From gars@netcom.com Tue Aug 8 22:44:25 2000 Date: Tue, 7 Mar 2000 18:37:10 -0800 (PST) From: Gary Night Owl To: Internet Recipients of Wotanging Ikche Subject: Wotanging Ikche--nanews08.011 _ __ _____ __ _ __ ___ ____ _ __ ___ O ' ) / / ') / / ) ' ) ) / ) / ' ) ) / ) O o O / / / / / / /--/ / / / ___ / / / / ___ O o O (_(_/ (__/ ( / (_ / (_ (___/ '__/_ / (_ (___/ ' O o o o o O ____ _ , ___ _ , ___ VOLUME 08, ISSUE 011 O o O / ' ) / / ) ' ) / / ' March 11, 2000 O o O / /-< / /--/ /-- Mohawk much lateness moon O __/_ / ) (___/ / ( (___, Blackfoot little frog moon 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 Indianz, NatFilm, Paths-L, Triballaw, LPDC, Innu-L & Big Mountain mailing lists; Newsgroup: alt.native; KOLA Newslist; UUCP email http://indiancountry.com/headlines.html#articlesix http://www.journalstar.com:80/archives/012300/edd/sto3 http://www.abqjournal.com/news/2news03-01-00.htm http://www.adn.com/stories/T00030145.html http://www.azcentral.com/news/0304hopis.shtml http://www.syracuse.com/news/ http://indiancountry.com/buffalonationsnews.html#articleone Articles appearing have been previously posted for public dissemination and/or permission for inclusion has been secured. Letters of authorization are on file. A list of those granting permission to repost their words in this issue are listed at the end of part A. I thank each of you for allowing your words to be shared with the people. IMPORTANT!! ----------- To all who send copywrite protected articles, make very sure you have permission from the copywrite holder (a newspaper, the AP, a magazine, an author) because a new law is now in effect that says you can be prosecuted even if there is no monetary gain. Just because a newspaper has a website where it posts some or all of its editions does not grant permission for their redistribution. Be careful and be sure you pass on the items you do with full permission. 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 "A long time ago the Creator came to Turtle island and said to the Red People, You will be the keepers of the Mother Earth. Among you I will give the wisdom about Nature, about the interconnectedness of all things, about balance and about living in harmony. You Red people will see the secrets of Nature. You will live in hardship and the blessing of this is you will stay close to the Creator. The day will come when you will need to share the secrets with other people of the earth because they will stray from their Spiritual ways. The time to start sharing is today." ___ Don Coyhis, Mohican +- -- -- -- -- -- -- -- -- -- -- -+ | Indian Pledge of Allegiance | The Indian Pledge of Alleg- | | iance was first presented | I pledge allegiance to my Tribe,| on 2 December '93 during the | to the democratic principles | opening address of the Nat- | of the Republic | ional Congress of American | and to the individual freedoms | Indian Tribal-States Relat- | borrowed from the Iroquois and | ions Panel in Reno, NV. NCAI | Choctaw Confederacies, | plans distribution of the | as incorporated in the United | Indian Pledge to all Indian | States Constitution, | Nations. | so that my forefathers | | shall not have died in vain | Walk in Beauty! Night Owl +- -- -- -- -- -- -- -- -- -- -- -+ +- -- -- -- -- -- -- -- -- -- -- -- -- -+ | 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! Read the first article in this issue for more details regarding the subject of this week's editorial. If anyone reading this editorial works for Wal-Mart and knows; or for that matter, if anyone actually knows at all, please drop me an email and explain what it is about appropriating Native Spirituality that is so attractive to Wal-Mart's upper management? Don't jump up yelling, "It ain't so!" The evidence argues it is so strongly; it cannot be mere coincidence that store-after-store (Leeds, NY, Hickory Log Village, GA.....) has been built on our ancestors graves. Many others have not, thanks only to court action - never to understanding and retraction of plans by Wal-Mart. Now, their British subsidiary, ASDA, is into Native encampments to train their "warrior" managers and clerks. Do I barf or laugh? I am really tired of it! Does anyone understand Wal-Mart's fascination with us? 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 ---------- - ASDA Store Chiefs Go On Warpath - Innu View of November Agreement - Museum Sues Indians - Inuit, Innu Meet to over Meteorite Discuss Overlap Issues - Rules for Protecting Fish - Pimpitshinanu Walk - Yakama Nation Expects Drug Court - Ecuador Indians to Open Next Year Seek Government Talks - Tribes Unite Against - Indians Warn of Anti-Indian Politics Move Against Quito - A Direct Attack on History - Oppose Orrin Hatch Senate Bill - Navajo GI Joe and Tlingit Barbie on Clemency Reform - Cayugas Learn - Alert: Yucca Mountain Sign-on Bitter Lesson In Claims Case - Members Take Crow Creek Council - Report from Harold Ihmig to Court on Black Mesa - Peltier: Letters Needed - Hopis Join Navajos - Pressure Mounts for RCMP Inquiry in Lawsuit Against Coal - Native Prisoner - Judge to Hold Hearing - A Hundred Years Ago on Oneida Land Claims - My Father's Boys - Sherrill First to Try - Poem: For My People, I Live to Evict Oneidas - Verse: Hawaiian Book of Days - Montana Indians Need Larger - Upcoming Events Voice in Government - Native America Calling --------- "RE: ASDA Store Chiefs Go On Warpath" --------- Date: Sunday, March 05, 2000 12:53 PM From: "Kim" Subj: ASDA STORE CHIEFS GO ON WARPATH This newspaper article was published in an English Newspaper today Sunday 5th March.... please read,, rage,, write letters to the Editor and fax.. 0171-293-3939 US dial 011-44-171-293-3939 address:Editor. Piers Morgan. Mirror Group of Newspapers. Sunday Mirror. High Holborn. London W.C.1. (U.K.) This is typical of the so called NEWS reports in UK and Europe... and it is about time it is stopped. Those of you in the US can also contact WALMART and voice your complaints on their so called "training programmes" for their staff in the UK, sending them a copy of this page...... The Chairman of ASDA UK is .......... A.J. Norman .....................Registered Office Address Asda House. Southbank. Great Wilson Street. Leeds/ LS11 5AD E Mail......paula.higby@asda.co.uk Asda has just been taken over by Walmart US. Wal Mart President: Elizabeth A Sanders. Chairman. E.Stanley Kroenke email Wal Mart at................ public@walmart.com Pass this on to as many friends and contacts as you wish and ask for action immediately that this racist, derogatory training scheme be taken off and demand an apology both from Asda / Wal Mart and the Sunday Mirror. http://www.sundaymirror.co.uk/shtml/NEWS/P21S1.shtml ASDA STORE CHIEFS GO ON WARPATH ASDA are going native to win the latest round of supermarket wars - by training to be Red Indians. Groups of up to 50 managers a time will be transferred from the aisles to a huge tepee in the wilds. There they will spend three days bonding and learning about teamwork, Redskin-style, to pass on to the warriors and squaws working on various counters and the check-out. It is the first time the company, bought by US firm Walmart last year for pounds 6.7 billion, have adopted such as an unusual approach to training. It's thought staff need to be ready to compete with their American colleagues. The ASDA tribe will also come to know the ways of the squirrel, beaver and goose - creatures whose virtues are held in high esteem by Native Americans. The only difference is that the geese will be plastic while the squirrels are models stuck among trees painted on the sides of the tepee. There's even a painted lake scene for added effect, while the great tepee itself is a marquee at Ribby Hall Holiday Village near Kirkham, Lancs. The four hunting lodges complete with Red Indian ornaments and traditional animal hides hanging on the wall are in fact holiday cottages that usually reverberate to the whoops of Northern families on their annual break. ASDA, Britain's third largest food chain, have based the scheme on the best-selling American book Gung Ho, by Ken Blanchard and Sheldon Bowles. They are the first company in the world to adopt the book as their management bible. Gung Ho custom is based on the spirit of the beaver, squirrel and the goose. The example of the squirrel shows just how important and worthwhile work is - such as when they store food for the winter. It is also hoped the executives will be as busy as beavers at the end of the three days. And according to the custom, geese are great team workers. Their honking as they fly is a signal of vocal encouragement and praise. The Gung Ho battle cry adopted by the ASDA teams is: "Don't stop. Never give up. Hold your head up high. You'll reach the top. Let your colleagues see what you have got. Doing it with Gung Ho!" A total of 800 managers will complete the course by the end of May. ASDA staff development officer Sue Newton said: "Our aim is to make the courses memorable. "There are valuable lessons to be learned from team work and motivation." TROUBLE-HIT Marks and Spencer are finally dropping their credit card ban in a bid to boost sales. They now aim to accept cards by May 2 at the latest. --------- "RE: Museum Sues Indians over Meteorite" --------- Date: Tue, 29 Feb 2000 19:44:05 GMT From: "Bear Christensen" Subj: Museum Sues Indians over Meteorite Mailing List: TRIBALLAW (triballaw@thecity.sfsu.edu) Museum Sues Indians Over Meteorite Ownership 9:33 a.m. ET (1433 GMT) February 29, 2000 By Gail Appleson NEW YORK - The American Museum of Natural History sued an American Indian group on Monday to block its claim to the 15.5-ton Willamette Meteorite, one of the museum's oldest treasures and a centerpiece of its newly opened planetarium. The suit seeks a court ruling that the museum is the rightful owner of the largest meteorite ever found in the United States. It also seeks a ruling that it does not have to repatriate the extraterrestrial object to an Oregon Indian group that alleges that the gigantic meteorite is a holy tribal object that brought messages from the spirit world long before the arrival of white men. The museum's lawsuit was filed in Manhattan federal court a little over a week after the much touted opening of its sleek $210 million Rose Center for Earth and Space on Manhattan's upper West Side. The metallic iron meteorite, which is believed to have fallen to Earth 10,000 years ago from the asteroid belt between Mars and Jupiter, holds a place of honor on the main floor in the planetarium's astrophysics hall. It has been viewed by countless scientists, teachers and schoolchildren for nearly a century. The lawsuit alleged that the meteorite's ownership history dates back to at least 1855 when various Indian tribes voluntarily ceded the meteorite, which was once located in the upper Willamette Valley in Oregon, to the United States in exchange for reservation land and other considerations. In 1905, the Supreme Court of the State of Oregon ruled that the meteorite belonged to the Oregon Iron and Steel Company as owner of the land on which the object was found. The company sold the meteorite to the American Museum of Natural History the next year for $20,600. Almost immediately after its purchase, the museum began to study the object and it has been on almost continuous display since 1906. According to the lawsuit, the current ownership dispute began during the fall of 1999 when representatives of the Confederated Tribes of the Grand Ronde Community of Oregon visited the museum. The federally recognized group consists of a number of tribes from the Upper Willamette Valley, including the Clackamas which ceded the meteorite in 1855, the suit said. At the end of their visit, the representatives submitted a written claim for repatriation to the museum stating that the meteorite is a sacred object. It filed its claim under the federal law known at the Native American Graves Protection and Repatriation Act, known as NAGPRA. The law was written for the preservation and repatriation of Native American cultural and religious artifacts. To obtain repatriation of a sacred object, a tribe must show that it is a sacred object, that the tribe owned or controlled it and that the museum does not have a right of possession, the suit said. The museum alleged that the Oregon Indian group did not meet these requirements. --------- "RE: Rules for Protecting Fish" --------- Date: Sat, 4 Mar 2000 20:39:38 -0800 From: John Wm Sloniker Subj: Rules for protecting fish Local News : Tuesday, January 04, 2000 Hearings set on new rules for protecting fish by The Associated Press KENNEWICK - The public will get its first look at proposed federal rules for protecting threatened salmon and steelhead at hearings around the region this month. When the new proposal was disclosed Dec. 14, the National Marine Fisheries Service offered state and local governments exemptions as long as industries were abiding by certain clean-water rules. "Local officials and local property owners . . . are in the best position to develop recovery plans that have the best chance of success," said Mike Poulson, chairman of the Washington Farm Bureau's natural-resources committee. "This could be a positive step." But others already object to proposed criminal prosecutions that would come with the new rules, which would cover natural-resource industries in Washington, Oregon, Idaho and California. In a separate action, the National Marine Fisheries Service and other federal agencies will decide this year whether four lower Snake River hydroelectric dams should be partially breached to save salmon. The new agency rules - which could take effect in June - say people who kill, harm or harass 14 threatened salmon populations or their habitat could face one year in jail and a $50,000 fine. At issue is anything that harms a protected species, such as wrecking habitat, dumping toxic chemicals, violating the state Clean Water Act, applying pesticides in a harmful way or catching protected fish. When species are listed as endangered, these prohibitions start automatically. But for those listed as threatened, fish managers set rules deemed necessary to prevent more population declines under a provision called "Four D." The biggest impact would be in the Portland and Puget Sound areas. But mid-Columbia steelhead are listed as threatened, which could affect Eastern Washington. The first of 15 hearings on the Four D rule is Monday Jan. 10 in Portland. Other hearings are scheduled at Seattle and Yakima. E-mail Comments to Editor : Opinion@seatimes.com Copyright (c) 2000 The Seattle Times Company http://www.seattletimes.com/news/general/copyright.html --------- "RE: Yakama Nation Expects Drug Court to Open Next Year" --------- Date: Mon, 28 Feb 2000 22:47:30 EST From: MarthaET@aol.com Subj: Yakama Nation expects drug court to open next year Mailing List: TRIBALLAW (triballaw@thecity.sfsu.edu) Yakama Nation expects drug court to open next year The Associated Press 02/27/00 5:26 PM Eastern TOPPENISH, Wash. (AP) -- The Yakama Nation expects a first-of-its-kind tribal drug court to be up and running next year, and its chief judge says it's an idea whose time has come. By breaking the cycle of drugs and crime, the courts reduce the number of jail inmates and repeat offenders and save money, said Rory Flint Knife, who became the Yakama Nation's chief judge last May. A three-year federal Justice Department grant will pay initial costs, said Anna Ward, tribal court deputy director. Sixteen other American Indian tribes, including the Spokane and Makah in Washington, currently have either juvenile or adult drug courts, Flint Knife said. "We would be the first tribe in the nation to have both," he said. The drug court will be voluntary and open to all nonviolent offenders who come into tribal court. Like other drug courts, the Yakama Nation's requires that participants go to treatment programs, take drug tests and regularly meet with the judge and other court officials. But Flint Knife also wants it to incorporate Yakama traditions and culture. That could involve sweat lodges or talking with elders, Flint Knife said. Spokane Tribal Court Chief Judge Mary Pearson does not order those in her tribe's drug court program to take part in cultural activities, but the option is available. The Spokanes' drug court started accepting people in July, Pearson said. So far, 11 people have participated. "We don't have a lot of people in the (drug) court yet because it's a very stringent program," she said. The Spokanes' drug court is funded through a two-year Justice Department grant, and Pearson worries that isn't long enough for the program to take hold and reduce the problems created by drugs and alcohol. Without the grants, the tribe doesn't have the money to fund the program, she said. --------- "RE: Tribes Unite Against Anti-Indian Politics" --------- Date: Sat, 4 Mar 2000 12:29:09 EST From: MarthaET@aol.com Subj: Tribes Unite Against Anti-Indian Politics Mailing List: TRIBALLAW (triballaw@thecity.sfsu.edu) http://indiancountry.com/headlines.html#articlesix Tribes Unite Against Anti-Indian Politics By: Mark Anthony Rolo Today staff Washington Bureau WASHINGTON, D.C. - This week 23 tribes are gathering here to meet with congressional leaders to address legislative issues aimed at attacking reservation business operations. And they are seeking to remind the federal government that tribes are sovereign governments. "The United South and Eastern Tribes Washington Impact Week" is an aggressive effort by this 31-year old tribal consortium, to get its tribal voice heard on a number of bills and policies affecting Indian country. Over 400 tribal leaders and staff from 23 tribes will participate in the week-long event. Two specific issues include a proposal to tax tribal economic enterprises and a move to restrict tribes' ability to place land into trust. Currently, business interests groups are pressing Congress to impose a taxation of reservation border business goods and services. They argue that gas and convenience stores cannot compete with tribal-owned business because those tribes do not impose taxes on items such as gas, cigarettes and liquor. But tribes say forcing a taxation on reservation businesses is a violation of tribal sovereignty. They also point out that states cannot tax border businesses across state lines. And tribes are opposed the BIA plan to place land into trust. The BIA is drafting a new policy that would allow tribes to place land into trust by seeking agreements between states and counties. Tribes believe states, counties and municipalities should not have any say when tribes want to take land into trust, especially if land is already within tribal jurisdiction. BIA director, Kevin Gover is attempting to build a consensus between states and tribes on zoning and taxing issues. However, tribes insist the BIA plan is a compromise that essentially gives states veto power, which they consider to be an infringement on their sovereign governments. James T. Martin, executive director of United South and Eastern Tribes (USET) said Impact Week is a two-fold mission. "We do it through meetings where we invite congressional leaders and cabinet level leaders to address our tribal leaders. And we make congressional calls to each leadership of our states," Martin said. "The purpose is to foster government to government relationships and to educate both congressional bodies on our issues." For more than 10years the 23 tribes of USET have sponsored Washington Impact c.2000 Indian Country Today --------- "RE: A Direct Attack on History" --------- Date: Tue, 25 Jan 2000 04:24:57 -0500 From: Pat Morris Subj: A direct attack on history Mailing List: Indianz elist http://www.journalstar.com:80/archives/012300/edd/sto3 A direct attack on history BY JOHN ROCKWELL SNOWDEN In a recent opinion piece Mr. John Philip Johnson LJS 01/12//00) urged Nebraska's legislators and citizens to oppose a constitutional amendment that would remove the most recent legal excuse for the State's refusal to negotiate an agreement with Native nations regarding Indian gaming. Mr. Johnson argued that the amendment would serve a "paternalistic, even subtly racist idea: that American Indians are losers who can't earn a living the regular way." At best, Mr. Johnson misunderstands. The proposed constitutional amendment would not be one, "proving they (Indian people) aren't as good as everybody else." Rather, it would be a long overdue recognition of first nation sovereignty and a step toward relations of