From gars@speakeasy.org Mon Mar 4 18:51:07 2002 Date: 27 Feb 2002 02:18:11 -0000 From: Gary Night Owl To: Internet Recipients of Wotanging Ikche Subject: Wotanging Ikche--nanews10.009 WOTANGING IKCHE -- Lakota -- Common News Kanoheda Aniyvwiya -- Cherokee -- Journal of the People Otapi'sin Atsinikiisinaakssin -- Blackfeet -- News for All the People Es'te Opunvk'vmucvse -- Creek -- People's New News Aunchemokauhettittea -- Naragansett -- Let Us Share News Ni-mah-mi-kwa-zoo-min -- Ojibwe -- We Are Talking About Ourselves Ha-Sah-Sliltha -- Ditidaht Nation -- News of the People Un Chota -- Susquehannic Seneca -- The People Speak Ximopanolti tehuatzin, inin Mexika tlahtolli -- Nahuatl -- For you we offer these words It-hah-pe-hah Ah-num pah-le -- Chickasaw -- Together We Are Talking Sho-da-ku-ye -- Teehahnahmah -- Talking Birchbark Acimowin -- Plains Cree -- Story or Account Native American News -- Language of the Occupation Forces Wotanging Ikche and Native American News Copyright c. 1996-2002 nanews.org ==>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 O +-----------------------------+ O o O | Much more happens in Indian | O o O VOLUME 10, ISSUE 009 | Country than is reported in | O o o o o O | this weekly newsletter. 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Proportional fonts will be difficult to read. <================<<<< >>>>================> This issue contains articles from www.pechanga.net; www.owlstar.com; www.indianz.com; ndn-aim, Iron Natives, Innu-L and Tsalagi_Unole 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.'" "Out of the Indian approach to life there came a great freedom, an intense and absorbing love for nature, a respect for life, enriching faith in a Supreme Power and principles of truth, honesty, generosity, equity and brotherhood as a guide to mundane relations." __ Chief Luther Standing Bear, Oglala Sioux +- -- -- -- -- -- -- -- -- -- -- -+ | 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! I wish to start with a brief reminder. Sometimes articles appear in this newsletter that appear to present two very different views of the same or similar event(s). I am reminded of a basic truth I learned a long time ago. I could enter a room where three elders were talking. There would be no anger or accusations, but it was clear to me each of them had a very different view of the subject being discussed. I quietly asked another elder which was right, and was told they all were. All that was different was the image each had been given. It was up to me to listen carefully and determine for myself where the truth was I needed to carry, and it might well be as I listened I would come to know each as the truth or part of a whole truth. Articles appearing here often give different views. Many of them are tainted by the dominant press. Others carry the burden of half-truths believed to be true. Read each carefully. Seek other ways of learning more, especially where there are marked differences. Only then can you come to know for yourself the truth you wish to carry. -=-=-=- This week the Norton, McCaleb and the Department of Interior finally got what they have been seeking for months. One Native Nation has said it accepts the new BIA plan. Expect to hear this one nation quoted a lot in the dominant press and the countless others ignored or brushed aside. There are more efforts to destroy or circumvent tribal sovereignty. You can absolutely expect this to become a louder and louder crusade as "Casino Envy" and perceived fears of "land reacquisition" by tribes drive the paranoia and desire to crush the red nations back into nothingness. One way to do that is simply have congress declare all past treaties null and void and declare tribal citizens are merely another minority in the great melting pot. Dohiyi Ani Oginalii , , Gary Night Owl gars@nanews.org (*,*) P. O. Box 672168 gars@speakeasy.org (`-') Marietta, GA 30007, U.S.A. gars@olagrande.net ===w=w=== gars@sdf.lonestar.org ----------- News of the people featured in this issue ---------- - Crossings - Native Prisoner - Potawatomi Chairman -- Manuel Redwoman Website supports BIA Proposal -- Letter to Congressional Indian - New Crow Regime Caucus: Leonard peltier case rolls up its Sleeves - History: Carlisle Indian School - Bothersome Outsiders are Banned - John Rustywire: Discover Navajo - Damned Deal - Poem: Future Perfect - Talks on Fishing at Burnt Church - Verse: Hawaiian Book of Days - Indians Call for - Rebirth of Nearly Extinct Sheriff's Resignation Nooksack Dialect - Buffer Zone Sought - Way to preserve fading - Update: Anna's Site Miccosukee Language sought - Response: Peltier Said... - Mashantucket Language - Tribe Backpedals on coming Back Law Enforcement Contact - Native America Calling - Iowa Tribe, Perkins - Upcoming Events Police Cross-Deputize --------- "RE: Crossings" --------- Date: Tue, 26 Feb 2002 08:19:19 -0600 From: Gary Smith Subj: NA News Item - - - - - - -- - - - - - - filename="CROSSINGS" February 20, 2002 Julia Mary Richards-Sharp ALLEN - Julia Mary Richards-Sharp, 69, Allen, died Monday, Feb. 18, 2002, in Allen. Survivors include four sons, Robert Sharp, Pocatello, Idaho, and Roger Sharp, Albert Sharp Jr. and Jerry Sharp, all of Allen; three daughters, Alberta Mendenhall, Interior, and Lavonne McCollam and Carmen Cedar Face, both of Allen; one brother, John Richards, Porcupine; two sisters, Alyce Broughton, Long Beach, Calif., and Avis Oyster, Lakeland, Fla.; 17 grandchildren; and seven great-grandchildren. A two-night wake will begin at 1 p.m. Wednesday, Feb. 20, at Sharp Ranch in Allen. The second night will begin at 4 p.m. Thursday, Feb. 21, at American Horse School in Allen. Mass of Christian Burial will be at 10 a.m. Friday, Feb. 22, at the school, with Fr. Andreas LeBlang officiating. Burial will be at the Sharp family cemetery in Allen. Julia Mary Richards-Sharp was born March 6, 1932, in Allen, S.D., to Pete Richards and Lillian Nelson. She attended Red Cloud Indian School and Oglala Community High School. She married Carl C. Bettelyoun in 1950 and had one daughter, Carmen Bettelyoun-Cedar Face. After his death, she married Albert Sharp and was married for 34 years. They made their home in Allen, where they ranched until his death in 1984. From this marriage, there were six children born. Julia worked for the Allen Headstart from 1968-1972 and the American Horse School from 1978-1982, and the Martin Grade School from 1982-1984. In 1981, she graduated from Oglala Lakota College with an AA degree in education. She also served on the OST Credit Board for four years and the Public Safety Review Board for 12 years. While employed at the American Horse School, she helped many youth through her association with Save the Children. She has been active in her community and the District for many years and has always taken a positive stance for the people of the Pass Creek District. At the time of her death, she was serving as Chairman of the Elderly program of Pass Creek District. Sioux Funeral Home is in charge of arrangements. February 21, 2002 Louis Levi Wounded PINE RIDGE - Louis Levi Wounded, 57, Number Four Community, Pine Ridge, died Sunday, Feb. 17, 2002, in Rapid City. Survivors include eight brothers, Cyrus Condon and Gene Condon, Eagle Butte, Darryl Condon and Merrill Condon, McLaughlin, Connie Weasel Bear and Victor Wounded, both of Number Four Community, Reggie Condon, Indianapolis, and Tim Harris, Fort Lauderdale, Fla.; four sisters, Madeline LeClaire, Rapid City, Bernadine Condon, Dupree, Jeanette Condon, San Francisco, and Carol Wounded, Oglala; and his mother, Laura Condon, Dupree. A one-night wake will begin at 1 p.m. today at Oglala Recreation Center. Services will be at 2 p.m. Friday, Feb. 22, at the recreation center, with the Rev. Tim Harris, the Rev. Jeff Watson and the Rev. Wilbur Mauk officiating. Burial will be at Pine Creek Cemetery in Number Four Community. Sioux Funeral Home of Pine Ridge is in charge of arrangements. Santana Sioux Standing Bear MARTIN - Santana Sioux Standing Bear, 22, Martin, died Wednesday, Feb. 20, 2002, in Allen. Survivors include three sisters, Alicia Bear Robe, Susan Bear Robe and Brittney Bear Robe, all of Martin, and his parents, Isadore Poor Thunder and Patricia Richards, both of Martin. A two-night wake will begin at noon Sunday, Feb. 24, at Martin CAP Center. Services will be at 2 p.m. Tuesday, Feb. 26, at the CAP, with the Rev. Jeff Cisco officiating. Burial will be at Black Eyes Community Cemetery. Sioux Funeral Home of Pine Ridge is in charge of arrangements. February 26, 2002 Linda Lou Means ALLEN - Linda Lou Means, 54, Allen, died Friday, Feb. 22, 2002, at Hot Springs Veterans Affairs Medical Center. Survivors include her husband, Maverick Means, Allen; six daughters, Lea Means, Tashina Means, Heather Means, Edna Gutierrez and Mona Gutierrez, all of Allen, and Tamara Ashley, Kyle; three brothers, Cecil Thunder Bull, Kyle, Malcolm Thunder Bull, Rapid City, and Earl Thunder Bull, Allen; seven sisters, Phyllis Campbell, Allen, Rose White Face and Faye Lone Hill, both of Porcupine, Pearl Bird Hat, Phoenix, Bernadine May, Salls, Ariz., and Susan Big Crow and Dorothy Clifford, both of Kyle; and 12 grandchildren. She served in the U.S. Army from 1968 to 1972. A two-night wake will begin at 1 p.m. today at the Allen CAP Center. The second night will begin at 4 p.m. Wednesday, Feb. 27, at American Horse School in Allen. Services will be at 9 a.m. Thursday, Feb. 28, at the school, with Capt. Gilford Noisy Hawk officiating. Burial will be at 1:30 p.m. Thursday at Black Hills National Cemetery near Sturgis. Sioux Funeral Home of Pine Ridge is in charge of arrangements. Agatha Bad Cob-Tall Mandan WANBLEE - Agatha Bad Cob-Tall Mandan, 72, Wanblee, died Sunday, Feb. 24, 2002, in Wanblee. Survivors include three brothers, Sylvester Bad Cob and Reed Bad Cob, both of Wanblee, and Gayle Ashley, Sioux Falls; four sisters, Rena Standing Bear, Betty Red Bird and Gertrude Yankton, all of Wanblee, and Sarah Standing Bear, Kadoka; and many grandchildren. A two-night wake will begin at 10 a.m. Thursday, Feb. 28, at the Wanblee CAP Center. Services will be at 10 a.m. CST Saturday, March 2, at St. Thomas Episcopal Church in Corn Creek, with the Rev. Daniel Makes Good and the Rev. John Spruhan officiating. Burial will be at Corn Creek Community Cemetery. Sioux Funeral Home of Pine Ridge is in charge of arrangements. Copyright c. 2002 The Rapid City Journal. -=-=-=- February 19, 2002 Karletta J. Naha-Clark ROCKVILLE, Md. - Services for Karletta Naha-Clark, 51 will be held on Feb. 23 in Rockville. A traditional wake will be held Feb. 25 at the Joy Navasie residence, Keams Canyon, Ariz. Burial will follow on private family land, Keams Canyon. Clark died Feb. 14 in Rockville. She was born April 12, 1950 in Keams Canyon. Clark attended school in St. Michaels, Ariz. and college at Yavapai College, Berkeley, Calif.; Boulder, Colo.; New Mexico State University, Las Cruces; Fort Lewis College, Durango, Colo.; University of New Mexico, Albuquerque and graduated from the American University, Washington, D.C. with a B.A. in Political Science. Survivors include her husband, Edward Clark; mother, Sarah N. Begay; brother, Clarence Peterson Jr.; sisters, Carolyn Chaca, Peggy Sanderson, Clarissa Yazzie and Clarenda Begay. Clark was preceded in death by her father, Emery Y. Naha; grandparents, Paqua, Albert Naha and Big Jim. Terry Sells ROUGH ROCK, Ariz. - Graveside services for Terry Sells, 42, will be held at 11 a.m., Wednesday, Feb. 20 on family land, Rough Rock. Pastor Melvin Harrold will officiate. Sells died Feb. 15 in Albuquerque. He was born May 15, 1959 in Many Farms, Ariz. into the Tlogi for the Honaghani. Sells graduated from Rough Rock High School. He worked as a contruction worker and a cement finisher. Survivors include his wife, Anna Rose Begay of Rock Point, Ariz.; sons, Dewayne Sorrell of Round Rock, Ariz., Olivintino Osceola and Bryan Elwood both of Rock Point; daughters, Alvina Begay and Devonna Elwood both of Rock Point; brothers, Earl Sells of Teec Nos Pos, Ariz., Bennie Sells, Larry Sells and Lawrence Sells all of Rough Rock; sisters, Lorinda Gray of Rough Rock and Michelle Pinto of Chinle, Ariz. Sells was preceded in death by his parents, Lorraine Jumbo and Kit Sells; and brother, Gilbert Sells. Cope Memorial Chapel is in charge of arrangements. Joe Bruce Pete JEDDITO, Ariz. - Graveside services for Joe Bruce Pete, 69, were held at 10 a.m., today at the family plot, Jeddito. Pastor Francis Begay officiated. Pete died Feb. 12 in Gallup. He was born Sept. 12, 1932 in Jeddito into the Edge of the Water People Clan for the Bitter Water People Clan. Pete attended Keams Canyon Boarding School. He was employed with the Santa Fe Railroad in Kansas. He was a roadman with the Native American Church. Survivors include his wife, Agnes Charley; sons, Justin Pete, Jasper Pete, Darrell Pete, Delbert Pete, Jonathan Pete and Branden Pete; daughters, Lorraine Becenti, LaVerne Bahe, Charlotte Pete, Geraldine Pete and Freida Pete; parents, Tom and Susie Pete; brothers, Samuel Pete of Wichita, Kan., Benson Pete of Twin Lakes and Raymond Pete of Fort Defiance; sisters, Ella Mae Riggs, Agnes Begay and Anita Dashner all of Jeddito; grandparents, Hosteen Grayhair and Mary Whitehair; 24 grandchildren and seven great-grandchildren. Pete was preceded in death by his sister, Stella Pete and brothers, William Pete Sr. and Leonard Pete. Pallbearers will be Jayson Pete, Justin Pete, Jasper Peter and Tony Begay. The family will receive friends and relatives after the burial services at Tom and Susie Pete's residence, 2 1/2 miles S.E. of Jeddito Chapter House. Tse Bonito Mortuary is in charge of arrangements. February 20, 2002 Elsie C. Tomacito GALLUP - Services for Elsie Tomacito, 83, will be held at 11 a.m., Feb. 21 at the Whitehorse Lake Church. Burial will follow at family cemetery, Seven Lake Ranch. Tomacito died Feb. 14 in Gallup. She was born Aug. 10, 1918 in Pueblo Pintado into the Big Water People Clan for the Mexican People Clan. Tomacito was a homemaker. Her hobbies included rug weaving and cooking. Survivors include her daughter, Jean T. Mescal of Whitehorse; brother, Chiquito Castillo of Pueblo Pintado; sister, Inez Abeita of Whitehorse Lake; 18 grandchildren and eight great-grandchildren. Tomacito was preceded in death by her husband, Tom Tomacito. Pallbearers will be Scott Abeita, James Castillo, Bobby Trujillo, Kenneth Abeita Jr. and Glen Mescal. Cope Memorial Chapel is in charge of arrangements. Wayne Benally TUBA CITY, Ariz. - Services for Wayne Benally, 72, were held at 11 a.m., today at El Nathan Conference Grounds. Burial followed at Flagstaff Veterans Cemetery. Benally