From gars@netcom.com Tue Nov 4 22:56:13 1997 Date: Tue, 23 Sep 1997 20:24:16 -0700 From: Gary Night Owl To: Internet Recipients of Wotanging Ikche Subject: Wotanging Ikche--nanews05.039 _ __ _____ __ _ __ ___ ____ _ __ ___ ' ) / / ') / / ) ' ) ) / ) / ' ) ) / ) / / / / / / /--/ / / / ___ / / / / ___ (_(_/ (__/ ( / (_ / (_ (___/ '__/_ / (_ (___/ ' O ____ _ , ___ _ , ___ O o O / ' ) / / ) ' ) / / ' O o O / /-< / /--/ /-- VOLUME 05, ISSUE 039 O o o o o O __/_ / ) (___/ / ( (___, 27 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, NAT-REL, Big Mountain, FOL-L AISESnet & Innu-L lists; Settlers In Support of Indigenous Sovereignty; UUCP email; Newsgroups: alt.native, soc.culture.native, igc.indig.info Articles appearing have been previously posted for public dissemination and/or permission for inclusion has been secured. 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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 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. "Whenever, in the course of the daily hunt the red hunter comes upon a scene that is strikingly beautiful or sublime - a black thundercloud with the rainbow's glowing arch above the mountain, a white waterfall in the heart of a green gorge; a vast prarie tinged with blood-red of sunset - he pauses for an instant in an attitude of worship. He sees no need for setting apart one day in seven as a holy day, since to him all days are God's. __ Charles Eastman (Ohiyesa), Santee Dakota +- -- -- -- -- -- -- -- -- -- -- -+ | Indian Pledge of Allegiance | The Indian Pledge of Alleg- | | iance was first presented | I pledge allegiance to my Tribe,| on 2 December '93 during the | to the democratic principles | opening address of the Nat- | of the Republic | ional Congress of American | and to the individual freedoms | Indian Tribal-States Relat- | borrowed from the Iroquois and | ions Panel in Reno, NV. NCAI | Choctaw Confederacies, | plans distribution of the | as incorporated in the United | Indian Pledge to all Indian | States Constitution, | Nations. | so that my forefathers | | shall not have died in vain | Walk in Beauty! Night Owl +- -- -- -- -- -- -- -- -- -- -- -+ O'siyo Brothers and Sisters! This Monday marked solstice, a very Sacred time for many Native Peoples. I send greetings to all in hopes to make the Prayer Circle even stronger. It is already winter in Montana and the Dakotas. Snow has fallen and the cleansing north wind bites hard. If you have been seeking a way to celebrate the solstice by giving, consider blankets, warm clothing, fire wood for those in need of these life giving items. - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - This just in, for those who have been following the Bear Lincoln Murder Trial .... Date: Tue, 23 Sep 1997 17:15:50 -0700 (PDT) From: MICHELE HELENE MAAS Subj: Bear Lincoln we have just learned the jury has returned with a not guilty verdict for Eugene Bear Lincoln..we have also learned the d.a. will re-try the case as manslaughter.......michele - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - Thanks to my beloved wife for this week's editorial: When people say to me -- well, if a tribe is rich, why should we keep giving them money, I ask them one simple question. Is the finance company that holds your mortgage well off financially? They always give me looks like I've grown a second head. Well SURE it is, they reply, if it weren't they wouldn't have been able to loan us the money to buy the house. It follows, then, that you don't believe you should have to pay your mortgage to them, I respond. The next look shows they think I've grown a third head. Well look, I say. It's just like with the Indians. The United States bought land from them, and paid them with a treaty that promised to make payments to them in cash and services. Now the U.S. is in debt and some of the Indian tribes have some money, so the U.S. would like to say that the Indians with money are rich enough and the U.S. shouldn't have to pay the debt anymore. You bought your house with the help of the finance company, and promised them you'd pay them back for the help with cash payments. The finance company has plenty. You are struggling to make your bills. So maybe, as the U.S. would like to do with the Indians, it would be okay to walk away from your responsibility and promise to the finance company. Does that sound right? Well, it's not the SAME, they protest. I only have to pay for 30 years. Um hmmm...I say. And the payment is what? About a quarter of your annual gross income? (typically that's about the right percentage) And you have what? Maybe a quarter or a third of an acre of land, if that? Every inch of property in this country was in use by the Indians. It fed them. It clothed them. It sheltered them. We have changed that land so that it cannot possibly be used by them. Deer and buffalo just don't live well in parking lots and wild grapes don't grow on skyscrapers. The U.S. pushed the Indian tribes onto pockets of wasteland that cannot possibly be self-sustaining, and did so on purpose, with the stated intent at that time of rendering tribes extinct within a certain period of time. They, in short, figured the land they put them on was so sorry nobody would want to stay there, and that the Indians would scatter, become "just like us" in a matter of time, and that the payments could stop by default. It never occurred to the U.S. that becoming "just like us" would look to so many tribes of Indian people like a sorrier fate than a slow, lingering death on that land -- that they would struggle to find ways to stay together there as a people. But they did. And the payments that were rendered to them and are still rendered to them has never been more than a tiny portion of our national budget. Think. If you could pay for your home by buying the president of the mortgage company a soda pop once a month, do you think you might be willing to agree to pay for it (and agree on behalf of your ancestors) forever? Some people still struggle with the idea. Some, like Gorton, have such a vested interest in destroying Indian tribes as distinct people, that they will never see it. Gorton hates Indians with the same fervor that Helms hates communists. He will never relent in his efforts to oppose sovereignty of Indian tribes. I don't think any kind of reason will ever reach him. He's too entrenched (and he has an ongoing financial interest). Ironically, we could make the same argument with him. Gorton's fisheries have plenty -- they're doing well. Yet Mr. Gorton has tried incessantly to nullify treaties that allow Native tribes that are absolutely impoverished to fish waters he wants. If he has plenty, why should he want that little bit the Native tribes have? Isn't that a lot like what he's saying about the U.S. and Indian tribes that are well off? There are only two ways to deal with somebody like that. Either get him out of office or educate the rest of the Senate and House and their constituencies to the point that they just look at him and shake their heads and say "there he goes again" when he starts on one of his little vendettas. Preferably both. Slade Gorton and his obsession are an embarrassment to his state and the country. 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 - Big Thank You for Response - Mt. Graham Telescope Construction THIS - News from Big Mountain ISSUE - Begay Letter CONTAINS - Finds Alter View of Native America NO - Ute Tribe's Resistance PART B - To Die in Order to Live - Lessons of Patience THIS - Wyoming Buffalo ISSUE - Byrd/Cherokee Problems CONTAINS - United Church Coverup NO - IBA Talks Breakdown PART B - Infrastructure Appeal concludes - Daishowa v. Friends of the Lubicon THIS - BC Archives Censored ISSUE - Vernal Cross Claims Denied CONTAINS - Western Mohegans Call for Solidarity NO - A Monarchy in Limbo PART B - Ruby Valley Treaty - AISES Receives Presidential Award - New Moon Prayer THIS - A Hundred Years Ago ISSUE - Native Prisoner CONTAINS - Poem: The Apparitions NO - Verse: Hawaiian Book of Days PART B - Conferences and Powwows - offline --------- "RE: Big Thank You for Response" --------- Date: Mon, 22 Sep 1997 10:08:39 -0400 (EDT) From: FirehairSS@aol.com (fwd) Subj: Big Thank You for Response ------- FORWARD, Original message follows ------- UUCP email Dear Friends, Thank you to all who called Senators to oppose Senator Gorton's vicious anti-Indian riders in HR 2107, and for spreading the word on to other people so that the word could get out. Late Monday night (actually some of the details were still being hammered out on Tuesday) -- we won! Well, at least, for a while..... Although on Tuesday morning I had relayed the results of our efforts to the Cherokee Nation and Askwitteachik homepages, and forwarded to the TribalLaw listserv where it has been discussed for a few days, I forgot that most of you are not likely to be part of that forum, so I apologize for not updating you before now. After negotiations with other Indian Affairs committee members that ended Tuesday, Gorton agreed to withdraw the sovereignty and jurisdiction rider (#120), and agreed to Sen. Campbell's amendment to the means-testing rider (#118) that would only apply to funds beyond the levels funded last year, and even those with additional safeguards added. (this is actually pretty superficial, and I may be off a bit in the details, but essentially they're gone). The considerable opposition to these riders from other Senators was such that they were unlikely to pass, and realizing that, Gorton negotiated the above in exchange for the promise of hearings next April (in the Committee on Indian Affairs) on these issues. So although we've won this battle, the war will proceed next year (of course, those familiar with the history and extent of *perpetual* U.S. treaty violations will not be surprised at that....) Ironically, on Tuesday morning a rebuttal article by Senator Gorton, defending the riders, was published in the Washington Post editorial page. I was prepared to send a point-by-point counter-rebuttal OpEd to the Post, but by the time his letter was published, he had already withdrawn the riders (though that was not yet public knowledge). Of course, his "logic" and views in the article (and the point-by-point detailed rebuttals we will offer) all completely ignore the one real issue that it all boils down to, and that is what I hope to emphasize next April. Thank you again for your help. --Scott Tippetts --------- "RE: Mt. Graham Telescope Construction Continues" --------- Date: Mon, 15 Sep 1997 17:37:55 -0400 (EDT) From: FirehairSS@aol.com Subj: Mt Graham-construction continues, facts we didn't know UUCP email MT. GRAHAM TELESCOPE CONSTRUCTION CONTINUES ==+==+==+==+==+==+== On 1.2 acres at the top of Mount Graham's 10,470-foot Emerald Peak, crews working on the $75 million Large Binocular Telescope (LBT) are well into their second season of construction. Two weeks ago crews finished pouring concrete for the two major support walls of the telescope structure. Since early March when construction began after four months of winter snow, crews have poured almost 3,000-cubic yards of concrete and reinforced it with 150 tons of structural steel. The University of Arizona claims it will be the largest and most technologically advanced telescope in the world when fully operational in 2003. It's a large telescope complex, but a very small place to build. The construction site is cramped because it is bounded on all sides by thick forest and yellow ribbon marking an area closed to all entry: the federally protected habitat of the endangered Mount Graham Red Squirrel. Mount Graham is held sacred by the Western Apache people. Because of these facts, telescope construction on the mountain has been hotly contested by American Indian, environmentalists and human rights activists since its planning stages. In 1988, the UofAz received authorization from Congress to build three telescopes on 8.6 acres on Mt. Graham. The action exempted the UofAz from following the National Environmental Policy Act, which would have prohibited construction in endangered species habitat. Last June, after nearly eight years of court battles with American Indian and environmental groups, the UofAz was allowed to proceed with construction of the LBT. Crews will continue to work at the site until the first week of December before shutting down for the winter. UofAz expects the lower portion of the building to be completed by that time; and be finished with the building by 1999. Despite the fact that construction is well underway, opposition to the project is still strong, and growing. Anne Carl, a spokeswoman for the Student Environmental Action Coalition, said her group will continue opposing the UofAz's activity on Mount Graham "every step of the way". The National Historic Preservation Act requires that American Indian communities be consulted; but they haven't been. Furthermore, the university is not adequately monitoring the impact construction is having on the red squirrel population. An internal US Forest Service memo recently made public in the Apache historic preservation lawsuit now pending in the US Ninth Circuit Court of Appeals, reveals that the Forest Service admits for the first time after years of evading the issue that Mt. Graham is a traditional cultural property of the Western Apache. Last August, over Forest Service opposition and without knowledge of the secret memo, the President's Advisory Council on Historic Preservation notified the USFS that the Mt. Graham Observatory project was undertaken in violation of the National Historic Preservation Act, pointing out to Forest Supervisor John McGee that: "it is now evident that the Forest service has a responsibility to evaluate Mt. Graham for eligibility for the National register of Historic Places as a traditional cultural property... this evaluation should be accomplished as quickly as possible, prior to taking irrevocable action in constructing the third telescope." To date, the Forest service has stonewalled the President's council and refused to comply despite the admissions contained in their internal documents and memos. Meanwhile, a decision is expected soon in the San Carlos Apaches' lawsuit to halt the illegal telescope construction. The telescope project is business, not science. A nationally respected astronomer, Roger Lynds, in 1993 said the observatory had "nothing to do with science, technology and truth or the best use of taxpayers' money." The UofAz's science is so slipshod and incompetent that it didn't even complete its science homework before it went to Congress in 1988 and lobbied radical exemptions from U.S. environmental and religious protection laws. Four years after construction had started, the university realized it had selected the poorest location on Mt. Graham for an observatory. Though the university may some day claim to have the world's largest (in reality the world's third-largest) telescope, it has almost nothing to do with science. It is sheer a matter of attracting grant dollars. Federal grants for such boondoggles aren't always, as Dr. Lynds says, "the best use of taxpayers' dollars." In 1991, president Gee of the Ohio State University dropped this controversial and highly unethical project because he said, "When you are canceling math classes to build a telescope, you have a problem." In Ohio, some 5,000 citizens in one week observed Hale-Bopp through the Perkins telescope. But now Ohio State says they can't afford $100,000 a year to help keep Perkins open. President Gordon Gee decided to spend what he said would cost "$60 million of the next 20 years" for the Mt. Graham telescope. The mirror now being recast for that telescope has tripled in prince -- even before the UofAz's "patch and paste" casting blunders. Ohio State University has produced two Ph.D. astronomers per year over the last 10 years. Astronomy is one of the most overcrowded fields in the United States. Dr. hale of Hale-Bopp fame was unemployed when he discovered the comet from a portable telescope in his driveway. He epitomizes the market glut of astronomers. OSU is foolish to invest tens of millions in an unproved technology when so many other large telescopes are available. Other telescopes which are not cultural pariahs either. It took more than five years for UofAz to make its last mirror, and it was only half the current one's size. OSU will pay Arizona astronomers more than $50,000 per night to use this white elephant, and since the weather is so bad on Mt. Graham, they will not even have a 50-50 chance of using it. Ohio should keep Perkins open for the public, and demand that President Gee stops OSU's ego-tripping with costly extravaganzas that abandon Ohio's legendary local observatory, and leave Ohioans holding a highly controversial, slipshod science and totally unethical scope in a poke. At the 1991 annual Catholic Press Association convention in Arizona, the renowned novelist Tony Hillerman from New Mexico5declared that the proposed sitting of telescopes of Mount Graham was "as bad as Israelis putting a radar tower on top of the church of the Holy Sepulcher in Jerusalem." The University of Arizona, the German Max Planck Institute, the Italian Arcetri Observatory, the Vatican Observatory, and now maybe Ohio State University are proposing to spend millions of dollars to do essentially that to the Western Apaches with their LBT. Do President Pacheco (UofAz) and Father George V. Coyne (Vatican Observatory) want to see a burning bush on Dzil Nchaa Si An (Mt. Graham) before they will believe this mountain is sacred?! UofAz and now maybe OSU are the only North American institutions that have dishonored themselves in this travesty. Every other American institution, over 20 of them, that signed up or had intentions to, dumped the project. Why are UofAz, Max Planck, Arcetri, the Vatican and OSU so uncaring of fundamental human rights and the laws which protect Mother Earth? To Mr. Pacheco, Mr. Gee, Father