From gars@netcom.com Wed Sep 10 02:16:13 1997 Date: Tue, 9 Sep 1997 20:18:37 -0700 From: Gary Night Owl To: Internet Recipients of Wotanging Ikche Subject: Wotanging Ikche--nanews05.037 _ __ _____ __ _ __ ___ ____ _ __ ___ ' ) / / ') / / ) ' ) ) / ) / ' ) ) / ) / / / / / / /--/ / / / ___ / / / / ___ (_(_/ (__/ ( / (_ / (_ (___/ '__/_ / (_ (___/ ' O ____ _ , ___ _ , ___ O o O / ' ) / / ) ' ) / / ' O o O / /-< / /--/ /-- VOLUME 05, ISSUE 037 O o o o o O __/_ / ) (___/ / ( (___, 13 September 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 NAT-FILM, Triballaw, NativeLit, Paths-L & FOL-L lists; Settlers In Support of Indigenous Sovereignty; Headwaters News; North American Spirit Lodge; KOLA (International Campaign Office); NASC News Mailing; UUCP email; Newsgroups: alt.native,soc.culture.native 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. "When it comes time to die, be not like those whose hearts are filled with the fear of death, so when their time comes they weep and pray for a little more time to live their lives over again in a different way. Sing your death song, and die like a hero going home." __ Chief Aupumut, Mohican +- -- -- -- -- -- -- -- -- -- -- -+ | 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! On September 4, 1997 at 4:15 am, Vernal Cross, Oglala Lakota elder, AIM activist and medicine keeper passed away from a heart attack. AIM activist passed away from a heart attack. In this time of grief assistance for his family with donations of money, clothing , food, etc. are being sought. Send donations to the following: Darlene Cross POBOX 52 Kyle SD 57752 or contact tusweca@twlakes.net (615)621-3361 The Eastern Band of Cherokee also lost a medicine keeper and teacher this past week. Gene Rowe, Sr shed his earthly robe. These two leave large voids where they once stood. I pray their crossing will be good and others will step forward to continue the teachings of these two. From a September 03, 1997 Associated Press report comes this: - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - The state-tribal agreement allowing gambling on the Blackfeet Indian Reservation will be canceled because of a dispute between the two governments, Gov. Marc Racicot said Wednesday. In a letter to Tribal Chairman Earl Old Person, Racicot said the tribe's renewed insistence that it be able to license and regulate gambling operations by non-Indians on the reservation is unacceptable to the state. - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - It is sad that tribal sovereignty ranks lower than governor Racicot's agenda; but comes as no great surprise when you recall this is the same state and same governor that blatantly ignored requests from Interior Secretary Babbitt and engineered the Yellow Stone Buffalo slaughter last winter. Thanks to Mike Wicks for these reminders: In Memory (with Respect and Honor) 9.9.1975 Howard Blue Bird - AIM supporter killed at Pine Ridge by Goons. No investigation. 9.10.1975 Jim Little - AIM stomped to death by Goons in Oglala. No investigation. 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 - Peltier's Birthday & Clemency THIS - Review of Gorton Riders ISSUE - Critique of Gorton Bill CONTAINS - Call for National Protest NO - Constituent Request Card PART B - HR2107: Letter to President - More on Brentwood - Our Ancestor's Bones THIS - Apache Elder Arrested on Mt. Graham ISSUE - Remember Dudley George CONTAINS - Gustafsen Retrospective NO - Mayan Letter of Solidarity PART B - Canadian use of Land Mine - Treason by Natives? - Two More Fired Marshals Rehired THIS - Deh Cho Evict Extractors ISSUE - Natives Without a Home CONTAINS - A Preponderantly Racist Province NO - Huron Cemetery Threatened AGAIN PART B - Bear Lincoln Trial Nearly Done - Friends of the Lubicon Trial Update - Board of Forestry Practices - A Hundred Years Ago THIS - Native Prisoner ISSUE - Poem: The Last Warrior CONTAINS - Verse: Hawaiian Book of Days NO - Conferences and Powwows - offline PART B --------- "RE: Peltier's Birthday & Clemency" --------- Date: Tue, 2 Sep 97 08:17:50 GMT From: lpdc@idir.net (Peltier Defense Committee) Subj: Peltier's Birthday & Clemency Newsgroup: soc.culture.native September 12th is Leonard Peltier's birthday. Please do not forget this important date!!! Cards, soft cover books, and POSTAL money orders can be sent to: Leonard Peltier, 89637-132, Box 1000, LVN, KS 66048. USE this DAY to PHONE THE WHITE HOUSE and DEMAND EXECUTIVE CLEMENCY BE GRANTED. (202)456-1111 (hit 0 to avoid survey). Don't forget, OCTOBER 21-22 will be our Washington, DC LOBBY CAMPAIGN. Anyone interested please contact LPDC at 785-842-5774 or LPFC at 804-823-2845. RUMORS that LPDC will be moving to South Dakota are completely untrue. LPDC MUST AND WILL REMAIN IN CLOSE PROXIMITY TO LEONARD PELTIER. To move hundreds of miles away puts his life in danger. If you hear rumors of this sort IGNORE THEM and set whoever is spreading this information STRAIGHT! --------- "RE: Review of Gorton Riders" --------- Date: Fri, 5 Sep 1997 19:45:58 -0400 (EDT) From: Miketben@aol.com Subj: N.A.S.L. - #1 - REVIEW SLADE GORTON NEWS ARTICLES Status: RO ************************************************************************** * NORTH AMERICAN SPIRIT LODGE * REVIEW OF NEWS ARTICLES RELATED TO SLADE GORTON HIDDEN RIDERS - IN HR 2107 # 1 FOR YOUR INFO *************************************************************************** Subject: New York Times Article From: Jim McCarthy Date: Wed, 27 Aug 1997 14:26:05 +0000 Attached is a story from today's New York Times that we helped arrange on behalf of National Congress of American Indians. This legislative battle will be heating up in the first two weeks of September. We would encourage anyone to submit letters to the editor in support of the Tribes -- there should be a letters link on the site. Thank You McCarthy Communications Washington, DC Senate Measure Would Deal Blow to Indian Rights By Timothy Egan SEATTLE -- With little debate and no public hearings, a Senate subcommittee last month approved two measures that would knock out some of the oldest principles in how the nation's 554 American Indian tribes are governed, and deprive them of basic operating funds if they do not agree to the changes. Little noticed in Washington, where they were buried as riders on a spending bill already freighted with the fate of the National Endowment for the Arts and money for new park lands, the proposed changes have caused a furor on the reservations. The tribes say Congress is trying to strip them of sovereignty because of a perception that Indian reservations are prospering with casino gambling -- disregarding the fact that the vast majority remain among the poorest places in the nation. The architect of the riders, Sen. Slade Gorton, R-Wash., who has had a 25-year running dispute with Indians in his home state, says the measures are part of a campaign to force a fundamental change in Indian affairs. "I find nothing in any Indian treaty that says they must be continuously supported by the federal taxpayers," said Gorton in an interview. Gorton is chairman of the Interior Appropriations subcommittee, which passed a $13 billion spending bill last month that contains the Indian riders and many provisions dear to the Clinton administration. Bracing for a showdown, the Clinton administration has threatened to veto the spending bill if it contains the Indian measures. Interior Secretary Bruce Babbitt called it "one of the most radical and unjust of a stream of recent congressional proposals," which would "overturn almost two centuries of jurisprudence." One of Gorton's measures would force tribes to waive sovereign immunity from civil lawsuits or lose up to $767 million -- nearly half of the entire budget for daily operations on land that 1.4 million Indians live on or near. Under the other rider, tribes could be denied federal money if their income was above a certain level. Without sovereign immunity, the tribes say, they could face bankruptcy by lawsuits and would be unable to operate as governments. And subjecting them to income requirements, or what the government calls means-testing, would be singling them out, they say, because other city and state governments do not have to go through such tests for their share of federal funds. "If Senator Gorton would ever be willing to come to a reservation, he would see very clearly that most tribal governments are barely getting by as it is," said John Blackhawk, chairman of the Winnebago tribe of Nebraska. "These two riders are outrageous. They are a total departure from the government-to-government relationship the tribes have always had with Washington." Though Babbitt has said he would recommend a veto if the riders are left in the bill, both items are entwined in a package that contains $100 million to keep the National Endowment for the Arts alive and $700 million for environmental purchases such a gold mine that threatens Yellowstone National Park, and huge grove of ancient redwood trees that could be logged in California. "I'm defending them on the NEA and land acquisition, so it would not behoove the administration to come after me on the these issues," said Gorton. The only Indian in the Senate, Sen. Ben Nighthorse Campbell, a R-Colo., has also thrown down a gauntlet on the measures, saying they would only be passed "over my dead body." Sovereign immunity and basic federal operating funds are not subject to shifting political winds, Campbell wrote in a letter to Gorton, but are "a result of solemn promises made by the United States to tribal governments in exchange for Indian lands." When the full Senate takes up the Interior spending bill next month, Gorton and his supporters are counting on the fact that 17 states have no recognized Indians tribes within their boundaries. Also, Gorton said, the time may be ripe to force a significant change in the longstanding status that Indians have had as nations within a nation. "The irony is that the very concept of sovereign immunity is descended from English Common law," he said. "And it's an anachronism." Indian governments, as well as federal and local agencies, often evoke the immunity status as a way to guarantee that projects like sewage systems or road construction go ahead without the threat of financially crushing lawsuits. Individual Indians can be sued in federal court, but the tribes themselves are generally protected. The tribes say they are under assault by Gorton and others in Congress because of a perception that they getting wealthy from casino gambling, which in turn has brought some flexing of newfound political muscle. "This is straight-out an attempt to get rid of tribal governments," said John Dossett, general counsel for the National Congress of American Indians. "In order to do that, Gorton and others are playing off a perception that a whole bunch of tribes are getting rich off gaming. In fact, only a handful are making any money at it." A report last December by the General Accounting Office found that just 10 tribes took in more than 50 percent of the $1.6 billion received by Indian reservations from tribal gambling. Only about one-third of all American Indian tribes have gambling centers. Unemployment on the reservations is more than three times the national average, and 38 percent of all Indians aged 6 to 11 years old live below the poverty level -- more than twice as high as the national average. Supporters of Gorton's measures say they resent the power that Indians have over non-Indians on or near reservations. They say it is very hard for someone who is not an Indian to win redress in tribal courts. "By being able to claim immunity from suit, tribes are not fully accountable in court for their actions -- like all the rest of us in America are," said Barbara Lindsey, president of a property rights group in Washington state, in a recent statement sent to Gorton. "It is simply not fair for us to be denied our constitutional due process rights while the tribes can sue us at will." The Indians say Gorton has longstanding animosity toward the tribes, bordering on a vendetta, which dates to his days fighting Indian fishing rights in the Pacific Northwest. As Washington state attorney general in the mid-1970s, Gorton argued and lost a landmark Supreme Court case, known as the Boldt decision, in which Indians were found to have a right by treaty to take up to 50 percent of all the salmon caught in Northwest waters. "It's my opinion, shared by many of my colleagues around the country, that Slade Gorton has a vendetta against the tribes," said Blackhawk. Or as Dossett put it, "Clearly, he's on the most wanted list." In 1995, Gorton led an effort to cut $200 million from the $1.7 billion budget for Indian tribes. "He's an Indian-fighter," said Darrell Hillaire, vice-chairmen of the Lummi tribe in Washington state. "This agenda is really just Slade Gorton's agenda. And he's counting on the ignorance of the rest of Congress to get it through." The Lummi, a small tribe with a salmon-fishing culture, were behind the effort to win fishing rights two decades ago. They have since been singled out by a legislative rider Gorton had successfully inserted on a previous Interior bill several years ago. The amendment, since expired, would have deprived the Lummi of 50 percent of their federal operating funds if any tribal actions had an adverse affect on non-Indians. This week, the Lummi tribe closed its casino near the Canadian border, saying it was losing too much money. "Before, he was just going after one or two tribes, but now he's launched a broad attack on all the tribes," said Dossett. "As a result, Indians have stopped being able to accomplish anything positive in Congress and are just fighting all these defensive battles." Asked about the tribal accusations of a personal vendetta over the fishing rights battle, Gorton said he had won more cases in the Supreme Court against Indians than he has lost -- and therefore did not feel a need to even the score. They are angry at him now, he said, because he is trying to break up an old system that many Indians have grown too comfortable with. "Crying racism is the last refuge of a group of individuals who can't argue on the merits," said Gorton. The tribes are particularly angry that on a matter that could so radically change the nature of Indian governments, there have been no hearings, no debate, no field trips to reservations. It is similar, they say, to how Congress tried to rewrite environmental laws last year using legislative riders. "We see this as an abrogation of treaties," said Debra Doxtator, chairwoman of the Oneida Tribe in Wisconsin. "We gave up vast amounts of land in return for sovereignty and certain obligations by the federal government. Now they want to throw that out. It would be devastating to us. Yet, we aren't even consulted." Gorton said he thought his legislative riders would prevail when the full Senate takes up the spending bill next month. But even if they did not pass, he said he would continue to use his position as chairman of the committee that oversees spending for the tribes to overhaul Indian affairs. "These are matters of principle for me," said Gorton. "Indians are citizens of the United States. They should be governed by laws of the United States as everyone else is." --------- "RE: Critique of Gorton Bill" --------- Date: Fri, 5 Sep 1997 09:22:13 -0700 (PDT) From: "Peter d'Errico" Subj: critique of Gorton bill Mailing List: TRIBALLAW (triballaw@thecity.sfsu.edu) Prof. Joseph P. Kalt, Co-Director of the Harvard Project on American Indian Economic Development, Kennedy School of Government, Harvard University; and Jonathan B. Taylor, director of American Indian projects at The Economics Resource Group, Inc., Cambridge, MA, have written a cogent critique of the Gorton attack on Indian sovereignty and an insightful commentary on American Indian economics... it is available online at NativeWeb.. the direct URL is: http://www.nativeweb.org/pages/legal/gorton.html Peter ------- FORWARD, Critique from the web page noted above follows ------- MEANS TESTING INDIAN GOVERNMENTS: TAXING WHAT WORKS by Joseph P. Kalt and Jonathan B. Taylor Prof. Joseph P. Kalt is Co-Director of the Harvard Project on American Indian Economic Development, Kennedy School of Government, Harvard University; Jonathan B. Taylor directs American Indian projects at The Economics Resource Group, Inc., Cambridge, MA. Led by Sen. Slade Gorton (R.