From gars@netcom.com Thu Jun 12 21:35:56 1997
Date: Tue, 10 Jun 1997 20:51:05 -0700
From: Gary Night Owl <gars@netcom.com>
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Subject: Wotanging Ikche--nanews05.024

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               Settlers In Support of Indigenous Sovereignty
 
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   "You have taken this pipe and this smoke in the presence of the Sacred
    Arrows of the Cheyenne. You have promised not to hurt us. If you
    break this pledge, you will become as ashes in the grave. Yellow Hair,
    this is your grave. If you do not keep your word, you will die"
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   (Custer walked away unmoved by the ceremony or by the Chief's prophecy.)
 
 +- -- -- -- -- -- -- -- -- -- -- -+
 |   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!
 
   It is an honor to begin this issue with the following forward:
 Grandmother Gladys Tantaquidgeon, the medicine woman of the Mohegan Nation,
 turns 98 years old on 15 June. We hope that members of the Nations will send
 her birthday greetings. She has given her whole life to teach and encourage
 members of every Nation. Besides her traditional work, she was probably the
 first Native American woman to become a cultural anthropologist, in order to
 learn best how to save the traditions of her people, even studying with the
 famous Franz Boas. Thanks to her efforts, her people remain traditional, and
 are federally recognized. There was a New York Times article about her
 recently. It has been my honor to know her for 15 years or so.
 Grandmother Gladys Tantaquidgeon,
 Route 32 Norwich-New London Road,
 Uncasville, Connecticut 06382.
 --Distant Eagle
 
   This message arrived this week at a most appropriate time.  I was able to
 share it with a brother in need.  The results were heartwarming.  So much
 so I am moved to share it with all readers.
 
 Date: Wed, 4 Jun 1997 22:36:08 -0700 (PDT)
 From: "P. Creasy" <pcreasy@u.washington.edu>
 Subj: Right on! (fwd)
 
 ATTITUDE IS EVERYTHING
   Jerry was the kind of guy you love to hate.  He was always in a good mood
 and always had something positive to say.  When someone would ask him how
 he was doing, he would reply, "If I were any better, I would be twins!"
   He was a unique manager because he had several waiters who had followed
 him around from restaurant to restaurant. The reason the waiters followed
 Jerry was because of his attitude. He was a natural motivator. If an
 employee was having a bad day, Jerry was there telling the employee how to
 look on the positive side of the situation.
   Seeing this style really made me curious, so one day I went up to Jerry
 and asked him, "I don't get it! You can't be a positive person all of the
 time. How do you do it?"
   Jerry replied, "Each morning I wake up and say to myself, Jerry, you
 have two choices today.  You can choose to be in a good mood or you can
 choose to be in a bad mood.'  I choose to be in a good mood. Each time
 something bad happens, I can choose to be a victim or I can choose to
 learn from it. I choose to learn from it. Every time someone comes to me
 complaining, I can choose to accept their complaining or I can point out
 the positive side of life. I choose the positive side of life."
   "Yeah, right, but it's not that easy," I protested.
   "Yes it is," Jerry said.  "Life is all about choices. When you cut away
 all the junk, every situation is a choice.  You choose how you react to
 situations. You choose how people will affect your mood. You choose to be
 in a good or bad mood. The bottom line:  It's your choice how you live
 life."
   I reflected on what Jerry said.
   Soon thereafter, I left the restaurant industry to start my own business.
  We lost touch, but I often thought about him when I made a choice about
 life instead of reacting to it. Several years later, I heard that Jerry
 did something you are never supposed to do in a restaurant business:  he
 left the back door open one morning and was held up at gunpoint by three
 armed robbers.. While trying to open the safe, his hand, shaking from
 nervousness, slipped off the combination. The robbers panicked and shot
 him.
   Luckily, Jerry was found relatively quickly and rushed to the local
 trauma center.  After 18 hours of surgery and weeks of intensive care,
 Jerry was released from the hospital with fragments of the bullets still
 in his body.
   I saw Jerry about six months after the accident. When I asked him how he
 was, he  replied, "If I were any better, I'd be twins.  Wanna see my
 scars?"  I declined to see his wounds, but did ask him what had gone
 through his mind as the robbery took place.
   "The first thing that went through my mind was that I should have locked
 the back door," Jerry replied.  "Then, as I lay on the floor, I remembered
 that I had two choices:  I could choose to live, or I could choose to die.
 I chose to live."
   "Weren't you scared?  Did you lose consciousness?" I asked. Jerry
 continued, "The paramedics were great.  They kept telling me I was going
 to be fine. But when they wheeled me into the emergency room and I saw the
 expressions on the faces of the doctors and nurses, I got really scared.
 In their eyes, I read, 'He's a dead man.' I knew I needed to take action."
   "What did you do?" I asked. "Well, there was a big, burly nurse shouting
 questions at me," said Jerry. "She asked if I was allergic to anything.
 'Yes,' I replied. The doctors and nurses stopped working as they waited
 for my reply..I took a deep breath and yelled, 'Bullets!'  Over their
 laughter, I told them, 'I am choosing to live. Operate on me as if I am
 alive, not dead."
   Jerry lived thanks to the skill of his doctors, but also because of his
 amazing attitude. I learned from him that every day we have the choice to
 live fully.
   Attitude, after all, is everything.
 You have 2 choices now:
 1. Save and delete this mail from your mail box.
 2. Forward it to your dear ones and choose choice # 1.
 Hope, you will choose choice 2.
 
   Thanks to Mike Wicks <mwicks@gte.net> for the following reminder:
 In Memory (with Respect and Honor)
 6.15.1975  Leah Spotted Elk - AIM supporter at Pine Ridge by Goons.
            No investigation.
 6.19.1973  Clarence Cross - AIM supporter shot to death in ambush by
            Goons.  Although assailants were identified by eyewitnesses,
            brother Vernal Cross, wounded in ambush-was briefly charged
            with crime.
            No further investigation.
   It should be noted that, using the preliminary figure of only 61
 homicides of AIM members and supporters during the same period,
 researchers Bruce Johansen and Roberto Maestas, in their book
 "Wasichu: The Continuing Indian Wars (New York:Monthly Review
 Press, 1979, pp. 83-4), arrived at the following analysis of its
 implications: Using only documented political deaths, the yearly
 murder rate on Pine Ridge Reservation between January 1, 1973 and
 March 1, 1976, was 170 per 100,000. By comparison, Detroit, the
 reputed murder capital of the United States, had a rate of 20.2 per
 100,000...An estimated 20,000 persons were murdered in the United
 States during 1974. In a nation of 200 million persons, a murder
 rate comparable with that of Pine Ridge between 1973 and 1976
 would have left 340,000 persons dead for political reasons alone
 in one year; 1.32 million in three.
 Mike
 
 Peace!  Night Owl
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 ----------- News of the people featured in this issue ----------
 Part A: Usenet and e-mail                 Part B: NATIVE-L list
 - World Peace and Prayer Day '97          - Conferences and Powwows - online
 - Hundreds Rally In Solidarity            - New Moon Prayer
 - War Criminal Appointed to               - Inco Attempts to Undermine
   Law Commission                            Assessment
 - Mapping Racism                          - Great Bear Rainforest Blockade
 - Clark on Gustafsen, Seneca and Mohegans - Bear Lincoln
 - Vigil, Sentencing and Circles
 - Hydro-Quebec Action Alert
 - Judge Uses Children as Bait
 - Cherokees Organize Voter's League
 - In Violation of Court Orders
 - Letter on Behalf of Leonard Peltier
 - Tribute to Yellowstone Buffalo
 - Joining the American Indian Movement
 - Moisie River Alert
 - Looting of Indian Artifacts
 - In Whose Honor?
 - A Hundred Years Ago
 - Poem: The Morning
 - Verse: Hawaiian Book of Days
 - Conferences and Powwows - offline
 
 --------- "RE: World Peace and Prayer Day '97" ---------
 
 Date: Mon, 9 Jun 1997 23:52:34 -0400
 From: "elaine flattery" <flattery@primeline.com>
 Subj: World Peace and Prayer Day '97
 
 Mailing List:    Taino-L <Taino-L@corso.ccsu.ctstateu.edu>
 
 Hau Kola 
   My name is Arvol Looking Horse.  I am the 19th Generation Keeper of the
 Sacred White Buffalo Calf Pipe.
   I have committed myself to pray with the Cree people on June 21st to honor
 the sacred bundles and the sacred sites.  Last year, we hosted June 21
 World Peace and Prayer Day which commenced the 1,500 mile spiritual journey
 to Grey Horn Butte.  This year, the Cree Nation will host the Unity Ride -
 World Peace and Prayer Day.  The Unity Ride will begin June 21 at
 Opaskweyak First Nation, Manitoba.  Chief Ernest Sundown has committed to
 organize the Ride and bring the message of unity among the people in the
 north.  This is an honor for our Nation and our vision.
   Our purpose was given to us through a vision to unite our people
 spiritually.  Wasigla, "wiping the tears ceremony", was finally conducted
 for our relatives that were massacred at Wounded Knee in 1890.  It is told
 that in 1890 the hoop of our nation was broken because of the persecution. 
 The vision informed us to ride the original trail of Chief Bigfoot and the
 four hundred who followed him to Wounded Knee.  In December 1990, the
 ceremony Wasigla was finally carried out and the hoop of our Nation began
 to mend.  The purpose of this ceremony allows us to complete ourselves
 spiritually be releasing the pain and praying for Wolakota (peace).  This
 is the beginning of our Nation's sacred hoop mending.  It allows us once
 again to have peace within ourselves and balance with all our relations.
   After the Wasigla, the Bigfoot Riders agreed to change the name to the
 Unity Riders.  The Bigfoot Riders unanimously decided to ride north to
 reunite with our relatives.  In 1994, the birth of the White Buffalo
 signalled prophecies of the seventh generation.  The prophecy tells us that
 we would be at a crossroads, either be faced with tears from our relatives,
 chaos and disaster, or unite spiritually in peace and harmony.  We have
 seen the changes; it is time to bring the message to all people.
   This is also the fifth and last year of the Lakota, Dakota and Nakota
 completing the Unity Ride.  This last Ride is called the Wopila.  The
 Wopila is a giving of thanks for the safe journeys of the previous years. 
 This is the beginning of the Unity Ride for the Cree nation.  I will be
 riding with the Cree Nation.  Each ride is with the intention to restore
 peace and harmony.  The prophecies have directed that we pray for four
 years at sacred sites in the four directions on June 21 of each year.  Our
 prayers are to ask for healing for all living things.  
   We ask that all people join us in prayer in which ever way the Great
 Spirit, Wakan Tanka, has given your people for your own sacred sites.  We
 must do this for our future generations to live in peace and balance.  In
 our circle of life there is no beginning and no ending.  May peace be with
 you all my relations.
 Mitakuye 'oyasin,
 Arvol Looking Horse
 Keeper of the Sacred Pipe
 
 --------- "RE: Hundreds Rally In Solidarity" ---------
 
 Date: Sat, 7 Jun 1997 08:10:51 -0800
 From: SISIS@envirolink.org (S.I.S.I.S.)
 Subj: Gustafsen: Hundreds Rally In Solidarity
 
 :-:-:S.I.S.I.S. Settlers In Support of Indigenous Sovereignty:-:-:
 June 6, 1997                                    Court Notes
 
