From gars@netcom.com Thu Aug 21 01:19:29 1997 Date: Tue, 29 Jul 1997 21:23:41 -0700 From: Gary Night Owl To: Internet Recipients of Wotanging Ikche Subject: Wotanging Ikche--nanews05.031 _ __ _____ __ _ __ ___ ____ _ __ ___ ' ) / / ') / / ) ' ) ) / ) / ' ) ) / ) / / / / / / /--/ / / / ___ / / / / ___ (_(_/ (__/ ( / (_ / (_ (___/ '__/_ / (_ (___/ ' O ____ _ , ___ _ , ___ O o O / ' ) / / ) ' ) / / ' O o O / /-< / /--/ /-- VOLUME 05, ISSUE 031 O o o o o O __/_ / ) (___/ / ( (___, 2 August 1997 O o O KANOHEDA ANIYVWIYA Otapi'sin Atsinikiisinaakssin O o O Es'te Opunvk'vmucvse ni-mah-mi-kwa-zoo-min Aunchemokauhettittea O ( N A T I V E A M E R I C A N N E W S ) This issue contains articles from Big Mountain, Innu-L, NAT-FILM & Native-L lists; Settlers In Support of Indigenous Sovereignty; Headwaters News; Newsgroups: soc.rights.human,alt.native,soc.culture.native; UUCP email Articles appearing have been previously posted for public dissemination and/or permission for inclusion has been secured. Letters of authorization are on file. A list of those granting permission to repost their words in this issue are listed at the end of part A. I thank each of you for allowing your words to be shared with the people. <----<<<< >>>>----> This newsletter is a way of keeping the brothers and sisters who share our Spirit informed about current events within the lives of those who walk the Red Road. ++ It may be subscribed to via email by sending a request from your own internet addressable account to gars@netcom.com ++ It is archived at http://www.nanews.org Thanks to Don Rayment ,don.rayment@uptowne.com, Wotanging Ikche/ Kanoheda Aniyvwiya is being redistributed via a listserver. If you would like to receive Wotanging Ikche via the listserver, you can send a message to listserv@uptowne.com and include, in the body of your message "sub wotanging.ikche " Thanks to Borries Demeler all _Wotanging_Ikche_ (part a) submissions to AISESnet are archived under AISESnet and can be accessed easily by World Wide Web: 1994: http://aises.uthscsa.edu/94_dis.html 1995: http://aises.uthscsa.edu/95_dis.html 1996: http://aises.uthscsa.edu/96_dis.html 1997: http://aises.uthscsa.edu/97_dis.html This is a searchable index to the AISESnet Discussion mailing list database archive, and the keyword "Wotanging" will retrieve all issues for that year. "You who are so wise must know that different nations have different conceptions of things. You will not therefore take it amiss if our ideas of the white man's education happen not to be the same as yours. We have had some experience of it." "Several of our young people were brought up in your colleges. They were instructed in all your sciences; but when they came back to us they were bad runners, ignorant of every means of living in the woods, unable to bear either cold or hunger. They didn't know how to build a cabin, take a deer, or kill an enemy. They spoke our language imperfectly." "They were therefore unfit to be hunters, warriors, or counsellors; they were good for nothing." "We are, however, not the less obliged for your kind offer, though we decline accepting it. To show our gratefulness, if the gentlemen of Virginia shall send us a dozen of their sons, we will take great care with their education, instruct them in all we know, and make men of them." __ Canassatego (at the Treaty of Lancaster) +- -- -- -- -- -- -- -- -- -- -- -+ | 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! My wife and I continue our journey. We have enjoyed our visit here in South Dakota. Joe Chasing Horse of the Oglala Lakota spent the past week at Big Mountain as intercessor for the annual Sun Dance for the Dineh people. He had been denied a permit to hold the Sun Dance by the Hopi Council who holds this land. Four Hopi Elders went to the Hopi Council and told them they didn't support the denial. The Hopi Council faxed Joe an offer to "allow" him to have the Sun Dance if he would sign a statement (part of the fax) agreeing to stop commenting about the Big Mountain issue on the Internet. He held the paper high for all the people to see and said, "They sent this for a paper chief to sign. I'm not a paper chief and I'm not signing." The Sun Dance was held without permit. One Hopi Ranger was sent and he was disarmed by Security at the Gate. I am disheartened to learn of a telemarketer, The Native American Heritage Association operating out of the Sacred Black Hills, calling throughout the world, pleading for funds to meet the needs of the Lakota People. The owner has a fine palatial home in Europe and his company spends tens of thousands of dollars phoning potential donors. From what Lakota elders tell me, the only thing that is true about this groups' spiel is that most Lakota in this area are in need. According to Indian Country Today, this company received donations of nearly $3.5 million dollars in the past year, yet only about $78,000 (2 1/4% of the donations) were actually donated "for grants to American Indians for food, housing, child care and winterization programs." $1.3 million went to "fundraising" and about $1.1 million was reported as phone operators' salaries. A little arithmetic reveals a gaping hole of $1 million unaccounted for. That kind of money could build and maintain a nice home in Europe. There's no information as yet to indicate that even the operators hired by this company are Lakota themselves, thus only that miserly 2 1/4 percent of donations sent by concerned and trusting people may have reached those in need either by donation or pay for services rendered (remember please that Lakota unemployment is in the 70-80% range, so even providing jobs would have been a service). This is not the first such scam by these people. There's more information about their past activities in Indian Country Today -- LOTS more. There are reputable organizations and individuals that seek to meet the needs of Native People. This organization does not appear to be one of them. Paula Giese, a teacher and friend to all who would be friend, has crossed over. This is a great loss. Please go to the following URL for more on this leader. http://hanksville.phast.umass.edu/misc/indices/paula.html> Sonja Keohane sends the following news: Subj: NM Pueblos want bison Good to see some more interest in the bison issue from another area of the country. Seems as if the ITBC may be getting somewhere with its push to have the bison be taken by Indian People and new herds developed on reservations. Ted Turner who runs the largest herd of privately owned bison has many of them on a ranch in New Mexico. http://www.bigskywire.com/gazette/wednesday/region/reg010.htm Prepared for the Web: Tuesday, July 22, 1997, 5:58:09 PM N. Mexico pueblos join fight against bison killing SAN JUAN PUEBLO, N.M. (AP) - Five Indian pueblos in northern New Mexico have joined a fight to protect buffalo near Yellowstone National Park from slaughter next winter. "It hurts to see animals die like that when we're trying to bring them back to the reservation," said Joseph Martinez, a member of the San Juan Pueblo. Last winter, about 1,100 buffalo were either shot as they left the park in search of food or were captured and shipped to slaughter. About 900 more died of harsh winter conditions. That left about 1,500 bison alive in the park. Martinez said he would like to adopt some of the at-risk Yellowstone buffalo to expand San Juan Pueblo's herd. The pueblo, a member of the 41-tribe Inter-Tribal Bison Cooperative, has 15 buffalo that roam a 40-acre, fenced-in pasture. Picuris, Taos, Nambe and Pojoaque pueblos also belong to the cooperative. Early this month, the cooperative and environmental groups filed a lawsuit seeking to force federal officials to re-examine their bison management plan. The killing by the Montana Department of Livestock and the National Park Service was done under an interim management plan designed to contain brucellosis, which causes pregnant cattle to abort calves and can cause undulant fever in humans. Montana's ranching industry spent millions of dollars to eradicate the bacteria from state cattle. The U.S. Agriculture Department has threatened to revoke Montana's brucellosis-free certification if bison are allowed to wander into Montana. Peace! Night Owl , , Gary Night Owl gars@netcom.com (*,*) P. O. Box 672168 gars@nanews.org (`-') Marietta, GA 30067, U.S.A. gars@igc.apc.org ===w=w=== gars@bellsouth.net Fax: 770-528-9643 gars@juno.com ----------- News of the people featured in this issue ---------- Part A: Usenet and e-mail Part B: NATIVE-L list - MSU Brucellosis Symposium - Lone Star Dietz in Hall of Fame - Big Mountain Supporter Report - Ojibwe Dictionary? - Letter from Lawrence Altsisi - Poor Environmental Planning - Gustafsen: Sentencing - Final Sentencing Submissions - Value of Human Life - RCMP Window Dressing - Keepers of the Fire at Onondaga - Coho Salmon/Boycott Lockdown - Radiation Suit in Washington - Remember "Bison Guts"? - Essence of Evil - Dineh Issue - Combining Native Resources - Alaska Fishery Job - Must It End Here? - All 4 One - New Arts Award - A Hundred Years Ago - Poem: Dancin' Storm - Verse: Hawaiian Book of Days - Conferences and Powwows - offline --------- "RE: MSU Brucellosis Symposium" --------- Date: Fri, 25 Jul 1997 11:06:14 -0400 From: Sonja Keohane Subj: MSU Brucellosis symposium UUCP email Hello all, I am hopeful, can't live without it...but we shall see if this study brings light to the issue or just more darkness.... http://www.bigskywire.com/gazette/friday/region/reg024.htm prepared for the Web: Thursday, July 24, 1997, 10:41:03 PM Brucellosis discussion turns to science at MSU By JOE KOLMAN Gazette Bozeman Bureau The Billings Gazette BOZEMAN - With summer in full swing, the debate over Yellowstone National Park bison has moved from blood-stained fields of snow and slaughterhouses into classrooms equipped with overhead projectors. Summer is for science, which, when the emotion over killing a national icon like the bison is stripped away, is a large part of the controversy. On Thursday at Montana State University, the National Research Council opened the first of two meetings to be held this summer to examine the scientific issues around the transmission of brucellosis. About 250 scientists and others interested in brucellosis gathered here last month for a symposium sponsored by MSU and the Wildlife Society. Brucellosis is a disease carried by some elk and bison that can cause cows to abort their calves. Livestock producers have worked to eradicate it from their herds, but some worry that wildlife, mostly bison wandering out of the park, could infect their cattle. Past management has centered on killing the bison that leave the park looking for food in the winter. This week's meeting at MSU is part of a six-month, $200,000 study requested by the Department of Interior, which oversees the national park system. Although the government funds the study, National Research Council project director Lee Paulson said the findings of the nonprofit group are independent. The conference concludes today with a public comment period scheduled from 1:30 p.m. to 3:30 p.m. in room 108 of Reid Hall. The two principal investigators, who will issue their findings in November, are Norman Cheville and Dale McCullough. Cheville chairs the department of veterinary pathology at Iowa State University and McCullough is a professor of wildlife biology at University of California at Berkeley. Issues explored include the prevalence of brucellosis in bison, factors that determine the risk of transmission between bison and cattle and the safety and effectiveness of existing vaccines. Although federal and state officials worked out a plan last month that calls for regulating park bison by a combination of capture and slaughter, public hunting and distribution of live bison to Indian tribes, Paulson said the council's findings should be a contributing factor in future decisions. The council has scheduled a second meeting for Aug. 4 at the National Museum of Wildlife Art in Jackson, Wyo. --------- "RE: Big Mountain Supporter Report" --------- Date: Fri, 25 Jul 1997 11:30:42 -0800 From: redorman@plix.com (Dorman, Robert ) Subj: Big Mt. Supporter Report Mailing List: Big Mountain List The following is a report from my friend, Swaneagle, who has recently returned from her support activities at Big Mountain. She will be going back in about another week. MULTI-NATIONALS, WHITE SUPREMACY AND CONTINUING GENOCIDE AT BIG MOUNTAIN IN DINETAH The high desert of northeastern Arizona was vibrantly lush this spring following a winter blessed with drought breaking snows. The remote hogan of Dineh Grandmother and Resistance Leader Pauline Whitesinger had an air of divine protection surrounding it in late April as I prepared to pack and depart. The sage, juniper and pinion glistened against the rich red- earth damp from rains the previous day. Never had I seen such moist intensity as in the colors spread across the expanse of Big Mountain's arid vegetation. It occurred to me that the ceremonies Pauline hold to protect her family, livestock, land and supporters from harassment by the Bureau of Indian Affairs police and officials had also ensured the snows and rains giving this sacred land hopeful vitality. In the nearly three months I spent with Pauline, she was free from BIA harassment though not from anxiety produced by threats of forced removal that accompanied the most recent deadline of March 31,1997. Dineh resisters had been told that if they did not sign the Accommodation Agreement giving these semi-nomadic people three acres, one horse, one cow, and three sheep and three goats for 75 years not to be passed on to the their children, they would face US MARSHALS AND HOPI TRIBAL PARAMILITARY POLICE. Due to the renewed interest in this crucial issue that brought many dozens of supporters to the land, the wonders of internet communications and some media attention, the military menace never materialized. What did happen was that Hopi Tribal Chairman, Ferrall Secakuku, along with a BIA police escort drove to homes of a number of resisters pressuring them to sign the notorious agreement. The scanner we had in Pauline's hogan allowed us to hear what families were being targeted- It was frightening wondering if Pauline would be next. She assured me regularly that the Ceremonies brought protection. Though no blanket policy outlawing non Indian support for resisters has been implemented, a number of supporters were driven off the places of the Dineh people being helped. The BIA police succeeded in intimidating about three non Indians who didn't realize such cooperation was not necessary. One Dineh family not only had their supporter escorted off the reservation, but the BIA police barged into their home unannounced and confiscated a . 