fort Reno lands were declared surplus by the War Department and
 transferred to the Department of Agriculture. On August 25, 1949,
 Congressman Toby Morris of Oklahoma introduced HR6114, which would have
 returned 7,000 acres of the Ft. Reno lands back to the tribes. This bill
 was passed in the House of Representatives. The bill was reported
 favorably to the Senate floor on August 4, 1950 but was never brought to
 a vote.  In 1952, the Department of Agriculture created an Agricultural
 Experimental Station on the Ft. Reno lands. The Tribes most recent
 efforts to gain sponsorship for the enactment of Congressional
 legislation to transfer the Fort Reno lands were met with resistance and
 opposition from the Congressional delegation from Oklahoma,
 Representative Frank Lucas and Senator  Don Nickles, who continue to
 appropriate funds for the Department of Agriculture's Experimental
 Station.
   Mr. President, my people face terrible hardships.  Every day, we confront
 poverty, hunger and high unemployment. And even more terrible is the
 high rate of teen suicide. The current tribal land base, consisting of
 10,405 non-contiguous acres, is remotely situated and not conducive to
 economic development. With the tribal population now at over 11,000, we
 have outgrown this land base. The reclamation and development of the Ft.
 Reno property presents the Cheyenne- Arapaho Tribes of Oklahoma with a
 critically important opportunity. It offers us the chance to build
 economic, political, and cultural stability within our tribes, and even
 more importantly,  it offers us the chance to work together, to rebuild
 our pride and self-confidence, to establish our independence and to
 seize our future.
   The Cheyenne-Arapaho Tribes have produced a comprehensive conceptual
 prototype of land use development which offers a creative and
 economically viable plan for the utilization of the Fort Reno property.
 This land holds great potential for economic development in the form of
 businesses which would serve the Native American community and the local
 non-Native community. Tribal plans for the land also include
 agricultural development which would provide not only food and
 employment, but a very real opportunity to work hand in hand with the
 Department of Agriculture in a way that would be beneficial both to the
 Agricultural Experimental Station and to the Tribes.
   Oklahoma's Master Plan for marketing tourism calls for the promotion of
 our Western Heritage and our Native American Culture. The Fort Reno
 lands offer a unique opportunity to develop this type of tourism as well
 as recreational projects. Recent statistics gathered by the Oklahoma
 State Tourism Department reflect that some 24 million tourists per year
 travel through this geographic area, along Interstate 40, which runs
 through the Fort Reno land. Pre-existing off ramps are ideally situated
 for taking advantage of the historical value of Fort Reno. When Fort
 Reno is restored, it will be the largest Indian Cultural Center in
 Oklahoma and the greatest tourist attraction on I-40.  Educational
 opportunities include the planned construction of a Native American
 Museum to house and display artifacts which are to be returned to the
 tribes under an agreement with both the Smithsonian Institute in
 Washington D. C. and the Field Museum in Chicago. This facility would
 help us educate the public and teach our young people about our rich and
 ancient heritage.
   Mr. President, it is my duty to inform you that the principles which you
 outlined in your "MEMORANDUM FOR THE HEADS OF EXECUTIVE DEPARTMENTS AND
 AGENCIES" of April 29, 1994 concerning "Government-to-Government
 Relations with Native American Tribal Governments" have been violated
 every step of the way in the case of the Fort Reno land transfer. The
 Cheyenne-Arapaho Tribes have made every effort to surmount every
 bureaucratic requirement with which we have been confronted, only to be
 continually frustrated in our efforts.
  
