From gars@speakeasy.org Fri Jun 6 12:46:29 2003 Date: 3 Jun 2003 23:25:13 -0000 From: Gary Night Owl To: Internet Recipients of Wotanging Ikche Subject: Wotanging Ikche--nanews11.023 _ __ _____ __ _ __ ___ ____ _ __ ___ ' ) / / ') / / ) ' ) ) / ) / ' ) ) / ) / / / / / / /--/ / / / ___ / / / / ___ (_(_/ (__/ ( / (_ / (_ (___/ '__/_ / (_ (___/ ' ____ _ , ___ _ , ___ / ' ) / / ) ' ) / / ' VOLUME 11, ISSUE 023 / /-< / /--/ /-- __/_ / ) (___/ / ( (___, WOTANGING IKCHE - Lakota - Common News Wotanging Ikche and Native American News Copyright c. 1996-2003 nanews.org Aboriginal/AmerIndian Perspective about the First Nations of Turtle Island June 7, 2003 Mohawk ohiari:ha/ripening moon Blackfeet pi'kssiiksi otsitaowayiihpiaawa/moon when birds lay their eggs +-------------------------------------------------------+ | Much more happens in Indian Country than is reported | | in this weekly newsletter. 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It is essential for American Indian students to have access to American Indian mentors, academic resources, adequate facilities, financial support and tacit knowledge." __ Justin McHorse, Taos Pueblo, student at the Institute for the Recruitment of Teachers (IRT) at Phillips Academy, Andover, MA +- -- -- -- -- -- -- -- -- -- -- -+ | 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! 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The editorial for this issue comes from the beautiful lady Creator has sent to share my walk, my wife Janet. ===== They're so sorry... Up until about a week ago, the Confederated Tribes of the Coos, Lower Umpqua and Siuslaw Indians were considered the top prospect for acquiring the former Air National Guard base at the scenic Coos Head site near Cape Arago. The BIA was required to submit an application for the surplussed land on behalf of the tribe -- it was one of those duties the tribes are supposed to TRUST the BIA to do. Well, the BIA failed in its trust. Still...again...once more. The paperwork didn't make it in on time, so the tribes lose out, and it appears now that the local county has a real good chance to create a money-making enterprise on the land. The BIA has expressed regret and the tribes, understandably, are thinking of filing a lawsuit. This was not a trifling loss for them. I wonder about this whole scenario. Was it happenstance? Just more bureaucratic bungling? Is it possible something a lot less bumbling and stupid is at work here? Could it be that the BIA has figured out what could happen when a Native Nation with intelligent leadership gets surplussed lands? They certainly have a model. Chief Phillip Martin of the Mississippi Band of Choctaw parlayed such a purchase into a wiring harness factory that lifted his impoverished tribe and his unemployed people into prosperity. It was a rousing success, and so were subsequent enterprises bankrolled by that first venture. Fat chance of bright Choctaw young folks who want a good future drifting off into nearby cities and forgetting they're Choctaw now. Their opportunities are better right at home. The Mississippi Band of Choctaw would be difficult to "extinguish" because of low numbers, thanks in large part to an enterprise that began with surplussed land. So maybe this little oversight was just that. And maybe the tribal trust mess isn't what it seems to be. Maybe the BIA isn't doing its dead level best to commit oversights, omissions and miscalculations that will so weaken the remaining tribes that they will cease to exist--and solve the "Indian problem." But doesn't it make you wonder? Are all the agencies of the Cabinet so consistently inept? And don't you wonder what another agency -- the Security and Exchange Commission -- would do to a private investment firm that made errors of this magnitude? Addendum: After the above note was written, Gary and I were watching 60 Minutes on television. One of the segments was in regard to people in Germany who feel they've lived with the shame of the Holocaust long enough. Those who perpetrated it are mostly dead. The country has paid reparations to victims, the criminals who were caught in the Nazi leadership have been appropriately punished, the country's leaders have apologized through several administrations, they've been helpful allies and good international citizens for half a century, etc. So, they ask how long will that one period of their country's history be what defines Germany? Good question. It's fairly common belief that Hitler designed much of his "Jewish program" (except for the ovens) based on the U.S. model for solving the "Indian problem." Strategies in common included "illegalizing" commerce with the undesirables and making it impossible for them to prosecute crimes against them (see Georgia law just before the Trail of Tears), relocation of individuals and communities with confiscation of valuable property, isolation in concentration camps and ghettos (reservations), pogroms (outright massacres such as Sand Creek and Wounded Knee), officially sanctioned sterilization of women (beyond the 70s in the U.S., as documented by the General Accounting Office). So where's the U.S. contrition? What about reparations or apologies? Where is the annual international flagellation? Maybe there's a reason Hitler found the U.S. program so appealing. In the 1940s, and now, it is clear the U.S. is getting away with this behavior and suffering no consequences whatsoever. Dohiyi Ani Oginalii , , Gary Night Owl gars@nanews.org (*,*) P. O. Box 672168 gars@speakeasy.org (`-') Marietta, GA 30008, U.S.A. ===w=w=== ----------- News of the people featured in this issue ---------- - Feds miss Filing Deadline - Brazilian Tribe fights for Coos Head Land to keep Lifestyle Alive - County eyes Coos Head property - Non-natives fear for Development Native Self-Government Deal - Impasse leads to Trusteeship - Yellowknives say Giant Mine over Kanehsatake caused Cancer - Cherokee Nation votes BIA out - Comment: - Cities that share Boundaries What do you mean 'We,' White Man? with Tribes - Court Action Over Mercury Poisoning - Gila Tribe banks on a River Walk - Drunk Shooters terrorize Cree Town - Unique Visitor Center - Native Prisoner presents Paiute History -- Pen Pal Address Update - DOREEN YELLOW BIRD: - Rustywire: Metwe' Metwe' Tourism on Reservations - History: Carlisle Indian School - Colombia: Conflict - Poem: For the Brothers affects Amazonian Peoples - Verse: Hawaiian Book of Days - Upcoming Events --------- "RE: Feds miss Filing Deadline for Coos Head Land" --------- Date: Thu, May 29 2003 08:53:39 -0600 From: Gary Smith Subj: NA News Item - - - - - - -- - - - - - - filename="COOS HEAD" http://www.owlstar.com/dailyheadlines.htm http://www.theworldlink.com/articles/2003/05/28/news/news04.txt Feds miss filing deadline for Coos Head land By Andrew Sirocchi, Staff Writer May 28, 2003 A missed deadline may cost the Confederated Tribes of the Coos, Lower Umpqua and Siuslaw Indians years of work and the possibility to acquire the scenic Coos Head site near Charleston. The U.S. Bureau of Indian Affairs has failed to submit an application initiating the land transfer and the General Services Administration the past week opened the purchase of the former Air National Guard base to public interest prospects. The tribes were considered a lock to get the sought-after property, an 11-acre parcel that includes the Cape Arago lighthouse and a parcel that overlooks the Pacific Ocean. Under federal guidelines, the tribes had first dibs on surplused land but since the BIA missed the deadline initiating the land transfer, Coos Head is now open to purchase by other interested groups who can get federal sponsorship. "They asked for a 30-day extension. That was granted and then they did not, they were not able to submit a completed request package," said James Biederman, GSA project manager. Tribal Administrator Francis Somday II said his council is furious about the BIA's handling of the matter, which may end up turning into a loss of land and a potential learning and recreation center it wanted to build. Somday said the tribes submitted its paperwork to the BIA in time but the agency never followed up on the matter. "(The tribes) had a real shot of getting Coos Head returned to it and because one employee failed to do their job, the tribe loses again," Somday said. "The ownership of this property is part of the 1.6 million acres the tribes gave up in the 1850s and it's going to be another tragedy in the history of this tribe if Coos Head is not returned to its rightful owner." Phone calls to BIA representatives in Washington, D.C., were not returned. Somday has not ruled out a lawsuit against the BIA, if the tribes discover they could force an injunction to stop the sale of the property to another group. "In a nutshell, we have our attorneys working on a potential lawsuit against the BIA for violations of its own rules and regulations," he said. The GSA follows a complicated, tiered process to determine who will get surplused federal property. Federal agencies, such as the BIA, get the first crack at the land. Biederman said the BIA initially requested an extension from the initial deadline to review environmental records for the site. The federal government has for years been cleaning several benzene plumes that leaked from military tanks but the cleanup has yet to be completed. Biederman said he called the BIA to report the deadline was nearing but he never heard back from the agency and let the extension expire. Once federal agencies are excluded from the process, the GSA allows anyone with an interest in using the property for public benefit a shot at acquiring the parcel - if they can get federal sponsorship. While homeless shelters have priority over all other interests, the Department of Housing and Urban Development recently determined the site is unfit for use as a homeless shelter, saying the buildings on the site are too deteriorated. Biederman said the GSA is reviewing whether the tribes will have another chance to acquire the property as a public interest group. "We are discussing with legal counsel internally right now and with respect of the issue of whether they can pursue this property as a public body, whether the tribes would qualify as a public body under one of the public benefit uses," he said. Even so, the tribes no longer would receive priority treatment and would compete for the ownership with other interested groups. "The federal entities, including the BIA, no longer have a priority," Biederman said. And other public interests are piling up. Oregon International Port of Coos Bay officials have expressed some guarded interest in working with the original Coos Head Working Group to acquire the property for public use. The group, formed in the late 1990s, included representatives from the port, Coos County, South Slough National Estuarine Research Reserve, Coos Bay and North Bend and the Coquille Indian Tribe as well as the Confederated Tribes. "Five years ago it was clear," General Manager Allan Rumbaugh said. "The port was interested in helping someone acquire the land." Today, that support is not as clear but there still is interest. Commissioner Cheryl Scott said she wants more information about the contaminated areas on the site and wants to review a study produced by the Coos Head Working Group in 1998 before making a decision. She also expressed caution at the prospect that the property remains polluted. In a study several hundred pages long, the Coos Head group developed a number of alternative uses for the site, all largely based on the concept that eco-tourism could be profitable for the area. Ideas were discussed about using the site for a resort, for an educational interpretive center, or a center combining lodging and learning. The port by itself would not be able to sponsor the