From gars@speakeasy.org Wed Sep 11 09:13:01 2002 Date: 10 Sep 2002 23:53:11 -0000 From: Gary Night Owl To: Internet Recipients of Wotanging Ikche Subject: Wotanging Ikche--nanews10.037 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 Dineh jii' adah' ho'nil'e'gii ba' ha' neh -- Navajo Nation -- What's Happening among The People News Okla Humma Holisso Nowat Anya -- Choctaw -- People(s) Red Newspaper 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 037 | 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; Native Rights, Chiapas95-English, Iron Natives, Rez Life and Tn-Ind Mailing Lists; newsgroup: soc.culture.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.'" "When our father heard that the Americans were coming across the Great River westward...We heard of guns and powder and lead-first flintlocks, then percussion caps, and now repeating rifles. We first saw the Americans at Cottonwood Wash. We had wars with the Mexicans and the Pueblos. We captured mules from the Mexicans, and had many mules. The Americans came to trade with us. When the Americans first came we had a big dance, and they danced with our women. We also traded." __ Chief Manuelito, Navajo +- -- -- -- -- -- -- -- -- -- -- -+ | 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! Oklahoma State Representative Wayne Pettigrew, R-Edmond, is threatening legislation that would require that members of tribes in Oklahoma possess at least a 50 percent Indian blood quantum. He says that federal laws that allow the Indian Nations to determine enrollment represents bad law, and that his state law would force this issue to be revisited in the US Supreme Court. Let's examine this whole cloth garbage before we go on and examine the "real" reason for Representative Pettigrew's plans to waste tribal and taxpayer money waging this war in court. First, whether ignorant individuals like Representative Pettigrew acknowledge it or not, the tribal nations are sovereign nations. Here's a very simple test that proves that. The United States, Canada and other world nations have treaties with the various First Nations. Nations, including the United States, do not establish treaties with subjects. They do this only with other sovereignties. Second, the reasons sovereign tribal nations determine who may or may not be a citizen of their nation is for precisely the same reasons the United States, France, Mexico, et al. determine who may or may not be a citizen of their respective sovereign nations. The most basic right of any country is the right to establish qualifications for citizenship, and to decide who will be admitted, and who will not. Without this right, sovereignty becomes meaningless. That is why Mexico does NOT determine who may or may not become a citizen of Germany. It is also why the United States does NOT determine who may or may not become a citizen of the Cherokee Nation of Oklahoma; and it is damn sure not the province of Oklahoma or any other lesser political entity to impose its will on any nation, tribal or otherwise. With a 50 percent blood quantum stipulation for citizenship, Oklahoma tribal populations would swiftly dwindle to the point of insignificance. Representative Pettigrew could not possibly have that end in mind...or could he? Oklahoma does have a history in this regard. Nearly a century ago, the tribal income opportunity was oil. In earlier years, when the Osage Nation moved to Oklahoma, instead of accepting grants of land from the U.S. government, the tribe purchased land and granted individual ownership rights through a matriarchal inheritance system. When valuable resources were found on Osage land, the federal Bureau of Indian Affairs could not claim "trusteeship," which would allow them to embezzle lease income and "lose" payments that should go to the tribe or individual landowners. Unlike other tribes, whose resources were held under a trust arrangement with the BIA, Osage people got rich to the point of being giddy about it. Non-Indian Oklahomans were not pleased to see this wealth "wasted" under Indian control, and the result was the imposition of non-Indian guardians who proceeded to protect Osage women out of their fortunes, and all-too- many of them out of their lives. In the long run, it very nearly cost the Osage their tribal recognition. The point? Once more Indians have found resources that allow their Nations to provide much needed services to their people and provide household incomes that match or exceed those of their non-tribal neighbors. And once more, it appears at least one Oklahoma politician is seeking a way to so diminish the numbers of Indian pockets that the "Indian problem" will simply go away forever. But Representative Pettigrew has thoughtfully provided an escape strategy for Indian Nations. He adds, as if it were a simple afterthought, that if the Indian Nations in Oklahoma fall in line with his demands regarding gas and tobacco taxation and casino compacts he would just forget the whole thing. In other words, his proposed legislation is nothing more than a threat to force the First Nations to cowtow to demands based on greed and coveted control of Indian resources. They can choose to risk losing their national status due to depopulation, or they can choose to relinquish the resources that pulled their population out of desperate poverty. Since most of the rest of the world, and certainly the courts, are aware that the notion of Oklahoma setting citizenship standards for tribal Nations flies in the face of international understanding of sovereignty, eventually the tribes will retain their rights in that regard. But retaining politically astute lawyers and going through years-long rounds of court appeals would rob the tribal treasuries as surely as paying taxes--perhaps even more so than paying taxes . . . and Representative Pettigrew knows it. His threat has teeth -- just not the ones that show when he talks. The Indian Nations throughout the United States have been through all this before and the Nations in Oklahoma need to call this jerk's bluff. Tell him to take his legislation and put it where the sun doesn't shine, because it is his threatened state legislation that opposes the "law of the land." In all his talk of Supreme Court tests, there's one court Representative Pettigrew seems to have forgotten -- the court that meets in the voting booths of a state that is heavily populated by Indians, many of whom would be severed from their tribes by his suggestion. It will be interesting to see how many Oklahoma legislators have the lack of foresight to back him. Indians are better educated and more politically active than they were in the 1920s, so they won't be as easily victimized as the Osage--and they have a recent model for throwing a genocidal rascal out of office. Indian voters put Slade Gorton out of office in Washington state just two years ago. It's time for Oklahoma's Indian people to send Representative Pettigrew looking for a real job--and time for the rest of us to lend them support in the effort. 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 ---------- - Chief Paul Waterman - Native Tribes seek clout - Crossings on Nontribal Lands - Doris Old Person Honored - Former Seminole Chief - Representative Pettigrew under Investigation threatens Quantum Bill - Blackfeet Residents sue HUD - Lakota Sioux Elders over Unsafe Homes to give Special Message - Hualapai will provide - Court will decide 'Indian(s)' own Law Enforcement Trademark Dispute - Native Prisoner - Mohegan Tribe seeking site -- Update on John Alvarado for Shellfish Nursery -- H.R. 5296 - Red Cliff Band/ Parole for Federal Prisoners Fight against Terrorism -- CCCF Volunteers needed - Court rejection of -- Update on NA Prisoners Indig Rights Law Challenges at Chillicothe - Officials cut Aid -- Petition for Alex Montana to 3 Acteal Child Survivors - Rustywire: Flag Ceremony - Ottawa pays experienced - Poem: A Morning Caw! Native Fishermen to Train - Verse: Hawaiian Book of Days - No end to battle for - Native America Calling the Truth about Ipperwash - Pow Wow on the National Mall - Liberals demand Ipperwash Inquiry in Washington, D.C. - Oneida Home to be demolished Soon - Upcoming Events --------- "RE: Chief Paul Waterman" --------- Date: Thu, 04 Sep 2002 08:11:02 -0700 From: Gary Smith Subj: NA News Item - - - - - - -- - - - - - - filename="CHIEF PAUL WATERMAN" http://IndianCountry.com/?1031140934 Noted Onondaga chief dies September 04, 2002 - 8:00am EST by: Staff reports SYRACUSE, N.Y. -- Chief Paul Waterman, Turtle Clan, Onondaga, has passed away at age 77. Waterman, a chief since 1967, died on Aug. 25 at University Hospital in Syracuse. The cause of death was not made public. Chief Waterman successfully pressured museums and collectors into returning thousands of skeletal remains and burial artifacts to the Iroquois and other tribes. Earlier this year, Chief Waterman burned tobacco over the remains of an Onondaga child whose 500-year-old grave was unearthed as the state Department of Transportation prepared to replace a bridge over the Seneca River. The Nation convinced the state to alter the $25-million bridge construction project so that the grave would not be disturbed. Last year, Chief Waterman presided over the reburial of 47 Onondagas whose remains were unearthed near Jamesville by archaeologists in 1961 and 1962. "You were taken from here and now we're going to put you back into Mother Earth, where you came from," Chief Waterman said in the Onondaga language at the time. "He had a belief in protecting these sites ... that our ancestors should not be disturbed," his niece, Jeanne Shenandoah, told The Post-Standard of Syracuse. "He will be missed," Onondaga Chief Irving Powless said. "He's been down to Kentucky, all over, putting our ancestors back in the ground. It was important to the council of chiefs, the work that he did." He was a life resident of the Onondaga Nation, and he was a 40-year member of Laborers Local 433. Survivors include two daughters, Denise Waterman of Onondaga Nation and Dawn Honyoust of Cambridge; two sons, David of Issaquah, Wash., and Wayne of Syracuse; a sister, Audrey Shenandoah of Onondaga Nation; and eight grandchildren. His wife, Frances, died in 1987. Funeral services were held at his home and the Onondaga Nation Longhouse. Burial was in the Onondaga Nation Cemetery. Butler-Badman Funeral Home, Onondaga Hill, handled arrangements. Copyright c. 2002 Indian Country Today. --------- "RE: Crossings" --------- Date: Mon, 9 Sep 2002 08:10:52 -0600 From: Gary Smith Subj: NA News Item - - - - - - -- - - - - - - filename="CROSSINGS" September 4, 2002 Rebecca Half Red RAPID CITY - Rebecca Half Red, 81, Rapid City, died Sunday, Sept. 1, 2002, at the Rapid City Regional Hospital. Surviving are 1 daughter, Luanne Quick, Rapid City; two grandsons, Michael John Half Red, Albuquerque, NM, and Jason Quick, Box Elder; one granddaughter, Elizabeth Quick, Box Elder; four great-grandchildren, Sandra, Kaeleigh, Jorden and Jaydan; two special friends, Ben Rhodd, Hill City, and Jessie Y. Sundstrom, Custer; and numerous nieces and nephews. She was preceded in death by her parents, and six brothers and sisters. Prayer services will be at 7 p.m. on Thursday at the Osheim-Catron Funeral Home in Rapid City. Visitation will be one hour prior to services, which will be at 10 a.m. on Friday, Sept. 6, at the funeral home, with Rev. Simon Looking Elk officiating. Burial will be in the Custer Cemetery, Custer, SD. A memorial has been established. September 5, 2002 Eugene Sun Bear PORCUPINE - Eugene Sun Bear, 59, Porcupine, died Friday, Aug. 30, 2002, in Rapid City. Survivors include one sister, Lorraine Pourier, Porcupine. He served in the U.S. Navy during the Vietnam era. One-night wake begins at 2 p.m. today at Sacred Heart Catholic Church in Wounded Knee. Mass of Christian Burial will be at 10 a.m. Friday, Sept. 6, at the church. Michael Little Boy will officiate over traditional services. Burial will be at Messiah Episcopal Cemetery in Wounded Knee. September 7, 2002 Debra G. Warrior PINE RIDGE - Debra G. Warrior, 43, Pine Ridge, died Thursday, Sept. 5, 2002, in Omaha, Neb. Survivors include two sons, Lester Warrior and Austin Warrior, both of Pine Ridge; two daughters, Holly Warrior and Jennifer Warrior, both of Pine Ridge; three brothers, Clifton Waters and Larvie Running Hawk, both of Pine Ridge, and Myron Warrior, Rapid City; one stepbrother, Cyril Warrior, Calico; one sister, Julie Warrior, Oglala; and four stepsisters, Gloria Warrior, Violet Ten Fingers and Sylvia Young Dog, all of Oglala, and Ida Warrior, Hot Springs. A two-night wake will begin at 4 p.m. Monday, Sept. 9, at Debra Warrior's home in Mission Flats. The second night will begin at 2 p.m. Tuesday, Sept. 10, at Brother Rene Catholic Hall in Oglala. Mass of Christian Burial will be at 10 a.m. Wednesday, Sept. 11, at Brother Rene Catholic Hall, with the Rev. Bill Pauly officiating. Burial will be at Our Lady of Good Counsel Cemetery in Oglala. Sioux Funeral Home of Pine Ridge is in charge of arrangements. Marion R. Jensen PINE RIDGE - Marion R. Jensen, 53, Pine Ridge, died Thursday, Sept. 5, 2002, in Rapid City. Survivors include her husband, Terry Jensen, Hot Springs; one daughter, Jennie Kills Back, Pine Ridge; three brothers, Pat Lee, Rapid City, Donald Lee, Denver, and Chris Roubideaux Jr., Pine Ridge; and seven sisters, Yvonne Powers, Lincoln, Neb., Faye Schafer, Phoenix, Verna Throw, Silver Springs, Nev., Cheryl Trombley, Rushville, Neb., Chrystal Folson, Hot Springs, Margaret Roubideaux, Pine Ridge, and Monie Roubideaux, Sun Lakes, Ariz. A one-night wake will begin at 3 p.m. Monday, Sept. 9, at Sacred Heart Catholic Church in Pine Ridge. Mass of Christian Burial will be at 10 a.m. Tuesday, Sept. 10, at the church, with the Rev. Steve Sanford officiating. Burial will be at Pine Ridge Presbyterian Cemetery. Copyright c. 2002 The Rapid City Journal. -=-=-=- September 3, 2002 Leonard Thompson Mr. E. Leonard Thompson, 98, a native of Washington County, born during Indian Territory days and presently a resident of Dewey, died at 6:01 p.m. on Saturday at his family residence in Dewey. Funeral services for Mr. Thompson will be held at 10:00 a.m. on Wednesday in the Arnold Moore-Dewey Funeral Home Chapel. Rev. Ralph O. Dershem will be the officiant. Full military rites for Mr. Thompson will be accorded at the graveside in the Busby Cemetery north of Copan by the James H. Teel American Legion Post #105 and the Dewey V.F.W. Post #10099. A wake will be held beginning at 8:00 p.m. on Tuesday in the Arnold Moore- Dewey Funeral Home. Committal prayers, dedication of the grave and interment will be directed by The Arnold Moore-Dewey Funeral Home. Casket bearers for Mr. Thompson will include Messrs. Bucky Buck, Bernard T. "Andy" Davis, Jack Tatum, Douglas Donnell, Curtis Zunigha and