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                    ( N A T I V E    A M E R I C A N   N E W S )

 This issue contains articles from Triballaw, NAT-WORK & NATIVE-L listservers;
    Newsgroups:  apc.indig.info,soc.culture.native,alt.native,hr.indigenous;
                           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.

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   Kanoheda Aniyvwiya is being redistributed via a listserver.
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   issues for that year.

   "I believe much trouble and blood would be saved if we opened our
    hearts more.  I will tell you in my way how the Indian sees things. The
    white man has more words to tell you how they look to him, but it does
    not require many words to speak the truth."
   __ Chief Joseph, Nez Perce

  +- -- -- -- -- -- -- -- -- -- -- -+
  |   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!

   Before my own words this must be shared.  A child is missing.  Help find
 this lost innocent.
 Date: Tue, 29 Oct 1996 08:07:31 -0800
 From: Linda Crist <linda@bare-wisdom.org>
 Subj: Missing child, URGENT....PLEASE READ

 PLEASE!!!!!

 Go to http://jimmyasap.org/guevarra.htm to see details of a critical
 situation involving a missing child from Big Water, Utah.

 Download the flyer and distribute it AND this message to every resource
 you have.  Link the URL to your web page or post to every newsgroup you
 follow.  Let's use this technology to bring a child home!

 A reward has been offered but let's help find this child because we care,
 not because of European greed.
 ------------------------------------------------------------------------
   There has been speculation that the center for Western Hemisphere Indian
 Culture was Southern Mexico into Central America and that smaller
 populations moved north and south from there?  Of course, this flies in
 the face of those who keep harping on the Siberian land bridge theory.
 There is now some evidence that, if the land bridge theory is valid, that
 the travel was _from_ Turtle Island.

   Many of our own ancestors tell us we have been here for as long as "here"
 has existed.  Often, this is scoffed at because there is no written proof.
 Oral tradition is usually derisively referred to as "myth" by those who
 reject these truths.

   If the U. N. Bill of Rights were truly honored there might be a Cree
 Province in Canada or a Mayan Republic in Central America based on the
 population residing in these areas.  It is not likely this will ever happen,
 any more than it is likely Cherokee will take their case back to the U. S.
 Supreme Court and reclaim that part of Georgia granted them before the
 Relocation.

   If any readers of this newsletter have views on this they would like
 to share please forward your articles to me.  It is time we went about
 the business of un-reinventing history.

 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
 - Cherokee Elders Council               - Conferences and Powwows - online
 - Maori & Autonomous A.I.M.             - Advocate for Peltier
 - Fate of Indigenous People             - Leech Lake Recall Vote
 - Peltier Resists Frame-up              - ICWA Fight to Begin Anew
 - Chief Coon Come at Harvard            - Cowlitz Rebirth
 - Defying the Census                    - ELZN is not Weak
 - New Age vs. Resolution 102            - Environmental Impact Statement
 - Big Mountain Factsheet                - A Hero's Voice
 - Family Seeks to Halt Exploitation
 - Taino Unity & Peace
 - Violence Against Activists
 - Oneida Nation's Gifts
 - Nez Perce Housing Job
 - EPA Jobs
 - Poem: Togetherness
 - Verse: Hawai'ian Book of Days
 - Conferences and Powwows - offline

 --------- "RE: Cherokee Elders Council" ---------

 Date: Wed, 23 Oct 1996 11:31:53 -0500
 From: Cherokee Observer <cwyob@mailhost.galstar.com>
 Subj: Cherokee Elders Council Press Release

   Newsgroups: alt.native,soc.culture.native

 October 15, 1996
 Pryor, OK.
                      P R E S S    R E L E A S E
 From:  Paul B. Thomas, Chief Elder, Cherokee Elders Council
 To:  All Concerned Media and Press
 Re:  Activities of the Cherokee Elders Council, "The Cherokee Wisdom
 Givers"

      The newly formed Cherokee Elders Council, which did not have a
 voice among the Cherokee people for more than 150 years, will be
 conducting it's fifth monthly meeting (the 1st Tuesday of each month) on
 Tuesday, November 5, 1996, 6:00 PM at the Mayes County Courthouse in
 Pryor, Oklahoma.
      James Ballard will be our special speaker on the subject of
 vocational rehabilitation services offered to Cherokees by tribal
 government.
      The Cherokee Elders Council will be honoring Judge Dwight Birdwell,
 Chief Justice of the Cherokee Supreme Court, for Judge Birdwell's
 service in VietNam, the court decision in the 1995 Cherokee election
 controversy, and his environmental efforts in preserving our land.  The
 Whitepath Foundation will also honor Judge Dwight Birdwell.
      The Cherokee Elders Council is a nonpartisan group of Cherokee
 Elder activists, not affiliated with any other Cherokee band or nation,
 with no legal authority, offering opinions to elected and nonelected
 officials and valuable resources information to anyone of Cherokee descent
 who seeks its advice.
      The Cherokee Elders Council conducts a forum at each meeting to
 listen to the general public and will seek consensus of opinion on all
 matters brought before it.  As it is stated in Cherokee Elder Council
 By-Laws, the Council will become involved in all phases of any community
 activity where Cherokee people are living; shall be of assistance to all
 Cherokees, wherever those Cherokee people are located geographically;
 shall be a facilitating forum for all Cherokees where opinions and
 grievances may be stated and recorded--and preserved in the Council
 archives.
      Note:  all local and national press and the general public are
 invited to attend the November 5th meeting.
                  ----End of Release--
 Press release by:  Paul B. Thomas, Chief Elder, 583 S. Mill St., Suite
 711, Pryor, OK.  74361
 Contact numbers:  FAX (918) 825-4884
 Paul B. Thomas, Chief Elder, (918) 825-1161 (Pryor)
 Jasper Swake, Deputy Chief Elder (918) 825-3492 (Pryor)
 Ben Shoemake, Vice-Deputy Chief Elder (918) 743-3049 (Tulsa)
 Fannie Livingston, Elder, Secretary (918) 683-8632 (Muskogee)
 This Press Release posted courtesy of your only independent Cherokee
 newspaper, THE CHEROKEE OBSERVER.

 --------- "RE: Maori & Autonomous A.I.M." ---------

 Date: Mon, 28 Oct 1996 10:39:58 GMT
 From: netwarriors@hookele.com (Indigenous Peoples Global Caucus - Geneva)
 Subj: Maori & Autonomous A.I.M. Delegations Depart Working Group

   Newsgroups:  apc.indig.info,soc.culture.native,alt.native

 Internet Release
 28 October 1996
 MAORI DELEGATION AND AUTONOMOUS AMERICAN INDIAN MOVEMENT
 DEPART WORKING GROUP
 ______________________________________________________________________
 N E T W A R R I O R S                          netwarriors@hookele.com
 INDIGENOUS PEOPLES GLOBAL CAUCUS        http://hookele.com/netwarriors
                    Intersessional Working Group
                               on the
  UNITED NATIONS DRAFT DECLARATION ON THE RIGHTS OF INDIGENOUS PEOPLES
                         Geneva, Switzerland
                           28 October 1996
 ______________________________________________________________________
 Please redistribute this report as widely and quickly as possible.
 Please make Action Alert links to the Netwarriors web site.
 Please urge the media to cover this issue.
 Please continue to contact your government representatives.
 Please continue to send statements of support to:
     Fax:      (+41 22) 917 0303
     ATTN:     INDIGENOUS PEOPLES GLOBAL CAUCUS
     E-mail:   netwarriors@hookele.com

 Support Statements:  http://hookele.com/netwarriors/support.html
 Thank you!
 (note: the hookele.com server was unavailable intermittently on
 Sunday, if you tried to get through and couldn't, but it seems to be
 stable again now)
 ______________________________________________________________________
 MAORI DELEGATION AND AUTONOMOUS AMERICAN INDIAN MOVEMENT DEPART
 WORKING GROUP
   The Maori Delegation and the Autonomous American Indian Movement have
 departed from the Working Group refusing to participate in a process
 which does not include indigenous peoples and nations involvement on
 a equal level with states (countries).
   Some delegations have chosen to be present only to observe in order
 to report on the actions of the working group, and others are
 continuing in the deliberations in hope of making some progress.
   All are unanimous that the Draft Declaration should not be weakened
 by states, and that indigenous representatives must have equal
 participation for the process to be legitimate.
   The documents below and others have been added to the Netwarriors Web
 Site over the weekend.
   More documents will be posted soon on today's events as we head into
 the second week of the Working Group.
   ______________________________________________________________________
   Excerpts from the DEPARTURE STATEMENT of the AUTONOMOUS AMERICAN
 INDIAN MOVEMENT, 24 Oct 1996
    Full Text:  http://hookele.com/netwarriors/aim.html
    "Participation is meaningless without the consensus of the
    Working Group also including the decision-making contribution of
    Indigenous Peoples and nations on an equal level with states."
    "...indigenous delegates made it clear that no changes that
    would serve to weaken the document would be acceptable. Despite
    this clear indigenous position, states have taken great liberty
    in suggesting changes and alterations to the Draft, designed to
    destroy most of the positive content of an admittedly imperfect
    document."
    "It is also clear that powerful states, such as the United
    States, will not allow a genuine expression of self-determination,
    collective rights, or territorial rights to be embodied in the
    Draft."
    "We will not allow our presence or our participation in this
    forum which is organized in a manner that is contrary and
    hostile to our understanding of respect and participation, to be
    construed as lending either tacit or active consent to this
    process."

 Excerpt from the STATEMENT by the MASSAI OF KENYA, 25 Oct 1996
    Full Text:  http://hookele.com/netwarriors/maa.html
    "Today, the indigenous peoples have been made to understand that
    their many years of working in drafting and redrafting the draft
    Declaration has been an exercise in futility. We are also
    worried that the new open-ended inter-sessional working group
    may or may not consider the draft Declaration according to the
    wishes of indigenous peoples. This is totally unacceptable to us
    as indigenous peoples which the draft Declaration is supposed
    to benefit. As it now stands, unless there are some drastic
    changes, the draft Declaration has been effectively taken out of
    our hands and put into the hands of the very governments that are
    oppressing us and which have the most to gain if our rights are
    minimised."

 Excerpts from STATEMENT by ABORIGINAL and TORRES STRAIT ISLANDERS, 25 Oct 1996
    Full Text:  http://hookele.com/netwarriors/aboriginal.html
    "Whilst we are profoundly troubled by the interruption of
    dialogue between representatives of Indigenous nations and
    peoples and Member States here this week, we have not yet lost
    faith in the capacity of this Working Group, in time, to arrive
    at an understanding of our aspirations and entitlements.
    We believe that in the process of adopting a UN Declaration on
    the Rights of Indigenous Peoples, time is on the side of
    Indigenous peoples. We continue to believe that through
    perseverance with this process, it will be possible to achieve
    consensus on the provisions of the Declaration, as it presently
    stands."

 Excerpts from STATEMENT by HUNKPAPA TREATY COUNCIL, 25 Oct 1996
    Full Text:  http://hookele.com/netwarriors/hunkpapa.html
    "We do not want our children to suffer and to struggle for
    survival under the conditions that we have had to face. We want
    them to live freely upon our homelands, to benefit from our own
    resources and to continue to practice our traditional values,
    customs and beliefs. We cannot wait another forty years for the
    Declaration to be adopted and recognized by the United States.
    In conclusion, we will not wait for false hopes and promises to
    be given to our children. We will respect and enforce our own
    inherent rights and continue to exercise the right of
    self-determination as the Lakotah people."
 ______________________________________________________________________
 The following documents have also been added:
 UNPO MONITOR - Draft SUMMARY of the PRINCIPAL POINTS Raised 22 October 1996
    http://hookele.com/netwarriors/unpo1.html
 ADVISORY MEMO on INDIGENOUS NGO PARTICIPATION and the METHODS OF WORK
 of the Intersessional Working Group
    http://hookele.com/netwarriors/memo.html
 Documents have also been added in Spanish, including the text of the Draft.

 --------- "RE: Fate of Indigenous People" ---------

 Date: 24 Oct 1996 09:12:23 GMT
 From: bennett@ami.com.au@ami.com.au
 Subj: THE FATE OF INDIGENOUS PEOPLE

   Newsgroup: soc.culture.native

 THE FATE OF INDIGENOUS PEOPLE
 by Robert Bropho, Nyungah Elder, Australia

 TO CRYSTAL ECHOHAWK NETWARRIOR
 AND NETWARRIORS Indigenous Peoples Global Caucus Geneva 1996
 Latin America  MARCELO ORELLANA Coordinacion Pueblos Indigenous Centro y
 Sud America
 Pacific MOANA SINCLAIR Te Kawau Maro,
 North America STEVE NEWCOMB Indigenous Law Institute
 East Asia BORIS VOYER International Working Group on Indigenous Affairs
 LORI POURIER Indigenous Womens Network
 KEKULA B. CRAY-CRAWFORD Pacific Peoples Indigenous Organisation
 Committee/IITC.
 (To Steve and all the Indigenous People working with you - OUR STRENGTH
 BE WITH YOU)

   As one of the 12 Indigenous Spiritual Elders of the World this is calling
 on the other 11 Spiritual Elders of the World to work from within the
 areas that they are situated and to expand out and call on all other
 indigenous  Peoples and Communities and Organisations that this is
 A CALL FOR UNITING TOGETHER to support and fight on one front IN GENEVA
 to counter-attack the Racism and the Bad Attitude that is killing our
 People out and destroying our Land.
   The forefront of this fight has to be taken to Geneva to whatever
 organisations claim they respect the Basic Human Rights of Indigenous
 People of the World.
   The killing of Indigenous People and the destroying of the Forest and
 carving up of the Land, digging from deep within our Mother the Land and
 destroying Her and torturing her First Children, that is we, the
 Indigenous People of the World IS GENOCIDE.
   The Centre Pole has been erected in Manu Ariki Marae in Aotearoa (New
 Zealand) for all Indigenous People from all the Global Parts of the World
 to assemble there every two years.  That's where we've got to fight from,
 within outwards to all parts of the World where the slaughter and genocide
 and the clearing of the Forest and ripping up their Homegrounds and
 destroying their Waterways and depriving them of their Basic Human Rights
 which is their Sacred Culture, Sense of Belonging, their Destiny.
   As a Spiritual Elder representing the next 7 generations of Youth of
 Australia linked up with the other 11 Spiritual Elders of the World
 and as  a Nyungah Elder of the Indigenous Nyungah People of the Swan
 Valley, the  Last of the River People, this Call for Unity is a matter
 of Life and Death and we the Indigenous People have got to make a stand
 now and support our  Brothers and Sisters in Geneva and support all other
 Indigenous People in all parts of the World.
   We ask the United Nations in Geneva, we ask the Human Rights Commission,
 we ask Amnesty International, we ask Survival International, we ask the
 World Council of Churches, we ask the International Labour Organisation,
 we ask the World Court, we ask the International Court of Justice, we ask
 all  People concerned with Basic Human Rights to stop this killing of our
 People immediately and stop the continuing on of destroying the
 Forests and the Waterways and our Lands no matter where we are.

