From gars@netcom.com Sat Nov 27 14:50:04 1999 Date: Tue, 23 Nov 1999 18:15:12 -0800 (PST) From: Gary Night Owl To: Internet Recipients of Wotanging Ikche Subject: Wotanging Ikche--nanews07.048 _ __ _____ __ _ __ ___ ____ _ __ ___ O ' ) / / ') / / ) ' ) ) / ) / ' ) ) / ) O o O / / / / / / /--/ / / / ___ / / / / ___ O o O (_(_/ (__/ ( / (_ / (_ (___/ '__/_ / (_ (___/ ' O o o o o O ____ _ , ___ _ , ___ VOLUME 07, ISSUE 048 O o O / ' ) / / ) ' ) / / ' November 28, 1999 O o O / /-< / /--/ /-- Passamaquoddy freezing moon O __/_ / ) (___/ / ( (___, Potawatomie moon of turkey and feast KANOHEDA ANIYVWIYA Ha-Sah-Sliltha Otapi'sin Atsinikiisinaakssin Un Chota Es'te Opunvk'vmucvse ni-mah-mi-kwa-zoo-min Aunchemokauhettittea Ximopanolti tehuatzin, inin Mexika tlahtolli ( 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, Big Mountain, Triballaw, LPDC, Sovernet-L, Indians_Online-L & Paths-L Mail Lists; Newsgroup: alt.native; UUCP email; Pachinga.net http://www.azcentral.com/news/specials/wilderness/thumbbutte.shtml http://www.azstarnet.com/millennium/ http://www.azcentral.com/news/1120babbitt.shtml http://members.aol.com/Apictou/pictou-branscombe.html Articles appearing have been previously posted for public dissemination and/or permission for inclusion has been secured. 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In accordance with Title 17 U.S.C. section 107, all material appearing in this newsletter is distributed without profit to those who have expressed a prior interest in receiving this information for educational purposes. <----<<<< >>>>----> 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 ++ There is also a hyperlinked version of the Current Issue at http://bearvisions.com/NativeNews/NEWS.html Borries Demeler advises AISESnet doesn't exist anymore, instead there is now NativeNet where people can search for archives of Wotanging Ikche issues: _ All past AISESnet archives (1992-1998) can now be found in: http://aises.uthscsa.edu/discussion/ _ All new messages will be archived in: http://nativenet.uthscsa.edu/archive/nn-dialogue/archive.html The mailing address for AISESnet/NativeNet the lists have changed. Please make a note of the new address. The old address aisesnet_discussion@listserv.umt.edu should *NOT* be used any longer. Instead please use: nn-dialogue@nativenet.uthscsa.edu Downloading Wotanging Ikche on AOL From: MAANG1419@aol.com Just thought I would share some info. I could not download on to a .txt because I kept getting the message (when I tried to retrieve it) that the text editor could not handle the volume. This time I downloaded it on to a .doc and when I retrieved it out of file manager, IT WORKED. "In our way, with every decision we make, we always keep in mind the Seventh Generation to come. It's our job to see that the people coming ahead, the generations still unborn, have a world no worse than ours - and hopefully better. When we walk upon Mother Earth, we always plant our feet carefully because we know the faces of our future generations are looking at us from beneath the ground. We never forget them." __ Oren Lyons, Iroquois +- -- -- -- -- -- -- -- -- -- -- -+ | 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 +- -- -- -- -- -- -- -- -- -- -- -+ +- -- -- -- -- -- -- -- -- -- -- -- -- -+ | Journey | In the summer and early fall | The Bloodline | of 1998 the Treaty Unity Riders | | rode a thousand miles on horse- | For all that live and live by law | back, carrying a staff and | We Stand, we Call, We Ride | praying each step of the way. | For All that fear and fear by sight | | We Hear, we Listen, we Ride | These prayers were offered for | For all that pray and pray by strength| each of us, and that the Unity | We Feel, we Move, we Ride | of all Peoples might happen. | For all that die and die by greed | | We Hurt, we Cry, we Ride | Tatanka Cante forwarded this | For all that birth and birth by right | poem on behalf of all the Unity | We Smile, we Hold, we Ride | Riders that we might stop and | For all that need and need by heart | ask if the next words we say, the | We Came, we Went, we Rode. | next act we make is for the good | | of the People or is it from ego | Treaty Unity Riders | for self. +- -- -- -- -- -- -- -- -- -- -- -- -- -+ O'siyo Brothers and Sisters! Three words - DIVIDE AND CONQUER Three damnable words have lost us our land and control of our destinies to deceivers who have used this strategy to their advantage. I do not believe for one moment any Mohawk or Huron did anything that actually violated their traditions. However, we know all too well the results of the French and British manipulating each of them through "divide and conquer". I know my Cherokee ancestors and my wife's Creek ancestors followed their beliefs. However, in doing so the Cherokee were "used" by the U. S. to force the Creek out of their Alabama homes. Junaluska would later go into self-imposed exile for saving the life of Andrew Jackson at Horseshoe Bend only to witness that same cowardly Jackson forcing the Cherokee on a death march to Oklahoma. Divide and conquer. The FBI doesn't have to do a thing to avoid culpability for their acts at Wounded Knee in 1973. Leaders throughout Indian Country are pointing fingers at one another regarding Leonard Peltier, Anna Mae Pictou-Aquash and accountability for Anna Mae's death. There have been public statements. IF ANY of the accusations have merit, arrests need to be made based on hard evidence, not another bullshit special from a terrified Myrtle Poor Bear. In the meantime the FBI is stepping back while we tear at one another's throats. Divide and Conquer... Clear your thinking with this: From: Mike Wicks In Memory (with Respect and Honor) AIM Casualties on Pine Ridge, 1973-1976 1.5.1975 Leon L. Swift Bird - AIM member killed at Pine Ridge by Goons. Investigation still "ongoing." 1.5.1976 Lydia Cut Grass - AIM member killed at Wounded Knee by Goons. No investigation. 1.17.1974 Edward Means, Jr. - AIM member found dead in Pine Ridge alley, beaten. No investigation. 1.30.1976 Byron DeSersa - OSCRO organizer and AIM supporter assassinated by Goons in Wanblee. Arrests by local authorities resulted in two Goons - Dale Janis and Charlie Winters, serving two years of five year sentences for "manslaughter." Charges dropped against two Goon leaders, Manny Wilson and Chuck Richards , on the basis of "self-defense" despite DeSersa having been unarmed when shot to death. 2.1976 Anna Mae Pictou Aquash - AIM organizer assassinated on Pine Ridge.. FBI involved in attempt to conceal cause of death. Ongoing attempt to establish "AIM involvement" in murder. Key FBI personnel never deposed. Coroner never deposed. [depose-to remove from power...to testify or bear witness, especially on oath in court] 2.6.1976 Lena R. Slow Bear - AIM supporter killed at Oglala by Goons. No investigation. 2.27.1974 Edward Standing Soldier - AIM member killed near Pine Ridge by "party or parties unknown." No investigation. 3.1.1975 Martin Montileaux - killed in a Scenic, S.D. bar. AIM leader Richard Marshall later framed for his murder. Russell Means also charged and acquitted. 3.1.1976 Hobart Horse - AIM member beaten, shot, and repeatedly run over with automobile at Sharp's Corners. No investigation. 3.20.1975 Stacy Cotter - shot to death in an ambush at Manderson. No investigation. 3.21.1975 Edith Eagle Hawk and her two children-AIM supporter killed in an automobile accident after being run off the run by a white vigilante, Albert Coomes. Coomes was also killed in the accident. Goon Mark Clifford identified as having also been in the Coomes car, escaped. Investigation closed without questioning Clifford. 3.26.1976 Cleveland Reddest - AIM member killed at Kyle by "person or persons unknown." No investigation. 3.27.1975 Jeanette Bissonette - AIM supporter killed by sniper at Pine Ridge. Unsuccessful attempt to link AIM members to murder; no other investigation. 3.30.1975 Richard Eagle - grandson of AIM supporter Gladys Bissonette killed while playing with loaded gun kept in the house as protection from Goon attacks. 4.4.1975 Hilda R. Good Buffalo - AIM supporter stabbed to death at Pine Ridge by Goons. No investigation. 4.4.1975 Jancita Eagle Deer - AIM member beaten and run over with automobile. Last seen in the company of provocateur Douglass Durham. No investigation. 4.14.1973 Priscilla White Plume - AIM supporter killed at Manderson by Goons. No investigation. 4.17.1973 Frank Clearwater - AIM member killed by heavy machine gun round at Wounded Knee. No investigation. 4.19.1974 Roxeine Roark - AIM supporter killed at Porcupine by "unknown assailants." Investigation open, still "pending." 4.23.1973 Between eight and twelve individuals (names unknown) packing supplies into Wounded Knee were intercepted by Goons [Guardians of the Oglala Nation] and vigilantes. None were ever heard from again. Former Rosebud Tribal President Robert Burnette and U.S. Justice Department Solicitor General Kent Frizzell conducted unsuccessful search for a mass grave after Wounded Knee siege. No further investigation. 4.27.1973 Buddy Lamont-AIM member hit by M16 fire at Wounded Knee, Bled to death while pinned down by fire. No investigation. 4.28.1976 Betty Jo Dubray-AIM supporter beaten to death at Martin, S.D. No investigation. 5.6.1976 Marvin Two Two - Aim supporter shot to death at Pine Ridge. No investigation. 5.9.1976 Juia Pretty Hips - AIM supporter killed at Pine Ridge by "unknown assailants." No investigation. 5.20.1975 Ben Sitting Up - AIM member killed at Wanblee by "unknown assailants." No investigation. 5.24.1976 Sam Afraid of Bear - AIM supporter shot to death at Pine Ridge. Investigation "ongoing." 6.1.1975 Kenneth Little - AIM supporter killed at Pine Ridge by Goons. Investigation still "pending." 6.4.1976 Kevin Hill - AIM supporter killed at Oglala by "party or parties unknown." Investigation "still open." 6.15.1975 Leah Spotted Elk - AIM supporter at Pine Ridge by Goons. No investigation. 6.19.1973 Clarence Cross - AIM supporter shot to death in ambush by Goons. Although assailants were identified by eyewitnesses, brother Vernal Cross, wounded in ambush-was briefly charged with crime. No further investigation. 6.26.1975 Joseph Stuntz Killsright - AIM member killed by FBI sniper during Oglala firefight. No investigation. 7.3.1976 Betty Means - AIM member killed at Pine Ridge by Goons. No investigation. 7.12.1975 James Briggs Yellow - heart attack caused by FBI air assault on his home. No investigation. 7.25.1975 Andrew Paul Stewart - nephew of AIM spiritual leader Leonard Crow Dog, killed by Goons on Pine Ridge. No investigation. 7.30.1973 Julius Bad Heart Bull - AIM supporter killed at Oglala by "person or persons unknown." No investigation. 7.31.1976 Sandra Wounded Foot - AIM supporter killed at Sharp's Corners by "unknown assailants." No investigation. 8.25.1975 Randy Hunter - AIM supporter killed at Kyle by "party or parties unknown". Investigation still "ongoing." 9.7.1974 Dennis LeCompte - AIM member killed at Pine Ridge by Goons. No investigation. 9.9.1975 Howard Blue Bird - AIM supporter killed at Pine Ridge by Goons. No investigation. 9.10.1975 Jim Little - AIM stomped to death by Goons in Oglala. No investigation. 9.11.1974 Jackson Washington Cutt - AIM member killed at Parmalee by "unknown individuals." Investigation still "ongoing." 9.16.1974 Robert Reddy - AIM member killed at Kyle by gunshot. No investigation. 9.22.1973 Melvin Spider - AIM member killed Porcupine, South Dakota. No investigation. 9.23.1973 Philip Black Elk - AIM supporter killed when his house exploded. No investigation. 10.5.1973 Aloysius Long Soldier - AIM member killed at Kyle, S.D. by Goons. No investigation. 10.10.1973 Phillip Little Crow - AIM supporter beaten to death by Goons at Pine Ridge. No investigation. 10.17.1973 Pedro Bissonette - Oglala Sioux Civil Rights Organization (OSCRO) organizer and AIM supporter assassinated by BIA Police/Goons. Body removed from Pine Ridge jurisdiction prior to autopsy by government contract coroner. No investigation. 10.26.1975 Olivia Binais - AIM supporter killed in Porcupine by "person or persons unknown." Investigation still "open." 10.26.1975 Janice Black Bear - AIM supporter killed at Manderson by Goons. No investigation. 10.27.1975 Michelle Tobacco - AIM supporter killed at Pine Ridge by "unknown persons." No investigation. 11.16.1974 Delphine Crow Dog - sister of AIM spiritual leader Leonard Crow Dog. Beaten by BIA police and left lying in a field. Died from "exposure." No investigation. 11.20.1974 Elaine Wagner - AIM supporter killed at Pine Ridge by "person or persons unknown." No investigation. 11.20.1973 Allison Fast Horse - AIM supporter shot to death near Pine Ridge by "unknown assailants." No investigation. 12.6.1975 Carl Plenty Arrows,Sr. - AIM supporter killed at Pine Ridge by "unknown persons." No investigation. 12.6.1975 Frank LaPointe - AIM supporter killed at Pine Ridge by Goons. No investigation. 12.25.1975 Floyd S. Binais - AIM supporter killed at Pine Ridge by Goons. No investigation. 12.28.1974 Yvette Loraine Lone Hill - AIM supporter killed at Kyle by "unknown party or parties." No investigation. It should be noted that, using the preliminary figure of only 61 homicides of AIM members and supporters during the same period, researchers Bruce Johansen and Roberto Maestas, in their book "Wasichu: The Continuing Indian Wars (New York:Monthly Review Press, 1979, pp. 83-4), arrived at the following analysis of its implications: Using only documented political deaths, the yearly murder rate on Pine Ridge Reservation between January 1, 1973 and March 1, 1976, was 170 per 100,000. By comparison, Detroit, the reputed murder capital of the United States, had a rate of 20.2 per 100,000...An estimated 20,000 persons were murdered in the United States during 1974. In a nation of 200 million persons, a murder rate comparable with that of Pine Ridge between 1973 and 1976 would have left 340,000 persons dead for political reasons alone in one year; 1.32 million in three. Mike =/\=/\=/\=/\=/\=/\=/\=/\=/\=/\=/\=/\=/\=/\=/\=/\=/\=/\=/\=/\=/\=/\= Please send contact information for donations to those in need this winter so others may know how to help. Please include who to send donations to (include name, address, phone number), what sorts of donations are being accepted (money, food, clothing, etc), and a way for me to confirm the contact information (this does not have to be published, but I will not include a listing I cannot validate), and any time limits. We already know there are still many without homes on Pine Ridge, this because of the tornadoes that struck July 4th. Many are living in tiny RV's on loan from FEMA. In 18 months even they will be gone. There is a simple solution. For a tax deductible donation of $595.00 through Pathways To Spirit, a Colorado non-profit organization, Carmeen Klausner, Director (970) 282-8573 you can place a mobile home on Pine Ridge. For additional information or to make donations contact: For the Red Shirt Community: Marvin Helper P.O. Box 312 Hermosa, SD 57744 From: Pioquark@aol.com Clay Watson Pioneer Industries 1100 E. 24th St. Cheyenne, Wy. 82001 (307)778-7860 pioquark@aol.com http://members.tripod.com/~dikani/pioneer.html These donations will be gifted to the Rose Bud and Pine Ridge Reservations in South Dakota and the Wind River Reservation in Wyoming. I'm on the road a lot, out back loading the truck etc. PLEASE leave a message if there is no answer.. Supporting the elders through personal contact: Adopt A Grandparent Mountain Light Center PO Box 241 Taos NM 87571 TEL: 505 776 8474 FAX: 505 776 8050 For information call 800 291-8474. email: agpmlc@aol.com From BIGMTLIST The Dineh could use some blankets to help with the cold winters. Bonnie Whitesinger Box 1073 Hotevilla, AZ 86030 Since UPS doesn't deliver to PO boxes, you would have to use parcel post. Peace! Night Owl , , Gary Night Owl gars@netcom.com (*,*) P. O. Box 672168 gars@nanews.org (`-') Marietta, GA 30417, U.S.A. gars@crl.com ===w=w== Fax: 770-528-9643 gars@wolfstar.com ----------- News of the people featured in this issue ---------- - SISIS Shutting Down - Ward Valley Action Alert - Developer Rolling up on - Action Alert at Prescott Landmark Minnehaha Spiritual Encampment - The O'odham/BIA scrap of 40-41 - Standing Deer is Very Sick - Dump Opponents Charge - Eddie Hatcher State Panel Stacked - Commentary: - Red River Boundary Russell Means Testimony Compact Update - Statement About FBI Involvements - Arizona Rules Tribes - Russell Means Grand Jury Update Have Extra Water Protection - Leonard Peltier - Bonnie Whitesinger Freedom Month Campaign Kidney Campaign - Elders for Leonard Peltier - Indian Farmers - Native Prisoner Preparing for Lawsuit - A Hundred Years Ago - Indians Seek Contempt Ruling - Navajo PD & Thanksgiving Against Babbitt - Poem: Atop a Mountain - Idaho-Tribal Compact - Verse: Hawaiian Book of Days Off on Right Foot - Upcoming Events --------- "RE: SISIS Shutting Down" --------- Date: Wed, 17 Nov 1999 18:33:00 -0500 (EST) From: Settlers in Support of Indigenous Sovereignty Subj: SISIS shutting down Mailing List: Sovernet-L [Editorial Comment: Safe Journey, friends, wherever your paths lead you. In spite of your statement to the contrary, you will be missed. ...gary] Dear subscribers and list members: We at S.I.S.I.S. regret to announce that we will be shutting down until further notice. We have been non-operational since July, due to changes among our core group following a car accident and other unforeseeable circumstances. We were initially hoping that the shut down would be temporary. After three months, we have come to the conclusion that there will be no changes in the near future that will allow us to return to being able to answer correspondence or distribute information. As a result, we feel we must shut down the email address and PO Box for now. Mail sent to or our PO Box will NOT be answered. Our website archives will remain accessible, but they will not be updated. We were very touched by the many people who sent letters offering to help take S.I.S.I.S. over so that its work could continue. After much discussion about how best to hand S.I.S.I.S. over, we decided that it is not necessary for S.I.S.I.S. to exist, as an organization, in order for the work that S.I.S.I.S. did to be accomplished. Indeed, we have noticed more and more individuals and groups taking the initiative to distribute news of indigenous sovereigntist struggles in the last few years. We are hoping to be able to restart S.I.S.I.S. at some point in the future. We all remain committed to supporting indigenous sovereignty and will continue to be active to the best of our ability as individuals. We would like to thank all our subscribers for your interest and participation. We remain as committed as ever to the struggle, and hope to be with you again before too long. In solidarity, Joshua Goldberg, Rachel Iwaasa, and John Shafer for S.I.S.I.S. :-:-:-:-:-:-:-:-:-:-:-:-:-:-:-:-:-:-:-:-:-:-:-:-:-:-:-:-:-:-:-:-:-:-:-: S.I.S.I.S. Settlers In Support of Indigenous Sovereignty 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 --------- "RE: Developer Rolling up on Prescott Landmark" --------- Date: Wed, 8 Sep 1999 04:02:35 -0700 (MST) From: chris@U.ARIZONA.edu Subj: Vanishing Arizona: The San Pedro River: Developer rolling up on Prescott landmark: Activists trying to save upper part of hill (fwd) ---------- Forwarded message ---------- Date: Aug. 31, 1999 http://www.azcentral.com/news/specials/wilderness/thumbbutte.shtml Activists trying to save upper part of hill By Kathleen Ingley The Arizona Republic Aug. 31, 1999 PRESCOTT -- Hawks wheel around Thumb Butte, black crescents against a rocky knob that's visible from everywhere in town. Rising from heavily wooded slopes, Prescott's most distinctive natural landmark has an air of eternal, unchanging solidity. Eternal until the bulldozers roll up. Although Thumb Butte itself is protected, along with most of the land on its flanks, the hill alongside is private land and zoned for houses. "This subdivision would be highly visible," said Eve Gill, who lives near the project. "It's right smack next to Thumb Butte. The road cuts would be tremendous." The drama occurs over and over in Arizona: People have a favorite view, an unspoiled patch of land they assume will last forever. But the spot is privately owned, and the clock is quietly ticking until it's developed. Efforts to save the entire hill next to Thumb Butte fell apart, and the lower slopes will be developed. Now, Gill and others are racing to raise money to keep construction off the rest of the property by buying it. "These things are complicated and drawn out," Gill said. "To fight them is very hard work. It's very frustrating." With a January deadline, the "Save the View" campaign is just a quarter of the way to its goal of $286,000. The city will match that money to come up with the full purchase price, which appraisals put at $572,000. Developer Mike Newsome, who owns the property, says many of his critics live in homes nearby that are at least as far up the hillsides as his project. "Five or 10 years ago," he said, "there were other people hollering about the land they bought." 