 Wolverine: When Will We Get Justice?
   Amid intense police security, Regina v.Pena et al, the largest, costliest
 and one of the most historically significant trials in Canadian history,
 began the process of sentencing today. An estimated three hundred people
 from many nations made the trip to Surrey, "BC" to show solidarity with
 the Ts'peten (Gustafsen Lake) Defenders. They filled Courtroom 7 and
 flooded the plaza outside the courthouse.
   It soon became apparent that the sentencing process will be lengthy. As
 has been their practice with disclosures throughout the trial, the Crown
 delayed proceedings by handing over their written submissions to defence
 just before the court was to deal with them. Defendants Rob Fleming and
 Suniva Bronson have hired new counsel for the sentencing, David Gibbons
 and Harry Rankin QC respectively. Rankin had appeared as provisional
 counsel for Wolverine, but was fired early in the trial for refusing to
 present Wolverine's position rejecting Canadian jurisdiction over unceded
 Shuswap territory. The new counsel for both these non-native defendants
 will require time to prepare submissions and arrange dates and other
 logistical matters. All outstanding matters were put over to Tuesday, June
 10, though these lawyers may not be available until late July.
   Self-representing James (OJ) Pitawanakwat, who is being held in custody
 along with Wolverine (William Jones Ignace) and also faces a life sentence,
 reminded Judge Bruce Josephson that he has still not received Josephson's
 reasons for dismissing the colour of right and jurisdictional defences.
   An application was made by defence counsel George Wool to allow Flo
 Samson to sign for back moneys owed to her son JoJo Ignace. JoJo was
 acquitted of all charges, but is now so seriously ill in hospital as a
 result of mistreatment and abuse received while incarcerated during this
 trial that he cannot sign himself. Josephson refused, preferring that Wool
 keep the money in trust for JoJo.
   Much of today's session involved discussion of the so-called "sentencing
 circle" applied for by at least one defendant. Wolverine sharply
 criticized the procedure, saying, "I refuse to be judged by a circle of
 people like Lyle James, the so-called landlord." James is the American
 rancher who claims approximately a half-million acres of unceded Shuswap
 land, including the Ts'peten Sundance and burial grounds. The sentencing
 circle will also reportedly include members of the RCMP and the local
 Chamber of Commerce.
   "I don't want you to slough off sentencing onto someone else," continued
 the Shuswap elder, "I want to appeal to you. The Crown admitted there was
 no purchase and no treaty. So how can you claim to have jurisdiction? Is
 the Queen involved? The Prime Minister's office? The Attorney General of
 Canada? We want to see how deep the corruption goes."
   Defence counsel Sheldon Tate suggested that "it may be we will have to
 break into two different groups," those wishing to proceed with dispatch
 to the sentencing, and those others with submissions being made on their
 behalf, further implying that this roughly corresponds to the division
 between those convicted of mischief endangering life and those convicted
 of simple mischief. The judge advised that he will not be accepting any
 submissions made to him directly, but only those received through the
 court. [Readers who wish to have their letters in support of the
 defendants submitted for the judge's consideration are encouraged to send
 them to S.I.S.I.S., address below.]
   Prosecutor Lance Bernard advised that the Crown would be dealing with
 defendants as a single group, and reiterated the theory introduced near
 the end of the trial that mere presence in the camp constituted
 "conspiracy." The Crown will therefore seek a substantial period of
 incarceration for all accused, even though imprisonment on a simple
 mischief charge is highly unusual.
   The tension was broken briefly when OJ Pitawanakwat quipped that he had
 reviewed the guidelines for the sentencing circle, and he thought he would
 do his own sentencing. Josephson returned, "I may play a small role in
 that."
   OJ insisted that he wanted to proceed with sentencing on Tuesday, and
 not wait for the others. "I'm right in the clutches of the colonial system,
 " he said, "where they cage us like animals,they feed us like dogs but
 they count us like diamonds."
   He said his submission is simple: his people are victims of cultural
 genocide and physical genocide. Canada characterized their defence as an
 act of defiance, but he went up there to protect his people, because those
 who are sworn to protect them, the RCMP, did not.
   OJ also told Josephson that he should not worry about the impression it
 might make on the others if he were sentenced earlier than they; it is an
 opportunity, he said, for the judge to show them he's not biased.
   Wolverine too preferred a speedy sentencing so that he could begin the
 appeals proceedings. Speaking sometimes to the packed gallery, sometimes
 to the jury box which ironically is now occupied by the media, he
 delivered a powerful and moving statement.
   He reiterated his position that the BC court has no jurisdiction, citing
 Section 109 of the British North America Act which limits the provincial
 interest as subject to purchase or treaty.
   "We stood up for our rights; we were called for," he said, turning
 toward fellow defendant Percy Rosette. "Our constitutional rights have
 never been addressed."
   Ignace noted Josephson's dismissal of the colour of right defence, and
 of all of his counsel of choice Bruce Clark's testimony about jurisdiction
 and natural, international and constitutional law: "You told the jury not
 to listen to it."
   Looking directly at the three jury members who had come to see the
 results of their guilty verdict, Wolverine said, "I know why the jury
 cried - they cried because they knew what they did was wrong.
   "We have to go back to the law. Take a good look - you'll see you have
 no jurisdiction. This court, this Canadian system is biased. Under section
 11 of the Constitution it says we have a right to third party adjudication.
 This is all we asked for, here in this court and up at the lake.
   "Who did the invading? The RCMP. We exposed the biggest fraud in this
 country; that's why we're being criminalized. We have to have the law
 addressed by an international tribunal; we won't get justice in Canada.
 The honour of the Crown is at stake. The Crown openly admitted Section 109
 was broken. By whom? The politicians. I'm here as a political prisoner,
 not a criminal, because I exposed the scams between the Crown, the judges'
 bench, the lawyers and the politicians, scams so our people can be ripped
 off!
   "Dr. Bruce Clark was thrown out of court for telling the truth. He's my
 lawyer of choice, but he's not allowed to appear in my defence. When are
 we going to get justice?
   "This is my submission, whether you like it or not."
   The public raised fists in salute as Wolverine and OJ were led out of
 the courtroom. Outside, the drumming and singing continued. Members of
 many sovereign indigenous nations were in attendance, including highly
 respected Tommy Gregoire of the Okanagan-Shuswap alliance and other elders.
 The day concluded with the rally moving across the street to the prison,
 where drumming, songs, and messages of resistance and solidarity were
 conveyed to the windows of the political prisoners inside. It was a day of
 strong words and strong hearts.
 <<>>FREE WOLVERINE<<->>FREE OJ<<->>FREE THE TS'PETEN DEFENDERS<<>>
 DEMAND A FULL AND COMPREHENSIVE PUBLIC INQUIRY INTO GUSTAFSEN LAKE
 Come to court, show support and bear witness.
 Tuesday, June 10th
 10:00 a.m. (arrive early if you want a seat!)
 Surrey Municipal Centre
 King George and Highway 10
 Car pool:If you have a car or need a ride, call: 251-3048
 Skytrain: to Surrey Central, then catch the White Rock Centre 321
     bus to the corner of King George and Highway 10, walk east.
 Driving:  Follow Clark Drive south to Hwy 91, go east on Hwy 91
     across the Alex Fraser bridge (Surrey/Delta) then east on Hwy
     10 to Surrey Municipal Centre just past King George Hwy.
 Contact: Free the Wolverine Campaign
 Spokespeople: Bill Lightbown - Phone: (604) 251-4949
               Splitting the Sky - Phone/Fax: (604) 543-9661
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 --------- "RE: War Criminal Appointed to Law Commission" ---------
 
 Date: Sun, 8 Jun 1997 02:27:20 -0800
 From: SISIS@envirolink.org (S.I.S.I.S.)
 Subj: Gustafsen War Criminal Appointed to Law Commission
 
 :-:-:-:S.I.S.I.S.  Settlers In Support of Indigenous Sovereignty:-:-:-:
 June 7, 1997                                                Bulletin
 Stephen Owen Appointed to Law Commission of Canada
   Stephen Owen, one of the leading participants responsible for
 orchestrating and directing the state's assault upon the Ts'peten Sundance
 Camp at Gustafsen Lake in the summer of 1995, has been appointed to the
 new Law Commission of Canada. Owen was deputy Attorney General to Ujjal
 Dosanjh, BC's New Democratic Party Attorney General and Human Right's
 minister. He met virtually daily with the RCMP during the siege and signed
 many of the letters requesting military arms for them.
   Owen, 48, has been teaching law and public policy at the University of
 Victoria since March 1997. According to Canadian Press (June 5) "the Law
 Commission of Canada is an independent five-member body created to advise
 the federal government of issues related to the law... Owen served as BC
 ombudsman from 1986 until he left to head the commission on resources and
 the environment in 1992. In 1995 he was appointed deputy Attorney General,
 a post he held until he joined the University of Victoria. He has also
 served as legal adviser to Amnesty International since 1984."
   The extensive connections of both Owen and Dosanjh within the human
 rights/civil liberties establishment are believed responsible for the
 virtual silence regarding Gustafsen Lake of human rights and civil
 liberties agencies both domestically and abroad. The June 5 Canadian Press
 article says that Owen advocates restructuring of almost every aspect of
 the legal process, from civil law to public policy on issues such as the
 environment and First Nations land claims settlements.
   Imprisoned Shuswap elder Wolverine commented that Owen has obviously
 been rewarded with "a bigger trough... The law is clear. They make up new
 rules to cover up their criminal acts."
   One insider within the Attorney General's ministry told S.I.S.I.S. that
 with the deep involvement of NDP government officials such as Dosanjh,
 Owen, Assistant Deputy AG Maureen Maloney in the Gustafsen scandal, it
 will be "an uphill battle" to achieve the full and comprehensive public
 inquiry increasingly being demanded.
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 --------- "RE: Mapping Racism" ---------
 
 Date: Fri, 6 Jun 1997 03:08:56 -0800
 From: sisis@envirolink.org (S.I.S.I.S.)
 Subj: Gustafsen: Mapping Racism (Terminal City)
 
 :-:-:-:-:-:-:-Settlers In Support of Indigenous Sovereignty-:-:-:-:-:-:-:
 [The following article is reprinted from the Vancouver publication Terminal
 City, June 6-13]
 
 MAPPING RACISM by Valerie van Clieaf
   About a year and a half ago, I decided to investigate the history of the
 area around Gustafsen Lake.  I was concerned, as were many, that the RCMP
 had stepped far beyond moral and legal bounds with their government
 sanctioned siege at Gustafsen Lake.  I thought that if historical documents
 proved that the land at Gustafsen belonged to the Shuswap people, then the
 Crown's case against the Ts'peten Defenders would be shown to be a sham,
 the RCMP would be held accountable for attempted murder and the issue of
 Native sovereignty would move front and centre in the public arena.  Now,
 as 15 dependents face prison terms as high as ten years to life, I am
 embarrassed by my naivete.
   My belief that justice would prevail in the face of truth and the
 historical record -- which prove that the Defenders have been right all
 along -- has been shattered by the depth and breadth of the unbridled and
 systemic racism underpinning the policies and decisions of our elected
 officials. This racism permeates the ranks of the elected government
 officials who gave the RCMP their orders to institute this genocidal attack
 on Shuswap Sundancers. The racism of the RCMP, who directed the siege, is a
 daily reality for all Indigenous People here. Our judicial system which,
 in its capacity as the legal arm of race hatred and genocide out of
 control, failed the Ts'peten in their quest for truth and justice. Finally,
 the mainstream media both locally and nationally would not report the
 Indian side of the story. Local media were gagged by editorial orders (told
 not to cover) the most important trial in Canadian history.  (One reporter
 had the decency to inform Margaret Clark, wife of Dr. Bruce Clark, of
 this.)  Gag orders come directly or indirectly from corporate and
 government interests who call the tune because they pay the bills which
 keep the media afloat.  But gag orders, then or now, do not excuse media
 complicity in the ongoing genocide perpetuated against the original
 inhabitants of this country, to say nothing of other non-Native,
 marginalized peoples who suffer at the hands of journalists "just doing
 their job".
   The media (CBC ,CKNW, BCTV, SUN, PROVINCE, MACLEAN'S) had the real story
 early enough to print it and air it and thus make a difference.  The
 insidious outcome of their silence -- innocent men and women, nearly
 murdered by a police force gone berserk, now stand convicted on trumped up,
 illegal charges and face severe jail sentences ,while the real criminals,
 the RCMP, have now purchased armoured personnel carriers and two .50
 calibre machine guns to use against the next Indigenous community with the
 courage to stand up for their rights. The media chose instead to act within
 their unquestioned, received notions of race and power and participated in
 demonizing and criminalizing the innocent while they made heros of the
 guilty. This negation of the truth continued almost unabated throughout the
 10 month long trial which recently ended.  The Surrey courtroom is not a
 long way from the media offices in downtown Vancouver!! The mounting
 testimonial evidence (self)incriminating the RCMP in attempted murder and
 ongoing genocide was not deemed newsworthy.
   The RCMP had the real story about Gustafsen Lake, right from day one, but
 they were following an agenda which didn't include exposing the truth about
 the true state of ownership, and thus jurisdiction in this province, let
 alone one small grazing lot, somewhere in a remote section of the South
 Caribou.  They were acting on the orders of their government masters.
   In 1887, Nils Gustafsen decided to purchase a lot in the Caribou and
 notified the fledgling Surveyor-General's office of his intention.  As per
 instructions to prospective landowners, he sent a map locating his desired
 purchase along with his pre-emption papers.  That map (shown here) along
 with all the papers giving Nils Gustafsen the deed to a piece of land
 somewhere in the Caribou sat in the files of the British Columbia Archives
 and Records Service from that day till July of 1996 when I asked a
 librarian there to retrieve it for me.
   It took me all of 30 seconds to copy Gustafsen's simple map which shows
 the location of Lot L 114, somewhere along Dog Creek, the same lot that has
 become infamous as the scene of the RCMP initiated siege at Gustafsen Lake
 on Dog Creek in the summer of 1995.  There is one problem though.
 Gustafsen Lake didn't exist in 1887. Lot L 114, (to which Lyle James,
 Caribou rancher complicit in the attempted murder of the Ts'peten
 Defenders, has fee simple title), was not located on Gustafsen Lake.  The
 first real map of the area wasn't drawn until the 1930s and shows Lot L 114
 in its present position. Between 1887 and 1930s, the lot mysteriously
 moved, or perhaps, not so mysteriously. George Wool, defence lawyer,
 introduced this "pre-emption map", and another important map  -- a nicely
 drawn square locating Lot L 114  miles from Gustafsen Lake -- as evidence
 last July. The jury were aware, from that point on, that the Sundance
 grounds (like most of B.C.) is unceded, Shuswap territory and that  the
 Sundance Grounds do not belong to Lyle James.
   Judge Josephsen, in his charge to the jury several weeks ago, told them
 that "for the purposes of this trial" they must consider the property where
 the siege occurred, Lyle James' private property, when they were determining
 guilt or innocence.  The jury were instructed to ignore the truth. Native
 historian David Archie, who knew that Dog Creek had been dammed to create
 Ts'peten Lake (also known as Big Lake, now Gustafsen Lake) in the early
 1930s to provide much needed water to Reserve land in the area. Archie, had
 unearthed a good deal more, including the fact that the original reserve
 lands (300,000 acres) set aside in 1864 for the Dog Creek peoples by A.C.
 Elliot (eventually a premier of B.C.) at the behest of then premier
 Douglas, had extended several miles east and south of and encompassing
 Gustafsen Lake . The sacred Ts'peten Sundance grounds had been reserve land
 for over a century. When Elliot set out the original Dog Creek reserves,
 the Dog Creek Peoples had been decimated by a smallpox epidemic which had
 raged throughout B.C. in 1862-63, killing an estimated 60 to 70 percent of
 the Original Peoples of this province. Eleven Dog Creek people were all
 that remained of over two hundred.  Many of the dead were buried at the
 sacred Sundance grounds where the Ts'peten defenders made their stand. The
 historical record indicates that by the 1880s, less than 20 years after
 Elliot's visit to the area, non-Natives at Gustafsen Lake and the
 surrounding areas had illegally purchased all of the choice land reserved
 for the Dog Creek Secwepemc people. They could offer little resistance to
 settler encroachment and their appeals to both levels of government were
 ignored.  In 1888, the Federal government finally purchased land from the
 illegal estate of A.E. Bates so that the Dog Creek people would have
 somewhere to live.  The provincial government had refused to help
 preferring, it would seem, to see them starve. In July of 1995, David
 Archie gave a full historical report of the area to Cst. George Findley, a
 Native RCMP officer who reported this information to his superiors on  July
 12, 1995.  His superiors abruptly took him off assignment that day. Findley
 read this same report to the courtroom in Surrey on DAY 13 of the
 Defenders' trial.
 THE STATE ATTEMPTS MURDER
   The Province of B.C. is in trouble.  B.C. has not entered into treaty
 with the majority  of Indigenous Nations of this "province".  Natural,
 International and Constitutional Law clearly state that the Original
 Peoples have jurisdiction over their untreatied territories.  B.C has
 fraudulently and illegally usurped this jurisdiction.  B.C is an outlaw
 colonial state with no legitimate authority for its' presence within these
 untreatied territories.  The state of B.C. is engaged in genocide. Illegal
 War against the traditional Indigenous people. Over 60% of the Original
 Peoples of (what is known as) B.C. have withdrawn from the fraudulent B.C.
 Treaty Process), as it is not a treaty process at all, but a domestic land
 claims agreement process.  Domestic land claims agreements come under the
 terms of N.A.F.T.A. Treaties, on the other hand, guarantee the rights of
 First Nations -- both within the context of existing treaties and those
 Indigenous Nations who have not yet treatied, such as those residing in
 B.C.-- under existing Natural, Constitutional and International Law.
 Locally, nationally and internationally, a host of predators want to get
 their hands on the invaluable lands and resources - at this point still
 legally and legitimately owned by Indigenous Peoples. The massive show of
 force at Gustafsen Lake was to be an example to others (and their lawyers
 such as Dr. Bruce Clark, Jack Cram, Janice Switlo), who may defy the
 purveyors of rapacious resource extraction, that the monied players were
 not above murder.
   The Ts'peten Defenders were criminalized for standing on their rights,
 for insisting that existing laws protecting their rights be addressed, for
 rejecting the fraudulent B.C. treaty making process and insisting that an
 independent third-party tribunal to look at the law and decide who is right.
   In May of 1995, Supt.Len Olfert and his superiors, began to attend
 meetings with regard to Gustafsen Lake.  It was during this time
 they planned the siege at Gustafsen which they carried out later that
 summer).  The entire siege (read genocidal exercise) was video-taped so
 that it could be used as an RCMP "training tool" to instruct the troops in
 how to most expeditiously murder those Indigenous who refuse to play ball
 with the oppressor.  These training tapes were not disclosed to
 the court until December of 1996, six months into the trial.  The judge
 allowed the jury to view only a few minutes of the 50 hours of
 incriminating tapes.
   Gustafsen Lake was the ideal location for a "history lesson", a sparsely
 populated area difficult to reach by road. After the RCMP publicly called
 the Shuswap Nationals "Terrorists", they attempted to instigate an
 incident. When camp members refused to be baited by the RCMP's WARLIKE
 advances, the Police management became frustrated and antsy. It remained
 for the RCMP to "invent" several shooting incidents and feed the media with
 carefully constructed press releases. The criminalization of Indigenous
 Peoples has been ongoing. The RCMP with the help of the media, so willing
 to do their bidding, simply continued this process. When their turn came
 the B.C. judiciary finished the job. THE PUBLIC HAS BEEN LIED TO!!   The
 RCMP are guilty of attempted murder and a host of other crimes. They have
 not, as yet, been charged.  There must be a full Public Inquiry into the
 Human rights travesty at Gustafsen Lake.
   Fifteen of the Ts'peten Defenders face jail terms for crimes they did
 not commit. Sentencing begins Friday, June 6th at 10 am, at the Surrey
 courthouse. Drummers, singers and supporters from many nations will be
 there. The Defenders ask you join them at a rally at the courthouse that
 morning.  Help send a message to the the federal and provincial governments
 and the B.C. judiciary that the people of Canada condemn ongoing,
 state-sanctioned genocide against Indigenous Peoples. You can make a
 difference!!
 Car pool: If you have a car or need a ride, call: 251-3048
 Skytrain: to Surrey Central, then catch the White Rock Centre 321 bus
      to the corner of King George and Highway 10, walk east.
 Driving:  Follow Clark Drive south to Hwy 91, go east on Hwy 91
      across the Alex Fraser bridge (Surrey/Delta)then east on Hwy 10 to
      Surrey Municipal Centre just past King George Hwy.
 Letters to Terminal City: editor@terminalcity.com
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 --------- "RE: Clark on Gustafsen, Seneca and Mohegans" ---------
 
