From gars@speakeasy.org Tue Apr 24 02:15:20 2001 Date: 14 Mar 2001 00:44:03 -0000 From: Gary Night Owl To: Internet Recipients of Wotanging Ikche Subject: Wotanging Ikche--nanews09.011 W O T A N G I N G I K C H E Otapi'sin Atsinikiisinaakssin KANOHEDA ANIYVWIYA O It-hah-pe-hah Ah-num pah-le Ha-Sah-Sliltha O o O ni-mah-mi-kwa-zoo-min Un Chota O o O Aunchemokauhettittea O o o o o O VOLUME 09, ISSUE 011 O o O Es'te Opunvk'vmucvse March 10, 2001 O o O Ximopanolti tehuatzin, Pomo growth begins moon O inin Mexika tlahtolli Klamath sucker fishing moon ( N A T I V E A M E R I C A N N E W S ) ==>If you want your Nation represented in the banner of this newsletter<== email gars@nanews.org with the equivalent of "News of the People" in your tribal language along with the english translation +---------------------------------------------------------------------+ | Much more happens in Indian Country than is reported in this weekly | | newsletter. 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When that happens, the federal government will be freed of its persistent 'Indian problem.'" "Often in the stillness of the night when all nature seems asleep about me there comes a gentle rapping at the door of my heart. I open it and a voice inquires, "Pokagon, what of your people? What will their future be?" My answer is: "Mortal man has not the power to draw aside the veil of unborn time to tell the future of his race. That gift belongs of the Divine alone. But it is given to him to closely judge the future by the present, and the past."" __ Simon Pokagon 1830-1899, Potawatomie +- -- -- -- -- -- -- -- -- -- -- -+ | 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! Janet and I just returned from a trip to Florida. We dropped a transmission, but were within eight miles of our daughter's home. We rented a U-Haul that got damaged at the event where we set up Janet's music booth. The second day of the event got rained out. We had a wonderful visit with our daughter and granddaughter. We have a choice. We can focus on the problems, and we sure had a few on this trip. We can focus on the visit with all its moments of awe and beauty. We choose to send thanks for the good, and the lessons we received from problems. We will be wiser about some things in the future, and the joy from the visit cannot fade. Things are like that in life and in Indian Country. There is a mix of good things and those things that are not so good. We can choose to focus on either. We have problems, and these will not be ignored. They can't. Starving and malnourished elders and youth, abysmal standards at IHS hospitals and rez schools that would be a disgrace in any country must be stared in the face and corrected. The bitter infighting, much provoked by BIA regulations and blatant favoritism are problems that do NOT have to continue unless it just feels good to be marionettes at the end of the dominant society's string. We have beautiful traditions, stories of our being, and dances, songs and languages that describe life as it can be described in no other way. These we should cling to and invest every energy into preserving. What will we give to the seven generations to come if we forsake the gifts of the seven generations that preceded us? See you on the trail this year. , , Gary Night Owl gars@nanews.org (*,*) P. O. Box 672168 gars@speakeasy.org (`-') Marietta, GA 30011, U.S.A. gars@olagrande.net ===w=w=== gars@sdf.lonestar.org ----------- News of the people featured in this issue ---------- - Richard LaCourse Crosses Over - No Death Penalty in Beating Death - Big Mountain Mobilization - Jail for Rape Suspect Likely - Walmart Investigation Requested Until U.S. Trial - Mexico's Marcos Calls for Support - Oklahoma Executes Native American - Mexico: Peace Commissioner - Federal Prison Authorities Supports Indian Rights Cracking Down - Montana can not Force - Native Prisoner Tribes to Collect -- Incarcerated Juveniles: - Norton Hit on Trust Fund Mess Part 1: Lakota Journal - Norton's Retaliation - History: Carlisle Indian School Settlement Rejected - Rustywire: Smiling Eyes - Carter Camp: Oklahoma Editorial - Have You Ever Seen A Real Indian - ICT Boycott Press Release - Poem: Plastic Medicine People - Chinook Nation Eager to Tell Story - Verse: Hawaiian Book of Days - Sand Creek Victory - Alaskan Marathon Fund Raising - Tribes Want Equality at - Upcoming Events Bighorn Battle Site - English-Only Challenge - Supreme Court Delivers is Turned Back Blow to Tribes - Shoshone Tribe of the - Whiteclay: Wind River Reservation A Frontier Town with No Laws - Ute Indian Tribe of the - Tribes File Giant Lawsuit Uintah & Ouray Reservation Concerning Water Rights - The Wisdom of Will Rogers - Chilean Tribe in Last Days - Native America Calling --------- "RE: Richard LaCourse Crosses Over" --------- Date: Sun, 11 Mar 2001 07:14:46 -0800 (PST) From: Allan Foster Subj: Richard LaCourse Mailing List: TRIBALLAW (triballaw@thecity.sfsu.edu) Mar 11, 2001 - 03:12 AM Director of American Indian Press Association Dies The Associated Press PORTLAND, Ore. (AP) - Richard LaCourse, a former director of the American Indian Press Association, has died of a stroke. He was 62. LaCourse died in Seattle on Friday, The Oregonian newspaper reported. During his 33-year career in the media, LaCourse founded at least three tribal newspapers, including ones on the Yakama and Umatilla reservations. LaCourse began his career in 1968 as a copy editor at the Seattle Post-Intelligencer. In 1972, he became the first American Indian journalist to report on Congress from a tribal perspective and later became director of the American Indian Press Association in Washington, D.C. "He really captured a sense of the Indian intellectual developing a philosophy that wasn't necessarily based on European values," Mark Trahant, president of the Maynard Institute for Journalism Education, told The Oregonian. "He captured that Indian intellectual not only in journalism, but also in writings about history and about the community." LaCourse is survived by one daughter, three sisters and two brothers. A funeral is scheduled for Wednesday on the Umatilla Indian Reservation. AP-ES-03-11-01 0312EST -- Allan Foster He Dog's Camp, Rosebud Reservation Voicemail: 1-877-351-8921 FAX: 801-459-5471 "It is a stupid society that runs an experiment to see what its breaking points are." --------- "RE: Big Mountain Mobilization" --------- Date: Mon, 05 Mar 2001 10:39:51 -0800 From: Robert Dorman Subj: BIG MNT. MOBILIZATION 2001 Mailing List: Big Mountain List Moderator's Note: Please direct any questions about this post to Amy Semler and not to me. I would suggest that before you purchase any stock (this is my own opinion) that you confirm that if you purchase the Lehman Brothers stock now, you will be qualified to attend the meeting. There are many discount stock brokers and many hotels, so you might want to shop around. To save hotel expenses, if anyone on the list lives in NYC, Westchester County, Long Island, or other nearby area within commuting distance and would like to volunteer to put up people wishing to protest at this meeting, please email me (redorman@theofficenet.com) with your offers and any conditions (like no-smokers, number of people). I will post to the list. ------- FORWARD, Original message follows ------- Date: Mon, 5 Mar 2001 09:02:31 -0800 (PST) From: Amy Semler Subj: BIG MNT. MOBILIZATION 2001 BIG MOUNTAIN MOBILIZATION 2001 International and National Mobilization Lehmen Brothers Corporation 3 World Financial Center, NYC RALLY April 2 10 am FRIENDLY TAKEOVER OF SHAREHOLDERS MEETING April 3 2001 10 am Statement 3: Leanard Bennalley, in solidarity with St. Louis Support To all National and International Concerned People, Again we wish to say our word with Respect and Honor to all the Indigenous and Non-Indigenous People, the resistance continues at Big Mountain, "U.S.of A." It was good to hear from all the Indigenous and Non-Indigenous People that have written to us with their support, so far that we bow our heads to you with respect that we reached you with our words. Even though you live in other lands, you are struggling too, but its good to know we are on the same path for liberty and justice for all. On Feb 26, 2001 at 10 am, we went to Lehman Bros. Corporation to meet with their leaders in a "friendly first step." So they kept their first agreement with us which is OK. I think its the right thing for them to do to listen to the little people. Because we have been ignored, lied to, given empty promises and false hope. But we the small man and woman of Big Mountain, are never going to live in silence, we are speaking out. And we have faced the first step with their representatives. And of course Peabody representatives too; they listened and recorded our demands. List the following: 1. For the Traditional Dine People to speak at the April 3 shareholders meetings, giving the Indigenous Delegation 7 to 10 minutes each as all will speak for the Resistance. 2. This initial meeting will be the first of 4 meetings with Lehmen Bros. Corp. 3. Religious Freedom Rights, Human Rights and Environmental Rights be respected buy use now of Alternative forms of energy. We requested/ demanded that with all their intelligence and money that the Lehman Bros. put Global Life first and turn to solar and wind power instead digging up more coal and destroying our Altar. We want them to give the life back to Black Mesa and the Indigenous People, Native American Indigenous Land Rights and Water rights. No more using water from the Navajo Aquifer and no more coal. LEAVE THE WATER AND THE COAL IN THE GROUND. 4. Preserve Big Mountain as a National Historic Cultural Preservation Site, instead of a National Sacrifice Area!! Change History, Respect Indigenous Traditional People and their Indigenous Land. Protect the endangered people, protect the sacred, ancient, Historical Dine Altar for Traditional Dine and Traditional Hopi People. 5. Demilitarize the areas of Big Mountain Communities of resistance on Black Mesa. a) no more armed Hopi Rangers b) no more guns, no arms around the Elders and the children any more c) no more armed BIA in the Big Mountain Resistance Areas d) Lift the ban on wood gathering for people inside the fence (the resisters) e) open more water wells inside the resistance areas f) freedom from all harassment g) NO MORE OPPRESSION! LIBERATION!! 6. Clean drinking water pumped into the homes of the Dine families who have waited 5 years, along Big Mountain Blvd. whose 3/4 completed after 5 years of waiting. 7. More clean drinking water wells open in the Sovereign Dine Nation inside the fenced areas, and water catchments for livestock for all families. 8. Solar power for all of the families who may choose it for electricity. These were the requests/demands we gave to Lehman Bros Corporate leaders on Feb. 26 2001. We are awaiting their response as they received an "overwhelming" amount of information from us; to stop the suffering at Big Mountain and to stop Global Impact. In conclusion, everyone is at stake here with this Global Impact and Global Warming, so its not only our problem out here at Big Mountain. Lehmen Brothers can make a Big difference on ending the Global Impact It's good to know now that all good and honest people are now coming together from all honest struggles. And now since we came together, now we're not gonna stop, we're not going to rest until we achieve our goals for dignified Life, Liberty, Liberty, Justice, Freedom for all. For protecting the Mother Earth against corporate greed. NOW WE MUST COME TOGETHER AT LEHMEN BROS., MEETING UNITED WITH ONE VOICE ON APRIL 2 RALLY AT 10 AM AT THREE WORLD FINANCIAL CENTER, NYC AND APRIL 3 LEHMEN BROS. SHAREHOLDERS MEETING AT THREE WORLD FINANCIAL CENTER AT 10 AM IN NYC! In closing to all the Brothers and Sisters, hopefully you will join us in New York, if you can't make it, then pray for us. And if we come together as a united effort then we can make it different for the people that are in Resistance, not only for the people at Big Mountain, but for all the displaced people or people who don't have anything. We are resistors so other brothers and sisters can live, meaning of course indigenous people. If we can come together and shout at the "Beast" so the "beast" can TREMBLE. We are not going to stop here, we will not stop until the people are free. Not only at Big Mountain but for everywhere the people need to live. So were not saying that we are the only one. This is for everybody and all living things that live from air and water. we invite you to come and stand with us that way we know we are not alone in our own world. Your invitation to NYC is open. Please come ar your own free will if you believe in these things, then we can come together and make a difference for the Indigenous People and for all Humanity. So we can free ourselves, if we can continue to heal our history here. So its time to change corporate relations toward Indigenous People, its time to respect and honor and give back to the Earth and the Original People. Freedom and Justice for All Respectfully, Leonard Bennalley for future info: weavingfree@hotmail.com If you can't make it to NY but you can make it to St. Louis to protest against Peabody Coal Co. contact guava7@hotmail.com. There will be many events in solidarity with our friendly takeover of Lehamn Bros. In NYC. ------- FORWARD, Original message follows ------- Date: Mon, 5 Mar 2001 08:55:05 -0800 (PST) From: Amy Semler Subj: BIG MOUNTAIAN MOBILIZATION 2001 WHAT: MOBILIZATION 2001 FRIENDLY TAKE-OVER OF LEHMAN BROTHERS CORPORATION To all concerned and honest people and indigenous struggles, we are inviting you to come together so that we can have one united voice as we mobilize to demand the Preservation of Big Mountain Area as a National Historic Preservation Site. Where we are going to stand up for Human Right, Religious Freedom Rights, Environmental Rights and Water Rights! Request for the areas of: Big Mountain, Cactus valley, Red Willow Springs, Thin Rock Mesa, Blue Canyon, testo, Star Mountain, Mosquito Springs, and Low Mountain as a National Historic Preservation Site! 1) Every concerned person that would like to join us, please purchase 1 or 2 Lehman Brothers stock if possible in the following manner: Contact a broker to purchase stock. you may contact Harris Investor Line at 415-269-8488 or nationwide at 800-808-7474, or email harrisinvestorline.com Fax number 415-296-1488 2) Please join us at Lehman Brothers Corporate Shareholder's meeting on APRIL 3, 2001 WHERE: NEW YORK CITY: 3 WORLD FINANCIAL CENTER 24TH FLOOR NEW YORK CITY, NY 10285 WHEN: 10:30 AM MEET AT 10:00AM We will be uniting together the day before on April 2nd, at 10 am outside the building of 3 World Financial Center to organize ourselves, united in solidarity, for the people, the sacred land, future generations and the environment. Native American leaders are urging all Environmental and Human Rights groups to come together on the issue. FOR INFORMATION: E-MAIL