 We ask that you:
  
   1.) take appropriate steps to remove all bureaucratic and procedural
 impediments to working directly and effectively with our tribal
 government.
   2.) initiate a resolution of this matter through
 government-to-government discussions between our sovereign nations .
   3.) initiate a transfer of the Fort Reno lands in trust for the
 Cheyenne-Arapaho Tribes by way of Executive order.
   It has been the unfortunate history of the United States government to
 make promises to the American Indian Nations through treaties or
 executive orders and then, when it is inconvenient to follow through, to
 change the agreement or renege all together. The Native American
 community has made great sacrifices in answering this country's call to
 arms. We have shed our blood and given our lives on foreign soil only to
 return home and face social ostracism. Through many generations of
 economic deprivation, we have retained our humanity and our spiritual
 integrity. We demand the rights which are guaranteed to each American
 citizen under the U. S. Constitution. We expect to be treated with
 respect, dignity, and equality. This is, perhaps, the last opportunity
 for the Cheyenne and Arapaho Tribes of Oklahoma to pursue our own
 economic prosperity and independence as a sovereign people. We ask for
 your assistance in the Fort Reno land transfer.
  
 Sincerely Yours,
  
 Franklin Harrison
  
 Representative of the
 Tribal Business Committee
 Cheyenne and Arapaho Tribes of Oklahoma
 __________________________________________________________________
 Dear Friends,
  
 The letter you have just read was e-mailed to President Clinton on
 January 17, 1996. What follows is a letter of support which the Cheyenne
 and Arapaho Tribes of Oklahoma now ask that you send to the President of
 the United States. Every single letter or e-mail message that goes to
 the White House will be counted. It is critically important to send a
 large volume of support mail to the White House. Please send the
 following message along with your signature, to the White House.
  
 >>> -------> copy and paste <--------<<<
         ---------------------------------------------------------------
 The Honorable William J. Clinton
 The President of the United States
 The White House
 1600 PennsylvAnia Avenue, NW
 Washington D. C. 20500
  
 Dear Mr. President,
  
 I strongly support the Cheyenne and Arapaho Tribes of Oklahoma in their
 efforts to regain possession of the Fort Reno lands through an Executive
 order.
  
 Sincerely,
  
 (Place your name here)
         ----------------------------------------------------------------
 >>> --------> copy and paste <-------<<<
  
  
 HOW TO REGISTER YOUR SUPPORT
 To e-mail this letter of support to the President, please follow these
 steps:
  
   1.) Type your name into the space provided in the above letter of
 support.
   2.) "Copy" and "paste" this letter of support into your e-mail program
 as a "new message" (Please copy only the material between the dotted
 lines above. )
   3.) Add any additional words of support or leave as is.
   4.) "Copy" and "paste" in the subject "Return Fort Reno"
   5.) "Copy" and "paste" in the President's e-mail address which is:
  
         president@whitehouse.gov
  
   6.) "Send" the message to the President.
   7.) "Forward" a copy of this entire message to all of your friends. (Use
 the "Forward" function in your e-mail program.) Be sure subject heading
 reads, "Return Fort Reno (Forward)"
   8.) You can also mail a copy of the above letter of support to:
  
 The Honorable William J. Clinton
 The President of the United States
 The White House
 1600 PennsylvAnia Avenue, NW
 Washington D. C. 20500
  
 My Friends,
  
   We have an opportunity today, to test the power of the internet as a
 tool for focusing the "Voice of the People". We have an opportunity to
 directly shape the human rights policy of our nation through democratic
 action. Please help us spread this message far and wide. Please help us
 in our appeal to the heart and conscience of our President.
   Letters of support may also be sent directly to the Cheyenne and Arapaho
 Tribes by mailing to:
  
 Cheyenne and Arapaho Tribes of Oklahoma
 ATT: Miss Clara Bushyhead
 P. O. Box 38
 Concho, OK 73022
  
 Or they may be e-mailed to:
  
 cheyarap@mind.net
  
 --------- "RE: Skokomish River Watershed Needs Help" ---------
 
 Date: Sat, 20 Jan 1996 12:41:10 -0800
 From: jburrows@halcyon.com (Center For World Indigenous Studies)
 Subj: The Skokomish River Watershed Needs Your Help!
 