 Date: Mon, 9 Jun 1997 01:19:50 -0400
 From: "S.I.S.I.S." <SISIS@envirolink.org>
 Subj: Bruce Clark on Gustafsen, Seneca and Mohegans v. NY
 
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 May 26, 1997                                                    Interview
 S.I.S.I.S. Talks to Native rights lawyer Bruce Clark about the Gustafsen
 Trial, the Seneca decision and his May 30 New York State Supreme Court
 Appearance for the Mohegan Nation.
 S.I.S.I.S.: What is your reaction to the Gustafsen Trial convictions?
 Clark: The jury had no choice but to find the way it did given the judge's
 instructions to them -- that they had to accept that these events took
 place on private property belonging to Lyle James, and that the province
 of British Columbia and the court had jurisdiction. The problem is that
 the law to the contrary -- that is the native law, international law and
 the constitutional law, putting the lie to the judge's position -- still
 has not been addressed. And the only conclusion one can reach in those
 circumstances is that the rule of law has not functioned. It is in a state
 of suspension.
 S.I.S.I.S.: Defence counsel Sheldon Tate said that "Clark and his cronies
 were the true malevolent forces in the crisis." What do you say to that?
 Clark: Depending upon what the law says, Sheldon Tate may be right or he
 may be wrong. The answer depends entirely upon looking at the native,
 international and constitutional law. My feeling remains that when this is
 done the legal advice that I have given will be vindicated. It would help,
 if Sheldon Tate disagrees with that position, that he provide an analysis
 of the law which would point out my error.
 S.I.S.I.S.: With reference to the Seneca nation -- are you aware of the
 recent court decision finding in favour of the Senecas?
 Clark: Yes. I'll be using that decision in a New York State Supreme Court
 on May 30th, involving the Mohegan Nation of New York state -- actually
 the descendants of the same people who were involved in the 1704 case
 [Mohegans v. Connecticut: after a protracted process, on 15 January 1773,
 the Privy Council in Great Britain in the exercise of its appellate
 jurisdiction finally issued an order in council that had the effect of
 recognizing that the Mohegan Indians were "juristically regarded as
 sovereign." -- S.I.S.I.S.]
   They have a small Bingo operation in their Mohegan country and
 they were threatened with the same "storm-trooper" response as were the
 Senecas. They didn't proceed with the bingo in the face of the police
 threat that the whole town would be cordoned off. Now the Attorney General
 of New York has applied for an injunction to prevent the bingo from going
 ahead in the future. There's a show cause hearing on May 30th. What that
 means is that the judge has invited the Mohegans to inform the Court of
 the law which would indicate that state law should not be applied.
   And the Mohegans have accepted that invitation. We have filed with
 that Court the same essential law that was filed in the Gustafsen Lake
 case or that we attempted -- but still wasn't addressed in British
 Columbia. So now it may be addressed by the state of New York. And as part
 of the process, the decision that you've just identified by Judge Hon.
 Rose Sconiers will be filed, amongst other things, to persuade this judge
 to take the same kind of route and apply the same kind of reasoning: that
 the native sovereignty position at the very least is arguable -- and it's
 not appropriate, in the circumstances, for judges to be giving injunctions
 against the Indians by applying state law.
   That is, Judge Sconiers has taken the exact opposite position as the
 position consistently occupied by the judges of British Columbia. This
 is a bright light.
 S.I.S.I.S.: Where is this hearing and when again?
 Clark: New York State Supreme Court, Lake George, New York. Before a Judge
 Dyer at 9:30 am May 30.
 S.I.S.I.S.: Finally, is there the likelihood of appeals possible in the
 Gustafsen trial?
 Clark: Yes. The judge made rulings and gave orders to the jury to accept
 principles as decided by him as given. We will appeal against the
 legitimacy of his instructions to the jury. If they had acquitted, the
 legal contest would have died. As it now stands, the judge has made an
 appalling decision on the law . So far he hasn't supported it. It's
 conceivable he may come up with some rational basis... I don't imagine how
 he could, but he may pull a rabbit out of his hat... But when everything
 cools down, the permanent record that is left is going to make that judge
 and the BC Court system look like damn fools. At the end of the day,
 regardless of what the newspapers and the bellicose elements are saying,
 the fact remains that he [Judge Josephson] has made a decision at law
 which he does not even begin to be capable of backing. And that's
 demonstrable, from a permanent record point of view.  So... I still have
 hope for the rule of law. That it's not over 'til its over... and its not
 over yet.
 Mohegan Court, Box 32, Granville, New York 12832 USA
 Telephone: (518) 642-2751
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 --------- "RE: Vigil, Sentencing and Circles" ---------
 
 Date: Tue, 10 Jun 1997 05:38:54 -0800
 From: sisis@envirolink.org (S.I.S.I.S.)
 Subj: Gustafsen: Vigil, Sentencing and Circles
 
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 June 9, 1997                                                Bulletin
 
 Vigil, Sentencing and Circles
   About fifty supporters gathered for a candle-light vigil to drum, sing
 and wait beneath the walls of the Surrey Pre-trial Centre where Ts'Peten
 Defenders OJ Pitawanakwat and Wolverine (William Jones Ignace) are being
 held. Sometimes tiny answering flames or lights flicking on and off could
 be seen emanating from the prison windows. It is the night before the day
 they have asked Judge Bruce Josephson to "get on with it" and pass
 sentence.
   Both Wolverine and OJ have rejected a "sentencing circle" which could
 include the American cattle rancher Lyle James, the RCMP, and the mayor of
 100 Mile House. Characterized as a "traditional native Indian form of
 sentencing" by BC's mainstream media, this grotesque abomination is a
 neo-colonial creation designed to restore the credibility of badly
 discredited parties to the Gustafsen Lake affair -- the RCMP, local band
 and tribal council officials, the rancher, the NDP government and its
 corrupt court system.
   Haida elder Lavina White told S.I.S.I.S. that the sentencing circle "was
 not our way. This is all pretend, to make it look like our people don't
 support our freedom fighters."
   Shuswap elder Wolverine told S.I.S.I.S. "We're raising the land question.
 A sentencing circle including Lyle James would say it's his land, but the
 law has never been dealt with. This is one of the ways the province is
 trying to get around the whole thing."
   Defence counsel Sheldon Tate attempted a highly offensive and divisive
 defence by arguing that his clients, including Percy Rosette, were "under
 the thumb of the militants." On June 6, Tate told Canadian Press "My
 clients have a wish not to persecute or bring down this country or cause
 more rancour or dissension."
   All indications are that the prosecution is seeking harsh sentences. Crown
 sentencing materials obtained by S.I.S.I.S. include a "victim impact
 statement" by Lyle James and Sentencing Authorities which include:
   "R. v. Belmas, Hanson and Taylor [aka the Squamish Five] (1986) 27 C.C.C.
 (3d) 142 (B.C.C.A.) Numerous criminal acts including bombings causing
 millions of dollars in damage and injuring two persons. Motive said to be
 concerns over environment, nuclear war, and poverty. Apparent accused had
 not renounced violence to achieve ends. Protection of public by deterring
 terrorist acts paramount.
   "R. v. Atwal (1990) 57 C.C.C. (3d) 143 (B.C.C.A.) Attempted murder of
 Indian Cabinet Minister. 20 years imprisonment upheld. Act of political
 terrorism. General deterrence paramount consideration.
   "R. v. Cross, unreported, Feb. 29/92 (Que. S.C.) Oka. PDW convictions - 6
 months, 18 months, 2 years imprisonment. 1 year s. 100 prohibition.
   "R.v. Gautier (1996) 108 C.C.C.C. (3d) 231 (B.C.C.A.) Trial Judge not
 required to give the accused the benefit of the most favourable view of the
 evidence, where jury's verdict doesn't resolve."
   It appears that the court will attempt to manufacture a "conspiracy" in
 the sentencing even though "conspiracy" was never part of the original
 charges or indictments.
   Letters of solidarity, support and resistance, as well as your prayers and
 ceremonies on behalf of Wolverine and the Ts'Peten Defenders continue to be
 called for and greatly appreciated. Wolverine intends to submit these
 letters to Judge Josephson. They can be sent via S.I.S.I.S..
 
 >>CANADA IS GUILTY, THE DEFENDERS ARE INNOCENT! DEFEND THE DEFENDERS!<<
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 --------- "RE: Hydro-Quebec Action Alert" ---------
 
 Date: Mon, 9 Jun 1997 15:39:32 -0400
 From: Ann Stewart <Stewartship@compuserve.com>
 Subj: Hydro-Quebec action alert
 
   UUCP email
 
 NOTE: Last week at the New England Governors/Eastern Canadian Premiers
 conference in Newport, RI, HQ was aggressively touting its ability to serve
 the northeastern US market.
   Call the Cree office and tell them that as an American consumer, you
 oppose ANY river diversion. Phone 613-761-1655. And let the people in
 Whapmagoostui (Great Whale River village) know you still support them. The
 band office number is: 819-929-3288.
 