-Washington), Chair of the Senate Interior appropriations subcommittee, a push is on in Congress that would strike a major blow at the only policy that has produced progress in this century on the perennial problem of poverty in Indian Country: tribal self-governance and the accompanying government-to-government relationship between tribes and the Federal Government. Fueled by the publicity that surrounds the success with gaming of a handful of the countrys 500+ tribes, Gorton's proposal would "means-test" federal funding of tribal governmental functions. The Federal Government does not have a record to be proud of when it comes to the problems of economic and social despair on America's Indian reservations. For almost two centuries, federal policy essentially treated Indians on reservations as dependents, with the federal authorities and bureaucracies calling the shots on everything from where kids went to school to when and where a tree could be harvested. The results? By 1990, American Indians on reservations were the poorest minority in America. Unemployment across all reservations averaged close to 50%, pushing to 85% in some places. On most reservations, what little employment did exist was only in the public service sector of schools, law enforcement, health care, and the like. Under these conditions, it is not surprising that almost every indicator of social distress -- poverty rates, suicide rates, death by disease and accident, teenage pregnancy, and so on -- placed reservation Indians practically off the charts when compared to other American citizens. The advent of gaming on reservations has not appreciably altered this scene. The number of tribes hitting big-time success in gaming is in single digits. The sorry history of U.S. Indian policy is well enough known that it has become a folklore founded in fact. The folklore is used by non-Indian Americans who are into guilt to justify paternalistic policies that haven't worked. What is not widely understood is that, beginning with first steps in the Nixon and Ford Administrations, federal policy started a slow turn toward a new direction: self-governance. Self-Determination Works Over the last two decades, Indians on reservations have fought to re-establish long-lost powers of self-rule. Governed by constitutions, tribes now have powers akin to those of the U.S. states, including powers to make rules and regulations, to wield law enforcement and judicial authority, to tax, and -- like states -- to run gaming operations. Even prior to the gaming that has attracted so much attention in the 1990s, the evidence became clear that self-rule is the indispensable first ingredient needed to turn reservation economies around. Indeed, it was under the federal policy of self-determination that took hold in the 1970s and 80s that certain tribes began to break out of the pack of impoverishment. They did this by escaping the stranglehold of federal development planning and creating the investment environment needed to develop export-based economies. The Mississippi Choctaw, for example, built the Hong Kong of Indian Country on the strength of manufacturing industries -- from auto parts to greeting cards -- that now make the Tribe among the very largest employers in Mississippi. Not only are tribal members working, but more than 6,000 white and black workers commute to work at the Tribe's businesses. The Mississippi Choctaw run their own affairs*their own schools, their own laws, their own courts, their own business policies. The result is an environment that the capital markets trust. The Salish and Kootenai Tribes of the Flathead Reservation in Montana have also competed successfully in the market to attract investors. They've done it by creating a rule of law, including an intertribal "supreme" court, that should be the envy of every emerging democracy in the world. The result is a thriving private sector economy based in agriculture, recreation, and tourism. The Flathead reservation was off and running years prior to the arrival of gaming as an option. At the Fort Apache reservation in Arizona, the White Mountain Apaches' first-class ski resort, multi-million dollar saw mill, and premier outdoor recreation businesses are the economic anchors for thousands of Apache and non-Indian jobs. When these were threatened by federal intrusion on endangered species grounds, the never-retreat Apaches built their own environmental management systems. Under a model government-to-government agreement, these have enabled the Tribe to displace federal managers. The stories of economic success in Indian Country share at least one common ingredient. In case after case, the defining trait of the successful tribes is their aggressive assertion of their rights to govern themselves. In particular, they are marked by de jure and de facto replacement of outside federal decision makers with their own governmental capacity. There is not a single case of sustained economic development in Indian Country where the tribe is not in the decision-making driver's seat. As the world has learned from Central and Eastern Europe, outside authorities are really lousy at planning and developing an economy of people who want to govern themselves. Gorton's "Success Tax" How ironic it is that federal policy may now be directed at handicapping effective and stable tribal governments. If one cannot distinguish between individual American Indians and American Indian tribal governments, or if one likes to imagine that all american Indians are junior Donald Trumps rolling in income from gaming operations, the Gorton means-testing proposal might sound sensible. In fact, however, it amounts to nothing more than a tax on tribal governments which are successful in pursuing the interests of their citizens. As a matter of federal policy, a state government that enters the gambling industry with a high-stakes lottery is not means-tested when it comes to allocating basic federal funding for governmental services. To date, tribal governments have been similarly treated. In both cases, policy has recognized that, to the extent that a state or tribe is carrying out basic governmental functions such as law enforcement or environmental protection, federal policy ought to encourage these governments to be effective. This has been a key component of the government-to-government essence of U.S. federalism. Consider the illustration provided by one state's lottery -- California. Through its gaming enterprise, the government of California takes in net income on the order of three-quarters of a billion dollars per year. All of the net proceeds are earmarked for education, yet federal dollars allocated to the State Government are not means-tested, even for the relatively rich and lottery-rich State of California. Instead, if California's investment in education pays off in a healthier economy and higher incomes, the Federal Government stands ready with its income taxes to catch its share of the returns. American Indians stand in the same relationship to the Federal Government. To the extent that monies from tribal governments' gaming or other operations show up as income to individuals and businesses, such income is subject to federal income taxes. Moreover, individual Indian citizens are subject to means testing, just as are other Americans, when it comes to food stamps, housing subsidies, and other nationwide welfare programs. Means-testing tribal governments makes no sense at all if one is concerned about the well-being of American Indian people. In and of itself, a tribal government's (or a state government's) revenues from gaming, natural resource leases, or any other set of operations provide no assurances as to how well its citizens are living. High revenues in a jurisdiction with a very low standard of living may help, but can't be said to cure, centuries of social and economic deprivation. In fact, it is not surprising that, even on reservations with relatively strong economies, the social legacy of deprivation is proving hard to erase. To date, the government-to-government basis for federal funding of tribal (and state) governmental functions has provided positive incentives for reinvestment of tribal government income, since passing tribal earnings out as cash subjects them to taxation. The Gorton proposal would replace this with disincentives to effective and efficient governmental operations. A tribe might as well go easy on holding down costs since higher net incomes would subject the tribe to Gorton's "success tax." Of course, this is precisely the kind of effect of federal Indian policy that tribes have been bucking in the era of self-governance. By penalizing successful and effective tribal government, the Gorton proposal would be a sad step backward for the only thing that has worked in Indian Country -- letting people govern themselves. Date: 03 Sep 1997 --------- "RE: Call for National Protest" --------- Date: Fri, 5 Sep 1997 22:54:09 -0400 (EDT) From: Miketben@aol.com Subj: N.A.S.L. - #2 - REVIEW SLADE GORTON NEWS ARTICLES ************************************************************************** * NORTH AMERICAN SPIRIT LODGE * REVIEW OF NEWS ARTICLES RELATED TO SLADE GORTON HIDDEN RIDERS - IN H.R. 2107 # 2 FOR YOUR INFO ************************************************************************** Subj: Call for National Protest Against Slade Gorton's bills Date: 97-09-01 18:56:38 EDT From: Yona Equa Day 1 of the Nut Moon, in the 6,710th year. E M E R G E N C Y A L E R T Leaders from more than 50 tribes are assembling in Washington D.C. this week to lobby against the sly and cunning attempts by Senator Slade Gorton (R-Washington) to secretly change the Federal laws in such a way as to deny all the Tribal Governments their sovereignty and seriously reduce the payment of treaty obligations. While most United States Senators are either pro-Native or just indifferent to Native issues, Slade Gorton is a well-known Indian hater who carried on a long and harsh courthouse war with the Lummi tribe when he was the Attorney General of Washington State. Gorton hurt the Lummis badly back then, and he is now trying to destroy all Native American Tribes. What Senator Gorton has done is to bury two "riders" in a massive appropriations bill for the Department of the Interior. A "rider" is legislation that travels through the system attached to another proposed law, but which is not necessarily on the same (or even a related) subject. Gorton has tried his best to keep these two "riders" a secret, hoping that no one would notice them and that they would be passed along with the appropriations bill they are attached to. The first of Senator Gorton's "riders" will destroy the Sovereign Immunity of Tribal Governments, and make them subject to harassment by lawsuits from anyone who wishes to sue them. Such a law would result in an immediate firestorm of legal action brought by merchants who do not wish to compete with tax-exempt Native American stores and gas stations on reservation lands. The tribal budgets would be severely depleted by the legal fees involved in defending against all these lawsuits and certain tribes might have to declare bankruptcy within six to eight months. The other "rider" will make payments of treaty obligations subject to "means testing"; in other words, the government will be able to escape paying for the land they took from certain tribes if they determine that the tribes don't "need the money." According to Senator Ben Nighthorse Campbell, (R-Colorado) sovereign immunity and basic federal operating funds are not supposed to be subject to shifting political winds. Campbell, the only Native American in the Senate, wrote in a letter to Gorton that they are "a result of solemn promises made by the United States to tribal governments in exchange for Indian lands." In an attempt to rally public opinion to his side, Senator Gorton recently "seeded" a story on the Associated Press wire service pointing out that there were giant inequities in the amount of money per person that the tribes get; but the story did not contain a single word about the federal payments to the various tribes being treaty obligations. Also, Gorton said, the time may be ripe to force a significant change in the longstanding status that Indians have had as nations within a nation. Interior Secretary Bruce Babbitt called Gorton's proposed changes in the law "one of the most radical and unjust of a stream of recent congressional proposals," which would "overturn almost two centuries of jurisprudence." "This is straight-out an attempt to get rid of tribal governments," said John Dossett, general counsel for the National Congress of American Indians. "In order to do that, Gorton and others are playing off a perception that a whole bunch of tribes are getting rich off gaming. In fact, only a handful are making any money at it." When