_ __ _____ __ _ __ ___ ____ _ __ ___ ' ) / / ') / / ) ' ) ) / ) / ' ) ) / ) / / / / / / /--/ / / / ___ / / / / ___ (_(_/ (__/ ( / (_ / (_ (___/ '__/_ / (_ (___/ ' O ____ _ , ___ _ , ___ O o O / ' ) / / ) ' ) / / ' O o O / /-< / /--/ /-- VOLUME 04, ISSUE 034 O o o o o O __/_ / ) (___/ / ( (___, 24 August 1996 O o O K A N O H E D A A N I Y V W I Y A O o O Otapi'sin Atsinikiisinaakssin O ( N A T I V E A M E R I C A N N E W S ) This issue contains articles from MinnInd, MUSEUM-L, & NATIVE-L listservers; Newsgroups: apc.indig.info,soc.culture.native,alt.native,rec.arts.books, alt.books.reviews,rec.arts.books.reviews; UUCP & genie 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. Thanks to Don Rayment ,don.rayment@uptowne.com, Wotanging Ikche/ Kanoheda Aniyvwiya is being redistributed via a listserver. If you would like to receive Wotanging Ikche via the listserver, you can send a message to listserv@uptowne.com and include, in the body of your message "sub wotanging.ikche " Thanks to Marc Becker and David Cole issues of Wotanging Ikche/ Kanoheda Aniyvwiya are being archived at a World-Wide-Web site. - The URL is http://web.maxwell.syr.edu/nativeweb/journals/nanews Thanks to Borries Demeler all _Wotanging_Ikche_ (part a) submissions to AISESnet are archived under AISESnet and can be accessed easily by World Wide Web: 1994: http://bioc02.uthscsa.edu/94_dis.html 1995: http://bioc02.uthscsa.edu/95_dis.html 1996: http://bioc02.uthscsa.edu/96_dis.html This is a searchable index to the AISESnet Discussion mailing list database archive, and the keyword "Wotanging" will retrieve all issues for that year. "Hear ye, Dakotas! When the Great Father at Washington sent us his chief soldier [General Harney] to ask for a path through our hunting grounds, a way for his iron road to the mountains and the western sea, we were told that they wished merely to pass through our country, not to tarry among us, but to seek for gold in the far west. Our old chiefs thought to show their friendship and good will, when they allowed this dangerous snake in our midst. They promised to protect the wayfarers." "Yet before the ashes of the council fire are cold, the Great Father is building his forts among us. You have heard the sound of the white soldier's ax upon the Little Piney. His presence here is an insult and a threat. It is an insult to the spirits of our ancestors. Are we then to give up their sacred graves to be plowed for corn? Dakotas, I am for war!" __ Chief Red Cloud, Oglala Teton +- -- -- -- -- -- -- -- -- -- -- -+ | Indian Pledge of Allegiance | The Indian Pledge of Alleg- | | iance was first presented | I pledge allegiance to my Tribe,| on 2 December '93 during the | to the democratic principles | opening address of the Nat- | of the Republic | ional Congress of American | and to the individual freedoms | Indian Tribal-States Relat- | borrowed from the Iroquois and | ions Panel in Reno, NV. NCAI | Choctaw Confederacies, | plans distribution of the | as incorporated in the United | Indian Pledge to all Indian | States Constitution, | Nations. | so that my forefathers | | shall not have died in vain | Walk in Beauty! Night Owl +- -- -- -- -- -- -- -- -- -- -- -+ O'siyo Brothers and Sisters! This will be a very unusual preface to the newsletter. I believe it is important, though. Many of the People who do not now have access to the internet and the exchange of information it offers now can. The tool is limited in what it can do, and what it can do it on; but it can open the door to information to many of the people of the First Nations that are now locked out. The tool is called Juno. It is advertising supported email. It is only email, and the user of it must be willing to accept the advertisements that are flashed. The developers liken it to network television. You watch the programs free, because you are willing to watch the advertisements that pay for the programming. It only works on a IBM-compatible PC running windows. It will not run from Dos and will not work on other platforms (the exception is a Mac or OS2 running MS-windows emulation. Besides windows, the only other thing the computer must have is a modem connected to a phone line. The program comes complete with many, many local access numbers and a 800 access for places that do not have local access. Thanks to Bob Rankin, there is also a text file that explains how you can access piratically anything on the internet using email only. It is true - you can gopher, ftp, and even explore the World Wide Web, using only email. Bob Rankin's text file tells you how. Both of these programs are available to the public and may be freely copied and distributed, as long as no money exchanges hands and all copyright and information notices are left unaltered. I think access to information is absolutely vital to the People, so I have decided to send copies to anyone who will mail me a 3 1/2, 1.44 Meg diskette, and a self-addressed, stamped disk mailer or 5" x 9" puff (padded) envelope with $.78 (78 cents) postage on it. I will load both programs on the diskette and return it to you immediately. I intend this for Native Americans; but will refuse none who send the diskette and prepared envelope. Send it to: Gary Night Owl P. O. Box 672168 Marietta, GA 30006-0037 PLEASE make copies of this offer and give it to any Native American, rez or urban/ status or non-status who can have access to a PC running windows. Peace! Night Owl , , Gary Night Owl gars@netcom.com (*,*) P. O. Box 672168 gars@juno.com (`-') Marietta, GA 30006, U .S.A. gars@igc.apc.org ===w=w=== gars@genie.com ----------- News of the people featured in this issue ---------- Part A: Usenet and e-mail Part B: NATCHAT and NATIVE-L lists - Taxation Controversy Continues - Conferences and Powwows - online - Clemency for Leonard Peltier - Sacred Sites at Risk - Rogue Bureaucracy - American Indians with Disabilities - Quebec, Newfoundland, Labrador & HQ - Keweenaw Bay Update - Huron Band Council - Native Radio Producers/Reporters - Cholera Among the Maya in Belize - Sierra Mono Museum Basketry Theft - Wal-Mart Leeds Response - Stealing From Indians - Review: Sun Dancer - Poem: Diversity - Verse: Hawai'ian Book of Days - Conferences and Powwows - offline --------- "RE: Taxation Controversy Continues" --------- Date: Wed, 14 Aug 1996 15:24:20 -0400 From: mnation@axess.com Subj: Taxation Controversy Continues Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii UUCP email Taxation Issue So Far: The Attea Case, at the Supreme Court level, was lost in 1994, as a result of this decision, this enabled the New York State Taxation Department to implement a pre-collection tax scheme. On May 13, 1996, New York State Governor George E. Pataki suspended a July 5 deadline for the 120 ultimatum where there would begin a collection of taxes on gasoline and cigarette sales to non-Native Americans on reservations located within New York's borders, opting for discussion and a peaceful resolution instead. Discussions continue. The Native Point of View: Clearly defined in "The Rights of The Iroquois (Haundenosaunee) As 'Indians Not Taxed' - A Historical Perspective" By Robert W. Venables, Ph. D. American Indian Program, Cornell University, June 1990 "Iroquois taxes were in a sense 'pre-paid' as part of the cost the United States paid to secure treaties with the Iroquois. Because the United States obtained Iroquois land at an average price of far less than one penny per acre at a time land was selling for a minimum of $1.00 per acre, it would be no exaggeration to state that all the Iroquois(Haudenosaunee); including the Mohawks, may be said to have pre- paid any and all future obligations to the United States." "Treaties and treaty rights are the major inheritance which past generations could pass down to future generations. Treaties are the inheritance rights which the United States in good faith guaranteed to American Indians. These inheritance rights have special protections - perhaps they are best described as tax-free United States government income-generating bonds with no expiration date." "Treaties and treaty rights are not unlike bank deposits, they are secured by the United States Government. The United States Government secures the deposits and depositors in banks and in savings and loans - recently at enormous cost. Treaty rights should be perceived at least as sacrosanct." State Judge Orders Collection of Taxes On Indian Land Within By 120 Days: Reprinted from the Oneida Dispatch - August 14, 1996 "A impatient judge has given state officials a new deadline to begin collecting taxes on the sale of gasoline and cigarettes to non-Indians on reservations in New York State. State Supreme Court Judge Joseph Harris gave the state 120 days Tuesday to find a way to get the taxes or stop collecting them throughout the rest of New York...Harris' order, the result of this lawsuit brought about by convenience store operators that operate outside of Indian reservations, lends new urgency to the unresolved issue that has bedeviled state leaders for years." If there is no deal