 Hydro reviving Great Whale
 Front page, The [Montreal] Gazette, Saturday, 7 June
   Seventeen months after the Parti Quebecois government shelved Phase II of
 the James Bay hydroelectric project, it's back on the table, and this time
 Hydro-Quebec has set its sights on diverting two of the largest rivers in
 northern Quebec.
   The plan was presented to Cree leaders in two meetings this week in
 Montreal and Quebec City.
   Hydro-Quebec and Cree officials say Hydro has proposed to divert and drain
 the water of the Great Whale and Rupert rivers into existing hydro-electric
 projects through a series of canals.
   Crees waged a noisy six-year international campaign against the original
 Great Whale proposal, which would have diverted several rivers into a
 series of reservoirs built along the Great Whale River. The new proposal
 would not involve new dams in the north, but would reduce the flow of the
 Great Whale and Rupert rivers to a trickle.
   Cree opposition was a major factor in Jacques Parizeau's decision as
 premier to shelve the original project in December 1995 [note: it was
 actually November.].
   Cree leaders were shocked when they were informed of the plans this week.
   "It's going to be very difficult for the people to accept," said David
 Masty, an official of the Great Whale community, situated at the river's
 mouth. "I think people sent out a very strong message on that already. It
 will have the same impact as if the river was dammed."
   Under the proposal, the Great Whale River would be diverted at its
 headwater, Lac Bienville, a lake about twice the size of the island of
 Montreal. The river's flow would be reduced by about 85 percent and the
 diverted water would flow southward through more than 10 kilometres of
 canals into the existing La Grand hydro complex. The lac Bienville area is
 home to the world's largest caribou herds.
   Cree fears about the environmental and social effects of hydro development
 were at the heart of the acrimonious debate over the original Great Whale
 project.
   The new plan would also redirect the Rupert River, which flows through
 the heartland of Cree territory,northward to the Eastmain and La Grande
 complexes, at least 20 km away.
   The two rivers provide drinking water to the communities of Great Whale
 and Washaganish, and to dozens of hunting camps along their shores.
   Shirley Bishop, an aide to Resources Minister Guy Chevrette, at first
 denied knowledge of the proposal. Later yesterday she confirmed that two
 meetings had been held between Hydro-Quebec and Cree leaders, although she
 would not reveal what was discussed.
   "Hydro-Quebec hasn't talked to us about that," Bishop said. "When they want
 to do something like that, they have to ask the government first, and they
 haven't."
   Hydro-Quebec spokesman Steve Flanagan confirmed that the meetings were
 held to discuss possible projects along the Great Whale and Rupert rivers,
 but said the plan involves only the "partial diversion" of the rivers and
 no final decision has been made on whether it will go ahead.
   "These rivers, like many others in Quebec, have a potential and we will
 see whether there is an economic interest," Flanagan said.
   He said hydro development in James Bay is back on the table because of a
 desire to export power to the United States and a rise in energy
 consumption in Quebec.
   Earlier this week, the utility announced it would divert four rivers into
 existing hydroprojects on the Lower North Shore and Lac St. Jean.
   A US energy analyst said Hydro-Quebec has been selling ever-increasing
 amounts of power to the northeastern states and is now desperate for more
 water to replenish its reservoirs, which have fallen to dangerously low
 levels.
   "It seems Quebec took a big gamble and ended up losing," said Ian Goodman,
 of the Goodman Group of Boston. Goodman has worked as a consultant to the
 Crees. "Hydro-Quebec appears to have oversold the province's energy and
 they did so at less than what it costs to produce it."
   While Quebec has more than enough energy for domestic levels, its energy
 supplies have fallen to critically low levels because of its aggressive
 export program, said Goodman.
   The National Energy Board says Hydro's exports to the US have nearly
 tripled since 1990. Quebec exported five terrawatt-hours of power in 1990,
 almost all to the US. This rose to 17 terrawatt-hours in 1995 and fell
 somewhat to 13.9 terrawatt-hours last year.
   Internal Hydro-Quebec documents reveal that Quebec's reservoir levels have
 fallen to 21 percent of their total capacity Le Devoir reported Wednesday.
   A battle appears to be brewing within the Quebec government over the river
 diversions already announced.
   Environment Minister David Cliche said Thursday that any new Hydro-Quebec
 projects will be subjected to the same environmental review as those of any
 other developer. But Chevrette said deregulation in the energy industry
 means information about water levels in reservoirs can't be made public
 anymore because it would put Hydro-Quebec at a commercial disadvantage. 
 
 --------- "RE: Judge Uses Children as Bait" ---------
 
 From: Cherokee Observer <cwyob@mailhost.galstar.com>
 Subj: Suspended District Judge Uses Children as Bait-June 97
 Date: Tue, 03 Jun 1997 13:40:54 -0500
 
   Newsgroups: alt.native,soc.culture.native
 
 The following article was published in the Volume 5, Number 6 June 1997
 issue of The Cherokee Observer.
        SUSPENDED JUDGE USES CHILDREN AS BAIT IN EFFORT
      TO GET TRIBAL COUNCIL TO CREATE HER AN AUTONOMOUS COURT
   Under the guise of protecting children, Tina Glory Jordan, former
 Cherokee Nation District Judge, attempted to have the Council create an
 "autonomous" court for her to preside over.
   Jordan had earlier been suspended by the Judicial Appeals Tribunal for
 attempting to set up a "renegade" court in the Tribal Complex.
   At a regular meeting of the Rules Committee of the Cherokee Nation
 Council, Rex Earl Starr, general counsel, Janice Walter Purcell, staff
 attorney and Tina Glory Jordan attempted to get a piece of legislation
 passed to the full council which would have stripped the Judicial Appeals
 Tribunal of any supervisory authority it has over the District Court.
   Jordan pleaded with Councilors to pass the legislation because without
 it, children would suffer.  "We have to move these children's cases and
 yes I have held court as a suspended judge," Jordan said. "Without this
 legislation the children might suffer and be put back out on the street."
   Starr asked to have the piece of legislation put on the agenda and a
 vote was taken.  Earlier, Paula Holder, D-4 of Warner, had noted it takes
 a 2/3rds vote to change the agenda.
   The vote was five against and nine in favor of hearing the bill. Troy
 Wayne Poteete declared the agenda change had failed.  Bill John Baker, D-1,
 of Tahlequah, said he thought 2/3rds of 14 was 9.  Barbara Starr Scott, D-
 5, Jay, said, "Troy didn't vote, because he's the chairman, but he counts
 toward the quorum of this committee.  No matter how you cut it, 2/3rds of
 15 is 10.  I don't know where you and your brothers learn to count, but
 its 10 no matter how you cut it."
   Following a short agenda and prior to adjournment, Janice Walter Purcell
 rose and asked why the bill could not come up under new business.  Poteete
 noted for her it had failed to get on the agenda, however, members of the
 committee began to discuss the measure in spite of it not being on the
 agenda.
   Jordan again rose and pleaded with the councilors to remember the
 children and create her an autonomous court separate from the Judicial
 Appeals Tribunal.
   Harold DeMoss, D-7, of Inola asked why she couldn't hold court in the
 usual place at the Cherokee Capitol Building.  Jordan responded that there
 was too much tension there and she "didn't feel comfortable there because
 of the Marshals."
   Following a good deal of questioning and ideas for compromise, it became
 very apparent the motive was not to create a safe situation for the
 children, but rather for Jordan to create a court in which to hear
 political and criminal involving the Principal Chief.
   "Her efforts were nothing but transparent," said Holder.  "It is just
 another attempt to get Byrd off the hook under the color of protecting
 children."
   Holder passed out a legal opinion she had obtained from Tulsa attorney,
 Chad Smith.  He pointed out in his two page opinion that the bill was
 fatally flawed and would be declared unconstitutional due to the bills
 attempt to remove original and exclusive jurisdiction from the Judicial
 Appeals Tribunal and turn it over to a legislatively created court.
   "This proposition is illogical and violates the fundamental judicial
 structures found in federal and state courts," the opinion reads.  "It
 would appear the executive branch would then supervise the District Court
 which would be a violation of the separation of powers.
   "Enactment of this bill will only result in additional litigation and I
 can reasonably assure you that it will be found unconstitutional in whole
 or in pertinent part," Smith added.
   DeMoss accused Jordan of using children to goad the Council into
 creating a special court to hear political cases.  "I resent that you come
 here and try to make us feel bad for the children when you and I both know
 you have something personal in this," he said.  "All you have to do is go
 back to the courthouse and go back to work and this whole problem would be
 solved."
   The committee recessed until Wednesday, June 4, at 5 p.m. to further
 discuss the issue.
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 --------- "RE: Cherokees Organize Voter's League" ---------
 
 Date: Tue, 03 Jun 1997 14:35:21 -0500
 From: Cherokee Observer <cwyob@mailhost.galstar.com>
 Subj: Cherokees Organize Voter's League-June'97-Cherokee Observer
 
   Newsgroups: alt.native,soc.culture.native
 
 The following article was published in the June 1997 issue of the
 CHEROKEE OBSERVER
              RESPONDING TO CONSTITUTIONAL CRISIS
               CHEROKEES ORGANIZE VOTER'S LEAGUE
   Cherokee tribal members from across the nine district of the Cherokee
 Nation and from sites as distant as Albuquerque, New Mexico and Tampa,
 Florida have vowed to organize to strengthen their voting power in tribal,
 state and national elections.
   Organizers have planned a meeting for June 7, in the Mayes County
 Courthouse.  "We expect a great turnout," said Linda Turnbull Lewis, one
 of the organizers.  "We already have commitments to attend from the
 Cherokee Elders Council, the Cherokee National Party, political camps from
 across the Cherokee Nation and some unaffiliated folks as well."
   Organizers say the meeting is to establish a single organization where
 Cherokee voters may use their voting power in a collective manner to
 influence the outcome of major elections affecting the Cherokee people.
   "We're tired of having no voice in what happens to us," said jess Bryant,
 another organizer.  "If Indian people ever expect to take charge of their
 lives, they have to take charge of their vote."
   Organizers said they also want to bring more Indian people to polling
 place by having voter registration drives and taking people to the polls.
   "Our voter turnout is pathetic," said Robin Mayes, chairman of the
 Cherokee National Party.  "In our last tribal election only 11 percent
 voted, therefore we allow a small group to run everything while the average
 Cherokee doesn't vote and doesn't get what he wants or need from
 government."
   Organizers of the meeting had previously presented the Cherokee
 government with resignation petitions containing nearly 10,000 signatures.
   The petitions asked for the resignation of Principal Chief Joe Byrd [1,
 078 signatures], Deputy Principal Chief Garland Eagle [1,000 signatures].
 and eight council members of the Cherokee Council, including Bill Baker
 [874 signatures], Don Crittenden [858 signatures] Harley Terrell [862
 signatures], Dora Mae Watie [838 signatures], Barbara [Mitchell] Conness
 [842 signatures], Charles Hoskins [806 signatures], Mary Cooksey [786
 signatures], and Sam Ed Bush [774 signatures].
   "These petitions were of no legal authority," said Jess Bryant. "We
 wanted to show our leaders that they must answer to the people they
 represent and these petitions show how the Cherokee people are feeling."
   Each petition contained more signatures than the council members
 received in votes when they were elected, said Bryant.  "With the
 exception of the Chief and Harley Terrell, neither of whom were elected to
 their positions," he added.
   Another petition has begun circulating in the Cherokee Nation and may
 have more of a legal effect on the Byrd administration.
   George Wickliffe, president of the Kenwood Cherokee Community
 Representative Organization [KCCRO], and a former candidate for Principal
 Chief, has begun circulating an initiative petition calling for the
 impeachment of both Joe Byrd and Garland Eagle.
      "We want a government that is accountable to the people," said
 Wickliffe.  "Our leadership is out of control and the people must take
 action to restore order.  This petition, like tribal laws and the
 constitution, may be ignored by Joe Byrd, but we must try, at least we
 tried."
   Wickliffe is referring to statements made by Byrd at a Stilwell
 Community meeting.  When asked if he would call an election to allow the
 people to vote on him, he said he would not because he didn't think he had
 done anything wrong to warrant such actions.
   In spite of Byrd's threat to refuse to call an election, petitioners
 continue to gather signatures, saying they are seeking 10,000 individual
 signatures.
   "$30,000 Cherokees will have copies of the petition within the next few
 weeks and they will speak their mind by signing the petition," announced
 Linda Turnbull Lewis.
   For more information concerning the League of Cherokee Voters meeting,
 or the Initiative [Impeachment] Petition, call (918) 458-9322.
 ------------------------------------------------------------------------
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 --------- "RE: In Violation of Court Orders" ---------
 
 Date: Tue, 03 Jun 1997 16:23:41 -0500
 From: Cherokee Observer <cwyob@mailhost.galstar.com>
 Subj: In Violation of Court Orders-June'97-Cherokee Observer
 