the full Senate takes up the Interior spending bill next month, Gorton and his supporters are counting on the fact that 17 states have no recognized Indians tribes within their boundaries. Tribal Leaders, Tribal Lobbyists, and Native American Rights Activists need the help of all Native people and of all those non-natives who are sympathetic the Native causes. You can help us defend against Gorton's unscrupulous sneak attack by writing, e-mailing, and telephoning your U.S. Senators; right now; today; and encouraging then to vote against the Interior Department's Appropriations Bill unless Slade Gorton's riders are first removed from it. D O N ' T L E T S L A D E G O R T O N D E S T R O Y A N Y M O R E T R I B E S ! ! ! --------- "RE: Constituent Request Card" --------- Date: 97-09-07 07:45:01 EDT From: Dbwords@aol.com Subj: Constituent Request Card Mailing List: NATIVELIT The following is a copy of a card that has been sent out by NARF (Native American Rights Fund) in regard to the rider on the Interior Appropriations bill by Senator Slade Gorton (R-Washington State) . These cards are written as follows: Date:_________________ Dear Senator, As one of your constituents, I strongly urge you to oppose any legislation that threatens to undermine Native American sovereignty. In particular, an anti-Native American rider attached to the fiscal year 1998 Interior appropriations bill amounts to nothing less than extortion; it would force tribes to " sell" their long-standing, inherent sovereignty in exchange for federal funds which they desperately need to provide essential tribal government services on the reservations. Certainly Congress does not propose to force states to sell their sovereignty for any reason. So why treat tribes differently. In short, this legislation is an unconscionable attempt to subvert the Constitution and is clearly in violation of the people they serve. ...a responsibility that includes the protection of tribal sovereignty. Respectfully, _________________________________________________ ( your signature here) --------- "RE: HR2107: Letter to President" --------- Date: Mon, 8 Sep 1997 21:51:06 -0700 (PDT) From: Larry Kibbey Subj: Interior Appropriations Bill(fwd) ---------- Forwarded message ---------- Date: Mon, 8 Sep 1997 21:14:34 -0700 (PDT) From: Larry Kibbey To: president@whitehouse.gov Mailing List: Paths-L Larry Kibby, Program Director Western Shoshone Historic Preservation Society Elko Indian Colony 1581 Pinenut Circle Elko, Nevada 89801 RE: Interior Appropriations Bill - H.R. 2107 September 8, 1997 President William J. Clinton 1600 Pennsylvania Ave. NW Washington, D.C. 20500 Dear Mr. President: I submit the following in relation to the Interior Appropriations Bill, and the two "Rider's" submitted by U.S. Senator Slade Gorton(R-WA.), that have properties irrelevant to the Native American Indian Community and their Sovereign Nations. Mr. President, I find Senator Gorton's "Rider's" to have no relevant factor's contained within that would promote any sincere avenue of justice, nor any form of constructive promotion that would enhance the social, economical, educational and or health well being of the Sovereign Nations and do hereby submit this letter in a direct manner of protest and opposition to the H.R. 2107 "Rider's" submitted by Senator Slade Gorton, which are Section 118 and Section 120 included in full within the contents of this letter, which are: (1) "(Sec. 118) Prohibits the allocation or expenditure of funds in any Act for tribal priority allocations (TPA) in excess of the funds expended for TPA in FY 1997 until the BIA develops and reports to the Appropriations Committees a formula through which TPA funds will be allocated on the basis of need. Bars the allocation or expenditure of funds for TPA by any Federal agency after October 1, 1998, except in accordance with a need-based formula that takes into account all tribal business revenues, including gaming, of each tribe receiving TPA funds." And (2) "(Sec. 120) Provides that the receipt by an Indian tribe of TPA funding from the BIA's Operation of Indian Programs account under this Act shall: (1) waive any claim of immunity by such tribe; (2) subject such tribe to the jurisdiction of the U.S. courts and grant the consent of the United States to the maintenance of suit and jurisdiction of such courts irrespective of the issue of tribal immunity; and (3) grant U.S. district courts original jurisdiction of all civil actions brought by or against any tribe or recognized band where the matter in controversy arises under the U.S. Constitution, laws, or treaties." Mr. President, if the two "Rider's", Sec. 118 and Sec. 120, are included in the Interior Appropriations Bill when it arrives on your desk for your signature, I ask that you advocate a sincere voice of justice for the Native American Indian Community and their Sovereign Nations and "Veto" the Interior Appropriations Bill, based on the grounds that the two "Rider's" are prejudicial and present no form of justice with respect to the needs of the Sovereign Nations and have been submitted by Senator Gorton who has a historical record of administering discriminatory policies upon and directed at Indian people. Mr. President, with a sincere voice, you have promoted and advocated that Americans should indeed work together in building a solid bridge of unity to the 21st Century, so that together all of mankind kind would march into the next millennium in solidarity, as one, however, I am beginning to see a serious flaw in that endeavor, when the Republican Party continues to work the opposite by installing every feasible plan that administer's assimilation polices centuries old, that are nothing more than prejudicial philosophies directed at bringing down tribal sovereignty and the complete end of a culture and belief, that has been one of America's most unique heritages. Mr. President, when the Interior Appropriations Bill arrives on your desk, and contains Senator Gorton's two "Rider's, Section 118 and Section 120, I ask that you consider justly in favor of the Sovereign Nations of the Native American Indians and "Veto" the Interior Appropriations Bill. Thank you. Sincerely, Larry Kibby, Program Director Western Shoshone Historic Preservation Society Elko Indian Colony 1581 Pinenut Circle Elko, Nevada 89801 --------------------------------------------------- <<---------------------------------------------<<<< | Larry Kibby - kibbey@sierra.net | | Elko Indian Colony, Elko, Nevada | | When you have the time, stop in and visit: | | http://www.geocities.com/CapitolHill/Lobby/7027 | >>>>--------------------------------------------->> --------- "RE: More on Brentwood" --------- Date: Wed, 3 Sep 1997 21:50:54 -0400 (EDT) From: Miketben@aol.com Subj: N.A.S.L. :: MORE BRENTWOOD & FEEDBACK DIGEST ************************************************************************** * NORTH AMERICAN SPIRIT LODGE * MORE BRENTWOOD GRAVES & RELATED INFO & FEEDBACK DIGEST & FOR YOUR INFO ************************************************************************** Subj: Re: N.A.S.L. -- MORE ON BRENTWOOD GRAVES Date: 97-09-03 08:29:32 EDT From: Mrninglri To: Miketben Mike, The man my husband spoke with last week who is one of the construction workers, said that they ARE moving the bodies on a daily basis. He said they are being moved to another site on the same property. I don't know a lot about architecture and building (plumbing excluded) but there was enough room on the other side of the building to put this parking lot. Has anyone heard why this can't be done? Anyway, I thought long and hard before doing this, but I figured if people could actually see the destruction that is going on out there, it would seem more real to them, so I took pictures of the site Sunday. I won't send them out in a group mailing, so if anyone wishes to see for themselves just what we are talking about here, e mail me and let me know. Pink flags represented artifacts and/or bodies found....there were more pink flags than you could count. These pictures will show that,. ************************************************************************** Subj: Names and addresses- Tennessee- State and Federal Date: 97-09-02 09:42:37 EDT From: ErthAvengr To: NASC Swan, Ondamitag, Hello, Everyone! I have enclosed names and addresses- Tennessee- both State and Federal. The web site is given for the State and Senate members as there are many pages. If you would like specific members addresses from a certain district right away please let me know. As I do not have a scanner, it will take me a little time to get all of those members typed. I wanted you to have this part now so contact with these members would not wait. Many prayers sent out!!! Erth x x x x x x x x x x x x x x x x x x x x x x x x x x x x x x x x x x x x x x TENNESSEE LISTING OF HOUSE AND SENATE MEMBERS FEDERAL AND STATE STATE: GOVERNOR: Don Sundquist: State Capital, 1st. Floor., Nashville, Tn. 37243 Ph: (615)741-2001 E-mail: dsunquist@mall.state.Tn.us Web page: http://www.state.tn.us/governor HOUSE: http://www.legislature.state.tn.us/House/Members.html -4 pages SENATE: http://www.legislature.state.tn.us/Senate/Members/Members.htm- 1 1/2pages FEDERAL: HOUSE: http://www.house.gov/MemberWWW.html Ed Bryant: (R-7th.dist) Rm.408, Cannon House Office Bldg.Washington,D.C.20037-4207 Ph: (202)225-2811. 5909 Shelby Oaks Drive, Suite 213, Memphis TN 38134 Ph: (901) 382-5811 Website: http://www.house.gov.bryant/contact.htm Bob Clement: (D-5th.dist) Rm.2229 Rayburn House Office Bldg. Washington,D.C.20515-4205 . 3360 S. Courthouse, 801 Broadway, Nashville,TN 37203 Ph: (615) 736-5295, E-mail: jjduncan@hr.house.gov Web site: http://www.house.gov/clement/contact/htm John J. Duncan Jr: (R-2nd.dist) 2400 Rayburn House Office Bldg. Washington D.C.20515 Ph: )202)225-5435 Tennessee: 3 offices- Knoxville, Maryville, Athens E-mail: jjduncan@hr.house.gov Web site: http://www.house.gov/duncan/contact.htm Harold Ford: (D-9th dist) 1523 Longworth House Office Bldg. Washington D.C.20515 Ph: (202) 225-3265 E-mail: from web site- http: www.house.gov/ford/fordstaff.htm Tennessee address: 167 N. Main ST. Suite 369, Memphis TN. 38103 Ph: (901) 544-4131 Bart Gordon: (D-6th.dist) Rm 2201, Rayburn House Office Bldg. Washington D.C. 20515 E-mail: bart@hr.house.gov Website: http://www.house.gov/gordon/ (will only respond to constituents) Van Hilleary: (R-4th.Dist) 114 Cannon House Office Bldg. Washington,D.C.20515 Ph: (202) 225-6831 Tennessee : Morristown, Crossville, Tullahoma E-mail: hilleary@hr.house.gov Web site: http://www.house.gov/hilleary/contact.html William Jenkins: (R-1st.Dist) Rm.1708 Longworth House Office Bldg.Washington D.C.20515 Apparently does not have a website. John Tanner : (D-8th. Dist) Rm.1127 Longworth House Office Bldg. Washington,D.C. 20515 Ph: (202) 225-4714 Tennessee: Union City, Jackson, Memphis Web site: http://www.house.gov/tanner/constitu.htm Zach Wamp: (D-8th.Dist) 423 Cannon House Office Bldg. Washington D.C. 20515 Ph: (202) 225-3271 Tennessee: Chattanooga, Oak Ridge Web site: http://www.house.gov/wamp/contact.html SENATE: Bill Frist: (R-TN) Senate Dirksen Bldg. Rm. 565, Washington D.C. 20510 Ph: (202)224-3344 E-mail: senatorfrist@frist.senate.gov Fred Thompson: (R-TN) Senate Dirksen Office Bldt. Rm. 523, Washington,D.C. 20510 Ph: (202) 224-4944 E-mail: senatorthompson@thompson.senate.gov Miscellaneous: Web site for U.S. Department of the Interior http://www.doi.gov/index.html ************************************************************************** From: NASC Swan Subj: Re: Brentwood Graves Issue//Feedback Digest To: FirehairSS FireHairSS: I have seen the recent mailings in re: Brentwood. I am concerned and am hoping that with your help the CONFUSION of my aol online names with some one elses will be cleared up with this letter. #1- NASC is not N.A.S.L. nor affiliated with it. #2- ISwanMoon and NASC SWAN are the only TWO names that I have on AOL. I am not DAKKASWAN and I should not be receiving her mail. #3- I have read the works of the Red Stick Confederacy - good things..... however, in the length of time that I have been online, I have seen many grave sites fought for. I have seen many people come together to help both in email and standing up for their beliefs and the right to retain that which has been given to them by treaty or otherwise. This is the first group I have encountered which has a web site requesting funding. When the issue of money comes up - there is also a RED FLAG of ALARM. They say that they can receive up to $30,000.00 per year. I have received a letter from a gentleman with NAGPRA who has offered to help viable groups of this nature and have forwarded this letter to GHBogan (Brentwood), NatLadySpt(Brentwood) and TallEagle (Nashville). I believe that the Brentwood area is one which needs the voices of ALL the people to help stop what is going on there. More than 40,000 graves are endangered and these graves are not just the graves of the Cherokee. As the news has shown, approximately 30 graves have already been harmed. It is hardest to fight when the graves are already opened and therefore, we need more people to take a stand - in voice and in body. In the past, it was asked, when the bones and funerary items were repatriated, that we have many burial blankets or scarves sewn and sent to the REZ where the bones would be buried. This is not the time to be arguing over who these people are that stop the grave diggers from harming our Ancestor's Bones. This is the time to stand with them and make our voices loud and clear. Swan --------- "RE: Our Ancestor's Bones" --------- From: NASCSwan@aol.com Date: Wed, 3 Sep 1997 07:53:13 -0400 (EDT) Subj: NASC NEWS: Our Ancestor's Bones.....Tennessee & Virginia <><><><><><><>NASC NEWS MAILING<><><><><><><> Subj: NEWS Date: 97-09-03 05:48:05 EDT From: SbrWarrior To: NASC Swan Cherokee Yesterday and Today Cherokee, NC - Lands once claimed centuries ago by the Cherokee Nation encompassed parts of what are now eight states: Kentucky, Tennessee, Alabama, Georgia, South Carolina, North Carolina, Virginia and West Virginia. The total land area was estimated to be about 135,000 square miles. In contrast, today only 56,000 acres of their original homeland comprise the Qualla Boundary, more commonly referred to as the Cherokee Indian Reservation, in western North Carolina.. When visitors arrive on the reservation, they are entering a sovereign land held in trust specifically for the Tribe by the United States Government. This land was purchased by a non-Indian, by the name of Will Thomas, who in the late 1800s, presented the land to the Cherokee people. Long before Columbus