Coyne, scientists of Max Planck and Arcetri, and to Pope John Paul II: it's like the old joke, gentlemen, what part of "no" don't you understand? NO Telescopes on Mount Graham! Elsie Herten **************************** KOLA (International Campaign Office) Van Boeckel St. 20 B-1140 Brussels Belgium Tel&Fax +32-2-241-8322 Email : kolahq@skynet.be --------- "RE: News from Big Mountain" --------- Date: Fri, 19 Sep 1997 13:27:59 -0800 From: redorman@plix.com (Dorman, Robert E.) Subj: BIGMTLIST-Navajo Hopi Observer Articles Mailing List: Big Mountain List The following come, with thanks, from Media Island International: Date sent: Fri, 19 Sep 1997 02:10:40 -0800 To: redorman@plix.com From: Media Island International Subject: 9/3/97 article N-H Obsvr. here are two from the 9/3 issue. the other email is the same category- different article. ***************************** Articles from: The Navajo-Hopi Observer "The Native American Voice of Northern Arizona" 2608 N. Stevens Blvd., Flagstaff, AZ 86004 (520) 526 3881 Subscription rates $45/yr, $30/6 months Please subscribe! Navajo-Hopi Observer September 3, 1997 Pg. 1 Hopi Tribe conducts livestock count KYKOTSMOVI, (Ariz.) Subject: 8/13/97 NHO article Navajo Hopi Observer August 13, 1997 HPL relocation update By W. R. Young THE OBSERVER Since the March 31 deadline for Dineh HPL (Hopi Partition Land) residents to sign Accommodation Agreements with the Hopi Tribe, about twenty individuals have begun the relocation application process and an additional eight to ten who were already certified have chosen to proceed with relocation. Of thirteen homesites where no eligible residents signed Accommodation Agreements, thirty- eight individuals are recognized residents who may be eligible for relocation and seven of those families have indicated that they intend to relocate. Six of those seven families had already attained certification for relocation and one has recently begun the application process. There are six homesites on the HPL which did not sign an Accommodation Agreement and do not intend to relocate. Of all HPL homesites visited before the March 31 deadline, the U.S. Justice Department turned over a list of eight to ten already certified families who intended to relocate to the Office of Navajo Hopi Indian Relocation (ONHIR). ONHIR representatives visited those people during the month of June because they had requested that they be contacted in order to continue the relocation process, says ONHIR Deputy Executive Director Mike McAlister. Four teams of two counselors from the ONHIR staff began visiting the 84 homesites with HPL lease agreements this July. Of those homesites, a total of 318 eligible residents signed Accommodation Agreements. The ONHIR teams have been informing the residents at those homesites that they have three years from the day they signed the Accommodation Agreement to accept relocation benefits if they so choose. Out of 35 legal multiple-family homesites visited so far, the ONHIR teams have received about 20 new relocation applications from individuals, McAlister says. Families visited by ONHIR should be aware that any information given to the counselors could be used to determine whether they will denied or granted relocation benefits. Director of Navajo Hopi Legal Services (NHLS) David Womochil says, "We would like anyone with questions to come to our office. That's what we're here for." He says that NHLS can answer questions and act as a legal representative for those families who want to relocate. If a family decides to relocate and NHLS represents them, then ONHIR does the paperwork for that family's case through the legal office. NHLS, which is funded by the Navajo Nation's Department of Justice' has offices in Tuba City and Flagstaff. The seven-person staff can provide legal assistance on relocation, grazing, and other related issues to anyone affected by the Relocation Act. Those who signed Accommodation Agreements and are now opting to relocate must relinquish their current lease with the Hopi Tribe in order to continue the relocation process. The first step of the relocation process is selecting a new homesite, which can be anywhere in the United States. After filling out the form, relinquishment of the Accommodation Agreement does not go into effect until the relocation house is built. According to McAlister, some people have already received approval but have not relocated yet. McAlister explains that ONHIR has not begun contacting the non-signers of the Accommodation Agreements who plan to continue residency on HPL since the US Department of Justice has requested that they maintain a low level of activity there. Katherine Hazard, U.S. Justice Department Attorney for the Manybeads lawsuit, explains that the priority right now is to continue working with the Dineh residents of HPL who signed lease agreements to establish homesites and farming areas and to allocate grazing permits. ONHIR will eventually deliver 90-day "notices to vacate" to Dineh residents of the HPL who did not sign a lease agreement with the' Hopi Tribe, though McAlister says, "We have not even planned for the notices to vacate yet." It has not been decided whether ONHIR must first prove that they have the funds to build homes for those people, or that they already have the houses built in New Lands. One concern is that if ONHIR already has homes built for those people when they deliver the notices and those people decide to move elsewhere, then the homes may never be used. After the procedures have been determined and the notices have been delivered, HPL residents without leases will have 90 days to begin the relocation process. If they refuse, an eviction, with a court order, could take place. The local law enforcement agency under that court would be responsible for the eviction. "Hopefully, everybody decides to either sign the Accommodation Agreement or take relocation benefits if they're eligible," McAlister says. Not all HPL residents are eligible for relocation benefits under federal law. When Congress passed the Relocation Act in 1974, it established pre-requisites for relocation, HPL residency and a head-of household status (over 18 or self-supporting with a family) before relocating from the HPL. During the first ten years of relocation, the requirements did not differentiate between physical or legal residency. By 1986, over 1,200 families, each averaging four or five people, had relocated from the HPL. Because more people were relocating than anticipated and thus were creating a greater expense for the federal government, Congress instructed the Relocation Commission to stop accepting relocation applications in 1985. A court ruled that the cut-off date for relocation applications would be in July of 1986. For a person to be eligible for benefits after 1986, they must have been a full-time resident of the HPL since that time and a head-of-household before the 1986 deadline. In 1996, Senator McCain's staff requested a five-year phase" out plan for ONHIR, suggesting that all relocation be completed in the following five years. A public hearing was held in Washington DC in September of 1996, but the issue did not reach the Congress floor for a vote before the end of the session. Any legislative plan to shut down ONHIR will have to be re- introduced in the next session of Congress. The alternative to legislative closure would be for Congress to end funding. How many signed Accommodation Agreements? According to the 1992 enumeration taken on the HPL by the Navajo Nation's Navajo Hopi and Commission, there were 112 full-time homesites and 36 part-time homesites on the HPL, made up of 570 families. Six hundred and fifteen individual adults and children were recognized as full time residents and an additional 1,012 individuals were considered part-time residents. Technically, all full- and part-time residents from full-time homesites were considered eligible to sign an Accommodation Agreement, as were those persons' children and descendants and their spouses. Some of those people were no longer considered eligible because they had since moved away or for reasons outside of the legal parameters for maintaining legal residency. Three hundred and eighteen individuals signed Accommodation Agreements. The Hopi Tribe added 13 homesites of people who were previously considered part-time HPL residents to the original 112 full-time homesites, making the number of recognized HPL homesites climb to 125. One of those 125 homesites was abandoned, leaving 124 recognized HPL homesites. Since 1992, 27 families relocated and 3 more eligible people died, dropping the number of recognized homesites to 94. The Hopi Tribe recently moved 3 more people to the full- time residency list making the total number of eligible homesites 97. Of those 97 recognized HPL homesites, 84 homesites signed lease agreements and 13 did not. At least 20 families on the 84 homesites with leases and 7 of the 13 without HPL leases have indicated intent to relocate. Now many have relocated? According to ONHIR's basic statistics report at the end of July, there have been 3,430 total certified applicants and 1,500 denied applicants. A total of 2,877 new homes have been acquired through the federal relocation program. 2,781 of those families who completed the relocation process were Navajos from the HPL. Twenty five of those new homes were for Hopi families who relocated from the NPL (Navajo Partition Land), though 27 had been certified. In 198O, Congress included relocation benefits for Navajos residing in District 6, an area outside of the former Joint Use Area (HPL and NPL) which had already been considered exclusively Hopi Reservation. Seventy-one Navajo families from District 6 relocated. ************************************************* You are on the BIGMTLIST, a moderated mailing list of Big Mountain relocation resistance information (not discussion or debate). To unsubscribe, email redorman@plix.com with "unsubscribe" in the subject header. For Big Mountain and other activist internet resources, visit "The Activist Page" at http://www.plix.com/~users/redorman/index.htm --------- "RE: Begay Letter" --------- Date: Mon, 22 Sep 1997 17:35:46 -0800 From: redorman@plix.com (Dorman, Robert E.) Subj: BIGMTLIST- Begay Letter Mailing List: Big Mountain List I just received the following letter from William Begay (Jr.? -- signature was not too clear): To the supporters of Big Mountain Dine': Today we just want to let you know that we are another organization. We are not a part of Dineh Alliance or SDN. We supported them as they worked with you. As supporters, your help was needed. We, the family and the people who we work with, just kept out of the politics, to not interfere with the work they were doing, hoping we could get help too. They all helped us in their own ways. From all the papers we have signed for them, as they were our voices, it all sure sounded good. Today, when the reality came for us to see, our spokespeople moved off the land to work or go to school or just live. Now we are alone in the politics, left without the help we need. The whole HPL people have been divided and some have been conquered by signing the Accommodation Agreement Lease. We still hear that they are not happy with the decision they made; we just have to put up with the consequences of the decision they made. Its hard, since we non-signers have to live with some families that ave given up to the oppressors, like letting their livestock be counted. So the Hopi rangers and enforcers come around all the time to try to push their laws on us, since those other families signed. The Hopi try to treat us all as signers. Now all the signers can do is to reduce their livestock according to Hopi plans and laws, 30-60%. We think that this will affect us non-signers, too. The signers are working with Mr. Lee Phillips, their attorney hired by the Navajo Nation Justice Dept., and they are trying to continue to negotiate with the Hopi Tribal Council. Working with Mr. Phillips, Betty Tso just got $95,000 to get an office going in Kykotsmovi, called the "People Who Speak for Themselves", in order o represent the concerns of the signers. Now, we've been told by the Navajo Land Commission that her plan might not work, because some of the people who signed the lease have just started to follow another group lead by the lawyer, Mr. Dan Iserael. He w ts to make the lease better and assumes that once he fixes it, the non-signers will sign the improved Accommodation Agreement Lease. He says then, that "all the parties will be happy." But, we don't intend to sign any lease. Mr. Ellison told us he can help us in the court of appeals in San Francisco, on the Manybeads lawsuit. We asked him to be our lawyer beyond this appeal to help us with other fearful developments that could possible come out of the Relocation Act and the Settlement Act (forced removal). The Navajo-Hopi Land Commission h offered some money to help all the HPL residents with legal representation. As `non-signers', we have some fear that the Navajo-Hopi Land Commission put Mr. Malone with Mr. Ellison, as attorney to represent us in the court of appeals as well as beyond t t point. Most of us feel that we are going to fall in a similar trap with the people who signed their rights away, because we don't trust Mr. Malone since he told some of the `non-signers' to sign the A.A. Lease before the deadline day. We still trust M Ellison as our lawyer, however. Now the time has come to stand up with the people who have not signed the oppressive paper that tells the signers that they have to live within another group's beliefs and jurisdiction. We, the families who will not sign any lease, are working with Mr. Joe Washington, attorney from Flagstaff AZ at the tribal level in the Navajo and Hopi law system. And we are working with Ms. Elizabeth Walker, attorney from VA. She is our voice in the lawmaker system. We need your help with some money to pay for our costs to do this legal work. We have various needs for those of you who are willing to help the elders that will not sign any lease for a 3 acre lot over 75 years. Where do the children go to pray and live? The life ways of our elders may vanish with those others who gave up y relocating to a foreign way of life and disappeared. We need your help and support to deal with the U.S. Government, the Hopi Government, and Navajo Government. Thank you for understanding the truth, opening your minds to our cries for your help, and your willingness to keep on supporting the elders still residing on HPL. This final update note is for clarification purposes, due to recent events. Please understand that Roberta Blackgoat, Kee Watchman, and Lawrence Altsisi speak only for themselves, not for us, this group of elders and their families still resisting forced location. We are the families who were eligible to sign the accommodation agreement land lease, but refused to sign away our land religious freedoms. We are the ones in danger of immediate forced removal. We will not be removed. We have come together find a lawyer to speak for us. Only our lawyer and our chosen representative, William Begay Jr. Can speak for us. We are: Kee Zee & Alice Begay, Johnny Begay, Pauline Whitesinger, Joella Ashike, Ruby & Colleen Biakeddy, Sarah & Willie Begay, Irene Yazi Mae Whitehair, Laverne & Darrell Shorty, William Begay, Jr. ************************************************** You are on the BIGMTLIST, a moderated mailing list of Big Mountain relocation resistance information (not discussion or debate). To unsubscribe, email redorman@plix.com with "unsubscribe" in the subject header. For Big Mountain and other activist internet resources, visit "The Activist Page" at http://www.plix.com/~users/redorman/index.htm --------- "RE: Finds Alter View of Native America" --------- From: FirehairSS@aol.com Date: Mon, 22 Sep 1997 10:10:33 -0400 (EDT) Subj: PreHistory, Finds Alter views of Nat Am UUCP email Now no one really knows how long it took the natives to build the mounds If I remember correctly one of them was a coiled snake that went for over a thousand miles ....remember stories of it from when I was a kid and indian followed it and told about it and collected stories on it from thousands of years ago ...but those stories are gone now and I was to young to remember to much of them .... We should all collect our stories and share them .....In those stories there is a lot of things we do need to know....the oldest ones tell how to live in certain areas safely ...and its how you decipher them (thats the trick to it ) its like an ancient code handed down... Katie FINDS ALTER VIEW OF AMERICAN INDIAN PREHISTORY BY DICK STANLY They built a circle of 11 large earthen mounds on a bluff overlooking the Arkansas River. One was conical; the others had flat tops. Some were as tall as two-story buildings, and all were connected by earthen ridges. For many years, these unidentified American Indians returned to the site each spring and camped there until fall. They moved soil and gravel to improve the mounds, made spear points from the gravel, fished, hunted and gathered edible plants. When the mounds were finally completed, their architects apparently left the area for good. Now a multidisciplinary team of scientists, including one from Texas A&M University, has gathered evidence that the mysterious egg-shaped complex on 23 acres in a dense wood in northeastern Louisiana is North America's oldest surviving human creation- between 5,000 and 5,400 years old. The discovery challenges a traditional view that small, wandering bands of hunter-gatherers predominated at the time. Building such monuments required sophisticated leadership and abundant food to sustain the hard labor required. "It's rare that archaeologist ever find something that so totally changes our pictures of what happened in the past, as is true for this case," Vinca Steponaitis, president of the Society for American Archeology, told the journal Science, which reports