From gars@speakeasy.org Wed Aug 29 00:59:23 2001 Date: 29 Aug 2001 01:10:13 -0000 From: Gary Night Owl To: Internet Recipients of Wotanging Ikche Subject: Wotanging Ikche--nanews09.035 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 035 O o O Es'te Opunvk'vmucvse August 25, 2001 O o O Ximopanolti tehuatzin, Pomo moon when acorns appear O inin Mexika tlahtolli Ponca corn is in the silk 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. For daily updates check | | http://www.owlstar.com/dailyheadlines.htm - also events | +-----------------------------------------------------------+ This issue contains articles from www.pechanga.net; www.owlstar.com; indianz.com; ndn-aim, Frostys AmerIndian, Turtle Island Support Group and First Nations mailing Lists; Newsgroup: alt.native; UUCP email IMPORTANT!! ----------- In accordance with Title 17 U.S.C. section 107, all material appearing in this newsletter is distributed without profit to those who have expressed a prior interest in receiving this information for educational purposes. <----<<<< >>>>----> This newsletter is a way of keeping the brothers and sisters who share our Spirit informed about current events within the lives of those who walk the Red Road. ++ It may be subscribed to via email by sending a request from your own internet addressable account to gars@speakeasy.org ++ It is archived at http://www.nanews.org As historian Patricia Nelson Limerick summarized in The Legacy of Conquest: The Unbroken Past of the American West, "Set the blood quantum at one-quarter, hold to it as a rigid definition of Indians, let intermarriage proceed as it had for centuries, and eventually Indians will be defined out of existence. When that happens, the federal government will be freed of its persistent 'Indian problem.'" "That petroleum is actually the blood of Mother Earth, and you can't live without blood. If you take the blood, you are taking it from the earth. None of us can live without blood." __ Kuwaru'wa, U'wa ... to Occidental Petroleum shareholders +- -- -- -- -- -- -- -- -- -- -- -+ | 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! It's still mid-August and blistering hot most places, but the first signs of autumn have shown themselves. Soon, it will be time for the equinox, ripe corn festivals and thanks for the gifts from the plants. I mention this to remind you that it really isn't that long before the north winds send their bite, and there will be a need for heat. Propane and fuel oil are often the heating fuels available on the rez's; and while both are down from last winter's record breaking prices you can rest assured this will not be the case when winter arrives. Consider now setting aside some funds each week, so when the need arrives to help our relatives survive the winter it will be possible to do so. My half-side, Janet, and I were shocked to discover at least one propane provider would not allow us to pay some toward a tankfill. It was all or nothing. Joining up with friends is the only way we can manage something that expensive. Think how terribly hard it must be for elders in Many Farms or Porcupine to come up such with a big lump sum. The labor day dances are next week. Dance well, have a good time, chow down on frybread... but try to remember to think of the coming hard times just around the corner. Dohiyi Ani Oginalii , , Gary Night Owl gars@nanews.org (*,*) P. O. Box 672168 gars@speakeasy.org (`-') Marietta, GA 30006, U.S.A. gars@olagrande.net ===w=w=== gars@sdf.lonestar.org ----------- News of the people featured in this issue ---------- - Crossings - Gwich'in Nation - Clothing The Needy calls for Urgent Action - 300,000 Indians Cheated - The Kitikmeot's Road to Riches? - Truth Commission - Indian Crafts Law Being Fine-Tuned into Genocide in Canada - Oglala Sioux Tribe - A Clash of Beliefs limits Law Enforcement Access - A Comanche Patriot - Six Years since Ipperwash Will Save the White Man - Peltier's Birthday - Zuni Will Not Compromise - Boston Peltier BD Event on Protecting Lake - Native Prisoner - Clearcuts area -- Pen Pal Requests along Lewis and Clark Trail - US Indian Industrial School: - Fort Laramie Treaty of 1851 School of Assimilation - Oglala Sioux Tribal - History: Carlisle Indian School Executive Committee - Rustywire: Navajo Flowers - Hecla agrees to Settle - Poem: Tears For Tomorrow - Hidden Costs of Plan Colombia - Verse: Hawaiian Book of Days - Upcoming Events --------- "RE: Crossings" --------- Date: Sat, 25 Aug 2001 09:17:28 -0500 From: Gary Smith Subj: NA News Item - - - - - - -- - - - - - - filename="CROSSINGS" http://www.rapidcityjournal.com/obits/ August 24 Eric Lee Kills In Water KYLE - Eric Lee Kills In Water, 57 days, Kyle, died Tuesday, Aug. 21, 2001, in Kyle. Survivors include his paternal grandfather, Ray Sitting Up, Wanblee; his maternal grandmother, Effie Kills In Water, Kyle; his parents, Donovan Ashley, Wanblee, and Colleen Kills In Water, Kyle; one brother, Aaron Kills In Water, Pine Ridge; and three sisters, Darlene Janis, Mary Ann Kills In Water and Erika Kills In Water, all of Pine Ridge. A two-night wake began Thursday, Aug. 23, at Mediator Episcopal Church in Kyle. Services will be at 2 p.m. Saturday, Aug. 25, at the church, with the Rev. Cordelia Red Owl officiating. Burial will be at Mediator Episcopal Church Cemetery. Sioux Funeral Home of Pine Ridge is in charge of arrangements. August 25 Levi Long Soldier KYLE - Levi Long Soldier, 87, Kyle, died Thursday, Aug. 23, 2001, in Lincoln, Neb. Survivors include one son, Myron Long Soldier, Lincoln; one daughter, Lucille Few Tails, Lincoln; seven grandchildren; and seven great- grandchildren. A one-night wake will begin at 2 p.m. Sunday, Aug. 26, at St. Barnabas Episcopal Church in Kyle. Services will be at 2 p.m. Monday, Aug. 27, at the church, with the Rev. Cordelia Red Owl officiating. Burial will be at St. Barnabas Episcopal Church Cemetery. Sioux Funeral Home of Pine Ridge is in charge of arrangements. Margaret Norma Trueblood PINE RIDGE - Margaret Norma Trueblood, 84, Pine Ridge, died Thursday, Aug. 23, 2001, at Pine Ridge Hospital. Survivors include two sons, Robert Trueblood and Efrem Trueblood, both of Pine Ridge; four daughters, Donna Azure, Belcourt, N.D., and Lynn Ecoffey, Geraldine Trueblood and Jolene Provost, all of Pine Ridge; one brother, Floyd Pourier, Rushville, Neb.; one sister, Alvina Morrison, Edgemont; 34 grandchildren; and 61 great-grandchildren. A one-night wake will begin at 4 p.m. Sunday, Aug. 26, at Sacred Heart Church Hall in Pine Ridge. Mass of Christian Burial will be at 10 a.m. Monday, Aug. 27, at Sacred Heart Church, with the Rev. Steve Sanford officiating. Burial will be at Holy Rosary Cemetery in Pine Ridge. Sioux Funeral Home of Pine Ridge is in charge of arrangements. --------- "RE: Clothing The Needy" --------- Date: Mon, 27 Aug 2001 11:24:52 EDT From: Gjsooner@aol.com Subj: Clothing The Needy Mailing List: ndn-aim Nights in the high desert can get alarmingly cold, especially during the winter months. Oftentimes temperatures plunge well below zero. Add the high desert winds to the high desert cold, and warm clothes and blankets become essential to staying alive. For this reason, blankets, coats, warm clothes, and boots play a critical role in our emergency assistance program. We distribute clothes items year round to those families truly in need -- to the homeless and to those who come to the missions and chapter houses. Cold weather is expected to arrive early this year, and because of this the demand for warm clothing will increase considerably. If anyone has serviceable winter clothing, especially blankets and coats, please consider donating them to us. We serve primarily the Navajo, Hopi, Zuni, Laguna, Acoma, and Apache tribes of the Southwest. Kind regards, Glenn the Beggar Southwest Indian Foundation 100 W. Coal Avenue Gallup, NM 87302 ---------------------------------------------------~-> 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: 300,000 Indians Cheated" --------- Date: Wed, 22 Aug 2001 08:10:08 -0500 From: Gary Smith Subj: NA News Item - - - - - - -- - - - - - - filename="300,000 INDIANS" http://www.owlstar.com/dailyheadlines.htm http://www.indiantrust.com/clips.cfm?news_id=102 300,000 Indians cheated by incompetent feds The Seattle Times August 21, 2001 A shameful tale of greed, incompetence and bureaucratic menace gets uglier with each new revelation in court. The U.S. government, through the Interior Department's Bureau of Indian Affairs and the Treasury Department, has mishandled epic sums of money held in trust for Native Americans. The time is ripe for the government to hang its head and start writing checks. A prudent withdrawal is the only saving grace for taxpayers. As many as 300,000 Indians have been cheated out of lease and royalty receipts collected on reservation lands. After the fits and starts of a five-year trial, no one seems to disagree. Certainly not U.S. District Judge Royce Lamberth, who presides over the trial, and at various times has had to horse-whip the federal government to cooperate. During the Clinton years, Interior Secretary Bruce Babbitt and Treasury Secretary Robert Rubin were cited for contempt of court. Indian plaintiffs in a class-action suit estimate the government owes as much as $10 billion. Government lawyers say, with a straight face, that provable amounts are much less. In addition to 100 years of botched record-keeping, the federal government was caught destroying 162 boxes of payment records, checks and financial documents related to Native-American trust accounts. Court records unsealed last week revealed that Treasury Department attorneys involved received light punishment, and 2,000 attorneys were given retraining in legal ethics and federal court rules. Considering the breach of faith, and the stakes, the reaction comes off as almost smug and cavalier. No one lost their job. No one would have learned of the details if the publishers of the Wall Street Journal had not pressed the court. The wholesale destruction occurred at a Treasury Department facility while Rubin was under a contempt-of-court order because he failed to produce documents sought by tribal attorneys. This case represents a violation of trust stretching over 100 years. Payments are owed and long overdue. Years of stalling and duplicitous government behavior only compound the insult and injury. Do what it takes to settle a historic wrong driven by what the judge described as greed for tribal land holdings and a quest to eradicate their culture. This is an opportunity for the Bush administration and Interior Secretary Gale Norton to be the new broom that sweeps clean. Every penny owed ought to be paid with contrition and humility. Copyright c. 2001 The Seattle Times, Inc. Copyright c. 2001 Blackfeet Reservation Development Fund, Inc --------- "RE: Truth Commission into Genocide in Canada" --------- Date: Sun, 19 Aug 2001 12:42:03 -0700 From: "Bill Edwards" Subj: news Here is a little something I don't know if you have seen it or not. This first document report of the planned genocide of aboriginal peoples by church and state in Canada is now available on the internet. "Hidden from History": The Canadian Holocaust is a 280 page, six year study of the evidence concerning the deaths of more than 50,000 aboriginal children in residential schools run by the United, Anglican and Roman Catholic churches across Canada. It was compiled by public investigative bodies, including a United Nations-affliated Tribunal in June 1998 in Vancouver Canada. It contains the personal testimonies of nearly 200 eyewitnesses to murder, sterlization, torture and forty eight other crimes against humanity perpetrated against aboriginal people by church, government and RCMP officials between 1923 and 1984. The report's website is still under construction, due to the volume of original documentation from government and church archives which corroborate the first hand testimonies. But it can now be accessed at this site: http://annett55.tripod.com For more information on the work of The Truth Commission, or to obtain a hardcopy of the report, please contact: Kevin Annett, Secretary The Truth Commission into Genocide in Canada ph: (604)293-1972 email: kevin_annett@hotmail.com check it out. Bill Edwards --------- "RE: A Clash of Beliefs" --------- Date: Fri, 24 Aug 2001 09:28:52 -0500 From: Gary Smith Subj: NA News Item - - - - - - -- - - - - - - filename="NAVAJO/HOPI" http://www.owlstar.com/dailyheadlines.htm http://www.thenavajotimes.com/Tribal_News/tribal_news.html A clash of beliefs Hopi bulldozing of ceremonial site upsets spiritual world By Marley Shebala The Navajo Times WINDOW ROCK (August 23, 2001) - If it were a Black Baptist church in the South that was burned, the news media, the U.S. President, Congress and the public would be outraged. But Jim Funmaker said this incident involves Native American religion so there are no cries of religious persecution or violations of civil rights. Funmaker, a Plains tribal member, was talking about the early morning bulldozing of a Lakota Sun Dance ceremonial ground by the Hopi Tribe on Aug. 17. As one of the two main helpers to Sun Dance Chief Joe Chasing Horse, Funmaker was contacted on Aug. 17 about the destruction of the area where he prayed with more than a hundred dancers from across the country. They fasted, took part in sweatlodge ceremonies, made tobacco and flesh offerings, pierced their bodies and danced around the tree of life under a hot sun for eight days in July. Funmaker said he thought Native Americans were protected by the U.S. Constitution and the American Indian Religious Freedom Act. "But I guess we're (Native Americans) still fighting for our right to pray," he added. Hopi Tribal spokeswoman Claire Heywood, a Black from England, on Aug. 17 said, "In a definitive act of asserting Hopi jurisdiction over its land, the Hopi Tribe dismantled the site referred to as 'Camp Anna Mae,' where a recent sun dance, as well as other unauthorized gatherings, have taken place. "Protected by Hopi Rangers, BIA (Bureau of Indian Affairs) police, and Navajo County police, Hopi staff worked quietly and efficiently, tearing down the structures left at the site, including the sun dance tree, and loaded the materials onto trailers for removal from the site," Heywood said. She said signs were erected in the area to notify the public that the site is not authorized for public gatherings. Heywood adamantly denied that a wood chipper was used to shred the sun dance tree. Maybe the people who saw a wood chipper were on peyote, she added. Heywood said the sun dance tree was sawed into several pieces and hauled away. She didn't know where it was taken. According to Heywood, two people were arrested for trespassing on Hopi land - Arlene Hamilton and Eric Crittenton. Heywood said Hamilton was excluded from Hopi land in April 2000 for entering and remaining on the Hopi reservation without permission from the Hopi government. Hamilton, a well-known supporter of the Big Mountain resisters, was in the area because she had recently married Leonard