weavingfree@hotmail.com or bbcaim@aol.com PLEASE NOTE THAT THIS EFFORT IS A NON-VIOLENT, FRIENDLY AND PEACEFUL MOBILIZATION For a place to stay you can contact the Habitat Hotel in NYC, clean and inexpensive for New York City. Located 130 East 57th Street, NY, NY 10022 212-753-8841 or 800-255-0482 info@habitatny.com ____________________________________________________________ T O P I C A -- Learn More. Surf Less. Newsletters, Tips and Discussions on Topics You Choose. http://www.topica.com/partner/tag01 --------- "RE: Walmart Investigation Requested" --------- Date: 3/5/2001 11:30:26 AM Mountain Standard Time From: kolahq@SKYNET.BE (KOLA) Subj: Walmart Investigation Requested WV ATTY General Mailing List: KOLA Newslist Date: Mon, 5 Mar 2001 08:54:51 EST From: AIM4JUSTCE@aol.com Friends, We need your support now more than ever. Every voice counts. Yours may be the one that touches someone's heart. Thanks, Matt Sherman Date: Sun, 4 Mar 2001 23:20:11 EST From: ILFORCE@aol.com The Indigenous Liberation Force fully supports The Indian Heritage Conservancy and The National Field Office of The American Indian Movement in their efforts to stop Walmart from desecrating another sacred site. We stand ready to assist. ----- Date: Sun, 4 Mar 2001 23:06:12 EST From: AIM4JUSTCE@aol.com Subj: Walmart Investigation Requested WV ATTY General >To: ILFORCE@aol.com Walmart, Investigation Request-WV Attorney General The Indian Heritage Conservancy and The National Field Office of The American Indian Movement have requested West Virginia's Attorney General, Darrell V. McGraw, Jr., to investigates reports of violations of law, coercion, and conflict of interest among the participants in Walmart's ongoing attempts to purchase a sacred Indian burial ground in Monongalia County West Virginia. The Indian coalition has determined this request to be necessary due to Walmart's recent release of false and misleading information in an attempt to gain a favorable ruling from The West Virginia Commissioner of Highways Mr. Fred VanKirk. Part of the information leading to this request is based upon a letter from The WV. Division of Culture and History. In a letter to Senator John Rockefeller, that office cited violations of WV code 29-1-8a and identifies the site as a "significant archaeological site." Walmart continues to disseminate propaganda to the opposite in order to destroy the site and build yet another SuperCenter. * This coalition of Indian groups have proceeded in a respectful manner and has had disrespect returned to them They have spoken the truth yet find themselves victims of lies. They have chosen an avenue of openness and forthrightness and have had deceit, manipulation and coercion put in their path. Its time to hold Walmart, their agents, West Virginia University Foundation, and The West Virginia University Administration accountable for their actions. You are urged to contact WV Attorney General Darrell V McGraw, JR. and demand an immediate investigation into Walmart's scheme to desecrate the sacred burial site In Monongalia County, WV Darrell V. McGraw Jr, WV Attorney General 1900 Kanawha BLVD. ROOM 26E Charleston WV. 25305-9924 (WV)1-800-368-8808 FAX 304-558-0140 consumer@wvnet.edu -please distribute- <+>=<+> KOLA Information: http://users.skynet.be/kola/index.htm KOLA Petitions: http://kola-hq.hypermart.net KOLA Greeting Cards: http://users.skynet.be/kola/cards.htm --------- "RE: Mexico's Marcos Calls for Support" --------- Date: Fri, 2 Mar 2001 07:47:38 -0600 From: John D Berry/grad/res/Okstate Subj:: (FWD)Indian News 03-02-2001 ----- Forwarded by John D Berry/grad/res/Okstate on 03/02/2001 07:46 AM Mexico's Marcos calls for support from non-Indians By Lorraine Orlandi Reuters Feb 28, 2001 PUEBLA, Mexico - Rebel Subcommander Marcos, after denouncing Mexico's non-Indian business and political establishment in recent days, has struck a different chord in calling on Mexicans of all ethnic backgrounds to join the Indian cause as his Zapatista caravan nears the capital. "Dignity for the indigenous does not mean dominating the other who is not indigenous," he told a crowd of several thousand in the city of Puebla's sprawling central plaza on Tuesday. "The march for indigenous dignity must be a march of indigenous and non- indigenous," said the masked rebel leader, believed to be of mixed Indian and Spanish blood like Mexico's majority. "Only thus can we build a house called the world in which all of us fit, where all are equal and each one different." As the two-week, 12-state trek to the capital by 24 rebel leaders and thousands of supporters has drawn international attention, Marcos has taken a hands-off stance toward President Vicente Fox over efforts to end their seven-year-old rebellion in southern Chiapas state. While other commanders continued to snipe at Fox on Tuesday, charging him with using the country as his "private ranch" and seeking to create a "semblance of peace" for political gain, Marcos avoided any direct reference to the president. Fox, who ended 71 years of a single-party rule reviled by the Zapatistas when he took office in December, has made concessions to the rebels but not gone far enough to bring them back to the negotiating table. The tone between both sides has turned increasingly sour. On Tuesday Fox said the demands of indigenous people were at the top of his priority list, and he warned that no one could delay the peace process. "The time for peace has arrived. Society will not accept any more pretexts or conditions that will only delay the resolution of the conflict," Fox said at the closing of the World Economic Forum meeting in the southern resort of Cancun. MARCOS RENEWS CALL FOR INDIAN RIGHTS LAW The so-called Zapatour culminates on March 11 in Mexico City, where rebel leaders will lobby lawmakers for an Indian rights bill proposed by Fox in an effort to meet Zapatista conditions for reviving peace talks that stalled in 1996. The march has drawn an outpouring of support since it left the southern state of Chiapas on Sunday. Marcos entered the state of Puebla to a hero's welcome and heartfelt words of thanks from indigenous leaders for bringing the plight of Mexico's 10 million Indians to world attention with the New Years Day 1994 Zapatista uprising for indigenous rights. In the Puebla state capital he received his most raucous reception yet. He and Zapatista commanders were delayed from stepping on stage as thousands of fans mobbed their tour bus. The somewhat alcohol-soaked crowd hooted and shouted for Marcos as other commanders spoke first, and spectators forced a local Televisa reporter off the platform where he was giving an on-camera report by booing and pelting him with objects. It was the last stop of a three-city tour that also crossed into the sweltering Gulf Coast state of Veracruz. Earlier in the day, at a rally in Tehuacan in Puebla state, Marcos was adamant about about the need for a law enshrining Indian rights in the Constitution. "We are going to get the law approved," Marcos said, referring to the bill that would establish constitutional indigenous rights including the right for indigenous communities to run their affairs based on traditional customs. "Never again are we indigenous going to take orders from anyone," Marcos said. --------- "RE: Mexico: Peace Commissioner Supports Indian Rights" --------- Date: Wed, 7 Mar 2001 23:42:53 -0800 (PST) From: Martha Elizabeth Ture Subj: Fwd: MEXICO'S PEACE COMMISSIONER SUPPORTS INDIAN RIGHTS LAW -- Mailing List: TRIBALLAW (triballaw@thecity.sfsu.edu) Date: Wed, 07 Mar 2001 14:39:23 EST From: MJLaBurt@aol.com http://library.northernlight.com/FB20010307770000107.html Story Filed: Wednesday, March 07, 2001 10:43 AM EST Mexico City, Mar 07, 2001 (EFE via COMTEX) -- The Mexican government's Peace Commissioner, Luis H. Alvarez, says it is "urgent" to amend the constitution to grant autonomy to the country's Indian peoples. "Constitutional reform that defines the parameters of Indian autonomy is paramount and urgent," Alvarez said. Alvarez issued his call six days before a caravan of Zapatista National Liberation Army (EZLN) rebels led by "Subcomandante Marcos" is scheduled to arrive in Mexico City to demand enactment of the law protecting Indian rights and culture. The legislation, drafted by a multi-party committee, has already been sent to Congress by President Vicente Fox. EFE jm/mp/rm http://www.efe.es Copyright (c) 2001. Agencia EFE S.A. --------- "RE: Montana can not force Tribes to Collect" --------- Date : Sat, 3 Mar 2001 09:56:23 -0800 (PST) From: Martha Elizabeth Ture Subj: Montana can not force Salish and Kootenai Tribes to collect Mailing List: TRIBALLAW (triballaw@thecity.sfsu.edu) Judge Tosses Suit Over Tribal Resort by AP, The Associated Press By Bob Anez, Associated Press Writer HELENA (AP) - A judge has thrown out a lawsuit the state Revenue Department filed in an effort to force a tribally owned resort to resume collecting the state lodging tax from customers. State District Judge C.B. McNeil of Polson agreed with the Confederated Salish and Kootenai Tribes that he lacks authority to order tribal members or the tribal corporation operating the hotel to impose the tax. He cited a series of court cases, some of which he decided over the years, that have limited civil jurisdiction of state courts over members of American Indian tribes. Dave Woodgerd, chief attorney for the Revenue Department, said Wednesday no decision has been made yet on whether to ask McNeil to reconsider his ruling or appeal to the Montana Supreme Court. Ranald McDonald, attorney for the tribes, said the case law noted by the judge has long settled the very jurisdictional question raised in the state's lawsuit. "I'd feel confident that Judge McNeil made the proper ruling and I feel confident that the Supreme Court would support the ruling," he said. The suit, filed last October, asked that the court order KwaTaqNuk resort, on Flathead Lake, to assess the state bed tax on non-Indian guests. The complaint said officials of the tribes should be ordered to stop telling the resort it should not collect the tax. The tribe is violating Montana law by not imposing the 4 percent tax and turning the money over to the state, the state argued. McNeil did not address the state's legal claims in dismissing the complaint. The suit was filed a month after the state began listing KwaTaqNuk as a business state employees should avoid on government business. The tribes maintain sovereign Indian nations are not required to collect taxes for the state without first negotiating an agreement. The state contends the law does not impose a tax on the tribes or tribal members, but does require the tax be collected from non-Indian customers of all lodging businesses. The tribes had collected the tax in the past, but put the money into a special account. In 1997, the tribes reached a settlement with the state and turned over $245,155. Since July 8, 1997, the tribes refused to collect the tax at the 112- room KwaTaqNuk. Defendants in the suit were the resort; S&K Developments Inc., the tribal business operating the hotel; Jay Lehman, resort manager; and members of the tribal council. Copyright by The Associated Press. All rights reserved. iMinorities, Inc. Copyright c. 2000 iMinorities, Inc. All rights reserved. --------- "RE: Norton Hit on Trust Fund Mess" --------- Date: Fri, 02 Mar 2001 14:54:03 -0000 From: Paul Pureau Subj: Norton hit on trust fund mess Mailing List: ndn-aim Indianz.Com http://www.indianz.com/SmokeSignals/Headlines/showfull.asp?ID=law/312001 Norton hit on trust fund mess MARCH 1, 2001 Secretary of Interior Gale Norton on Wednesday was hit on all sides of the trust fund debate as Senators urged action on the growing debacle and the plaintiffs in the billion dollar lawsuit against the federal government criticized her latest decision. In an appearance before the Senate Committee on Indian Affairs, her first before Congress, Chairman Ben Nighthorse Campbell (R-Colo) criticized Norton's department for what he called a "national disgrace." He was joined by Senator John McCain (R-Ariz), who said the Interior's handling as "the grossest kind of mismanagement" and pushed for a settlement of the issue. "We are talking billions here," said McCain said. "I applaud the decision of the courts. If I were you, I would find out where you are going to get that kind of money. And we still haven't solved the problem." Still new to the job, Norton accepted the words of the two Committee members. Her Department scrambling from last week's appellate court decision favoring the plaintiffs in the trust fund lawsuit, Norton said the Interior takes the ruling "seriously." Elouise Cobell, the Blackfeet Nation of Montana banker and the lead plaintiff in the case, had a harsh prediction if Norton didn't. "I don't think Secretary Norton can take this lightly," said Cobell. "If she doesn't get on this right away, she'll be the next in contempt of court." Former Secretary Bruce Babbitt, former Assistant Secretary Kevin Gover, and former Treasury Secretary Robert Rubin were all held in contempt of court by Judge Royce Lamberth in 1999. And judging by Norton's decision to accept a controversial sampling approved by Babbitt, Cobell said it looks like business as usual for the Interior. "With this directive, she is picking up right where her predecessor, Mr. Babbitt, left off," said Cobell. "She cannot be listening to the old guard [like Babbitt]. The old guard is the one that got everyone in trouble by not taking this seriously." In a December 2000 memorandum, Babbitt approved a project to conduct a statistical analysis on just 350 accounts, or 0.01 percent of the estimated 300,000 accounts held by American Indians all over the country. But Cobell and the plaintiffs claim this will only waste $70 million in taxpayer funds and has little chance of fixing the historically mismanaged system. "Statistical sampling as a means of settling hundreds of thousands of mismanaged individual Indian trust accounts is doomed to failure, since most of the documents needed for an accurate sample already have been destroyed by the government," said Cobell. The government itself doesn't know exactly how much the analysis will cost, either. The Special Trustee of American Indians, the Interior office charged with trust responsibilities, said it could cost $50,000 to $200, 000 per account, leading to anywhere between $17.5 million and $70 million in funds needed to carry out Norton's decision. President George W. Bush on Wednesday released his budget blueprint and said "additional funding" for trust reform will be included for fiscal year 2002. According to a memorandum Gover wrote before he left office, the $27.6 million trust reform budget would have to be doubled and the BIA would have to "significantly" increase its staff. But Cobell wasn't worried about budget woes and said she will continue to fight for what rightfully belongs to American Indians. "This is money that belong to Indian people," said Cobell. "What