after the 120 days, tax laws will go into effect and no tobacco products or gasoline will be allowed onto reservations, except the QUOTA needed for consumption by Indians only. The tax laws would regulate the influx and outgoing tobacco products and gasoline, forcing the taxes to be paid even before they initially enter the reservation. This means, for example, that if, a broker were to release product from its company, all taxes would have to be paid on the product before leaving any warehouse. Otherwise they would face serious fines and perhaps closure of the business. For more information contact: Anti-Tax Office 518/358-3243 Mohawk Nation Office Kahnawake Branch 514/635-5595, email: mnation@axess.com The League of First Nations 1-800-877-8682 --------- "RE: Clemency for Leonard Peltier" --------- Date: Wed, 14 Aug 1996 21:42:40 -0400 From: Miketben@aol.com Subj: N.A.S.L. - CLEMENCY FOR PELTIER (Fwd) UUCP email * NORTH AMERICAN SPIRIT LODGE * CLEMENCY FOR LEONARD PELTIER +++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++ From: lpdc@idir.net (Peltier Defense Committee) Date: Wed, 14 Aug 96 20:36:04 GMT Clemency for Peltier--the fight for justice MUST grow stronger! We are now in the midst of election frenzy and the LPDC urges you PLEASE to get in touch with our office to learn about getting to your elected officials and having a Peltier presence at EVERY presidential election campaign stop. LEONARD PELTIER NEEDS YOU NOW MORE THAN EVER! LPDC, Box 583, Lawrence, KS 66044 (913) 842-5774 fax (913)842-5796 lpdc@idir.net --------- "RE: Rogue Bureaucracy" --------- Date: Sat, 17 Aug 1996 09:09:18 -0400 From: "Jordan S. Dill" Subj: Rogue Bureaucracy UUCP email Good day all... I invite you to visit a new site - http://www.pobox.com/~jsd/rogue.html - whereat you will encounter the essay "Rogue Bureaucracy." Excerpts from that essay will be found below. You are also invited to visit the BIA site - http://www.pobox.com/~jsd/bur.html - where you may refresh your memory regarding the Bureau of Indian Affairs. Rogue Bureaucracy excerpts: "This analysis covers the estimated loss of over $90,000,000,000 in hard-rock mineral wealth (on which no royalties will be paid under the 1872 Mining law). It also addresses the loss of an estimated $15,000,000,000 in the last decade in federal, states' and Indian oil and gas royalties, and additional lost federal taxes. "The facts presented here will show that the U.S. Department of Interior, as an institution, is unable to deal truthfully with the citizens of the United States. Indeed, Interior has cooperated with the major oil and gas and coal companies to a great extent, to hide the truth from the public (or to so distort it) in a manner that could be construed as institutional malfeasance, or worse. "In May of 1983, GAO documented that Interior had sold Powder River Basin coal leases in Wyoming and Montana for $100,000,000 less than GAO's revised estimates of their value. In June of 1984, a followup report found that the Deputy Assistant Secretary of Interior had given a coal company official the secret 'minimum acceptable bid' information before the sale, and that official's company got the bid. The IG, Richard Mulberry, was found to have ducked the investigation, and when he finally did start it, he terminated it after 16 days. When faced with this, Mulberry simply resigned. No followup investigation occurred to my knowledge. "Although revenues for any individual Indian from oil are quite small, they constitute a desperately needed source of income to Indian citizens with an unemployment level which averages 25 percent and reaches 85 percent in some areas. Cass Peterson broke the story 'Indians Are Being Denied Millions in Oil, Gas Royalties' on May 25, 1985. She detailed a situation that affects 'more than 250,000 Indians or tribal governments,' (out of about 1.5 million Indian U.S. citizens). Mike Synar (D-OK), said "If it's not a scandal, it's one of the worst cases of mismanagement I've ever come across.'" "Officials in four Interior Bureau of Indian Affairs (BIA) offices were holding more than $1,000,000 in interest owed, some of it owed for four years. Congressman Glenn English said "It may have gone to the point that it may need a grand jury." The Oklahoma Corporation Commission documented that producing wells were reported by BIA as non-producing, costing only six Indians about $ 24,000 in 1984. "The same article noted BIA was withholding checks because of claimed overpayments, when they really owed some people more than $ 20,000. One Indian lady was force to sell fry-bread at garage sales for her livelihood, while about $ 17,000 was owed her family. Synar documented non-compliance with the law, citing 26,000 Indian 'allottees' who had received no documentation in writing of their royalty payments, in his July 1985 report to the House Committee on Government Operations. "In July of 1985, Synar cited similar findings from government audits, study commissions and reports over about 25 years, including the 1958 report (published in 1959). Interior official John Fritz testified that '...frankly we did not have an operating computer system until late last fall.' (Frankly, as it turned out, he didn't have one that really worked then, either.) Minerals Management Service (MMS), furthermore, had no comprehensive system for auditing Indian leases. "It seemed difficult for BIA and MMS to 'coordinate' on this. Mr. Jimmy Mayberry said that a Memorandum of Understanding was being developed, had been in draft for over a year, and would be out soon. Similarly, MMS audits on seven of thirteen BIA requests were not even started by April 8, 1985. The six that were completed showed $ 59,000 in additional royalties owed. Nick Kelly, the MMS regional manager, said he had received no instructions to do the other seven audits for over one year after the date his Chief reported that MMS was 'commencing the audits.'" "Why do I keep bringing up Indian losses, 'only' tens of millions in lost royalties? One reason was brought out in an article I read by Felix S. Cohen on the "Erosion of Indian Rights" in the Yale Law Journal, which said in part: 'Like the miner's canary, the Indian marks the shift from fresh air to poison air in our political atmosphere...our treatment of Indians, even more than our treatment of other minorities, reflects the rise and fall of our democratic faith.'" Thank you for any time you might be able to give to the above... Best regards, Nvwhtohiyada... First Nations/First Peoples Issues (4 Star Magellan site) http://www.pobox.com/~jsd/firstnations.html Wounded Knee Home Page http://www.pobox.com/~jsd/WKmasscre.html --------- "RE: Quebec, Newfoundland, Labrador & HQ" --------- Date: 14 Aug 96 14:56:00 EDT From: Ann Stewart <75361.1143@CompuServe.COM> Subj: Quebec, Newfoundland, Labrador and HQ UUCP email NOTE: Some of you have asked about Voisey Bay mining and what impact it will have on the native Inuit and Innu, and also whether HQ will develop further Churchill hydroprojects. Save this for your files... Falls Guys: Brian Tobin knows Quebec has always resisted reopening the Churchill Falls power agreement. But the Newfoundland premier has a new pitch, and this time he thinks Lucien Bouchard will listen. Financial Post, 8 Aug 96 The early aboriginal people living in the wilds of Labrador believed gazing upon the boiling cataract of Churchill Falls meant instant death. Now, as the site of one of North America's premier hydroelectric installations, the Churchill River seems to continue to exert a malevolent influence, though the lingering bad feelings stem from a power contract signed more than 25 years ago between Newfoundland and Quebec. It's a deal people in Newfoundland have long resented and wanted to change. In the days before OPEC and the quadrupling of oil prices, Newfoundland premier Joey Smallwood signed a long-term deal - it lasts until 2041 - that has Newfoundland receiving about $20 million a year from the sale of power to Hydro-Quebec. For its part, Hydro-Quebec exports the power from Churchill Falls to the northeastern U.S. for about $800 million a year. For the people of Newfoundland and Labrador, the unfairness of the Churchill Falls contract is like a stone in the shoe that continually gives pain. "I think Newfoundlanders have always felt they have been badly disadvantaged by this peculiar state of affairs," says Brian Crowley, an economist and president of the Atlantic Institute for Market Studies. Quebec has always refused to reopen the contract to respond to Newfoundland's request for a better deal. Newfoundland even pursued reopening the contract to the Supreme Court of Canada, but lost its case. However, the politics of separation, the changing market for hydropower and the discovery of huge nickel and other mineral deposits in Labrador at Voisey's Bay may create the circumstances in which Newfoundland can finally remove an old stone from an old shoe. Newly elected as Newfoundland premier, Brian Tobin plans to make a determined effort to resolve the Churchill Falls power contract