22 rifle in the corner of their home used to keep coyotes away from their sheep. This family declined another supporter fearing further incidents. I drove nearly seven thousand miles over the picturesque reservation roadways taking Pauline and her family searching for medicine people for ceremonies, going to meetings, obtaining supplies, visiting other resisters and relatives and even spending a night with a relocated family on the 'New Lands' where the water source was contaminated by the largest nuclear spill in US history. Driving from one end of the Navajo Nation to the other, I was continually stunned by the stands of rock jutting from the desert floor like families of petrified giants, deep lush canyons and sheer crimson cliffs supporting great spans of mesa. Since I first came to be with Pauline in 1984, the inroads development has made have irrevocably scarred much of the spectacular landscape. The immensity of Peabody coal company operations is beyond anything I have encountered. The emissions from coal fired power plants have smogged the skies, mining has destroyed gravesites. polluted water has killed sheep and contaminated air has made people ill. Maintaining a lifestyle profiting multinational corporations is at the root of genocide. It was during this early spring that the reality of Multinational greed relying on American white supremacy to continue five centuries of genocide hit me with a clarity that has wrapped itself around my soul. When I drove Pauline to Farmington, New Mexico the harshness of what Dineh and other Indian people face hit me full tilt. Before I ever went to Farmington, I read a book by Rodhey Barker titled: The Broken Circle about the torture, mutilation and murder of three alcoholic Navajos by three white teenagers who received extremely light sentences in 1974. This incident was referred to in an article in the April 18, 1997 issue of The Gallup Independent that addressed continuing attacks against Navajos in this border town. While in Farmington, Pauline and I, my daughter and friend, visited a Medicine man and his wife. She told us that she worked with the widows of uranium miners as well as with people who have been trying to do something about the racism in Farmington. She told us there is an area where people who suffer from alcoholism hang out in the street, most of them being Indian. A person came out of a nearby restaurant throwing hot grease on the alcoholics. Then someone attacked them with a two by four breaking one victims arm. She then described how Indians walking along the highway have been hit by vehicles and left to die. How many more will be annihilated before the civil rights movement re-emerges? Once again, I feel great shame to be part of such a society that not only has never made amends to this continent's first people, but continues to ignore the many facets of continuing genocide. According to the Sovereign Dineh Nation office in Flagstaff, Arizona, 4, 000 of the 10,000 Dineh that have been relocated from the Hopi Partitioned lands that includes Big Mountain, Teesto and other communities, are now dead. This is outright genocide and an atrocity! What is happening to the Dineh people is happening as well to Indian people all over the Americas. The situation in Arizona and New Mexico is larger in scale because Dineh people number over 200,000. As we can see, those numbers will continue declining as long as white Americans allow it. We must be ever vigilant in educating ourselves about the key role corporations play in setting the stage for displacing land based peoples globally who then face unknown horrors as their way of life collapses. It is urgent that people of conscience become experts on the influences of white supremacy in their communities and in this country. Given that the US Constitution was established by and for white male land owners, and that the theocracy movement is striving to return to those more "honest" times, the roots of racism must be systemically addressed so that true participatory democracy such as the vision of the Zapatistas can blossom. Leaving to return to Washington was particularly difficult this time. Too often when resisters are alone they face harassment. Four supporters remained at Pauline's and hopefully she will continue to have helpers. After my daughter and I recover from our journey, we will go to Big Mountain again in July. Pauline's consistent response to threats and tragedy was to have Ceremonies. What an inspiration it was to witness Spiritual Resistance- such nourishment for my Gandhian aspirations. Yet as she was conversing with other Dineh one evening by lantern light in her lovely hogan I realized that I also am witness to the end of a sacred way of life. Though I don't comprehend Dineh language beyond a few words and phrases, I developed an understanding of the precious interactions that transcended words. I renewed my commitment to offer my life to stopping this murderous policy as long as one Dineh remains, as long as I have breath, as long as human conscience flickers. I call to the flicker to catch fire in the hearts of all of us who acknowledge the Spiritual power and beauty of Native American Indians so that a movement of utmost courage, effectiveness and Ceremony halts the death and destruction for the first time in 500 + years. IT IS TIME! Swaneagle Harijan Mother, Frontline Peaceworker 3427 Moore Rd. Kettle Falls, WA. ************************************************** Bob Dorman redorman@plix.com "The Activist Page" http://www.plix.com/~users/redorman/ --------- "RE: Letter from Lawrence Altsisi" --------- Date: Tue, 29 Jul 1997 00:40:54 -0800 From: redorman@plix.com (Dorman, Robert ) Subj: Letter from Lawrence Altsisi Mailing List: Big Mountain List My web site, "The Activist Page," has been updated, and the page with Big Mountain links now has photographs taken at Big Mountain recently. They aren't captioned yet, but that should be done soon. The following was scanned from a FAX I received tonight via Media Island International in Olympia, WA. To all big mountain support group: My name is Lawrence Altsisi and I am from Dinnebito, AZ and some of you might know me. Today I asking you to support me that I am planning to make a trip to Montana to place called environmental indigenous conference and this will taking place August 01-04, 1997. If I attend this conference than I know more about how we can stop Peabody coal mine to destroyed our ancestral land. I am new to this land dispute and I don't know that much about the deal between the Peabody coal mine, Navajo/Hopi and federal government. I am interested in learning a lot of information about what going on our reservation and not telling us what is going on behind the closed doors in Window Rock, AZ. My supporters and l are encouraging all of you to help us out again and please continued to stand behind us and let's all fight the good to protect mother earth. The creator has made mother earth to share and not to destroyed it. Thank you for your support and everything you have done to support the Dine. Lawrence Altsisi P.O. Box 838 Kykotsmovi, Arizona 86038 ************************************************** Bob Dorman redorman@plix.com "The Activist Page" http://www.plix.com/~users/redorman/ --------- "RE: Poor Environmental Planning" --------- Date: Tue, 22 Jul 1997 18:03:13 -0400 From: Larry Innes Subj: Poor Environmental Planning At Voisey's Bay Mailing List: Innu People Forum list For Immediate Release July 22, 1997 POOR ENVIRONMENTAL PLANNING AT VOISEY'S BAY Sheshatshiu - The Innu Nation has called on the Province not to issue permits for the Voisey's Bay Nickel Company's plans to build a road and airstrip at the Voisey's Bay site because the location of the airstrip that the company plans to build this summer is unsuitable for the operation of the mine. Despite repeated assurances to the Innu, the Inuit and to the Environmental Assessment Panel reviewing the Voisey's Bay Project that any work at the site would be done in such a way that it could be upgraded or reclaimed, the Voisey's Bay Nickel Company now plans to build two airstrips at the site. The airstrip planned for this summer cannot be extended to accommodate larger aircraft because it is located in an area where larger aircraft would not have sufficient terrain clearance for fully loaded takeoffs and landings. The Innu Nation has now learned that the company is now exploring several alternative locations for a second airstrip. In a letter sent yesterday to Minister of Environment Oliver Langdon, Innu Nation Katie Rich wrote: "What this will mean is that, because VBNC insists upon going ahead with what it calls its Exploration Support Works this summer, there will be a need to disturb two areas for separate airstrips, if the mine project proceeds." "Not only is this an example of poor environmental planning which could be avoided by proper and comprehensive environmental assessment, which is what the Innu Nation had insisted be part of the approach under the Memorandum of Understanding, but, as well, it is directly contrary to many statements that VBNC has made publicly in relation to the airstrip." VBNC has consistently maintained that the road and airstrip that it plans to build this summer were designed and located in such a way that they could be incorporated into the mine and mill. The Innu and Inuit have objected to the company's piecemeal approach, and have maintained that the entire project must be assessed under a single, comprehensive Panel review to avoid creating unnecessary environmental impacts. "All of the company's statements and reassurances now sound very hollow. This is no way for a company to build a respectful relationship with Aboriginal people. Our fears about the unnecessary disturbance of our land are now being realized. We are worried about what they are going to do next. We know that if they proceed with they are going to have to build a second airstrip. We now wonder what else they haven't told us." "We are going to be appealing the court's decision to allow the infrastructure to proceed, and we call on the Minister not to issue any permits for work at the site until we have a much clearer picture of the Company's plans. That picture can only come through a comprehensive environmental review.", concluded Rich. Larry Innes Visit the Innu Nation WWW site: Environmental Advisor http://www.web.net/~innu Innu Nation P.O. Box 119, Sheshatshiu, Labrador, Canada A0P 1M0 phone: (709) 497-8398 email: innuenv@web.net fax: (709) 497-8396 \/=\/=\/=\/=\/=\/=\/=\/=\/=\/=\/=\/=\/=\/=\/=\/=\/=\/=\/=\/=\/=\/=\/=\/= --------- "RE: Gustafsen: Sentencing" --------- Date: Thu, 24 Jul 1997 03:59:48 -0800 From: "S.I.S.I.S." Subj: Gustafsen: Sentencing Wednesday, July 30 :-:-:S.I.S.I.S. Settlers In Support of Indigenous Sovereignty:-:-: July 23, 1997 GUSTAFSEN LAKE TRIAL SENTENCING: WEDNESDAY, JULY 30TH 10:00 AM BC Supreme Court Justice Bruce Josephson has indicated that sentencing of the Ts'Peten Defenders will be pronounced on Wednesday, July 30th 1997, at 10:00 AM (PDT).Self represented Defenders Shelagh Franklin and OJ Pitawanakwat will make their final sentencing submissions to the court on Friday, July 25 at 1:30 PM. All who can attend to support the defendants and witness this historic and momentous miscarriage of justice are urged to do so. A pre-sentencing solidarity gathering is expected to begin at 9:00 AM in front of the Surrey Court-house on the day of sentencing. Every indication is that the state will seek to make an example of the defendants, and that sentences will be harsh. For those who cannot attend, letters and messages of solidarity or protest and condemnation of the Canadian authorities can be sent to S.I.S.I.S. for forwarding. More ideas for action are posted on our site, at: http://kafka.uvic.ca/~vipirg/SISIS/GustLake/support.html The 11 Natives and 4 of their non-native supporters have been convicted on charges ranging from mischief to mischief endangering life for their defence of sacred Sundance and burial grounds on unceded Shuswap territory in the summer of 1995. The Canadian courts have steadfastly stonewalled the question of their lack of jurisdiction over unceded territory, and many of the appeals will reflect this. For further information or media inquiries, contact: elder Bill Lightbown (604) 251-4949 or Splitting the Sky (604) 543-9661 To get to the court house, at the Surrey Municipal Centre (King George and Highway 10): by Skytrain: to Surrey Central, then catch the White Rock Centre 321 bus to the corner of King George and Highway 10, walk east. by car: 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. :-:-:-:-:-:-:-:-:-:-:-:-:-:-:-:-:-:-:-:-:-:-:-:-:-:-:-:-:-:-:-:-:-:-:-: S.I.S.I.S. Settlers In Support of Indigenous Sovereignty P.O. Box 8673, Victoria, "B.C." "Canada" V8X 3S2 ==>>NEW EMAIL : WWW: http://kafka.uvic.ca/~vipirg/SISIS/SISmain.html SOVERNET-L is a news-only listserv concerned with indigenous sovereigntist struggles around the world. To subscribe, send "subscribe sovernet-l" in the body of an email message to For more information on sovernet-l, contact S.I.S.I.S. --------- "RE: Final Sentencing Submissions" --------- Date: Tue, 29 Jul 1997 12:41:24 -0800 From: sisis@envirolink.org (S.I.S.I.S.) Subj: Gustafsen: Final Sentencing Submissions :-:-:S.I.S.I.S. Settlers In Support of Indigenous Sovereignty:-:-: July 28, 1997 Bulletin AFN 'Grand-Chiefs' go Golfing while Defenders await July 30th Sentencing Self-represented Defenders make final submissions: "NO JURISDICTION" According to the Globe and Mail newspaper (July 26), Canada's DIA Band Council Chiefs began the first day of their national AFN leadership convention Monday in Vancouver "suitably with a golf tournament." Contenders for the $85,000.00 tax-free plus expenses position of Assembly of First Nations' "Grand Chief" will be voted on by approximately 600 AFN chiefs. Meanwhile across town, away from the fancy hotel rooms and golfing chiefs, the people that Grand Chief Mercredi accused of breaking Canadian law and Chief Wendy Grant called "not very nice" are preparing themselves and saying goodbye to friends and loved ones before Wednesday's sentencing by BC Supreme Court Justice Bruce Josephson. The AFN election is the same day. But it is these grassroots people, not the AFN that have challenged and confronted the colonizer. And for this, on Wednesday, it appears they are to be harshly punished. Wendy Grant's husband Chief Ed John of the BC First Nations Summit, has however already reassured the public that he "doubts jail terms for the Gustafsen Lake renegades sets the stage for a summer of native blockades in British Columbia." (Canadian Press, May 26, 1997) On Friday, July 25 self-represented Defenders OJ Pitawanakwat, Sheila Franklin, and 66 year old Shuswap elder Wolverine, held without bail since the standoff ended in 1995, spoke to sentencing and tried once more to communicate to this corrupt colonialist court, perhaps for the last time, the simple truth of their 1995 stand on sacred unceded Shuswap burial and Sundance grounds against the largest