makes them think they can treat a group of people like this? It's the worst case of genocide we've ever seen. They are trying to terminate us." ----- To subscribe to this group,send an email to: ndn-aim-subscribe@egroups.com Archived on line at: http://www.eScribe.com FREE LEONARD PELTIER --------- "RE: Norton's Retaliation Settlement Rejected" --------- Date: Wed, 7 Mar 2001 06:29:15 -0800 (PST) From: Paul Pureau Subj: Norton's retaliation settlement rejected Mailing List: ndn-aim Indianz.Com http://www.indianz.com/SmokeSignals/Headlines/showfull.asp?ID=law/372001-1 Norton's retaliation settlement rejected MARCH 7, 2001 Although she has been on the job for barely a month, Secretary of Interior Gale Norton is treading on shaky ground, a lawyer for the plaintiffs in the billion dollar trust fund lawsuit against the government said on Tuesday. And unless she or other government representatives change their ways, Norton could soon follow in the footsteps of her predecessor and face contempt of court sanctions, wrote Dennis Gingold in letter to Phillip Brooks. Brooks is a Department of Justice lawyer defending the government in the five-year-old Cobell v. Norton lawsuit. "Note well: no more threats and no more intimidation will be tolerated here," wrote Gingold. "We will not permit you or Secretary Norton to threaten or otherwise abuse the Cobell plaintiffs or witnesses who come forward courageously to assist the Court and the Special Master." The subject of the Gingold's strongly worded letter is Mona Infield, a Bureau of Indian Affairs employee who has been receiving an $80,000 salary despite not having gone to work for a year. While employed at a BIA office in Albuquerque, New Mexico, Infield one year ago this month criticized the government's attempt to clean up trust fund accounts affecting an estimated 300,000 American Indians at the center of the lawsuit. Since then, the plaintiffs allege, top BIA management have repeatedly retaliated against Infield by stripping her of her duties, forcing her to work from home, and offering her jobs below her skill level as a senior computer analyst. Now, government officials are presenting Infield with a settlement offer Gingold characterizes as "a day late and a dollar short." But while the offer may indeed have been a year in the making, the government is offering Infield considerably more than a dollar to settle her claims. In a March 2 letter, Brooks offered to pay Infield up to $100,000 in attorneys' fees and costs. Gingold, however, says the government's offer is yet another in a long line of "transparent threats of retaliation" against Infield. If she doesn't accept the settlement by March 16, the Interior "will proceed with any personnel action it deems appropriate regarding Ms. Infield," writes Brooks. As a result, Gingold has "categorically" rejected the government's "extraordinary threat." Instead, Gingold and his clients appear to be hinging hopes on a potential contempt of court trial against Norton and other government officials. Such a trial was recommended by Special Master Alan Balaran last month but Judge Royce Lamberth has yet to decide if he will hold one. In an Indian Country Today quote attributed to spokesperson Stephanie Hanna on Tuesday, the Interior is prepared to offer evidence that no retaliatory actions were taken against Infield. For now, though, Gingold is boldly proclaiming that the "culture of fear and intimidation fostered by Interior and Justice to manipulate and control Native Americans . . . is now over." Balaran's own research may indicate otherwise, however. In a March 2 letter to the Department of Justice, Balaran says a number of Interior employees are still unaware of an anti-retaliation court order intended to protect any who come forward with information about the case. ===== Paul Pureau to subscribe to ndn-aim send a blank mail to: ndn-aim-subscribe@yahoogroups.com.com ndn-aim is now archived on line at Http://www.escribe.com/life/ndn-aim/ FREE PELTIER NOW! STOP ETHNIC CLEANSING OF THE LAKOTA! --------- "RE: Carter Camp: Oklahoma Editorial" --------- Date: Mon, 5 Mar 2001 10:58:14 -0600 From: Carter Camp Subj: Oklahoma Editorial Mailing List: ndn-aim Editor, The existence of Indian Tribes across the Nation is under attack and threatened as never before in modern times. Oklahoma Tribes particularly are in danger because the anti-Indian forces are being led by the Oklahoma Congressional delegation and supported by Oklahoma Senators. They are all Republicans except the newest. The majority of Oklahoma Indians are very conservative and many are Republicans. Eastern Tribes in particular remember that the Trail of Tears happened under a Democrat. On social issues also most Indians hold conservative views. We are probably the only minority to be pretty evenly divided between parties. So why has the Republican Party turned so viciously against people who are potentially their allies? The simple answer is money. Some Tribal business endeavors have begun to compete with the big business interests which control the Republican party. The C.E.O. of "Loves" stores and people like Donald Trump are paying big money to the Republicans to destroy our ability to complete. The Congressional extremists from Oklahoma have naturally stepped up to the plate to play John Wayne. They seem perpetually offended that we refuse to be the "Vanishing Race" of popular myth or to melt into any 'melting pot'. Every anti-Indian Bill in Congress, no matter how horrible, is supported by every Oklahoma Senator and Representative. They seem to march in lock-step, goose-stepping to the same orders. Representative Watkins and Istook are afraid to hold hearings on their anti-Indian bills here in Oklahoma. In fact the entire Oklahoma delegation have been attempting to hide their anti-Indian prejudice during the election year. The business interests, which own Representative Watkins and Istook votes, have even gone so far as to question the loyalty and patriotism of Oklahoma's 275,00 Indian people and our Governments! They also parrot the lie that our stores and bingo games cost the State billions of dollars. First the money lie: The truth is that Oklahoma Tribes produce $400 million dollars annually, all of which stays in Oklahoma. We represent 8% of the population yet we create 15% of Oklahoma gross State product. Because we have no retail infrastructure all (100%) of our incomes, ( private and individual ) are spent in towns and cities across Oklahoma, generating millions of dollars in taxes for State and local Government. Non-Indians benefit the most from this money while fully 30% of my people live in poverty. The business interests Watkins and Istook are fronting for are owned by non-Oklahomans, spend their money out of state, and pay dividends to out of state share holders. Next the issue that really makes Indian blood, boil. This entirely Republican delegation has dared allow the loyalty and patriotism of Indian people to be questioned in Congressional hearings! By the CEO of LOVE's stores. Please remember that not one of the super-patriotic, flag-waving Oklahoma Congressmen has ever been in the military! Much less dodged a bullet or dug a fox hole. These zealots were too "upwardly mobile" to be bothered with serving their country. Playing football at taxpayers expense was more important. There are 23,246 American Indian Veterans in Oklahoma. Out of eleven American Indian, Congressional Medal of Honor recipients, five are citizens of Oklahoma Tribes. American Indians in Vietnam made up double our members in the general population. They averaged 19 years of age. Over 60% of Indians` in Vietnam were Combat Infantry, Airborne, Special Forces, Force Recon, Rangers, Navy Seals and Marines. They "walked point" for America. In War World I we fought and died for democracy, but we could not vote in America. Indians were not granted citizenship until 1924. In WW I and II we set the standard with 100% of eligible men registration and my own Ponca Tribe (and many others) formally declared war against Germany and Japan. Every Tribe in Oklahoma has a War Mothers Society who still mourn the hundreds of Oklahoma Indians who died for this country, so the big business friends of Watkins and Istook would have the right to call Indians unpatriotic. Oklahoma Indians have earned the right to have full blown Congressional hearings (in Oklahoma) on any and every piece of legislation designed to destroy and cripple our Nations and our Sovereignty. Watkins and Istook would not try to secretly pass Federal laws against 275,000 Oklahoma lawyers, or oil men, or teachers, or farmers, but they feel they can attack Indians with impunity. For some reason the Republican party seems to have declared war on Indian people. The Oklahoma Congressional delegation has arranged itself as a troop of the 7th Calvary, complete with Buffalo Soldier. Carter Camp, Ponca Nation of Oklahoma ------ To subscribe to this group,send an email to: ndn-aim-subscribe@egroups.com Archived on line at: http://www.eScribe.com FREE LEONARD PELTIER --------- "RE: ICT Boycott Press Release" --------- Date: Wed, 07 Mar 2001 16:58:57 -0000 From: Frances Zephier Subj: ICT BOYCOTT Press Release Mailing List: NA Voices Hau the Dakota/Lakota/Nakota & all Nations, This went out yesterday. 03-06-01 On March 5,2001, members of the Dakota/Lakota/Nakota Human RIghts Advocacy Coalition, protested on Indian Country Today, because of their 1) BIAS REPORTERS SUPPRESSING GRASSROOTS PEOPLES NEWS. 2) STAGING PROMOTIONAL CAMPAIGNS FOR PREDATORS WHO ARE EXPLOITING TRADITION, SPIRITUALITY, PEOPLE, LAND, WATER, AND CHILDREN 3) POSTING SACRED BURIAL RELICS ON THE FRONT PAGE OF ICT, AND MANY OTHER VIOLATIONS AGAINST THE GRASSROOTS PEOPLE'S TRADITIONAL LAWS. No longer will we tolerate this misconduct!!! Alfred Bone Shirt & wife, Robin Bair, Ihanktonwan Hoksina, and Myself, traveled to Rapid City. Alfred drove from Rosebud to the Yankton Sioux Rez, and then onto Rapid City. We arrived in time to eat and prepare for the protest. We stayed on schedule. We called out to people and people for some reason that we were marching on the Lakota Journal. We marched on ICT anyway. We stood as Advocates and the voice of those who are victims of many crimes, Who's news and articles are being suppressed. A special request from Della Eastman from the Sisseton Grassroots Oyate, they are all very upset with ICT and their lack of coverage on their very important issues. Due to the lack of funds and long distance, they were unable to attend, So we spoke on their behalf. We stood strong with our ancestors spirits, and our 3 month old son, Ihanktonwan Hoksina represented the wakaniza very well. He was a reminder of what we are truly fighting for. We thank all of you for your words of support and also for those negative ones that help confirm that we are doing the right thing. So thank you all. Word from the Elders, " that of which doesn't kill us only make us stronger." All My Relatives Frances Zephier ps We forgot to mention about the non-Indian news outlets, they refused to acknowledge, the truth about what is happening in Indian Country. This only confirms that media suppression exist throughout the state of S.D.. we are living in an institute of racism, and the media continue to cover it up. How long will the people allow this to go on??? _________________________________________________________________ To subscribe to this group,send an email to: ndn-aim-subscribe@egroups.com Archived on line at: http://www.eScribe.com FREE LEONARD PELTIER --------- "RE: Chinook Nation Eager to Tell Story" --------- Date: Fri, 02 Mar 2001 14:41:07 -0000 From: Paul Pureau Subj: Fwd: Chinook Nation eager to tell story Mailing List: Our Red Earth --- In ndn-aim@y..., paul_pureau@y... wrote: Indianz.Com http://www.indianz.com/SmokeSignals/Headlines/showfull.asp?ID=tc/322001 Chinook Nation eager to tell story MARCH 2, 2001 When Secretary of Interior Gale Norton makes her first trip out of Washington, DC, this weekend, she'll be meeting a tribe her department once said didn't exist. For years and years, members of the Chinook Nation of Washington were told they weren't an Indian tribe. The courts, history books, and even the Bureau of Indian Affairs all had a part in virtually erasing the tribe out of existence. Yet the tribe had a particular drawing power which betrayed the naysayers. Having welcomed the Lewis and Clark expedition to the Pacific Northwest, tribal leaders were constantly being asked to tell the role their ancestors played in that historic journey -- all in preparation for bicentennial celebrations to take place from 2003 to 2006. Finally recognized by the federal government, the tribe is now more eager than ever to let their voices be heard. "Out intentions are to be the Chinook storytellers and we are truly entitled to do that," said tribal councilor Peggy Disney. "Its been over 200 years worth of suffering but we don't just intend to portray the sad side, either. There's a lot of things that we are thankful for." Chinook contact with non-Indians began as early as the late 1700s and in late 1805, the tribe welcomed Lewis and Clark to their territory along the lower Columbia River. While their relationships with these early explorers were mostly peaceful, the one with the federal government wasn't always so. In 1851, the government negotiated a treaty with Chinook tribal leaders but the Senate refused to ratify it. In 1855, the government made another attempt but some tribal leaders held out because the treaty would have removed them from their aboriginal territory along the Columbia near the Oregon border. The decision to protect their land had a devastating effect: the tribe was left landless and unrecognized. After fighting for much of the past century to address what they considered a historical injustice, the tribe in 1997 was dealt what seemed like a final blow: the BIA declined to acknowledge them as a tribe. But in what Disney described as "a very documentable moment in Chinook history," the decision was reversed in early January by former Assistant Secretary Kevin Gover. Although Disney said tribal members were unsure of the BIA's direction on the issue, they were clued in by a phone call inviting them to Washington, DC. "I think the timing couldn't have been sweeter for us," said Disney. The tribe is now getting ready to take their rightful place in recounting Lewis and Clark's journey. Along with local leaders, the tribe will be meeting Secretary Norton on Saturday, who will address the Lewis and Clark Bicentennial Forum at the Fort Clatsop National Memorial in Astoria, Oregon, the site of Lewis and Clark's winter camp. In addition to taking part in local and national celebrations, the tribe also plans on holding its own events to commemorate the expedition. Among other events the tribe is considering, Disney said a traditional canoe paddle is in the works and would be a fitting way to describe their own struggles. "That would be quite an event to witness: all