Coos Head group's bid for the property but could be in a better position to seek federal sponsorship. Idle since 1996, when the Oregon Air National Guard closed the doors on its Coos Head base and moved operations to Klamath Falls, the 40-acre site is proving to be a highly sought-after piece of real estate in Coos County. The GSA has not done an appraisal on the property and a price is unclear. Somday said he has been working with the BIA and the GSA to determine if the process can be reversed but he has been getting little from either group. "In the end, while these two agencies are bickering over this process, who got hurt?" Somday asked. "The tribes." Copyright c. 2003 Southwestern Oregon Publishing Company - Coos Bay, OR. --------- "RE: County eyes Coos Head property for Development" --------- Date: Mon, Jun 2 2003 08:24:56 -0600 From: Gary Smith Subj: NA News Item - - - - - - -- - - - - - - filename="COOS HEAD" http://www.owlstar.com/dailyheadlines.htm http://www.theworldlink.com/articles/2003/05/31/news/news05.txt County eyes Coos Head property for development By Andrew Sirocchi, Staff Writer June 1, 2003 The Coos County Board of Commissioners is the latest in a growing list of groups to express interest in purchasing a former Air National Guard base at the scenic Coos Head site near Cape Arago. Closed since 1996, when the Oregon Air National Guard moved operations to Klamath Falls, the 40-acre Coos Head site has piqued the interest of tribes, tourism promoters and now the county's governing body. "I think we'd be remiss not to" go after the property, Commissioner Nikki Whitty said. "It would just be a beautiful, beautiful site for some sort of campus, a research facility, I don't even know what it might be." Tourism promoters say the land, situated on a forested bluff overlooking the Pacific Ocean, is invaluable for developing eco-tourism attractions, a resort and an interpretive center. The Confederated Tribes of the Coos, Lower Umpqua and Siuslaw Indians, meanwhile, have had a short-term goal of moving their tribal headquarters to the site and a long-term vision of developing a business venture. The county commissioners, in contrast, are the first to voice a strictly economic development interest for the property. Commissioner John Griffith, while declining to address specifics, said current proposals simply haven't suggested they would use the site to its potential. "It's a fabulous piece of property and the county would like to see some sort of economic-positive stream," Griffith said. "We wouldn't want to see it turned into something that would be underused. A piece of property like that should return a very positive economic function to this area." Griffith said ideally, the private sector would return the greatest potential on the property but it's unclear how far federal guidelines will allow industry to get. The land, nestled among state parks and beaches, is currently being auctioned to public benefit interests by the General Services Administration. James Biederman, GSA project manager, said the public benefit screening process typically considers homeless shelters, parks, schools, airports, ports and correctional facilities first. "Homeless shelters have first priority. Everyone else can get sponsorships," Biederman said. "Entities interested in the property for a public-benefit purpose can then submit an application to a federal sponsoring agency." Whitty said the county does not yet have a federal sponsor and the board needs to discuss the issue further before deciding how to approach the land deal. She said some economic development prospects may be able to fit under the GSA's definition of public interest and surmised Coos Head would be a prime location for a public health research facility, a campus for pharmaceutical companies or a homeland defense research business. Whatever the business, Whitty said the county must still work out whether it would want to partner with an enterprise, sell or lease the land. "I'd really like to see private investment out there so whatever is built would be on the tax rolls," Whitty said. The GSA has ordered an appraisal on the property, which should be completed within 90 days and Griffith agreed that the potential for a tax benefit exists. "Taxes on it could be considerable if it were developed to its full potential," Griffith said. "That would be for schools and all the other taxing districts." That would not have been the case if the Confederated Tribes had purchased the land. The tribes were once considered the top prospect for acquiring the property because the process to sell surplused land gives federal agencies first right to bid. The tribes would have been a lock to get the land but the failure of the Bureau of Indian Affairs to submit the required application initiating the land transfer may have cost the tribes the property. Tribal officials, furious at the BIA's handling of the matter, have said they are considering filing a lawsuit against the agency for missing the deadline and hope that they still may be able to negotiate a deal with the GSA. Meanwhile, the sale process has moved to the second stage, in which any agency that can garner federal sponsorship and has a proposal that would benefit the broader public can bid on the land. Tourism developers have eyed Coos Head for years and had already entered an application for the property from the U.S. Bureau of Land Management. In 1998, the Coos Head Working Group, which included representatives from the port, Coos County, South Slough National Estuarine Research Reserve, Coos Bay and North Bend and the Coquille Indian Tribe as well as the Confederated Tribes, developed a lengthy study that included numerous proposals for the land. Alternative uses for the site all were largely based on the concept that eco-tourism could be profitable for the area. Ideas were discussed about using the site for a resort, for an educational interpretive center, or a center combining lodging and learning. Prior to becoming a commissioner, Whitty helped to develop the Working Group study that promoted the site for tourism, but said much has changed since the document was completed. "I just think the economy has changed," she said. "The needs of the county have changed. People need to sit back down and say what really benefits the entire county with the development of this property." Whitty said she hasn't discounted a tourism-based development but added there are additional opportunities that offer more than seasonal economic growth. "I also think it's important to have something where people have family- wage jobs or something where they live here year-round," she said. Copyright c. 2003 Southwestern Oregon Publishing Company, Coos Bay, OR. --------- "RE: Impasse leads to Trusteeship over Kanehsatake" --------- Date: Wed, May 28 2003 08:12:01 -0600 From: Gary Smith Subj: NA News Item - - - - - - -- - - - - - - filename="KANEHSATAKE" http://www.easterndoor.com/12-18/12-18-1.htm Impasse leads to trusteeship over Kanehsatake By: Ross Montour May 23, 2003 Ongoing divisions within the Mohawk Council of Kanehsatake have led to a decision last week by Indian and Northern Affairs to place the community under trusteeship and, so far, both sides of the leadership divide are laying responsibility at the doorstep of the other. Council Chief Steven Bonspille places the blame squarely on the shoulders of Kanehsatake Grand Chief James Gabriel for what he called Gabriel's "actions against" the community. Gabriel dismissed Bonspille's accusations, countering that, if anyone was to blame, it was Bonspille and two other councillors because of their refusal to accept an alternative plan to assist the band out of a nearly $3 million deficit, which would have preempted the need for trusteeship. Gabriel said that numerous attempts had been made by Indian and Northern Affairs to seek a less intrusive solution to his community's fiscal woes. "There were tons of letters and attempts at dialogue offering the preferable option of co-management but three of my fellow chiefs were not interested. They have instead attempted to create another crisis in the community," Gabriel said, pointing to last month's road blockade at Kanehsatake. The impact of Chief Crawford Gabriel's death last October has had a telling effect on decision-making at Kanehsatake. Since then, the now six- member council has been at loggerheads a number of times, the latest being over the issue of band finances. Gabriel argued third-party management could have been avoided had Bonspille and fellow chiefs Pearl Bonspille and John Harding been willing to cast their vote in favour of co-management. Gabriel said it was because of the Bonspille faction's unwillingness to move forward that Indian Affairs was left with no other option but to place the council under trusteeship. Bonspille balks at Gabriel's contention. "At this point I don't trust anything James says - he's changed his positions so many times. There were two meetings on the issue of co-management. At the first, we (Bonspille, Pearl Bonspille and Harding) said that we would never support it. At the next, James decided he did want to take part in it. I take everything he says now with a grain of sand," Bonspille said yesterday. Gabriel punctuated his frustration by pointing out that all of the council members had signed a funding agreement with Indian Affairs which obliged council to initiate specific remedies should the deficit reach seven or eight per cent of the annual budget. The embattled Grand Chief said that, no matter what Bonspille and his supporters say, they were obliged to act responsibly under that funding arrangement. Bonspille blamed Gabriel Monday for contributing to the growing deficit by instigating and supporting legal battles against council. But, Bonspille said the time for blame and finger-pointing was over. "It's time for all parties to work together toward asserting our sovereignty in terms of governance and to oppose third-party management," he said. "We have the ability to manage our funds in Kanehsatake. Ottawa knows this and they know why there's a deficit. There isn't a council in the country that can foresee litigation. I don't like seeing our money going to lawyers and I didn't get on council to sit in courtrooms. Before coming on to council I'd never been in a courtroom - now I've spent more time in them than I care to mention." Finger-pointing aside, the Regional Director of Indian Affairs, Andre' Cote', has already appointed the firm of Price-Waterhouse to act as trustee over Kanehsatake. "My three fellow chiefs have said they intend to prevent Price- Waterhouse coming into the office. Unfortunately, they were not present at a meeting held May 16 with the Department of Indian Affairs and Price- Waterhouse. If they had been," Gabriel said, "they would have known that the trustee made it clear that they would not be coming into the community. They didn't want to add to the problems here." As things stand now, Gabriel said that any attempt to deny the trustee access to financial documents would be met decisively. "Price-Waterhouse will simply suspend payment of bills. After all new dollars are placed into the account controlled by Price-Waterhouse, they will only issue cheques upon requests made to ensure that essential services are delivered to the community," Gabriel said Wednesday. A meeting is set to take place today between the representatives of Price-Waterhouse and the Kanehsatake council. However, Bonspille says he plans to sit and watch. He is concerned that, in spite of protests to the contrary, there will be a layoff of council employees. "I don't buy that there won't be any," he said yesterday. easterndoor@axess.com Copyright c. 1997-2000 The Eastern Door/Mohawk Territory, Kahnawake, QC. --------- "RE: Cherokee Nation votes BIA