paramilitary operation in Canadian history. OJ Pitawanakwat - an Odawa/Anishinabe also being held in custody for whom the crown is asking more than 10 years imprisonment for his resistance during the month long siege - spoke much of native youth and of his duty as a young father to protect the cultural ways: "I didn't come with firearms. That is a religious site where we gave our blood through ceremony. This situation was manipulated by the politicians and RCMP that were losing face with all the native blockades to protect burial and sacred areas. There was a provoked attack against our very identity - a threat to burn down what is to us our church. You would do the same if your ancestors were lying there..." "A peaceful ending didn't happen because there was going to be a question of who sold the land. The government decided to use genocidal tactics. We had to do what we had to do. We responded when our way of life was threatened - just like throughout history..." "I thought we were finally going to get justice in this court. Instead our lawyer was denied us. He was assaulted, jailed, brought in here as witness then Bruce Clark was told the law he gave you doesn't apply. These government legal-aid lawyers tried to break our group and they succeeded in making some forget their responsibilities. Calling us "hawks" and "doves". The lawyers saw a weakness and used it to manipulate. Who's interests are these lawyers really representing?" "...How does this system benefit native people? A policeman gets two years less a day and no jail for killing a native person [in reference to Kenneth Deane, who extrajudicially murdered Aazhoodena activist Dudley George at Stoney Point in 1995]. What kind of message is this sending to my brothers and sisters? That it's OK for Whites to kill Indians but we can't protect ourselves from physical and cultural genocide? I don't understand, maybe you can help me..." "The Royal Proclamation of 1763 states we are not to be molested or disturbed on unceded territories. This is embedded in the Constitution. You've heard the crown admit there are no treaties, no purchase - therefore the Royal Proclamation applies here. Who were the real trespassers, the ones really pushing violence out there? The native youth are watching you and looking for truth..." "The Great Law as handed down by Deganawida states that all nations have a natural right to defend against aggressive, hostile powers seeking to colonize..," "You yourself are on trial before the oppressed of the world. I believe the Creator also has serious charges against you, the Attorney-General, the military and the RCMP. Before you sentence anyone ask yourself if you're not guilty yourself, of fraud, treason and genocide..." "I guess my final submission to this court is this Great Law and these wampums which I bring before you and to which I have complete allegiance as a warrior." Shelagh Franklin - a recent mother and the only non-native Defender that has not capitulated and renounced the sovereignty stand, as have the three Bear Watch environmentalists, some of whom have gone so far as to now allege they were coerced by "militants" - also made her final submissions on Friday. Shelagh is facing 2-5 years for a simple mischief charge. Additional charges of contempt of court were recently added when she was late returning some videotaped evidence necessary to her defence. "Everyone in the world knows that Canada was built on Indian land. Canada cannot keep this dirty secret any longer. Now is a window of opportunity for Canada to honestly deal with indigenous peoples by honouring our covenants, our commitments and responsibilities..." "I'm a compassionate, caring human being not a terrorist. I apologize if my submissions irritated or offended you... [Judge Josephson: "accepted"] but I do not apologize for defending those Sundance grounds. You are not my judge. You only have power. I am in the awkward position of rejecting your illegitimate jurisdiction..." "I went to Gustafsen Lake because I was concerned that Percy and my friends were to be unfairly removed from the land. I was encouraged by seeing a video tape of RCMP officer George Findlay agreeing that the land was stolen. He acknowledged that process was genocide. Findlay was removed..." "I didn't expect police violence. I believe the rancher Lyle James' title is fraudulent. I base that on my research. I saw and still see no evidence to the contrary. Genocide flies in the face of what I know to be constitutional and international law..." "We took a defensive stand at Gustafsen Lake for freedom. Free the indigenous peoples of the world! Free OJ! Free Wolverine!" Lance Bernard, the Crown prosecutor in this trial, also spoke Friday. Bernard was involved in the prosecution of Chief Robert Satiacum, a sovereignty activist of the Puyallup nation, on trumped up charges designed to facilitate his removal to the waiting US authorities who had bogus "racketeering" charges to criminalize him. Chief Satiacum was snatched by an RCMP tactical team from the home of his friend Wolverine (William Ignace) with whom he was harboring at the time. He died in custody in BC's Okalla prison in 1991 after "irregularities" with essential medication required for a heart problem. Bernard briefly addressed the sentencing submissions of the Defenders: "The suggestion that RCMP bungled this effort is without merit, but whether true or not it doesn't excuse the defendants..." "There is no evidence that either the native or non-native communities have anything but contempt for the actions of the defendants..." Prosecutor Bernard concluded by recommending the principles of "denunciation and deterrence" in determining "fit sentences". Secwepemc (Shuswap) elder Wolverine, aka William Jones Ignace, age 66 - an old age pensioner and an organic gardener of heritage seed - is facing up to 23 years imprisonment for his part in the standoff. It is alleged he fired at the wheels of a 14 ton army APC when the driver, instructed to "eliminate" him, tried to run him down. As previously stated, Wolverine has been in jail since the summer 1995 standoff ended. According to police disclosures, the RCMP thought Ignace would "require killing." He has attempted to have the jurisdiction issue addressed in many venues including the International Court of Justice and the Indigenous Working Group of the UN. "We feel that after British Columbia has been trespassing and oppressing us for 150 years, the 30 days or so we 'trespassed' on our own land isn't long..." "Since 1876 we have watched the theft of our lands. The Crown doesn't want to deal with the facts or the rule of law. They say the American rancher owns the land. Point out the surrender. Where is the treaty? Where is the purchase? Show us the paper..." "We're standing on Constitutional law. International law. The domestic laws do not supersede these higher laws. All we asked for was for an independent third party to sit on this issue. Instead we got 400 RCMP, land mines and hollow point ammunition banned by the UN. Is there any Human Rights law in Canada?" "...This Prosecutor is part of a genocide that's 500 years old. He thinks nothing of this. Our people were hunted down, bounties put on their heads - who are the real law breakers?" "...Sergeant Peter Montague [BC RCMP media liaison] made lies look like truth. So much of what happened at Gustafsen Lake is still covered up. We tried to bring this out. I guess the people of BC don't mind that a sergeant's in control..." "The A-G says we are squatters. Yet he refuses to appear here to answer questions as to his involvement. Because this went all the way to the Prime Minister's Office, the Solicitor-General's Office. We have a Governor-General derelict in his duty to his Queen. When native people seek a due process right to straighten out jurisdiction you crush them!" "...You cannot change history. The prosecutor admits no treaty and no purchase. Who is really the law breaker? Is your greed so great that you want it all?" "Where is the media? Were they ordered to stay away to stop the truth from coming out? A public inquiry must be held here in Canada into this issue and Ipperwash. So if you sentence me I'm not going to snivel because I'm above you. You stand on fraud. I stand on Law." Messages of solidarity or condemnation of the Canadian and BC authorities are needed and much appreciated. They can be delivered to S.I.S.I.S. for forwarding. Attend the Sentencing. Alert your media contacts. Contact your representatives and urge official protests... Free Wolverine! Free the Ts'peten Defenders! Remember Dudley George! +++++Demand a Public Inquiry into Gustafsen Lake and Ipperwash+++++ <<->><<->>Sovereignty is the Issue; Canada is the Problem<<->><<->> :-:-:-:-:-:-:-:-:-:-:-:-:-:-:-:-:-:-:-:-:-:-:-:-:-:-:-:-:-:-:-:-:-:-:-: S.I.S.I.S. Settlers In Support of Indigenous Sovereignty P.O. Box 8673, Victoria, "B.C." "Canada" V8X 3S2 ==>>NEW EMAIL : WWW: http://kafka.uvic.ca/~vipirg/SISIS/SISmain.html SOVERNET-L is a news-only listserv concerned with indigenous sovereigntist struggles around the world. To subscribe, send "subscribe sovernet-l" in the body of an email message to For more information on sovernet-l, contact S.I.S.I.S. --------- "RE: Value of Human Life" --------- Date: Fri, 25 Jul 1997 16:57:48 -0400 From: Russell Mitchell Subj: Ipperwash Value of human life assessed in jail time By Wayne Green, Timiskaming Speaker (New Liskeard,Ont.), July 23, 1997 Human life has become distressingly cheap in Canada at least if measured by some of the sentences recently handed out through our court system. The most prominent example, of course, is the slap on the wrist given to an Ontario Provincial Police officer convicted of shooting an unarmed Indian protester. Sgt. Kenneth Deane was handed a sentence of two years less a day, but will not spend one hour behind bars for criminal negligence causing the death of Dudley George during a 1995 clash between police and Natives near Ipperwash. The officer gets to serve his time "in the community" and will continue to draw a full salary from the OPP while doing so. Sgt. Deane's only other obligation is to perform 180 hours of unspecified community service, and although he is barred from possessing a weapon until his sentence is completed, the police association is fighting to keep him on the force. The arrangement is in sharp contrast to another case where a police officer was on the receiving end of an armed assault. Toronto detective Larry Dee was upset that former soldier Eric Schumacher got only 10 years in prison for attempting to murder him and his partner back in 1991, but in comparison to some other decisions of the justice system the punishment seems almost harsh. A teenager in Alberta, for instance, was handed a "life" sentence for the brutal killing of a 9-year-old boy, but will be eligible to apply for parole in February, 2001. Since the specified date is only six years after the senseless crime took place and four years after the sentencing, it must be concluded that judges define life in a much different fashion than dictionaries. Then there is the sad story of Kasandra Shepherd, a little girl in Toronto who finally died from a brain hemorrhage after Ontario's child welfare system failed to protect her from an abusive stepmother. The woman convicted of manslaughter in the case received the judicially popular two years less a day but actually spent only six months in jail. The tendency of courts to soften the sentences of criminals is apparent even among serial killers such as Paul Bernardo and Clifford Olson. Although numerous victims may be targeted by the murderer, only one life term is ever handed down-and in Canada that usually means 25 years or less. The custom of lumping sentences together to run concurrently has even been extended to the Bosnian war crimes trials now under way in the Netherlands. A Serb found guilty of beating and killing his Muslim and Croatian neighbors was sentenced to a total of 97 years on 11 convictions, but only the longest term, 20 years, will count as the rest of the time will be served concurrently. If you think the courts are always lenient, though, consider the case of Jessica Hart, a Toronto woman who provided false evidence in an attempt to keep her abusive boyfriend from going to jail. Charged with obstruction of justice, she was jailed for two months and will be on probation for a year following her release. The man she tried to keep out of the slammer received a sentence of only 30 days after pleading guilty to attempted assault and kidnapping . Based on these limited statistics, Interfering with court procedures merits double the punishment handed out for an attempt to kidnap and assault another human being. As for killing an unarmed Indian protester, I guess life really is cheap in terms of jail time. Russ 705.544.7794 Phone/Fax mailto:russell@nt.net http://www.nt.net/~russell "In matters of conscience, the law of majority has no place." Mohandas K. Gandhi Checkout: http://www.nt.net/~knp http://kafka.uvic.ca/~vipirg/SISIS/Ipperwash/sppetit.html http://www.tdi.net/ishgooda/gustafsen/gusthome.htm http://www.tdi.net/ishgooda/gustafsen/BIGOTRY.HTM http://www.indigenous.bc.ca/rcap/rcapeng.html http://www.thenation.com ******************************* "If you have come here to help me, You are wasting your time ... But if you have come because Your liberation is bound up with mine, Then let us work together." --------- "RE: RCMP Window Dressing" --------- Date: Fri, 25 Jul 1997 15:17:08 -0800 From: Wally du Temple Subj: RCMP Window Dressing at Aboriginal Games Deceptive Window Dressing at Aboriginal Games The RCMP and native paddlers took the spot light at the beginning of the North American Indigenous Games in Victoria. The RCMP had partnered with the VisionQuest Recovery Society to make an epic journey from Hazelton to Victoria in replicas of traditional west coast canoes. The police stated that it was a way of saying that they apologized for the wrongs inflicted on natives by RCMP in the past. Perhaps among other racist acts, they were talking of enforced collection of children for residential schooling and planned assimilation. The VisionQuest society has a noble aim, to build an addictions recovery facility. More info is available at their website at . I question the sincerity of the RCMP and the Chretien government in supporting both the Aboriginal Games and VisionQuest. Is it only a strategy directed at the non-aboriginal community to give the perception of good actions and intent. Are we meant to perceive that a new day for relations between natives and non-natives has already begun? To answer these questions consider these facts. The Chretien government has not called a conference to discuss the findings of The Report of the Royal Commission on Aboriginal Peoples: the least it could have done. The dispute at OKA which led to the Royal Commission has not been solved. Sgt. Kenneth