'We're willing to talk' But Newsome adds that he isn't wedded to building on the upper hillside: "If the city wants to buy it, great. We're willing to talk to them." John Miller, publicity chairman of Save the View, likes to drive to the center of Prescott and point out how the hill and Thumb Butte seem to blend together, forming one long vista of undulating pine lands and sharp cliffs. Besides its scenic value, the spot is a home to wildlife, including more than 50 types of butterflies, by one count. The hill in question is nameless so far. Giving it a name is one of the fund-raising gimmicks that Miller is weighing. He talks with determined optimism about somehow coming up with the money: "I'm selling Thumb Butte to Prescott. That is a no-brainer." And he has a warning of what can happen: "the Scar." It's a jagged horizontal slash across the lower flank of Thumb Butte, obvious from miles away. The spot was gouged out in the early 1980s, when a property owner began digging the foundation for a home. That's when many Prescott residents learned that the top of the butte lies within the Prescott National Forest, but some of the lower parts are private property. The Central Arizona Land Trust was founded to buy the scar lot and others nearby. The 10 most visible properties were chosen for acquisition, and with matching funds from the city, five have been bought so far. Mistake by city staff No one worried much about development on the adjoining hill, however, because people thought only a few homes could be built there. As part of the settlement of problems over the location of a municipal water tank, the city allowed the land at the top of the hill to be divided into three pieces, but no more. City staff mistakenly thought that the 24 acres on the lower parts of the hill were part of the deal. And neighbors were told that only one house would be built on that entire piece. Then a developer bought the 24 acres and last year applied to build three dozen homes. Marlan Hester was one of the neighbors who swung into gear to protest the project. "It's too steep, too much danger of rolling rocks. It'll scar up the hillside very bad, which can be seen from all over town," said Hester, who made an unsuccessful run for mayor in the early 1990s. The planning and zoning commission agreed in June 1998, voting against the subdivision. But the next month, the City Council approved building 25 homes on the lower 15 acres, less visible from a distance. The council decided that the 9 acres on the upper slopes should be preserved, with half the money coming from the city. Hester and others lobbied unsuccessfully for the city to go after the whole property. The final vote left the neighborhood group so disgusted that it disbanded. "They used the word "property rights' as their excuse to overrule the planning and zoning," Hester said. Developer Newsome said some of the neighbors came across as selfish, "and most people's take was they just wanted a big back yard for free." Newsome, whose firm is based in Phoenix, said city zoning would have allowed him to build far more homes in a far more conspicuous project. He pledges that the houses will be built to blend in with the surrounding landscape. And he's willing to sell the higher-elevation lots. "We've got a conscience," he said. "It's one of the last hills there that's viewable from downtown, and it's nice to see green trees on it." But fund-raising to buy the property has been as slow and tough as climbing the sheer walls of Thumb Butte. Used to seeing development One reason may be that Prescott residents are used to seeing development on other hills around town. In this case, until the earth-moving starts, "I don't know that it's well understood how it will affect the view-shed," said Ramona Mattix, head of planning for Prescott. Nor is the problem obvious. "This hill sort of blends into Thumb Butte," she said. "Unless you look real close, you don't see it." Red tape has tangled up some of the efforts of Save the View. Hester said he donated a painting of a Navajo woman to be raffled off. Then he found himself caught up in complex questions about the value of the painting and what would happen to the raffle money if Save the View couldn't raise enough to buy the hillside. The city required him to draft a five-page legal document to cover all the possibilities. Was the painting ever raffled off? "My taste in my mouth is so bad, I haven't even asked," Hester said. A yard sale raised $1,500. Selling T-shirts brought in $900. Save the View has a list of other ideas. Miller, the publicity chairman, is pondering a final publicity stunt if necessary. Developer Newsome isn't holding a stopwatch. "It's more of a gentlemen's agreement," he said. He planned to develop the lower slopes first, anyway. But if there isn't money to buy the upper hillside, he said, "we'll have to consider our plans to develop that second phase." Save the View supporters say what they really need are angels: A few well-heeled folks who will come up with the bulk of the money. Kathleen Ingley can be reached at kathleen.ingley@pni.com via e-mail or at 1-602-444-8171. c. Copyright 1999, Arizona Central --------- "RE: The O'odham/BIA scrap of 40-41" --------- Date: Sun, 21 Nov 1999 20:01:35 GMT From: "AliceH" Subj: The O'odham-BIA scrap of '40-41 Newsgroup: alt.native http://www.azstarnet.com/millennium/ The O'odham-BIA scrap of '40-41 `The lawmen came at night' for medicine man Pi Maccuddam By Enric Volante The Arizona Daily Star The gray-haired medicine man stood in a field of crops and looked up at the small airplane that circled above his remote village shortly after dawn. Before the morning was over, heavily armed federal lawmen would lock handcuffs on him and 10 other men, spelling the beginning of the end of the small village of Stoa Pitk. The U.S. marshal and deputies who made airplane-guided arrests across the west side of the Tohono O'odham Indian Reservation that day in 1941 knew the old man as Pia Machita. But that name - like other misunderstandings between the medicine man and outsiders - was a distortion. His own people called him Pi Maccuddam. It meant "One without a grindstone." Pi Maccuddam, a courtly, charismatic healer, made headlines as far as New York City when the government put him in prison for failing to follow the white man's law and counseling men not to register for the draft on the eve of World War II. Some O'odham saw him as a troublemaker and obstacle to progress, but in O'odham country today he's widely respected as someone who stood up for what he believed. "He was very handsome," said Susan Sam, a tribe member who grew up hearing stories about Pi Maccuddam. "He had very strict rules of the boys who were under him. More or less everybody obeyed his commands." Pi Maccuddam had resisted white ways for years. He opposed government programs to inoculate cattle, temporarily blocked construction of an El Paso natural gas pipeline and told O'odham parents not to cooperate with census takers or send children to government school. He flew the Mexican flag and told a local Bureau of Indian Affairs superintendent in 1934 that he did not recognize the Gadsden Purchase that made O'odham lands part of the United States. But he didn't bring down the fist of the federal government until 1940, when he told men in his village not to register for the military draft. Chief deputy Marshal Henry W. Smith and a few other men slipped into Stoa Pitk with a warrant for Pi Maccuddam's arrest on Oct. 16, 1940. Federal officials thought to silence the charismatic medicine man who was counseling Tohono O'odham men to not sign up for the draft. Carlos Manuel was 7 years old but remembers what happened when the lawmen came for his grandfather. "They came late at night," Manuel said recently. "He was asleep (in his bed) and they pulled him out of there." The Bureau of Indian Affairs' chief of police, Roswell Manuel, and another man each took Pi Maccuddam by an arm and tried to put him in a car. The old man resisted. Smith managed to get a handcuff on the medicine man's left wrist. By then, someone had yelled for help and the village came alive. A couple of dozen O'odham surrounded the lawmen. Men threw the police chief and the other BIA man to the ground and kicked and bruised the deputy - until he fired a tear-gas gun at Pi Maccuddam's feet. "That's when everybody stopped fighting," said his grandson. The people of Stoa Pitk, a remote village about 100 miles west of Tucson, saw the incident as the rescue of their leader. Deputy Marshal Smith saw it as assaulting an officer and resisting arrest. He retreated to Tucson and swore out a complaint, but each time deputies approached the villages to serve arrest warrants, men hid in the hills. The warrants widened a rift not only between Indians and the feds, but among Indians themselves over cooperation with non-Indians. Two weeks later, the BIA called in armed deputies to protect 22 men, women and children who took shelter at the Hickiwan Day School. "This group had come in from (the neighboring village of) Emika because they had been threatened by Pia Machita (Pi Maccuddam) and his group, and it appeared almost certain that a fight would have ensued," reported deputy Marshal Richard S. Griffith. Griffith and another deputy who stood watch outside the school all night were ready for trouble. Between them they had two high-caliber rifles, one semiautomatic rifle, four .38-caliber pistols, nearly 300 rounds of ammo, four tear-gas grenades, two blackjacks, five sets of handcuffs and two pairs of leg irons. In Tucson that day, Marshal Ben J. McKinney urged the attorney general in Washington to authorize a plane, posse and more weapons to bring in the Stoa Pitk men. "We should have some hand grenades and a machine gun," he wrote, "for if these Indians are allowed to get off with this, they will be hard to deal with." Henry Ramon, who today is vice chairman of the Tohono O'odham Nation, was 6 years old when he slept in the day school that night. His family was the only one in the area that sent its children to the BIA school. The BIA reported that his uncle, who drove the school bus, was one of three O'odham marked for death by Pi Maccuddam's group. But Ramon, looking back nearly 60 years, says the BIA was overreacting to tension among the O'odham as they struggled to adapt to a changing world. No O'odham on either side was likely to kill anyone - much less attack the school, he said. That night passed with no trouble. Deputy Griffith summed up the situation in a report. "Several of the Indians told us that Pia Machita is a medicine man and his people believe that he can `make magic' stronger than any modern invention the white man may have," he wrote. "However, the better-educated Indians laugh at this idea, but they do admit that so long as the (Stoa Pitk) people believe this they will remain under the control of this one man, and no outsider, white man or Indian, will be able to persuade or influence the group to do anything contrary to Machita's wishes." To the O'odham, both draft registration and arrest warrants threatened to thrust young men into a sharply foreign world for which they were ill- -prepared. "They were just afraid," recalled Manuel Garcia, 84, in an interview this year at his Hickiwan home. "They didn't know enough English to speak for themselves. That is why they were hiding and running." The running ended May 19, 1941 - seven months after the first attempt to arrest Pi Maccuddam. A posse of 17 deputies drove up the single-lane dirt road into Stoa Pitk shortly after dawn. Marshal McKinney flew overhead in a light plane, watching for fleeing villagers. Pi Maccuddam looked up from his field that morning when the plane came into sight, his grandson recalls. Then he returned to his house and had breakfast while deputies waited outside to place him under arrest. Nearby in Emika, young Henry Ramon was up early to help milk the cows. He saw one woman in tears as deputies made a sweep of the villages and rounded up 11 men. Ramon heard one of the older handcuffed men call out as deputies escorted him to a car. "They're going to kill us. They're going to hang us. But don't give up," the man said. At his arraignment the next day in Tucson, Pi Maccuddam said one man sought for arrest had died since the October fight. The medicine man blamed his death on the tear-gas explosion. In the end, the state prosecuted only Pi Maccuddam; his brother-in-law, Leandro Ortega, 77; and Jose Lewis, 54, on charges of resisting arrest. Despite pleas for leniency by the BIA and support from many Tucsonans who sympathized with Pi Maccuddam, including McKinney, the judge took a dim view in the pre-war atmosphere. "Denying the sovereignty of the United States is an offense far too serious in these times," Judge A.M. Sanes explained. The three men entered guilty pleas through an attorney and showed no emotion as a translator told them their sentences - 18 months in prison for Pi Maccuddam, 16 months for the others. It was a severe blow to the people of Stoa Pitk and the entire Hickiwan district. Prison ripped Ortega, for instance, away from a life as a respected medicine man who knew cures for many illnesses. He also administered a potion and sang over young women in puberty ceremonies. "It really was very painful," recalled Pi Maccuddam's grandson, Manuel. "We never went through an experience like this. We were always together. And we did not know what's going to happen to all of us." The justice system made a different man of Pi Maccuddam. Officials took him out of the Pima County Jail long enough to visit the top of the 10-story Consolidated National Bank, now Bank One, for his first glimpse of the city stretched out below. Pi Maccuddam's reaction, according to his grandson, was an astonished question: "Where did all these mimilga:n (white people) come from?" The non-Indian press and historians wrote that he was enchanted by his first look at the off-reservation world of electric lights, indoor plumbing and other luxuries, that he returned from California's Terminal Island prison duded up in a suit and pocket watch, and that he endorsed sending kids to school. But in the Hickiwan area, tribal people say Pi Maccuddam never abandoned O'odham values. According to one story told on the reservation, Pi Maccuddam stopped at a small store near San Simon as he returned from prison, donned the customary old blue jeans and shirt of an O'odham and threw away his prison-issued suit before re-entering his old village. It was a smaller place. Fearing more raids, most Stoa Pitk families had hitched their wagons and moved south to villages like Gu Vo, said Ramon. The rest stayed for years, but they eventually moved out due to arsenic in the water and growing pressure to rear children closer to schools and roads. Stoa Pitk was a ghost town until a few years ago. Then Pi Maccuddam's grandson, Manuel, and Jimmy Ortega, another elderly man who is a grandson of Ortega, moved back. In an adobe house bordered by a neatly raked yard and a shrine filled with images of Catholic saints, they live much like their grandfathers: No electricity, no running water, no English. Despite Pi Maccuddam's small, isolated rebellion, many O'odham registered for the draft and served with distinction in World War II and other conflicts. Among the O'odham, Pi Maccuddam's name remains synonymous with someone who courageously stands up for what he believes. His grandson says Pi Maccuddam lived his last days at his old home in Stoa Pitk, where he finally took to his bed and succumbed to old age. Relatives buried him in Stoa Pitk, where recently, on All Soul's Day, a granddaughter placed flowers at the grave. --------- "RE: Dump Opponents Charge State Panel Stacked" --------- Date: Sun, 21 Nov 1999 14:13:34 -0800 From: "Save Ward Valley" Subj: Nuclear Waste Dump Opponents Charge State Panel Stacked Nuclear waste dump opponents charge state panel stacked with pro-dump members By MARTHA BELLISLE Associated Press Writer LOS ANGELES (AP) -- An advisory board assigned to find a home for California's low-level nuclear waste began its first meeting amid claims the panel is filled with members intent on resurrecting plans to dump the pollutant in the Mojave Desert. Gov. Gray Davis created the panel to look for alternatives to the proposed dump site near the Arizona-California border known as Ward Valley that has been hotly debated for more than 16 years. Opponents, including local governments, environmental groups and Indian tribes, fear the nearby Colorado River would become contaminated, while supporters say the state has a responsibility to deal with its nuclear waste. At the heart of the controversy was the panel's chair, who critics learned for the first time Wednesday served on the board of the San Diego Gas & Electric Company, a partial owner of San Onofre Nuclear Generating Station. Detractors contend Richard Atkinson's ability to sit on the panel is compromised by his seven years on that company's board and called on him to resign. Atkinson was involved in selecting his fellow panel members. Richard Atkinson, who also is president of the University of California, hinted after the volatile, three-hour meeting that he might not remain on the panel. Atkinson said he would contact the governor to see if he should vacate the post. "I never saw it as a conflict of interest," Richard Atkinson said when asked why he didn't mention the position until asked by The Associated Press on Tuesday night. Atkinson had his compensation from that job deferred, he said, while he served from April 1992 until July 1998. He'll be collecting checks until 2004, but declined to reveal the amount of payments. Public records show that board members received $150,000 annually between 1992-1997 and $180,000 during 1997 to 1998. The university president also said he signed a May 1996 letter to U.S. Rep. Bill Baker, R-La., lobbying for the land transfer from the federal government to the state so that the Ward Valley nuclear waste dump could be built. University of California manages three national nuclear laboratories and produces waste. Davis created the advisory group in June, after announcing that he would not pursue a legal battle started after the Bush administration in 1993 ordered the sale of the federal land in Ward Valley to California. The Interior Department under President Clinton rescinded that order, and a judge in April ruled the department acted properly. BLM Deputy Director Tom Fry said "this chapter of the Ward Valley story is over," unless California returns with a new request to buy the land for the site. The state has to buy the land from the Bureau of Land Management if it wants to build a nuclear site there. The governor's office reiterated in a telephone call after the meeting that Davis is a long-standing opponent to Ward Valley. "The governor asked the commission to look for alternatives to Ward Valley that make good science, environmental and business sense," said Michael Bustamante, Davis' press secretary. "The governor has every confidence that the panel will give an earnest, honest and fair recommendation, then he will decide what is best." About 100 opponents to Ward Valley who packed the auditorium Wednesday insisted Davis mandated the panel find a new site and said the advisory group should take Ward Valley off the table. But Chuck McFadden, the panel's spokesman, said they didn't read it that way. "The group is not ruling anything in and not ruling anything out," McFadden said before the meeting. "Ward Valley is one of a series of options." Several of the panel members, however, said the panel was stacked with pro-Ward Valley people, some of whom had a financial interest in the outcome of the study. "I've been asked to serve on a board where I'll basically be decoration," said Jonathan Parfrey, executive director of Physicians for Social Responsibility, Los Angeles. Dump-site foes flock to hearing Desert dwellers air their concerns to the governor's panel charged with finding storage space for nuclear waste. By Jennifer Bowles The Press-Enterprise WESTWOOD Ward Valley, or more specifically a 1,000-acre patch of the Mojave Desert, has long been the subject of heated protests and warnings that putting a low-level nuclear waste dump there could harm wildlife and pollute Colorado River water. A meeting Tuesday, at which a panel Gov. Davis appointed to find a place for California's waste, was no different. Desert residents had traveled more than four hours to make their concerns heard at the Advisory Group on Low-Level Radioactive Waste Disposal's first meeting, held at UCLA. "There will be no dump at Ward Valley, and that's final," Steve Lopez of the Fort Mojave Indian Tribe in Needles shouted into the microphone from his wheelchair. He, like other American Indians, sees the land as sacred. It appeared unclear during the three-hour meeting whether the land 22 miles west of Needles in San Bernardino County would remain an option because the federal government, while denying the sale, had said the state could resubmit its bid for the land. Even the head of the panel, University of California President Richard Atkinson, said he would seek clarification from Davis on that subject. But Michael Bustamante, a Davis spokesman, said in a telephone interview that it is no longer