Benally, a local resident. Crittendon is the son of Louise Benally, a long-time federal relocation resister, whose hogan is located next to the sun dance ground. His arraignment is set for Hopi Tribal Court on Sept. 10 at 9 a.m. The Navajo Times telephoned Hopi prosecutor Geoff Tager about the status of Hamilton-Benally and left a message on his answering service. As of press time Wednesday, Tager had not contacted the Navajo Times. Lakota elders offered Benally's mother and father a sun dance pipe to conduct the ceremony on their ancestral land in Big Mountain as a way to support the Navajo families with prayer about 15 years ago. The sun dance at the Benally homesite was the first one on Navajo land and was dedicated in honor of Native American rights activist Anna Mae Pictou-Aquash, a Canadian Micmac Indian, who was also a mother, wife, social worker, day-care teacher and American Indian movement member. But at the age of 30, Pictou-Aquash's body was found on the Pine Ridge Indian Reservation in South Dakota in Feb. 24,1976. The Federal Bureau of Investigations had cut off her hands for identification and initially claimed that she died from exposure. Her family contacted AIM and after her body was exhumed, a second autopsy revealed she had died from a bullet shot into the back of her head. The murder of Pictou-Aquash remains unsolved. Funmaker remembered he was invited to the Big Mountain Sun Dance in the early 1980s and he's been helping for 15 years in a "peaceful way." "Cutting down the tree and arbor is like cutting off the arms and legs of our creator. The tree represents life, our creator," he said slowly and softly. Funmaker explained that it would be impossible to have a sun dance without a tree. "The tree is called the 'tree of life' and in the prophecies, the sun dance didn't come to Arizona for the Navajo but for the Hopi," he said. Funmaker said the coming of the tree of life was the fulfillment of a prophecy and a sign that the Fourth World had ended. The Fifth World is the glittering world and the tree of life in the Southwest is the cottonwood, which has heart-shaped leaves that glitter in the wind, he said. Funmaker said that according to the prophecy, if the Hopi fails to respect the sun dance, which is here to help them, the Hopi would lose their direction. By bringing the sun dance here, the Navajo are actually helping the Hopi by keeping them alive, he added. Funmaker noted that's important because the prophecy also says that if the Hopi die, there will be spiritual and environmental consequences. He carefully explained that the Hopis that destroyed the Anna Mae sun dance grounds could not have been Hopis that practice their traditional way of life. Funmaker said there is a disease of mind among Native American communities, which first spread across Europe that makes people attack Mother Earth. It's called greed and it's how mining corporations came to native lands across this continent, he said. And Funmaker said that same greed for coal by mining companies and coal royalties by the Hopi and Navajo government is what started the land dispute. "The Dine' here have been here for thousands of years and shouldn't be thrown off their land for coal," he said. The sun dance is a sacred renewal of life that involves offerings of appreciation and sacrifice to the creator to help and protect Mother Earth so all of life will survive, Funmaker emphasized. He said that for the past 500 years, native people have prophesized that if Mother Earth is exploited, there will be unnatural natural disasters, which is happening right now around the world. Copyright c. 1999-2001 Navajo Times/Navajo Nation --------- "RE: A Comanche Patriot Will Save the White Man" --------- From: dfinstead@setaim.com Date: Sat, 11 Aug 2001 01:20:25 -0000 Subj: A COMANCHE PATRIOT WILL SAVE THE WHITE MAN Mailing List: ndn-aim __ A Comanche Patriot Will Save the White Man veteransPTSDvoices2 FOR ALL TO SEE AND READ Veteran and Native American Patriotism I'M A PATRIOT because I love and value what America stands for, says a Comanche Indian and human ties, a professor at Oklahoma State University in Oklahoma City. "I value freedom, and I'm willing to fight for it." Next month, takes the fight to the state legislature, which will consider a proposal to add recommended optiational patriotism course to Oklahoma's high school curriculum. Governor Frank Keating has endorsed the plan. Others dream of taking this course national. "Patriotism has to be taught to our school students," as he says. "There is no hope for the knoweledge just to grow out of the ground." Up to now, U.S. schools have done an exceptionally poor job teaching it. A poll taken in June 2000 showed that nearly one third of American college students are not as proud to be Americans as they think. "As an Indian, I feel it is my sacred honor to save the white man again, this time, from himself," says professor, who holds a divinity degree from Yale. "Before they give this country away, those who work for the country as needed has been taken and defeated twice, We want to try to save what they have built out of our land." Indians saved the white man before, said it is known, when they helped the first settlers get established. Now they must save him again, this time is from poorly planed political correctness. "White guilt is the biggest flaw in the American psyche," warns the people trying to change and to make the needed corrections. As a Comanche, the interested feel no guilt over their ancestors' deeds. "They were the lords of the south plains," he says. "They kicked out all the other Indians. They had no tolerance for other Indians, no tolerance for white people, no tolerance for anybody except themselves." Comanche elders have been instilling that warrior spirit in their young, for centuries, through the stories and customs of their ancestors. Unfortunately, it is said, white Americans have failed to do the same. The fighting spirit that built this country has been allowed to fade into mostly nothing. The problem became clear to them last summer, when assigned class to debate the question of whether or not patriotism should be taught in school. After a two-hour discussion, the student jury voted no. They were afreaid that skinheads and militia people would somehow get control of it. Beyond such scare images from the media, the students had little concept of patriotism. Good People made up minds to design a course that would fill the gap. "America has held out this offer of charity for all, that everyone, including minorities, can have a better life," says some. "But if you want to be kind to people and charitable and indulgent, you have to do it from a position of strength, otherwise you lose the ability to do any good for anybody. In their willingness to indulge even the most extreme demands of the crowds, white Americans are slowly giving up their strength, warns faithfull. I think it's demonstrable that, historically speaking, the most people get the best deal under this system, We are trying to come to the rescue here and say to the white man, look, don't destroy everything you have. If you don't want the country, give it back to us. Don't give it away to someone else. Born of a Comanche mother and a white father, The man mostly has always been fascinated by the question of identity. I was curious to know what makes a people a nation, he says. and concluded that love is at the root of it. "It's difficult to love an abstract idea, especially for young people. You have real things, the land, the people, the language, the food. Basic things. They want to focus on those basic things in proposed course, in teaching a simple life and respect for one's people and culture. During the classroom debate over patriotism last summer, one young man confessed, I don't think we have a clue what were talking about. When I think of patriotism, all I can think of is my grandfather who fought in World War II. Just old people If an Indian wants to know what it means to be Indian, he ask his elders. If you want to know what it means to be AmericanAsk your grandfather. He'll tell you. Governor Frank Keatng Edited By Assistant\Office of the Goveroner 'Sarge' N I G H T H A W K cn State Capitol BuildingOklahoma vvvvvvvvvvv "Our own helping our own, help themselves and others." Please visit our website @ http://community.webtv.net/hugomama/HHNIP ---------------------------------------------------------------------~-> 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: Zuni Will Not Compromise on Protecting Lake" --------- Date: Wed, 22 Aug 2001 08:10:08 -0500 From: Gary Smith Subj: NA News Item - - - - - - -- - - - - - - filename="ZUNI SALT LAKE" http://www.owlstar.com/dailyheadlines.htm http://www.okit.com/news/2001/august/saltlake.html Zuni Pueblo Will Not Compromise on Protecting Vital Salt Lake By Suzanne Westerly As they have for many centuries, the people from the Pueblo Nations of Zuni, Hopi, Acoma, and Laguna, and the people from the Mescalero Apache Nation and the Ramah Navajo Nation, still walk the ancient foot trails to gather salt at Zuni Salt Lake for religious purposes. The Salt Lake and the surrounding area is of central religious importance in the lives of the Zuni and other tribal people of the area. According to the Zunis, the salt is the flesh of Salt Mother, a deity who resides at Zuni Salt Lake. "It is one of our most significant sacred sites, the Zuni Salt Lake, " explained Governor Bowekaty. The Salt Lake is fed mostly from underground. Mineral springs bubble up from a large volcanic cinder cone in the center of the shallow lake. As the lake rises and falls throughout the year, evaporation occurs and a crystallized crust of sodium chloride covers the lakebed. In summer sometimes the salt layer forms so thickly, crystal salt cones rise on the lakebed. At that time, Zuni men travel 60 miles south from their Pueblo to gather the salt. Zuni Pueblo is located in what is now western New Mexico, near the Arizona border and just south of Interstate 40. Originally, this rugged undisturbed open desert land was traditional Zuni lands. Over the years, large areas were taken by federal, state and private landholders. In1985 Zuni Pueblo gained ownership of the lake and 600 acres of land under federal law through a land exchange with the state of NM and the U.S. Bureau of Land Management. SRP Wants a Coal Mine The Salt River Project (SRP) Agricultural Improvement and Power District, based in Tempe, is the second largest utility in Arizona. Since the mid- 1980's, SRP has been trying to secure their very own coal mine to fuel their Coronado Generating Station in St. John's, Arizona. The proposed site for SRPs very controversial mining project is about ten miles from the Zuni Salt Lake. SRP plans to pump water out of the aquifer below the lake mainly for dust suppression. Many hydrologists agree this will effect the lake, possibly causing irrevocable damage to the unique ecosystem. Mining 80 million tons of coal over the next 50 years is the goal of SRP. The utility company also plans to build a 44-mile railroad corridor to carry the coal across the NM state border to the Coronado Generating Station in eastern Arizona. The Neutral Zone Since the State of NM first approved SRPs permit in 1996, federal officials have determined that the 182,000-acre area around the Salt Lake, called the Neutral Zone, is eligible for listing under the National Historic Preservation Act. The area is called the Neutral Zone because traditionally Zunis and other Indian tribes suspended hostilities against each other while in this area because of the importance to all of them of gathering salt at the lake. This mine if approved by the federal government, will cause much destruction to almost 18,000 acres of land that holds over 550 documented ancient Zuni sites and is within the Neutral Zone. The Pueblo is concerned that potentially thousands of ancestral burials will be disturbed. The Zunis position is that burial sites should never be disturbed. The railroad would also destroy parts of the ancient trails. Zuni Pueblo Governor Malcolm Bowekaty said, "The EIS report states they [SRP] would run the railroad tracks right over burial sites. Yes, they are also going to dig burial sites up. I have a map that our own archeological people made after they surveyed that area. We have a map that shows where the proposed open coal pit mine will be and the disturbed area." When he overlays the crews walk through findings of the surface visible sites in the area over the map showing the areas that will be disturbed, "the railroad corridor is actually going through some of them. So given that and knowing the terrain around here, surface visible means that there are ruins underneath and more than likely there will be bodies and so that is one of the things we are trying to emphasize." Letting outsiders know where certain sites are located within their lands is a difficult decision for tribal Nations to make. According to Bowekaty the Zuni decided to disclose the Zuni Salt Lake locations to enable the tribe to have the area made eligible for the National Historic Preservation Act. "We have worked with the Keeper saying this area is open for public knowledge although the very esoteric stuff should not be open for public review, and they have honored that. We have looked at the Native American Graves Repatriation Act (NAGPRA) as a way to stop the mine, but NAGPRA looks more at discovery and research instead of protection," said Bowekaty. The Permit Process According to Bowekaty, when New Mexico (NM) Mining & Minerals Division gave SRP a five-year permit in 1996 it lacked a lot of conditions; in particular, Zuni's concerns. "For instance on the original submission the cumulative hydrological impact area assessment did not include the Zuni Salt Lake," said the Governor. For many years, Zunis have managed to stop any actions from beginning at the proposed site. They are determined to continue their strong opposition. At the recent hearing in July, despite all the evidence of the majority of hydrology reports showing the lake's water level will be impacted, and evidence that the mining operation is not in compliance with government regulations, NM Mining & Minerals Division renewed SRP's permit. "The fact that it was renewed was a loss for the tribe," said the Governor. Zuni representatives continue to point out basic questions about the adequacy and the accuracy of the Environmental Impact Statement (EIS) as well as the Final EIS. Hydrological findings, the lack of consideration of Zunis traditional cultural properties and the archeological issues are issues that must be examined further. "So a re-review of the NM Mining & Minerals Division is warranted," said the Governor. SRP Claims Water To Keep the Dust Down Zunis believe that by taking water from the Dakota Aquifer below the proposed coal mine area, the level of the water in the Salt Lake will be affected. In 1991, SRP declared water rights to several aquifers near the mine. NM Mining & Minerals approved a permit allowing SRP to pump an average of 85 