the tribes coming together," said Disney. "It hasn't happened here for 200 years." ----- Copyright c. Indianz.Com 2000-2001. --- End forwarded message --- Thank you for your participation at Our Red Earth. To unsubscribe from our community, send an email to: OurRedEarth-unsubscribe@egroups.com --------- "RE: Sand Creek Victory" --------- Date: Wed, 7 Mar 2001 19:46:11 EST From: BKM12345@aol.com Subj: Sand Creek Mailing List: ndn-aim SAND CREEK VICTORY The Association of American Indian Affairs, Volume 147 By: Steve Brady Sr.,President, Northern Cheyenne Sand Creek Descendants It has taken 136 years to finally memorialize the Sand Creek Massacre site in what is now near Chivington, Colorado. It was dawn, November 29, 1864, in a premeditated attack, knowing well in advance that most of the men were out hunting, in the name of God, Col. John Chivington, a Methodist Minister led the assault with more than 700 troops on the village of more than 125 Cheyenne lodges and 8-- 10 Arapaho lodges comprised of mostly women, children and elders. Under heavy fire, Cheyenne Chief, Black Kettle hastily raised a 6' x 12' U.S. flag with a white truce flag underneath it to signify that they were a band at peace with the United States. However, the Colorado troops continued with their relentless assault. The women and children were allowed to scatter in different directions and then run down by the cavalry on horseback. Children left behind or orphaned were used as target practice by the Colorado troops. Black Kettle survived, however, his colleague, Cheyenne Chief White Antelope, lay amongst his people, grotesquely mutilated, still wearing his "Peace-and-Friendship" medal given to him personally by President Abraham Lincoln. It was said by Braided Hair, a survivor, that "the entire village was burned and the area was permeated with the stench of the piles [of] burned corpses". The body parts, including private parts of the women, children and elders were displayed in downtown Denver as trophies. U.S. Congress and a military tribunal quickly condemned the atrocities committed at Sand Creek and admitted responsibility, to the extent that Congress even promised reparations through Article 6 of the Little Arkansas Treaty of the Cheyenne and Arapaho, 1865. The promise presently remains unfulfilled. In July of 1990, the Cheyenne & Arapaho Tribes of Oklahoma and the Northern Cheyenne SandCreek Descendants repatriated human remains from the Smithsonian Institution in Washington, D.C. to Concho Agency, Concho, Oklahoma. Some of the human remains had been taken by the Cavalry from the Sand Creek Massacre, there were other sets of human remains that were also repatriated at the same time apparently taken at subsequent engagements. In late 1993, the Colorado Historical Socieity set out to find the exact location of the Sand Creek Massacre site. In the fall of 1997, the Colorado Historical Society conducted a field survey at the current alleged site, combining other methods of research including scientific and technical, the results were determined to be inconclusive. According to local oral history the area had been picked over fairly well by "Pot- Hunters". It should be noted that the Cheyenne felt and knew that they were in the correct location (Dawson Ranch)- There was no question. Early 1998, U.S. Senator Ben Nighthorse Campbell (R-CO), introduced a bill (S.1695) into Congress proposing to purchase the Sand Creek Massacre site. Senate held hearings on this bill in March of 1998. The end result of this proposed legislation was that in October of 1998, President Clinton signed into law the Sand Creek Massacre National HIstoric Site Study Act (P.L.105-243), authorizing the National Park Service, in consultation with the Cheyenne & Arapaho Tribes of Oklahoma, the Northern Cheyenne Tribe, the Northern Arapaho Tribe and the State of Colorado to, among other things, identify the location and the extent of the massacre site. In May of 1999, once again, there was another field survey conducted just north of the CHS survey. This time, the first piece of physical evidence found was a piece of shrapnel from the spherical case shot from that of a Mountain Howitzer. From this point on, there was no question unequivocally, that this indeed was the Sand Creek Massacre site. This site study was completed in June of 2000, the National Park Service submitted the report to congress recommending that Sand Creek Massacre site be established as a National Historic Site. Senator Ben Nighthorse Campbell then immediately introduced S. 2950 in late July of 2000. Hearings were held on this bill on September 14, 2000 in Washington, D.C., before a Senate Subcommittee. Introduced at this hearing as evidence were 2 letters from Cavalry Officers who were at Sand Creek on the day of hte massacre and objected to what was about to occur and to what happened during the attack. These letters graphically detailed what occurred that day of November 29,1864. This evidence was very compelling.S. 2940 was passed by the U.S. Senate and the same version was subsequently passed by the U.S. House of Representatives and now after nearly 136 years, on November 7,2000, William Jefferson Clinton, President of the United States, signed into law the Sand Creek Massacre National Historic Site Act of 2000 (P.L.106- 465). this law authorizes the federal government by "willing seller only", to acquire more than 12,000 acres of the killing fields of Colorado to be designated as a National Historic Site where a national memorial will be erected---------And there are apparently "willing sellers". Presently,the University of Nebraska- Lincoln and the Colorado History Museum of Denver continue to hold some human remains of Cheyenne people taken at Sand Creek. Legal and culturally sensitive efforts are underway for the repatriation of our ancestors. With deep appreciation , we thank all those who have contributed to this effort in one way or another. Ha-Ho! To subscribe to this group,send an email to: ndn-aim-subscribe@egroups.com Archived on line at: http://www.eScribe.com FREE LEONARD PELTIER --------- "RE: Tribes Want Equality At Bighorn Battle Site" --------- Date: Tue, 6 Mar 2001 07:13:07 -0500 From: Gary Smith Subj: NA News Item - - - - - - -- - - - - - - filename="LITTLE BIGHORN" Tribes Want Equality At Bighorn Battle Site Tuesday, March 6, 2001 BY BECKY BOHRER THE ASSOCIATED PRESS LITTLE BIGHORN BATTLEFIELD NATIONAL MONUMENT, Mont. -- Clifford Long Sioux comes to this spot on the rolling prairie of eastern Montana each year. It is how he honors his forebear, Buffalo Hump, and the other Cheyenne warriors who died defending their way of life against Lt. Col. George Custer and the 7th Cavalry. But there is no memorial here to Long Sioux's people, only a monument to Custer and his men, a granite monolith atop a flowing, grassy rise. "A memorial should have been up many, many years ago to honor the ones we lost," says Long Sioux, a Northern Cheyenne tribal member. Nearly 125 years after the battle memorialized as "Custer's Last Stand," there is little at the battlefield to acknowledge the American Indians who fought. For the Sioux, Cheyenne and Arapahoe, the battle was their last major victory in a long and eventually unsuccessful fight to save their land from seizure by whites. Even the Crow, allies of Custer, and Arikara, who had scouts who died fighting on Custer's side, believe recognition is lacking. When Congress ordered Custer's name removed from the battlefield in 1991, it also authorized an Indian memorial. But lawmakers never provided any money. Without federal aid, construction on the $2.5 million project is unlikely to begin until at least 2005. "It's a slap in the face to those of us who are descendants . . . and Native America as a whole, because it appears we may not be regarded equally to other citizens of the United States, still, in 2001," said Linda Pease, whose great-grandfather was a Crow scout for Custer. The proposed memorial includes bronze outlines of three warriors, representing the victorious Sioux, Cheyenne and Arapahoe. It features a sunken circle and "spirit gate," meant to welcome the cavalry dead and act as a counterpoint to the soldiers' monument, about 100 yards to the south. But even the proposed memorial has proven controversial. Some Indians complain the monument, designed by whites, doesn't fully tell their stories. Many so-called "Custer buffs" believe it is poor taste to locate the Indian memorial so close to the cavalry monument. Indians say they want their children to have a fuller understanding of what happened June 25-26, 1876, on the rolling plains southeast of Billings, and to be proud. It's not about political correctness, they say, but about fairness, honesty and equality. Custer, seemingly underestimating the size of the Indian force, ordered the attack on the Indians camped in the river valley. Custer and more than 260 of his men were wiped out. "I remember going [to the battlefield] as a kid and the heroic . . . Custer was glorified," Pease said. "I remember going away thinking, 'That doesn't seem right, but maybe we're not as good as other people.' "It formed a real negative perception of myself as a Native American," she added. "And it does that generation after generation, as well as giving credence to white supremacy." The battlefield's superintendent, Neil Mangum, is working hard to get the Indian memorial built. Faced with paltry private donations, he nearly doubled the site's entrance fee in February -- from $6 to $10 a car -- to meet the 2005 construction goal. Visitors to the battlefield's museum and interpretive center do get a more balanced history lesson of the battle. But anyone visiting just the battlefield gets a skewed view. "They put up a memorial for Custer and they say that we're a part of the same United States and a part of this society," said Bob Kelly, a Crow tribal member. "Why don't they recognize the valiant effort of the Indians?" In 1988, members of the American Indian Movement put an iron plaque at the base of Custer's granite obelisk. The plaque read, in part: "In honor of our Indian patriots who fought and defeated the U.S. Cavalry in order to save our women and children from mass-murder." It was eventually removed. In 1999, two granite markers were erected to depict where two Cheyenne warriors were wounded and died. But Indians say that is not enough. Chauncey Whitwright III, a Sioux from Wolf Point, Mont., quit work on a memorial advisory committee over what he perceived as government foot- dragging. He threatened last year to tear down the Custer monument if the Indian memorial wasn't built by the 125th anniversary of the battle, this June 25. He has since recanted the threat, but remains angry. Former Rep. Pat Williams, D-Mont., who co-sponsored the bill that included the battlefield name-change, said a memorial is in the national interest and that the government should pay for it. An estimated $40,000 to $50,000 has been raised from tribes and through donations at the battlefield, Mangum said. The National Park Foundation, the fund-raising arm of the Park Service, has received small donations but "we're not close to the $2.5 million," said Jen Larson, director of public relations. Indian leaders and Mangum want Congress to contribute, even as disagreement over the memorial continues. Pease, the Crow representative on the committee that chose the design, objected to it initially because the Arikara and Crow were omitted. She gave in when the Park Service assured her parts of the memorial could be redesigned or that the scouts' stories could be "included heavily" in the interpretive portion. To others, the memorial is not only about honoring their fallen heroes, but about taking some shine off Custer, who is still considered a hero by some battlefield visitors. William Wells, who publishes a battlefield newsletter and is president of a Custer historical group, said he supports an Indian memorial. But he believes the desire to "belittle" Custer, rather than honor the Indian dead, was a motivating factor in building one and changing the battlefield name. He also believes there are better places for a memorial to the Indians, including the river valley where the Indian village was located. Legislation, however, says the Indian memorial is to be built near the cavalry monument. "It's quite a site and it's stark loneliness is the thing that impresses almost everyone," Wells said of the existing obelisk. "And I think that almost any other monument or structure or anything else in that area takes away from that." Long Sioux said his ancestors gave their lives for a more noble cause that should be recognized. "All I'm doing is trying to help recognize the fallen warriors and what they stood for, to do the honorable thing for them, honor them and recognize them for giving ultimate sacrifice," he said. Copyright c. 2001 The Salt Lake Tribune. --------- "RE: Supreme Court Delivers Blow to Tribes" --------- Date: Tue, 6 Mar 2001 07:13:07 -0800 (PST) From: Paul Pureau Subj: Supreme Court delivers blow to tribes Mailing List: ndn-aim Indianz.Com http://www.indianz.com/SmokeSignals/Headlines/showfull.asp?ID=law/362001-1 Supreme Court delivers blow to tribes MARCH 6, 2001 In a decision the Department of Interior says could have a "chilling effect" on information it shares with tribes, the Supreme Court on Monday turned down the government's attempt to keep private some of its correspondence with tribes in Oregon and northern California. But the unanimous decision authored by Justice David Souter isn't just a blow to the tribes whose water rights were the subject of seven disputed documents at the center of the case. The National Congress of American Indians (NCAI), representing over 200 tribes throughout Indian Country, was among several organizations who filed friend-of-the-court briefs hoping the Supreme Court would rule in the government's favor and keep the documents private under the federal Freedom of Information Act (FOIA). Instead, the Court sided with the Klamath Water Users Protective Association, a group of non-Indian property owners seeking to protect their water rights in the Klamath River Basin. Not only were members of the Association subject to a long-term Bureau of Reclamation water project, they were also defendants in a lawsuit the Bureau of Indian Affairs filed on behalf of the Klamath Tribe in Oregon state court. The dispute stretches back to 1995, when the Interior engaged in government-to-government consultations with the Klamath Tribe and three tribes in northern California. Like it does for tribes elsewhere, the Interior attempted to ensure the tribes' land and water interests were preserved as part of its federal trust responsibilities. During the course of their consultations, the tribes exchanged a number of documents regarding the water project and the lawsuit. The Association filed a FOIA request to obtain the correspondence and for the most part, the Interior complied. It held onto seven