Michael Standeford. Leonard Thompson will lie in state in the Arnold Moore-Dewey Funeral Home where friends may call for their visitation until the service hour on Wednesday morning. A full blood Delaware Indian and a native of Washington Co., Indian Territory, Edward Leonard Thompson was born near Glenn Oak on April 13, 1904. He was the son of the late James H. and Sarah (Wilson) Thompson. He was reared and received in Washington Co., attending the Dewey schools where he completed his education in the Dewey High School. He and the former Miss Martha Alberta Shearer were married on June 1, 1944 in Lordeburge, Arizona and she preceded him in death in 1973. Leonard was enlisted in the United States Army Air Force during World War II and served until he received his honorable discharge in October of 1945 when he returned to Bartlesville. From 1945 until 1952, Mr. Thompson was employed by the Dewey Portland Cement Plant and in 1952 he began his employment as a coal operator until 1959 when he was employed by the Continental Baking Co. for fifteen years where he remained active until his retirement in 1971. He and the former Margarite Alice (Swank) Cape were married in 1975 at Nowata, Okla. The Thompsons established their home in Dewey and she preceded him in death on September 29, 1993 in Bartlesville. Leonard remained a resident of Dewey living in retirement. Mr. Thompson was a member of the Delaware Tribe of Indians; the American Baking Union; James H. Teel American Legion Post #105 and the Dewey, V.F.W. Post #10099. Surviving are his one daughter, Ms. Dorothy Ann Thompson of Dewey. He was preceded in death by his father; mother and one sister, Nora (Thompson) Dean. Copyright c. 2002 the Bartlesville Examiner-Enterprise. -=-=-=- September 6, 2002 Barbara June Warrior Barbara June Warrior, 55, of Stroud died Wednesday in Edmond. Survivors include three brothers, Morris G. Warrior of Stroud, Dean R. Tartsah of Bristow and Bert Samqua of Florida; two brothers and sisters- in-law, Antowine and Kathy Warrior of Clinton, Mass., and Thomas and Barbara Warrior of Stroud; a sister, Chenenia LaDeaux of Stroud; and many nieces, nephews and other relatives. A Sac and Fox tribal wake will be 7 p.m. Saturday at the Sac and Fox Community Center in Stroud with the Rev. Darrell Robinson officiating. A funeral service will be 10 a.m. Sunday at the Sac and Fox Community Center with the Rev. Thomas Morris officiating. Burial will follow in the Sac and Fox cemetery. Arrangements are being handled by Parks Brothers Funeral Service in Stroud. Copyright c. 1997-2002 The Shawnee News-Star. -=-=-=- September 5, 2002 Blue Wiley Blue Wiley died Sunday, Sept. 1, 2002, after a sudden illness. He was 72. He was born March 16, 1930, in Delaware County to Frank and Maggie (Owens) Wiley. He worked all over as a general laborer. He was a full blood member of the Cherokee Tribe. He attended Roundsprings Church. Survivors include a niece and four nephews. The service is 2 p.m. Friday at Roundsprings Church. Burial is in Roundsprings Cemetery. Arrangements are under the direction of Worley-Luginbuel Funeral Home in Jay. Copyright c. 2002 The Miami News-Record. -=-=-=- September 4, 2002 Nancy Ramage Graveside funeral services for longtime Wewoka resident Nancy Pauline Ramage are scheduled for 2 p.m. Thursday at Oakwood Cemetery. Rev. Neil Thompson is set to officiate. Services are under the direction of Stout Funeral Home. Ramage died Monday, Sept. 2, 2002 at Norman Regional Hospital at the age of 84. She was born Feb. 11, 918 in Texas to Huke and Ethel Eley. She attended Holdenville Schools and graduated in 1936. Ramage married Hugh B. Ramage in Holdenville on Dec. 19, 1942. The couple moved to Wewoka and lived there for 55 years. She was a member of the La-dies Golf Association, Garden Clubs, and the First Christian Church. Ramage retired from Security State Bank in the early 1970s and worked with her husband in the Wewoka Flower Shop and the Wewoka Tag Agency until his retirement. She is survived by one son, John Ramage of Wewoka; and one sister, Cathryn Ball of Holdenville. Pallbearers are Eddie Colbert, Cletus Colbert, Fred Laquement, John Norman, Al Beaver, and Phillip Brown. The Seminole Producer/Copyright c. 1999-2000 Arizona Newspapers Assn. -=-=-=- September 5, 2002 Elden Tortalita Jr. A prayer service for Elden "Digger" Tortalita Jr., 16, of Mescalero, will be at 7 p.m. on Friday, Sept. 6, at St. Joseph's Mission, where the funeral Mass will be at 10 a.m. on Saturday, Sept. 7. Burial will follow at Nogal Canyon near Bent, with the Rev. John Gibbons officiating. Mr. Tortalita died Monday, Sept. 2, 2002, in Mescalero. He was born Dec. 13, 1985, in Ruidoso. He had lived in the area all of his life. He was a junior at Mescalero High School and a member of St. Joseph's Mission. Survivors include his mother and stepfather, Christine and Danny Ponce of Mescalero; his father, Elden K. Tortalita Sr., of Albuquerque; brothers Jonathan Ponce of Mescalero, Kito Sandoval and Shawn Phillip of Albuquerque, and Kevin Lucero of San Domingo Pueblo; sisters Kenithia Saenz and Kimberly Tortalita, both of Mescalero, Annella Ponce and Sophia Ponce both of Iowa, Christina Ponce, Angela Ponce, Amich Ponce and Emorie Ponce, all of Mescalero; grandparents Alvino Saenz Jr. and Rosemary Saenz of Mescalero and Virginia Tortalita of Albuquerque; and a great- grandmother, Virginia Gaines, of Mescalero. Arrangements are under the direction of LaGrone Funeral Chapel of Ruidoso. Copyright c. 1999-2002 MediaNews Group, Inc./Ruidoso NM. -=-=-=- September 4, 2002 Ethel Frances Vannest Oct. 11, 1932 - Aug. 31, 2002 Ethel Frances Vannest, 69, a resident of Farmington since 1961, passed away Saturday, Aug. 31, 2002, at San Juan Regional Medical Center. She was born Oct. 11, 1932, in Rocky Ford, Colo., the daughter of George Headlee and Juanita Mountain Headlee Green. Mrs. Vannest liked to travel and loved the outdoors, especially camping and fishing. She was active in her church where she kept its books and served as treasurer. She was a whiz at math and a very detail-oriented person. She loved reading the Bible. She liked playing games and doing puzzles, but most of all she enjoyed spending time with her family and friends. Mrs. Vannest spent many hours working alongside her dear husband as custodian at McKinley Elementary School. She knew and loved many of the children who attended there. She will be dearly missed. Mrs. Vannest is survived by her husband, Ellis W. Vannest of Farmington; daughter, Marilyn Vannest and her children, Jason, Jesse and Justin Vannest, all of Farmington; a sister, Margaret Pleticha and husband, Roy, of Idaho; and uncle, Ed Mountain and wife, Evelyn of Burlington, Colo. Friends may call from 5 to 8 p.m. today, Wednesday, Sept. 4, at Cope Memorial Chapel of Farmington, 404 W. Arrington St. Funeral services will be at 10 a.m. Thursday, Sept. 5, at Cope Memorial Chapel in Farmington. Pastor Chester Dean of the Navajo Bible Missionary Church will officiate. Burial will follow at Lighthouse Mission Cemetery in Bloomfield. Pallbearers will be Felix Valdez, Gavin Charley, Jason Vannest, Raymond John, Terrill Grey, Paul Scott and Willis Etcitty. Honorary pallbearers will be Jesse L. Vannest, Justin W. Vannest and Tyler Quebodeaux. Arrangements are with Cope Memorial Chapel of Farmington, 404 W. Arrington St., (505) 327-5242. September 05, 2002 Luke B. Benally Jan. 14, 1922 - Sept. 3, 2002 Luke B. Benally, 80, of Beclabito died Tuesday, Sept. 3, 2002, in Shiprock. He was born in Beclabito Jan. 14, 1922. Funeral services will be held at 10 a.m. Saturday, Sept. 7, at the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints in Shiprock. Interment will follow at the family cemetery in Beclabito. Funeral arrangements are entrusted to Brewer, Lee and Larkin Funeral Home in Shiprock, (505) 368-2607. Copyright c. 1999-2002 MediaNews Group, Inc./Farmington, NM. -=-=-=- September 4, 2002 Minnie Platero Lincoln OJO ENCINO - Services for Minnie Lincoln, 89, will be held at 10:30 a.m., Thursday, Sept. 5 at Cope Memorial. Evangelist Max Tomasiyo will officiate. Burial will follow in St. Michaels, Ariz. Visitation will be held from 4-6 p.m., today at Cope Memorial. Lincoln died Sept. 1 in Grants. She was born March 15, 1913 in Torreon into the Red House People Clan for the Two Who Came to the Water People Clan. Lincoln attended Albuquerque Indian School. She was employed with the govenment, as a cook and was a homemaker. Her hobbies included weaving. Survivors include her sons, Sam Lincoln Jr., Charles Lincoln Sr., Ray Lincoln, Valentino Lincoln and Wilbert Lincoln; daughter, Ellie Gleason, Dollie Lincoln and Rita Lincoln; parents, Jose and Juanita Platero; brother, Ben Platero; sisters, Nellie Willieto, Rose Chiquito and Alice Lopez; grandparents, Miquel and Mansa Castello; 34 grandchildren; 34 great-grandchildren and two great-great grandchildren. Lincoln was preceded in death by her husband, Sam Lincoln Sr. and son, Elmer Lincoln. Pallbearers will be Micah Lincoln, Jacque Lincoln, Casey Gleason, Shawn Gleason, Kelley Gleason and Daniel Lincoln. Cope Memorial Chapel is in charge of arrangements. Lennie R. Reynolds Sr. FORT DEFIANCE, Ariz. - Services for Lennie Reynolds Sr., 55, will be held at 10 a.m., Thursday, Sept. 5 at Fort Defiance Catholic Church. Burial will follow at the private family cemetery, Sawmill, Ariz. Reynolds died Aug. 31 in Fort Defiance. He was born Sept. 7, 1946 in Fort Defiance into the Mud People Clan for the One Who Walks Around You People Clan. Reynolds graduated from Window Rock High School and attended vocational school in Oakland, Calif. and Lawrence, Kan. He was employed with the Bureau of Indian Affairs, Navajo Nation, Navajo Housing Authority, Navajo Tribal Utility Authority, carpenter's union, soil conservation service as a soil conservationist, a range technician, range rider, electrician apprentice and carpenter. His hobbies included rodeos and ranching. He was a former member of the All Indian Rodeo Cowboys Association (AIRCA). Survivors include his wife, Carol J. Reynolds of Fort Defiance; son, Lennie R. Reynolds Jr. of Fort Defiance; daughter, Lynette K. Reynolds of Fort Defiance; brother, Jimmy Tsosie of Sawmill, Ariz.; sisters, Ruth S. Benally of Fort Defiance and Lillian S. Mitchell of Sawmill; and four grandchildren. Reynolds Sr. was preceded in death by his parents, Alchidesbah and Hoskie Jim Tsosie; and Mabel S. Bennett. Pallbearers will be Vernon Anderson, Wilford Francisco, Lennie R. Reynolds Jr., Albert Spencer, Michael Spencer and Noland Spencer. Rollie Mortuary is in charge of arrangements. Johnson Reeder COAL MINE - Services for Johnson Reeder, 72, were held at 10 a.m., today, Sept. 4, at Church of God, Window Rock. Jerry Tom officiated. Burial followed on family land, Black Hat. Reeder died Aug. 30 in Coal Mine. He was born March 5, 1930 in Coal Mine into the Charcoal Streaked Division of the Red Running into the Water People Clan for the Coyote Pass, Jemez People Clan. Reeder attended Chemawa Indian School. He was a coal miner at the Old Coal Mine. Survivors include his son, Freddie Reeder and Calvin Reeder both of Gallup, Delbert Reeder and Johnny Reeder both of Phoenix; daughters, Evelyn J. Pinto of Tohatchi, Hazel Stoneburner, Apoplca, Fla., Amelda Reeder and Jennie Reeder both of Phoenix; brothers, George Reeder of St. Michaels, Ariz.; sisters, Susie Tapahe, Clara Etsitty, Ellen Blackgoat and Marian Brady of Coal Mine; 26 grandchildren and 11 great-grandchildren. Reeder was preceded in death by his parents, Herbert and Bonnie Zah Reeder; and sister, Ethel Zieu. Pallbearers were Thomas Yazzie Jr., Theron Yazzie, Emery Yazzie, Albert Cadman and Willis Peterson. Tse Bonito Mortuary is in charge of arrangements. Eileen Janie Gross SAN RAFAEL - Services for Eileen Gross, 72, were held at 10 a.m., today at Church of Christ, Grants. Joy Lea Brazell officiate. Burial followed at Grants Memorial Park. Gross died Aug. 31 in Albuquerque. She was born Aug. 16, 1930 in Pageton, W.V. Survivors include her son, Wayne Gross of Rio Rancho; daugther, Dianne Woodard of Roswell; six grandchildren and seven great-grandchildren. Jennifer Marie Tsosie TWIN LAKES - Services for Jennifer Tsosie, 26, will be announced at a later date. Tsosie died Sept. 1 in Gallup. She was born June 8, 1976 in Gallup. A family meeting will be held at 6 p.m., Thursday, Sept. 5 at Twin Lakes Chapter House. Cope Memorial Chapel is in charge of arrangements. Copyright c. 2002 the Gallup Independent. -=-=-=- September 5, 2002 Patrick Martin Usk, Wash. Funeral Mass for Patrick Jerry "P.J." Martin, 49, will be at 11 a.m. today at the Kalispel Community Center in Usk. Sherman-Knapp Funeral Home in Newport, Wash., is in charge of arrangements. Mr. Martin, who was born in Newport, died Tuesday. He was a lifelong resident of Pend Oreille County. He graduated from high school in Cusick, Wash., in 1972. He served in the Marine Corps and was discharged as a lance corporal in 1978. Mr. Martin worked as a firefighter with the Bureau of Indian Affairs. He was a member of the Spokane Tribe of Indians. Survivors include his mother, Louise Martin of Usk; and two sisters, Ann Martin of Wellpinit, Wash., and Rose Martin of Usk. -- Spokane, Wash., Coeur d'Alene, Idaho and the Inland Northwest Copyright c. 2002, The Spokesman-Review. -=-=-=- September 4, 2002 Doren Emery White Hawk BROCKTON - Doren Emery White Hawk, 57, died on Aug. 31, 2002, of congestive heart failure near Fort Kipp. Doren was born on Aug. 25, 1945, in Poplar, the son of Benedict and Agnes White Hawk. He grew up in the Poplar and Riverside Community and attended schools in Poplar. He was married to Ethelene DeMarrias and was later divorced. Doren worked on various farms. He enjoyed basketball, fishing and hunting and was a big Brockton Warriors fan. He was also the town mechanic and loved working on cars. He was preceded in death by four brothers, Mervin, Benedict, Donovan and Allen Survivors include a friend and companion Ethelene White Hawk; brother, Philmore White Hawk of Poplar; two sisters, Birdie White Hawk of Poplar and Ramona White Hawk of Fort Collins, Colo.; and Faryl Youngman whom he raised as his daughter. He is also survived by numerous nieces and nephews. Shawn DeMarrias, Layne Long Tree, Brooks Rattling Thunder, and Vincent Long Tree all called him grandpa and he thought the world of them. A wake will be held on Thursday, Sept. 5, at the Brockton Cultural Center. Funeral services will be at 10 a.m. on Friday, Sept. 6 at the Brockton High School with Rev. Fr. Michael Schneider officiating. Interment will be in the Riverview Cemetery near Brockton. Clayton Memorial Chapel is in charge of arrangements. Jarrod Preston Littlewhiteman LAME DEER - Jarrod Preston Littlewhiteman, infant son of Verlin and Melberta (Eagleman) Littlewhiteman, was born