   Newsgroups: alt.native,soc.culture.native
 
 The following article was published in the June 1997 issue of the
 Cherokee Observer.
                 IN VIOLATION OF COURT ORDERS
    NEWLY APPOINTED CNE BOARD FIRES CANTRELL AND REINSTATES HOLDERBY
   During a brief state of the nation address, Cherokee Nation Principal
 Chief Joe Byrd asked the full tribal council to approve his appointees to
 the Cherokee Nation Enterprises Board.
   CNE's previous board, which included Byrd, was vacated by the tribe's
 highest court, the Judicial Appeals tribunal on April 10, when they ruled
 that neither the principal chief nor members of the tribal council could
 sit on the board.  Byrd, Cherokee Nation Secretary-Treasurer Jennie
 Battles, Tribal Councilors Bill Baker and Charles Hoskin, and Jerry
 Holderby served on the board.  The tribunal also ordered the chief to
 appoint a new board.
   Holderby had earlier resigned from the board and had taken the position
 of CEO of the tribe's biggest money maker but was replaced by the previous
 CEO Gerald Cantrell after he was reinstated by the tribunal through an
 appeal also on April 10.  Article XII of the Cherokee Constitution allows
 tribal employees due process after they are fired including a hearing by
 the tribunal.
   Cantrell filed the appeal citing that the CNE board members were serving
 illegally, and therefore his termination was void.  Cantrell alleged he
 was fired in early February.  The CNE board members maintained he offered
 an oral resignation.
   Byrd appointed Marlene Stites of Sallisaw, owner of Southwest Home
 Health; Bob Berry of Tahlequah, owner of Tri-B Nursery; Bob Mayfield of
 Hulbert, owner of Tower Technology, Inc.; David Thornton of Gore,
 superintendent of Tenkiller State Park; and Harold Ray "Sam" Hart of
 Tahlequah, owner of Hart Funeral Home, to the board of CNE.
   Thirteen of the councilors voted in favor of the chief's appointees for
 a period of 60 days.  During that time, background information will be
 provided to the council.  Councilor Troy Wayne Poteete voted against the
 appointments, and Councilor Nick Lay abstained from voting.
   Just two weeks following their appointment and in contravention of the
 orders of the Judicial Appeals Tribunal, the newly appointed board fired
 Gerald Cantrell and reinstated Jerry Holderby, who had been determined to
 be ineligible for employment with the company due to a two year moratorium
 on employment by board members.
   According to one of the board members who asked to remain unnamed, the
 new board members were told to "get rid of Cantrell as quickly as possible."
   The board members said he was concerned at making the decision so
 quickly, but was told the business was in jeopardy and there was no court
 to supervise them any way.
   When he was asked about the investigations into special deals made by
 Holderby and other top executives at CNE with a company know as Megamania,
 the board members said he was told those stories were "fabricated by
 Cantrell to get at Joe Byrd and to discredit Holderby."
   According to a letter written by Gerald Cantrell to the National Indian
 Gaming Commission, the investigation was launched because of the fact that
 the books at the Bingo's did not coincide with the books of Megamania. 
 Cantrell said he had informed the National Indian Gaming Commission of the
 problems and had turned over the information to the FBI.
   Other problems have surfaced at CNE following an investigation by
 Cantrell.  Nearly $60,000 is missing from the Cherokee Nation Outpost
 Convenience stores.  According to a report by a local auditing firm, there
 are no controls on the intake of cash at the convenience stores.
   The report shows that there were no controls in place at either store. 
 The report shows that the staff never reconciled the sales of gas at the
 pump with the records in their inside console and compared to the sales
 recorded in the cash register.  A source inside the Outposts said, "We
 were told by Andy Dreadfulwater and Mike Watkins to 'write losses off to
 sale or charge it to cash on hand.'"
   Accounting guidelines for the stores state there should not be anymore
 than $1,500 in cash on hand.  However, said the source, "Both of the
 stores routinely logged around $8,000 in cash on hand, but that's not how
 much we really had.  Usually we had less than the $1,500."
   Other sloppy and potentially criminal bookkeeping errors began to mount
 according to the report and Cantrell was about to reveal these to the
 Council and the Tribunal when he was terminated.
   The report also said that the stores cash on hand was kept in a portable
 "fire-proof" box like the kind purchased from Wal-Mart.  The source said
 the box could have been walked out the door by anyone who knew it was
 there, we're very lucky."
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 --------- "RE: Letter on Behalf of Leonard Peltier" ---------
 
 Date: Thu, 05 Jun 1997 17:54:29 -0500
 From: Valerie Lovelace <satt@mn.uswest.net>
 To: president@whitehouse.gov
 Subj: URGENT REQUEST
 
   UUCP email
 
 6 June 1997
 
 Dear Mr. President,
 
 As you are no doubt aware, a condition of horrible wrong exists in this,
 our great country, that you can correct with a simple flair of your pen.
 
 For twenty years, presidents of this country have neglected the problem,
 failed to respond to public outcry over the indecency and unfairness of
 this situation.  It continued on in your first administration, and it
 continues now...today, Mr. President, because you are either unaware of
 its seriousness, don't care about its consequences, or are ill-advised
 by your aides.  I would like to think that it is the latter reason.
 
 Perhaps you have heard of Leonard Peltier?  An honorable man, with an
 honorable past, who remains in prison because his skin is not the right
 color.  A man who remains in prison because he is outside the comfort
 zone of the American Government who placed him there for crimes he did
 not commit.  A man whose supposed "accomplices" were exonerated.  A man
 accused and sentenced for a crime it is known by his own accusers he did
 not commit.  
 
 Mr. President, I urge you to ask, demand, that the FBI explain to you
 how it was that Mr. Peltier came to be accused.  I would ask you to
 demand of all the law enforcement agencies involved in that case to
 prove their methods.  Finally, Mr. President, I would ask you, for the
 sake of the People of this country, for the sake of the many family
 members, friends, and supporters of Mr. Peltier, and lastly for the
 sake of our nation, that you grant clemency to Mr. Peltier.
 
 He has suffered plenty for the comfort zone of our government.  He has
 suffered plenty for the grave wrong-doings of law-enforcement.
 
 I ask you to take this matter into your personal consideration because
 it is the right thing to do.  If the law is to be enforced, then let it
 be enforced.  The law says that a man is innocent until proven guilty.  
 
 I anxiously await your reply, Mr. President.
 
 With Respect and Honor,
 
 Valerie Lovelace
 1873 Iglehart Avenue
 St. Paul, MN  55104
 
 --------- "RE: Tribute to Yellowstone Buffalo" ---------
 
 Date: 7 Jun 1997 22:00:11 GMT
 From: mosa@rapidnet.com (Rebecca Lord)
 Subj: Tribute to Yellowstone Buffalo
 ------- FORWARD, Original message follows -------
 Date: Fri, 6 June 1997 14:33:01 -0700
 From: indianuprising@mcn.net (Gloria Wells-Norlin)
 
   Newsgroup: alt.native
 
 [I've been asked to forward the following by One People-One Nation
 and am honored to do so. -Rebecca Michele]
 
 The Buffalo are Calling
   Once again another of our dwindling National Treasures is in urgent need
 of help. As the Yellowstone Buffalo continue to die, at least one group of
 individuals are "rising up" in active response to the extremely
 disturbing situation facing one of the last vestige of the once great
 North American Buffalo population.
   Spiritually motivated, and with great hope, "One People One Nation", a
 recently formed non-profit organization - will sponsor a major art show
 and sale to be held at the Emerson Cultural Center, 111 S Grand Ave.,
 Bozeman, MT. beginning August 8th and running through August 30th. Many
 artists have agreed to donate all proceeds while others have planned to
 donate a percentage to the effort.
   The goal is to re-establish Buffalo herd population to the Native Lands.
 Funds are needed to assist with building the quarantine facility,
 transportation, possible purchase, vaccination services and general care
 provisions for the Buffalo.
   Fine artists stepping forward to donate works of their own for the
 furtherance of this most pressing and worthy cause include, Ernie Pepion,
 Jessica Zemski, Jack Hines, Nancy Glazier, Bruce Contway, and we have the
 support of Mr.and Mrs. Howard Terpining. The upcoming show and sale named
 "Tribute to Yellowstone Buffalo", and will open August 8th at 6:00 P.M.
 with a reception in the Weaver Community Room.
   Gloria Wells-Norlin, a local Native American Artist and Gallery owner,
 is launching the movement to bring the Buffalo back to Native Lands.
 Wells-Norlin has spent a great deal of time over the past three years
 working with the Department of Livestock to establish a network of
 concerned individuals and organizations across the United States to bring
 about the best possible use for the Buffalo that wandered outside the
 Yellowstone National Park boundaries. As a result, Buffalo meat has been
 distributed to food banks, shelters, senior centers, churches, and Native
 Lands through the United States. Many Summer
   Ceremonies will be honored with the "Gifts of the Buffalo". The Greater
 Yellowstone Coalition, Sierra Club, Big Sky Indian Alliance, Career
 Transitions, and the Museum of the Rockies have offered assistance in
 this worthy cause. Also promising participation are the Governor's
 Office, Native Nations, and the Native American Fish and Wildlife Society.
   Native Prophecies are: "When the Buffalo return to our people, our
 Spirits will rise up as before". Your support is welcome and will be
 considered of great value in restoring this once thought lost National
 Asset to their original glory.
   For more information please call: 406-586-5831, fax: 406-587-5998, e.
 mail indianuprising@mcn.net (note new e.mail address) address:111 S.Grand
 #104, Bozeman,. Mt. 59715
   Instead of complaining about what has happened why not make efforts to
 support change!! Aho!
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 "When we walk upon Mother Earth, we always plant our feet carefully
  because we know the faces of our future generations are looking
   up at us from beneath the ground. We never forget them."
                    -Oren Lyons, Onondaga Nation
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  Rebecca Michele Lord * http://www.ratical.com/ * mosa@rapidnet.com
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 --------- "RE: Joining the American Indian Movement" ---------
 
 Date: Sun, 8 Jun 1997 22:59:48 -0600 (MDT)
 From: "Leo Chavez, Jr" <cchavez@Colorado.EDU>
 Subj: Joining the American Indian Movement...
 
   UUCP email
 
 Hello!
   Several months ago I promised to post list of AIM chapters around the
 nation given to me by Glenn Morris and Russell Means has referred people to
 me.  When I first joined AIM I soon realize that AIM was fractured into
 what we know as National AIM and the Confederacy of Free Chapters.  For
 me, I have respect for both organization and for any organization that
 knows how to shake the hands of those who cook their meal.  I decided that
 I really do not take sides.  So I offer you this list.  I hope you
 distributed to as many people as possible.  The list follows this letter.
 This is where I take a stand.  Russ and I tend to see things eye to eye
 on pretty much everything.  Where we part is his Golden Eagle/Bald Eagle
 Theory.  You will know what I mean when you read the book.  If there is a
 stunning female that I think is a great person, I do not give a damn what
 background she is from.  Because at the time, there is something in the
 air that you try to learn to miss but the road leads onto glory and you
 may missed your last chance.  I have been down that road way too many
 times.  It is a very lonely road.  After being involved with AIM and
 "white mans's" institution, I have come to a conclusion.   This is how I
 came to it:  First, I was told that ALL my problems were my fault.  So, I
 blamed myself.  Second, I was told that ALL my problems were the white
 man's fault.  So, I blamed the white man.  However, that picture is most 
 incomplete.  After reading tens of thousands of books, I did see a
 correlation.  That correlation was government institutions and religion
 (more so Christianity).  These two factions go hand and hand.  When doing
 a world wide study, one does not have to be white to control and exploit
 these institutions.  At the micro level and my personal experiences, it
 was white people that gave me a helping hand when I most needed it.
 When I went to Hispanic ORGANIZATIONS, they told me that I did not go
 through the "barrio" experience, therefor I was unworthy of aid.  Even on
 a few occasions they told me my GPA is too high!  When I was with CO AIM
 I notice a paradox.  There were a lot of good people there that meant well
 but they made a good organization into a pissing circle.  Some people in
 that group had this blood quantum approach to reliability.  They would rip
 on Full-Bloods with Non-Indian wives.  They did not want to think in
 different ways to accomplish a goal.  They wanted to jump the gun.  Some
 of these people that Russ holds dear to his heart would rip on him.  I
 started to ask, "Why?"  These people who were engaging in the above
 activities are "trapped" in what I call the silver-spoon activist paradox.
 The the silver-spoon activist paradox is not so much evil as it is
 counter-productive.  These people are Mixed or Full-Bloods that busted
 their tails in America's institution so that they can help their people.
 They face a double edge sword of discrimination.  The first edge is the
 discrimination that is suffered from not being a wealthy, white male.
 However, the second discrimination they face is from their own people.
 They are chastised for not growing up on a reservation or not
 experiencing the ghetto experience and at times for succeeding in American
 in an unorthodox manner.  These people who devoted their academic and
 working careers to help, find themselves in a "Movement Purgatory."
 These people take their anger that was placed on them and displace it on
 people who want to help, which burns bridges and make potential and
 powerful allies feel like crap.  Their anger is compounded by the
 consequential incident that they were not around or born during big
 movement uprises to call for justice. Such people like Russ, Noam Chomsky
 and the unknown activist that were involved in these shift in society,
 the SP activists look up to them but also despises them for not being
 there. It is not their fault for not being there.  It is a circumstance
 of chance.  With this anger built up, they are close minded to new ideas.
 They have a set schema of how thing should be and lose focus of the
 economic realities they initially were trying to deal with.  They thirst
 for the action of the past and end up not hearing those in need.   These
 people need to be open to new ideas and allies because there needs to be
 no more turning away.  After my experience with these episodes, I decided
 that I will do things that I feel will benefit a cause in my own way.  If
 people want to join me, great.  If people do not want to join me, so be
 it.  Everyone has a right to question the intentions about a person's 
 motive but no one has the right to think they know it all and they are all 
 knowing. I am glad I do not know it all because if I did, that would be
 one hell of a responsibility.  With this said, I recently discovered what
 women (of all backgrounds) had to offer to the world.  It is wonderful
 folks.  It is something I cannot describe.  From their music to their
 smile, it is wonderful.  I am not personally involved with a woman but
 they have a lot to offer.  If there is anything to be learned from what I
 have said that is choose your own battles and fight it with all your
 might.  Do not go into it with prejudices because (as I have learned) your
 mistaken enemy maybe your best friend.  When you decided your chosen path,
 the wind will blow with you, it will blow against you, it will rain and
 replenish you, it will rain and slow you, the sun will warm you, the sun
 will drain you, but no matter what way these elements will shape you.  If
 you choose to continue on the road, you will be well shaped and will have
 no regrets. I have recently chosen this road with it's ups and down's and
 I may not be the wealthiest person on Earth but life is great!  This is
 coming from a person that had to live on the streets for some days and
 from a person who had a dad that beat the hell out of him and told him
 that the only reason he had me was so he could have a tax deduction, if he
 would have known I was an economic burden, he would force my mom to abort
 me.  Go out there and explore because even though we may "discover" we
 really do not because someone or something was there before and left
 something there for us learn.
   Remember, people and things are not relative to you, you are relative to
 them.
 