dignity, integrity, and respect between sovereign peoples. I cannot, of course, speak for the Native nations. I imagine, however, that they desire peace, love and happiness; and that they expect independence, freedom and respect. These are expectations of sovereignty. Sovereignty is the power of a people to determine the values of personhood, kinship and family. It is manifested in the people's institutions of social structure, the formation and articulation of public purposes and the making of political decisions. Native nations exercised sovereignty before any contact with Europeans. Native nations have retained that sovereignty despite attempts of de jure and de facto genocide. During the two centuries of European presence in North America before the American Revolution, European nations, the Netherlands, Sweden, France and England, established by treaty international relations with the Indian nations that were based on the sovereignty of the tribes. Many of the Indian nations continued to maintain independent relations with the nations of Europe until the end of the Napoleonic era. After the adoption of the Constitution, the United States continued to relate to the Native nations by treaty, that is, by solemn promise between two sovereigns. The Constitution makes scant mention of Native nations. The important provisions are that Congress shall have the power to regulate commerce with the Indian tribes and that treaties are part of the supreme law of the United States. The law holds that Indian tribes are sovereign nations. They are not private or public clubs, societies or associations. However, the law as made by Congress and the Supreme Court has swung wildly to and fro in its recognition of manifestations of that sovereignty. The sovereignty of Indian nations existed before the United States. It is inherent in their existence as distinct peoples and is neither created nor destroyed by the Constitution. Native American nations enjoy sovereign immunity from suit. They have the power to make law for both tribal members and some nonmembers within their boundaries. The United States Constitution does not apply to Native American nations. Even when Congress terminates a tribe, Congress only severs any pre- -existing special relationship with the tribal sovereign. The sovereignty of the Native nation cannot be destroyed. Native nation courts, the sovereign power to interpret and apply tribal law, are not subject to review in federal or state courts. The legislative sovereignty exercised by tribal councils does not need the approval of the federal government. Absent acts of Congress, state law is not operative within the borders of Indian nations. For many years the state and federal governments attempted to deal with the Native nations as powerless others; hoping that they would disappear. But, on the lands of the Indian nations, called by some reservations or Indian country, the collective sovereign identity, institutions and culture survived. Today the First Nations are exercising economic and political power. This challenges entrenched privilege and can be traumatic to a people if they lack respect for others, if they are used to having everything one way. Gaming in Native nations is not for charity. It is not for private profit. Gaming is economic development toward the goal of Indian nations being able to decide for themselves the future of their people. It is a way of becoming politically independent from federal and state bureaucracies. It is strategic action for sovereignty. I am a Nebraskan. I want my state to respect the sovereignty of Native nations. When the citizens and representatives of my state consider a state constitutional amendment to remove a claimed roadblock to the sovereign authority of the Indian nations, I want them to have a good heart and a clear understanding. I want them to see the common dignity and integrity of the sovereign peoples, not their real or imagined differences. I ask that they honor the desires of Indian nations for sovereignty, so that each people may survive and flourish. Mr. Johnson concluded that putting the proposed amendment to a vote is, "like sneaking racism on the ballot." The amendment is not a sneak attack. Rather, it is a direct assault on a history and pattern of genocide. John Rockwell Snowden is a professor in the College of Law at the University of Nebraska-Lincoln. http://wolfseeker.com http://www.insidetheweb.com/mbs.cgi/mb629759 http://www.sunlink.net/~wlfskr --------- "RE: Navajo GI Joe and Tlingit Barbie" --------- Date: Wed, 1 Mar 2000 13:37:27 -0600 From: "Cowan, Cara" Subj: Navajo GI Joe and Tlingit Barbie Check out the website for a picture! G.I. Joe Speaking in Navajo By Leslie Linthicum Journal Staff Writer There's a new G.I. Joe on the horizon. And he's speaking Navajo. "Navajo Code Talker G.I. Joe" is the latest in a long line of military action figures from the Hasbro toy company. Lift the stern-faced Navajo soldier's arm and he spits out a communication in the Navajo language followed by an English translation. The foot-tall figure comes with a short history of the Code Talkers, a group of specially trained Navajo Marines who translated radio communications into unbreakable codes using the Navajo language during World War II. The seven Navajo phrases spoken by the toy are the voice of Sam Billison, a delegate to the Navajo Tribal Council and a surviving Code Talker. Billison, who lives in Window Rock, Ariz., the Navajo Reservation capital, was visited by a Hasbro design team last fall. "They came out and recorded me," Billison said. "I talk slow, so they increased my speed." "Request air support" and "attack by machine gun" are among the messages the Navajo G.I. Joe announces in Navajo code and in English. Billison, 74, laughs every time he pokes the Marine toy and hears his voice. It is flattering and a little silly to have a doll that speaks with his voice, Billison said. "But the main thing is that this will let people know about the Code Talkers," Billison said. "I think it's really going to put us on the map." The $24.99 G.I. Joe was shipped to stores nationwide in February, Hasbro spokeswoman Holly Ingram said. The Code Talker G.I. Joe will be one of 22 "classic" G.I. Joe figures. They include a female Army helicopter pilot, Japanese-American soldiers in World War II and President Kennedy as a PT boat commander. "They may be relatively unsung heroes," Ingram said, "but their role was very important." Hasbro has agreed to donate $5,000 to the Navajo Code Talkers Association and to give a Navajo G.I. Joe to each of the approximately 150 surviving Code Talkers. http://www.abqjournal.com/news/2news03-01-00.htm Wednesday, March 1, 2000 Barbie tries Tlingit look New doll a 'nice effort' By LIZ RUSKIN Daily News reporter Her long, synthetic hair cascades over her fuzzy Chilkat blanket, her headband mimics a tiara, and she has those permanently high-heeled feet - she's Tlingit Barbie! Yes, Mattel Corp. has come out with a Tlingit version of its most famous doll. With a price tag of $25.86, she is aimed at the collector market. "Part of Barbie's relevance to little girls as well as to collector women is her beauty and the detail," said Barbie spokeswoman Julia Jensen at Mattel's Los Angeles headquarters. "The goal of the Collector Edition is to be as accurate as possible." So how does the Mattel miniature go over with real Tlingit women? Three members of the Anchorage-based Tlingit, Haida and Tsimshian dance group Naa Luudisk Gwai Yatx'i reviewed the doll Saturday, just before a dance performance. They said they liked her and would buy Tlingit Barbie for their daughters or granddaughters. Of course, the earth tones on her outfit didn't look right, said the dancers, who were wearing traditional red and black dance garb. And the designs didn't look very Tlingit to them. "This looks too American Indian," declared Harriet Beleal, pointing to a design circling Barbie's blue dress at knee level. The white boots would be more appropriate for an Eskimo doll, said Mabel Pike. "I think she looks more Samoan," Pike said. But the black hair is accurate, as is the dark complexion, said Beleal's daughter, Lynette Hinz. The Midtown Wal-Mart got a dozen of the dolls in mid-February and sold them all by the end of the month. "People have been asking about it for the last seven months," said Joel Dolphin, manager of the Wal-Mart toy department. "A lot of them were Natives themselves and wanted their children to play with a Native doll." The doll's formal name is Northwest Coast Native American Barbie. "I am a Tlingit, sometimes called Totem Pole People," the plastic maiden said in her back-of-the-box bio. The text describes totems and notes they can be seen at the Sitka National Historic Park. "The totem pole is raised at gatherings called potlatches, events marked with gift-giving, feasting, singing and dancing, and most importantly, honoring our ancestors," it says. "Today, our lives are a blend of the modern and traditional. Our dinner may be salmon or seal meat ... or pizza! For fun, we play basketball or two-foot kick, a traditional Inuit game." Tlingit Barbie comes with a "certificate of authenticity" declaring that the doll "was inspired by the history and lifestyles of the Northwest Coast Native Americans." The Barbie body, though, resembles no earthly creature. If her impossible figure were imposed on a woman 5 feet 9 inches tall, her waist would measure 17 inches around and her foot would be about 5 inches long. Helen McNeil, a Juneau-born Tlingit artist who lives in Anchorage, found a few inaccuracies in the text on the box. "We never call ourselves 'the Totem Pole People,' " she said. As for recreation, Mattel was at least half right, she said. "We're not Inuit. We do play basketball," she said. Still, she gave Mattel high marks for trying and said she would buy the doll for her grandchildren. "It is a nice effort, a far cry from the Barbies of the '50s," McNeil said. Her daughters played with Barbies when they were small, and they were drawn to the darker-skinned models. "They preferred the ones that looked like themselves," she said. Mattel produced Tlingit Barbie and the information on the box with help from the Sealaska Heritage Foundation, a nonprofit arm of the regional Native corporation in Southeast. "We served as kind of technical advisors to them," said the foundation's president, Rosita Worl. A Tlingit and an anthropologist, Worl said she had mixed feelings about the finished product. "I think they tried to be responsive to our advice, except in terms of their marketing requirements," she said. The folks at Mattel, for example, wouldn't use the traditional red and black colors because they believed it wouldn't sell, she said. "We went round and round about that," she said. "They said they needed to use the colors the general public likes." On the other hand, she advised Mattel not to be too accurate when it came to the designs. It would be wrong, she said, for the company to copy the crests found in Tlingit art. "Crests are property, and they're owned by specific clans," Worl said. "Even though there's no law, under Western law, that protects this intellectual property, we ourselves are governed by traditional law." Mattel abided by that rule, Worl said. She said she couldn't get them to strike the "Totem Pole People" line or the bit about the two-foot kick. All in all, she said, the doll will probably be educational. "People are going to learn about Tlingits," she said, "Or at least know that we're still alive." http://www.adn.com/stories/T00030145.html --------- "RE: Cayugas Learn Bitter Lesson In Claims Case" --------- Date: Wednesday, March 01, 2000 10:05 PM From: Subj: Cayugas Learn Bitter Lesson In Claims Case Mailing List: Indianz elist Cayugas Learn Bitter Lesson in Claims Case by Doug George-Kanentiio The decision by a Federal jury to award the Cayuga Nation $36.9 million for 200 years of pain and suffering simply affirms the belief by many Native people that justice is hard to come by in the American courts. The case was brought by the Cayugas in order to secure land; they have stated repeatedly they were less concerned with money than a return of some of the 64,000 acres which New York took from them in violation of Iroquois and US Federal law. To the traditional Cayugas, the ones who are truly in touch with Iroquois spirituality, the land is a living entity which was entrusted to them many hundreds of years ago. There is ample evidence of the deep respect the Cayugas had for their ancestral territory; the waters were kept pure, the wildlife was abundant and humans lived reverently upon the land. Through song and dance along with the recitation of the Onhe:ton Kairihwatehkwen (the Words of Thanksgiving which come before all else) the Cayugas, and their Iroquois family, are able to demonstrate their love for the land, even if they have been divorced from it for the past seven generations. Certainly, the traditional Iroquois are concerned about their credibility given the recent reports that one of its family members have submitted a settlement proposal which would involve the exchange of land for slot machines and alcohol. They are aware of the warnings by the Seneca prophet Handsome Lake who, in 1799, predicted booze and gambling would one day bring pain, confrontation and suffering to the People of the Longhouse. The Iroquois know the opponents of Native treaty rights will use this compromise as ammunition in their battle to prevent the Cayugas from going home but they underestimate the determination of the traditional Iroquois to carry on as distinct peoples, guided by the ideals given to them by Skennenrahawi, the founder of the Haudenosaunee Confederacy. For the Cayugas, and all other traditional Iroquois, the challenge is to find a way to make this happen in a region which has become hostile to the concept of aboriginal rights, separate from those enjoyed by their non- Native neighbors. The court clearly misunderstood the Cayugas when the judge excluded land from the damages part of the case. The court also demonstrated a lack of appreciation for the incredible story of the endurance of the landless Cayugas when it prohibited testimony as to their experiences as refugees in western New York, Ontario and Oklahoma. How could the court reduce this struggle to mere money? Should not the jury have heard the plaintiffs? The Cayugas believed such statements would have been vital in convincing a jury as to the righteousness of their cause, as is the norm in all legal actions arising from injury. The Cayugas hope the court would want to do the right thing and give them, after so many years of appeals, an opportunity to speak. Yet they were reduced to mere witnesses as their two hundred year fight to return to the land of their ancestors was reduced to the dry testimony of real estate appraisers. Thirty six million is nothing to sneeze at but in an era when athletes are paid many times that for dribbling basketballs, firing hockey pucks and swinging bats the award seems rather paltry. The Iroquois should extract important lessons form the Cayuga experience. They must realize piecemeal negotiations place the Native nations at an enormous disadvantage when it comes to setting equitable terms. So too, the lack of a cohesive public relations campaign explaining the reasons for the land claims has cost the Iroquois vital popular support essential if a settlement is to be approved by the New York State legislature before moving on to Congress. In former times, the Iroquois were respected because of their unity. Common sense, and the bitter experiences of the Cayugas, should make it clear to everyone the chiefs of the Grand Council of the Haudenosaunee Confederacy must assume their rightful place as the negotiators for all Iroquois land claims. --------- "RE: Report from Harold Ihmig on Black Mesa" --------- Date: Wed, 01 Mar 2000 12:01:37 -0800 From: redorman@theofficenet.com Subj: REPORT FROM HARALD IHMIG ON BLACK MESA ------- FORWARD, Original message follows ------- Forwarded by Carol Snyder Halberstadt/Dragon Systems USA on 03/01/2000 12:24 PM --------------------------- Mailing List: Big Mountain List Hi Bob, Please post this report from Harald Ihmig and other European supporters who have been on Black Mesa since mid-February: >From Harald Ihmig (Translated from the German by Alan Frankel) February 25, 2000 The lights that shine at night on the northern edge of Black Mesa spread no hope. They are the greedy eyes of voracious bulldozers, which ceaselessly tear the liver out of the body of Mother Earth, as the Dineh say. One need not be born on this plateau, bare and yet full of so many kinds of life, to be won over by the land with its restful expanses, its gathered humans, and its rare plants that listen to prayers and heal. Here, where everything has a name and is woven into stories, the violent invasion of a world apart fills a visitor with pain and anger. Now the Peabody Coal Company is digging the coal and water out of Black Mesa. Every day, millions of gallons are pumped out in order to carry the black gold away to Nevada. Only in small amounts does the mine give coal and water back to the inhabitants whom it has robbed on a grand scale. Now that the camps are locked up and the springs have been conquered, the people depend on the trickle from the mine that is burying their lives. They -- and now we as well -- live without electricity or running water. Only a few cell phones and a single, fragile gateway to the Internet by way of windmill and gas generator maintain contact with the outside world, from which they anticipate help. The tribal council, by contrast, has been able to equip its modern headquarters in distant Window Rock with the help of lease payments (originally less than 2%, now 12.5%). A federal court has just decided that although the Navajo were indeed cheated by an official from the Ministry of the Interior and his Peabody crony in the negotiation of royalties, the fraud can be brushed off with the enlightening comment that the representatives of the US agency are not obligated to act in the interest of the Navajo. On February 17, when we latecomers -- Lea from Incomindios, Uta and I from FIAN, Corinna from Tuebingen -- had just barely arrived, the Dineh elders met with their presidents, or, more accurately, with their (white) principal attorney, who shared the throne of the podium and listened from above to the demands of his subordinates. Nevertheless, a dialog was achieved. However, the elders have the impression that Kelsey Begay, their president, listens more to the Hopi tribal council than to them. In the past, he has said openly that after 25 years of opposition to their "resettlement," they should finally swallow this bitter pill. For those receiving this advice, however, the pill is not only bitter, but poisonous. Nor does he extend any welcome to "outsiders," "non-Indian supporters" like us. The Hopi press even explains that international human rights activists are alcoholics and the worst terrorists in the world. Currently most resisters and their supporters are being forced away. Now off to San Francisco for a new trial in the Manybeads Case, which has been dragging on since 1988 and is attempting to overturn the Relocation Act, which legalizes the uprooting of a culture bound to the land, by appealing to constitutionally guaranteed freedom of religion. Next, the non-signers want to pay a visit to presidential candidate McCain, who calls himself a friend of the Indians but was involved substantially in the Accommodation Agreement of 1996; it guarantees their limited presence -- under threat of expulsion. Others want to demand a response from him still earlier, in Tucson. Most of our little "terrorist gang" will take part in these demonstrations. I am involved for the time being with a "domestic policy" problem, the improvement of the communication among the Dineh themselves -- a problem that needs a solution just as urgently as the pressures from outside. This will have an impact on our reporting. Reports from San Francisco will follow, the second reports from Marion and Harald Mueller should have arrived, Timo has performed video interviews with Roberta Blackgoat and Louise Benally (at a a demonstration in Flagstaff). Please bear with us, as we cannot put our many impressions into words so quickly! With the contributions from the [Society for Threatened Peoples] and Incomindios, we gave the Sovereign Dineh Nation a used all-terrain car. The contributions from Elke