and died on Sunday at the family home in Lame Deer. Funeral services will be at 10 a.m. at the White River Mennonite Church in Busby. Burial will be in the Busby Cemetery. Rausch Funeral Home of the Northern Cheyenne Nation is in charge of the funeral arrangements. Copyright c. The Billings Gazette, a division of Lee Enterprises. -=-=-=- Wednesday, September 4, 2002 Dale Marvin Franks Sr. BROWNING -- Dale Marvin Franks Sr., 41, a laborer who enjoyed hand games and powwows, died Friday at a Great Falls hospital of gastrointestinal bleeding. His funeral is 2 p.m. today at Little Flower Parish, with burial in Willow Creek Cemetery. Day Family Funeral Home of Browning is in charge of arrangements. Survivors include children Dale Marvin Franks Jr. of Great Falls and Adele Stella Franks, Julianna Franks and Edmond Ross Franks, all of Browning; a former stepson whom he raised, Sonny Wagner of Browning; sisters Verna Fish of Browning and Patricia Guardipee of Great Falls; brothers Edward Franks Jr. of Great Falls, Tony Lee Franks of Browning and Lyle Franks of Canada; and one grandchild. Copyright c. 2002 Great Falls Tribune, a division of Lee Enterprises. --------- "RE: Doris Old Person Honored" --------- Date: Thu, 04 Sep 2002 08:11:02 -0700 From: Gary Smith Subj: NA News Item - - - - - - -- - - - - - - filename="HONORING" http://www.owlstar.com/dailyheadlines.htm http://www.goldentrianglenews.com/display/inn_glacier_reporter/news/ Doris Old Person honored for years of service at Siyeh picnic BY JOHN MCGILL GLACIER REPORTER EDITOR September 5, 2002 "Siyeh Development is sponsoring this employees picnic," said Darrell Kipp, director of the Piegan Institute and emcee of Friday's event. "And we're here to honor Doris Old Person with a special acknowledgement and a certificate for her long years of service to the Blackfeet Tribe and Blackfeet children." Steak and all the fixins were served up at Browning's City Park to all the employees of Siyeh Development Corporation, the economic "arm" of Blackfeet tribal government which oversees several businesses in the name of the Blackfeet Tribe. But the occasion also focused on Doris Old Person's accomplishments, even though she was hospitalized at the time of the ceremony. "She worked as a pioneer educator who helped federal, state and county entities learn of the need for equality in education and special appropriations where they were needed, for school buildings and training non-Indian educators how to deal with us as Indian people," Kipp said. Doris' parents, Lillian and Francis Bullshoe, had several sons and daughters, Kipp continued, who all went into educational fields. "They used that to help us as a people to acquire higher quality and more equitable education," he said, "so that's why we're joining with Siyeh to honor and show the unity of the people to her for her efforts on behalf of the Blackfeet people." The picnic is the first of what is planned to be an annual event, Kipp said, "to acknowledge the community, Blackfeet Tribal Business Council and Siyeh's employees." Kipp noted Siyeh businesses include Glacier Peaks Bingo, Discovery Lodge and Casino, Kimi Water and Starr Link Cable. "Siyeh is the chartered arm of the Blackfeet Tribal Business Council that carries out economic development on the Reservation for the Blackfeet Tribe," he said. Copyright c. 2002 Golden Triangle Newspapers/Browning Glacier-Reporter. --------- "RE: Representative Pettigrew threatens Quantum Bill" --------- Date: Thu, 04 Sep 2002 08:11:02 -0700 From: Gary Smith Subj: NA News Item - - - - - - -- - - - - - - filename="BLOOD QUANTUM" http://www.owlstar.com/dailyheadlines.htm http://www.owlstar.com/dailyheadlines.htm Representative may write bill that would require tribal members to possess 50 percent Indian blood By MICHAEL DODSON SNS Staff Writer A 90-minute interim study of the effects of tribal sovereignty could lead to Oklahoma legislation that would require that members of tribes in Oklahoma possess at least a 50 percent Indian blood quantum. Rep. Wayne Pettigrew, R-Edmond, says he is looking into authoring such a bill. "I don't want any special gifts. I don't want any allowances or taxation (for any ethnic group)," Pettigrew said. "Those days are gone. I want to be given the same opportunity as every other American -- no more, no less." Pettigrew said the battle that needs to be fought is "what is and what is not an Indian. Is a person that is blond-haired and blue-eyed but has 1/664th Indian (blood), but they have a tribal roll number, an Indian?" The lawmaker describes that as "the ultimate question that has to be answered, whether it be by us or by the (U.S.) Supreme Court." When asked how the state of Oklahoma, which lacks authority over sovereign tribal governments, could set rules on tribal membership, Rep. Pettigrew replied, "We could put something in the statutes, get sued, take the battle to the Supreme Court and win." Pettigrew said he was not predicting a Supreme Court win for such a state law. "I'm not predicting a win," he said. "But, at some point, you need to define the membership in a tribe. Right now, the (Indian) nations determine that. For this issue to be totally solved, the Supreme Court is going to have to re-define the membership in the Indian nations as a majority of Indian blood of all tribes." In the example Pettigrew offered, a person who is one-eighth Choctaw, one-eighth Cherokee and one-quarter Creek would be eligible for tribal membership. The lawmaker would allow that person to have membership in all three tribes, something that is not now permissible. Anyone with less total Indian heritage could not be a legally recognized Indian nor the member of a federally recognized tribe. Pettigrew professes a goal of reaching a situation in which "real Indians are given real benefits but `wannabe' Indians or pretend Indians (do not receive benefits.)" He says any person who has any amount less than 50 percent Indian heritage should consider himself "more of something else...an American with tribal ancestry. You're not a separate nation anymore when you cease to be half Indian." Pettigrew called U.S. Supreme Court decisions and federal laws which support the tribes' determining their own membership "bad law." He added, "It's bad law when you've got someone out here who can tie one drop of the blood flowing through their veins to an economic benefit that gives them an advantage over 99 percent of the population." Pettigrew said he will back away from introducing this legislation if he is satisfied with the results of current negotiations over tribal-state of Oklahoma compacts on tobacco taxes. "If the tribes negotiate in good faith and give us a compact that gives us oversight over tobacco, the grocery (sales tax) situation and a gaming compact whereby we can evaluate games before they go into (Indian casinos). ..there may not be a need," he explained. "The issue may kind of go away." "If we find out that we cannot work with the tribes, then we'll have to find a way to work around the tribes," Pettigrew said. John A. Barrett Jr., chairman of the Shawnee-based Citizen Potawatomi Nation, spoke at Tuesday's meeting of the Oklahoma House Rules Committee at which the truncated interim study was conducted. Barrett urged state officials to work with tribal governments to improve all Oklahomans' futures. "But, taking away our ability to raise money is not how to do it," Barrett said. Barrett said a Harvard University study, completed in June of this year, estimates Indian gaming job creation in Oklahoma at 8,000 and indicates those gaming operations pump $329 million into the state's economy annually. Copyright c. 1997-2002 The Shawnee News-Star. --------- "RE: Lakota Sioux Elders to give Special Message" --------- Date: Fri, 6 Sep 2002 15:38:13 -0400 (EDT) From: IndigenousNews@webtv.net Subj: Lakota Sioux Elders to give special message Mailing List: Native Rights Sent in by Eulynda....thanks Lakota Sioux Elders To Give Special Message Carmeen Klausner Call 970-282-8573 or visit the web site at: www.pathwaystospirit.org for more information. Native American elders from the Rosebud and Pine Ridge reservations will present a special public message based on centuries-old ancestral prophecies on Saturday, September 14, from 9 am until dark. The Lakota (Sioux) spiritual leaders, reservation elders and medicine people are coming forward to speak on behalf of Mother Earth and a way of life that was given centuries ago -- a way of life that promoted harmony and balance. Matthew King, known as "Noble Red Man" to his people, once said, "We remember our original instructions from the Creator." There is an ancient Lakota Creation Story telling us of a great race that took place around the Sacred Black Hills. The race was between the two-legged and four-legged, and the two-legged won. Arvol Looking Horse, 19th- generation Keeper of the Sacred Calf Pipe tells us that, "a great Council began between them to discuss how life would sustain itself from then on, ensuring balance and harmony. The Buffalo came forward and offered us his body for food, shelter, ceremony and clothing, and also the use of his Spirit to strengthen our own. The Buffalo said he would offer himself to us as long as we would offer our prayers and tobacco for what he was here for. He said, "What happens to me will affect you!" Another elder told, "When a buffalo was wounded or sick, the others would circle around him to help him stand. We, too, must do that with each other." One of the honored speakers is Howard Bad Hand, a respected leader of the Hollow Horn Bear Sundance on the Rosebud Reservation and author of Native American Healing. He talks of how his relatives showed him what it's like to begin something. His Grandma Lena taught him that life is simply an expression of nature. She said, "When people find out who they are, what they should do with who they are, and that what they do in life corresponds with what they bring to the world with their own capabilities and inner worth, they are expressing their nature. When they do this, they find their appropriate place in relation to their world." Also speaking is Selo Black Crow of the Pine Ridge Reservation, known by people on and off the reservation as Uncle and Grandfather. Selo learned the ways of his people from his Grandmother Rattling in the Water. Selo speaks of the silence after all planes were grounded on September 11. He says that nothing should be up in the sky that doesn't have feathers. The planes break the magnetic field around Mother Earth and cause her to tilt and change the direction of things. Other speakers include Dave Swallow, Jr. (Pine Ridge), Albert White Hat, Sr. (Rosebud), and Wallace Black Elk (Rosebud). Please join us on this day as we come together at the beautiful Sylvan Dale Guest Ranch along the Big Thompson River to put our intent on listening to the ancient ancestral voices of the Lakota Nation as spoken by those who have followed. Proceeds from this event will benefit the local Colorado Projects of Pathways to Spirit. These projects include utility payments, direct provision of goods and services, and the establishment of native sewing groups. We are standing today at a crossroads. We must begin to forgive and respect each other so that all life will continue on in a harmonious way. Attending this gathering will help Indians and non-Indians understand the path that must be walked to heal the earth and bring in the needed harmony. This gathering is sponsored by Pathways to Spirit, a Ft. Collins-based non-profit, which helps native people along the Front Range and on the Reservations of South Dakota. Co-sponsors are Sylvan Dale Guest Ranch, The City of Loveland and IBM. Attendees at the gathering may bring a picnic lunch or travel the short trip into Loveland, or visit the many vendors, including Plains Indian art work, sculptures, bead work, quill work, star quilts and jewelry. Tickets are $15, Seniors $10, Children 7-12 $6 and under 6 are FREE. Add $1 per ticket for credit card orders. Group rates available. Cash or credit card. Call 970-282-8573 or visit the web site at: www. pathwaystospirit.org for more information. Carmeen Klausner is one of the founders of Pathways to Sprit, a Colorado, 501 C 3 non-profit. She has been involved with the Lakota on Pine Ridge and Rosebud for ten years on the level of providing services as well as deep participation in "traditional" ceremony and way of life. Carmeen was adopted as a sister to a Lakota woman over 6 years ago in a traditional "Hunka Ceremony" - the making of relatives ceremony. Printed for educational purposes only: The news that is reported is not necessarily the viewpoint of IndigenousNews Reprinted under the Fair Use Law: Doctrine of international copyright law. http://www4.law.cornell.edu/uscode/17/107.html To send news reports, subscribe or unsubscribe send email to IndigenousNews@webtv.net --------- "RE: Court will decide 'Indian(s) Trademark Dispute" --------- Date: Wed, 03 Sep 2002 08:54:32 -0700 From: Gary Smith Subj: NA News Item - - - - - - -- - - - - - - filename="TRADEMARK" http://www.owlstar.com/dailyheadlines.htm http://www.redding.com/top_stories/business/20020903topbus039.shtml Court will decide trademark dispute Baseball team, motorcycle maker bicker over who's the true Indian September 03, 2002 - 2:17 a.m. SAN FRANCISCO - What's the difference between a motorcycle and a big league ball club? The answer is now in the hands of a federal judge. Major League Baseball, the Cleveland Indians and Gilroy-based Indian Motorcycle Corp. have gone to court to settle an ongoing dispute over their trademark logos. Both the baseball team and the motorcycle manufacturer use images that are similar in script and appearance - caricatures that American Indian leaders have criticized as demeaning and racist. With the team suing the motorcycle maker and the motorcycle maker suing the team, American Indian activists said both should drop their dispute and abandon the logos altogether. "Both companies are fighting over intellectual and cultural property that they stole from us," said Vernon Bellecourt, a member of the Ojibwe Nation and president of the American Indian Movement's National Coalition on Racism in Sports and Media. "Both should discontinue the use of such property." Cleveland Indians officials did not respond to requests for comment. Indian Motorcycle Senior Vice President Fran O'Hagan said Major League Baseball triggered the dispute this spring when it asked a federal judge to bar his company from using its "Indian" logo unless it was directly linked to motorcycles. Beyond motorcycles ranging in price from $17,000- $20,000, the company markets a line of Indian Motorcycle apparel. "That's like saying the Indians shouldn't use the name Indians without Cleveland in front of it," O'Hagan said. The company responded