an option. "Atkinson's committee was set up to look at alternatives," he stressed. Davis appointed the panel during the summer to find a solution to the state's problem in dealing with low-level nuclear waste. In a deal with Arizona and North and South Dakota, California is obligated to build the first facility to treat such waste from all four states. The committee recommendations for a dump site are due to the governor by the end of March. Before then, four more public meetings will be held at UCLA and UC San Francisco. "Our task is to recommend workable options and to lay out the advantages and disadvantages of each approach," Atkinson said. During the three-hour hearing, punctuated by emotional outbursts by audience members, Atkinson was attacked for alleged bias because of his former ties to a company that has a stake in a nuclear power plant. Many also complained that the makeup of Atkinson's 17-member advisory panel leans too heavily toward representatives of utility and pharmaceutical companies, which dispose of low-level nuclear waste and are supportive of Ward Valley. "The outcome is inevitable of your task force," said Daniel Hirsch, president of Committee to Bridge the Gap. Atkinson, a former chancellor of UC San Diego, served on San Diego Ga Electric's board of directors from April 1992 to July 1998. The utility has a 20 percent stake in the San Onofre nuclear power plant, which disposes of low-level nuclear waste. "I never saw it as a conflict of interest," Atkinson told reporters after the meeting. "If (Davis) judges it as one, I'll be more than happy to step down." However, "(Davis) has absolutely no reservations about him being able to do the job that he was intended to do," Bustamante said. After the raucous meeting, during which many members of the public suggested that he step down, Atkinson admitted: "I'm not wild about taking this task on." The advisory panel's Web site is at www.llrw.org. Jennifer Bowles can be reached by e-mail at jbowles@pe.com or by phone at 782-7720. Published 11/18/1999 --------- "RE: Red River Boundary Compact Update" --------- Date: Sat, 20 Nov 1999 15:39:05 -0600 From: Liz Pollard Subj: Red River Boundary Compact update Mailing List: American Indian and Alaska Native Collegiate--Online KCA OPPOSITION TO RED RIVER BOUNDARY COMPACT DRAWS SUPPORT FROM MANY IMPORTANT SOURCES ANADARKO, OK, November 20, 1999. -- The Red River Boundary Compact (H.J. Res. 72), introduced to Congress on October 19, is under heavy fire from the Kiowa, Comanche, and Apache Tribes of Oklahoma, backed by some influential supporters. The Compact, devised by the Boundary Commissions of the states of Texas and Oklahoma, would change the boundary between the two states. Historically, that boundary is specified by a Supreme Court decision of 1925 as the south bank of the Red River. The Compact proposes to change that border to the vegetation line on the south bank. The controversy results from the fact that the Boundary Commission contained only one Indian in its membership, while several sovereign Indian nations hold property on that existing border. A considerable proportion is public land, derived from the tribes' former reservations, held in trust for the tribes, including Kiowa, Comanche, and Apache (KCA), but it is known that Texas does not recognize public land. The KCA Intertribal Land Use Committee registered its opposition to H.J. Res. 72 shortly after its introduction in Congress. It also asked for help from the National Congress of American Indians. The latter granted its support and wrote to influential members of Congress, as well as to Secretary of the Interior Bruce Babbitt, on their behalf. Babbitt suggested a strongly worded amendment to the Compact, which was subsequently supported by KCA, by the Oklahoma Boundary Commission, and by the Chickasaw Nation, which also holds property along the Red River. While no official word has come from the Choctaw Nation, it also holds land in the area, and it is believed they will support this position, according to Mary Pewo, KCA staff member. The amendment requested by Babbitt reads: "The compact shall not affect or diminish any present or future rights and interest of the Kiowa, Comanche and Apache Tribes, the Chickasaw Nation and the Choctaw Nation of Oklahoma, and their members or successors in interests, nor any boundaries that are now, or may be established, under federal law, nor shall this Compact affect or abate the sovereign rights, jurisdiction, or other governmental interests, of the Kiowa, Comanche and Apache Tribes, the Chickasaw Nation and the Choctaw Nation of Oklahoma, presently existing, or which may be acknowledged, by federal and tribal law." Currently, H.J.Res. 72 awaits further deliberation on the floor of Congress, which may not come until the next session after the first of the year. FOR MORE INFO: Liz Pollard * Smoke Signals Enterprises 505 W. Louisiana Ave., Anadarko, OK 73005 (405)247-2251 Email: lpollard@smokesig.com -=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=- Elizabeth "Liz" Pollard * Smoke Signals Enterprises Email: lpollard@smokesig.com * On the Web: http://www.smokesig.com Web sites designed and developed include: American Indian Exposition: http://www.indianexpo.org Moccasin Telegraph: http://www.indianexpo.org/moccasin.html Housing Authority of the Apache Tribe: http://www.apachehousing.org Wichita & Affiliated Tribes http://www.wichita.nsn.us Soil and Plant Laboratory, Inc. http://www.soilandplantlaboratory.com --------- "RE: Arizona Rules Tribes Have Extra Water Protection" --------- Date: Sun, 21 Nov 1999 10:00:45 -0800 From: Robert Dorman Subj: Arizona Supreme Court rules tribes have extra water protection Mailing List: Big Mountain List Date: Sun, 21 Nov 1999 11:58:24 -0500 From: ishgooda@tdi.net from Victor Rocha's pechanga.net via MarthaET Arizona Supreme Court rules tribes have extra water protection By Paul Davenport Associated Press Nov. 21, 1999 http://www.azcentral.com/news/1121waterrig.shtml The Arizona Supreme Court on Friday handed Indian tribes and the federal government a major but partial victory in water-rights law. The high court ruled that tribal lands are entitled in some cases to extra protection from aquifer-depleting pumping on adjacent property. The right to have pumping stopped or reduced is conditioned on several factors, and case-by-case decisions still must be made on for individual reservations and some types of federal property, the court said in an unanimous opinion. For that reason, the court rejected a request by tribes that it prohibit pumping that is depleting water beneath reservations. The extra protection for so-called federal reserved water rights breaks new ground and may disrupt long-held assumptions that have influenced the development of the state and its water management, the ruling said. However, a comprehensive settlement of water-right disputes must take into account the rights of reservations and other federal lands to the water they need for their purposes, the court said. The ruling is important both for Indian tribes and the federal government as well as farmers, mines, cities and others who pump groundwater from land adjacent to the reservations and certain federal property such as parks, monuments, military bases, national forests and wildlife preserves. As a practical matter, mining industry attorney Lauren J. Caster said, "We don't really know how important this decision is until we find out in fact whether a specific reservation has a reserve right to groundwater and, if it does, what protection is warranted under those circumstances. "Then you have to assess the impact on neighboring landowners." Friday's ruling came in a complex series of lawsuits over water rights to the Gila and Little Colorado river systems, which include a large part of the surface waters of Arizona. The specific issues decided by the case were whether water rights for reservations and other federal lands extend to groundwater, not just rivers or other surface water, and whether they are entitled to greater protection from groundwater pumping under adjacent land than other property owners. Federal law and court rulings have not explicitly answered those questions, but U.S. Supreme Court decisions "provide guideposts toward our holding that such a right exists," Court of Appeals Judge Noel Fidel wrote in the opinion. Those rulings indicate that if the federal government decided to create the reservations and federal areas and to reserve water for them, "it must have intended that reservation of water to come from whatever particular sources each reservation has at hand," Fidel wrote. "The significant question . . . is not whether the water runs above or below the ground but whether it is necessary to accomplish the purpose of the reservation." Attorneys for several tribes in the litigation could not be reached immediately, but an attorney for Phoenix said the ruling would have "great impact" on settlement negotiations. The ruling generally strengthens tribes' negotiating positions, but cities, mines and others on the other side may became intransigent to see how they fare in the case-by-case litigation over a particular area's rights, M. James Callahan said. "It's a big step. Whether or not it will lead to resolution remains to be seen," he said. Fidel and two other Court of Appeals judges decided the case with two Supreme Court justices because three Supreme Court justices excused themselves from the case. The excused justices or their previous law firms were involved in the water-rights cases. Reprinted under the Fair Use http://www4.law.cornell.edu/uscode/17/107.html doctrine of international copyright law. This is a BIGMTLIST post. Email addresses--- To Post message: BIGMTLIST@onelist.com To Subscribe: BIGMTLIST-subscribe@onelist.com To Unsubscribe: BIGMTLIST-unsubscribe@onelist.com For more information on this on-going human rights crisis in the United States, visit my web page at http://www.theofficenet.com/~redorman/pagea~1.htm --------- "RE: Bonnie Whitesinger Kidney Campaign" --------- Date: Sat, 13 Nov 1999 13:03:51 -0800 From: "mauro deoliveira" Subj: Bonnie Whitesinger Campaign please post Mailing List: Big Mountain List Hey all Bonnie Whitesinger needs a kidney or she may die. Most people who know anything about Dialysis and non-functioning kidneys would say "she will die". But that would happen only if all of us on the Big Mountain list just didn't care because this situation is solvable. First off, she is not even on the list for a kidney. BECAUSE: you must have running water at your home you must have electricity you must have a phone. Well there is electricity that runs right up to her house but the line is cut. Then there is a water line, put in last year, but they didn't turn it on. None of the social services of the Navajo nation have given her a cell phone as an emergency phone. In other words, Bonnie is a target because of her activism and the Navajo nation has targeted her to suffer and maybe die. You see she lives on NAVAJO land, not Hopi, so she is entitled to help from that governing body. Bonnie has 5 children and goes to dialysis 3 times a week, about 200 miles round trip. Thats 600 miles a week with no hope of getting a kidney because the last two feet of electrical wire isn't attached to her house and the water valve isn't turned on at the road. No doubt the Navajo nation is criminally negligent and could be sued for millions if Bonnie dies because of their intended neglect. But I'd rather see this come to a happy conclusion for Bonnie so we must all help. Marsha is going to get us the numbers of the people in the Navajo nation that are directly responsible for this neglect and we must pressure them. We should have this information sometime next week at the latest. In the meantime: Let Bonnie know that you care. When I see her I just want to make her smile...her life is so hard, beyond what anyone should endure. She has been a mouthpiece for her Elders (Pauline is her mother) for years and has traveled extensively and translated hours on end. She needs our focus in a relatively simple matter. This isn't a relocation we are talking about, it is a criminal, negligent circumstance that can be rectified. If any of you have close attorney friends perhaps they could be of assistance in letter writing as well. For now send your letters and donations to her. Next week we will post the target recipients of this campaign. Also, as I stated earlier, 95% of all Vanishing Prayers were made and mailed at SOL expense. Now I am asking everyone who got one for free to mail five or ten dollars to Bonnie for the video. She is in it by the way, near the end, asking for your help for her people. Lets help her. She needs funds just to feed her family right now. The situation is desperate. I told her I was going to do this so I have permission to speak about her in this way. Thank you all, her address is Bonnie Whitesinger Box 1073 Hotevilla AZ 86030 There is a Bonnie Whitesinger page now on Solsite, under new additions. Suzanne Marcus Fletcher, a well known screen writer and author has donated her kind words and an infamous photograph of Bonnie, now on the page.Next week the campaign targets will be there as well as posted here. God Bless Mauro SOL To: redorman@theofficenet.com Date: Sat, 13 Nov 1999 13:53:54 -0800 From: "mauro deoliveira" Bob, Bonnie called me not five minutes after I posted to you. Here are the additions: for my email: Percy Deal at the Hard Rock Chapter House is the man to call and write to for Bonnie's Electric and water problems. Tell him her life depends on it and that everything must be done immediately to relieve her suffering. Percy Deals number at Hardrock Chapter is 520 725 3528. I couldn't get an address cause no one answered but I'm on it. Bonnie also says that their truck is ruined and winter is coming. If anyone has a truck they really can't maintain even the basic without one. She also mentioned a trailer would help them immensely. She reminded me that the Grandmothers have been asking for people to donate to the ceremony fund and with the deadline coming they are really focused on ceremony. You can send her the money earmarked ceremony, she will take care of it. Bonnie is concerned about federal marshalls, which she say will show up around the deadline. Their presence endangers their families...the children and the elders. She asks that people continue to pressure the department of justice. (information numbers on the Navajo nation are in the 520 area code.) --------- Forwarded Message --------- DATE: Sat, 13 Nov 1999 20:01:04 From: DINETAH29@aol.com To: meyesol@eudoramail.com Dear Mauro, Today we had a lot of traffic here, Rena Babbitt and John Lane, Mae Washington, Paul Clark, Bonnie Whitesinger, Bob Chaat and their kids came by. There is so much need for us to be able to function and produce. There is so much suffering. Please let me know what you think of Bonnie's statement. Later this evening I will e-mail you the obituary for Jenny Manybeads and Emmet Tso. The letter from Rena to the BIA throwing back her permit should wait until a little later so we do not tip our hand to the BIA any sooner than we have to and we need the video camera here. I am so looking forward to seeing you and your help. Your friend, Marsha Bonnie Whitesinger, resident of Big Mountain I am a wife and mother of 6 children. I have renal failure. As of April 1997, I had a breakdown when I was at the 53rd session of the Commission on Human Rights at the United Nations in Geneva Switzerland. I attended this session with Kee Watchman carrying the message of the elders, mainly the matriarchs. So being a mother, I work for my children's future. I was going to stay in Geneva for 3 weeks but I had to cut my trip short to 12 days because I got ill and I had to come home to be admitted to a hospital for my condition. Since then I haven't received any assistance for my condition. Now, I wish to call for help. At the same time being sick, I have to endure the hardship of going to dialysis treatment over ungraded dirt roads 3 times a week and raise my children. I used to live at my mother, Pauline Whitesinger^Rs house but I had to move to be on the school bus route. So, for the past 12 years I have been living in an abandoned dilapidated one room house without adequate space for me and my family. My house has broken windows, no running water, no indoor plumbing and no electricity. It was abandoned for 30 years before I moved in. The roof is old and inside it there are mice nests. Inside the walls and the wall panels are dead mice, debris and feces. It looks awful in there. During the monsoon season the roof leaks and it has the smell of mice urine. It gets on our dishes. I have applied for a homesite because of my health condition. I have repeatedly been denied. My home is beyond repair and I desperately need your assistance in obtaining a double wide trailer for me and my family of 6 children and 2 adults. I need a kidney transplant right away. At Dialysis, these machines are affecting my heart. I have witnessed death on the machine - people my own age. And since winter months are coming I desperately need a truck to haul water and firewood we need for our survival. There is so much stress. And at the same time I am getting letters from the Navajo Hopi Relocation office in Flagstaff telling me to relocate and to comply with the 90 days notice to vacate. My mother, Pauline Whitesinger who lives on HPL also receives letters from the same relocation office. She had a meeting on January 9, 1999 and made her appeal with the elders affected to the relocation office to stop. They told them they don't want to receive any more letters (Notices to Vacate). That didn't help. For me, I need emergency financial assistance regarding my health condition. Please I need your help to get on the kidney transplant list which requires that I have a decent house with electrical hook up, running water and a cellular or regular phone. And during the duration of the winter months I need a Ford double cab pick up truck to haul water and wood which is necessary for our survival. I also want to make a call to my relatives in the East, in the South, in the West and the North that I need help with your contribution of money to go toward ceremonies to protect the elders on Hopi Partition Lands and their families. Our lives are at stake with the deadline coming up so we need to protect ourselves with ongoing traditional ceremonies. Please help me because me, my family and my people have a lot of concerns for our survival. If you want to send donations to me please send postal money orders to Bonnie Whitesinger, P.O. Box 1073, Hotevilla, AZ 86030. If you want to leave a message for me or require more information please contact Marsha Monestersky, Consultant to Sovereign Dineh Nation, cellular phone: (520) 674-4479, e-mail: dinetah29@aol.com Please help us pressure Thomas Benally, the executive director of the Navajo Hopi Land Commission, Window Rock, AZ and his staff, Phone: (520) 871-6277, Address: P.O. Box 2549, Navajo Nation, Window Rock, AZ 86515. AND Kelsey Begaye, President, The Navajo Nation, Phone: (520) 871-6000, Address: P.O. Box 9000, Navajo Nation, Window Rock, AZ 86515. It is the rightful obligation of the Navajo Hopi Land Commission and the Navajo Tribe to help us survive at this time. This office must contribute the elders that are still on HPL and those of us with life threatening conditions. They are part of a US governmental effort that has spent over 400 million US taxpayer dollars to fund our genocide while denying those of us that resist relocation even our ability to survive. We are expecting a harsh winter and need this office to provide us with survival money and supplies like kerosene, matches, propane, gas, water and a supply for our livestock like hay, grain and salt blocks. And materials for shelter for our sheep during lambing season, tarps, cellophane sheeting. Urge them to start working on our behalf and commit themselves to working on an injunction against the deadline. There are a lot of families on HPL living in the same condition I am. We have been subject to the Freeze on construction for over 20 years, enduring great hardship yearlong, on ungraded dirt roads that destroy our vehicles. We are denied everything, even the right to build or fix our homes, even for though of us with life threatening health problems. And many of my people are elderly and children. It is urgent that the we be able to fix our homes so our families can move back to stand with our elders and support them for the deadline and for the ceremonies we need to conduct. The deadline date February 1, 2000 is about 90 days from now. And our elders and our children are in jeopardy because the Hopi tribe and the Navajo tribe are not informing the people about what kind of effects we are going to see at deadline date, only that US Marshals will be coming in to force us off our land. I believe that the laws of the US government is only there to benefit the elite corporations and corrupt tribal councils. Please understand that we are at a critical point now and ask you those of you that want to contribute to our survival to please do so at this time. And help in whatever