Deane who was convicted in April/97 of criminal negligence causing the death of the native, Dudley George, was barely even tapped on the wrist when the judge handed him a "sentence". He has been sentenced to 2 years less a day but not one day in jail. Meanwhile, the sentencing of the natives arrested for continuing sacred dances at Gustafsen Lake was rescheduled to occur three days before the opening of the North American Aboriginal Games. The original date for sentencing was too close to the light sentencing of Kenneth Deane. Up to twenty years has been demanded by the crown. In light of these facts, the RCMP and Chretien government support of the Aboriginal Games and VisionQuest is nothing more than disinformation and damage control. Moreover, news that the RCMP have just purchased eight Armoured Personnel Carriers from the formerly apartheid South Africa gives little reassurance that the government has a sincere desire for solving aboriginal problems. The Royal Commission Report calls for an apology to aboriginal peoples for the Indian Act and for enforced residential schooling for assimilation. The Green Party of Canada supports that recommendation and demands that the federal government call a First Ministers - First Nations Conference to discuss all of the recommendations. Done with sincere intent that could lead to substantive change and improvement. The RCMP cuddling of the "games" and "VisionQuest" is no more than deceptive window dressing. Whether the RCMP canoe will be welcomed ashore or turned away at Victoria is up to the Songhee Elders. I can understand either choice. And the sentencing of William Jones Ignace, known as Wolverine -- a Shuswap elder and organic farmer who has been held as a political prisoner for almost two years without bail -- could cause one or the other. Wally du Temple --------- "RE: Keepers of the Fire at Onondaga" --------- From: Wally du TempleSIEPMANN@delphi.com Date: Fri, 25 Jul 1997 20:22:06 -0400 (EDT) Subj: Press Release found on Delphi(FWD) ------- FORWARD, Original message follows ------- From: "Mohawk Nation Office" Subject: For Immediate Release - Keepers of the Fire at Onondaga Date: Fri, 18 Jul 1997 12:39:31 -0400 Mohawk Nation Office - Kahnawake Branch ----------------------------------------------------- Keepers of the Fire at Onondaga 3963 Kennedy Road Nedrow, NY 13120 FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE July 11, 1997 It has been reported that Mr. Salvatore Valvo (the Staff Inspector in charge of the internal investigation of allegations of New York State Police brutality against peaceful demonstrators on the Onondaga nation on 18 May 1997), has found that in fact, "excessive force" was used during that incident. Moreover, Mr. Valvo has accused the New York State Police of attempting to effect a "cover-up" of his findings, by dismissing him as head of the investigation. To us, as the victims of the State Police brutality, Mr. Valvo's findings are simply a confirmation of what many Central New York viewers witnessed on their news broadcasts as they watched the brutal beating of women, children and the handicapped. However, we were very surprised that "one of their own" had the courage to expose the corrupt behavior of the New York State Law Enforcement Agency. Unfortunately, our expectations of a "cover-up" were fulfilled by the dismissal of Mr. Valvo. The NYS Police's attempt to cover up the facts, makes it all the more imperative that the Justice Department in Washington, DC investigate the excessive use of force by the New York State Police. Accordingly, we are renewing our June 9, 1997 request to Mr. Richard Roberts, Director of the Criminal Section of the Civil Rights Division of the United States Justice Department, for an investigation of the New York State Police. For it is evident that the NYS Police is incapable of investigating itself. There is an obvious parallel between the Rodney King police brutality incident and the excessive use of force by the NYS Police against the Iroquois People. Although the Rodney King incident was videotaped, such proof did not prevent the Municipal and State authorities and the courts from exonerating the criminal behavior of the police. Similarly, the events of May 18, 1997 on the Onondaga Nation are all documented on videotape. However, it is clear that that fact has not deterred the New York State Police from attempting to effect a "cover-up." We therefore appeal to the Justice Department (as a branch of the United States Government), to investigate this latest outrageous abuse of power within its States. Indeed, we hope that as we attempt to compel our leadership to follow our Nation's Great Law, that the U.S. Government will also bring to justice those who have violated the rights of the People of the Iroquois Nation. ----------------------------------------------------- Mohawk Nation Office - Kahnawake Branch Visit our new site! http://www.cyberglobe.net/users/mnation --------- "RE: Coho Salmon/Boycott Lockdown" --------- Date: Wed, 23 Jul 1997 05:21:01 -0800 From: Headwaters News Subj: UPDATE: coho salmon, boycott lockdown, fed funds, etc. H E A D W A T E R S F O R E S T U P D A T E J u l y 2 2 , 1 9 9 7 ------------------------------------------------------------ NMFS ISSUES INTERIM TAKE PROHIBITION FOR CALIFORNIA COHO The National Marine Fisheries Service (NMFS) reports that it has "gotten an earful" about the coho salmon and finally issued a rule which requires California land owners to get a specific permit before they can engage in any activity that harms wild coho salmon or its habitat. This rule will go into effect August 15. However, Californians still need the agency to define how landowners are to avoid "take" of coho by publishing land use guidelines. Unfortunately, but as expected, the agency did not issue a similar prohibition for the listed part of Oregon. This is a big step for coho. As a result, it is still important to urge the National Marine Fisheries Service to adopt guidelines for land owners that define how to avoid take, and to call for a take prohibition in the listed part of Oregon. See this week's separate Action Alert for more information, or call Wild Salmon Forever at 415-450-1389. ------------------------------------------------------------ BOYCOTT UPDATE With a stack of rigid, U-shaped bicycle locks cuffing their necks to the gate of a Malibu lumberyard, environmentalists hoped to draw attention Tuesday to sales of redwood harvested from ancient forests. The pair of immobilized protesters, one of whom, Andrew Koenig, had a recurring role on the 1980s sitcom "Growing Pains," arrived around 6am to attach themselves to Malibu Lumber and Hardware's front gate in hopes of keeping the yard closed for business. The lumberyard's owner said he would continue to make old-growth lumber available to his customers. However, he did state that old-growth redwood sales represent a tiny portion -- about 1/2 percent -- of his sales, and that he hasn't bought new supplies of it for more than a year. He said he wouldn't mind if demand dropped for old-growth and noted that customers are increasingly requesting substitutes for redwood. On another Redwood Boycott front, the Napa County Board of Supervisors passed a resolution last week to boycott old-growth redwood lumber products. Also, San Francisco Supervisor Leslie Katz has introduced an ordinance which will prohibit the use of any old-growth redwood lumber products by the City and County of San Francisco. If the ordinance is passed, The City will join a coalition of businesses, building professionals, and concerned citizens pledging not to use old-growth redwood. This would make San Francisco the first city in the world to ban the use of ancient redwood in city-owned parks and buildings. A press conference was held Monday at City Hall to announce the proposed ordinance; it will be voted on within 30 days and is expected to pass. You can join the Old-Growth Redwood Boycott by signing the Citizen's Online Petition at http://www.baaction.org/cyberforest/boycott/ And for even more details on the Boycott than you'll get in these weekly updates, Rainforest Action Network has a new Boycott email list you can join by sending a message to eleorest@wco.com with "subscribe Ancient Redwood Boycott" as the body of your message (without quotes). Note: You must send from the account at which you wish to receive messages. ------------------------------------------------------------ FEDERAL FUNDING NEGOTIATIONS STILL WEIGHTED DOWN The Senate Interior Appropriations Subcommittee voted last week to allocate the money needed to purchase Headwaters, keeping last September's agreement intact for now. However, the funding isn't out of the woods yet -- it still needs to get approved by a larger Senate Committee, then the full Senate, and then be subjected to negotiations between the House and Senate. Furthermore, the Senate funding was tied to the condition that the entire Congress also holds a vote to approve the acquisition. Senator Feinstein, the Clinton Administration, and Maxxam alike disapprove of this caveat, because, as Feinstein explained, an Interior Department legal opinion says government acquisition of Headwaters Forest already has been authorized. Furthermore, with all of the needed checkpoints of approval, including full congressional approval of the action, the deadline may not be met. "There is not enough time for a specific authorization before the deal expires," Sen. Dianne Feinstein warned Friday. Also, it is rumored that Senator Feinstein's staff intervened in negotiations between agency officials and Pacific Lumber, in part due to Feinstein's concern that the agencies and Pacific Lumber had reached an impasse. As negotiations have resumed and as Feinstein has fought for Headwaters funding with renewed vigor, there is suspicion that the federal agencies have softened their demands for protective measures in order to allow the negotiations to move forward with Pacific Lumber. ------------------------------------------------------------ REP. MILLER TO UNVEIL ENDANGERED SPECIES RECOVERY ACT In a dramatic shift in the Endangered Species Act (ESA) debate, U.S. Representative George Miller (D-CA) is expected to unveil a proposal that would strengthen the landmark at the Tahoe Environmental Summit on July 28. Hailed by conservationists as an important step toward improving species protection and as counter to other congressional "reforms" of the ESA, Rep. Miller's Endangered Species Recovery Act (ESRA) would go a long way toward getting ahead of the extinction curve. The Miller bill is significant because it will be introduced before the Senate Environment and Public Works Committee introduces its plan, which has drawn fire from conservationists because it would weaken the ESA. Such a preemptive move by Rep. Miller, the ranking Democrat on the House Resources Committee, will set the high water mark for the anticipated ESA deliberations. His proposal is the first pro-ESA bill to be introduced this Congress. See this week's separate Action Alert for what you can do to help. ------------------------------------------------------------ For back issues of this series of updates, as well as general Headwaters background information, call the Headwaters Sanctuary Project at 510-444-4710, or see the Headwaters website at http://www.enews.org, where all weekly updates will soon be archived. 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Note: You must send from the account at which you wish to receive messages. --------- "RE: Radiation Suit in Washington" --------- Date: Fri, 25 Jul 1997 15:26:53 -0400 From: ishgooda Subj: Radiation Suit in Washington... ---------- FORWARDED MESSAGE ---------- Subj: US GOVERNMENT SUED FOR RADIATION United States Government sued for wrongful human radiological experiments Source: Business Wire The law firms of Chamberlain, Neaton & Johnson and Baker, Donelson, Bearman & Caldwell announced today that they have filed a class action suit in the U.S. District Court of Seattle, Western District of Washington, on behalf of individual Native American citizens of the regions adjacent to or in the vicinity of the Hanford Nuclear Reservation, located in south central Washington State, against the United States Government for conducting wrongful human radiological experiments on their people. This suit is brought against the United States of America and other Defendants, including Dupont, General Electric, Westinghouse, Rockwell International, the University of Washington and Battelle Pacific Northwest Laboratory, for violations of the constitutional rights of the affected group of Native Americans under 42 U.S.C. Section 1983, for infliction of radiological injuries compensable under 42 U.S.C. Section 2210 (the Price Anderson Act), civil conspiracy, battery, strict liability, negligence, and other torts. These violations all arise out of the Government's and other Defendants' surreptitious and wrongful radiological experimentation on the Native Americans. The suit alleges that the Native Americans have been subjected to systematic, clinical experimentation of the hazardous effects of ionizing radiation, and that these experiments were planned, funded, coordinated, reviewed and orchestrated by agencies of the United States, including the Atomic Energy Commission, the Department of Defense and the Department of Energy. These field environment experiments were conducted by research institutions and contractors with the United States, including the University of Washington and certain Hanford contractors also named as Defendants in the suit. The suit further alleges that the Native Americans were subjected to repeated, intentional releases of ionizing radiation from the Hanford Nuclear Reservation, and then were studied without their knowledge or consent, which directly violated their constitutional right to bodily integrity and established government policies. In disregard of its special fiduciary responsibilities to Native Americans, which are based on long-standing treaties and agreements and supported by the U.S. Constitution and the courts, the United States Government did not warn the people of the Hanford region of the hazards of ingesting high doses of radiation, did not take steps to protect them from harm, and did not obtain their consent for "studies" of their physiological reaction to deadly poisons in the air, land and water. These deadly poisons included radioactive iodine, plutonium, phosphorus, zinc and other byproducts of the Hanford plutonium manufacturing process. The Government instead continued monitoring the Native Americans as subjects of secret experiments to determine what ill effects could be detected over time from systematic exposure to repeated doses of radiation through their diet and way of life. The United States has admitted in recently declassified documents that these releases occurred in such massive doses as to