 This is Genocide.
   Sovereignty belongs to each Indigenous Nation of the World. Sovereignty
 has to come first. That's our Basic Human Right, it is the White Race
 of People of the World that's destroying the Globe.
   The sickness that is killing out the population of the World including
 the Indigenous People of the World is Greed and Lust for Power. If this
 is not stopped Total Destruction will take place and destroy everyone.
   The Australian Government has deprived the First People, the Aboriginal
 People of their Land, their Respect from within themselves and their
 Basic Human Rights denying them to be Planners of their own Destiny.
 Again it comes down to one thing - Lust for Power and Greed. Australia
 is a rich country but the First People are still living in poverty.
   We are a Nation of People and our Basic Human Rights is Sovereignty of
 our own Home which is our Land our Mother and we are deprived of that.
 They invaded us with the gun in one hand, the flag in the other and the
 Bible in their back pocket. We are not asking the white man to go home
 but to SHOW RESPECT and recognise us and our Sovereignty as the First
 People and stop destroying us as a Race of People.
   We are Political Prisoners in our own Home. We are not allowed to love
 our Mother the Land.  We are not allowed to hear the Stories she tells
 us which is our Sacred Culture in the Land.
   What the Ear holes of the World have got to listen to and understand is
 that all Governments who come into power and out of power and the
 Government which is in power now in this Continent called Australia
 claim they are treating the First Race of People well, in giving back
 land, which is a lie. NO LAND HAS BEEN GIVEN BACK WITH SOVEREIGNTY.
 The Mabo legislation does not and will not give land back. The white
 Government can still allow our land to be dug up and destroyed at will
 and they can take it off us at will and give it to whoever they choose
 at will. The Government wants to "give land back" in the way they see fit
 with all the Government strings attached to it.  The rules and
 regulations are coming from the Government telling the Indigenous People
 what they must accept, no consultation on our ideas how to give us our
 land back, and they are using Government appointed highly white-educated
 blacks to say yes.
   What the World has got to understand is that the Government of the Day is
 lying and all Governments have lied in the past. They can make decisions
 in the Highest Court of Australia and then they can change the laws and
 it is nothing else but lies. There can be no future without a beginning
 of factual historical evidence of what happened and is happening to us
 the Indigenous People of Australia.
   They want total control of the Aboriginal Race of People, which they have
 got now.  They have even gone as far as enticing and coaxing highly
 white-educated Aboriginal people to be traitors to their own Race and do
 their dirty work for them.  They are setting up black power along with
 white power to stamp out us the Aboriginal People as a Nation and stop
 us getting Sovereignty back to our Land, then they turn around and Say
 they want young Indigenous people's ideas.
   What's got to be clearly understood in Geneva and at all Human Rights
 meetings wherever they may be that deal with the Indigenous People of the
 World is that highly white-educated Aboriginal men and women working for
 the Government of Australia and the Government-run ATSIC don't represent
 Indigenous People of Australia, they are not qualified to speak on our
 suffering, they represent the Government only which is their highly-paid
 job and not the Indigenous People.
   They are told what to say. All Government Departments in all parts of the
 World dealing with Indigenous People's sufferings has got to stop. We the
 Indigenous People, the ones who are the Sufferers are the experts and we
 know what we are talking about where our Basic Human Rights are concerned.
 it is our Right to be Planners of our own Destiny.  We have a Right to
 respect who we are and who we want to be. That is our Sense of Belonging.
 Us the Indigenous People of Australia are a Nation of the Global World and
 we have a right to exist as such.
   The Governments have got to stop and LISTEN to the Indigenous People of
 the World before making any decisions and they have to ask what the
 Indigenous People want. We ask them to stop trying to be experts in our
 suffering. We are the experts. UNTIL THEY DO THIS ALL THINGS HAVE GOT TO COME
 TO A HALT.

 "YOU THE PEOPLE MAKING DECISIONS YOU'VE GOT TO STOP EVERYTHING AND TAKE
 GUIDELINES FROM THE INDIGENOUS PEOPLE."
   We are thinking about the Indigenous People in the Forests of Malaysia
 where the Government is chopping trees down and destroying their homes
 and their lives.

 This is Genocide.
   As one of the 12 Indigenous Spiritual Elders of the World, I call again
 on the other 11 Indigenous Spiritual Elders to call on all other
 Indigenous Elders of the World to bring together this FRONT OF
 TOGETHERNESS and go to the Centrepoints and Core of where this Racism
 and Destruction is growing.

 GENEVA IS A STARTING POINT.
   ALL THINGS HAVE GOT TO COME TO A HALT.  ALL MEETINGS CONCERNING THE BASIC
 HUMAN RIGHTS OF INDIGENOUS PEOPLE WITH GOVERNMENT PEOPLE IN HIGH
 GOVERNMENT OFFICES WHO WANT TO DISCUSS THE FATE OF US THE INDIGENOUS
 PEOPLE HAS GOT TO BE STOPPED.

 THIS INCLUDE THE SYDNEY OLYMPIC GAMES WHICH HAS GOT TO BE  STOPPED.
 The Olympic Games is meant to represent the Rights of all Peoples.

 ABANDON TALKING TO ALL GOVERNMENTS WHO ARE MAKING DECISIONS ON OUR BASIC
 HUMAN RIGHTS - AND CONCENTRATE ON STOPPING ALL OLYMPIC GAMES WHICH IS A
 FARCE IF WE AS INDIGENOUS PEOPLE ARE NOT RECOGNISED.

 At the moment it is bringing back the echoing of Hitler against us.

 ALL THE GOVERNMENTS OF THE WORLD ARE TARGETING THE INDIGENOUS PEOPLE.
 THEY ARE ALL COMBINING TOGETHER FOR A MASS GENOCIDE AND KILLING THE
 INDIGENOUS PEOPLE OUT IN GOVERNMENT  "LAWFUL" INHUMAN WAYS.

 THERE HAS GOT TO BE A MASS BAN WORLDWIDE OF ALL OLYMPIC GAMES. ALL THE
 INDIGENOUS PEOPLE MUST COMBINE TOGETHER AND MAKE ONE HUGE NUMBER AND START
 SUPPORTING AND UNIFYING AND START BUILDING UP THIS PRESSURE FORCE OF
 PEOPLE.

 AND STOP THIS GENOCIDE.
 From:
 Nyungah Circle of Elders
 Rottnest Island Deaths Group
 Swan Coastal Plains Land Council
 Swan Valley Nyungah Community

 23-OCT-96 WED 19:17 SWAN VALLEY NYUNGAH COMMUNITY (+61 09) 377 3559
 Perth, Western Australia

 --------- "RE: Peltier Resists Frame-up" ---------

 Date: Tue, 15 Oct 1996 18:44:33 -0700
 From: Brian Hauk <bghauk@infomatch.com>
 Subj: Peltier continues to resist FBI frame-up

   UUCP email

 951120-59--Peltier continues to resist FBI frame-up
 the Militant, vol.59/no.43               November 20, 1995

 BY NORTON SANDLER
    LAWRENCE, Kansas -Entering a driveway leading to a few businesses here
 on the morning of October 27, we knew we were at the right place when we
 saw "In the Spirit of Crazy Horse" lettered on the front of a small office.
 For the next hour, in between fielding phone calls, Lisa Faruolo talked to
 us about Peltier's case. She is a leader of the Leonard Peltier Defense
 Committee and editor of the committee's bi-monthly newsletter.
    Now 51, Native-American activist Peltier was convicted in 1977 and
 given two consecutive life sentences. He was framed up by the Federal
 Bureau of Investigation on charges stemming from the death in 1975 of two
 FBI agents in a shoot-out near Oglala, a small community on the Pine Ridge,
 South Dakota, Indian reservation.
    The siege at Oglala had been precipitated by a reign of terror directed
 at the American Indian Movement (AIM) by the FBI, South Dakota authorities,
 and goons organized by the Pine Ridge Tribal Council headed by Dick Wilson.
 This operation was part of the FBI's COINTELPRO (Counter- Intelligence
 Program), which grew out of its attempts to disrupt the labor movement
 prior to World War II.
    The particular program named COINTELPRO was initiated in 1956 and
 marked for disruption groups that protested Washington's policies at home
 and abroad. Objects of disruption programs during the next two decades
 included civil rights fighters, anti-Vietnam War protesters, socialists,
 and women's rights organizations, in addition to AIM. 1
    The Pine Ridge reservation was at the center of the struggle between
 Indian activists and the U.S. government. For 71 days in 1973, the town of
 Wounded Knee became the battleground in the struggle between Native-
 American rights fighters and the U.S. government. A meeting of activists
 in the town, including several AIM members, called to address accumulated
 grievances, was surrounded by hundreds of cops, federal marshals, and
 Bureau of Indian Affairs (BIA) thugs.
    The government tried to defend its actions claiming that the activists
 were holding hostages in the encampment. At times during the siege, heavy
 gunfire was exchanged between government sharpshooters and the Wounded
 Knee fighters who were defending themselves.
    The siege ended in May 1973 with several AIM leaders - including Dennis
 Banks, Russell Means, and Clyde Bellecourt - facing charges. Banks and
 Means were acquitted of the charges in 1974. The charges against
 Bellecourt were dropped.

    FBI war on Indian movement
    But the FBI's disruption operation against AIM intensified. In one
 weekend alone in 1975, 28 AIM leaders and activists were arrested in
 various parts of the United States.
    Several activists and others who refused to go along with the terror
 campaign of Tribal Council leader Wilson were murdered or beaten on the
 Pine Ridge reservation in the area near Oglala.
    Native-American activist Della Star Comes Out explained this point in
 Peter Matthiessen's book In the Spirit of Crazy Horse. "For a long time,
 every time we start having a bingo or something the goons and the BIA
 police would start coming around, and you know, start shooting around,"
 she said.
    "And they'd start some kind of trouble and we'd have to break up...They
 were even shooting at our houses, and there's a lot of kids, you know, in
 some of these homes. The goons really done a lot of harassing, but there
 was nothing that could be done; we couldn't go to the BIA police because
 they were right with them. So finally, the traditional, the elderly people,
 got together and asked, you know, that we'd have our own security around
 the Oglala area so we can have at least a little protection."
    This was the context in which Leonard Peltier and others came to Oglala.
    The shoot-out that led to the deaths of two FBI agents began on the
 morning of June 26. Using the pretext of looking for a man whom they
 accused of theft and assault, FBI, BIA, South Dakota cops, and federal
 marshals descended on Oglala and began firing. At the peak of the assault,
 more than 250 armed attackers surrounded the Oglala compound. Native-
 American activists explain that the bulk of this force was in place before
 the two agents who died came within the vicinity of Oglala.
    The Indians in the compound, including Peltier, escaped, before the
 final siege took place.
    Joseph Stuntz, a young Native man, was killed. No one was ever charged
 in his death though Peltier and two other Indian activists were charged in
 the deaths of the FBI agents. Dino Butler and Robert Robideau were
 acquitted.
    Peltier was eventually arrested in Canada and extradited to the United
 States. He was tried separately from the other two and convicted. The
 presiding judge allowed the government wide latitude to present a
 circumstantial case that included many unsubstantiated innuendoes designed
 to present a portrait of Peltier as "violent." Among the evidence the
 presiding judge excluded, was the fact that two other activists had been
 acquitted of the murders in an earlier trial. Nor was any mention allowed
 of the FBI's COINTELPRO operation against the American Indian Movement.
    Peltier has been incarcerated since 1985 in the Leavenworth Federal
 Prison, a short distance from Lawrence.
    Faruolo explained that Peltier has had three appeals of his convictions
 rejected by the courts. His lead attorney is now Ramsey Clark. The Peltier
 defense committee and his attorneys are pressing for the release of FBI
 documents that have been withheld for nearly two decades and for U.S.
 president Bill Clinton to issue a executive pardon for Peltier. Retired
 FBI agents and other cops continue to campaign against the Peltier defense
 effort and against his release from prison.
    Peltier's attorneys filed a Freedom of Information Act Petition (FOIA)
 in the early 1980s and another more recently, Faruolo said, because
 "thousands of pages" have been withheld by the government. "Under its
 guidelines, under the FOIA, the FBI is not supposed to be able to withhold
 documents if they don't concern national security," she said, "and this
 has nothing to do with national security."
    Faruolo displayed some documents released recently to emphasize why the
 FBI and the U.S. attorney general want this material kept secret. "At
 Leonard's trial the government claimed that an FBI agent was killed at
 12:15 p.m. In the trial transcript they said they didn't find out about
 the death until after 3:00 p.m.," she said.
    "And for years," she continued, "the South Dakota attorney general
 denied that they had transcripts of radio reports from the day of the
 shooting. We now have one of those transcripts which shows that as early
 as 11:55 a.m. they were claiming on the radio that they had agents under
 fire, and at 11:59, they said they had an agent shot."
    "We believe they have exculpatory evidence - that is material that will
 exonerate Leonard - in their possession. It may take a little while, but
 we are going to get these materials," she stated.
    Citing widespread FBI doctoring of evidence against Peltier, columnist
 Jack Anderson recently wrote, "While Congress investigates governmental
 abuses in cases ranging from Waco to Randy Weaver, it is also time to
 reopen the 20- year-old case involving Leonard Peltier."
    Presidential pardon
    In 1993 Peltier filed a petition for commutation of his sentence with
 the Pardon's Attorney office in Washington, D.C. Faruolo explained that
 for nearly two years Leonard's clemency petition has been "sitting at the
 Justice Department." Faruolo said she doesn't expect anything to happen
 soon. "We're not going to see any real movement on this until after the U.
 S. presidential election," she said.
    "Clinton has options on clemency," she continued. "He can say the
 sentence is finally commuted. Leonard has served 19 years and that's
 enough. Or he can say the sentences now run concurrently instead of
 consecutively. Either of these options could be a basis for a pardon or
 parole."
    In 1993 Peltier went before Federal parole officials who told him that,
 because of his consecutive life sentences, it would be another 15 years
 before they would consider him for parole. He has another hearing
 scheduled for later this year. The Peltier committee is requesting that
 letters be sent to the United States Parole Commission requesting that he
 be granted parole (see accompanying box).
    Amnesty International sent a letter to U.S. attorney general Janet Reno
 in June saying, "Amnesty International is not able to take a position
 regarding Leonard Peltier's guilt or innocence of the crime, and he has
 not been adopted as a prisoner of conscience. However, we continue to have
 serious concerns about the legal process which led to Leonard Peltier's
 conviction and sentence of two consecutive terms of life imprisonment."
    The letter continues, "The fact remains, however, that Leonard
 Peltier's numerous appeals have failed to dispel substantial and lingering
 doubts about the fairness of his treatment." The Amnesty letter urges a
 special executive review of Peltier's case.
    Cop agencies remain active in spreading misinformation about the case
 and campaigning against Peltier's release. According to Anderson, a 1992
 article in the FBI's in-house newsletter states, "Keep the Vigil: Peltier
 is a Murderer." The article accuses Peltier of being guilty of "cold-
 blooded execution." Faruolo said that in 1994, just prior to activities in
 support of Peltier in Washington, D.C., a Virginia newspaper printed a
 story about Peltier that contained glaring factual inaccuracies.
    When telephoned, Faruolo says the paper's editor told her that FBI
 agents had come by and given him information about Peltier and urged the
 man to write a story. Leonard Peltier Defense Committee (LPDC) literature
 also explains that the FBI has been lobbying to have any action on
 Peltier's clemency petition delayed.
    In October, the LPDC organized a vigil and rally in Leavenworth near
 the prison in support of Peltier. Similar actions were also held in
 several cities around the country. Next March, Faruolo said, Peltier
 supporters will be organizing civil disobedience protest activities in
 support of Peltier in Washington, D.C. and other cities.
    Faruolo, 28, explained that she got active in Peltier's defense as a
 college student in New Jersey after reading Peter Matthiessen's book. She
 started a Peltier support group at Kean College. At Peltier's urging, she
 moved to Lawrence in 1991 and has worked in the Peltier defense committee
 office since then.
    Stephen Bloodworth from Peoria, Illinois, contributed to this article.