out" --------- Date: Wed, May 28 2003 08:12:01 -0600 From: Gary Smith Subj: NA News Item - - - - - - -- - - - - - - filename="CNO VOTES FEDS OUT" http://www.swtimes.com/archive/2003/May/28/news/TribeVotes.html Tribe Votes Feds Out By Marcus Blair TIMES RECORD - MBLAIR@SWTIMES.COM May 28, 2003 The Cherokee Nation no longer needs federal approval to change its constitution after tribal voters passed an amendment Saturday. The measure passed by 62 percent in the tribal election. It removes a portion of the Cherokee constitution that requires the tribe to clear all changes with the Bureau of Indian Affairs. With federal involvement out of the way, Cherokees will finally have an opportunity to approve a new tribal constitution on June 26. In 1999, the constitution was approved by a convention of Cherokees, but the Bureau of Indian Affairs would not ratify it. The document contains several changes to tribal government that are designed to reinforce the sovereignty of Cherokees, said Jay Hannah, chairman of the constitution convention. Some members of the tribe were surprised the measure didn't pass by a greater margin, said Mike Miller, communications coordinator for the Cherokee Nation. He said some Cherokees voted against the amendment because they did not understand it or they do not want the tribe to vote on a new constitution. "There was some confusion about it," Miller said. "Some people put the cart ahead of the horse and voted no right now because they didn't want the second vote." Also on Saturday, Cherokees re-elected Principal Chief Chad Smith. He received 52 percent of the vote to defeat former chief Joe Byrd, L.S. Fields and Robin Carter Mayes. The race for deputy chief will be decided in a runoff June 26. Joe Grayson Jr., who received 38 percent of votes, and Gary D. Chapman, who received 33 percent, have advanced. Incumbent Hastings Shade and John Cornsilk were defeated. Cherokees in District 3 (Sequoyah County) re-elected David Thornton to the Tribal Council and chose Phyllis Yargee as a new council member, both with 22 percent of the vote. Incumbent Mary Flute-Cooksey was unseated and Edith Locust Dalton and Sam Ed Bush Jr. also were defeated. The only other race to result in a runoff was in District 4 which includes portions of Wagoner, Muskogee and MacIntosh counties. Don Garvin received 48 percent and Calvin Rock also advanced with 41 percent. The following Tribal Council races were decided: * District 1 (Cherokee County): Audra Smoke-Connor and Bill John Baker were elected to two seats. * District 2 (Adair County): Jackie Bob Martin and S. Joe Crittenden were elected to two seats. * District 5 (Delaware County and a portion of Otawah County): Linda Hughes O'Leary and Melvina Shotpouch were elected to two seats. * District 6 (Mayes County): Meredith A. Frailey and Johnny Keener were elected to two seats. * District 7 (Rogers County): Cara Cowan was elected. * District 8 (Washington County and a portion of Tulsa County): Buel Anglen and William G. "Bill" Johnson were elected to two seats. * District 9 (Craig and Nowata counties): Charles "Chuck" Hoskin was elected. Copyright c. 2003 Ft. Smith, AR Times Record. --------- "RE: Cities that share Boundaries with Tribes" --------- Date: Wed, May 28 2003 08:12:01 -0600 From: Gary Smith Subj: NA News Item - - - - - - -- - - - - - - filename="TRIBAL BOUNDARIES" http://www.owlstar.com/dailyheadlines.htm http://www.skagitvalleyherald.com/articles/2003/05/27/business/business05.txt Cities that share boundaries with tribes ponder issues in common By CATHY LOGG, The (Everett) Herald May 27, 2003 EVERETT - As Snohomish County grows, more issues arise regarding the intersection of authority between American Indians and government agencies, both on and off the reservations. Marysville, Arlington and Stanwood all have boundaries abutting tribal lands or have tribal properties within their boundaries. Officials decided they wanted to know more about police and taxing powers of the various jurisdictions. In a recent workshop, officials discussed those various intersections with attorney Steve DiJulio, whose law firm often works on legal issues involving various Washington tribes. DiJulio's message: Communities should look at doing good business and establishing good relationships with the tribes. He also urged representatives of the three cities to establish a good relationship with the federal Bureau of Indian Affairs so that issues can be adequately addressed. More and more, cities are involved with tribes in business, economic and other issues that can be tricky if you don't know the law, Arlington Mayor Bob Kraski said. Though tribal members were invited but did not attend the workshop, Marysville city administrator Mary Swenson said those who did attend got a good general education on current law. "It's better to be educated and know your neighbors rather than just imagine what's going on and not getting the straight facts," Swenson said. Since the advent of tribal casinos that have brought significant gambling money to some tribes, American Indians now are expanding development, on and off reservations, DiJulio said. That means that many tribal members are facing more knotty issues these days, such as taxation, insurance and building codes, than they did in the past. "Tribes are becoming more entrepreneurial in looking at their revenue opportunities," DiJulio told the group. The Tulalip Tribes, for example, has used money from its Marysville casino to develop the Quil Ceda Village business park, such anchor stores as Home Depot and Wal-Mart. Next door to Quil Ceda, the Tulalip confederation is building a new, larger casino, scheduled to open soon. The Stillaguamish Tribe also has plans to build a casino. With all this development, the tribes and the communities are working hard to be good neighbors and have entered into a variety of agreements. For example, Marysville Fire District provides some fire protection and medical aid to the Tulalip reservation. The Marysville School District educates Tulalip children. Tribal police plan to cross-deputize their officers with Marysville police, and already have done so with the Snohomish Regional Narcotics Task Force, Marysville police Chief Bob Carden said. The Greater Marysville Tulalip Chamber of Commerce met Friday to discuss the results of a study conducted to determine the impacts of Quil Ceda Village on the city. According to the study, the most substantial impact of the reservation's development at Quil Ceda will be traffic, said Greg Young, Marysville's grant writer and economic development coordinator. Being good neighbors also means knowing who has what authority over whom, and where. Tribes are independent, self-governing political communities whose powers of self-government are limited only by federal laws, DiJulio said. That means, for the most part, that state law doesn't apply to tribal members on an Indian reservation. Similarly, tribes have no authority over nontribal members on the reservation, DeJulio said. Depending on whether issues are civil or criminal, whether they involve tribal members or nonmembers, and what type of land they're on all play a part in determining who has governing authority. On tribal trust lands, for example, state jurisdiction is limited to compulsory school attendance, public assistance, domestic relations, mental illness, juvenile delinquency, adoption proceedings, dependent children and the operation of motor vehicles on public roads. Tribes regulate their own members through taxation, licensing or other means, and may exercise civil authority over non-Indians when the conduct threatens or effects the tribe's political integrity, economic security, or health and welfare, DiJulio said. Big issues are looming that will affect all of the jurisdictions, such as trust lands inside cities, the interrelationship of taxing issues, such as on utilities that cross reservation land, or the development of service contracts with tribal communities, DiJulio said. Copyright c. 2003 Skagit Valley Herald/Mount Vernon, Washington --------- "RE: Gila Tribe banks on a River Walk" --------- Date: Wed, May 28 2003 08:12:01 -0600 From: Gary Smith Subj: NA News Item - - - - - - -- - - - - - - filename="GILA RIVER WALK" http://www.owlstar.com/dailyheadlines.htm http://www.azcentral.com/business/articles/0528gilariver28.html Gila tribe banks on a river walk San Antonio attraction inspires plan John Stearns The Arizona Republic May 28, 2003 The Gila River Indian Community is grading dirt and laying utilities for its version of the San Antonio River Walk, the popular Texas attraction with restaurants, shops, hotels and nightclubs lining the San Antonio River. "That's exactly where the idea came from . . . (but) there's some unique differences, that's for sure," said Gary Williams, a tribal member and marketing manager for the Wild Horse Pass Development Authority, which is heading the work. Gila River's as-yet-unnamed river walk will be a blend of high-quality, low-density development lining both sides of the man-made river that links the Sheraton Wild Horse Pass Resort & Spa and Gila River Wild Horse Pass Casino. Boats already transport guests more than one-half mile between the facilities, and a concrete footpath lined with native vegetation rings the east side. Workers are preparing to pour the path on the west side of the river this summer to create a nearly 1.5-mile loop, and they are readying some of the roughly 200 acres around it for future shops, restaurants and entertainment venues, including a possible events center and smaller hotel. The first structures could be under way in a year or two. The development is expected to house 20 to 30 establishments. "Depending on what the market will bear, as far as the foot traffic, it definitely can continue from that point on," Williams said of a project that could take 10 years to build out. Preserving tranquillity But don't look for anything that will upset the area's tranquillity, a key feature of the peaceful resort that hardly seems 11 miles from Phoenix Sky Harbor International Airport and minutes off Interstate 10. It won't be "Vegasville," Williams said. Nor will it be Beverly Hills, "but there's a good, happy medium there in which we can pull from, (from) an economic standpoint." The project is yet another step in the tribe's development of the 2,400- acre site that began with the casino. The site branched to include two 18-hole Troon golf courses, then the $175 million, 500-room Sheraton and spa that opened last October, plus an equestrian center. Feeling comfortable about those facilities' operation and returns, the tribe is continuing its economic diversification. Complementary plans The river walk is designed to be an attraction in itself, while also serving resort and casino guests. It also is expected to support and benefit from a 350-acre business park for which initial groundwork has been completed on tribal land, west of the Firebird International Raceway. It's all part of diversifying the tribe's economy beyond gambling, revenue from which seeded the expansion and has generated the kinds of opportunities envisioned when Congress enacted the Indian Gaming Regulatory Act in 1988. Gila's ultimate goal: tribal self-sufficiency. "A self-sufficient tribe is where all the members are self-supporting" and don't depend on the government to support them, said Urban Giff, the development authority's vice chairman. Jobs for the tribe's 14,000 to 16,000 members, most of whom live on the 372,000-acre reservation, are important project benefits and are enticing some members back to the reservation, Williams said. An upscale attraction The river walk's size, tenants, budget and architectural details remain to be finalized, but the look is likely to resemble the upscale Sheraton, Williams said. Recognizable