permanently injure and impair the health of the Native Americans ingesting foods and liquids contaminated with hazardous doses of radiation from Hanford, with possible impact to future generations. These experimental releases were deliberately orchestrated by the Government and other Defendants to monitor the effect of high doses of radiation on vegetation, fish, and human beings, among others. Adverse health effects from the intentional and unintentional releases of radiation have been catastrophic for the indigenous population living in the counties surrounding Hanford. Thousands of residents of the towns and areas surrounding Hanford have suffered thyroid cancers, bone cancers, arthritis, diabetes and other auto-immune disorders, hypo-thyroidism, blood disorders, reproductive disorders, skin cancer, and other serious injuries as a direct result of the radiation releases from Hanford since 1943. While all residents living in the areas surrounding Hanford since 1943 were placed at risk of deadly exposure to radiological contamination, adult Native Americans and their children were uniquely situated in their lifestyles, dietary patterns, religious expressions, and cultural habits, to suffer radiological exposure significantly more intense than was suffered by non-Native Americans - a fact known to the Government and underlying their selection of these Native Americans for study of the health effects from Hanford. Furthermore, no actions by the U.S. Government to address these devastating health effects, including a recent proposal for health monitoring, take into account the unique diet and cultural lifestyle of the Native Americans and their consequent greater exposure to environmental damage. In addition, the Government consistently failed to disclose or acknowledge to the public the dangerous conditions it created at the facility and the resulting adverse public health effect but instead engaged in a practice of misrepresentation, concealment and/or false and misleading reassurances concerning the dangerous condition created and their adverse health consequences. These human experiments were conducted in secrecy, without disclosure to or consent from the Native Americans, despite the fact that the United States had developed policies and procedures as early as 1946 which required informed consent from subjects of human radiation experiments. This experimentation was undertaken at a time when the laws in this country had clearly established that all American citizens have a constitutional right, derived from the Fifth and 14th Amendments, to bodily integrity, free from non-consensual invasion or tampering by governmental agencies. By surreptitiously exposing the Native Americans to hazards to their bodily integrity without consent, the Government and other Defendants have violated the Native American's constitutional rights to life and liberty under the Fifth Amendment to the United States Constitution. The Native Americans are bringing this action in order to bring to light the conduct of the United States Government concerning human radiation experiments, to protect the Treaty rights of Native American peoples to live their traditional way of life, to protect the human dignity of all American citizens from violation, to restore the cultural and natural resources of Native Americans, to ensure their constitutional protection and to provide a remedy for the physical and spiritual harm caused by these radiation experiments. The Native Americans are represented by Chamberlain, Neaton & Johnson of Minneapolis, Minnesota, and Baker, Donelson, Bearman & Caldwell of Memphis, Tennessee. CONTACT: Todd M. Johnson, Attorney at Law | 612-473-8444 Chamberlain, Neaton & Johnson | or | Charles G. Walker, Attorney at Law | 901-577-2130 | Baker, Donelson, Bearman & Caldwell | or | Karen J. Snedeker or Joanne B. Henry | 888-642-1960 | Neuger Henry Bartkowski Public Relations --------- "RE: Remember "Bison Guts"?" --------- Date: Wed, 23 Jul 1997 09:42:08 -0400 From: Sonja Keohane Subj: Remember "bison guts" ? UUCP email http://www.bigskywire.com/gazette/index.htm Grand jury indicts woman in bison entrails case By JOE KOLMAN Gazette Bozeman Bureau The Billings Gazette BOZEMAN - The Bozeman woman who dumped bison guts in front of a U.S. Cabinet member, two congressmen and the governor is now facing federal assault charges and could be sent to prison. Delyla Wilson was notified by certified mail on Saturday that a grand jury indicted her of assaulting federal public officials during a March meeting about Yellowstone National Park bison in Gardiner. Wilson, who along with her husband are founding members of the Bison Action Group, says she dumped the 5-gallon bucket of entrails on a table in front of the officials to protest of the killing of the bison for disease control. A record 1,100 park bison were shot or slaughtered last winter as part of a plan to prevent the possible spread of brucellosis from bison to cattle. Wilson, who is charged in Park County with the misdemeanor crimes of disorderly conduct and assault stemming from the incident, said she was surprised by the more serious federal charges. "It shows me that my action was effective," said Wilson, a a 33-year-old bookkeeper. "It got somebody's attention." The indictments delivered to Wilson show that U.S. Assistant Attorney Klaus Richter is prosecuting the case. Richter refused to discuss the charges Tuesday. Wilson is charged with assaulting U.S. Secretary of Agriculture Dan Glickman and Sen. Conrad Burns, R-Mont., according to documents. Sen. Max Baucus, D-Mont., was also at the table, but no charges were filed concerning him. Punishment could include a year in prison and a $100,000 fine. In 1990, Wilson smeared bison blood on a buffalo hunter's face, which resulted in her conviction of misdemeanor assault and a sentence of 40 hours of community service. Wilson is scheduled to appear Aug. 13 in Billings on the federal charges. Her Park County Justice Court trial is scheduled for the next week. --------- "RE: Essence of Evil" --------- Date: Sun, 27 Jul 1997 09:22:07 -0700 From: Mike Wicks Subj: The essence of evil is ignorance UUCP email The Challenge: 'The essence of evil is ignorance.' There is a crisis in Yellowstone National Park. The last wild herd of Buffalo are being slaughtered. This year alone, two thousand Buffalo have been shot by ranchers and officials in Montana as they strayed outside the confines of the park. "The Buffalo Nation must be preserved.", states Rosalie Little Thunder, a Lakota woman, as she explains the urgency of the situation. "Yellowstone Park represents the last spot of wilderness in this country and these Bison comprise the last wild herd. Bison represent the "Miner's Canary", an animal totem placed here by the Great Spirit to protect all humans. The dying Buffalo only signify our death as well. This destruction in the circle of life effects each and every one of us. " This recent crisis began when humans upset the natural winter cycle of nature in the park. "Snow mobiles have become very popular on the paths of the upper regions of the park." explains Little Thunder. "Their use packs the snow tightly and the Bison can not graze in their usual haunts. The Bison then move into the lower regions in search of food. When they find none, they proceed to roam outside of the park, pushed by starvation. The moment they cross the invisible barriers, they are shot or rounded up for the slaughterhouse." This is a clear reflection of the kind of crisis that humans create by their ignorance. Not only at Yellowstone, but around the world, our over population pushes living creatures, plants and animals, out of their homelands. In many places in the United States there are new laws to protect both the animals habitats and endangered species. That is not true in Montana. For seven years the pleas of the Native American's have been ignored. There are no laws on the books to protect the Buffalo. ...Neither is there a law that says roaming Buffalo must be shot. The law does require that ranchers vaccinate their herds for Brucellosis, but it is mostly ignored because it cuts into profits to comply. The myth of Buffalo as dangerous carriers of Brucellosis has become the favorite way of cattle ranchers to cover up the massacre. In reality, park Buffalo have been tested and laboratory reports reveal less than 2 % are infected. In addition, it has never been proven that Buffalo can transmit Brucellosis to cattle. Despite this, Bison who are tested, tagged and released with a clean bill of health, are being shot. Shooting a Buffalo is like shooting a parked truck. Without much effort, it provides a way for cowboys on horseback, trucks and motorcycles, to feel like men again. Witness these men as they take the time to "herd" the already captured Buffalo inside of holding pens. When the men are not chasing them, the docile animals stand and await their trip to the slaughterhouse. This becomes an easy way to make a quick buck from the hides, hoofs, heads and the desirable Buffalo meat -- a proven low cholesterol and low fat delicacy. Dead carcasses from the slaughter houses and those shot on private lands are sold to the highest bidder. All that is left behind in the fields are rotting piles of guts and fetuses. What is occurring is not rational. It is a tribute to the limited thinking of humans with zero tolerance for Bison; humans who insist on handling things in old and arrogant ways. It does not fit into our new understanding of the circle of life. History: Who Owns The Property? Malcolm Forbes owned all the land around the park until the 1980's. A year before he died, he sold off the land to the highest bidder. When Yellowstone failed to raise the full selling amount, Forbes sold the land to The Church Universal and Triumphant. The ten thousand acres became world headquarters for the group which was started in 1958 by Mark Prophet. Since his death in 1973, the church has been lead by his widow, Elizabeth Clare Prophet. Mrs. Prophet's church teaches the love of the Ascended Masters. These include, but are not limited to, Jesus, St. Germane and Buddha . Ironically, they lead church members around the world in 'Practical Spirituality'. They instruct members in elimination of negative karma with the use of the 'Violet Flame'. They claim to work with members far and near to help further an age of enlightenment. Self proclaimed as a community of love, they urge members to recognize God in all human beings. In 1980, the Church used the threat of 'Armageddon' to attract followers to establish a self sufficient community on the land surrounding Yellowstone. At one point in the eighties, over seven hundred followers lived on the land and raised cattle, sheep and crops. Presently, around three hundred devotees share the land. They are more interested these days in recruiting church members and publishing books. They "...Do not approve of the killing of Buffalo on church land." states Murray Steinman, Vice President of Communications for the church. What he does not admit is that an annual income of $________ comes from international Cattle Baron Brian Severin, for use of church land for grazing his herd of non- vaccinated cattle. Shooting the wandering Buffalo is a requirement of the church keeping that income. Who Are The Killers? The Department of the Interior and the Park Rangers actually pull the triggers, at the request of ranchers or the owners of the land. Buffalo Prayer Day and an example of the Church's Love: On March 6, 1997, (during the 125th anniversary week of Yellowstone National Park) a gathering of people, lead by Arvol Looking Horse, nineteenth generation White Buffalo Calf Pipe Keeper, conducted a Day of Prayer for the Buffalo. Participant's were cleaned with sage and sang Indian songs. The group formed a walking circle around the holding pen in which one hundred and forty-seven Bison were awaiting slaughter. Joseph Chasing Horse from the Black Hills was the eloquent spokesperson. He explained the circle of life; the time has come to heal the racism that divides us. He spoke of the significance of the Bison and the Eagle in relationship to the humans on the Earth. He spoke of the brotherhood and interdependence between Native Americans and the Bison. In traditional times , tribes were dependent upon the Bison for survival. Prayers before the hunt made sure that the spirit of the fallen Bison was free and at peace. Chasing Horse spoke of the ancient prophecies and of the Buffalo's plight. Five hundred years ago, sixty million Buffalo roamed the earth. Now less than one thousand remain. He also spoke of the predicament of the Native American Nations. Considered prisoners of war in the 1800's, Indians were held captive in pens behind barbed wire, much like the Bison today. Six hundred million Native Americans have now been reduced to less than a million. Finally, in respect of the tradition of Native Americans, cameras were turned off to prepare for the ceremony. When the ceremony was complete, the people said good-bye and dispersed. As a small group returned to Gardiner, Montana, they learned that fourteen Bison lay dead on Church Universal and Triumphant land. Rosalie Little Thunder, one of the organizers of the ceremony, along with her ten year old grandson, Tim, stared in disbelief as they approached the carcasses. "Going from ceremony to this is chilling.", she said. She requested permission to walk on church land to say prayers for the dead Bison. On behalf of the Church Triumpant and Universal, Murray Steinman asked the Sheriff to arrest her if she did so. "Grandma, how old do I have to be to get arrested?" questioned Tim. Having already taken a few steps on to the land, Little Thunder began prayers. At that point, Mr. Steinman asked the Sheriff to handcuff and detain her. Little Thunder, arrested while praying on church land, was charged with trespassing. As she was handcuffed, a line of Native American women yelled from the Old Yellowstone Trail road, "Stand and fight with the Lakota Women!" After Rosalie was held in the police car for over an hour, she was taken to jail. Her bail was set at $320.00. (The Rangers held Rosalie in their outer room for an hour so that her friends could scramble to collect money and pay her bail. The Rangers themselves made small donations.) As the confrontation subsided, trucks filled with the skinned carcasses drove off leaving fourteen piles of guts to rot in the fields. That same week, the one thousandth Bison was shot for roaming outside of park boundaries. *=*=*=*=*=*=*=*=*=*=*=*=*=*=*=*=*=*=*=*=*=*=*=*=*=*=*=*=*=* = mwicks@gte.net /\_/\ Peppertree Software Co. = * There are none so (_o o_) P.O. box 1783 * = blind as those that \o/ Lutz, FL = * will not see. shpshftr 33548-1783 * = http://home1.gte.net/mwicks/index.html = *=*=*=*=*=*=*=*=*=*=*=*=*=*=*=*=*=*=*=*=*=*=*=*=*=*=*=*=*=* --------- "RE: Dineh Issue" --------- Date: Tue, 25 Mar 