arrived in the New World, the Cherokee were already inhabiting a vast area that included the Great Smoky Mountains. To the Cherokee, this area was known as "sha-cona-ge" or the "land of the blue mist (or smoke)". The Great Smokies are still home to the Cherokee, but thousands of non- Indians have moved into the area and developed the region during the past one hundred years. About ninety percent of the Great Smokies lie within the borders of western North Carolina and a small amount is in Tennessee that is a geographic surprise to many. Bordered on the North by the Great Smoky Mountains National Park, the reservation today boasts of development uncommon on Indian lands throughout the United States. Tourism is the mainstay of the economy with about seventy-five percent of the tribe's revenues derived from this industry. Nearly three hundred and fifty businesses hold "trader's licenses" and collect a six percent tribal levy on sales. No other sales tax, such as the six percent North Carolina sales tax, apply within the Boundary. Since the late 1940s, visitation to Cherokee has grown and spurred an annual increase in tourist-related businesses. Today, the reservation has 47 motels, about 100 cabins and 28 campgrounds, numerous restaurants, shops, cultural and non-cultural attractions, service stations and more. Six major motel properties are located on the reservation: Best Western, Days Inn, Holiday Inn, Comfort Inn, Hampton Inn, Quality Inn, Budgetel Inn, Econolodge and Comfort Suites. is scheduled for mid-1994. Major campgrounds include Kampground of America and Yogi Bear. The Cherokee living on the reservation are known as the Eastern Band of Cherokee Indians and are descendants of the approximately one thousand Cherokee who hid in these mountains to avoid forced removal to Oklahoma on the infamous "Trail of Tears" during the late 1830s. Today approximately 11,000 Cherokee are enrolled members of the tribe. Their language, both spoken and written, is no longer in danger of becoming extinct as it was only a generation ago and visitors may hear it spoken at attractions such as the Oconaluftee Indian Village and during the outdoor drama "Unto These Hills". It is a required subject in Cherokee schools and universities such as Western Carolina University in Cullowhee, North Carolina, have it as part of their curriculum. Unlike the tribes of the north plains and others, the Cherokee were not nomadic, they called themselves Ani'-Yun'wiya, the Principal People. They traced their descent through the women in their society and they lived in the mother's household, in contrast to the European method that traced both the men and women. Spanish explorer Hernando de Soto's entry into Cherokee territory in 1540 changed forever the way the Cherokee lived. His quest for gold, silver and other forms of wealth in the name of Spain brought disease, death and misery to Native Americans. Believing the Indians were withholding information about Cherokee wealth and location of mines, de Soto's men killed some Indians and enslaved others. Diseases carried by the foreigners brought about the demise of about 95 percent of the native population during the first 200 years of European presence that means that for every one hundred Native Americans who lived in 1492, there were only five in 1692. Volumes have been written about the Cherokee people and their known struggles since the first encounters with the white man. Today, they continue to struggle in a non-Indian society while attempting to avoid severance of their unique and often tragic past. As tourism grows, so does the prosperity and future of the Cherokee people. It was the designation of the Smokies as a National Park and the development of the Blue Ridge Parkway that caused Cherokee to become tourism-minded in the late 1940s. As visitors came to enjoy the Park and the unique Parkway, services were needed for the visitors who arrived via two highways--US441 and US19. Nearly 50 years later, tourism is still the economic lifeblood of the Cherokee people. All business locations within the Qualla Boundary are Indian-owned but, by the authority of the Tribal Council, Indians can lease their buildings or businesses to non-Indians. Even as the Reservation continues to grow and develop, the Cherokee people rightfully can continue to claim the status of "original inhabitants" of the vast and beautiful Smoky Mountains. Many books about the Cherokee are available at several museums and stores on the reservation. For complete visitor information about Cherokee, contact the Cherokee Visitor Center, P. O. Box 460, Cherokee, NC 28719 or phone 1-800-438-1601. <><><><><><><> Date: 97-09-02 12:21:05 EDT From: Watergrdnr To: dsunquist@mall.state.tn.us CC: DOXART, jjduncan@hr.house.gov, bart@hr.house.gov CC: hilleary@hr.house.gov, senatorfrist.senate.gov Dear Governor Sundquist, As a genealogy researcher of my family lines, I know that several of my lines were among the first families in Tennessee. I have always been very proud that they were. My gggggm, who was full blooded Cherokee but married into the white man's world, lived in Pennsylvania, New Jersey, and Kentucky. Today I am very happy that she lived a little north of Tennessee after I have learned of the cavalier manner in which the federal government, the state of Tennessee, and some of the counties and cities in Tennessee are treating the consecrated grounds of Native Americans. What a horrible way to repay the first inhabitants of this soil, inhabitants from whom we took the land and confined them to land that we thought was worthless. What a shock it was to us brilliant Europeans when we learned that there was black gold on some of that "worthless land". What a further shock it was to learn that our treaties which were written with no consideration for the native Americans allowed some of them to open casinos on that "worthless land" where they are able to make hundreds of millions of dollars. I am fascinated by the whiners who now say that it is unfair for the Native Americans to make all that money and not share it with the white man. Is it their position that they would share with the Native Americans if the positions were reversed? Current actions suggest more than a little hypocrasy. All the Native Americans ask is to keep what little they received from the Europeans and to keep their ancestors in the sacred ground where they were buried. There is plenty of land in Tennessee for the builders, investors, and others who want to disturb hallowed ground. It is unfortunate for the native Americans that some of them are buried on land that has become very valuable since they died. It is even more unfortunate that they do not have the power or money and the voting booth to influence the politicians. I think it is time for the government to hold its head high, bite the bullet, and keep those remains where they were placed many years ago, on their land, not ours. Please do everything you can do to help the helpless. Sincerely, Jo Ann Bowen Russu P.O. Box 272051 Houston, Texas 77277-2051 Watergrdnr@aol.com <><><><><><><> Subj: NEWS Date: 97-09-02 20:00:14 EDT From: SbrWarrior To: NASC Swan Sodak Resumes Casino Equipment and Systems Salws in New Mexico RAPID CITY, S.D., Sept. 2 /PRNewswire/ -- Following the publication of 10 Native American gaming compacts in the Federal Register on August 29, 1997, Sodak Gaming, Inc. (Nasdaq: SODK) announced today it is resuming product sales and distribution activities with compacted Native American pueblos and tribes in New Mexico. Shipments of electronic gaming devices and ancillary products are expected to begin in early September 1997. Installation and activation of additional wide area progressive machines on the interstate Native American systems implemented by Sodak are expected to begin in late September 1997. These compacts conform to the legislation passed by the New Mexico legislature last March and settle a conflict between New Mexico's governor and legislature. That conflict resulted in a federal court's action that nullified the then existing compacts, which interrupted the expansion of Indian gaming in the state. "We welcome this opportunity to proceed with full service to our customers in New Mexico," said Roland W. Gentner, president and chief operating officer of Sodak. "In addition to the introduction of new games and technology that have entered the marketplace since 1995, we are particularly excited to offer new wide area progressive systems in this market. Based on our successful experience with Megabucks and Quartermania in New Mexico, we believe newer systems such as Fabulous 50's, Wheel of Fortune, Wheel of Gold, High Rollers and Nickelmania could also be successful." Gentner continued, "We believe that the convenience of our one-stop, single-source shopping, the quality of our products and systems, our technical expertise and responsive service will provide our customers the assistance they need as they expand current casinos and establish new ones. We believe that Indian gaming entertainment in New Mexico will continue to flourish and expand and also presents further opportunity for economic growth, job creation and revenue support for tribes and pueblos," Gentner concluded. The New Mexico compacts allow full Nevada-style casinos. Sodak offers a comprehensive line of gaming machines, wide area progressive systems, accounting and player tracking systems, and other products and systems used in all aspects of modern casino facilities, including restaurant, lounge, surveillance, control and business functions. The wide area progressive systems provided by Sodak are currently in operation in four of the existing New Mexico casinos. Sodak Gaming, Inc. is an international gaming company providing equipment and wide area progressive systems and operating casinos, gaming halls and routes and maintains a dominant share in the Native American gaming equipment market. Cautionary Notice: This release contains forward-looking statements reflecting the Company's expectations or beliefs concerning future events which could materially affect Company performance in the future. The Company cautions that these and similar statements involve risk and uncertainties and are qualified by important factors, including competitive pressures, unfavorable changes in regulatory structures, and general risks associated with business, which could cause actual results to differ materially from those in the forward-looking statement. Forward-looking statements are made in the context of information available as of the date stated. The Company undertakes no obligation to update or revise such statements to reflect new circumstances or unanticipated events as they occur. SOURCE Sodak Gaming, Inc. CO: Sodak Gaming, Inc. ST: South Dakota, New Mexico 09/02/97 07:31 EDT http://www.prnewswire.com <><><><><><><> Subj: The Mattaponi Indian Tribe and Proposed King William County Reservoir Date: 97-09-03 02:49:25 EDT From: SNOWDEER36 The Honorable Ronald C. Forehand Senior Assistant Attorney General Office of the Attorney General 900 East Main Street Richmond, Virginia 23219 RE: The Mattaponi Indian Tribe and Proposed King William County Reservoir Dear Mr. Forehand: As a concerned members of the tribes of the U.S., I express my strong opposition to a proposed reservoir in King William County which would drastically affect the Mattaponi Indian Tribe. This is a very unjust project being pushed on this Tribe and is a definite violation of treaties dating back as far as 1646. The environmental impact is damaging and unacceptable in all facets of this project: destruction of over 400 acres of wetlands and 1,526 acres of upland habitat forests; endangering wildlife such as deer, beaver, geese, Bald Eagle nests. There is no real knowledge of the potential effects of water withdrawals (75 million gallons per day) from the Mattaponi River. However, the increase in the salinity of water will cause the destruction of 500 individual plants in Gametes Creek Marsh. More than a hundred Native American archaeological sites (some burial grounds) dating back 8,000 years will be inundated. This represents the Tribe's unwritten history. It is very biased to disregard the passionate and sincere feelings the Mattaponi Indians have for their ancestors. The citizens of the Commonwealth of Virginia need to consider the Mattaponi Indian Tribe and their heritage by not allowing the inter-basin transfer of water. The localities that are looking for their future needs of water are impounding a great injustice upon the forbearers of our land. Concerned human beings will find the correct way to respect the laws of nature. Virginia's Mattaponi Indian Tribe Is being threatened as never before. In essence, I request all legislation be blocked and vetoed. Do whatever is necessary to terminate the intrusion on this Indian nation. Thank you in advance for your attention to any and all circumstances regarding this matter. Let's all "Save the Mattapon"! Sincerely, <><><><><><><> The NASC Mailing list is a free news subscription mailing list. If you wish to be removed or added to this listing, simply email NASCSwan@aol.com. --------- "RE: Apache Elder Arrested on Mt. Graham" --------- Date: Thu, 04 Sep 97 09:41:37 PDT From: Robert Witzeman Subj: news release UUCP email Apaches for Cultural Preservation P.O. Box 249 San Carlos AZ 85550 News Release: Sept. 2, 1997 University of Arizona Detains Apache leader for praying on Mt.Graham Apaches for Cultural Preservation spokesperson Wendsler Nosie cited for Trespassing on Apache Sacred Mountain by University of Arizona police. On Saturday, Aug. 30, Mr. Nosie was detained by University police officers while returning from the mountain where he had been praying. Mr. Nosie was detained on the telescope access road which he was using to escape an impending hailstorm. Mr. Nosie was cited for trespassing and ordered to appear in a Safford, AZ court on Sept. 11. Said Mr. Nosie, "Mt. Graham is sacred to us. For an Apache to be detained and cited for praying on our sacred mountain by a public University is an outrageous act. Apaches have been praying on Mt. Graham since time immemorial...It is our religious right." Mt. Graham is sacred to the traditional Apache. Mt. Graham is located in Southeast Arizona on land now managed by the U.S. Forest Service. Mt. Graham is in the heart of traditional Apache lands. University of Arizona astronomers are building a telescope project on land sacred to the traditional Apache. The University has twice gone to Congress for exemptions from cultural and environmental laws in order to build their telescopes on Mt. Graham. The University, as well