by filing a suit in June asking a federal judge in San Francisco to determine the likelihood that its emblem would be confused with the Cleveland Indians' insignia. The Indians again last week petitioned for a ruling on the use of the logo by the motorcycle maker. The team also asked for an unspecified of damages. O'Hagan said his company countered, asking the court to protect its trademark. "We just want to get out of this whole thing and get back to our business of selling motorcycles and our merchandise," O'Hagan said. "Our experience has been that our customers have no confusion over our logo. We haven't seen any confusion between baseball and our motorcycles." The original Indian Motorcycle Co. was founded in 1913, but went bankrupt in 1953 after losing market share to Harley-Davidson. The company - having retained the trademark rights to its name - was resurrected in 1998 by a group of Canadian investors and the Gilroy-based California Motorcycle Co. Big League baseball began in Cleveland in the late 19th century with several failed National League clubs before the American League's Indians settled in. Despite the current dispute between the motorcycle company and baseball franchise, the two coexisted in the 1940s. A 1948 Indian motorcycle advertisement featured Indians Pitcher Bob Feller endorsing an Indian motorcycle. "No confusion over 'Indians' and 'Indian' in 1948," O'Hagan said. Copyright c. 2002 Record Searchlight/Redding CA - The E.W. Scripps Co. --------- "RE: Mohegan Tribe seeking site for Shellfish Nursery" --------- Date: Wed, 03 Sep 2002 08:54:32 -0700 From: Gary Smith Subj: NA News Item - - - - - - -- - - - - - - filename="SHELLFISH NURSERY" http://www.owlstar.com/dailyheadlines.htm http://www.zwire.com/site/news Mohegan tribe seeking site for shellfish nursery Associated Press September 03, 2002 WESTERLY, R.I. - Having received federal approval for a massive aquaculture operation in Long Island Sound, the Mohegan tribe of Connecticut is now expanding its shellfishing operation into Rhode Island. The Army Corps of Engineers last week approved the tribe's plan to create a $10 million, state-of-the-art aquaculture operation off the southeastern Connecticut coast. Baby quahogs and oysters that will be used as seeds for the shellfish farm are to be grown at a marina on the Pawcatuck River in Westerly, The Providence Journal reported. The seedlings will later be transported to waters off Stonington Harbor and Ram Island Reef, in Connecticut. The Rhode Island Coastal Resources Management Council last month approved a 10-year-permit for the tribe to install equipment for a shellfish nursery at the Frank Hall Boat Yard in Avondale, a village of Westerly. The marina's owner, John Hall, is a Mohegan. A spokesman for the tribe, which is best known for its Connecticut casino, Mohegan Sun, said other Rhode Island marinas are also being considered as nursery sites. "We're looking into Quonset, Bristol, Point Judith - any commercial marina," said Paul Maugle, the tribe's director of aquaculture. "We're looking forward to working with Rhode Island to accomplish this." Maugle said the Mohegans plan to harvest 20 million oysters and about 50 million clams per year. He said the project would employ 30 people within five years and make the tribe about $5 million a year. Environmental officials say aquaculture improves water quality as shellfish filter oxygen, phosphorous and suspended sediments. "Shellfish provide ecological benefits," said John Volk, director of aquaculture for the Connecticut Department of Agriculture. "Aquaculture is a wonderful industry. It's food production; it's farming." Copyright c. 2002 New Haven Register. --------- "RE: Red Cliff Band/Fight against Terrorism" --------- Date: Wed, 03 Sep 2002 08:54:32 -0700 From: Gary Smith Subj: NA News Item - - - - - - -- - - - - - - filename="TERRORISM" http://www.owlstar.com/dailyheadlines.htm http://www.ashlandwi.com/placed/index.php?story_id=118609&view=text Red Cliff Band member's company holds key position in fight against terrorism The Daily Press Friday, August 30th, 2002 11:03:37 AM By BARBARA BROWN MEREDITH The County Journal RED CLIFF - Constance Gurnoe Buffalo, president and CEO of the cutting- edge technology firm Intelagard, Inc in Broomfield, Colo., doesn't look like a soldier. But her business is part of the United States' national defense in fighting terrorism. A member of the Red Cliff Band of Lake Superior Chippewa, Gurnoe recently visited the reservation to confer on tribal issues and visit her father Leo Gurnoe. She spoke to The County Journal about the dispersal systems her company manufactures in combatting biological and chemical weapons. Incorporated in 1995, Intelagard specializes in designing and manufacturing equipment that is being used as an effective, environmentally safe, decontaminating process against biological and chemical agents, as well as firefighting. Buffalo's company was contracted by the federal government to decontaminate the U.S. Senate offices in Washington, D.C. following the anthrax contamination in November. Only two companies are licensed to manufacture a special decontamination formula developed at Sandia National Laboratories in New Mexico. One is EnviroFoam, a Huntsville, Ala.-based company that partners with Intelagard; the other is Denver-based Modec Inc. EnviroFoam Technologies makes the substance EasyDECON; an acronym for easy decontamination formula. According to Buffalo, Intelagard got its start 11 years ago by offering a foam to protect homes from wildfires. The company, which had fewer than 20 employees, has expanded to produce a greater number of delivery systems for firefighting and biological and chemical agents decontamination. EasyDECON, the product used in Intelagard's dispersal systems, is a powerful two-part foam that kills biological warfare agents such as anthrax and neutralizes all known chemical warfare agents such as mustard gas, Sarin, VX, and Soman. It is safe to use, non-toxic and non-corrosive. Because of its safety, it can be deployed immediately at an incident scene, even before evacuating casualties. "The Environmental Protection Agency currently has EasyDECON under testing for permanent licensing as a general sterilent," Buffalo said. According to Buffalo, the "kill rate" on the anthrax decontamination was so great in the Dirksen and Hart Senate buildings in Washington, D.C., the Intelagard employees were asked to stay on for an additional 90 days following the November cleanup. As America confronts the preeminent danger of biological and chemical terrorism, the Bush administration has asked for $26.4 billion in funding as the Homeland Protection Act. "Bush asked for $4.6 billion for EasyDECON, " Buffalo said. "Since Sept. 11, 40-50 cities and five foreign countries have sought Intelagard's expertise," she said. "Cities have been contacting us to do everything from protecting their hazmat (hazardous materials) crews to protecting stadiums full of people, to decontaminating bodies before putting them into body bags. "It's not the kind of thing that people want to talk about, but these are the kind of things we're having to prepare for. We're on hand to invent solutions in coordination with the emergency response professionals." Buffalo said Intelagard plans on hiring more personnel and expanding the manufacturing of their dispersal systems used in part with the EasyDECON formula. Orders for the dispersal systems have increased dramatically since Sept. 11. "Our production capability at the present is very high; between 100-1,000 units a month. The cost of the individual dispersal systems range from $2,000-$50,000, depending upon the type of equipment needed," Buffalo said. A descendent of Great Chief Buffalo of the Lake Superior Band of Chippewa, Buffalo said part of her commitment to counterterrorism stems from her Native American heritage. She keeps a ceremonial sage bowl with an eagle's feather in her office. Buffalo said not many people realize that Native Americans were the first in this hemisphere to suffer biological attacks. British troops during the French and Indian War used small-pox infected blankets to infiltrate tribes they were fighting. Although there is no perfect panacea against anthrax and other unknown biological agents, the Sandia formula, EasyDECON, and Intelagard's dispersal systems using the products is mounting a defense against the imposing threat of biological and chemical agents. "If terrorists know an effective deterrent exists that can quickly neutralize a biological or chemical attack, the hope is that they won't even bother," Buffalo said. "In the past, the full burden of preparedness has fallen on government agencies. Now, limited government budgets and increasing need for security is driving the responsibility for preparedness down the ladder. "As cities deploy more effective responses to terrorist attacks, two things are possible. First, the citizens plan more from strength than fear and secondly, that preparation may deter terrorists." Copyright c. 2002 Murphy McGinnis Interactive/Ashland WI Daily Press. --------- "RE: Court rejection of Indig Rights Law Challenges" --------- Date: Sat, 7 Sep 2002 14:41:19 -0500 (CDT) From: owner-chiapas95-english@eco.utexas.edu (Chiapas95-english) Subj: NYT,Court rejection of Indig rights law challenges Mailing List: Chiapas95-English -- This message is forwarded to you by the editors of the Chiapas95 newslists. From: moniquelemaitre@yahoo.com To: chiapas-l@tierra.ucsd.edu This article from NYTimes.com has been sent to you by moniquelemaitre@yahoo.com. "La Jornada" (9-7-002) has a much more detailed coverage of this disastrous decision. Monique moniquelemaitre@yahoo.com Mexican Supreme Court Rejects Challenges to Indian Rights Law September 7, 2002 By THE ASSOCIATED PRESS MEXICO CITY, Sept. 6 (AP) - In a ruling that dashes the hopes of leftist Zapatista rebels, Mexico's Supreme Court announced today that it was rejecting constitutional challenges to an Indian rights law that the guerrillas said did not meet minimum international requirements on protecting indigenous peoples. The 8-to-3 ruling is likely to ignite the protests of rebel sympathizers, who had suspended dialogue and peace contacts with the government for the last year, apparently in the hopes that they would be in a better bargaining position if the court threw out the law. Enrique Avela, a spokesman for the Zapatista Front here, called the high court's decision "a tragedy." "Our communities are not pleased," he said. The Law on Indian Rights and Culture, which went into effect in August 2001, was approved by both houses of Mexico's Congress and a majority of the 31 state legislatures. But about 320 pro-rebel town councils and other organizations challenged it, saying that it did not meet minimum standards in international treaties on indigenous rights, and that Indian groups had not been adequately consulted on the law. In rejecting the challenges, all the justices said the law was both constitutional and properly approved. "The political will to treat Indians as valuable human beings and as a legitimate social group does not exist in this country," said He'ctor Sa'nchez, head of Congress's Indian Affairs Commission. As approved, the measure left it up to state legislatures to determine exactly how the limited Indian autonomy would be implemented. The rebels had wanted all such decisions to be made exclusively by townships where Indians are a majority. Copyright c. 2002 The New York Times Company _______________________________________________ chiapas-l mailing list chiapas-l@burn.ucsd.edu http://burn.ucsd.edu/mailman/listinfo/chiapas-l -- To subscribe to this list send a message containing the words subscribe chiapas95 (or chiapas95-lite, or chiapas95-english, or chiapas95-espanol) to majordomo@eco.utexas.edu. Previous messages are available from http://www.eco.utexas.edu/faculty/Cleaver/chiapas95.html or gopher to Texas, University of Texas at Austin, Department of Economics, Mailing Lists. --------- "RE: Officials cut Aid to 3 Acteal Child Survivors" --------- Date: Fri, 6 Sep 2002 15:24:38 -0500 (CDT) From: owner-chiapas95-english@eco.utexas.edu (Chiapas95-english) Subj: Chiapas officials cut aid to 3 Acteal child survivors Mailing List: Chiapas95-English -- This message is forwarded to you by the editors of the Chiapas95 newslists. To contact the editors or to submit material for posting send to: . From: "Dana Aldea" Chiapas officials cut aid to 3 child survivors of Acteal massacre EFE - 9/6/2002 ACTEAL, Chiapas - Officials in the southern state of Chiapas have cut off aid to three children who were maimed and orphaned in the 1997 massacre of 45 Indians in the town of Acteal, leaving the youths' families with no means to pay their medical bills. Relatives of Zenaida, Efrain and Jeronimo - the three young survivors of the Dec. 22, 1997 paramilitary attack - said the "painful" decision meant the children will no longer be able to receive physiotherapy and psychological counseling from specialists in Mexico City and California. Mariano Luna, Zenaida's uncle and guardian, told reporters the Chiapas government gave no reason for its decision to suspend aid payments. Zenaida was shot in the head and blinded in the attack, while Jeronimo's lower jawbone was smashed and Efrain lost all fingers on one hand. The ordeal also left all three with deep psychological scars, their relatives said. "The government will no longer provide aid, thus we will have to discontinue medical treatment to help Zenaida recover some sight and there is no money for prostheses for her friends," Luna said. Zenaida, who was four when the attack occurred, says she suffers from painful headaches as a result of her injuries. "I can't do anything when my head starts to hurt, it makes me feel so bad," she said. Luna said supplementary humanitarian aid the children have been receiving from the Mexican and International Red Cross has fallen steadily over the past few months and would likely dry up soon. "These are children, and they just want to be able to play normally with other children their age," Luna said. _________________________________________________________________ To subscribe to this list send a message containing the words subscribe chiapas95 (or chiapas95-lite, or chiapas95-english, or chiapas95-espanol) to majordomo@eco.utexas.edu. Previous messages are available from http://www.eco.utexas.edu/faculty/Cleaver/chiapas95.html or gopher to Texas, University of Texas at Austin, Department of Economics, Mailing Lists. --------- "RE: Ottawa pays experienced Native Fishermen to Train" --------- Date: Sat, 7 Sep 2002 16:19:43 -0700 From: Gary Smith Subj: NA News Item - - - - - - -- - - - - - - filename="FISHERMEN" http://www.owlstar.com/dailyheadlines.htm http://www.canoe.ca/AtlanticTicker/CANOE-wire.Native-Fishing