the discovery in today's issue. Thousands of similar mounds dotted the eastern half of the United States for thousands of years before Europeans arrived. Their varying shapes, from cones to quadrangles and to writhing serpents, apparently had religious or domestic meaning. Thomas Jefferson conducted the first scientific excavation of one. Watson Break, as the new mound complex is called, supersedes the previous oldest one at Poverty Point, La. by almost 2,000 years. Poverty Point monuments are believed to have been built by a long-forgotten trading culture. "Poverty point was famous for its trade, said Joe Sounders, Watson Break's team leader. "We have no hints of trade here at all." A former assistant professor at Texas A&M, Sounders is now a research archaeologist at Northeast Louisiana University at Monroe, about 15 miles from Watson Break. Watson Break first caught modern scientific attention in 1981, when local amateur archaeologist Reca Jones visited the land after a timber company had clean-cut some of it. "Everyone here knew about the big mounds "said Jones, a member of Sounders' team. "After the clear-cut, for the first time you could stand on a mound and see there were several other sites." In 1993, with money from the National Geographic Society, Sounders used an auger to take the first core of soil from a mound. he discovered that its base was an ancient garbage dump, including the bones of fish and animal species still prevalent in the area from spring to fall, although the Arkansas River long ago moved elsewhere. Near the bottom of the core, Sounders found a reddish, clay-enriched level scientists call a soil horizon. Soil horizons from over thousands of years by the leaching of iron and clay from above. "It takes a pretty old mound to get that much clay movement," said Charles Hallmark, a Texas A&M soul scientist and a member of Sounders' team. Hallmark's analysis helped show that the mound's soil had been moved from one place to another. Radiocarbon dates on charcoal from the dump and the remains of vegetation from the soil horizon show that construction began 5,400 to 5, 300 years ago. Similar dates were found by several new methods, including a technique, called thermoluminescence, that calculates the buildup and age of electrons in crystalline materials. The dates also fit the antiquity of the complex's artifacts, which include double-notch Evans projectile points for spears. Found in East Texas. Evans points are older than the Epps or Motley points found in Poverty point's mounds. Charred seeds found at Watson Break also show something new. Although they show no signs of cultivation, they are the wild ancestor of leafy plants known as goosefoot and knotweed, which are believed to have been the first plants used in agriculture in the American Southeast about 4,000 years ago. Much of the mound complex remains a puzzle, and only the northern half has been examined. The owners of the southern half sold it only recently to a nonprofit archeology group. Sounders is hoping Louisiana will by all of it for a park. "Right now we can't show a connection with the Poverty Point culture," Sounders said. "Maybe, someday, we'll have better proof of some sort of continuity." --------- "RE: Ute Tribe's Resistance" --------- Date: Sun, 21 Sep 1997 16:49:07 -0700 From: abenaki@usa.net Subj: please support the Ute Tribe's resistance Mailing List: NAT-REL Please send letters of support to the address at the bottom of this message. "This scenario is happening over and over to all Indian Nations in the United States. The Indigenous People are being exterminated. It will not stop unless America's secrets are exposed and they are shamed by the rest of the world." *******America's Hidden Genocide******** Five hundred years ago, the quest began to exterminate the indigenous people of North America. This genocide of the Native American People continues today. The United States Government has been lying to America and all world citizens. They keep their secrets well hidden with the help of the American press by falsifying or omitting the facts. The Native American People continue to be persecuted, lied to and intimidated as they were in the past . For them, the 'past' never ended. Every treaty, every promise made by the "white man" has been and continues to be broken. The horror stories of our generation can rival or surpass atrocities committed in any other part of the world. How can the United States--World Police--point the finger when her own soil is soaking with the blood of Native American People? This silent genocide took another step forward on Sept. 8, 1997. More lands were stolen from the Ute Indian Tribe located in the north-eastern part of the State of Utah. This was done by the State of Utah with help of the U.S. Supreme Court of the Land. It ends a 20 year battle by the Tribal Members to hold onto what was "promised" them in the 1800's. The Tribe has spent millions of dollars; money that should have been for the good of the People of the Tribe, but had to be spent in defence to even have lands on which to live. Now the State of Utah is threatening to take what is left of their land unless the Ute Tribe bends to their demands. They want it all. Why? The stretch of barren lands given the Tribe in 1864 contains oil. The U.S. doesn't want the Sovereign Ute Nation in control of operations. The State of Utah and those "white" towns and counties on and around Indian Land want the money and the control at any cost. This scenario is happening over and over to all Indian Nations in the United States. The Indigenous People are being exterminated. It will not stop unless America's secrets are exposed and they are shamed by the rest of the world. Letters need to be sent, en masse, demanding these violations of human rights stop, demanding the American press cease in the cover up. Demanding the US live up to the "standards" it has imposed on the rest of the world. Demanding the lands promised be returned to the Ute Tribe. Letters supporting the Tribe in their boycott of the cruel "white" town of Roosevelt, located on what WAS Ute Reservation lands. Letters shaming local and state leaders: Brad Hancock of Roosevelt City, Rep. Jack Seitz of Uinta county, Rep. Beverly Evans of Duschane county, and Utah State Gov. Mike Leavitt. - And U.S. Sen. Orrin Hatch of Utah, who also happens to be a member of the U.S. "Indian Affairs Committee", the leaders of this continuing Genocide, created under the guise of deciding "what is best for the Native Americans" . It hasn't happen once. UTAH - SITE OF THE 2002 WINTER OLYMPICS LET THEM KNOW THE WORLD IS WATCHING!!!!! ****Please read the following letter from one who knows***** Subj: Ute Reservation Date: 97-09-19 14:26:21 EDT From: Susqueh It is with a downtrodden heart that I write this. I am of Lenape descent and have seen 62 winters go by. I have seen various states move "Indian Reservations" off their land unto another state thereby "getting rid of" indigenous people in their locality and also utilizing the land for the benefit of the state rather than for the benefit of the People whose land it was originally. During the past years I have hoped (no dreamed) that the circle would begin to heal as in Black Elk's vision. With education and the acknowledgement of the civil rights of Native Americans I naively thought that the "greed" of the white man would be subdued, if not buried in his past. But, unfortunately, it seems that the Government of and by the White Men has not changed from the 1700s, 1800s, and 1900s. The "give ME, give ME" and "I WANT, I WANT" attitude still prevails. The little land which is owned by some of the Nations is precious to us, even if it is uninhabitable to most of the descendants of the European immigration of the 1500s and 1600s. Let us, please, keep what is left of the land of our Mother, the Earth. We have never harmed the land, we have never polluted the land, or abused the land. Please, let us live in Peace. Doris RiverBird Woman Turtle Clan Eastern Lenape Nation of PA Please, send your letters of support to: dontstel@aol.com They will be passed on to all who need them. --------- "RE: To Die in Order to Live" --------- Date: 7:25 AM Sep 16, 1997 From: moonlight Subj: To Die in Order to Live Newsgroup: igc.indig.info TO DIE IN ORDER TO LIVE by Cecilia Rodriguez "Because we indigenous peoples have always been excluded, marginalized, and forgotten, outside of constitutional laws, outside of political, economic, and social plans of a nation; because we are indigenous we do not have the right to life, to land, to health, to education, we do not have the right to liberty, nor to decide and direct our own destiny. Brothers of all ethnic groups and all languages who live in our nation; all these great injustices of discrimination, of humiliation and of being slaves in our own land so that we work harder than do animals because we are indigenous, and without being able to raise our voice before the bosses because we are considered inferior beings, were sufficient reason for our armed uprising on the first of January of 1994, because we had no other path." EZLN Communique' to the National Indigenous Congress, September 15, 1997 "Alfredo" is a Tojolabal Indian who hails from the municipality of Las Margaritas, Chiapas. He is one of the members of the EZLN delegation who is now participating in the organizing activities of both the Zapatista Front of National Liberation and the National Indigenous Congress. In the life of Alfredo it is possible to see the backbone of the EZLN. Alfredo became a member in 1988, but only after struggling around the issues of land and against the discrimination suffered by his community. For seven years he prepared himself, and struggled, moved silently from one community to another, hid and planned, held in suspense for the inevitable. This was the nature of his life until February 10th of 1995 during the military invasion sanctioned by Zedillo in order to serve warrants on the leadership of the EZLN. Alfredo was on his way to Las Margaritas, but he never arrived. Members of the Army detained him. They covered his face, they insulted him, they took him to a river, although he does not remember which one. They forced him to strip naked and slipped him into a sack. From there they took him to another place, which he later learned was the 24th Cavalry Regiment in Comitan. Without giving any reasons, the military hung "Alfredo" from his hands. They gave him electrical shocks in the most sensitive parts of his body. But they were unsuccessful in forcing any kind of confession or information from him. During the torture they also dunked his head several times in a well of water and held him there until he almost lost consciousness. They cut his body with knives and it still carries the scars of his thwarted confession. He would still say nothing. Bothered by his obstinacy, the soldiers transported him to the 7th region which is in Tuxtla Gutierrez. They jailed him in a dark room, where he could hear the screams of other farmers who were being tortured. Alfredo does not remember how many soldiers there were when they threw him onto a helicopter, sometime later. In the air, they threatened him. He was to give up the name of the leaders and the priests who were involved or he would be thrown out of the helicopter. He said nothing. After the third day they made him sign some papers even though he knew and was told nothing about their content. They let him go and Alfredo in September of 1997 lived to tell the story and to travel to Mexico City in the official delegation. There are many like Alfredo. Many whose names and stories and suffering we will never know. Much less do we understand that the torture suffered by Alfredo, is the usual treatment of indigenous people involved in peaceful, civilian movements. The conflicts over land and the regressive racism which victimizes them are so intense, that this kind of torture and humiliation is standard. Because he was involved in an armed struggle, the nature of his suffering was not unexpected for Alfredo, and the fact that at some point he could defend himself, he could fight back, made it even more worthwhile. This is the paradox of the Zapatista struggle; to be forced to die in order to live. Together hundreds of Alfredos worked in silence and in darkness for many years. They planned and constructed the only path left to them. For them what appears to be a poetic turn of words or a manipulation of drama is in reality a heartfelt necessity. Their stories have not been considered important by the mainstream press. In fact, one of the principal problems of the Mexican government and of many analysts of the conflict is the continual underestimation of the conviction, the cohesiveness, and the sophistication of indigenous communities who are principally response for one of the most significant social movements in Mexico's history. The press has instead preferred to concentrate on the enigma of Subcomandante Marcos, even claiming that without him there would be no movement. It has done little to acknowledge that the struggle of the Zapatistas found fertile ground in the extreme misery and humiliation to which Indian people have been subjected to in Mexico. The conflict in Chiapas will never be resolved until this paradox is understood by us all. More than anything else this inhumane status must be ended forever if Mexico's Indian people are to believe that things can change through peaceful means. That is why the passage into law of the San Andres agreements is so important. It will be a clear definitive signal that Mexico is beginning to put an end to its legacy of racism. Mexico's Indian people will accept nothing less than that. They have danced with death for too many centuries already to be deceived. --------- "RE: Lessons of Patience" --------- Date: 8:14 AM Sep 13, 1997 From: moonlight Subj: LESSONS OF PATIENCE Newsgroup:igc.indig.info LESSONS OF PATIENCE In Honor of the Largest Indigenous March in the History of Mexico by Cecilia Rodriguez "Therefore, and in accord with this declaration of war, we give our military forces of the Zapatista Army of National Liberation the following orders: FIRST: To advance toward the capital of the country, conquering the Mexican Federal Army, and in its advance, as liberator, protecting the civilian population and permitting the liberated people to elect, freely and democratically, their own administrative authorities." DECLARATION OF WAR OF THE ZAPATISTA ARMY OF NATIONAL LIBERATION JANUARY 1, 1994 It will happen September 12, 1997. Soon the 1,111 delegates each of whom represent one community involved in the indigenous Zapatista movement will arrive in one of the largest cities of the world, Mexico City. They are traveling in old buses. They are accompanied by 111 other vehicles. They take up approximately 15 kilometers of highway. They have been greeted by thousands of people, some of whom, depending on the place, waited from three to twelve hours to be able to greet them. They conducted demonstrations at three o'clock in the morning. They stood in the rain to salute everyone and received 8 batons of leadership from eight ethnic groups in Oaxaca. They will arrive in Mexico City carrying banners, and batons, and symbols of support, and the hopes and faith of thousands whom they have met on this long journey from oblivion. They arrived with no more shots than those which were fired on that day in January of 94. The oblivion they fight is not a consequence of the distance between the mountains of Chiapas and the rest of the country or the world. It is a consequence of the way in which Indian peoples have been marginalized in Mexico for 500 years. And even though this has been said many times, it is clear that the significance of the Declaration of War which the Zapatistas issued on January 1 of 1994 continues to be swept under the rug. The Mexican government has toyed with the movement for three years. They have deployed 40% of the Mexican army to surround their communities. In the words of a Zapatista delegate " the 'powerful' prefer to spend millions of pesos in funding and keeping all of their military apparatus on top of our communities, instead of giving a solution to our demands, which are the cause of our rebellion of dignity. The militarization of indigenous zones in the states of Oaxaca, Guerrero and Chiapas and in all the zones of the country are signals of war. The Supreme Commander of the Army and his generals spend and put finishing touches on their strategy to annihilate the rebellion of these communities in struggle. We ask ourselves, where is the signal for dialogue, a sign which marks a solution to our demands?... the Mexican federal Army has become an Army of occupation which expels us from our lands to intrude upon them by force. Our zones and lands of dignity are being taken by the bad government and in their place it is planting military camps with rows of tanks, armored vehicles, bullets and machine guns. The Army is building trenches, installing checkpoints and all its monstrous military apparatus. Where corn and beans are planted the army has planted barracks, invasion, prostitution and is destroying entire families. Since these barracks were installed in our communities we do not live in peace, we live in terror and under a death threat." Throughout the process of the peace talks, the government did everything in its power to sabotage those talks. Their representatives consistently insulted the Zapatista delegation, they refused to make agreements on basics like agenda, sites, themes, et cetera, they closed and then opened the talks to participation of others. When all their efforts were unsuccessful, they signed agreements in January of 96. None of the agreements on indigenous rights and culture have been fulfilled. That is why governmental intransigence is the reason for the march. What are the demands of the Zapatistas? What is in dispute now is something very