as the Forest Service, knew from the planning stages of the telescope project that the telescopes would violate Apache religious beliefs. The University astronomers have ignored all Apache appeals for respect of their religious beliefs. Nearly every Apache traditional spiritual leader signed a petition stating: We the undersigned spiritual leaders of the Apache people acknowledge the central sacred importance of Dzil Nchaa Si An (Mt. Graham) to the traditional religious practice of the Apache. We oppose the Mt. Graham telescope project because it will interfere with the ability of the traditional Apache to practice their religion. The UA is joined in the telescope project by the Vatican, Germany's Max Planck institute and Italy's Arcetri Observatory. Ohio State U. is considering rejoining the project having withdrawn once before. Please contact: Wendsler Nosie, (520) 475 2494 or (520) 475 2545 +++++*********************** KOLA (International Campaign Office) Van Boeckel St. 20 B-1140 Brussels Belgium Tel&Fax +32-2-241-8322 Email : kolahq@skynet.be **************************** FREE LEONARD PELTIER!!! FREE WOLVERINE!!! --------- "RE: Remember Dudley George" --------- Date: Sun, 7 Sep 1997 12:13:56 -0700 From: "S.I.S.I.S." Subj: Remember Dudley George: March 17, 1957-Sept. 6, 1995 :-:-:-:-S.I.S.I.S. Settlers In Support of Indigenous Sovereignty:-:-:-:-: September 6, 1997 Bulletin REMEMBER DUDLEY GEORGE! On September 6, 1995, Dudley George was brutally gunned down by Ontario Provincial Police (OPP) officer Kenneth Deane. George was among the Aazhoodenaang Enjibaajig - the Stoney Point People - who peacefully reoccupied Ipperwash Provincial Park after it had closed for the season in 1995. They were protecting sacred burial grounds located there. None were armed. On the night of September 6th, after a meeting of government officials, the OPP opened fire on the Stoney Pointers, killing Dudley George. Deane was sentenced to only 180 hours of community service for killing George. The Ontario government continues to refuse demands for a public inquiry into the incident. Last May, more than a dozen George family members and close friends filed victim impact statements. The following are edited excerpts from the victim impact statement released to reporters by Maynard Sam George, an elder brother of Dudley George, which appeared in the August,1997 edition of Anishnabek News. :-:-:-:-:-:-:-:-:-:-:-:-:-:-:-:-:-:-:-:-:-:-:-:-:-:-:-:-:-:-:-:-:-:-:-: My brother Dudley was born on March 17, 1957. Because it was St. Patrick's Day, my mother named our baby brother Anthony Dudley O'brien. We gave our brother the nickname Dudley, on behalf of Dudley Dorignt, the RCMP cartoon. Dudley was the eighth of our 10 brothers and sisters. But all of the children of Stoney Point always knew that it broke our parents' hearts when they were taken off their land. My father told Dudley stories about the way the federal government moved his family off their land at Stoney Point when he was 16. Our father told us that it was his dream to return there. My father told him that this was our land. He also told him that the government had promised to return it, but 50 years had gone by and they never had. In 1993, Dudley was one of a group of Stoney Pointers who occupied the east side of the (former) military base. Dudley told me he was living at the base for our dad. I must speak about the impact of Dudley's killing on our children. We have tried to raise the next generation of Native children to believe that things were slowly getting better in Canada. We have tried to give them more faith in the government and the police than our parents had. The bullet that Sgt. Deane used to kill Dudley also killed some of our hopes. Our young children now fear the police. We see them thinking of the police as soldiers who killed the uncle they loved; killed him like an enemy. Will I ever be able to say "Now my brother can rest in peace?" I know one thing for sure, I will never be able to sit down and talk to my brother again. I will never be able to give him a hug. :-:-:-:-:-:-:-:-:-:-:-:-:-:-:-:-:-:-:-:-:-:-:-:-:-:-:-:-:-:-:-:-:-:-:-: +++++WE REMEMBER DUDLEY GEORGE+++++ For more information on the Stoney Point incident: http://kafka.uvic.ca/~vipirg/SISIS/Ipperwash/arch01.html To sign a petition demanding a public inquiry into the incident, send an email to sisis@envirolink.org with "Petition" in the subject line and "I support the petition for a full public inquiry into the events surrounding the shooting death of Dudley George," your name, and your address in the body of the message. To view the petition text, visit: http://kafka.uvic.ca/~vipirg/SISIS/Ipperwash/spipetit.html :-:-:-:-:-:-:-:-:-:-:-:-:-:-:-:-:-:-:-:-:-:-:-:-:-:-:-:-:-:-:-:-:-:-:-: S.I.S.I.S. Settlers In Support of Indigenous Sovereignty P.O. Box 8673, Victoria, "B.C." "Canada" V8X 3S2 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: Gustafsen Retrospective" --------- Date: Sun, 7 Sep 1997 11:50:28 -0700 From: "S.I.S.I.S." Subj: Gustafsen Retrospective: August 29, 1995 Status: RO :-:-:-:-S.I.S.I.S. Settlers In Support of Indigenous Sovereignty:-:-:-:-: September 7, 1997 Bulletin GUSTAFSEN LAKE ISN'T OVER : A RETROSPECTIVE - AUGUST 29TH 1995 "Mercredi said RCMP were advancing plans to invade an illegal camp of armed native Indians because of white public opinion - They told me that they have to go ahead for two reasons - one, they don't want to set a precedent. And two, they are saying white public opinion demands it." - Assembly of First Nations 'Grand Chief' Ovide Mercredi Vancouver Sun p.A3 "The allegations of police and government wrong doings are so serious that there is no question there should be a public inquiry into whether or not the rule of law was respected." Canadian Forum Magazine - April 1997 WE WILL NEVER FORGET GUSTAFSEN LAKE : A PUBLIC INQUIRY NOW! Two years ago the governments of British Columbia and Canada were mounting the largest paramilitary operation in Canadian history against a small group of Indigenous and non-native resisters occupying sacred, unceded Sundance grounds at Ts'peten (Gustafsen Lake). A massive cover up has thus far kept the truth from public view. After a corrupt and bizarre kangaroo court process during which they were denied their counsel of choice, an acknowledged expert in international and constitutional law, Defenders are being held as political prisoners. World wide, supporters have called for their release and a full public inquiry with international supervision. In the interest of furthering this inquiry call - we look back. <-<-<-<-<-<-<-<-<-<-<-<-<-<-<-<-<-=-=-=->->->->->->->->->->->->->->->-> TWO YEARS AGO: DAY 10 OF THE SIEGE -- AUGUST 29, 1995 <-<-<-<-<-<-<-<-<-<-<-<-<-<-<-<-<-=-=-=->->->->->->->->->->->->->->->-> [comments in squared brackets are S.I.S.I.S. additions] "August 29th: 0830 hrs; Emergency meeting at operations centre in Kamloops" "the shooting on Sunday was "an incredible lesson: we must increase communications: two briefings a day henceforward...We can't tell anyone when 'D' Day is...We need a media strategy. We must have the understanding of the public based on feedback...This is more like Waco than Oka: we're dealing with a cult here." --Officer Commanding (OC) Kamloops Sub-Division Superintendent Len Olfert "August 29th, 1995 0830hrs; I called Stephen Owen the DAG [NDP Deputy Attorney General of British Columbia (Justice)] and updated him... If at any time we feel that there is a role for the DAG then he is willing to help. He stated he feels he is in a non-partisan role in the Government and may be able to assist us as a result. I will update him later today on any further developments." --notes of RCMP Assistant Commissioner Dennis Brown "August 29th, 1995, 0900 hrs; I had a meeting with the CO [Commanding Officer 'E' Division Deputy Commissioner Dennis Farrell] and Chief Supt. Johnston... The aboriginal community in BC think it would be very wrong to bring in outside people to contact the occupants of the camp. This is in reference to the Ottawa proposal received from ex Insp. Potts... We should be giving the local native elders a chance to resolve this issue. We should allow the relatives to talk to the relatives in the camp. This would place pressure on the natives... The CO asked that we get to the respective elders and ask them to assist us... We all agreed that Bruce Clark will not be allowed access to the camp. The approach to the Caribou elders is to be made by Supt. Len Olfert. Insp. Mahon and Sgt. Price joined the meeting. Sgt Price states that the elders in the Province supports what we are doing. He also agreed that the Caribou elders would be best ones to help us." "August 29th,1037 hrs; Received a call from Stephen Owen, DAG. Advised him that we are pursuing the involvement of the elders from the Shuswap Nation to assist us in communicating with the people in the camp." -- notes of Assistant Commissioner Brown "Considering putting negotiators in trailer near check point so that media cannot monitor radio-phone from 100 Mile House...Akwesasne "warrior flag seen on CBC video... High profile of this event could attract letter bombers, be alert of packages, etc, NSIS [RCMP intelligence - National Security Intelligence Service] to follow up. 'Ken, Marty & Len' referred to on Internet message -our personnel" -- Chief Superintendent Murray Johnston "Shuswap Liaison Group formed." -- Tsilhqot'in National Government TNG compilation "-discussed identifying the leader of the Sundancers that taught Percy Rosette or any who can influence him that this is not the ways of the Sundancers" -- Inspector Perry Edwards - RCMP Emergency Response Team (ERT) "Len [RCMP Supt.Olfert] advised that he discussed with the Psychologist the pro/cons of letting CLARK, natives' lawyer, speak with the barricaded people. Dr. Webster['Psy-Ops' consultant: WACO, MRTA Lima, Freemen, FBI training Academy, Quantico Virginia]. Len will let taped messages into camp from relatives. - I spoke to him about using Elders to help broker a surrender...-it was agreed that Tony Mahon's shop would do the ground work on it and present it to Len. Tony advised to get to work - also work on identifying Sundancer" -- notes of RCMP Chief Superintendent Murray Johnston "August 29th,1995 1545hrs; I called Stephen Owen and gave him an update that all was quiet." -- notes of Assistant Commissioner Brown "1630 hrs; 88 military helmets, 92 vests and 11 bunker shields [NATO] ordered; more later. Surveillance aircraft will be filming the camp continuously. 100 Kevlar helmets, weighting 3500 lbs, are shipped by a commercial Air Canada flight to Kamloops" -- notes of Superintendent Len Olfert "uncanny parallels to Waco - diff. colour of skin - spir. conviction... f**king loons" -- notes of RCMP Inspector Earl Moulton "Phone call to Len Olfert. - negotiators have developed an excellent rapport with Percy Rosette. - negotiators video taped an interview with the camp's lawyer Bruce Clark - it appears that Clark has a good deal of credibility with the camp - Len has agreed to allow Clark to speak to the camp by telephone tonight. He will evaluate the telephone conversation before making up his mind to allow Clark to go into the camp. Len's inclination is to allow Clark into the camp, as we have nothing to lose..." -- notes of Chief Superintendent Murray Johnston "1807 Dennis Ryan advises Bruce Clark interviewed on tape today - very coop. -mstated position on tape that he wants peaceful resolution -- interview by Ryan,Mike Webster, Doug Hartl, Bruce Cameron" "1900 Bison tour @ Armory - 14 tons, approx. $400,000, amphib., up to 90/100 KMH, 60 (degree) hill or 40 (degree)side-slope, 4wd/8wd. "on the fly" up to 70KMH diesel, all tires run flat/solid rubber in rear. 2 crew approx 8 ERT & 1 PSD in rear,withstand up to & include 50 cal. &all but large mines. Not overly noisy and smooth across country." Police signs are to be painted on the front, sides and rear" -- notes of Insp. Edwards "Let Clark in...it would demonstrate that we tried everything" -- TNG compilation "Charlene Belleau [Shuswap Liaison Group/First Nations Summit] There is a growing number of Shuswap that are willing to insert their own intervention" -- notes of Superintendent Len Olfert 2100 hrs; "In this extreme situation the stakes are too high for irresponsible reporting. Nobody is well served, particularly the general public, who deserves balanced and accurate reporting. You are the guardians of the information going to the public but the the public does not approve of media that puts our investigators in jeopardy and possibly put lives at risk" -- RCMP media liaison Peter Montague 2210 arrive 100 Mile House Det. - met Brian Turner, S/Sgt. Martin Sarich, et al. Sgt Gates, Kevin Mann, Brian Hodgkin, Ray Wilby working on ERT OPs Plans re: 1 Clark visit to site 2. possible surrender "Radical native Indians could gain more support for their political views if the standoff at Gustafsen Lake is settled in a gunfight, prominent BC Indian leaders said Monday...Council of Haida Nations president Miles Richardson urged non-Indians calling for a quick resolution to the crisis to consider the consequences of a shootout. Most of BC's native Indian leaders have not supported the Gustafsen Lake rebels, but Richardson said the frustration over land claims and political self-determination is rife within Indian communities. 'The feelings that these people have are felt broadly by the aboriginal people,' Richardson said. 