and Britta and their friends went into a big tent which will stay in the Anna Mae camp, along with Stefan's big gas stove. With the contribution from the One-World Network, Timo bought a camcorder that will also remain with the Dineh. The remaining contributions from Silke and friends and the PDS should serve, in my opinion, to make the voices of the elders heard and give them a point of contact with the outside world, if this should turn out to be their first wish. The sun still rises every morning above the wild expanse of the steppe landscape, in which the few humans are easily lost to the eye; we find their trail only after many false starts along the winding dirt roads. There is, far and wide, no trace of Hopi settlers in the Hopi-Partitioned land. We cannot figure out why there should be no more room for the Dineh elders, children, and grandchildren and their small sheep and goat herds in the scattered yards in their homeland in which they are rooted like plants. But their culture, their desire to live in their own way, is not dying out; if it goes under, it will only be because the Dineh themselves have been killed off. There is still hope, because there is still resistance. ------------------------- 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: Hopis Join Navajos in Lawsuit Against Coal" --------- Date: Sun, 05 Mar 2000 17:15:34 GMT From: "lenapelady" Subj: Hopis join Navajos in lawsuit against coal, power firms Newsgroup: alt.native http://www.azcentral.com/news/0304hopis.shtml The Hopi Tribe has joined the Navajo Nation in a lawsuit against Peabody Coal Co., Southern California Edison Co. and the Salt River Project, alleging that the coal and power companies defrauded them. In papers filed in U.S. District Court in Washington, D.C., the Hopi Tribe says it seeks "to vindicate its right to control and receive full and fair compensation for its coal resources." The Hopis allege that Peabody, Edison and the SRP engaged "in a scheme to defraud and convert the money and property of the tribe through interference with the relationship between the tribe and the United States government," the Gallup Independent reported Friday. They contend the defendants "acted in concert to deliberately lure the Hopi Tribe and the Navajo Nation into renegotiating the terms of various coal mining leases, and then failed to negotiate in good faith." The Hopis said they were not aware of the scheme until the Navajos filed suit last year. Navajo President Kelsey Begaye said he welcomed the Hopi participation. The two tribes have been tangled in a land dispute for more than a century, but their joint coal leases are a common interest, and the lawsuit could bring both tribes additional money. "The Navajo Nation looks forward to standing together with the Hopi Tribe to obtain compensation for those damages to both our peoples," Begaye said. --------- "RE: Judge to Hold Hearing on Oneida Land Claims" --------- Date: Thu, 2 Mar 2000 11:32:26 EST From: MarthaET@aol.com Subj: Judge to hold hearing on whether to continue Oneida land claim talks Mailing List: TRIBALLAW (triballaw@thecity.sfsu.edu) Judge to hold hearing on whether to continue Oneida land claim talks By William Kates, Associated Press, 3/2/2000 00:36 SYRACUSE, N.Y. (AP) Attorneys in the Oneida Indian Nation land claim will head to Florida next week. It's no vacation, though. U.S. District Judge Neal McCurn wants to know why he should not end yearlong settlement talks and bring the dispute to trial. The hearing is scheduled for Friday in Fort Myers, Fla., where McCurn is spending the month as a visiting judge. McCurn just finished presiding over the Cayuga Indian Nation land claim trial, which ended in a $37 million recommended award for the tribe. McCurn scheduled the meeting after receiving a confidential status report Friday from court-appointed settlement master Ronald Riccio. The report has not been released publicly and Riccio on Wednesday declined to reveal its contents because of a court order prohibiting the participants from discussing details of the negotiations. "I'd like to be hopeful that talks will continue," said Riccio, a law professor at Seton Hall University in New Jersey. "The parties have to show Judge McCurn why he should allow the talks to go on. That's if they even want them to continue," Riccio said. "But we've been going at it for a year. After a year, you would think there would be something concrete to point to, and there's not," he added. Although there is no urgency, Riccio said he asked McCurn for the hearing while he was away in Florida because "we don't want to keep everyone dangling." The Oneida Nation had no comment about the upcoming hearing, said tribal spokesman Mark Emery. Although at an apparent dead end, Assistant Oneida County Attorney Stephen Haggas said the county's goal remains to achieve a negotiated settlement. A court trial, he said, would only address how much money and land the Oneidas would get. A jury trial won't resolve the larger questions surrounding the dispute, such as whether the Oneidas should pay property taxes to the state and local government or if there should be a limit on how much property the nation can buy, he said. An out-of-court settlement could possibly address both issues. The Oneidas, with the support of the U.S. Justice Department, are seeking compensation for the loss of 250,000 acres of ancestral land in Oneida and Madison counties. The U.S. Supreme Court found in 1985 that the land was seized in questionable transactions with the state and private individuals and ruled the Oneidas are entitled to compensation. After years of failed talks, McCurn last February appointed Riccio to mediate negotiations between the Oneidas, state and two counties. Last month, Riccio reportedly floated a $500 million settlement proposal but the state turned it down because the Oneidas would not agree to collect and remit sales taxes on all sales to non-Indians. Leon Koziol, the attorney for a grassroots landowners' group called Upstate Citizens for Equality, said Tuesday most members expect McCurn to end the protracted and unproductive negotiations. If that happens, he said, "there is no particular outrage one way or another, but there is heightened anxiety." Should McCurn decide to end negotiations, among his next steps will be to decide whether to grant the Oneidas' motion to add 20,000 individual landowners to the land claim lawsuit as defendants. He could also set a trial date. c. Copyright 2000 Boston Globe Electronic Publishing, Inc. --------- "RE: Sherrill First to Try to Evict Oneidas" --------- Date: Fri, 3 Mar 2000 19:53:35 EST From: MarthaET@aol.com Subj: Sherrill first to try to evict Oneidas ------- FORWARD, Original message follows ------- From: Sonja Keohane Mailing List: TRIBALLAW (triballaw@thecity.sfsu.edu) http://www.syracuse.com/news/ The Little City That Said No Sherrill first to try to evict Oneidas By Michelle Breidenbach As mayor of the city of Sherrill, Dwight Evans believes everyone who lives and works in the city should abide by the same laws. That includes the Oneida Indian Nation. "Our position is, the people of Sherrill elect their own government, which reports to the state and federal governments. We can't have people who don't recognize that," Evans said. "I just don't think it's American to be creating this separatism. It's certainly not the society Martin Luther King or Abraham Lincoln envisioned." The city took a lonely and bold step in February when it moved to evict the nation from its tax-delinquent T-shirt printing factory on Route 5. In turn, Sherrill, the state's smallest city bought itself a lawsuit from New York's wealthiest Indian nation. Now, it will be up to a federal judge to decide which set of laws the city and the Oneida Nation should follow. On reservation land, the Oneidas say, they are subject only to rules created by their Men's Council and the federal government. The nation believes the land under Sherrill's feet is still Oneida reservation, and the 3,284 Sherrill residents are trespassers on property stolen in the 18th and 19th centuries. "They're treating us like we're citizens of the city of Sherrill, but we're not," said Dick Lynch, a member of the Oneida's Men's Council. The city's foreclosure is the most recent test of the nation's claim to sovereignty on 250,000 acres that once were part of its ancestral territory. The Oneidas have sued to reclaim the land, which a court ruling said was purchased illegally by the state. For 26 years, since the claim was filed, the Oneidas and the state and county governments have been at odds over ownership of the land and the nation's claim to sovereignty. In the past year of court-ordered negotiations, the two sides said they have come closer than ever to reaching an agreement. But while the land claim goes unsettled, the Oneida Nation, the counties, villages, towns and cities are all playing by different sets of rules. Sherrill is the first municipality to try to evict the Oneidas for nonpayment of taxes. The city, in the southwest corner of Oneida County, put its charter to work when taxes went unpaid for three years on the T-shirt shop. The city plans to take similar steps next year on other Oneida properties, including a SavOn gas station and convenience store also on Route 5. Altogether, city officials say, the nation owes about $10,000 in property taxes. Madison County filed court papers in December demanding payment on 12 other tax-delinquent properties. If the nation does not pay taxes by March 31, the county could auction the property in November. The Oneidas have paid more than $1 million in grants, called "silver covenants," to school districts in which they own land. Oneida County, the only municipal government to participate, has accepted $305,686. Evans said Sherrill cannot accept such gifts. "It's not fair for city residents to have one person paying taxes and another person paying what they voluntarily choose to pay," Evans said. "We want to be fair. It's important we treat them like anyone else." The land in Sherrill is part of 11,000 acres the nation has purchased since 1993, when it built the Turning Stone Casino in a Verona cornfield. In the seven years since then, the nation has expanded the casino into a resort, and added six SavOn gas stations and the T-shirt factory. The nation operates a farm in Stockbridge and two marinas on Oneida Lake and publishes the largest Indian-owned newspaper in the United States out of an office in Canastota. On all of its land, the nation does not pay property taxes, does not collect state sales taxes and does not follow state and local building and environmental codes. That seems absurd to Wally Glasgow, a former city commissioner whose Scottish-immigrant family has grown up with the 84-year-old city. "There is nothing, in our eyes, to show they are not citizens of Sherrill," said Glasgow, 69. "We expect them to pay their fair share. They use our parks. They enjoy our trash pickup. They enjoy our streets. It can't be just for free." Glasgow's father, like many turn-of-the-century immigrants in Sherrill, came to the city to work for Oneida Ltd., the world's largest silverware manufacturer. Oneida Ltd. made Sherrill a company town. It built the schools, hired the teachers and granted loans for employees to build homes. During the Depression, the company rotated workers in shifts to make sure everyone got two or three days of work each week, Glasgow said. The company, founded by the utopian Oneida Community, instilled a philosophy of equality and fairness in its employees that lives on in the sons and daughters who still populate the city, Glasgow said. He and other Sherrill residents have tied yellow ribbons around their trees as a sign of distress. "My whole family has gone to war to defend this country," said Glasgow, who served on the S.S. Beatty, a Navy destroyer, during the Korean conflict. "I guess I'm ready to take up arms to defend my own homeland. That's an awful way to look at things." Some people have turned their U.S. flags upside down. "Old Glory" flew as Glasgow and fellow U.S. sailors arrived at unwelcome ports. It draped the coffins of his father and brother. On Oneida Nation land, the Oneida flag and the American flag fly at equal heights. "This country took its toll to make this one nation under God. We have one nation under God. Now, we want to start dividing this nation? Only as one can we prosper," he said. Sherrill resident Dorothy Hill, a member of the Turtle Clan of the Mohawk Nation, said white people should not judge Indians too quickly. "I love our people and I stand by them. I'd be a poor Indian if I didn't, " said Hill, 76. "But I thrill every time I hear God Bless America and the Star Spangled Banner. I thrill and I want to weep." Hill and her husband, John, 79, a Tuscarora chief, are one of only three Native American families who own homes in Sherrill. "We feel sorry on both sides," Dorothy Hill said. "We feel that it's a shame that it had to take 200 years to bring this to a head and this generation has to suffer for that. What the white people need to realize is, we're just like they are." Dorothy Hill put on traditional Indian dress and brought Sherrill to tears on its 75th anniversary by singing the Star Spangled Banner in a city park. John Hill volunteered as a paratrooper in World War II. The couple worked hard, bought a home and put two daughters through college. Dorothy and John Hill consider themselves Americans, as much as Wally Glasgow considers himself one. But the Hills carry the scars of their Indian people, she said. "I think of myself as an American first, but I'm very proud of my heritage," she said. "I feel for my Indian people. I'm sorry for my Indian people." The Hills' neighbors cut their grass, shovel their snow, bring in their groceries - everything neighbors in a place like Sherrill do for each other. As John Hill said, "They think the world of us." People see their Indian features and think the Hills are Oneida, the couple said. Not one person on West Hinds Street has ever mentioned the land claim to them. Inside their home, however, the Hills spread out the Sunday newspaper and read what their white neighbors are saying about their Iroquois brethren. "Everybody is fighting," Dorothy Hill said. "It's just words. People should have been patient enough to let the courts decide." The Hills have seen the maps and believe they bought a house on ancient Oneida soil. Like their white neighbors, they are not sure if that means they live on an Indian reservation. But unlike many of their white neighbors, they are not afraid. "They make such a fearful issue," John Hill said. "Common sense tells you, there are 20,000 homes, yet there are only 1,000 Oneidas registered. Can you imagine all the 20,000 homes being taken? It's impossible." Evans, the city's elected leader since 1991, said he could do without the controversy. "I'd rather not be conversing in ancient land treaties," he said. "I'd rather be a mayor of a small city and an insurance agent." Evans Insurance sits behind a storefront window on the city's main drag, wedged between a flower shop and a meat market. Three brief cases and two filing cabinets are jammed with copies of 200-year-old treaties and correspondence among Indian chiefs, New York governors and U.S. representatives. He shifts through the papers with a practiced hand. He rarely looks up. "Here's one from the Department of Interior that says the Oneida Indian Nation doesn't exist," he said, pulling out a 1982 letter. "I'm sure there's someplace else where this is contradicted. It's just one thing after another." City leaders have signed on to services offered pro bono by Fried, Frank, Harris, Shriver and Jacobson, a 400-member law firm in Manhattan. "What Sherrill is doing is ensuring our day in court, so these issues can come out if (land claim) negotiations fail," Evans said. "It's not about acquiring the property, taking the T-shirt shop, although we will follow the law wherever we need to." When the city raised taxes, in part, to put $55,000 in a legal defense fund, some residents praised the city for its foresight. Members of Upstate Citizens for Equality, a landowners' group, staged pickets twice last week outside the T-shirt shop. Oneida County Executive Ralph Eannace said protesting on disputed land is only provoking violence. "The decision ought to be made in the court and not in the parking lot," Eannace said. Kay Kotwica, who organizes protests for UCE, said the group is simply supporting Sherrill. "Unfortunately, a lot of politicians don't feel the need to uphold the law," she said. "It's nice to see someone who isn't intimidated by money." --------- "RE: Montana Indians Need Larger Voice in Government" --------- Date: 2/29/00 4:22:03 PM Eastern Standard Time From: kolahq@skynet.be Subj: Montana Indians need larger voice in government [article provided by Lona. Thanks!] 02/29/2000 Montana Indians need larger voice in government By Ron Selden Today correspondent BILLINGS, Mont. - An American Indian legislator from the Crow Indian Reservation is proposing creation of a new Montana Department of Indian Affairs to help Native people further integrate into state government. Rep. Bill Eggers (shown left), a Democrat and an enrolled member of the Crow Tribe, broached the proposal during a Feb. 18 Montana-Wyoming Tribal Leaders Council meeting in Billings. Eggers, among others, maintains the new agency is needed so Indians can have a stronger voice in government. "We don't need to be a second-class citizen in this state," he told the council. "We need a Native American department. We need a cabinet-level department." Eggers said he is already drafting a bill that would create the new agency. He wants tribal leaders across the state to add their input so the proposed legislation fits all of their needs. Eggers told the group he believes the current state Indian affairs coordinator post, which operates out of the governor's office, doesn't have enough clout. A full-scale department would elevate Indian needs to a higher level and would allow tribes to get more involved in policy making and programs in all areas of state government. Montana tribes have grappled with the future of the coordinator's position for years. While many reservation leaders maintain the coordinator's workload is too heavy and appointees to the post get stretched too thin, others like the close access to governors, especially to those that support tribal initiatives. The 1999 Montana Legislature approved a bill to study whether the coordinator job, held by Louie Clayborn, should be replaced by an Indian Affairs commission. Eggers' proposal would potentially expand tribal influence even further. "We don't want a token representative up there (in Helena)," Eggers said of the challenges faced by having only one person in state government whose job is helping Indians. At the very least, said Blackfeet Tribal Chairman Bill Old Chief (shown right), the coordinator's job should be elevated to a cabinet level. There should also be money allocated to hire more staff and give the coordinator a raise, he said. He added that tribes, and not the governor, should be responsible for appointing the coordinator. Old Chief said Indians in Montana can no longer sit on the sidelines and let state government craft programs and make decisions without having their viewpoints aired. "Anything from now on has to have the input from the tribes," he said. "If we're not there, we will be forgotten. Those days of non-Indians putting plans and policy together (for us) are over." Rep. Carol Juneau, D-Browning and a Mandan-Hidatsa, said that the state coordinator must contort to the political whims of the governor, whomever they happen to be. "I don't think that creates a good advocate for tribes," she said. Democratic gubernatorial candidate Mike Cooney, who serves as Montana secretary of state, attended the meeting and said he's committed to expanding the role of Indians in state government. He was not asked, however, if he supports creating a new Indian affairs department. "We have to have our Native Americans represented at the table daily" and at all levels, Cooney said, pledging to work with tribes any way he can if he's elected governor. Juneau told council members that for the time being, they need to provide answers to a long list of questions about the proposed commission. She said it must be determined whether the commission would replace or simply complement the state coordinator. The commission's