brand-name establishments could complement stores that sell American Indian artisans' work - jewelry, leather, clothing, art and more. "It's not indecision, it's flexibility," Giff said of the fluid plans. New life for tribe The development is intended, like the hotel, spa, golf clubhouse and surrounding river features, to educate outsiders about the Gila tribe, known as the "river people." The new ventures, similar to life-giving water, are giving the tribe new life, Williams said, adding that they also add to Arizona's tourism industry and allow tribal participation in it. "It sort of completes the package," Jay Butler, director of the Arizona Real Estate Center at Arizona State University's W.P. Carey School of Business, said of the river walk. It helps to create more reasons for people to visit and stay beyond the casino and resort, he said, noting similar successes at Las Vegas resorts. Regional benefits Karen Maurer, senior marketing director for the massive Chandler Fashion Center, said the Gila tribe's plans will feed the region's growing popularity and benefit everyone. CB Richard Ellis is the real estate broker for the business park. The company is using its contacts for prospective river walk tenants, said Jerry McCormick, a CB first vice president in Phoenix. "We're trying to create something out there that isn't anyplace else," McCormick said. He believes the business park will help feed the river walk and vice versa. Proceeding carefully No matter who the new business tenants are, growth will be calculated, said Dale Gutenson, the general manager of the development authority. "We view it as an incremental growth process," he said. "We need to create activity and some critical mass." The plan is flexible enough to allow the extension of the river if necessary to accommodate the right tenants, he said. Rich Carter, general manager of Troon's Whirlwind Golf Club, looks forward to the river walk development. "That is just going to add exposure to our facility," he said. Copyright c. 2003 The Arizona Republic. --------- "RE: Unique Visitor Center presents Paiute History" --------- Date: Wed, May 28 2003 08:12:01 -0600 From: Gary Smith Subj: NA News Item - - - - - - -- - - - - - - filename="PAIUTE-PARK SERVICE" http://www.indianz.com/ http://www.thespectrum.com/news/stories/20030528/topstories/378984.html Unique visitor center presents tribal history Paiute-Park Service museum to launch Saturday By PATRICE ST. GERMAIN patrices@thespectrum.com May 28, 2003 PIPE SPRING NATIONAL MONUMENT - It's the only visitor center of its type in the National Park Service - a partnership to enhance a visitor's experience and education and to provide cultural education for Indian youth. The Kaibab band of Paiute Indians has teamed up with the National Park Service to create a new visitor center and museum and the Pipe Spring National Monument located in Arizona on tribal land. Entering in a new 20-year lease with the tribe, monument superintendent John Hiscock said the tribe would also get a return on the entrance fees. But the project was more than just a way to share entrance fees. Kaibab Paiute Tribal chairwoman Carmen Bradley said the new center provides a way to tell the story of the Southern Paiutes. The museum encompasses the history of the area and the E'nengweng - Paiute for ancient ones or ancestral peoples - up through the days of the early Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saint pioneer settlers to the present day life of the Kaibab Paiutes. Bradley points to a photograph of Chuarrumpeak, her great, great, great, grandfather who assisted John Wesley Powell in his exploration of the area. Hiscock said at some point, he hopes to have a computer in a room set off from the museum for people to look up descendants from the area. The cultural center also has a collage of photographs of Paiutes. One of the photographs shows a young woman with a baby in a cradleboard. The baby is now about 75 years old. Bradley said there are 250 enrolled members in the Kaibab band of Paiute Indians, most of that number is made up of youth. "I can count the elders on one hand," she said. Hiscock said that is another reason the cultural center, preserving some of the Kaibab Paiute history, is important. "Anytime you lose an elder, much is lost," he said. For anyone living in the desert southwest, water was and still is a necessity for survival. The museum display begins with a water feature and display of ancient water vessels. The monument itself, on the Arizona Strip, is a spring that served as an oasis to travelers and a water source for permanent settlers. The water from rain and snow melt off the plateaus of central Utah, 200 miles to the north, runs down to a hard shale layer and flows southward to the base of the Vermilion Cliffs where it is forced to surface at places like Pipe Spring. A ranch was built at the site, a tithing ranch and business venture as part of Brigham Young's vision for the growing Mormon population. In 1870 Anson Perry Winsor was appointed as the first ranch manager and built what was called "Winsor Castle", two sandstone buildings facing a courtyard which still survives. Pipe Spring became a national monument on May 31,1923 as the proclamation was signed by President Warren G. Harding to preserve the ranch and historic buildings and interpret the associated history of the pioneers and Indians. The building, which is now the visitor center and museum, was built in 1973 by the tribe with assistance of the National Park Service, and housed offices and visitor center. Now the park's administrative offices are located at a building built as a casino. The casino operated for only one year back in 1994 and 1995 before closing down. Hiscock said the current partnership was initiated in 1998 although Bradley said looking through tribal documents, the idea of a museum has been in the works since the 70s. The center will also serve as a contact and information station for visitors to the northern areas of Grand Canyon National Park and Grand Canyon Parashant National Monument. The refurbishing of the building was paid for by grant money received by the tribe and money the park applied for from fee-demo program funds. It cost approximately $500,000. Hiscock said in the last 10 years, visitation at the monument has been between 50,000 and 60,000 visitors a year. He hopes that the new visitor center, gift shop and museum will help encourage people to visit the historic site. Copyright c. 2003 The Spectrum/St. George, UT. --------- "RE: DOREEN YELLOW BIRD: Tourism on Reservations" --------- Date: Wed, May 28 2003 08:12:01 -0600 From: Gary Smith Subj: NA News Item - - - - - - -- - - - - - - filename="YELLOW BIRD: TOURISM" http://www.grandforks.com/~/columnists/dorreen_yellow_bird/5934676.htm DORREEN YELLOW BIRD COLUMN: Tourism on reservations could work with controls May 24, 2003 When North Dakota's state tourism knocks on the door of closed communities such as the Indian reservations, the tribes tend to stand with their heels dug into the ground and their hands firmly around the doorknob, keeping the door tightly shut. Part of the tribes' lack of enthusiasm for tourism - casinos being the exception - is a mistrust of how the culture and image of Native people will be portrayed when the tourists go home and their maps, tourist's guides and binoculars are put away. In a recent discussion with Roderic Hewlett, dean of the College of Business and Graduate School at Minot State University, I learned some possible links that could be beneficial to both the state and the tribes. There are many possibilities for tourism on reservations, Hewlett said. For example, European tourists keenly are interested in Indian reservations and the culture of Native people - how they live today as well as 200 years ago. The rest of the country finds Native American culture fascinating, too, he said. But I am skeptical about reservations opening their doors to a flood of tourists unless the state works hand in hand with the tribe, and the privacy of Native people is maintained. As I drove home after my visit with Hewlett, some of the questions that played in my mind were these: There is no doubt that there is interest in the ceremonies and rituals of Native people. Some tribes are on the side of keeping these ceremonies and rituals off-limits. This issue of who can attend ceremonies is being discussed around Indian country. Here is where some of the problems have their roots. There are people who were tourists, for example, who came back time and again to the same ceremony until they were as familiar with the ritual as most elders. They then took it upon themselves to duplicate the ceremonies they'd learned without the sanction of a medicine man and spiritual leader. There are non-Natives who have dubbed themselves medicine men and are practicing the same ritual they learned from watching. There also are people who claim to have some connection to a tribe and use that connection as a way to become keepers and spiritual leaders. Arvol Looking Horse, keeper of the White Buffalo Pipe, recently proclaimed that some ceremonies need to be for Native people only. Shortly thereafter, a group in Pine Ridge, S.D., said that no people should be excluded from ceremonies. This issue has been on the table for only a few months, so it seems there is more unraveling to do before a "way" becomes set for the people. It is a complicated issue being examined by elders and spiritual leaders. I suspect there will be hurt feelings before all is said and done. So opening the doors for tourism without a plan could come into direct conflict with the proclamations of some of the tribal elders. If tourists are excluded from ceremonies and only can walk the reservation with map and guide in hand, they may find that Indian reservations are not what they expected. There is poverty, addiction and other problems. Their view also will be clouded by the non-Natives' own stereotypes and perspectives. So to see a good and accurate picture of cultural of Native American people, people will need to look beyond the poverty. Tourists also will need to experience or see the ceremonies and rituals, too. That may be difficult. Hewlett suggests a way that may work for some tribes . He said centers could be built in places such as Minot, Bismarck, Grand Forks or Fargo. In those centers, a taste of Native American communities could be served. The centers' role would be to provide an experience in Native American culture. As important, guideposts to the reservations could be established through the centers so that tourists could visit the reservation and participate in the Native American culture, but the privacy of Native people there could be maintained. Tourism on the reservation, after all, can be economic boon to reservations and as lucrative as casinos have turned out to be. Hewlett's right. With proper controls established by the tribal governments and Native tourism directors, guideposts could establish a viable way to increase incomes on the reservations and showcase and share some of the culture - the gifts of the Creator - of Native Americans. Tourism on reservations could work. Yellow Bird writes Tuesday and Saturday. Reach her by phone at 780-1228 or (800) 477-6572, extension 228 or by e-mail at dyellowbird@gfherald.com. Copyright c. 2003 Grand Forks Herald. --------- "RE: Colombia: Conflict Affects Amazonian Peoples" --------- Date: Wednesday, May 28, 2003 06:27 pm From: Amazon Alliance Subj: Colombia: Conflict Affects Amazonian Peoples From: Iniciativa Amazonica The Latin American Human Rights Association agenot@aldhu.com COLOMBIAN CONFLICT AFFECTS AMAZONIAN INDIGENOUS GROUPS More than 1.500 indigenous people from Colombia, most of them from Amazonian ethnic groups, abandoned their territories in the last year