Ottawa pays experienced native fishermen to train industry newcomers September 6, 2002 ESKASONI, N.S. (CP) -- The federal government is funding experienced native fishermen to train newcomers to the East Coast industry. Georges Farrah, parliamentary secretary to the the federal fisheries minister, announced Friday that the Department of Fisheries and Oceans is supporting a First Nations fisheries mentor training and certification program in eastern Canada. The $1-million program will train experienced native fishermen to transfer their skills to new First Nations fishermen in the region. Farrah made the announcement at Eskasoni First Nation in Cape Breton, where he participated at the opening of the Unama'ki Institute of Natural Resources and the christening of six vessels built by Eskasoni with funding from federal government. Under the program, 80 fisheries mentors are to be trained and certified by the end of this year and up to 200 First Nations fishermen will receive deckhand training. Non-native fishermen praised the program in a news release on Friday. "Many members are quite willing to share their fishing knowledge and experience with native captains," said Sandy Siegel, Maritime Fishermen's Union Executive Secretary, who is also acting as non-native co-ordinator for a training project in Big Cove, N.B. The training program is part of Ottawa's response to the Supreme Court's 1999 Marshall ruling, which affirmed a treaty right to fish in pursuit of a moderate livelihood. Copyright c. 2002, CANOE, a division of Netgraphe Inc. --------- "RE: No end to battle for the Truth about Ipperwash" --------- Date: Fri, 6 Sep 2002 08:51:17 -0700 From: Gary Smith Subj: NA News Item - - - - - - -- - - - - - - filename="IPPERWASH" http://www.owlstar.com/dailyheadlines.htm http://www.canada.com/search/site/story.asp No end to battle for 'the truth' as seventh anniversary of Ipperwash marked COLIN PERKEL cp.org Thursday, September 05, 2002 TORONTO (CP) - The sounds of native drumming echoing off the walls of the Ontario legislature are a haunting reminder that the Ipperwash controversy continues to hound the province's Conservative government. On the seventh anniversary of the police killing of native protester Dudley George, family members and supporters are gathering both to remember and to renew their longstanding call for a public inquiry. Although he, too, wants an inquiry amid ongoing questions about what, if any, role former premier Mike Harris played in the tragedy, Pierre George, one of the dead man's brothers, will be absent from a candlelight vigil scheduled for Friday night outside the Ontario legislature. "I'm just going to write a poem . . . just in memory of my brother and my mother and father," said George. "It's kind of like a tribute to all three of them because they all had their ideals on freedom." It was on Sept. 6, 1995 that acting Sgt. Kenneth Deane of the Ontario Provincial Police shot the 39-year-old George, one of about two dozen unarmed protesters occupying Ipperwash Provincial Park. The shooting marked the end of a 48-hour standoff at the park, the site of a native burial ground taken from the Stoney Point natives by the federal government in the 1940s. Hours later, George bled to death after a brother and sister frantically drove him 50 kilometres to hospital, where they were arrested. He is the only native killed during a land-claims dispute in Canada in a full century. Questions have swirled since that night about why provincial police moved to end the occupation of the park by force when senior officers and provincial government officials urged patience and negotiation. Fingers were pointed at what was then the newly elected Conservative government of Mike Harris. In a million-dollar wrongful death lawsuit against the former premier launched by another of the dead man's brothers, Sam George claims that Harris directed police to use force against the protesters. Harris has steadfastly denied any such involvement, although he did concede years after the killing that he met two senior officers in the hours before police moved in. "(People) have asked me, 'How long are you going to continue this?' " said Sam George, who adamantly refuses to drop his suit unless there's a public inquiry. "My answer to them is until we get the truth." Although calls for an inquiry have grown louder - extending well beyond George's family to organizations such as the United Nations human rights committee and Amnesty International - the government has refused. Harris always insisted he would consider one only after the civil suit was concluded. Premier Ernie Eves has maintained the same position, arguing that the tortuous civil suit, which has cost taxpayers more than $1 million in defending Harris, has been too rich in time and money to abandon now. Sam George said also that he wouldn't drop the suit first in hopes Eves would then call a judicial probe. "Did they give me any reason to trust them?" he said. "If I was to drop the suit, then they could close the door on it." The association representing provincial police officers has also endorsed a call for an inquiry, but like Harris and Eves, it wants the civil suit dealt with first. Deane, who has been suspended with pay since his criminal-negligence conviction for killing George, faces a last ditch hearing later this month as he appeals an order to resign from the provincial police force. In the interim, Pierre George waits for the province's chief coroner to decide whether there will be an inquest into the medical treatment his brother was given and ponders the poetry he's committing to paper. It would be too easy to say the family should simply get over the death and get on with their lives, he says. "Life must be pretty perfect for you in order to wipe away other people's pain and sorrows." Copyright c. 2002 The Canadian Press. --------- "RE: Liberals demand Ipperwash Inquiry" --------- Date: Sat, 7 Sep 2002 16:19:43 -0700 From: Gary Smith Subj: NA News Item - - - - - - -- - - - - - - filename="IPPERWASH INQUIRY" http://www.observer-sarnia.com/ Liberals demand inquiry Ipperwash death took place seven years ago today Friday, September 06, 2002 By NEIL BOWEN of The Observer Ontario Liberal Leader Dalton McGuinty says "without a doubt" he will call an inquiry into the police killing of native protester Dudley George, should he be elected premier. "We owe that much to the George family and to ourselves as a province," McGuinty told The Observer in a telephone interview Thursday. "An unarmed man was shot to death. We need to find out what we need to know to prevent this from happening again." The bloody clash between police and natives took place seven years ago today and McGuinty says the length of time that has passed presents a challenge to an inquiry as memories fade. But this only makes it more important to start an inquiry. "It's nothing short of scandalous what they're putting the George family through," said McGuinty. Although he also wants an inquiry amid ongoing questions about what, if any, role former premier Mike Harris played in the tragedy, Pierre George, one of the dead man's brothers, will be absent from a candlelight vigil scheduled for tonight outside the Ontario legislature. "I'm just going to write a poem . . . just in memory of my brother and my mother and father," said George. "It's kind of like a tribute to all three of them because they all had their ideals on freedom." The sounds of native drumming echoing off the walls of the Ontario legislature today will be a haunting reminder that the Ipperwash controversy continues to hound the province's Conservative government. On the anniversary of Dudley George's death, family members and supporters are gathering both to remember and to renew their longstanding call for a public inquiry. Tonight's vigil is the latest in a series of events organized through the Coalition for a Public Inquiry into Ipperwash. In the spring, more than 1,800 people attended a fundraiser for the George family civil suit. There was $50,000 collected to get to the truth, according to coalition spokesperson Ann Pohl. It was on Sept. 6, 1995 that acting Sgt. Kenneth Deane of the Ontario Provincial Police shot the 39-year-old George, one of about two dozen unarmed protesters occupying Ipperwash Provincial Park. The shooting marked the end of a 48-hour standoff at the park, the site of a native burial ground taken from the Stoney Point natives by the federal government in the 1940s. Hours later, George bled to death after a brother and sister frantically drove him 50 kilometres to hospital, where they were arrested. He is the only native killed during a land-claims dispute in Canada in a full century. Questions have swirled since that night about why provincial police moved to end the occupation of the park by force when senior officers and provincial government officials urged patience and negotiation. Fingers were pointed at what was then the newly elected Conservative government of Mike Harris. ----------------------------------------------------------------- The information presented here by The Observer is free of charge and for informational purposes ONLY. --------- "RE: Oneida Home to be demolished Soon" --------- Date: Sat, 7 Sep 2002 16:19:43 -0700 From: Gary Smith Subj: NA News Item - - - - - - -- - - - - - - filename="ONEIDA HOME" http://www.owlstar.com/dailyheadlines.htm http://www.zwire.com/site/news Home to be demolished soon By MIKE BILODEAU, Dispatch Staff Writer September 07, 2002 ONEIDA - Danielle Patterson-Schenandoah is a single mother with three children and will soon be homeless as the Oneida Indian Nation Tribal Court has ruled her home will be demolished. Patterson, 31, a resident of the Oneida Indian Nation's 32-acre Territory, plans to defend herself and her three young children when the Nation authorities show up to demolish her home by Sept. 15. "I tell all non-Native people that unless they are invited, they have no right to be on this land," Patterson said. "The Nation Police are non-Native and they will be held accountable for their actions." In August, Oneida Indian Nation Tribal Court Judge Stewart Hancock III, ruled that Patterson would be evicted and the home would be demolished. The home was inspected in November, and at that time Patterson was injured by Nation Police attempting to get into her home to inspect it. The Nation determined the home was inhabitable. The inspection was performed after an Ordinance was passed by the Nation so that all homes on the Territory would be brought up to code or be demolished. Patterson said that her home is a 1985 trailer that she purchased for $18,000. She believes the Nation has no right to remove her from her home and tear it down. She believes that the demolition is part of a family dispute between her mother, Maisie Schenandoah, and Nation CEO and Representative Ray Halbritter. The Schenandoahs are opposed to Halbritter's leadership, and have been cut off from all Nation benefits, including health and education services. "None of our rights are being upheld," Patterson said. "They had a hearing in court in August and I didn't get to defend myself. I had no legal representation in that court." Patterson said she still hopes the demolition will not take place, but if it does she and her three children, Jolene, 8, Clairese, 10, and Preston, 12, will be homeless or forced to move to the Nation's Village of White Pines and pay rent on a home owned by the Oneida Indian Nation. She says she has no other choices because she has no money. "I spent my life savings on my home, and now I'm going to be thrown into the street," Patterson said. "I'm going to be forced to submit to the Halbritter administration and to pay rent at the Village of White Pines." Patterson is still faced with criminal charges in Oneida Indian Nation Tribal Court. She faces up to a year in prison for assaulting a police officer during the forced inspection, she said. She says her resisting arrest charges were dropped because she was not informed she was being arrested. She says the assault charges should also be dropped if she was not being arrested. Patterson said that the U.S. Department of Justice says that the Oneida Indian Nation Police has no jurisdiction on the 32 acres. "They in a sense kidnapped me," Patterson said. Patterson said she also has the option to now have to apply for welfare, something she has never done. "Halbritter is forcing me to become dependent on the only systems that of fer help," Patterson said. A Christian Peacemaker team is camping outside of Patterson's trailer waiting to witness the demolition. As of Thursday there were about ten tents pitched in her yard. The peacemakers are an organization committed to reducing violence by getting in the way, challenging systems of domination and exploitation as Jesus Christ did in the first century according to the organization's website. The organization is a project of the Mennonite Church USA, Mennonite Church Canada, Church of the Brethren and Friends United Meeting. Patterson said the team plans to stay there to witness her civil rights being violated. The Peacemaker team and the rest of the families on the Territory meet every morning at 8 a.m. to pray for Danielle and her children, while the Nation Police photograph the session. "This is a shame, " said Peacemaker Rusty Dinkins-Curling, of Roanoke. "It seems like the Oneida Indian Nation has been taken over by a dictator. It seems like Halbritter has put himself into this irrevocable position, that he can't ever be removed from no matter what he does." Patterson said the trailer meets all of the New York State safety codes. All homes on the Territory were supposed to be given 10 days to clean up all damages that the inspector found, but Patterson said she wasn't even offered the 10 days. "The next day, they said my home was going to be demolished," Patterson said. Mark Emery, spokesperson for the Oneida Indian Nation, said the Nation has no comment at this time, because it is premature to talk about the eviction that has not happened yet. "I'm remaining strong," Patterson said. "On the Territory, we are standing up for our rights to live in peace on our lands." On the web: Christian Peacemaker Teams www.prairienet.org/cpt Copyright c. 2002 The Oneida Daily Dispatch. --------- "RE: Native Tribes seek clout on Nontribal Lands" --------- Date: Wed, 03 Sep 2002 08:54:32 -0700 From: Gary Smith Subj: NA News Item - - - - - - -- - - - - - - filename="LANDS" http://www.owlstar.com/dailyheadlines.htm http://www.csmonitor.com/2002/0904/p03s01-usgn.html Native tribes seek clout on nontribal lands September 4, 2002 Proposals in Congress and states may let native peoples veto developments near 'sacred' sites. By Brad Knickerbocker, Staff writer of The Christian Science Monitor ASHLAND, ORE. - They may