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 --------- "RE: Chief Coon Come at Harvard" ---------

 Date: 28 Oct 96 23:31:59 EST
 From: Ann Stewart <75361.1143@CompuServe.COM>
 Subj: Cree press release on Harvard speech

   UUCP email

                                PRESS RELEASE
 COON COME INFORMS AMERICANS OF QUEBEC GOVERNMENT'S "LATEST ATTEMPTS
 TO DISCRIMINATE AGAINST ABORIGINAL PEOPLES IN QUEBEC"
   Cambridge, Massachusetts - October 28, 1996: In another foray into
 the U.S. political and academic scene that has served his people so
 well, Grand Chief Matthew Coon Come today addressed a joint seminar
 of the Center for International Affairs and the Kennedy School of
 Government at Harvard University.
   On the anniversary of the referendums that the Crees, the Inuit and
 the government of Quebec held one year ago, Chief Coon Come told
 his Harvard audience: "The Bouchard government is now pursuing an
 odious and discriminatory solution in its quest for absolute
 sovereignty over the corner of North America they call their own.
 They are systematically minimizing and denying our status as a
 people and our Aboriginal, treaty and constitutional rights."
   Chief Coon Come concentrated his remarks the Harvard University
 scholars and researchers on the Quebec government's formal
 submission to the Supreme Court in the CitC case in June.  Coon
 Come stated: "In this case, the Quebec government took the extreme
 position that the fundamental Constitutional rights of the
 Algonquins, Crees, Inuit, Huron, Naskapi, Mohawks, Abenaki and all
 other Aboriginal peoples simply do not exist in Quebec, and have
 not existed there for 450 years."
   In a piercing analysis, Chief Coon quoted liberally from Quebec's
 submission to the Supreme Court and this month's ruling of the
 Supreme Court in the case, in which the Attorney General of Quebec
 asserted that Quebec was  terra nulluis  (land belonging to no-one)
 when it was discovered by the French.  "The Supreme Court declared
 that Quebec's position was founded on unjust discrimination and was
 contrary to both international standards and our fundamental
 values", Chief Coon Come said.  "The Chief  Justice stated that
 Quebec's position would perpetuate the historical injustice
 suffered by aboriginal peoples at the hands of colonizers."
   "Let there be no mistake about this: the Bouchard government of
 Quebec has formally advocated the obliteration of the fundamental
 rights of Aboriginal peoples in Quebec, on the basis of the
 continued application of an discredited, unjust and discriminatory
 doctrine," Chief Coon Come said.
   Coon Come called for the international community's involvement in
 assuring the rights of his people in the context of the possible
 secession of Quebec.  "This is an issue that concerns fundamental
 human rights.  We call upon you to raise your pens, your voices,
 and your objections against any and all violations of our rights."

 Further information:
 Bill Namagoose (613)761-1655 or (cellular) (613)725-7024
 Brian Craik (613)761-1655 or (613)724-1097

 --------- "RE: Defying the Census" ---------

 Date: Mon, 28 Oct 1996 14:37:30 -0500 (EST)
 From: Carol Liu <cliu@queens.lib.ny.us>
 Subj: Defying the Census (fwd)

 Now here's an idea!  Reminds me of something I read in (if memory
 serves) Annette Jaimes' _State of Native America_. Image how it
 would change the official demographics.
 --------------------------------------------------------------------
 Chronicle Features, San Francisco
 RELEASE DATE: On or After October 25, 1996
 LATINO SPECTRUM by Roberto Rodriguez & Patrisia Gonzales
 Defying the Census

   For the year 2000 Census, here's a potentially radical idea: U.S.
 residents of Mexican or Central American-origin, as well as most other
 Latinos should declare themselves "Native American" on the Census
 questionnaire.
   The way it is now, most Latinos are virtually obliged to put themselves
 in the "white" racial category, even though they are the descendants of
 indigenous people who have lived in the Americas for thousands of years.
   In Mexico and Central America, the people there do not consider themselves
 white, but rather indigenous-based "mestizos," or simply indigenous.  In
 fact, most Latinos are a mixture of Indian, African and European lineage.
 Only a minute percentage--primarily the ruling elites--are considered white
 (or Spanish).
   Stanford anthropologist Renato Rosaldo says that mestizos, because of
 their red-brown skin, are treated as "Indian" by our racialized society once
 they cross into the United States.  The discrimination they are confronted
 with stirs within mestizos or Hispanicized Indians a newfound awareness of
 their Indian heritage that many had long ago discarded in their homelands.
   Incidentally, virtually all Americans are of mixed ancestry, yet the
 bureau has traditionally opted for "one-drop" rules which result in "pure"
 categories.
   The Census Bureau has long known that for racial purposes, its forms
 produce completely flawed results when tallying Latinos in the United
 States, but it has failed to act.  So we have decided to do its work for it.
 After all, the Census Bureau should not be in the business of determining
 people's identities.  As it well knows, its categories are not biological or
 scientific, but political.
   When Census bureaucrats imposed the term "Hispanic" as an ethnic (not
 racial) category in the 1970s, they stated that "Hispanics may be of any
 race."  Yet, when compiling statistics, the Census has tended to count the
 vast majority of Latinos into the "white" category, and only a few into the
 "black" category.
   This practice belies reality and reveals either ineptitude, or shame, on
 the part of the Latino bureaucrats who have historically advised the Census.
 Nearly half of Latinos traditionally select the "other" race category.
 However, because the bureau believes they are confused (98 percent of all
 those who chose "other" in the 1990 Census were Latinos), it has
 traditionally counted most Latino "others" as white by default.  Lacking
 viable options, in the 1990 Census, about half of the Latino population
 selected the "white" category.
   Many Latinos check the "white" category because the bureau does not offer a
 mestizo (or mulatto) option, or because they have been told that they can not
 designate themselves as Native Americans.
   If, for example, Rigoberta Menchu, the 1992 Nobel Prize winner from
 Guatemala, were to move to the United States, according to the bureau, she
 should not check off the "Native American" box on the questionnaire.  Only
 members of U.S. federally registered tribes are supposed to exercise this
 option, even though the majority of Native Americans originate south of the
 U.S./Mexico border.
   Additionally, the historical anti-Mexican/Indian attitudes of this society
 have convinced many people--particularly Mexicans themselves--that there's
 something wrong with being Mexican, thus many identify as white.
   Today, Mexicans/Latinos are generally no longer ashamed of their ancestry.
 Yet we are still waiting for institutional recognition from the Census
 Bureau that it is OK for Latinos to acknowledge their indigenous roots.
   Perhaps its bureaucrats incorrectly believe that "Native Americans" are a
 race of people particular to the United States.  Consequently, the Census
 confuses nationality with race.
   The option we suggest doesn't require government approval, nor does it
 require a 10-year study by government Hispanics.  All it requires is for
 Mexicans/Latinos to check the "Native American" box and do it proudly.  Many
 have long personally identified themselves in this manner already.
   If the bureau respects self-identity as it says it does, this simple act
 should not confound it.
   As for those who might oppose this idea because it might cause a decrease in
 the number of people who choose the ethnic category of "Hispanic," the fears
 are groundless.  One is a racial category and the other is an ethnic one.
 This fear is predicated on the idea that less "Hispanics" means less federal
 dollars and that there is a connection between an accurate census count and
 the proper enforcement of civil rights laws.  This fear reveals an
 entitlement mentality and also a naivete in believing that civil rights laws
 are enforced as a result of census counts rather than political pressure.
   For those who might be concerned that this group may then qualify for
 benefits not entitled to them--not to worry.  It wouldn't entitle them to
 anything that is due members of U.S. federally recognized tribes--other than
 dignity.
 (Copyright Chronicle Features, 1996)
 Rodriguez & Gonzales can be reached at PO BOX 7905, Albuquerque, NM
 87194-7905 -- 505-248-0092 or XColumn@aol.com
  For this particular column, we especially encourage readers to send us
 comments on the feasibility of this idea. Thanks.

 --------- "RE: New Age vs. Resolution 102" ---------

 Date: Fri, 11 Oct 1996 22:45:52 -0700 (PDT)
 From: Larry Kibbey <kibbey@sierra.net>
 Subject: New Age vs. Resolution 102

 Mailing List:    TRIBALLAW (triballaw@thecity.sfsu.edu)

   This should make for some interesting reading, but again it may not.
 I thought I'd add my two cents for what it's worth and more then
 likely won't go over to good with some, but...
   At the second session of the 95th Congress of the United States,
 on January 19, 1978, Congress enacted Joint Resolution 102, titled
 American Indian Religious Freedom.
   In part stated: "That henceforth it shall be the policy of the United
 States to protect and preserve for American Indians, their inherent
 right of freedom to believe, express, and exercise the traditional
 religions....including but not limited to access to sites, use and
 possession of sacred objects, and the freedom to worship through
 ceremonial and traditional rites."
   Then, in 1993 Congress established the Religious Freedom Restoration
 Act(P.L.103-141). Which in part prohibited anyone from intruding or
 interfering in a persons religious rights, especially, city, county,
 state or federal government.
   Why were these religious rights established? Because the free exercise
 of traditional Native American Indian religions had been intruded
 upon, interfered with and banned by the federal government, and this
 is historical knowledge, reality, an issue of great pain.
   But intruded upon by who? The federal government, clergy and society.
   Interfered upon by who? The federal government, clergy and society.
   Banned by just the federal government? No, by the clergy and society.
   Why? Because a people full of hate, misunderstanding, and greed, led
 them to believe that the traditional religions of the Native American
 Indian were; satanic, demonic, evil, and only God and Jesus Christ
 could save these savages from all of damnation? Fact.
   Why? Because down through the years, historians, scholars and intellectuals
 wrote about a people, their culture and religion, in a manner that suited
 the times, suited the endeavor to move the Indian from precious lands
 that contained gold, silver, oil, coal, lands best suited for farming,
 lands best suited for ranching and raising other crops, lands that a
 government and society needed for "IT'S PEOPLE."
   In this country today, a people are protected by the United States
 Constitution in their endeavor to worship in the manner they so
 desire, whether it be Catholic, Baptist, Protestant, Islam, Buddhism,
 Atheism, or the Occult and the Traditional Native American Indian
 has Resolution 102 to preserve and protect their traditional belief's.
   Again, over the years, through some times intentional misinterpretations
 our culture, tradition and heritage suffered greatly, and not until
 Resolution 102 became effective in 1978, the non-Indian found that
 through the Constitution, they were protected in their endeavors to
 utilize the Tradition and Culture of the Indian, for profit, self
 gain and for political gain.
   The American Indian Religious Freedom Joint Resolution also said
 that the Native American had a traditional Belief and that it is not
 a part of Non-Indian theories and philosophies of theology, archaeology/
 anthropology or evolution and that in fact, to advocate those very
 principles to the tradition of the Indian would in fact be intruding
 and interfering with the Native American Indian Religious Rights.
   Theories and philosophies belong where they are needed and time and
 time again, it has been spoken by many tribal elders that we have
 been here for time immemorial.
   New Age people, Anti-Indian Movement people, Politicians, Indian people
 and some Christian people, have tried to interpret the culture, tradition
 and heritage of the Native American Indian for no other reason than to
 suit their own needs and yes, every effort must be arrived at to end
 the false prophets, false propaganda and the selling, abuse and misuse
 of our culture and tradition and we must recognize, that yes, we all
 seem to come from different back-grounds, some city, some from the
 reservations, some from a traditional nature, other's from a different
 religion and that we all have our rights and freedoms, and that we all
 are trying our very best to address the concerns and interest, whether
 it's of tribal government and their illegal activity, the new age, or
 the preservation and protection of the culture and religion, because
 no matter what folks, our youth need a stable future, with truth and
 if we are going to establish that for them, then let's get it on,
 let's move forward and make some progress, and most of all let's
 realize who we are, what are freedoms are and just how we got here,
 because whether you like it or not, the blood of your ancestor's
 is under your feet, they've left you a legacy, so let's make
 something out it, let's share with one another and learn and leave
 the big heads and ego's to the new age who don't have a path to
 follow because of their greed and lack of reality.....
 Larry Kibby - kibbey@sierra.net

 --------- "RE: Big Mountain Factsheet" ---------

 Date: 01 Aug 96 13:07:11 EST
 From: "Glen WELKER" <gwelker@mail.lmi.org>
 Subj: BIG MOUNTAIN FACTSHEET (fwd)  PLEASE FORWARD

   UUCP email

 TEXT FOLLOWS (the questions at the beginning of each para were bolded.)