died Feb. 14. He was born Aug. 5, 1930 in Klagetoh, Ariz. into the Meadow People Clan for the the Towering House People Clan. Benally served in the Korean War with the U.S. Navy and was in the National Guard. He was a ammunitions operator, a firefighter for the Navajo Army Depot and a lay pastor at the Black Falls Bible Church and Hidden Springs Bible Church. Survivors include his wife, Elsie T. Benally; sons, Marvin W. Benally and Timothy P. Benally; daughters, Christine C. Benally, Bevery A. Yazzie and Orlinda M. Bergen; sisters, Amelia Benally and Marianne Benally of Klagetoh, Ariz. and ten grandchildren. Benally was preceded in death by his parents, Ashiihi and Esther Benally; three sisters and three brothers. Copyright c. 2002 The Gallup Independent. -=-=-=- February 21, 2002 Wallace Boone Wallace Boone, 77, of Fruitland went home to be with his Heavenly Father on Sunday, Feb. 17, 2002, at San Juan Regional Medical Center in Farmington. He was born Dec. 28, 1924, at Table Mesa. He was of the Nakai dine'e' Clan, born for the Ta'chi'ni Clan. He is survived by his wife, June Boone of Fruitland; stepdaughter, Shirley Begay of Fruitland; two brothers, Jimmie E. Joe Sr. and Curtis E. Joe, both of Hogback; half-sister, Harriett Gould of California; four grandchildren and three great-grandchildren; and numerous nieces and nephews. He was preceded in death by his stepfather, Gon Benally; his mother, Hashtlishni nitlai bi tsi; and sister, Nellie Pettigrew. Funeral services will be at 10 a.m. this morning, Thursday, at Brewer, Lee and Larkin Funeral Home in Shiprock. Pastor Ricky Nez will officiate. Interment will follow at Shiprock Community Cemetery. Pallbearers will be Cornelius E. Joe, Freddie Davis, Ron Nez, Elvin Keeswood, Raymond Keeswood Jr. and Rick Poncho. Honorary pallbearers will be Jimmie E. Joe Sr., Curtis E. Joe, the San Juan Chapter officials, the Nenahnezad Chapter officials, and members of the Lower Fruitland Church of Christ. His family members and friends will greatly miss him, and he was a faithful church member. He was a rancher, farmer and a sheepherder. He had also worked for the railroad and as a coal miner. He was a very giving person. Wallace frequently quoted that his body was a shell and his spirit would return to God someday. After graveside services, a reception will be held at the San Juan Chapter in Lower Fruitland. Funeral arrangements are with Brewer, Lee and Larkin Funeral Home in Shiprock, (505) 368-4607. February 22, 2002 Marylita Hammond Our beloved Marylita went to be with her Heavenly Father Feb. 18, 2002. She was born Dec. 9, 1975, to Stanley and Esther Hammond of Teec Nos Pos, Ariz. Marylita was a loving daughter, sister, niece, aunt and friend. She was born Hknhzoh for Nakdin Clan. Marylita loved kids and spending time with her nieces and nephews. She had many friends who were young children. She was also fond of senior citizens, especially her nle, who will miss her dearly. Marylita would go out of her way to assist any elderly person in need for the moment. She was a loving and caring person. Marylita had strong faith in the Lord and she quoted many verses from the Bible. She is survived by her parents; paternal grandmother, Lucille J. Hammond of Ismay, Utah; three sisters, Janice John and husband, Dewayne, of Farmington, Marisa Begay and husband, John Fred, of Teec Nos Pos, and Melissa Begay of Farmington; two brothers, Stanton Hammond and Stanley Begay of Teec Nos Pos; uncles, Paul Belin and wife, Annie, of Mitten Rock, William Belin and wife, Bertha, of Teec Nos Pos, and Johnson Begay and wife, Carolyn, of Farmington; aunts, Gloria H. Tsosie of Ismay, Daisy Begay and Anna Robbins of Gallup; numerous cousin brothers and cousin sisters; and numerous nephews and nieces. She was preceded in death by her maternal grandparents, Fasthorse and Marie Begay; paternal grandfather, Jim Hammond; and uncles, Jack Belin, Fabian Les Begay and Russell Hammond. Funeral services will be at 10 a.m. Saturday, Feb. 23, 2002, at Bethel Christian Reformed Church of Shiprock. Pastor Paul Redhouse will officiate. Burial will be at Teec Nos Pos Community Cemetery. Funeral arrangements are with Cope Memorial Chapel, 404 W. Arrington St. in Farmington, (505) 327-5142. Thomas J. Yazzie Thomas J. Yazzie, 54, of Shiprock went home to be with his Heavenly Father Monday, Feb. 18, 2002, at Northern Navajo Medical Center in Shiprock. He was born June 2, 1947, in Mitten Rock. Survivors include his brothers, Johnny J. Yazzie of Shiprock, and Phillip Jim of Fort Defiance, Ariz.; three sisters, Maelene Barton of Beclabito, Lula Bidtah of Shiprock and Mae Billy of Waterflow; niece, Belinda Yazzie, and nephew, Curtis Yazzie, both of Gallup; and numerous other nieces and nephews, cousins, aunts and uncles. He was preceded in death by his parents, Phillip and Alice Yazzie, and a brother, Cato Yazzie. Visitation will be held from noon to 4 p.m. today, Friday, Feb. 22, at Brewer, Lee and Larkin Funeral Home in Shiprock. Rosary will be recited at 9:30 a.m. on Saturday at Christ the King Catholic Church in Shiprock, and Mass of Christian Burial will be celebrated at 10 a.m., with Father John Paul Sauter as celebrant. Interment will follow at Shiprock Community Cemetery. Pallbearers will be Tommy Bidtah, Michael Bidtah, Orthaniel Bidtah, Jimmy Alvin Lee, Jimmy Nelson Jr. and Jimmy Nelson III. Honorary pallbearers will be Johnny J. Yazzie, Curtis Yazzie, Belinda Yazzie, Lula Bidtah, Mae Billy, Maelene Barton, and all the nieces, nephews, cousins, aunts and uncles. Funeral arrangements are with Brewer, Lee and Larkin Funeral Home in Shiprock, (505) 368-4607. Copyright c. 1999-2002 MediaNews Group, Inc/Farmington Daily Times. -=-=-=- February 24, 2002 Ruth Kaseca Norman resident Ruth Kaseca, 72, died Saturday. Tribal rites will be Sunday evening at Little Axe Community Center. Burial will be Monday evening at Kaseca Family Cemetery. Other information is pending with Cooper Funeral Home of Tecumseh. Copyright c. 1997-2002 The Shawnee News-Star. -=-=-=- February 19, 2002 Louis A. Doles Funeral Services for Mr. Louis Albert Doles, 74, native of Washington County and member of Delaware Indian family were held at 2:00 p.m. on Tuesday in the Ponca Indian Baptist Church, Ponca City, Oklahoma. Rev. Louis Headman was the officiant. Committal prayers and final rites will be directed in the Doles Homestead Cemetery by the Arnold Moore Funeral Service. Serving as casket bearers were the Messrs. Bill Skye, Jim Sherron, Mike LeClair, Ricky LeRoy, Joey Madbull and Damon Roughface. Surviving Mr. Doles are his son, Lewis Otis Doles, Marland, Oklahoma; his daughters, Ms. Adriane C. Doles, Marland, and Mrs. Cheryl C. Rabet and husband, Eddie, Stillwater, Oklahoma; three grandchildren, Vivien C. Madbull, Seyed J. Rabet and Rosan L. Primeaux; his brother, Thomas Martin Doles, Dewey, Oklahoma, and by three nieces. In addition to his father, mother and his wife, he was preceded in death by a brother, Joseph E. "Joe" Doles. Copyright c. 2002 the Bartlesville Examiner-Enterprise. -=-=-=- February 22, 2002 Robert Coody Funeral services for Robert Clarence Coody are scheduled for 2 p.m. Monday at Hitchitee United Methodist Church. Rev. Don Jones and Rev. Mike Harjo are set to officiate. Burial is to follow at Hitchitee Church Cemetery under the direction of Swearingen Funeral Home. Coody died Wednesday, Feb. 20, 2002 at Carl Albert Indian Hospital in Ada at the age of 57. He was born Dec. 29, 1944 in Seminole to Jimmy Jesse and Amanda (Little) Coody. He worked for Sullivan Wholesale and Willis Wholesale. Coody was a veteran of the United States Navy. He was a member of the Hitchitee United Methodist Church. He was preceded in death by his parents; two brothers, Tim Harjo and Joe Coody; and one sister, Noetta Harjo. Coody is survived by one stepson, Randy Cotton of Wewoka; two stepdaughters, Jodi Cotton-Jay of Konawa and Stephanie Cotton of Wewoka; two brothers, Kenneth Coody and Willea Crow Coody, both of Seminole; two sisters; Roseanna Jones of Seminole and Jessica Coody of Wewoka; and six grandchildren. Abel Thomas Funeral services for former Seminole resident Abel James Thomas are scheduled for 2 p.m. Friday at Mekusukey Indian Baptist Church. Rev. Dorsey Nero and Rev. Houston Tiger are set to officiate. Burial is to follow at Hayecha (Narcomey) Cemetery under the direction of Swearingen Funeral Home. Wake services are scheduled for 7 p.m. Thursday night at Mekusukey Baptist Church. Thomas died Sunday, Feb. 17, 2002 at Oklahoma City at the age of 25. He was born June 29, 1976 in Madras, Ore. To James and Avis Elain (Goodlance) Thomas. He married Starlite (Christie) Thomas on June 7, 1997 in Oklahoma City. Thomas was a welder. He was preceded in death by his father and one brother, Lance Thomas. He is survived by his mother of North Dakota; his wife of the home; three sons, Abel Thomas, Conchattee Thomas, and Lance Thomas, all of Oklahoma City; one daughter, Almya Thomas of Oklahoma City; five brothers, Sam Goodlance of Washington, Delino Thomas of Oregon, Teddy Perez and Mario Perez, both of North Dakota, and James Thomas of Nevada. Casket bearers are Sam Goodlance, Delino Thomas, Adrian Satepauhoodle, Austin Satepaudhoole, Tim Franklin, and Thomas McNolity. Copyright c. 2002 The Seminole Producer. --------- "RE: Potawatomi Chairman supports BIA Proposal" --------- Date: Sun, 24 Feb 2002 11:30:10 -0600 From: Gary Smith Subj: NA News Item - - - - - - -- - - - - - - filename="BREAK IN UNIFIED STANCE" http://www.owlstar.com/dailyheadlines.htm http://www.news-star.com/stories/022402/New_78.shtml Potawatomi chairman supports BIA proposal By MICHAEL DODSON SNS Staff Writer 1:05 a.m. Sunday, February 24, 2002 The chairman of the Citizen Potawatomi Nation has broken ranks with mainstream Indian Country opinion on the Department of the Interior proposal to split the Bureau of Indians Affairs. In a News-Star interview, John A. "Rocky" Barrett Jr. offered support for the proposed Bureau of Indian Trust Assets Management (BITAM) and for Interior Secretary Gale Norton's naming Oklahoman Ross Swimmer to head BITAM. Norton made the proposal to Washington, D.C., Federal Judge Royce Lamberth. Judge Lamberth is hearing a case in which five named plaintiffs claim decades of BIA mismanagement of money that flows into 300,000 Individual Indian Money accounts. The plaintiffs seek an accurate accounting of the money and restoration of what is missing. They believe that is upwards of $10 billion. Tribal leaders across the United States have harshly criticized Norton's plan to split trust asset management responsibility away from the Bureau of Indian Affairs. They say, also, that Swimmer, a former principal chief of the Cherokee Nation of Oklahoma and former BIA director, is not the right person to head BITAM, if it is set up. "I think it's an excellent thing that the bureau (be) split into two departments, that trust responsibilities are going to be turned over to another area," Barrett said. "Hopefully, Ross Swimmer will be able to do the job." Barrett says Swimmer needs new faces to do the work of improving accounting and management of the IIM accounts. "If they just move the same entrenched bureaucrats that were over on the other side of the bureau into his department, it won't get done," the Potawatomi leader said. However, allowing Swimmer to follow through with his idea of privatizing accounting for the IIM funds would work, Barrett said. Swimmer floated that idea when he was BIA director during the Reagan administration. "Just real truthfully, the IIM accounts, if (the BIA) had issued an American Express card to every accountholder and American Express managed distribution of income, that would have been a perfect solution," Barrett said. He said the plan would include having the large oil companies determine and keep track of income from Indian-owned mineral royalties, including those leases split among as many as several dozen owners. "Both of them are in (those) businesses and could do it cheaper and a better job than the Bureau of Indian Affairs is doing," Barrett said. The Interior Department has set up an after-the-fact consultation process with tribal leaders on the BITAM proposal. Barrett said he doubts that process will accomplish much for the tribes. "From my perspective, we can talk and consult 'til we're blue in the face, but, the government's going to do what they're going to do, whether we like it or not," he said. The Citizen Potawatomi Nation is one of two tribal governments that has assumed management and investment of its own tribal trust funds. In the late 1990s, as the stock market soared, the CPN portfolio was earning an annual rate of return of more than 20 percent. Even through the recession of the past 18 months and with interest rates low, the CPN is still earning more than 10 percent. The CPN funds have been invested through the tribe's own bank, First National of Shawnee. "Over a 15-year period, (the BIA investment team) earned less than treasury bill rates on our money," Barrett said. "The old joke was (that) you could tell which banks were about to fail in this country because that's where they put the Potawatomis' investments." Copyright c. 1997-2002 The Shawnee News-Star. --------- "RE: New Crow Regime rolls up its Sleeves" --------- Date: Thu, 21 Feb 2002 08:18:06 -0600 From: Gary Smith Subj: NA News Item - - - - - - -- - - - - - - filename="CROW AGENCY" http://www.owlstar.com/dailyheadlines.htm http://www.billingsgazette.com/ New Crow regime rolls up its sleeves Thu Feb 21 01:41:11 CST 2002 Central Time BY JAMES HAGENGRUBER Of The Gazette Staff CROW AGENCY - The Crow Tribe might have a new legislative system, but the concept it was built on goes back hundreds of years, said Ben Cloud, who represents the Arrow Creek District. For the past 53 years, decisions were made during rowdy quarterly council meetings. Every adult member of the tribe had a vote, but it was hardly direct democracy, Cloud said. The tribe's leader set the agenda, making it difficult for opposing views to be heard. The new legislature, which began meeting six weeks ago, more closely resembles the tribe's traditional system where clan and society leaders would periodically meet. The leaders were chosen based on distinctions they earned. Short of leading war parties, touching the enemy or stealing horses - the traditional ways to gain honor - the new system chooses three representatives from six districts based on popular vote. Since it convened, the 18-member legislature has been busy, Cloud said, working on issues ranging from litter control and water treatment to economic development and judicial reform. "We've made a lot of progress," Cloud said. "We're