gallons of water per minute for 40 years from the aquifers. In 1996 NM State Engineer's Office declared the Gallup Basin, where the proposed mine site is, closed, requiring everyone who had been using water before that date to notify the state of how much they were using. SRP filed a notice claiming they had the right to use up to 990 gallons of water per minute from old livestock wells. According to the NM State Engineer's Office, if they want to start using the old livestock wells for mining, they must file a permit application, and they haven't. Governor Bowekaty said, "Because of the tribes studies, the expert hydrologist, and the tribes insistence through the Department of Interior (DOI), Bureau of Indian Affairs (BIA) at the Washington, D.C. office, we got the Bureau to do an independent study on the hydrology issue. The DOI contracted with a couple of Professors from the University of New Mexico (UNM), to do an independent review on behalf of the BIA. They raised a lot of questions that added to Zuni's argument." Hydrology Reports Support Zunis Assertions SRP assures the Pueblo that monitoring wells between the mine and the lake will warn of an impending drawdown and allow it to switch to another source of water. Yet SRP representatives go on to say, they have reserved the right to take all of the mining water from one aquifer, if necessary. Dr. Phil King, an engineering professor at UNM, commissioned by the BIA to do an independent hydrological report stated that the monitoring wells are in the wrong locations. Under NM Governor Gary Johnson's Tribal Consultation Policy, Zuni directly requested a government to government consultation with the Mining and Minerals Division, thus allowing Zuni to emphasize their role in the decision making process. The federal lands mining permit SRP needs has been pending for over a year. Zuni Pueblo has requested a meeting with DOI Secretary Norton, but so far, the Pueblo has been ignored. "We have had the D.C. office of the BIA actively supporting us," said the Governor, "In fact at the last government to government consultation the BIA, through a spokesperson cleared through the DC office specifically stated that they stand behind their independent hydrology report that actually supports Zuni's assertions. They also stipulated that 'we support Zuni's strategy and activities.' So they are finally saying in an indirect way that they oppose the mine because that's Zuni tribes primary position." Promoted by SRP as Jobs and Profit$ for NM NM Mining & Minerals approved SRP's second permit although there is sufficient evidence to show the harm it will likely do to the lake. It is also noteworthy that the coal at this site is a very low-grade coal. Low- grade means digging up more earth to meet the goal of the quantity of coal needed. Promoted by SRP as jobs for local people, Bob Barnard, manager of the Fence Lake Project for SRP has said the mine will employ between 60 -100 people with the "right" skills. Barnard has also been quoted saying there would be hundreds of jobs. New Mexico has already received $10 million, from SRP and will receive about $60 million to $70 million in royalty payments from coal sales if the mine opens. New Mexico will benefit from another $60 million in various forms of taxes. "If you are looking at royalties, the Navajo Nation and the Hopi Nation should be as equally compensated as the state of NM on royalties," said the Governor. The Hopi and Navajo Nations have had Peabody Coal Company mining coal on their lands since the 1960's, and using considerable amounts of pristine water from the N-Aquifer. Already fighting this project for almost 20 years, Zuni Pueblo vows to continue fighting for their culturally significant Salt Lake. First, the Zunis are planning a lawsuit in state court in Santa Fe to challenge the NM Mine Commission's approval of the mine. "If things don't go our way," said Governor Bowekaty, "of course we are going to consolidate the appeal of the new permit into federal court." Native American Times is Copyright c. 2000-2001 Oklahoma Indian Times,Inc. --------- "RE: Clearcuts area along Lewis and Clark Trail" --------- Date: Tue, 21 Aug 2001 08:19:23 -0500 From: Gary Smith Subj: NA News Item - - - - - - -- - - - - - - filename="CLEARCUT" http://www.owlstar.com/dailyheadlines.htm http://www.billingsgazette.com/index.php?section=local&display= content/local/1clearcut.inc Timber company clearcuts area along Lewis and Clark Trail The Associated Press MISSOULA (AP) - Plum Creek Timber Co. refused to sell a section of land along the Lewis and Clark Trail to the U.S. Forest Service, instead selling the government a 15-foot easement allowing public access and then clearcutting the property. Critics say the total logging of the lodgepole pine forest sheltering a portion of the famous trail near Lolo Pass stripped the land of its historic setting. It occurred at a time when the national spolight is beginning to shine on the trail that gave the Lewis and Clark Expedition passage through the Bitterroot Mountains in 1805 and 1806. For centuries, Salish Indians traveled west over the trail to dig camas roots at Lolo Pass and fish for salmon and steelhead on the Clearwater and Snake rivers. And from the plateaus of central Idaho, the Nez Perce Tribe used the trail to travel east onto the plains to hunt buffalo. "It is almost inconceivable that Plum Creek could have undertaken this project knowing the bicentennial was ahead," said Gene Thompson, a forestry technician who oversees trail maintenance for the Lolo National Forest. "That's what saddens me. This is the first time the trail has had so much attention focused on it. "By all indications, a lot of people will come over this trail in the next few years. I just wish they (trail visitors) could have seen this section as it appeared 18 months ago. This was a place where you could really understand the trials of the Native Americans and the trials of Lewis and Clark when they encountered these mountains." Forest archaeologist Milo McLeod said, "The historic tread (track) remains, but the integrity of the setting has been lost. It is unfortunate that Plum Creek could not have been more sensitive to the value of the historic setting." The Lee Creek area was the largest piece of intact forest on the Montana portion of the Lolo Trail, Thompson said. Now, the edge of the national forest is marked by a line of 90-year-old lodgepole pines, their sides painted red to show the change in ownership. Cross into the national forest and the scene is dark, cool and green. Turn around and traverse the adjoining Plum Creek section and the mountainside is open, almost bare with the only growth at ground level where foresters planted new trees. Jerry Sorensen, a land-use manager for Plum Creek, told the Missoulian during an interview that he has not seen the clearcut site at Lee Creek. But less than a month ago, during a ceremony commemorating signing of the public easement, Sorensen said, "My company and our predecessors have managed this area for many decades as part of our working forest. And for as long a time, we have recognized the special importance of this area and have protected the integrity and the character of the Lolo Trail." Asked by a Missoulian reporter to elaborate, Sorenson said on Friday that the Forest Service "bought an easement, not the land" in Lee Creek, and Plum Creek never hid the fact the timber would be harvested. "Our foresters felt this was the best way to manage that ground for the long term, not just for the two years of the Lewis and Clark celebration," said Plum Creek spokeswoman Kris Russell. "We are looking at the forest over decades, not over a couple of years." The open hillside below Wagon Mountain has not lost its forest, Russell insisted. "This is a forest. It is just a very, very young forest," she said, referring to the growing seedlings. Lolo National Forest supervisor Debbie Austin said she was not surprised when her staff reported the land had been logged during the two years she was negotiating the easement with Plum Creek. "There were some expectations that some people had, and those people were quite surprised when this happened," she said. "I was not." "Plum Creek agreed to sell portions of land containing the Lolo Trail, but they were not willing to sell Section 1," Austin said of the Lee Creek area. "They were willing to give us public access by way of an easement, and that was what we purchased. I always knew the management would be different in Section 1. All we acquired was a 15-foot trail easement." During negotiations, Austin said she asked Plum Creek foresters if they could take a "lighter touch" in managing the forest alongside the historic trail. "But they told me they would be managing this land, that they wanted to manage the trees. At that point in the negotiations, my choice was to protect the trail tread and public access, or to walk away. "I felt the trail was more important than walking away." The Forest Service paid $4,600 for trail easements on two sections of Plum Creek land, one of which was the recently clearcut Lee Creek section. Russell said her company does not sell timberland "that we think we can manage well for long-term forestry." A clearcut was the right forestry prescription for the lodgepole trees in Lee Creek, Russell said. "We did what was right for the ground. I do not feel it diminishes the trail or its importance or the easement or its importance. The easement is in perpetuity, as is the forest." Forest Service officials did not disagree with Russell's assessment. "This is private land," Thompson said. "What was done here was within the legal rights and responsibilities of the landowner." Archaeologist McLeod agreed the company was within its rights to cut the timber, but he believes the corporation could have been more sensitive. "They could have left a corridor." The trail first was named a National Historic Landmark and then placed on the National Historic Register. "This is a place significant to our nation's history, but it is also an industrial forest," McLeod said. The 120-mile route from Lolo, south of Missoula, to Weippe, Idaho, is a priceless historic artifact, McLeod said. Copyright c. 2001 Associated Press. All rights reserved Copyright c. The Billings Gazette, a division of Lee Enterprises. --------- "RE: Fort Laramie Treaty of 1851" --------- Date: Sat, 18 Aug 2001 18:28:23 -0500 From: Gary Smith Subj: NA News Item - - - - - - -- - - - - - - filename="FORT LARAMIE TREATY" http://www.owlstar.com/dailyheadlines.htm http://www.billingsgazette.com/index.php?section= local&display=content/local/rave.inc Fort Laramie Treaty of 1851 was a landmark By JODI RAVE LEE Lincoln Journal Star Marilyn Hudson's ancestors were on the verge of extinction when the superintendent of Indian Affairs called for one of the largest gatherings ever for a treaty signing. "In 1851 when our tribes went, we were probably at our lowest ebb," said Hudson, a member of the Mandan, Hidatsa and Arikara Nation in North Dakota. "We were in terrible, terrible shape. We had almost been wiped out by the small pox epidemic." One hundred fifty years ago, representatives from her tribe joined a 32-member delegation that traveled from Fort Union near present-day Williston, N.D. Their destination: Fort Laramie in eastern Wyoming. The entourage traveled 800 miles for the start of the Sept. 1, 1851 gathering. Other tribes in need of annuities also responded. More than 10,000 Cheyenne, Blackfeet, Crow, Arapaho, Assiniboine, Dakota, Lakota and Nakota arrived for the meeting. They camped 30 miles west of Fort Laramie where the grass was ample for their 1,000 ponies. Today, the four tribes that left Fort Union - Mandan, Hidatsa, Arikara and Assiniboine - plan to commemorate their Sept. 17, 1851, signatory role in one of the most notable U.S. treaties. Seventy-five speakers, performers, dancers, vendors and hundreds of visitors are expected to gather outside of the Fort Laramie site. "It's beneficial to have a commemorative activity like this because it keeps our history alive," said Arlyn Headdress, chairman of the Fort Peck Assiniboine Sioux Tribes. "It lets the non-Indians know we're still here, the Cheyenne, Crow, Three Affiliated, Standing Rock ... we're still alive and well." The historic treaty: * Called for peace and friendship among rival tribes. * Promised each tribe $50,000 annually for 10 years. * Recognized the U.S. government's right to establish roads and forts. * Demarcated the territorial hunting and fishing grounds of the Great Plains tribes. * Subsequent treaties established reservation boundaries. * Allowed the government to withhold promised money if tribes violated the treaty. Although the U.S. government soon violated the treaty, the treaty itself set precedence for U.S. recognition of tribal sovereign rights. In 1851, the historic sovereign rights of tribes were rapidly eroding. When 10,000-plus, once-powerful Great Plains tribesmen arrived at Fort Laramie, many were feeling the crippling effects of disappearing buffalo herds, paralyzing diseases and intertribal warfare. They went to Fort Laramie because they needed to. "There was no real choice in the matter," said Leon Rattler, a spiritual leader of the Brave Dog Society, an all-warrior society of the Blackfeet in Montana. The United States relentlessly pursued "total control of the land base. There was no compromise at all." Even though the tribes who gathered at Fort Laramie were promised compensatory damages caused by "the passing of white men through their country," the treaty ensured white men could continue to pass. The Oregon Trail ran through the heart of Great Plains Indian Country. "This wasn't a treaty so much to help the Indians but to help the United States," said Ray Cross, a law professor at the University of Montana in Missoula. "It became helpful later when they had to prove their territories. It showed what tribes owned historically by use and occupancy." Despite its place in history, the treaty is a reminder of 150 years of dishonor, said Tony Black Feather, a spokesman for the Tetuwan Lakota Treaty Council based on the Pine Ridge Reservation in South Dakota. "That's what interests me - why the treaties were never honored," he said. "The elders always talked about treaties since my childhood days. Many died with good intentions and nothing out of it." For those reasons, Black Feather has religiously attended United Nations meetings for the past 20 years. As a U.N. delegate for world indigenous issues, he has argued against human rights and treaty violations. "The only hope that we have for justice is through the United Nations and World Court," he said. Despite the seeming injustices accompanied by more than 300 broken treaties with tribes, the 1851 document is a vanguard among treaties. "Every major Court of Claims case refers back to that treaty," said Hudson. "Even our (tribal) constitution preamble refers to the Fort Laramie Treaty." For those reasons, it will retain an honored place in her tribe's history. "It has always been looked on with a great