due to the Colombian conflict. They moved mainly toward Ecuador, Venezuela, Peru and Panama. The threats of guerrilla and paramilitary groups, together with the fumigation of coca and poppy cultivations, arranged by government, are the reasons for the displacement of people in this country. According to a study made by the Colombian NGO "Consultancy for the Human Rights and Displaced" (CODEHS), 2.9 million Colombians have been displaced since 1985. Five percent of them are indigenous people and " the Sate neither avoid their exile, clarified the facts, punished the responsible ones, nor compensate the victims." Indigenous people are the most affected by the conflict. The Zonal Indigenous Organization of Putumayo (OZIP), in KA`DOARO Bulletin (May 2003), points out that 500 families from 12 indigenous settlements of Putumayo were forced to leave their ancestral territories because of the Colombian conflict. On the other hand, the National Indigenous Organization of Colombia, ONIC, recently denounced that 50 indigenous from Colombia were murdered and 27 were reported as missing in the last year, in the Amazonian frontier with Ecuador and Peru. According to declarations of the United Nations Office for Refugees, ACNUR, around 200 people, including more than 90 children, left the area of Rio de Oro, in the northwest of Venezuela, when paramilitary groups entered the region. ACNUR also received not confirmed reports stating that at least 600 people, including indigenous Bari, escaped toward the mountainous area near Rio de Oro. In the last weeks, armed confrontations between guerrilla and paramilitary forces in the border area, have been reported. These armed groups also confronted the Venezuelan army. ACNUR considers that these facts are evidences of the increase of the Colombian conflict, and of the growth of humanitarian impacts in the bordering countries. The Office for Displaced demands the combatants to respect the rights of the civil population; and the governments of the region to continue respecting its international obligations and guaranteeing the asylum right. ******************************************************************* Distribuido por: Distributed by: 'AMAZON ALLIANCE' FOR INDIGENOUS AND TRADITIONAL PEOPLES OF THE AMAZON BASIN 1367 Connecticut Ave. NW, Suite 400 Washington, DC 20036-1860 tel (202)785-3334 fax (202)785-3335 amazon@amazonalliance.org http://www.amazonalliance.org Disclaimer: All copyrights belong to original publisher. The Amazon Alliance has not verified the accuracy of the forwarded message. Forwarding this message does not necessarily connote agreement with the positions stated there-in. --------- "RE: Brazilian Tribe fights to keep Lifestyle Alive" --------- Date: Sun, Jun 1 2003 16:18:40 -0700 From: Gary Smith Subj: NA News Item - - - - - - -- - - - - - - filename="GUARANI" http://www.nj.com/~/base/news-8/10539295775100.xml?starledger Brazilian tribe fights to keep lifestyle alive City's growth threatens to destroy means of survival for Indian village Monday, May 26, 2003 BY STAN LEHMAN Associated Press SAO PAULO, Brazil -- Children jostle into the village schoolhouse, chattering happily in Guarani. For Giselda Jera, it's the sound of her people's past -- and their uncertain future. Jera, 21, is a teacher in Morro da Saudade, the largest of three surviving Indian villages on the outskirts of Sao Paulo, South America's biggest city. They are home to some 1,000 Guaranis, who are struggling to preserve their culture against the advance of Western civilization. Just 35 miles away, downtown Sao Paulo bustles in a cosmopolitan sprawl of luxury high-rises, malls, theaters and hotels. With a metropolitan area population of 18 million, the city has nearly reached the village gates. "I am very worried about our future as a people," Jera said. "We have succeeded in keeping our language and customs alive, but our lifestyle is in danger because we no longer have enough room to hunt, fish or plant sufficient corn, manioc and sweet potatoes, the way our grandparents did." A mile from the nearest paved road, Morro da Saudade -- Portuguese for Hill of Wistfulness -- is easy to overlook. Only a sign on a dirt road saying "Indigenous Area" indicates the village is near. Chickens and scrawny dogs wander among the 100 squalid huts of wood, mud and tin. A few banana trees and tiny plots of corn, manioc and beans barely provide the 136 families enough to survive. Children in shorts and flip-flops chase a ball across the packed red dirt of a village clearing. Except for the thatch-roofed prayer house and "maloca," or community center, the scene isn't very different from a Sao Paulo shantytown. Jera remembers her grandfather's spinning tales of hunting and fishing in the surrounding forests. Today, the trees are dwindling, the game is gone, and many young Guaranis are abandoning the village and traditional customs. "White men started to settle this region about 30 years ago, cutting down trees and vegetation to build their homes and destroying our means of survival," said the school's principal, Kwaray Mirim. It's a common plight for tribes in Brazil's developed south. Today, most of the nation's 345,000 Indians live in the remote Amazon jungle, where less contact with the modern world makes it easier to preserve traditional ways. The Guarani tribe is the largest of Brazil's 215 indigenous groups, with about 35,000 members living in the cities, forests and coastal areas of seven states. A peaceful, semi-nomadic people, the Guarani arrived in this region nearly a half century ago and roamed freely over hundreds of acres. But in 1984 the government confined them to a 62-acre reservation "that is too small for them to lead a dignified life," said Cristina Alves of the National Indian Affairs Bureau. Still, residents consider the area a "Tekoa" -- Guarani for good place to live -- and don't want to leave. But Sao Paulo keeps expanding as poor migrants from Brazil's arid northeast come in search of jobs and settle on the city's edges. "The rapid growth of these settlements forces the city government to pave roads, provide public transportation, electricity and other utilities, which in turn attracts more people to the region," said Mauricio Fonseca of the Indigenous Peoples' Support Program. Urban civilization now threatens to engulf the reservation and the Guarani, he said. A commercial center is barely 6 miles away, where Indians buy food and other goods they used to provide for themselves. "With the exception of the handicrafts they sell in the city, the Guarani have been deprived of their traditional methods of self- sustainability," Fonseca said. "If they cannot hunt, fish and plant enough crops, the material aspects of their culture will disappear and endanger the survival of their cultural and spiritual traditions." Sustained by donations from humanitarian groups and a government stipend of about $50 a month per family, the Guarani are striving to keep to their traditions. Young children are taught Guarani history and religion in the "Opy," or prayer house, a low-ceilinged thatched hut where village elders orally impart Guarani lore. Their education continues at the village's public school, where in bilingual courses they learn Portuguese, math, geography and other academic subjects. But at age 14, they must go outside the village to attend high school. Many drop out "because they are discriminated and shunned by the white students," said Jera, the teacher. Vandeli Karai, a village elder, said the tribe's only hope is to expand the reservation. He said the idea is being discussed with local authorities and the National Indian Affairs Bureau. "If we get more land perhaps we will be able to recover the kind of lives our forefathers once enjoyed," he said. Copyright c. 2003 NJ.com/Star-Ledger, Newark, N.J. --------- "RE: Non-natives fear Native Self-Government Deal" --------- Date: Wed, May 28 2003 08:12:01 -0600 From: Gary Smith Subj: NA News Item - - - - - - -- - - - - - - filename="WESTBANK SELF-GOVERNMENT" http://www.owlstar.com/dailyheadlines.htm http://www.canada.com/vancouver/news/story Folks fear native deal Damian Inwood The Province Tuesday, May 27, 2003 Westbank residents fear they'll have little meaningful input to challenge sweeping powers in a newly ratified native self-government agreement. Under the deal, approved by 57 per cent of the 600-strong Westbank band on Saturday, the 8,000 non-native residents living on band land on long- term leases would be governed by decisions made by the chief and a four- member council. "What we're concerned about is the amount of power being ceded by the federal government and given to Westbank First Nations," said Bill Hardy, who helped launch an unsuccessful court challenge to stop the weekend vote. He wants an independent arbitrator to resolve disputes. The deal still must be ratified by Ottawa and passed into law - likely not before the fall. Kelowna lawyer John McAfee, who presented the court challenge, said more than taxation is at stake: "There are things like the Landlord Tenant Act, the right of search and seizure, control over roads..." Chief Robert Louie said non-natives have nothing to fear. dinwood@png.canwest.com Copyright c. 2003 The Vancouver Province. --------- "RE: Yellowknives say Giant Mine caused Cancer" --------- Date: Thursday, May 29, 2003 12:53 pm From: Frosty Subj: Fw: Giant mine caused cancer, Yellowknives say Mailing List: Frostys AmerIndian ----- Original Message ----- From: Don http://north.cbc.ca/template/servlet/may28arsenic-ndilo05282003 Giant mine caused cancer, Yellowknives say WebPosted May 28 2003 05:15 PM CDT YELLOWKNIFE - Aboriginal people who live next to the Giant mine are looking for compensation. The Yellowknives Dene say the mine has made people sick and contaminated their land. Dettah residents say their health and land were harmed by nearby Giant mine At a meeting Tuesday with federal government officials, elders said the Giant mine has produced nothing for them except death and destruction. They believe there's been an increase in the number of deaths caused by cancer in N'dilo and Dettah. And they blame those deaths on the arsenic trioxide that once belched from the Giant gold mine. Rick Edjericon, the chief of Dettah, believes the arsenic has also contaminated their land. "They've mined a lot of gold out of that area but they had no respect for the land and the environment," Edjericon says. "At the same time the government of Canada was continuing to give water licenses and permits and so on." The Yellowknives Dene have raised the issue of compensation several times in the last six months.They've made it part of the discussion about what to do with the arsenic trioxide stored at Giant. Last night, the head of Indian and Northern Affairs in the Northwest Territories was in Dettah to hear them. Bob Overvold says the department's focus has been on the clean-up. But he's willing to talk. "In my response to Chief Edjericon, I said if you wanted to discuss the issue, we're prepared to do that," Overvold says. Overvold says he wants to clarify what exactly the Yellowknives want compensation for. He says he hopes to set up a meeting with Edjericon later this week. Copyright c. 2003 CBC. --------- "RE: Comment: What do you mean 'We,' White Man?" --------- Date: Tue, May 27 2003 08:09:48 -0600 From: Gary Smith Subj: NA News Item - - - - - - -- - - - - - - filename="GOVERNANCE ACT" http://www.owlstar.com/dailyheadlines.htm http://www.theglobeandmail.com/servlet/ArticleNews/TPStory/COINDIAN/Comment Comment: What do you mean 'we,' white man? Pull the plug on Bill C-7, says Chief ROBERTA JAMIESON , and leave First Nations government to First Nations people By ROBERTA JAMIESON Monday, May 26, 2003 As Ottawa pushes through the final phases of the First Nations Governance Act (Bill C-7), Canadians are confused. The bill is supposed to address the unacceptable results of colonialism -- so why is a prescription for more colonialism the remedy? Yet that is exactly what Prime Minister Jean Chretien and Indian Affairs Minister Robert Nault seem intent on doing as they railroad through Parliament an ill-conceived package of legislation that purports to teach First Nations people how to be democratic. Consider a recent Globe and Mail headline: If He Differs With Nault, What Is Martin's Plan? The headline implied that it's up to Paul Martin to come up with an alternative. Excuse me. Missing in these exhortations that Mr. Martin spell out his plans to modernize native government is the recognition that this remains the responsibility and right of First Nations themselves, a right now constitutionally recognized. (Mr. Martin's best option: to work with First Nations, and provide access to the real tools of governance our people require -- lands, resources and fiscal transfers.) Meanwhile, Mr. Nault is engaged in a costly exercise of misinformation. His $15-million consultation process preceding the introduction of C-7 was a farce. Despite cross-country hearings, the lawmakers did not visit a single First Nations community affected by the bill. They heard from 191 witnesses adamantly opposed to the legislation, and only 10 (including the Minister and his officials) in favour. Despite evidence from the Canadian Bar Association, the Indigenous Bar Association, and former minister of Indian affairs Warren Allmand that C-7 will be struck down as unconstitutional and in violation of treaties and inherent rights, Mr. Chretien and Mr. Nault remain intent on ramming it through. Let's look at one area that C-7 is supposed to address: more transparent accounting for the $6-billion plus that is supposedly spent on native programs and services. How much of this actually reaches First Nation communities? In fact, more than 20 per cent goes to a mix of federal administration and claims settlements. Less than 1 per cent goes to building better governance and accounting systems. Outside observers point out that hopelessness, substance abuse and poverty are rife on some native reserves, and that in some instances, bad government is a factor. Corruption, mismanagement, and undemocratic conduct are totally unacceptable to First Nations. Accountability and transparency are just as much goals for us as they are for Canadians. Hardly a model of accountability, Indian Affairs itself is very much involved in setting up situations in which bad government can flourish. Observers sometimes demand to know why the Assembly of First Nations isn't offering its own concrete reforms. Well, the AFN is composed of over 600 First Nations communities; it's not just an Ottawa office. Among the witnesses at the C-7 hearings, a substantial number, including Six Nations of the Grand River Territory, had concrete proposals, starting with an end to the Indian Act. We need new mechanisms to make federal-First Nations relations more like federal-provincial relations -- such as an undertaking to create a minister of state for federal-First Nations relations to build a new relationship free from the legacy of Indian Affairs. For our part, to confirm the commitment that First Nations have to high standards of democracy, spending accountability, leadership selection, and the protection of human rights, First Nations should enter into conventions in the same way most of the world's countries have committed to international conventions. Many of our original forms of government, long suppressed by the Indian Act, manifest these very features of consensual decision-making and accountability. They await revitalization and the space to operate. In other cases, new mechanisms may be required. But in order to be accepted, they must be of our own making and reflect our culture and values -- not the prescription of a minister or prime minister stuck in a colonial mindset where only they know what is good for us. I challenge federal and political leaders to recognize and accommodate new institutions, including a First Nations auditor-general (created by a convention among First Nations rather than imposed from outside) and a First Nations electoral officer. A First Nations human-rights agency could receive appeals from decisions made by First Nations officials across Canada to reconcile individual and collective rights now confirmed in the Constitution. These same agencies, regionally, could engage in public education and provide for the development and exchange of best practices and capacity- building initiatives. As well, many First Nations, including Six Nations, are creating complaint-resolution mechanisms such as an ombudsman (something Canada does not offer its own citizens at a federal level). Many such options have already been put forward in Royal commissions and other costly, exhaustive reports. Action can be taken economically, without imposition on the rights of First Nations, without legislation, without court challenges, and without further damaging Canada's relationship with First Nations or tarnishing Canada's reputation with the international community. It will require a restructuring of the Assembly of First Nations into a dynamic, politically active, responsive organization, one that allows First Nations to represent all of their peoples, regardless of residence. Mr. Chretien and Mr. Martin both understand that a prosperous, honourable future for Canada requires dealing with unresolved aboriginal issues. Additionally, Mr. Martin seems to understand that this can, and must only, be done in co-operation with First Nations. C-7 must be left to die. I join many First Nations leaders who stand ready to work with those who have the courage and vision to build a renewed relationship between our peoples and Canada. Roberta Jamieson, Chief at Six Nations of the Grand River, is a lawyer and a former Indian commissioner of Ontario. For 10 years, she was Ontario's ombudsman. Copyright c. 2003 Bell Globemedia Interactive Inc. All Rights Reserved. --------- "RE: Court Action Over Mercury Poisoning" --------- Date: Sun, 1 Jun 2003 06:05:22 -0400 From: "MI-BRANCH-NAA" Subj: B.C. Indian Band Preparing Court Action Over Mercury Poisoning Mailing List: NAA ACTIVISTS LIST B.C. Indian Band Preparing Court Action Over Mercury Poisoning http://www.imdiversity.com/Article-Detail.asp?Article-ID=3D16867 by AP, The Associated Press Fort St. James, British Columbia (AP) - Tl'azt'en First Nation leaders say they face crippling health problems from more than six decades of eating food and drinking water laced with mercury from a World War II-era mine. The 1,200 Tl'azt'en people, Carrier Indians who live in north-central British Columbia, blame pollution from the Teck Cominco Ltd. mine for untimely deaths and epidemic rates of cancer, arthritis, lupus, kidney disease, birth deformities and crippled limbs. The last straw may have been the death of band elder Sara Duncan on May 15 at age 73. A once-vibrant cultural leader and fisherwoman, Duncan died with twisted, crippled hands and feet, balding head, dementia and the stained purple gums associated with mercury poisoning. "My mother was a respected cultural leader and a hard worker who provided for her family," says Lucille Duncan, 48, "but after years of eating fish and drinking water from Pinchi Lake, she died in pain, her hair falling out, with dementia and all crippled, and her gums purple from the mercury - just like her mother did - and now I have it." On Tuesday, health researchers and lawyer Rory Morahan of Victoria met with Chief Tommy Alexis, band council members, health workers and ailing band members. Morahan says he has been instructed by Alexis to prepare a lawsuit against Teck Cominco and the Canadian government. In 1985 the Whitedog and Grassy Narrows Indian bands in Ontario accepted a $12 million (U.S.) settlement from Ottawa and two chemical corporations for mercury waste contamination of fish in rivers and lakes. Cominco, forerunner of Teck Cominco, operated a mercury mine on the shores of Pinchi Lake, about 425 miles north of Vancouver, in 1940-44 and again in 1968-75. According to company reports from the initial mining phase, waste mercury was sluiced into the lake daily and mercury-laden tailings created a long island. Meanwhile, Carrier people drank the water and ate mercury-laden whitefish, char, trout, ling cod, suckers, kokanee salmon, beaver and moose. In 1969 signs were posted in English to warn against eating fish from the lake, but the Carrier people- most of whom spoke little English and relied on fish as a staple of their diet - kept fishing and eating. The company is now conducting environmental remediation and has spent about $3 million (US$2.2 million) on cleanup and leachate prevention. Mercury levels in Pinchi Lake fish are declining from peaks in the 1940s and 1970s but remained far higher than other area lakes, according to Cominco's environmental studies in 1999 and 2001. "We will work co-operatively with the responsible government and health a gencies and the Tl'azt'en people from the area," Teck Cominco spokesman Doug Horswill said. "We have on our own begun our own remediation studies." Duncan says she has the same high blood pressure and tingling, numb, weak and twisted hands her parents and grandparents developed, as well as lupus and tunnel vision. Her mother had two miscarriages, two of her mother's children died in infancy, two are very ill and another is severely mentally ill, she said, adding that three of her own children have learning difficulties and a fourth was born with physical and mental defects. Former Tl'azt'en Chief Harry Pierre, 62, said that when he was hired to clean out a mercury-contaminated mine shaft in 1967, before the mine reopened, the 125 non-Indian workers always wore masks, filters and full protective suits. "We were told to wear a waterproof jacket and pump all that mercury right into the lake," he said. His father, who fished and trapped near the mine, had heart problems, tunnel vision and crippled hands. --------- "RE: Drunk Shooters terrorize Cree Town" --------- Date: Tue, May 27 2003 08:09:48 -0600 From: Gary Smith Subj: NA News Item - - - - - - -- - - - - - - filename="DRUNK SHOOTERS" http://www.owlstar.com/dailyheadlines.htm http://www.canada.com/montreal/montrealgazette/story Drunk shooters terrorize Cree town Firefighter wounded; 100 rounds fired ANGUS LOTEN The Gazette Monday, May 26, 2003 Linda Awashish lived through the "scariest night" of her life Saturday when two men went on separate, drunk shooting sprees in the Cree community of Mistissini, about 90 kilometres northwest of Chibougamau. No one was seriously hurt in the shootings, which occurred hours apart. In both cases, the men were left to stagger through the streets firing randomly with shotguns while police kept watch nearby. "Our reserve is usually very quiet," Awashish said yesterday. "There's not much violence here. Everyone's in shock." Still, Mistissini police chief Calvin Blacksmith said drunk rampages are "all too common" in the community of about 3,000. "This sort of thing happens four, maybe five times a year. It's ridiculous," he said. Surete du Quebec and Chibougamau regional police were first called to the reserve about 10:30 p.m. Saturday after a man armed with a 12-gauge shotgun fired at least two dozen shots at the local police station, wounding a volunteer firefighter in the arm. Awashish said she was cleaning up after a family barbecue when she heard a gunshot blast and the spray of buckshot across her front porch. "We got the kids inside and I could see this guy walking down the road with a (gun). He was very drunk and yelling 'Leave me alone' in Cree," she said. "Everyone took cover inside and turned the lights