1997 09:41:44 -0900 From: Soaring Two Eagles Subj: (fwd) *** URGENT *** DINEH ISSUE Newsgroups: soc.rights.human,alt.native,soc.culture.native STICHTING TOLERANTIE - TOLERANCE FOUNDATION P.O. BOX 1970 - 1200 BZ Hilversum - The Netherlands Phone: +31 (0)35 69 50 667 - Fax: +31 (0)35 69 50 681 Giro 257 Postbank nv P R E S S S T A T E M E N T F O R I M M E D I A T E R E L E A S E In Black Mesa, Arizona, USA, traditional Dine (Navajo) people face forced eviction and relocation from their homelands. Passage of the Relocation Act already affected 11,000 traditional Dine and 100 Hopi. Now, the people concerned have been told to sign the Accommodation Agreement by March 31, 1997, or else face forced relocation from the lands by US Marshals on April 1, 1997. What has been led to believe to be a dispute between traditional Dine (Navajo) and Hopi, turns out to be a commercial hunt for the natural resources in the area. To these people, the earth is sacred. Black Mesa is the most sacred ground in the Hopi and Navajo tradition. About 250 traditional Dine families still live on the heavily polluted land directly surrounding the Black Mesa / Kayenta mining complex, the world s largest strip mine, operated by Peabody Western Coal Company. Livestock has died from the effects of the pollution, water is polluted and many of the residents suffer from health effects due to excessive coal dust. They resisted relocation because they live self-sufficient traditional lifestyles, and relocation to a totally different surrounding and culture would mean the end of their own culture. Relocation of the inhabitants of the region would clear the path for Peabody Western Coal Company to extend its mining operations in Northern Arizona. After previous relocations, many of the people lost their homes, called the home loss phenomena. Due to difficulties in adapting to their new surroundings and to a new culture, the traditional Dine could not afford to pay their mortgages, and became homeless. The Academy Award winning movie Broken Rainbow presented a moving account of the forced relocation. The designated area for resettling relocatees, near the San Juan River near Shiprock, New Mexico, was part of a land fraud involved in a Congressional investigation. The area is contaminated by 1.5 million tons of uranium ore that was processed and left in contaminated waste piles covering 72 acres. The Sovereign Dineh Nation, and its political arm, Dineh Alliance, have rejected the Accommodation Agreement outright. Acceptance of the Accommodation Agreement will mean a violation of Freedom of Religion and of Speech for the traditional Dine and Hopi. The Agreement would directly attack their inalienable rights as citizens of the United States, and therefore be unconstitutional, by denying them the right to vote in the elections of a local government, and by denying the right to be tried by an impartial jury. "We stand unified one with another in our opposition to this unjust and unfair law that was created to remove us from the land by any means and at any cost. This continued violation of our basic rights as human beings must not be allowed to beside the U.S. Constitution and Bill of Rights or the Bible," stated one Dine. "The voice of the people must be heard for justice on Black Mesa to ensure the protection and survival of the people. The struggle is to protect sacred land, religion, and the survival of a traditional way of life from corporate interests. Relocation is genocide." The Dutch Tolerance Foundation acknowledges the fact that relocation would mean the end of the Dine culture and strongly urges the US government to take actions, to prevent relocation from happening. The homelands are vital for the Dine and Hopi cultures, and need to be preserved. For further information, please contact: Sovereign Dineh Nation - Dineh Alliance P.O. Box 1042 Hotevilla, AZ 86030 USA Phone/Fax: (520) 607 1449 Sovereign Dineh Nation - Dineh Alliance Sub-Office P.O. Box 2889 Window Rock, AZ 86515 USA Phone/Fax: (505) 371 5551 Sovereign Dineh Nation P.O. Box 30435 Flagstaff, AZ 86003 USA Phone: (520) 522 8683 The Tolerance Foundation P.O. Box 1970 1200 BZ Hilversum The Netherlands Phone: +31 (0)35 69 50 667 Fax: +31 (0)35 69 50 681 --------- "RE: Combining Native Resources" --------- Date: Wed, 23 Jul 1997 16:26:47 -0400 From: Joe Campagna Subj: Combining Native resources Mailing List: NAT-FILM [There are resources that if a representative was invited from each board of the following orgs. a network could be devised to create the venue to aid and help provide additional funding as well as create a viable board made up of UNAT officers from a directorship composed of these and other members as mentioned including others here and not yet here at NAT-FILM to create a massive broadcasting effort.- JC] *Native Voices Public Television* has three main components -- supporting the films and television programs of independent Native American producers, the distribution of these award-winning documentaries, and providing professional/degree granting training for Native Americans interested in careers in the media. ------------------------------------------------------------------------ The mission of *NATIVE AMERICAN PUBLIC TELECOMMUNICATIONS, INC.* is to inform, educate and encourage the awareness of tribal histories, cultures, languages, opportunities and aspirations through the fullest participation of American Indians and Alaska Natives in creating and employing all forms of educational and public telecommunications programs and services, thereby supporting tribal sovereignty. We accomplish this mission through: Producing and developing educational telecommunication programs for all media including television and public radio. Distributing and encouraging the broadest use of such educational telecommunications programs. Providing training opportunities to encourage increasing numbers of American Indians and Alaska Natives to produce quality programs. Promoting increased control and use of information technologies by American Indians and Alaska Natives. Providing leadership in creating awareness of and developing telecommunications policies favorable to American Indians and Alaska Natives. Building partnerships to develop and implement telecommunications projects with tribal nations, Indian organizations, and native communities. ------------------------------------------------------------------------ Started in 1992, the *AIHEC Telecommunications Project* began as a planning project funded with a grant from the United States Congress and administered through the Department of Commerce. The purpose of the planning project was to develop and implement a plan to connect the tribal and Bureau of Indian Affairs controlled community colleges and universities together in a seamless telecommunications system for the purpose of sharing limited educational resources. With the assistance of Nebraska Educational Telecommunications, Native American Public Telecommunications, and the Public Broadcasting Service, the AIHEC Project has made great strides in meeting that goal. 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Out of this historical context come the influences, philosophy and Native experiences with the media which gave rise to the formation of a Native American Journalists Association. goals NAJA's Board of Directors is composed of Native print and broadcast journalists from the U.S. and Canada. Board members represent both Native and mainstream media and provide the organization with a broad base of expertise and communication experience at the local and national level. The current executive board includes 11 members. Voting membership in NAJA is open to Native communications professionals and Native college journalism or communication majors. Non-voting membership is open to educational institutions, Native high school students and non-Native individuals and media organizations. The Board has prioritized three program goals for NAJA, based on a comprehensive membership survey conducted by the organization and research by other agencies on Native communications needs. These goals are: 1.To improve media coverage of Native Americans. 2.To offer training and support to Native Americans already in the field. 3.To increase the number of Native journalists. Empowerment of the Native media and respect for the Native culture and traditions are conceptual foundations of NAJA programs. ____________________________________________________________________________ "c" copyright original sender/author,and published Nat-Film as per header(s).| To: | Body: subscribe NAT-FILM full name | N-A Film & Ent. Service Lists:To: | Language Listservs: To:Listserv@Maelstrom.stjohns.edu, Body:info nat-script. | UNAT-DIR secured disclosure Aboriginal member group.UNAT-DIR-req| --------- "RE: Alaska Fishery Job" --------- Date: Wed, 23 Jul 97 15:59:57 -0600 From: "John Berry" Subj: (FWD)ALASKA Fishery job ------- FORWARD, Original message follows ------- Author: at SMTP Date: 7/17/97 2:36 PM Date: Wednesday, July 16, 1997 12:08PM VACANCY ANNOUNCEMENT SENIOR ECONOMIST North Pacific Fishery Management Council DUTIES: To serve as senior staff economist, assisting the Executive Director in the identification and analysis of economic issues pertaining to fisheries management off Alaska, particularly the groundfish fisheries. Will participate as part of a team of economic and biological analysts from Council staff and from the staffs of other agencies. Primary responsibilities will be to lead an economics analytical team into the 21st century in support of major Council initiatives to develop management programs for the multi-million dollar groundfish and crab fisheries off Alaska. This would include several different management approaches, likely including some focus on individual fishing quotas (IFQs) once the Congressional moratorium on IFQ programs expires in the year 2001. Allocations of fish resources to inshore and offshore sectors, and measures to comply with recent Magnuson-Stevens Act requirements, including bycatch reduction measures, are also likely to comprise near-term assignments. Benefit-cost and economic impact analyses will be required to help the Council develop the best management approaches for these fisheries. Specific duties will include: 1. Preparation of economic and statistical analyses and reports for use in the amendment of fishery management plans. 2. Contributing to the development of economics issue or position papers to assist the Council in the formation of fisheries policy. 3. Conducting critical reviews of other analyses developed in support of plans. 4. Acting, upon assignment, as a liaison between the North Pacific Fishery Management Council and other agencies with which it cooperates, including the National Marine Fisheries Service, the Northwest & Alaska Fisheries Center, the Alaska Department of Fish and Game, other Council staffs, the International Pacific Halibut Commission. 5. Acting, upon request, as spokesman for the staff in discussions with the Council or the Council's committees on matters relating to the impacts of proposed fishery management regulations. 6. Attending public hearings on plans and other meetings and hearings as required. 7. Other duties as assigned. QUALIFICATIONS: Desired Minimums: _ Master's degree or higher (Ph.D. preferred) in economics, resource economics, agricultural economics, or a related discipline. _ Progressively responsible experience in economic research related to fisheries or other renewable natural resources. _ Experience in conducting applied benefit-cost and economic impact analyses. _ Ability to articulate technical information to non- technical audiences. _ Ability to write clearly and succinctly. _ A knowledge of U.S. fishery management institutions. _ A knowledge of the various laws pertaining to management of the fishing industry, including the Magnuson-Stevens Fishery Conservation and Management Act, the Executive Order 12866, the Regulatory Flexibility Act, the National Environmental Policy Act, and others. _ Familiarity with the use of microcomputers for statistical analysis and interfacing with mainframe computers. Persons with qualifications less than the specified minimums may be considered, but placement of such persons may be accordingly lower. Preferred: _ Familiarity with North Pacific fisheries and their management. _ Experience with multi-disciplinary task forces. _ Experience beyond the minimums required above. SALARY: GS-12/13 equivalent plus COLA ($60,000-$80,000 starting range), DOE, plus fringe benefits package that includes life and health insurance and participation in the State of Alaska Retirement Plan. LOCATION: The Council office is located in Anchorage, Alaska. Travel will be required to attend meetings in other Alaska and Pacific Northwest locations. TERM OF EMPLOYMENT: A commitment of at least two years is required. Longer would be better, but we also would give favorable consideration to applicants with high standing in academia or government who could only be away for two years. Interagency personnel assignments (IPAs) also will be considered. TO APPLY: A current curriculum vitae or employment resume, which highlights relevant experience, training, education, research skills, and publications, is required. A brief statement of interest, which describes the skills you would bring to this position, is also requested. Send these materials to: Dr. Clarence G. Pautzke Executive Director North Pacific Fishery Management Council 605 W. 4th Avenue, #306 Anchorage, Alaska 99501 The deadline for applications is August 15, 1997 Telephone inquiries: Chris Oliver, Deputy Director (907) 271-2809. No format is prescribed; however, resumes and statements of interest which do not exceed three pages in length will be appreciated. Letters of recommendation or references may be included. Education transcripts are not needed at this time. --------- "RE: Must It End Here?" --------- Date: Sat, 26 Jul 1997 14:12:09 -0400 From: "DS Adonaset Fort" Subj: Must it end here? UUCP email Oyea Tau A voice was heard calling out and then the sounds of crying. There, stood a man, a man of the People. His chest bled profusely from many wounds, his face and arms bore many cuts. The cuts on his arms bled and the blood ran down and dripped from his finger-tips. He asked "why do you keep me trapped? why do you not allow me to pass in peace? why do you deny me?" Then he spoke again "I have fought well for our People - look at me, my wounds are to my front, no enemy has struck my back. When I was struck with the final blow, I fell as a warrior should fall, I fell with my back to the ground to keep it clean. So why do you keep me here, allow me to pass, why do you deny my children? Must it end here?" Then next to the man there stood several children, their scalps had been cut away from their heads, and one ear had been cut off. Blood flowed from throats that had been