when he meets with Quebec Premier Lucien Bouchard this fall. Tobin believes the common interest of both provinces in further hydro development on both the lower Churchill and on other swift-flowing rivers on the Quebec-Labrador border provides an opening to renegotiate the pact. "The reality is there is a substantial amount of untapped hydro potential in Quebec and Labrador that - if it is to be developed - needs the co- operation of both provinces," Tobin says. "The question for both provinces is whether or not that energy is going to continue to flow into the sea or whether we're going to tap it. I've said to Premier Bouchard, 'Look, what Quebec needs and needs urgently is economic development, job creation, investment. What Newfoundland needs is economic development, job creation and investment.' If we work together there is a good reason to believe that can happen on the hydro front." Tobin says it is imperative that the contract be renegotiated because, under its terms, his province will begin to lose money on the deal within three to four years. "We actually get to a point where we begin to subsidize the export of power," Tobin says. "No premier in Canada - least of all the premier of the poorest province - could take the position that it is acceptable that for 30 or 40 more years, Newfoundland will not only find itself with a lower return but actually will suffer a loss on the export of hydropower." When Smallwood signed the long-term power deal with Quebec in 1966, he felt Newfoundland had no option. The project - at the time the largest civil-engineering project ever undertaken in North America - employed more than 30,000 people and represented a $1-billion investment. There was no economic development in Labrador that needed the kind of power produced by the installation. The power produced by Churchill Falls couldn't be transported to Newfoundland. Instead, it had to be wheeled through transmission lines in Quebec in order to find a market. By dint of the Canadian Constitution, the province of Quebec had a strong hand in the negotiations with Newfoundland. "As so often is the case in Canada, it comes back to the Constitution. For some historic reasons, electricity is the only form of energy which is subject to interprovincial trade barriers," says the Atlantic Institute's Crowley. "You can move gas across provincial borders and everything else - but not electricity. You need the consent of the province whose territory you are going to cross. You cannot get power out of Labrador without the consent of Quebec and that gives them a kind of monopoly control over power generation in Labrador. Unless the government of Quebec agrees to buy your power and push it on through to other markets, you simply can't sell it." Over the past two years, the issue of tearing down this interprovincial trade barrier has caused acrimony during negotiations between Ottawa and the provinces on a new set of rules to enhance Canada's internal trade. Newfoundland has pushed to have electrical-energy transmission put on the same free-trade basis as other forms of energy. The big disappointment for Newfoundland is the unwillingness of the federal government to push the issue with the provinces. "The federal government has never been willing to tackle Hydro-Quebec or the Quebec government on this issue," Crowley says. A senior negotiator during these debates says the federal government has never wanted to force the issue between Newfoundland and Quebec because of its political sensitivity. Instead, discussions between the provinces and Ottawa have centered on reasonable tariffs for transporting electricity across a province's territory and how to arbitrate disputes about such tariffs. Newfoundland Energy Minister Rex Gibbons says the province is going to stay at the bargaining table until it gets the freedom to move power across provincial boundaries. "It was an agenda item for the last meeting of energy ministers, and it will be an agenda item for the next meeting of energy ministers," Gibbons says. For Newfoundland, the real impetus to renegotiate comes from the recent discovery of vast nickel deposits in Labrador and the potential for other mineral development. The strike at Voisey's Bay will take years to develop, but it holds the promise of new economic development, and with that, new demands for power. In the short run, the impact of Voisey's Bay will be slight. Newfoundland has the right to recall 300 megawatts of power from Churchill Falls and is currently using about 180 megawatts for Labrador. Overall, about 5,200 megawatts of power is produced at the hydro installation. But, eventually Voisey's Bay may require a nickel smelter and a refinery plant and there will be other mineral development of Labrador, Gibbons says. "I think there is adequate recall rights left in the present contract to accommodate any energy needs that are likely to result from Voisey's Bay," he says. "We're observing what is happening with Voisey's Bay. We are part of it. We are monitoring the company's evaluation of its options for development and its energy needs as it looks at its options for development and we'll continue to do so." There is a view now that the way hydroelectricity is produced and sold may change dramatically in the near future as provincially owned utilities such as Ontario Hydro are restructured and down sized. The U.S. is on the verge of a major move into the retailing and wholesaling of electricity, breaking up regional and local electricity monopolies in favor of a system in which virtually anybody will be able to hook into a power network and sell electricity to anyone who wants it. This will drive down costs and put a great deal of price pressure on Canadian electricity, especially for exports to the U.S. The politics of separation may also be a factor in the Churchill Falls contract. Former Quebec premier Jacques Parizeau surprised people prior to last fall's referendum by offering to renegotiate the Churchill contract as a way of showing how an independent Quebec may be a better partner outside rather than inside the Canadian federation. So far, Bouchard isn't tipping his hand about renegotiating the deal. "Mr. Bouchard has never made any agreement or discussed with Mr. Tobin any possibility of reopening the contract with regard to Churchill Falls," a Bouchard spokesman says. "Mr. Tobin called Mr. Bouchard and talked about the potential that has not been developed at Churchill. Mr. Tobin asked for a meeting to discuss the matter, to launch a new project for what is not developed at Churchill. Nothing has been settled or scheduled yet." Newfoundlanders are hoping he comes to the same conclusion as Parizeau, however. "Bouchard needs to be able to demonstrate for his own political purposes to the people of Quebec that he can negotiate with the other partners in Confederation and do so successfully in order to solve common problems," says the Atlantic Institute's Crowley. "In the sovereignty debate, Bouchard is going to live or die on whether or not he can do that." Tobin, who won wide support as federal fisheries minister by defying international convention and extending Canada's claims of jurisdiction beyond the 200-mile limit to pursue overfishing by Spanish trawlers, vows that the power contract will be resolved. But, he hopes the offer of co- operation rather than confrontation with Quebec will be persuasive. He's facing a tight deadline and a deterioration in the terms of the contract for Newfoundland. "Within three or four years, you'd have the poorest province in Canada having to - I suppose - close hospital beds, or cut social services payments or close high schools so we could subsidize a power contract that by then will be bringing nearly $1 billion in revenue to Quebec," Tobin says. "By any measure, can that be considered an acceptable situation? I think even Lucien Bouchard would say that is unreasonable." --------- "RE: Huron Band Council" --------- Date: Mon, 19 Aug 1996 19:03:12 -0400 From: Ishgooda Subj: Band Council -RESPONSE -RESPONSE UUCP email KHWE AKWATARU, Following is a letter with news concerning the upcoming elections September 4, 1996 on the Huron Reserve, Wendake, Quebec. Your comments are invited. Ish +++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++ The following is a list of actions taken by the Band Council leadership accomplished over the past terms of office without the consultation of the people they are suppose to represent. 1) The Band Council has passed a law against any public demonstration. The law states that : If someone wants to demonstrate, he has to tell them 1 month before any demonstration and specify the subject. According this law, 300 dollars must be deposited without any guarantee that the demonstration will be permitted. 2) The Band Council has just renewed the agreement concerning moose hunting season. But this year, instead of 7 days of hunting under the law of Quebec, they signed for 8 days; this "gift" is to replace the freedom granted by the Murray Treaty in our territories. This has been done without considering either the opposition of the traditional people or the hunting rights accorded them by the Murray Treaty. 