documents, however. Six were prepared by the Klamath Tribe at the request of the government and the seventh was prepared by a government official and given to the tribe as well as the Yurok Tribe of California. The documents, the government argued, were exempt from FOIA because they were "inter-agency or intra-agency memorandums" protected by attorney- client privilege. The government also argued -- and interested tribes and tribal organizations agreed -- that the release of the documents would negatively affect the government's trust responsibilities. But the Court rejected both arguments, first ruling that the Interior failed to satisfy the "inter-agency" privacy exemption. Since the tribes had their own lawyers, weren't employed as consultants for the government, and were advancing their own interests, the documents in question did not qualify for the exemption. The Court also said the trust relationship itself didn't overrule FOIA's "mandate of broad disclosure." The Court added: "All of this boils down to requesting that we read an 'Indian trust' exemption into the statute, a reading that is out of the question." The ruling effectively requires the government to turn over the seven documents in question. The 9th Circuit Court of Appeals in 1999 had done just that before the Interior appealed. But just how the decision affects future correspondence is open for question, at least in the eyes of the Department of Interior. Spokesperson Stephanie Hanna said the Department was "very disappointed" with the ruling and officials would be considering its effect on its relationship with tribes. "In the future, we will be reviewing the effect of this ruling on our ongoing communications and consultations with Tribes," said Hanna. "We will also be looking at options to remedy a situation that could have a chilling effect on information that can be shared in deliberations and consultations between the government and tribes." Copyright c. Indianz.Com 2000-2001. ===== Paul Pureau to subscribe to ndn-aim send a blank mail to: ndn-aim-subscribe@yahoogroups.com.com ndn-aim is now archived on line at Http://www.escribe.com/life/ndn-aim/ FREE PELTIER NOW! STOP ETHNIC CLEANSING OF THE LAKOTA! --------- "RE: Whiteclay: A Frontier Town with No Laws" --------- Date: Tue, 06 Mar 2001 04:20:01 -0000 From: Cheryl Subj: Whiteclay Mailing List: Our Red Earth Whiteclay: A Frontier Town with no laws Lakota Journal Vol. 2 Issue 9 Feb 26- Mar 4, 2001 By Ruth Red Elk Lakota Journal Staff Writer Pine Ridge Reservation--Results were less than pleasing at a meeting between Oglala Sioux Trbial members and Nebraska officials concerning alcohol sales in Whiteclay, Neb. With supporting tribal members, OST President John Yellow Bird Steele met with Governor Mike Johanns, members of the Nebraska Liquor Control Commission in Lincoln, Neb., last week. "Nothing was accomplished at this meeting," said Clinton Yellowbird, a Lakota Student Alliance and AIM member. Yellowbird said the whole affair summed up the view the commission had for President Steele. "We were supposed to meet in the executive meeting room, but it was occupied by the news press doing interviews.," he said. "Our president had to go to the basement garage of the highway patrol headquarters in the break room to hold his meeting." Regardless of what Yellowbird deemed as being treated as a second-class citizen, President Steele moved forward with his objective to refresh Nebraska official's memories of why it is important to shut down alcohol sales in Whiteclay. "Whiteclay has always been an issue back in the 1980's through the 1990's. We met with the county police and the Whiteclay establishment owners," President Steele said. "The issue came about when the tribal council and the Lakota people declared war on alcohol. The Lakota people want an alcohol and drug free leadership and workers." Whiteclay, located within two miles of the town of Pine Ridge just across the state line, receives millions of dollars in alcohol sales and sometimes favors are asked. "All the problems with alcohol are really noticeable. I have a witness ready to give testimony that when she went to purchase alcohol the establishment owner offered her free alcohol in return for sex," President Steele said. "The director of the employment assistance program, who had a VCR and TV stolen from the program found the VCR and TV at one of the establishment in Whiteclay that had the serial number on them, we reported this to the Nebraska Liquor Commission and the Nebraska Highway Patrol but nothing was done about it. We can identify the bootleggers across the reservation. These bootleggers can get credit from Whiteclay establishment, bootleggers get large quantities on credit then bring it across the reservation and sell it then pay the establishment back. People off the reservation take their checks to the establishments that allow them credit for alcohol, this is ongoing. We know our minors are buying alcohol from these establishments people that are highly intoxicated can go there and buy alcohol, step out the door and drink it. We had several, and I say several because, I know of sixteen murders that happened in Whiteclay. The families of those that were murdered have no report of any investigation being done, there is no closure to the traumatic experience. When I met with the Liquor Commission and the highway patrol, I believe it was in 1998, we were greatly concerned about the murders that were previously committed there but nothing was done about them. We told them we expected more to happen again. In 1999 it happened again to Wilson Black Elk and Ron Hard Heart. I don't know if that would have prevented the murders if some action was taken in 1988. We expect more to happen but because of the way things are being handled it's out of our jurisdiction it's Nebraska's. Rushville tried to put up a detox center in 1998. They were trying to address the people who consume alcohol. Like the United States, we are addressing the source, Whiteclay for example while the U.S. is addressing Columbia on drugs. We are taking care of our people who are alcoholic, we are building a detoxification center. Many people utilize education programs on alcoholism and are now alcohol free. The Governor of Nebraska promised to increase police presence in Whiteclay. ---- Thank you for your participation at Our Red Earth. To unsubscribe from our community, send an email to: OurRedEarth-unsubscribe@egroups.com --------- "RE: Tribes File Giant Lawsuit Concerning Water Rights" --------- Date: Tue, 6 Mar 2001 07:28:51 -0600 From: John D Berry/grad/res/Okstate Subj: (FWD)Indian News 03-06-2001 ----- Forwarded by John D Berry/grad/res/Okstate on 03/06/2001 07:28 AM Tribes file giant lawsuit concerning water rights By Mary Perea The Associated Press 3/5/2001 Zuni Pueblo, the Navajo Nation and Ramah Navajo Band have filed suit against anyone, including the state, that claims rights or interests in surface and groundwater in the Zuni River basin. The lawsuit was filed Jan. 19 by the federal government on behalf of the tribes. However, hundreds of defendants named in the lawsuit didn't receive notification until last week, defendants said. The state will seek dismissal, State Engineer Tom Turney said. The federal government claims ownership of the rights to the water in such amounts to satisfy uses of the Cibola National Forest, El Morro National Monument, El Malpais National Monument and El Malpais National Conservation Area, according to the lawsuit. Plaintiffs "claim a prior and paramount right to divert, impound, pump or use surface waters and groundwaters of the Zuni River basin in New Mexico," the lawsuit says. Deborah Homer, who lives in El Morro Ranches subdivision about 35 miles south of Grants, received notification by mail. "They are suing over complete and total rights over the water in the Zuni River basin," said Homer, 45. "The Indians have been here for over 500 years and all of the sudden they're concerned about anybody else having a drop of water to drink," Homer said. "None of us out here have a really good feeling about this." The U.S. Department of Justice in Washington D.C. is handling the case. Messages were left seeking comment from Justice Department officials Friday. The state engineer and commissioner of public lands are also defendants in the lawsuit. Turney said his office lacks the manpower to handle another water adjudication. "This, basically, was done without consultation with us," Turney said of the lawsuit. "There are numerous phone calls coming in here. People are very upset about it. We will request for it to be dismissed." Turney said the lawsuit seeks a hydrographic survey of the area. The survey would require the state engineer's office to measure irrigated acreage. An offer would then be made to each owner for the water rights based on the surveys. "This process takes years," Turney said. Hundreds of defendants are named in the lawsuit, Turney said. "These suits can last decades. In the end, everybody has the right to sue everybody else on it." "We'd like to ultimately see if there's some kind of negotiation that can go on with the Indian tribes," Turney said. A meeting between defendants and representatives from the state engineer's office, courts and federal government was scheduled for today at the old El Morro school. --------- "RE: Chilean Tribe in Last Days" --------- Date: Tue, 6 Mar 2001 07:28:51 -0600 From: John D Berry/grad/res/Okstate Subj: (FWD)Indian News 03-06-2001 ----- Forwarded by John D Berry/grad/res/Okstate on 03/06/2001 07:28 AM Chilean tribe in last days 'Cultural salvage' efforts launched By KEVIN G. HALL Knight-Ridder Tribune News March 4, 2001 PUNTA ARENAS, Chile -- When an unknown 23-year-old naturalist named Charles Darwin sailed through the Strait of Magellan in December 1832, he was horrified by the nomadic Kawesqars he met here at the bottom of South America. Nearly naked in a climate where temperatures hover just above freezing, they traveled in extended families in simple canoes of tree bark, with a constant fire burning inside to keep them warm. Their faces and bodies were dabbed with white ash. "Viewing such men, one can hardly make oneself believe they are fellow- creatures, and inhabitants of the same world," wrote Darwin, author of the theory of evolution. His theory holds that all plants and animals developed from earlier species, and that the strongest ones survive. For centuries, the Kawesqars (Kah-WESH-cars) endured in this harsh land, where the bitter wind is sometimes strong enough to knock down a child, but they have not fared so well against their fellow man. Today, fewer than 20 pureblood Kawesqars survive. Diseases brought by European sheep farmers and seal hunters at the end of the 19th century killed many Kawesqars. So did alcoholism. The settlers' bounty on the heads of Kawesqars who hunted their sheep also was a factor but so was the simple act of switching to Western clothing. Discarded clothing carried Western diseases, and because the stormy Patagonia region of South America often experiences all four seasons in a day, paddling in wet clothing soon brought pulmonary diseases for which the Kawesqars had no immunity. Tuberculosis reached epidemic proportions. Today, the Kawesqars are nearly extinct, pursued by social scientists on "cultural salvage" operations to learn as much as possible about them before they disappear. With the deaths of the last surviving elders "goes all our ancestral knowledge," said Oscar Aguilera, an ethnolinguist (a student of the languages of societies) at the University of Chile in Santiago who has spent two decades among the Kawesqar. The nomadic Kawesqars had neither a tribal structure nor leaders, living instead in extended families headed by the oldest male. To the surprise of anthropologists, they also had no god or gods. "They believe in a force that gives balance to all things," said Nelson Aguilera Aguila, an anthropologist who heads the Punta Arenas office of the National Indigenous Development Corp. (Conadi), a quasi-governmental aid agency for native Chileans. When the balance is upset, Kawesqars blame a spirit called Ayayema. Alberto Achacaz Walakial, whose family guesses he is between 70 and 80, is one of the surviving elders. He lives in a flimsy shack with a car seat as his couch. To put food on the table, he carves sea lion bones into makeshift harpoon tips and sews tiny toy canoes out of sea lion skins, souvenirs for the tourist trade. Only one of Achacaz's three daughters, Veronica, speaks Kawesqar. There are almost no Kawesqars left to marry who are not blood relatives. "It would be really nice, because we understand things among ourselves that no one else does," said Veronica, 40, who married a mixed-race man. --------- "RE: No Death Penalty in Beating Death" --------- Date: Tue, 6 Mar 2001 08:46:33 EST From: ErthAvengr@aol.com Subj: No Death Penalty in Beating Death: Rapid City Mailing List: ndn-aim http://www.rapidcityjournal.com No death penalty in beating death By Jim Holland, Journal Staff Writer RAPID CITY - Pennington County prosecutors said Monday they could not justify seeking the death penalty for the two defendants charged in the death of a Rapid City man. Jamie Ray Howard, 26, and Adrian Gilbert Black Bear, 23, are accused in the Dec. 22 beating death of Wilbur G. Johnson, 41. Investigators have said Johnson died of head injuries after being struck with a heavy, blunt object. A passing motorist found his body in an alley off East Monroe Street. Deputy State's Attorney Scott Roetzel said state law lists several aggravating circumstances that a presiding judge could include in instructions to a jury considering the death penalty. The circumstances include a defendant's prior felony convictions for a crime of violence and whether robbery was a motive. Authorities allege Howard is a habitual offender with 1995 convictions for burglary and escape. Police investigators said a motive in the death appeared based more on a disagreement among the three men than a planned robbery. "It was a senseless act, but we couldn't find an aggravating circumstance that sufficiently fit (seeking the death penalty)," Roetzel said. Howard and Black Bear are charged with first-degree murder or, in the alternative, second-degree murder. A jury could acquit them or find them guilty of just one charge. "Both first-degree murder and alternative second-degree murder charges are punishable by mandatory life in prison, so they are still facing a severe penalty," Roetzel said. Rapid City attorney Terry Pechota represents Black Bear. Howard's attorney is Becky A. Janssen of the county public defender's office. Another status hearing in the case is set for March 19. No trial dates have been set. You may call reporter Jim Holland at 394-8412 or send e-mail to jim.holland@rapidcityjournal.com. To subscribe to this group,send an email to: ndn-aim-subscribe@egroups.com Archived on line at: http://www.eScribe.com FREE LEONARD PELTIER --------- "RE: Jail for