basic; the rights of Indians to be recognized by the nation, to be respected for their cultural and ethnic identity, to finally put an end to the second-class status established by a colonial relationship which left Indians abandoned and forgotten. Why is it not possible for the Mexican government to fulfill their demands? Because even this basic need would require departing from the future which has been mapped out for the country by foreign interests. There is too much money at stake. In the memorable words of that Wall Street document from 1995 which expressed the need to eliminate the Zapatistas "...to the degree that the monetary crisis limits the resources available to the government for social and economic reforms, it may prove difficult to win popular support for the Zedillo administration's plans for Chiapas". The passage of two years, and the political process enabled by the Zapatistas and others who have mobilized for change, have not changed Zedillo's position. But a change of this depth however, will surely be a long time coming. Yes, the July elections changed the electoral arena. No longer does the PRI have control of the Congress. Mexico City now has a mayor from another party. The 1,111 delegates believe that the change they are seeking is worth waiting for and working for during many years. Their history is already evidence of this. As a result of the July 97 elections they see clearly the political space which these elections have provided. A space to continue to press their demands. A space to demonstrate the depth of their popular support, especially in those states which are also suffering the effects of militarization. Their march will not only take up that space, but force it open even more. This time however it will be opened, not by their weapons, but by their example, by their quiet tenacious patience in the face of enormous odds. Their presence in Mexico City will accomplish other things as well. They will also witness the founding of a new political force the "Zapatista Front of National Liberation", something already being called a "most difficult project" by many. It will attempt to bring together "civil society" in a national organization which will not aspire to political office or to "power". The establishment and development of the Frente will offer grassroots people the opportunity to organize their own transition to a very different kind of democracy. Those which the Mexican government once called "transgressors of the law", more than a thousand of them have now traversed the country. Those who Zedillo did not even bother to mention in his State of the Union address, will be in the same city he is, celebrating the independence of a very different Mexico. Once again, within a period of months the Zapatistas mock the powerful military and political machine which have surrounded their communities. The powerful media campaign which had almost wiped them off the national scene, now yields to the dramatic image of the enormous march. At the same time two Zapatista delegates have arrived in Italy,. According to the AP, the purpose of the march is to "revive waning interest in their cause". According to reality the impact of the march is much more profound. It is a demonstration of the cohesiveness of the highly-organized communities, capable of preparing, electing and supporting 1,111 delegates. It is a demonstration of the tenacity of the rest of Mexican civil society which organized an extraordinary amount of resources to provide for the presence of the Zapatistas in Mexico City. It is a demonstration of the moral authority of the Zapatistas as something sufficiently powerful to disable the armaments of the Mexican Army. It is proof that the Zapatistas and their proposals are here to stay. Finally it is the fulfillment of a promise. In spite of everything, the Zapatistas have indeed arrived in Mexico City. --------- "RE: Wyoming Buffalo" --------- Date: Wed, 17 Sep 1997 15:24:25 -0500 From: buffalo@wildrockies.org (Buffalo Nations) Subj: wyoming buffalo UUCP email The Wyoming Game and Fish Department has agreed to accept public comment on the management of the wild bison. Please have everyone write a letter by October 3 to: Wyoming Game and Fish Department, Wildlife Division, ATTN: Regulations, 3030 Energy Lane, Suite 100, Casper WY 82604. Our federal public lands are yours also. In your letters, please tell them to rescind Chapter 15 concerning the wild bison reduction season so that more wild bison herds may be reestablished on our nation's public lands and also we are working to get wild bison management back in the hands of the WY Game and Fish where it should be, so if you could also tell them in your letters to rescind Chapter XLI- Bison designated as Wildlife. The Wyoming Livestock Board should not have this authority. Here is an example letter that everyone in your organization can use if they wish. SUBJECT: WILD BISON MANAGEMENT IN WYOMING Buffalo Nations, a nationwide wild bison conservation group, agrees with Bring Back the Bison that Chapter 15- Wild Bison Reduction Season should be immediately rescinded so that more wild bison herds may be reestablished on Native American reservations and suitable federal public lands in Wyoming. We also believe that wild bison present on our federal public lands in your state should not be controlled by the Wyoming Livestock Board, therefore, Chapter XLI -Bison designated as wildlife should also be revoked. We strongly believe that wild bison on our federal public lands should be managed by those professionals in the Wyoming Game and Fish Department in conjunction with tribal governments and should not be manipulated and regulated by the Wyoming Livestock Board Thank you, Environmentally Yours, Jeffrey W. Tombaugh Executive Director, Bring Back the Bison P.S. Please feel free to copy this letter and zap it to everyone you know. Thanks. Failure to change these regs NOW will result in another bison hunt right outside of Yellowstone this winter on the Wyoming sides. Michael S. Mease PO Box 7941 Missoula MT 59807 406-728-0867 phone & fax mease@wildrockies.org --------- "RE: Byrd/Cherokee Problems" --------- Date: Tue, 16 Sep 1997 06:53:00 -0400 (EDT) From: FirehairSS@aol.com Subj: Tons on Byrd, Cherokee problems--NASC news--#1 UUCP email this is a "wade thru", but detailed. Even if only half is absolutely true, my jaw is on the floor, my stomach in a knot. (No, I have, technically, no Cherokee, my Mary Saunders md c1770s (name given by Dutch Reform) a Shawnee, and their kids md. Eastern Woodlands in NY/PA-- matrilinealy that wiped out my being "Cherokee".) Point I always make, believe, we will destroy ourselves, each other--- like a pebble thrown in a pond, everything impacts on everyone, eventually. Firehair ****************** Excerpts from Bills: Submitted to Cherokee Nation for Legal Advice from Clifford A. Wright The Cherokee Observer obtained copies of bills submitted for legal services for the eight councilors who conducted the illegal and unconstitutional "Court of Impeachment." The services were rendered by Clifford A. Wright, P.C. of Oklahoma City. The invoice date was 5/13/97. The specially run Cherokee Nation check was for $5,886.67 and the check request was prepared 7/14/97 by Jamie Hummingbird, and approved by Councilor Harold DeMoss. Mr. Wright charged $135 in the Month of April, however his hourly rate changed during the month of May his hourly rate increased to $150. Below are some of his charges and descriptions of services rendered. i4/17/97-Telephone conference with Harvey Chaffin and Tom Seymour concerning the present situation regarding tribal matters, the lawsuit filed regarding the alleged secret meeting of the counsel concerning, the impeachment proceedings in the hearing set for 1:30 on Monday, April 21 to hear same. Discussed various issues and meeting tomorrow at 9:00 in Tahlequah. i4/18/97-Review documents provided to me by Harvey Chaffin concerning new lawsuit filed relating to April 14, 1997 meeting. Preparation of documents, chronology and draft of special appearance. Review documents provided to me by Harvey Chaffin concerning new lawsuit filed relating to April 15, 1997 meeting. Preparation of documents, chronology and draft of special appearance. Review January 6, 1997 letter from Justices calling for meeting.....Review April 14, 1997 Complaint, April 15, 1997 Robert C. Jenkins letter, April 15, 1997 Holder v. Byrd Complaint and Application for Emergency Temporary Restraining Order. Note that Tuesday April 15 is when the Order was entered and i believe the April 15 complaint was filed later in the day after the April 15 resolution requesting that the BIA come in and I think this is set out in this complaint and apparently the Complaint was marked filed April 15 but it occurred after the meeting so we can find out when the meeting occurred and then we will know when the Complaint was prepared after that. Reviewing the complaint, the meeting occurred on April 15 and subsequent to that meeting the Complaint was filed on the same date and the Temporary Restraining Order was filed the same date. Note the Order specifically mentions the Bureau of Indian Affairs law enforcement assumption and does not include specifically the impeachment provision. There is an April 15, 1997 press release relating Joe Byrd, and April 15, 1997 press release relating to Bill Baker, and an April 16, 1997 press release. I do not believe these press releases mentioned of the ones for others for April 16 and April 17 were actually filed and apparently were prepared by staff members and/or Harley Terrell, a councilman, but were never published. Review also Tom Seymour's opinion to Deputy chief Eagle regarding the notice in the April 16, 1997 meeting and then various research issues on impeachment. Met with Harvey Chaffin and Tom Seymour at Harvey's office and discussed issues. Telephone conference with Lisa Finley, regarding filing the suit, letters to the paper, boycott of program letters, news releases and other matters that are presently occurring. Apparently no matter what else happens the BIA is going to intervene either Friday or Monday. Apparently they are proceeding under the "imminent jeopardy" clause that allows the BIA to intervene. Also discussed the reception of Ross Swimmer and Wilma Mankiller as opposed to Joe Byrd regarding Washington and Ada Deer and the BIA will meet only with elected officials. This is a clear showing that Mankiller and Swimmer were trying to throw their weight around in a manner not consistent with the position of the elected officials. Discussed Wilma's quotes regarding the people, should follow the will of the people regarding, elected officials.....Telephone call with Rex Starr, apparently Don Nichols is also involved in getting the US Marshals in. Discussion with Harvey regarding his conversations with Monte Strout regarding threat on the life of one of the council members. At Monte's hearing he made an oral motion to disqualify Wilcoxen but that did not work and he also asked the Judges to recuse themselves but they did not. The Chief did not ask for a recusal. Also they failed to act on his application to be admitted to the Bar and he is presently not a member of the Court. Apparently Judge Viles made comments that if he were hearing it he would have taken some other action which was viewed as being unfavorable to Monte. The Chief has still requested the BIA to come in and the Order that was entered at this hearing restrains the Chief and Monte Strout from interfering with Blalock's investigation. Rex Starr was suppose to file the recusal motions. Review Articles of Removal. The trial on the 15th is some type of criminal cases and it involves Judge Jordan. We then checked to see if the Notice of the April 25 meeting was properly published and it was not published with respect to the ten day notice provisions. Discussed how to make a proper call to all council members for a meeting. Also discussed the fact that the press releases had not been published so the Notice failed for that reason also. Outlined a response to the Complaint but that is not really what we want to do because we are going to take a position that the Court does not have jurisdiction for the reason that this deals with internal regulatory matters concerning the legislative branch and it is not controlled by the Court. We also need to find the Federal Rules of Civil Procedure changes referred to by the Judicial Tribunal during Monte Strout's hearing with respect to Notice. The difference between this case and the Mayes case is that in Mayes the defense is that there was no meeting where the council members were acting in their legislative capacity whereas in the Holder case we were in fact meeting in a called meeting. i4/20/97-Preparation for meeting with clients. Telephone calls with Tom Seymour regarding failure to properly notice the meeting called by the chief and we are going to continue that now until sometime in May to get the notices published in the paper. Monte's situation is different from our because his clients were not in the Legislative body and were actually I believe appointed officials of the executive branch. We cannot answer the Holder Petition because that submits us to jurisdiction and our position will be that the Court does not have jurisdiction to determine Legislative matters that are exclusively that of the Legislative branch. James Field has taken the position through John Raley that there is no jurisdiction of the Court over Federal officials acting in their official capacities but their apparently is some authority that that might not be the case especially I think if the BIA enters into an assumption agreement which they have as of Friday. Met with Harvey from 5:50 until a little after 7:00 and then with clients from approximately 7:00 to 11:00 p.m. Met with clients Mary Cooksey, Barbara Conness, Don Crittenden, Bill John Baker, Dora Mae Watie, and Harley Terrell and discussed facts and issues in the Mayes and Holder cases. i4/21/97-Office conferences with Harvey Chaffin regarding revisions to Special Appearance after conference yesterday afternoon at Harvey's office with Tom Seymour. Joint telephone conferences with Harvey Chaffin, Tom Seymour and Lisa Findley regarding various issues concerning the hearing set for 1:30 and matters generally related thereto. Considered the differences in the Holder case versus the Mayes case and in the Holder case a Temporary Restraining Order has been entered and it relates to a specific meeting that was in fact a meeting and at least part of the issue is moot Appearance after conference yesterday afternoon at Harvey's office with Tom Seymour. Joint telephone conferences with Harvey Chaffin, Tom Seymour and Lisa Findley regarding various issues concerning the hearing set for 1:30 and matters generally related thereto. Considered the differences in the Holder case versus the Mayes case and in the Holder case a Temporary Restraining Order has been entered and it relates to a specific meeting that was in fact a meeting and at least part of the issue is moot because the BIA has in fact taken over the police powers. On the other hand the Mayes action relates to a non meeting, and while the court does not have jurisdiction relating to whether there was a meeting or not, we defended on the basis that there was no meeting and it was only a declaratory judgment action and we stated they have not stated a claim but did not contest jurisdiction so there may be a jurisdiction issue here. Remember that the council requested the BIA to intervene on April 15 and then subsequent thereto the prosecutor prepared and filed a Complaint and Request for Temporary Restraining Order and one was entered that evening. The council has not taken any other action relating i4/22/97-Telephone conference with Harvey concerning status and fact that the Tribunal has now withdrawn the warrants which means there will not be an intervention, now by the BIA regarding the execution of the warrants and discussed what the motivation for this might be including the fact it would have been a Federal court action which would have required probably BIA enforcement action as opposed to keeping the Cherokee Marshals from arresting the people that are the subject of the Habeas Corpus Motion and to avoid Judge Seay getting involved. Discussed the announcement and Birdwell apparently says in the newspaper that this is a dictatorship but perhaps it is stated that in the Withdrawal Order, but that is something that is not really a matter that should be included in a court order. That is clearly a political statement. Actually that statement accentuates the political bias of the court. Preparation of memorandum to file. Considered status and what will be next regarding this issue and where the case might go and how it could be settled. i4/23/97-Considered arguments and next move based on what may develop as a result of the Federal court case. Telephone conference with Harvey Chaffin regarding no news but that the hearing in the Federal court cases on the habeas corpus proceeding is still going to proceed to keep the JAT from subsequently reissuing the warrant. Preparation of memorandum to file. Also need to discuss with Harvey who is going to request a transcript of the hearing that was conducted on Monday which we did not appear at. Organizing file and thoughts regarding status. i4/24/97-Organizing issues concerning possible next moves and Order of the Court. Telephone conference with Harvey Chaffin and Judge Seay in fact ordered that there was no case or controversy because the Judicial Appeals Tribunal withdrew the warrants. Everything is set up now for the May 5, 1997 meeting and also discussed the prior boycotts and the six members boycotted one regular meeting and one special meeting. This evening I received a 14 page order and telephone conference with Harvey Chaffin regarding same and Tom Seymour regarding same. The Order does not mention