 Help save the lives of one of our country's most priceless living treasures:
 our Native grandmothers and grandfathers.

   What is going on right now?  On October 11, 1996, President Clinton signed
 S.1973, the Navajo-Hopi Land Dispute Settlement Act.  This law will allow
 the forced relocation of thousands of Dineh resisters, many of them elderly.
 If the Dineh traditional people do not sign the highly restrictive 75-year
 lease agreement (aka, the Accommodation Agreement) by December 31, 1996, the
 Hopi Tribal Council and the Navajo President have threatened to begin
 relocation immediately, taking the Dineh resisters to an area called the
 "New Lands," which is heavily contaminated with uranium.
   How did it get to this point?  This is a complicated issue, but is boils
 down to this: forcibly removing people from their ancestral sacred land in
 order to mine coal, estimated to be worth billions of dollars. What we have
 here is the powerful mining company, Peabody Western Coal Company, in
 collusion with the Federal government, and Navajo and Hopi Tribal Councils
 choosing profits over the genocide of a people.
   Who are Big Mountain and the Black Mesa area resisters? The "resisters"
 are traditional Dineh (Navajo) people, many of whom are non-English speaking
 elders. They live self sustaining lives by herding sheep, weaving and
 dry-crop farming, while caretaking their Sacred Land. They have earned the
 name resister from steadfastly refusing forced relocation by the Federal
 government, Hopi and Navajo Tribal councils and energy corporations.
   Where is Big Mountain and the Black Mesa? In northeast Arizona,
 approximately 3 hours north of Flagstaff lies Black Mesa with Big Mountain
 to the south. Big Mountain is best known of the 45 Dineh (Navajo)
 communities. These communities are surrounded by four mountain peaks
 immemorially held sacred by Dineh traditional spirituality. This area has
 been inhabited for thousands of years.
   What are the effects of this 75-year lease (the Accommodation Agreement)?
 If they, the residents of the Hopi Partition Land, sign the agreement, they
 are allowed to inhabit their ancestral land for just 75 years, furthermore
 during that time they lose their civil rights and face a life under martial
 law. The overwhelming majority refuse to sign this lease, because if they
 sign they lose the rights to the land and the mining by Peabody will
 commence unchecked. The traditional people will likely find their small
 plots of land surrounded by  mines.
   If they don't sign, what happens? Forced relocation.
   Why relocation? Because underneath their land lies coal reserves, estimated
 to be worth$10 billion dollars.
   Who is affected by forced relocation? 3000 people in 45 communities in the
 Hopi Partition Land, a barbed-wire fenced division created from the
 Relocation Act of 1974.
   Where will they be relocated to? The primary for relocation, called the
 "New Lands," near Sanders, Arizona is downstream from the nation's largest
 known Uranium spoil when a dam containing more than 100 million gallons of
 radioactive water burst in July 1979. This area is still designated the
 primary site for relocation. According to the Southwest Research and
 Information Center, "Radiation does not just kill, it alters the genetic
 structure of all the unborn generations to come."
   Who will enforce the relocation? The Hopi Rangers, a paramilitary police
 force under the mandate of the Hopi Tribal Council and the direction of the
 Bureau of Indian Affairs.  Equipped with state-of-the-art weaponry, and
 well-trained in its use, the Rangers systematically harass elders,
 confiscate and torture livestock and evict Dineh from their homes, and
 recently were ordered to "step up enforcement on the HPL."
   Is this an intertribal dispute? No. That has  always been  a lie, created
 by the Federal government and mining interests. The Hopi and Dineh tribal
 councils are on the same side of the issue...in opposition to the Hopi and
 Dineh traditional people.
   What is needed to help the Dineh resisters? Locate a support group in your
 area, if there isn't one...start one. Send supplies (such as, office,
 communications & camping equipment, durable vehicles, video cameras, tools,
 medical supplies and health supplements, warm clothing and dry goods, etc.)
 They are always needed by the communities. Come to Big Mountain prepared to
 witness, herd sheep and support the Dineh people in their struggle.
   What can be done today?  $350 million of tax payer dollars has been spent
 on Relocation. Call your Representatives and Senators. Tell them that you do
 not want your tax dollars funding Relocation. Tell them to call for a
 Congressional Oversight committee investigation and hearing on S. 1973, P.L.
 93-531, P.L. 96-305, the Relocation Program and Peabody  Coal. Call
 Clinton's comment line (202) 456 1111. Tell Clinton he should have vetoed
 S.1973.
 Sovereign Dineh Nation
 P.O.Box 40319 Flagstaff, AZ 86004   phone: (520) 522 8683 email:
 sdn@primenet.com,
 http://www.primenet.com/~sdn/     --     add'l SDN ofc: Sky William (520)
 749-0585, 749-0587(fax),
 Bobby Castillo (415) 386-4373, 386-4547, Chief Billy Redwing Tayac (LISN)
 (301) 932 0808

 --------- "RE: Family Seeks to Halt Exploitation" ---------

 Date: Sun, 27 Oct 1996 12:51:00 GMT
 From: philncleve@aol.com
 Subj: Native American Family Seeks to Halt Cultural Exploitation

   Newsgroups:  apc.indig.info,soc.culture.native,alt.native

 FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE
 26/10/96

   (Cleveland, Ohio)   A Cleveland Native American mother and her two
 daughters will file a lawsuit on Monday, October 28 seeking possession of
 a portrait and negatives for photographs taken of the daughters for a
 Cleveland Bicentennial exhibit currently on display at a local art gallery.
   Plaintiffs in the action are Robbi Repine, a First Nation Anishnabe
 from Ontario, Canada and her minor daughters Tory HandBoy and Mandy
 Repine.  Tory is a an enrolled member of the Cheyenne River Lakota nation
 in South Dakota. The family practices and observes Native American customs
 and traditions, attends pow-wows throughout the United States and Canada
 and is heavily involved in the Cleveland Native American community.  Named
 as Defendants are famous New York City photographer Andres Serrano, Spaces
 Art Gallery and Susan R. Channing, Director of Spaces.
   The events leading to the lawsuit began in May when Susan Channing
 contacted Robbi Repine by telephone to invite her daughters to be
 photographed by Andres Serrano for an exhibit commemorating the Cleveland
 Bicentennial. The display purports to depict and honor members of
 constituent Cleveland ethnic and minority groups.  Ms. Repine understood
 that photographs of her daughters would only be for display at the exhibit
 for its duration and would be presented in a dignified fashion. Tory and
 Mandy were photographed from head to waist in full Native American regalia
 inside a private room at a local recreation center.
   Tory and Mandy were photographed while Robbi Repine was away on
 business. They were driven to be photographed by a family friend who was
 told by an agent of Spaces and Mr. Serrano to sign releases on behalf of
 the girls as their parent or guardian, although he told the agent he was
 neither. No further contact was had with the girls or their mother prior
 to the opening of the exhibit. No prints or proofs of their photographs
 were ever provided.
   Later, Robbi Repine read an article about the exhibit which appeared
 in a Cleveland newspaper.  The article reported that the portraits at the
 exhibit including one of Tory HandBoy were offered for sale for $10,000.00.
 The article also quoted Mr. Serrano's comments on the portrayal of Native
 Americans as "noble savages." When Ms. Repine went to the gallery she was
 shocked to see the grotesquely enlarged portrait of her daughter Tory next
 to an writing which discussed the exhibit in the context of the "Chief
 Wahoo" controversy.  She inquired and was informed that her daughter's
 portrait was indeed offered for sale.
   Ms. Repine complained to Spaces that the offer for sale and the manner of
 the display of her daughter's portrait violated the terms of her oral
 agreement and was culturally offensive. Tory was extremely distraught by
 the exhibit itself. Tory and Mandy are very fearful of the potential
 exploitation of photographs of themselves as is their mother.  Robbi has
 also taken issue with the validity model releases signed by the family
 friend.
   Robbi Repine along with legal counsel have been unsuccessful in
 securing possession of Tory's portrait and negatives for all photographs
 taken of her daughters. On Saturday, October 26th, a small contingent of
 family members, relatives and friends including head of the Cleveland
 American Indian Movement Chapter, attempted to remove the portrait of Tory
 from Spaces but were stopped by gallery staff. The exhibit closes on
 October 27th and Spaces announced that all works will be returned to the
 artists involved. A meeting is planned with gallery officials on Tuesday,
 October 29th.
   In the meantime, Philip Althouse, a Cleveland attorney, will seek a
 temporary restraining order and file a civil action in the Cuyahoga Court
 of Common Pleas to prevent the removal of and obtain the return of the
 portrait and negatives.
       Copies of the pleadings are available upon request.
 Contact:
 Philip Althouse, Attorney
 216-696-6776 (phone)
 216-696-9824 (fax)
 Email: palthouse@igc.apc.org

 --------- "RE: Taino Unity & Peace" ---------

 Date: Wed, 23 Oct 1996 18:46:09 -0700
 From: "Joanna Nanake (Earth Girl) Soto Aviles" <jsaviles@voicenet.com>
 Subj: Taino Unity & Peace

 Mailing List:    Taino-L <Taino-L@corso.ccsu.ctstateu.edu>

 Tau, Hola, Hello,
   It is through many prayers and much consulting with the Spiritual
 Elders, as well as through many life experiences, that my path becomes
 more clear to me.
   As a Taina, I truly believe that a Taino should be generous, patient,
 and honest, and it is a known fact that the written word has always been
 the weapon of the "White Man" against the Native People.  Therefore, I
 feel that one's words should be wise, constructive, and above reproach.
   Anyone can trade words and/or blows, but it is the truly brave and wise
 person that trusts in the Creator.
   I have seen evidence of this with the Lenape at the Museum of Indian
 Culture in Allentown PA.  Although they have been through troubled times
 and have been much maligned, they are still here and, I pray, will
 always be.  They have their language and know their genealogy, they have
 documentation of their elders, and they have a beautiful Museum and
 Library.  But, above all, they have remained true to their spirituality,
 their ancestors, and to who they are.  Thus, they are a close and loving
 clan, and I am deeply honored that they have embraced me as one of their
 own.
   Now if love and time are to heal all things, then love must be more than
 a feeling or an emotion; it must be a active force for good.  It must be
 a "giving" and a "sharing" as opposed to the "getting" ways that come
 from greed and the desire for power.  This "giving" is, after all, the
 spirit behind true Freedom as opposed to the illusion under which we are
 oppressed.
   This is not just abstract thinking or philosophy; this is reality.
 Money, recognition, titles, material things; these are the illusions!
 The Spirit of the Creator and the Spirit of all His Creations are
 Eternal!
   Therefore, we should get beyond the lies, the rhetoric and the
 squabbling.  After all, what family doesn't have squabbles?  It is the
 real family, however, that moves beyond these squabbles and learns how
 to deal with each other with love and respect.
   "We Are All Related" should be more than just pretty words on paper;
 these words were meant to be embodied in all that we say or do; we were
 meant to become the living spirit of those words.  Only then can we
 truly appreciate the beauty and infinite variety that surrounds us
 without seeking to control or destroy it.
   We are all subject to Universal Truths such as honoring the Creator and
 acknowledging the value of all His Creations.
   For example, when we harm Mother Earth, we harm ourselves and we heap
 contempt upon the Creator.  Refusing to acknowledge this fact does not
 lessen the harm; we are still held accountable.  This same principle
 applies whenever anyone harms anyone or anything.  Every action will
 have a reaction.
   We all need air, shelter, warmth, water and food.  This is just a simple
 statement of fact.  We do not, however, need the excesses and false
 standards of this society (which are poisoning the the air we breath,
 the water we drink and the food we eat) no matter how much we, in our
 ignorance, greed and vanity, may try to justify them.  This is just
 plain old common sense and the reality we must face.  This is not some
 wild, abstract idea.
   Now, if everyone were to care for each other and help each other, then
 everyone and everything would benefit.  We could, then, live in harmony
 with all things so that all may prosper.
   We are now at the crossroads and it is time to make a choice.  It is
 not enough to be sorry for the past.  We must learn from the past and
 take action for the future.  Not for ourselves but for our children, our
 children's children, and so on.  It may take time but we must put aside
 our egos, our selfishness, and our vanity.  We must do more than just
 struggle to survive, we must learn to live and live fully, in harmony
 with the circle of life.
   My gift from the Creator has always been to help and encourage others,
 and, thankfully,  there have been, are, and will, hopefully, continue to
 be Healers in my family.  I am eternally grateful to the Creator for
 this, despite all the hardships my family and I have experienced.  It
 would have been very easy to slip into, and remain in, the empty
 bitterness, anger and hopelessness that many find themselves in.  All
 too often, a lot of time, emotion, and energy is spent in useless anger,
 petty jealousies and the search for so-called justice.
   I would be lying if I were to say that I never felt anger, frustration,
 sadness, or bitterness, however I would still be the wrong person to ask
 for help in harming another, in any way, no matter how supposedly
 justified.  Only the Creator can judge His Creations.  Negativity can
 only beget negativity, therefore I choose to be as constructive and
 positive as I can be and to put my trust in the Creator.  I can only
 pray that more people will make this same choice.
   We all have our individual paths to travel, but we should all seek to
 learn the lessons life teaches us, always remembering, that in order to
 learn, one must be humble and open-minded (yet vigilant and
 discerning).  Yes, we will stumble and experience setbacks, but life
 goes on and so should we.  Let us seek to grow in wisdom in order to
 better ourselves and each other, and to sing away the pain and bring joy
 into all our lives.
   Unity, Joy, Peace, and Harmony through Generosity, Patience, and
 Honesty!
   Yes, this is my wish for our people!  Han Han!  Make the Creator grant
 me my wish!
 Taino-Ti!
 Nanake (Earth Girl)

 --------- "RE: Violence Against Activists" ---------

 Date: Tue, 22 Oct 1996 06:59:42 GMT
 From: omct@iprolink.ch
 Subj: OMCT/MEX151096: violence against activists, Mexico

   Newsgroups: hr.indigenous,soc.culture.native,alt.native
                          Case MEX 151096