Rape Suspect Likely Until U.S. Trial" --------- Date: Fri, 2 Mar 2001 11:30:10 -0000 From: anne.bates Subj: Jail for rape suspect likely until U.S. trial Mailing List: ndn-aim http://www.billingsgazette.com/index.php?section=local&display=content /local/rapist.inc Jail for rape suspect likely until U.S. trial By LORNA THACKERAY, Of The Gazette Staff A 27-year-old Lodge Grass man charged with raping a woman at her home on the Crow Reservation probably will be jailed until trial, U.S. Magistrate Richard Anderson ruled Thursday. Shane Plain Woman appeared before Anderson in Billings to determine if there were any conditions under which he could be released. Anderson left open the possibility of calling another hearing if new evidence develops but said that given Plain Woman's record, chances of pre-trial release do not look promising. The defendant was indicted on a federal charge of aggravated sexual abuse, which generally means that force or violence was used in commission of the assault. Bureau of Indian Affairs officers who investigated the incident said Plain Woman had accompanied the victim to her home. She expected that her husband would be there. According to investigators, when Plain Woman learned that the husband was not in the premises, he locked the door and raped the victim. The incident occurred Jan. 28 near Lodge Grass, the indictment said. Assistant U.S. Attorney Klaus Richter on Thursday asked Anderson to follow recommendations from the U.S. probation office that Plain Women remain in jail while awaiting trial. The prosecutor said the defendant, who was born and raised in Canada and whose father and grandmother still live there, presented a flight risk. Richter also argued that Plain Woman presented a danger to the community, both because of the violent nature of the offense charged and because of his extensive criminal history in Canada, which includes several violent crimes. Federal defender Mark Werner countered that Plain Woman had settled on the Crow Reservation and has lived there with his wife for several years. He said Plain Woman had no means to get to Canada and would be willing to submit to electronic monitoring to assure his presence in this country. The defense attorney said that while he had been unable to find a third- party custodian to keep an eye on Plain Woman, if a viable custodian can be found, he would like to come back before the court for a new detention hearing. Werner also said he was concerned about Plain Woman's safety. He said the victim's husband had beaten up the defendant a couple of times. Anderson said he found Plain Woman to be both a flight risk and a danger to the community and ordered him into the custody of U.S. marshals while criminal proceedings are pending. To subscribe to this group,send an email to: ndn-aim-subscribe@egroups.com Archived on line at: http://www.eScribe.com FREE LEONARD PELTIER --------- "RE: Oklahoma Executes Native American" --------- Date: Fri, 2 Mar 2001 06:08:35 -0800 (PST) From: orion-c@webtv.net Subj: Oklahoma Executes Native American Mailing List: Iron Natives The Oklahoman Wireless Man executed for 1985 Tulsa murder 2001-03-02 By Danny M. Boyd Associated Press Writer McALESTER - A man sent to Oklahoma's death chamber two months later than planned was executed by injection Thursday for the 1985 killing of a Tulsa woman. Robert William Clayton, 40, was pronounced dead at 9:10 p.m. from a lethal dose of drugs. He was the ninth inmate executed in Oklahoma this year. Clayton was convicted of murdering Rhonda Timmons, 19, in her apartment. Timmons was stabbed 12 times and was beaten and straggled with her bathing suit top. "I want to say I'm glad I'm leaving this place and I'm going to a better place," Clayton said in his final statement. "I love my family and I'm sorry for this other lady that was killed. "You're still killing an innocent man," he said. "May God have mercy on my soul." The lethal flow of drugs began at 9:07 p.m. Clayton quickly became unconscious and was declared dead three minutes later. He was originally scheduled to be the first inmate to be put to death this year, but was granted a stay one day before his Jan. 4 execution date. The stay allowed him to pursue DNA tests on lost evidence recovered just days before he was to be strapped to a death row gurney at Oklahoma State Penitentiary. But evidence testing by the Oklahoma State Bureau of Investigation confirmed Clayton as the killer. Timmons' stepfather and her mother, Pat Bullard, witnessed the execution. "We did not seek revenge with the death of Robert Clayton," Bullard said in a statement. "We sought justice and justice was served." Timmons' husband, Bill, found her when he came home for lunch. The inside of the couple's apartment was covered in blood, authorities said. Their infant son, now a teen-ager, was in a nearby crib. Clayton was an apartment complex groundskeeper. Prosecutors said he came upon Timmons sunbathing and was furious when she rejected his advances. He was convicted shortly after the killing, when DNA tests were not widely used. When the federal portion of his appeals began in the mid-1990s, Clayton sought DNA tests on traces of blood on a knife identified as the murder weapon and on a sock and overalls Clayton supposedly wore. Defense attorneys had said prosecutors relied on blood typing to argue for conviction. Timmons' blood type matched the type from traces of blood on the sock. Attorneys said DNA tests could be more decisive. But the evidence was lost by state officials after his trial. Tulsa County prosecutors located it in early January. Lt. Gov. Mary Fallin, acting in the temporary absence of Gov. Frank Keating, granted the stay. Two sisters, a cousin, brother-in-law and attorney witnessed the execution on Clayton's behalf. For his last meal, Clayton requested shrimp, oysters, fish with tartar sauce, a 32-ounce creme soda and one strawberry cheese pie. ---- All content copyrighted 2001 The Oklahoma Publishing Co --------- "RE: Federal Prison Authorities Cracking Down" --------- Date: Fri, 2 Mar 2001 21:54:31 -0600 From: LPDC Subj: URGENT ALERT Mailing List: LPDC URGENT ALERT: PRISON AUTHORITIES CRACKING DOWN ON PELTIER AND ALL FEDERAL PRISONERS Leavenworth Federal Penitentiary is banning the media from interviewing Leonard Peltier. In the last week all pending interview requests from established media networks and reporters were denied. Prison authorities say they are facilitating too many press visits and their staff is unable to handle the volume. However, Peltier has not done an interview for several months. Secondly, Leonard Peltier and other prisoners received memos this week from the Federal Bureau of Prisons (BOP) stating that federal prisoners' phone calls will be restricted to 300 minutes a month, averaging to about 10 minutes a day. Already, prisoners can only call a limited amount of people who are registered on a pre-approved list. Calls cannot exceed 15 minutes, more than one call cannot be made in a half hour duration, and calls can only be made during certain segments of the day. Of course, the cost prisoners pay for the calls is exorbitant. Both phone call and visitation privileges have been gradually eroded over the past few years, and will likely diminish completely if the public does not fight back. We at the Leonard Peltier Defense Committee find these two developments to be an alarming sign that prison authorities plan to cut prisoners off from communications with the public. This dangerous trend will make prison staff even less accountable for prisoner abuse. Moreover, it will have a devastating affect on the families of prisoners and on the defense networks of political prisoners, whose voices will be largely stifled. YOUR HELP IS NEEDED! Write, fax and flood the phone lines of Kathleen Hawk Sawyer, BOP Director 320 First St. NW Washington DC 20534 202-307-3198 Fax 202-514-6878 (sample letter below) Write, fax, and phone your senators and representatives To find out who your senators and reps are and how to contact them, call the U.S. Capitol switchboard: 202-224-3121 Or visit these web sites: www.house.gov/ www.senate.gov/ (sample letter below) SAMPLE LETTER FOR BOP: Dear Ms. Hawk Sawyer, I am writing to oppose the upcoming implementation of new phone restrictions for federal prisoners, which limits their phone access to 300 minutes per month. Imprisonment is a harsh enough penalty for those convicted of crimes. Restricting contact with family and friends is simply cruel punishment and will greatly hinder rehabilitation. Legislation that has established longer prison sentences, the abolishment of federal parole, and the restriction of avenues for redress in the courts, has had devastating affects on millions of family members of the convicted. The existing phone and visitation privileges at least allow prisoners minimal participation in family affairs, as well as a healthy connection to the outside world. Furthermore, the emotional stress the phone restriction is bound to have on prisoners will surely interfere with the orderly conducting of daily prison affairs. Therefore, I strongly urge you not to implement what will be a devastating change. Furthermore, I have been made aware that prison officials at USP Leavenworth are denying access to all journalists and media networks who wish to interview federal prisoner Leonard Peltier, the Native American activist deemed a political prisoner by Amnesty International. The media has been in to interview Mr. Peltier in the past, and I am fully aware that such visits can be done in accordance with security concerns. A ban on media entering any BOP institution makes me wonder what the institutions might have to hide. Both of these developments are quite disturbing and signal to the public the BOP's desire to suppress the realities inside federal prisons. I can see no justification for such changes and I respectfully request that both of these matters be addressed accordingly. Thank you for your time and attention. Sincerely, SAMPLE LETTER FOR CONGRESS: Dear _____________, I am writing to oppose the BOP's plans to implement new phone restrictions for federal prisoners, which will limit their phone access to 300 minutes per month. Imprisonment is a harsh enough penalty for those convicted of crimes. Restricting contact with family and friends is simply cruel punishment and will greatly hinder rehabilitation. Legislation that has established longer prison sentences, the abolishment of federal parole, and the restriction of avenues for redress in the courts, has had devastating affects on millions of family members of the convicted. The existing phone and visitation privileges at least allow prisoners minimal participation in family affairs, as well as a healthy connection to the outside world. Furthermore, the emotional stress the phone restriction is bound to have on prisoners will surely interfere with the orderly conducting of daily prison affairs. Therefore, I strongly urge you to discourage the BOP from implementing what will be a devastating change. Furthermore, I have been made aware that prison officials at USP Leavenworth are denying access to all journalists and media networks who wish to interview federal prisoner Leonard Peltier, the Native American activist deemed a political prisoner by Amnesty International. The media has been in to interview Mr. Peltier in the past, and I am fully aware that such visits can be done in accordance with security concerns. A ban on media entering any BOP institution makes me wonder what the institutions might have to hide. Please urge the BOP to lift this ban. Both of these developments are quite disturbing and signal to the public the BOP's desire to suppress the realities inside federal prisons. I can see no justification for such changes and I respectfully request that these matters be addressed accordingly. Thank you for your time and attention. Sincerely, ----- 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: Native Prisoner" --------- Date: Mon, 12 March 2001 20:55:07 -0530 From: "Janet Smith" Subj: Native Prisoner News Tell a Native American Prisoner someone cares! -- - - - Peltier, Leonard #89637-132 Box 1000 Leavenworth, KS 66053 Birthday: 9/12/44 Ancestry: Ojibwa-Lakota -- - - - Date: Mon, 5 Mar 2001 08:51:55 EST From: ErthAvengr@aol.com Subj: Incarcerated Juveniles: Part 1: Lakota Journal Mailing List: ndn-aim http://www.lakotanationjournal.com INCARCERATED JUVENILES: PART 1 Part 1 of a series Incarcerated juveniles Do they have access to traditional ceremonies? By Ruth Steinberger Lakota Journal Correspondent RAPID CITY - Freedom of religion is protected under the Bill of Rights. For American Indians these rights were secured through the passage of the American Indian Religious Freedom Act in 1978. A Lakota Journal survey revealed that for incarcerated Indian youth this right may be treated as a privilege or may be unavailable altogether. The 1993 revision of this Act included religious rights for prisoners. Because of the disproportionate prosecution and ultimately confinement of both juvenile and adult Indians, figures reveal that access to religious freedom, as well as other issues relating to conditions of confinement, affect Indians deeply. With the rate of incarceration disproportionately punishing Indian youth, extensive use of force, pepper spray and extended time periods in solitary confinement have been revealed in juvenile facilities in some states with a high Native American population. The combination of issues, including circumstances of confinement, as well as being deprived of access to cultural and spiritual activities, creates a situation unique in America to Indian youth who are incarcerated. The Lakota Journal survey revealed that the situation varies greatly from state to state. This newspaper attempted to reach the Juvenile Justice Offices or the Juvenile Services under the Department of Corrections in the states of Arizona, Minnesota, Montana, New Mexico, North Dakota, Oklahoma and South Dakota and found that each state set its own policies and procedures, some recognizing the needs of Indian youth more fully than others. Phone calls to the South Dakota Department of Corrections were not returned although several calls were placed to them. The Office of Juvenile Affairs, or Juvenile Services for these states were asked the following questions: * Are traditional Native American religious or spiritual services available for youth who come from traditional, non-Christian homes? * Are these services available on a regular basis and are they easy for the child to access? * If traditional services do not exist, are Native American youth compelled, either by policy or circumstances of planning, to attend non- traditional services? * Are traditional tribal elders on the approved ministers list so that juveniles may consult with them at a time of crisis? * What percentage of confined juveniles are Native American? The states of Minnesota, North Dakota and Montana all offered scheduled sweat lodge