the impeachment proceedings. It also does not mention any action relating to Mr. Fields. Tom Seymour contends they should meet in any event on April 28, May 2 and May 5 and this is contrary to the Order. Telephone conference subsequently with Harvey Chaffin again and discussed calling another meeting for Sunday of our clients, he will schedule the meeting, and at same we will discuss what action to take with respect to the Order received. --------- "RE: United Church Coverup" --------- Date: Mon, 22 Sep 1997 20:37:47 -0700 From: "S.I.S.I.S." Subj: United Church Coverup:New Developments :-:-:-:-S.I.S.I.S. Settlers In Support of Indigenous Sovereignty:-:-:-:-: September 22, 1997 Bulletin For Immediate Release NEW TESTIMONY REVEALS MORE DEATHS OF NATIVE CHILDREN AT ALBERNI RESIDENTIAL SCHOOL; UNITED CHURCH OFFICIALS CAUGHT ON FILM STEALING DOCUMENTS FROM "DELISTED" REVEREND KEVIN ANNETT Vancouver - Harry Wilson, a former student at the Alberni Residential School between 1961 and 1970, claims that he discovered the body of a dead young native woman behind the school in 1967. "She was about 16, lying dead, completely naked and covered in blood," states Mr. Wilson, in a signed statement made on September 17. "There was blood everywhere. I ran and told Mr. Andrews, the Principal, and he said he was calling the RCMP. But I never saw them show up, and the girl's body disappeared." Mr. Wilson claims that the RCMP never questioned him about the incident, and that no investigation of the death was ever made. In a related event, copies of government documents that indicate the liability of the United Church for abuses at the Alberni Residential School were removed from the belongings of Reverend Kevin Annett without his knowledge or permission by senior United Church officials. The incident, which is recorded on film and attested to by an independent eye-witness, occurred outside the United Church offices at 1955 West Fourth Avenue in Vancouver on September 3, at a press conference held by Reverend Annett. Brian Thorpe, Chief Officer of the United Church in BC, took the materials from a box belonging to Reverend Annett. Watching the incident, and holding the door for Mr. Thorpe, was John Jessiman, legal counsel for the United Church in BC. Both men were instrumental in the removal and permanent "de-listing" of Reverend Annett after he uncovered hidden wrongdoings by the church in the Port Alberni area. Annett will be releasing a separate statement on the incident. He has filed a report of the theft with the Vancouver Police Department. [See SISIS release Sept.11; this can be re-emailed to anyone wishing a copy] For more Information contact Kevin Annett. Ph (604) 462-1086 Protests: Reverend Bill Phipps: Moderator United Church of Canada Email: dearborn@uccan.org Please forward and distribute to interested parties, media and activists. :-:-:-:-:-:-:-:-:-:-:-:-:-:-:-:-:-:-:-:-:-:-:-:-:-:-:-:-:-:-:-:-:-:-:-: 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: IBA Talks Breakdown" --------- Date: Tue, 16 Sep 1997 16:33:33 -0300 From: Larry Innes Subj: IBA talks breakdown over Environmental and Financial Issues Mailing List: Innu People Forum list FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE Impact-Benefit Agreement Talks between Innu Nation and Voisey's Bay Nickel Break Down on Environmental and Financial Issues DAVIS INLET - September 15, 1997 - Talks between the Innu Nation and the Voisey's Bay Nickel Company have stalled once again. The Innu Nation walked out of negotiations on Friday, after the company failed to live up to earlier commitments to conclude an impacts-benefits agreement with the Innu Nation. "Voisey's Bay Nickel Company has once again demonstrated that it is not taking aboriginal people seriously. We came to the table in good faith, believing that we could reach an agreement in principle on the key outstanding issues.", said Innu Nation President Katie Rich. "What we found is that the company was not prepared to make any substantial commitments in the areas of environmental protection and financial benefits." The Innu Nation has been involved in impact-benefits agreement negotiations with the Voisey's Bay Nickel Company (VBNC), a subsidiary of Inco, for over a year. While provisions on jobs, training, and business opportunities for Innu people have been relatively easy to negotiate with the company, two key issues remain outstanding. "Environmental protection and a fair financial package are two key elements of Innu consent for this project. We will never agree to a project in our territory which does not put protection of the land first and foremost. We believe that Innu must be fully involved the environmental review, management and monitoring of this project. We also believe that the people who will be the most affected by the project have the right to a full share of its benefits. We are getting very frustrated by Voisey's Bay Nickel's approach to these issues.", continued President Rich. The Innu proposal for settlement of the financial component of the IBA establishes a 3% net smelter royalty as the starting place for a negotiated settlement. This is the value of the 'discovery bonus' that will be paid to Archean Resources under its agreements with Voisey's Bay Nickel. "A financial package in which the royalties payable to the Innu people are at least as high as the ones that the company will be paying to Archean is our absolute bottom line. The Innu people will never accept an IBA if they think that the two guys who stumbled on the discovery could receive more in royalties from the company than the people who actually own the land.", said President Rich. "This is not how things work in 1997. The old days in which people could exploit aboriginal people and aboriginal land are long gone. It is time we were treated fairly and with respect. We have given the company two weeks to prepare a serious response to our proposals in these areas. If there is no movement on the part of Voisey's Bay Nickel by that time, there is a real possibility that Innu people will return to the site. The Innu are getting very tired of being treated like children by the company. It is time that VBNC started to take our negotiations seriously.", concluded President Rich. FOR MORE INFORMATION: Katie Rich (709)478-8919/8951/8943 internet: www.innu.ca Larry Innes Visit the Innu Nation WWW site: Environmental Advisor http://www.innu.ca Innu Nation P.O. Box 119, Sheshatshiu, Labrador, Canada A0P 1M0 phone: (709) 497-8398 email: innuenv@web.net fax: (709) 497-8396 --------- "RE: Infrastructure Appeal concludes" --------- Date: Fri, 19 Sep 1997 08:36:59 -0300 From: Larry Innes Subj: Infrastructure Appeal concludes in Newfoundland Court of Appeal Mailing List: Innu People Forum list 18 September 1997 Appeal of Infrastructure Decision Concludes in St. John's St. John's - Lawyers representing the Innu Nation, the Labrador Inuit Association, the Province of Newfoundland and Voisey's Bay Nickel Company concluded their arguments in the Newfoundland Court of Appeal. The aboriginal groups were appealing a decision by the Newfoundland Supreme Court which allowed the company to proceed with the construction of a road and airstrip at the Voisey's Bay site outside of the comprehensive environmental review process negotiated in a Memorandum of Understanding (MOU) between governments and the aboriginal groups earlier this year. Construction at the site was halted in August by an Innu and Inuit protest, and by an injunction obtained by the Labrador Inuit Association against the company. The Innu and Inuit argued that the MOU is a contract which includes the road and the airstrip in the assessment process. The company and the government argued that the facilities were required only for exploration, and that exploration was not included in the MOU. The court is expected to release a decision on Monday, September 22 at 2:30 pm Newfoundland time. Larry Innes Visit the Innu Nation WWW site: Environmental Advisor http://www.innu.ca Innu Nation P.O. Box 119, Sheshatshiu, Labrador, Canada A0P 1M0 phone: (709) 497-8398 email: innuenv@web.net fax: (709) 497-8396 --------- "RE: Daishowa v. Friends of the Lubicon" --------- Date: Mon, 15 Sep 1997 19:51:10 -0400 From: fol@tao.ca Subj: Day 8 of Daishowa v. Friends of the Lubicon trial Mailing List: FOL-L Friends of the Lubicon (Toronto) 485 Ridelle Avenue, Toronto, Ontario M6B 1K6 Tel: (416) 763-7500 ^G Fax: (416) 603-2715 ^G e-mail: fol@tao.ca Court Update Day 8; Monday, September 15, 1997 "Love Keeps His Pencil Sharp" The Humanist Movement hosted a morning media conference before court at Toronto City Hall to inform the media about the importance and implications of the case. Prominent speakers were: Alan Borovoy of the Canadian Civil Liberties Union; renowned producer (Struggle For Democracy) Patrick Watson; Tom Heintzman of the Sierra Legal Defence Fund; and David Suzuki. Roberto Verdecchia, of the Humanist Movement, introduced the speakers and stated that his group had circulated a petition to various media outlets to encourage more media coverage of the court case. Mr. Borovoy stated that, an "effective right to conduct boycotts must include a broad right to picket." Mr. Suzuki said that he felt there was a strong sense of fear and chill for activism created by the lawsuit against FoL, which he characterized as being incredibly vindictive. He said the great ecosystem, the Northern Boreal Forest in Alberta, had been given away cheaply and reaped huge profits for Daishowa. Mr. Watson said that if Daishowa wins it would result in a "silencing of citizen voices in public space." Supporters are urged to follow the Humanist Movement's lead and contact their local media to request coverage of the trial. This case is too important to be ignored. Country Style Donuts' Peter Mertens began Monday's proceedings with testimony about his experience with FoL and the boycott campaign. He said he was not unsympathetic toward FoL and tried to use his influence as a customer to get Daishowa to make a commitment not to log on Lubicon lands. He stopped using Daishowa bags when that commitment was not forthcoming. Fern Sager, of the law firm Sager & Sager (not Sierra Legal Defence Fund as previously reported), questioned Mr. Mertens' knowledge that Country Style Donuts was part of a boycott list even before their negotiations with Friends of the Lubicon had concluded. However, Mr. Mertens admitted that he had no direct knowledge and stated that "someone" had told him that Country Style was "on the list". He added that when he asked FOL representative Kevin Thomas whether he was on a list, Thomas told him he wasn't and that FOL would tell any Country Style customers who might have seen the Daishowa logo on Country Style bags that Country Style was still negotiating with FOL. Karen Winter, a Daishowa salesperson in Toronto, gave testimony about the loss of business. She stated that customers contacted her and expressed concerns over information they had received about Daishowa. Recently, Ms. Winter made an attempt to get Roots back after they had taken their business to another bag manufacturer; however, Roots refused to use Daishowa products even with the added incentive of a discount. In cross examination, Ms. Sager asked about Bowrings, a retail chain. Ms. Winter stated that Bowrings has been using Daishowa manufactured speciality paper products in the last few years. Another Daishowa customer, Cruickshanks, a plant nursery, has returned to Daishowa. Monday's last witness for the Plaintiffs, Jack Love, also employed in Daishowa's Metro Toronto sales, said that recently a former customer of Daishowa, the Liquor Control Board of Ontario, was looking for a company to supply printed rolled paper; however, the LCBO refuses to use Daishowa products. Love confirmed that Daishowa was keeping it's customers by undercutting the competition. He said, "he was keeping his pencil sharp." Members of four groups joined FoL in court to witness the trial Monday: the Society of Friends (Quakers), Bathurst St. United Church, Bloor St. United, and Trinity St. Paul's. A delicious lunch was provided! Chi Meegwetch. Each day of court has been sponsored by various organizations who bring their members to court to support the Friends during the trial. Tomorrow the Friends will be joined by the United Church of Canada. for more background information, visit the Lubicon supporters web page at: http://kafka.uvic.ca/~vipirg/SISIS/Lubicon/main.html The Daishowa v. Friends of the Lubicon trial will continue Tuesday, September 16 at 9:30 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 ** Please note! There is no sitting Thurs. Sept 18, Fri. Sept 19 and Tues. Sept 23. *** --------- "RE: BC Archives Censored" --------- Date: Thu, 11 Sep 1997 11:08:46 -0500 From: "S.I.S.I.S." Subj: BC Archives "Censored" :-:-:-:S.I.S.I.S. Settlers In Support of Indigenous Sovereignty:-:-:-: September 10, 1997 Bulletin LOCKDOWN AT BC ARCHIVES:"ATTORNEY GENERAL OR AN ORWELLIAN MINISTRY OF TRUTH?" Historians, academics, and researchers are expressing shock and alarm at sweeping new changes to the British Columbia Archives. Those who regularly use and rely on the archives have characterized draconian new policies limiting access to the public records as "Orwellian" and "dangerous". News of the information clamp-down by BC's NDP government was revealed in an August 14th article by Richard Carlson, "Closing the Door on BC's History" in the University of Victoria's student newspaper The Martlet. "It's kind of like 1984, when the government manages history," says John Lutz, UVic history professor and secretary of the BC Archives Action Group. "The government [will now] not only decide which records are kept and which are destroyed, but even if they are kept, the ministry can control access to these documents," warned Lutz. Linda Vanden Berg of Vandenberg and Associates, a company that researches native land claims believes the new changes are "a direct hit against First Nations to protect the government. They have a vested interest in knowing what information we are ordering and controlling that information. It makes it so there is no contest, they have the access to information and we don't. Is this a Police state we are living in?" According to the Martlet article, Assistant Deputy Attorney General Gillian Wallace instructed the BC Archives on June 12, 1997 to "close all government records in the Archives." The reason given was the supposed breach of solicitor-client confidentiality - the solicitor being the Attorney General and the client another government ministry, records previously open to the public. "While it may be appropriate to waive the government's privilege over some legal opinions that are of historical interest, the age of an opinion alone does not mean the privilege should be waived," wrote Wallace. After a three day lock down of all government records, a new procedure was implemented compelling archivists to refer documents to the Attorney General's "Legal Services" branch for a decision on releasing them. "This is a very, very serious matter. Never before in my memory have a majority of the government records been closed to the public," said Dr. Eric Sager, another UVic history professor. "When is public access to documents guaranteed, or can government stop access to public archives at the whim of bureaucrats for short term political expediency?" The lock down and restrictions on access come at a time when many BC Indian Bands are attempting to assemble documentation for the BC Treaty Commission (BCTC) process, headed by Alec Robertson, former director of the logging giant Daishowa which is infamous for its attacks on the Lubicon Cree and their supporters. The BCTC is much criticized by traditionalists as a bogus and fraudulent "termination and extinguishment" device. Professional researchers like Vanden Berg say that even under the existing system,"the cost is getting prohibitive for land claims cases. First Nations don't receive any funding for court cases, so even the 50 cents per page copying cost is limiting, and a "Freedom of Information" request can now take up to five months, "even if she is permitted access to the documents requested", reports the Martlet. "We depend on the Archives to settle land claims, or a few years ago to answer the demand for Japanese redress for internment, and now the Chinese communities are asking for redress for the head tax, and aboriginals with residential schools... In order to examine these issues we need the archives," said historian John Lutz. UVic doctoral student Susan Johnston, is examining provincial history to understand modern BC racism and prejudice. "My ideological motivation is to see what attitudes and prejudices people have had. To make changes in our own racism it is necessary to show that our knowledge of race is from the past... since the 1970s, one of the roles historians have taken on is to understand where we come from without the rah-rah British sort of thing," said Johnston. "Yes we were racist, yes we were homophobic, yes we were not all that nice." But Johnston had difficulty in finding out how "not all that nice" we were as her research was stopped by the Attorney General's letter, wrote the Martlet's Carlson. "It is the value of history to rethink who we are - we are going to lose that," she concluded. FROM GUSTAFSEN LAKE TO THE PUBLIC ARCHIVES THEY SEEK TO CONTROL US: FREEDOM! Letters to the Martlet: martlet@uvic.ca :-:-:-:-:-:-:-:-:-:-:-:-:-:-:-:-:-:-:-:-:-:-:-:-:-:-:-:-:-:-:-:-:-:-:-: 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: Vernal Cross Claims Denied" --------- Date: Mon, 22 Sep 1997 23:11:11 -0500 From: tusweca Subj: Vernal Cross UUCP email Vernal Cross, Oglala Sioux Medicine Man On September 4th, 1997 Vernal Cross, Oglala Sioux medicine man passed away after suffering a massive heart attack at his home in South Dakota. Since that time his widow and children have learned that a number of people