size and scope of work also need to be established, as well as whether the proposed panel should serve as an advisory body or one that can make decisions and set policy. A bill to create the new commission will be submitted to the 2001 Legislature if the Law, Justice and Indian Affairs Committee determines there's enough support. As with the potential creation of a cabinet-level department, questions will also need to be addressed about funding, she said, and Montana tribes must decide whether they're willing to pitch in to get a new system, whatever its form, off the ground. c.2000 Indian Country Today --------- "RE: Innu View of November Agreement" --------- Date: Sun, 5 Mar 2000 17:42:20 -0400 From: Larry Innes Subj: News: 'Empty Promises, Broken Dreams' - Innu view of November agmt Mailing List: Innu People Forum list Empty promises, broken dreams is how Labrador Innu are describing an historic deal with the Federal government, the province and their people. The agreement appeared to be the first step towards self government for the Innu but appearances can be deceiving. ["Peter Penashue", Nation President; Robert Nault; Indian Affairs Minister; "Brian Tobin", Premier] Program: 24 CBC TV Here & Now Media: CBNT-TV Reporter: CAROLYN DUNN Air Date: Thu, Mar 02 Word Count: 350 Anchor: COOPER / LETTO Air Time: 6:40:00 PM Duration: 1:40 Debbie Cooper: Empty promises, broken dreams is how Labrador Innu are describing an historic deal with the Federal government, the province and their people. The agreement appeared to be the first step towards self government for the Innu but as Carolyn Dunne reports, appearances can be deceiving. Peter Penashue: Either we walked away from the table because we didn't get the full loaf as we had sought or we accepted the quarter loaf that was being offered to us. Carolyn Dunne: November 24th, 1999. Labrador Innu know a historic deal they've just struck is not the B all end all but it is the first step. Now Innu Nation President Peter Penashue says the Federal Government hasn't even given them a slice of that loaf. Peter Penanshue: We're founding now that we're no better off than we were on November 24th. Carolyn Dunne: Indian Affairs was supposed to set up an office in Labrador. the Innu were to run their own schools. Policing should be taking on a new face by now and land transfers from the province to the Feds and on to the Innu should be well under way. The Innu say they've seen no action at all. And after a meeting with Indian Affairs Minister Robert Nault today, there was a pointed sign the Innu future has not exactly been a priority. Peter Penashue: I think it was quite embarrassing for him today. Today was the first meeting that we . . .well he made it quite clear, thought they we were Inuit. Premier Brian Tobin orchestrated the original deal. he wasn't at today's meeting but he wasn't happy to hear about the set back. Brian Tobin: Let me say that it is a disappointed to me that we don't have a constructive meeting today because there were clear understandings last November and those understandings should have been kept. Carolyn Dunne: The Indian Affairs Minister will designate one person specifically to work on Innu issues. It's a small step but a huge disappointment for Labrador Innu who thought they finally made big strides. Carolyn Dunne, CBC News. St. John's. --------- "RE: Inuit, Innu Meet to Discuss Overlap Issues" --------- Date: Sun, 5 Mar 2000 17:41:03 -0400 From: Larry Innes Subj: News: Inuit, Innu meet to discuss overlap issues Mailing List: Innu People Forum list RESOURCES: Land Claims Chief Negotiator for the Labrador Inuit Association Toby Andersen says Inuit and the Innu Nation met for a day and a half on February 27th and 28th to discuss overlapping land claims - Interview with "Toby Andersen". Program: 16 CKOK Nain Radio North Coast News Media: CKOK-AM Reporter: JOANNA DICKER Air Date: Thu, Mar 02 Word Count: 1190 Anchor: WILSON JARARUSE Air Time: 2:30:00 PM Duration: 10:00 Kay Tuglavina: How many members of LIA along with the Innu Nation met during the last two days? Toby Andersen: We had . . . the negotiating team, the LIA negotiating team, which would have been myself, Isabelle Paine, Averian Hasum, Judy Roul, Apah Kojak, Edward Flowers. We also had two land selection negotiators that were elected by Nain to represent Nain, Gus Dicker and Julius Merkuratsuk. We also brought in two elders who have used the Nain Antalak *** area, Willie Winters and Able Leo. That was the LIA team. The Innu had two representatives from Sheshatshiu and two elders from Davis Inlet along with their chief negotiator from Davis Inlet. So there were five of them. Kay Tuglavina: What was the meeting about Toby? Toby Andersen: The meeting was about the shared area. What we tried to do was to see if we could finalize where the line would be where the shared, area, the overlap, the shared area between the Innu and Inuit, where that line would end. How far north. When we left the negotiations the last time we had talked about the line coming as far north as around about Anatalik, Anatalak, and then going south from there. So that was the purpose of the meeting, was try to come up with how far north that boundary for the shared area would be. Kay Tuglavina: So how did you find the meetings going? Toby Andersen: This meeting we found to be very positive, most of the discussion at the table took place between the Innu group themselves and between our Inuit negotiators along with Able and Willie on our side, at our table. So they did most of the talking and negotiation internal and then I relayed some of the concerns and the decisions that were being made to the chief negotiators. Kay Tuglavina: So are you saying that the Labrador Inuit Association and the Innu Nation are agreeing to share the overlapping claims in their land claims area? Toby Andersen: What this meeting was, we are able to do at this meeting is to come up with some agreement between the negotiators as to where the line could be. How far north okay. Now what we have is just that much at the present time. But there is some agreement between the negotiators. We are now, LIA is now finalizing the lines on the map and then the wording that will go with that. So it . . . what it really means, what each of the parties can do within that shared area and one of the things that we have been able to get them to agree to is that within that shared area where Labrador Inuit have already done their land selection, that will remain as Inuit owned lands. Now that's the important part and that's what our Inuit negotiators were most concerned about and wanted to make sure that our land selection that's been done by the communities remained as Inuit owned lands and we can negotiate that with governments. We were able to get that agreement from the Innu at this meeting. So we found that meeting to be very positive. Now what we have done, as I said, needs to be finalized on the maps and then on paper and that needs to come back to the negotiators and then back to the LIA executive and board and then from there it will be made available to our people. Kay Tuglavina: So the land selected by the Labrador Inuit are not overlapping the Innu claims in the *** area? Toby Andersen: It . . . some of it would be within the overlap area but even though it would be within the overlapped area it would remain as Inuit owned lands, controlled by the Inuit central government and it could be used for harvesting purposes by the Innu subject to the Inuit government rules and regulations. Kay Tuglavina: When would these be finalized, what you were talking about earlier, the lands selected? Toby Andersen: We would most likely wait until we have done the whole area from *** Antalak right up south to Lake Melville okay. What we have finished the Nain meeting but we need to put everything on paper, on maps and in writing. We have now scheduled the next meeting for late March. I think the 28th or 29th in Davis Inlet. We will have representatives from Hopedale and we will discuss the overlap area between Hopedale and Davis Inlet. We have also scheduled a meeting for April to be held in Makkovik where we will discuss with them and work out the overlap area in Makkovik, Postville. Then in May, we have already scheduled a meeting for May where we will work out with them the overlap area in the Rigolet and Lake Melville region. That will take place in Rigolet, Sheshatshiu. So by May on our schedule we will have it all done then we will put it all on paper as one whole package before we bring that back to our membership. Kay Tuglavina: And finally Toby these talks with the Innu Nation has to be finalized before any further progress in the land claims? Toby Andersen: No, not really. We have agreed between ourselves and the Innu that we want to try and wrap up this overlap agreement as soon as we can. Mostly on their part because LIA is now going to start negotiations, negotiating the Labrador Inuit lands and the settlement area with government, land selection negotiations. They wanted to be able to have the overlapped areas all identified and set out around about the same time. So while we are negotiating with government we would also be negotiating the overlap with them. What's required under the land claims process policy is that before we have a final land claim agreement we would have an overlap with the Innu Nation. That was what we had expected. But right now things are very well and we even expect now it is possible that we will have an overlap agreement worked out with the Innu Nation probably around about the same time as we have the land selection negotiations with government finalized and we have an AIP that can be signed by the two governments and LIA which has the Inuit land selection maps attached to it, the settlement area and we could even have the Innu overlap attached to that AIP rather than having to wait for final agreement. Kay Tuglavina: Would you like to add anything else to the information you have just given us Toby? Toby Andersen: Not at the present time. Just to say that we are quite pleased with the progress that we are making. It's good to have the extra Inuk negotiators involved in the process as well. Hopefully we will be on schedule and in May we will be able to have an overall package that we can bring back to our membership which would identify exactly where the overlap areas are and what the overlap agreement would look like. Kay Tuglavina: Thank you for your information and your time Toby. Toby Andersen: Okay thank you. --------- "RE: Pimpitshinanu Walk" --------- Date: Thu, 2 Mar 2000 16:52:17 -0400 From: Larry Innes Subj: Message from Elizabeth Penashue Mailing List: Innu People Forum list Dear Friends and Supporters: I am once again in the process of organizing a trip along a traditional Innu travel route (Pimpitshinanu ) from Goose Bay to Minei-nipi for this coming spring. This trip is a protest action to show our determination to hold on to our homeland and to protect it from further major developments on our lands. We have to show the world how much we respect our lands and all the animals that our people have relied on for their survival for many thousands of years. We have to show that we are determined to preserve our Innu way of life. I am proposing this trip begin on March 10, 2000, two weeks earlier than last year when we encountered some problems on our way in because it was almost too late in the spring to travel by foot. This traditional Innu travel route (Pimpatshinanu ) involves walking with snowshoes and hauling your camping gear on toboggan in the woods. At the end of one day's travel, camp is set up until the next day when we travel again. We maintain Innu traditional activities along the way and hunt for partridges, rabbits , porcupine, and maybe some beavers too. I invite anyone, young and old, men and women, to come along with us on this year's journey. Anyone who is interested in supporting our cause is invited to come along. Five Innu from Uashat who were with us last year are coming back to join us on this trip. I am also looking for donations of cash to purchase snowshoes and other equipment for some of the participants. If anyone is interested in supporting us in this endeavour, I would appreciate if you would call me at this telephone number, (709) 497-8741, or contact the Innu Nation office at (709) 497-8398. Thank you very much. Elizabeth Penashue [Interested parties could also contact Elizabeth via email via linnes@innu.ca - ed] -- Larry Innes Visit the Innu Nation WWW site: Environmental Advisor http://www.innu.ca Innu Nation P.O. Box 119, Sheshatshiu, Labrador, Canada A0P 1M0 phone: (709) 497-8398 email: linnes@innu.ca fax: (709) 497-8396 ------> PGP Public Key available on ldap://certserver.pgp.com --------- "RE: Ecuador Indians Seek Government Talks" --------- Date: Mon, 31 Jan 2000 08:36:49 -0600 From: berryj@okstate.edu Subj: (FWD)Indian News 01-30-2000 Roger Iron Cloud FirstNations Listserv 202.358.3252 rironcloud@acf.dhhs.gov Ecuador Indians Seek Gov't Talks .c The Associated Press 01-26-00 QUITO, Ecuador (AP) - The leader of the Indian movement whose revolt precipitated President Jamil Mahuad's overthrow said Wednesday he wants direct talks with the new government. Antonio Vargas said Indian leaders are prepared to discuss privatizing state companies, repaying Ecuador's $13 billion debt and abandoning the national currency, the sucre, for the U.S. dollar. "We want direct dialogue about profound changes," said Vargas, head of the Confederation of Indigenous Nations of Ecuador. The Indians will suspend their uprising for at least six months but will rise up again if the new government does not halt endemic corruption and poverty, he said. Angry at ousted president Jamil Mahuad's inability to stop Ecuador's economic slide, Vargas led hundreds of Indian protesters to occupy the empty Congress building last week with a cadre of young army officers. Their proclamation of a "Parliament of the People" led by a three-man governing junta prompted the military high command to force Mahuad from power to avoid "a social explosion." Gen. Carlos Mendoza, the country's military chief, took a seat in the junta with Vargas and a former Supreme Court judge. But he later dissolved it and resigned as military commander, buckling under pressure from Washington and more than 20 regional commanders who rejected the overthrow of civilian rule. Power was ceded to Vice President Gustavo Noboa, who on Wednesday received the presidential sash in a ceremony in Congress. Vargas accused the military high command of taking advantage of the Indians in an attempt to seize power. His organization also distributed to newspapers a copy of a document proclaiming total military rule that the high command allegedly prepared the night of the coup but never issued. The Indian leader said he does not intend to run from an arrest order for his part in the coup and only asked authorities not to treat him as a common criminal. "I am here showing my face," said Vargas. "If for fighting against corruption, against misery and hunger they take me to prison, I will go." --------- "RE: Indians Warn of Move Against Quito" --------- Date: Mon, 31 Jan 2000 08:36:49 -0600 From: berryj@okstate.edu Subj: (FWD)Indian News 01-30-2000 Roger Iron Cloud FirstNations Listserv 202.358.3252 rironcloud@acf.dhhs.gov Indians Warn of Move Against Quito .c The Associated Press By MONTE HAYES 1/29/2000 QUITO, Ecuador (AP) - Most of the 5,000 poncho-clad Indians who took control of Quito's streets in outrage over soaring food prices and forced the ouster of an unpopular president are back in their villages high in the Andes. But a few of their leaders remain in the capital, and the Indians warn they are ready to march on Quito again if necessary - a warning Ecuador's political elite no longer takes lightly. The leader of the Indian movement whose revolt precipitated the overthrow of President Jamil Mahuad on Jan. 21 says Ecuador's 4 million Indians have finally forced political leaders to take them seriously. "We showed that we have the capacity to bring down presidents and corrupt governments," said Antonio Vargas, a 40-year-old bilingual school teacher who was elected president of the Indian federation a year ago. Coups have been common in Latin America's turbulent history but this was the first provoked by an Indian group. Ecuadoreans were stunned when the military high command forced Mahuad from power to avoid "a social explosion" and replaced him with the vice president. Clearly, Ecuador's Indian federation has emerged as the most organized and influential indigenous movement in a region where native peoples in several countries are engaged in struggles over land, language and civil and political rights. The success in ousting Mahuad has instilled confidence in Ecuador's Indians and they have no intention of fading back into their impoverished villages to be forgotten again by the government. "The people of our community are strong and ready for new uprisings," said Alejandro Choloquinga, 51, from the village of Macagrande on the slopes of the towering Cotopaxi volcano. The Indians achieved their primary goal of ousting a president they viewed as corrupt and incapable of halting Ecuador's disastrous economic decline, and they express pride in their growing power. But they also feel anger and bitterness at military commanders they accuse of sabotaging a three-man Indian-military junta formed to rule Ecuador after Mahuad was ousted. The military command dissolved the junta within hours of its formation and turned power over to Vice President Gustavo Noboa. "We are indignant and pained that the generals were not honest with the people. But our morale is high and our actions will continue if things do not change," said Cesar Pilataxi, 39, an Indian leader from a community near Cotopaxi. Pilataxi, wearing a fedora, white calf-length pants and roughly made sandals, was at a public market where he and other Indians had gone to eat because they could not afford to go to a restaurant. Ecuador's Indians live brutish lives of 12-hour days at backbreaking work on tiny, infertile plots of land. They have little access to health care and educational opportunities for their children are limited. They are treated as second-class citizens even though they make up a third of Ecuador's 12 million people. City dwellers mock their clothing and their attempts to speak Spanish. Often forced to migrate to the cities for work, Indian men end up as street vendors or as laborers who haul mammoth loads of produce on their backs at public markets. The women and children beg on street corners, reinforcing the scorn of the white elite and mestizo population. Statistics tell a story of neglect: 83 percent of Indians in rural areas, mainly the Andean highlands, live in poverty, compared to 46 percent of other Ecuadoreans. Only 41 percent have access to potable water. Eighty- seven percent of Indian homes do not have toilets; 44 percent do not have electricity. Sixteen percent of Indians are illiterate. Vargas warned last week that if the new president does not eradicate endemic corruption and take steps to end Ecuador's deep poverty, the Indians will rise again in six months, setting off "a great social explosion that could lead to civil war." Officials have learned not to ignore the Indian movement's threats. "Ecuador's Indian insurgency is one of the most dramatic phenomena to occur in recent years," said a retired army general, Jose Gallardo, who was defense minister until two weeks ago. Gallardo was the chief proponent within the armed forces of social assistance programs in the early 1990s for rural Indian communities ignored by government agencies. The goal was to increase military influence in the villages and head off any threat to national security by a radicalized Indian movement. Vargas' National Confederation of Indigenous Nations of Ecuador first drew attention by paralyzing the country in 1990. For nearly a week tens of thousands of Indians blocked highways and even secondary roads for hundreds of miles around Quito to demand better government services. In 1995, the Indians formed their own party, Pachakutik, and in 1996 they elected eight congressmen. "It is clear that the indigenous movement is very strong. As representatives of a considerable part of the country, we are now taking a global approach to Ecuador's problems," Indian congresswoman Nina Pacari said in an interview. The Indian federation has taken strong stands against repayment