deal of respect," she said. "It's still considered to be the basis for our relationship with the U.S. government." ---------------------------------------------------------------- Jodi Rave Lee can be reached at 473-7240 or jrave@journalstar.com. Copyright c. The Billings Gazette, a division of Lee Enterprises. --------- "RE: Oglala Sioux Tribal Executive Committee" --------- Date: Mon, 20 Aug 2001 08:24:10 -0500 From: Gary Smith Subj: NA News Item - - - - - - -- - - - - - - filename="OST HEADQUARTERS" http://www.owlstar.com/dailyheadlines.htm http://www.rapidcityjournal.com/display/inn_news/news03.txt Oglala Sioux Tribal Executive Committee says it is back in headquarters at Pine Ridge. By Journal Staff and The Associated Press PINE RIDGE -- The Oglala Sioux Tribal Executive Committee said Sunday it had retaken control of tribal headquarters at Pine Ridge, more than a year and a half after it first was occupied by protesters seeking reform of tribal government. The committee took control of the Red Cloud Building at about 9 p.m. Saturday after discovering it had been abandoned, Vice President Theresa Two Bulls said in a news release Sunday afternoon. Protesters calling themselves the Grassroots Oyate seized the headquarters Jan. 16, 2000. Leaders of that group said this past January, on the anniversary of the seizing, that they were ending their occupation because they had brought about reform. But a faction vowed to stay, arguing that tribal government had not changed enough since November's tribal election. Two Bulls, Secretary Donna Solomon and Executive Director George Ghost Bear - all members of the Executive Committee - told tribal President John Yellowbird Steele of their decision to retake the building, according to the release, and he agreed with it. Solomon said the building apparently had been unoccupied for a couple of days. Steele had said previously that tribal officials would not try to remove those remaining in the building. A family member at Steele's home said he was attending meetings Sunday afternoon and could not be reached for comment. Steele said Tribal police were asked on Sunday to secure the building to prevent vandalism, and the committee planned to move administrative offices back into the building after an inventory of equipment and documents. The building will need renovations to return it to the state it was in before the takeover, the release stated. "(M)any tribal members were asking the Executive Committee to reassume control of the building because scattered offices made it difficult for the people to conduct their business," Two Bulls said. Some who had remained wanted a return to a more-traditional form of government on the Pine Ridge Indian Reservation, one of the nation's poorest areas. "We wanted our voice to be heard, but that's not happened. So we're going to keep the building," Guy White Thunder, one member of a group of elders who stayed, said in January. He could not be reached for comment Sunday. The original protest led to a new tribal council and president, who took office in December, and to an audit of tribal finances. Reached by phone Sunday, Chief Oliver Red Cloud said he was remaining neutral on the retaking of the headquarters by tribal government. He was not part of the faction that stayed in the building beyond January. Two Bulls, meanwhile, urged all sides to unite to solve their problems. She said she plans to ask the council to honor the original protesters. Solomon said protesters' concerns still will get attention. "Our goal is to end corruption and make tribal government accountable to the people," she said. Steele noted in the release that indictments of some former tribal officials had been handed down after a probe of Oglala Sioux programs. Husband and wife Manuel and Sandra Fool Head recently pleaded guilty to bank fraud and conspiracy to commit larceny. Authorities say they misapplied more than $1,000 belonging to the Oglala Sioux Housing Authority and conspired to get bank loans by giving false statements. Manuel Fool Head was a tribal-council member when he was arrested. The Fool Heads were among nine people charged a year ago with fraud involving tribal programs. "The people who took over the building in January 2000 were very brave and set off a chain of events that will affect tribal government for years to come," Steele said in the news release. Copyright c. 2001 The Rapid City Journal. --------- "RE: Hecla agrees to Settle" --------- Date: Wed, 22 Aug 2001 08:10:08 -0500 From: Gary Smith Subj: NA News Item - - - - - - -- - - - - - - filename="HECLA MINING" http://www.owlstar.com/dailyheadlines.htm http://www.spokesmanreview.com/news-story.asp?date=082101&ID=s1010591 Hecla agrees to settle Mining company to pay $138 million over 30 years to clean up Idaho sites Tuesday, August 21, 2001 Betsy Z. Russell - Staff writer BOISE _ Hecla Mining Co. has reached a tentative $138 million settlement with the government, covering its share of mining waste cleanup in the Coeur d'Alene Basin as well as at two sites in southern Idaho. "We negotiated the best outcome possible for our company, our shareholders and our employees while continuing to take care of the environment," said Hecla Chairman and Chief Executive Officer Arthur Brown. "Our investors will understand the value of this arrangement in that it brings closure to the uncertainty of a billion-dollar lawsuit." That lawsuit, the largest Superfund suit ever to go to trial, was brought by the Coeur d'Alene Tribe as well as the federal government. The tribe has yet to sign off on the Hecla settlement. Tribal attorney Ray Givens said Monday the tribe had no comment on Hecla's announcement. The tribe "may have a different set of interests," acknowledged Cliff Villa, assistant regional counsel for the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency. That's because, at least in the short term, much of the money Hecla pays under the 30-year settlement may go to southern Idaho. There, Hecla estimates, it has $32 million in cleanup work to do at the Grouse Creek mine, a defunct gold mine northeast of Stanley that has been leaking cyanide near scenic streams where a few rare endangered salmon still migrate each year. The settlement also must cover cleanup at the Stibnite mine east of McCall, where Hecla is spending about $200,000 a year, and at the Bunker Hill Superfund site, where Hecla is spending approximately $2 million to $2.5 million a year to replace contaminated soil in residential yards. "Over the long term, we expect this to provide some money toward the basin," said William Brighton, assistant chief of the environmental enforcement section of the U.S. Department of Justice. "The flip side of this is Hecla can only do so much, consistent with its financial capacity." Under the tentative settlement, Hecla would pay $5 million a year for two years, then $6 million a year for the following eight years, and then $4 million a year for the subsequent 20 years. The government would decide which projects get the money each year. "There's certainly money in there for the Coeur d'Alene Basin," said Vicki Veltkamp, Hecla vice president of corporate and investor relations. "Whether or not it happens in the first two years, that will be an issue for the government to decide. This is a lot of money. Hecla's not a big company. ... This will provide some certainty for our shareholders -- we'll know the amount now, we can move forward, we'll remain a viable company." Hecla has been spending about $9 million a year for the past three years on the various cleanup sites, according to a company news release. The EPA has estimated that cleanup of mining contamination throughout the Coeur d'Alene Basin could cost as much as $3 billion. But Idaho Department of Environmental Quality Director Steve Allred noted that the state's estimate is just $450 million. Asked if the settlement could result in no money going to the Coeur d'Alene Basin cleanup, Allred said, "The only case where that would happen is if Hecla were unable to survive." The tentative settlement actually calls for additional payments from Hecla, beyond the $138 million, if the company's financial shape improves. "It's small, but it would be a cash payment from us," Veltkamp said. "If, we can only pray, the price of gold and silver goes way up, we have some cash flow, then we would be able to add to the work that's being done to some degree." Those additional payments would be based on a percentage of the company's cash flow. "If Hecla prospers, then the government will certainly get more," Brighton said. "If Hecla doesn't, then we won't. So obviously it is very much linked to what they're capable of." Added Allred, "We knew damn well that if they didn't survive, we weren't going to get anything." Chuck Findley, acting regional administrator for the EPA in Seattle, said, "The bottom line of this agreement is far short of what the actual cleanup costs will be. But due to metals markets and Hecla's current financial condition, we're faced with the reality of obtaining what we can in a way that enables Hecla to remain viable and producing a cleanup resource stream for the future. Our goal is to protect human health and the environment, and we believe this agreement is a step in that direction." Said Assistant U.S. Attorney General John Cruden, "The proposed settlement terms are the best outcome for the public, given the realistic limits on what Hecla can afford." Allred said Monday that he's optimistic that the price tag for the Grouse Creek cleanup might drop, because cyanide levels have dropped significantly there in the past year due to oxidization. Now, ammonia levels are the larger problem there, he said, which could lead to a less- expensive cleanup. That, in turn, would mean more money available for the Coeur d'Alene Basin job. The tentative settlement, called an "agreement in principle," forms the basis for further negotiations between the federal government, the state and Hecla. Once it's finalized into a "proposed consent decree," it will be released for public review for a month, probably this fall, before it is submitted to U.S. District Judge Edward Lodge for approval. Lodge just finished hearing the eight-month trial in the Superfund lawsuit, which originally involved five mining firms. All now have settled except for Asarco Inc. Asarco has cleanup issues around the country that could potentially play into settlement negotiations, Villa said, just as Hecla's southern Idaho projects were included. But once again, cleanup elsewhere might not address the issues brought up in the lawsuit by the Coeur d'Alene Tribe, which are specific to the Coeur d'Alene Basin. It's also possible that the tribe could reach a different agreement with Hecla, or negotiate additional provisions. "We remain hopeful that the tribe will be able to reach agreement with Hecla and become a party to the consent decree as well," Villa said. "I can say we remain hopeful that ultimately we will be able to settle this entire case." Copyright c. 2001, The Spokesman-Review. --------- "RE: Hidden Costs of Plan Colombia" --------- Date: Thu, 23 Aug 2001 07:43:51 -0500 From: koga suyeta Subj: Hidden Costs of Plan Colombia Mailing List: ndn-aim By Jeremy McDermott in Putumayo Vast swathes of southern Colombia now look like desert - crops withered away, the ground parched and brown, vegetation nowhere to be seen. The US-sponsored aerial drug eradication, the biggest in the world, is well under way, destroying every plant that grows over 30,000 hectares in this fragile Amazonian ecosystem. "This is a carefully planned campaign," said James Mack, the American point man for Plan Colombia, the anti-drugs plan financed by $1.3 billion of US money. "These crop dusting aircraft are spraying areas plotted with aerial photographs and are guided by satellite positioning systems." But on the ground there is evidence that legal crops are being destroyed too. While the fumigation campaign has been going since the end of last year, the other component of Plan Colombia, the $80m to help coca farmers switch to legal crops, has not arrived. Aid not forthcoming "What are we supposed to do?" said Cecilia Amaya, who heads a peasant association based in Puerto Asis, Putumayo's largest town. "The promised help has not arrived, and we suspect it will never arrive. Corrupt politicians have already pocketed it." The other concerns are the effects of the chemicals being sprayed on the environment and local residents. Mr Mack insists that the glyphosate used in the spraying is completely safe and used by millions of Americans as a weed killer. Polluted water supply But in America it is not being sprayed on people tending their fields and Americans drink piped water, not from streams and lakes dusted with the chemicals as in Putumayo. The glyphosate products sold in the US come with warning labels advising users "not to apply this product in a way that will contact workers or other persons, either directly or through drift". And the US Environmental Protection Agency says glyphosate-based products should be handled with caution and could cause vomiting, swelling of the lungs, pneumonia, mental confusion and tissue damage. The clinics around Putumayo all have reports of illnesses associated with the chemical spraying, particularly among children. Breathing problems "We are getting cases every week of some mild poisoning and the eye, skin and breathing problems which occur after the planes have passed over and dropped their loads," said a nurse at San Francisco Hospital in Puerto Asis. Environmentalists have also expressed concern over the ecological cost of the US desire to destroy drug crops. "The situation is truly alarming," said Ricardo Vargas, an environmentalist and author of a book on coca eradication. "Forests have been destroyed... birds sprayed as well as the food eaten by monkeys, in a region with great biodiversity." At least 10,000 peasants have fled Putumayo in the last six months, leaving behind barren fields and escalating violence that has accompanied the US-backed campaign. Strengthening the guerrillas Those that have stayed have sought virgin forest to fell and sow crops, among them coca; others have joined the guerrillas, strengthening the force the whole campaign is designed to undermine. "The US is attacking the Colombian peasant who makes nothing from the drug trade, whilst the huge profits are made by gringo [American] drug dealers and stashed in gringo banks." - Commandante Simon Trinidad, FARC spokesman Many insist the problem is not going away, just shifting location, most immediately to the neighbouring province of Narino. But the most obvious result of the fumigation in Putumayo is the explosion of new coca crops, not the large industrial fields that attract the crop-dusting aircraft, but small plots behind peasant shacks. Coca growing is becoming the new cottage industry and no aerial eradication programme will be able to destroy these plantations. Few Colombians believe the US strategy has any chance of success. The street price of cocaine has not changed