have come forth claiming to have inherited some part of his hochoka, or spiritual way. His widow, Darlene Cross, has asked me to post the following information. "No part of Vernal's hochoka was passed on. All of his hochoka remains with the family and when he passed away he took his power with him. Anyone who claims otherwise is subject to arrest and imprisonment under federal law". The following people have made claims of spiritual gifts and/or authority from Vernal which Darlene states are false. - Steve McCullough: Bicknell Indiana Claims Vernal authorized Steve to perform ceremonies, which he never did. - Larry Thompson: South Dakota Has claimed Vernal made him a "healer" and authorized him to organize sundances among certain Canadian tribes, which he did not. - Lenas Red Feather: Pine Ridge, South Dakota Claims to have been taught how and authorized to run sundances by Vernal, which Vernal never did. - AKA Vernal Cross Junior: New Hampshire This person is claiming to be the son of Vernal Cross and Vernal Senior's Junior. Vernal Cross junior resides in Kyle South Dakota and does not reside in New Hampshire. - Don (Eagle) Cruz: Boulder Colorado Did not receive authority to lead sundances or any ceremony from Vernal Cross - Gerald Bear: Reno Nevada Did not receive authority to lead sundances or any ceremony from Vernal Cross -- TUSWECA --------- "RE: Western Mohegans Call for Solidarity" --------- Date: Sun, 21 Sep 1997 23:08:05 -0700 From: "S.I.S.I.S." Subj: Western Mohegans Call for Solidarity :-:-:-:-:-:-:-Settlers In Support of Indigenous Sovereignty-:-:-:-:-:-:-: WESTERN MOHEGANS TO TAKE COUNCIL FIRE TO LIBERTY ISLAND SEPTEMBER 28TH 1997 The Western Mohegan Tribe and Nation invite everyone to join us as we take our Council Fire to Liberty Island New York Sept. 28th at 1:00 PM. In consequence of the European invasion of the Americas our Great Council Fire was put out. We entered the dark night of the ecocide of our homeland and the genocide of our people. Some of us fled and are known as the Mohegans and Pequots of Connecticut and Wisconsin. Some Mohegans remained in New York, like my great, great, great, grand fathers and mothers, who for survival went underground into relative anonymity. We are the descendants of those who stayed. We reach out to all native and non-native peoples to help, hand in hand with us, to fight for the birthrights of our native sovereignty. Please come and join us at 'Liberty Island', Sunday September 28th, at 1:00 PM. May the Great Spirit be with you until then. Chief Golden Eagle - Western Mohegan Tribe & Nation Phone:(518) 642-2751 Fax: (518) 642-3201 Email: mohegan2@aol.com WWW: http://www.tradewind.net/~mohegan Box 32, Granville, New York 12832 USA :-:-:-:-:-:-:-:-:-:-:-:-:-:-:-:-:-:-:-:-:-:-:-:-:-:-:-:-:-:-:-:-:-:-:-: 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: Ruby Valley Treaty" --------- Date: Tue, 23 Sep 1997 09:06:52 -0700 (PDT) From: Larry Kibbey Subj: October 1, 1997 UUCP email OCTOBER 1, 1863 RUBY VALLEY TREATY WESTERN SHOSHONE INDIANS OF NEVADA BY Larry Kibby The following is a historical commemoration of the signing of the Ruby Valley Treaty of Peace and Friendship contrived between the Western Shoshone Indians and the United States Government and signed on October 1, 1863. Just 134 years old, the Ruby Valley Treaty is a portrayal of the period of time when conflicts between the Indian and whites were coming to an end in the West, however, the enclosed document symbolizes a viewpoint that narrates the activity and attitude of the United States Government and it's agencies, as to being equivalent today as that of 1863 or even 1965 when the Traditional Chief of the Western Shoshone, the late Frank Temoke Sr.(1903-1994), of Ruby Valley, Nevada, signed the article that follows. The Ruby Valley Treaty has never been honored by the Government in any manner of speaking. {April 24, 1965} Our legends tell us how we were brought to this land by the Coyote. We know that we are the first people upon this continent and the true owners. And like the Coyote also we have been subject to much violence since the coming of the white man upon our lands. We of the Western Shoshone Indian people have known that our ancestors were shot, the springs poisoned, germs were spread among our people and we even today are subject to every deceitful and dishonest tricks of attorneys who are supposed to represent us and do not, together with Indian agents in order to steal our lands from us, under the pretense of buying these lands which they say on the other hand that we do not own. The Treaty of 1863 made in Ruby Valley, Nevada outlines generally the lands which comprise the Western Shoshone Indian Nation. This Treaty was signed by our principal chiefs and headsmen and ratified by the Congress of the United States. The white man today through his government in Washington is seeking to break this Treaty also in order to steal our lands. We know that this is not right. Our Treaty was paid for in blood, so I would like to tell you how this Treaty was made. In the first place the white people at that time(1863) were weak and few in number's and it was they the white man and his government who came to us asking for a peace treaty. It seems that the white people were at war among themselves which war was called the Civil War and President Lincoln of the United States wanted to get gold from California in order to finance the war. And since the government at this time did not have enough soldiers to guard all of the stage coaches which were carrying this gold across Nevada the only solution was a peace treaty with the people whose lands that stage coaches had to travel which was the lands of the Western Shoshone Indian Nation. So it was that the white people and the representatives of the United States Government put out the word that they were anxious to meet with the chiefs and the people of the Western Shoshone Indian Nation for the purpose of signing such a treaty. So a date was set and the word was passed by runners and on horseback that there would also be a feast with plenty to eat and then the peace treaty would be signed by both parties, Indians and Whites and that there would be no more fighting. And that the Indians were to come unarmed because they would not need their guns. And so it was that at the appointed time the Indians together with the chiefs did come to this place in Ruby Valley and they came unarmed and the soldiers together with the government representatives also came but the soldiers had rifles which they stacked in bunches. So when the Indians had all gathered, the soldiers grabbed the rifles and killed an Indian which they had previously captured and brought with them. Then they cut the Indian up and put him in a huge iron pot which they had in those days and they cooked him and then the soldiers aimed their rifles at the heads of the people and forced the people to eat some of this man they had killed. Men, women and children were all forced to eat some of this human flesh while the soldiers held their guns on the people. And it was after this terrible thing which the white man did to our people that the Treaty of 1863 was signed. So it is hard for us of the Western Shoshone people to understand why the white man doesn't wish to keep this Treaty. And why the government insist through its agents and attorneys that this Treaty is no good. We think that our Treaty has been paid for in blood. And the White man will have to live by this Treaty. All of his conniving and scheming will be for nothing, he will have to live by this Treaty. And like the Coyote whom the white man also has tried to exterminate he also cannot exterminate the Indians. We will continue to hold our Treaty and our lands and no part of our heritage, our birthright to this Mother Earth is for sale. Frank Temoke Sr. Chief Western Shoshone Indian Nation April 24, 1965 Submitted by: <<---------------------------------------------------------------<<<< | Larry Kibby-kibbey@sierra.net Elko Indian Colony, Elko, Nevada | | http://www.geocities.com/CapitolHill/Lobby/7027 | >>>>--------------------------------------------------------------->> --------- "RE: A Monarchy in Limbo" --------- Date: Thu, 18 Sep 1997 23:18:57 -1000 (HST) From: Hawaii Nation Info Subj: Hawaii's royalty - A monarchy in limbo A monarchy in limbo Hawaii's royalty, overthrown illegally, may try for a comeback The Vancouver Sun Saturday, September 13, 1997 by Ian Mulgrew Don Ho may have to stop calling himself the ``King of Hawaii'' because there soon could be a real one. Three years ago, U.S. President Bill Clinton signed the so-called "apology law," a joint congressional resolution formally apologizing to native Hawaiians for the illegal overthrow of their kingdom at the end of the last century. http://www.hawaii-nation.org/publawsum.html The Republic of Hawaii`i with Sanford B. Dole as president was proclaimed on July 4, 1894. It was recognized immediately by the U.S. government and later annexed through a joint resolution of the U. S. Congress in 1898 during the presidency of William McKinley. http://www.hawaii-nation.org/annexation.html "The kingdom was never lawfully terminated, therefore the kingdom still exists or should be restored," international law specialist Francis Anthony Boyle, of the University of Illinois, said in a telephone interview. http://www.hawaii-nation.org/boylebio.html "Precisely who is the monarch, that's another issue - I don't know. There are descendants of the monarchy and some of them have made personal claims to be the legitimate monarch, but I'm not in a position to evaluate their claims one way or another." The issue here, Boyle emphasized, is the U.S. Congress has admitted they illegally overthrew the kingdom in violation of at least three different treaties the U.S. was party to at the time. http://www.hawaii-nation.org/treatylist.html In the event native Hawaiians declare independence, which they now have a right to do under international law, Boyle said they could restore their monarchy, although that could prove tricky. Lydia Lili`uokalani, the last sovereign Queen of Hawai'i, died in 1917. But she maintained throughout her life that Hawaiian sovereignty is inherent and cannot be taken away by force. Lili`uokalani evoked loyalty and sympathy from all native Hawaiians, but she died childless and the royal line now is a tangle. Today, some in Hawaii want to go back to the monarchy, others don't. "The critical point is the distinction between a state and a government," Boyle said. "Their argument about the state, the kingdom of Hawaii, is correct - it was never validly terminated by the U.S. government. But assuming they regain their independence, what kind of government they want is for them to decide." Estimates of the number of native Hawaiians in the state's population of just over one-million vary from just 12 per cent to 20 per cent of the total. Dennis Kanahele is head of the "Nation of Hawaii," the self-proclaimed independent government. Once an advocate of confrontation with the authorities, Kanahele says he now believes in the power of persuasion: "We just have to have patience, and we have to educate each other, and we have to be concerned about the non-Hawaiians as well as our own people as we develop this process." But time may be running out. Of the number of people who choose to identify themselves as native Hawaiian, only six-thousand or so are pure-blooded. One scientist has projected that the Hawaiians as a distinct people will disappear by the year 2040. ___________________________________________________________ | Hawai`i - Independent & Sovereign | | info@hawaii-nation.org http://hawaii-nation.org | |___________________________________________________________| "The cause of Hawaii and independence is larger and dearer than the life of any man connected with it. Love of country is deep- seated in the breast of every Hawaiian, whatever his station." - Queen Lili`uokalani --------- "RE: AISES Receives Presidential Award" --------- Date: Thu, 18 Sep 1997 10:39:27 -0600 From: Patrick Hayes Subj: AISES RECEIVES PRESIDENTIAL AWARD Mailing List: AISESnet General List P R E S S R E L E A S E For Immediate Release September 16, 1997 Contact: Norbert Hill, Executive Director American Indian Science & Engineering Society Receives Presidential Award BOULDER -- The American Indian Science & Engineering Society (AISES), a Boulder-based national organization, has received a 1997 Presidential Award for Excellence in Science, Mathematics and Engineering Mentoring. The $10,000 awards, funded through the National Science Foundation, recognize outstanding mentoring efforts and programs that increase the participation of under represented groups in science, mathematics, and engineering at the K-12 through graduate school levels. AISES was one of nine organizations to receive the 1997 awards, which were presented at a ceremony held on September 12 at the White House's Old Executive Office Building. "This award is a tremendous honor for AISES," said Norbert Hill, Executive Director. "Our most valued reward comes in the form of American Indian college graduates. But it's always nice to be recognized for the work we so love to do. By honoring AISES, this award celebrates the accomplishments of our students. For that, we are extremely proud." AISES provides programs in math, science and engineering for American Indian and Alaska Native students from kindergarten through college. Its programs include curriculum development, teacher training, career fairs, annual science fair, traditional knowledge, and the distribution of more than $500,000 annually in college scholarships. "Our goal is to make sure that students with interests and skills in math and science have opportunities to excel in those fields," Hill said. AISES is a non-profit organization devoted to bridging science and technology with traditional Native values. For more information, write to: AISES, 5661 Airport Boulevard, Boulder, CO 80301, or call 303-939-0023. Information is also available on the internet at www.colorado.edu/AISES. --------- "RE: New Moon Prayer" --------- Date: Mon, 22 Sep 1997 04:09:46 -0400 From: "elaine flattery" Subj: New Moon Prayer - Oct. 1, 1997 UUCP email Every new moon in 1997 at 5 am in Ashland, Oregon and other parts of the U.S. and world (8 est, 7 cst, etc), we will be praying for Unity. All are asked to join in this prayer time, and share this information with others in your local communities as we hope this will be a growing prayer circle for the sake of the Sacred Hoop and all our Relations. We will continue praying for the Elders, Buffaloes, Sun Dancers, Respect, Sobriety, Sovereignty, Children, Grandmother Earth and Grandmothers and protection of our Sacred Sites. Prayer = Unity, Respect, Understanding, and Maturity Our history, culture, and treaties are part of the sacred hoop. In order to have unity we must have respect and sincerity. We must talk about the treaties, the 7 generations, the 7 laws of the Lakota, and the Sun Dance Way. These things are like the water. One incomplete, disrespectful, immature person can muddy the water for a whole tribe. Then the 7 laws of the Lakota will not be understood with clarity by the 7 generations. There is a place on the sacred hoop for every species, and respect must be shown to all of them in order for the medicine to work. We need respect, understanding and maturity to bring about unity. We need unity so that we will not be broken one by one, like a single red stick. When we stand together and seek with respect and humility to understand one another we are strong like a bundle of red sticks. Those who would muddy the water don't really believe in the Native American Great Spirit, and have no clarity in that system. Remember to respect the elders and the grandmothers, they are the teachers. Mitakuye oyasi, Dave Chief Oglala Lakota Elder _________ ___/ / / / / \_ \ _\__\__/\__ / --------- "RE: A Hundred Years Ago" --------- Date: Sun, 21 Sep 1997 23:23:57 -0700 From: Landis Subj: A Hundred Years Ago - Week 21 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 24, 1897 NUMBER 50 =============================================== IN SEPTEMBER. ----------- Mornings frosty grow, and cold. Brown the grass on hill and wold; Crows are cawing sharp and clear When the rustling corn grows sere; Mustering flocks of blackbirds call, Here and there a few leaves fall, In the meadows larks sling sweet, Chirps the cricket at our feet, In September. Noons are sunny, warm and still, A golden haze o'erhangs the hill, Amber sunshine e's on the floor Just within the open door. Still the crickets call and creak, Never found though long we seek; Oft comes faint report of gun, Busy flies buzz in the sun, In September. Evenings chilly are and damp, Early lighted is the lamp; Fire burns, and kettle sings, Smoke ascends in thin, blue rings; On the rug the children lie, In the west the soft lights die, From the elms a robin's song Rings out sweetly, lingers long, In September. ============================= TIME. -------- TELL THE MAN ON-THE BAND STAND HOW YOU USE YOUR SPARE MOMENTS AND HE WILL TELL YOU WHAT YOU ARE. --- Time Abused is Bad Luck. Preaching is right and good in its place, and scolding often times plays an important part in one's life, but it is not our desire nor intention to turn the INDIAN HELPER into a scolding medium nor an avenue for preaching. When we come across such golden words as the following, however, we can but feel that our boys and girls as well as the Man-on-the-band stand should have the benefit of reading them. We often hear said: "I would read this good book, or I would do that if I only had the time." The energetic, live person, who makes every moment tell for some good purpose never speaks thus. Even if he works at hard labor 10 or 12 hours a day he finds time for mental improvement. It is not time we lack, it is the DISPOSITION. We are lazy or indifferent. We ALWAYS have the time to do what