way you can. Thank you, Bonnie Whitesinger ------------------------------------------------------------------------ This is a BIGMTLIST post. Email addresses--- To Post message: BIGMTLIST@onelist.com To Subscribe: BIGMTLIST-subscribe@onelist.com To Unsubscribe: BIGMTLIST-unsubscribe@onelist.com For more information on this on-going human rights crisis in the United States, visit my web page at http://www.theofficenet.com/~redorman/pagea~1.htm --------- "RE: Indian Farmers Preparing for Lawsuit" --------- Date: Mon, 22 Nov 1999 13:00:05 EST From: MarthaET@aol.com Subj: Indian farmers preparing for lawsuit against the government Mailing List: TRIBALLAW (triballaw@thecity.sfsu.edu) The Associated Press. All rights reserved Indian farmers preparing for lawsuit against the government -------------------------------------------------------------------- By Brian Witte TWIN BUTTES, N.D. (AP) _ John Fredericks blames the U.S. Agriculture Department for ruining his ranching operation years ago. Fredericks, 66, said the department failed to help him with loans in the early 1980s. Foreclosure followed. "I was sitting here at one time, and didn't even own my home here," he said. "I lost everything." Other Indian farmers and ranchers feel the same way, and they are preparing to take the federal government to court. Fredericks said he sold horses to come up with the $20,000 he needed to get back the house where he now lives, on the Fort Berthold Indian Reservation. But he says his business never recovered. "They took the best years of my business life away from me," Fredericks said during an interview at the split-level home he has battled for years to keep. Now, Fredericks said he spends his time taking care of about 50 horses around his home, near large buttes and Lake Sakakawea. Although he lost about 3,000 acres to foreclosure, he got it back after years of legal wrangling and help from the Three Affiliated Tribes, which holds a lien on some of the land. Fredericks said he hopes the lawsuit will enable him to compensate the tribe. If he could have restructured his loans, Fredericks believes, the ranch where he once had 1,000 cattle would not have deteriorated. "I wouldn't have had the problems," he said. "A lot of people that were in my situation were able to make it because they restructured several times." Fredericks is a lead plaintiff in a case being put together by Alexander Pires, a Washington, D.C., lawyer who represented black farmers in a similar suit. USDA settled that lawsuit in April. Lawmakers and lawyers have estimated the settlement could cost the government $2 billion. Members of Congress have complained that discrimination continues in some of USDA's county offices. Over the past two years, five workers have been fired as a result of discrimination complaints and 41 others disciplined. Pires said many American Indian farmers have suffered discrimination. "We proved it in the black farmers case, and there's no difference here, " Pires said. "The farmers and the ranchers are the same. The tone of the skin is different. That's all." Agriculture Commissioner Dan Glickman has acknowledged that current and past administrations have discriminated against black farmers. Rosalind Gray, USDA's civil rights director, told the House Agriculture Committee last month that the department is making progress in improving civil rights. She did not immediately return phone calls seeking comment on the pending lawsuit. Pires contends American Indian farmers have received "horrible" service from USDA for years, especially in getting loans refinanced. "I guarantee you the statistics will show that if you're white, you're chances of getting refinanced two and three times are many, many, many times higher than if you are of color," Pires said. After reading about the black farmers case, Three Affiliated Tribes' Chairman Tex Hall approached Pires and asked if he would represent American Indians in a similar lawsuit. The Three Affiliated Tribes filed a complaint with the department last spring when details of the black farmers settlement were being worked out. The department's civil rights division came out to the reservation in October to investigate the complaint. Sarah Vogel, an attorney and former state agriculture commissioner, said she was delighted by the pending lawsuit. Vogel, who recently represented ranchers on the Standing Rock Sioux Indian Reservation in a grazing dispute, said she believed reservation ranchers have had an especially hard struggle. Vogel has offered to assist in the case. "I'm more and more convinced that this is a really necessary lawsuit," she said in a recent interview. "There's been many disparate treatments, I think, over the years." Pires said the lawsuit would include plaintiffs in North Dakota, South Dakota, Wyoming, Montana, New Mexico and Arizona. --------- "RE: Indians Seek Contempt Ruling Against Babbitt" --------- Date: Mon, 22 Nov 1999 04:27:50 -0700 (MST) From: "Chris Milda (_Akimel O`odham_)" Subj: Indians seek contempt ruling against Babbitt (fwd) Mailing List: TRIBALLAW (triballaw@thecity.sfsu.edu) ------- FORWARD, Original message follows ------- Date: Nov. 20, 1999 Subj: Indians seek contempt ruling against Babbitt http://www.azcentral.com/news/1120babbitt.shtml Indians seek contempt ruling against Babbitt Associated Press Nov. 20, 1999 WASHINGTON - After finding records piled in a trash heap on a North Dakota reservation, lawyers for a group of Native Americans returned to federal court Friday to ask a judge to once again hold Interior Secretary Bruce Babbitt in contempt. "Bring it on," responded a lawyer representing the Interior Department. Earlier this year, U.S. District Judge Royce Lamberth had held Babbitt and two other federal officials in contempt for failing to turn over documents in the Indian trust fund case. He ordered the federal government to pay more than $600,000 in fees to the Indians' lawyers. The Indians are suing over mismanagement of more than 300,000 trust accounts for individual Indians worth more than $500 million. Both sides agree that the accounts have been mismanaged for decades, suffering from inconsistent or non-existent record keeping, poor investment choices and lax oversight. The Indians argue that mismanagement has cost them billions in lost revenue. A court-appointed watchdog in the case discovered piles of documents stashed in a shed during a Nov. 1 visit to the Bureau of Indian Affairs office at the Sprit Lake Sioux reservation in North Dakota. The supervisor of that office had insisted that all records were stored in the main office, but a secretary told the investigator about the shed. "These documents were maintained in deplorable condition amidst gasoline canisters, tires, machinery and other debris," Alan Balaran, the watchdog, wrote in a report to Lamberth last week. Balaran said he was disturbed by the BIA's "callous disregard for these records" and its "duplicitous denial" that they were in the shed. Lawyers for the Indians told Lamberth on Friday that the Interior Department and its lawyers cannot be trusted to keep and turn over documents, even after the contempt citations against Babbitt, BIA head Kevin Gover and then-Treasury Secretary Robert Rubin. Lawyers representing the Interior Department bristled at those remarks. "If counsel (for the Indians) would like to make (contempt) charges against us, I'd like to see them," Justice Department attorney Phillip Brooks said. "I'm tired of being disparaged. . . . I don't know what to say, other than, "Bring it on.'" The request for a contempt citation could be bad news for Babbitt and Gover if Lamberth agrees with the Indians. In his February contempt ruling, Lamberth warned the officials "to make sure that their respective departments' actions live up to their words." "For if they do not," Lamberth wrote, "the defendants will suffer consequences far greater than those being handed down today." Brooks and fellow Justice Department lawyer Charles Findlay said BIA officials had ordered the records removed from the shed. They said no documents had been lost. "We recognize the problem. We are attacking it," Findlay told Lamberth. Copyright 1999, Arizona Central --------- "RE: Idaho-Tribal Compact Off on Right Foot" --------- Date: Sun, 21 Nov 1999 11:30:58 EST From: MarthaET@aol.com Subj: Idaho-tribal compact on fuel taxes in making Mailing List: TRIBALLAW (triballaw@thecity.sfsu.edu) Also from Victor's pechanga.net Martha Indian Affairs Council off on right foot New panel of legislators, tribal leaders agrees unanimously to work out fuel tax differences Betsy Z. Russell - Staff writer Idaho's new Indian Affairs Council will look for ways to work out an agreement between tribes and the state on fuel taxes, rather than leaving the issue to the courts. Not only was Friday's move the first action taken by the joint council of tribal leaders and legislators, it was a unanimous vote. "That was our first baby step," said council chairman Sen. Ralph "Moon" Wheeler, R- American Falls. "That's great!" said Dennis Smith, vice chairman of the Shoshone-Paiute Tribe. Tribes don't want to end up in court with the state, said Coeur d'Alene Tribal Chairman Ernie Stensgar -- even though in this case, the tribe was winning. A 4th District judge ruled recently that the state can't collect gas tax on fuel that was delivered directly from a Spokane source to the Coeur d'Alene Reservation, crossing into the reservation right at the Idaho state line. The state Tax Commission has appealed the decision to the state Supreme Court, saying the state could lose out on as much as $1.6 million in taxes on gas sold on reservations. "The council reviewed it and heard from the tax commission and the tribal attorneys," Stensgar said. "I think there is every reason to work out an agreement." The tribe had been telling the state all along that it would win the case, Stensgar said. But he said a mutual agreement would be better. "If we can show the council we can come to an agreement on fuel tax, we can come to an agreement on all these issues without litigating," Stensgar said. "I think state-tribal relations will vastly improve." Leaders of Idaho's five federally recognized tribes said once the fuel tax issue is settled, they'd like to see talks continue and extend to how the tribes and state handle all taxes. The Coeur d'Alene Tribe had been trying to negotiate an agreement on fuel taxes for two years, but the state Tax Commission said it had no authority to negotiate. Former Gov. Phil Batt also declined to negotiate, saying the issue should go to the Legislature. Then, after the Tax Commission went after Goodman Oil, the distributor that delivered the gasoline to the Coeur d'Alene Reservation, the issue wound up in court. The council voted to review options for empowering the Tax Commission to negotiate an agreement with the tribes, with the idea of recommending legislation this year to accomplish that. Any agreement still could be subject to legislative approval. In other states, governments have agreed to give tribes a share of gas tax revenues to help maintain roads on reservations, in exchange for the tribes agreeing to collect the taxes on gas sales to non-Indians. "I'm encouraged," Coeur d'Alene Tribe attorney Tara Salisbury-Allgood said. "The state Tax Commission has been telling us for almost two years that there's nothing they can do. But case law says that's not the way Indian law has gone." Betsy Z. Russell can be reached at 336-2854, or by e-mail at bzrussell@rmci.net. --------- "RE: Ward Valley Action Alert" --------- Date: Fri, 12 Nov 1999 17:15:30 -0800 From: "Save Ward Valley" Subj: WARD VALLEY ACTION ALERT!! ACTION ALERT! ACTION ALERT! ACTION ALERT! ACTION ALERT! Governor Davis Appoints Task Force Biased Toward the Nuclear Industry to Determine the Fate of the Proposed Ward Valley Nuclear Waste Dump In a disturbing turnabout, Governor Gray Davis has revived the proposal for a dangerous radioactive waste dump at Ward Valley. Davis has assembled a Task Force composed predominantly of nuclear waste generators to address the nuclear waste disposal in California. Ward Valley dump proponents outnumber representatives of environmental groups and Native American tribes by three to one. Key experts on radioactive waste have been purposely excluded. After assurances to the contrary, the Task Force has plans to revive the Ward Valley dump proposal to bury long-lived and highly dangerous radioactive wastes in shallow, unlined trenches, above an aquifer, twenty miles from the Colorado River, drinking water for 22 million people, in critical habitat for an endangered species and on sacred Indian lands. CONTACT GOVERNOR DAVIS TODAY! State Capitol Building, Sacramento, California 95814 Write and telephone today! (916) 445-2841 * Fax (916) 445-4633. Tell the governor that the Task Force is unbalanced and lacks credibility. Tell him to take the Ward Valley dump off the agenda and seek a responsible policy on radioactive waste containment, source reduction and renewable energy. Respect Native American rights! Save Ward Valley 107 F Street Needles, CA 92363 ph. 760/326-6267 fax 760/326-6268 http://www.shundahai.org/SWVAction.html http://earthrunner.com/savewardvalley http://www.ctaz.com/~swv1 http://banwaste.envirolink.org http://www.alphacdc.com/ien/wardvly4.html http://www.greenaction.org --------- "RE: Action Alert at Minnehaha Spiritual Encampment" --------- Date: Sat, 20 Nov 1999 14:29:41 -0800 From: Nancy Thomas Subj: fw: Action Alert at Minnehaha Spiritual Encampment Forwarded by Nancy Thomas ---------------- Original message follows ---------------- *From: power4u *Date: Saturday, November 20, 1999 *Subj: Action Alert at Minnehaha Spiritual Encampment -- Red Alert*Action Alert*Red Alert*Action Alert*Red Alert* Minnehaha Spiritual Camp Receives Warning of Imminent Raid Yesterday, Thursday, the Minnehaha Spiritual Camp was visited by Captain Kitridge of the Minnesota State Highway Patrol and Lieutenant Bud Emerson of the Third Precinct of the Minneapolis Police Department. Lieutenant Emerson commanded the raid last December 20th in which 802 troopers and police tear gassed and tortured non-violent people and desecrated sacred items including eagle feathers and a ceremonial drum. Kitridge and Emerson had a ceremony within the Four Sacred Oaks with Jim Anderson and members of the Mendota Mdewakanton Dakota Community and the American Indian Movement in which they were offered to smoke the pipe. After they were told that this was not a peace pipe, but a truth pipe, Kitridge smoked and Emerson declined. They both agreed that while they might be enforcing the law, that it was morally and ethically reprehensible to destroy a site sacred to Native Americans. They assured Jim Anderson that the raid would be soon, sometime in the next 2 to 3 weeks, that it would be in the morning and that there would be no tear gas or pain compliance holds used. They gave their word that people would be offered the chance to leave before being arrested for trespassing. They said that the machines of destruction would follow immediately after the arrests, and that the University of Minnesota has requested a oak slab from each tree. They said that they would try and respect the sacred items and make certain that eagle feathers and other items would be returned. Emerson made the same promise of allowing people to leave before the last raid in December of 1998. WE NEED YOU NOW. WE NEED YOU TO COME AND CAMP WITH US FOR SOME OR ALL OF THE NEXT THREE WEEKS. IF THIS WERE YOUR CHURCH YOU WOULD STAND HERE TOO, PLEASE DON'T LET THEM DESECRATE AND BULLDOZE ANOTHER NATIVE AMERICAN SACRED SITE. WE ARE ASKING ALL PEOPLE TO STAND WITH US IN PRAYER AROUND THE FOUR SACRED OAKS, AND SACRED FIRE, TO STAND IN PRAYER AND TO BE ARRESTED IN PRAYER. WHEN THEY COME WE WILL CIRCLE THE OAKS WITH OUR BODIES, WE WANT THEM TO SEE HOW MANY PEOPLE WILL NOT LET THE FREEDOM OF RELIGION OF NATIVE AMERICANS BE VIOLATED FOR THE CONVENIENCE OF COMMUTERS. NOW IS THE TIME TO DECIDE AND STAND WITH US. OUR CAMP IS DRUG FREE, ALCOHOL FREE, WEAPONS FREE, WE ARE NON-VIOLENT, AND EXPECT THAT FROM ANYONE WHO COMES TO STAND HERE WITH US. The day after the raid is announced in the papers, we are asking people to gather at the Hennepin County Government Center by the fountain at 4:00pm, in downtown Minneapolis. Please contact Wellstone's office, and the Justice Department to demand that the Federal Government intervene to stop the desecration of a Native American Sacred Site. For the future generations, For the sacred trees, Sacred water and burial sites of our ancestors, They will never crush our spirits or pave over our prayers, Pidamaya, Jim Anderson Cultural Chairman of the Mendota Mdewakanton Dakota Community Phone: (612) 910-0730 Camp Cell Phone: (651) 398-5249 ---------------------------------------- To subscribe to the "Paths-L" mailing list send a message to Majordomo@YvwiiUsdinvnohii.net In the body of the message type: subscribe paths-l To unsubscribe type: unsubscribe paths-l (no subject is necessary for the message). --------- "RE: Standing Deer is Very Sick" --------- Date: Wed, 17 Nov 1999 14:30:41 -0600 From: "LPDC" Subj: Fw: SDeer is very sick It's 1999, why is Leonard Peltier still in prison??? Leonard Peltier Defense Committee PO Box 583 Lawrence, KS 66044 785-842-5774 To subscribe, send a blank message to < lpdc-on@mail-list.com > To unsubscribe, send a blank message to < lpdc-off@mail-list.com > To change your email address, send a message to < lpdc-change@mail-list.com > with your old address in the Subject line http://members.xoom.com/freepeltier/index.html -----Original Message----- Date: Wednesday, November 17, 1999 1:19 PM From: Bdyingswan@aol.com Subj: SDeer is very sick Standing Deer's Health Update as of 11-14-99 Dear Friends & Supporters: Standing Deer is very sick. He missed his high blood pressure medicine for 2 weeks. Because of our efforts his aspirin prescription has been renewed & KOP (keep on person) He only has enough aspirin to relieve his pain for awhile. The prison is out of the aspirin. We must write to the following persons stating that we need the order of aspirin to come from Huntsville IMMEDIATELY !! If Standing Deer can not receive his aspirin to control his pain enough to walk to the infirmary to receive his Clonidine, high blood pressure medicine, he will die. Standing Deer has in the past survived these abrupt cessation of Clonidine 4 times. The medical books all tell doctors to wean a patient off of this drug gradually to prevent brain damage or death. We have no doubt that the prison knows full well of what they are doing. They are trying to quietly kill Standing Deer. Your letters of support will be gratefully appreciated. Please send one today. Just a short note if you are not comfortable in any long explanation. "Get the aspirin to Pack One Prison immediately so Robert H. Wilson #640289 won't die of brain damage!" Please send letters immediately to: Dr. Scamardo / Pack Unit Infirmary / 2400 Wallace Pack RD. / Navasota, TX 77869 CC: Dr. Lannette Linthicum, Director / TDCJ Health Services / 3009 Highway 30 West, Huntsville, TX 77340 Thank you. BArbara Fortier Standing Deer Defense Committee POBox 368 / Carrollton, GA 30117 http://standingdeer.homepage.com/index.html ------------------------------------------------------------------------- To subscribe, send a blank message to lpdc-on@mail-list.com --------- "RE: Eddie Hatcher" --------- Date: Sat, 20 Nov 1999 19:34:32 -0500 (EST) From: ME Shaiman Subj: Eddie Hatcher Please post and distribute: The following is taken from the October 1999 newsletter, the first put out by the Eddie Hatcher Defense Committee since Eddie was arrested early this summer. His mother Thelma now has her own email address, so you can contact her directly at thclark@etinternet.net. She also plans to have a website up for Eddie in the near future. Thanks, Marsha Shaiman, On Indian Land Newspaper/Support for Native Sovereignty A MESSAGE FROM EDDIE HATCHER The Night They Murdered Harvey Lee Green by Eddie Hatcher I have been through about four executions at Central Prison in Raleigh, NC, but I think and feel that the execution of Harvey Green was one of the most stressful and frustrating yet. As with all executions, the air in Central Prison becomes filled with tension and apprehension usually the Monday preceding the Thursday night execution. The only difference this time was the suddenness of reality. By Monday morning at breakfast, the moods of most convicts had quickly become solemn. The first line of communication was the question, "Has anybody heard if the courts have stated Harvey's execution?" While Sunday had consisted of loud card games and slamming dominoes at the tables, Monday's cards began popping the table a little softer. The slam began to give way to just laying the dominoes in place. The loud conversations across the tables began to change to quiet attention being paid to the news programs, all in anticipation of hearing the words, "The Supreme Court today issued a stay in the execution of Harvey Green." Everyone hung on to the hope that it would come. Tuesday, James, a convict who had just won a new trial and came off of death row, saw Harvey in the jail coming from the nurses' station. He