since the fumigations began. Huge demand A kilogramme of cocaine is worth up to $50,000 in the US, $80,000 in Europe, and most Colombians believe that as long as the demand remains the supply will feed it. For the country's largest rebel group, the Revolutionary Armed Forces of Colombia (Farc), which controls much of Putumayo and profits from the drug trade, Plan Colombia is clearly not going to work. http://news.bbc.co.uk/hi/english/world/americas/newsid_1248000/1248279.stm BBC News ------- Lealtad en resistencia. AIR -----------------------------------------------~-> 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: Gwich'in Nation calls for Urgent Action" --------- Date: Mon, 13 Aug 2001 22:19:08 -0400 From: "Frosty" Subj: Gwich'in Nation calls for urgent action to protect Arctic Refuge Mailing List: Frostys AmerIndian ACTION ALERT ACTION ALERT ACTION ALERT GWICH'IN NATION CALLS ON ALL SUPPORTERS TO TAKE URGENT ACTION NOW TO PROTECT ARCTIC REFUGE The fate of the Arctic National Wildlife Refuge is the fate of the Gwich'in Nation. If the Arctic Refuge is sacrificed to meet the high energy consumption needs of the US, the Gwich'in will not be able to continue our ancestral way of life and pass it on to our future generations as we have since time immemorial. The Gwich'in need your help now to defend this sacred place from the desperate attempts of industry and the White house to violate the birthplace and nursery of the Porcupine Caribou Herd, the coastal plain of the Arctic National Wildlife Refuge. On August 1st, 2001, despite public opposition, the US House of Representatives passed the "Energy Security Act" which includes authorization for drilling in the Arctic National Wildlife Refuge. This is an alarming impediment for protecting the birthplace and nursery of the Porcupine Caribou Herd, one of the few remaining untouched ecosystems in North America. With Presidential approval a foregone conclusion, it is absolutely necessary that the senate block this short sighted and destructive bill. Before being heard on the Senate floor, the "Energy Security Act" must pass through the Senate Energy and Resources Committee. This is an important opportunity for us to strip the Arctic Drilling Provision from the bill before it reaches the full Senate. The Arctic Refuge is facing its greatest threat ever, with many opponents stacked up against it: the White House, the oil industry, the Teamsters, and the AK delegation. Even our strongest allies in the Senate are under enormous pressure to change their position. We need all of our supporters to take action now in opposition to this threat. It is crucial that we create broad resistance to drilling on the coastal plain of the Arctic Refuge-the birthplace and nursery of the Porcupine Caribou Herd. The Gwich'in people consider this area sacred, in our language we call it Vadzaih googii vi dehk'it gwanlii which translates to "The Sacred Place Where Life Begins". Call or Write your Senators, tell all of our relations to make this call or write this letter today. We need the voice of all our supporters to defeat this attack on the inherent fundamental human rights of the Gwich'in Nation. Our traditional culture and way of life which is interconnected with the Porcupine Caribou Herd to meet all our essential needs such as food, clothing, tools, spirituality and social structure is at stake. Speak out now! WHAT YOU CAN DO Congress will be in recess until September 4th. During the month of August, your Senators will be back in your home state, visiting their regional offices. This is an excellent opportunity to call, fax, and write- or better yet, meet with -your Senators and voice opposition to drilling in the Arctic Refuge. This is especially important if your Senator is a member of the Senate Energy and Resources Committee (Some members listed below) If your Senator is not listed below, you can obtain their contact information online by going to http://www.senate.gov/senators/index.cfm. Your local phone book will have contact information for their local offices. Or you can call the capitol switchboard at 202-224-3121 and ask for the local office number. Alaskan supporters-we need your help as well, many Senators in the US only hear from the extremely pro-drilling Alaska delegation. These Senators need to understand that the Alaska delegation does not speak for you. Please call members of the Senate Energy and Resources Committee listed below, let them know we want this area protected. Contact your relations in the lower 48 and ask them to call their Senators as well. TALKING POINTS a.. The health and productivity of the Porcupine Caribou Herd is vital to the cultural survival of the Gwich'in. America has seen the devastation when the buffalo were nearly wiped out. We cannot allow another atrocity to occur in our generation, when we do have other options. b.. The Porcupine Caribou Herd numbers 129,000 strong. The coastal plain of the Arctic National Wildlife Refuge is the core birthplace and nursery. The Gwich'in consider this area sacred, in their language they call it " Vadzaih googii vi dehk'it gwanlii" which translates to The Sacred Place Where Life Begins. Certain areas must remain sacred, left intact and undisturbed. Especially now as we see so much natural lands being forever destroyed for economic gain and short term prosperity. c.. This issue is about the basic inherent fundamental human rights of the Gwich'in to continue to live their ancestral way of life. We must ensure that all people are able to enjoy fundamental human rights. These rights are affirmed by Civilized Nations in the International Covenants on Human Rights. Article 1 of both the International Covenant on Civil and Political Rights, and the International Covenant on Economic, Social and Cultural Rights read in part: "In no case may a people be deprived of their own means of subsistence" d.. Regardless of how much oil may be in the refuge, it is morally wrong to expect the Gwich'in to sacrifice their way of life to meet this country's energy needs. What will be lost and what is at stake is too high a price to pay. e.. Ninety-five percent of the Arctic coast is open to oil development; the Arctic Refuge coastal plain is the last five- percent. The coastal plain should be protected for all Americans to enjoy in perpetuity. The oil companies have enough land to develop. f.. Prudhoe Bay is estimated to contain 40 more years of oil for this nation's energy needs, that's plenty of time for the United States to develop alternative energy sources and reduce our reliance on fossil fuels which are very harmful to the natural environment and a leading contributor to global warming, which we observe harmful impacts from already. g.. Oil development in the Arctic Refuge will not solve the energy needs of this nation, even if the US developed all our domestic sources of oil we would still be reliant on foreign oil because the US has such a high rate of consumption. A wiser energy solution must be delineated, not a short-term solution to a long-term problem. h.. The United States has a sad history of wreckage and destruction with indigenous peoples of North America. The US government should not repeat mistakes from the past and continue to destroy indigenous cultures as they would if they develop the Arctic Refuge. i.. The unprotected area of the Arctic Refuge coastal plain provides vital habitat for nearly 200 species of animals, including the 129,000 member Porcupine Caribou herd as well as polar bears, grizzlies, wolves and millions of migratory birds. Allowing this essential, eternal wilderness to be exchanged for a short-term supply of oil is unacceptable. j.. Drilling in the Refuge will have no discernable short-term or long- term impact on the price of fuel and will not decrease our dependence on foreign oil. The amount of oil under the Arctic Refuge would never satisfy more than 2 percent of our nation's oil demands at any given time. In fact, if the Refuge were America's only source of oil, the amount of recoverable oil would sustain America's consumption for less than 6 months. The wilderness and cultural values of the Arctic Refuge coastal plain are too precious to give away as a temporary bandage for our need for oil. k.. America does need a sound national energy policy, but we simply can't drill our way to lower prices or energy independence. Our energy policy should emphasize decreasing the demand rather than increasing the supply of fossil fuels. There are reliable and sensible means of achieving these ends - such as energy conservation, alternative energies and improved energy efficiency - which can reduce our dependence on oil without sacrificing Indigenous cultures and a fragile ecosystem. l.. Oil development cannot be done in an "environmentally sensitive" manner. Since 1996, the Prudhoe Bay oil fields and Trans-Alaska Pipeline have caused an average of 427 spills annually on the North Slope - most commonly spills of diesel and crude oil. Whether an accident or faulty maintenance, the Arctic Refuge coastal plain is too precious to risk from spills such as these. OTHER THINGS YOU CAN DO a.. Pass the word along - contact your friends, relatives and neighbors. Urge them to add their voice in opposition to oil drilling in the Arctic Refuge. b.. Use the media - you can educate your community and highlight the important role your member of Congress plays by writing and placing a letter to the editor of your local papers. You can use the talking points to help create your letter. The site http://www.opedletters.com/will tell you where to e-mail your letter to the editor. c.. Start a petition/set up a signing table - Address the petition to the Senators in your state asking them to protect the Arctic National Wildlife Refuge from drilling. Be sure to have each signer include their full printed name and address. (This is very important to establish the validity of the signatures.) Then set up a signing table at your local college campus, library, grocery store, or anywhere else that attracts a lot of people. You can also have a phone available and ask people to call their Senators immediately. TARGET MEMBERS OF THE SENATE ENERGY AND NATURAL RESOURCES COMMITTEE Daniel Akaka (D-HI) Tim Johnson (D-SD) Ph: 202-224-6361 Ph: 202-224-5842 Fx: 202-224-2126 Fx: 202-228-5765 senator@akaka.senate.gov tim@johnson.senate.gov Ben Nighthorse Campbell (R-CO) Jon Kyl (R-AZ) Ph: 202-224-5852 Ph: 202-224-4521 Fx:202-224-1933 Fx: 202-224-2207 hotissues@campbell.senate.gov info@kyl.senate.gov Evan Bayh (D-IN) Mary Landrieu (D-LA) Ph: 202-224-5623 Ph: 202-224-5824 Fx: 202-228-1377 Fx: 202-224-9735 senator@bayh.senate.gov senator@landrieu.senate.gov Jeff Bingaman (D-NM) Don Nickles (R-OK) Ph: 202-224-5521 Ph: 202-224-5754 Fx: 202-224-2852 Fx: 202-224-6008 senator_bingaman@bingaman.senate.gov senator@nickles.senate.gov Maria Cantwell (D-WA) Charles Schumer (D-NY) Ph: 202-224-3441 Ph: 202-224-6542 Fx: 202-228-0514 Fx: 202-228-3027 maria@cantwell.senate.gov senator@schumer.senate.gov Byron Dorgan (D-ND) Gordon Smith (R-OR) Ph: 202-224-2551 Ph: 202-224-3753 Fx: 202-224-1193 Fx: 202-228-3997 senator@dorgan.senate.gov oregon@gsmith.senate.gov Dianne Feinstein (D-CA) Ron Wyden (D-OR) Ph: 202-224-3841 Ph: 202-224-5244 Fx: 202-228-3954 Fx: 202-228-2717 senator@feinstein.senate.gov No email address available Bob Graham (D-FL) Conrad Burns (R-MT) Ph: 202-224-3041 Ph: 202-224-2644 Fx: 202-224-2237 Fx: 202-224-8594 bob_graham@graham.senate.gov Conrad_burns@burns.senate.gov --------- "RE: The Kitikmeot's Road to Riches?" --------- Date: Mon, 13 Aug 2001 09:06:36 -0500 From: Gary Smith Subj: NA News Item - - - - - - -- - - - - - - filename="KITIKMEOT ROAD" http://www.owlstar.com/dailyheadlines.htm http://www.nunatsiaq.com/nunavut/nvt10810_01.html August 10, 2001 The Kitikmeot's road to riches? Work to begin on the much-ballyhooed Bathurst road. AARON SPITZER Nunatsiaq News IQALUIT - After loads of hype and lots of waiting, preliminary work on the Bathurst Inlet road-and-port project is under way. Late last month, engineers and environmentalists began studying a site at the southern end of Bathurst Inlet, where a consortium of government departments, Inuit organizations and mining companies hopes to build a deep-water port. The researchers will also scout the route of a proposed all-weather road linking the port to Contwoyto Lake on the Nunavut-NWT border. The road and port would provide a transportation corridor between the Arctic coast and the Kitikmeot region's mineral-rich interior. The project's backers say it will spark the development of promising mining properties in the region, including the Izok Lake lead, zinc and nickel deposit 265 kilometres southeast of Kugluktuk. Keith Peterson, a member of the technical committee overseeing the road-and-port study, said that if all goes well, trucks could ply the 200-kilometre road in five or six years, moving construction materials from the port to budding mine sites. A few years after that, mining rigs could be hauling hundreds of tonnes of ore to ships docked at the port. The project could slash the cost of getting supplies and fuel to the hard-to-reach region. Currently, material for area mines like Lupin and Diavik is hauled overland 2,300 kilometres from Edmonton, by rail and across winter ice-roads. Shipping goods through the Arctic Ocean to Bathurst Inlet would be far cheaper, and the all-weather road would lengthen the trucking season, which is currently limited by ice conditions to several weeks in late winter. Access across Contwoyto Lake would be by ice road in the winter and barge in the summer. Though the road would be Nunavut's first "highway," it wouldn't link any communities and it wouldn't be open to the public. According to Peterson, its operators plan to charge a toll to the companies that use it. Peterson said the road and port are expected to cost $250 million to build. According to Anthony Saez of the Nunavut government's Department of Transportation, the preliminary studies on the project will cost about $6 million - $3 million from the federal Department of Indian and Northern Affairs, and just over $1.5 million each from the GN and mining companies such Inmet Mining Corp. of Toronto, which owns the Izok Lake property. Other routes for the road have been considered, including one that would take it to Coronation Gulf, close to Kugluktuk. But that path, Peterson said, would be longer and cost twice as much as the road now under consideration. "Somebody has to pay for it," Peterson said. "The whole idea of this thing, if I understand it right, is to try not to be a drain on the federal and territorial government. Make it pay for itself." "The whole idea of this thing, if I understand it right, is to try not to be a drain on the federal and territorial government. Make it pay for itself." - Keith Peterson Peterson said the project could have spin-off benefits, such as driving down consumer costs in Kitikmeot communities by providing a deep-water port where fuel and other bulk goods could be bought and stored for distribution. Peterson said community