3) The Band Council employed a linguist for three months from outside of the nation without considering the Huron members of the nation. They have renewed this contract for one year. They have already spent more than 150,000 dollars on this curriculum without any positive results. They issued a mandate to work on the language curriculum without considering the members of our nation who can do the work. This linguist is from Toronto and is not a Native American Indian, moreover, he is not able to speak the Huron language. The few works he has released into the public places were incorrect grammatically. 4) The Band Council has said to the town of Loretteville that they can demolish the longhouse if they want. The Band Council does not consider the longhouse to be on the Huron territory. This council, therefore, fails to recognize the treaty which includes this longhouse land as part of the Wendake territory. In spite of the fact it has been recognized in the Supreme Court of Canada by all 8 Judges. 5) The Band Council last fall, said that they would not defend their own people in court in the arrests resulting from hunting moose in the territory recognized by treaty as legitimate hunting grounds. The moose was seized by the government of Quebec during the traditional hunting season of the traditional people. This moose was supposed to be used in a sacred feast of the longhouse. The Government seized two canoes and the moose. Two fines are going to have to be defended against in the Court of Quebec. Quebec knows they will lose the case as the hunting rights are clearly outlined in the Murray Treaty and the arrest and confiscations illegal. Quebec, therefore, continues to delay the court case. Now according to the last letter they have postponed the case to this coming spring (1997). 6) The Band Council has signed an agreement with the Quebec justice system (Quebec de Surete) without any consultation with the people of Wendake. This agreement allows the Quebec police to come onto our territory at any time to enforce the Canadian laws. 7) The Band Council does not permit the members of the nation to go into the bush where our outfitting club is located. The outfitters club was acquired during the band council when Claude Sioui was Grand Chief. Claude Sioui was a Grand chief elected for two years in 1984. That council was formed mainly by people who believe in the Huron way. They remained for two years in the band council, long enough to defend in Court the Murray treaty, and to depose three land claims including the Quanrante Arpent. 8) The Band Council has passed municipal law ( the first one in all the history of the Huron people ) without consultation with the people. In doing so they ignored a petition of over 400 names against this municipal law. They said : Whether you like this law or not, we will do it. This said in front of 500 angry people gathered to protest the law in a public band council meeting. The Indian and Northern affairs Canada minister has now signed this new law made by the band council and has accepted this un-constitutional law to be applied on the the Huron-Wendat territory. Today, Monday, people are going to run for the Grand Chief and second chiefs positions. We will know the names at the public assembly held at the Kondiaronk hall. According to rumor Max Gros-Louis is going to retire. The leader of the opposing party is Jean Picard. More news on the next letter with all the promises each party has made to the people. Tarehta'deh --------- "RE: Cholera Among the Maya in Belize" --------- Date: Fri, 16 Aug 1996 19:56:07 GMT From: vudu@catch22.com (Harry S. Pariser) Subj: Cholera Among the Maya in Belize Newsgroups: apc.indig.info,soc.culture.native,alt.native I have permission to repost this. Can anyone think of some way to help? Or knows someone who could? Send and e-mail to "Gaines Johnson" (For more information on southern Belize and its Maya population check out http://www.catch22.com/~vudu/pgbel.html ) Date: Thu, 15 Aug 96 16:36:46 EST This message sent to the Bz-Culture Mailing List from "Gaines Johnson" : Greetings All! For those of you who have never visited the Toledo District of Belize, I would like to share with you some observations about the indigenous peoples who live in the rain forests here - the Mopan and Kekchi Mayan indians. And tell you a true story that happened this week. There are several dozen villages scattered across the Toledo District. Most have no electricity, no running water, no public telephone. The typical family lives in a thatch roofed home that has a packed dirt floor and cooking is done on a floor hearth. Families tend to be large and survive on subsistence farming. Corn is hand ground each day by the women to make tortillas, the staple of the average family diet. Many of the women make beautiful traditional crafts to supplement the family income. These are sold to the occasional tourist that passes through. It is currently the rainy season here in Toledo, and it is a tough time of year for many of those families; it is the off season for tourists, so there are not too many people to buy the crafts; the rivers swell from the daily downpours and the roads to many villages are cut off for days at a time; they are between crops and food supplies are getting low. Now, to make matters even worse, cholera has broken out in many of the villages. Accounts reaching my ears are that there have been at least 30 known cases in the last two weeks and in several villages. With all the rains, it is feared that the situation will get worse before it gets better. Allow me to explain why. I am not a doctor, but I do know a little about this disease. Cholera is a water borne bacterial disease that kills by quickly dehydrating the victim through diarrheic infection. People living in many of the villages here get their drinking and washing water exclusively from the rivers and streams. The bacteria in the feces discharged by the first people infected is washed by rainfall into the streams and rivers (and occasionally into shallow wells in very porous soil). Those downstream who drink the water or wash food in it then contract the disease and continue the chain reaction. Fortunately, if treated in time with antibiotics and rehydration fluids, the chances for recovery are quite good in older children and adults. Unfortunately, very few of the villagers know this, or how the disease spreads. Many only know that when someone in the village gets sick, that way, they are going to die. Cholera outbreaks are not new to these people. This fact was driven home to me and my wife this week. We both have a lot of contact with many of the women's groups in the villages and have many good friends there. One family, with which we have a very warm friendship (and who owns a very large sow named "White Pig"), live in the village of Santa Cruz. A few days ago we were driving to town to do some shopping. Our route normally passes by the Punta Gorda town hospital. As we were rounding the curve my wife said that someone was running towards us from the hospital trying to wave us down. It was one of the daughters of that family from Santa Cruz. With eyes full of fear and tears she pleaded for us to come in and see her father...."he is dying!" I asked what was wrong. She said he was vomiting and had diarrhea real bad late last night. They had brought him to town that morning in a hammock on the bus. We pulled our truck into the gravel parking lot and followed her into a small room with a curtain divider that is located on the ground floor back entrance of the hospital. As we walked in the door we saw the mother, her face filled with anguish and concern for her mate. I pulled back the curtain and saw my friend, Mark, laying on a canvas cot, with darkened and sunken eyes that appeared to be staring at a sight far removed from this earth. I asked him what was wrong and all he muttered in his delirium was "I'm finished...I'm finished." The daughter spoke, "He has made his peace with God..he knows him die." I observed that there was an IV drip on a stand next to his bed, and it quickly crossed my mind what this might be. I told them I would ask what was wrong and went upstairs to the nurse's station. I explained that I was a friend of the family and asked if they could tell me what was wrong. "Is it cholera?", I plainly asked. Reluctantly, the answer was given. "Yes, there is an outbreak in some of the villages." I went back downstairs and told the daughter and mother not to worry, he was going to be ok. They listened with eyes of disbelief, yet which had seized on this spark of hope in my words. It is difficult to communicate to these people the concepts of antibiotics, rehydration and bacterial infections, but my wife and I did our best to assure them that he had been brought in quickly enough to be treated and will probably be ok. My wife and I then left them to do our errands. There was little we could do but be their friends in this time of need. Two hours later I stopped by the hospital again and asked the wife how Mark was doing. She speaks little English, but when she understood my question she smiled and said "better." That was Monday, three days ago. This morning, my wife took Mark and his wife and daughter back out to Santa Cruz. He had recovered. Now, as I sit here in my air-conditioned office, listen to the rains pelting the window glass, and drink my instant coffee (made with chlorinated water, of course) I wonder how bad things are going to get out there in the villages before this is all over. Earlier this morning I had breakfast with one of the doctors who works at the hospital. He says there are eight people being treated at the hospital today, including a nine month old baby and it's mother. "The babies are so hard to treat", he related. "They dehydrate so fast." He sadly shook his head. Nothing more needed to be said. ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ Thank You for using the Bz-Culture Mailing List Send comments to owner-bz-culture@psg.com 1327 9th Avenue # 1 San Francisco, CA 94122-2308 USA (415) 665-4829 Visit Harry's Universe at http://www.catch22.com/~vudu/ Information on Belize, Puerto Rico, Virgin Islands, Jamaica, Barbados, Costa Rica, the Dominican Republic, Indonesia, Japan, the Philippines cults. and more! Artwork, photos, and links. --------- "RE: Sierra Mono Museum Basketry Theft" --------- Date: Fri, 16 Aug 1996 14:47:35 -0400 From: Steve Dondero Subj: Sierra Mono Museum Basketry Theft Mailing List: MUSEUM-L, I have been asked to post this message by the curator of the Sierra Mono Museum. Please reply directly to the museum at P.O. Box 275, North Fork, CA 93643. 209-877-2115. Sorry no e-mail address. Sometime between Wednesday evening and Thursday morning, August 8-9, 1996, the Sierra Mono Museum was broken into and 50-100+ Native California Indian baskets were stolen, along with at least one ceremonial obsidian blade. Museum officials stated that baskets were removed from both the display cases and storage areas. Please forward this message to whoever you feel can help in this matter. The Sierra Mono Museum is a small, locally-operated facility and have limited resources. The Museum and the Madera County Sheriff Department would appreciate any suggestions, information, advise, etc. from those in the museum community on how to get this information out to the larger community of art dealers world-wide. Staff can provide photos/descriptions of the baskets upon request. Thanks --------- "RE: Wal-Mart Leeds Response" --------- Date: Wed, 14 Aug 1996 22:19:37 -0400 From: Miketben@aol.com Subj: N.A.S.L. - Fwd: Wal-Mart response letter copy UUCP email * NORTH AMERICAN SPIRIT LODGE * WAL-MART RESPONSE LETTER LEEDS SITE - NEW YORK STATE +++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++ From: 103123.2051@CompuServe.COM (rod whited) To: miketben@aol.com Date: 96-08-14 14:07:58 EDT Osiyo Mike, Attached is a copy of a response I received from Wal-Mart regarding the Leeds, New York store site to my letter to them on this issue. I realize that this is most likely a form letter sent to all of us that have written our concerns to them. Anyway, I'm sending it for tallying number of responses etc. You have my consent to use it in anyway that will positively affect this issue for the First Nation People. Wado, Rod Whited/ Eagle Feather COPY OF RESPONSE ATTACHED Wal-Mart Corporate Affairs Jay Allen, Vice President Wal-Mart Stores, Inc. Corporate Offices Bentonville, AR 72716 August 5, 1996 Rod Whited 150 Seagrove's Road Lacey's Spring, AL 35754 Dear Mr. Whited: We appreciate your taking the time to write us expressing your concerns about our proposed store in Leeds, New York. You are right in your assessment that Wal-Mart would and will not desecrate any sacred ground of the Native American community, or any other community. We are currently working with the New York State Office of Parks, Recreation and Historic Preservation in determining the appropriate action that needs to be taken in regards to the proposed development in Leeds. Under the direction of the State Of New York, we are proceeding with the archaeological studies that are needed to determine how best to proceed on this site. We will be following their direction as we proceed. sincerely, signed Jay Allen Vice President Corporate Affairs --------- "RE: Stealing From Indians" --------- Date: Thu, 15 Aug 1996 14:29:01 -0400 From: "Jordan S. Dill" Subj: Stealing From Indians... Mailing List: Minnesota Indian Affairs Good day all... The First Nations site has been granted permission to offer for cyber-sale the book "Stealing From Indians...Inside The Bureau of Indian Affairs - An Expose of Corruption, Massive, Fraud and Justice Denied...Advocating Freedom for American Indians and Federal Government Reform" You may refresh your memory re the BIA at http://www.pobox.com/~jsd/bur.html. Should anyone wish to "taste" this book I have an excerpt which amounts to about 80k...let me know if you'd like me to send it to you. The book is available to you in a compressed state: .zip (247K) for PC's and .sea (272K) for the Macintosh. Each file is self-extracting and you'd need nothing special to de-compress on your end. You'll end up with a straight ascii file with full table of contents, three sections, 31 chapters, and six appendixes. In it's non-compressed state the book stands at almost 700k and prints out to 190 pages of 9 point text. The book is jammed packed with relevant data. The cost is $10.00. This book is the foundation of the Native American Rights Funds' class action attack on the BIA and is a "must have" for those interested in indigenous affairs. Until I am able to get an order page up at the First Nations site, you may send your order to: J.S. Dill First Nations Promotions PO Box 129 South Pomfret, Vermont 05067 Your check or money order should be made out to First Nations Promotions. For those who do order, please let me know via private email that "the check is in the mail." :) Thanks for any time you might be able to grant to this... Nvwhtohiyada... First Nations/First Peoples Issues (4 Star Magellan site) http://www.pobox.com/~jsd/firstnations.html Wounded Knee Home Page http://www.pobox.com/~jsd/WKmasscre.html --------- "RE: Review: Sun Dancer" --------- Date: 18 Aug 1996 02:23:21 GMT From: brock@ucsub.Colorado.EDU (Steve Brock) Subj: Review of Sun Dancer by David London (fiction, NA) Newsgroups: rec.arts.books.reviews,rec.arts.books,alt.books.reviews, alt.native SUN DANCER by David London. Simon and Schuster, 1230 Avenue of the Americas, N.Y., NY 10020, (800) 223-2336, FAX: (212) 698-7007. 322 pp., $23.00 cloth. 0-689-81458-7 Reviewed by Steve Brock I walked out onto Jefferson's head and stared out at out Paha Sapa. green and sawtoothed, carved with roads here and there, but still beautiful... Far down below me, the two Rangers bolted out of the woods and into the Tourist Center. I sat down on the cool granite. I heard hawks calling out to one another. Everything was peaceful. Everything was ours. In "Sun Dancer," the Lakota fight for Paha Sapa (the center of the world - tourists and miners prefer to use the term "Black Hills"), rages on. London's debut novel recalls a short-lived and little-publicized event that took place in 1971, when twenty members of the American Indian Movement (AIM) seized Mount Rushmore and demanded that the U.S. government honor the Laramie Treaty of 1868. To do so, they would be forced to return Paha Sapa, as well as parts of Montana, Nebraska, Wyoming, and Colorado, to the Lakota people. In 1971, the protesters were dragged off the monument after twelve hours. In "Sun Dancer," the siege takes almost a week and there's bloodshed, but the outcome is a bit more hopeful. London, with a background in cultural anthropology, spent two summers on the Pine Ridge reservation, and his details of the Lakota passion for life and land (though he borrows several plot elements from Adrian Louis's "Skins"), are the most realistic I've read by a non-Indian novelist. His barbs at the Mormon and Catholic churches, anthropologists, and white visitors to Paha Sapa, are as sharp as the skewers that the Lakota use to pierce their flesh before they dance. "Sun Dance" focuses on two brothers, Clement Blue Chest and Joey Moves camp (who reminded me of Philbert and Buddy from David Seal's "Powwow Highway"and "Sweet Medicine"), as each prepares in his own way for the upcoming struggle. Clement, an alcoholic with a beer belly, dances in a Sun Dance and quests for a vision (the resulting revelation will guide later events), while Joey is recruited into the Tokalas, or Kit Foxes, a group of Vietnam veterans and AIM members bent on resurrecting one of the most- feared warrior societies (the most brazen member is an excommunicated white Jesuit priest with ties to El Salvador). While the actual capture of Mount Rushmore comes off more like a military exercise than a peaceful hunger strike, and most of the FBI and local cops seem