said Harvey looked and acted in good spirits and said he was still hoping for a stay. We both then stood, looking into space. I asked if he thought something was going to jump off if they carried it out. He said, "You know how well Harvey is liked by everybody." We both agreed that the Administration had to be a little concerned that the situation was a time bomb, ready to explode. On Wednesday, I saw Harvey coming back from visiting with one of his lawyers. He smiled and raised a clutched fist shouting, "You alright Hatcher?" That was Harvey. Wanting to know if everyone else was alright. I got to know Harvey back when I worked death row in '89 and '90. By Wednesday afternoon, the entire prison was almost quiet. Even most of the staff had solemn expressions and little to say. I don't normally go to supper but I did on Wednesday. On the way back, the Lieutenant was in the hall and I asked if they had moved Harvey down to the death house yet. He gave some cocky grin and said he didn't know, like I wouldn't find out in the next 10 minutes. When I got down to the block, one of the few decent Officers was standing at the canteen so I asked him. He said they had just moved Harvey, right before we got back. He said, "I shook his hand and thanked him for always keeping it real." He was sincere. While some of the guards openly voice their opinions of how quick and how cruel executions should take place, there are a few who don't support the death penalty. It just disgusts me that their jobs take precedence over their beliefs and principles. This weakness disgusts me. Thursday morning you could see the heavy presence of extra guards. In every unit more guards were everywhere. An Officer told me they were really gearing up in case any problems jumped off. But even the threat of force didn't deter acts of protest beginning early in the day. Right before lunch a fire alarm sounded at OC-2, the main control headquarters. Location of the fire -- D block east. Why did it happen to be my block, an arena where my name is always at the top of any investigation list. Two Sergeants and four guards rushed into the block, peeping and looking in every cell. No convict budged from whatever it was they were doing prior to the unwelcome intrusion of the police. I guess the alarm sent the antennas up because shortly after the first alarm, the Lieutenant came into the block to make an announcement. A speech. He wanted to inform all of us that the state intended to go through with the murder of Harvey Green and any forms of protest would be met with swift and forceful action. It sounded like a threat to us so I immediately asked him, "So what are you saying? Do we need to strap up or what?" Strap up means to get your knife, your shank, etc. He looked, gazed, then quickly exited the block. The Lieutenant's threats obviously only enraged us as about 50 minutes later the alarms sounded again, this time, becoming necessary to clear the block. The smoke from a crudely constructed smoke bomb blazing next to the rubber sole of a tennis shoe creates a hell of a smoke cloud, unbearable to the eyes and respiratory tract. After a half an hour, I heard the words I knew were coming, "LOCKDOWN! The Warden said to lock it down!" This let me know that the block I was in, my block, my boys, were not the only protesters in Central Prison or the Warden would not have called a lockdown. After everyone was locked down in their cells, the investigation began. Two by two we were led out to the Lieutenant's office to be questioned as to "what we knew" about the fire. Naturally, I was the last one to go. As I walked up the stairs a convict who works the hall said, "Ya'll burning it down ain't you Hatcher." I smiled. I walked in the office and sat down while the Lieutenant looked straight ahead like he was in some kind of fog. By this time, several investigative conferences had occurred, including Associate Warden McCabe and Warden Lee. Rising from his chair, still looking foggy, straight ahead, the Lieutenant began, "We know you didn't strike the match. And we know you probably didn't construct the thing. But we know you are behind the whole damned thing." As he clinched his fists, both of them, shaking them, looking straight ahead at the wall, glassy eyed he looked almost like Freddy Kruger, and said, "Hatcher, you just have so much influence!" I felt like I was witnessing an actual breakdown in progress firsthand. I wondered if he was going to do "The Postal Thing" but quickly realized there were no guns around. Relief!! Had it not been so touching, I would have busted out laughing. I mean, he's not a bad Lieutenant but aye, he's the police. I didn't know exactly what to say that would please him so, with a sheepish, half grinning expression I said, "No I don't Lieu." I hoped this would take the edge off what looked like a serious job-related down moment. He just kept shaking his fists and his head, saying, "yes you do, yes you do, yes you do." He would shake his head yes, and I would shake my head no, both in unison, him saying "yes you do" and me saying, "no I don't." He told me they couldn't write me up because nobody would tell on me, which was their biggest disappointment. They are terrorized of a convict who no one will snitch on. To them, it shows power. To us, it shows respect. About 7:30 p.m. after the chaos had died down, all of the cell doors opened and the lockdown was lifted. I guess they figured we had protested enough so they needed to devote their staff and energy to other blocks who hadn't started so early. We all stay tuned to radio news and TV hoping to get some word that a stay had been granted. At about 8:30 p.m., they put a police in the block. He appeared extremely nervous and tried to look invisible but that was out. I stood at the window looking at all of the blue lights and TV trucks pull in as the vigil protesters gathered. I heard someone say, "How are you?" and as I turned and realized it was the guard, I snapped, "I ain't worth a damn. How are you?" He didn't know whether to flee or talk but he put on a smile and said, "My first day back in NC, do you know the first face I saw in the news?" I said, "Let me guess. Me!" He said he had followed me over the years, but never thought he's meet me. I was sure he had been advised to watch me closely so he was trying to get a feel of what frame of mind I was in. I quickly walked off and left him standing there. They have never been able to figure me out. At 10:30 p.m., it was lockdown for the night. That's why they have executions in the middle of the night. As I stood in my cell looking out the window I could see the crowd getting larger. James yelled down to me that he had never seen as many people at a vigil. About 11 p.m. he yelled down again, "Eddie, do you see Dr. Death going across the parking lot in the trenchcoat?" Dr. Death is the Doctor who brings the vials of poison in a briefcase that would be used to kill Harvey. We watched as he walked across the parking lot and entered the door to the death house. The closest thing I've seen to the Priest standing in a black trenchcoat outside the Georgetown House in "The Exorcist." A few minutes later, two cars pulled up and we assumed it was members of the family who came to watch the murder. Everything was pretty much quiet until they came storming into my cell at about 11:45 p.m. My door opened and a Sergeant and two guards came rushing in. They told me to turn around so they could cuff me. The guard who had been in the block and had been standing right outside my door asked what the problem was and the Sgt. said I had been yelling out the window. The guard glared his eyes, like he had a problem also with what was happening and said, "Hatcher hasn't yelled out. I've been standing right here." They ignored this and quickly escorted me out. I was taken to the belly of the beast... Unit one...The maximum lockup unit. I was met by at least 10 guards who quickly took me outside to the cages. The recreation yard on Unit I consists of dozens of 6x8 chain link cages where convicts are locked inside and told to exercise. They opened one of the cages, took me inside, then Sgt. Burrows ordered, "Put him in full restraints." They wrapped a heavy chain around my waist and hooked it behind my back, along with my wrists and cuffs, to a black metal box, then placed a padlock through the box, which prevents any movement. Then they put ankle chains on me. I was then forced to the cold, damp cement, with my arms and hands chained behind my back, and forced to lay flat on my stomach. I only had on a thin t-shirt and this was the coolest night yet at 48 degrees. After the side of my face and head was flat on the cement, Sgt. Burrows told me if I moved, I would be maced. I attempted to tell him how I could not lay in that position due to a dislocated elbow and the cold clement would make me sick since I have a weakened immune system. Before I could finish, the Sgt. told me to shut-up or he would spray me with mace and I better not move. They exited the cage and locked the doors. It took only a few minutes to realize, "Hey, I can see the moon. It's almost full." This was really a treat I thought, as I had not been able to see the moon for months. I had gone almost 8 years before without seeing the moon and didn't realize how much I missed it. Seeing the moon on this night quickly elevated the agony of being hogtied with chains and locked in a dog pen, as we call them. I had been laying on the cement for about 30 minutes when they came out with a guy from death row. I wondered what he was accused of doing. They took him to a cage two cages from me and began the routine...chains, leg irons, etc. Then they literally threw his small frame to the cement and gave him the same lecture about not moving and being sprayed with mace. As soon as they exited his cage, he asked, "Why have I got to lay like this?" He must have not noticed the moon and I wanted to tell him but I was quieted by Sgt. Burrows shouting, telling him he better shut-up and not move or he would be sprayed. The sight of the moon helped ease the freezing shivers that by now had my legs shaking and the pain shooting through my left arm. I guess the convict from death row, whose name I learned is Dwight Robinson, couldn't resist and he moved slightly, raising a few inches, to rest more on his side. Sgt. Burrows and an officer quickly unlocked his cage, knelt down, pulled his head over, and both Burrows and the guard began spraying mace directly in Robinson's face. Both cans no more than two inches from his face. I kept waiting for Robinson to yell or do something, but he never did. He never spoke. Never moved. They sprayed the mace so long, Sgt. Burrows even stopped at one point, shook his can, then continued spraying until both cans were empty. Still, Robinson made not a sound. After they had emptied their cans of mace, they snatched Robinson up, heading toward the door to the building. As they walked they yelled at Robinson, ordering him to walk. I wondered how they expected him to be able to walk with his eyes full of mace. As soon as they entered the building I heard Robinson falling down the stairs, no doubt pushed, all in full restraints, then, almost instantly, I heard blow after blow making contact with his body. Finally, Robinson was speaking but not words...It was yells and screams. Each scream bellowed pure agonizing pain. All I could do was listen. My thoughts were, "How could these people be this blatant, this stupid, to do these things to us and do this to Robinson right in front of me?" Power blinds and these state paid employees exemplified blind power this night like I have not seen in a while. I finally knew the execution must have been almost over when I overheard one of the young, punk guards say, "Well I wonder if old Harvey is crying about now?" About 20 minutes later they unlocked my cage, took me out, and put me on lockup. The following day I was informed that I was on lockup for calling Associate Warden McCabe "a sorry SOB." Well, I don't really have a problem with that because he is a sorry SOB, plus some, but the problem is, I hadn't seen McCabe the night of the execution. I now sit in lockup, 23 hours a day, for 60 days and loss of God knows what, but there is a consolation to all of this. Many of the guards are cheering me on, as they too say McCabe is a sorry SOB. They whisper to me, "Hatcher, if you need anything, let me know." and, "You only told the truth Hatcher." I am almost ready to shout, "Okay...I did it. I called McCabe the sorry SOB that he is." I never realized how hated McCabe really is. Not as much by convicts, but, by his officers. It's kind of pitiful. I wonder where McCabe will be during the two executions that are scheduled for next month. Lord, I just hope it's a full moon again. I've found since that night that Sgt. Burrows, Lieutenant Signal and other guards on Unit I regularly mace and beat convicts after they are in full restraints. Please call, fax, and write the following people and Human Rights Organizations and ask that the brutality and abuse taking place at Central Prison be investigated. Also write the following North Carolina senators and demand public hearings into these abuses at Central Prison that are taking place on a daily basis. We desperately need your help. Senator Frank Balance PO Box 616 Warrenton NC 27589 Senator Ellie Kinnaird 2115 Legislative Bldg 16 W. Jones St. Raleigh NC 27601 Senator Beverly Perdue 405 Middle St. New Bern NC 28560 Theodis Beck, Secretary NC Dept. of Correction 214 West Jones St. 4201 MSC Raleigh NC 27699 fax: (919) 733-4790 Governor Jim Hunt Office of the Governor 116 West Jones St. Raleigh NC 27603 fax: (919) 715-3175 Human Rights Watch 485 Fifth Ave New York NY 10017 Please send a donation to the Eddie Hatcher Defense Committee (address below) to receive this monthly newsletter. This pays for the printing. You will also receive updates of the status of my case. If the money is available for printing, we will publish more than monthly. If you are in prison, just tell us and we will put you on the mailing list. Just please send one stamp each month for postage. If you need to report incidents of brutality and abuse at your prison, please write up the facts and get it to us and we will print it. You can write me directly: Eddie Hatcher, Central Prison, 1300 Western Blvd., Raleigh NC 27606, or if you are in prison, write to me at the Defense Committee. Eddie Hatcher Defense Committee, PO Box 2702, Pembroke NC 28372. Phone: (910) 521-8850, email: thclark@etinternet.net. --------- "RE: Commentary: Russell Means Testimony" --------- Date: Mon, 22 Nov 1999 20:16:24 GMT From: flint_carrier@my-deja.com Subj: Russell Means Accusses AIM Leader: COMMENTARY Newsgroup: alt.native It is very disheartening to see the investigation into Anna Mae Aquash's death being written off because of the "likes or dislikes" of one AIM member or another by the individuals posting messages over the net. It belittles the life of our sister and the horrendous way she died. You have all allowed your personal prejudices to obstruct the pleas of her family and friends to bring closure for them and for Anna Mae's spirit. This isn't about Russell Means and a movie, nor the Bellecourts and their bravado, it isn't about you and it isn't about me. It is about the murder of a strong and dedicated woman whose light was snuffed out before her time and bringing those to justice who were involved. Now, if that isn't as important to you as taking pot shots at AIM, no matter what side you are on, then I suggest you all check your priorities in this life. Have you all become so cynical that all you can think about is slamming the AIM leaders and not what is really at issue? Or are you so callous that the life of Anna Mae has just become insignificant in light of your own agendas? Either way, you need to reexamine what is the REAL issue and begin dealing with that and THAT ONLY! Either support this investigation or get off the subject, since you are clouding the real issue. We don't really care who was involved and believe me we each have our own thoughts on this, but we DO care about having those who were involved arrested, tried by a jury and convicted!!! If that is something that you can't accept, then you have no right to even comment on this, for you are not looking for justice. We are so tired of the selfish and irresponsible responses we have seen passed over the Internet recently that we are beginning to wonder if those involved in Anna Mae's death haven't started all this controversy to purposely cloud this issue. Can you excuse rape and murder so easily? Then think about what you have become in doing so. Please, let's get back on track. This is about Anna Mae and justice. If you can put personal feelings aside and put others before yourself, we may get answers to this crime long, long overdue. Again, those who have had nothing to do with her death should have nothing to fear and should welcome being publicly vindicated. Think about it. Mitakuye Oyasin, Renee Still Day Everyone has made this into their own personal campaign against one or the other of the AIM leaders and you have made it petty and belittled the loss of a strong woman. -- THE TRUTH IS OUT THERE! The Legend unfolds...and the story tells itself... --------- "RE: Statement About FBI Involvements" --------- Date: Sat, 20 Nov 1999 15:05:47 -0800 From: Nancy Thomas Subj: fw: Statement About FBI Involvements Forwarded by Nancy Thomas ---------------- Original message follows ---------------- *From: LISN E-mail: lisn2000@lisn.net *To: nlthomas@YvwiiUsdinvnohii.net *Date: November 20, 1999 *Subject: Statement About FBI Involvements LISN NEWS, INFORMATION & UPDATES {excerpted from} Volume 2, #185 (11-19-99) Statement About FBI Involvements On Pine Ridge Reservation: By William F. Muldrow, Former Director [R/O-U.S. Commission on Civil Rights] ============================================ Leonard Peltier Freedom Month: What's Happening in Washington, D.C.? [With Photos] http://www.lisn.net ============================================ Statement About FBI Involvements On Pine Ridge Reservation: P.O. Box 2462 Santa Fe, NM 87504 November 1, 1999 From: William F. Muldrow Former Director (Retired) Rocky Mountain Regional Office U.S. Commission on Civil Rights TO WHOM IT MAY CONCERN: I have been asked to make a statement with regard to F.B.I. involvements on the Pine Ridge Reservation before and after the shooting of two agents there in June 1975. The U.S. Commission on civil rights as an independent, fact-finding agency of the Federal government, exercises its responsibility to collect and study information related to the denial of civil rights and make recommendations for corrective action. A history of mistrust of the FBI for the traditional Indian people was intensified during the period following the occupation of Wounded Knee in 1973 when over 500 indictments resulted in dismissal or acquittal due to spurious actions by the FBI. An unprecedented climate of fear and terror gripped the Pine Ridge Reservation for the next three years, due in large part to tensions between the more traditional Indians and those who were more politically, or governmentally, oriented. These tensions were exacerbated during the regime of tribal president Dick Wilson and his vigilante, self-termed "goon squad." During this period there were over 60 unsolved murders on the reservation for which the investigatory responsibility lay with the FBI. In one particular incident in Wanblee, a community on the reservation of more traditional Indian people, members of the goon squad arrived to shoot up the town, allegedly in retaliation for the community's resistance to Wilson's policies. One person was killed. FBI agents called to respond from their headquarters in Rapid City allowed the shooting to continue the entire night, stating that they were an investigatory, not an enforcement agency, thus heightening the perception on the reservation that the FBI had no sympathy for traditional Indian people. It was in this climate of fear and tension in 1976 that the two FBI agents, in unmarked cars and clad in civilian clothes, were shot in a firefight. This occurred after they chased a pick-up truck into an isolated homestead that contained an Indian family with small children, and where there was a nearby encampment of American Indian Movement activists. Joe Stuntz, an Indian in the compound, was also killed during the shootout, but no charges or arrests were ever made in connection with his death. Following the shooting, the reservation was turned upside down by the more than 300 combat-clad FBI agents, armored vehicles and helicopters that were sent in to find the perpetrators. The Commission on Civil Rights immediately began to receive calls from reservation residents regarding abuses by the FBI. As a Civil Rights Analyst for the Commission, I was sent up to observe and report on the happenings. Terror reigned. Roadblocks were set up and all vehicles were stopped and searched. There were reports of numerous incidents of isolated farmhouses being surrounded by military vehicles, with a helicopter overhead and the occupants ordered by megaphone to leave their homes. More first-hand accounts told of agents with