consultations on the project will be conducted while preliminary environmental and engineering work continues. He said opponents of the project will get a fair hearing, despite the intense political support for the road and port coming from Kitikmeot political leaders - including Peterson himself, who is the mayor of Cambridge Bay. "Basically were going to do everything on this project that would be expected of anybody else," he said. "There's going to be no corners cut, no favours accepted." Copyright c. 2001 Nunatsiaq News --------- "RE: Indian Crafts Law Being Fine-Tuned" --------- Date: Fri, 24 Aug 2001 09:28:52 -0500 From: Gary Smith Subj: NA News Item - - - - - - -- - - - - - - filename="CRAFTS LAW" http://www.owlstar.com/dailyheadlines.htm http://www.sltrib.com/08242001/business/business.htm Indian Crafts Law Being Fine-Tuned to Make Prosecution Easier BY DAWN HOUSE THE SALT LAKE TRIBUNE The recent case against a former Utah man accused of selling phony American Indian art fell apart because of evidentiary problems, not because of flaws in federal laws. Still, rules involving the Indian Arts and Crafts Act will be fine-tuned long before the 2002 Olympics come to Utah to make it easier to prosecute unscrupulous peddlers, the legal adviser to the Indian Arts and Crafts Board in Washington, D.C., said Wednesday. "The potential for selling Native American crafts during the Olympics is great," said Deidra Ciriello, whose board is an agency of the U.S. Department of the Interior. "We will be working with local state and federal officials in the West to raise awareness of the act. We expect dealers and sellers to comply with the law." The act, passed in 1935 to encourage economic development among American Indians, makes it a crime to sell anything falsely advertised as Indian- made. This past year, rules clarifying exactly what constitutes an American Indian-made product were proposed after consultations with tribal leaders nationwide. The comment period ended Monday, and the final regulations will be adopted "as quickly as possible," Ciriello said. A little known clause in the act allows tribes, individual tribal members or American Indian arts groups to file civil lawsuits against anyone selling phoney American Indian art, said Chris Chaney, an assistant U.S. attorney in Washington, D.C., and a member of the Seneca-Cayuga tribe of Miami, Okla. "This is a powerful tool," he said. "Tribes can get their own attorney or they can request that the Interior Department direct the U.S. Attorney General to bring a civil suit on their behalf. "The act enables them to collect triple damages, and the burden of proof is not as great in a civil action." Last year, a former Draper man was charged in U.S. District Court for Utah with misrepresenting goods as being made by American Indians in one of the first cases filed under the crafts act. But in July, federal prosecutors dropped the charges against Nader Z. Pourhassan after flaws in the case cropped up. "We weren't concerned about any challenge to the Indian Arts and Craft Act," said U.S. Attorney for Utah Paul Warner. "But because the testimony of key witness victims in our case changed substantially, ethically, we could not go forward and meet our burden of proof." One of the St. George merchants who had purchased a "dream catcher" from Pourhassan told prosecutors he had been under no illusion that the trinkets were Indian-made. The items had been made in West Valley City by Vietnamese immigrants. "Is it sufficient that a member of an Indian tribe design and supervise the production [to comply with the act]?" asked the attorney representing Pourhassan, who at one time had employed an American Indian. Pourhassan, 38, who now lives in Oregon, challenged the constitutionality of the act, saying it was vague. He questioned whether the participation of any non-American Indian in the manufacturing process meant the product was not Indian produced. If, for example, an American Indian carved a totem pole but left the finishing work to someone who was not an American Indian, would the product be considered Indian produced? But U.S. District Judge J. Thomas Greene ruled in April that the act is clear. "The phrase 'Indian product' is not vague and means what it says: any art or craft made by an Indian," he wrote. "It does not include products which are jointly manufactured by Indians and non-Indians or products which are designed by an Indian and made by a non-Indian." Chaney said it is difficult to gauge the extent of the fraud, but some statistics indicate that up to 60 percent of items sold as American Indian arts and crafts are counterfeit. Bogus articles devalue genuine goods, threatening the livelihood of American Indians, particularly those living on reservations where unemployment averages 50 percent and higher. "It will result in the death of our culture over time," Fred White, director of Navajo tourism in Window Rock, Ariz., has said. dawn@sltrib.com Copyright c. 2001, The Salt Lake Tribune --------- "RE: Oglala Sioux Tribe limits Law Enforcement Access" --------- Date: Fri, 24 Aug 2001 22:19:53 -0700 From: Jess Hansen Subj: "Oglala Sioux Tribe limits law enforcement access" Mailing List: FN -------------------------------------- Something else from dakotaland ? ~ jess h. http://www.rapidcityjournal.com/display/inn_news/news07.txt Saturday, August 25, 2001 "Oglala Sioux Tribe limits law enforcement access" By HEIDI BELL GEASE, Journal Staff Writer PINE RIDGE -- The Oglala Sioux Tribe has passed an ordinance that will restrict how South Dakota law enforcement officers are allowed to enter the Pine Ridge Indian Reservation to investigate and prosecute crimes. The ordinance, passed July 30 by unanimous vote of the 12 council members present, states that state game wardens and law enforcement officials do not have permission to enter the reservation "for the purpose of executing process on any (American) Indian on Indian lands." "Such persons are to be considered trespassers," the ordinance states. The new law requires law enforcement officers to comply with extradition procedures as outlined in the 1868 Fort Laramie Treaty in order to arrest Indians on the reservation. It also states that under the treaty, "the Oglala Sioux Tribe retains the Treaty Right to exclude and regulate persons from entering the boundaries of our lands." Tribal President John Steele announced that he would pursue the legislation earlier in July, after a Supreme Court ruling in a Nevada case stated that Nevada law enforcement officers could enter the Fallon Paiute- Shoshone Indian Reservation and arrest Indians on deeded or trust lands for crimes committed off the reservation. "I feel that ruling should be limited to Nevada, since the Fallon Paiute-Shosone Indian Reservation is an executive-order reservation, and the history of that reservation is different from the Pine Ridge Reservation," Steele said at the time. State law enforcement officials have said the ordinance won't have much affect on them, since they normally don't conduct business on the reservation. Tribal council members also unanimously passed an ordinance that requires a waiver of sovereign immunity and consent of the Oglala Sioux Tribal Council and the United States of America before the Oglala Sioux Tribal Court can hear any legal action against the Oglala Sioux Tribe. The ordinance, also passed July 30, states that the council "does hereby declare the Oglala Sioux Tribe, Oglala Sioux Tribal Officials, and Oglala Sioux Tribal Employees, acting in their official capacity, immune from suit, based upon the Doctrine of Sovereign Immunity." Steele and the tribe's attorney general, Robert Grey Eagle, could not be reached for further comment on the ordinances. Comments or questions? Contact reporter Heidi Bell Gease at 394-8419 or heidi.bell@rapidcityjournal.com. Copyright c. The Rapid City Journal. All Rights Reserved. --------- "RE: Six Years since Ipperwash" --------- Date: Mon, 27 Aug 2001 09:44:22 -0400 From: Ann Pohl Subj: 6 YEARS SINCE IPPERWASH! UPCOMING ACTIONS Just a quick note (more info will follow soon in the TISG (Turtle Island Support Group) Newsletter. ****************************** On September 6, 2001 it will be 6 YEARS since the horrible human rights violations occurred at what is now known as Ipperwash Provincial Park -- land which has been the traditional territory of the Stoney Point People or Aazhoodena Enjiibaajig since time immemorial. As we know, these violations include the death of Dudley George, the wounding of other Indigenous persons from police gunfire, the unlawful detention of close members of Dudley George's family to suppress the story, the arrests and trials of many innocent persons, the immoral conviction of the courageous Warren George, Jr., and the continued repression - by federal and provincial governments - of the land and treaty rights issues of the Stoney Point People. Last but not least, one can add to these violations the fact that the entire story has been continued to be repressed by the most powerful elements in Canadian society. At this point it is fair to say - under international human rights law - that the failure to call a public inquiry into these events is IN ITSELF a human rights violation. The truth must come out! The cost of keeping of this campaign is being borne on the shoulders of a few very committed individuals. Dudley's two activist brothers, Pierre and Sam, have also paid very heavy prices for their unswerving commitment to the truth, which they pursue along different routes. One of Sam George's lawyers, Murray Klippenstein, also now faces a costly legal action for his dedication and courage. PLEASE PLAN NOW TO JOIN US for one or more of the following events: September 6, 2001: CALL FOR AN INQUEST! London, Ontario: early morning protest at Regional Coroner's office Toronto, Ontario: 1 pm rally at Provincial Coroner's office For Supporters from AFAR: Fax, Phone, Email for an Inquest (more details to follow) September 16, 2001, 2 - 4 pm: FEAST CELEBRATING RELEASE OF BOOK ON IPPERWASH: "One Dead Indian: The Premier, the Police and The Ipperwash Crisis" written by (Toronto Star Reporter) Peter Edwards, about to be published by Stoddart Canada, is excellent. Feast him and his efforts in the continued campaign for the truth: to be held at the Native Canadian Centre in Toronto. (more details to follow) --- as I said, more info to follow soon --- --------- "RE: Peltier's Birthday" --------- Date: Thu, 23 Aug 2001 10:51:05 -0500 From: "LPDC" Subj: Peltier's Birthday up and coming Mailing List: LPDC Dear Friends, Don't forget to let us know what you are organizing for Leonard Peltier's Birthday on September 12! Below is an event sponsored by the Leonard Peltier Support Group of San Francisco. If you are in the area, we hope you will attend. In Solidarity, LPDC Support Senate Hearings on Peltier Case! Call Senator Leahy: 202-224-4242 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 Sunday, September 9th 4-9 PM The Cell Space, 2050 Bryant St, SF Between 18th and 19th Sts. Opening with drums Reading of parts of Leonards book by celebrities Reading and distribution of the Letter by Leonard concerning the FTAA Dinner Birthday Cake for Leonard Peltier Games: Musical chairs, prizes Smash the fbi Pinata, to release the 6000 documents Birthday cards to mail to Leonard More information on the boycott of Union Carbide and Monsanto products and the history behind their involvement in the exploitation of the Black Hills. August 6th, 7:30 PM is next meeting 20th St., San Francisco Cheap parking available at 21st and Valencia at a public parking garage on Bartlett St. ---------------------------------------------------------------------- To subscribe, send a blank message to lpdc-on@mail-list.com --------- "RE: Boston Peltier BD Event" --------- Date: Mon, 27 Aug 2001 11:05:53 -0500 From: "LPDC" Subj: Boston Peltier BD Event Mailing List: LPDC Boston, Massachusetts Peltier Event Leonard Peltier Birthday Bash: *PELTIER BIRTHDAY BASH OFFERS MUSIC, FOOD, FUN, AND A GREAT CAUSE!* Want to boogie to live music and support a great cause - all at the same time? Then come to the Leonard Peltier Birthday Bash. It all happens Saturday, September 8, at the Spontaneous Celebrations Community Center, 45 Danforth Street, Jamaica Plain, starting at 7:00 PM. Dance to live music from The Roseshel Doyle Band, Mike Diplomat and the Misprints, and The Sam Hooper Group. All proceeds will go toward the effort to free Native American civil rights leader Leonard Peltier, an Amnesty International Prisoner of Conscience. So bring your family and bring your friends. Donation is just $10 for adults, $5 for low-income people. Kids 12 and under are free. For more information, call the Council for Native American Solidarity phone: 617-846-1644. Co-sponsored by the Boston Area Leonard Peltier Support Group and the Council for Native American Solidarity. FREE LEONARD PELTIER! WHAT: LEONARD PELTIER BIRTHDAY BENEFIT WHEN: SATURDAY, SEPTEMBER 8TH AT 7PM WHERE: SPONTANEOUS CELEBRATIONS 45 Danforth Street, Jamaica Plain $10 ($5 for low income) CONTACT: BRUCE GURWITZ Phone - 617-846-1644 E-mail - bsgfp@earthlink.net http://www.bostonbands.com/rd, http://www.mikediplomat.com (link to map here), http://www.samhooper.com Directions to Spontaneous Celebrations Cultural Center 45 Danforth Street, Jamaica Plain (Boston, MA) By MBTA: Take the Orange line to the Stonybrook station. Walk to the right to the light, then cross the street. Danforth is 30 yards up the street. Turn right into this residential neighborhood and you will see 45 Danforth a few buildings up on the left. By Car: >From the Cambridge area, take the Jamaicaway and turn left on Perkins (marked with a sign directing you to the MSCPA). Cross South Huntington and go to the semi-rotary where you will take a sharp right which will be Centre St. (may be unmarked) Go for one block, then take an immediate left onto Paul Gore (badly marked) and take this all the way to the bottom to Lamartine. Turn right and go one block to the traffic light which is Boylston. Turn right. Immediately on the right you will see Danforth St. where you turn right. It's a residential neighborhood and 45 Danforth is a few houses up on the left. >From the Expressway, get off at the Roxbury exit. Drive a mile and a half to Tremont St. where you take a left. Go about 2 miles to Center St. where you take a right. You'll see Jackson Square. After one block take a left on to Lamartine. Take Lamartine to Boylston and 30 yards on the right is Danforth. >From the Mass Pike: Exit the Mass Pike at Route 128. Take route 128 south for two exits to Route 9 East heading to Newton and Brookline. Follow Route 9 East until you see signs for Route 1 South to Providence. (If you are travelling along Route 9 East and you see that you are driving along trolley tracks, you have gone too far.) Take Route 1 South to Providence. This is the Jamaicaway. Take this for about mile and look out for a left turn on Perkins (it's before Jamaica Pond). Take this left. Go to the rotary and take a right which will be Centre St. Go for one block, then take an immediate left onto Paul Gore and take this all the way to the bottom to Lamartine. Turn right and go to Boylston. 