off and going." Cloud, who has no political experience, was selected by other legislators to serve as the tribe's first speaker of the house. Along with presiding over the sessions, Cloud literally must serve as the body's speaker. When testimony is given in the Crow language, Cloud often translates the words to English for legislators who do not speak their tribe's language. The legislature has been holding public hearings during the past week in the I'tchik Building in Crow Agency. Each member of the tribe, even nonmembers, are given time to speak their mind before the body, said J.D. Stone, Wyola representative and secretary of the legislature. "The concept of public testimony is brand new," Stone said. "We've never had that in the past." After holding additional hearings early next week, the legislature will likely adjourn by the end of the month, Cloud said. The legislators will return to their districts and hold listening sessions with constituents. The group will meet quarterly - the next meeting will begin in the middle of April. Typically, the sessions will last one or two weeks, Cloud said. "There's really no set time limit." The first session is lasting longer because legislators needed to establish ground rules, Cloud said. "We've had some very important decisions to make." Although many of the legislators are political newcomers, Lodge Grass Representative Angela Russell served four terms in the Montana Legislature beginning in 1986. Russell said she believes the new body has a rare opportunity at reforming Crow tribal politics. "It's a pretty exciting time in our history," she said. "It's a major step." Russell's priorities include protecting the tribe's sovereignty, holding tribal leaders accountable and promoting stewardship of reservation land and water resources. "It all ties together," she said. "We're a nation. We need to be responsible for our land and people." The legislature was born out of constitutional changes recently adopted by tribal leaders. Many people have criticized the changes because they were not passed by secret ballot. In recent months, opponents have taken over the tribal headquarters and held their own tribal council meetings. On Monday, dissident leader and ousted tribal secretary Tilton Old Bull, said he plans to continue fighting the changes by filing a lawsuit in federal court. Cloud insists that the new legislature is independent of the tribe's executive leaders. The legislature hired its own attorneys, rather than use the tribe's. Besides, it would be difficult to control the actions of 18 independent-minded people, he said. "There may be rumors out there as far as them running this house," Cloud said. "That's not true." The public is encouraged to visit and participate in the legislative sessions, he said. The group meets daily in Crow Agency. Public hearings will be held the first three days of next week. For more information call 638-2023. James Hagengruber can be reached at 65-1232 or at jhagengruber@billingsgazette.com Copyright c. The Billings Gazette, a division of Lee Enterprises. --------- "RE: Bothersome Outsiders are Banned" --------- Date: Wed, 20 Feb 2002 08:07:56 -0600 From: Gary Smith Subj: NA News Item - - - - - - -- - - - - - - filename="BANNED" http://www.owlstar.com/dailyheadlines.htm http://www.signonsandiego.com/news/metro/ Bothersome outsiders are banned at Barona By Chet Barfield UNION-TRIBUNE STAFF WRITER February 18, 2002 BARONA INDIAN RESERVATION - Call it justice, Indian-style. Barona's tribal government has a speedy, no-nonsense method of dealing with outsiders who cause trouble: They're banished from the reservation. The practice, instituted in the late 1990s, is aimed at evicting nonmember residents who sell drugs, commit crimes or are otherwise deemed undesirable. The "banned at Barona" list, published in the tribe's newsletter, has 17 names. Some are from other reservations; some are relatives or in-laws of Barona tribe members. Most, it is generally agreed, are people you probably wouldn't want living next door. If they return to Barona, they can be arrested for trespassing. Any tribal member in their company risks having his or her casino dividend check withheld. It's a hefty penalty in a tribe where the per capita is about $9,000 a month. Some police chiefs and city councils might envy Barona's way of tossing out bad apples. Yet critics within the tribe say despite its laudable aim, the practice demonstrates the pitfalls of one body wielding executive and judicial powers without checks and balances. Friends and relatives say some of the accused have been banished with little or no opportunity to tell their side of the story. Nonmembers aren't allowed at tribal meetings. Even if they were, key decisions can be made by the five-member council without a vote of the general membership. "They'll take action and tell people after the fact," said one tribal member who, like most others interviewed for this story, asked not to be identified for fear of retribution. "Our sovereignty's being abused." Several other members and tribal leaders would not discuss the ban, calling it an internal issue and nobody else's business. "Everybody knows the rules up here. They adhere to them because they want to," said tribal Chairman Clifford LaChappa. "The tribal people have the right and ability to govern themselves and the right to decide any penalty." Barona's attorney declined comment, saying he would need authorization from the council, but other Indian law practitioners agreed tribes have undisputed authority over who stays on the reservation. Singular action Although tribes exert this power in varying degrees throughout the state, few if any besides Barona have enacted formal bans, posted lists or threatened to withhold checks. "As a general matter, tribal governments are the final decision maker with regard to the rights of members and all internal matters," said Sacramento attorney Howard Dickstein, who counts several tribes as clients, including Pala. "They can control their land and decide who is invited and who is trespassing, just like the United States decides who can lawfully enter and who is illegal. "Some tribes have gated the entry. Visitors need permission to come in, and members have a card to swipe." Critics complain that a five-member tribal council acting as prosecutor, judge and jury can be arbitrary and unfair. Members of certain families, they say, get away with offenses for which someone else is ousted. "A lot of it, to me, is vendetta," said Evelyn Lloyd, a member whose 12- year-old grandson was banned last year. "If you've got a grudge against somebody, you go up there and make a complaint. They've got the right to do whatever they want. "It's who you know, and it's your last name. I guess our last name is mud." The boy was ejected for a combination of allegations, serious and minor. He's living with his maternal grandparents at Rincon while his mother, stepfather and five younger brothers remain at Barona. Mixed views Others at Barona see both sides. One longtime resident, the spouse of a tribal member, said one or two of the banishments may have been borderline. Yet, overall, he applauds the tribe's efforts to weed out drug users and troublemakers - including an adopted relative of his wife. "In a lot of the cases, I don't have any disagreement with them whatsoever," he said. "I'm hell on wheels when it comes to drugs." One of the people on the list, Allison Pyke, said she was eighty-sixed in April on the basis of a false accusation from a tribal councilman's sister. After living five years on the reservation, baby-sitting children for her roommate and other members, she said, she was given 48 hours to leave with no chance to refute the allegation. "When I went in to state my side of it, they wouldn't even speak to me," she said. "It absolutely wasn't fair." Pyke, 37, said she didn't use drugs or break any of the tribe's rules. She said she behaved responsibly, recognizing she was a guest on the reservation. She said she now works for a caterer and shares a beach house in La Jolla. An adamant critic at Barona, the member who complained about abuse of sovereignty, said the issue isn't who is banned but how it is done without due process. "That's part of living in this great country. We have a Constitution. We have civil rights," the member said. "We don't seem to have that here." LaChappa said nonmembers "have no civil rights" on the reservation. "I'm sure you can't go to Afghanistan and wave the American flag," he said. "The bottom line is it's up to the tribe to decide what they want to do and how they want to do it." Chet Barfield: (619) 542-4572; chet.barfield@uniontrib.com Copyright c. 2002 Union-Tribune Publishing Co./San Diego --------- "RE: Damned Deal" --------- Date: Sat 24 Feb 2002 4:44 PM From: frosty@frostys.qc.ca (Frosty) Subj: DAMNED DEAL newsgroup: alt.native DAMNED DEAL CREE LEADERS CALL HYDRO PACT SIGNED IN SECRET A MONSTROUS SELLOUT BY ENZO DI MATTEO No aboriginal nation in the country has been as cunning as the Cree in fighting incursions into their northern Quebec homeland.The hunters of James Bay were the first natives in Canada to win a form of self-government and land-management rights under the Cree-Napaski Act, signed in 1984, and the first to bring grievances to the United Nations in Geneva. But after years of legal struggle, the unthinkable happened last week -- the Grand Council of the Cree signed a $3.4-billion agreement with the Quebec government and Hydro Quebec that clears the way for the building of a dam on the Rupert River. And, more shocking for First Nations traditionalists and eco activists, Quebec will have near unfettered access to natural resources on Cree territory. The deal is a public relations coup for Quebec premier Bernard Landry. The Cree have long been a thorn in the side of the Parti Quebecois's separatist aspirations. In this agreement, they recognize Quebec as a "nation." What's in the deal for the Cree, however, is a matter of heartfelt debate. Some in the community wonder if their leaders have signed a deal with the devil. The province and Hydro Quebec have promised the Cree economic riches before, under the James Bay and Northern Quebec Agreement (JBNQA), passed back in 1975. But these never materialized. The Cree have filed some 30 lawsuits alleging abrogations of the pact. After all the promises, unemployment among young people hovers at about 80 per cent. Many Cree communities continue to lack adequate housing, electricity and plumbing. Rivers in the region are polluted with mercury from the earlier hydro projects and resource exploitation. Reason enough, detractors say, not to trust this latest deal. More bewildering still to the naysayers is why chief Ted Moses and Assembly of First Nations grand chief Matthew Coon Come, the very leaders who led the bold and courageous fights against the Great Whale project at James Bay in the mid-80s, are so firmly onside. "Today," says the Crees' deputy grand chief, Matthew Mukash, who thinks this deal is a monumental mistake, "native communities across Canada are calling us sellouts."*** James Bay is the largest hydroelectric project in the country. Its eight dams and 198 dikes contain five reservoirs covering some 12,000 square kilometres, an area half the size of Lake Ontario. The first phase of the project dammed Le Grande River. The second phase, known as Great Whale, was stopped by massive opposition from the Cree. The new deal calls for a diversion of the Rupert River.The deal, signed with much fanfare in Waskaganish last week, calls for a cash payout to the Cree of $70 million a year for the next 50 years. It also includes jobs for Crees at Hydro Quebec, remediation of mercury contamination, as well as funding for Cree entrepreneur programs, job training, health and social services, electricity, sanitation and fire services for communities in the area. In return, the Cree have agreed to grant access to resources in the area and to drop some $3.6 billion in environmental lawsuits. But there's a Catch-22. Although the proposed diversion will be subject to environmental assessments, the Quebec government will have the deciding vote on the matter. In effect, the Cree will not be able to protest, stop, inhibit or litigate over any eco and social fallout that may result from the project, including the expected drying-up of parts of the Eastmain River and flooding of trap lines. Not a reassuring proposition for the Chisasibi Cree. This community sits at the foot of a reservoir that's had its share of technical problems and whose waters are projected to rise at least 6 feet when the Rupert River diversion is completed. The best estimates of eco activists are that the facility, which is already experiencing problems, will be unable to contain the extra flow. Needless to say, the band voted against the deal. The $70-million stipend that's to go to the Cree each year is also not indexed to inflation, prompting some to wonder whether there will be enough money 20, 30 and 50 years from now, when the deal expires, to fund the projects outlined in the agreement. The payments are also not guaranteed, but rather are tied to the amount of hydroelectric, forestry and mining activity in the James Bay territory. For some, this provision spells disaster. The larger the Cree population becomes over time, they argue, the more pressure there will be on the community to permit large-scale resource extraction. "A very slippery slope," deputy grand chief Mukash calls it. To others, the way the agreement in principle was first brokered, behind closed doors between Cree chief Ted Moses and Bernard Landry, is disturbing. Seventy-two per cent of the Cree approved the deal in votes held across the community, but only 53 per cent of eligible voters actually cast ballots. Former grand chief Billy Diamond, who is generally for the agreement but has reservations, says the chiefs gave consent to the project when they signed the agreement in principle, making the community vote on the matter irrelevant. "We've asked the people to trust the white man," Diamond says. "This time we're asking people to trust the separatists. Chuckle chuckle." While national chief Matthew Coon Come compares Moses to a great hunter who's come back from a journey with deer for his hungry people, some point to the latter's broken promises. Moses said during his election campaign that he wouldn't "sell the land for any price." Now that's all changed. Moses was unavailable for an interview. He's described his change of heart in an interview with Cree paper The Nation in Trudeauesque terms, recounting an epiphany he experienced while in the bush. "I convinced myself I now have