   The International Secretariat of OMCT/SOS-Torture requests your URGENT
 intervention in the following situation in Mexico.
   Brief description:  LIMEDDH  - Mexican league for the Defence of Human
 Rights - member of the network, has expressed its concern for the safety
 and integrity of Mr Eli Homero AGUILAR RAMIREZ, leader of the Francisco
 Villa Popular Front (FPFV), who is at present detained in the centre
 Reclusorio Preventivo Norte.
   Eli Homero AGUILAR RAMIREZ was detained with Alfredo CERVANTES ROMERO, at
 ll:30 am on Friday October 11 1996, in the Agrmcola Oriental colony, by
 agents of the General Procurator's office of the Federal District.
   Both detainees were tortured and later Eli Homero AGUILAR RAMIREZ was
 taken to the Reclusorio Preventivo Norte. Reports from his lawyers
 indicate that he has difficulty walking and that his spinal column has
 probably been affected by the torture.  Furthermore it has been confirmed
 that he has been detained with high risk prisoners and that his life may
 be in danger.
   AGUILAR RAMIREZ has been charged, under legal suit 68/94, for damage to
 property, assault and battery against agents of authority, robbery, aiding
 prisoners to escape and illegal deprivation of liberty.  These facts
 presumably occurred on May 30 l994, during a confrontation between members
 of FPFV and police agents, in a place called Cabeza de Juarez Delegacisn
 Iztapalapa. The crimes he is charged with allow for bail.
   It seems that the warrant for the arrest of AGUILAR RAMIREZ, and
 apparently 19 other members of FPFV, was authorised on July 12 1996 by the
 34th Judge of the penal section.
   Alfredo CERVANTES ROMERO was released on the same day, October 11, at
 2:30pm., by three agents of the judicial police who extracted with threats
 his promise not to report the facts.
   According to CERVANTES ROMERO's declarations, both were detained while
 going to a medical centre, the Centro Medico Nacional Siglo XXI, for a
 meeting of the National Indigenous Congress. They were intercepted by
 three armed men in an unmarked black car.  The three men proceeded to
 detain  him without identifying themselves or presenting arrest warrants.
   Both were handcuffed and taken to the building of the General Procurator's
 Office of the Federal District, in Arcos de Belem No.23. During the
 journey to the offices they were repeatedly beaten.
   According to the same declaration, in the offices of the General
 Procurator they were led "... to the seventh floor, we were hooded, beaten
 for several minutes and then interrogated on our party militancy and asked
 if we were members of EZLN or EPR.  The questions were always the same and
 as we didn't answer they shouted at us that they were going to apply the
 "fourteenth" (a type of torture), and that they would take us to military
 camp number one and there would ruin us ".
   CERVANTES ROMERO was examined by a legal doctor of the 50th agency of the
 Ministry of the Interior of the Federal District, showing lesions (which
 are taking more than 2 weeks to heal) and rupture of the membrane of his
 right ear drum, as a consequence of the beatings received.  These facts
 were registered in the preliminary enquiry 50/1587/96-19.
   LIMEDDH underlines that the struggle for the right to housing is the
 raison d'etre of FPFV, its solidarity with social movements has been
 targeted by the security forces and since last year they are part of a
 list of people submitted to investigation by intelligence services. More
 than 200 people are on the list, many of whom have already been detained
 while others have been object of attacks and detention and death threats.

 Action requested
 Write to the Mexican authorities urging them to :
 i.  guarantee the physical and psychological integrity of Eli
     Homero AGUILAR RAMIREZ, presently detained, and of
     Alfredo CERVANTES ROMERO, who has been threatened;
 ii. put an end to all form of threat or harassment
     against individuals and organisations for their legal
     and peaceful activities in the defence of human
     rights and fundamental freedoms ;
 iii.carry out a thorough and impartial investigation into
     the referred facts, in particular the practice of torture
     and other forms of ill treatment, in order to identify
     those responsible, bring them to trial and apply the
     penal, civil and/or administrative sanctions provided by
     the law;
 iv. ensure the release of all people detained, accused or
     sentenced on the basis of confessions or declarations
     obtained under torture or other illegal means, including
     the formulation of accusations or false evidence;
 v.  ensure the full respect of human rights and fundamental
     freedoms in the country, in accordance with
     national laws and international standards.
 Addresses:
 S.E. Dr. Ernesto Zedillo Ponce de Leon, Presidente de la
 Republica, Palacio Nacional, C.P. 06065, Mexico, D.F., Mexico.
 Fax (+ 52 5) 515 17 94  o/or  271 17 64  o/or  515 47 83 o/or
 516 57 62
 Lic. Emilio Chuayffet Chemor, Secretario de Gobernacion,
 Secretaria de Gobernacion, Bucareli 99, 2: piso, Col. Juarez,
 Mexico, D.F., Mexico Fax (+ 52 5) 546 53 50 o/or 592 42 30
 Dr. Antonio Lozano Gracia, Procurador General de la
 Repzblica, Procuraduria General, Violeta y Reforma s/n 2: piso,
 Col. Guerrero, Mexico, D.F. CP 06300 Mexico. Fax: (+ 52 5) 626
 44 26
 Lic. Jorge Madrazo Cuellar, Presidente Comision Nacional de
 Derechos Humanos, Periferico sur 3469, Col. San Jersnimo
 Lidice, Deleg. Magdalena Contreras, C.P. 10200, Mexico, D.F.,
 Mexico. Fax.: (+ 52 5) 631 26 33

 Mexican embassy in your respective countries
 Geneva, 15 October 1996
 Kindly inform us of all action undertaken quoting the code
 number of the present appeal in your reply.
 Ben Schonveld
 Projects Manager
 OMCT - SOS Torture Tel: +41-22-733 31 40
 Case Postale 119   Fax: +41 22-733 10 51
 CH 1211 Geneva 20  Conf: omctsostorture@conf.igc.apc.org
 Switzerland        OMCT@iprolink.ch

 OMCT is the l'Organisation Mondiale contre la Torture
              The World Organisation Against Torture

 --------- "RE: Oneida Nation's Gifts" ---------

 Date: 25 Oct 1996 19:51:57 GMT
 From: dbumstea@newstand.syr.edu (Daniel B. Umstead)
 Subj: Oneida Nation's Gifts total more than $145,000 for schools

   Newsgroups: soc.culture.native

 NEWS -- NEWS -- NEWS -- NEWS                    October 11, 1996
 For Immediate Release
 For more information view the Nation's Home page at -
 http://one-web.org/oneida/

 Nation's "Gifts" Total More Than $145,000 for Local Schools
   ONEIDA NATION TERRITORY, via Oneida, NY -- The Oneida Nation issued the
 fourth quarter installments of its Silver Covenant Chain Education Grants
 to the superintendents and school board presidents of the Vernon-Verona-
 Sherrill, Oneida City, Canastota Central, Stockbridge Valley Central, and
 Cazenovia Central school districts this week.  This, the final grant
 installment for 1996, brings the Nation's total grant distribution to $145,
 420.38.
   The fourth quarter amount totals $38,428.26.  This breaks down as
 follows:  Vernon-Verona-Sherrill School District $32,138.85; Oneida City
 School District, $3,905.25; Canastota Central School District, $1,574.25;
 Stockbridge Valley Central School District, $792.75; Cazenovia Central
 School District, $17.16.
   "These grants, like our funding of the City of Oneida/Town of Verona
 water and sewer project and hosting of several TOURI$M ~ CNY regional
 tourism conferences, are extensions of the support -- and the bonds of
 friendship -- we share with the community," said Nation Representative Ray
 Halbritter.
 Page 2, Grants, October 11, 1996
   The quarterly grant amount for each school district is based on a
 calculation that factors in the cumulative acreage of reservation land
 which the Nation has reacquired in that school district as of the first
 day of the applicable quarter.  A flat rate of 3 percent annualized figure
 is applied to the land value.  The amount is then divided by 4 to
 determine the quarterly grant amount to each school district.  Payments to
 each district are made within 30 days after the beginning of each quarter.
 The rate doubles, and in some cases nearly triples, the value of revenues
 that would have been due as property taxes on lands the Nation has
 reacquired in those school district areas.
   The Nation created the Education Grants program last January because of
 its deep belief that its children and the children of its neighbors should
 receive the highest quality education possible.  To assist Oneida Members
 and the local communities in achieving this goal, the Nation established
 these voluntary grants, which each school district uses completely at its
 own discretion, to provide financial aid directly to schools in Oneida and
 Madison Counties.
   Since the inception of the Nation's Silver Covenant Chain Education
 Grants program, Vernon-Verona-Sherrill School District has received $120,
 279.90; Oneida City School District has received $15,621; Canastota
 Central School District has received $6,297; Stockbridge Valley Central
 School District has received $3,171; and Cazenovia Central School District
 has received $51.48.

 For more information contact Ken Zeszutko, media coordinator,
 Oneida Nation Communications Department, (315) 361-7896 or send email to
 umstead@oneida-nation.org.

 --------- "RE: Nez Perce Housing Job" ---------

 Date: Wed, 23 Oct 1996 10:25:58 -0700 (PDT)
 From: Meredith Wilson <mwilson@lcsc.edu>
 Subj: job announcement

   UUCP email

 To anyone interested in this job opportunity, please reply to the address
 listed.  Thank you.

 Executive Director
 Nez Perce Tribal Housing Authority
 Full time position to administer the development and management of new
 and existing HUD housing on the Nez Perce Reservation.  This position
 includes vacation, sick leave, medical insurance, all Federal and Tribal
 holidays, plus regular training opportunities.  Must have a Bachelors
 Degree in either Public Housing, Business Administration or equivalent
 training/experience in same field of work. Minimum five years work
 experience in related position required with emphasis on financial
 management, resident/tenant relationships, collection of tenant/resident
 accounts receivable, personnel, contract administration and maintenance
 of structures.  Experience in residential housing development and
 rehabilitation is desirable.  Applicant must be, computer literate;
 familiar with the Trust Relationship which exist between the Nez Perce
 Tribe and the U. S. Government; have a valid drivers license and be
 insurable; possess excellent verbal and written communication skills and
 be a "team player" committed to the improvement of housing and economic
 conditions for Indian people living on or near the Nez Perce
 reservation.  Salary - DOQ.  Position is open until filled, please send
 resume and/or TERO application or Standard Form 121 and three letters of
 reference to:
 Nez Perce Tribal Housing Authority
 c/o Julian Mathews, Administrative Manager
 Nez Perce Tribe
 Box 365
 Lapwai, Idaho 83540
 Further information may be obtained by contacting the Nez Perce Tribal
 Housing Authority at (208) 843-2229.  Indian Preference will apply.

 --------- "RE: EPA Jobs" ---------

 Date: Thu, 24 Oct 1996 15:12:02 -0400
 From: ALAN MOOMAW <MOOMAW.ALAN@EPAMAIL.EPA.GOV>
 Subj: 2 Job Vacancies with EPA Region 10 (Seattle)

 Mailing List:    NAT-WORK <NAT-WORK@VM1.CC.UAKRON.EDU>

 Job Line Phone Numbers and Internet Addresses
 Region 10's  job line number is 206-553-1240.   Please call the jobline to
 leave your name and address and request  copy of the announcement to
 be mailed to you.  Our Internet address is
 http://www.epa.gov/region10/www/jobs.htm . Positions which are
 advertised to candidates outside EPA are listed with the U.S. Office of
 Personnel Management (OPM).  Their job line number is 206-553-0888.
 OPM's Internet address is http://www.usajobs.opm.gov or their dial in
 number is 912-757-3100.

 96-27(MP) - Open: 10/24/96 Closed: 11/7/96
 EPS, GS-028-11/12
 Office of Ecosystems and Communities
 ONE VACANCY - POSITION WILL BE BASED IN EITHER SEATTLE, WA
 OR
 PORTLAND, OR
 VACANCY REOPENED TO INCLUDE PORTLAND SITE - PREVIOUS
 APPLICANTS NEED NOT REAPPLY
 The incumbent identifies significant aquatic resource problems that exist
 or occur on the main stem Columbia River and its major tributaries and
 facilitates appropriate EPA involvement in resolution.  Specific duties
 include: assures attainment of water quality standards on the Columbia
 River main stem and major tributaries, particularly those standards
 important for salmon; assures water quality, quantity, aquatic species,
 and other environmental concerns are adequately addressed in FERC
 licensing/relicensing decisions; assures that EPA activities and priorities
 related to the Columbia River and its major tributaries are communicated
 to the state environmental, health and agricultural agencies as part of the
 Performance Partnership Agreement process.  This position has no
 contract management duties.

 96-34(MP) - Open: 10/24/96 Closed: 11/7/96
 Public Affairs Officer, GS-1035-9/11
 Office of External Affairs
 Develops and coordinates the overall Public Information Center (PIC)
 activities; responsible for developing the strategic plans to meet
 long/short term PIC goals including strategic data gathering and training
 staff on technical research; performs contract and grant project officer
 responsibilities and provides publication services to the region; actively
 pursues contacts with outside members of various constituents in order
 to improve communications with the public, regulated communities, media,
 schools, interest groups, etc.; participates and is an active member of
 various external committees representing the agency in providing
 information and is the direct contact person for Region 10; serves as the
 regional office liaison to the Consumer Products Round Table, Water
 Weeks Board, Salmon Homecoming, the Seattle Washington Information
 Council and others; makes presentations to public groups on
 environmental protection issues at various meetings and workshops and
 to students in classrooms; directs and coordinates publication services
 to the public, private organizations, governmental offices and regional
 staff.

 --------- "RE: Poem: Togetherness" ---------

 Date: Mon, 16 Sep 1996 09:08:13 -0400
 From: "David B. Bowden" <dbbowden@mindspring.com>
 Subj: Togetherness

   UUCP email

         Togetherness

 The togetherness we bring to each other.
 Caring and sharing of our hearts as one.
 As we walk the path of life.
 Together the way is clear.

 The road is long and weary.
 Many trials lie just ahead.
 True trust is hard to find.
 But together the way is clear.

 May we all find peace as one.
 Our breaths sharing in unity of all.
 May our hearts be open always.
 Together the way is clear.