slashed or from bullet holes or broken skulls. "Look at the bounty that my children have paid; is the price they paid not high enough for you? Must they pay an even higher price? Why do you deny me, and why do you deny my children? Must it end here?" Then there appeared a young girl standing next to the man, her belly swollen and heavy with child. "This is my daughter, the last of my children. Look at her - she was violated by one of the soldiers and she now carries a child. My daughter passed over while birthing that child but she gave me a grandchild." Then the man pointed and a small child appeared. A child conceived in rape and brought into life as the life of the mother was ending. The man reached out and touched the child, the blood from his finger tips dripped onto the head of the child. "This is my blood. Why do deny me, why do you deny my blood, why do you deny my children? Must it end here?" Then the man pointed to empty villages where the People once lived. He pointed to villages destroyed and burned. The man moved on and said "there are others". He then pointed to a village that appeared empty but there appeared two bodies lying in the center of the square. One was a black man the other a woman of the People. They lay there in silence. Their limbs inter-twined, clinging to one another, to shield one another from the bullets, from the certain death. Then the man reached between them and brought forth a child. It was the child they had shielded. They had shielded the last vestige of their love. The man held the child up and asked "why do you deny this child?" As he held the child, the blood from his finger tips dripped onto the head of the child. "This is my blood. Must it end here?" I dreamed this dream. A fool woke from his slumber. Blood quantum means nothing. The true measure of belonging is in the blood - but not in the amount. A fool has woke from his slumber. Adonaset Walk in Harmony adonaset@radix.net --------- "RE: All 4 One" --------- Date: Wed, 23 Jul 1997 12:14:35 -0400 (EDT) From: Pablo Lonesome Wolf Subj: Fwd: <<||>> All 4 One <<||>> ================================================= <~|~> All 4 One <~|~> (+ || || \/ (+ == > O < == +) /\ || || +) Amongst the Lakota there lives a man called Iktomi (Spiderman). This man does things backwards and his clownish ways cause the people to laugh at him, but he is also a sly and cunning man and a teacher. We also have Coyote stories amongst the Lakota. In most stories Iktomi comes out on top because he is so wise, cunning and sly. Because of these characteristics, sometimes he outsmarts him self, and the Coyote comes out on top. Among the Lakota Iktomi has two meanings. One is Spiderman and the other is that when a man has the instincts of this insect, he is Iktomi. He has mysterious supernatural powers, both good and bad. Sometimes he displays his mysterious powers in front of his enemies, such as in this story I was told when I was a kid. My grandfather said, "Grandson, long ago when the country was still wild and free, several Lakotas went out to prey upon the enemies to take away their horses. As they were traveling, sun past mid-day, and crossing an open space, the leader of the group told everybody to be careful because he said, "We are in enemy territory and we could get a surprise attack any time." Iktomi was amongst them and all the time they were traveling he was always the last one he was always lagging behind so the leader told him to stay right in the middle of the group. They were crossing the big open space and Iktomi's was riding a spotted horse that always looked like it wanted to go to sleep the way he drooped his head and slowed down. As they were getting close to where there were some small rolling hills on each side of the trail, from out of nowhere they heard war cries. Before they realized what was taking place the enemy were swooping down upon them, and they were outnumbered 5 to 1. The only thing they could do was turn their horses around and make a dash towards the small rolling hills at one side of the trail. My grandfather explained, "They said they left Iktomi behind as though he was standing still, and just as they looked back to see how far the enemies were behind them, they saw the enemies surrounded Iktomi like bees around honey. The enemy were whooping it up and it seemed as though every one of them tried to be first one to count coup by touching Iktomi with their coup stick. In doing so they were getting in one another's way. While they were all milling around him and whooping it up, a short distance from them Iktomi somehow had popped up from out of the ground and had dashed off in another direction. His horse was so slow he was kick-ing him and laying the whip on both sides trying to make him go faster. >From a distance he looked like a big bird with a broken wing trying to fly away. Two of the enemy saw him and took out after him, others soon joined in the chase and it didn't take them any time to catch up. They were on him like bees again, some of them yelling as though coup had been counted. Again Iktomi came out of the ground and dashed off in a different direction. Again the chase was on. Iktomi had such a mysterious power that he was simply playing with the enemies by disappearing into the cracks of the ground with his horse only to reappear again. A distance away the Lakotas were watching. On the 7th time the enemies surrounded Iktomi, he disappeared and reappeared a distance away from them and dashed off in another direction again. No war cry was heard, nor was there any yelling from the enemies. Instead, all of them stood there watching him in awe. They knew that they were messing around with something they didn't want any part in. As the enemies stood watching Iktomi, he rode up to the Lakota and said, "Ho-ka-he" (Let us charge.) The Lakotas charged downhill towards the enemies. They stood there dumbfounded they didn't know whether to charge or turn and run. When the Lakotas were almost upon them they suddenly realized what was happening to them and the only thing they could do was turn their horses around and take off. The Lakotas caught up with them from behind and were knocking them off their horses. They took their horses away from them. That day the Lakotas counted many coups and took many horses all because of Iktomi's mysterious power. Gilbert Walking Bull ============================================================ As the plump squirrel scampers across the roof of the corn crib, the Moon suddenly stands up in the darkness and I see that it is impossible to die. Each moment of time is a mountain. An Eagle rejoices in the oak trees of heaven, crying . . . . This is what I wanted. James Wright ============================================================ And the people said, Speak to us of Self - Knowledge . . . . Your hearts know in silence the secrets of the days and the nights. But your ears thirst for the sound of your heart's knowledge. You would know in words that which you have always known in thought. You would touch with your fingers the naked body of your dreams. And it is well you should. The hidden well - spring of your soul must needs rise and run murmuring to the sea. And the treasure of your infinite depths would be revealed to your eyes. But let there be no scales to weigh your unknown treasure. And seek not the depths of your knowledge with staff or sounding line. For self is a sea boundless and measureless. Say not, "I have found the truth," but rather, "I have found a truth." Say not, "I have found the path of the soul." Say rather, "I have met the soul walking upon my path." For the soul walks upon all paths. The soul walks not upon a line, neither does it grow like a reed. The soul unfolds its self, like a lotus of countless petals. Kahlil Gibran ============================================================ "Out of a timeless world, Out of a timeless world, shadows fall upon time. From a beauty older than Earth, a ladder the soul may climb. I climb by Fionn's stair to a whiteness older than time. Gnostic Culdee verse ============================================================ I have not been given anything that others can't have. My ancestors were all taught how to have sacred dreams. In these dreams all kinds of strange and beautiful things would happen, things that could never take place in ordinary life. Strange beings would appear and every kind of creature would come in awesome forms. These visitors would speak to the people and give them messages. They also learned, and perhaps this was the most important thing, how to look at things through the eyes of the Higher Powers. And I should tell you I call my dreaming by another name. I call it, visioning, and I will tell you how it is done. Wakan - Tanka and the Helpers taught me how to see with my mind, touch with my eyes, and decide with my heart. Because the mind can see farther than the physical eye. It can see what a camera can't see. It can see beyond the physical barriers and even into a person. The mind's eye changes the way we judge things. When we see with our mind we do not judge people or situations by their appearances. A person might not be beautiful on the outside, but will be a beautiful person on the inside. The Higher Powers are not limited as we are. They see past, present, and future as one. They also know what is going on in people's minds and hearts, and they know what following a certain pathway will lead to. When we pray and listen, when we are using these concentration tools, the Higher Powers can show us these things and increase our wisdom. Wakan Tanka and the helpers cast spiritual light onto things so that I can see them for what they really are. It helps me walk around things and see them from different points of view -- front, back and, both sides. I see new colors and I feel what is going on around me. Then I close my eyes and wait for the images to form on my mind - screen. Sometimes I cry because of the great beauty of it all. Ordinary things become extraordinary. What is nothing to someone else becomes marvelous to me and an exciting way to go. Wakan Tanka and the Helpers have helped imagine things that can not be seen by the physical eye. I feel and see things most others miss. By this what would otherwise be impossible becomes possible. They show me how to see things from different points of view, to see how this way or that way might work in each situation. As I turn this information over in my mind I become more creative, more fertile. But I do not become too involved with little details -- just the big picture. One fascinating thing about curing and healing is we all respond differently to Wakan Tanka and do what we do the way each of us hears and feels Spirit's guidance. A person will reshape what they do until it is entirely their own in communion with the Higher Powers. I use my eyes to touch with gentleness and love. When I cry for someone, I am touching them with my eyes. When I am curing or healing I give my faith to the person by sending it to them through my eyes. I decide with my heart and not my mind because my mind is influenced by all kinds of thoughts that fight against one another. If I try to decide with my eyes, even though I see with love, it's hard not to be influenced by what I actually see. If I decide with my heart, my judgements are never harsh. My heart takes into account the things that have hurt people -- what they have had to deal with just to stay sane and alive. I guess this can be applied to most the people in the world. My heart thinks about fairness, comfort and hope. It's like Wakan Tanka's heart, which accepts us as bones to work in and through even though none of us deserves this great honor. Frank Fools Crow ============================================================ Each of us needs to withdraw from the cares which will not withdraw from us. We need hours of aimless wandering or spates of time sitting on park benches, observing the mysterious world of ants and the canopy of treetops. Maya Angelou ============================================================ Enlightenment is like the Moon reflected on the water. The Moon does not get wet, nor is the water broken. Although its light is wide and great, the Moon is reflected in a puddle an inch wide. The whole Moon and the entire sky are reflected in dewdrops on the grass, or even in one drop of water. Enlightenment does not divide you, just as the Moon does not break the water. You cannot hide under enlightenment, just as a drop of water does not hinder the Moon in the sky. The depth of the drop is the height of the Moon. Each reflection, however long or short its duration, manifests the vastness of the dewdrop, and realizes the limitlessness of the moonlight in the sky. Dogen ============================================================ What lies behind us and what lies before us are tiny matters compared to what lies within us. Ralph Waldo Emerson --------- "RE: New Arts Award" --------- Date: Tue, 29 Jul 1997 09:52:00 -0400 (EDT) From: GAYLES@delphi.com ---------- Forwarded message ---------- Date: Sun, 27 Jul 1997 11:19:30 -0500 From: Liz Pollard Subj: American Indian Exposition New Arts Award! FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE ANADARKO, OKLAHOMA, July 27, 1997 - The Arts & Crafts Division of the 66th annual American Indian Exposition has announced a new arts award, to be continued annually. This award, according to Arts & Crafts Director Ron English, is intended to honor a Native American artist whose work has influenced other Native American artists over the years. The first recipient of this award will be Kiowa artist and historian Charles Rowell. He will be honored during the exposition next week, August 4-9, 1997. English said the exposition board hopes participating artists will suggest others who should be so honored in the future. English added the Arts & Crafts Division hopes to offer a broader, more balanced market of Native American arts and crafts by seeking out artists who can fill cultural niches not now well represented in the area. The American Indian Exposition President and officers are committed to fostering authentic, handmade, quality Native American arts and crafts to continue the historical traditions. To this end, this award has been established. More details about this new award, as well as the juried arts and crafts competitions is available at the nonprofit's Web site, located at http://www.indianexpo.org, which also contains pictures from previous years and information about events and schedules at this year's exposition. FOR MORE INFO: Liz Pollard, Smoke Signals Enterprises, 505 W. Louisiana Ave., Anadarko, OK 73005 (405) 247-2251. Email: lpollard@smokesig.com =-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=- Elizabeth "Liz" Pollard Smoke Signals Enterprises lpollard@smokesig.com On the Web: http://www.smokesig.com --------- "RE: A Hundred Years Ago" --------- Date: Fri, 