 Mailing List:    NATIVE-L (native-l@gnosys.svle.ma.us)
  
                         FOR MORE INFORMATION CALL
                        VICTOR MARTINO 206-842-5386
  
      JANUARY 15, 1996
  
      FROM: GORDON JAMES, CHAIRMAN, SKOKOMISH TRIBAL COUNCIL
  
      DEAR FRIENDS OF THE SKOKOMISH RIVER:
  
              THE SKOKOMISH RIVER WATERSHED NEEDS YOUR HELP!
  
   On January 31 in Hoodsport and February 1 in Olympia, the Federal Energy
 Regulatory Commission will hold public meetings on the City of Tacoma's
 proposal to continue diverting the North Fork Skokomish River out of its
 watershed for another 30-50 years. The fate of the watershed, the estuary,
 and of the people who live there, all hang in the balance. You can help tip
 the balance and convince FERC to require Tacoma Public Utilities to restore
 the North Fork to its watershed and operate its Cushman hydroelectric project
 in a responsible way.
                               THE PROBLEM
   In the late 1920's the City of Tacoma built the Cushman hydroelectric
 project on the North Fork Skokomish River, which flows into the southern end
 of Hood Canal on the Skokomish Indian Reservation. The City misrepresented
 the effect the Cushman Project would have on the environment and on the
 Reservation. It got a federal license only to flood 8.8 acres of federal
 land. It used that license as cover to build two dams, reservoirs, power
 houses, diversion works, and transmission lines -- these project works
 remain unlicensed.
   The City diverted the entire North Fork Skokomish River out of its
 watershed to a power plant on Hood Canal, and used political muscle to build
 the Cushman Project without fish ladders in violation of state law. The
 largest salmon runs in Hood Canal were virtually wiped out. Wildlife habitat
 was destroyed, and the biggest estuary and delta in Hood Canal were heavily
 impacted. The diversion dried up the North Fork and reduced the ability of
 the main-stem Skokomish to flush sediment; the channel filled in; overbank
 flooding increased.
   For nearly 70 years the Cushman Project has wreaked environmental, social,
 and economic havoc on the Tribe and the general public. No mitigation has
 ever been required by FERC.  The Tribe estimates the damage at more than $2
 billion. The City of Tacoma, meanwhile, has enjoyed electrical rates that
 are less than half the national average, and about 15% less than the
 Northwest average. In addition, the City has reaped windfall net revenues
 of an estimated three-quarters of a billion dollars at Tribal and general
 public expense.
             THE DRAFT ENVIRONMENTAL IMPACT STATEMENT (DEIS)
   The City's license to flood 8.8 acres of federal land expired in 1974. It
 applied to license the dams, powerhouses, and other facilities, and to
 continue to divert the entire North Fork out of its watershed for another
 30-50 years. In the intervening 21 years FERC has allowed the Cushman Project
 to continue without requiring any measures to reduce damage to the
 environment, the Tribe, or to the general public. On December 15, 1995 FERC
 released a Draft Environmental Impact Statement on the City's application.
 The DEIS is fatally flawed.
   FERC proposes to simply "write off" nearly 70 years of unmitigated
 environmental, social and economic damage, and to ignore hundreds of millions
 of dollars in windfall excess revenue to the City. The DEIS proposes
 relatively small changes in future operations of the outlaw Cushman Project,
 and token mitigation for the enormous damage to the watershed and to the
 people who live there. Instead of protecting the public interest, FERC argues
 in the DEIS it would cost the City of Tacoma too much to operate the Cushman
 Project as a normal hydroelectric project, restore the North Fork to its
 watershed, and mitigate the damage!
                            WE NEED YOUR HELP
  The City of Tacoma, regrettably, is not satisfied with the enormous wealth
 it has extracted from the Skokomish River watershed at Tribal and general
 pubic expense over the past 70 years.
   Tacoma admits it could not get away with building the Cushman Project today.
 But the City insists it cannot afford to substantially restore the North Fork
 to its watershed and operate the Cushman Project in a socially responsible
 way. FERC is acting more like the City's business agent than an agency
 charged with protecting the public interest. It will take enormous public
 pressure to persuade FERC to do the right thing. A large and growing number
 of county, state, tribal and federal agencies, public interest organizations,
 religious groups, and individuals have joined in calling for substantially
 restoring the North Fork to its watershed, and for mitigating the
 environmental damage caused by the Cushman Project.
                   PUBLIC MEETINGS & WRITTEN COMMENTS
   FERC has scheduled public meetings at which FERC staff will present its
 major findings and recommendations in the DEIS.  Interested parties will be
 given up to five minutes to comment for the record. Please join with the
 Skokomish Tribe and other friends of the Skokomish River in speaking up for
 the river, for the well-being of the people who live in its watershed, for
 socially responsible behavior by the City of Tacoma, and for FERC to protect
 the public from irresponsible hydroelectric development.
                 * JANUARY 31 (WEDNESDAY), 7:00-11:00PM,
                   HOODSPORT FIRE HALL
                 * FEBRUARY 1 (THURSDAY), 9:30AM-12:30PM,
                   RAMADA INN GOVERNOR HOUSE,
                   621 SOUTH CAPITOL WAY, OLYMPIA
                 * FEBRUARY 1 (THURSDAY), 7:00-11:00PM,
                   RAMADA INN GOVERNOR HOUSE,
                   621 SOUTH CAPITOL WAY, OLYMPIA
  Written comments on the DEIS must be received by February 13,
  1996. Mail to:
                 Lois D. Cashell, Secretary
                 Federal Energy Regulatory Commission
                 888 First Street N.E.
                 Washington, DC 20426
  