'It will intensify and bring to the surface those feelings,' if the dispute is resolved with violence, Richardson said... Nuu-chah-nulth Tribal Council co-chair Lillian Howard said "From the native community,there is going to be a lot more support and empathy as it goes on." --Vancouver Sun, August 29, 1995 Page A3 <-<-<-<-<-<-<-<-<-<-<-<-<-<-<-<-<-=-=-=->->->->->->->->->->->->->->->-> "We can only assume you are planning a Canadian version of the infamous Massacre of Wounded Knee...and will be notifying our broadcasters as such" -- letter to BC Premier Mike Harcourt: Bald Eagle Defense Committee "When a people are acting in conscience and belief and the government assaults them from arrogance, prejudice, intolerance, or impatience, the government and its leadership will be condemned in history for its disservice to peace, democracy, liberty and humanity. "I urge you to act immediately to defuse a dangerous situation, to begin dialogue and to seek arbitration of all issues perhaps by an independent and impartial panel comprised of no Canadians and no Indians" -- Ex US Attorney General Ramsey Clark to BC Attorney General Dosanjh "The Traditional People are seeking to have an IMPARTIAL AND INDEPENDENT THIRD PARTY COURT ADDRESS THE TRUE ISSUE OF JURISDICTION ACCORDING TO EXISTING CONSTITUTIONAL LAW. Our people at Gustafsen Lake should be commended not condemned for trying to defend against the genocide of our People. They are seeking Truth and Justice for us all." -- letter from Lil'Wat Elder Tsemhu7qw, aka Harold Pascal <-<-<-<-<-<-<-<-<-<-<-<-<-<-<-<-<-=-=-=->->->->->->->->->->->->->->->-> !!! FREE THE DEFENDERS =+=+=+=+=+=+=+ JAIL THE OFFENDERS !!! WE DEMAND A PUBLIC INQUIRY NOW To sign the petition demanding an inquiry by email, send a message to sisis@envirolink.org with "petition" in the subject header and "I support the petition for a full public inquiry into the events surrounding the Gustafsen Lake crisis," your name, and your city of residence in the body of the message. For more information, contact Splitting the Sky - Phone/Fax: (604) 543-9661 Bill Lightbown - Phone: (604) 251-4949 S.I.S.I.S. Gustafsen Lake archives http://kafka.uvic.ca/~vipirg/SISIS/gustmain.html Please distribute this release widely. :-:-:-:-:-:-:-:-:-:-:-:-:-:-:-:-:-:-:-:-:-:-:-:-:-:-:-:-:-:-:-:-:-:-:-: S.I.S.I.S. Settlers In Support of Indigenous Sovereignty P.O. Box 8673, Victoria, "B.C." "Canada" V8X 3S2 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: Mayan Letter of Solidarity" --------- Date: Wed, 3 Sep 1997 21:48:29 -0500 From: "S.I.S.I.S." Subj: Gustafsen: Mayan Letter of Solidarity :-:-:-:-S.I.S.I.S. Settlers In Support of Indigenous Sovereignty:-:-:-:-: Excelentismo Consul de la Republica de Canada. GUATEMALA Respectfully we wish to make this presentation to you in the name of our Association for Development in Solidarity. ADESSOL, with its centre in the municipio and department of Totonicapan, Guatemala, Central America wishes to firmly plant our solidarity and moral support with our Indigenous brothers and sisters of the Ts'peten Defence which according to our information, have been invaded and forced from their lands, their sacred sites have been desecrated, their leaders are being persecuted an d are being denied their rights, which constitutes the VIOLATION OF THE RIGHTS OF INDIGENOUS PEOPLES, for which reason, this document exists requesting that: Liberty be respected, that justice be done for the Ts'peten people, that the leader Wolverine and Pitawanakwat be freed, and that the legal principles under the International Convention of Decolonization be applied. That a Tribunal be appointed to guarantee Justice for these mentioned Indigenous People. FOR THE RESPECT OF THE INDIGENOUS PEOPLES OF THE WORLD ASSOCIATION FOR DEVELOPMENT IN SOLIDARITY ADESSOL :-:-:-:-:-:-:-:-:-:-:-:-:-:-:-:-:-:-:-:-:-:-:-:-:-:-:-:-:-:-:-:-:-:-:-: Original version Excelentisimo Consul de la Republica de Canada GUATEMALA Respetuosamente nos dirigimos a usted, en nombre de la Asociacion de Desarrollo Solidaridad. ADESSOL, consede en al municipio y departamento de Totonicapan, Guatemala Centro America con el objeto de patentizar nuestra SOLIDARIDAD Y APOYO MORAL con nuestros hermanos indigenas del COMITE DEFENSOR TS PETEN que segun informaciones de ellos estan siendo invdidos y depojados de sus tierras, Profanacion de sus lugares sagrados, Persecucion de sus lideres indigenas, negacion de ejercer sus derechos, lo que en si constituye VIOLACION A LOS DERECHOS DE LOS PUEBLOS INDIGENAS, por lo que en aste medio rogamos porque: Se respete la libertad y se haga justicia con el pueblo indigena de TS'PETEN y de esta manera lograr la libertad de los lideres indigenas Wolverine y Pitawanakwat cumplimiento a los principios legales de Descolonizacion y el nombramiento como se debe de un Tribunal que haga Justicia al pueblo indigena mencionado. POR EL RESPETO DE LOS PUEBLOS INDIGENAS DEL MUNDO ASOCIACION PARA EL DESARROLLO SOLIDARIDAD ADESSOL <<-=-<<-=->>-=->>FREE THE TS'PETEN DEFENDERS<<-=-<<-=->>-=->> ===FREE THE INDIGENOUS SOVEREIGN NATIONS OF THE AMERICAS=== Prime Minister Jean Chretien House of Commons, Ottawa, Ont., Canada, K1A OA6 Tel: (613) 992-4211 Fax: (613) 941-6900 Faxing by email: remote-printer.Jean_Chretien@16139416900.iddd.tpc.int Email: pm@pm.gc.ca WWW comments: http://pm.gc.ca/prime_minister/contact_pm/index.html-ssii SUPPORT ORGANIZATIONS: Ts'peten Defense Committee Spokespeople: Splitting the Sky - Phone/Fax: (604) 543-9661 Bill Lightbown - Phone: (604) 251-4949 To sign by email the petition demanding a public inquiry into Gustafsen Lake, send a message to with "petition" in the subject header and "I support the petition for a full public inquiry into the events surrounding the Gustafsen Lake crisis," your name, and your city of residence in the body of the message. :-:-:-:-:-:-:-:-:-:-:-:-:-:-:-:-:-:-:-:-:-:-:-:-:-:-:-:-:-:-:-:-:-:-:-: S.I.S.I.S. Settlers In Support of Indigenous Sovereignty P.O. Box 8673, Victoria, "B.C." "Canada" V8X 3S2 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: Canadian use of Land Mine" --------- Date: Wed, 3 Sep 1997 00:33:58 -0700 From: "S.I.S.I.S." Subj: Canadian use of Land Mine :-:-:-:-S.I.S.I.S. Settlers In Support of Indigenous Sovereignty:-:-:-:-: September 2, 1997 S.I.S.I.S bulletin CANADIAN GOVERNMENT USED LAND MINE AGAINST ABORIGINALS IN 1995 Delegates from more than 100 countries are gathering in Oslo, Norway to work on a worldwide ban on land mines. The conference will hopefully lead to a treaty banning the use, manufacture, stockpiling, transfer and sale of land mines.This latest step in the so-called "Ottawa process" began last October in the Canadian capital. Although the Canadian government is enjoying wide acclaim for what appears to be a principled and vigorous opposition to the use of mines, Canada itself employed the weapon against Indigenous traditionalists defending sacred burial and Sundance grounds at Gustafsen Lake in 1995. The 31 day siege of the Ts'peten Sundance Camp two years ago, by the largest paramilitary operation in Canadian history, also involved an FBI "psy-ops" consultant involved with the Waco and MRTA "negotiations", and the use of up to 77,000 rounds of internationally prohibited hollow-point ammunition, by RCMP and Canada's Armed Forces. One military officer who testified at a recently concluded criminal trial, described the August 11, 1995 incident as possibly the "biggest land battle by Canadian Forces since the Korean War." That same day, the authorities targeted a camp vehicle used to carry drinking water from a nearby well. The RCMP placed a command mine beneath an access road and detonated the device beneath the truck. The blast did substantial damage to the vehicle but the truck's occupants survived. The use of the land mine was reported in an October 8, 1996 story in the Globe and Mail newspaper. At the time of the vehicle's detonation the Canadian authorities characterized the mine as a police "early warning device". During the trial however, details of the device, constructed with 8 "data sheets" and buried in the roadway, were revealed. Despite attempts by Ottawa and Victoria to ignore a growing demand for an internationally supervised inquiry into the Gustafsen operation, indigenous supporters from as far away as Guatemala, as well as the European Parliament's Green group, Incomindios, and ex US Attorney General Ramsey Clark are insisting the inquiry go ahead and the native protesters, including a 66 year old Shuswap elder called "Wolverine" be released. LAND MINES ARE KILLING INDIGENOUS PEOPLES - DEMAND A WORLD WIDE BAN DEMAND A PUBLIC INQUIRY INTO CANADA'S ACTIONS AND THE USE OF MINES AT -=-GUSTAFSEN LAKE<<-=->>FREE WOLVERINE FREE THE TS'PETEN DEFENDERS-=- Canadian Prime Minister Jean Chretien faxing by email: remote-printer.Jean_Chretien@16139416900.iddd.tpc.int To sign by email the petition demanding an inquiry into Gustafsen Lake, send a message to sisis@envirolink.org with "petition" in the subject header and "I support the petition for a full public inquiry into the events surrounding the Gustafsen Lake crisis," your name, and your city of residence in the body of the message. For more information, contact Splitting the Sky - Phone/Fax: (604) 543-9661 Bill Lightbown - Phone: (604) 251-4949 S.I.S.I.S. Gustafsen Lake archives http://kafka.uvic.ca/~vipirg/SISIS/gustmain.html Please distribute this release widely. :-:-:-:-:-:-:-:-:-:-:-:-:-:-:-:-:-:-:-:-:-:-:-:-:-:-:-:-:-:-:-:-:-:-:-: S.I.S.I.S. Settlers In Support of Indigenous Sovereignty P.O. Box 8673, Victoria, "B.C." "Canada" V8X 3S2 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: Treason by Natives?" --------- Date: Mon, 8 Sep 1997 21:36:34 -0500 From: "S.I.S.I.S." Subj: BC Report:"Treason" by "Native Insurrectionists" :-:-:-:S.I.S.I.S. Settlers In Support of Indigenous Sovereignty:-:-:-: Sept. 8, 1997 Bulletin BC'S 'REDNECK' REPORT: GUSTAFSEN/IPPERWASH - "NATIVE INSURRECTIONISTS" Two years after British Columbia and Canada mounted the largest paramilitary operation in Canadian history against a small group of Shuswap Traditionalists and non-native supporters on sacred, unceded, sovereign Shuswap Sundance and burial grounds at Gustafsen Lake, and after the longest criminal trial in Canadian history, during which dramatic revelations emerged of shocking abuses by police and government officials, the Ts'peten Defenders are in jail, the demands for a public inquiry go unanswered by the authorities, and the "smear and disinformation campaign" conducted by the state and its media continues. This is best demonstrated by the following article from the August 18, 1997 edition of the news magazine British Columbia Report: :-:-:-:-:-:-:-:-:-:-:-:-:-:-:-:-:-:-:-:-:-:-:-:-:-:-:-:-:-:-:-:-:-:-:-: IT USED TO BE CALLED TREASON by Dave Cunningham In March 1885, Metis leader Louis Riel seized a parish church in Batoche, Saskatchewan, armed his supporters, and demanded the surrender of nearby Fort Carleton. The ensuing stand-off, known as the North-West Rebellion, lasted two months and resulted in Riel being hung for treason. While debate still rages over the severity of his punishment, the quashing of Riel's insurrection was a landmark act for the fledgling Dominion of Canada and sent a message to rebel Indian bands that the rule of law would prevail. These days, the rule of law is very much in doubt. From Oka, Quebec, to Ipperwash, Ontario, natives who attack police are granted something approaching immunity by the courts. In the latest instance, the majority of protesters convicted in the 1995 Gustafsen Lake armed blockade near 100 Mile House were sentenced to prison terms of six months or less. Critics fear that the judiciary's apparent double standard for native offenders will only encourage further violence. Stiffer deterrents for native insurrectionists, they say, including refusal to negotiate land claims with bands involved in blockades, are necessary. The Gustafsen Lake blockade grew out of ownership claims put forward by the Alkali Lake Indian band on the private land of nearby rancher Lyle James. Mr. James had permitted some band members to use his land for a "Sundance" ceremony in 1990. But the native visitors repaid his generosity by permanently occupying the site and firing on campers at the lake. In June 1995, Mr. James served the squatters an eviction notice which they ignored. The conflict escalated in August when the natives fired at a Mountie. The bullets missed, but the RCMP set up a blockade and two other officers were shot on August 27, saved only by their bullet-proof vests. Controversial native-rights lawyer Bruce Clark arrived the following day to rail against the RCMP's show of force, prompting one BC chief to label him a "wing-nut." The stand off culminated with a massive exchange of gunfire on September 11 when Indians once again opened fire on police. The Mounties discharged 20,000 rounds in an attempt to keep the armed protesters at bay. Apparently subdued by the shoot-out, as well as the arrival of a South Dakota native spiritualist who urged an end to the conflict, the remaining 18 rebels - four of them non-native sympathizers - surrendered on September 17. At that point, the dispute was transferred to the courts. Clark went berserk, throwing papers at a judge and cursing the sheriffs who restrained him. After a court-ordered psychiatric examination he was held in contempt, a judgment later upheld by the BC Court of Appeal. Last week, the Supreme Court of Canada denied him leave to further appeal. Equally bizarre was the behaviour of the BC Supreme Court jury in May that found 15 of the 18 defendants guilty on a variety of "mischief" and firearms charges. As they entered the courtroom, the foreman and three other jurors were carrying eagle feathers, an apparent display of solidarity with the defendants that police psychologists later diagnosed as "traumatic bonding." During the sentencing hearing, defence lawyers unsuccessfully petitioned Justice Bruce Josephson to permit an aboriginal "sentencing circle" to determine penalties for the convicted. Some of the defendants were themselves opposed to the idea, including James Pitawanakwat, who along with 66 year old ringleader William Jones (Wolverine) Ignace and two others, was convicted on the most serious charge of mischief causing actual danger to life. Pitawanakwat said he was in the clutches of a colonial system and would do his own sentencing, prompting Mr. Justice Josephson to retort "I might play a small role in the sentencing if you don't mind." A small role indeed, some might say. The stiffest sentence he handed out was 4 1/2 years imprisonment to ringleader Ignace. Pitawanakwat and the two others guilty of mischief causing actual danger to life, an offence punishable by a maximum penalty of life imprisonment, received sentences of two to three years. The remainder all received six-month sentences, and two were permitted to serve their terms in the community. Vancouver lawyer Norman Mullins, who has represented a number of non-natives in suits with Indian bands, believes the sentences were suitably tough. "I think a lot of them thought they were going to get off scott-free," he says. "They'll think twice now." But Martin Brown, director of the Victoria-based Citizens Voice on Native Claims, calls the ruling disappointing and argues its only lesson is that native protesters can break the law with near impunity. "That's not a message that should be sent to any British Columbian when we're in the midst of negotiating land claims," he says. The Gustafsen Lake stand-off is merely the latest of a number of armed conflicts across Canada where native protesters have either walked away uncharged or with paltry sentences. In 1990, native Indians erected a blockade at the Canadian Forces Camp in Ipperwash,claiming ownership