ceremonies and other cultural activities to incarcerated juveniles, the frequency varying from Minnesota (weekly) to Montana, (every three to five weeks). Oklahoma and New Mexico offer services if the juvenile requests it, and the services are planned according to the tribal affiliation of the child. Access was available to youth within these systems to reach a spiritual elder to speak with if they requested to do so. Spokesman James Johnson, Deputy Director of Juvenile Services for the State of Oklahoma, explained that any child's request for religious services or counsel would be accommodated. Johnson explained that with 37 federally recognized tribes within Oklahoma it would be impossible to have one scheduled service on a regular basis that could accommodate the needs of all American Indian youth, therefore services reflecting the specific traditions of one tribe are not offered at the facilities. Arizona does not have spiritual/cultural activities available for Indian youth incarcerated in state facilities at this time. ---- To subscribe to this group,send an email to: ndn-aim-subscribe@egroups.com Archived on line at: http://www.eScribe.com FREE LEONARD PELTIER -- - - - Date: Mon, 12 Mar 2001 20:32:58 -0800 (PST) From: Valerie Scott Subj: Urgent Notice Hello Gary, The prisoners at Washington State Reformatory have asked that the following information be distributed widely for action. Valerie Scott NAPS ===================================================== URGENT NOTICE To Whom It May Concern: Immediately following the Religious Freedom Restoration Act of 1993, D.O.C. officials in Washington State responded to Congress by attacking and dismantling religious programs for Native Americans incarcerated in this state. In September of 2000, the amendments to the "RFRA" were enacted as a remedy to constitutional problems with the Act, and re-establishing the "Least Restrictive Means Test". D.O.C. response once again was to de- sensitise Native religions by dismantling religious programs at the Washington State Reformatory in order to justify less intrusive-arbitrary policies at other Washington facilities (W.S.R. has been, and should have been/remained a model for all other states in concerns of Native American religious policies). The following summarises extreme attacks on Native religious freedoms at Washington State Reformatory. 1. D.O.C. has informed Natives at W.S.R. that they will no longer be allowed any wood for sweat lodge ceremonies due to alleged legislative budget cuts. However, there has been no "Notice" of constitutional change, nor is there any evidence of D.O.C. financing wood. Please request an audit to see if D.O.C. has been charging tax payers for free/donated wood. 2. At W.S.R., it was recognised for decades that the seat lodge ceremonies began at the sunrise ceremony, or the lighting of the fire, and concluded after the sweat lodge is undressed. A new policy will allow only 2 Native prisoners the benefit of the entire ceremony, the rest being ordered back to their cells for 2 hours. Once again, D.O.C. has become an expert on Native American religions and denies Native prisoners the right to full benefit of ceremonies. 3. New policy at W.S.R. allows only one Native American to create beadwork in cell as a religious tenet. Non-Natives are allowed to purchase a licence to do beadwork. 4. Native Americans have been physically assaulted by staff (24 February 2001, 1 March 2001). The videos of these assaults have mysteriously disappeared. 5. Discrimination and threats at W.S.R. by a silent retaliation guard force against Native Americans. 6. In a sworn affidavit by a D.O.C. Superintendent, Richard Morgan has testified that Native inmates could not worship certain tenets, because other Non-Indian inmates would be affected negatively, (or could assault Natives). The Superintendents opt not to enforce State and Federal policies prohibiting hate crime acts, sending a clear message that it is O.K. to discriminate against another because of their race or religious belief. It appears that D.O.C., who is struggling for budget approvements, is attempting to establish an environment of hate and violence to gain legislative support. We urgently request your intervention before this becomes irreparable. Signed: Washington State Reformatory Native American Indians of All Tribes/Brotherhood of American Indians. Please send inquiries to: Governor Gary Locke Legislative Building P.O. Box 40002 Olympia, WA 98504-0002 Mr. Eldon Vail Deputy Secretary/D.O.C. Operations P.O. Box 41118 Olympia, WA 98504-1118 A. Fernandez D.O.C. Religious Programs Manager P.O. Box 41127 Olympia, WA 98504-1127 ===== NAPS (Native American Prisoner Support) http://www.hri.ca/partners/naps/ --------------------------------- Please especially remember Leonard. Leonard Peltier #89637-132, Box 1000, Leavenworth, KS 66053 --------------------------------- Dear Janet, Eddie Hatcher was moved from Central Prison in North Carolina to a county jail. His new address is: Eddie Hatcher, Robeson County Jail,122 Legend Road, Lumberton, NC 28358. Thanks, Marsha Shaiman On Indian Land, PO Box 2104, Seattle WA 98111 --------------------------------- Standing Deer's new address: Robert H. Wilson #640539, Estelle Unit, 264 FM 3478, Huntsville, TX 77320-3322 --------- "RE: History: Carlisle Indian School" --------- Date: Sun, 25 Feb 2001 21:58:30 -0500 From: Barbara Landis Subj: History: A Hundred + Years Ago - Carlisle - February 24, 1888 [Note: any descendants of Carlisle students willing to be interviewed for a student history day school project, please email Jessica, Brittany, Megan, and Ashlyn at sdodson@access.mountain.net] THE INDIAN HELPER ----------------------------- ~~ FOR OUR BOYS AND GIRLS ~~ ============================= VOLUME III CARLISLE, PA. FRIDAY, FEBRUARY 24, 1888 NO. 28 ============================= SOWING ------ Are we sowing seeds of kindness? They will blossom bright ere long. Are we sowing seeds of discord? They will ripen into wrong. Are we sowing seeds of honor? They will bring forth golden grain. Are we sowing seeds of falsehood? We shall yet reap bitter pain. Whatsoe'er our sowing be, Reaping, we its fruit must see. We can never be too careful What the seed our hands shall sow, Love from love is sure to ripen, Hate from hate is sure to grow. Seeds of good or ill we scatter Heedlessly along our way, But a glad or grievous fruitage Waits us at the harvest day, Whatsoe'er our sowing be, Reaping, we its fruits must see. -[Selected. ----------- HOW THE LETTERS GO. --- The Man-on-the-band-stand wonders if the boys and girls have ever thought about the way the HELPER gets to its subscribers, and how letters and papers are carried all over the country, to the great cities and to all towns and the villages so small that they are not put on the map. He knows that you all here have seen the bags that go in with the mails to the Carlisle Post Office and bring out the mails to the school. All mail bags are somewhat like these, only, many are much larger and stronger; they are made for long journeys on the trains, and there is another thing some of them are made for also. It is this: All towns have mails to send, and many of these towns are on the lines of great railroads; these railroads run from one city to another express trains that will not stop at the little stations. But the people like to have their letters go as fast as possible, so they often send them by these express trains. How can they do it when the trains don't stop? Do they go very slowly by these places to give the men at the stations a chance to put on their mail bags? They rush past like the wind; the Man-on-the-band-stand knows a lady who was walking on the platform of a station one day when the train went by so fast that the breeze from it blew off her hat. And yet before the train comes, the mail bag is at the station, and when it has passed, this has gone and the other bag that it brought out from the city is lying on the platform. The two things are done in this way: When the mail is to be thrown off, a man crouches down at the open door of the mail car with the bag in his hands. As the car reaches the platform, he gives the bag a toss and it goes spinning the length of the station, and sometimes far beyond. He knows exactly how to do it, or he would go spinning too. The station master has only to send it to the post-office. But while the bag is spinning, the cars are whizzing by. The mail bag that is to be taken on board by them has been hung on a long spike driven into a high post. As the train goes flying past, a great hook reaches out of the door of the mail car, clutches the bag, sweeps it into the car, and all the while the train goes flying on as fast as ever. If people do not get quickly letters sent in this way, it is not the fault of the lightning express, nor of the postal delivery; it must be because they are not at home. ----------------- FROM ALBUQUERQUE SCHOOL. ---------- John Dixon, a former pupil of Carlisle, writes from Albuquerque: "Since I am at this school, I have been up and down almost in every Pueblo Village. The Superintendent of this school takes me as an interpreter to the Pueblo Indian villages, trying to get all the children we can get for the United States Albuquerque Indian School, but sorry to say in some villages we haven't succeeded. It seems to me, or as far as I know, most of the children in some villages are willing to come to school, ----------------------------- (Continued on Fourth Page.) ========================================== (p 2) The Indian Helper. ----------------------------- PRINTED EVERY FRIDAY, AT THE INDIAN INDUSTRIAL SCHOOL, CARLISLE, PA. BY THE INDIAN PRINTER BOYS. ----------------------------- Price: - 10 cents a year. ============================== Address INDIAN HELPER, Carlisle, Pa. Miss M. Burgess, Manager. ============================== Entered in the P.O. at Carlisle as second class mail matter. ============================== THE INDIAN HELPER is PRINTED by Indian boys, but EDITED by The-Man-on-the-band-stand, who is NOT an Indian. ============================== The INDIAN HELPER is paid for in advance, so do not hesitate to take the paper from the Post Office, for fear a bill will be presented. =============================== GOD'S BIRD ---- A little Indian girl, the daughter of a chief in the Omaha tribe, who was being educated in a city, tells us this story, to show how she had learned that all living things belong to God: "I remember the first time I ever heard the name of God. I was a very little girl, playing about the tent one summer day, when I found a little bird lying hurt on the ground. It was a fledgling that had fallen from a tree and fluttered some distance from the nest. "Ah!" thought I, 'now this is mine.' I was delighted, and ran about with the little creature in my hand. "What have you there, Luzette?" asked one of the men who was at work in the field. "It is a bird of mine," I said. "He looked at it. 'No it is not yours. You must not hurt it. You have no right to it.' "Not mine?" I said. "But I found it. Whose is it?" "It is God's. You must give it back to him. "I did not dare to disobey. "Where is God? How shall I give it back to him? "He is here. Go to the high grass yonder, near its nest, and lay it down and say, "God, here is thy bird again." He will hear you." "I went to the tall grass, crying and awed, and did as he bade me. I laid it down on the grass, in a warm sunny spot, and said, "God here is thy bird again.' I never forgot that lesson." Is not this a beautiful lesson? And have all your dear children learned, we wonder, that the dogs, and the cats, and the birds, and every living thing belong to the great and good God? -[Selected. ------------------ Monthly Exhibition. The monthly exhibition came off Friday night. Over 800 of the pupils and educators of Carlisle were present. From Joe Hunterboy's amusing little speech of welcome to Laban Locojim's funny good night, more than two hours, the audience showed unflagging interest. Eva Johnson read Cecilia's well-written greeting so distinctly that everybody could hear and understand it. The two discussions were well done. The Man-on-the-band-stand is glad to know that the boys think for themselves on the questions of the day. It did his heart good to see that they were not afraid to stand up and utter their opinions before a large audience. The Apaches from No. 10 told how they planned for the "New Year," and the little "Wise Heads" from No. 5 showed us that they had something worth hearing to tell. Frank Lock's talk on the "Past, Present and Future of the Indian" was not spoken loud enough to be heard. That was a pity. The Man-on-the-band-stand knows it was good. He would have liked Abe Somers' better too, if it had been loud. Don't forget, boys and girls, the gymnasium is a very large place, and if you want to be heard and understood, YOU MUST SPEAK LOUD and VERY DISTINCTLY. It was very tantalizing to watch that nice group of girls looking so natural in their "One Hundred Years Ago," and only hear what one or two of them said. Next time walk out your voices. The Army and Navy girls and boys from No. 1 made a patriotic stir in every heart, and the marching and countermarching in the "Tambourine Drill," by the little girls, was a pretty sight. The exercise with Indian clubs was fine, and Conrad Roubidoux looked very happy, as he received the two clubs which a Wyoming lady present in the audience sent up to him because he gave the most perfect and graceful drill. As for the gymnastic exercises, one by the girls, the other by the boys, it was hard to tell which was best, they were both so good, but the dress of the girls added a brightness to the grace of movement that made theirs more beautiful. The "Real Eloquence" of the No. 9 boys was over-powering-causing hearty laughter. The singing by the whole school - the two pieces by the choir and the boys' quartette were well rendered and added much to the pleasure of the occasion. A telling six minutes' talk from Joshua Given followed by an enthusiastic, appreciative, and heartfelt speech from Rev. A.E. Winship had an inspiring effect on the workers and deepened the interest of the thoughtful ones in the audience. ======================================= p.3 Fine weather! Snow is melting. Bad sleighing. We wait for more news from California. ------ How many of the boys went to the mountains on Wednesday? ------ The new reading room in the Girls' Quarters is a very pleasant one. ------ We hear that the P.I Society will give an entertainment very soon. Good! ------ The Apache babies have been to town to have their pictures taken. ------ Correct answers to our two last enigmas received. Pleased to see an interest taken in solving them. ------ Written examinations for the quarter in the school rooms now. ------ A new board walk from the guard house to the railroad. No waiting for the mud to dry up now, in order to get to town. ------ The Rev. A.E. Winship, of the Educational Journal, Boston, spent