 Read:
 "Where White Men to Fear" by Russell Means (http://www.russellmeans.com/)
 "Manufacturing Consent" by Noam Chomsky
 "Lies My Teacher Told Me" by James Loewen
 "Suicide Blonde" by Darcey Steinke
 
 books by Patricial Limerick, Djuna Barnes, Georges Bataille, Marguerite
 Duras, Vine Deloria, Jr., and the countless others that you have heard
 about but never got to.
 
 Listen to:
 Traditional Music from all backgrounds
 Pink Floyd
 Natalie Merchant
 Janis Ian
 U2
 Maria McKee
 All female artist you can.
 
 When faced with a problem, ask:
 What is the problem?
 What do I know about the problem?
 What is  the problem asking?
 What am I giving?
 
 Remember:
 The worst thing a person can tell to you is, "No!"  If you can walk away,
 you have the world by its tail.
 
 In the long run you're dead.
 
 If people engage in socially destructive behavior, stop them and teach
 them for they are you.
 
 Please include the prior letter with the list when you distribute it.
 Thanx...
 AIM List:
 Northern California:                  Pennsylvania:
 Bobby Castillo                        Kenny Kane
 3145 Geary Blvd.                      3258 Eastmont Avenue
 #517                                  Pittsburg, Pennsylvania 15216
 San Fransico, California  94118       (412) 343-9005
 (415) 386-4373
                                       Michigan:
 Colorado-Denver:                      Donna Hernandea
 Glenn Morris                          7335 Hayden Rd.
 PO BOX 481593                         Detroit, Michigan 48228
 Denver, Colorado 80248                (313) 441-9585
 (303) 871-0463
                                       Cliff Alley-Curry
 Colorado-Springs From the Earth:      7063 Brewer NE
 PO BOX 221                            Rockford, Michigan 49341
 Ignacio, Colorado 81137
                                       Virginia:
 Dakota-Wounded Knee:                  Fred Sigmund
 Garry Roland                          1420 Bartlett Rd.
 PO BOX 293                            Richmond, Virginia 23231
 Porcupine, South Dakota 57772         (804) 222-8429
 
 Michele Means                         New Mexico:
 BOX 153                               Lessert More-Spiritual Advisor
 Porcupine, South Dakota 57772         (505) 343-1041
                                       Albuquerque, New Mexico
 Montana-Wraps His Tail:
 Kennard Red Bird                      Canada:
 Box 5                                 Treaty Six
 Garry Owem, Montana 59031             Confederation of Treaty Six
                                       Suite 600
 Ohio:                                 10025 106th St.
 Robert Roche                          Edmontin, Alberta
 2012 W. 25th St                       Canada
 Suite 515                             T5J 1G4
 Cleveland, Ohio 44113
 (216) 641-8685                        Livina White-Elder
 (216) 641-8600                        PO BOX 353 Masset
                                       Haidagwaii, BC
 Oklahoma:                             Canada
 NE Oklahoma                           VOT 1MO
 Jokay Dowell                          (604) 626-5136
 Rte. 1
 Box 17                                Sunni Hunt
 Talequah, Oklahoma 74464              Apt. 106
 (918) 458-5804                        1823 Tender St.
                                       Vancover, BC
 NW Oklahoma                           Canada
 David Hill                            V5l 1W6
 Rte. 1                                (604) 251-3836
 Box 375
 Sasakwa, Oklahoma 74867
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 --------- "RE: Moisie River Alert" ---------
 
 Date: Fri, 06 Jun 1997 09:20:59 -0700 (PDT)
 From: Native Forest Network-ENA <nfnena@igc.apc.org>
 Subj: Moisie River Alert (Canada)
 
    Newsgroup: alt.native
 
                         ALERT FROM FRIENDS OF NITASSINAN
                         POB 804 BURLINGTON VT  05402  USA
   "Our people travelled up the Moisie into the interior. With this dam, the
 port of entry to our culture will be closed. The diversions they have
 planned will mean the annihilation of all the Creator has given us."--
 Evelyn St. Onge, Innu from Mani Utenam
   "The decision to go ahead with the diversions constitutes the biggest
 experiment in the field of Atlantic salmon that has ever been undertaken
 in the history of the world, with all of the risks inherent in it.
   If we are not able as a society to preserve the Moisie as it is, what
 river in Quebec deserves to be so preserved?" --Association for the
 Protection of the Moisie river
 ACTION ALERT       MISHTA SHIPU (MOISIE RIVER): KEEP IT WILD
   Hydro Quebec is proceeding with its plans to divert the Pekan and Carheil
 Rivers, tributaries of the Moisie River.
   In 1994, HQ's proposal to divert the rivers into the St. Marguerite as
 part of the St. Marguerite 3 (SM3) hydro-electric project, was not
 approved by the government. HQ was told to conduct further studies on the
 potential impacts of the river diversions on the Moisie Salmon.
   HQ has completed its two-year studies and submitted them to a
 government-appointed Commission. The Commission has concluded that the
 diversions will not affect the salmon.
   The SM3 project was the first HQ project to go through public hearings.
 Now HQ is attempting to remove the debate from the public sphere, to
 confine it to a team of government-appointed "experts" behind closed
 doors, and to secret negotiations with the Mani Utneam /Uashat Band
 Council.
   The government's authorization is imminent. Meanwhile HQ has begun
 negotiations with the Uashat/Mani Utenam Band Council for the "completion
 of the SM3 project which has already been approved."
   The Band Council is conducting these negotiations in spite the
 opposition from the community. This is the same Band Council who placed a
 thirty-year injunction over the community, prohibiting any form of
 opposition to its own power or to the SM3 project.
   HQ expects the negotiations to be completed within 45 days of the
 government's authorization for the diversions.
   Meanwhile, construction of the SM3 project--including the river
 diversions-- is proceeding on schedule.
   The Deadline for comments regarding the Moisie Salmon Study is JUNE 15.
 Enclosed is a copy of our letter to the Quebec government. Please use it
 as a sample letter; FAX your letters right away to:
 Environmental Assessment of
 Industrial and HydroSystem Projects
 675 Rene Levesque Blvd. East
 Marie-Guyart Building
 Quebec City Quebec G1R 547
 (tel: 418-521-3933) fax: 418-644-8222
                                                         June 4, 1997
 M. Minister,
   We are writing to express our alarm and indignation over Hydro Quebec's
 intentions to divert the Pekan and Carheil rivers, tributaries of the
 world famous Moisie River. A decision by the Province of Quebec to
 approve this diversion scheme would go against world opinion and would
 subvert the  Environmental Assessment process--the first in HQ's history-
 - in which all sectors of the public condemned the proposal.
   In 1995 Hydro Quebec agreed to modify the SM3 project, in response to
 the public's opposition  to the diversion scheme. At the time, the Quebec
 government claimed that this modification alone would bring the SM3
 project into compliance with public opinion and particularly, with the
 conclusions of the environmental review board (BAPE).   While the BAPE
 recommended that the Pekan and Carheil rivers not be diverted, HQ's  
 compliance with this recommendation was the only concession to the
 Board's many criticisms of the SM3 proposal. Other concerns, and they are
 by no means minor, have been ignored.
   First, HQ's energy demand forecasting was judged to be faulty; HQ has
 failed to prove that there is any need for yet another giant electric-
 producing facility. Furthermore, the Board concluded that HQ's EIS was
 incomplete, and that before the project is authorized , HQ should conduct
 a number of additional studies.  Among them: studies on the cumulative
 effects of all existing dam projects in the North shore region as a
 whole; studies of the effects of transmission lines; and further studies
 on the impacts on the natural environment, on human health and on the
 social fabric.  The Board also noted HQ's Moisie salmon studies were
 grossly inadequate  and recommended that the Moisie diversions not be
 approved.
   HQ recently submitted a new short-sighted, two-year study of the Moisie
 salmon impacts to the government-appointed Moisie Salmon Commission. The
 Commission has concluded the impacts would be insignificant. We would
 like to challenge these conclusions.
   First, how can changing the habitat that begun with the last ice age not
 have significant impacts on creatures as sensitive to changes in their
 particular water way as the majestic Atlantic Salmon?
   HQ has still not conducted a proper study. The life cycle of the salmon
 is seven years, not two. Any study on the life-cycle of the Moisie salmon
 short of a seven-year study is inadequate.
    Third, HQ has used the Snake River in Idaho as a model for "regulated
 flow" management. The historic salmon runs of the Snake River are a thing
 of the past. As a model, it is a model of  failure, not success. In fact,
 the Snake River Sockeye has recently been declared endangered by the US
 Fish and Wildlife-- primary cause: hydro-electric dams.
   And finally, the Innu people, who have never signed a treaty or ceded
 their land to any government, are intricately connected to the Moisie and
 its salmon. It is the Innu's "Great River" and to risk the return of the
 Salmon to the river is to gamble away the survival of the Innu's unique
 and age-old culture.
   The SM3 project was the first Hydro Quebec project to go through public
 hearings. Now HQ is attempting to remove the debate from the public
 sphere and to confine it to a team of government-appointed "experts"
 behind closed doors, and to secret negotiations with the Mani Utneam
 /Uashat Band Council. The 352-page BAPE report, in which the testimony of
 Innu, recreationists, biologists, environmentalists and other sectors of
 the public, as well as the government-appointed review panel, thoroughly
 critiqued HQ's claims that the Moisie salmon would remain undisturbed by
 the diversions, has apparently been tossed aside.
   We urge you to suspend authorization of the SM3 project, as the BAPE
 recommended, until the impact studies suggested by the Board have been
 completed, and until the modified proposal has been subject to public
 review. We also urge you to deny, once and for all, authorization of any
 diversions of the Moisie or its tributaries and declare the Moisie a
 World Heritage Site.
   To tamper with this great river -- the jewel of the province-- for a
 mere 250 megawatts would be worse than folly. Keep it wild. Let it be.
   We look forward to your reply.  Sincerely,
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 --------- "RE: Looting of Indian Artifacts" ---------
 
 Date: 09 Jun 97 22:51:55 EDT
 From: rod whited <103123.2051@CompuServe.COM>
 Subj: Looting of Indian artifacts
 