 David

 --------- "RE: Verse: Hawai'ian Book of Days" ---------

 Date: 96/10/21        03:31
 From: Debra F. Sanders (dfsanders@genie.geis.com)
 Subj: Verse: Hawai'ian Book of Days

   genie email

    A HAWAIIAN BOOK OF DAYS, week of November 3-9

                            NOWEMAPA
                           (November)
                            (Welehu)
                                3
 Give others the praise you would covet for yourself.
                                4
 Time is our enemy only if we make it so.
                                5
 Pele's glory blazes across the night sky.
                                6
 Our joys and our sorrows come from within, not from those around us.
                                7
 Make your opportunities -- do not wait for them.
                                8
 Wherever you are, let your spirit dwell in the wilderness.
                                9
 Spend each day well -- once gone, it cannot be reclaimed.

              (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, 31 October 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: Tue, 22 Oct 1996 06:37:30 GMT
 From: sahtu@aol.com
 Subj: Native American Heritage Week - San Jose State University

 Eagle Spirit and AISES (San Jose State Univ Student Assns) present:
              NATIVE AMERICAN HERITAGE WEEK
 Friday Nov. 1: KICKOFF CELEBRATION CONCERT
  Featuring: Swift Cloud drum circle, Acoustic Paradise, Ho Kahey
    7:00 - 10:00pm, SJSU Music Concert Hall, Music Building
    Live Broadcast on 90.5 KSJS
    * Monetary and canned good donations requested
    Monday Nov. 4: Science & Engineering
    Panel Discussion: Retaining Cultural Values In a High Tech Industry
    Panelists: Randy Pico & Sam Sekaquaptewa
    11:00am - 1:00pm, Student Union Ballroom.
 Tuesday Nov. 5: Culture & Sovereignty
  Holocaust Exhibit & Panel Discussion: History and Culture of the Native
  Peoples as Portrayed In the Holocaust Exhibit
    Panelists: Roberto Ramirez & Al Cross
    Also: Anthropology Panel Discussion
    11:00am - 1:00pm, Student Union Ballroom.
 Wednesday Nov. 6: Health & Welfare
  Panel Discussion: Diabetes; HIV/AIDS; Alcohol Use, Abuse, and
    Rehabilitation; Domestic Violence; and Tobacco Use and Abuse
    Panelists: Dr. Chris Mele, Elizabeth Morillo, Leah Mata-Dale,
    and Hank LeBeau
    11:00am - 1:00pm, Student Union Ballroom.
 Thursday Nov. 7: Hollywood Indian & Media Portrayals
  Panel Discussion: Native American Stereotypes; Non-Native Actors Playing
    Native Roles, Etc.
    Panelists: Dave Yohn, Diane Way, "Buddy" Butter
    11:00am - 1:00pm, Student Union Ballroom.
 Friday Nov. 8: Red Earth Celebration Day
    Outreach to High School Students: Financial Aid, Admissions Procedures,
    Program Offerings.
    10:00am - 11:00am
    REGALIA FASHION SHOW Featuring Mary Youngblood, traditional flutes
 - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - -
 Program details subject to change.
 Please call 408/271-9752 for more information.
   Special thanks to:
   Campus Climate
   Associated Students
   San Jose Indian Center
   San Jose State University
   Printing and Graphics Solutions
 -----------------------------------
 Date: Tue, 22 Oct 1996 06:37:18 GMT
 From: sahtu@aol.com
 Subj: Honoring Our Native American Veterans

 Honoring Our Native American Veterans
 1st Annual Native American Street Festival
    Friday, November 1, 1996
    9:30 a.m. - 5:00 p.m.
    Oakland Federal Building
    1301 Clay Street
    Oakland, California
 Come & join the San Francisco/Oakland Bay Area community in honoring our
 Native American veterans. Christmas is just around the corner so buy your
 gifts early for your loved ones & give to the less fortunate.
    Activities will include:
        Honoring Veteran Ceremony
        InterTribal Dancing
        Traditional & Contemporary Music
        Traditional Dance Performances
        Native American Films
        Local Speakers
        Display of Native American Artifacts
        Food Vendors
        Arts & Crafts Vendors
        Native American Organizations
        Canned Food & Toy Drive
 For more information, contact Brandan Blackburn, National Service
 Officer for Disabled American Veterans @ (510) 834-2921 or Maria
 Spencer, Youth Prevention Coordinator for Circle of Strength Program
 @ (415) 865-0964
 -----------------------------------
 Circle of Strength
 Native American Healthy Nations Initiative
 333 Valencia Street, Suite 101
 San Francisco, CA 94103
 Phone: 415.865.0964
 Fax:   415.865.5428
   LEAD AGENCY
   Friendship House Association of American Indians, San Francisco
   ADVISORY COUNCIL
     AI Child Resource Center
     AI Family Healing Center
     AI Graduate Program/NA Studies - University of California at Berkeley
     Center for AI Research & Education
     Friendship House Association of AI
     Four Winds Lodge
     Intertribal Friendship House
     Oakland/SF NA Health Center
     Three Rivers Lodge
     United Indian Nations
 -----------------------------------
 Date: Thu, 24 Oct 1996 21:33:00 GMT
 From: sahtu@aol.com
 Subj: 21st Annual American Indian Film Festival - SF, CA

 21st Annual American Indian Film Festival
   Sponsor: American Indian Film Institute
   Founder/Director: Michael Smith
   Info:
      Phone: 415/554-0525
      Fax:   415/554-0542
      Email: aifisf@aol.com
 NATIVE AMERICAN SCREENWRITER'S FORUM
 Wednesday, November 6 - Thursday, November 7, 1996
 First Unitarian Church
 1187 Franklin Street
 San Francisco CA
 Presentors:
    Greg Sarris (Grand Avenue) writer/producer, LA
    Michael Doxtater (Stick) writer/producer, Ohsweken, Ont
    Valerie Redhorse (Looks Into the Night) writer/actress, LA
 Fundamentals of Screenwriting: Joe Bratcher, LA
 Cost: $105.00. Open to all screen writers and would be screen writers.
 Registration open to the general public.
    FESTIVAL TICKETS
     Nov 7             Free (Tx at Palace Box Office)
     Nov 8,9           $7
     Nov 11            $5
     Nov 12,13,14      $6/$5
     Nov 16,17         $5
 Tickets are available at all venue box offices 60 minutes prior to listed
 screening times.
    SCHEDULE
     Thursday, November 7, 1996; 7:30pm
     Palace of Fine Arts
     3301 Lyon Street
     San Francisco
 Grand Avenue (by writer Greg Sarris.Intro by Greg Sarris.Cast invited.)
      Dan Sackiem USA
 -----------------------------------
 Friday, November 8, 1996; 7:30pm
 Palace of Fine Arts
 3301 Lyon Street
 San Francisco
   A Nation is Coming (with Michael Greyeyes)
      24m Kent Monkman Canada
   Looks Into the Night
      37m Lorraigne Norrgard USA
   Forgotten Warriors
      51m Loretta Todd Canada
   Power (Hydro Quebec vs. Cree of Northern Quebec)
      76m Magnus Isacsson Canada
 -----------------------------------
 Saturday, November 9, 1996; 7:30pm
 Palace of Fine Arts
 3301 Lyon Street
 San Francisco CA
   Back to Turtle Island
      25m Byron Mckim Canada
 AMERICAN INDIAN MOTION PICTURE AWARDS
 Entertainment by Pamyua, Yup'ik Eskimo foursome from Anchorage AK.
   The Song of Hiawatha (World Premiere)
      114m Jeffrey Shore Canada
      Starring: Graham Greene, Litefoot, Irene Bedard,
      Sheila Tousey, Adam Beach, Gordon Tootoosis, and Russell Means.
 -----------------------------------
 Monday, November 11, 1996; 11:00am
 UA Emerybay Theaters
 6330 Christie Street
 Emeryville CA

   Voices From the Talking Stick
      20m Todd Tyarm Canada
   Ladies of the Inlet
      27m Annie Frazier Henry
   Huchoosedah: Traditions of the Heart
      56m Katie Jennings USA
   Your Humble Serpent
     70m Gary Rhine USA/Canada
   Forgotten Warriors
      51m Loretta Todd Canada
   Warriors' Song
      60m Vladan Mijailovic USA
 -----------------------------------
 Tuesday, November 12, 1996; 6:00pm
 AMC Kabuki Theatres
 1881 Post Street
 San Francisco CA

   Women and Men Are Good Dancers
      6m Arlene Brown USA
   Video Book
      10m Beverly Singer USA
   Story of Light
      20m Ivica Bilich USA
   Keetowah Come Home
      26m Larry Foley USA
   Beyond Reservation Road
      26m George Burdeau USA
   O'Siem
      53m Gillian Darling Kovanic Canada
  Drum Making
      29m Gilles Tasse-LaFountaine Canada
   Poisoning Paradise
      42m Barb Allard, Kelly Reinhardt Canada

 ------------------------------------
 Wednesday, November 13, 1996; 6:00pm
 AMC Kabuki Theatres
 1881 Post Street
 San Francisco CA

   No More Secret
      23m Loretta Todd Canada
   Echoes of the Sisters
      24m Richard Hersley Canada
   A Mother's Choice
      26m Peter von Puttkamer Canada
   Return of the Native
      21m Sam Hurst USA
   Sweat
      27m Valentina Lopez-Firewalks USA
   It Can't Rain All the Time
      35m Lance Richmond USA
   First Nation Blue
      48m Daniel Prouty Canada
 -----------------------------------
 Thursday, November 14, 1996; 6:00pm
 AMC Kabuki Theatres
 1881 Post Street
 San Francisco CA

   The Eagle and the Raven
      60m Vladan Mijailovic USA
   Real Indian
      7m Malinda Maynor USA
   The Land is Ours
      57m Laurence Goldin USA
   Silencing the Guns
      86m Arthur Lamothe Canada
 -----------------------------------
 Saturday, November 17, 1996; 10:30am
   Los Gatos Cinemas
   41 N. Santa Cruz Avenue
   Los Gatos CA
 SPECIAL Native American Dance Exhibitions
   Heart of the People
      58m Peter von Puttkamer Canada
   The Song of Hiawatha
      114m Jeffrey Shore Canada
 -----------------------------------
 Sunday, November 18, 1996; 10:30am
 Los Gatos Cinemas
 41 N. Santa Cruz Avenue
 Los Gatos CA

   The Point: Legacy of River People
      60m Peter Monahan USA
   Pomo Basketweavers: A Tribute to Three Elders
      59m David Ludwig, producer USA
   Rabbit Boss
      27m Mark Gandolfo, Tom King, JoAnne Peden USA
   Artistry, Spirit, and Beauty: Great Basin Weavers
      29m Creel Snider USA
   Stewart Indian School
      30m Creel Snider USA
 -----------------------------------
 Date: 25 Oct 1996 20:20:20 GMT
 From: jariggen@wheel.dcn.davis.ca.us (jaxun)
 Subj: D-QU Veterans Pow Wow

 Announcing D-Q University's Veterans Pow Wow, being held Saturday
 November 9, 1996. This event is being sponsored by Rumsey Rancheria and
 presented by the students of D-Q University. This announcement is also
 featured on the D-Q University website, at:

 (http://dcn.davis.ca.us/~jariggen/dqhome.html)
  >>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>
 Date: November 9, 1996
 Time...
         Open Gourd Dancing      6PM - 7 PM
         Grand Entry & Powwow    7PM - 12 AM

 Location...
 Seven miles west of Davis from Route 113. Exit on County Road 31, or
 approximately four miles east of Winters exit from I-505 on County Road 31.
 Public Info...
  This event is open to the public.
  The pow wow is in the Cultural Arts Building. Free parking and entrance.
  Rules for taping and photographing will be posted at the
 information booth.
  Please bring your own folding chairs for your convenience and comfort.
  There will be food booths and more than 25 vendors with all types
 of Native American handcrafted items, jewelry and art.

 This is an alcohol- and drug-free event.
 -----------------------------------
 Date: 23 Oct 1996 19:19:25 -0700
 From: mccoyd@netgate.net
 Subj: Open House in San Jose, CA.

 The American Indian Center of Santa Clara Valley, Inc.
 warmly invites you to attend the Sixth Annual Cultural
 Arts Exhibit in celebration of Native American Month.
   Open House reception will be held November 1, 1996
   in the front lobby of the American Indian Center,
   919 The Alameda, San Jose, CA from 4 p.m. to 7 p.m.
 Featured will be Native American Artists and
 Authentic Crafts.  Exhibitors of Intertribal Representation
 are:  David Mejia, Cora
       Clara Standing Elk, Lakota
       Bill Payer, Ho-Chunk
       Lloyd Escobar, Esselen
 Come and join the local Native American Community
 in Honor and Celebration of Native American Month
 this November with traditional dances and foods.

 for more information, please call (408) 971-9622

 Sponsored by the City of San Jose Fine Arts Commission and AICSCVI
 -----------------------------------
 Date: 28 Oct 1996 21:19:07 -0500
 From: nassawango@aol.com (Nassawango)
 Subj: Occaneechi Fall Festival

 The Occaneechi Band of the Saponi Nation will hold it's first Fall
 Festival Saturday, November 9, at Pleasant Grove Elementary School, (off
 N.C. 119 on Pleasant Grove Union School Rd)  9 miles north of Mebane,
 North Carolina.  Grounds open at 10 AM, Grand entry at noon.  Festival
 ends at dark.  Admission $2, seniors and under 12 free.  Head drum:Eagle
 Spirit Singers (Catawba), MC: Jim Chavis.  Come join the Occaneechi for an
 afternoon of dance, music, native food and crafts, as we celebrate the
 harvest season.  For more info call the tribal office at 919-304-3723, or,
 John Blackfeather Jeffries at 919-732-8512.

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 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:
 Brian Hauk, Janet Smith, Robert Bropho(Public Proclamation), Larry Kibby,
 Cherokee Elders Council via Marvin and Linda Summerfield/Cherokee Observer,
 Roberto Rodriguez & Patrisia Gonzales/Latino Spectrum via Carol Liu,
 Sovereign Dineh Nation via Glen Welker, David B. Bowden, Debra F. Sanders,
 Dan Umstead, Philip Althouse(Press Release), Joanna Nanake Soto Aviles,
 The World Organisation Against Torture, Meredith Wilson(Job Announcement),
 Alan Moomaw(Job Announcement), Justice for Peltier(Call for Advocacy),
 Feather Eaglerock, Karen J Gould, dAVe Burlingame, National Commission for
 Democracy in Mexico, USA), Ann Stewart
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   ~ Part B of this newsletter has already been distributed
     via the NATIVE-L or NATCHAT mailing lists.