be among the poorest in the United States, but native Americans are gaining political clout. Part of this has to do with campaign contributions drawn from casino revenues to influence lawmakers. But it's also connected to a growing public and political consensus on the need to reverse a long history of government-sanctioned cultural, social, and economic losses. Specifically, native Americans are pushing for new laws that would give them what could amount to veto power over certain development projects (mining, housing, shopping malls, etc.) impacting what are considered historically sacred sites. A bill is close to passage in California, and support is growing for a similar law in Congress. "Most Americans understand a reverence for the great Sistine Chapel, or even for a white-washed church building with a steeple and a bell," says US Rep. Nick Rahall (D) of West Virginia, author of a bill that would protect Indian sacred sites around the country. "But often non-Indians have difficulty giving that same reverence to a mountain, valley, stream, or rock formation." There is strong opposition to granting Indians power over economic development - especially since it could apply to nonreservation land. The California Chamber of Commerce calls the proposal there a "job killer bill" that will prohibit "virtually all development projects ... including road and highway expansions, hospitals, schools, low-income housing, and repair and renovation of existing infrastructure." Still, the bill made it through the California Assembly and Senate with relative ease. This may have something to do with the fact (as the Sacramento Bee newspaper reported recently) that legislative leaders of both parties, as well as Gov. Gray Davis (D), have received hundreds of thousands of dollars in contributions from California tribes. (Those tribes have been allowed to run Nevada-style casinos since 2000.) The bill now awaits Governor Davis's signature. Amid drilling, hope for legal change Native Americans - as well as environmentalists - worry that the Bush administration's push for domestic energy sources will mean more drilling and digging that could impact historic sites. But the administration has said it will proceed cautiously, and - to the surprise of some - Interior Secretary Gale Norton has been praised by the Klamath Tribes for the way she's handling the highly controversial water issue here in southern Oregon, which pits farmers and ranchers against Indians and wildlife. Meanwhile, native Americans are taking sacred-site cases to court, and they may have good reason to be hopeful. The US Supreme Court recently upheld a lower-court ruling that prohibits logging of a site the Hoopa tribe in northern California considers sacred - even though a private, nonnative person owns the land. "The government of the United States has slowly but surely begun to understand that these sacred places must be protected and preserved," says Sen. Daniel Inouye (D) of Hawaii, chairman of the Committee on Indian Affairs. Among such places: the Zuni Salt Lake in New Mexico (where a public utility coal-mining project is said to be reducing the aquifer that feeds the lake), sacred trails on what was once Quechan tribal land in Indian Pass, Calif. (threatened by a proposed open-pit gold mine), and the Ocmulgee National Monument in Georgia (which could be affected by a highway extension). A history of claims and controversy For 150 years or more, native American sites, artifacts, and human remains were collected - desecrated, Indians and their supporters say - by archaeologists, museum developers, university researchers, and private collectors. Beginning in the 1880s, Indian religions - including the Sun Dance and other ceremonies and practices - were declared illegal under federal law. Up until the 1970s, US law and practice also sought to break up tribes through a policy of assimilation into the general society and economy. That policy of tribal "termination," as it was called, was reversed during the Nixon administration. Tribes once again were recognized, but in many cases, great social and economic damage had already been done. Meanwhile, the American Indian Religious Freedom Act was passed in 1978 "to protect and preserve for American Indians their inherent right of freedom to believe, express, and exercise the traditional religions ... including but not limited to access to sites, use and possession of sacred objects, and the freedom to worship through ceremonials and traditional rites." Twelve years later, the Native American Graves Protection and Repatriation Act was enacted, providing that remains and funerary objects be returned to those shown to be lineal descendants or those with close cultural affiliations. But Indians and their supporters say such laws (and presidential executive orders meant to protect sacred sites) haven't prevented large mining operations and other development that sometimes destroy such sites. "Native people have been fighting for centuries to safeguard their sacred places, with little or no success," says Tex Hall, president of the National Congress of American Indians and chairman of the Mandan, Hidatsa and Arikara Nation in North Dakota. With new bill, a shifting context The proposed "Native American Sacred Lands Protection Act," scheduled for congressional hearings this month, would change that. "Our bill gives Indian tribes the ability to petition the government to place federal lands off-limits to energy leasing or other incompatible developments when they believe those proposed actions would cause significant damage to their sacred lands," says Representative Rahall, the bill's author and senior Democrat on the House Resources Committee, overseeing federal land management and native American affairs. "This is an extremely important provision," says Mr. Rahall. "The tribes would no longer have to depend on the good graces of federal bureaucrats to protect these lands. Rather, the tribes ... could initiate those protections." There may be a contemporary model for strengthening federal protection of Indian sacred sites. The US House recently passed legislation transferring a portion of federal Bureau of Land Management land in Wyoming to the Mormon Church because Mormons consider the land to be sacred. "Passing this legislation has set a precedent for considering comprehensive sacred land protection legislation," says a congressional source. In a related development last week, a federal magistrate ruled that scientists may examine the 9,300-year-old skeleton found along the Columbia River in Washington State in 1996. Area tribes assert that "Kennewick Man" (named for a nearby town) falls under the federal law protecting Indian graves and thus must be turned over to them for burial. The US Interior Department and the Army Corps of Engineers had agreed with the tribes. But the scientists who filed suit (eight top archaeologists and anthropologists) say preliminary investigation shows this ancient individual more likely descended from populations in Polynesia or from the Ainu people, a Caucasoid group in Japan. "The secretary [of the Interior] erred in defining 'Native American' to automatically include all remains predating 1492 that are found in the United States," wrote US Magistrate John Jelderks. The ruling undoubtedly will be appealed, and the US Supreme Court could ultimately settle the case. Copyright c. 2002 The Christian Science Monitor. All rights reserved. --------- "RE: Former Seminole Chief under Investigation" --------- Date: Sat, 7 Sep 2002 16:19:43 -0700 From: Gary Smith Subj: NA News Item - - - - - - -- - - - - - - filename="SEMINOLE" http://www.owlstar.com/dailyheadlines.htm http://www.news-star.com/stories/090702/New_3.shtml Former principal chief of Seminoles under investigation By MICHAEL DODSON SNS Staff Writer September 7, 2002 Officials of the Seminole Nation say an investigation is under way into what is labeled, in a written statement, "the wrongdoing of the former administration of Jerry Haney." The statement says an investigation team of "former agents of the FBI and the IRS" have begun looking into the allegations. "The team will look into possible criminal activities and civil rights violations," the statement adds. "These allegations stem from activities that took place in May of this year and over the past recent years of the Haney administration." The subjects of the investigation will be "destruction of government property, illegal misuse of federal funds and corruption," according to the statement. A battle over control of the Seminole Nation and its federal programs and owned-and-operated enterprises is now a year old. Haney finished well down in the voting in the summer of 2001 as he sought re-election as principal chief. However, the Bureau of India Affairs has refused to recognize Ken Chambers, who received the most votes in the principal chief election. BIA officials say Chambers' election is not valid because the Seminole Nation's two "freedmen" bands were not allowed to participate in the election. BIA and other federal officials have continued to deal with Haney. For some 11 days in May, Haney took control of the Nation's General Council House, at the Mekusukey Mission south of Seminole, while Chambers and his supporters maintained an around-the-clock presence in the tribal headquarters building in Wewoka. The nation's four casinos and its convenience stores were shut down during that period. Several hundred tribal employees were off work. The Chambers administration statement says that a recent audit "indicates possible co-mingling of federal funds, improper disposal of tribal property and misuse of federal funds that were intended for tribal programs." The statement offers a quote from Wayne Shaw, General Council acting chairman: "The BIA will be held accountable for neglecting their fiduciary responsibility. The BIA failed to assure that federal funds were used to provide services to the people by allowing the Haney administration to be unaccountable with federal funds. Could this be why the BIA is so insistent that Jerry Haney remain in office, knowing that he has been rejected by the people?" Efforts to contact both Haney and Chambers Friday evening were unsuccessful. Copyright c. 1997-2002 The Shawnee News-Star. --------- "RE: Blackfeet Residents sue HUD over Unsafe Homes" --------- Date: Thu, 04 Sep 2002 08:11:02 -0700 From: Gary Smith Subj: NA News Item - - - - - - -- - - - - - - filename="HUD SUIT" http://www.owlstar.com/dailyheadlines.htm http://www.everyweek.com/News/News.asp?no=2689 Blackfeet residents sue HUD over unsafe homes by Ron Selden September 5, 2002 A group of Blackfeet Reservation residents is suing the U.S. Department of Housing and Urban Development (HUD) and the Blackfeet Tribe's housing agency over 153 homes built with chemically treated wooden foundations. The class-action lawsuit, filed Aug. 2 in U.S. District Court in Great Falls, alleges that HUD and Blackfeet Housing officials knew that the foundations were defective and incompatible with the reservation's harsh environment, but built them anyway. Also named in the litigation is HUD Secretary Melvin Martinez and four current members of Blackfeet Housing's board of directors. The lawsuit states that many of the foundations leak, and ensuing water and sewage problems have caused the spread of mold and other health- threatening substances. In addition, the plaintiffs say, the foundation wood was pressure treated with toxic chromated copper arsenate, also known as CCA. Earlier this year, the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency said that manufacturers of CCA-treated wood will voluntarily phase out of the product by 2004 because of health concerns. Plaintiffs in the case are Martin Marceau, Candice LaMott, Julie Rattler, Joseph Rattler Jr. and Deana Mountain Chief, all Blackfeet tribal members who are either buying or leasing the homes, which were constructed in the late 1970s and early 1980s. The group is represented by Billings attorneys Tom Towe and Jeffrey Simkovic. "The housing authority has sold homes to representative plaintiffs and other class members that are substandard, unsafe, unsuitable, unsanitary, unhealthy and uninhabitable," the six-count complaint states. The plaintiffs maintain HUD shares responsibility for the problems because the agency allegedly mandated their design and approved and paid for their construction. Last year the Glacier Homes Committee was organized by residents concerned that their health was being compromised by mold, CCA residue, and high levels of cancer-causing radon gas in their basements. Marceau says he and other residents cannot wait for politicians to address their needs. The lawsuit alleges that HUD has violated the National Housing Act, the Civil Rights Act, the Tucker Act, and other federal statutes. It also contends that construction of the wooden foundations violated the agency's own regulations, as well as state and local building codes. The plaintiffs want their homes replaced and the agencies punished. "We're feeling like second-class citizens," says Marceau. "In 24 years, no one would listen to us. No one seems to care. That's why we took this action." When questioned about the housing issues earlier this year, HUD officials said it was the tribe's problem, not the agency's. "We're not aware of the suit at this point, but if there is a suit, we can't comment on it," a HUD spokeswoman said last week. Copyright c. 2002 Misoula Independent. --------- "RE: Hualapai will provide own Law Enforcement" --------- Date: Wed, 04 Sep 2002 22:39:01 -0700 From: "Chris Milda (_Akimel O`odham_)" Subj: Hualapai will provide own law enforcement (Fwd) - - - - - - -- - - - - - - Subj Hualapai will provide own law enforcement fr.: http://www.arizonarepublic.com/arizona/articles/0903azbriefs03.html Arizona Briefs Sept. 03, 2002 Hualapai will provide own law enforcement KINGMAN - The Hualapai tribe will begin providing its own law enforcement services Friday. A newly established tribal police force will assume the responsibility from the Bureau of Indian Affairs, which policed the Peach Springs- based reservation under contract for more than 20 years. Tribal police Chief Dale Lent and three other officers will split 12 hour shifts seven days a week until the fledgling department is able to round out its force through recruitment. Associated Press contributed to this article. --------- "RE: Native Prisoner" --------- Date: Mon, 9 Sep 2002 08:19:12 -0600 From: Janet Smith Subj: Native Prisoner ===== This letter arrived in our mail on 9/10 From: Linda Cantlon (address on file) This is an update on our brother John Alvarado who is incarcerated at the Westville Indiana Correctional facility. Mr. Alvarado is still being denied his constitutional rights to prayer, inipi. When writing to the Governor