like they stepped out of the movie "Thunderheart," Sun Dancer explodes with images that will burn the soul and make several Presidents hang their heads. Grade: A-. ----------------------------------------------------------------- Steve Brock Copyright c1996 Book Reviews on the Internet 2323 Mapleton Reviews are Boulder, CO 80304 available for (303) 786-7375 syndication brock@ucsub.colorado.edu http://ucsub.colorado.edu/~brock E-mail for Member: National Book Critic's Circle more info. --------- "RE: Poem: Diversity" --------- Date: 14 Jun 1996 11:19:05 -0700 From: "Cindi Page" Subj: Diversity DIVERSITY Diversity is a challenge We deal with every day Its something we can learn from As we pass through on our way A kaleidoscope of people Different colors and pieces fitting in To make a beautiful design And thats how we begin Accepting all our differences Red, Black, White, Gay or Straight Using understanding To replace bigotry and hate If we really took the time There is nothing we can't do You might learn from me And I could learn from you No more learning tolerance Its acceptance we should teach If we take the opportunity There is no goal that we can't reach Cindi Page 10/13/94 "Mohawk" --------- "RE: Verse: Hawai'ian Book of Days" --------- Date: 96/08/16 00:32 From: Debra F. Sanders (dfsanders@genie.geis.com) Subj: Verse: Hawai'ian Book of Days genie email A HAWAIIAN BOOK OF DAYS, week of August 25 AUKAKE (August) (Mahoe-mua) 25 Love is a golden bird singing in a green valley. 26 For the patient spirit, life holds many rewards. 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. (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, 22 August 96 08:00 -0500 From: Janet Smith (Evening Star) (jans@genie.com) Subj: Upcoming conferences and powwows not previously posted to Mailing Lists NATCHAT or NATIVE-L genie email Date: Sun, 18 Aug 1996 19:50:51 -0700 (PDT) From: Pat L Talley Subj: MA Student Ass. Powwow The Native American Student Association at the University of Texas at Arlington is proud to announce it's 2nd Annual Pow Wow November 3, 1996 Bluebonnet Ballroom - UTA Gourd Dance 2:00 - 5:00 Dinner Break 5:00-6:00 Grand Entry 6:30 Intertribal 7:00 - 10:00 Special thanks to the North Texas Veteran Assoc. for presentation of the Colors. Arts and crafts tables available for a $20.00 fee: Contact Joe Bohannon 817-320-2716 or NASA 817-273-2165 UTA All proceeds will go to a scholarship fund for the Native American Students of UTA, 1006 recipient will be announced at the pow wow. NASA PO Box 19348-73 Arlington TX 76019 817-273-2965 ext 9073 nasa@utarlg.uta.edu talley@netcom.com ------------------------------------- Date: Fri, 16 Aug 1996 11:16:32 From: berryj@okway.okstate.edu (John Berry) Subj: Wordcraft Circle - Maryland WORDCRAFT CIRCLE OF NATIVE WRITERS & STORYTELLERS AND WESTERN MARYLAND COLLEGE'S CROSS CULTURAL STUDIES PROGRAM Presents... NATIVE AMERICANS BRIDGING GENERATIONS THROUGH WRITING, FILMS, PLAYS AND STORIES A community core Educational Conference Friday Noon to Saturday Afternoon Oct. 25-26, 1996 Western Maryland College Westminster, Maryland Intensive Writing Workshops led by... Charles Brashear, (Cherokee), Ph.D., Creative Writing, U. of Denver, Boulder, CO, Emeritus Professor of Creative Writing, San Diego State U., Recent Publications: Contemporary Insanities (MacDonald & Reinecke, 1990; The Invasion of Alcatraz in (Callaloo), 1994 Lee Francis, (Laguna Pueblo) Ph.D., Higher Education and Social Change, Western Institute for Social Research, Berkeley, CA. A respected educator and author, he is the National Director of Wordcraft Circle of Native writers and author of: Native Time: An Historical Timetable of Native America. Rayna Green, (Cherokee), Ph.D., is the Director of the American Indian Program of the National Museum of American History (Smithsonian Institute). Her work in audio and video include: "We are Here: 500 Years of Pueblo Resistance" and "American Indian History on Radio". Suzanne Rancourt (Abenaki), MFA, Vermont College of Norwich U., graduate student in Educational Psychology, Syracuse U. of New York. She is a poet, songwriter, singer and painter. Her poetry has been published in Sun Tracks, Callaloo, Tamaqua, Albany Review. ...and many more established and emerging writers, film makers, and storytellers. For more information please contact: Rosemary McCombs Maxey or Philosophy & Religious Studies Dept. Regional Coordinator Western Maryland College 24 New Windsor Rd. (410)857-2560 or 857-2460 Westminister, MD 21157 (410)857-4541 John Berry ------------------------------------- Date: 15 Aug 96 16:30:40 GMT From: labowman@wesnet.com (Lisa Bowman) Subj: CLOTHING DRIVE FUNDS NEEDED Newsgroups: alt.native The Miami Valley Council for Native Americans is now holding its 4th annual Children's Clothing and School Supply Drive. Winter clothing, sizes infant to 14, and school supplies are needed. CASH DONATIONS are sorely needed to pay for shipping donations to Standing Rock and Cheyenne River Reservations in the Dakotas. For more information contact labowman@wesnet.com or send donations to the MVCNA at P.O. Box 3203 N. Main St. Dayton OH 45405 (513)275-8599 Donations are GREATLY appreciated and tax deductible. Drive ends Aug. 31. ------------------------------------- ------------------------------------------------------------------------- --//--//--//--//--//--//--//--//--//--//--//--//--//--//--//--//--//--//-- 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: Mohawk Nation Office at Kahnawake, Ann Stewart, North American Spirit Lodge, Janet Smith, Ishgooda, Debra Sanders, Cindi Page, Jordan S. Dill, Bernard J. Rock, Sr., Gaines Johnson via Harry S. Pariser(Call for Help), Rod Whited via Mike (NASL), Mike Thee, Pat L Talley, Bernadette Chato, Rose Edwards (Press Release) -//--//--//--//--//--//--//--//--//--//--//--//--//--//--//--//--//--//-- ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ Part B of this newsletter has already been distributed via the NATIVE-L or NATCHAT mailing lists. --------- "RE: Conferences and Powwows - online" --------- Date: Thu, 22 August 96 08:00 -0500 From: Janet Smith (Evening Star) (jans@genie.com) Subj: Upcoming conferences and powwows already posted to Mailing Lists NATCHAT or NATIVE-L genie email Date: Tue, 20 Aug 1996 12:55:53 -0400 From: ecrowley@ci.shrewsbury.ma.us (Edward Crowley) Subj: Chaubunnagungamaug Nipmuck Pow-Wow (7-8 Sept., Oxford, MA) Mailing List: NATIVE-L (native-l@gnosys.svle.ma.us) Chaubunnagungamaug Nipmuck 16th Annual POW-WOW Sat. & Sun. Sept 7 & 8, 1996 11:00 A.M. to 6:00 P.M. Rain or Shine! Held at the Greenbriar Recreational Center Rte 12 Oxford, Mass Grounds open to the public 11am to 6pm daily Admission: $.99, under 12 $.50 For information call (508) 865-9828 Ask for Loving One * Naming ceremony * Authentic Dancing * Door Prizes * Cold drinks, coffee, burgers & 'dogs * Tee-Pee display, weather permitting * Souvenirs * Hand-made crafts * Chanting & drumming From the north - 290 south to 395 south, exit at N. Oxford From the south - 395 north to Oxford exit, 12 north to powwow exit 5 - Depot Road I will be there so stop and say hello. Hope to see you there. Tell them you saw this on the 'net'. Wanishi, Black Wolf /\_/\ ((0 0)) +------------------------oOO---\o/---OOo-------------------------+ + Edward (Black Wolf) Crowley Jr. Shrewsbury Electric Light + + PC/Lan Manager 100 Maple Ave. + + Telephone: (508)845-4850 Shrewsbury Ma. 01545 + + Internet: ecrowley@ci.shrewsbury.ma.us + +----------------------------------------------------------------+ | G E N E R I C D I S C L A I M E R | | Any statements and or views are my own and not that of | | Shrewsbury Electric Light or the Town of Shrewsbury. | +----------------------------------------------------------------+ Date: Fri, 16 Aug 1996 22:22:59 -0700 From: cmilda@goodnet.com (Chris Milda (_Akimel O`odham_)) Subj: Native American Student Networking Mailing List: NATIVE-L (native-l@gnosys.svle.ma.us) NATIVE AMERICAN STUDENT NETWORKING THURSDAY, AUGUST 29 2-5 PM STUDENT UNION, RINCON ROOM 2:00 Introduction and welcome 2:30 Presentation on Native American Programs 3:15 "Surviving at The University of Arizona" student and Faculty Panel 4:15 Browsing session with the information table from Tucson Indian Community (IHS, Tucson Indian Ctr. etc...and campus service Organization) 5:00 Door Prizes!! 