to think with the wisdom that God, the Creator, gave me, not with my heart," Moses said. The reality, however, may not be as romantic. There were enough other reasons to cut a deal, but most pressing was the $9 million the community's been paying out annually to keep lawsuits related to the original James Bay project alive. In the courts, the Cree have been losing more than winning. Quebec courts have ruled against the Cree on forestry issues, and more recently against Cree opposition to a hydroelectric project on the Eastmain River. The prospect of losing more battles in court provided extra motivation to cut a deal. One source close to the legal team confirms as much. But if these considerations weren't enough, the bleak future facing the 80 per cent of Cree under 25 who are unemployed certainly was. Moses may have been front-and- centre on the deal, but, oddly, it was national chief Matthew Coon Come, a former Grand Council chief himself, who got the ball rolling. Coon Come's the one who set up the original meeting between Moses and Landry in September, he tells NOW over the phone this week. It's a surprising revelation considering how hard Coon Come has worked to keep a low profile. In fact, the three-paragraph release he issued upon news of a tentative deal last October decidedly played both sides. While praising the agreement's revenue-sharing from resources, Coon Come declared it "not a model for aboriginal relations with Canada or with the provinces." "It's not the role of the AFN (Assembly of First Nations) to go out and tell the Crees, "This is good, this is bad,'" Coon Come's rep, Jean Larose, tells NOW before the deal's signing last week. "We have to recognize the inherent right of self-government we're asking for ourselves." Indeed, Larose says the national chief's role in the affairs of native communities is restricted by the AFN charter. But, in fact, Coon Come had been pumping the deal in several Cree communities, including his own. "It was surprising for me to see the national chief involved," says youth grand chief Ashley Iserhoff. "There were mixed reactions. It was a tough decision for everybody. It came down to, how long do we want to fight?" Coon Come finds himself in a ticklish position. He is, after all, the individual most associated with stopping the Great Whale hydroelectric project back in the mid-80s. In 95, just before the Quebec referendum, he led the Cree in a vote of their own to remain in Canada if Quebec decided to secede. Back then Coon Come labelled that attempt "racist." Now the two are signing agreements acknowledging Quebec's "nation" status, a designation whose constitutionality some question. But from Coon Come's perspective, the revenue-sharing part of the Cree-Quebec agreement will provide economic opportunities and a blueprint for other native communities. He says the deal also saves some 8,000 square kilometres of land that would otherwise have been flooded. "We want jobs. We want a say in where development takes place, what happens in our own backyard." It's a little difficult to pin Coon Come down, to get him to speak directly to criticisms of the deal or comment on the issue of whether his rep as a fighter has taken a hit. He prefers to emphasize the positive, speak the politics of inclusion rather than exclusion, a twist for a chief who has a reputaion as a lone wolf. "Those who take the initiative are the ones who will be criticized," he says. "I ask people who are opposed, "What's your option? How are you going to solve the problem of unemployment in our community? Tell me.' It's easy to fight. But the harder thing is to sit down and sign a deal that's in the best interest of your people." When it comes right down to it, he says, the people who voted for the deal "are the ones who'll have to live with the consequences, not the environmentalists. They made a decision rather than continue to be procrastinators." Deputy grand chief Matthew Mukash, on the other hand, says the fix was in from the get-go, and many of the Cree don't believe the Quebec government will live up to its obligations. He says more people didn't come out to vote against the deal because "there was a great deal of fear. There was a determination that there was going to be a vicious campaign in favour of the agreement." Moreover, he says, the deal is a road map "for the gradual and progressive takeover of the Cree by Canada and Quebec. Why give up your rights to resource development, have somebody do it for you and get a little bit of what they get?" Mukash believes Coon Come's stature has been diminished by the signing of the agreement. By and large, however, leaders in the Cree community have been reluctant to criticize Coon Come publicly. One tells me to turn off the tape recorder before he will continue our conversation. Most others share Diamond's view that "we live in a modern technological society. We need to train our people, bring our people up to speed (or) industry is going to leave us behind." Environmentalists think the pact is unlikely to prove the economic panacea the Cree hope it will be. Says Stephen Guilbeault of Greenpeace, "Hydro is not a very good way to move forward. It doesn't create a lot of jobs after the construction phase. Dams are highly automated." He points out that global warming is actually going to make producing electricity from hydro more difficult because of increased evaporation and reduced water levels. Still, Cree support for the agreement has put some eco activists in a delicate position. Many who supported the fight against Great Whale worry about how to proceed. Eric Gagnon of Rupert River Reverence argues that aboriginal people are not the only stakeholders in rivers around James Bay. enzom@nowtoronto.com --------- "RE: Talks on Fishing at Burnt Church" --------- Date: Fri, 22 Feb 2002 09:05:14 -0600 From: Gary Smith Subj: NA News Item - - - - - - -- - - - - - - filename="FISHERIES" http://www.owlstar.com/dailyheadlines.htm http://www.canada.com/news/story New fisheries minister encouraged by talks on native fishing at Burnt Church LISA SCHMIDT Canadian Press Thursday, February 21, 2002 OTTAWA (CP) - Fisheries minister Robert Thibault says he's optimistic about reaching a lasting and peaceful agreement now that talks have resumed with the Burnt Church First Nation. Fisheries officials met with band representatives Feb. 6 and again Wednesday to set up a working group on a fishery management plan, Thibault said. Non-natives have clashed repeatedly with aboriginal fishermen in Burnt Church, who have fished for lobster out of season and without official Fisheries Department tags. "Burnt Church is signalling now that they may be willing to negotiate," he said in an interview Thursday. "I think there may be a little bit of proactive thinking on their part." Tempers flared in the community in the last two years, with shots ringing out over Miramichi Bay as Fisheries Department officials pursued native fishermen and non-natives who tried to stake their claim to the disputed waters. The incidents were triggered by a Supreme Court of Canada decision that said East Coast natives have a treaty right to hunt and fish for a moderate livelihood. Ottawa tried to resolve the dispute last year, calling in a mediator and offering a deal to give the impoverished reserve more boats and a limited number of fishing tags. Burnt Church has demanded the treaty right to fish under its own management plan. Thibault was optimistic that Burnt Church would follow the lead of the vast majority of other Maritime native bands who have struck deals with Ottawa that provided licences, fishing equipment, boats and training in return for strict federal management of the fishery. "It's in their long-term interest but it's a decision they have to make at their band level on how they want to proceed," said Thibault. Native fishing is just one of several hot spots for Thibault, who acknowledged he's still trying to learn all the parts of his portfolio after his appointment to the fishery post in last month's cabinet shuffle. Thibault, who previously served as junior minister responsible for Atlantic Canada Opportunities Agency, said he's not planning any major departures from past policy. But he said he wants to take the long view on managing a department that has too often focused on crisis management. "I think it's important that you keep your eyes on the horizon," said Thibault, an MP from Digby, N.S. He also wants to ultimately improve overall fish stock levels rather than just manage the decline, although he said he's unsure of how to make the transition just yet. And he wants to turn the focus to the entire ecosystem, rather than just trying to parcel off individual species. "I think we have to get to the next part of managing the whole system," he said. Another issue that will be commanding his attention in the months ahead is overfishing by foreign vessels, which continues to be a problem with boats from countries such as Spain and Portugal. "This area of the north Atlantic that we are talking about has the capacity to feed a lot of people and we can ruin that very quickly by the short-term thinking of a few nations," he said. He said he plans to pursue the matters through diplomatic channels and increased surveillance. Copyright c. 2002 The Canadian Press. --------- "RE: Indians Call For Sheriff's Resignation" --------- Date: Wed, 20 Feb 2002 08:07:56 -0600 From: Gary Smith Subj: NA News Item - - - - - - -- - - - - - - filename="SHERIFF" http://www.owlstar.com/dailyheadlines.htm http://www.yankton.net/stories/022002/new_0220020025.shtml American Indians Call For Sheriff's Resignation Wednesday, February 20, 2002 PINE RIDGE (AP) -- Several hundred American Indians marched to Martin on Monday, calling for the resignation of the sheriff of Bennett County, which borders the reservation. Protesters, led by activist Russell Means and others, presented petitions calling for the ouster of Sheriff Russel Waterbury. John Yellowbird Steele, president of the Oglala Sioux Tribe, said the sheriff and his deputies practice racial profiling -- stopping Indian drivers for minor infractions and then looking for more-serious offenses. Tribal officials said deputies exceed their jurisdiction by going onto the reservation, where they have no jurisdiction. Waterbury, who did not attend the march, said his officers don't conduct racial profiling. "I don't care who you are," he said. "You break the law in my county, we catch you, you're going to pay the price. "People elected me to uphold the law ... and I'm doing the best I can. If you're not breaking the law you have nothing to fear in Bennett County." The sheriff said his deputies do pursue people onto the reservation but always turn tribal members over to tribal police. Waterbury said he's not a racist and is married to an Indian. The marchers tried to highlight a growing problem, according to Jesse Clausen, a member of Martin's civil-rights panel. "All this time, all we've ever wanted was somebody to listen to us," Clausen said. "Now I think they finally got to a point where they had to listen." Clausen said he joined the civil rights panel after sheriff's deputies conducted what he called an improper search of his home. He started collecting statements from people with complaints against the sheriff's office. "As of last count we had just over 170," Clausen said. The Indians also called for a boycott of businesses in Martin, the Bennett County seat. Floyd Hand of the Lakota Strong Heart Society said he thinks Bennett County, Martin and chamber of commerce officials should hold cultural sensitivity training. The sheriff said investigations by other law enforcement agencies found no basis for complaints against his department. Waterbury added that he will not resign. "I have done nothing wrong. Everything's been done by the book, as far as I'm concerned. And I'll run for re-election (this fall)," he said. Copyright c. 2002 Yankton Daily Press & Dakotan. --------- "RE: Buffer Zone Sought" --------- Date: Tue, 26 Feb 2002 07:59:23 -0600 From: Gary Smith Subj: NA News Item - - - - - - -- - - - - - - filename="BUFFER ZONE" http://www.pechanga.net/ http://www.journalstar.com/native?story_id=146&date= Buffer zone sought at reservation BY NANCY HICKS Lincoln Journal Star Nebraska could honor the Oglala Sioux's efforts to curb alcoholism on the Pine Ridge Indian Reservation by reverting to a century-old concept: a buffer zone intended to keep the white whiskey peddlers away from the Natives, state senators were told Monday afternoon Not long after the Pine Ridge Agency was established in 1882, President Chester A. Arthur created a 5- to 10-mile strip in Nebraska as a buffer zone, an area that couldn't be sold to white settlers. It was used as a protection for Natives receiving rations and annuities at the Pine Ridge Agency. The goal was to keep undesirable whites and their whiskey away from Natives, according to James Abourezk, a former U.S. senator from South Dakota. In 1904, President Theodore Roosevelt removed the buffer and opened the land for settlement. Today, four small stores in Whiteclay, a town of 14 people, sell about 4.1 million bottles of beer a year, primarily to residents of South Dakota's nearby Pine Ridge Reservation, which has one of the highest alcoholism mortality rates in the nation. This is a place "where anything goes," said John Yellowbird Steele, president of the Oglala Lakota. Beer is bartered for sex, and stolen property is used to pay for booze. People urinate on the streets. "All kinds of laws are being broken there. Nobody cares," he said. "It is a wide-open town, just like the Old West." Supporters of re-creating the 5-mile buffer zone, where alcohol retailers would be barred, rallied at the Capitol at noon Monday, then testified at a hearing on the proposal (LB1306) before the Legislature's General Affairs Committee in the afternoon. Abourezk's statements were read at the rally. Sen. Don Preister of Omaha said he agreed to sponsor the bill after Natives and Nebraskans for Peace ran into roadblocks in trying to close the four stores. The groups were told repeatedly by the governor, the State Patrol and the Liquor Control Commission that it was legal to sell alcohol in Nebraska and that there was nothing that could be done without a change in state law, Preister said. His bill may not be the total answer, he said, but senators "need to work together to come up with some solutions to (the) life-and-death situation in Whiteclay. "We have a desperate situation that merits desperate kinds of solutions, " he said. Alcohol cannot be sold on the reservation, home to between 15,000 and 38, 000 Oglala Lakota. Yet just 200 feet away, tribal