of Indiana, received a letter back that all was fine with Mr. Alvarado. He is being harrassed by IDOC. He has been given an extra 1 1/2 years. Letters of importance are not making it to him. If anyone can help, please contact him at: John Alvarado #926648 0-1 Indiana Dept. of Correctional Facility P.O. Box 473 Westville, Indiana 46391-0473 Thank you, Linda ========================= Date: Wednesday, September 04, 2002 6:41 PM From: "kintml2u" Subj: Hello all...I don't post much but please read!! I am Diane, have been a member for some time now even though I don't post! The reason for posting today is because I have been made aware of a Bill that has been introduced in congress by Rep Mink of Hawaii. This is a BIG thing! ----- H.R. 5296 TO REVIVE THE SYSTEM OF PAROLE FOR FEDERAL PRISONERS!!!!! If this is to pass, it would mean our loved ones could have a chance at an earlier release/parole! I am shocked that not many people know about this. I spoke to my loved one last night who is currently at USP Beaumont and these guys have not even heard about this! We as family and loved ones must take this and run with it! We NEED to start writing congress in SUPPORT of this issue!! Please....give me feed back! I need to know I am reaching out and trying to do something! I need to know I am making people aware of this! And trying to do something to get these letters rollin! It has been referred to the subcommittee on crime, terrorism and homeland security so it right now looks good! Now is the time to make a difference!!! Diane ========================= Date: Friday, September 06, 2002 6:01 AM From: kintml2u@aol.com Subj: Re: Hello all...I don't post much but please read!! Lisa, Thank you for your response and support! Since now it has been referred to the subcommittee on crime terrorism, and homeland security I think it would be good if we start there, Convientlythat the subcommitte has a website where you can find out who is assigned to a particular committee. The people assigned to this are: Mark Green (Wisconsin) Howard Coble (North Carolina) Bob Goodlatte (Virginia) Steve Chabot (Ohio) Bob Barr (Georgia) Ric Keller (Florida) Mike Pence (Indiana) Robert Scott (Virginia) Sheila Jackson Lee (Texas) Martin Meehan (Mass) Bill Delahunt (Mass) Adam Schiff (California) If you would like to contact them individually (as I think I will be doing)...go to: www.house.gov/judiciary/members.htm The chairman id Lamare Smith of TEXAS. I sent him an email last night too! But even if you could send your congresman a letter, I think it would count too! Thank You! Diane ========================= Date: Saturday, September 07, 2002 4:25 PM From: "gumbycascadia" Subj: Women at Coffee Creek Need Help! Mailing List: Iron Natives Sent: Friday, September 06, 2002 11:14 AM Subj: CCCF Volunteers This is a plea for help! HELP!!! We need more Native American volunteers for the women's prison. If you know of anyone who might be willing to donate a few hours once a month, or even once every other month, please let me know. The sweat for the medium unit, will be built soon! The minimum unit has been sweating since May. There is a special fund made available for mileage to and from the prison, for N.A. volunteers if needed. Because we are working within the prison, there is a lot of paperwork and information needed when getting started, but we are working hard at making it easier for the volunteers. On August 25th, we held a meeting with the administrator of Religious Services, Chaplain Smith, and a large group of Native women on the medium side of the prison. Each woman who came took their turn speaking. These women represented themselves well, and made their needs known. Essentially what they are asking for is equality to what the men have, in regard to N.A. Religious Services and activities.Our goal for the program at this time, is to have one Native American activity a week at each facility (minimum and medium). So far, we are planning one sweat a month, two smudges, and one talking circle, to be held during the month (We hope to expand on this). The Coffee Creek Correctional Facility (CCCF), houses all the women within the state of Oregon. There are probably 100 women that would like to participate at this time in the Native American Religious Services Program. The facility is divided between minimum (3 years or less), and medium units. There seems to be quite a bit of support for the men out there, but hardly any for the women. The women are starting out at square one. We need responsible, committed volunteers that can help bring these services/activities to the women. Many of these women are "starving" spiritually. Any ideas, suggestions, names, ect...you can give, would be of great appreciation. Please pass this message on to anyone you feel may be interested, or would possibly be a good resource for getting started. You may contact me Trish, by e- mail/phone, or any of the following Chaplains. Trish Jordan (208) 743-7502. Chaplain Bean Chaplain Smith Chaplain Roy Mvto, (thank you) Trish Jordan Native American Religious Services Volunteer ========================= From: Brigitte Thimiakis Sent: Sunday, September 08, 2002 4:37 PM Subj: Update on NA Prisoners at Chillicothe From Valerie Scott - NAPS ====================================================== Update on Prisoners at Chillicothe, Ohio From: David Iron Fire Reasoner, #194-990 P.O. Box 5500 Chillicothe, Ohio 45601-0990 or e-mail: DAVIDIRONFIRE@aol.com He Ju Brothers, Sisters and Supporters Greetings and Blessings, We wanted to update everyone on our fight for Religious Rights, here at the Chillicothe Correctional Institution. Since our initial notice through NAPS, we have received various inquiries and offers of support, and for this we would like to thank all of you. First off, allow me say that the letter writing campaign to our Federal Judge, we believe has been a great asset. Out last filing was approximately four (4) months ago, and they still haven't set aside our suit as of yet. We believe that if they had intentions of throwing us out, they would have done so by now. We also believe that they are taking a serious look at this case, but only because of outside influences, so we would like to ask that you continue to write letters of support to our Federal Judge, reaffirming that this is a very important matter, to both the general public and the inmates. (Write to: Attn: Judge Graham, United States District Court, Southern District of Ohio, Eastern Division, Columbus, Ohio 43215). With regard to the Chaplain problems that we have been having, a few things have taken place recently, and this is mainly due to Valerie's help of maintaining pressure on the U.S. Department of Justice. Right after our first posting on NAPS' website, our institutional Chaplain was relieved of his duties, and is no longer working inside of the Department of Corrections. Then approximately six (6) weeks ago, the Head Chaplain at Central Office, over Prisons had, quote "retired", even though he was approximately seven (7) years early. So that the pressure Valerie and the Department of Justice has put on the Department of Corrections, here in Ohio, is indeed working. We now have a new Head Chaplain over the Ohio Prisons, and his name is Rev. Gary Simms. We're not sure how he is going to handle dealing with Native prisoners, but we would like to let him know where we stand. It is our hopes that we could get together a letter writing campaign with positive input from the community and supporters. We want him to know that he is also being watched and that he needs to write a working policy that allows Native prisoners access to Sacred Medicine Tools, as well as Spiritual Advisors, and use of the Sweat Lodge. We believe that writing him letters will put pressure on him, and let him know that we are making a stand against the injustices, and discriminations that have been going on for way too long. (Write to: Rev. Gary Simms, Religious Director, 1050 Freeway Dr., North, Columbus, Ohio 43229) We would also like to seek the assistance of our supporters and friends with regard to locating individuals in the Ohio area, who would be willing to be an advocate and mediate for the Native prison population. This would entail contacting the Department of Prisons, and possibly aiding them in putting together a proper policy, as well as working with institutional Wardens. Anyone interested in this venture may contact me at the address provided at the top of this posting. All inquiries will be responded to, and we thank you again, for your help and assistance. The next subject we would like to discuss with our supporters has to do with obtaining Legal Representation. As I'm sure many of you already know, inmate law suits usually don't go very far, so this is why we are hoping to obtain legal assistance. If anyone out there knows of any attorneys that may be interested in taking our case, please inform us as soon as possible. Time is not on our side. Again we would like to thank all of our Brothers and Sisters who have contributed to our cause. We will continue to update you and provide you with progress reports as the need arises. Until we meet again, may the Four Winds paint your hearts with Peace and Love. In the Struggle, Iron Fire ===== NAPS (Native American Prisoner Support) http://www.hri.ca/partners/naps/ URGENT!!! Sign petition for Alex Montana: http://www.PetitionOnline.com/ajm40/petition.html --------- "RE: Rustywire: Flag Ceremony" --------- Date: Mon, 14 May 2001 17:32:36 -0000 From: John Rustywire Subj: Flag Ceremony Mailing List: Rez Life Flag Ceremony The auditorium is not so large, it fills with brown faces, some are old and some young. There is a swearing in today of new members of the tribal council, a small group of men and women elected by this group of Indian people to stand for them in the next four years. The place gets full, all kinds of faces from across the rez. In the area outside stand four men, all Indian veterans. One is an old man, bent with age, but still agile. If you saw him on the street you wouldn't think anything of him, he is quiet and reserved living his life way out in the country. At one time he was young, enlisted and sent to the Philippines. One morning while there he was caught up in the attack of the Japanese on the islands. He once said he walked along ways during that time, it was a small statement to a long march known for Bataan. He suffered much and spent his youth in a prisoner of war camp, returning to the rez without fanfare. His name is not on any monument and he stands at the door holding an American Flag. The others standing by him know a little of hardship as well, It was in '69 the Air Cav where this young Indian boy went when a judge told him to either join up or go to jail. He chose to join and found himself flying in a gunship, sitting on his helmet so he wouldn't get shot in the rear end. We spoke a few times about a place not too far from Saigon where there was an R&R camp for plain joe's where there was a diner, a place that served "chicken" but when they came they were really too small, and later everyone noticed there weren't any pigeons around to look at. From that time to now he won't eat chickens. He spent his time there, flying over rivers and hamlets. It is sound you don't forget, because at certain times you could feel it creep up on you, in the still of the night, while sitting alone. It was one night when everyone was strung out in a line, 50 to 75 feet apart, waiting, watching, listening trying to see with no moon. You can hear yourself breathe and learn the sound of every part of your lungs. You think, and listen and think some more. The sound of someone coming, and a familiar voice, a big kid, from Michigan slipped through the jungle and into the hole. "What are you doing here, you were told to stay where you were?" He looked with wide eyes. He said, "just a visit Redskin". He had the look of being left alone, of maybe not seeing the next day or the day after. His eyes spoke for him.. It was then that the sound of whump, whump, whump came from the sky. "Do you hear that? That is the sound of heaven, when you hear that sound you know someone upstairs is looking out for you and everything will be ok, it works that way. We are going to be OK, Air Cav looks over us, remember that". His breath slowed, and he slid back into the jungle and found his own hole. That is what comes to mind when I picture this man now with streaked gray hair standing there, a young man sitting in a gunship on his helmet. A little ways off is the warrior still, his hair long and tied with a red bandana, he is this and his combat boots glisten from the shine, his gate line is straight as well as his back. He went through a time when he spent years on a drunk, his hair going every which way. His woman left him and now he is alone. He has made his way back, and his eyes are bright and they shine, though his face is like a worn paper sack. He served in the Delta in '68 and came home and is working on building a home on a piece of sagebrush-covered land. He is clearing it and making it a place to call home. The last is a young broad shouldered man, just got out of the service. Semper Fi, his chin is square and he is a cop as well taking a few minutes to change and put on green camo fatigues to help out. He is tall and he has come home to find a life with his people. He follows them as they line up and the Flag song begins. Drummers up front beat on the drum and all the folks stand up and watch as these four make their way to place the flag down in front. It is a new day for the tribal council and watching these Indian men making there way to the platform it reminds me that in some places there is still honor and these men, warriors played a part in bringing us to this place. For Rezlife egroups http://groups.yahoo.com/group/rezlife --------- "RE: Poem: A Morning Caw!" --------- Date: Tue, 3 Sep 2002 08:14:14 EDT From: FM6115@aol.com Subj: A Morning Caw! Poem by ShyHawk(FM) >To: gars@speakeasy.org A Morning Caw ! My friend of sleek blackness calls from the pines across the way Hoping to awaken me at the start of this new day. A silent indigo arrow streaks across the gray At my feet he lands with the dawning of the day. A chorus of friends can be heard excitedly encouraging him on. He cocks his head, and hops before me as slowly night is gone. Shadows of gray are now softly lit by Sun's gentle glow I and Raven both know ---- from Him this new life will flow. The Raven's pearl ebony eye looks once again deeply into mine I am reminded of the gift of life he brought to all relations Now pressing me on to greet this day with reverent adulation! The sky slowly turns from black to gray and now, to soft pink and blue Thanks once again to my little friend I am here to share it with you. We all have burdens and troubles the Raven is no different - Each day I pray to see For West Nile may make me mourn - taking him from me. But Greed! -- is the true distress that ravages this land A Cancer !!!!!! Feeding on everything and destroying all it can. This morning is a new birth a fresh start for all I thank Creator for another chance, especially, to hear my favorite Caw ! written by ShyHawk(FM) late summer 2002 --------- "RE: Verse: Hawaiian Book of Days" --------- Date: Tue, 03 Sep 2002 06:21:48 -1000 From: Debbie Sanders Subj: Hawaiian Book of Days A HAWAI'I BOOK OF DAYS, week of September 16-22 KEPAKEMAPA (September) (Mahoe Hope) 16 Be like the mountain stream -- if something blocks your path, flow around it. 17 In this world, there is time enough for all things. 