of Ecuador's foreign debt, privatization of state companies and Mahuad's controversial plan to replace the national currency with the U.S. dollar, all of which it considers economic threats to Indians. Although experts on the Indian movement agree the successful revolt has strengthened the Indians' political power, they say it has also increased suspicion, fear and racism among the middle and upper classes. Political scientist Simon Pachano said the revolt could weaken the movement over time because many Ecuadoreans who initially supported the protest against Mahuad's economic policies are now skeptical of the Indians' respect for democracy and see their movement as subversive. "There was a very racist reaction to the coup because the Indians were at the head of it," he said. "That was clear. This is an extremely racist country." --------- "RE: Oppose Orrin Hatch Senate Bill on Clemency Reform" --------- Date: Wed, 1 Mar 2000 16:08:35 -0600 From: "LPDC" Subj: Oppose Orrin Hatch Senate Bill on Clemency Reform Mailing List: LPDC ORRIN HATCH INTRODUCES BILL THAT COULD THREATEN PELTIER'S CHANCES OF RECEIVING CLEMENCY Orrin Hatch, Senate Judiciary Chairman, introduced a bill on February 28, 2000 that threatens to severely restrict the Executive Clemency Process. The bill is called `the Pardon Attorney Reform and Integrity Act' (Senate Bill 2042). If passed, it would hamper the process to the extent that presidents would be unable to consider a clemency petition with neutrality. The bill will force the president to consider the views of law enforcement agencies and victims when considering a clemency petition and furthermore, it would allow law enforcement and victims to have knowledge of the status of the petition, whereas now, such information can be kept confidential by the Executive Branch. There is currently nothing that prohibits the president and justice department from considering the views of law enforcement and victims when considering a clemency petition. The bill would defeat the whole purpose of Executive Clemency by giving a totally unfair advantage to those who oppose a particular application. This is especially true since the person filing for Executive Clemency would not be allowed to know the status of the petition while law enforcement would. If this bill is passed it will quash Leonard Peltier's chances of receiving Executive Clemency. The FBI are the ones who have obstructed justice in his case from the beginning. Leonard Peltier is their victim. This bill would only allow them to obstruct justice once again. The clemency process is meant to be a final avenue of redress for prisoners when the courts have failed them and/or when there are circumstances beyond those the courts can consider that should be weighed. This bill violates the US Constitution, which grants the power of Executive Clemency solely to the US president who is supposed to be able to look upon a case impartially. Please contact the members of the United States Senate Judiciary Committee and let them know you are strongly opposed to the bill S.2042, `Pardon Attorney Reform and Integrity Act'. Here are some points you can mention: *The bill violates the United States Constitution. *The bill does not allow the President to consider a petition with neutrality *The power of Executive Clemency is needed as a check on the criminal justice system *The bill would give an unfair advantage to law enforcement who also need to be kept in check. Voice your concern by calling or faxing the United States Senate Judiciary Committee: Tel (202) 224-5225, Fax (202) 224-9102 ---------------------------LPDC Call the White House Comments Line Today Demand Justice for Leonard Peltier! 202-456-1111 Leonard Peltier Defense Committee PO Box 583 Lawrence, KS 66044 785-842-5774 www.freepeltier.org To subscribe, send a blank message to < lpdc-on@mail-list.com > --------- "RE: Alert: Yucca Mountain Sign-on" --------- Date: 3/5/00 1:43:33 PM Eastern Standard Time Subj: ALERT! Yucca Mt. Sign-on! From: kolahq@skynet.be <+>=<+>KOLA Newslist<+>=<+> [source: NativeNews: Sun, 05 Mar 2000 12:11:20] ALERT! Yucca Mt. Sign-on! [KOLA Note: please reply to and NOT to KOLA... Thank you.] ===== From: johnstevensk9@webtv.net (John Stevens) ACTION ALERT: STOP DOE FROM CHANGING THE RULES IN THE MIDDLE OF THE GAME ON THE PROPOSED YUCCA MOUNTAIN DUMP GROUP SIGN ON LETTER TO ENERGY SECRETARY RICHARDSON. PLEASE SIGN ON BY THURSDAY, MARCH 9TH, AT 12 NOON. Sign on to nirsnet@nirs.org URGE THE DOE TO WITHDRAW ITS CURRENT ATTEMPT TO CHANGE THE RULES IN THE MIDDLE OF THE GAME TO FORCE THE OPENING OF THE HIGH-LEVEL NUCLEAR WASTE DUMP AT YUCCA MOUNTAIN, NEVADA The DOE is attempting to remove any individual disqualifying conditions from its Site Suitability Guidelines for a High-Level Nuclear Waste Repository. DOE is trying to remove anything (including mandates in laws such as the Nuclear Waste Policy Act) that would stand in the way of moving ahead with trouble-plagued Yucca Mountain, Nevada. NIRS and over 200 other organizations petitioned DOE to disqualify Yucca Mountain in 1998, because DOEs own evidence shows that fast flow pathways for water exist at Yucca Mountain, a disqualifying condition. DOE denied the petition, and rather than address our contention is now trying to change the rules so that Yucca Mountain qualifies, no matter what. Please sign onto this group letter to say NO WAY, NO HOW to Secretary Richardson and the DOE. We need to turn up the heat on DOE for trying to pull this end run on sound science and public participation. For more information, contact me at NIRS (202) 328-0002. ---Kevin Kamps, Nuclear Waste Specialist, NIRS March 10, 2000 Secretary Bill Richardson U.S. Department of Energy 1000 Independence Avenue, S.W. Washington, D.C. 20585 Dear Secretary Richardson, We respectfully request that the Department of Energy withdraw the proposed rule change to 10 CFR Part 960 "General Guidelines for the Recommendation of Sites for Nuclear Waste Repositories; Final Siting Guidelines." We also respectfully request that you withdraw the proposed new rule, 10 CFR Part 963, specific to a Yucca Mountain repository. The proposed changes are fundamentally flawed, and are inherently unacceptable. This action by the Department of Energy is not only a proposed change to the existing Site Recommendation Guidelines rule, but also an attempt to change the statute which mandates the guidelines --The Nuclear Waste Policy Act--in the guise of a proposed rule change. This is not only inappropriate and illegal, but an example of the same sort of foul play that has caused a total loss of public faith and confidence in the U.S. Department of Energy's nuclear programs and policies. Most recently, DOE announced these proposed Guidelines changes right on top of the Draft Environmental Impact Statement comment period--and during the holiday season to boot--not only creating a great deal of confusion for the public, but also seriously undermining their ability to participate. To make matters worse, the address published in the Federal Register Notice to which public comments are to be sent for the proposed Guidelines changes was incorrect--concerned citizens who have submitted comments are receiving them back in the mail marked undeliverable, forwarding address expired. We may never know many public comments will be "lost in the mail" due to this error. If you are concerned with building public confidence and participation in the process, DOE is failing miserably. These blows to public confidence and meaningful public involvement are bad enough. Changing the rules in the middle of the game is even worse. At issue is whether or not there are bounding values for key parameters which determine the suitability of a particular site for the isolation of nuclear waste. Further, there is also the question as to whether these bounding values are used in decision making. The Nuclear Waste Policy Act specifies that such parameters be defined to qualify or disqualify any site from development as a nuclear waste repository. In fact, according to current Guidelines, Yucca Mountain should already be disqualified. Data presented in the Viability Assessment of a Repository at Yucca Mountain supports a high-level finding that the site should be disqualified, based on the fast travel time of water in the mountain. This parameter, perhaps more than any other, spells failure at Yucca Mountain for the goal of nuclear waste isolation over time. Indeed, DOE's own performance assessments show this. If the criteria for determining what is acceptable and what is not acceptable is removed, then this data simply washes away into the massive uncertainty associated with a total system performance assessment. That the Department is now seeking to quietly get rid of the criteria that would disqualify the site--and indeed, remove ANY basis for site disqualification--is a blatant subversion of the Nuclear Waste Policy Act, which at least nominally provides for a scientific basis for policy decisions. In fact, this proposal violates the scientific method itself. If a subject cannot meet a pre-defined criteria, the scientific method requires that the subject be rejected (i.e. the site be disqualified), not that the rules be changed in the middle of the game. Specifically, the Department has misrepresented Section 113 of the Nuclear Waste Policy Act. The Department argues that a total system performance assessment will suffice to meet the requirements of the law on how a proposed repository site, already subject to site characterization, is to be recommended to the President as "suitable" for repository development. This is not the case. The law states: Section 113 [Site Characterization](1) (A)the plan shall include (iv) criteria to be used to determine the suitability of such candidate site for the location of a repository, developed pursuant to section 112(a) [42 USC 10132(a)] Section 112 (a) Such guidelines shall specify factors that qualify or disqualify any site from development as a repository, including factors pertaining to the location of valuable natural resources, hydrology, geophysics, seismic activity, and atomic energy defense activities, proximity to water supplies, proximity to populations, effects upon the rights of users of water (emphasis added) In the guise of the proposed rule change, the Department is attempting to rewrite the law. Use of a projection of system performance is no doubt valuable for determining whether the site can meet any parameter, but it is not and cannot be a substitute for specified, defined parameters which "qualify or disqualify any site." The Department has no choice about this. The decision on ANY repository site, after site characterization has commenced, is to be based on its ability to meet guidelines that are promulgated under Section 112 of the Act. These may be changed, but the requirement of specified factors which "qualify or disqualify" may not. It is not acceptable to try and explain away any remaining opportunity to reject Yucca Mountain as the repository site simply because of political and economic forces that seek to render this site as a "done deal" even in the face of sound, compelling scientific evidence that the site will in fact leak, and do so soon after the first container fails. In 1998 NIRS and 218 other organizations petitioned Secretary Richardson calling for the immediate disqualification of Yucca Mountain under the current Site Recommendation Guidelines, based on DOE's own data showing the presence of bomb test fallout at repository depth in Yucca Mountain. We are outraged that the Department is now seeking to lay aside those guidelines rather than disqualify Yucca Mountain and restore the site. Any attempt to site a permanent repository must adhere to strict standards of scientific integrity. As commented upon in the January 14, 2000 issue of Science Magazine, newly published findings that plutonium is much more soluble in water than previously thought "...have great consequences for the underground disposal of plutonium wastes..." Such new discoveries, coupled with the fast flow of water at Yucca Mountain, will undermine DOE's public credibility if the proposed changes to the Site Suitability Guidelines are not withdrawn. We urge you to withdraw this proposed rule. Sincerely, Michael Mariotte Executive Director, Nuclear Information & Resource Service, Washington, D.C. --------- "RE: Members Take Crow Creek Council to Court" --------- From: MarthaET@aol.com Date: Sat, 4 Mar 2000 12:31:44 EST Subj: Members Take Crow Creek Council to Court Mailing List: TRIBALLAW (triballaw@thecity.sfsu.edu) http://indiancountry.com/buffalonationsnews.html#articleone Members Take Crow Creek Council to Court By Jamie Monastyrski Today staff FORT THOMPSON, S.D. - Members of the Crow Creek Sioux Reservation, calling themselves the Hunkpati Treaty Descendants, walked into the tribal offices March 1 demanding to see financial records and threatening to occupy the office until their demands were met. "I'm supporting everything they are doing," said Chairman Harold Miller who said the Crow Creek members are upset they weren't included in the electoral process. Those tribal members filed a motion in Tribal Court to retain all financial records and to halt any council transactions. The court decided to give the council 30 days to respond to the motions before making a final decision. In assembly the protesters received advice and support from the Sioux Nation Treaty Council, called in to inform the group of its rights and obligations. During a question and answer period, Councilman Ron Kirkie, tribal treasurer, threw up his arms and resigned. Joe Shields, a spokesperson for Descendants, said the incident came to a head when the council released names it appointed to the election committee. The tribal election is scheduled for April. Shields said three of the four appointed are direct relatives of council members. They are: Elnita Rank, a sister of Treasurer Kirkie; Kelly Kirkie, his daughter; Connie thompson, a sister of Councilman Norman Thompson, and Gina Howe. Protesters called that unjust and unfair. The constitution says the council should appoint an election committee," said Elnita Rank, chairwoman of the election board and tribal business manager. "All they are doing is carrying out the laws of the council." Ambrose McBride, a member of the Descendants, said members are fed up with the council members who get to decide what's best for the community. "The bylaws are there to protect the council, not the people, like it should be. People are just tired of what's going on," he said. Community elders, concerned with the financial climate on the reservation, asked the Descendants to acquire tribal financial records. That request was denied by council. "There's a lot of money missing, people's cheques are bouncing. We just want to know where the money is," Shields said. A petition is being circulated in the community requesting the council to reduce an electoral filing fee and to extend the deadline for nominations. There is a $300 filing fee to run for chairman and $200 to run for the council. That is too much money for a lot of the members, Shields said. "That eliminates a lot of people who are on fixed incomes and that's unfair to them." Concerned member Debbie Attikai said she and many others are not being heard by the tribal council. "It leads to frustration because I'm fighting for my children and my children's children." With an enrollment of nearly 4,000 members and despite a small casino in the community, Crow Creek Reservation has a high unemployment rate, said Chairman Miller. c.2000 Indian Country Today --------- "RE: Peltier: Letters Needed" --------- Date: Mon, 6 Mar 2000 19:18:38 -0600 From: "LPDC" Subj: Letters Needed! Mailing List: LPDC Dear Friends, We still need more letters in support of Leonard's release through parole! We are resending the sample letters for your convenience with this short reminder. We know for a fact that the FBI and their organizations are "lobbying" constantly to stop Leonard from being released, so please help us collect an overwhelming amount of letters and ask your friends and especially local organizations (we have received very few) to do the same. We have already received hundreds, but we know there are thousands of you out there! During this critical time before the parole review hearing, we also encourage you to keep up the phone banking campaign. Also, we just received a 60 day eviction notice from our office building who will be replacing us with more profitable businesses. Not only is this bad timing, but it will cause our expenses to rise (deposit, phone installation, etc.). If you are able to donate to the LPDC at this time it would be of great assistance to us. Lastly we thank you for your help, work, support, and sacrifice. Keep up the good work! Thank you. ---LPDC LETTERS IN SUPPORT OF PAROLE It is really important that everyone write letters supporting Leonard's petition for parole. In the past there have always been a number of letters written for him: so we need to get far more such letters this year. These can be quite simple, and should just cover the basic points important for parole decisions. A sample letter is set forth here. Feel free to use it, but its even better if you can write one in your own words. The lawyers urge that the tone be courteous and concise (after all, the number one goal is to get the man OUT NOW). Then get as many friends to sign similar letters as you can. Carry a sheaf of spare letters with you. The best is to get one signature per letter, not petition form, our insider friends tell us. Most important, PLEASE SEND THE LETTERS BACK TO US HERE!! We will compile them all together and get them bound for Carl Nadler, the parole attorney for Leonard. That way he can present stacks of letters all at the same time. This will be more impressive than having them trickle in. We will keep copies for use with Congress, the press, White House contacts etc, as well. SAMPLE LETTER: To: The United States Parole Commission Dear Commissioners, As a concerned citizen of this country, I am writing to express my full support for parole for Mr. Leonard Peltier. Mr. Peltier is a Native American leader who has now been incarcerated for some 24 years. He has served far longer than most prisoners convicted of similar crimes, and his conduct in prison has been excellent. I would be honored to receive him in my own home when he is released. I am particularly impressed with the many good deeds Mr. Peltier has carried out during his many years behind bars. He has worked with medical experts to improve health care delivery on the reservations, and has helped to establish an entrepreneur program for talented Native youth. He was instrumental in setting up a Native American scholarship program at New York University, and helped start up a Native American newspaper in Washington State. He has sponsored two children in rural El Salvador and Guatemala, and runs annual clothing and toy drives for the people of Pine Ridge Reservation, half way houses, and women's centers. He has also played a key role in assisting other prisoners to display their art work across country, in order to promote prisoner art programs and increase prisoner self-confidence and esteem. This man has proven himself to be a compassionate human being and a true leader. I am especially concerned with Mr. Peltier's deteriorating health. He is now 55 years old, and suffers from a heart condition as well as diabetes. He has lost most of the vision in one eye due to poor medical care. He also has a jaw condition, which causes him constant pain and prevents him from moving his jaw or chewing his food. Mayo Clinic specialist, Dr. Keller has offered free treatment in prison facilities, but has been denied authorization to assist Mr. Peltier. All of these humanitarian issues weigh in favor of parole. Sincerely, V. General Support Letters from Community Organizations: We also need to start stockpiling general letters of support from every community organization we can reach. This has a double benefit. First, it educated these organizations about Leonard's case, and pulls them into our support network; and second, during an election year it is very important to have piles of CURRENT letters on letterheads that represent large numbers of angry voters. This letter should just be addressed to "all concerned US officials". That way we can use them for our work with Congress, meetings with Janet Reno, and our efforts to work