members can buy it. The U.S. government tries to go to the source of its drug problem: where it is grown in South America, Steele said. "The source of a very great problem on the Pine Ridge Reservation is Whiteclay," he told the committee. "Your jurisdiction is causing it." If Nebraska doesn't help, the tribe may be forced to sue the state in federal court, raising the issue of the 1882 buffer zone, Steele said. "That costs money. I would rather work together," he said. Frank LaMere, a Winnebago tribal member who has been working on the Whiteclay issue for five years, said the state "needs to put the sad legacy of Whiteclay behind us." Reach Nancy Hicks at nhicks@journalstar.com or 473-7250. Copyright c. 2002, Lincoln Journal Star. All rights reserved. --------- "RE: Update: Anna's Site" --------- Date: Fri 22 Feb 2002 2:26 PM 1:40 PM From: "Jordan S. Dill" Subj: Anna's site newsgroup: alt.native I have added two pieces to ...they are at the top left side of the page. Seems some foundations are shifting: Now what do we do? - 2.22.02 Dedicated to the spirit of Annie Mae - 2.22.02 -=-=-=- from Jordan's site..News From Indian Country OpEd: Now what do we do? [NOTE:The following article appears at the NFIC site and is reprinted here with permission. For more NFIC articles and information on Annie Mae's case please visit the NFIC site. I thank the Editor of News From Indian Country for allowing me to include this piece at Anna Mae's site. ] Now what do we do? by Paul DeMain, Editor News From Indian Country For years it was a search for the truth. And several thousand, maybe millions of prayers later, with pipes and ceremonies behind us, perhaps that is what is happening. It is one thing to make a vow on a Pipe not to tell on one another... which Leonard has invoked again and again over the years when people have attempted to speak out - about the events of June 26, 1975 and subsequent murder of Annie Mae Aquash and others that AIM supporters thought were going to or did, "rat on him," and other AIM activists. Perhaps his Canupa is telling on him. For those of use who believe in the Pipe and traditional ways, we know one thing, say what you want, but the spirits know the truth. Ask humbly, and they will tell you what to believe now as well. There is nothing in this message that can make you happy. To people like Ron Lessard, Harvey Arden, Peter Matthiesson, Frank and Anne Dreaver, members of the LPDC, politicians and everyday common people who have put their lives, their money, their political careers on the line to elevate the issue of Leonard Peltier to the world, my heart goes out to them, you and me too. But, I can't be afraid to say the King has no clothes. To do so would be to turn my back on everything I believe about the role of Native story tellers, speakers, messengers and the truth as I know it. And it makes me angry to think we have all been used. The search for the truth has been like a giant jigsaw puzzle, with a thousand different pieces. Over the course of 27 years, I and others, like the late Richard LaCourse, have worked to put the pieces together. I have flown to Washington D.C. to review FBI files. I have looked over hundreds of 302s, the infamous FBI reports which in the end discredited as much of their evidence as it provided clues to what happened. I have read again and again, In The Spirit of Crazy Horse and have little notes hanging on dozens of pages that highlight important statements. I have reviewed trial transcripts, newsletters, news articles, magazine interviews and countless statements by Peltier, filling boxes and boxes of material now stored on the shelves of the NFIC archives. But in the end, while crossing back and forth over the issue of "without doubt," and crossing back again to wonder, it simply took a delegation of people who were tired of all the deceptions, lies and dangers to step forward and tell me the truth. "Peltier was responsible for the close range execution of the agents..." and that was the end of that. I have no reason to doubt the group of people, and others I have since conversed with, that they are now telling the truth. They are people who have agonized for years, grandfathers and grandmothers, AIM activists, Pipe carriers and others who have carried a heavy unhealthy burden within them that has taken its toll. These people tell me another reason why they had to step this far forward while indicating that at some time in the future, they believe that who they are, and all the reasons they came forward will become public. They told me Leonard has endangered the lives of a lot of other people who were at Jumping Bull compound, and on the FBI suspect list. They have to live an unclosed life, denying inquiries, getting questioned like they may have been the real killer, and if they aren't why were they hiding the real killer and keeping Leonard in jail? "There has been no closure, no healing possible while this charade continues. We can not get on with our lives," as long as Peltier insists that he is an innocent man. Think about it. I've also been told that Cris Westerman drove the Red Pick-up truck into the compound to look for Wanda Siers and her children or other people. When they found out that most had already fled, the driver turned the truck around and left the compound, driving past a police road block, without stopping, on the way out. The Red Pick-up had no other significance. While putting the puzzle together, most of the journalists that had contributed to our effort had pieced together 950 of the pieces. The picture drawn was consistent, maddening, angry and troublesome, just like the times were in 1975 at Pine Ridge. But what to do with the left over pieces, and why were there 100 pieces, when it would take only fifty to finish the puzzle? It's because fifty pieces represented the truth and would fit, and another fifty were lies, deceptions, smoke and mirrors. Part of a charade. Not any better that the FBI engaged in the same game. Perhaps knowing exactly what happened June 26, 1975 but unable to penetrate the deep hate and anger, silence they helped create with their actions at Pine Ridge, engaging in activities that have led to the discrediting of evidence, secret and selective release of documents, murky witnesses that evaporated through-out the Peltier case, operatives darkening their own reputation and helping people to find that element of doubt that leads them to believe it possible that Peltier is innocent of shooting the agents. But let's look at just some of the pieces of the puzzle, some that ended up being smoke and mirrors when we looked at all the things said. Peltier, Feb. 7, 1976 to Corporal R.C. Tweedy Peltier told Tweedy... that the two agents had been killed because they had come to arrest him on the Wisconsin attempted murder charges. Asked if he himself shot the agents, Peltier told Tweedy, "No, but I know who did." Peltier, 1995 interview with Lee Hill "All I can say is this, people on my reservation know about what happened that day. They know who fought and they knew who was courageous and they know who was the hero. They know I fought very, very hard that day. Although I didn't kill nobody, I fought very, very hard. I was not afraid. I stood there (unintelligible) the enemy as a warrior should when he's victorious. I wasn't afraid. I was not afraid any of those times. I can't get up here and say, tell the world I was a courageous warrior. Especially in this system, I can't tell the system I was shooting at their police officers that were trying to arrest me. They'll hold that against me. I've got to be careful about that stuff." Peltier, 1991 in Incident at Oglala regarding Mr. X killing the agents "This story is true. But I can't and will not say anything about it. For me to testify against anybody or even mention, try to get somebody else in trouble is wrong. And I won't do it." Peltier, 1991 during Darrin Wood interview regarding Mr. X "For me it's something very heroic that he's done. He's putting himself at risk, seriously at risk. I will say this: that this brother is a very strong brother. He is not a cold-blooded murderer. He is not a bad person, he's very kind, generous and sincere." Peltier, 1995 interview with Lee Hill regarding Mr. X Q. Would you say you did it to get out? Peltier: "If I got the approval from my chiefs, my leaders back home on the reservation, traditional leaders, yeah. If they said, yes, do it, so I can get out of prison, yeah, I'd probably do it. It wouldn't be true, but I don't give a shit. Then the case is closed and Mr. X never has to worry. He can go on spend the rest of his life, whatever, live the rest of his life out without having to ever worry about it." ...I am so sincere and committed to my belief that we're not the guilty parties there, on Pine Ridge on June 26, that I will die in prison if I have to before I would implicate, before I would make false accusations. If they came to me today and said, you tell us who Mr. X is, we'll turn you loose now. My response is fuck you. ...of course I'd have to see it on paper that I was getting out the door." Dino Butler, 1995 interview with E.K. Caldwell, News From Indian Country "That is all totally false." "It was brought up about creating this lie about Mr. X being there and killing those men... to create this lie to show that someone else pulled the trigger... so it was decided that nobody would use this Mr. X theory - that it would be shelved." Peltier, 1999 interview with Peter Worthington, Toronto Sun "I don't know for a fact who did the shooting, but I think I know," "But I can't say anything. Who'd believe me? Besides, we have a tradition that you don't turn against your own. This wasn't a domestic dispute in 1975, it was a war." Peltier, 1999 interview with CNN "I didn't kill those agents. I didn't see who killed those agents. And if I did know, I'm not telling." Peltier, 2000 interview with Pacifica Radio, Democracy Now "Mr. X is, could be anybody. I mean there's no doubt somebody killed these agents, but we don't know who he is." Peltier, 2000 interview with Lee Williams, Argus Leader News "I know I've said in the past who he is. I said it out of anger, I don't know who it is, either Mr. X, Y or Z." Peltier, 1999 interview with CNN Mark Potter: So with those cars down there, at the center of all that, you, as a leader, never, never went down to see what was going on? Peltier: Right. Mark Potter: You never saw the bodies? Peltier: No. Later Peltier changes his account when told that another AIM member said publicly [that] he and Peltier approached the agents' cars. Mark Potter: Did you see the agents dead? Peltier: Yeah, Well, shoot. I mean I, I. Yeah, I gue[ss], you know. I knew they were de[ad], they got killed; I heard they got killed. I knew they got killed. Robert Robideau to Matthiessen, In the Spirit of Crazy Horse When the Red Truck was gone, the three men crossed the pasture to the agents' cars. A shotgun was leaning against the rear bumper, and there was a rifle on the ground... "while Dino and Leonard was searching' em for weapons, I was gathering up whatever I could find." Peltier to Matthiessen, In The Spirit of Crazy Horse In his account of the silence after the killing, when he and his partners had approached the bodies, Leonard had grunted, his face colorless. "I felt like we were all dead," he said to somebody. "I was feeling crazy because there were still women and children up there in June's cabin. When Joe came down there to the cars, I said to him, I think they're gonna kill everyone here. That's what I told him, this is the day to be a warrior." --------- "RE: Response: Peltier Said..." --------- Date: Sun, 24 Feb 2002 08:03:10 EST From: kaonefeather@aol.com Subj: Peltier Said... Mailing List: ndn-aim "There were four indictments of Indians issued in late 1975 for the deaths of the two agents. I was one of the four. Only three of us ever went to trial. Charges were eventually dropped due to "insufficient evidence" against the fourth, Jimmy Eagle--whose alleged theft of a pair of cowboy boots had provided the FBI with its fabricated excuse for invading the Jumping Bull property in the first place. Strange, the murders of scores of traditionals on the reservation in previous months they all but totally overlooked, but the alleged theft of a pair of cowboy boots (later dismissed in court) became the immediate subject of a massive FBI investigation. MY AIM brothers, Dino Butler and Bob Robideau, were eventually captured, falsely charged with the murder of the two agents, and then put on trial in Cedar Rapids, Iowa, in July 1976. By then I was under arrest in Canada, fighting extradition back to the U.S. At the Cedar Rapids trial of Butler and Robideau, the jury--appalled a the overwhelming evidence of governemnt complicity in the ongoing terrorism at Pine Ridge as well as the flagrant FBI misconduct at every stage--found Butler and Robideau not guilty. They ruled that, in firing at the unknown and unannounced invaders at the Jumping Bulls' property that day, Butler and Robideau had acted in self-defense, which, indeed they had--as had I and many, many others that day. After the acquittal of Butler and Robideau, I became the last defendant they had left to pin with the phony rap. Charges against Jimmy Eagle were dropped so that, according to FBI documents later revealed, "the full prosecutive weight of the federal government could be directed against Leonard Peltier." The government needed a scapegoat, a conviction to assuage its severely damaged public image. Someone had to pay for the deaths of the two agents, even if the feds didn't know who had done it -- as the prosecutors themselves later confessed. They wanted Indian blood, and I became the scapegoat, the one they'd been setting up all along. I suppose they figured that , if I got off like Butler and Robideau, it would somehow be open season on FBI agents. That may be understandable but it's also absurd, of course--pure fantasy on their part. There was never any open season on FBI agents by Indian people, nor was there ever any plan or even suggestion for one. Maybe some of those FBI agents actually believed the disinformation their own agency was shamelessly handing our for public concumption. But, one thing was for sure, there HAD been an open season for several years on the traditional Indian people of Pine Ridge and on their AIM supporters. Examine the death toll over those years on Pine Ridge if you doubt it. FBI deaths by violence: two, agents Coler and Williams. AIM/traditional deaths by violence: sixty and counting, even by the government's own statistics; we believe the number is much higher. May all their souls, every single one, rest in