   Skokomish Indian Tribe, Mason County, Washington Department of Ecology,
 Washington Department of Fish & Wildlife, National Marine Fisheries Service,
 U.S. Fish & Wildlife Service, National Park Service, Bureau of Indian
 Affairs, U. S. Environmental Protection Agency, Skokomish Watershed
 Coalition, American Rivers, Federation of Fly Fishers, Friends of the Earth,
 Trout Unlimited, The Mountaineers, Olympic Park Associates, Rivers Council
 of Washington, Washington Trout, Hood Canal Environmental Council, American
 Friends Service Committee, National Congress of American Indians, Affiliated
 Tribes of Northwest Indians, Washington Association of Churches, Church
 Council of Greater Seattle, Support for Native Sovereignty ALL CALL FOR
 SUBSTANTIALLY RESTORING THE NORTH FORK SKOKOMISH RIVER TO ITS WATERSHED.
 PLEASE JOIN THEM!
                INFORMATION: VICTOR MARTINO 206-842-5386
 ////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////
 John Burrows, Executive Director                jburrows@halcyon.com <or>
 Center For World Indigenous Studies              The Quarto Mundista BBS
 http://www.halcyon.com/FWDP/cwisinfo.html     FidoNet 1:352/333 360-786-9629
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 --------- "RE: Why "Indians?" " ---------
 
 Date: Tue, 23 Jan 1996 10:07:42 -0600
 From: zzshem@acc.wuacc.edu (sheldon mary)
 Subj: Why "Indians?"
 
 Mailing List:    NATCHAT (natchat@gnosys.svle.ma.us)
  