of the site. In May 1995, the standoff intensified with the fire-bombing of a training building, an assault on a military police officer, and the ramming of two military police vehicles by natives driving a bus. An Ontario judge later dismissed charges against the driver, maintaining he was "unarmed" and did not intend to endanger life. In July 1995, the Adams Lake Indian Band blockaded a road 30 miles northeast of Kamloops, preventing non-natives from driving across reserve land to their homes on private property. When a group of non-natives, one an off-duty RCMP officer, followed a private road onto the reserve, they were halted by three armed Indians, one of whom put a rifle to the officer's head. After the constable flashed his badge a tense 30-second standoff ensued. The native finally lowered his weapon but no charges were laid. Beginning in November 1994, the Penticton Indian Band similarly blockaded access roads to Apex Alpine ski Resort for three years to protest its planned expansion. They claimed it would have a negative environmental impact on their land. And despite documentation giving clear title to Victoria, they also claimed ownership of the Green Mountain access road. By July 1966, the NDP government's refusal to enforce former premier Mike Harcourt's promise to end the roadblocks eventually forced the resort into receivership. Last month, receiver Arthur Anderson Inc. announced it was reconsidering a joint-venture bid involving the Upper and Lower Similkameen Indian Bands. Meanwhile, the Penticton band is vowing to renew its blockades of the expanded resort. Mr. Brown observes that many of the native insurrectionists do not represent the mainstream of aboriginal politics. Indeed, the Adams Lake band is one of a number of interior bands who are boycotting the BC Treaty Commission process, demanding instead "nation to nation" negotiations directly with Ottawa. Mr. Brown says the federal government has an obligation to refuse any dealings with those bands. As for blockading bands involved in the treaty process,he says they should be dumped to the back of the line. "BC has an obligation to say if you break the law, you won't make it to second base," he says. With respect to judicial leniency with native blockaders, Mr. Brown says the courts are guilty of a double standard. "When you shoot at a police officer, you should expect to go to jail for a very long time. :-:-:-:-:-:-:-:-:-:-:-:-:-:-:-:-:-:-:-:-:-:-:-:-:-:-:-:-:-:-:-:-:-:-:-: \^/\^/ SOVEREIGNTY IS THE ISSUE; CANADA IS THE PROBLEM \^/\^/ More information on the Ts'Peten (Gustafsen Lake) Crisis at: http://kafka.uvic.ca/~vipirg/SISIS/gustmain.html :-:-:-:-:-:-:-:-:-:-:-:-:-:-:-:-:-:-:-:-:-:-:-:-:-:-:-:-:-:-:-:-:-:-:-: S.I.S.I.S. Settlers In Support of Indigenous Sovereignty P.O. Box 8673, Victoria, "B.C." "Canada" V8X 3S2 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: Two More Fired Marshals Rehired" --------- Date: Thu, 04 Sep 1997 10:19:57 -0400 From: ishgooda Subj: TAHLEQUAH: Tribal Court Clerks Put Back on Payroll ------- FORWARD, Original message follows ------- From NASC List: Tribal Court Clerks Put Back on Payroll Tribal Court Clerks Put Back on Payroll By Rob Martindale World Senior Writer 9/3/97 Two More Fired Marshals Rehired TAHLEQUAH -- Following reinstatement of tribal justices, Cherokee Nation Chief Joe Byrd said Tuesday he is putting the court clerk and deputy court clerk back on the payroll. In a second development, the tribe announced that two more fired marshals had been rehired, bringing to six the number who have returned to tribal duties. They were among 14 originally fired. The marshals who have not returned to the tribe were given until Friday to apply for employment, a tribe spokesperson said.Returned to court duties were the clerk, Lisa Fields, and her deputy, Gina Waits. It is hoped that equipment and files earlier taken from the offices of the justices and the court clerk will be returned by Friday, Byrd's spokesperson said. The equipment and files were taken by the Byrd administration on June 20 in a predawn raid on the tribe's courthouse in downtown Tahlequah.Until that time, the fired marshals, who had refused to give up their positions, held control of the courthouse. After Byrd's administration took control in June, the courthouse was closed until this past Saturday following the reinstatement of the justices. The tribe has been in turmoil since Feb. 25 when Cherokee marshals raided Byrd's headquarters in search of evidence of misuse of funds. Byrd fired the marshal service and his slim majority on the tribal council impeached the justices in a controversial move. The justices said the impeachment action was not valid because a council quorum was not present. An independent commission, which the Byrd administration hired to study the tribe's system of government, supported that view. The reinstatement of the court clerks Tuesday came after an Aug. 29 letter to the U.S. Interior Department charging that the Byrd administration was not complying with an agreement to restore some peace to the tribe. The letter to Solicitor John Leshy was written by Tulsa attorney Chuck Shipley, who has represented the justices. Shipley told Leshy that Byrd had "demonstrated clearly" by not having had restored the clerks or their equipment last week "that he disregards your authority and that of the attorney general (Janet Reno)." Byrd said Tuesday that the reinstatement of the clerks was not a specific term spelled out in his agreement with the Interior Department. However, Byrd said, he was willing to put the employees back to work in order to provide the necessary support for the tribal court. The Bureau of Indian Affairs has taken over the tribe's law enforcement responsibilities. --------- "RE: Deh Cho Evict Extractors" --------- Date: Mon, 8 Sep 1997 00:09:35 -0700 From: "S.I.S.I.S." Subj: Deh Cho evict illegal resources extractors :-:-:-:-S.I.S.I.S. Settlers In Support of Indigenous Sovereignty:-:-:-:-: S.I.S.I.S. note: the following release was forwarded to us by GATT Watchdog. At the fifth annual assembly of the Deh Cho, the delegates passed a resolution to be effective immediately. The Deh Cho territory is closed to any oil, gas, forestry and mining activity. The Deh Cho area is in the northern part of Canada covering approximately an area the size of France. In 1921 and 1922, the ancestors of the Deh Cho entered into a Peace and Friendship Treaty with the British Crown. In a subsequent court case in 1974, Mr. Justice Morrow found that the Treaty was a peace and friendship Treaty and not a land surrender treaty. The Judge at that time urged the state of Canada to enter into negotiations with the Deh Cho Peoples to establish the parameters for Canadian use of their lands and resources. From the middle of the 1970s, the Deh Cho Peoples and the state of Canada were engaged in discussions. However, in the early 1990s the Deh Cho and other Dene Peoples walked away from a $500 million dollar offer from the state of Canada which would have required the Deh Cho Peoples and other Dene Peoples to surrender and give up their title to their lands and territories. The Deh Cho Peoples cannot sell their birthright. In the meantime, the state of Canada has been operating as if they owned the lands of the Deh Cho and have been licensing mining companies, oil and gas companies and logging companies to go into the Deh Cho territory with out the consent of the Deh Cho. When the Deh Cho Peoples have requested that Canada cease and desist in this activity there has been no response. As a result of the past actions by the State of Canada to not honour and protect the territories and lands of the Deh Cho, the citizens of Deh Cho felt the need to protect their territory for the future generations. Included in the resolution are provisions for the enforcement of the resolution. However, the Deh Cho hope that the citizens and the state of Canada will respect the provisions of the Treaty and act in an honourable fashion. For more information regarding this release please contact: Grand Chief Gerald Antoine - Deh Cho Territory, Denendeh (403) 695-2355 or fax to them letters of support at (403) 695-2038. :-:-:-:-:-:-:-:-:-:-:-:-:-:-:-:-:-:-:-:-:-:-:-:-:-:-:-:-:-:-:-:-:-:-:-: S.I.S.I.S. Settlers In Support of Indigenous Sovereignty P.O. Box 8673, Victoria, "B.C." "Canada" V8X 3S2 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: Natives Without a Home" --------- Date: Sun, 07 Sep 1997 21:25:55 -0400 From: Sonja Keohane (by way of ishgooda} Subj: Natives without a home UUCP email Good evening all, From the Billings Gazette, a very sad account of the housing shortage there on the Crow reservation.When the statement is made: "HUD state coordinator Dick Brinck said he knows housing on many reservations is tight, but the agency wasn't designed to house everyone." I wonder where they expect members of the Crow Nation to live? http://www.bigskywire.com/gazette/sunday/region/region.htm Natives without a home By JENNIFER McKEE Gazette Wyoming Bureau CROW AGENCY - By now most have given up on the government. Death is more dependable. "We had 21 people living right here," says Marjorie Wilkinson of her modest home on the Crow reservation. "In the summertime it was all right, but in the winter, my nephew had to go to shelter." With 2,000 people waiting for one of 556 homes managed by the Crow Housing Authority, the struggle to find housing on the reservation leaves a full one-third of the Crow population without a home or the hope of ever getting one, housing authority officials say. With such a housing shortage, most authority homes won't come up for rent until the current resident dies. And most people stand a better chance of inheriting their parent's home than building one with Housing and Urban Development funds. Estimates vary, but most officials agree that between 2,000 and 3,000 Crows living on the reservation either room with relatives, camp out or make plans to move off the reservation. There simply aren't enough homes. --------- "RE: A Preponderantly Racist Province" --------- Date: Wed, 3 Sep 1997 21:39:23 -0500 From: "S.I.S.I.S." Subj: BC "a preponderantly racist province" -- Letter to the editor :-:-:-:-:-:-:-Settlers In Support of Indigenous Sovereignty-:-:-:-:-:-:-: [The following letter by FJK Griezic, adjunct professor, Canadian history, at Carleton University, appeared in the August 29th,1997 Victoria News] NISGA'A CRITICS SEEM ANTI-NATIVE Dave Clements' "Nisga'a treaty free vote revives referendum call" (Weekend Edition, Aug. 8) brought out more anti-First Nations pseudo -democrats like Martyn Brown of the special interest Citizens Voice on Native Claims. V. Klemes' "NDP needs primer on democracy," (Weekend Edition letters, Aug. 15) and Clements repeat the fallacy of what the Nisga'a will supposedly obtain. They will receive less than $160 million, not $200 million for ceding more than 18,000 square kilometres of land on which they will be expected to survive. That is within the Department of Indian Affairs policy of only letting First Nations keep a maximum of eight per cent of their own land. Each band member will receive about $29,000 or the equivalent of less than three years of white society's poverty level income. They will pay taxes on it and will be expected to do so after it runs out, and still have to provide for themselves. This amount is less than the federal government's guidelines of $35,000 to $40,000 per First Nation member in the negotiating process. Would Klemes, Brown and his Reformer and Liberal anti-native fellow travellers, including the extractive industry CEOs, be prepared to give up 92 per cent of their property to a foreigner of another skin color for such an attractive amount that would provide such benefits? Their short-term solution is to give the natives more money and less land. Why let the natives have their land to build an economic base for survival when, in the long run, it can be raped and exploited profitably by and for the Euroethnic-centered extractive industries? As for "democracy", of course, the Lower Mainlanders should have the right to "meddle" in the affairs of the "people of the north" as Klemes claims, but only as much as they "meddle" in the affairs of the Lower Mainland where power and control are exercised. Whether or not Klemes has noticed, BCers are having a say in the treaties being negotiated. It may not be the kind of involvement he wants. It appears he prefers to ignore historical reality and maintain the imperialist Rudyard Kipling's "White Man's Burden" of Euroethnic superiority and control. Like Martyn Brown, and other anti-indigenous peoples such as the BC Fisheries Survival Coalition (or Premier Clark's fisheries advisor), they indicate the bigotry, racism and ignorance, no matter how couched, of some BCers as evident in the Reform/Liberal minority report. Indeed, they are not so pale reflections of the Equal Righters of the 1890s. A referendum? Why not? It will permit BC to demonstrate that it is a preponderantly racist province, like the rest of Canada, in attitude and treatment of the First Nations. As for the NDP, opponents of the Nisga'a treaty should read the two reports, the Nisga'a treaty and accompanying documents to discover what the Nisga'a will receive. They might discover the NDP is almost as anti-native, but not so blind, as the Reform and Liberals and federal government in their attitudes towards First Nations. But that would eliminate their scapegoats. And scapegoating is integral to corporatist facist practices. F. J. K. Griezic adj. professor, Canadian history, Carleton University, Ottawa Ontario Canada :-:-:-:-:-:-:-:-:-:-:-:-:-:-:-:-:-:-:-:-:-:-:-:-:-:-:-:-:-:-:-:-:-:-:-: Victoria News letters to the editor: vicnews@pinc.com. Select Standing Committee on Aboriginal Affairs - taking submissions on the BC Treaty Commission c/o Parliament Buildings, Victoria, B.C., Canada, V8V 1X4 Ian Waddell, Chair: Tel (250) 387-2317, Fax (250) 356-7156 Committee Clerk: Tel (250) 356-6318 Email: ClerkComm@lass.gov.bc.ca For more information on the BC Treaty process, see: http://kafka.uvic.ca/~vipirg/SISIS/Clark/BCgovt.html and especially http://kafka.uvic.ca/~vipirg/SISIS/Clark/switlo.html SOVEREINGTY 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 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: Huron Cemetery Threatened AGAIN" --------- Date: Thu, 04 Sep 1997 10:43:50 -0400 From: ishgooda Subj: Huron Cemetery Threatened AGAIN: HURON NEWSLETTER: 9-3-97 UUCP email THE FOLLOWING INFORMATION COMES FROM WYANDOT OF KANSAS (Please do whatever you can..sign a petition or make calls (918-540-1442) to contacts