peace." Prison Writings...My Life Is My Sun Dance (page 139/140/141) Leonard Peltier Mr. DeMain, Do you rest.....peacefully? Kay Onefeather ---------------------------------------------------------------------~-> 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: Tribe Backpedals on Law Enforcement Contact" --------- Date: Fri, 22 Feb 2002 09:05:14 -0600 From: Gary Smith Subj: NA News Item - - - - - - -- - - - - - - filename="CRST/FEDS" http://www.owlstar.com/dailyuheadlines.htm http://www.zwire.com/site/news.cfm Tribe backpedals on law enforcement contact with feds By:Pauline Webb February 20, 2002 What tribal officials call a "misunderstanding' brought every major player from the federal government with a responsibility in law enforcement to Eagle Butte last week. At a joint meeting of the Cheyenne River Sioux Tribe's Judiciary and Codification and Law and Order committees, tribal council members heard testimony that a resolution drafted in early February could put council member and tribal police officers in jeopardy for violating federal law as it relates to hindering prosecution of a crime. "Our concern is with language in the law that may prohibit crimes from being reported because officers are afraid to report because they could lose their jobs," said Bob Ecoffey, head of BIA Law and Order, Albuquerque, NM. "My concern is for the victims of crime." The provision of the resolution causing the problem directed tribal law enforcement officials to contact only the tribal prosecutor if the incident they were investigating turned up evidence of one of 17 major crimes. The prosecutor then was solely responsible for contacting federal agents. Calling of federal agents by anyone other than the prosecutor was punishable by a two week suspension for the first incident and termination of employment for a second offense. Federal officials explained that withholding knowledge of a federal crime is itself a federal crime, punishable by up to 10 years in jail, and that the tribal council, if it enacted the resolution, would be guilty of hindering the investigation of a federal crime, also punishable with jail time. Not reporting a federal crime could also lead to charges of harboring a fugitive. "We realize the feds have authority on this reservation," said Council Member Maynard Dupris. "We gave that up in the 1868 treaty. But we think things are getting out of hand here. We are sending our young people to the federal authorities because they stepped on a federal officer...The feds built us a multimillion dollar law enforcement facility here but it's not utilized because everything goes to the feds...We feel the tribal police department IS the tribal police department...the point is to allow our own tribal officers to prosecute our own people." The resolution came out of the Feb. 5, 2002 tribal council session. The council was addressed by the family of Jared Blue Coat, asking how a scuffle between a young tribal member and a tribal police officer wound up in federal court. Blue Coat was charged with assaulting a federal officer and entered into a plea bargain. Sentencing is set for late April. Blue Coat expected to obtain a bachelors degree in education in December, 2003. Since he will have a federal charge on his record, he will be prohibited in working in many areas of education for the rest of his life. Federal officials explained that tribal officers are afforded the same protections as federal officers when working under the scope of the tribe's 638 contract - the basic funding plan for tribal law enforcement on Cheyenne River, available under the Indian Self-Determination Act. In all other instances they are tribal police officers only. Federal case law supports the ruling. Tribal officers can become federal officers, but only by meeting the same strict requirements for the position as any other officer. Tribal officials maintained their concern for keeping as many cases as possible in the tribal justice system, and for making the system fair for all. "Our intent is to oversee law and order on our reservation. We want our officers to go out with the assumption that any crimes will be prosecuted in tribal court," said councilman Zach Ducheneaux. "The prosecutor can take it from there. Jurisdiction is not in the officers, it is in the courts. Our officers have the duty to arrest anybody violating the law. They are colorblind. It is up to the courts to sort out the jurisdictions." David Zirker, US Attorney's office, Pierre, said over the years all US Attorneys have directed me to send only those cases that have to go federal and send the others back to the tribe, adding that was particularly true of juveniles crimes. Tribal law enforcement made over 10,000 arrests in 2001, many of which were domestic disturbances. Of those, 500-600 were referred to the federal system. For every case that ends up in the federal system five or six are sent back. In 2001, 39 cases went to federal prosecution. Assault on a federal officer is automatically a federal case. The US Congress determines which cases are considered major crimes. At present they are murder, manslaughter, kidnapping, maiming, aggravated sexual abuse, sexual abuse, sexual abuse of a minor or ward, abusive sexual contact, incest, assault with intent to commit murder, assault with a dangerous weapon, assault resulting in serious bodily injury, assault against an individual who has not attained the age of 16, arson, burglary, robbery and theft of personal property. Tracey Fischer, CRST Legal Department, presented to both the committee and the federal officers in attendance, a draft copy of a revised resolution that will be presented to the tribal council in March. The modified resolution says the primary responsibility of the tribal law enforcement department is to provide security on the reservation, enforcing tribal law and presenting investigations of tribal law to the prosecutors office. Officers will gather evidence for use in potential tribal prosecution, but remain aware of the fact that such evidence may be used in a federal prosecution if deemed necessary by the prosecutor. The prosecutors office is to be kept aware of investigations and will assess each case before referring it to the US Attorney's office. If the prosecutor is unavailable, the lead criminal investigator may contact the FBI in extreme cases. The resolution also mandates officer certification standards and contains a disclaimer restating tribal sovereignty. Following the meeting CRST Chairman Gregg Bourland and some committee members met with the federal officials, making a plea for increased funding to support the increased services. Bourland reported a positive response from the officials. Copyright c. 2002 ebnews.net. --------- "RE: Iowa Tribe, Perkins Police forces Cross-Deputize" --------- Date: Wed, 20 Feb 2002 08:07:56 -0600 From: Gary Smith Subj: NA News Item - - - - - - -- - - - - - - filename="CROSS-DEPUTIZE" http://www.owlstar.com/dailyheadlines.htm http://www.newsok.com/cgi-bin/show_article Iowa Tribe, Perkins police forces cross-deputize to work together 2002-02-18 By Dawn Marks Enid Bureau PERKINS -- When one needs help, the city of Perkins and the Iowa Tribe are there for each other. When Perkins residents call for police or fire assistance, a tribal dispatcher answers the telephone and, for the first time, residents have 24-hour, local service. The dispatching arrangement stems from a cooperative agreement to provide better law enforcement services to Perkins and those in the tribe's territory. The Perkins City Commission approved it Feb. 4, and the Iowa Business Committee is expected to approve it soon. Also, tribal and Perkins police officers will respond to calls in both areas. "We cross-deputized each other," City Manager Jack Rosson said. Officers from the city and the tribe, which has its headquarters just south of Perkins, have helped each other frequently, he said. "This community and the Iowa Tribe have a beautiful working relationship, " Rosson said. "It's a beautiful friendship that we have." Jim Wheeler, tribal administrator, said the cross-deputization and dispatching agreements will improve law enforcement in the area. It made sense for the tribe to provide dispatching services since it had the space, equipment and ability to serve residents 24 hours a day, Wheeler said. The tribe will soon open a new public safety building where cross- trained employees will handle police work, fires and emergency medical services for the tribe's area in parts of Payne, Logan, Lincoln and Oklahoma counties. Jim Cox, executive director of the Oklahoma Association of Chiefs of Police, said dispatching agreements between tribes and cities are unusual in the state. Cross-deputization agreements between county sheriffs and tribes have been around for a decade. However, cross-deputization between cities and tribes is less common, Cox said. The force has grown so much, it can help other governmental bodies such as Perkins, he said. Wheeler said Perkins residents now call the number they always have and dispatchers answer the call "police department" so residents won't get confused. Copyright c. 2002, Produced by NewsOK ---------- "RE: Native Prisoner" --------- Date: Tue Feb 26, 2002 10:57 PM From: "Janet Smith" Subj: Prisoner Issues ----- Date: Thursday, February 21, 2002 3:49 PM From: Brigitte Thimiakis Subj: Manuel Redwoman - Website Greetings, Please visit the website that Celine, a friend and supporter from France, has recently created for Manuel Redwoman: http://www.geocities.com/occitaniafr/index.html Manuel is a Northern Cheyenne/Lakota/Arapaho who has been UNJUSTLY and ILLEGALLY locked up 23/24, 7/7 for 12 months in Administrative Segregation, in the Maximum Security Unit of Montana State Prison. Manuel has been singled out because of his heritage and his struggle for his Brother's spiritual rights. In spite of his 42-month clear record and the prison documents proving it, in spite of the international letter campaign and awareness raised by the media, the prison administration and Director of The Department of Corrections, Bill Slaughter, are still denying that the reason for Manuel's lock up is retaliation, and still refuse to release him from administrative segregation... Manuel is in prison for shooting a recidivist child-molester who was after Manuel's little nephew. Please read about his case, how you can support him by sending letters and ask for his immediate release from the Maximum Security Unit. Also, please visit his pages dedicated to the fight against child abuse, which is the most important struggle in his life. You can also help him by signing and sharing the petition on his behalf. http://www.PetitionOnline.com/jfmr2001/ The injustice done to Manuel is based on racial profiling and it is an injustice to all Indigenous People. respectfully, Brigitte ------ Date: Wednesday, February 20, 2002 7:10 PM From: MIKECHEROKEE@aol.com Subj: Letter to Congressional Indian Caucus: Leonard peltier case Mailing List: Iron Natives Letter to Congressional Indian Caucus Washington, DC. Congressional Native American Caucus http://www.unitednativeamerica.com/caucus.html This is a Follow up information letter on the Leonard peltier case, The Native American community fully supports the Congressional Indian Caucus calling on the US. FBI to release all information on the Peltier case. Information on the web sites below should be reviewed by each member of the Indian caucus and make their thoughts on this national issue know to the Indian community and the US. FBI. United Native America request that the Congressional Indian caucus take a united stand on the issue and force the FBI to make public all information pertaining to the Leonard Peltier case. For a case that is over twenty years old why is the US. FBI keeping Mr. Peltiers files closed? It's far past time we see the truth, the whole truth of their case against Mr. Peltier. Free Leonard Peltier : U.S. Political Prisoner http://aimovement.org/peltier/index.html The International Office of the Leonard Peltier Defense Committee|Main Page http://www.freepeltier.org/ FREE Leonard Peltier page http://www.aics.org/LP/index.html Mike L. Graham Founder United Native America www.United Native America.com --------- "RE: History: Carlisle Indian School" --------- Date: Mon, 04 Feb 2002 22:20:20 -0500 From: Barbara Landis Subj: February 1, 1889 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 ------------------------- A WEEKLY LETTER FROM THE CARLISLE INDIAN SCHOOL TO BOYS AND GIRLS ============================ VOLUME IV CARLISLE, PA. ============================= FRIDAY, FEBRUARY 1, 1889 NO. 24 ============================= We can never be too careful What the seed our hands shall sow ; Love from love is sure to ripen, Hate from hate is sure to grow. Seed of good or ill we scatter ; Heedlessly along the way, But a glad or grievous fruitage Wait us at the harvest day. --[Selcted. WHICH WOULD YOU RATHER BE A SPIDER OR A FLY? The White Man Like a Spider. Mr. Seger, a hard-working man who for many years has lived among the Cheyennes and Arapahoes -- a man of true worth and integrity, writes the following intersting article for the HELPER. "As many of your readers are beginning to learn the English language, perhaps they have already begun to think in English also, and have found that it is one thing to speak the words of a language and another to understand just what they mean. I will tell you something about my learning Indian. I found that I could not remember a word well without I knew the interpretation. I soon learned that in both Cheyenne and Arapahoe languages, the word coffee, interpreted literally would be black water, milk would be white water and whiskey would be white man's water. I also learned that both the Cheyennes and Arapahoes called the white people, spiders. My attention was particularly called to this word by a returned Carlisle student. It happened in this way. I asked the sbudent if she could persuade some of the camp women to take up with the ways of white people. After looking down a few moments she said rather discouragingly, `I don't know, the Indians call the white people, spiders.' This girl had learned to keep house while in the East, and no doubt had swept down spider webs from the corners of rooms for she seemed to be prejudiced against them. In the seven years she had been in the East, she had only learned in her Indian language that she had succeeded in becoming like a spider, as the Indians frequently call the returned Carlisle children, `white folks'. In this Territory there are a good many kinds ef spiders and some of them quite venomous. Of these the Indians are very much afraid. In view