we WILL do. "To use time aright," says the learned person who speaks through our selection to his young friends, "have a system. Shape everything to it. Divide the twenty-four hours between work, recreation, sleep and mental culture, according to a scheme that suits your judgment and circumstances. Then make things go that way. The scheme will quickly go to pieces unless backed by persistent purpose. When you work, work. Put the whole mind and heart in it. Know nothing else. Do everything the very best. Distance everybody about you. This will not be hard, for the other fellows are not trying much. Master details and difficulties. Be always ready for the next step up. If a bookkeeper, be an expert. If a machinist know more than the boss. If an office-boy surprise the employer by model work. If in school, go to the head and stay there. All this is easy when the habit of conquering takes possession. It is wholesome in this connection to read what men have accomplished who have once learned the art of redeeming the time. Study the causes of the success of Benjamin Franklin, of Lincoln, of Garfield, of Sir Michael Faraday, of Agassiz, of Edison. Learn the might of minutes. Every day is a little life, and our whole life ------------------------------------------------- (continued on last page) ================================================= Miss Botsford is over a hundred miles from the railroad teaching among the Indians out west. Miss Bourassa, '90, who has been a teacher with us for several years was transferred this year to Ft. Hall, Idaho. We have not learned how she likes it there, but her many friends here do not like the change. A CARD: CARLISLE, Sept. 21, 1897. TO THE EDITOR OF THE HELPER: I beg leave through the folds of your paper to thank the kind friends and employers of the school who so kindly remembered me during the recent illness and death of my wife. -GEORGE FOULK. Miss Lillie Wind, ex-pupil of Carlisle, who is now practicing her profession of nursing in Hartford, Connecticut, says in a recent letter to a friend which we had the pleasure of reading, that nurses are in great demand. She has been working very hard all summer, but now is resting for a few days, having just pulled through, under the directions of an excellent doctor, a serious typhoid case--a Yale student. She has all she can do, but in order to do justice to her patients and to herself, she was obliged to take a brief rest. We shall look for Miss Wind on a visit next Commencement, as she partially promises in her letter. On Monday, at the opening exercises of school, Miss Senseny, Vocal Instructress, sang in most excellent voice and with pleasing effect Lynes' "He was a Prince," and Belmont Smight's "Creole Love Song." On Tuesday, Miss Simmons talked upon "The Achievements of the White and Red Races Compared." This from a young Indian maiden was a most thrilling and earnest appeal to the youth of her race to show to the world by their earnestness of purpose that the history of the Indian has been wrongly written, and that their motives as a people have been misunderstood. From this on, the Indian will be judged by the growing generation, who should be industrious and worthy. Every student who heard her remarks should be quickened into a deeper intensity. On Wednesday, Miss Barclay talked on "Li Hung Chang's visit to the United States." This, also, was very interesting and instructive, entering into the details of his daily life. Mrs. Jemima Wheelock Cornelius, '90, has more trouble. Her baby McKinley, who has been ill for a time, died on the 18th. Only a few months ago she lost her husband. Jemima has passed through deep waters since she left Carlisle, and in her trials has the sincere sympathy of her many friends in this vicinity. Miss Mary Jackson, of Washington D C, daughter of Dr. Sheldon Jackson, sends us this gratifying news of Miss Flora Campbell, '94. She says" "Mr. Kelly the Superintendent of the Sitka Training School, writes that Flora is making herself very useful at the Government Day School, at Sitka. During Mrs. Paul's absence Miss Campbell took her place in the laundry and managed it to the satisfaction of all concerned. She also does much of Mr. Kelly's letter writing and teaches a class in Sabbath School.' In the same letter Miss Jackson says: "A recent letter from Dr. Jackson, tells how frightened the natives along the Yukon were, at the sight of the first search light they saw on a steamer ascending the river" And as a bit of encouragement she adds: "Long live the INDIAN HELPER. Like so many others, I read it weekly with interest." There was nothing much to move about your printing-office, was there? No! Only a cylinder power-press and fixtures weighing hundreds of pounds, four job presses--a half, a quarter, and two eighth medium, a paper cutter, three imposing stones, four large file-cupboards as high as the ceiling, two immense desks and four of ordinary size, eight type-cabinets, fifteen or twenty case-stands, 12,000 names in galleys, hundreds of pounds of type in cases, on galleys or in forms, the mixing of which would have made work for months ahead, a half-dozen folding tables, galley racks, standing galleys, roller cupboard, electric motor, wires for electric lighting, sink, a large work bench, two tons of paper, besides many unmentionable articles. No! It is no work to move such a printing office where superior forethought, skill and excellent judgement with a force of willing hands have full play. The master mechanics were Messrs. Gardner and Harris, the former having entire charge, while the latter confined his attention mainly to the power press which had to be moved in sections. Owing to his experience and skill, the press was taken down, and set up in position without a break or a strain. Through Mr. Gardner's engineering the other presses were also brought and lifted to the second story with block and tackle made by him for the purpose, and set in position without the misplacement of a single bearing or straining of any of the parts. Much credit is due Mr. Gardner, who, without seeming effort planned and executed the work. Assistant Printer, St. Cyr, Foreman Gansworth and Journeyman Wheelock superintended all the rest, while the Man-on-the-band-stand sat one side and fanned himself. So, we are HERE, without having made a double-handful of pi. The printing office and editorial sanctum are within the sound of the black smith's anvil, the turning lathe, the carpenter's saw, the harness-maker's needle, the show-maker's peg-peg, the tinners tom-tom, the odor of paint, and the quack of the tailor's goose all of which industrial songs and smells are inspiring and NOTEworthy. =================================================== Come see us in our new quarters. Antonio Apache is here, an ever welcome visitor. Jack Standing has become a Dickinson College prep. Miss Cummins has gone to Washington for a day on business. Timothy Henry, '96, is teaching school in New York State. The new Assistant Commissioner of Indian Affairs is Mr. A.C. Tonner, of Ohio. Dr. Alice Seabrook, of Philadelphia, is visiting friends in town and at the school. Company drills before and after school and battalion drill after supper are in order. The backs are making rapid advancement in kicking under Mr. Bull's efficient directions. United States Inspector, A J. Duncan, of Cleveland, Ohio, is with us on official business. The second football team is given signal practice in the gymnasium at 8:30, these evenings. A team composed of our largest small boys will play football with a team from town, tomorrow. Professor Bakeless reports work in the academic department moving along nicely with pupils earnest and down to business. Edgar Rickard returned from his New York home this week. He was delayed by an injury received on his foot while thrashing. Miss Cochran has for her guest an old schoolmate, Mrs. T.L. Welch, West Virginia, whose former home was in New York State. Every evening at 8:00 in the gymnasium, the large boys are given a little Sweedish work as an introduction to regular gymnastics which will begin in a few days. We have as fine a printing office now, as far as location goes, as can be found in the Cumberland Valley, and we hardly believe there is one to beat it in the United States. Several footballs have been given to the small boys who are reaping much good from their use. The first line-up, took place on Tuesday, and was very satisfactory. Christian Eastman, is being tried at quarterback on second team and gives evidence of making a good quarter. All candidates are rounding into shape nicely. Three large boys entered our school, this week, from Minnesota: George Boswell, Richard Bozell and Charles Antell, and two girls from the same agency. The article headed "Time" on first page, will bear reading twice. Hunt out the paragraph about conquering oneself. Then, the line about athletic sports is good. The nice condition of the flowers and plants in the shop-court is due to the faithful work of Frank Thomas who has had the care of them. The plants when taken up will be placed in the Reading Room and Y.M.C.A. hall. The King's Daughters are reorganizing for the year, and hope to do earnest work. With 100 new girls in quarters, they will doubtless find much to engage their energies, if they do all that may be done to make the new girls feel at home among us, and to draw them into active Christian service. Band concert on the band-stand, last Saturday evening. Miss Richenda Pratt left on Tuesday for Wilson College, Chambersburg, where she enters as student this year. The flowers in the chapel on Sundays are a "Standing" tribute of welcome to our esteemed pastor; and they are enjoyed by all. Painter Norman and his boys touched up the new printing office in good shape before we moved. We are light, and bright and cheery, ready for visitors and ten thousand new subscriptions. In the Saturday morning teachers' meetings, the work of the various summer schools attended by our teachers is coming up in review with much that is helpful in the way of suggestive criticisms. Martin Wheelock sprained his ankle during a practice game of football, on Wednesday evening. It is hoped that the injury sustained is not serious as Martin is one of the "big guns" on the team. Capt. Pratt has been to Ft. Lewis and to Grand Junction Colorado, in the past week, and by the time this paper reaches its readers his face will be turned eastward. He will visit friends and relatives on the way. Misses Sarah, Roxanna, and Marion, and Master Dick Pratt had a children's party on Wednesday afternoon at Capt. Pratt's house, at which a number of their friends were invited in, and a gay and festive occasion it was to all. Mrs. J.H. Murray of Carlisle, gave a party on Saturday evening in honor of Miss Olivia Johnsdotter, of Iceland, who is at present visiting Miss Nana Pratt. On Monday, Miss Elizabeth Gardner gave a reception in her honor. The smallest boys are gathering up all the old cans they can find and filling them with dirt and geranium slips for the rooms this winter. Indian boys and girls are very fond of flowers, and take great pleasure in tending them and watching them grow. Mr. E B Wakefield, a trader at Libbey Minnesota, brought the Chippewa boys and girls who entered this week. Mr. Wakefield says it is his first trip East, and he is quite charmed with the country and climate. He is looking well into the workings of our school, and sees much hope in the outlook. Howard Gansworth, '94, has gone to Princeton. He started off in high spirits and full of faith that he will get through by hard work, even though he can not at this time see his way out financially. He is ready and willing to do anything and everything he can to work his way, and the Man-on-the-band-stand believes he will make it. The Susan Longstreth Literary Society met on Friday evening the 17th, and elected the following officers: President, Mabel Buck; Vice-President, Cynthia Webster; Recording-Secretary, Mellissa Green; Corresponding-Secretary, Minnie Findley; Reporter, Eliza Smith; Critic, Sarah Smith; Assistant Critic, Anna Morton; Treasurer, Annie M. Gesis; Marshall, Lottie Horn; Pianist, Lillie Complainville. The young ladies are anxious to make the ensuing year the most profitable and interesting of all. =================================================== (Continued from first page) --------------------------------------------------- is a day repeated. Those that dare lose a day are dangerously prodigal; those that dare misspend it, desperate. Emerson says "The creation of a thousand forests is in one acorn." Sound and wholesome recreation is important in our scheme; but in this age of athletic frenzy the danger of neglect on that line is not excessive. The real fact is that athletic sports are educating the muscles too often at the expense of the brain. ================================ IS THE INDIAN KIND AND MERCIFUL? ----------------- Let each Indian boy and girl answer this question for himself or herself. There is one thing sure that the way to become kind and merciful men and women, is to be kind and merciful when we are children. Mrs. Freeland, whom we all remember so well as one of the visitors last commencement, is very much interested in the Carlisle Indian boys and girls, and when she sees a good little story in a paper that she thinks will do them good she kindly sends it. The Man-on-the-band-stand often takes parts of such pieces for his HELPER. From "The Sabbath School Visitor", she has sent the following beautiful story of Florence Nightingale, who became one of the most famous women in the world. Did you ever hear of her? It was her mercy and kindness to wounded soldiers that made her famous, and she began her work of love when she was a little girl. We are told that her first patient was a shepherd dog. Some rude boys had hit his leg with stones, and it was very badly hurt--so badly that the men were going to kill the dog in order to put him out of his misery, for he would not let them touch the wound. But little Florence went up to where he lay, saying, in a soft, caressing tone: "Poor Cap! Poor Cap!" The dog looked trustfully up into her eyes, and while she talked to him and stroked his head he allowed his leg to be examined. She was told there were no bones broken, but that the leg was badly bruised and ought to be fomented to take the swelling down. "Fomented" was such a big word that little Florence did not quite know what it meant. "How do you foment?" she asked. "With hot cloths dipped in boiling water," she was answered. "Then that's quite easy." And so the little girl went to work and applied the compress of old rags soaked in hot water to the poor dog's wounded leg until he was out of danger, and on the high road toward getting well. This little girl grew up doing things like that, always doing a kindness and a deed of mercy whenever she had a chance. So we are not astonished to read that after she had come to be a famous woman, when she would walk through the hospital to find out if her orders were being obeyed in the care of the wounded soldiers, the grateful men would turn and kiss her shadow where it fell on their pillows. What a noble thing it is to grow up merciful and kind! The Bible says, "Let not mercy and truth forsake thee: bind them about thy neck; write them upon the table of thine heart: so shalt thou find favor and good understanding in the sight of God and man. ================================ ITEMS ABOUT THOSE WE KNOW AT HASKELL INSTITUTE, LAW- RENCE, KANSAS. -------- Gleaned from September "Leader". Paul Goodbear of Cheyenne reservation has been visiting Haskell for a few days. Mrs. Lutkins returned for a few days and left us again for a trip to Colorado Springs. Miss Mosher returned from Wichita to join the lonely few, who wield the power in places new. Dr. and Mrs. Heineman having changed their residence from Chicago to Haskell are about settled in their new home. A large amount of grapes has been used at the tables this month from our vineyard. Some were made into jelly for future use. Miss Wood, one of Haskell's teachers last year, has accepted a position at Carlisle. Her pupils all regret to lose her, but are glad she is back in the service where she can do so much for the Indian race. The practice of keeping an Indian boy or girl for numerical reasons only ought not to be permitted. Indians like all other races, have occasionally ones that are wholly incapable of acquiring knowledge. The long looked for and welcome electric light plant for Haskell is at last assured. The work is almost completed. The buildings will be lighted by 384 lamps. There are four large arc lamps in the circle so arranged that the grounds will be well lighted. ============================ Enigma. I am made of 21 letters. Potatoes grow on my 3, 10, 14, 21. It is hard to get rid of a bad 5, 7, 1, 21. The Man-on-the-band-stand's presses look their best when they are 6, 2, 4, 11, 15. My 18, 19, 9, 21 is a good thing in winter. Some table waiters want a 12, 13, 8 before they do their best. With sufficient 17, 16, 9, 20, 21 even a large printing-press can be made to move. My whole is the kind of business the Man-on-the-band-stand does not particularly enjoy. ------------------- ANSWER TO LAST WEEK'S ENIGMA: Hot weather. +=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+ Submitted by Barbara Landis http://www.epix.net/~landis _____________________________________________________________________________ "c" copyright original sender/author,and published Nat-Film as per header(s). To subscribe: , In body type: INFO NAT-FILM Language Listservs: To:Listserv@Maelstrom.stjohns.edu, Body: INFO NAT-SCRIPT UNAT Native Aboriginal Board List N-A Film & Ent. Service Lists:To: --------- "RE: Native Prisoner" --------- Date: Thu, 25 Sept 97 08:00 -0500 From: Janet Smith (evestar@juno.com) Subj: Contacting those in the Ironhouse UUCP email Once more I would like to thank Thomas Sunhawk, who provided much of my