Friday here looking through the different departments of the school. ------ Glad to have Joshua Given with us for a few days. He gave us a nice talk Saturday night in the chapel. Look out for it in the March Red Man. ------ Kias Red Wolf and Dick Wallace are making a wagon body. Frank Lock is doing the iron work. The Herdic has been handed over for a fresh coat of paint. ------ The printers, office and the school all thank our good friend Mr. Houghton, Supt. of the Southworth Paper Company for a box containing 534 pounds of excellent writing paper. ------ The following was given as a sentence with the word "pinions." -"Spread his magical pinions wide the night of the debate on railroads. Indeed, he spread his pinions to their extreme width." ------ Wednesday the 22nd was a bright, sunny holiday, which all enjoyed. Some of the boys went to the mountains and had a fine time. In the evening the Band played and at night all gathered in the Chapel where the "Magic Lantern" entertained us with views in different countries - none more interesting than those from different Indian reservations. Doing and Being. A young girl had been trying to do something very good, and had not succeeded very well. Her friend, hearing her complain said, "God gives us many things to do, but don't you think He gives something to be, just as well?" "Oh, tell me about being," said Marion, looking up. "I will think about being, if you help me." Her friend answered, "God says: "Be kindly affectioned one to another. "Be ye also patient. "Be ye thankful. "Be ye not conformed to this world. "Be ye therefore perfect. "Be careful for nothing. "Be not wise in your own conceits. "Be not overcome of evil. Marion listened, but made no reply. Twilight grew into darkness. The tea-bell sounded, bringing Marion to her feet. In the firelight Elizabeth could see that she was very serious. "I'll have a better day tomorrow. I see that doing grows out of being." "We cannot be what God loves without doing what he commands. It is easier to do with a rush than to be patient or unselfish, or humble, or just or watchful." -[Selected. ---------------------- Calvin Red Wolf, who is now at Haskell Institute, writes to Miss Fisher: "It has been very long time since I am away from Carlisle school. But still I remember at Carlisle very well, all the teachers and all the students, too. But still going to school and not give up for education. I am glad to say this, I join what they call the Y.M.C.A. I am one of the committees. I am doing the very best I can for this work. I am sorry I never received the INDIAN HELPER for a long time. I can't stand it for not hearing of anything out there. Give all my best regards and best wishes to all the teachers and children at Carlisle." ---------------------- Be Polite. The Man-on-the-band-stand sees some things that make him very sorry. For instance, when a lady is coming along the walk and meets a boy who is too lazy and impolite to raise his hat and say "good morning or "good evening." Politeness does not cost anything except a little effort on your part, and it has a large reward in the happiness it brings to yourself and others. On the walks, in the schoolroom, at work, or at play. BE POLITE. =========================================== (Continued From First Page.) but the parents are the big buck Indians who are not willing, especially the mothers. Last month the Superintendent and I have been up to my place twice, and by hard work and by the governor's effort, the first time we got five boys, and at the second time four boys. Also, just before Christmas the late governor of the same village brought two boys and a girl. And last summer I brought two girls and one of my little nephews. At the present time there are twelve boys and three girls from my place attending this school. It is queer that there are some Indians, very hard minded Indians, to make them to understand what a good thing the Government has been trying to do for them. Last week some of the San Felipe Indians were down here; and Agent M.C. Williams, the Agent, called the Indians to meet him down here. Some of those Indians have had children in this school before but just before Christmas took them home, and promised to bring them back. And one party of those Indians are opposed in bringing their children back to the school. Agent Williams, myself and the Indians took us one day's talk about the matter. Then Mr. Williams concluded it in giving a written order to the governor and his officers of that village, and told them to see if his orders are carried out. In his order he ordered them that they must bring all the children that were here before, if not, then that he will know what to do with them. The governor and some of the officers are willing to do everything what their agent wants them to do, but one party are opposed. Sheldon Jackson was down here with the Indians. Sheldon and his wife have left the school, they have gone home since before Christmas. Cyrus and I are still working in the shop. We have been making some window frames for the new building, which will be for the Superintendent of this school. And there are two buildings unfinished, we have to finish them this summer. We have plenty work out here, Cyrus and I work all day, we don't go to school at all. Cyrus' father is the governor at our place; from him we got good many children. Permit me to give you the kindest expressions from my mother, sisters, and brothers. I am going up home again tomorrow morning at seven o'clock. Please let me know how is my nephew. Also if you please, remember me to everybody in the school. I am glad to let you know that Cyrus and I are getting along first-rate in this school." Enigma. I am composed of 34 letters. My 21, 9, 19, 11 is what we hear first in the morning. My 27, 18, 5 is what a boy went to town to buy just before the last sociable. My 1, 13, 20, 26, 3, 30 is what all boys and girls should be to every one they meet. My 34, 29, 2, 17 is what some of the boys would rather do when they ought to study. My 31, 4, 28, 5 is what we like to see every one become. My 34, 14, 24, 6, 9, 29 is something we always enjoy when we are well. My 1, 13, 7, 1, 1, 23, 30 is what the little people - and some of the larger ones, too - look forward to on Thursday. My 8, 33, 32, 15, 25, 10, 5 is one of the terms used in describing a quarrel or dispute. My 16, 26, 22, 12, 19, 9 is something worn around the waist. My whole is a bit of excellent advice. -------------- ANSWERS TO LAST WEEK'S ENIGMA: Be sure you are right, then go ahead. ----------- One of the boys describing Indian Territory said, "Since the Indians were caught by the missionaries they cultivate the land." ----------- To rejoice in the happiness of others is to make it our own; to produce it is to make it more than our own. -James. ======================================= STANDING OFFER: - For FIVE new subscribers to the INDIAN HELPER, we will give the person sending them a photographic group of the 13 Carlisle Indian Printer boys, on a card 4 1/2 X 6 1/2 inches, worth 20 cents when sold by itself. Name and tribe of each boy given. (Persons wishing the above premium will please enclose a 1-cent stamp to pay postage.) For TEN, Two PHOTOGRAPHS, one showing a group of Pueblos as they arrived in wild dress, and another of the same pupils three years after, or, for the same number of names we give two photographs showing still more marked contrast between a Navajoe as he arrived in native dress, and as he now looks, worth 20 cents a piece. Persons wishing the above premiums will please enclose a 2-cent stamp to pay postage. For FIFTEEN, we offer a GROUP of the whole school on 9x14 inch card. Faces show distinctly, worth sixty cents. Persons wishing the above premium will please send 6 cents to pay postage. --------------- For a longer list of subscribers we have many other interesting pictures of shops, representing boys at work, schoolrooms and views of the grounds, worth from 20 to 60 cents a piece, which will be sent on request. ------------------------------ At the Carlisle Indian School is published monthly an eight-page quarto of standard size, called THE RED MAN, the mechanical part of which is done entirely by Indian boys. This paper is valuable as a summary of information on Indian matters and contains writings by Indian pupils and local incidents of the school. Terms: Fifty cents a year, in advance. SAMPLE COPIES SENT FREE. Address, THE RED MAN, Carlisle, PA. For 1, 2 and 3 subscribers for THE RED MAN we give the same premiums offered in Standing Offer for the HELPER. ======================================================================= Transcribed weekly from the newspaper collections of the US Military History Institute, Carlisle Barracks, Carlisle, PA. For more info see http://www.carlisleindianschool.org. - Barbara Landis --------- "RE: Rustywire: Smiling Eyes" --------- Date: Wed, 28 Feb 2001 03:04:34 -0000 From: "John Rustywire" Subj: smiling eyes Mailing List: RezLife It was in November, the snow had fallen hard piling deep on the ground...it covered everything. The night was cold with a clear dark sky and I left my room to run to the gym to work out. I saw her sitting up high in the stands of the gym her head buried in a book, her hair was dark just like her eyes. She wore an old blue levi coat with a white fur collar and I went to speak to her... I had seen her first sitting on the floor in a hallway at school, a place where 500 Indians gathered to attend college from all over the US and Canada. The world was so small then, we were going to conquer it and sat for hours talking about how we would do things to help our people. She just sat just over there by the wall near the door her books sitting next to her while she studied out of some book. She was from some place up North, her eyes were dark brown and her hair was long but tied up in a pony tail covered by her coat. She didn't say anything, but every once in a while she looked up and said hello so someone. There was this one girl from San Carlos, a friend who stopped to say...hey. I said to her, who is that one sitting just over there. She looked at her and said, oh, she is just a girl and laughed at me as she walked away... A few times I saw her on campus running to class or sitting in the gym watching the basketball players practice scrimmaging up and down the court. She loved the game it seemed. I went to the movie one night alone, it was an old theater showing an old flick for 25 cents. I went in using the last dollar I had and went to sit down somewhere in the middle. It was dark and I found a seat and sat down. As I watched the screen someone poked me with an apple, somewhere to the left of me. I heard a soft voice say, would you like this. I looked hard into the darkness and saw it was this girl I had seen sitting around campus here and there. I was poor and proud and so said it was ok, so she just shrugged and ate her apple. All the time I was thinking I wished she would offer it to me again. It was a large one, big and red. I could hear it crunch, it sounded crisp. I sat there hungry and tired. I fell asleep and then the lights came on and it was time to go. She poked me again and said I was in the way. I got up and went outside, it was snowing as I stepped out. She was walking away when I called to her and said, let me walk you home. She looked at me and said, I don't walk home...I run and she took off. I ran after her as she cut across campus and ran down the steps two at a time. I told her to wait, calling after her and she just laughed at me as she left me in the dust. I called to her and she finally stopped a few blocks from campus. The snow was hanging from the trees and the stars were shining bright in the night sky. I told her, I had seen her on campus and she said, I know, you have been looking at me... I spoke to her and said I would walk her home and she just stood there and said no. I said why? She said she was already there and went inside. Her eyes twinkled in the darkness, her eyes smiled at me and I thought this Indian girl can run. It started to snow and I took off running back to my room clear on the other side of campus. I stayed in a dorm, on the first floor, I got inside and took off my coat. I looked outside my window at where I had come from and there she was standing there looking at me and she laughed. She said to me, you run like a three legged dog. I reached for my last dollar bill and went out the door to see her. She was already across the street and running back home. I called to her and she stopped and waited for me. I said I will buy you an ice cream cone at that place just over there. She looked at me and then said ...OK. I spent my last dollar on vanilla ice cream. She was an Indian girl who could run like the wind and she smiled with her eyes. It was on a night like this. It is snowing outside and the snow flakes are big and white, they hand in there as they fall to the ground moving real slow.. The world was innocent and we were full of dreams on how we were going to change the world... rustywire For Rezlife egroups http://www.egroups.com/group/rezlife --------- "RE: Have You Ever Seen A Real Indian" --------- Date: Sat, 3 Mar 2001 00:58:02 -0800 (PST) From: Martha Elizabeth Ture Subj: Have You Ever Seen A Real Indian? Mailing List: TRIBALLAW (triballaw@thecity.sfsu.edu) http://aolmail.aol.com/mail.dci?id=2&count=5&box=inbox&list=1-5&read.x=1 Friday March 2, 12:03 pm Eastern Time Press Release SOURCE: The American Indian College Fund Have You Ever Seen A Real Indian? American Indian College Fund Advertising Campaign Challenges Stereotypes PORTLAND, Ore., March 2 /PRNewswire/ - The American Indian College Fund announced today the launch of a new advertising campaign that challenges "Indian" stereotypes by profiling strong, successful Native American people. Created by long-time College Fund advertising agency, Wieden + Kennedy/Portland, the print campaign is expected to appear in April publications. "With this campaign, it is our goal to challenge the American public's notions about who Indian people are and what they can become," said Richard Williams, Executive Director of the Denver-based nonprofit organization. "We are very proud of the achievements and contributions of the people featured in our ads and we want to illuminate those positive images." The campaign's goal, which features accomplished American Indian professionals and tribal college students, is to portray a contemporary and accurate image of Native American people. Photographed by Chris Buck, the ads feature Rick West, Founding Director, Smithsonian National Museum of the American Indian; Dr. Lori Arviso Alvord, Surgeon and Associate Dean, Dartmouth Medical School; Dean Bear Claw, Director/Screenwriter; Jarett Medicine Elk, Business Major; and Carly Kipp, Biology Major. Each full-page, color photograph carries the bold headline "Have You Ever Seen A Real Indian?" The copy will include a short version of each individual's resume as well