of this, could we feel surprised that the Indian girl felt a little discouraged at being called a spider? Let us inquire if there is not something about spiders worthy of our imitation. They are mentioned in poetry and prose. Solomon writes some seven hundred years before Christ `That the spider taketh hold with its hands and is in Kings' palaces.' He also says they are of four things upon the earth which are little but exceedingly wise.' I think that any of our INDIAN HELPER readers would feel quite proud to have such a compliment passed on them by the reputed wisest man that ever lived. Yet we never heard that the spider put on any airs on account of it. Yet we are to understand that he calls his web a parlor, from the lines, `Will you walk into my parlor? said the spider to the fly.' I do not think the Cheyennes and Arapahoes were thinking of what Solomon said or the poem of the spider and the fly when they gave the white man the name of spider! Let us try and find out what they were thinking of! First, let us inquire a little into the character of the spider! As we Know that Indians are close students of nature and are well acquainted with the habits of animals and insects around them, it is probable they had watched the spider weaving his web and studied the textures and observed how ingeniously and exact the threads crossed and the web was woven with some purpose. No doubt they had watched to see, what use the web would be put to. Here comes a fly carelessly buzzing along and is entangled in the web. ----------------------------------- Continued on Fourth Page. ============================================ (P. 2) 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. ============================= I would rather be right than be President. -[Henry Clay ============= Don't suspect people of being dishonest until you know them to be so. ============= James B. Garcia's teacher writes of him that if all who attend our school are as obedient and studious as he, it would be a pleasure to teach Indian boys and girls. ============= Our good friend Mrs. Kilborn again kindly remembers the tailors with pretty needle books, making twenty-five in all that she has sent. The books are greatly appreciated by the boys. ============= David Osahgee, a pupil at the Shingwauk Home, Sault. Ste. Marie, received a certificate with honors at the recent Civil Service Examination, and will now enter on his duties as a Junior Clerk in the Indian Department at Ottawa. ============= We see by the Pipe of Peace, published at the Genoa Nebraska Indian School, that, "Spotted Tail, the grandson of the famous chief, is the latest addition to the printing office." Wonder if it is our Pollock! ============= We have an interesting letter from Millie McLntosh who is now at Eufaula, Indian Territory. She says she is well but is in deep sorrow over the loss of her favorite brother who was killed by the outlaws in November, and now they are after her father and other brother, so that they feel uneasy all the time. Millie would like very much to come back to Carlisle. She is obliged to talk so much Indian and so little English that she feels that she is losing her English. "Oh!" she says. "How I would like to see dear old Carlisle and all the teachers and boys and girls who were there when I was!" Married. BASSETT--KING----In the Seneca Nation, Indian Territory, by the Rev. Jeremiah Hubbard, Joseph Bassett to Frances King. The many friends of Frances Ring at Carlisle wish the happy couple unlimited joy and unbounded prosperity. ============= Mending Done. Anyone on the grounds wishing to have darning or mending done with neatness and dispatch can be accommodated by applying at the Girls' Quarters where a number of the young women hold themselves in readiness for such orders. ============= We all remember Mr. William A. Burman, the English gentleman who has worked for many years among the Indians in Canada. We remember his good talk to us last year. A letter this week from him says, "I am much obliged to you for sending me the Red Man and HELPER so regularly. I have been much impressed with the value of the copy of the former containing the report of the Sioux Commission, and am anxious to obtain copies for our Bishop and some of my friends here. For these I enclose a dollar. We are hoping to get our new Industrial School in working order by the end of the summer. It is to be on the Red River, six miles north of Winnipeg. The children will be chiefly Crees and Ojibways with I hope a few of our old friends the Sioux." Mr. Burman closes with expressions of pleasant recollections of friends at Carlisle. ============= White Wolf, Comanche, Lone Wolf, Kiowa, and Koh-ty, Lieutenant of the Police of the Kiowas come last Thursday and spent a few days at the school. They were fine looking men, but what a pity they have no education! All their thoughts have to pass through another's mouth before they Can reach the ear of the white man. It makes them very weak and dependent. They are not as independent as educated boys of ten and eleven years old. The Man-on-the-band-stand could but feel sorry for them. ============= The employes and pupils of Genoa tender Carlisle heartfelt sympathy for the damage and loss sustained by the recent cyclone, and are glad to know that the misfortune was not as great as at first supposed. We hope that generous contributions and also appropriations will enable that Institution to carry on its great work without its usefulness, even for a short time, being impaired. [-Pipe of Peace. ============= Our Present Numbers. Boys, 400; Girls, 224, Total, 624. Boys on farms, 122; Girls on farms, 57; Total, 279. ====================================== (Page 3) The foot marks in the gymnasium are being retouched. ------------ Mr. Seger's letter on the first page is well worth reading. ------------ The examining room in the Gymnasium has a cosy look. ------------ Our last Sunday Evening's service was full of the right spirit. Let us have them often! ------------ The boys hope to have the painting in the gymnasium finished soon so they may have it fitted up with apparatus. ------------ We were glad to see the old familiar handwriting of Henry North once more. He copied the piece written by Mr. Seger. ------------ The girls and little boys are enjoying Crokinole, but the large boys are not able to "crok" on account of not having any board. ------------ Mr. William Harvey with whom Richard Davis lives, spent Wednesday night with us. He says Richard, Nannie and the baby are well. ------------ Hattie Long Wolf has gone to Colora to live in Ellwood Balderston's family, where she will have superior advantagas of a select school. ------------ Yes, there was a man ou the band stand this week but he was a snow one. The little girls built him up aud dressed him in a cloak to keep him warm. ------------ Dot and Amy are real little carpenters for they made a sled this week, good enough for their dolls if it wouldn't do for the Man-on-the-band-stand to ride on. ------------ On Sunday evening Company A kept the best step as they marched out of chapel. With heads erect and soldierly bearing they presented a line most pleasing to the eye. ------------ Lida Standing had a very pleasant birth day party last Thursday evening to attend which a few of the small girls were invited and they claim to have had a good time. ------------ The Exhibition which came off last Friday night was the first regular school entertain ment in the new chapel. The program was much as usual, consisting of recitation and singing. ------------ Messrs. Wilson Woodman and Thomas Smith, patrons of the school from Bucks County spent Sunday at the school. They seemed much interested in our work and claimed to have enjoyed their visit. ------------ The printers had their pictures taken in a group last Saturday, and Mr. Choate did a good piece of work for us. There are a number of new faces in the group and it will be given for a premium instead of the old picture of thirteen faces. This group contains fifteen. The boys are talking of forming an Athletic Association. ------------ Ota Chief Eagle manages his company of small boys well. ------------ George Williams has gone to a place in the country to work. ------------ What every one would like to know: Is there to be a sociable tonight? ------------ The Y. M. C. A. will hold its meeting in the old chapel for the present. ------------ Many of the large boys have been weighed in the balances (scales) this week. ------------ There were no meetings of the Literary Societies last week on account of the exhibition. ------------ If a snow would only come now there would be good sleighing as the ground is in the right condition. ------------ Nellie Carey has found a most charming country home, where she will have privileges we cannot here give. ------------ Mark Penoi came in from a country home this week, looking remarkably well and with an exceptionally good record. ------------ The fine set of Double Harness that was exhibited at the Fair last Fall, was sold to a gentleman in New York City. ------------ Prof. Woodruff has gone on a tour of visiting the public schools attended by our pupils in the eastern part of the State. ------------ The subscriptions of quite a number of the papers and periodicals in the large boys' Reading Room have expired, and they hope for the renewal of them at any date. ------------ It will hurt the tobacco chewers this year if they are not allowed to go to the country, but of course they cannot expect privileges when they pay no attention to the rules of the school. ------------ The new blanks for school use, which when filed monthly will show the exact standing of each pupil in lessons and couduct, are well liked by the teachers, and no doubt the pupils will try harder than ever, if such a thing can be, to have perfect lessons and good conduct, so as to get as high marks as possible. ------------ Owing to the stupidity of a green folder, one who had never worked in the printing-office before last week, a very few papers were folded and one or two seen out with only one side printed. One of them came back with "Latest Style" on the wrapper. We deserve the criticism, and will try to have all eyes open next time, Apache or no Apache. ===================================== (Continued from First Page.) The spider rushes out and makes it fast. Soon another fly is caught and then another. The Indian now sees what the spider has been working for, but says the Indian, `Why don't he eat them?' If I had that much provision ahead I would make a feast, and ask the whole camp to eat with me.' If the Indian was given to philosophizing he might say spiders are not like Indians, but Indians are more like the idle flies, which go first here and then there without purpose except to bask in the sunshine and live in the present. In the Indian Territory there is a large spider called Tarantula. Its nest is the most ingenious of all ingenious things. It is a subterranean abode about the size of a pint cup, lined with material as fine and glossy as white satin. At the surface of the ground is a small opening into which fits a door made of sand and gravel glued together with some gummy fluid and lined with the same satin material as the nest. The door opens and shuts on hinges made of many strands of a silken sort of thread. When the Tarantula goes out in to the world the sharpest eye could not detect the nest or its entrance, for the outside of the door is formed of sand and gravel that looks like the surrounding soil. The most perfect have their faults and the Tarantula is no exception. When imposed upon he is ready for fight and his bite is very poisonous and is much dreaded by the Indians. There is another kind of spider in this Territory that is said to be more poisonous than the Tarantula. This is a small black spider covered with fine black hair. When a person is bitten by it, he becomes crazy and acts very much like a person that has been drinking frontier whiskey. After what we have said about spiders let us go back to the time when the Indians saw white men for the first time. As we know that the Indian names are generally descriptive, let us see what they saw about white people that reminded them of a spider! We will suppose that when they first met white people their clothes attracted a great deal of attention. They noticed the cloth was woven, that the threads crossed evenly, that it was made for a purpose. Is it strange that they are like spiders? Then when they saw the white man build his house with a door to shut up when he went out; when they compared it with the home of the Tarantula; is it strange they would say he is like a spider? Then again, when some of them were made drunk by the white man's whiskey and acted as if they had been bitten by one of the little black hairy spiders we told about, is it strange they would say they are spiders? Thus the name is fastened upon us and will probably remain as long as the Cheyenne and Arapahoe language is spoken. After all the name does not affect us as much as what we DO. There are many good things that can be said of the spider. And we never heard of a fly catching one." Enigma. I am made of 14 letters. My 13, 1, 3, is worn on the head. My 10, 11, 3, 2, are what some scholars don't like. My 14, 11, 10, is the name of some kind of meat. My 12, 7, 8, is a metal. My 13, 4, 5, 6 is the name of a very small room. My 2, 7, 3, 9 is what birds do. My whole is what some of our boys and girls enjoyed this week. ANSWER TO LAST WEEK'S PIED WORDS: Dress, collar, apron, shoe or hose, cloak. hat, earrings, shoestrings, gloves, coat, rings, ribbons. ====================================== 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 by Barbara Landis. For more info see http://www.carlisleindianschool.org. --------- "RE: John Rustywire: Discover Navajo" --------- Date: Tue, 26 Feb 2002 13:51:11 -0000 From: "Rustywire" Subj: Discover Navajo Mailing List: ndn-aim Discover Navajo in Salt Lake City at the Olympics on the west side of town where the old Union railroad station sits they built an outdoor mall called the Gateway just to the North, a main thoroughfare where people walk, really a small street lined with chic stores and throngs of people of every shape, size and color mill about the area. How many, lets say maybe 18 to 20,000, so it was crowded. There is a small central plaza where water fountains shoot up at unsuspecting people could get wet, but there are all kinds of kids watching and waiting for the water to shoot up and they tempt fate running back and forth chancing getting wet in the frigid cold. Just to the Northwest of this plaza sits an open field now converted by the placement