automatic weapons breaking down doors to search houses without warrants. In the period which followed Anna Mae Aquash, a Canadian citizen, who was seen as a key witness, and who was allegedly threatened and abused by the FBI, was found shot to death and her body dumped in a ravine. An FBI-ordered autopsy failed to reveal the large bullet wound in the back of her head, leading to more criticism of the FBI and their methods. At the request of members of the Canadian parliament, who were upset over the extradition of Leonard Peltier to the United States under a false affidavit, and the alleged mistreatment of one of its citizens, the Commission on Civil Rights sent me as their representative to Canada to review the alleged abuses by the FBI that I have described above. In memoranda to the U.S. Justice Department, the U.S. Commission on Civil Rights reported that the FBI was an extraneous force on the reservation whose agents often lacked any comprehensive understanding of Indian culture or traditions. It was noted that the FBI's actions and investigations were seen as biased, and were the source of much tension and controversy. The Commission recommended that the FBI be relieved of its responsibility to investigate felonies on the reservation. This recommendation was never implemented. ---------------------------------------------------------------- League of Indigenous Sovereign Nations of the Western Hemisphere E-mail: lisn2000@lisn.net LISN Web Site: http://www.lisn.net ---------------------------------------- To subscribe to the "Paths-L" mailing list send a message to Majordomo@YvwiiUsdinvnohii.net In the body of the message type: subscribe paths-l To unsubscribe type: unsubscribe paths-l (no subject is necessary for the message). --------- "RE: Russell Means Grand Jury Update" --------- Date: 19 Nov 1999 02:16:13 GMT From: apictou@aol.com (APictou) Subj: Russell Means Grand jury update Newsgroup: alt.native http://members.aol.com/Apictou/pictou-branscombe.html For current press releases and photos observe the above. Further updates will be provided as to on-going proceedings. RECENT ARTICLE READS: Russell Means: AIM leader ordered 1975 murder By LEE WILLIAMS Sioux Falls Argus Leader published: 11/18/99 Minutes after testifying before a federal grand jury Wednesday, Russell Means walked out of the courthouse, accused a leader of the American Indian Movement of ordering a murder, then called the grand-jury process a"sham." Means said he told the grand jury, originally impaneled to hear unrelated federal cases, that the AIM leader was working as an informant for the FBI and ordered the killing of Anna Mae Pictou-Aquash in 1975. Because federal officials have not named the AIM leader as a suspect in Aquash's death, and because the Argus Leader was not able to contact him, the newspaper decided not to name him in today's editions. AIM officials have always maintained that the FBI orchestrated the killing of Aquash. Her body was discovered on the Pine Ridge Reservation in 1976. No one was ever charged with her slaying. Means said he first told federal authorities of his allegations in July, and that no action was taken until he held a press conference in Denver. (Note:INFORMATION SEEN AT THE ABOVE WEBSITE) "This was a sham. It was only done to pacify me, by federal authorities, because they are intrinsically involved," he said Wednesday. Means said authorities know who the "trigger man" was in Aquash's death, and that he gave the same information to the grand jury. "I am convinced that the federal government is either so blatantly racist or involved in the murder," he said. He believes the FBI's COINTELPRO counter intelligence program of the 1970s was involved in the murder. Under Director J. Edgar Hoover, COINTELPRO was a program designed to infiltrate groups the bureau viewed as subversive. Many believe that AIM was infiltrated and harassed by agents of this now-defunct program. After speaking to the media, Means said he was going to the offices of Sen. Tom Daschle, D-S.D., and Sen. Tim Johnson, D-S.D., to ask them to open an investigation into COINTELPRO activities. (Note: Video of Denver Press conference and information has been mailed to the Senator's - Available to the public upon request) See above website Means reiterated that an AIM leader worked as an informant for the FBI, and that the leader ordered Aquash's murder because she found out he was working as an informant. "If in fact the federal government sanctioned the murder, my life and my informant's life are at risk," Means said. "All involved are at risk." Means said he waited until now to make his allegations known because he was just told of the allegations in April. He said he was told by a person who had the house from which Aquash was kidnapped shortly before she was killed. Means said he received direct evidence of the AIM leader's involvement from a person who was present when the execution order was given. Means hopes that his testimony will bring closure to the case. He said his initial reason for bringing the allegations was to see results. He said he is disappointed that he was the only witness called before the grand jury to testify in this case. (Note: No further comment can be made at this time) U.S. Attorney Ted McBride said that while federal law prohibits prosecutors from talking about grand-jury proceedings, there is nothing to prevent a witness, like Means, from making a statement. McBridewould not comment on the case. Under the federal-court system, a grand jury can be used to investigate the facts of a case or to bring an indictment. While a grand jury hears cases for only a limited period of months, some cases can span decades, McBride said. If needed, a new grand jury can be presented with transcripts of former jury testimony or hear new witnesses, he said. "Some cases can go on for years," he said. A charge of murder has no statute of limitations, McBride said. Means, who maintains homes in South Dakota and Santa Monica, Calif., said he has a movie-production company that is planning a fictionalized story in which the female lead character is named Anna Mae."It's my ode to her," he said. The movie, which begins principal production in April, will star Means and several members of his immediate family. --------- "RE: Leonard Peltier Freedom Month Campaign" --------- Date: Fri, 19 Nov 1999 13:33:39 -0600 From: "LPDC" Subj: URGENT CALL TO ACTION Mailing List: LPDC It's 1999, why is Leonard Peltier still in prison??? NATIONAL NATIVE AMERICAN HERITAGE MONTH LEONARD PELTIER FREEDOM MONTH URGENT CALL TO ACTION FREE LEONARD PELTIER!!!!!! Please join with us to stand for the rights of Indigenous Peoples and freedom for Native American Political Prisoner, Leonard Peltier as we wrap up the November Leonard Peltier Freedom Month Campaign. Clinton has declared November to be Native American Heritage Month and we are holding him to his word by pressuring him to release Leonard Peltier this year. Since November 1st we have been carrying out a campaign to bring awareness to the case and to issues facing all Indigenous Peoples. Join us this Thanksgiving to pay respect o the Native Peoples of this land and to remind the public that injustices against Native Americans continue today. Let's make the end of Leonard Peltier Freedom Month really count! Tuesday November 23, 1999 WOMEN FOR JUSTICE - LAFAYETTE SQUARE-WASHINGTON DC 10:00 a.m. - 4 p.m. Indigenous women demand Leonard Peltier's release. Women have always been a constant and important part of the struggle for Indigenous rights, but all too often the vital roles which they have played and continue to play is ignored and underestimated. Come listen to well respected women activists as they speak out about the case of Leonard Peltier and issues facing Indigenous Peoples. Speakers include Jean Ann Day, Jennifer Harbury, Pemina Yellow Bird, Kahn-Tineta Horn, Pam Africa, and Deborah Peebles. Special cultural presentation in honor of women and children will be presented by Deer Chaser, Wayquay, and the Colorado Sisters. Wednesday November 24, 1999 CALL TO ALL DRUMS! GATHERING OF DRUMS 10:00 a.m - 4 p.m. The drum is the heartbeat of Indigenous cultures everywhere. All drummers and singers are invited to join us during the gathering of the drums - demand justice for Leonard Peltier. Thursday, November 25, 1999 CLOSING OF LEONARD PELTIER FREEDOM MONTH 5p.m. - 8 p.m. Vigil and closing prayer ceremony As we all know, November 25th is Thanksgiving Day. According to historical accounts, the first Thanksgiving was held by the Pilgrims to give thanks to God for their very survival in North America. They had been saved from starvation by kindly Native Americans who taught them how to survive in the new lands.. The Pilgrims, in turn, thanked the Lord and then proceeded to expand their claims on the land which continue to this day. Leonard Peltier is but one more of the most recent victims of this invasion. As people sit down to their dinners this year with family and friends, we ask them to think carefully about the treatment of all Native Americans and in particular about Leonard Peltier, who is again spending another holiday without his family and friends. Leonard Peltier Defense Committee, P.O. Box 583, Lawrence, KS 66044 785-842-5774 lpdc@idir.net Leonard Peltier Defense Committee PO Box 583 Lawrence, KS 66044 785-842-5774 To subscribe, send a blank message to < lpdc-on@mail-list.com > To unsubscribe, send a blank message to < lpdc-off@mail-list.com > To change your email address, send a message to < lpdc-change@mail-list.com > with your old address in the Subject line http://members.xoom.com/freepeltier/index.html ------------------------------------------------------------------------- To subscribe, send a blank message to lpdc-on@mail-list.com --------- "RE: Elders for Leonard Peltier" --------- Date: Fri, 19 Nov 1999 13:16:50 -0600 From: "LPDC" Subj: Fw: Elders for Leonard Mailing List: LPDC It's 1999, why is Leonard Peltier still in prison??? Leonard Peltier Defense Committee PO Box 583 Lawrence, KS 66044 785-842-5774 To subscribe, send a blank message to < lpdc-on@mail-list.com > To unsubscribe, send a blank message to < lpdc-off@mail-list.com > To change your email address, send a message to < lpdc-change@mail-list.com > with your old address in the Subject line http://members.xoom.com/freepeltier/index.html -----Original Message----- Date: Thursday, November 18, 1999 1:04 PM From: JOHN C. STEINBACH Subj: Elders for Leonard Elders for Leonard Peltier Noon, Saturday, November 20, 1999 Lafayette Park/White House Elders for Leonard has been organized by the Gray Panthers of Metro Washington in response to a call for action from the Leonard Peltier Defense Committee for a month of action in Washington, D.C., demanding the release of Native American activist and political prisoner Leonard Peltier. Leonard Peltier is a Native American leader who has been unjustly incarcerated by the United States government for 23 years. Critical ballistic evidence establishing his innocence was withheld from the defense and witnesses were terrorized into giving false testimonies against him. Amnesty International has recognized him as a political prisoner, and demanded his immediate and unconditional release. Human rights organizations world-wide recognize Leonard Peltier as the symbol of Indigenous Rights, and through the U.N. and numerous other governing bodies have passed resolutions in support of his freedom. Detained 23 years, with failing health, he deserves his immediate freedom from this cruel and arbitrary miscarriage of justice. "Leonard Peltier is part of a long history of Americans jailed on false charges, the real reason being their defiance of the government, their persistent battle for equal rights that demand this country live up to its promise of genuine democracy. Every day that he has been imprisoned has shamed us before the world, and the time is long overdue to set him free," said Howard Zinn, author of A Peoples' History of the United States. Speakers List (In Formation) + Carter Camp- Founding Member of American Indian Movement + Louise Franklin-Ramirez- Women Strike for Peace + Walda Katz-Fishman- Project South & Comm. Indigenous Solidarity + Nia Kuumba- Mothers On The Move Spiritually(MOMS) + Ellen Thomas- Proposition 1 Campaign + Abe Bloom- Gray Panthers Montgomery County + Dave Chief- Pine Ridge Spiritual Leader + Marilyn Preston Killingham- Republic of New Africa + Ayo Handy- Director, African American Holiday Association Contact John Steinbach, Gray Panthers of Metro Washington 703-369-7427 --------- "RE: Native Prisoner" --------- Date: Sun, 21 Nov 1999 19:41:37 -0480 From: "Janet Smith" Subj: Contacting those in the Ironhouse Tell a Native American Prisoner someone cares! The following is a portion of the list of Native American Prisoners incarcerated in prisons throughout the United States. The full list is found at the Native Prisoners Pen Pal list the following web site: http://www.brooks.simplenet.com/penpal.html. The list is compiled from contributions by Wotanging Ikche readers, other friends and from Laura Brooks' research on Native American Spiritual Freedom in Prison. If you know of a Native prisoner who would like to be included here, please e-mail Janet Smith at jans@atlcom.net. My thanks to Laura Brooks for giving this list a home on the web. New! Native American Prisoners' Penpal Network: http://members.tripod.com/~foltz.k/pages/atlantahome.html Right now, it contains applications submitted by native inmates of the USP Atlanta federal prison with the high hopes of obtaining pen pals and communication with the outside world. Most, if not all, these men, are incarcerated very far from home, isolated, and away from their families and contact. USP Atlanta is one of the hardest-time of the institutions within the federal prison system. Most inmates are doing long sentences, usually far from their homes and families. There's a disproportionate number of Native American prisoners there for lots of reasons. And because they are deliberately subject to "bus therapy" (frequent and abrupt relocations to other prisons), they are denied the opportunity to build the kinships and communities that are integral to their cultural stability. Of all the prisoners I've encountered, these are perhaps the most in need of contact with Native people outside the prison system. >From Kim Foltz, the prisoners' site designer: Please go through this website's pages, look over their pen pal applications. Look at their photos, read about the individual person and their interests. Go to the artwork page and view their beautiful drawings. I hope very soon to have additional artwork, as well as stories, poems and other writings to share with you. After reading the applications and viewing the artwork, take the time to write to one or more. Remember them at their birthdays, Christmas, and other holidays with a card. From my own correspondence with them I know how appreciative they will be, and I can assure you the benefit will be enormous to them -- and to you. Remember, when contacting an inmate, if you want to send something to them, make sure ahead of time what can and cannot be sent. Items such as money, stamps, tobacco, sage, etc. cannot. Some items have to be designated for group use rather than individual, so please be sure to check ahead of time. Keep them in your prayers and let them know they are NOT forgotten. My thanks to Kim for all her hard work getting this site up -- and to the prisoners who were willing to share their photos, words, and artwork. - Janet Smith --------------------------------- Please especially remember - this is the "Year of Leonard". Leonard Peltier #89637-132, Box 1000, Leavenworth, KS 66048 --------------------------------- Write Eddie Hatcher directly at North Carolina Central Prison: Eddie Hatcher, 1300 Western Blvd., Raleigh --------- "RE: A Hundred Years Ago" --------- Date: Mon, 15 Nov 1999 19:59:50 -0800 From: Barbara Landis Subj: A Hundred Years Ago - Carlisle - Week 128 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 ~%^%~ A WEEKLY LETTER -FROM THE- Indian Industrial School, Carlisle, Pa. ================================================ VOL. XV. FRIDAY, November 10, 1899 NUMBER 3 ================================================ TO HELEN HUNT. ------- "The birds must know. Who wisely sings, Will sing as they." ------- She must have known. On angel wings, She sings as they. Her sweet, sad voice still fondly rings In memory. To California's shores she came, Kindness at heart. From mouled rank or common fame, She stood apart, Where quaint Ventura's lonely strand Resists the foam, She pauses, christens the fair land- RAMONA'S home. Sweet Helen Hunt! In myriad bowers Birds sing for thee. And, wand'ring 'mongst the sweet wild flowers, Thy face we see. Her Colorado's mountain crests Rev'rent, we view, Upon the splendid couch she rests Nearer Heaven's blue. Hark! the joyous anthems ringing All through the skies; Evermore her pure voice singing God's melodies. HARRY E. BURGESS. Santa Monica, Cal. ========================= A BASE FABRICATION. ---------- The boys and girls that are "outing" for an eastern school do not get the money they earn. The money is kept for them at the school. This is fine.-[The Indian Mission, (Catholic), Banning, California. We print the above that all Carlisle students, past and present, may see just how unmitigated a liar the Catholic priest is, who says, writes and prints such whole-cloth fabrications. Every Carlisle student knows that he always got every cent he ever earned, and that in many cases where the earnings were material, what he had earned was made to earn more for him through being at interest under the methods provided at the school. ======================= HORRIBLE INDIAN DANCES STILL PRACTICED. --------- A letter from a person now among the Pueblo Indians, gives such a description of a snake dance recently witnessed, that a reporter's interview with Mrs. Alice Bennett, a few months ago, published in the San Francisco Examiner is brought vividly to mind. Mrs. Bennett, says the Examiner, has given several years and a good share of an inherited private fortune to an attempted amelioration of the lot of the Indian tribes of southern California and Arizona. She was a personal friend of the late Helen Hunt Jackson, and [ photo w/caption: Snake Dance, as Practiced by some Pueblo Tribes near Santa Fe Route, in New Mexico.] on the death of the famous author Mrs. Bennett took up Mrs. Jackson's work of showing the injustice of the government's dealings with the western Indians. The article is too long to print all, but what she says of the Pueblo dances, having been nearly corroborated by the statements of personal friends who have lived among these Indians, we print, to show, as she says, that "the most crying need among the Indians of the Southwest, is restriction of their abominable dances, which are - I blush to say - encouraged by the white people." In the semitropic regions of New Mexico and Arizona the Indians dance much more fanatically and often than their red brothers do in the colder regions. Every Indian outrage in the Territories during the last dozen years may be traced to some idea or superstition or fascination born during a tribal dance. The [continued on last page.] ================================================ (page 2) 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 PO at Carlisle as second class mail matter. ================================================ Address INDIAN HELPER, Carlisle, Pa. Miss Marianna 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. ================================================ It is VERY important for you to SAY "renewal" when you renew by letter. Ignacia Casto, who went home to Carlifornia on account of a diseased ankle, has had his leg amputated at the County Hospital, San Jacinto, California. He has suffered greatly with it, but now it is hoped he will soon get well. Rev. Francis A. Strough of Little Falls, N.Y., entertained the student body on Tuesday and Wednesday evenings with stereopticon views. His first lecture was on "The Modern Prodigal Son" picturing the temptations and pitfalls which confront a young man when he starts out in life. The last was on "Our New Possessions, with views from Cuba, Hawaii and the Philippines. A teacher in Dauphin Co., Miss Hoy, interested her pupils in the HELPER to the extent that quite a number of them subscribed. There is no better way to instill into the minds of the growing youth of our country the true status of the rising Indian, and to "instill" OUT of their heads the blood-and-thunder, bepainted, befeathered savage, so frequently exhibited to excited crowds as the real Indian, than by interesting them in the plain little HELPER, which gives the Indian his just due, and thus Helps. The Printers are playing no mean football, and have shown that they have not only the bodies but the brains to win. They played the Tailors on the 28th of October, winning by a score of 5-0. Last Saturday they played the Gardner's sons - Carpenters, and won by a score of 6-5. Tomorrow they play the Kemp students - Harness makers, the results of which we await with curiosity. It is too bad that the shop boys stood in their own