 Of course, the reality is much different.  Native Americans can NOT get
 employment in major cities near (even a three hour drive) reservations
 because of racism.  I know Native Americans who can get a job at a three
 hour drive from a rez in meat packing (yes, you can imagine the
 conditions--and they live in crowded conditions after work and return to
 the Rez on weekends only) but not in sales, police work, prison work, etc.
 (even when they are qualified and apply) where they
 have contact with the general public OR where they have contact with
 their own people.  So, in a state prison and federal prison we have ONE
 Native American worker (NOT from the Rez) and 30% + of the inmates
 are Native American.  Think about it!  WHITE AMERICA NEEDS TO GET REAL!
 The white Americans in these cities are quite determined
 that the Rez population will give employment to white social
 workers, white law enforcement personnel, white food distributors (for
 the prison) etc.
 and there are not changes which will disrupt the pattern of racism.
 [And I would add it's naive to think it's an accident that alcohol and
 drugs are so readily available on the Rez.]
   Check out Tim Giago's editorial on just this subject this week.  (Now
 Giago is good at illustrating how the above is true, week after week.  I
 like the paper for that.)
  
 Mary Dog Soldier
  
 --------- "RE: Haggling Over Basic Issues" ---------
 
 Date: Mon, 22 Jan 1996 08:37:03 -0600
 From: "CECILIA RODRIGUEZ" <moonlight@igc.apc.org>
 Subj: Chiapas: CCRI Communique 1/20/96 - haggling over basic demands
 
 Mailing List:    NATIVE-L (native-l@gnosys.svle.ma.us)
  
 "They haggled with us on fundamental issues," stated a communique
  
 Communique from the Indigenous Revolutionary Clandestine Committee--
 General Command of the Zapatista Army of National Liberation
  
 San Andres Sacam Ch'en de los Pobres
 January 18, 1996
 To the people of Mexico:
 To the national and international press:
 To the peoples and governments of the world:
 Brothers and sisters:
  
   This delegation of the Zapatista Army of National Liberation, present in
 this first part of the resolving plenary of the table on Indigenous Rights
 and Culture, states the following:
   First.- The rising up in arms of an army of indigenous was necessary.  The
 war, the death, the suffering of our companeros, was necessary so that
 today the federal government commits, on paper, to push forward the
 recognition of our existence and our rights.
   It should be cause for national shame that only in the last decade of the
 20th century, almost 200 years after our country was born, has the
 government begun to show signs of recognizing our existence and our
 rights.
   The recognition of our right to free determination, to our autonomy, to
 our right to freely associate, to apply, in our own spaces, indigenous
 laws regarding the concepts of people and territory; our right to a
 political representation nationally and at the states' level, and certain
 basis for a judicial pluralism.
   But at the same time the federal government has haggled with us over a
 series of fundamental demands.
   The rising up in arms of an army of indigenous people was necessary in
 order to make ourselves heard and so that  the most basic demands of the
 indigenous people and of all the people of Mexico open up even slightly
 the spaces for being heard.
   Second.- One of the principal causes of the uprising of the Zapatista Army
 of National Liberation has been the oppression, injustice and
 marginalization to which we the indigenous peoples of Mexico have been
 submitted.  We decided to take up arms because the voices of our peoples
 were not being heard, because our demands were not being addressed,
 because the law, when it was applied, was used only to persecute us and
 repress us and was never used to achieve justice for us.
   We rose up to demand a justice that did not simply achieve some certain
 remedies, but rather a justice that can only be achieved with a profound
 transformation of political, social and economic relations.
   A transformation that could not be limited to the indigenous people nor to
 Chiapas. A transformation that has to include the entire Mexican society,
 all of its structures, all of its forms of existing.
   We are absolutely convinced that without national democracy, without
 liberty and justice, it will not be possible that we, the indigenous
 people, occupy the place that belongs to us.
   Third.- In this resolving plenary of San Andres Sacam Ch'en we did not
 come alone.  We came accompanied by the intense mobilization of the
 indigenous peoples in many forums, community assemblies, meetings at the
 state and national levels, discussions in universities and in the press.
 We came with the force of the National Indigenous Forum convened by the
 EZLN during the first days of this year.  With the force of more than 500
 delegates coming from 178 indigenous organizations, members of 32
 indigenous peoples.  We also came with the committed support from our
 advisors, honest men and women from all sectors of Mexican society,
 indigenous and non-indigenous, who brought here the best of themselves and
 of the others who could not be here, determined to add their efforts to
 ours.  We came with this force and even with all of this they haggled with
 us on our demands.
   Fourth.- Now we are going to the consultation, to hear the word of our
 peoples regarding these commitments and proposals, but we say this
 clearly: words and commitments that are proposed as serious and firm will
 be useless if the harassment of our peoples and other peoples in other
 states persists; if throughout Chiapas the will of the people continues to
 be denied and the post-electoral conflicts, against all reason or justice,
 are prolonged; and if public forces continue to be used to remove our
 indigenous brothers and sisters who through their own decision and
 organization seek respect for the will of the majority.
   The signs of reducing tension must be full lighted so that they reflect
 that the government is determined to advance along the paths of the
 dialogue.  The signs, with actions, must be fully lit so that they allow
 the realization of the consultation with our peoples.  The government has
 now the opportunity to continue with determination to open new paths, new
 doors.  The government has the possibility to demonstrate that war is not
 the road.
  