of a pavilion white in color with four tall spires each named for the Four Sacred Mountains. A long line gathers at the gate, four across and as people wait to buy their tickets, Gahan Dancers, commonly called Apache Devil Dancers gather and dance with a crowd gathering around them. Their hooded black covered heads with two small holes for the eyes lie beneath their moving peaks of wood lightning. Their bodies are painted with streaked white and they move back and forth, their big bells sounding out as they dip their heads as the slow heavy rhythm as Apache singers with their large drum sound out above the crowd letting everyone that this is just not a Navajo exhibit, but that other tribes are here as well. Inside the fenced area there is a long line which circle the outer fence waiting to go into the Navajo pavilion, there are tall, well dressed Navajo police officers, some men and women who overlook the proceedings dressed in tan and green, their uniforms beckoning of wide open mesas and lonely roads which they drive, they reach out and greet all those who enter more extending a hand of friendship than searching for weapons of war. As one steps into the crowded line, a bobbing head of white buffalos is seen moving above the crowd where Pueblo dancers move in the tradition of their fathers, showing the world how the pueblos dance on the plazas of San Ildelfonso, Laguna and Sandia back home. Their sound is ageless and when they finish relate their are headed home in the morning but for now anyone who would like a picture with them can step forward and they will accommodate you. Foreigners move forward with their cameras and these young people are gracious. A Zuni flute player picks a simple stick instrument and moves to the microphone and lets out a sound that echoes of canyons, tall mesas and vistas of red rock and sage far removed from these snow covered mountains. His flute carries a sound that seems to quiet the crowd and as the line moves slowly forward along the perimeter fence, it is a long wait because there are so many people that want to go into the east door of the pavilion. There are Navajo men and women with smiles wearing Olympic blue berets and vests showing their are volunteers who greet you with a smile and bid you welcome to little taste of Navajo land. The door opens and you find yourself standing in a dark place, this the place of the emergence, a black Navajo star filled wall with the Navajo constellations etched out, showing Jack Rabbit, two warriors standing facing each other and the pattern of a geometric Navajo rug pattern against a dark black sky which extends high above you. This is the sight early Navajos saw each night and drew their first designs from for the rugs they wove long ago. A door opens in the middle of this wall and you are let to a dark room with a sky light of three screens, you sit down crossed legged fashion in the room and look up as you see the presentation of Bert Benally from Shiprock who tells you of how we came thru the Four Worlds of the Navajo, each world acted out by Navajo actors portraying the Holy Beings, the Insect People, the tale of how we traveled to the point we are now. It is just enough to make one wonder that such a people as these Navajo have their own way of seeing the world and it is beautiful in its simplicity. As it is over you are let out into an area where there is a diarama where you walk onto a bridge where you can look down and see Navajo life, the land laid out before you, examples of miniature ceremonies, just a touch of what medicinemen do, giving nothing of the rites, they tell you so, these things are private they say between the healer and the patient, they politely say we don't talk about these things here, but you see how we are tied to the land. There are quotes from former tribal leaders, one that comes to mind is how when the Navajos were to choose an area, thought to say, Who can own the sky, the night, the day, the earth and mountains, it is something we can not do, it is there and we just live with it" There is an exhibit of the hogans, the different types and how they came to be. A young Navajo woman from Whitehorse takes you into the hogan in the center and leads you in everyone going in clockwise fashion, there is a dirt floor and it is the sand from home, she explains that this female hogan is representative of the womb of woman, that it represents life, that each pole has a place and meaning. That the dirt floor of sand is not dirty but reminds us we are apart of the earth. She explains that we are new in the world and people have discovered Navajos and that our contributions as Navajo are just beginning to be noticed by the world. She relates that the Navajo Way is a way of life, not a religion but the practice, tradition and learning go hand in hand with the day to day activities. She explains the fire stick and the various implements, their use and origins to everyone there. Upon leaving here there is a Clan wheel where the Navajo clans and relationships are explained, young Navajo folks are encouraged to ask about their clans and the young lady there takes great pains to explain where they are from, that names are not important but that clans give your relationship to one another that family and ties to extended family are very important to give you place where you come from. It speaks of travels of centuries of travel from people like those of the Towering House, Where those who come from the Red Earth Streaks into the Water come from, those of Coyote Pass, these are important to know she says, it gives us a place we come from, and honors our forefathers, mothers and fathers and one another she says. There are a bank of computers where people can hear the Navajo language, the voices of those who helped with exhibit, the story of some of those who are on the screen are etched out in real life. One is David Sloan, a young boy from Marble Canyon who went to Flag Bordertown dorm, went to NAU and then became an architect who now designs homes and building for natives using elements of tradition and native styles to tell a story of our people. He explains the relationship, and there are many areas there each station talking about education, tradition, health, tribal government. He designed the building at Bosque Redondo, the site of the where the Navajos were placed as prisoners of war, the place of despair at the end of Long Walk. The Navajos endured hunger, starvation, sickness and despair there. Captives, when they found out they would be able to go home, there was such a rustling of the people that the night before they left the camp moved by itself to the west toward home on its own. One of the things posted in large letters at Navajo Land Administration I remember seeing each day was this statement. "When we came to the place called Albuquerque we crossed the river and saw the peak of a mountain. We asked if was our mountain and someone said yes. The old people cried, and talked to the earth such was their joy at seeing it" In this exhibit at each place there is Navajo person ready to explain any questions or wonderings they might have. There was a rug weaver from Prescott, and some others who are Silversmiths, painters, potters and artists. A place is provided where there is discussion on the American Indian codetalkers, not only Navajo but the other tribes as well, where there are old uniforms, medals, and momentos brought home from war and one of those venerable old men to greet the world's visitors there. Traditional displays on the cradle board, each element of eat and its representation, as well as baskets, and basket weavers and in each area larger than life color landscapes of Canyon De Chelly, Monument Valley, Dzilth-Na-Oh-Dilthe, and places familiar and beautiful to Navajo people. A collection of the finest old time jewelry is provided and everywhere there is someone to answer a question, and they provide a little glimpse of how far the Navajos have come. Before you know it the time is spent and out you go to see a smaller pavilion for jewelry sellers, one of who is the Southwest foundation from Gallup, who really provide non profit help to destitute Navajos, whose old offices were tiny and quaint, but now are have developed a reputation as a real service provider. For those Navajos far from home, who want a taste of sheepherder coffee on the other side there was a fire, cedar logs with a circular of rocks to sit on. There one could find good conversation, where you could sit and rest by a log fire that reminds one of Yei-Be-Che's and Summer Sings. Some of the old folks gathered there, one couple is from Orem, Utah, moved there from because of the Navajo-Hopi land dispute, they had to move from Tolani Lake, where no one lives now, but the warmth of the fire brings memories of home and in a valley of sky scrapers, cold and snow there was a touch of warmth brought by the sound of the Navajo language, and the telling of clan relations, boarding school, sheepherding and places known as Chinle, Beshbito, Star Lake, Borrego Pass. It was a little taste of home and it was good to see such a place...Discover Navajo. ---------------------------------------------------------------------~-> 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: Poem: Future Perfect" --------- Date: Thu, 17 May 2001 15:40:01 -0500 From: "John D Berry/grad/res/Okstate" Subj: New poem... Future Perfect (of Genomes and Brave New Worlds) Clever hands and minds, A snip of X here, Snip from Y there, Recombinant reconstruction, Of past lives, Playing Creator. They can build you, Or ancestral you, In secret labs they think, With white coats, Never asking if, It should be done. They will select whom, To build again, Stealing genome, Raw chromosomes, Stuff of life, From Creator. We will watch carefully, And should they elect, To bring back, Tekamthi or Tenskwatawa, Tatanka Yotanka or Goyathlay, Or any others, we wait. Then, a raiding party, We have warriors still, We will free the one or many, Blood will tell, The young will grow, Then, a reckoning. Perhaps, Creator will help us, One more time then, And we, We, Will make them cry again. We wait. John D. Berry, Oklahoma, 2001 --------- "RE: Verse: Hawaiian Book of Days" --------- Date: Tue, 19 Feb 2002 06:28:23 -1000 From: Debbie Sanders Subj: Hawaiian Book of Days A HAWAIIAN BOOK OF DAYS, week of March 4-10 MALAKI (March) (Nana) 4 Give two blessings for every one you receive. 5 Never refuse a gift of the land. 6 Heed well the voice of your heart. 7 Give to the land more than you take. 8 The song of the sea is neverending. 9 On any great journey, be guided by the stars, na hoku. 10 Learn of the world around you, and in the learning, ... find yourself. (c) Copyright 1991 by D. F. Sanders Me ke aloha i ka nani, ... Moe'uhanekeanuenue (With love and beauty, ... Rainbow Dream) --------- "RE: Rebirth of Nearly Extinct Nooksack Dialect" --------- Date: Tue, 19 Feb 2002 20:52:52 -0800 From: "Mikola 18" Subj: "Rebirth of a language" Mailing List: ndn-aim http://www.spokesmanreview.com Tuesday, February 19, 2002 Education: "Rebirth of a language: Linguists, computer bring back nearly extinct Nooksack dialect" DEMING, Wash. (AP) -- "When Quentin Charlie first tried to speak his grandmother's language, the complicated, singsong words didn't come naturally. But he kept trying at the Nooksack Tribe's Upriver Halq'emeylem language classes. The language was nearly extinct 30 years ago, but Nooksack language specialist Catalina Renteria thinks Charlie and the rest of her students may be fluent by next fall, when they become the program's first graduating class. They'll be the first Native language students in the country to learn with an interactive computer program she adapted to Halq'emeylem. Roland Holterman, director of the Nooksack Education Department, called Renteria's project a breakthrough and said he envisions local school districts offering the classes for foreign-language credits soon. "We've taken a nearly extinct language and brought it back to life," Holterman said. "You can actually not speak a single word ... and in the matter of a year you can be totally fluent." Linguist Brent Galloway came to the Nooksack Tribe's 21/2-acre reservation near Deming, about 15 miles northeast of Bellingham, in 1974 -- a year after the United States officially recognized the tribe. Because the Nooksacks refused to sign the Treaty of Point Elliott in January 1855, the tribe was allotted no land and its members were ordered to move to the Lummi Reservation. But the Lummi and Nooksack people had little in common, except for their roots in what is now Whatcom County. Their languages were about as similar as German and English, Galloway said. So some Nooksacks settled in east Whatcom County and many others moved north to be with Halq'emeylem- speaking people of the Stolo Nation near Chilliwack, British Columbia. As time passed, the Nooksack's original language -- Lhechelesem -- withered away. The last fluent speaker, Sindick Jimmy, died in 1977. Galloway, now a professor at Saskatchewan Indian Federated College in Regina, Saskatchewan, said Nooksack elders told him they made a conscious choice to abandon Lhechelesem. "Since the language died that long ago, the elders that were left were speakers of Halq'emeylem," Galloway said. "So there was more hope they could bring it back." Halq'emeylem is one of 23 distinct Salish languages spoken by tribes from the Pacific Coast west to Montana and as far south as Tillamook, Ore. Upriver Halq'emeylem, the spoken language at Nooksack, is the only tonal language among them. Every vowel has three different tones that shift the meaning of the word. For the past year, Renteria and Marcus Goodson, a Nooksack language intern, have videotaped discussions in Halq'emeylem, written sentences and tests, and entered them into the computer language program. To demonstrate, Goodson opened a window on one of the computers, and the Halq'emeylem alphabet popped up on screen. Another window opened with a video of a man in a pink shirt. As the video played, the man mouthed the popped and guttural clicks of the coastal languages. Goodson echoed the words, speaking into a microphone, and the program played a recording of his pronunciation back- to-back with the man in the video. "You see it, you hear it, you say it," Goodson said. The tribal elders who grew up speaking the language are getting very old now -- a problem shared by tribes around the country. For decades, their languages were forbidden at many white-operated schools, and tribal members began using English instead. "I would ask the elders in the 1970s, when I was working on the writing system, how technical should we be?" Gall