18 The road I walk is always unfolding before me; what lies around the next bend is a new adventure. 19 The dolphins leap and play upon the waves at morning; they are the eternal children of the sea. 20 The world seen from the eye of aeko, the eagle, is a vast and wondrous place. 21 Our hopes and dreams inter-weave in the intricate patterns of love, aloha. 22 For every loving soul, life brings beauty and joy. (c) Copyright 1991 by D. F. Sanders Me ke aloha i ka nani, ... Moe'uhanekeanuenue (With love and beauty, ... Rainbow Dream) --------- "RE: Native America Calling" --------- Date: Tue, 10 Sep 2002 09:16:40 -0500 From: "AIROS (American Indian Radio On Satellite)" Subj: Highlights from the 5th Annual Nammys (Native American Music Awards) + NMAI Pow Wow live from the National Mall in DC + more ... 1) Highlights from the 5th Annual Nammys (Native American Music Awards) 2) NMAI Pow Wow live from the National Mall in DC 3) NAC Topics for 9/10 - 9/12 4) Different Drums - The Words and Music of NY Tribes 5) alterNative Voices 1) Highlights from the 5th Annual Nammys (Native American Music Awards) If you weren't able to make it to Milwaukee for the 5th Annual Native American Music Awards on September 7th, don't worry. Let AIROS.org take you there on Friday, September 13, 2002. You will feel like you were there when you tune into all the best Nammy highlights served up to you within this 2-hour program that will run on AIROS.org Friday, September 13, 2002 8 - 10pm ET. The program will also run on AIROS, so check with your local AIROS affiliate airos.org/stations/index.html to see if they will be carrying the program and if so when. AIROS producers Jim DeNomie (Bad River Chippewa) and Barbara Jersey (Menominee/Potawatomi) of VOICES FROM THE CIRCLE will bring you all the highlights of the entertainment event of the year in Indian Country. Jim and Barb will take you to the 22,000 seat Marcus Amphitheatre located on the Indian Summer Festival grounds and site of America's largest Native American cultural festival on the western shore of Lake Michigan in Milwaukee, Wisconsin. Hosted by Crystal Gayle, the awards show features over 30 awards presentations and ten live musical performances, including: Gary Small with special guest Graham Lear of Santana Jana, 2001 Best Pop Artist Martha Redbone, four time Nammy nominee Cherokee Nation Children's Choir Howard Lyons Primeaux and Mike Special Hall of Fame Induction: Miss Kitty Wells, The Queen of Country. Floyd Red Crow Westerman, Living Legend Award AND MORE ... A new category for Best Christian/Gospel Recording has been added to this year's Nammy Awards. Listen online at airos.org 9/13/02 8-10pm ET. For more information on the nammys go to www.nammys.com 2) NMAI Pow Wow live from the National Mall in DC The National Mall will come alive in a colorful expression of song and dance on the weekend of Sept. 14 and 15 when the Smithsonian's National Museum of the American Indian (NMAI) holds its first-ever nationwide pow wow. NMAI and AIROS.org are proud to bring this live event to you over the radio as well as online. The Smithsonian's pow wow, an intertribal, will be held on The National Mall next to the site of the National Museum of the American Indian, now under construction on Independence Avenue at Fourth Street. The museum is scheduled to open in fall 2004 and this pow wow is one of a number of public events that the museum will host between now and the time it opens. There will be dancers representing hundreds of tribal nations in several dance categories including men and women's senior (50 and over); men's fancy dance, grass and traditional (northern and southern); women's jingle dress, fancy shawl and traditional (northern and southern); teens (13 - 17); juniors (6 - 12) and tiny tots (5 and under). More than $77,000 in prize money will be awarded to the top five finishers in each adult category. The northern host drum for this pow wow is Black Lodge (Blackfeet) from White Swan, WA and the southern host drum is Cozad (Kiowa) from Anadarko, OK. Each day's broadcast will begin with a Grand Entry that will be led by several special invited guests and an American Indian military veteran color guard. Masters of Ceremonies for the pow wow will be Dale Old Horn (Crow) and Wallace Coffey (Comanche). Your on-air hosts for the radio broadcast and online webcast will be Camille Lacapa (Lac Courte Oreilles Ojibwa/Hopi-Tewa), General Manger of WOJB Radio and Caleb Strickland (Lumbee), NMAI Community Services Program Assistant. For more information on the pow wow including a live video stream of the powwow go to http://www.americanindian.si.edu Listen online at airos.org 9/14/02 1pm - 11pm ET (Grand Entries at 1pm and 7pm) 9/15/02 1pm - 7pm ET (Grand Entry at 1pm) If you live in the DC area and are planning on going to the pow wow, don't forget to stop by and pick-up your AIROS.org bumpersticker. 3) NAC Topics for 9/10 - 9/12 Listen live every weekday from 1-2pm ET by going to www.airos.org or tuning into your local radio station. For a list of affiliates go to http://www.nativeamericacalling.com/nac_affiliates.shtm TUE - 9/10: Gambling on Hickory Ground: According to news reports one of the gaming giants in Indian Country, Harrah's Casino, is planning to build a multi-million dollar casino on a burial ground in Alabama. The site is known as the Hickory Ground Tribal Town of Muscogee (Creek) Indians, and it is considered one of the most historic sites in the state. But leaders of the Poarch Creek Band, who now own the land, support the casino plan. Muscogee tribal members in Oklahoma have been outspoken against the development, arguing that the Poarch Band has no ancestral ties to the area. Is Hickory Ground sacred ground, or not? Invited guests include Chairman Eddie Tullis of the Poarch Creek Band of Indians. WED - 9/11: How Has America Changed Since 9-11?: One year ago terrorists attacked America with hijacked commercial airplanes that crashed into the World Trade Center towers, the Pentagon, and a field in Pennsylvania. The attacks have since been described by many as "the event that changed America." We know that thousands of lives were lost, that the economy took a big hit, a new U.S. homeland security office was proposed and that the White House vows to win the "War on Terrorism" but how has the event changed individual Americans? Has it changed your life? Are we a better country today because of the attacks? Guests include Lakota historian/author Vine Deloria, Jr. THU - 9/12: Drinking and Driving in Native America: Tribal communities have some of the most dangerous roads in America. Poor roads, animals, and pedestrians all contribute to deadly accidents, but none is more devastating than getting behind the wheel when drunk. D.U.I. in tribal communities is at epidemic proportions and it is taking Native and non-Native lives. According to statistics, major vehicle injuries are one of the leading causes of death among Native people. How are tribes addressing this problem? Can tribal law enforcement programs adequately reduce this deadly crime? Invited guests include a representative of the B.I.A. Law Enforcement's Highway Safety Division. 4) Different Drums - The Words and Music of NY Tribes In light of this week's media focus on the events of September 11, 2001, we feel it appropriate to offer an encore presentation of a program created last September, featuring music and words from people representing the tribes native to the New York area. Long before there was a World Trade Center, for thousands of years before there was a city called New York or a country called the United States of America, indigenous people have lived in the region of Turtle Island now known as the State of New York. The indigenous people of New York State include the Haudenosaunee people who are members of the Six Nations of the Iroquois Confederacy, and the Shinnecock Nation of Long Island. This week we feature music and words which express ancient wisdom pertinent to today, from artists representing tribes of the New York area, listening with new ears to music and words recorded long before September 11, and hearing of the Peacemaker who long ago taught the people of the region new ways of harmonious living. Listen online by going to www.airos.org (All Times ET) Tuesday 9/10: 10am, 4pm, 10pm Wednesday 9/11: 4am Sunday 9/15: 6am Monday 9/16: 6am 5) alterNative Voices Angie Bohanon (Choctaw) is back to tell us about her family bringing back old traditional social dancing to the Choctaw community. They will be demonstrating the dances in the Denver area in September. Angie's contact information is on the website www.alterNativeVoices.org under `guests' if you would like to contact the dancers or any of our other past guests. While your at our website, you can also take a look at our events calendar as well as links to news stories we have reported on. Music this week includes Wabanaki singers, Arvil Bird's fiddle, Ancient Reflections' flute and much more. Listen online by going to www.airos.org (All Times ET) Wednesday 9/11: 10am, 4pm, 10pm Thursday 9/12: 4am Sunday 9/15: 7am Monday 9/16: 7am Listen to Indian Radio on the Internet 24 hours a day at airos.org To subscribe to AIROS' electronic program guide e-mail airos@unl.edu with the subject heading subscribe. --------- "RE: Pow Wow on the National Mall in Washington, D.C." --------- Date: Sat, 7 Sep 2002 16:19:43 -0700 From: Gary Smith Subj: NA News Item - - - - - - -- - - - - - - filename="NMAI POWWOW" http://www.nmai.si.edu/powwow/press.html Smithsonian National Museum of the American Indian Office of Public Affairs Media Only: Leonda Levchuk (202) 357-3164 x155 Thomas Sweeney (202) 357-3164 x142 Public Only: (202) 357-3164 x159 National Museum of the American Indian Hosts Inaugural Pow Wow on the National Mall in Washington, D.C. The National Mall will come alive in a colorful expression of song and dance on the weekend of Sept. 14-15 when the Smithsonian's National Museum of the American Indian holds its first-ever nationwide pow wow. Judges will pick winners in traditional competition categories such as "Men's Grass," "Women's Traditional," "Women's Jingle Dress" and "Men's Fancy." Pow wows are social gatherings of hundreds of Native Americans who follow dances started centuries ago by their ancestors and that continually evolve to include contemporary aspects. Usually held between April and October, these events of feasting, drum music and dance are attended by Natives and non-Natives, all of whom join in the dancing and take advantage of the opportunity to see old friends and teach the traditional ways to a younger generation. The Smithsonian's pow wow, an intertribal and, indeed, free public event, will be held on the Mall next to the site of the National Museum of the American Indian, now under construction on Independence Avenue at Fourth Street. The museum is scheduled to open in fall 2004 and this pow wow is one of a number of public events that the museum will host between now and the time it opens. "The National Museum of the American Indian Inaugural Pow Wow will be a wonderful opportunity for the museum to introduce Washington-area audiences to a traditional Plains-style pow wow, with all the dancing and feasting-and coming together of many Indian people-that accompanies such events across Indian Country," says museum Director W. Richard West (Southern Cheyenne). The audience will see dancers representing hundreds of tribal nations in full regalia compete in several dance categories including Men and Women's senior (50 and over); Men's fancy dance, grass and traditional (Northern and Southern); Women's jingle dress, fancy shawl and traditional (Northern and Southern); Teens (13-17); Juniors (6-12) and Tiny Tots (5 and under). More than $77,000 in prize money will be awarded to the top five finishers in each category. The drum groups are the heart of all pow wows and provide the pulsating beat that accompanies a dancer's every movement. They are led by two "host drums" that showcase two distinct styles of singing (Northern and Southern) and represent the best examples of each style. The drum contest will highlight groups of 10 to 12 members each who frequently come from the same family and sing traditional songs that often have been written by family members and are handed down from one generation to the next. The host drums are Black Lodge (Blackfeet) from Washington state and Cozad (Kiowa) from Oklahoma. Each pow wow begins with the Grand Entry, which is a procession of all the dancers into the dance arena. This brilliant sea of color is scheduled to be led by the pow wow honorary chairman, Sen. Daniel Inouye (D-Hawaii) and an American Indian military veteran color guard. Native foods such as Indian tacos, frybread and corn soup will be sold and authentic Native arts and crafts may be purchased directly from noted jewelers and artisans. For additional information about the pow wow, the general public may call (202) 357-3164 ext. 159 for a recorded message or visit the museum's Web site at www.AmericanIndian.si.edu. # # # # SI-347-2002 ----------------------------------------------------------------------- SMITHSONIAN INSTITUTION PO Box 23473 Washington DC 20026-3473 202.357.3164 Telephone 202.357.3369 Fax NMAI 2002 Powwow Schedule Saturday, September 14, 2002 10:00 a.m. Registration Opens 11 a.m.-12:15 p.m. Gourd Dancing 12:30 p.m. Drum Roll Call 12:45 p.m. Invocation 1:00 p.m. - Grand Entry - Flag Song - Victory Song - Welcome - Honoring of local fire and rescue workers - Remarks by Smithsonian Secretary Larry Small; Senator Daniel Inouye; Senator Ben Nighthorse Campbell 2:00 p.m. Tiny Tots, Intertribal, and Contest Dancing 5:30 p.m. - Giveaway by LaDonna Harris - Honor Song by Cozad - Honor Dance by Comanche tribal members - Maori Honoring - Remarks by NMAI Director W. Richard West 6:00 p.m. Dinner Break 6:45 p.m. Drum Roll Call 7:00 p.m. Grand Entry 7:40 p.m. Intertribal and Contest Dancing 11:00 p.m. Dancing Concludes Sunday, September 15, 2002 11 a.m.-12:15 p.m. Gourd Dancing 12:30 p.m. Drum Roll Call 12:45 p.m. Invocation 1:00 p.m. - Grand Entry -