with the White House and Presidential Wannabees. AGAIN, PLEASE KEEP A COPY OF THE LETTER AND SEND US THE ORIGINALS SO WE CAN COMPILE A BOUND COPY OF THEM AND SEND COPIES ALL OUT TOGETHER TO OFFICIALS WE ARE TRYING TO REACH. A sample letter is set forth here but feel free to change it or have the community group change it or start from scratch as they wish. The challenge here is to go to every labor union, civic group, student group, religious organization or congregation, lawyers or doctors' organizations, women's association, civil rights group etc., in your community that you can reach. Have them put the letter on their letterhead paper and send it back to us. If you know a person of status, such as a well-known local religious leader, or professor etc., an individual letter is also good. (While you are at it, have them all join you're delegation to visit your congressperson and senators. Make sure you have our fact sheet with you and other support letters as well. Again, these are on our web site, but if you need us to mail them to you, just give us a call. To: All Concerned United States Officials We wish to express our grave concern about the case of Mr. Leonard Peltier, a Native American leader who has now been incarcerated for some 24 years here in the United States. He has long been recognized as a political prisoner, by such human rights luminaries as, Amnesty International, the Archbishop Desmond Tutu, the Kennedy Memorial Center for Human Rights, the Rev. Jesse Jackson and, the Dalai Lama, the Archbishop of Canterbury and many others. He has the massive support of the Native American people of this country. More than any other person, he has come to symbolize the tragic and disturbing relationship between the United States government and its own Native citizenry. We are particularly disquieted by the clear indications of FBI misconduct in the prosecution of this case. Specifically, Mr. Peltier was extradited from Canada on the basis of an affidavit signed by a Ms. Myrtle Poor Bear, who claimed to be an eyewitness to the murders in question. She later admitted that she had never met Mr. Peltier, and had signed only after being terrorized by FBI officials. However, she was not permitted to testify about this matter at his trial. The other young trial witnesses were intimidated and coerced as well by FBI officers. Moreover, at the trial a key FBI witness changed his long-standing description of the vehicle involved in the shoot out, so as to unjustly link Mr. Peltier to the scene. Perhaps most chillingly, the FBI concealed from the defense a ballistic test report reflecting Mr. Peltier's innocence. It would seem clear enough that a gifted Native American leader has just served twenty- four years in prison for a crime he did not commit. Despite the above, Mr. Peltier has been denied a new trial and is now overdue for parole. He has served more time than most prisoners convicted of the same crimes. His conduct in prison has been exemplary and he has participated in numerous humanitarian and civic activities from behind bars. By way of illustration, he has helped to establish Native American scholarships, and special programs for Native American youth. He has served on the advisory board of the Rosenberg Fund for Children, and has sponsored children in Central America, organized the annual Christmas drive for the people of Pine Ridge Reservation, and promoted prisoner art programs. He is clearly a man of great compassion, and should have been set free long ago through the mechanisms of parole or clemency. Lastly, we note that Mr. Peltier is now 55 years of age and in deteriorating health. He suffers from a heart condition as well as diabetes. He has lost most of the vision in one eye due to poor medical care. He also has a jaw condition, which causes him constant pain and makes it impossible to chew his food properly or move his jaw. The prison medical staff has been unable to treat Mr. Peltier. Although a Mayo Clinic specialist has offered to assist, free of charge, within prison facilities, authorization has been denied. Soon it will be too late for justice in this tragic case. Should Mr. Peltier become disabled or die in prison, the damage to our relations with our Native American citizens will be irreversible. We ask that urgent action be taken to set Mr. Peltier free at long last so that he may share his gifts with his beloved people. We also ask that a thorough investigation of FBI misconduct in this case, and indeed with respect to the residents of Pine Ridge Reservation, be carried out at once. Until there is justice for all, our most dearly held concepts of democracy remain at risk. Respectfully, Call the White House Comments Line Today Demand Justice for Leonard Peltier! 202-456-1111 Leonard Peltier Defense Committee PO Box 583 Lawrence, KS 66044 785-842-5774 www.freepeltier.org To subscribe, send a blank message to < lpdc-on@mail-list.com > --------- "RE: Pressure Mounts for RCMP Inquiry" --------- Date: Tue, 22 Feb 2000 09:07:06 -0600 From: JRP Subj: Pressure mounts for RCMP inquiry (fwd) ---------- Forwarded message ---------- Date: Mon, 21 Feb 2000 18:28:44 -0800 From: Chris sovernet-l@lists.speakeasy.org Newsgroup: alt.native Sask. justice minister waits for RCMP investigation CBC WebPosted Mon Feb 21 20:19:07 2000 SASKATOON - The pressure is on Saskatchewan's minister of justice to launch a public inquiry into how Saskatoon police deal with native people. Calls for an inquiry come from aboriginal groups. Recently, the frozen bodies of two aboriginal men were found in Saskatoon five days apart. The RCMP are looking into those deaths. But two other deaths have been added to the investigation: one over the weekend, another that happened in January. But Chris Axworthy, the province's minister of justice, said on Monday that until the criminal investigation and any potential trials are over, there won't be any public inquiry. "The allegations are allegations and the RCMP will decide if a charge should be laid. It's important to proceed on a step-by-step basis," Axworthy said. Axworthy said any decisions on charges will be left up to the RCMP. He said aboriginal leaders shouldn't be concerned that the RCMP has taken over the police investigation. "There's no grounds for questioning the credibility or the effectiveness of the RCMP," Axworthy said. The man who died on Saturday was arrested on Friday night for drunkenness. Saskatoon Police Sgt. Glenn Thomson said after the man sobered up in a cell, he was sent home by cab. His body was found in the bedroom of his apartment the next morning. An autopsy will be conducted this week. The RCMP is also looking into the case of another aboriginal man found frozen to death a few blocks from his home on Jan. 19. There are reports he may also have been in police custody the same day he was found dead. RCMP won't confirm that. The Mounties were called in last week to investigate the deaths of two aboriginal men whose bodies were found outside the city on Jan. 29 and Feb. 3. Since then, another aboriginal man, Darrell Night, has said that two police officers drove him to the same area, took away his coat-- even though the temperature was well below zero-- and told him to get out of town. Saskatoon's Police Chief, Dave Scott, said he had no reason to link the deaths with the complaint by Night. The two officers involved in Night's complaint came forward last Monday of "their own free will," and were suspended for 30 days. Last week, Lawrence Joseph of the Federation of Saskatchewan Indian Nations said reports of police harassing aboriginals and dropping them off on the outskirts of Saskatoon are nothing new. He said Night's experience was not an isolated incident and the problem is widespread. "This is nothing short of blatant abuse of authority, abuse of power, and anybody who takes their dog out like that would be charged," said Joseph. --------- "RE: Native Prisoner" --------- Date: Mon, 6 March 2000 20:55:07 -0500 From: "Janet Smith" Subj: Prisoners' Pen Pal List 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.geocities.com/CapitolHill/9118/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 jansatlcom.net@mindspring.com. My thanks to Laura Brooks for giving this list a home on the web. -- - - - Bartelson, Christopher John Bland, Kenneth Lee #187-588 #286-968 PO Box 5500 PO Box 511 Chillicothe, OH 45601 Columbus, OH 43216 Date of Birth: 1/11/43 Date of Birth: 10/9/49 Ancestry: Cherokee Ancestry: Chippewa-Yellow Hand Bible, Jr., William Arnold Bobb, David L. #329-595 # S1902 PO Box 511 Box A Columbus, OH 43216 Bellefonte, PA 16823 Date of Birth: 7/16/71 Ancestry: Cherokee Ancestry: Cherokee/Blackfoot Billheimer, Timothy Edward Bobby, Steve #R145-111 #164-828 FHC PO Box 4501 PO Box 511 Lima, OH 45802 Columbus, OH 43216 Date of Birth: 10/29/60 Ancestry: Cherokee -- - - - 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. 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. Janet Smith Yufala Star Clan of the Muskogee Creek Owlstar Trading Post -- www.owlstar.com --------------------------------- Please especially remember - this is the "Year of Leonard". Leonard Peltier #89637-132, Box 1000, Leavenworth, KS 66052 --------------------------------- Write Eddie Hatcher directly at North Carolina Central Prison: Eddie Hatcher, 1300 Western Blvd., Raleigh --------- "RE: A Hundred Years Ago" --------- Date: Tue, 29 Feb 2000 22:19:41 -0500 From: Barbara Landis Subj: History: A Hundred Years Ago - Carlisle - Feb. 29, 1900 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, February 23, 1900 NUMBER 17 ================================================ CAN HE CARE? ---- Among so many, can he care? Can special love be everywhere? A myriad homes - a myriad ways - And God's eye over every place? I asked: My soul be thought of this - In just that very place of his. Where he hath put and keepeth you, God hath no other thing to do! A.D.T. WHITNEY. ============= WASHINGTON. ----- The Washington's Birthday issue of the Youth's Companion shows on its cover George Washington walking in his garden with Nellie Custis. They have paused among the flowers and she is looking into his eyes with pride and fastening a nosegay to his coat. The scene is typical of the effect of the character and work of that great man. All through the century and more since they two trod together the prim, sweet rose garden of Mount Vernon, the perfume of his gracious ways has sweetened the air of national life and America has looked up to him with pride, fastening to the mantle of his memory the nosegay of her veneration and love. D. ============== GIRLS OF SCHOOL ROOMS 10 AND 11 HAVE AN INTERESTING CHALLENGE DEBATE. ------------ An Indian Soldier Boy Talks. There was a lively challenge-debate at the Susan Literary Society last Friday night between the girls of number 10 and 11. Subject: Resolved that poverty causes more crime than wealth. Affirmative, Lilian St. Cyr, Kate Johnson, Jennie DeRosier, No. 11; Negative, Minnie Reed, Emma Sky, Bertha Pradt, No. 10. Minnie Reed's vigorous negations were often interrupted by laughter and applause, and brought in a verdict in favor of that side by just one point. The Judges were Mrs. Canfield, Misses Pearl, LaChapelle and Mrs. DeLoss. Mrs. Given of the visiting committee was unable to be present. Miss Morton complimented the society upon its improvement over the former sessions of this term and upon setting the example of responsive quotations at roll call which is now followed by one of our other literary societies. There were a number of visitors including one of our soldier boys, Hugh Leider. Mr. Leider gave a manly talk in a manly way. He said: "My sisters, I will be the only Indian among the troops soon to sail from New York for the Philippines. I am an Indian; I am an American citizen. I go to fight under the flag I love and I am willing to give my life to the country which has done so much for me. May I never come back. Do not forget me!" The president, Sara Smith, speaking for the society thanked him for his words and sent best wishes to all our boys whom he might meet. One of the girls then moved that we sing a verse of "America" and another "God be with you till we meet again. Both motions carried and so Mr. Hugh takes with him his sisters' songs of patriotism and tender and holy feeling to help him in the perils of a soldiers' life. ================= SOME FEBRUARY BIRTHDAYS. George Washington, born Feb. 22, 1732. Abraham Lincoln, born Feb. 12, 1809. James Russell Lowell, born Feb. 22, 1819. Henry W. Longfellow, born Feb. 27, 1807. AT THE SCHOOL. Mrs. Pratt, Mrs. Standing, Miss Ely, Miss Carter, Miss Wood. ================================================ (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. ------------------------------------------------ Price: -- 10 Cents per Year ================================================ Entered in the P.O. at Carlisle as second class mail matter. ================================================ Address INDIAN HELPER, Carlisle, Pa. Miss M. Burgess, Supt. of Printing. ================================================ 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. ================================================ "Don't rub your sore eye with your hand," says the specialist, "your hand may not be surgically clean." That's good! The buttermaker's hand should be "surgically clean" -[Rural New Yorker. A friend of the girls and one very much interested in their welfare was heard to say that she did wish the girls would not swing their arms so when marching, and that they would hold up their heads and keep step. Miss Ronaldson, of New York, has been a visitor at the school. Among her Indian girl friends is Ada Sockbeson, whom she met one summer in Maine. Miss Ronaldson says that her grandfather was one of the first white men in the State of New York to give his residence as a school for Indians. The Commencement Red Man will contain several portraits of the most distinguished people present, and a full account of the proceedings. The Red Man has a unique and interesting Washington correspondent in the person of Rev. John Eastman, who writes his news in the Dakota tongue, which is translated for the columns of the Red Man by Mrs. Eastman. The latter learned to read and speak the Dakota language perfectly in her several years' experience among the Sioux Indians in Dakota. The Saint Cecelia Club gave a recital in Lawrence, Kansas, which is of special interest to us in that the Saint Cecelia Club is composed of Miss Annie Moore's music class of Lawrence, and we all know Miss Moore, who was our piano teacher once upon a time. We notice by the program the name of Grace Dixon several times. We remember Miss Grace as she "use to was" when her papa, now Assistant Superintendent of Haskell, was our resident physician. On Saturday evening, Miss Senseney entertained the Seniors of the choir, when popping corn by the open fire, flash light pictures, silhouette cutting and other amusements were indulged in. It was a homey occasion, with music and chat. Rose Poodry and Alice McCarthy played a mandolin duet, and Fanny Harris and Bertha Pierce a pretty waltz duet on the piano. John Warren sang a solo and there was a generous sprinkling of chorus singing. Miss Barr says this is the best winter for health since she has been at the school, and that means several years. Some attribute the good health to the lack of cold weather and snow. Others say it is the skating pond. The latter has played an important part in the health of the school, that is certain. Miss Barr claims that she has not lost a single night's rest on account of sickness of pupils, this entire season. Miss Lida Standing, who is taking a course in nursing at the Pennsylvania Hospital, Philadelphia, is home on a brief vacation. She has been suffering from a sprained wrist which is fast recovering. Her friends gave her a warm welcome, and we are glad to learn that she is making a success of her work. Like most in her profession she is enthusiastic and earnest. Dr. Eastman is making his first trip among the boys in country homes. He has been spending the week in New Jersey. He is going to enjoy the work and appreciates the opportunity his visiting will afford to get acquainted with the boys individually and to gain an insight into situations which he could get in no other way. There are difficulties and misunderstandings to straighten out, but there are more pleasant, hopeful and profitable features than disagreeable things to contend with. Mr. Dagenett has been with him for a few days. The monthly school entertainment held Wednesday evening was quite up to the average. There were several excellent numbers. At the close Superintendent Seger, of the Colony School, Oklahoma, made a brief address full of humor and wise sayings. He had noticed in Washington that some of the doors had on them "Push" and "Pull," and if we ever amounted to anything in life we would have to push our way into usefulness. He told how he spoke his first pieces at school in barefeet, and how he went to his seat crying and was told that Daniel Webster did the same thing, which encouraged him greatly. If a boy has to wear patched pantaloons he liked to see the patches on the knees. Why is it that Sloyd boys are in demand in the shops, over the others who have not had the training? Simply because they have learned to work by DIRECTION. They have ears and have learned to hear. They have eyes and they have learned to see. They have hands and they have learned to use simple tools, which makes them handy at the more complicated tools and machinery. They have been taught to measure accurately, and to be careful and neat and QUICK. A boy with all these good qualities has the beginning of any good trade he may choose. There are some large "sloydless" boys in shops who are so awkward that they make themselves ashamed several times a day. ================================================ (p 3) The ice was thin. And she fell in. - Alberta. Skating was excellent the early part of the week. Miss Luckenbach is visiting friends at Lititz. Mrs. Craft, mother of Mrs. Thompson, is with us again. Mrs. Canfield will start a class in art needlework on Monday. Washington's birthday was a holiday for some at the school. George Paisano left for his home in New Mexico, Wednesday night. There were lakes all around yesterday morning after the storm. Coach Warner is coming to take charge of the athletics of our school. Emily Peake, '93, is here from White Earth, Minnesota, on her way to Washington. Mr. Standing and Mr. Seger spent Wednesday on the Battlefield of Gettysburg. Too much noise in the gallery to suit some of the people at the entertainment Wednesday. Is that so girls? When a girl retains her maiden name her maiden aim is to change it? If you do not let everybody know that you are somebody, nobody will think that you are anybody. Saturday's storm was almost a blizzard, and yet we have had hardly a taste of real winter this year. Master John Bakeless did not go with his papa and mamma to Milroy. He was a brave little man to stay behind. Dr. J.P. Welsh, Principal of the Bloomsburg Normal School, was a guest of Professor Bakeless on Friday last. The Band boys are excused from work from this on to the time of their starting on the big tour of the United States. Miss Barclay is still ill at her home on North Hanover Street, and she has the sympathy of her friends at the school. The senior girls have been invited, through Frank Teeple, corresponding secretary, to visit the Standard Literary Society this evening. Our line of march from the various quarters to assembly hall is very nearly a quarter of a mile long as the students march - two by two. Mr. and Mrs. C.K. Bell, of Salem, Virginia, were among the callers on Monday, with Dr. and Mrs. Long, of Carlisle, whose guests they were. Mrs. Lininger, teacher of one of the advanced classes of the sewing department has been sick a couple of days, but is better and will be able to resume her duties. As soon as it stopped raining yesterday morning the "play-marble" small boys found the best ground, and that is on the gravel in the shop court. Had not several boys volunteered to work yesterday we could not have brought the HELPER out on time this week, owing to the holiday given the school on Washington's birthday. The Man-on-the-band-stand thanks them for their offer for he does not like to disappoint the readers of the HELPER. We are represented at the Young Men's Christian Association Convention, at Williamsport, by