current Native Prisoner pen pal list, and to encourage readers to visit Laura Brooks homepage for Sunhawk's full list, a list she had collected and the list I started with from our friend River. Laura's site is at http://www.geocities.com/capitolhill/9118. You'll also find good discussions there about Native prisoner religious rights and other legal issues and some great links. Please especially remember - this is the "Year of Leonard". Also worthy of note -- Leonard Peltier's birthday was September 12. He'd probably enjoy more birthday good wishes. Leonard Peltier #89637-132, Box 1000, Leavenworth, KS 66048 Both Laura and I would greatly appreciate knowing about any other Native inmate needing contact. Please send all correspondence to evestar@juno.com Billheimer, Timothy Edward Burns, Michael Ray #R145-111 #168159 - JCCC HU #7 PO Box 4501 PO Box 900 Lima, OH 45802 Jefferson City, MO 65102 Date of Birth: 10/29/60 Ancestry: Cherokee Burrage, George B #303-069 Bland, Kenneth Lee PO Box 511 #286-968 Columbus, OH 43216 PO Box 511 Date of Birth: 5/14/76 Columbus, OH 43216 Ancestry: Choctaw Date of Birth: 10/9/49 Ancestry: Chippewa-Yellow Hand Butts, Michael 87C0013 Bobb, David L. 135 State St., Box 618 # S1902 Auburn, NY 13021 Box A Date of Birth: 12/24/44 Bellefonte, PA 16823 Ancestry: Cherokee Campbell, Ronnie #326-408 Bobby, Steve PO Box 511 #164-828 FHC Columbus, OH 43216 PO Box 511 Date of Birth: 4/29/67 Columbus, OH 43216 Carroll Floyd A. Bozeman, David Louis #CU-2347 C/B/19 #279-452 10754 Rt. 18 PO Box 511 Albion. PA 16475-0002 Columbus, OH 43216 Date of Birth: 11/25/67 Date of Birth: 6/20/39 Ancestry: Blackfoot Ancestry: Cherokee Casto, Steven Brandon, Harley Daniel #325-538 #193-849 PO Box 7010 PO Box 5500 Chillicothe, OH 45601 Chillicothe, OH 45601 Date of Birth: 5/14/54 Date of Birth: 3/8/40 Ancestry: Cherokee Burgdorf, Edward Dale Causey, Jearald Keith #503795 CMCC #A 219-958 PO Box 53 PO Box 5500 Jefferson City, MO 65102-0539 Chillicothe, OH 45601 Date of Birth: 8/15/68 Date of Birth: 8/11/62 Ancestry: Cherokee Ancestry: Cherokee - Miniconjou/Lakota Please send all correspondence for "Native Prisoner" to evestar@juno.com --------- "RE: Poem: The Apparitions" --------- Date: Mon, 30 Jun 1997 09:16:55 -0700 From: Larry Kibbey Subj: Expression or Bragging? Mailing List: NAT-FILM The Apparitions Quietly sitting before a small fire, A lone Indian begins a ceremonial respect. Reaching into a pouch, He brings out a matter of medicine. Which he offers to the four winds, To Mother Earth and all his relations. And from his heart, soul and mind, He speaks to the medicine, Using a language taught to him, A language carried through time, By the apparitions before him, His ancestors. With words flowing from his heart, Of the fire he speaks. He ask the medicine for guidance, To protect his people, So that they will live a good life And that their hearts, souls and minds, Will be filled with the Wisdom, knowledge and understanding Of life and truth, The traditional ways given to them, As told through the medicine By the apparitions before him, His ancestors. Gently he sprinkles the medicine upon the fire. He has spoken words to the medicine Using the old language of his people, Words that the medicine knows. For such words are of a language That have been used for centuries In such a sacred manner. Words that the medicine recognizes, Words of life that come from no book, Words that in fact allow the medicine to work. This the lone Indian knows, For he is given a nod of approval By the apparitions before him, His ancestors. And as the smoke heads upward, Carrying the medicine and words, An Eagle hover's above accepting the message, Which will be delivered in a sacred manner. And the apparitions of time gone by know The Indian world will live on. Such are the ways of a people, Guided by apparitions of time gone by. For here, there is no circus, no money, No English words, no books, no mockery, Just the reality of something very sacred, Passed on to a people By the apparitions who guide us, The ancestors of yesterday... Who guide only their people... *by* """"""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""" | < Larry Kibby > * kibbey@sierra.net * | | "Elko Indian Colony, Elko, Nevada" | | Program Director, WSHPS | | Elko, Nevada | """"""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""" ____________________________________________________________________________ by NAT-FILMgroup, UNAT & UNITED Native American Television Broadcast Council Sub, To: Listserv@Maelstrom.stjohns.edu, Body: subscribe NAT-FILM full name Native Language Animation Group, To: NAT-IMATION-request@maelstrom.stjohns.edu NAT-SCRIPT (Languages) To:Listserv@Maelstrom.stjohns.edu, Body:info nat-script All content on Nat-Film lists are "c" copyright original authors/senders. --------- "RE: Verse: Hawaiian Book of Days" --------- Date: Sat, 20 Sep 97 03:08:00 GMT From: dfsanders@genie.com Subj: Hawaiian Book of Days UUCP email A HAWAIIAN BOOK OF DAYS, week of October 5-12 OKAKOPA (October) (Ikuwa) 5 A tiny crab scuttles across the wet sand, searching for places to hide. 6 Walk in the paths illuminated by the moon. 7 I hear the bright music of the waterfall in my dreams. 8 Know what you want from life, ... and never give up until you find it. 9 The plover, kolea, rushes from place to place, stopping only a little while to enjoy his surroundings. 10 All places are here; all time is now. 11 Each person's perception of the world is a little different. 12 In life, there is no end of possibilities. (c) Copyright 1991 by D. F. Sanders Me ke aloha i ka nani, ... Moe'uhanekeanuenue (With love and beauty, ... Rainbow Dream) --------- "RE: Conferences and Powwows - offline" --------- Date: Thu, 18 Sept 97 08:00 -0500 From: Janet Smith (evestar@juno.com) Subj: Upcoming conferences and powwows not previously posted to Mailing List NATIVE-L UUCP email Date: Mon, 15 Sep 1997 21:55:53 -0400 (EDT) From: "Robert B. Bancroft 475-2584 fax:475-6730" Subj: Wiping the Tears from Grandpa Bear - Executive Director of New York Chapter - National American Indian Movement. ("WIPING THE TEARS") Native American Language Reference A traditional Native American welcoming ceremony to the African-American Community. All people of conscience are Welcome! INDIGENOUS PEOPLES MONTH EVENT October 12, 1997 Buffalo, New York Native American and African-American welcome ceremony at the Langston Hughes Institute, 25 High Street - Sunrise ceremony at Front Park (tennis court area) - Afternoon workshops - Traditional gift exchange & dinner - Highlighting the survival of both Indigenous and African peoples. Discussion of the development of a Genocide Memorial to Native American and African-American Peoples as a result of Columbus. Background: The Native people of the United States have, within their Historical culture, made significant interactions with African people arriving in this country. The Native American culture has a tradition of welcoming and engaging other cultures. A traditional welcome or condolence ceremony will be reenacted by local indigenous people with members of the African-American community who will announce acceptance and appreciation of the welcome. The ceremony will increase the cultural understanding of all participants and heighten their sensitivity and respect for the relationship of African-American and Native American people. Attendees: Northeastern Native American Association Drummers and Singers African-American Cultural Center Drummers and Dancers Frank White Eagle - (Spiritual Leader of New York Chapter National American Indian Movement) Chief Redjacket - (Chairman, Board of Directors, New York Chapter National American Indian Movement) Chief Wassaja Gibson - (Head of the Elders Council, New York Chapter, National American Indian Movement) OTHER NATIONAL AMERICAN INDIAN MOVEMENT LEADERS Joanne Russ - (singer, will be performing a song she composed for this occasion) Minister Abdul Halim Mohammed from the Nation of Islam, Mosque #23 Schedule: 7:00am Sunrise ceremony - Front Park (Tennis Courts Area) 10:00 - NOON Youth Programs - Langston Hughes Institute - 25 High St. 1:00 pm - 2:15 pm) Gathering in Martin Luther King Park - on Best and Fillmore Ave. for a caravan to the Columbus Statue to protest continued celebration of Columbus. (This includes speeches and media). Return to Langston Hughs Institute. Willie Lynch and Christopher Columbus will be dug up and reburied. 2:23 pm - 3:35 pm Discussion Groups: Genocide Memorial Shared Histories Personal Stories Traditional Medicine/Healing 3:45 pm Gift Exchange Organization to Organization Group to Group 4:00 pm Welcome Ceremony 4:45 pm Dinner (please bring a dish, but not required) 5:30 pm Dancing and Drumming Welcome Ceremony CLOSING CEREMONY Sponsored by: New York Chapter of the National American Indian Movement, Edward M. Johnson, Neto Hatinakwe Onkwehoweh Inc., The African-American Cultural Center, The Community Diamonds, The Buffalo Community Partnership which is a project of the Prevention Resource Center at Buffalo State College Fund by CSAP, Langston Hughes Institute, Urban Arts, The Nation of Islam Mosque #23. Supported by: The Workers World Party/National Peoples Party, National Peoples Campaign. +++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++ We will resend this as the date draws closer. Grey Wolf ============================================= Date: Mon, 22 Sep 97 08:47:34 -0600 From: "John Berry" Subj: Circle of Honor Pow Wow (fwd) ---------- Forwarded message ---------- From: william s winneshiek Native American Student Organization's 2nd Annual "Circle of Honor Pow Wow" at the Armory at the University of Illinois at Champaign/Urbana November 1, 1997 9-10 tribes will be represented Native American vendors (food and wares) Host Drum: Little Otter Guest Drums: Red Lakes Singers, Lake Delton Singers & Mystic River Head Male Dancer: Ben Lovejoy Head Female Dancer: Salina No Ear Todome Contest: $500 1st place for Men's/Women's Fancy Dance Grand Entries at 1pm and 7pm. Doors open at 12 noon. Open to the public. Admission $2.00/adult or $3.00/family. UIUC students free. Bill Winneshiek at 217 244-7582 or email: winneshi@uiuc.edu Sponsored by: SORF ============================================= Date: Sat, 20 Sep 1997 05:21:01 -0700 (PDT) From: Larry Kibbey Subj: 2nd Annual MTU Spirit of the Harvest Powwow & Gathering (fwd) ---------- Forwarded message ---------- From: Carole LaPointe Subject: 2nd Annual MTU Spirit of the Harvest Powwow & Gathering The 2nd Annual Spirit of the Harvest Powwow & Gathering will be held at the Memorial Union Building on the Michigan Tech University Campus on November 8 & 9, 1997 in Houghton, MI. Odawa Nation Singers will be host drum from the Grand Traverse Band. MC is Walt Bressette of Red Cliff Wisconsin, Head Male Dancer is Tom and Head Female Dancer is April Lindala. Eric Owonohopay is Arena Director. The Second annual Native American Speaker's Forum will be held in conjunction with the Powwow on Friday, November 7, 1997. Don Coyhis is our featured presenter for the day. For more information, please contact Carole or Doreen at the Native American Outreach Office on the MTU campus at (906/487-2920) or FAX 906/487-3101 or email-cllapoin@mtu.edu, dgbaron@mtu.edu. "I know that education is the way out of isolation, into participation, out of poverty into hope and community"...-Ada Deer Carole LaPointe, Coordinator Native American Outreach Alumni House/Department of Education Opportunity 1400 Townsend Drive Houghton, MI 49931-1295 906/487-2920 906/487-3101 (FAX) cllapoin@mtu.edu ============================================= Date: Mon, 22 Sep 1997 18:52:03 -0700 From: "Joanna Soto Aviles (aka Nanake)" Subject: Taino Exhibition at El Museo del Barrio - Sun, 09/28/97, 11:00 am - 5:00 pm TaiGuey Natiaos, El Museo del Barrio, 1230 Fifth Ave (104th St), New York, NY 10029-4496, is organizing a major exhibition, Taino: Pre-Columbian Art and Culture from the Caribbean. This exhibition is the most comprehensive presentation of Taino material to the United States in its pan-Caribbean approach. The exhibition includes two parts: one focusing on ancient Taino art, and the other examining the persistence of Taino culture in the contemporary Caribbean and its diaspora, called the Taino Legacy. The Taino Legacy, in turn, is comprised of both an exhibition of archival and contemporary photographs and videotape, and a series of public programs. The official formal opening of the exhibition Taino-Pre-Columbian Art and Culture from the Caribbean, Domingo Taino, will be held at El Museo del Barrio on September 28, 1997 from 11:00 am - 5:00 pm, with remarks by Susana Torruella Leval, the Director of El Museo del Barrio, at 2:00 pm. There will be refreshments and performances throughout the day. For more information, you can call Beryl Jacobs and/or Fatima Bercht at (212) 831-7272 ext.39 or fax (212) 831-7927. Well, that's all for now...hoping you and your loved ones are well and looking forward to seeing some of you at the Exhibition. Until then, may the Great Mystery Bless, Guide, Protect, and Sustain you and your loved ones, now and always. Taino-Ti! Nanake ============================================= Date: Tue, 16 Sep 1997 19:14:04 -0400 (EDT) From: Tresa61@aol.com Subj: Prayer Vigil for Earth A PRAYER VIGIL FOR THE EARTH CALLING A CIRCLE OF PRAYER FOR THE EARTH, SUNRISE, SEPT. 27, 1997. Please join us. Our vision is that the rising sun on Sept. 27 be greeted by people in Prayer For The Earth in each time zone. This wave of prayer will come in as many different forms as there are cultures, traditions, and people participating. Some may express through dance, others song, words or mantras. Where nations fail to reach basic accord at Earth Summit II, the grass roots language of the heart, prayer, will plant a seed for future success. ++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++ This activity is part of the 5th annual Prayer Vigil held on The Mall in Washington, DC, USA every Fall. In accordance with the visions of many spiritual elders from many nations and faiths, that we are in a time of decision and in this time, must learn to come together with one heart, one mind, one prayer, one voice to move into a new time, at sunrise on Saturday, September 27, 1997, near the Washington Monument, Native American spiritual elders will hold a sacred Pipe Ceremony inaugurating a 30 hour Prayer Vigil for the Earth. In addition to silent prayer offered by volunteers...each in their own faith tradition ...the Vigil's rich presentations scattered within and around a circle of 14 tipis will include a World Peace Prayer Ceremony, healing music in the Sufi tradition, round dances for racial unity, and a fire vigil all night. The full Vigil runs 30 continuous hours concluding at noon Sunday, Sept. 28th. The 1993-1996 Vigils were led by Indigenous Wisdom Keepers of North America. Indigenous leaders who are participating this year include Grandfather William Commanda, Keeper of the Sacred Prophecy Belts of the Anishinabe Nations, Phil Lane, Director of Four Worlds, and Lakota elder, Harry F. Byrd, Under the guidance of the elders, The Circle is expanding to include members of other faiths, cultures, and traditions in a circle of mutual respect and learning.. Begun in 1993 by two not-for-profit organizations, The Circle and The WIttenberg Center for Alternative Resources, this year's Vigil welcomes all peoples from the greater Washington D.C. area to join together bin the prayers, dances and ceremonies "not as tourists or curiosity seekers, but as people of good will seeking to heal the Earth and honor her sacredness." Other assisting organizations for this year include The Washington DC Intertribal Cultural Association, Four WOrlds International, the North American Coalition on Religion and Ecology, the Washington DC United Religions Initiative, the Nathanial Center for Spiritual Growth, Airline Ambassadors, and Unity by the Bay. We are a grass roots, volunteer event and welcome all support. Your prayers, financial donations, physical help in cooking for the elders or assisting with The World Peace Prayer Ceremony on The Mall in DC are all welcome. Call Sue Conklin at (703) 242-3710 to volunteer and for DC information. You may also contact The Wittenberg Center at (914)-679-9764 in NY or The Circle at (510)-336-0223 in CA for more information. You may also visit our web site at www.oneprayer.org. for the history of this event. Thank you for your support. May we remember we are all related. ============================================= From News From Indian Country: Sep 26-28 Autumn Gathering, Genoa City, WI 414-473-7748, 608-752-7340 Sep 26-28 3rd Council Tree, Delta, CO 800-874-1741 Sep 26-28 7th Casino Morongo, Cabazon, CA 909 849-3080,ext 274 Sep 26-28 17th Baxoje Fall Encampment, White Cloud, KS 913-595-3367 Sep 27-28 Waimea Inter-Tribal, Waimea, HI 808-885-5569 Local Powwows around Georgia and Alabama Oct 11-12 The Fort Payne Depot Museum Indian Festival, Honoring our Veterans, Union Park, downtown Ft. Payne, AL. Info: 205-492-5217 Oct 18-19 Foot of the Mountain Indian Festival, Piedmont, AL 205-447-8811 Oct 17-19 Ossahatchee Pow Wow, Hamilton, GA 706-628-5400 ===================================================================== -------------------------------------------------------------------------- --//--//--//--//--//--//--//--//--//--//--//--//--//--//--//--//--//--//-- Notice of Copyright Clearance by Contributors: The following have granted permission for their original articles to be reposted in order to help mend the Sacred Hoop: Elsie Herten via Firehair, Navajo-Hopi Observer via Bob Dorman, Larry Kibby, Janet Smith, North American Spirit Lodge, Leonard Peltier Defense Committee, Barbara Landis, Settlers in Support of Indigenous Sovereignty, Larry Innes, Scott Tippetts, Tusweca, Pablo Lonesome Wolf, Elaine Flattery, Cecilia Rodriguez, Michael S. Mease, Debra F. 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