30 yards on the right is Danforth where you turn right. It's a residential neighborhood and 45 Danforth is a few houses up on the left. >From Storrow Drive: Exit at Rte 1 Fenway South. Bear right onto Boylston St. towards Rte 1. Stay on Boylston St (right lane) for a few blocks until you come to a confusing intersection where you will see a rotary off to your right. Go to that rotary and follow the sign to Rte 1 South Providence. That is the Jamaicaway. Follow the directions above. Parking is available at two separate lots: one across the street and one to the left of the building. Support Senate Hearings on Peltier Case! Call Senator Leahy: 202-224-4242 Leonard Peltier Defense Committee P.O. Box 583, Lawrence, KS 66044 Phone: 785-842-5774 ~ e-mail: lpdc@idir.net URL: http://www.freepeltier.org _____________________________ To subscribe, send a blank message to lpdc-on@mail-list.com --------- "RE: Native Prisoner" --------- Date: Tuesday, August 28, 2001 7:11 PM 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 -- - - - Subj: Prison Pen Pals I am grateful to the Native American Inmates and Families Support Group for allowing me to access their database of Native American inmates requesting pen pals. The full list can be found at http://www.angelfire.com/wy/nainmatessupportgrp/PEN, along with a good basic discussion of what you can send, and what is forbidden (customized to several different states and institutions, as requirements differ). James White Eagle Robinson Robert R. Stout # AK-9557 # 1-179522 SCI.Graterford Crossroads Corr. Center P.O. Box 244 D-B2-022 1115 E. Pence Rd. Graterford, Pa. 19426-1244 Cameron, Mo. 64429 Tribe:Cherokee;Sentence:Natural Life Tyrel Little Joel Barbour (age 25:Navajo) #11482269 #43845-008 Snake River Corr. Inst. FCI P.O. Box 9000 777 Stanton Blvd. Safford, Az. 85548 Ontario, Or. 97914 ===== Janet Smith Owlstar Trading Post http://www.owlstar.com --------------------------------- Standing Deer's new address: Robert H. Wilson #640539, Estelle Unit, 264 FM 3478, Huntsville, TX 77320-3322 ---------------------------------- If you know of a Native American inmate who would like to correspond with brothers or sisters on the outside - please drop me a line with whatever information about them they'd like shared. Janet Smith Owlstar Trading Post http://www.owlstar.com owlstar@speakeasy.org --------- "RE: US Indian Industrial School:School of Assimilation" --------- Date: Tue, 14 Aug 2001 08:53:14 -0500 From: Gary Smith Subj: NA News Item - - - - - - -- - - - - - - filename="INDUSTRIAL SCHOOL" http://www.owlstar.com/dailyheadlines.htm http://www.journalstar.com/local?story_id=4325&past= U.S. Indian Industrial School: A school of assimilation BY JODI RAVE LEE Lincoln Journal Star GENOA - For half a century, students arrived at the U.S. Indian Industrial School. Some acquired vocational skills. Some deserted on trains. Some never went home. On Sunday, 81-year-old Glenn Campbell returned. He remembers the school best for one thing: "No sugar. That sounds silly, but I never got enough to eat. I was hungry." Campbell, of the Ioway Tribe of Kansas, was one of the last 599 students to attend the school during its final year of operation, 1933-34. By then the U.S. Indian School had helped recruit, educate and assimilate thousands of Native students from 20 tribes in the region. Eighty-five percent of the students came from the Lakota, Winnebago, Omaha, Ponca, Pottowatomi reservations. For the past 11 years members of the U.S. Indian School Foundation have been organizing an annual reunion to keep memories of the school alive, memories of a school that was once a sprawling state-of-the-art campus. At its peak, it consisted of 640 acres of land and 30 buildings where Native students learned skills that ranged from tailoring, carpentry and shoe repair to baking, nursing and sewing. The U.S. Indian School Foundation, with support from the Nebraska Humanities Council, helped sponsor activities at the Genoa Indian School Museum Saturday and Sunday. Events included school tours, banquets and guest speakers. "There's a lot of good stories that come from here," said William Cave, a Genoa resident who moved to the town in 1937. His wife, Maxine Cave, countered: "It wasn't good for the Indians. It changed their lifestyle, but the good part of it - now with the world the way it is - they fit in better." Some did. Some didn't. Dale Wolf, a Cherokee and Indian School alumnus, has said the school was the "best thing that ever happened to him," recalled Campbell and John Drozd, a boarding school foundation member. Wolf later became an engineer and retired from NASA. Many students also earned reputations as excellent athletes, netting scores of medals and trophies for the school. And in 1904 the school band received recognition for its second-place finish at the St. Louis World's Fair. "You do hear a lot of good stories," said Drozd. "Those are the ones you hear. The ones with the bad ones don't come back." Wolf and Campbell were the only two former students to attend weekend events this year. The two men are the only two alive from the first reunion, in 1990, when 13 former students attended. The actual number of former students and their whereabouts is unknown. Today the annual reunion attracts hundreds of others. Many are curious, others knew someone or had a relative who attended the industrial school. Jay Ellston, 78, of Livory, said his grandparents met at the boarding school and later married. His grandfather was among the first of 74 students to attend the school the year it opened in 1884. Although he knew "Grandad" well, he doesn't remember him ever mentioning the school, but Ellston said he has learned of the school over the years. "I think it served some good purposes, but near as I know kids weren't treated the best." Mary Lee Johns of Lincoln, a guest speaker, had mixed feelings about visiting the school. Two of her Lakota aunts attended Genoa in the early 1930s. The young women's photos now hang in museum exhibits. "There it was," she said of the photo display. "I was just excited. It was like finding a part of your past. I always look for things in my family." As people milled about the museum, Johns thought many were unaware of the damage caused by the boarding school experience: loss of language, tradition, spirituality, health and happiness among them. "I don't think any of these people realize how devastating it was," she said. The school's historical literature states that a full-time disciplinarian was hired after 1900 to handle "its discipline problems. The person who held this post was genuinely feared by the students, and often his reputation alone was a sufficient deterrent to future problems." Situated 100 miles northwest of Lincoln, the U.S. Indian Industrial School was one of 16 federal boarding schools in the country that embodied government assimilation policies toward educating reservation youths. Campbell, who lives in Kansas City, Kan., knows a handful of members of his tribe who attended the school. They refuse to return. One Ioway woman had an arm amputated after it was caught in an industrial-size clothes wringer at the school. And then there were the trains that brought students to Genoa. The Ioway man remembers the young boy left standing by the railroad tracks crying. His older brother deserted the school by hopping a train. "If those boys got on that train, they never came back," said Campbell. Some who arrived on the trains never went home. Students often lacked immunity from tuberculosis, influenza and spinal meningitis. "This place was never empty," said Pearl Campbell, a student aide at the school hospital, in a diary entry. "If it was found after a short time at the school they could not be helped, they were sent home. Some died before this could be done." They were buried in a school cemetery. That cemetery is no longer marked, and no one knows for sure where it is, said Drozd. Former students who have tried to find it were left staring at a cornfield. Despite the painful memories associated with the school, Johns said she thinks it's important to educate others about the realities of boarding schools and the consequences they had for Native communities. It's equally important, she said, for Native people to reflect on the schools and move on: "Even though the whole boarding school system was meant to take things away from us, instead of ignoring it, we have to face it and deal with it and begin to heal." Jodi Rave Lee can be reached at 473-7240 or jrave@journalstar.com Copyright c. 2001, Lincoln Journal Star --------- "RE: History: Carlisle Indian School" --------- Date: Sun, 12 Aug 2001 23:19:47 -0400 From: Barbara Landis Subj: August 10, 1888 INDIAN HELPER - Carlisle Indian School. [Editorial Note: These reprints are being included in this newsletter so that you might know the mind of those who ran institutions like Carlisle.] THE INDIAN HELPER ----------------------------- ~~ FOR OUR BOYS AND GIRLS ~~ ============================= VOLUME III CARLISLE, PA. FRIDAY, AUGUST 10, 1888 NO. 52 ============================= WHAT MAKES A MAN. --- "Not numerous years nor lengthened life, Not Pretty children and a wife, Not pins and chains and fancy rings, Not any such like trumpery things; Not pipe, cigar or bottled wine, Nor liberty with kings to dine; Nor coats nor boots, nor yet a hat, A dandy vest or trimmed cravat: Nor all the world's wealth laid in store: Nor minister, reverend, sir nor squire, With titles that the memory tire; Nor ancestry traced back to Will, Who went from Normandy to kill; Nor thousand volumes rambled o'er; Nor Latin, Greek, nor Hebrew lore; Nor judge's robe nor mayor's mace, Nor crowns that deck the royal race, These all united never can Avail to make a single man. "A truthful soul, a loving mind, Full of affection for its kind; A spirit firm, erect, and free, That never basely bends a knee; That will not bend a feather's weight, 0f slavery's chance for small or great; That truly speak from God within; That never makes a league with sin; That snaps the fetters despots make, And loves the truth for its own sake; That worships God, and him alone, And bows no more than at His throne; Aud trembles at no tyrant's nod; A soul that fears no one but God, And thus can smile at curse or ban- This is the soul that makes a man.: -[Selected -------------------------- INTERESTING OBSERVATIONS AT THE INDIAN'S OWN HOME. -------- Joshua Given, one of Carlisle's old pupils and now a student at the Lincoln University this State, is at the present time visiting his home at the Kiowa Agency, Indian Territory. In a letter written July 26th, he says: "Five days after my arrival the delegates to the International Council held at Ft. Gibson consisting of all the Kiowa chiefs and a few of the Comanches held a meeting, at which a report of the proceedings was read. I was present at the meeting at the request of the chiefs. I learned that the Indians living in this territory have agreed to form a united government. That those who are still living upon reservations should soon stop drawing rations fromm the Government and thus be independent. Soon after the report was read I was called upon to give the old chiefs a little talk. This request I granted and when I got through with my talk six Kiowa boys and girls were given to me to take back to Carlisle. The Agent is anxious that I should take any young Indian to Carlisle who is promising for future usefulness. The old chiefs are hard to convince that education is a good thing, and some of them are great gamblers, too. Lone Wolf and the younger chiefs are making wonderful progress toward civilization. Stumbling Bear and Cat are with the progressive. The corn crop is a success this season among these people. The Kiowas and Comanches cultivate from 15 to 150 acres of land to each farmer. Watermelons are plentiful and a few of the Indian farmers have an abundance of potatoes. On the whole they are doing well. Lucius Aitson and Mabel and their two children are doing nicely. Lucius is a member of the Police force and is now in Russel, Texas, on important duty. Virginia has two daughters and is a regular Indian. Her husband is a returned Chilocco school pupil and the agent told me that they have a very large farm and splendid crops, too. Emily Peatone is the dirtest (sic) returned\Carlisle pupil I have met. She has one child. Chas. Ohetoint and Paul Tsaitkopta are dressed in Indian but both have splendid farms. Of the Comanches Solomon Chandler is doing nicely and is married to a Comanche ---------------------------- (Continued on Fourth Page.) ============================================== The Indian Helper. ----------------------------- PRINTED EVERY FRIDAY, AT THE INDIAN INDUSTRIAL SCHOOL, CARLISLE, PA. BY THE INDIAN PRINTER BOYS. --> THE INDIAN HELPER is PRINTED by Indian boys, but EDITED by The-Man-on-the-band-stand, who is NOT an Indian. ----------------------------- Price: - 10 cents 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 paid for in advance, so do not hesitate to take the paper from the Post Office, for fear a bill will be presented. ============================= The Indian Commission. Capt. Pratt and the rest of the Commission appointed by the President of the United States to explain the Land in Severalty Bill to the Sioux Indians, and find out whether they want their land divided into small farms or not, are still at Standing Rock Agency, Dak. They have had several large councils with the Indians and have tried hard to make the Indians understand why the Government wants a full and free vote on the question. The chiefs make long speeches and tell the Commission that the Government and the white people have always cheated them. The Indians seem to be afraid that the Government want to steal their lands, and they do not want to vote either "yes," or "no." The Government wants them to vote one way or the other. The Government wants each man to speak for himself and not to be afraid to say "yes" because the Chief says "no;" and not to be afraid to say "no" if the Chief says "yes." The Man-on-the-band-stand is pleased to hear that there are two or three young Indians there, who were educated in the East, taking down all the speeches of the Indians and the Commission. =============== Theodore North is working on the great Houghton Farm at Mountainviile, N. Y. He writes that the farm contains 750 acres and they have 60 Jersey cows. They are having rain every week, he says. Theodore sent a new subscription, and says he himself is always anxious to get the little paper for the news it contains. CAMP ITEMS. -------- Prof. Woodruff assumed charge at the camp on Friday morning. Several boys came to camp for over Sunday. One of the largest rattlesnakes yet seen was killed by Henry Phillips, our little Alaskan. That was a dead snake curled up in the path and put there by the boys. Miss Seabrook nearly stepped on it, Miss Nana jumped