light, and by not stopping when the workbell rings - the FIRST bell, caused orders to be issued to have these interesting and very profitable games ended. Some calves always WILL take enough rope to strangle themselves if a little liberty of string is given. Too bad! Who ARE the calves? It is said there will be no more playing this year between shops. Mr. Charles E. Dagenett, '91, who is attending Eastman at Poughkeepsie, speaks of the school in high praise. He has found it all he expected and more. He says: "From the time one enters he is kept ever mindful of the words of Smiles - 'self-help.' The object of the whole institution seems to be individuality. It is simply a question of merit. The millionaire's son and the country plowboy must travel the same road and by the same vehicle - 'self-help.' The dose is pretty hard for many to take, but the effect is excellent." Mr. and Mrs. Dagenett expect to witness the Princeton-Indian game at New York tomorrow. Mr. Thompson reports the game at Utica, N.Y., last Saturday, as very satisfactory. Our boys won by a score of 32-0. They were treated as gentlemen, and the praise of the boys regarding Hamilton College and the surroundings are profuse. Congressman Sherman, of the Indian Committee of the House of Representatives, with a number of friends witnessed the game. He was very enthusiastic over "our boys" as he called them. Leander Gansworth, '96, who is on the Booneville Herald, as printer, also was there. He is looking in splendid health all say, and is getting on well. Joseph Denomie, who has been home for some time was not well for over seven months and did not work, but he has regained his health and is happy in that he has a "good job" he says. He is full of gratitude to the doctor to whom he believes he owes his life. He was ill in Chicago, last year, when the boys played the University of Illinois, and "how I wanted to see that game! But I could not turn my head at that time." Any one who knows the address of Miss Julia V.A. Henry, formerly a student of Wilson College, Chambersburg, and daughter of a foreign missionary, will confer a favor on the HELPER by sending us the same. The Indian Advance, published at the Carson Indian School, Nevada, is a six page monthly, neatly printed and full of interesting news. Pick out your favorite contestant for the twenty-five dollar prize and give him or her a lift of at least ONE new name. You do not know any of them? Do as the first lot of Indians did who came to us twenty years ago in blankets and feathers. They had no English names, and their Indian appellations were such ponderous "tongue-twisters" that is was found necessary to give them common first names; so, Peter, Robert, Lewis, and a long list of such names were written upon the board, and the blanketed student was requested to select. He could not read, so took what seemed to him the most picturesque in long tailed letters. Our readers might do the same. Select the name which has the most attraction. Never mind whether Indian or not. It is impossible to tell from the list whether they are Indian or not, and that is what Carlisle is trying to do in the general civilization of the tribes; we wish to mix up individuals in the general population and business interests of the country so that they will no longer be identified as INDIANS and a peculiar people. Now VOTE! See list of those who have sent in over fifty, last page. ================================================ (p 3) A fine "spell of weather." Dress parade on Wednesday evening. Election is over, and the next day it didn't rain. Mr. Snyder, master tailor, spent a day in Lewistown. Mr. Elmer Simon has gone to Michigan on school business. Mr. Beitzel, Major Pratt's chief financial clerk, is taking a short vacation. "Gingin" Eastman looks like Little Red Ridinghood in her pretty new cloak. Miss Campbell is having a good time in Buffalo, N.Y. visiting friends and relatives. Who is it that says "eter-NUTTY", for eternity, in his singing? And "evul" for evil? We play Princeton in New York, tomorrow, and everybody is anxious, but full of hopes. Mrs. Forster, of Harrisburg, has been a guest of her daughter, our teacher of art, for a few days. Miss Ely is receiving letters from a number of her friends wanting her photograph, "right quick." Major Pratt gave a stirring and interesting talk Saturday evening, pointing out the way to success. Coach Warner is getting his football boys down to some pretty snappy practice these evenings. Mr. Standing is in attendance upon the Baltimore Yearly Meeting of Friends, and is taking a part of his annual leave. Two of the hounds that were raised at the near farm have come up to the school, and will be Major's special friends. The Shoemakers and Blacksmiths had a game of football on the athletic field last Saturday, the former winning by 10-0. Rev. Mr. Mosser, pastor of the William E. Allison Methodist Episcopal Church of Carlisle, preached to us Sunday afternoon. Mrs. and Miss Chester, of Washington, D.C., are here for a week, the latter to rest from clerical work in the Bureau of Education. S. Kendall Paul is the happy recipient of his diploma, earned during the summer at the university of Philadelphia for a course in stenography. Dr. Eastman went to Washington during the week on business, and taking a heavy cold was bedfast there. He soon got better and returned Thursday. Tonight Mrs. Dorsett and some one in Miss Campbell's place will attend the Invincible society; Miss Cochran and Miss Weekley the Standards and Mrs. Cook and Miss Wood the Susans. In the Haskell Leader we see that Miss Stanton, our old teacher from whom we have not heard for a long time, attended an afternoon service there recently, showing that she still is. The school gave a good exhibition on Thursday night, but where is all the spectacular? From elaborately trimmed stage to perfectly plain rostrum is quite a come down. There were several excellent numbers on the program. Celinda King played her first piano solo in public, and it was well received. The pupils of Number 12 schoolroom, Mrs. Cook, teacher, have organized their debating society with Grace Warren as president, Ulysses Ferris, vice-president and Harold Parker, Secretary. We learn that Miss Miles' father, whom she crossed the continent to see, died recently, and she has the sympathy of many friends at the school. Miss Miles is expected to arrive from Oregon in a few hours. Mr. Thompson's house is getting a much needed coat of paint. Mr. Standing's was painted, also, during the week. There are other places needing freshening up, but will come in, in their turn. Miss Flora Campbell, '94, now at Sitka, gives evidence of renewed interest in her Alma Mater by subscribing for Red Man and HELPER. The Carlisle Fortnightly Literary Club of Women met in Mrs. Pratt's parlor on Friday night. Mrs. Pratt is in Pittsburg, this week, in attendance upon the State Federation of Women's Clubs, as a delegate from the Fortnightly. Mr. George Connor, of London, England and a prominent long-distance runner, who for three years was with the Chicago Athletic Club and for three years with Cornell, is now with us as specialist in physical training for the football boys. Mrs. Dorsett and the King's Daughters whose names were given last week, who attended the State Convention of the Young Women's Christian Association at Williamsport, report having had a very pleasant time, although the weather was anything but agreeable. The statment last week that it was a King's Daughters' Convention was in error. The Band Concert which was postponed on Account of the death of Dr. Wile, will be given in the Opera House, Carlisle, November 22nd. William Paris Chambers, one of the finest cornetists known will play several solos. Any one who has heard this artist once would pay almost any price to hear him again, and those who have not heard him will miss a great treat if they do not take advantage of the present opportunity. Admission, 25, 35 and 50 cents. The same old story: The girls as a battalion march out of Assembly Hall in better step than do the boys, especially when the band plays them out. When 200 boys keep very good step, showing splendid character and interest, it is too bad to have their marching spoiled by another hundred scattered in the various companies, who are too tired (?) to bring their feet down in time. There is more character in a man's walk than people think. Miss Mary P. Jayne, who is living at the little mission home among the Cheyenne and Arapahoes, speaks in a recent letter of the appreciation by the missionaries of the work of Carlisle. She says "Quite a number of your old students are among us, and some are doing admirably. William Little Elk is an earnest, faithful Christian, a leader of his people, and a deacon in the Baptist church here." She says many of the callers at the mission are returned students and all enjoy the HELPER, which is filed for future use. ================================================ (page 4) Pueblo Indians dance for sunshine, good crops and health. They dance for rain and dance for clear skies. If there is a flood after they have danced for a rain the Great Spirit is angry, and the medicine men cast about the tribe for some one responsible for the condition of the weather. Then comes another outrage. Many an Indian dance has been started by the money of a lot of cowboys and curious sightseers in a pueblo, who wishes to see the excited Indians, the shameless nudity of the dancers of both sexes and to have something exciting to break the monotony of life on the alkali plains. ================== OUR PERRY COUNTY FRIENDS LIKE THE BAND. ----------- The Perry County Democrat says of the Indian Band's recent visit to New Bloomfield: The Indian Band arrived overland from Carlisle about 9 o'clock and gave an open-air concert at noon from the spacious grand stand which had been erected on the square. The music of this famous band, one of the foremost in the United States, was simply exquisite. Many of the numbers rendered, though difficult of execution, were given with an artistic grace and beauty of melody which excited the admiration of every lover of music. =============== CONGRATULATIONS FROM STANFORD. ------------ Donald Campbell, who when he lived at Carlisle was a small boy, and who is now a student in the great Leland Stanford University, California, sends congratulations to the football boys. "The score with Pennsylvania was fine and shows what perseverance will do." He says he is enjoying his university life. "Stanford is a great institution and if growing greater every day." =============== EVERY BODY VOTE. -------- Those in the twenty-five dollar contest who have sent in fifty or more names are Miss Mary Shields, Carlisle, Pa., Master Irving F. Merril, Jr., Moore Station, Pa., Jacob Rhule, Pittsburg, Pa., George Muscoe, at the school, Howard Gansworth, Princeton University, N.J., and Palageia Tutikoff, Emigsville, Pa. We give the names thinking that they may have friends among the subscribers who would like to help them by sending subscriptions to be placed to their credit. There are several other contestants having less than fifty, whose names will be placed in the fifty list as soon as they send in that number. There is plenty of time yet to begin at the very start and get ahead of the one having the largest list. We do not give numbers, feeling that it is more fair all around not to. Let each subscriber pick out his or her contestant and send us a list of names at once to be credited to ONE contestant, whether known to subscriber or not. Some of the contestants are Indians and some are not. The Man-on-the-band-stand is just as anxious for one to get the prize as for another, having no favorites. Reader, whom do YOU wish to win? Show it by giving him a vote! Two-cent stamps are acceptable in small amounts. Five two cent stamps with name and address will constitute a VOTE for the contestant designated. Each subscriber is entitled to any number of votes, if subscription price, 10 cents, accompanies every name. ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Schedule for Football. Sept. 23, Gettysburg at Carlisle; won, 21-0. Sept 30, Susquehanna at Carlisle; won, 56-0. Oct. 14 University of Pennsylvania at Philadelphia; WON, 16-5. Oct. 21, Dickinson at Carlisle; won 16-5. Oct. 28, Harvard at Cambridge;lost, 22-10. Nov. 4, Hamilton at Utica; won, 32-0. Nov. 11, Princeton at New York. Nov. 18, University of Maryland at Carlisle. Nov. 25, Oberlin University at Carlisle. Nov. 30, Columbia at New York. ============================= TWENTY FIVE DOLLARS!!! The person sending us the most subscriptions before Thanksgiving Day, 1899, will receive in cash the sum of twenty-five dollars. There are certain easy rules and restrictions which must be followed. Send for them at once if you are going to enter the contest. ============================ Enigma. I am made of 10 letters. My 7, 8, 3, 4 is a gentle animal. My 6, 2, 7, 5 is something good for students to follow. My 1, 6, 5, 8, 3 is a valuable product of the farm. My 4, 5, 8, 6 is a wild quadruped hunted by Indians and after whom some Indians are named. My 9, 8, 3, 5 is what every boy and girl owns. My 10, 6, 5, 8, 3 is what sleepy persons have sometimes. My 6, 2, 3 is a high spirited mischiefmaker. My whole is the name of a valley that several thousand Indians know. It is also the name of a county in Pennsylvania and an American river. ------------------ ANSWER TO LAST WEEK'S ENIGMA: Storm Doors. =+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+ For more information about the Carlisle Indian School, go to http://www.epix.net/~landis. --------- "RE: Navajo PD & Thanksgiving" --------- Date: Fri, 19 Nov 1999 17:04:21 GMT From: "rustywire" Subj: Navajo PD & Thanksgiving Newsgroup: alt.native Thanksgiving is a lonely and busy time for police officers. The Navajo Police are no exception, the land is large, vast and if you go anywhere you have to travel miles and miles of road to get there. During the holidays things get busy, officers get dressed in sand brown uniforms putting on green downfilled jackets and check their police units to cover the full range of things that might come up. There sergeant stripes on mine, this was my crew on tonite. There is always the dark side of the hoidays that is inevitable, it can not be avoided. The police call for car accidents with injury is 962, and those involving fatalities are 963's. Such a call requires speed, a cool head and quick action on the part of everyone. Officer Capitine was coming to graveyard shift from Gallup along highway 264, it connects Window Rock to Gallup running East. She usually drives in a little early, this is so with all officers so they can gas up and find out from the prior shift what happened earlier in the evening. Three officers, a sergeant were coming on and were at the station looking at the radio log, and having a coffee with those from swing shift. Officers stand around the radio room, checking on the outlying officers at the remote substations far off. Officers like Sgt. Wilfred Tahy, Ed Cadmman, Anderson Six. Sgt Tahy is one the sources for Tony Hillerman's characters, he is Jim Chee in many ways. But tonight he is a sentinal far off working the roads to preserve the peace. Officer Capitine was coming in her truck when she saw alot of lights and cars parked by the road just East of Window Rock, as she slowed she could see that the road was spotted with red, and thought of stopping but realized she had no phone and sped up and took off to get to the station five miles away. There had been an accident of some sort there and it did not look good at all. There were many cars and the thought of fatalities and injury on this nite of all nites was not a good thought. Someone somewhere would be getting a visit by morning about what was going on there. The coffee was hot and the talk easy when Officer Capitine ran into the station. She blurted out that there was a 962 possible 963 just East about five miles, that it just happenedn. Everyone from both shifts dropped their coffee and talk and went to their vehicles. The prisoners in the holding cells heard the sound of sirens rushing off. It just so happened that Robert Nez and his ambulance were gassing up at the motor pool just a little ways away, and dispatcher Smiley told them about the call. They were on the road and looking in the rear view mirror, their ambulance lights were flashing following us as we went to the scene. There is a feeling you get when you have to deal with such things, your blood begins to rush, and you think about the possibilities of what you will find. You peer down the dark road ahead with the red and blue lights reflecting off the sagebrush. Questions float in the air, let me be ready and provide what I can and let it not be too bad, maybe just a scratch. But you push them aside and get on the radio and find out where everyone is. As if in slow motion you begin to see the scene usually there are cars and trucks parked by the side of the road and people standing around. As we got there we could see the crimson colored road and the lights reflecting off twisted metal made this one look pretty bad. It was going to be one of those long nights. There is comradeship between officers, you learn who does well at certain things, the crew we had were good and went to lay flares, control traffic and look to preserve evidence. Even in the midst of such turmoil there is a need to mark and identify skid marks, articles found and so on. The ambulance was right behind and stopped, and then backed up to where it looked like where everyone was gathered. Calling in to dispatch, we are 10-97, we have arrived. Robert and his crew took out the backboards and their first aid kits and we ran over to the side of the road where a small group of people were standing. They looked at us and did not say a thing. A couple of them were holding knives and we stopped and looked at them looking at us. What is going on here, some gang fight, an argument involving weapons, a party that went violent. We stood there, with the EMT's and the wild looking bunch standing by the bed of a pickup. Some had parked so their headlights pointed to the scene, but the shadows hid what we were looking to see. An old man stepped forward wiping the red from a large knife and said, Ha Iitlah' Ni? What do you want?. Looking at him, there was blood on him and he pointed to the dark shadows with his knife. Robert stepped forward to take a look, but we stopped him. The people with the knives began to laugh, we thought they must be drunk, taking delight in the things they had done. It was a mess, some had red on their clothes. He said, someone hit one our cows, he pointed toward it and so we don't want the meat to go to waste so we are butchering it here. With that he turned around and bent down. A young man turned on a flashlight and we could see it now. I don't know where it started but someone started to laugh and the tension melted away. It was a joke on us, and we all looked at Capitine and she was walking back to her unit and didn't say a word. We really laughed about it all, we had some for a cow. It was a relief and so we cleared out and headed back and to this day I find myself laughing to myself about Officer Capitine and her cow. It was a good night and after all that it was quiet for Thanksgiving, so it went with my crew at Navajo PD. --------- "RE: Poem: Atop a Mountain" --------- Date: Thu, 30 Sep 1999 12:28:15 EDT From: NDNMADN46@aol.com Subj: tradition and spirituality ATOP A MOUNTAIN When I thought about the Indian ways, in the time before I knew. I thought I had some knowledge, but, I didn't have a clue. I thought I had the pattern of the earths ways figured out, but, it seems the more I study, I know not what I speak about. One day I took a trip to sit atop a mountain----well, I thought I'd sit and listen to the things it had to tell. She told me of her mountain goats, who climb around her trees. She told me of her eagles, who fly her skys with ease. She told me of her brown bear, who sleeps away the cold. She told me of the bugs and ants, they've been here from times of old. She told me of her people, the proud, the brave, the free, and how they passed their stories on , from knee to fathers knee. She told me how they loved the land, took naught but what was needed, and Mother Natures needs were always--always heeded. The bird in air, the fish at sea, the rabbit, deer and fox, the lonely wolf and mountain cat, the buffalo and ox, along with man they lived in peace, they thought it wouldn't, but, as we know,that couldn't be, change was coming on the wind. I won't go into all the rest, we know it all to well. I hope we've learned, I know we have the story now to tell. If we all try, I know we can replace the things we've taken, and when we go, the place we leave, won't be so badly shaken. So, as you go, go gently, don't stomp upon her land. If we will try to keep her clean, she,ll lend a helping hand. NDNMADN46/-----10/19/98 --------- "RE: Verse: Hawaiian Book of Days" --------- Date: Sat, 20 Nov 99 04:32:00 GMT From: dfsanders@genie.com Subj: Hawaiian Book of Days A HAWAIIAN BOOK OF DAYS, week of November 28-December 4 NOWEMAPA (November) (Welehu) 28 We become what we feel. 29 Time is merciful to those who do not worship it. 30 Be as young as you feel in your dreams. KEKEMAPA (December) (Makalii) December was the time when the trailing plants died down and the south wind, the Kona, prevailed. 