5:30 Back to school Picnic at Himmel Park (Food will be provided. Families are welcome !!) This gathering is for all undergraduate, graduate and pro- fessional students and Native American Faculty and Staff. If you have any questions or need further information, please call the Native American Resource Center at (520)621-3835 or the American Indian Graduate Center at (520) 621-7989. FREE REFRESHMENTS!! FREE REFRESHMENTS!! FREE REFRESHMENTS!! --------- "RE: Sacred Sites at Risk" --------- Date: Wed, 14 Aug 1996 11:29:43 -0500 From: mthee@execpc.com (Mike Thee) Subj: sacred sites at risk! Mailing List: NATIVE-L (native-l@gnosys.svle.ma.us) ACTION ALERT****ACTION ALERT****ACTION ALERT**** SACRED SITES AT RISK!!!!!!! TO WHOM IT MAY CONCERN FROM: MEDICINE WHEEL ALLIANCE NICOL PRICE, COORDINATOR RE: TWO ISSUES: (1) THE HISTORIC PRESERVATION MANAGEMENT PLAN FOR THE MEDICINE WHEEL NATIONAL HISTORIC LANDMARK AND VICINITY; AND (2) THE RESTRUCTURING OF THE ADVISORY COUNCIL ON HISTORIC PRESERVATION. MEDICINE WHEEL/MEDICINE MOUNTAIN The seven signatory parties have finally put together a management plan that will encompass 20,000 acres of medicine mountain and this document is now out for review and there is a 30 day comment period under the NEPA process. People need to request there copies of the HPP and Draft EA from the Big Horn Forest Service, 1969 S. Sheridan Ave., Sheridan, WY 28201 or Call (307)672-0751. We are being told the comment period will end September 9th. Basically the document is sound and it will allow us to walk hand in hand into the future with the forest service on management of this very important sacred site an area. It's a working document and will need a lot of refining to make it a better one. If you or anyone else has questions on the document they could also call the Alliance for more in-depth information. There are only two areas of concern in the document now; one is under recreation and the mention of a new fence. We oppose any new fence which would encompass more area than what is already behind barbwire and believe this should be a separate EA process and want the Alliance's submitted version of forest service to do business as usual after consultation. RESTRUCTURING OF THE ADVISORY COUNCIL HISTORIC PRESERVATION STAFF AND EASTERN AND WESTERN OFFICES. Anyone who deals with the Historic Preservation Act and the Section 108 process needs to be concerned about what is happening to the Ad Council since the budget cuts. A very ugly plan to consolidate the power of the Ad Council with one man in DC and to leave it up to him to make ALL DECISIONS IN WASHINGTON DC THAT EFFECT CULTURAL RESOURCES OR TRADITIONAL CULTURAL PROPERTIES IS NOW BEING DISCUSSED. The western office of Review in Denver would be taken out of the decision- making process and we feel probably done away with in the near future and so all decisions on cultural resources and the Section 106 process would be made by a handful of men in Washington DC. Voice your concerns over this and the West losing our decision-making power to Belt Way staff personnel. Voice your support for the Western Office of Review. The Western Office remaining the decision maker for cultural resources in the west and for stronger support of budget monies and authority in the West. I cannot stress enough what this restructuring would do to the important issues that people in the West must address. There would be no voice for the people in the west. You need to, before August 26, call or write one of these people and voice your concerns about losing your voice in the west and decisions being made outside of our area. The Western Office of Review should be supported both in personnel and budget at a higher degree then the Eastern or DC office. Ask for this support. Make the phone calls! It will have an affect. Call: James Huhta, Board Member of Ad Council Major Emanuel Cleaver II Middle Tennessee State University Mayor of Kansas City P.O. Box 80 Kansas City, MO 64106-2778 Murfreesboro, TN 37132 (816) 274-2595 (615) 898-2947 Kathy Slater, Chairperson Ad Council Governor Roy Romer Arkansas Historic Preservation Program 136 State Capitol 323 Center St. Suite 1500 Denver, CO 80203 Little Rock, AR 72201 (303) 866-2471 (501) 324-9880 For more information, please contact Nicol Price, Coordinator of the Medicine Wheel Alliance at 406-348-2079 or Mike Thee at Honor Our Neighbors Origins and Rights (HONOR) at 414-963-1324 or by e-mail at mthee@earth.execpc.com . --------- "RE: American Indians with Disabilities" --------- Date: Sun, 18 Aug 1996 19:54:46 -0700 From: talley@netcom.com (Pat L Talley) Subj: TX Am Indians w Disabilities Needed Mailing List: NATIVE-L (native-l@gnosys.svle.ma.us) American Indians with Disabilities Needed Purpose The purpose of our study is to better understand the needs and interests of American Indians who have disabilities (for example: diabetes, heart trouble, arthritis, and so on) and who live in the Dallas-Fort Worth and Houston metro-areas. History of the Project The survey has been developed with the involvement of Indian organizations and Indian people who have disabilities. Meetings were held in Texas where the most important issues identified by the people attending were put into a questionnaire. Procedure You are being asked to respond to the questionnaire in an interview that should take approximately two hours. You will receive $20 in appreciation for your time. You will be asked to answer several questions about yourself, and to identify problems you may have related to your disability. You will not be identified in any way in any reports that discuss the results of this study. Your answers will also be kept confidential; the interviewer has been instructed not to, under any circumstances, discuss your answers with any other person. If there are any questions you do not want to answer, you may refuse to answer them. You may also end the interview before it is completed it you wish. Benefits As a result of your participation in this interview, service providers in Dallas-Ft Worth and Houston, Texas will have a better understanding of the needs and interests of American Indians who have disabilities. You will also have the opportunity to attend a public meeting where the results of our study will be presented and your questions answered. Your recommendations for an improved service delivery system in Dallas-Ft Worth and Houston can also be presented at that time and will become a part of our final report. For more information contact: Dallas-Ft Worth: Joe Bohanon (Choctaw) 140 Cobblestone Row Denton, TX 76207 817-320-2716 Houston: Virginia Ferrell (Choctaw) PO Box 720031 Houston TX 77272 713-695-8036 Robert M Schacht, Ph D American Indian Rehabilitation Research and Training Center PO Box 5630 Flagstaff, AZ 86011-5630 800-553-0714 talley@netcom.com --------- "RE: Keweenaw Bay Update" --------- Date: Tue, 20 Aug 1996 01:15:35 -0400 From: baragarose@up.net (Rose Edwards) Subj: Keweenaw Bay Update Mailing List: NATIVE-L (native-l@gnosys.svle.ma.us) FIGHT FOR JUSTICE ASSININS, MI 49908 TEL 906-353-6836 FAX 906-353-6800 PRESS RELEASE - FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE On Thursday August 16, 1996, Father John Hascall, O.F.M. Cap., confirmed with the Keweenaw Bay Tribal Police that a warrant was issued thru the Tribal Prosecutor Gregor MacGregor III's office. The Tribal Police did not discuss the particulars of the warrant with Fr. John, saying he could see the warrant when they arrest him. Tribal Police hinted to Fr. John through the media that if he turned himself in, it would avoid a confrontation on the hill. When Fr. John called the Tribal Police they hastily read some of the counts. From other sources, Fr. John has learned there are nine counts on the warrant which alleges that Fr John committed conspiracy, injury to trees, cutting trees without a permit, obstructing justice, trespassing, illegal entry of land; these are the only charges that Fr. John can find out about. Fight For Justice wants to emphasize that Fr. John Hascall has in no way conspired with Fight For Justice in any way in the take over of the Tribal Center building or any of the subsequent actions of Fight For Justice. Fr. John Hascall has only provided needed spiritual advice and sanctuary of the Roman Catholic Church to individuals fighting for their basic human civil rights. Fr. John Hascall is a member of the Sault Ste. Marie band of Chippewa Indians. He has stated that, "sanctuary is a right, not a privilege and that it is his duty as a priest to provide the protection under a law older than most others. I always stand for people and justice. I'm always going to be there. It's the teaching of the Church." Fr. John has also stated that, "the bond provisions are a violation of the Religious Freedom Act." Members of Fight For Justice who have been arrested have been extorted by excessive high cash bonds, (whereas Tribal Chairman Fred Dakota's grandson & nephew of Chief Tribal Judge Brad Dakota, is released on a personal recognizance bond for Grand larceny) and forbidden to attend mass and Native American spiritual ceremonies, which is also a violation of the Native American Religious Freedom Act. One such individual is Judy Smith, Great Granddaughter of Chief Sitting Bull of the Sioux Nation and a Keweenaw Bay tribal member. Judy has been sitting in Marquette Co. jail since August 11, 1996 because she will not agree to the provisions of the bond forbidding her from attending church and spiritual ceremonies. Fr. John said, "many of his parishioners are afraid to come to mass and attend native ceremonies fearing they will be fired from their tribal jobs." Fight For Justice would like to thank Fr. John and the Church for not caving into pressure from the bogus tribal council and the