to one side and the boys laughed. Miss Nana reports that she and Miss Seabrook had a delightful time at camp. They enjoyed every minute. A number of the boys attended the Zion's church about two miles from camp, last Sunday. Capt. Miller and wife, Mrs. Haverstick and Mr. Tom Moore, of Carlisle, passed through camp on Friday. They had been camping near Pine Grove. They spoke in the highest terms of our camp. Several parties in carriages from Holly and elsewhere have visited us. The boys shoot mark for their entertainment and thus earn an occasional penny. Crazy head makes bows and arrows for sale. He sold two arrows the other day for 25 cents each. He works faithfully employing nearly all his leisure moments in this way. The boys find a ready market for bows and arrows at Holly. Prof. Woodruff's talk to the boys Sunday afternoon was very interesting. On Wednesday evening we had the best fun of all playing circus. It was more of an animal show than a circus and the showman made excellent hits in describing his animals. A heavy storm Sunday nfternoon. Can't say, "there are no flies on that," at this camp. There are plenty of flies here, and they are on everything. Yamie Leeds is cook now in Dennison's place who was called back to the school to assist the Man-on-the-band-stand with his books. All the printers but three have gone back to the school. We sold $8.00 worth of huckleberries, the other day and with the money bought eggs, butter, milk and other good things for the boys. Knows-his-cows and Carries-his-food are both good berry pickers. WATCH DOG. =============================================== Visitors from Bucks County are expected today. ----------- Tinware is being packed for shipment to Agencies in the west. ----------- Florence Miller and Minnie Billen went to country homes on Tuesday. ----------- Mr. Goodyear attended the Sons of Veteran picnic, held at Williams Grove, last Thursday. ----------- A quantity of bead-work, made at leisure moments by the girls, was sold to a party from Mount Holly, on Wednesday. ----------- The girl's favorite walk is to the farm, but they would eat green apples, and the route had to be chlmged. They now go to the wood. ----------- Our flag is at half-mast, and we, in common with the country's millions mourn the death of our nation's great soldier -General Sheridan. ----------- Dr. Stewart says that the horse he drives is nearly old enough to vote, but a sprightlier, prettier animal the Man-on-the-band-stand rarely sees. ----------- J. B. Given and Chester Cornelius have gone to the sea-shore for a few days. Chester will visit his two sisters - Alice and Lily before he returns. ----------- The Man-on-the-band-stand was much pleased with the pretty bouquet carried by Lida Standing to his chief clerk. It was a present from Lida's mamma. ----------- The printer boys' favorite tunes seem to be "Coming Thro, the Rye," and "Annie Laurie." We forgive them though for whistling them so much because it is vacation and most of the girls are away. ----------- Richenda on hearing that the Apache baby died of Pneumonia, and knowing that on her mamma's bureau were two bottles, one of Ammonia and another of Camphor, got the names mixed and told Johnnie that the baby died of Camphor. "She didn't either," indignantly replied Johnnie, "she died of Ammonie." And thus the question was settled. ----------- What made the girls' mother so happy last Friday, morning? "Why," said she, "as I passed around through the girls' rooms I found everything in such neat order that I can't help feeling happy." And the Man-on-the-band-stand smiled. Boys! Boys! The Man-on-the-band-stand smiles the other way sometimes when he takes a peep into your rooms. On Monday, Miss Bender left for her home near Philadelphia to spend a short vacation. ----------- Dr. Given, after a very pleasant month's vacation among friends in the west is at home again. ----------- Gilbert Pusher sent ten cents for the HELPER, this week. He no doubt wishes to keep up with the times. ----------- Boys are again at work in the harness-shop since the removal of the old school building and harvest is over. ----------- Work has been somewhat delayed on the new building through difficulty in getting long timbers. They are expected every day. ----------- A friendly letter from Raymond Stewart who is in Newtown, working on a farm, says they are getting along nicely with their harvesting. ----------- Mrs. Sarah Osgood, of Flushing, L. I., and Miss Mary Bean, of New York City, who have been spending a few weeks at the school left on Monday morning for their homes. ----------- Madoc Wind who works in Bucks County this summer writes that he wants the INDIAN HELPER again "because it seems to me very much interested into it, and just like letter when it comes here to me, and I like it very much." ----------- About the 15th of September many of our boys and girls now in country homes will return to the school. Letters of regret that the time is so short are already being received from patrons. Our out pupils this year have made most excellent records and the people having them do not like to give them up. Some will remain out all winter and go to public schools. ----------- Margaret, one of the little Apache girls, lost the ends of four of her fingers, last, Monday. She thought that she would see how near she could Hold her right hand to the rollers in the steam mangle and not get caught. She went a little too near, and Dr. Stewart had to cut her fingers off, they were so badly mashed. Margaret is brave about it now, and says she will not cry even if her hand does hurt. ----------- Ellen Hansell writes from her summer home in Maryland, "Why do you call *The Red Man* by that name? Is it because it has so much Indian in it?" That is just the reason and any and all of our boys and girls or others who wish to know all about the Indians should by all means send Fifty cents for *The Red Man*. Ellen sent fifty cents, and we have received the same from some others out on farms. ================================================= (Continued from First Page.) woman. Howard Chawhip is dressed in Indian but doing herding for his uncle White Wolf. Cheape Ross is as his employer said to me "doing better than a white person would." Marcus Poco is no good, in every sense of the phrase. Is married and has one boy - long hair and face painted in yellow and red. The Kiowas told me that POCO loves horseracing too dearly. The Wichitas are doing better than the others though they also have temptations to meet. I am invited to address several meetings in the towns of Texas. Mrs. Doanmoe was well when I last saw her. Etahdleuh's brother said that Richard should go east to school as soon as he is big enough. The report of so much of Etahdleuh's property being destroyed by the Indians is not true. I have seen the house and the wagon, corn-field and other things. Laura remains just as firm in her new life and she should be encouraged. While the Indians are proud of their corn fields and the success they are making, it was due to Etahdleuh's advice. That is what the Agency people say. ------- WHY THE INDIANS WANT ClTIZENSHIP. ------- A Stockbridge Indian in writing to his nephew at Hampton, says: "I shall tell you what little I know about it, (citizenship) and that is not much, but it is just enough that I would not go back to my nation again. I like the ways of the pale faces the best. I feel more free, I can live where a white man can as long as I have my health. If I have a piece of land and want to sell it, I could do so, that is if I can find a buyer, and it is nobody's business. But if I lived with the tribe I could not sell my land and go somewhere else, if I liked it ever so well somewhere else. I would have to stay on my land let it be ever so poor or for good. It is just like being in prison. The Good of an Education. In the same letter the writer goes on to say: "I would not advise every Indian to become a citizen, because there are a great many that are not capable of becoming citizen; they have not the learning. If they had a home among the whites it would be but a short time when the white man would have his home and perhaps leave him without anything. I tell you the white man is sharp; he will be good to you and let you have anything you want, but look out, there is something that he wants; perhaps you want a little money and will tell you, I will let you have some if you will give me security on your farm and stock; well you get the money, when the time is up you are kicked out, and he will tell you to get there you *Injun*. I don't want no more of you, I have got all you had. It is good to have an education, then you can read and learn the ways of the whites. As for me, I haven't got much education, but I would like to see that white man that could cheat me on a bargain. I have held office in this town. I have been a constable and have been assessor and could get it again this year, but I told them that I did not want any office whatever, it was too much bother for I work hard for my liviug.-[W. A. Q. in "Talks and Thoughts." ---------------- Ladder Puzzle. * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * *Uprights* (Read downwards). The first upright is the name of a city in the southwestern part of New York state, where Miss Crane lives. The other upright is a city about half-way between here and Philadelphia on the Pennsylvania Railroad. The first round is the name of the largest island in the world. The second round is what we call people who are strong, quick, powerful, full of business. The third round is what we call men who drive teams. The fourth round is the place where goods are stored - things that are made ready to be shipped. ============================================ 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 5 cents to pay postage. Persons sending clubs must send all the names at once. ============================================= 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. For 1, 2 and 3 subscribers for THE RED MAN we give the same premiums offered in Standing Offer for the HELPER. Address, THE RED MAN, Carlisle, PA. ====================================================================== Transcribed weekly. For more info see http://www.carlisleindianschool.org. - Barbara Landis --------- "RE: Rustywire: Navajo Flowers" --------- Date: Tue, 17 Jul 2001 08:09:44 -0500 From: Gary Smith Subj: NA News Item - - - - - - -- - - - - - - filename="RUSTYWIRE-NAVAJO FLOWERS" Navajo Flowers by Johnny Rustywire The smell of sage and the colors of it come to mind in full bloom, with yellow and green. I have seen it rustling in the wind and scent is sweet to have when you have not been home for a while. I can also see Indian paintbrush with lavender flowers, used for dyeing wool and making black paint for pottery, but it also smells good. I also see the small yellow petals, tiny some would say on Navajo Tea. I don't know it's scientific name but I know it's smell and if I could I would pick a handful along with some sage and paintbrush and carry it from my homeland to you. There are simple small flowers but yet they glow with life in this hard land, giving life, color and beauty to me. I can see the small pettles on the flower, yellow and small used to make a soothing drink. I can have a cup of the sweet tea it makes and will have a cup to celebrate life. There is no rose in the world that can compare to the smell of sage in Navajoland ..... yes it smells sweet in the breeze. Copyright c. 1999, Johnny Rustywire, all rights reserved. --------- "RE: Poem: Tears For Tomorrow" --------- Date: Sun, 28 May 2000 10:29:08 -0400 From: "Dreamwalker" Subj: Tears For Tomorrow Tears For Tomorrow If each put away a tear for tomorrow if each cared enough to do so then that act alone would dry the tears of the Old Ones To put aside a tear means that you Honor your mistakes you Honor your faults and cast no one out from the Circle Yet who among us sets aside a tear who stands beside those who are lost who among us puts aside a tear for the Seven Generations The Grandfathers see those who always push ahead never stopping long enough to see the way the trail of pain they leave behind so blindly the broken Hoops on the ground Put aside a tear put your Heart back in the Hoop put aside a tear put your road straight There is no time to waver no time too question what the Heart already knows put aside a tear For the People for the children for the Sacred Circle for Seven Generations yet unborn It is their tear it is their future it is their tomorrow put aside a tear Crys The Tears/Dreamwalker~Lakota copyright 2000 --------- "RE: Verse: Hawaiian Book of Days" --------- Date: Mon, 20 Aug 2001 06:20:05 -1000 From: Debbie Sanders Subj: Hawaiian Book of Days A HAWAIIAN BOOK OF DAYS, week of September 3-9 KEPAKEMAPA (September) (Mahoe Hope) 3 The coral reef is a home to many creatures. 4 In our hearts, we are all children. 5 Know all there is to know, ... and cherish what you learn. 6 Never make excuses to avoid doing the things you truly love. 7 Time will not stand still for our convenience -- we must make the time we need to build our dreams. 8 To walk upon black sands is to feel the touch of Pele. 9 Whenever we think we know all there is to know, ... the universe changes. (c) Copyright 1991 by D. F. Sanders Me ke aloha i ka nani, ... Moe'uhanekeanuenue (With love and beauty, ... Rainbow Dream) --------- "RE: Upcoming Events" --------- Date: Sun, 26 Aug 2001 15:39:14 -0 From: Gary Smith (gars@speakeasy.org) Subj: Upcoming Events =+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+= EVENTS ARE FEATURED IN ODD NUMBERED ISSUES ONLY =+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+= =================================== Date: Tue, 12 Jun 2001 09:43:48 -0800 Subj: Honoring All Elders From: Andre P. Cramblit http://www.ncidc.org/nwit2001.htm September 22, 23, 2001 20th Annual Elders Gathering Honoring the Late Frank Gist Sr. California Tribal Dance Demonstration 3-6pm Saturday Redwood Acres Fairgrounds 3750 Harris St. Eureka, CA -- Andre Cramblit, Operations Director-Northern California Indian Development Council NCIDC (http://www.ncidc.org) is a non-profit that meets the development needs of American Indians and operates an art gallery featuring the art of California tribes (http://www.americanindianonline.com) =================================== Date: Thu, 23 Aug 2001 11:47:15 EDT From: BKM12345@aol.com Subj: powwow 1ST ANNUAL CRAZY WATER POW WOW SATURDAY, OCTOBER 13, 2001 2PM - 11:30PM CRAZY WATER HOTEL, DOWNTOWN MINERAL WELLS, TEXAS Come join us for authentic American Indian food, Arts & Crafts, jewelry, cake walks, raffles, auctions and more. Head Staff Master of Ceremonies & AD--Lance Carney, Ponca Head Singer--Roger Perdasofpy,Kiowa/Apache/Comanche Head Man Dancer--Dennis Begay, Navajo (Dineh) Head Gourd Dancer--Byron Komah, Comanche Head Lady Dancer--Sharon Perdasofpy, Comanche/Cherokee 2pm-- Opening Prayer, flags posted 2pm-5pm--Gourd Dancing 5pm-6:30--Supper Break 6:30-7pm--Gourd Dancing 7:30pm-- Grand Entry 7:30-11:30pm--Inter