 Democracy!
  
 Liberty!
  
 Justice!
  
 Indigenous Revolutionary Clandestine Committee--General Command of the
 Zapatista Army of National Liberation
 Mexico, January 1996
  
 --------- "RE: Native Hawaiian Kills Self" ---------
 
 Date: Thu, 18 Jan 1996 19:47:56 -1000
 From: monet@aloha.net (sam monet)
 Subj: Native Hawaiian kills self over U.S. occupation
 
 Mailing List:    NATIVE-L (native-l@gnosys.svle.ma.us)
 
   59 year old, Native Hawaiian Kahale Smith, took his own life today, by
 dousing himself with gasoline, as 20 armed officers and officials of the
 State of Hawai`i and the Department of Hawaiian Homes Land (DHHL) attempted
 to forcibly evict Mr. Smith from his family home at Anahola, on the Island
 of Kaua`i.   Moments before Smith and his home went up in flames, the
 police were throwing his belongings out into the street.
   Political activist Smith had been battling with DHHL, the State of Hawai`i
 and United States Federal government over native Hawaiian land title claims
 and human rights violations against Native Hawaiians.  Based in part on
 revelations at United States Public Law 103-150, enacted by the United
 States Congress in 1993;  Smith and many native Hawaiians believe that
 their land rights and title are outside the jurisdiction of the United
 States and the State of Hawai`i.  At USPL 103-150, the United States
 admitted that it conspired with others to overthrow the government of
 Hawai`i in 1893, in an "illegal" act of war, in violation of treaty and
 U.S. Constitution.
   On November 20, 1995, Native Hawaiian tax protestor John Marshe was
 acquitted by a U.S. Federal jury in Honolulu (U.S.A. v. Marshe C#94-00749)
 of willful failure to file, and willful failure to pay income taxes, for
 several years.  Marshe based his defense on a claim to "sovereignty"; ie.
 that he was outside U.S. jurisdiction.  By his death, Kahale Smith lost his
 opportunity to make a similar defense and his day in court.
   The DHHL has recently been involved in the "loss" of well over $120,000,000
 in funds and property it has administered for Native Hawaiians.  These
 funds are still not yet accounted for.
   Smith contended that the continued occupation of Hawaiian lands by the
 United States was in violation of international law.  In addition, Smith
 accused the U.S. government, the State and the DHHL of act of "genocide" in
 violation of the Geneva Convention and United Nations Charter.
   Native Hawaiian groups have planned protests and rallies to oust DHHL
 administrator Mr. Kale Watson and bring an end to "the abuse of Native
 Hawaiians by agents of the United States".
   For more specific information see:
 Hawaii Resource Library:
 http://hawaii-shopping.com./~sammonet/hrlhome.html
 
 Sam Monet
 P.O. Box 309
 Haleiwa, Hawai`i 96712
 Ph/Fax: (808) 638-8934/ 638-8018
 email: monet@aloha.net
 
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