1 May your spirit be filled with song and laughter. 2 The stars shine more brightly at this time of year. 3 Weave the pattern of life into your every creation. 4 In simplicity, we can find the solutions to our most complex riddles. (c) Copyright 1991 by D. F. Sanders Me ke aloha i ka nani, ... Moe'uhanekeanuenue (With love and beauty, ... Rainbow Dream) --------- "RE: Upcoming Events" --------- Date: Mon, 22 November 15:39:14 -0 From: Janet Smith (evestar@juno.com) Subj: Upcoming Events November 25 - 27 Thanksgiving (contest) Gymnasium Fort Duchesne, Utah (435) 722-5141 November 26 - 28 Native American Month (traditional) Rillito Race Way Park Tucson, Arizona (520) 622-4900 November 26 - 28 Indio (contest) Cabazon Reservation Indio, California (800) 827-2946 ext. 3017 November 26 - 27 Prarie Winds (contest) Bartle Hall Kansas City, Missouri (913) 768-4798 November 26 - 28 4th Native Peoples Gathering Tehama District Fair Grounds Red Bluff, California (541) 474-6394 or (541) 839-6517 December 11 - 12 Tanasi Ma'tera' Traditional Powwow Cumberland University Lebanon, Tennessee Proceeds to defray legal expenses trying to halt desecration of our Ancestors resting place (615) 365-9048 December 31 Good Medicine Society's 8th Annual New Year's Eve Sobriety Pow-wow 12:00 p.m. - 2:00 a.m., Kitchens of America Building, Oklahoma State Fairgrounds Oklahoma City, OK (405) 943-7935 or after 6:00 p.m. (405) 525-8990 or (405) 751-7132 Email: good_medicine@hotmail.com. May 6 - 7 Creek Removal Commemorative Motorcycle Ride and Festival RIDE: From Ft. Toulouse to Tuscumbia, AL Riding historic Mitchell Trace FESTIVAL: Big Spring Park Tuscumbia, AL Perry White (205) 672-0361 or Millard Shelton (256) 350-9162 or Larry Smith (877) 818-3120 =================================== Date: Tue, 23 Nov 1999 15:48:05 -0500 From: Biah Yazzie-Seminole & Michael Cloud-Butler Subj: pow wow VETERANS POW WOW WASHINGTON D.C. November 27 & 28 National Native American Veterans Honoring Pow-wow Ancostia Naval Reserve Center Washington, D. C., District of Columbia Phone: 410-956-4156 or 301-261-7084 Contact: Diane or Sam Details: All drums welcomed! Anyone wanting to display their deceased veterans flag are welcomed and encouraged to do so. All color guards are welcomed. All dancers are welcomed. Come one, come all and support the veterans at this pow-wow. Public Welcomed. Take 295 North to Exit 3 on to Firth Spirling Ave. Firth Spirling Ave will take you to the Naval Security Gate. Directions will be posted to parking lots 357 & 358 =================================== Date: Thu, 11 Nov 1999 13:45:27 -0600 From: "Vikki M. Howard" Subj: events Mailing List: Minnesota Indian Affairs The American Indian Science & Engineering Society (AISES) Presents during their 21st annual conference in Minneapolis, Minnesota: TONEMAH & ULALI In Concert at the Minneapolis Convention Center Ballroom 10:00p.m. on Friday - November 19, 1999 Tickets are $8.00 and will be sold at the AISES Conference Merchandise booth at the Convention Center. For more information - visit the AISEES web site at www.aises.org The 21st Annual Conference begins with Pre-conference Professional Training on Wednesday, November 17, 1999. Regular conference days are Thursday, November 18 - Saturday, November 20, 1999. The conference site will be at the Minneapolis Convention Center. =================================== Date: Tue, 9 Nov 1999 18:10:31 EST From: Wanige@aol.com Subj: Special Events announcement Special Announcements of Upcoming Events of interest to Native Americans November is Native American Heritage Month & Leonard Peltier Freedom Month! Month long events are planned in Washington, DC, in support of gaining Executive Clemency for this noble Political Prisoner of War. For more information, contact the Leonard Peltier Defense Committee, PO Box 583, Lawrence, KS 66044 (785) 842-5774. Dec. 31, 1999-Jan. 9, 2000: The New Millenium First People's World Fair & Pow Wow, at Rillito Raceway Park, Tucson, AZ. Also known as "Thunder in the Desert," the promoters of this event say that over 100 tribal nations from North America and additional First People from around the world will come together for this event to share their cultural experiences through song, dance, food, crafts and cultural displays. For more information, call (520) 622-4900 or check out their website at http://www.usaindianinfo.org. May 5-7, 2000: East Tennessee Indian League's American Indian Celebration Pow Wow, at the Farmer's Market in Knoxville, TN. (Take Exit 8 off of I-640) Head Man: Lowery Begay; Head Lady: Jo Anne Steele; MC: JoJo Rice; Arena Director: Josh Squirrel; Senior Princess: Kikki StandingDeer; Junior Princess: Shenelle Feather; Host Drum: Cedartree Singers; There will be Dance, Drum, Hoop, & Tipi Competitions, with over $7,000.00 in prizes to be awarded. Free onsite camping, with showers! Advance ticket prices: $2.00 adult/$1.00 students. Gate prices: $4.00 adult/$2.00 students. (Pre-K & under are free.) Advance ticket sales end April 30th. In the event of rain, dancing & vendors will be set up under a roof. Craft Vendors may contact Martha at rlspi@icx.net or call (423) 687-9675; Food Vendors may contact Tim at TWDBear@aol.com or call (423) 475-9286; For info on the Arena, call Vickie at (423) 609-7009. For info on Family Day (Friday), or to book school groups or youth groups, contact Carol at (423) 995-9933; For further information, call (423) 579-1384 or contact jrouam@lock-net.com or visit the website at http://www.wisdomkeepers.org/etil/. =================================== Date: Tue, 09 Nov 1999 10:53:26 -0700 From: Dean Smith Subj: This isn't as pretty Conference Announcement: The College of Business Administration of Northern Arizona University announces the "Modern Native America: Building Successful Communities" conference in August 2000. The overarching goal of the conference is to share research and practices that can be or are being used to improve First Nations communities. Thus the centerpiece of all discussion will be "Community" in the broadest sense to include culture, religion, family and citizenry. Four branches of discussion encircle this centerpiece: Environment, Education, Economics and, Institutions and Policy. Presenters are asked to discuss one or more of these branches in relation to the goal of self-sufficient and self-determined First Nations communities. Historical discussions are welcome inasmuch as they help define the current issues facing the First Nations. The conference will be held in Flagstaff Arizona August 16-18, 2000. The conference is designed for academic scholars, tribal leaders and practitioners involved with issues of concern to the First Nations. Though paper presentation is highly encouraged, you are most welcome to attend presentations, join in the discussions, working sessions, and meet new friends and colleagues from Canada and the United States (and possibly elsewhere). Student participation and presentation are strongly encouraged. Submissions should be sent to Dr. Dean Smith, NAU, P.O. Box 15066, Flagstaff, AZ 86011 prior to April 1, 2000. Registration fee of $275 is due upon acceptance of presentation topic. (E-mail: dean.smith@nau.edu) Papers or detailed abstracts submitted prior to January 1, 2000 will be returned prior to March 1 so that authors will have an opportunity to make any necessary revisions prior to the April deadline. Publication of the proceedings is anticipated. Co-sponsors: Center for American Indian Economic Development, Native American Business Organization (student group),College of Social and Behavioral Sciences, Center for Excellence in Education, School of Forestry, and Institute for Native Americans all at Northern Arizona University. For further information, please visit our web site: www.cba.nau.edu/modernnatamconf Tentative Schedule of Events Wednesday August 16, 2000 8:00-8:45 Registration (Coffee) 8:45-9:00 Opening Prayer 9:00-9:15 Opening Comments and Purpose of the Conference 9:15-9:45 Introductions 9:45-10:45 Keynote Speaker 10:45-11:00 Break (Coffee) 11:00-12:00 Tribal Leaders Panel 12:00-1:30 Working Lunch (DuBois 5 rooms) 1:30-3:00 Environmental Initiatives (paper presentations) 3:00-3:15 Break (Coffee) 3:15-4:30 Community Initiatives Panel and Open Discussion 4:30-6:00 Break 6:00-9:00 Dinner and Entertainment (Old Main) Thursday August 17, 2000 8:00-8:45 Registration (Coffee) 8:45-9:00 Opening Prayer 9:00-9:45 Keynote Speaker 9:45-10:00 Break(Coffee) 10:00-12:00 Economic Initiatives (paper presentations) 12:00-1:30 Working Lunch (DuBois, 5 rooms) 1:30-3:00 Institutional and Policy Initiatives (paper presentations) 3:00-3:15 Break (Coffee) 3:15-4:30 Keynote speaker Friday August 18, 2000 8:00-8:15 Opening Prayer (Coffee before) 8:15-10:15 Education Initiatives (paper presentations) 10:15-10:30 Break (Coffee) 10:30-11:30 Working Groups 11:30-12:30 Working Lunch (Box lunch delivered to classrooms) 12:30-3:00 Reports from Working Groups 3:00-3:30 Closing Comments and Prayer Saturday August 19, 2000 Optional excursion: Grand Canyon Visit Working Lunches The first two lunches will be served a 3-minute walk from the meeting site. The presenters will be assigned to one of five working groups for the working lunches. On purpose, not all presenters will be assigned their topical area. For instance, one of the environmental initiatives presenters may be assigned to the education working group. Audience members will be invited to select one of the five topical areas (Economics, Education, Environment, Institutions and Policy, and Community). The Community working group will discuss the overarching issues of the conference. Based upon space limitations, audience members will be assigned to their preferred working group. One staff member will be assigned note taking tasks and will type and print the notes for the next luncheon. (Available at registration the next morning.) One staff member will be assigned as facilitator for each luncheon. During the first luncheon, members will be asked to discuss problems and concerns in their topical area. The end product of the first luncheon is to identify three important initiatives or challenges within that topical area. During the second luncheon, members will revisit each of the three initiatives or challenges identified during the first luncheon. Taking roughly 20 minutes to discuss each of these, members will further develop their ideas. The end task for this luncheon is to flesh out the ideas for more detailed discussion the next day. If possible, a top priority should be identified. During the extended third work period, one of the initiatives or challenges should be more fully developed. Each group will have 15 minutes to present their discussion during the afternoon session, so much of the time should be spent finalizing a presentation. Box lunches will be delivered to the classrooms. Each group will report their findings during the afternoon session. There will be a few minutes for questions to each group. Each working group will be asked to submit a written report no later than 10 weeks after the conference for inclusion in the proceedings. Due to the working nature of the conference, presenters are expected to attend all conference functions Wednesday-Friday. This is an implied agreement upon acceptance of an abstract or paper. Volunteers will be requested to chair each team for the management of the presentation and writing the final report. In order to maintain a working atmosphere the working groups are limited to 20-25 participants each. If necessary, a sixth working group can be accommodated. Total participation is capped at 125 registrants. Environmental Initiatives Sessions. Discussants in this track will present papers involving various environmental initiatives or challenges concerning the First Nations. Given that the goal of the conference is one of finding solutions, preference will be given to those papers discussing initiatives targeting specific challenges. Possible, but clearly not exhaustive, topical areas Waste disposal Grazing and wildlife management Forestry Mining TEK Water pollution Economic Initiatives Sessions Discussants in this track will present papers involving various economic initiatives or challenges concerning the First Nations. Given that the goal of the conference is one of finding solutions, preference will be given to those papers discussing initiatives targeting specific challenges. Possible, but clearly not exhaustive, topical areas Tribal Enterprise Development Use of gaming revenues Unemployment programs Developing entrepreneurs Training programs Community Development Planning Institutions and Policy Initiatives Sessions Discussants in this track will present papers involving various policy initiatives or challenges concerning the First Nations. Included in this avenue of discussion are those topics involving institutional reform. Given that the goal of the conference is one of finding solutions, preference will be given to those papers discussing initiatives targeting specific challenges. Possible, but clearly not exhaustive, topical areas Institutional reform Government to government relations Water Rights Decentralizing Government Judiciary BIA issues Education Initiatives Sessions Discussants in this track will present papers involving various education initiatives or challenges concerning the First Nations. Given that the goal of the conference is one of finding solutions, preference will be given to those papers discussing initiatives targeting specific challenges. Possible, but clearly not exhaustive, topical areas Language programs The Role of Education in Tribal Community Development Elderly programs Reconnecting Schools and Communities Tribal Colleges 2+2 Degree programs Retention Scholarship programs Lodging: Under negotiation as of August 14, 1999. August is peak tourist season in Flagstaff, so travel and room reservations should be made as early as possible. Please see our web site for updated information: www.cba.nau.edu/modernnatamconf Grand Canyon Visit: An optional excursion has been scheduled for Saturday August 19. The cost for this visit to the Grand Canyon National Park is estimated at $84. This fee includes entry to the Park, transportation and lunch. In many cases, you may find that a Saturday stay-over will reduce your airfare enough to make this trip and an extra night's stay in Flagstaff actually a cost saving. Registration: Registration fees for the conference are $275 per person. These fees include dinner and entertainment on opening day, all lunches, coffee breaks, and conference materials. Registration for presenters is targeted at 25 presenters. Due to the necessity of maintaining a working atmosphere during the working lunches and work groups, registration for non-presenters is initially limited to the first 75 paid registrants. Full time students are encouraged to apply for limited number (10) of scholarships, which will reduce this registration fee to $100. Payment of fees is due prior to July 1, 2000, however due to space limitations, early registration is encouraged. Registration fees are nonrefundable. The total number of participants is absolutely limited to 125. Please visit our web site for registration information; www.cba.nau.edu/modernnatamconf MNA: Advisory Council Richard Atleo, Malaspina University-College Duane Champagne, American Indian Studies Center, UCLA. Stephen Cornell, College of Social and Behavioral Sciences, University of Arizona. Carole Goldberg, School of Law, UCLA. Waylon Honga, Tribal Council, Hualapai Nation. Keith James, College of Natural Sciences, Colorado State University. Joseph Martin, Center for Excellence in Education and Institute for Native Americans, NAU. Jane Mt. Pleasant, Dean of the College of Agriculture and Life Sciences, Cornell University. Marianne Nielson, College of Social and Behavioral Sciences, NAU. Tony Skrelunas, Division of Economic Development, Navajo Nation. Dean Howard Smith, Center for American Indian Economic Development, NAU. Joan Timeche, Center for American Indian Economic Development, NAU. Ronald Trosper, College of Ecosystem Science and Management, NAU. Dean Howard Smith Associate Professor of Economics Northern Arizona University P.O. Box 15066 NAU Flagstaff AZ 86011-5066 520-523-7396 fax: 520-523-7331 =================================== Date: Fri, 29 Oct 1999 23:31:19 -0400 From: ossahatchee@mindspring.com Subj: Ossahatchee Please include us in your Pow Wow Calendar for October 2000. The Fourth Annual Ossahatchee Indian Festival & Pow-Wow will be held October 20-22, 2000 in Hamilton, Georgia. Hosted by the Hamilton Chamber of Commerce, you are invited to witness an American Indian Pow Wow. Over $12,000 In Prize Money: DRUM COMPETITION, $800 First Place. DANCE COMPETITION, $500 First Place, Proper Regalia Required. TIPI COMPETITION, $200 First Place. Primitive Skills from basket weaving to weaponry will be demonstrated. American Indian Arts, Crafts and Foods. The festival is truly a family event, educational and entertaining for young and old alike. The festival offers a School Day Program for students, K-8th grades, Friday 9am-3pm, gate opens Friday night 6pm-10pm, Saturday 10am-10pm, and Sunday 10am-5pm. Admission: Adults $6, 6-12yrs $3, 5 & Under Free. For information call (706) 628-5400 or look on the Web at www.hamiltonchamber.org Ossahatchee Committee of the Hamilton Chamber of Commerce PO Box 3, Hamilton, GA 31811 For Information call (706) 628-5400 or e-mail: ossahatchee@hamiltonchamber.org Web-site: http://www.hamiltonchamber.org/ossahatchee.htm Thank you, Tracie Moore =================================== WindSpeaker Guide to Indian Country Calendar of Events ~November 26 - 28, 1999~ Native American Festival Indio, CA 1-800-827-2946 Native Peoples Gathering & Trade Fair Winds Casino, Redding, CA Judy: (541) 474-6394 ~December 2 - 5, 1999~ Canadian Aboriginal Festival Skydome, Toronto, Ontario AMMSA - Windspeaker, 15001 - 112 Avenue, Edmonton AB T5M 2V6 PH:780-455-2700 FX:780-455-7639 http://www.ammsa.com =================================== Date: Sat, 9 Oct 1999 00:25:58 EDT From: Wanige@aol.com Subj: South/Fall Events Update, Pt.1 Native American Events Listings ~Fall, 1999~ >Southeast< ~*~ Note: These mailings are sent out upon request. Anyone wishing to have their name added to or deleted from this list may send an e-mail to Wanige@aol.com. The same contact may be used to send events or corrections for inclusion in future mailings. Please feel free to copy and/or forward these mailings with my blessings. And don't forget to call ahead to verify dates! ~v~v~v~ _______ ALABAMA Nov. 25-26: Poarch Creek Indian Homecoming & Thanksgiving Pow Wow, on Poarch Tribal Grounds, near Atmore. Info: Creek Tribal Office (334) 368-9136. _______ Date: Thu, 11 Nov 1999 14:25:01 EST From: Wanige@aol.com Subj: Late Fall Events Updates Native American Events Listings ~Fall, 1999~ >Southeast< ~*~ Note: These mailings are sent out upon request. Anyone wishing to have their name added to or deleted from this list may send an e-mail to Wanige@aol.com. The same contact may be used to send events or corrections for inclusion in future mailings. Please feel free to copy and/or forward these mailings with my blessings. And don't forget to call ahead to verify dates! ~**~ Note II: These listings are usually sent out in two parts. Part one generally covers Alabama, Arkansas, Florida, Georgia, Kentucky, Louisiana, Maryland, Mississippi, and Missouri; part two covers North Carolina, Oklahoma, South Carolina, Tennessee, Texas, Virginia, and West Virginia. Events in Washington, DC, are sometimes included in these mailings as well. ~v~v~v~ Key to abbreviations: HD - Host Drum, HND - Host Northern Drum, HSD: Host Southern Drum, HM: Head Man, HL - Head Lady, HG: Head Gourd Dancer, HS: Head Singer, HH: Host Motel/Hotel, AD - Arena Director, GO - Gates Open, GC - Gates Close, GE - Grand Entry, FP: Flute Player, ST: Story Teller, MC: Master of Ceremonies, WS: Warrior Society/Honor Guard, HV - Head veteran. ~*~ _______ ALABAMA Nov. 25-26: Poarch Creek Indian Homecoming & Thanksgiving Pow Wow, on Poarch Creek Tribal Grounds, near Atmore. Dance contest, Drum contest, Princess competition, storytelling. Admission: $5.00. Info: Creek Tribal Office (334) 368-9136 or tcox@poarchcreekindians.org. _______ LOUISIANA Nov. 28-29: Louisiana Indian Heritage Association Pow Wow, Hidden Oaks Campground, Robert. Info: Jack Heriard, PO Box 1390, Folsom, LA 70437 (504) 796-5433 or whiswind@i-55.com. ------------------------------------------------------------------------- --//--//--//--//--//--//--//--//--//--//--//--//--//--//--//--//--//--//- 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: Mike Wicks, Settlers in Support of Indigenous Sovereignty, Chris Milda, AliceH, Save Ward Valley, Liz Pollard, Robert Dorman, Mauro Deoliveira, Renee Still Day via Flint Carrier, Eddie Hatcher via Marsha Shaiman, Nancy Thomas, William F. Muldrow, Ndnmdn, Janet Smith, A.N.N.A. Foundation, Robert A. 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