tribal chairman, who is presently awaiting trial for federal charges of conspiracy, tax evasion and the taking of illegal kickbacks, in offering sanctuary to individuals who are fighting the corrupt tribal government of the Keweenaw Bay Indian Community. The tribal government is being aided in carrying out the atrocities against members of the tribal community by a non-Indian Public Relations Specialist, Rich Rossway , a non-Indian Judge, Douglas B. Gurski and also a non-Indian tribal prosecutors office issuing trumped up charges for political reasons. For More information on the struggle of Fight For Justice visit Internet site http://www.up.net/~rose/native/native.html To protest the housing of political prisoners, call Marquette county jail at 906-228-6980. --------- "RE: Native Radio Producers/Reporters" --------- Date: Wed, 14 Aug 1996 12:32:35 -0600 From: chato@unm.edu (Bernadette Chato) Subj: Native radio producers/reporters needed Mailing List: NATIVE-L (native-l@gnosys.svle.ma.us) ATTENTION -- *Native America Calling* is recruiting native radio producers and reporters; all levels of experience. If you know of someone, please pass along this information. They don't have to work at an AIROS-affiliated radio station. Thanks! * * * * * * FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE Contact: Bernadette Chato 505-277-5354 chato@unm.edu IMPLEMENTING FEATURES INTO *NATIVE AMERICA CALLING* Native America Calling is working toward incorporating features into its daily talk show. Since NAC is an innovative program in terms of indigenous broadcasting, it now wants to take an active role in the nurturing of native radio producers. It's envisioned that producers at AIROS-affiliated stations will produce short features and that these features will be incorporated into NAC's daily discussions. There is currently a shortage of native producers and reporters. The NAC Features Producer will work with interested personnel and volunteers at each of the AIROS-affiliated stations to assist them in developing their production skills. By encouraging the development of native producers and reporters and providing a forum for their work, NAC will allow native people to present their communities to a larger listening audience. In turn NAC listeners will be able to get a better understanding of native communities. Native America Calling celebrated its one-year anniversary June 5, 1996. The program, billed as the nation's first "electronic talking circle," uses its call-in format to engage listeners into conversations with experts and noted guests about issues of the day. NAC airs live each weekday at 1 p.m. Eastern Time. The program is distributed on a national basis via the Public Radio Satellite System by the American Indian Radio on Satellite Network (AIROS). NAC is a production of Native American Public Telecommunications, Inc. Offices for Native America Calling are located in Albuquerque, New Mexico. The program is produced at the studios of KUNM at the University of New Mexico. The Features Producer for Native America Calling can be reached at 505-277-5354 or by fax at 505-277-4286. Address correspondence to PO Box 40164, Albuquerque, NM 87196, or e-mail to chato@unm.edu. * * * * * * * NATIVE AMERICA CALLING GUIDELINES FOR FEATURES Native America Calling is a weekday hour-long talk show produced in Albuquerque, New Mexico. The program is distributed on the Public Radio Satellite System by the American Indian Radio on Satellite Network (AIROS). Native America Calling is heard on twenty-two public radio stations, mostly in western states and Alaska. It is designed as a live call-in show discussing issues of the day. Native America Calling solicits features for its daily program. Preference is given to native reporters. Features must be culturally sensitive and accurate. -All work produced for Native America Calling is to be done under the supervision and guidance of the NAC Features Producer. -Produced features are to be three to four minutes in length, plus a lead for NAC host to read. -Independent reporters are paid a flat fee, based on experience, for produced features. -Reporters, under special arrangement with Features Producer, that submit raw tape of interviews are paid by the hour. Payment is made after work is received. -Native America Calling does not pay for travel expenses or other expenses incurred during the production of a feature. -Reporters are not paid residuals for additional use of their work. -Native America Calling will not pay for features that are unsolicited or not approved. SUBMITTING A REPORT -All reports accepted by NAC are either assigned or approved by the Features Producer, although you are welcome to pitch a topic for a feature. Call the Features Producer and have a focus statement prepared. -The Features Producer will specify the subject and scope of the feature, the deadline for submission, and what delivery service is to be used upon completion of feature. EDITS -Every submission must go through a phone edit with the Features Producer before the report is aired. The script must be faxed to NAC prior to the edit; fax to 505-277-4286. For the edit, be prepared to read your narration and to play actualities and sound elements over the phone. SOUND QUALITY All reports submitted to NAC must be of broadcast quality. -Record levels: Set to 0 dB; okay if occasionally peaks in the "red." -Mike placement: Mike should be placed two to six inches from the mouth, angled between the chin and the mouth. -Ambient sound: Always record a minimum of two minutes of ambient sound each time you record. This can help when it comes to editing and mixing. -Intrusive sound: Avoid intrusive sounds (traffic, phone ringing, baby crying, etc.) when recording an interview or recording elements for your report. NARRATION -Read your script in a relaxed, conversational style with no stumbles. -When writing your script, avoid the word "Indian." Instead use "native," "Native American," or "indigenous." Keep in mind, though, that Native Americans are diverse; not just one group. Therefore we prefer you use tribal names. CONTENT -It's important to have native voices when covering native issues. Keep in mind our target audience is native and predominately rural. -It's essential for your report to be about people and what they're doing. We want human interest stories with texture. Remember NAC is a talk show. Therefore your feature should not be just talk; rather, tell a story using descriptive narrative and sound. SIGN OFF "For Native America Calling, I'm (name) in (place)." TECHNICAL CONSIDERATIONS -Use a hand-held microphone. Omnidirectional is preferred; it will pick up more ambient sound than a unidirectional mic. If you want to cut down background sound, try using a cardiod microphone, but keep in mind that moving the mic between two people may give you inconsistent levels. The pickup pattern on a cardiod is different than an omni which will pickup in all directions. -Use good recording tape: -In the field, use chrome cassettes that are 60 to 90 minutes in length. If reusing tape, make sure you bulk erase it first. -Reel-to-reel tape use 1.5 mil at 15 ips (preferred) or 7.5 ips is acceptable. DAT permissible instead of reel-to-reel. -Make sure cables are in good shape and are making good connections. Connectors should be clean. -Remember--Always do a test before you begin recording and check your levels. FINAL PRODUCT -If you wish, you may mix your piece (which we encourage) or we can do it. However, when sending your feature you must include all tracks, whether or not you submit a mixed version. Include test tone at the beginning. All elements can be on one reel (separated by 1.5-2 feet of leader) or DAT, in this order: 1. Narration tracks in order and separated by leader (if reel). 2. Actuality cuts in order and separated by leader (if reel). 3. Sound FX or music in order and separated by leader (if reel). 4. Ambient sound in order and separated by leader (if reel). -You must include a typed script with clear instructions so we can do the mix; instructions on the left, audio on the right. MAILING -NAC prefers you to mail your submission by general U.S. mail. If necessary, we will ask you to send it by Federal Express. Mail costs are reimbursable when approved by the Features Producer. Address submissions to: The University of New Mexico c/o KUNM Native America Calling Oate 318 Girard & Campus Blvds. NE Albuquerque, NM 87131 * * * * * * * -The NAC Features Producer will provide editorial guidance. NAC will always maintain a professional attitude toward your work; however, NAC retains editorial control over any report aired on its program. The Features Producer can be reached at 505-277- 5354 weekdays. Sorry we cannot accept collect calls. ---------------------------------------------------------------------------- Bernadette Chato, Features Producer Snail Mail: PO Box 40164 NATIVE AMERICA CALLING Albuquerque, NM 87196 The Nation's 1st Electronic Talking Circle 505-277-5354/FAX 505-277-4286 Heard on public radio stations! E-mail: chato@unm.edu