within the Oklahoma Tribal offices and let them know your opinion of what they are doing to our ancestors....Ish) September 3 1997, news came to the Wyandot Nation from Congressman Vince Snowbarger's office and was confirmed by Hal Walker (City Attorney for Kansas City Kansas), that the Wyandotte Tribe of Oklahoma plans to dowse for human remains at the Huron Indian Cemetery. The Oklahoma Wyandottes plan to survey for the graves of Wyandots within the next two weeks to make way for a casino development on the cemetery itself. In February 1994, Chief Leaford Bearskin threatened to exhume the graves at the Huron Cemetery and move them to Oklahoma with the intent of building a casino on the sacred burial ground. The Wyandottes of Oklahoma have threatened the Huron Indian Cemetery with commercial development for the past 150 years and have rejected all proposals of conciliation as well as the development of a confederacy to protect the burial grounds of the Traditional Kansas Wyandots. The Traditional Wyandots, the Wyandot Nation of Kansas find this action abhorrent and stand firmly against such threats against the sanctity of our burial grounds. The Huron Indian Cemetery is the epicenter of our religion and culture and is historically significant to our people. As traditional people we view the threats against the cemetery by our cousins to be sacrilege and an example of what happens when native peoples become assimilated into white culture. For full details regarding the Huron Cemetery and the treats to its sanctity, please go to http://www.sfo.com/~denglish/huroncemetery Niaweh Thank you Darren English / Chiwatenehwa Member of the Traditional Wyandot Nation of Kansas "Cursed be the villain that molest their graves" Helena Conley - traditional medicine woman of the Wyandot Nation of Kansas resident of the Huron Indian Cemetery --------- "RE: Bear Lincoln Trial Nearly Done" --------- Date: Thu, 04 Sep 1997 23:58:25 -0700 From: Nicholas Wilson Subj: Bear Lincoln trial nearly done UUCP email Bear Lincoln Murder Trial Nears Climax The murder trial of Bear Lincoln, a Wailaki Indian, is rapidly nearing the end of the defense case, and Lincoln took the witness stand in his own defense today, Thursday, Sept. 4. He is charged with murder of a deputy sheriff on Good Friday, April 14, 1995, and could be sentenced to death if convicted by the all-white jury. Lincoln told the jury today that as he and his close friend walked up a remote dirt road at night on the Round Valley Indian Reservation, his friend was suddenly cut down without warning by a barrage of gunfire from ambush. Lincoln couldn't see who was shooting from the cover of darkness, but returned fire blindly as he ran and jumped over an embankment beside the road. He ran down a trail, thinking he was being followed and afraid he would be killed next. After hiding a few minutes, it was quiet, and he worried about his friend lying in the road on the hill above. He made his way back to the road 20-30 yards down the hill from the shooting scene, but again he was shot at. He fired his only remaining bullet in self-defense, then jumped back off the road and ran to warn his elderly mother and family members to flee because someone had killed his friend and tried to kill him, and they were all in danger. Only later did he learn that the unseen persons shooting at him were sheriff's deputies, and one of them had died of a gunshot wound to the head. He never imagined that it would be police shooting at him. He never saw them, and to this day doesn't believe one of his bullets killed the deputy. The dead deputy's partner was firing an M-16 military assault weapon on full automatic, and the partner testified earlier that he fell over the side of the road about when he fired the first burst from the weapon, making it possible that the dead deputy was shot accidentally by his partner. Only tiny fragments of the lethal bullet were recovered, and they don't provide any conclusive indication of whose gun fired the bullet. The partner is the only other surviving eyewitness to the events, and he tells a completely different story, or stories, because he changed his first story after learning that Lincoln's friend's gun had not been fired as the deputy said it had. Also, a trail of blood drips was found leading from the shooting scene for over a half mile down the dirt road almost to Lincoln's house. The big surprise was that the blood didn't match Lincoln, it matched the deceased deputy, proving that he had run down the road, possibly trying to find and kill Lincoln because he realized Lincoln was a witness to the deputy's ambush murder of Lincoln's friend. There is no time in the scenario told by the partner when the dead deputy had long enough to run over a half mile and back. The dead deputy had a deep bullet wound in his hand that was the probable source of the blood drips. Lincoln avoided capture for four months because he expected he would be killed immediately if he tried to surrender to Mendocino county deputies. He was featured on "America's Most Wanted" TV program, and Governor Pete Wilson offered a $100,000 reward for his arrest and conviction. He turned himself in over two years ago at the San Francisco law office of famed defense attorney J. Tony Serra, who is defending Lincoln free of charge. There's only one place on the World Wide Web that's up to date and providing full, free, coverage of the whole trial and the whole interesting story, and that's the Albion Monitor. The monitor is a reader-supported advertising-free biweekly newspaper distributed worldwide over the web. It is offering the Bear Lincoln coverage free to all as a public service. It has been described as the Internet's answer to The Nation magazine. The address of the Albion Monitor is http://www.monitor.net/monitor --------- "RE: Friends of the Lubicon Trial Update" --------- Date: Tue, 2 Sep 1997 20:19:06 -0400 From: fol@tao.ca Subj: Daishowa v. Friends of the Lubicon Trial Update Mailing List: FOL-L September 2, 1997 Daishowa v. Friends of the Lubicon Trial Update Daishowa charged with conflict of interest We began the day with a court support rally at Nathan Phillips Square, next to the courthouse (361 University Ave). One of the defendants, Ed Bianchi, acting as emcee, introduced the speakers. Our honoured guests from the Lubicon Lake Cree Nation, Reinie Jobin and Dwight Gladue, spoke about the devastation their people have suffered and offered kind words of support for the Friends of the Lubicon. Karen Wristen, FOL's lawyer from the Sierra Legal Defense Fund, discussed the importance of this trial regarding freedom of expression. Bill Phipps, newly elected Moderator of the United Church of Canada, in his first public appearance as Moderator, called the trial an "abuse of the justice system" which ties up resources just to keep people quiet. The crowd of over 200 people responded with sustained applause. Proceeding to courtroom 4-2, the people were surprised when a motion to dismiss the trial based on conflict of interest was presented by Owen Young, counsel for the Lubicon Nation. John Hunter, lawyer for Daishowa Marubeni International (DMI), who was sitting in court today, is a member of Davis & Co., a law firm that was retained by the Lubicon Lake Cree Nation to advise them in connection with land claims from 1986 to 1988. Mr Hunter appeared in court to deal with any matters affecting the interests of DMI which might arise during the trial. Mr Young argued that sensitive information disclosed by the Lubicon to Davis & Co. during the period 1986-1988 may have been used in the preparation of an expert witness report served last week by Daishowa. Having raised the issue of conflict, he said, the onus was on Daishowa to prove that a conflict of interest doesn't exist. Mr Justice McPherson requested preliminary arguments on the issues of the standing of the Lubicon Nation to bring this motion, and the timeliness of the motion. Mr Young discussed the public interest in the maintenance of privilege in the solicitor-client relationship and the risk of passing confidential information that could be detrimental to the Lubicon. Mr Jervis contended that there was prior knowledge of the relationship between Davis & Co. and the plaintiff based on past hearings and statements of fact, stating that Kevin Thomas, FOL, had regular communication with Lubicon Chief Bernard Ominayak and Lubicon advisor Fred Lennarson. He submitted that the motion should have been brought long ago. Mr. Justice McPherson adjourned court after hearing the submissions and reserved judgement until tomorrow morning at 10 am. The Daishowa v. Friends of the Lubicon trial will continue Wednesday September 3 at 10 am at Courtroom 4-2, 361 University Ave., Toronto. For more information call (416) 763-7500 or e-mail Friends of the Lubicon at fol@tao.ca Joining Friends of the Lubicon in court Wednesday will be the Anduhyaun Lodge, who will be bringing their people out to witness the trial. Each day of court has been sponsored by various organizations who are bringing their members to court to support the Friends during the trial. --------- "RE: Board of Forestry Practices" --------- Date: Wed, 3 Sep 1997 23:58:57 -0800 From: Headwaters News Subj: Action: Board of Forestry should close exemption loophole H E A D W A T E R S A C T I O N A L E R T S e p t e m b e r 3 , 1 9 9 7 [ Look for the adjoining weekly Update ] ------------------------------------------------------------ ACTION ALERT! DEJA VU ALL OVER AGAIN AT BOARD OF FORESTRY Will the Forest Practice Committee finally consider the exemption rule change? Find out in Red Bluff on September 9... For a full year, the Board of Forestry has failed to enact rules that could stop "exemption" (including salvage) logging in ancient redwood groves. Timber companies, including Pacific Lumber, routinely file for blanket "exemptions" for their salvage logging and other operations; these operations are then exempted from public and agency environmental review and monitoring. Last September and October, the public's effort to enact emergency rules halting this procedure through the Board of Forestry was narrowly defeated; salvage logging operations followed in three of Headwaters Forest's six ancient groves. Since that time a rule change proposal has languished on committee agendas every month, in seemingly perpetual limbo. However, this rule change has finally made it near the top of the Forest Practice Committee agenda, and could be considered beginning at 8am on September 9 at the Red Bluff Community Senior Center, 1500 S. Jackson St., in Red Bluff (call the Board of Forestry at 916-653-8007 for directions). The Board has stalled this issue for long enough that this particular rule change will probably not stop further salvage operations from occurring once marbled murrelet breeding season ends on September 15. However, the Board has a clear responsibility to end this destructive, ill-advised practice. WHAT YOU CAN DO... Attend the Board of Forestry meeting if at all possible. A large public presence has helped convince the Board to act responsibly before, and we'll need to muster that kind of support again. If you can't attend, please write, call and/or fax the Board of Forestry and demand that they enact a rule change to end the practice of granting exemptions for logging operations in old-growth redwood groves. You can make the following points in your message (some of you have seen this before, but here it is again!)... --> The few remaining coastal ancient redwood forests are extremely sensitive ecosystems, home to several rare and protected species. Logging operations of any kind should not be allowed in these areas without thorough environmental review. --> Ancient redwood stands are extremely fire- and disease-resistant. There is absolutely no credible reason to believe that salvage logging in these stands will improve forest health or reduce fire danger. --> Logging of any kind in ancient redwood forests has become highly politicized, and continued exemption logging in these areas is likely to spark considerable public opposition. --> It is difficult for agency personnel to adequately monitor exemption operations for compliance with the law, leaving ancient forest stands extremely vulnerable to abuses of this loophole by unscrupulous corporations. CONTACT... Forest Practice Committee CA Board of Forestry 1416 Ninth Street Sacramento CA 94244 phone 916-653-8007 fax 916-653-0989 Also... There will be a Public Session of the full Board, with an opportunity for public comment on all issues within the Board's jurisdiction, beginning at 9am on September 10 in Red Bluff (same address). ------------------------------------------------------------ S E N T B Y Headwaters Sanctuary Project and Bay Area Action. Repost at will -- Please include all attributions & contact info. www.enews.org | mark@enews.org ------------------------------------------------------------ T O S U B S C R I B E Send message to listproc@envirolink.org with only the following in the body: subscribe Headwaters YourFirstName YourLastName CompanyOrOrganization Replace the appropriate words with your name and any affiliation. Note: You must send from the account at which you wish to receive messages. --------- "RE: A Hundred Years Ago" --------- Date: Sun, 7 Sep 1997 00:36:09 -0700 From: Landis Subj: A Hundred Years Ago - Week 19 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, SEPTEMBER 10, 1897 NUMBER 48 =============================================== The world is a looking-glass, Wherein ourselves are shown, Kindness for kindness, cheer for cheer, Coldness for gloom, repulse for fear, To every soul its own. We cannot change the world a whit, Only ourselves which look into it. -SUSAN COOLIDGE. --------------------- MRS MARIE ANNALLO MARMON AND MISS MARY BAILEY SEONIA TALK WITH THE MAN-ON-THE-BAND-STAND. ----- Mrs. Marmon who came last week with Miss Seonia and eleven Pueblo pupils for Carlisle was a pupil of Carlisle herself from 1884 to 1889. After the expiration of her term she returned to New Mexico, and lived with her sister, who was the wife of Col. Robt. Marmon. In a few years the sister died, leaving a family of small children, which Marie loved and cared for as her own. After a lapse of time, Marie married the Colonel, and now has 2 children of her own. Mrs. Marmon is a progressive little woman, and has the interests of the Lagunas so much at heart that she seizes every opportunity to help them, and suffers distress of mind when she cannot arrest an influence that is leading her people astray or is hindering their most speedy advancement in the right direction.