several from our school Association. Grace Banks took a notion to slide down the banister at the dining-hall on Monday. She is nursing a sprained ankle at the hospital. Six boys and six girls were confirmed by the Episcopal Bishop Talbot, at the St. John's Church, Carlisle, Tuesday evening after which they took supper with the Rector, Mr. McMillan. Wednesday night's storm caused the dam to back water so that it flooded the surrounding meadow. Relief had to be given, and we fear it is "good-bye skating pond" for this year. Visitors for this evening: Invincibles, Some one in Miss Barclay's place and Miss Campbell; Standards, Mr. Beitzel and Mr. Thompson; Susans, Misses Carter and Burgess. Miss McCook, who has been visiting friends in town left for Philadelphia this week. During her stay, her numerous friends at the school secured several glimpses of her genial presence. On Monday, Mrs. Bakeless received the intelligence of the death of her father at Milroy. Professor and Mrs. Bakeless and Catherine left the same day for the scene of the sad event. William Colombe's letter, published last week, has attracted wide attention. His picture appeared in the Philadelphia Sunday Press the full length of the great page, with quite an account of his life. Superintendent J.J. Seger, of the Colony Indian School, Oklahoma, is with us. Mr. Seger is a man of wide experience with the Indians, and is full of interesting experiences of a long life among the Cheyenne and Arapahoes. Some of the little girls are showing a helpful spirit. When they come home from school they run to the matron and say: "What can I do? I want to help. Can't you find some work for me to do?" We have had so much job work recently that the little hand press used twenty years ago on our first little paper and which has been shelved as a curiosity for a number of years was brought into active use. The Red Man should go to every Chief and Head Man of every tribe of Indians in the United States. They cannot read? Don't be mistaken! The progressive chiefs have intelligent interpreters who read to them the daily news. Little Nina Tallchief has been kept from school for several days on account of a cold which slightly affected one of her eyes. The people of the quarters say it is a pleasure to have Nina around all day for she is so obedient and polite. The calisthenic drill is bringing the regular classes into good form again. It takes several months for the new ones to work up to a creditable standing, but Mr. Thompson is patient and painstaking, and all get the benefit, not for show but for health. ================================================ (page 4) ====================================================== THE PASSING OF STIYA KOWACURA. --------------- From The Native American, published at the Phoenix Indian School, Arizona, we clip part of a beautiful tribute to Stiya, who for several years was a pupil with us. This interesting paper says: We are very sad and cannot keep back the scalding tears, because our pupil, comrade, friend has taken a little journey. And yet we should not feel so grieved, for Stiya's soul is not dead. The casket in which God placed the beautiful spirit has broken asunder, and the spirit is now free. It has escaped from bondage, that is all; and why should we weep because a soul is free? Stiya's last words, before she became unconscious, were: "I've been out of school so long I'm afraid I cannot graduate." But she has not only graduated; she has passed the final examination and been promoted. It seems to me it is not sacrilege, or if so, easily forgivable, to believe there are some individuals, even in point of character, favorites of heaven. I think Stiya was a favorite and justly so. I have known her to rise after taps had sounded sweet and clear, and every one was sleeping, and steal away to the sewing room, where she would work until after midnight on Christmas gifts for her friends. And this not once but many, many times until she was detected and promised not to do so again. Her body was always frail - indeed, she has been dying for years - but her soul was sweet and sunny and her heart as large as humanity. Rev. Mr. McAfee delivered the funeral sermon and his words were beautifully choice and as comforting as a message staight from heaven. There was not a dry eye in all the vast assemblage as the casket, covered with flowers was carried away; while the band played a sweet, sweet dirge, and hearts almost broken gave silent tribute to her we loved. We shall miss you, Stiya dear. ============== THE GOOD FARMER IS KING. ------------ As Spring is approaching and already reparations are being made for several hundred of our boys and girls to spend the summer in country homes, the following from the Chemawa American, published at the largest Indian School on the Pacific coast, is apropos: You may call farmers hay seeds, but the farmer who knows how to farm is a king. Five acres of strawberries properly cultivated will yield a greater income than three fourths of the harness-makers, carpenters, blacksmiths or engineers are making. Yet so many Indian boys and white boys too, prefer trades to agriculture, gardening or stock raising. Are they wise? Fifteen acres of potatoes properly cultivated will yield 3,000 bushels and at 25 cents per bushel are worth $750. That is more salary than mechanics generally receive. Five old cows properly handled with their increase in five years, will bring their owner an income of $1000 per year. The American claims that farming, gardening, fruit growing and stock raising are more beneficial to the Indains than trades or professions. But it is absurd to think any one can farm or raise stock, without first learning how. The fellows who do not succeed at farming are those who do not know how to farm or are too lazy to work. It is a good thing for farmers to have some knowledge of blacksmithing and carpentering also, so they can do their own repair work. It takes brains along with muscle to be successful farmers, gardeners or stockmen as well as expert mechanics, and the idea that any ignoramus can be a prosperous tiller of the soil is entirely wrong. The American desires to see more of the young Indian men of this country learning and mastering the art of farming, gardening, fruit growing and stock raising, it will pay them better than trades or professions. =============== A BOY'S RELIGION. ------ It was the late Henry Drummond who once said to a great company of boys: "Boys, if you are going to be Christians, be Christians as boys, and not as your grandmothers. A grandmother has to be a Christian as a grandmother, and that is the right and beautiful thing for her: but if you cannot read your Bible by the hour as your grandmother can, or delight in meeting as she can, don't think that you are necessarily a bad boy. When you are your grandmother's age you will have your grandmother's religion." ============= Enigma. I am made of 12 letters. My 6, 5, 12 fishermen use. My 3, 8, 11 boys may become. My 7, 2, 4, 10, 12 is a sky traveller. My 1, 5, 9, 10, 6, 12 fastens things together. My whole is what the Carlisle Indian School is thinking of these days. ---------- ANSWER TO LAST WEEK'S ENIGMA: Play marbles. =+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+ For more information about the Carlisle Indian School students, email Barbara Landis: blandis@epix.net or visit CIIS Research page at http://www.epix.net/~landis --------- "RE: My Father's Boys" --------- Date: Sun, 09 Jan 2000 21:12:00 GMT From: "rustywire" Subj: My Father's Boys.... Newsgroup: alt.native About a week ago I had the chance to have lunch for a friend who is retiring after a long in time in law enforcement. I almost did not make it, getting there late and found a table with three people sitting there. I sat down and met them, they came a place near Many Farms, midway to Round Rock and Rough Rock, they told me they were "orphans" because they lived in an area between all the chapter boundaries but had chosen Many Farms as their place, I guess. They were Navajo and had come quite a ways to have this meal for their relation. It was this table I had visit with my Father's boys. You see sitting there, it was like going back to my youth to a time when my father would come home and talk about the boys at the Flag Bordertown dorm where he worked as an aide. You have understand my father was a quiet man, but he loved to talk about traditional things, his experiences and wanted to preserve a little of what he knew so he started an Indian Club and taught these young people how to dance and sing. After introductions, I found that Tsinijinnie and his wife were there during the time my father was there. They are school teachers now, he is at Rough Rock and she is at Kayenta. He heard my name and asked me, do you know this person. I told him he was my father. He then said to me, your father taught me to sing, to dance. I looked him, his hair is going gray, but he said I taught my children what he taught me and so now they know these things too. I felt humbled by his words, because he honored my father by this. His wife also was there during that time, their children are now grown. Seated next to me was a man, Larry, and water engineer by chance, who got in his truck in Phoenix and drove many hours to come North to share this meal with his uncle who was retiring. His hair is a little gray and his smile was easy. He spoke about the dorm, and remembered the old pine trees just outside the fence in forest, there he had put up some wire cable and set up a "bucking barrel". He said he learned to ride bulls on that barrel, and the dorm attendants would take it down, and they would put it up again to ride. I suppose that barrel is still there just South of the dorm. I remembered his name, as well as many others and we spoke about some of them. It was like going back to when children played, they called themselves "E-Yeis", a child's funny name. I sat there and saw the kids of my youth, young and strong and full of hopes, dreams and a smile thinking about those times. My father spent many hours with them and many others, their names come to mind, some have gone on and others have left to who knows where. My father was a simple man, he loved to sing old Navajo songs, and made many outfits and practiced his singing over and over again. He made feathers dance in a basket and he could dance ye-be-che again and again teaching the young kids how to move, and to make sounds like a hooting owl, a blue jay. and others. I can see him getting to perform for the annual shows. At times he went to the parent teachers nites for some of these kids, one time I remember he walked clear across for one of the Sloan boys, those guys from Marble Canyon, and worried about others. My friend who was retiring was one of them, and having a meal with them was visiting my father, he lives through their memory and they gave me a look at those times from long ago. There were many we talked about, the Whitehat brothers, the Sloans boys, the Yellowmans from Coppermine and many other and where they have gone I don't know, but my father spoke about them in his old age pulling out the school yearbooks and pictures and speaking about them. He passed away in 1991. Having lunch with them was nice, I can't remember what we ate, but it was a good meal. I guess it is that way with such things. We go on and hopefully do some things right and I am glad to say I am my father's son. Francis Cambridge, some called him Jackie Gleason, but he didn't like that too much but now when I look at his old pictures he did look a little like him. Anyway that is what I saw when I sat with Larry Gene, Stella & Leroy Tsinijinnie and Andy Tom, a part of the ones they called, "E-Yeis".... .. rustywire --------- "RE: Poem: For My People, I Live" --------- Date: Thu, 18 Mar 1999 11:51:23 -0800 From: Nancy Thomas Subj: "FOR MY PEOPLE, I LIVE" ------- FORWARD, Original message follows ------- From: Larry Kibby "FOR MY PEOPLE, I LIVE" In the valleys of times gone by, I hear the echoes of pain and sorrow, The echoes of beatings, tortures and deaths, I feel the tears of my people, Whose hearts bled for me, And in their honor, For my people, I live. In the valleys of times gone by, There lays false hope, lies and broken promises, And a land becomes covered with blood, And I feel the tears of my people, Whose hearts bled for me, And in their honor, For my people I live. In the valleys of times gone by, There are burial grounds filled with my people. A land filled with the old, young and children, Infants and unborn babies, Even the sick and dying, Burial grounds of my people, All Murdered for gold, silver, oil, Blacken hearts of greed, That destroyed my people and their way of life, And in their honor, For my people, I live. In the valleys of times gone by, There are food gathering grounds, Medicine grounds, Fishing grounds, Hunting grounds, Ceremonial grounds, Sacred grounds, Places of life and death, The land of my people, Who lived and died for me, And in their honor, For my people, I live, Now and forever. Wednesday, March 17, 1999 by: kibbey@sierra.net http://www.geocities.com/CapitolHill/Lobby/7027 "Larry Kibby", Program Director Western Shoshone Historic Preservation Society Elko Indian Colony 1581 Pinenut Circle Elko, Nevada 89801-2577 --------- "RE: Verse: Hawaiian Book of Days" --------- Date: Wed, 2 Mar 2000 03:35:00 GMT From: Debbie Sanders Subj: Hawaiian Book of Days A HAWAIIAN BOOK OF DAYS, week of March 12-18 MALAKI March Nana 12 Every life is precious; every spirit unique and irreplaceable. 13 A Journey of the spirit is never truly finished -- its paths continually unfold before us. 14 A life well spent is like the banyan tree -- anchored to the land by many roots. 15 The rain is a blessing of renewal upon the earth. 16 Arise, oh Sun, and warm the land with your passage! 17 Though I have no wings, my spirit flies upon the wind! 18 Strength is the warrior within. (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: Sun, 5 March 15:39:14 -0 From: Gary Smith (gars@netcom.com) Subj: Upcoming Events Since the question has been asked... Janet and I will not be hosting Blackjack Mountain Festival this coming April, nor are there plans to host another event. =================================== Date: Sun, 20 Feb 2000 01:39:07 -0500 From: Unit 4 Subj: Radford University Pow Wow Newsgroup: soc.culture.native The Native American Heritage Association (NAHA) of Radford University presents in 13th Annual NAHA Pow Wow, March 31 and April 1, 2000. FREE ADMISSION: INDOOR EVENT This year's theme: Honoring the Elders MC: John Blackfeather Jefferies Arena Director: Garland Humble Bear Lesson Drums: Star Wheel (northern), Red Heart (southern) Head Man Dancer: Ernie Carlson (Begay) Head Lady Dancer: Jane Richardson Special Guest: Lowery Begay; hoop dancing and flute music Special Events: Gourd Dance and Snake Dance Other drums and singers welcome, as are all dancers. Food by Oxendine Catering 20+ Vendors (sorry, no more vendor space available) Special events and vendor activities for kids. Give-aways, blanket dances and raffles. The Vevita Color Guard of Washington DC will be presenting the colors and honoring their fallen founder and fellow warrior Norman Drywater. Location: Dedmon Athletic Center, Radford University, Radford, VA 4 miles north of I-81 from exit 109, follow signs in town. Doors open from 6 to 11 PM Friday March 31, and 9 AM to 10 PM Saturday April 1. For more info: naha-clb@runet.edu or call 540-381-8538 =================================== Date: Sun, 20 Feb 2000 15:38:19 GMT From: "Marian Powell" Subj: Late Winter/Early Spring Pow Wow's Buffalo Hearts' planned events: April 28-30 Guntersville, AL United Cherokee Intertribal (Christina is the outgoing princess) =================================== Date: Wed, 16 Feb 2000 14:15:25 -0600 From: "Vikki M. Howard" Subj: upcoming events Mailing List: Minnesota Indian Affairs Sweet Honey in the Rock Millennium Concerts Fundraising Brunch for the Minnesota Coalition for Battered Women Sunday , March 12, 2000 10am - 1pm Martin Luther King Center Saint Paul, Minnesota Brunch $25.00/ Brunch and Concert $55 - $75 Hosted by the Mississippi Market and Screamin O's Reserve early for the Sweet Honey in the Rock Concerts: Saturday , March 11 at 8:00pm Sunday , March 12 at 3:oopm AVA Special Events @ 612 673-9230 for more information ++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++ Winona LaDuke Thursday, March 9, 2000 @ 8:00pm Macalester College - Weyerhaeuser Chapel - 1600 Grand Avenue Saint Paul, Minnesota Winona LaDuke will discuss her nonfiction debut, "All Our Relatives: Native Struggles for Land and Life". (South End Press) This event is free and open to the public. ++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++ University of Minnesota - Twin Cities Campus An Evening with LESLIE MARMON SILKO The 41st Annual Joseph Warren Beach Memorial Lecture Tuesday, March 14, 2000 at 8:00pm Twin Cities Campus, West Bank Ted Mann Concert Hall A reception will follow this FREE event. No advance tickets required. For more information : 612-625-3363 Presented by the English Dept. and Co-sponsored by the College of Liberal Arts. =================================== Date: Mon, 24 Jan 2000 09:41:22 -0800 (PST) From: LAME HAWK Subj: listing April 26 to April 30, 2000: Second annual Intertribal Pow Wow, Calhoun County FairGrounds, Anniston, Al. MC Gary Smith Arena Dir. Buck Tucker Head Man: Don Redbear, Northern Cheyenne Head Lady: Donna Dulaney, Cherokee Host Drum: Greywolf singers, Choctaw from Philadelphia, Miss Native American Honor Guard and Warrior Society Admission Price $3.00 Students and Teachers-No charge on Students Days (wed.