out." The man, who Awashish recognized as her 20-year-old neighbour, eventually went home. "He sat on the couch with his gun and turned his music on." Blacksmith said the man, who surrendered to police around midnight, was angry because they confiscated his bottle of liquor earlier in the day for drinking in public. Just hours later, the SQ was called back to the reserve when a second man began firing shots into the air and at the ground. The man, 24, wasn't picked up until late yesterday morning after wandering into woods off the reserve. By then he'd fired more than 100 rounds, Blacksmith said. Both men, who are known to police as troublemakers, will appear in a Roberval court today on firearms charges. Awashish said "these things always happen" around hunting season,which began this month. She blames alcohol. "A few people get drunk and get into fights. Hunting rifles are still out and there's trouble," she said. But Blacksmith said the real problem is the justice system. "We're not getting the appropriate sentences for these guys. Every time we bring someone in on serious charges, they're back out again in a few months." Blacksmith, a Cree who's lived on the Mistissini reserve for more than 30 years, points to a 1999 Supreme Court ruling requiring judges to consider background and other social factors in sentencing aboriginal offenders. "They always bring it up to get a more lenient sentence. It means we end up babysitting all sorts of serious offenders." Strained resources and cramped living conditions on the reserve don't help, he added. "We've got a budget for eight cops in a community of over 3,000 people. That's not enough." aloten@thegazette.canwest.com Copyright c. 2003 Montreal Gazette. --------- "RE: Native Prisoner" --------- Date: Tue, 3 Jun 2003 06:42:57 -0500 From: Janet Smith Subj: Steve Novak Steve's unit # is 10, I just mailed him a letter today. Love & Peace, Still ----- Original Message ----- From: "nativeredqueen69" Here is Steve's new addy: Steve Novak #164789 Unit 10 Kettle Moraine Correctional Institution P.O. Box 31, W9071 Forest Drive Plymouth WI 53073-0031 "To those of us locked away in here, there's nothing more important than being remembered." Leonard Peltier September 1998 Leavenworth Prison "Prison Writings...My Life Is My Sun Dance" =<+>=<+>=<+>=<+>=<+>=<+>=<+>=<+>=<+>= =<+>=<+>=<+>=<+>=<+>=<+>=<+>=<+>=<+>= "Freedom For All Of Our Warriors" =<+>=<+>=<+>=<+>=<+>=<+>=<+>=<+>=<+>= http://www.angelfire.com/wy/nainmatessupportgrp/index.html =<+>=<+>=<+>=<+>+<+><+>=<+>=<+>=<+>=<+>= --------- "RE: Rustywire: Metwe' Metwe'" --------- Date: Tue, Apr 22:09:25 2003 08:12:44 -0600 From: Gary Smith Subj: NA News Item - - - - - - -- - - - - - - filename="RUSTYWIRE: METWE" http://www.geocities.com/SoHo/Nook/1574/Starmtn/metwe.html Navajo Spaceships, Star mountain and Life An online journal- Star Mountain-Navajo Life Metwe' Metwe'...by Johnny Rustywire Metwe' Metwe' What does that mean "Metwe'?", these words come to mind, they speak of family, of togetherness, of joining one people with another, taking in a person from another family, another people to be included as your own. I met them when they were a young couple, they had a child. Their house was new and nice and they lived far from their homeland. They made a place on a high mountain valley, a place to call home where they could raise their children and bring them up in the way the two thought they should live. The young mother had long black hair and in order to make money she made frybread and she was good at it, putting in hamburger and beans with a little cheese. She had some with chili, just hot enough to let you know you were alive. She came from a place called Coal Mine Mesa, way out there not too far from Tuba City. Her clan was Tlizi' Tlani, Many Goats, her family was large and her father made her feel like she was the special one. He prized her and gave her though to giver her his most valuable possession. The young woman's husband came from a place not too far her original home, on a mesa with ancient adobe built one on top of another. His home was at Second Mesa, where he was born into a clan with a place in the community, an old place where centuries of a way of life based on the seasons goes on still in this out of the way corner in Arizona. She was a Navajo and he was a Hopi and they didn't know that about each other when they first met. They learned about each other, their people coming from different places, spoke different languages and had different traditions, they came to know one another and decided to make a life together. I once asked them about the Navajo-Hopi Land Dispute and how they felt about it. They told me it was just something that was there and didn't affect them, that they had their own lives to live and they were far away from there. I would see them and visit with them, they both said at times it was hard to adjust to another way of life different from your own, and that in order to go on you have to overcome many things to make a life together. She left her family and he left his and they set up a life together far North in Utah, far from their homeland. As time went on she wanted to please her man and learn the ways of his people so she went with him, driving South to the borders of Dinetah, passed her old place at Coalmine Mesa and down the windy road to the place where his family lived. Second Mesa it was called where the traditions of time, space, family and relations require following the flow of the seasons. She stepped into his world and his family looked at her, and she became Metwe'. It is how they call those that come to join their family, their people and they take them in. During the ceremonies and dances in the village there was much work to be done, and she stepped into it and learned to do it all, grinding corn between stones, collecting wood and fashioning ground corn into a mush to lay it out on a hot tin and roll it to make the bread they call Piki. She butchered sheep, made stew and watched the children of the family as the dancers were readied for the plaza. Her husband was one of these and she learned how they take the time to follow certain practices. to dress in an appropriate way and where she was to sit. She learned about the gathering of plants, the preparation of harvests and offerings and the ways of the katchina. Metwe' Metwe' they called to her, please do this for us and she would go and get something missed or forgotten. When the doings were done she cleaned and put away the things a woman does, the pots, the pans, the cloth, and worked to help her relations with the household duties. She found that at each dance they went home and she worked learning the ways of his people and remembering her own. Coalmine Mesa a small place where there is no water, it had to be hauled in from many miles away. There were few trees, and the place is a hard place to make a life, but that is where her father came from. He told her, we Navajo exist with the land, we don't change it but continue on with it, to survive to go on and on. She listened and then one day her family moved off that land forever. It lies within Hopiland now, no longer do any Navajos live there. Her father went to Kinlani and worked there in town knowing he would never be able to sleep in the land of his birth, he and his children had to make a new life. It was hard. The folks in Washing'don told him they would build him a new home anywhere for the loss of his place. He thought about it and said he would let them know. As time went on, the young couple needed a home to make their life. it was her father who said, my daughter this is my gift to you, take this home that is to be built for me and let it be yours. She looked at her father and though he never said how he cared for her, she could see it in his eyes, that is how are people are, we don't show outward affection, you see it in how we do certain things, or in an action or like him in how he looked at her. In his face were the wrinkles of age, and his hands wore the mark of a hard life on that empty land which once was his home. Sometimes when you look into the eyes of an old person, especially the those who have seen the sunrise of a place where they were born, you can look into them and glimpse the early morning dawns of a lifetime, of herding sheep and hauling wood and water on horseback from miles away at Moenkopi wash to the west as he had done. That in there she saw the movement of yucca plant standing in the wind and in it's roots the cleanliness of it for washing and medicine. That the wind blown sand covered the tracks of her fathers and mothers who had run to meet the dawn in their youths, and the sounds of young girls reaching womanhood dressed in sash belts, silver jewelry with coral and turquoise also running to meet the sun starting life as a woman. These things she saw in her father's eyes as he gave away his birthright to her to make a new life in a far off place. Metwe' Metwe' (Metway is how it is said in the Hopi way of speaking) She heard the sound and came back to the place, to Second Mesa and was grinding corn and could see the feet of his feet, her man who stood not too far ready to go to the plaza to dance for another season of rain, for good corn and long days. He stood there with deerskin moccasins, with ancient bells, with a loin cloth and sash belt, his body covered in paint and a large red gourd rattle was by his side. Up ahead was the place they entered to put on the masks, the deities, a Katchina he would be, with long hair. His mother came to her and helped her with the corn. This was a time for renewal, it was his people's time and their place. She picked up her ground corn and followed her new mother into the pueblo, and looking from this high spot to the west, there on the horizon was Coal Mine Mesa, once her father's home. This was now her people, their way of life was now her own. When they returned to the high mountain valley she stepped into her father's house, a house given to him by the United States Government the walls were new, the sidewalk outside led through a yard of green grass. She could see the mountains to the North and the snow on them and the place was peaceful. Her husband drove into the driveway and parked the truck and picked up their sons and went inside. What are these places we call home and how do we get them, how are they named? What is it about it that makes them that way, is it sacrifice, love or fate? The Navajo-Hopi land case is settled by the courts, but the people who lived there where did they go? Dreams and Broken Rainbows, when rainbows break do they make a sound. Life goes on but at Coalmine Mesa the wind blows with no one to hear. You can touch the yucca plants, their spiny ends and hear the sound of a broken rainbow. It was not so long ago, that her father was layed to rest in Kinlani (Flagstaff) and a part of Coal Mine Mesa was also buried there. The hopes and dreams of a new life resting in his children. One time on trip to Hopiland, she didn't go with him but stayed to watch the children. I am not sure what it is that makes one restless with life, where one can walk out the door and never go back in; to find comfort in the eyes of another while small children cry after you. It is what happened with Metwe' and she is now alone with the kids, he has gone to another woman. I saw him by chance not too long ago, he stood not too far from me and when I saw him, he was quiet when I asked him about his children. He smiled and looked away from me and spoke of his work in California. After he left I learned that they were no longer together, the daughter from Coal Mine Mesa had to find work in a nursing home and struggles now with work and taking care of three kids. The home, the house the gift of her father who passed away has been sold and now it is gone. Where is Coal Mine Mesa, it is east of Tuba City, not even a wide spot in the road, it is a windswept place. When you drive by there you wouldn't think to stop, there is not much there to see now, but if you were to stop and listen carefully when the storm clouds gather, and a few drops of rain fall, and the sun begins to break through the clouds, you can hear the sound of a broken rainbow. It sounds a little like a child crying. Copyright c. 1999, Johnny Rustywire, all rights reserved. --------- "RE: History: Carlisle Indian School" --------- Date: Mon, 05 May 2003 23:37:41 -0400 From: Barb Landis Subj: INDIAN HELPER, Carlisle Indian School. [Editorial Note: These reprints are being included in this newsletter so that you might know the mind of those who ran institutions like Carlisle.] THE INDIAN HELPER ------------------------- A WEEKLY LETTER FROM THE CARLISLE INDIAN SCHOOL TO BOYS AND GIRLS CARLISLE, PA. ============================ VOLUME V NUMBER 35 ============================= FRIDAY, May 2, 1890. ============================= [For the HELPER. HOW THEY SPEAK PIECES IN JAPAN.