   UUCP email
 
 O'siyo Night Owl,
   I am attaching two articles that was printed in Monday 9 June 1997 The
 Huntsville Times newspaper. These two copyrighted articles are being
 submitted for your consideration with the consent and permission of The
 Huntsville Times.
    Perhaps these articles present at least the possibility that some effort,
 however seemingly small, is being made to enforce some Federal laws
 protecting sacred sites. I find it interesting that the difficulty and
 frustrations that law enforcement officers face in enforcing these laws is
 also presented.
 >>>>-------> COPY OF ARTICLES ATTACHED <-------<<<<
 Federal agents try to halt looting of Indian artifacts
 By DAVID HOLDEN
 The Huntsville Times Staff Writer
   To passers-by, Rickey David McBride and Wayne E. McBride might have
 looked like two guys enjoying a swim in the shallow water of the Raccoon
 Creek Wildlife Management Area at Guntersville Lake.
    But federal authorities say they videotaped the McBrides, cousins from
 Section, digging into the river bank and harvesting artifacts left by
 long-dead Native Americans.
   In a separate but similar case, officers with the U.S. Fish and Wildlife
 Service say they caught Richard Molden II on the Wheeler Wildlife Refuge
 near Decatur with a metal detector in his hands and arrowheads and
 projectile points in his pockets. More artifacts, they say, were found in
 his vehicle. It was the fourth time they had caught Molden removing
 artifacts from the refuge, officers said.
   The McBrides and Molden have been charged with violating the
 Archaeological Resources Protection Act that Congress adopted in 1979. The
 federal law was designed to protect ancient artifacts on federal, native
 American and, in some cases, private land.
   Alabama laws - the Burial Act of 1993 and the Antiquities Act of 1915 -
 also prohibit grave robbing and looting historical sites.  Native
 Americans consider the burial sites of their ancestors as sacred and call
 those who disturb them desecrators.
   It all boils down to greed,'' said Bobby Gillespie of Moulton, chief of
 the Blue Clan of the Echota Cherokee of Alabama. People today don't
 respect life. If they don't respect life, they don't respect death.
   How would they like for somebody to dig up their grandmothers to get the
 buttons off their clothes?''
   Looting artifacts from federal land in the Tennessee Valley - one of the
 richest areas in the country for native American historical sites - is
 becoming an increasing problem, authorities say. And, with few officers to
 patrol vast areas, looters are hard to catch.
   The looters take advantage of the lack of enforcement manpower. They
 also disguise their activities or work at night. And they know the law
 says that officers basically have to catch them in the act.
   They keep damaging and destroying burial sites and selling artifacts on
 the black market to foreign collectors because it's so lucrative.
   Once the artifacts and historical sites are gone, they are gone forever,
 " said Rick Kanaski, a regional biologist for the U.S. Fish and Wildlife
 Service.
   Before the Hopewell, Cherokee, Creek, Choctaw and Chickasaw tribes moved
 in, people whom archaeologists call the Archaic Indians roamed the fertile
 hills and valleys of this region from 7500 to 1000 B.C. Game, fruit,
 berries and nuts were plentiful in the dense forests. Rivers and streams
 were full of fish and mussels.
   It was paradise, a Garden of Eden,'' said Greg Preston of Moulton, a
 member of the Blue Clan. Everything they needed either grew or walked in
 the woods or swam in the river.''
   In the Tennessee Valley, the ancient tribes may have spent only three
 days a week gathering food. The rest of their time was devoted to
 spiritual pursuits.
   Mussels were "fast food" for the Archaic Indians. The big shellfish
 weren't very nourishing, but they were filling and readily available.
 After scooping out the meat, the shells were dropped on the spot, Kanaski
 said.
   Centuries passed and huge piles of shells, which archaeologists call
 shell middens, grew higher along river banks. That's how Muscle Shoals got
 its name,'' said Carl Sherer, a Tennessee Valley Authority Police
 investigator. When white settlers came here they saw all the mussel shells
 in the shallow water'' (although the eventual spelling of the city's name
 took a different turn).
   The Archaic Indians wrapped their dead in animal skins and usually
 buried the bodies under the floors of their shelters. But at some point,
 they began to use the shell piles as burial places.
   Chemicals in the shells neutralized the acid in the river water and
 served as a natural preservative and protection for the remains and the
 artifacts.
   They are good time capsules,'' Kanaski said. Among the shells you can
 find materials such as bones of people, dogs and other animals, stone
 tools, ceramics and pottery.'' Soil erosion and the natural cycles of the
 river covered the shells, and many shell middens and burial sites were
 submerged when reservoirs were created in the area.
   But when water levels drop along the river banks, shell mounds sometimes
 are exposed. Then, like Indiana Jones, modern day grave robbers raid the
 shell middens for ancient treasures. The looters are literally mining the
 river banks,'' Kanaski said. In some places, they will dig up to 10 or 12
 feet into the river bank.''
   Archaeologists examine artifacts with care and with attention to
 surrounding soil conditions, pollen and other clues to determine how the
 people lived and adapted to their environment. But grave robbers are not
 concerned with the history surrounding an artifact, Kanaski said. They
 churn through the shells and turn the layers of time into useless slush.
   Looters take what they want and leave the rest like litter on the ground,
 said Sherer, the TVA investigator for Alabama, Mississippi and Western
 Tennessee. Looters want the valuable stuff like stone axes, pottery,
 knives and skulls, and don't care how badly they trash the rest of the
 site.
   A lot of places we find look like bomb craters,'' he said. The
 plundering is taking a toll on the river, Kanaski said, causing the river
 banks and trees to wash away. Some islands in the Tennessee River have
 disappeared because of digging, Sherer said. Seven-Mile Island, near
 Muscle Shoals, is a favorite spot for artifact hunters and is in danger of
 washing away soon, he said.
   Officials divide artifact collectors into three types:
    1) People who spot arrowheads by chance and pick them up.
    2) Collectors who search for artifacts as a hobby.
    3) Grave robbers who are trying to make money.
   The latter category is growing because Indian artifacts are hot items on
 the international market, Sherer said.
   The reason it is so lucrative is foreign collectors, especially those in
 Japan, pay top dollar for what they call cowboy-and-Indian artifacts,'' he
 said. The looters here might get $500 or $600 for a good piece. That same
 piece might bring $20,000 to $30,000 in Japan.''
   Looters ply their trade secretly to stay in business. Some pretend they
 are diving for mussels to get into burial sites that are underwater. Many
 of them are also involved in other illegal activities, like poaching,
 Sherer said.
   A good number of artifacts that show up at local flea markets may have
 been stolen from federal land. But without proof, which is hard to come by,
 there is nothing authorities can do. And thieves have a fertile field
 since more than 2,000 native American historical sites have been
 identified in North Alabama on TVA land and on the Wheeler Wildlife Refuge.
   TVA police must cover hundreds of miles of shoreline Tennessee River
 from Pickwick Lake to Guntersville Lake. At the wildlife refuge, officers
 patrol about 200 miles of shore line. It is impossible to be everywhere at
 once, Sherer said.
   Who do you film and how do you get close enough?'' he said. I have to be
 able to testify that I saw a defendant in a hole digging.''
   The court here hears about a dozen cases from this area every year, said
 Assistant U.S. Attorney Harwell Davis. Lately, cases involving artifacts
 taken from federal lands are increasing, he said.
   I have been in this area for three years,'' he said. The first year we
 didn't have any in court.'' Officials say the McBrides were videotaped
 during several weekends. When they were stopped at a boat launch near
 Guntersville Lake, officers said, they found several hundred arrowheads in
 the McBrides' possession.
   The McBrides pleaded guilty in federal court recently to digging up and
 removing archaeological resources from federal land without a permit. U.S
 Magistrate Judge Paul Greene ordered them to pay $650 each in restitution.
   So far, Molden has been caught on the refuge four times. The first two
 times he was given a citation. But after a third violation, federal
 officers charged Molden with taking artifacts.
   He was waiting for trial when he was caught the fourth time. A federal
 jury convicted Molden for taking artifacts and trespassing into an area
 closed to him. Greene sentenced him to 90 days for taking artifacts and 30
 days for trespassing. He will serve the two sentences concurrently.
   At Molden's trial, a psychologist testified that Molden knew right from
 wrong. But Molden, who must drive through the refuge to get to his home,
 thought the federal laws and the rules of the Wildlife Refuge were
 improper
                 End of take/story
 About the law
    Under a 1979 federal law, if the damage to a historical site does not
 exceed $500, federal authorities can charge looters with a misdemeanor. If
 convicted, a looter can be sentenced to a year in jail and fined up to
 $100,000 by a federal judge.
   If damages exceed $500, the crime becomes a felony that can net a looter
 a maximum fine of $250,000 and up to two years in prison. A second felony
 offense, regardless of the damage amount, can lead to a $250,000 fine and
 up to five years in prison.
   The government has other tools with which to fight artifact thieves. It
 can seize vehicles or tools used to transport and dig up historical
 objects, and it can sue looters in civil court for the archaeological or
 commercial value of stolen artifacts and the cost of restoring the
 disturbed historical sites.
   The federal law does not prohibit people from picking up arrowheads
 found on the ground, although officers on TVA land discourage it.
   We are not out to arrest Boy Scouts or people who walk along the river
 bank and pick up a few arrowheads,'' said Carl Sherer, a Tennessee Valley
 Authority Police investigator. What we are trying to do is stop the
 illegal activity.''
   At the Wheeler Wildlife Refuge, rules ban picking up artifacts found on
 the ground.
   A warning or a citation is enough to stop most folks,'' said FWS Officer
 Kelly Smith. But there are those who have told me it is worth the risk to
 come back.''
                 End of take/story
 
 --------- "RE: In Whose Honor?" ---------
 
 Date: Fri, 06 Jun 1997 00:03:45 +0000
 From: Jay Rosenstein <jayr@ncsa.uiuc.edu>
 Subj: TV documentary about American Indian mascots
 
   Newsgroup: alt.native
 
   I'd like to let everyone on the list know about a documentary I produced
 about American Indian mascots and nicknames in sports.
   It's called "In Whose Honor?", and it will be airing nationally on the
 PBS series P.O.V. on July 15th.  The program is being co-sponsored by
 the Native American Public Telecommunications.  I believe this will be
 the first time that a program on this issue will be broadcast to a
 national television audience.  
   If your local PBS station doesn't carry P.O.V. or does so irregularly,
 please call them and tell them you want to see the program.  In
 addition, if anyone has any press connections that can help in
 publicizing the program, please contact them and myself.  
   The program will air exactly one week after the baseball all-star game
 in Cleveland, and I am hoping to use the program as a way of changing
 America's view of the Cleveland Indians.  The all-star game will be
 celebrating the 50th anniversary of Jackie Robinson's "integrating"
 baseball, and this celebration of the baseball's alleged ending of its
 racist practices will be done in the shadow of the most racist symbol in
 all of sports.
   If you'd like more information on the program, please email me, or check
 the program web page 
   http://fantasia.ncsa.uiuc.edu/~jayr/honor.html
   or the P.O.V. web page (http://www.pov.org)
 
 Sincerely,
 Jay Rosenstein
 Producer, "In Whose Honor?"
 
 --------- "RE: A Hundred Years Ago" ---------
 
 Date: Sat, 7 Jun 1997 00:33:08 -0700
 From: Landis <landis@EPIX.NET>
 Subj: A Hundred Years Ago - Week 6
 
 Mailing List:    NAT-FILM <NAT-FILM@MAELSTROM.STJOHNS.EDU>
                 [Editorial Note: These reprints are being included in this
                  newsletter so that you might know the mind of those who
                  ran institutions like Carlisle.]
 
 THE INDIAN HELPER
          ====================================
                PRINTED EVERY FRIDAY
                      --AT THE--
          Indian Industrial School, Carlisle, Pa.,
                     BY INDIAN BOYS.
           ---> THE INDIAN HELPER is PRINTED by Indian
          boys, but EDITED by The man-on-the band-stand
         who is NOT an Indian.
          ---------------------------------------------
            P R I C E: --10 C E N T S  A  Y E A R
          =============================================
         Entered in the P.O. at Carlisle as second
         class mail matter.
         =============================================
            Address INDIAN HELPER, Carlisle, Pa.
                           Miss M. Burgess, Manager.
         =============================================
          Do not hesitate to take the HELPER from the
         Post Office for if you have not paid for it
          some one else has.  It is paid for in advance.
          ==============================================
         VOL. XII.   FRIDAY, June 11, 1897    NUMBER 35
         ==============================================
 