-fri.) Children under 5 and Seniors-Free All scouts (boy and girl) Admission $1.00 plus a donation of one of the following items for the animal shelter in Anniston: Dog or Cat food, Grooming items, old towels or carpet, Pet Toys, Food Pans. No Drugs or Alcohol Allowed All Dancers Welcome All Guest Drums Welcome Students will see and learn the history on the Lakota Lodge, There will be demonstrations of early Iron Forging, Demonstrations on beadwork, Dreamcatchers, Healing with natural herbs, The Anniston Museum of Natural History will be on hand with Birds of Prey and a lecture on these and other animals. The Calhoun County Animal Shelter will also be on hand for animal adoption and to speak on the importance of pet care. For more information or for a vendor application: Please contact Mark or Ruth Davis at (256)236-0679 Or e-mail at ravenspiritwalker@yahoo.com lamehawk@yahoo.com =================================== Date: Wed, 01 Mar 2000 00:09:57 -0800 From: Lee Davis Subj: California Indian Conference 2000 [announcement] California Indian Conference Chaffey College, Rancho Cucamonga October 14 & 15, 2000 Call for Papers Abstracts due September 1, 2000 Advance Registration $30 flat fee for everyone The California Indian Conference is an annual gathering for the exchange of views and information among academics, American Indians, students, and other community members. Any topic reflecting humanistic, scientific, artistic, or social concern relating to California Indian peoples and their cultural heritage is welcome. Past topics have included literatures, storytelling, poetry, education, basketry, linguistics, anthropology, archeology, law, repatriation, history, casinos, Hollywood, tribal recognition, song and dance, and social and political issues. Anyone interested in giving a paper or making a presentation should send an abstract of 150 words to Dr. LeMay at the address below by September 1, 2000. Abstracts received after that date will be considered only if space is available on the program. Please be sure to include an address, email address, and phone number and state if you are available on both days. Inquiries are also welcome. We are pleased that the journal Studies in American Indian Literatures has agreed to publish a special issue on our conference. Keep this in mind as you conceptualize your presentations. Your conference paper will be approximately 7 pages long, while you should prepare a 20-30 page paper for the journal. Conference Registration is a flat fee of $30.00 for everyone. To register in advance, send your name, mailing address, institutional and/or tribal affiliation, phone number, fax number, and email address to: California Indian Conference Registration or Abstract Professor LaMay English Department Chaffey College 5885 Haven Avenue Rancho Cucamonga CA 91737-3002 Phone: 909-941-2162 Fax: 909-941-2783 E-Mail: CIC@chaffey.cc.ca.us ++++++++++++++++++++++++++++ California Information Center http://bss.sfsu.edu/calstudies/ Dr. Lee Davis Director, California Studies Program Director, Pacific Regional Humanities Center Planning Team 377 Science Building San Francisco State University San Francisco, CA 94132 Office: 415-338-6583 Fax: 415-338-7047 email: davislee@sfsu.edu =================================== 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: Sun, 09 Jan 2000 00:31:03 -0800 From: Barbara Landis Subj: Powwow 2000: Remembering Carlisle Indian School To all my weekly INDIAN HELPER recipients: POWWOW 2000 Plans are in full swing for the upcoming Memorial Day weekend powwow at the Carlisle Barracks, site of the former Carlisle Indian School. Take a minute to check out what's happening in Carlisle May 26-May 28 by visiting the web site at http://www.epix.net/~landis/powwow.html. There is still vendor space available for anyone interested in participating. Registration forms for dancers and vendor applications may be downloaded at the web site. Other activities surrounding the events include special features in the May 2000 issue of Central Pennsylvania Magazine, and a film festival featuring Native American films at the Carlisle Theatre in downtown Carlisle. Hope to see you in May! Barbara =================================== Date: Mon, 6 Mar 2000 17:20:29 -0800 From: Nancy Thomas Subj: Reminder: Winter Gathering 2000 on MARCH 18TH AND 19TH 2000 ------- FORWARD, Original message follows ------- From: "Kriss Gadomski" Mailing List: Paths-L Just a reminder of The Ohio Center for Native American Affairs' Winter Gathering 2000 on MARCH 18TH AND 19TH 2000. As previously announced the date has been changed from the 11th and 12th due to scheduling conficlts. The Gathering will be held on the Fort Hayes Career Center Campus located at 546 Jack Gibbs Boulevard, Columbus Ohio, in Room 106 of the Health Education Building. The main feature of this Gathering is a drum making workshop. It is not too late to order your kit. Cost of the kit is $50.00, that includes the cedar drum round, elk hide, and drum stick materials. Email us at the address listed below. THE CUT OFF FOR ORDERING DRUM MATERIALS IS MARCH 7TH. You may bring your own materials. There will also be a Community Circle so bring your own project and work among friends. There will be quilting, beading, and basket making. Come to work or come to teach and share! The Burial Rights Support Group will be there working on the Peltier Quilt and on shaws. There is no cost to attend the Winter Gathering. Donations will be accepted to help cover the cost of the food provided and to help cover administrative costs and scholarship costs. Email us at ocnaa@yahoo.com for further information! Thanks! Kristine Gadomski e-mail: krissg@infinet.com =================================== Date: Fri, 03 Dec 1999 16:42:15 -0520 From: "Deborah Richards" Subj: submission to Wotanging-Ikche--nanews Gary, I received this posting from the H-Amindian Digest. Hope all is well. Debbie Richards ------- FORWARD, Original message follows ------- Subj: SYMP: Relating Black and Indian (Hi)stories, Dartmouth College, 4.20-22.00 "Eating Out of the Same Pot" Relating Black and Indian (Hi)stories A Cross-cultural Symposium at Dartmouth College April 20-22, 2000 The El Hajj Malik El Shabazz African American Center, the African and African American Studies Program, and the Native American Studies Program at Dartmouth College invite you to participate in a unique symposium the weekend of April 20-22, 2000. This symposium will explore the complex relations, histories and experiences shared by Africans/African Americans and Native Americans in the United States. Academics, creative artists, and activists from a variety of disciplines and communities will be speaking on this subject from professional and personal perspectives. Topics include: Black-Native literature; shared and overlapping histories; political organizing and social change; mixed-race identity formation and negotiation; symbolic representations of Blacks by Indians and Indians by Blacks; and contemporary political issues and tensions. In addition to panel presentations and discussion sessions, there will also be a photography exhibition and films related to Black and Native identities and histories. Speakers will include, among esteemed others: Historians: Theda Perdue and Jack Forbes Literary Scholars: Robert Warrior, Sharon Holland, and Ron Welburn Writer/Activist: Jewelle Gomez Political Theorist: David Wilkins Legal Theorist: Russel Barsh Cultural Critic: Ward Churchill Community Organizer: Don Davenport Genealogist: Angela Walton-Raji Filmmaker: Malinda Maynor For a complete list of speakers and general information, visit the Shabazz Center website at Dartmouth College (which will be up after November 20th): http://www.dartmouth.edu/~aam/ Choose the "Shabazz Center" selection. You may also contact conference organizers by email: Tiya Miles, African and African American Studies/ Native American Studies, Dartmouth College: Tiya.A.Miles@Dartmouth.edu Celia Naylor-Ojurongbe, Women's Studies, University of New Mexico: celia@nmia.com Diandra Benally, Native American Students at Dartmouth: Diandra.D.Benally@Dartmouth.edu Heather McMillan, Native American Students at Dartmouth: Heather.L.McMillan@Dartmouth.edu Shasta Smith, Afro-American Society, Dartmouth College Shasta.T.Smith@Dartmouth.edu =================================== 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 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) 609-7011. 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: Mon, 7 Feb 2000 20:29:41 EST From: LtLBearWmn@aol.com Subj: POWWOW LISTING -- please. 5th ANNUAL GATHERING OF THE PEOPLE POW WOW JULY 22 and 23, 2000 THE NATIVE AMERICAN FOUNDATION OF WESTERN INDIANA IN CONJUNCTION WITH THE VIGO COUNTY CONSERVATION CLUB OF VIGO COUNTY INDIANA (TERRE HAUTE AREA) TRADERS OPEN THE HOST DANCING 10:00 A.M. 12:00 NOON MC: BOBBY LAW, Inola, OK HEAD VETERAN: TBA HEAD MAN DANCER: FRED WARBONNETT, Jacksonville, IL HEAD LADY DANCER: SHARON KINCADE, Athens, IL ARENA DIRECTOR: TBA DRUMS: TBA STORYTELLER: MAX HAFFNER, Lafayette, IN ****ALL DANCERS WELCOME**** CLUB GROUNDS LOCATED 1 1/10 NORTH OF US 40, EAST OF TERRE HAUTE AND WEST OF BRAZIL, INDIANA NORTH OF US 40 AT JUCTION 340 AND MIAMI GARDEN ROAD. NORTH ON MIAMI GARDENS FROM US 40 AND 340 JUNCTION, APPROXIMATELY 1 + 1/10 MILE TO FIRST CROSS ROADS (GROTTO ROAD) TURN WEST APPROXIMATELY 1/4 TO 1/2 MILE TO CLUB GROUNDS. PUBLIC ADMISSION $2.00 PER PERSON CHILDREN UNDER 10 FREE FREE PARKING FOR INFORMATION CONTACT: NORMAN OR VICKI RAINBOLT 6909 WEST COUNTY ROAD 900 NORTH BRAZIL, IN 47834 812+877-4670 NEITHER CONSERVATION CLUB OR NATIVE AMERICAN FOUNDATION RESPONSIBLE FOR ACCIDENTS TO PERSON OR PROPERTY NOR THEFT OF PROPERTY. =================================== Date: Fri, 25 Feb 2000 22:16:00 -0800 (PST) From: stephen beamer Subj: Aug.26-27,2000 Gathering Gary, Please add this to your events list for this year. I thank you for adding it last year. It was a great success. Lets hope the second is greater than the first. Wado! Osdaiga. Stephen Beamer 2nd. INTERNATIONAL INTERTRIBAL TRADITIONAL GATHERING To be held at CAMP SERTOMA, in Indianapolis, Indiana. on ( 52 ) or Brookville Road, and German Church Road, 4 Miles East of 465. Will be well marked from Brookville Road Exit. PUBLIC INVITED - BRING YOUR LAWN CHAIRS HEAD VETERAN - Brings The Wind - Stephen Beamer - of Indiana HOST DRUM - Black Swamp Singers - Newbreman, Ohio LEAD SINGERS - Matt.Wynk - 12, and Justin Baker 15 GRAND ENTRY & DANCE TIMES are: Saturday 26th.12:30 to 4:30 & 7:00 till ???? SUNDAY 27th. 12:30 to 4:00, with give away following. EVERYONE HAS TO FURNISH THERE OWN SEATING. Admission is $5.00 a person, Children Under 12 Admitted Free ( Accompanied by an Adult ) Parking will be Free. No Pets Around The Dance Arena, or Trading Areas. Physically Challenged K-9 assistance exempt. No pets allowed at any time in the Dance Arena. NO, CAMERAS OR VIDEO RECORDERS PERMITTED. NO ALCOHOL, DRUGS, FIREARMS, or POLITICS ON THE GROUNDS. NO EXCEPTIONS. Primitive Camping - $5.00 for weekend, no fires, unless you furnish your own wood and a way to contain it. TRADER INFORMATION call - 317-356-5187, ask for Jim or Happy. ( 36 ) trader booths and ( 3 ) food vendors are our limit. Volunteers will be appreciated. Contact # same as above. Not Responsible for Accidents, Damage, or Theft on the Grounds. NAIA of Indiana, Reserves the right to ( eject ) or refuse admission for this Gathering. Please come and join us and share your Native American Traditions with us, as we honor the dancing in both directions, to honor all. Coordinated By: The Native American Indian Association of Indiana,Inc.A Not for Profit Organization. 1440 S.Hawthorne Lane Indianapolis,Indiana 46203-3801 Co-Directors Wohali Standing Black Bear-Jim Donnelly & Happy Dancer-Sharon Donnelly Lucas =================================== 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 =================================== MANITOBA FIRST PERSPECTIVE, First Nations Events Calender POW WOWS & FESTIVALS We are not responsible for cancellations of these events. Please call for verification prior to attendance. The First Perspective does it's best to obtain accurate information for these events. Ekosi! MANITOBA June 3-4 Sat-Sun: Selkirk, MB. Henry Shingoose Traditional Pow Wow. Call (204)269-3430. USA Apr 21-23 Fri-Sun: Tempe, AZ. 14th Annual Arizona State University Spring Competition Pow Wow. (480)965-5224. Apr 26-29 Wed-Sat: Albuqueque, NM. Gathering of Nations Pow Wow & Miss Indian World Pageant "The Millennium Celebration." Ph. (505)836-2810, Fax (505)839-0475, or visit our website www.gatheringofnations.org =================================== Date: Tue, 11 Jan 2000 22:27:31 EST From: Wanige@aol.com Subj: Winter 2000 Pow Wow list Native American Events Listings ~Winter, 1999-2000~ >Southeast< ~*~ Note I: 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. In addition: Due to a lack of time, and difficulty involved in maintaining such a broad-based list, I will no longer actively seek to obtain listings from the District of Columbia, Maryland, Oklahoma, and Texas. I will occasionally continue to list events from these states (and others) when convenience allows. ~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 Now, through June 26: High Stakes Indian Bingo, at the Creek Bingo Palace on the Poarch Creek Indian Reservation, Atmore. Each Saturday & Sunday at 1:00pm, and Mondays at 5:00pm. Admission charged. Info: (800) 826-9121. Note: For more information on Alabama events, contact the Alabama Bureau of Tourism and Travel, PO Box 4927, Montgomery, AL 36103-4927 or call 1-800-ALABAMA, or visit online at www.touralabama.org. For pow wow listings and information on Alabama's state-recognized Indian tribes, contact: Alabama Indian Affairs Commision, One Court Square, Suite 106, Montgomery, AL 36104 or call (334) 242-2831. _______ ARKANSAS No current listings. _______ FLORIDA No current listings. _______ GEORGIA No current listings. _______ KENTUCKY No current listings. _______ LOUISIANA Mar. 10-12: Honor the Ancestors Pow Wow, at the Bogalusa Sports Complex, Avenue B, Bogalusa. Hosted by the Medicine Wheel Intertribal Society. HM: Spirit Horse; HL: Frances Johnson; H. Little Boy: Trent Dardar; H. Little Girl: Paige Chaisson; HD: Caney Creek Singers. All drums, dancers, staffs & princesses welcome. Info: Michelle (504) 732-3484/fax: 735-8744 or Frances (225) 675-6184, or e-mail: okanowa@bellsouth.net. Mar. 17-19: Calling of All Tribes Pow Wow, at Grand Bois Park, Bourg. Info: (504) 879-2373. Apr. 1: Native American Day Camp, Houma Connection, 6484 Hwy. 22, Sorrento. Info: Frances Johnson (225) 675-6184. _______ MISSISSIPPI Mar. 25-26: Grand Village of the Natchez Indians Pow Wow, at the Grand Village of the Natchez, on Jefferson Davis Blvd., Natchez. Info: (601) 442-0200. Apr. 21-23: Aquini's 5th Annual Spring Indian Pow Wow, at the Rice Pavillion, Gulfport. Info: Irene Delancey (228) 826-5271. _______ MISSOURI Apr. 8: Kathryn Buder Center for American Indian Studies Pow Wow, at Washigton University, St. Louis. This is a contest pow wow sponsored by the Kathryn Bruder Center for American Indian Studies & the George Warren Brown School of Social Work. HD: The Tribe. Contestants must make both Grand Entries & be in full regalia. There will also be a Drum contest, and all drums are welcome. Info: (314) 935-4510 or e-mail: gourddancer1@hotmail.com. Apr. 21-23: 1st Annual Pow Wow, at the Rodeo Arena, Wyaconda. General admission is $3.00. Vendor spaces are $50.00 each; electricity is available. Info: (660) 479-5604. _______ NORTH CAROLINA No current listings. _______ OKLAHOMA Apr. 29: Graduation Honor Pow Wow, at the Community Building in Tahlequah, OK. Honorees are Paul Daw and Lena Nells of Moody, OK. Both are members of the National Honor Society. MC: Archie Mason (Osage/Cherokee); HM: Dallas Wallowing Bull (Northern Arapaho); HL: Aileen Gonzales (Cheyenne); HG: Rod Gwoompi (Kiowa); HD: Northern Arapaho Eagle Drum, Arapaho, WY; H. Gourd Drum: Drumbuster, Tahlequah, OK. Special Winner Takes-All contests in Men's Traditional and Women's Buckskin: $150.00 + a jacket. Vendor fee is $20.00 + raffle items. All drums, dancers & vendors welcome. Schedule: 2pm-4:30pm, Gourd Dance; 4:30pm-6:00pm, Dinner; 6pm-7pm, Gourd Dance; 7:30pm-11pm, Intertribal & Contest Dancing. Info: James or Elana Nells (918) 458-6384. _______ SOUTH CAROLINA, TENNESSEE No current listings. _______ VIRGINIA, WEST VIRGINIA No current listings. _______ SOUTH CAROLINA No current listings. _______ TENNESSEE Apr. 21-23: All Nations Pigeon River Pow Wow, Sevier County Fairgrounds, Sevierville. All dancers welcome. Vendors by invitation only. Info: Leon Gilliam (423) 378-0192. Apr. 28-30: Wild West Festival & Native American Showcase, at Camp Jordan Park, Chattanooga. Info: Chipa Wolf (770) 735-6275. May 5-7: 13th Annual American Indian Celebration & Pow Wow, at the Farmer's Market, Knoxville. Exit 8, off of I-640. Sponsored by the East Tennessee Indian League. HM: Rick Bottchenbaugh (Cherokee); HL: Kim Bottchenbaugh (Cherokee); other head staff TBA. There are hotels nearby, and free on-site camping (with showers) is available. Over $9,000.00 in prize money will be paid out in Dance, Drum, Tipi, and Hoop Dance competitions. Craft Vendors may contact Martha Summitt (423) 687-9675 or e-mail rispi@icx.net. Food vendors may contact Tim Deane (423) 475-9286 or e-mail TWDBear@aol.com. Friday is Kid's Day: Scouts & school groups are encouraged to attend. For more on Kid's Day activities, contact Fran Combs (423) 938-4994. Admission: $4.00 - adults; $2.00 - students (K-12); Free - under 5. For more information, call (423) 579-1384 or (423) 609-7011, or e-mail: Jrouam@lock-net.com or TWDBear@aol.com. _______ TEXAS Mar. 24-26: 11th Annual Texas Indian Market & Southwest Showcase, Arlington Convention Center, Arlington, TX. Info: Texas Indian Markets, 4205 Kingston, Amarillo, TX 79109 or (806) 355-1610, or e-mail: txindmrkts@tcac.net or visit the website at www.indianmarket.net. ------ VIRGINIA No current listings. _______ WEST VIRGINIA No current listings. _______ ELSEWHERE Mar. 31-Apr. 2: 9th Annual Kansas City Indian Market & Southwest Showcase, at Overland Park International Trade Center, Overland Park, KS. Info: visit the website at www.indianmarket.net or e-mail: txindmkts@tcac.net. Note: updates will be posted as more information becomes available. Spring listings (for March-April-May) have already been released, and are being updated with new information as it becomes available. Updates of some of the Florida events in this issue were courtesy of Jimmy Boy Dial. Wado, oginali. Note II: after January 27th, I may not be reached at wanige@aol.com; so send further correspondence to me at sablesage@webtv.net. Thanks. --------- "RE: Native America Calling" --------- Date: Mon, 06 Mar 2000 09:49:38 -0600 From: Eric Martin Subj: Electronic Program Guide 1) Rerun of 3/2/00 NAC program 2) Program Schedule for 3/6 - 3/10 ******************************* 1) Rerun of 3/2/00 NAC program ******************************* Due to technical difficulties with our satellite the 03/2/00 program of Native America Calling on "Freedom of the Press in Native America" did not get webcast in its entirety. We now have the program available on- demand. http://nativecalling.org/archives/list.html#03022000 We will also be rerunning the program noon-1pm EST right before the live Native America Calling for 3/6/00, so that our WebTV and non-G2 RealPlayer users can still hear the program if they wish to do so. Just go to http://nativecalling.org/ between noon and 1pm EST on 3/6/00 and go to "Also available for WebTV users" We apologize for the inconvenience and thank you for your patience. Due to these same difficulties the program for 3/1/00 was also not webcast in its entirety. We plan to have the program available on-demand in the near future. And also plan to rerun it at a different time on our live stream. This is a seasonal problem and we do not anticipate anymore problems of this kind with our webcasting feed during Native America Calling until early October. If you have any questions feel free to e-mail us at airos@unl.edu ********************************** 2) Program Schedule for 3/6 - 3/10 ********************************** Listen LIVE in RealAudio every M-F 1-2pm EST URL: http://nativecalling. org/ and click on "Listen LIVE Online" or "Also available for WebTV users" MON - 3/6: Current Events: What season is right around the corner? Does Denver March or Gathering of Nations ring your pow-wow bells? Also, ownership of a meteorite is causing controversy for an Oregon Tribe. And there are two new dolls out called G.I. Joe Navajo Code Talker and Tlingit Barbie. And just in case you didn't think that was enough ground to cover, we are offering you free access to our airwaves to announce your current event on our broadcast. TUE - 3/7: Why Do Men Rape?: Is rape about power and domination? Or is it simply a savage and demented way for men to reproduce? A controversial new book called A Natural History of Rape is sparking this argument. The authors contend that rape is a way for males to spread their seed and their genes to the next generation. Other experts in the field say the book and the theory are unfounded and ridiculous. Guests include book co-author and University of New Mexico biologist Randy Thornhill and Carolyn Ford of the Albuquerque Rape Crisis Center. WED - 3/8: International Women's Day: Founded in 1911, International Women's Day is the kernel around which Women's History Month (1987) was established in the U.S. On or near the 8th of March each year, women of all ages and cultures and from all walks of life join together around the world to celebrate solidarity and demand justice for all women. THU - 3/9: Peyote: Narcotic or Medicine?: Native people throughout the four directions have joined the Native American Church, which uses the sacred plant Peyote in its rituals and ceremonies. Believers say, if used properly, the cactus plant can heal illnesses and create a window to the spirit world. Others claim it is nothing more than a hallucinogenic drug. What are the laws concerning Peyote and its usage? FRI - 03/10: Maintaining and Caring for your Muscles: The "Wellness Edition" becomes muscle bound as we look at the organs that hold our bodies together and allow us to move. From muscle cramps and injuries to muscle diseases and disorders, The "Wellness Edition" will discuss the powerful tissues of our physique. ------------ Eric Martin NAPT Web Communications Specialist email: emartin2@unl.edu phone: 402-472-3287 ____________________________ To subscribe to AIROS' electronic program guide e-mail airos@unl.edu with the subject heading subscribe. ------------------------------------------------------------------------- --//--//--//--//--//--//--//--//--//--//--//--//--//--//--//--//--//--//- 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: Janet Smith, Martha E Ture, Bear Christensen, John Wm Sloniker, Pat Morris, Cara Cowan, Robert Dorman, Roger Iron Cloud via John Berry, Nancy Thomas, Mike Benwell, Leonard Peltier Defense Committee, Eric Martin, Debra Sanders, Lenape Lady, KOLA Headquarters, Dee, Carol Snyder Halberstadt, Kim Fouts, Larry Kibby, Larry Innes, Christopher Morabito Johnny Rustywire, Barbara Landis --//--//--//--//--//--//--//--//--//--//--//--//--//--//--//--//--//--//-