 --------- "RE: Conferences and Powwows - online" ---------

 Date: Thu, 31 October 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: Thu, 24 Oct 1996 18:35:10 -0700
 Subj: Schedule for Giving Voice to Silence Tour Oct. 28-Nov. 17
 From: moonlight@igc.apc.org(National Commission for Democracy in Mexico,USA)
 Mailing List:    NATIVE-L (native-l@gnosys.svle.ma.us)

 National Commission for Democracy in Mexico
 601 N. Cotton Street, #A103
 El Paso, Texas 79902
 Phone/fax: (915) 532-8382
 Email: moonlight@igc.apc.org

         GIVING VOICE TO SILENCE TOUR
   The extremely dangerous situation which exists in Mexico continues to be
 inaccessible to the majority of the American public because of the
 disinterest of the news media.  When there is no information, there is
 little hope of public response to the growing U.S.  presence and
 intervention.
   Cecilia Rodriguez, the U.S. representative of the Zapatistas, is touring
 in the Northeast, to bring attention to the low-intensity war in Mexico,
 and its implications for the people of the US.  The Zapatistas are amongst
 the first indigenous people to take a stand against the globalization
 policies which continue to devastate the environment, the economy and poor
 people around the world.
   The corrupt party-state government of Mexico in place for the past 70
 years continues to expand a low-intensity war against indigenous people
 all over Mexico and uses government money to pay for sophisticated public
 relations campaigns in the United States. It is a war based on the
 interests of multi-nationals, drug traffickers and right-wing paramilitary
 squads, and that has been waged with military equipment, advisors and
 training from the United States.
   Unless significant public awareness is achieved about the plight and
 proposal of the Zapatistas for change in Mexico, a creeping genocide of
 indigenous people similar to that which took place in Central America is
 inevitable.
   The "Giving Voice To Silence" Tour is to present the American people the
 viable political solution which the Zapatistas offer to resolve Mexico's
 present crisis.  It will inform the American public, and  arm them with
 the knowledge they need in order to hold political leaders accountable for
 this low-intensity war.
   Please contact the event organizers in your community, and plan on
 attending the tour events.  Help break the silence on the low-intensity
 war in Chiapas and US involvement!

 October 28: Hyannis MA
 Contact:  Mary Zepernick: ph: (508)398-1023

 October 30th : Bard College, Annadale-aun-Hudson, NY
         Contact: Caylor Roling,  (914)752-4568 or  ar374@bard.edu

 November 3rd - 6th, Albany, NY
 Contact:  Cathy Stanford   ph/fax (301)593-7591

 November 7th, Burlington, Vermont
 Karen Topper, Vermont Chiapas Action Network,  ph: (802)223-4901 or
 vters4nica@igc.apc.org

 November 8th - 9th, Syracuse, NY
 Contact: Bill Capowski:  ph: (315)426-9823   or  wjcapows@syr.edu

 November 11th , Vassar College
 Contact: Spence Holeman, ph: (914)451-2201  or jaholeman@vassar.edu

 November 12-17, New York City
 Contact:  Pam Galpern:  ph: (212)473-3936

 --------- "RE: Advocate for Peltier" ---------

 Date: Wed, 23 Oct 1996 08:34:46 -0700
 From: bear@epix.net (Laura)
 Subj: an opportunity to advocate for Peltier

 Mailing List:    NATIVE-L (native-l@gnosys.svle.ma.us)

   Congress is "out of session", and the politicians are spending more time
 in "home districts".  I received a postcard from US Senator Specter that
 he'd be in my area for an "open house" type meeting, which was a terrific
 opportunity to publicly promote Leonard's clemency campaign.
   I'd put out a request for help on a draft statement, had immediate and
 impressive responses.  To those folks, nya weh, for the encouragement,
 editing, and polishing of the draft statement.  Many times I have taken
 on one fight or another, and felt quite alone being a solitary voice.
 This time, my voice was not my own, and that made it much stronger.

 Here's how the open house went:
   The room was small, but very crowded, hardly even standing room.  Mr.
 Specter spoke for about 10 or 15 minutes, then took a "question count" to
 limit questions.  Mine was one of 13 hands raised, and he then stated he
 would take 14 questions.  My statement was the 14th.  He was a bit
 anxious, because I was speaking longer than most, with less praise for
 him than most, and toward the end of his allotted timeslot, so he was
 already itching to be off to his next meeting.  However, he did not
 interrupt (except to deny having told Anderson there was no interest in
 Peltier, so whether he ever said that or not, he admits now at least that
 there IS widespread interest).  I did not expect, and did not receive, a
 positive response to my closing question about his support for Leonard;
 however, as my friends and sons who attended commented on afterward, the
 room became NOTICEABLY silent as I told Leonard's story.  I don't think
 it'll get the big press coverage I was hoping for, since so many issues
 were raised and the papers will likely do a broad brush approach; but we
 had people's attention, which was encouraging, and we can and will now
 follow up.  I began with the nuke issue because that is the fight that
 has gained me positive recognition in my community.  People will more
 likely remember what they heard last, anyway, and THAT was about Leonard.
   The statement I read follows, please feel free to use for your own
 letters or statements, (especially since LPDC has announced Intn'l week
 of Action Nov 12-19), and followup to Specter if you wish:
   to Arlen Specter, 21 October 1996, at the Bradford County Courthouse
 (Towanda, Pennsylvania)
   Thank you for coming to Bradford County to give us an opportunity
 to have our voices heard.  Even in spite of the overcast skies, I
 think you can see from the color in the mountains all around us one
 of the many reasons why I am glad to call this area my home.  And
 so, I appreciate the chance to speak today to a representative of
 the U.S.government, with the hope that you share my determination
 to protect this land and to see that true justice is upheld for all
   First, a concern:  With the Atomic Energy Act of 1954, production
 and use of nuclear energy was mandated, but at that time, those
 who designed the act failed to understand or satisfactorily provide
 for the disposition of nuclear waste.
   It is bitterly ironic now, that here in Bradford County, a person must
 provide a  pre-approved plan guaranteeing that much less dangerous
 household "waste" will be properly managed before they can build a home,
 yet we as a county, who generate less than four one/hundredths of ONE
 percent of our state's nuclear waste, face the possibility of housing
 several states', and perhaps the country's nuclear waste, because the
 government later resolved the original oversight by turning responsibility
 over to the states.  We don't like it, we don't deserve it, and we can't
 afford it.  We reject the short-term financial incentives because we are
 appalled by the long-term degradation to our environment.
   With the further prospect of inter-state trucking of radioactive waste,
 regardless of the remoteness of the possibility, there is still the
 chance of an American Chernobyl disaster.  Even without such a
 catastrophe, countless families country and worldwide are now struggling
 with the consequences of an experiment in the use of our depleted
 uranium munitions in the Gulf War.  Studies are now revealing high
 increases in leukemia, carcinoma, cancers of the lung and digestive
 systems, congenital diseases and deformities in fetuses, attributed to
 uranium contamination.
   Coming back to home, some of our ancestors were the original inhabitants
 here; and we call this continent Turtle Island, a name given with love
 and respect.  Many of the descendants are locked onto reservations,
 where they are also struggling in the face of vacillating US policies in
 regard to Native American land holdings:  their lands are held in trust
 and used for US when there are mining or other benefits, but recognized
 as "sovereign" and therefore not subject to US environmental standards
 and protections when those protections would get in the way of the
 mining or nuclear dumping.  They, too, are being pressured to take on
 this current nuclear nightmare, not of their design.
   I have these suggestions:  the US Government, NOT the states, and
 certainly NOT the reservations, must (1)act responsibly regarding the
 legacy of their predecessors' shortsighted nuclear policies, (2) manage
 nuclear wastes responsibly, (3) dispense with interminable studies in
 favor of immediate and drastic source reductions, and (4) actively
 develop alternative technologies.
   I'd like to conclude with another topic, and a question, which also has
 to do with justice in this nation.  Allow me to sketch the context
 briefly:
   There were 61 documented homicides of American Indian Movement people on
 the Pine Ridge Reservation in the early 1970's.  This was during the
 tenure of a "puppet" reservation leader, Dick Wilson, supported by the
 FBI and allowed to be outside the law.  In 1975, he signed away
 reservation lands with uranium ore to the US Government.  At the same
 time, back on the rez, two FBI agents, supposedly looking for a teenager
 who had stolen cowboy boots, got involved in a firefight and were
 killed.  Joe Stuntz, a young native resident, was also killed.  Neither
 Joe Stuntz nor the 61 other homicide cases were ever seriously
 investigated, but Pine Ridge was inundated by more than 150 FBI agents,
 BIA police, US Marshals, and Wilson GOON's, pitted against 30 men,
 women, and children.  Of four Native men who were accused, two were
 acquitted on grounds of self defense, and another was released so the
 FBI could concentrate on the fourth man, Leonard Peltier, who had
 escaped to Canada and sought political asylum.  On the basis of
 affidavits that have now been legally shown to have been coerced and
 falsified by the FBI, Peltier was extradited, convicted, and sentenced,
 by a notoriously anti-Native judge, to two consecutive life terms.  The
 judge banned self-defense arguments which had been accepted in the
 companion cases.  Falsified FBI ballistic and other evidence has been
 amply demonstrated and admitted.  Nevertheless, Mr. Peltier languishes
 in Leavenworth over twenty years later, despite world-wide protests
 coming from such sources as 55 members of the US Congress, Former US
 Attorney General Ramsey Clark, Former Canadian Justice Minister Warren
 Allmond, the European Parliament, Nelson Mandela, Desmond Tutu, &
 Rigoberta Menchu.  The US now has the unique distinction of holding
 Amnesty International's #1 World Wide Political Prisoner.
   With due respect, Senator, I recall a Jack Anderson article of about a
 year ago.  He commented on your commendable role in the investigation of
 the Randy Weaver case, but he also paraphrased you as saying that
 Peltier isn't generating much interest.  The list I just read would seem
 to belie that, however, even if it didn't, I suggest that issues of
 justice should not be dispensed on the basis of popular concern.
 Justice for one is justice for all.
   Finally, I want to note that when I wrote to you some time ago, you did
 reply on September 3 that you would investigate further.  So my question
 to you today is, "What have you learned, and do you now support the huge
 public petition for  clemency and commutation of Leonard Peltier's
 unjust incarceration?"

 I appreciate your consideration and attention to these issues.
 >>>>>>> get involved-learn the truth-spread the truth<<<<<<<
 >>> JUSTICE FOR PELTIER-http://www.unicom.net/peltier/<<<

 --------- "RE: Leech Lake Recall Vote" ---------

 Date: Wed, 23 Oct 1996 09:34:55 -0500
 From: eaglerok@northernnet.com (feather eaglerock)
 Subj: Leech Lake Sec/Treas Recall Vote --

 Mailing List:    NATIVE-L (native-l@gnosys.svle.ma.us)

 NEWS RELEASE FROM NORTH CENTRAL MINNESOTA NATIVE AMERICAN VETERANS OUTREACH
 AND RESOURCE CENTER

 Results of the recall referendum on secretary/treasurer at Leech Lake
 Reservation:
 HE'S OUT!

 Over 900 votes cast to remove Daniel Brown from office.  With approximately
 1100 votes cast in the 10/22/96 recall election, the Leech Lake people have
 given a resounding affirmative vote to government reform.
   Brown was convicted of felony charges in the "Finngate" Insurance Scam at
 Leech Lake Reservation.  Former State Senator Harold "Skip" Finn and former
 Tribal Chairman Alfred "Tig" Pemberton, also convicted in the insurance
 scam, are currently serving sentences at the federal prison facility in
 Duluth, Minnesota.
   Charges have been brought by the Leech Lake people against District
 Representative Myron Ellis, who pleaded guilty to charges in the insurance
 scam, and served nine months at Leavenworth federal prison.  A public
 hearing on those charges has been set for December 2 at 10:00 in the
 Minnesota Chippewa Tribal Chambers at the Facility Center in Cass Lake.
   Charges have also been filed by the people against District Representative
 Alfred Fairbanks, Jr.  No action has been taken by the Leech Lake
 Reservation Business Council on those charges/petitions.  Petitions are
 currently circulating against District Representative.
   The Tribal Executive Committee (TEC) of the Minnesota Chippewa Tribe will
 meet next on November 7 in the Minnesota Chippewa Tribal Chambers at the
 Facility Center in Cass Lake.  Included on the agenda for that meeting: a
 resolution provided for primary elections on the member reservations.

 --------- "RE: ICWA Fight to Begin Anew" ---------

 Date: Sun, 27 Oct 1996 13:06:37 -0600
 From: karenjg@gnn.com (Karen J Gould)
 Subj: ICWA Fight to begin anew

 Mailing List:    NATIVE-L (native-l@gnosys.svle.ma.us)

   Senator McCain's bill amending the Indian Child Welfare Act along the
 lines suggested by the National Congress of American Indians is now
 officially dead. The House failed to pass it before ending the legislative
 session of the 104th Congress, so a new bill must be introduced in the
 105th Congress.
   It is expected that Senator McCain will do this, however details of when,
 and how are not known.
   Senator McCain's bill provided for timely notice of tribes when an Indian
 Child is being placed for adoption or foster care, and for criminal
 penalties for lawyers and adoption agencies who mis-represent the heritage
 of an Indian Child to avoid the application of the ICWA. These are
 important improvements in the ICWA, and should be included in any new bill
 introduced in the 105th Congress.
   Many people also would like to see a specific prohibition of the use of
 the "Existing Indian Family" doctrine in any new bill as well.  This
 doctrine has been used by the courts to rule that the ICWA doesn't apply
 to children who are not part of an "existing indian family." Various
 definitions of an "existing indian family" have been used in such cases;
 the bill introduced by Rep. Pryce would have codified her definition of an
 "existing indian family" as one who "maintains significant social,
 cultural, or political ties to the tribe of which they are a member."
 (What constituted "significant... ties" was left to the imagination.) This
 would have severely weakened the ICWA, as well as being a direct assault
 on tribal sovereignty, since it would have meant that a tribe can't even
 decide for themselves who is and who isn't a member of the tribe.
   It is important to stay updated on this issue, because the forces who
 tried to weaken both the ICWA and tribal sovereignty are still out there,
 and now also have a chance to reintroduce *their* bill. Representative
 Pryce would still like to see state courts given the power to determine
 who is and who isn't an "Indian Child" protected under ICWA.
   I will send more information about plans for the 105th Congress, and what
 supporters of the ICWA can do to help, as soon as it is available!  (Which
 might not be until January, given that most members are out campaigning.)
 In the meantime, I will leave the information regarding the recently
 deceased bills available at my website:

 http://members.gnn.com/karenjg/ICWA_Info/homepage.htm
 I would also like to take this opportunity to call for comments about this
 issue, these bills and any future bills, from knowledgeable individuals or
 organizations for inclusion in the site when it is updated.
 Karen J. Gould

 --------- "RE: Cowlitz Rebirth" ---------

 Date: Wed, 23 Oct 1996 23:02:24 -0700
 From: davidb@spl.lib.wa.us (dAVe burlingame)
 Subj: Cowlitz rebirth: 2 Nov. 1996

 Mailing List:    NATIVE-L (native-l@gnosys.svle.ma.us)

 Klowhawya!