18 Jul 1997 23:28:18 -0700 From: Landis Subj: A Hundred Years Ago - Week 13 Mailing List: NAT-FILM [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, July 30, 1897 NUMBER 42 ============================================== BE TRUE. -------- Thou must be true thyself. If thou the truth wouldst teach; Thy soul must overflow, if thou Another's soul wouldst reach; It needs the overflow of heart To give the lips full speech. Think truly, and thy thoughts Shall the would's famine feed; Speak truly, and each word of thine Shall be a fruitful seed; Live truly, and thy life shall be A great and noble creed. -Bonar. ========================== EXPERIENCES OF AN ALASKAN STUDENT. ----------------------- 2. THE GOLD WATCH PURCHASE. It was in Kansas City, Mo., that one of my first business transactions occurred. In my last article I spoke of changing cars there on the way to Ohio. While waiting for the next train, I took a walk on one of the busy streets near the depot just to see the sights. As I was passing one of the business houses, I heard some one shouting inside, and for curiosity I stopped near the entrance. Things seemed to be interesting, so I went in. "Gentlemen, here's a gold watch that we must sell for a mere trifle." said a well dressed man behind the counter. "This watch belongs to a debtor, and the money for which it is deposited here in the firm is past due. The law, therefore, authorizes us to sell it at any cost whatever, so we get at least part of the debt returned. It is," argued the man, "it is a fifty-dollar gold watch. What will you give me for it? Ten dollars? Here's a young man that has it now! Gentlemen, here are ___" The young man that bought the gold watch quickly retired from the building and returned to the depot. A fifty-dollar gold watch for only six dollars! And a gold chain, too. The watch was wound and the correct time set, when it was joyfully slipped into the vest pocket. But an hour after I left Kansas City, the watch paused for a moment. I shook it and its wheels moved again. After half an hour, it stopped and again I shook it. It was a fifty-dollar gold watch, and yet something ailed it. After a while I had to shake it to keep it going. A watch-maker in Marietta to whom I showed it said that he would not even accept it as a present for it really did not cost fifty cents and would be but a nuisance to him. Upon learning how and what I paid for it, he fell into a good laugh, as did my other friends, especially General Eaton, the President of Marietta College at that time. So I lost money in that transaction. It was something like Benjamin Franklin paying too much for the whistle. It taught me such a good lesson that it has become a proverb to myself. If I am tempted to spend my time, talent, strength and money for something that would give me little or no return, I would say to myself, "Do not pay too much for the gold watch." EDWARD MARSDEN. ================================ THE ENDEAVORERS. ---------------- San Francisco is full of them and the trains are still coming. All along the line from Ogden to this city there were demonstrations of welcome to California, and at every principal station the young people alighted from the train and sang Gospel Hymns, creating a unique impression among the cow-boys and others gathered to hear and to see. We attended Friends' meeting yesterday morning and there heard it related that at one station in Nevada a cow-boy in a group after the singing was heard to say: (continued on last page.) ______________________________________________ Benjamin Lawry, class '90, writes from Winnebago, Nebr., that he is getting along as well as can be expected of him. He says that he has been guided by Carlisle's motto, "God helps those who help themselves," and if all the returned pupils should help themselves as much, they could withstand all the difficulties of the reservation. He has built a home of his own and always has work to do to earn his living. We have tried our best to interest our readers while editor Burgess was at San Francisco. If we have not come up to the mark we desired, it is because this is our first experience. At first it was a difficult task for us to write up items for the HELPER, but think if we have sufficient stick-to-it-tive-ness in us we can make successful newspaper men. A '91 and two '96's have been most faithful reporters, but are little slow sometimes. A very interesting letter comes from George Nukockluke, an Esquimaux, who at one time was a pupil of our school for a few years. He was delighted to see the Carlisle pictures because he had spent many happy hours at the school. He expresses gratitude for the privilege of coming East where he saw wonderful things and met people such as he had never seen in his Alaskan country. He hopes to go among his people and tell them what he learned of Jesus and how to find Him. The Man-on-the-band-stand often wonders if the Indian problem is hard to solve? It does not seem so to the writer who is an Indian. It could be readily seen right here by the wonderful transformation of the Indian children in a course of a few years stay in the East. Instead of the rude uncultured savage a few years previous to leaving for school, we behold clean, neat and educated young men and women capable of competing with the Anglo-Saxon in everything if ONLY given fair play and equal protection with the citizens under the laws of our country. The solution, therefore, is the abolition of reservation system and let the Indians earn their bread by the sweat of their brows. We haven't seen the "Chemawa American" for some time. The following letter was received from one of our girls: "I must now write you a letter which I have been wanting to for some time, but have always put it off till tomorrow. If I wait any longer I am afraid it will never be written. I am going to tell you a little of my country home first. Oh! I have a lovely place. It's one of the nicest homes in the country. It's more of a home than any thing else, the people are just as nice as can be. But no doubt some of the girls have nice places. But mine is the best yet. The time has gone so swiftly that I can hardly realize it will soon be September again. I expect Miss Shaffner will soon be here. It's been such a short time ago since she took _____ back. We were all so glad to hear that _____ has improved so. Captain, would you object if I got a "camera," next month? When Miss Lizzie took me down to Dr. Fox's, we went to the Photographer's and we were looking at some cameras. The one I wanted if I got one is "The Hawkeye Jr.," It costs $8.60. She has a "Camera," and I have been out with her when she went out taking pictures. A profane person is never liked except perhaps by his associates, and they never think it wrong to swear or talk dirty any time they meet. Boys coming in contact with them soon get into the habit, until it becomes so fixed that it seems impossible for them to talk without using the name of God in vain. It is our duty to discourage dirty and profane language as much as lies in our power, and if the persons in the habit of such will not reform, it is better to leave them to the power of One which is no respecter of persons. A teacher, hearing one of her most promising eight year old pupils' spelling lesson, was much pleased with the readiness of little Mary in defining the word "Ferment" which she said - meant "To work." To make sure of her understanding, Miss K asked her to give a sentence containing the word. With scarce a moment's pause Mary replied -[and this was in mid-summer.] "In summer, when it is hot, I don't like to ferment in the school-room. The following are the names of the new pupils from Hoopa Valley: Juanita Bibancos, Dora Fritis, Lillie Ferris, Sophie Wiggins, Lizzie Knundsen, Rose McFarland, Ida Bennet, Minnie Kane, Jacob Horne, Ulysses Ferris, Arnold Smith, David Master and Wingate Temple. Those from Unalaska: Annie Rankin, Dora Rankin, Eudocia Sedick, Soaipatra Paula Suvaroff, Polly Sutifoff. Daisy Wasson formerly of Chemawa, Ore., is also a new arrival. Can Indian children learn as fast as the white children is a question often asked. Why shouldn't they? In every case where an Indian and white boy worked side by side, the Indian always held his own. The writer has had the opportunity of noticing this fact. In every race there are those who are capable of picking up new things or learning quicker than others, and Indians are no exception. Some Indians learn very fast while others very slow. Subscribe for the HELPER, ten cents only. _______________________________________________________ Peaches! Time flies. Cool nights. Watermelons! All aboard for Alaska. A fine rain on Tuesday. Over half vacation gone! New pupils are plentiful. The lawn mower hummeth. Daniel West is our excellent mail carrier. July 27th was the coldest July day on the record. Mr. James Flannery, class '94, is now on his vacation. The kalsominers are at work in the Large Boys' Quarters. Miss Robertson is doing clerical work in Miss Ely's office. The recent rains have improved the appearance of the parade. George Shelafo played right field for Carlisle club last Saturday. Mr. Dennison Wheelock went to Pittsburg on business last Friday evening. The printers had the pleasure of devouring a large watermelon on Wednesday. The new boys who have begun to work in the blacksmith shop are doing very well. Margaret LaMere is back at the school after a very pleasant visit to the country. Miss Richenda Pratt returned from Steelton where she has been visiting for a short time. The kalsomining has been finished at the school house, Girls' Quarters and Small Boys' Quarters. Miss Estaine Depeltquestangue has gone to West Chester. She enters the Normal School in the fall. Mrs. Spray, Miss Boring and Gertude Spray left on Tuesday for Montana where they will join Mr. Spray. Mr. Standing and family departed last Monday for Atlantic City where they expect to enjoy a vacation and the sea breezes for a while. Misses Robertson and Bailey and Mr. Hendren are back from Chautauqua Summer School. They are all looking quite improved in health. Judging from a business letter received from William Leighton, '96, he is busy at work. He writes for the "Red Man" and INDIAN HELPER. A visitor watching Jonas Mitchell make bands for the boiler room asked if he was making a bicycle. He thought that the bicycle would be rather bumpy. Work is still going on in the boiler room. When anybody looks at it, the first exclamation seems to be, "How will they ever finish it." It takes time to do it and when it is done it will be in very good condition. Eclipse. Did you see the eclipse? The sun died at 9 o'clock yesterday. Captain was in Washington on Wednesday. Mr. Keene, the Chambersburg magician, was among the callers this week. Boys, do you desire to always have good, strong nerves? Then don't smoke cigarettes. The eclipse of the sun by the moon yesterday attracted much attention among our pupils. A new range from Bramhall Deane Co., of New York City is being placed in the new kitchen. A recent letter from Emanuel Powlas who is in the country says he is hard at work in the harvest field. Some of our little boys caught the "Klondyke craze," so started off on foot, but they were caught again by something else. During the eclipse of the sun yesterday morning, carrying smoked glasses and wearing the most innocent blackened noses was quite the rage. The printers had the pleasure of looking at the eclipse of the sun through smoked glasses yesterday morning. It was a partial eclipse and lasted from 9 to 11 o'clock. Small courtesies, kindnesses and considerations, habitually practiced in our social intercourses, give a greater charm to the character than the display of great talents and accomplishments. The other day while Bemus was scorching down the pathway he lost his balance and collided with a telegraph pole, smashing the "World" and skinned himself up in good shape, though receiving no serious injury. Messrs Wolle and Goube called at the school Tuesday morning. They rode on their bikes from Lititz, Pa. They visited Gettysburg and would have gone home the same way had not the rain interfered. Miss Burgess brought 8 girls and 6 boys from California as far as Harrisburg. Miss Ely met them and brought them to the school. Miss Burgess with her father, mother and Miss Rote went to Millville to spend a few days. Rev. H.B. Wile, pastor of the First Lutheran Church in town, who has been officiating at all our services left on Monday for his vacation during the month of August. He expects to go to Minneapolis Minn., where his family is now visiting. A letter dated July 27th was received from Dolington, Pa., containing ten cents for the renewal of the HELPER, but as there was no name signed, we do not know to whom the credit belongs. Will that person please write and let us know the name? Two of our little girls were sent on an errand and they thought that they would look into the blacksmith shop. Jonas Mitchel was shoeing Harry. When he tried the hot shoe on, the girls ran out. They said they didn't want to stay in there because he was frying the horse's hoof. ____________________________________________________ (Continued from first page.) "That is the first singing of the kind I have heard since I left my Christian home in the East." He was deeply moved, and as the train started off and his fellow roughs wanted him to go with them into a saloon for a drink, he said: "No, I've taken my last drink." And so it is conceded, especially by the Endeavorers themselves that they have done and will do to this section a great deal of good. But some have done more injury than good by exhibitions of disgruntled selfishness and self-satisfied mannerisms. The railroads were more then taxed and the multitudes have been handled with the greatest care and skill, still there were mishaps and unavoidable delays incident to the extraordinary demand for transportation, and the young "Christian" covered with badges and State emblems very frequently grumbled at and abused the overworked railway officials. The Pacific transfer baggage-men of San Francisco have worked day and night to deliver the trunks checked through. They were piled upon the wharves in long rows ten and fifteen feet high with avenues between. A rough estimate of the number I looked over before finding mine is 5,000. I heard one man say he had not slept a wink for two nights, and a young Christian Endeavorer was "hauling him over the coals" for not attending to his baggage more promptly. The meetings of the organization are being largely attended. The Mechanics Pavilion, which has a seating capacity of several thousand is filled to over flowing every session. Indeed one cannot get within a block of the place, an hour before any session begins except in the early mornings, when the tired Endeavorers are said to be resting. Most of the churches and all the largest halls are thrown open to them.