         INDIANS ARE INDIANS STILL
         ------------------------
   On last Monday, in company with Geo. W. Reid we visited the Indian camp
 about four miles south of town, where the Pawnees were giving a pipe dance
 in honor of Osages who are visiting them.
   The members of each tribe brought out all their valuables and decorated
 themselves in true Indian style.
   From an Indian standpoint, the dress of the Osages was gorgeous, all the
 colors of the rainbow being displayed in buckskin, feathers, paint and
 beads.
   Some of the braves, in the hasty preparation of their toilet, had
 evidently omitted a portion of their apparel, but did not seem to mind a
 little thing like that. --[Times-Democrat, Pawnee, O.T.]
   Twenty years ago the writer lived among the Pawnees.  In those days they
 had the same barbarous dances as is described in the clipping above.  The
 Osages came to visit them, as now, and they made the night hideous by
 their wild howling and beating of the tom-tom around big fires in the
 timber, or in some lodge.
   In looking at a group of school children taken recently at the Pawnee
 school and reproduced in the "Wichita Mirror," not one child represented
 in the picture was born twenty years ago.
   Some who were the oldest pupils of the writer at that time are today
 grandparents.
   And thus one generation grows up as Indians and another generation
 follows.  They are Indians, too.  How can they be different, having seen
 nothing of the outside world, and gained none of the valuable experiences
 that come through association?
   In the group were several Indian employees who had been educated away
 from their people.  They have had enough of the so-called Indian rubbed
 off, through contact with their white brothers, to enable them to take a
 small part in the education of the growing generation.
   Who dares to say, that had all the Indian children of school age twenty
 years ago been induced to go outside of the reservation to schools beyond
 the reach of Indianism, and had they been placed in good white families
 interested in their welfare, thousands of whom, in the East, are standing
 with open arms ready to take in the Indian who is old enough to care for
 himself and through training to become helpful; is there a person who
 could conscientiously, say that had such a plan been carried out there
 would be Pipe Dances and Ghost Dances today, with such heathenish
 exhibitions of naked forms as described above?
   But so long as the majority of young Indians are kept at home in order
 that home schools may be made necessary: so long as the young Indians are
 educated as Indians among Indians, Indians will remain Indians forever.
   "Take all the children of school age from their homes?  It can't be
 done!" say some.
   It CAN be done, and that very easily!
   The Indians would readily enough lend themselves to any plan that would
 speedily make them independent and happy individual citizens.  They could
 be reached, if proper means were taken!  Indians are reasonable!  Let in
 the light that they may see! Indians are not blind; they are only kept in
 the dark.
   All children of school age could be educated away from the tribe and
 that with the full and free consent of parents!
   Only the PESSIMIST says it cannot be done!
   Some of the largest parties ever brought to Carlisle, requiring two and
 three cars to transport them, were brought by the writer; and the boys and
 girls, wild unkempt, in blanket, paint and feathers were gathered on the
 reservation in the face of most discouraging obstacles.
   She was always met with the cold, indifferent statement by some of the
 most prominent workers who refused to lend a helping hand: "It can't be
 done.  These Indians are very much against parting with their children. 
 They will hardly send to the home school, let alone so far away."
   "Let me talk with the Indians,' the Carlisle teacher would reply.
   "Shall I call a council?" the agent would ask.
   "No thank you.  Let me visit the mothers in the tepee!  Let me sit
 around the campfire and play with the children!  Let me show them my
 pictures and tell them about the school.  Give me a team, an interpreter
 and some provisions.  I wish to see for myself before I'm willing to say
 that Indians do not know a good plan when presented to them in an
 unprejudiced light."
   Then we would start out--myself and lady assistant, with an interpreter
 and two or three policemen as guides.  We would travel many miles over the
 prairies, and visit the various camps fifty and sixty miles apart, and the
 result in several instances was that more wished to go to Carlisle than we
 were allowed to bring.
   There is no greater enemy to the cause of Indian education than the
 Can't-be-done fiend.
 ====================================================================
   William Johnson pitches for the Genoa team.
   A new power house is building at the Genoa School, Nebr.
   Mt. Pleasant School, Michigan, is to have a $60,000 building.
   A new Indian school is to be built at Chamberlain, South Dakota.
   From the Ft. Lewis "Outlook," we judge they have a very good brass
 band.
   If "trans" does mean across, transparent does not necessarily mean a
 cross parent, does it?
   They give band concerts on Sunday afternoons at Chemawa School,
 Oregon; so it seems from the "American."
   The Souvenir, 25 cents post-paid, giving 60 views of our school, is
 still sent FREE for 10 subscriptions, and 2 cents extra for postage.
   James Van Wert class '95, is evidently well satisfied with his present
 employment, at Wittenberg, Wis., for he ends a short business note with:
 "All well here and everything lovely."
   Mr. Morgan Toprock entertained the pupils in the chapel with his
 Indian club swinging.  Mr. Toprock used to be one of the eight that
 represented Carlisle in club swinging.  A few of the employees have
 clubs, and are taking lessons of Mr. Toprock. --[The Ft. Lewis Outlook].
   Howard Gansworth, class '94, and class 1900 of Dickinson College, has
 gone to his home in New York for the summer.  Howard has some prospects
 of going to Princeton.  A few evenings before he left he gave a
 stereopticon entertainment at Steelton which was pronounced by the
 Steelton correspondent of the Harrisburg "Patriot" as interesting and
 instructive.  His talk on Indian life was excellent and the many views
 shown illustrated it very nicely.
   A slip of tongue sometimes brings one down quicker than a slip of the
 foot.
   "Wotanin Kin" is the name of a new paper started at the Indian
 School, Genoa, Nebraska.  Not since the days of "The Pipe of Peace"
 published at the same school have we been in touch with that
 institution.  The new little paper will be a welcome visitor each month,
 if always so full of interesting news as the first number.  It will
 improve typographically and in its mechanical make-up as the compositors
 gain in experience, still their first paper is creditable indeed.
   The question is often asked: "How do your pupils use their education
 on their return home?"  One of our teachers, a few years ago, visited
 the Pueblos in New Mexico.  She climbed their curious ladders, sat down
 and talked with returned Carlisle girls, in their adobe homes.  Her
 heart was pained by many experiences they gave, and when she returned to
 the school, out of the abundance of the heart she wrote a story
 combining in one character, called Stiya, the village life of several of
 our girls.  It is a pathetic tale, but not overdrawn.  The book is
 printed on the best of paper at the Riverside Press, Cambridge, and
 contains numerous illustrations showing the quaint adobe houses, and the
 Indians in their native dress.  For fifty cents "Stiya" will be sent
 post-paid to any address in the United States or Canada.  Address
 HELPER.
   Cherries ripe?
   Queer Spring?  Every one says so.
   Humidity beyond measurement this week.
   What invention has caused more talk than the telephone?
   The green apple will make the small boy feel BLUE if he isn't careful.
   Melinda Thomas is visiting the Hampton Normal Institute, Virginia.
   On Wednesday, the schools had a holiday to enable the teachers and
 advanced pupils to attend Dickinson College Commencement Exercises.
   The little pupils of No. 13 help fold HELPERS on Fridays.  If it were
 not for their willing little hands, some of our subscribers would not
 get their papers so soon.
   Robert Emmett, another of our expert typos, has gone to the country
 for a change of air and diet, and to work for the cash, also experience,
 which is better than cash.
   Dr Frysinger, pastor of the Methodist Church, Carlisle, amused our
 printers greatly on Monday when around with Commencement guests, by
 going to the case and setting some type.
   Jack Standing believes that half-day play during vacation is enough
 for any boy, and so he puts in the other half-day at the printer's case,
 or at whatever work he finds to do in the school printing office.  Jack
 has been going to Metzger College which closed for the summer last
 week.  If all boys would thus occupy themselves they would grow faster
 intellectually, become better spellers, get a better start in life, and
 have more respect for themselves, than those have who idle and play all
 the time.
   Lydia Biddle Ironeaglefeather has returned from the country. She was
 sent out in hopes that the change of air would give her a start upward
 in health, but she did not improve as so many do, and has returned.  We
 hope she will soon be better.
   James Wheelock, class '96 is playing his clarinet with Dickinson
 Orchestra, this week.  He is a regular member of the association, and on
 Monday evening played a solo before a fine audience, receiving an
 encore.  The occasion was the Commencement concert.
   Mr. Spray has arrived safely at his new field of labor, Ft. Belknap,
 Montana.  He says he is quite pleased with the children of whom there
 are 104, at present.  The school is situated on a comparatively level
 spot by a milky looking stream known as the Milk River.  It is about a
 half mile from the Agency.
   Mabel Buck, class '97, has gone to McKeesport, near Pittsburg, to live
 with Rev. S.E. Snyder.  It will be her home as long as she will have it
 so.  She started off both sad and happy, on Wednesday morning.  Sorry to
 leave dear associates behind, but glad to have a delightful home offered
 her.  Dr. Snyder has been a Methodist Missionary among the Indians for
 many years.  For a time he was at Ft. Peck, Montana, Mabel's old home.
 She lived with Dr. and Mrs. Snyder for two years, then they were sent to
 Arizona, and Mabel came to school.
   The "rubber" game of ball between Dickinson and the Indian School team
 occurred on Monday afternoon.  The Indians won by a score of 13 to 1.
 The first game several weeks ago was won by the Indians -- score 3-1;
 then Dickinson won the next game: 10-1; Monday's game was exciting, but
 there was no blood shed.  Pitcher Jamison, was at his best.  Hudson's
 work at 1st base and Miller's in centre field were particularly
 noticeable.  Our boys had no difficulty in hitting Dickinson's pitcher,
 Jones.  Geo. Shelafo, ss., Jacob Jamison,p., Wallace Miller, 3b., Artie
 Miller, cf., Frank Hudson, 1b., Hawley Pierce, c., Chauncey Archiquette,
 lf., Christian Eastman, 2b., Jonas Mitchell, rf. were our players.
         SCORE BY INNINGS.
   Indians . . . . . . 4 0 1 4 0 1 0 3 -- 13
   Dickinson . . . . . 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 1 --  1
         ___________________________________________
                         -Submitted by Barbara Landis
 ____________________________________________________________________________
 by NAT-FILMgroup, UNAT & UNITED Native American Television Broadcast Council
 Ask about the NAT-IMATION native language vcr/TV/web group--> Info@UNAT.org
 
 --------- "RE: Poem: The Morning" ---------
 
 Date: Wed, 28 May 1997 15:08:41 -0400
 From: Larry Kibbey <kibbey@sierra.net>
 Subj: The Morning
 
   UUCP email
 
          The Morning
 
 As day light breaks the darkness of the night,
 A cool breeze tugs at the morning,
 And sounds from the four-legged and winged-ones,
 Quietly fill the air
 As they begin to greet the new day,
 
 At the top of a small knoll
 Stands an Elder facing the rising sun,
 Pipe in hand waiting for the right moment,
 And then he begins an ancient song of his ancestor's,
 While he offers up the Sacred Pipe of the People,
 To the four sacred winds,
 The seasons of life,
 To Mother Earth and all his relations,
 And in the old ways of his people,
 He thanks the new day
 As the morning becomes life.
 
 Slowly the sun climbs upward,
 And as the Elder looks upon the new day,
 An eagle soars towards the sun,
 Becoming a picture of sacred respect,
 For such ways are done in honor,
 And the Elder descends from the knoll
 Wearing a smile of dignity and pride,
 For within he has carried on
 One of the oldest traditional respects
 Honoring his people,
 In the morning.
 
 Cedar, sage and sweetgrass smoke
 Fills the air around the camp,
 And a people slowly
 Prepare theirself
 To meet the new day,
 And the Elder
 Lays the pipe
 Upon a cherry wood rack,
 And tomorrow,
 In like manner,
 He will greet the new day
 In the Morning.
 
 May 28, 1997
 
 by,
    Larry Kibby, E-Mail - kibbey@sierra.net
 http://www.geocities.com/CapitolHill/Lobby/3786
 ===============================================
 
 --------- "RE: Verse: Hawaiian Book of Days" ---------
 
 Date: Sat, 31 May 97 18:06:00 GMT
 From: dfsanders@genie.com
 Subj: Hawaiian Book of Days
 
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   A HAWAIIAN BOOK OF DAYS, week of June 15-21
 
                               IUNE
                              (June)
                             (Kaaona)
                                15
 Even the clumsiest hand can create a thing of beauty.
                                16
 Acknowledge the duality of life in everything you do.
                                17
 Embrace life with joy, and never let it go!
                                18
 All great schemes were born of dreams.
                                19
 Sing with the voice of the wind.
                                20
 In the hidden places are found the rarest of flowers.
                                21
 Summer's moon is rising now above the mountains.
 
                (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, 12 June 97 08:00 -0500
 From: Janet Smith (evestar@juno.com)
 Subj: Upcoming conferences and powwows not previously posted
       to Mailing List NATIVE-L
 
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 Date: Tue, 3 Jun 1997 18:14:38 -0700
 From: benmarra@halcyon.com (Ben Marra Studios)
 Subj: Images Along the Red Road
 
   We have a new book, POWWOW...Images Along the Red Road, by Ben
 Marra and published by Harry N. Abrams (NY) which I thought might
 be of interest to you.
   The book contains 105 color photographs and texts by the
 individual dancers (men, women, and children) from the sixty
 tribes/nations represented. Horace Axtell [Nez Perce] wrote the
 preface, and Rick Hill [Tuscarora] wrote the foreword. The book can
 be viewed from our site:
        http://www.halcyon.com/benmarra/
   Also, photographs and personal written words are featured in our '97
 Calendar, POWWOW...Portraits of Native Americans, published by
 Pomegranate. Two '98 calendars are being published by Golden Turtle
 Press and Avalanche Publishing.
    Linda Peterson
 P.S. A recent review:
   POWWOW: IMAGES ALONG THE RED ROAD, photographs by Ben Marra.
 Harry N. Abrams, Inc., 100 Fifth Ave., N.Y., NY 10011, (800)
 345-1359, FAX: (212) 645-8437. Marra's e-mail address is
 benmarra@halcyon.com   Illustrated (105 in color). 112 pp.
 0-8109-2680-6.  For eight years, Ben and Linda Marra followed the
 powwow circuit with a portable studio, taking portraits of
 dancers in full tribal regalia. In addition, they recorded the
 impressions of the dancers: memories, what the dances and their
 individualized outfits mean to them, and the importance of walking
 the "Red Road," a place where, as Dineh dancer Rudy R. Shebala
 says, "...my thoughts, hopes, dreams, and beliefs are from the
 point of view of my ancestors." Marra beautifully captures the
 spirit and importance of these celebrations. You can almost hear
 the drumming.
   Steve Brock, Net reviews
 Ben Marra Studios
 Seattle, WA
 benmarra@halcyon.com
 (206) 624-7344
 (206) 624-4864 fax
 (800) 624-1940
 http://www.halcyon.com/benmarra/
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 Date: Tue, 10 Jun 1997 00:16:41 -0700
 From: "Ms. Beverly Carey Torres" <torresp@algorithms.com>
 Subj: Lanape Nanticoke 7th Annual Pow Wow June 14, 15 in Southern
       New Jersey
 Mailing List:    Taino-L <Taino-L@corso.ccsu.ctstateu.edu>
 
 Located at the Salem County      For Info. Call :
 Fairgrounds, Rte. 40                   The Cultural Center
 Woodstown, NJ                          (609) 455-6910
 (Across From Cowtown)
 PUBLIC WELCOME
  Pow-Wow17th Annual Nanticoke
 Lenni-Lanape and Festival
 Saturday - Sunday   June 14-15, 1997
 Saturday : 11AM  until dusk     Grand  Entry at 12 Noon
 Sunday  :  10AM  until 5PM     Grand  Entry at  12 Noon
 (RAIN OR SHINE)
 EMCEE - Ezra Fields, Jr             Sunday Morning Worship
 Pawnee Tribe of Oklahoma            Service - 10M
 Dance Competition                   Campers Welcome
                                     For Small Fee - No Hookups
 Drum Competition
 All Drums Welcome                   Entrance Fee :
                                          $5.00/Carload
 Thousands of Dollars in                 $25.00/Busload
 Competition Money                        $3.00/Motorcycle
 Native American Foods               Bring Your Own Lawn Chair
 Native American Traders             Local Hotels
 (Ask For Pow-wow Rates):
 Cultural Displays                       Wellesley Suites
                                           (609) 299-3800
 Legends                                 Holiday Inn
                                           (609) 299-4400
 NO ALCOHOLIC BEVERAGES,
 DRUGS OR PETS ALLOWED
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 Date: Fri, 6 Jun 1997 00:04:42 -0400 (EDT)
 From: Sahtu@aol.com
 Subj: 25th Anniv Conf: D'Arcy McNickle Ctr for AI Hist
 
 25th Anniversary Conference and Celebration
 D'Arcy McNickle Center for American Indian History
 The Newberry Library
 AGENDA
 Friday, September 12, 1997
  9:00 am - 7:00 pm      Exhibit Booths and Documentary Film Series
 11:25 am        Rededication & Blessing of the Center
 12:25 pm        Welcoming Reception
  1:25 pm        Remembering Alfonso Ortiz
  3:25 pm       Oral History of the D'Arcy McNickle Center
                 for American Indian History
  6:25 pm       Buffalo Feast
 Saturday, September 13, 1997
  9:00 am - 6:00 pm     Exhibit Booths and Documentary Film Series
  9:25 am       The Future of American Indian Histories
                                   Vine Deloria, Jr.
 11:25 am       Teaching American Indian Histories
  1:00 pm       American Indian Poetry Readings
  1:25 pm       Writing American Indian Histories
  3:00 pm       American Indian Dance Performances
  3:25 pm       Livin