   I am dAVe Burlingame, Taitnapaum Cowlitz, of the family Kinswa. I am
 also a Council Member of the Cowlitz Indian Tribe, and ally myself with
 the Cowlitz Indian Peoples Coalition. Please hear my words:
   I was first elected to Tribal Council in 1992, and every day since that
 election has been a trial. Myself and my sisters and brothers from other
 Cowlitz families have tried to follow a traditional path, the path trod by
 our Grandmothers and Grandfathers, the path trod by our Elders. We seek
 nothing other than a reunification of our people, regardless of the
 barriers, political or otherwise, erected first by the nonhumans, then by
 our own people. Try as we might, our efforts are always demonized by the
 fearful and ignorant. We speak to deaf ears, ears that have already
 decided our motives for us, ears that wrongly assume we share their goals
 of greed and power and green.
   The time has come to put an end to their reign, to take the power from
 the selfish few and reshape it into a tool that will serve all the people.
   All Cowlitz Tribal members and their families are invited to attend the
 next General Council meeting, to be held 11a.m., November 2 at the Cowlitz
 Prairie Grange near Toledo, WA.
   All other interested Native parties are welcome to attend a gathering
 outside the Cowlitz Prairie Grange, same date, same time. We will have
 video cameras inside, showing those not participating in the meeting what
 exactly is being done to satisfy the agendas of the Inner Circle, to the
 detriment of all Cowlitz Peoples. We will have songs, we will show that
 the practice of violating the past, present, and future of Cowlitz, indeed
 of all Indian Peoples, is at an end. We hope our friends and neighbors
 from the North, East, South, and West will stand by us, just as we hope to
 be able to stand by others who need our support.
   We will be discussing many issues, including unconstitutional actions
 taken by several illegally seated Tribal Council and Executive Council
 members, and efforts to close all future meetings in order to tighten the
 already strong grip the Inner Circle has on the general membership, a grip
 we hope is beginning to loosen.
   It is time for us to break free, to stand together as Cowlitz People, to
 once again to be able to put our faith in others that will truly be
 representative of our Tribe as a whole.
   The Ashen Bear is cornered. We need to dance outside his cave, to draw him
 into the open so that we might put an end to his tyranny. He has terrorized
 our people, and they are afraid to leave their longhouses. We need to take
 the power from the Ashen Bear, and we need to take the fear from our
 people, so that we all can dance outside, so that we can all live again as
 one.
   When we forget to serve our land, when we forget to serve our people, we
 die.
   When we forget Grandmother and Grandfather, when we forget our Elders and
 our Children, we die.
   These are my words. I will live by them, and I will die for my right to
 speak them.
   Thank you for your time.
   If you have any questions, please e-mail or call me:
         davidb@spl.lib.wa.us
         206.255.7303 [h]
             386.4680 or
                 4177 [w]
 All My Relations
 dAVe Burlingame
 CIT/CIPC
 Unconquered.
 .....
 |||||

 --------- "RE: ELZN is not Weak" ---------

 Date: Wed, 23 Oct 1996 00:26:40 -0700
 From: moonlight@igc.apc.org (National Commission for Democracy in Mexico)
 Subj: EZLN is not weak, divided nor ready to give up its arms

 Mailing List:    NATIVE-L (native-l@gnosys.svle.ma.us)

 'THE EZLN IS NOT WEAK, DIVIDED NOR READY TO GIVE UP ITS ARMS"
   Subcomandante Marcos recently traveled to San Cristobal de Las Casas to
 meet with the COCOPA in regards to the San Andres Dialogue.   In well-
 publicized interviews with several major television networks, several
 of his statements were badly misrepresented. LIBERTAD hereby reviews some
 of the more salient ones in order to dispel confusion.
   THE EZLN WILL NOT BECOME A POLITICAL PARTY NOR WILL ANY OF ITS MEMBERS RUN
 FOR OFFICE - In reality, Marcos joked about the absurdity of his becoming
 governor of Mexico City, but stated clearly that the EZLN hopes to convert
 to a "political force" in obedience with the wishes of civil society.  The
 obstacle to this, he stated was that the EZLN had trained to make war and
 was not structured to carry out politics on a national level.  Any
 possibility of the EZLN participating in elections or becoming a political
 party is out of the question.
   THE PRINCIPAL POLITICAL OBJECTIVES OF THE EZLN REMAIN 1) TO RESOLVE THE
 NATIONAL INDIGENOUS QUESTION 2) TO OPEN NON-PARTISAN SPACES OF POLITICAL
 PARTICIPATION.  The second of these objectives will determine the future
 of the EZLN as a political or a military force.  According to Marcos, he
 has information about the development of other armed groups in Mexico with
 no relationship to the EZLN.  This, he states, manifests the severe nature
 of the crisis in Mexico, since only the armed struggle appears a viable
 alternative to many people.  The legitimacy of the government, he stated,
 is held together only by pins, and it is the Federal Army which begins to
 fill the vacuum in order that the system not fly apart.  The citizenry
 grows more frustrated with the political parties and social desperation
 increases.
   THERE IS NO DIVISION AMONG EZLN COMMUNITIES - Commander Mario Renan
 Castillo of the 7th military region of Chiapas had apparently spread the
 rumor that a week before members of the EZLN had begun shooting at one
 another.  The rumor apparently did more to destabilize the peso than it
 weakened the EZLN.
   THERE IS NO DISPUTE BETWEEN THE EZLN AND BISHOP SAMUEL RUIZ - Marcos
 denounced the government's clear intent to set the CONAI aside by ignoring
 any proposals from the CONAI and opening direct channels with the EZLN.
 The government is mistaken, Marcos stated, if it believes that the
 indigenous communities would be willing to sign a peace agreement "on the
 head of Samuel Ruiz".
   THE COMMUNITIES INSIST ON RESULTS NOT ON A PEACE DIALOGUE.  The
 communities, in view of the intransigence of the government at the
 negotiating table, are returning to the resolve of late 1993 before the
 war.  They do not insist upon the EZLN's presence at the negotiating
 table, but upon results and there have been none since the dialogue
 began.  The government believes, says Marcos, that if it prolongs the
 negotiation process that the EZLN will surrender and accept anything, but
 what is happening is the reverse.  The EZLN believes the dialogue is in a
 definitive crisis and all the negotiation strategy is in a final crisis.
 What is needed is not a change in personalities.  The communities do not
 care who is at the negotiating table, only that it bring results.
   Otherwise, the negotiation will be null and void as were the ones in
 early 1994.

 --------- "RE: Environmental Impact Statement" ---------

 Date: Fri, 25 Oct 1996 16:30:32 GMT
 From: kibbey@sierra.net (Larry Kibbey)
 Subj: Environmental Impact Statement for marina (Washington state)

 Mailing List:    NATIVE-L (native-l@gnosys.svle.ma.us)

 DEPARTMENT OF THE INTERIOR
 Bureau of Indian Affairs
 Notice of Availability of a Supplemental Final Environmental
 Impact Statement for the Proposed Swinomish Marina, LaConner,
 Washington
 AGENCY: Bureau of Indian Affairs, Interior.
 ACTION: Notice.
 -----------------------------------------------------------------------
 SUMMARY: The Supplemental Final Environmental Impact Statement (SFEIS)
 for the proposed Swinomish Marina at LaConner, Washington, is now
 available for public review.
 DATES: A Record of Decision will be issued after November 24, 1996.
 Public comments will be accepted by the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers
 and the Swinomish Indian Tribal Community, pursuant to the Section 10/
 404 and Swinomish Tribal Coastal Zone Management Permit applications,
 until November 18, 1996.
 ADDRESSES: Comments on the Section 10/404 Permit application may be
 addressed to Mr. Jack Gossett, Project Manager, Regulatory Branch, U.S.
 Army Corps of Engineers, P.O. Box C-3755, Seattle, Washington 98124-
 2255. Comments on the Swinomish Tribal Coastal Zone Management Permit
 application may be sent to the Natural Resources Manager, Planning
 Department, Swinomish Tribal Community, P.O. Box 817, LaConner,
 Washington 98257.
     Copies of the SFEIS are available for review at (1) the Office of
 the Portland Area Director, Bureau of Indian Affairs, 911 NE 11th
 Avenue, Portland, Oregon 97232-4169; (2) the Puget Sound Agency, Bureau
 of Indian Affairs, 3006 Colby Avenue, Everett, Washington 98201; and
 (3) the Swinomish Office of Planning and Community Development,
 Swinomish Indian Tribal Community, 950 Moorage Way, LaConner,
 Washington 98257. A limited number of individual copies of the SFEIS
 may also be obtained from this last address, or by calling that office
 at (503) 466-3163.
 FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT: Mr. Jim LeBret, Team Leader,
 Resources, Environmental and Regulatory Compliance, Portland Area
 Office, Bureau of Indian Affairs, 911 NE 11th Avenue, Portland, Oregon
 97232-4169, telephone (503) 231-6749, FAX (503) 231-2275.
 SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION: The Swinomish Indian Tribal Community is
 proposing to develop a 1200 slip salt water marina and related upland
 support facilities on the Swinomish Indian Reservation in Skagit
 County,

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 Washington. The purpose of the project is to establish an economic base
 for the Swinomish Indian Tribe, meet regional demands for boat moorage,
 and restore historic intertidal habitat conditions. The proposed
 development is situated along the western shore of the Swinomish
 Channel, immediately south of State Route 20. The 239.8 acre project
 site is comprised of three elements: (1) the marina basin (57.8 acres);
 (2) the wetland mitigation site (62.8 acres); and (3) the upland
 commercial site (119.2 acres).
     The project involves the excavation of approximately 1,800,000
 cubic yards of silty sandy material from existing agricultural fields
 and from 4.9 acres of palustrine wetlands. The excavated material will
 be disposed on site and used to develop the upland commercial site. The
 project will include the dredging of 4.92 acres and filling of 4.67
 acres of palustrine wetland. Mitigation will include the creation of
 22.2 acres of new intertidal wetland and the enhancement, by
 reintroducing tidal conditions, of another 40.6 acres.
     This document is supplemental to both a Draft Environmental Impact
 Statement (DEIS) prepared in 1987, and a supplement to the 1987 DEIS,
 prepared in 1992 (SDEIS). These two previous documents examined a
 preferred alternative of developing a marina within a tidal flat on
 tribal land, a second alternative to develop a marina on the site
 described in the 1996 document, and a third, no action alternative. The
 conclusion reached in the 1992 SDEIS was to pursue as ``preferred'' the
 second alternative, and abandon the plan to develop the tidal flat as
 described in the original, 1987 DEIS. The net effect of the change in
 alternatives will produce approximately 62.8 acres of restored wetland,
 tidal flat and inter-tidal habitat.
     This notice is published pursuant to 1501.7 of the Council on
 Environmental Quality Regulations, 40 CFR parts 1500-1508, implementing
 the procedural requirements of the National Environmental Policy Act of
 1969, as amended (42 USC 4371 et. seq.), Department of the Interior
 Manual (516 DM 106), and is in the exercise of authority delegated to
 the Assistant Secretary--Indian Affairs by 209 DM 8.
 Dated: October 18, 1996.
 Ada E. Deer,
 Assistant Secretary--Indian Affairs.
 [FR Doc. 96-27399 Filed 10-24-96; 8:45 am]
 BILLING CODE 4310-02-P

 --------- "RE: A Hero's Voice" ---------

 Date: Wed, 23 Oct 1996 22:16:20 -0500
 From: eaglerok@northernnet.com (feather eaglerock)
 Subj: A Hero's Voice

 Mailing List:    NATIVE-L (native-l@gnosys.svle.ma.us)

 NEWS RELEASE NORTH CENTRAL MINNESOTA NATIVE AMERICAN VETERANS OUTREACH AND
 RESOURCE CENTER
   Milles Lacs Band of Ojibwe releases first-of-its-kind comic book to
 elementary schools statewide
   Onamia, Minnesota--Heroes don't always wear long capes and jump tall
 building.  many times, they are real-life people who become heroes by
 saving a culture, being spiritual leaders or fighting for the rights of
 their people.  These are heroes whose stores aren't told in comic books -
 until now.
   The Mille Lacs Band of Ojibwe announced today the statewide release
 of A Hero's Voice,  a 24-page comic book with original artwork and
 storyline.  Through the voice of a wise grandfather, the comic book tells
 the story of six Ojibwe leaders who have shaped the history of the Mille
 Lacs Band in Northern Minnesota.  It carries an important message for both
 Indian and non-Indian students.
   "This comic book brings together language, culture, history and
 pride - aspects of Ojibwe education that we want our children to start
 taking to heart at an early age," said Mille Lacs Band Chief Executive
 Marge Anderson.
   The Mille Lacs Band released the immensely popular, award-winning
 video, the Woodlands:  The Story of the Mille Lacs Ojibwe  in 1994.  That
 was geared toward high school students, while the comic books brings the
 same type of important historical lessons to the younger students.

 A Hero's Voice
   The Milles Lacs Band distributed A Hero's Voice   [this week] to fifth
 -grade teachers in all of Minnesota's public and private schools.  A
 teacher's guide is available with the comic book, to help teachers
 integrate these important historical messages about history and heroes into
 their curricula.  While it is designed for use in primary and intermediate
 schools, it is especially appropriate for fifth-grade students.
   The early reviews from some 11-year-olds had their parents - who have
 seen the comic book have been positive.  "I liked that you don't have
 to have special powers to be brave," said Melissa Boyd, a Mille Lacs Band
 member and student at McGregor public school.  "And I like that girls can
 be heroes,