(?) ------- TOM'S name was called, and up he sprang, A grin was on his countenance, He looked from friend to friend, to see How they would view the circumstance. He stepped upon the platform high, The words he should have said, were gone; He laughed at his predicament, Although his teacher looked forlorn. Dick's turn had come, and very slow He wound his way beyond the throng. The platform reached, his piece began With demonstrations loud and long With sudden jerk his accents ceased, He pulled his coat tail o'er and o'er, Looked skyward, hemmed, and almost cried, But could remember nothing more. Then Harry stepped upon the stage With form erect and manly tread; No fool was he, to smirk, or fail With dignity his piece he said. He did not hesitate to speak, He kenw his lesson, that was plain, We'd sail across the sea to hear Tom, Dick, and Harry speak again. JAPANESE. ------------------------ LETTERS FROM CAPT. PRATT. ------ TO HIS OWN CHILDREN. ------ Although not intended for publication, we are sure that Capt. Pratt would not object to our printing for the entertainment of the readers of the HELPER the following parts of his most interesting letters received this week, which a favored few have so greatly enjoyed: STEAMER CHINA, PACIFIC OCEAN. 80 miles east of Japan, March 24, 1890. We have passed the 180th meridian, where, by general consent each day is born, and instead of being in the same day with you and several hours later we have skipped one day and are a day ahead of you. It is now 10 A.M. here, but at Carlisle it is 7:50 P.M. of yesterday. We dropped Wednesday the 20th, that being the day we crossed the meridian. It is not to be lost to us, however, fro we shall have two days of the same name and date on our return. We have been most unfortunate in our weather, which from San Francisco to this has been stormy, with head winds and heavy sea, except a few hours day before yesterday. Of course quite all the passengers have been sick. Mamma and I are no exception. Seasick folks are an unsociable lot and it was only day before yesterday that we began to get acquainted with our fellow passengers generally. Now we have become somewhat chummy and each knows the other's business and plans more or less. My worst spell was on the morning of the 3rd day out. The ship both tossed from side to side and pitched heavily, my head ached and I felt extreme nausea in my berth, but determined to get up. I was permitted to complete my dressing but was in an agony of nausea. I crawled to the deck and fresh air and felt some better, but for ten days I was not free from distress. we are all mostly over it now and I ma sure I am better for it all. Our noble ship lunges ahead at the average rate of over 400 miles per day in spite of the head winds and storms. If our speed makes her take too much water a few less revolutions per minute of the great propelling wheel are dropped until a lull enables them to be taken up again. Not one pleasant day. Not a sail or other sign of earthly inhabitant since the morning after we left San Francisco. Nothing but water and tossing to and fro. When 2500 miles from California and the same distance from Japan we had the company of gulls and stormy petrels. They did not so much stay with us as seem to be at home in the vast waste and heaving billows. -------------------------------------------- (Continued on the Fourth Page.) ======================================================= (page 2) The Indian Helper. ----------------------------- PRINTED EVERY FRIDAY, AT THE INDIAN INDUSTRIAL SCHOOL, CARLISLE, PA. BY THE INDIAN PRINTER BOYS. --> THE INDIAN HELPER is PRINTED by Indian boys, but EDITED by The-Man-on-the-band-stand, who is NOT an Indian. ----------------------------- Price: - 10 cents a year. ============================== Address INDIAN HELPER, Carlisle, Pa. Miss M. Burgess, Manager. ============================== Entered in the P.O. at Carlisle as second class mail matter. ============================== The INDIAN HELPER is paid for in advance, so do not hesitate to take the paper from the Post Office, for fear a bill will be presented. ============================= Say "RENEWAL" when you pay To renew. We beg you may. ========== We are grieved to learn that Frank and Hope Locke's little daughter born two weeks ago, has died. ========== We have an interesting letter from our old pupil Peter Powlas, who has been teaching for several years since he left Carlisle among his people the Oneidas of Wisconsin. He says they have a debating society every Friday night and that Joel Archiquette is the President. It is well attended. The rest of the letter will appear in the RED MAN for May. ========== A letter from Mrs. Pratt, now in Japan, was received last week, which measured by actual measurement eight yards. When Mr. Standing unrolled it Saturday night before the students he first stood on the platform which is three feet high, and then got up into the chair. The letter then fell in folds on the floor as he continued to unroll, when Mr. Potter took one end and carried it off toward the center of the room. The proceeding caused a merry laugh and all wanted to hear the rich and racy contents. Full extracts from the letter will be printed in the May RED MAN. ========== Last Friday night the school had another treat, such as comes to a person but once in a life time. Captain Long, of Gettysburg, was here with his Stereopticon and pictures of the battle of Gettysburg. The pictures were fine and beside battle scenes included most of the new monuments. Capt. Long's talk was intensely interesting to the intelligent portion of his audience, although a little tedious to those who could not understand the army terms. The position of the troops were most vividly pictured and a realistic view of the battle as it occurred has been stamped upon our memories in such a way that it can never be effaced. Many thanks, Captain Long. Come again! ARBOR DAY. Arbor Day after a week or two of most charming weather turned out to be rainy and damp, on account of which our Arbor Day celebration was not carried out quite as planned. The ceremonies began at 9:30, A.M., by the whole school singing a tree song to the tune of Auld Lang Syne after which Mr. Standing gave an address. The boys of each class then marched to the spot selected for their special tree and planted it while the girls looked on from balconies and windows. There were special trees for the graduating class and choir. In the afternoon the school assembled and were entertained by appropriate Arbor Day recitations and singing. Singing, "Spring has come," "Nature's Tribute," and "April Song," by the choir, and "The brave old oak," by the school; Recitations and Declamations: "The Object of planting trees," Martin Archiquette: "Interesting Trees," Louisa King; "The Elm Tree," Robt. Hamilton; "History of Penn's Elm," Henry Phillips; "Little Acorn," Ulysses Paisano; "Planting of the Apple Tree," Minnie Topi; "Exercise on Trees," boys of No. 5; a declamation by Harvey Warner; "The Live Oak," Otto Zotom; "Among the Trees" Martinus Johns; and marching and singing by the pupils as they marched, comprised the programme, the most of which was excellently performed. The lessons learned cannot easily be forgotten and will be of practical value to us in the future. ========== Married. On last Wednesday evening, at the home of the bride's father, at the Carlisle Indian Industrial School, Miss Maggie E. Jordan, to Mr. B. T. Middleton, of Harrisburg. The officiating ministers were Rev. J.T. Hammond and Rev. J.C. Brock, of Carlisle. Carriage loads of handsomely dressed guests began to arrive at 7 o'clock and the occasion was one of unusual brilliancy. Miss Maggie looked very sweet and pretty in her bridal dress of rose-colored silk and lovely lace, and the handsome groom as he stood beside his bride looked the picture of strength and manliness. A sumptuous repast was enjoyed after the ceremony and the bridal party left on the midnight train for Harrisburg. Rich and beautiful presents of silver and china and all the little keepsakes and useful articles a bride naturally falls heir to have been pouring in for several days. Long life and happiness to Mr. and Mrs. Middleton, is the wish of their friends at Carlisle. =================================================== At the Carlisle School is published monthly an eight-page quarto of standard size, called THE RED MAN, the mechanical part of which is done entirely by Indian boys. This paper is valuable as a summary of information on Indian matters, and contains writings by Indian pupils, and local incidents of the school. Terms: Fifty cents a year, in advance. For 1, 2, and 3 subscribers for THE RED MAN we give the same premium in Standing Offer for the HELPER. Address, THE RED MAN, Carlisle, PA. =============================================== (page 3) It takes Minor John and Paul Shattuck to work well and quickly. --------- Dennison played a cornet solo at the Y.M.C.A. rooms in town on Sunday afternoon, which was well received. --------- Thomas Black Bear called and subscribed for the *Red Man* for himself and the HELPER for his brother at home. Thomas appears to be all business these days. --------- Miss Ely returned Wednesday evening from a little visit to her Bucks County home, where she attended the birthday anniversary of an aunt who is ninety years old. --------- After a lingering illness, little Belle Cohoe, died this week. She was one of the girls who came from the Indian Territory last year, and has been ill and a great sufferer from the day she arrived. --------- Some of the girls who are not very well are going to live with Mr. and Mrs. Bennett on the farm for a little while. That will be nice. The-Man-on-the-band-stand almost wishes he did not feel very well so he could have the same privilege. --------- One of the pleasant features of choir practice especially to those not in attendance is the serenade so often given as the young men march from the chapel to quarters. Their rich and harmonious voices fill the night air with music is appreciated by all who hear it. --------- Mr. Potter has left Carlisle for his home at El Reno, Oklahoma. He leaves behind many friends which his short term of service at the school has made. The boys especially will miss him, as he made them feel he was one of them. He entered into their sports and society life in a way that was very helpful to them and which they highly appreciated. Others besides the boys will miss Mr. Potter, and all wish him great success in all that he finds to do. --------- An amateur team has been born, known as the "Amateur Base Ball Club." >From the way the names read they are not so very "amateurish" and the others may well look a little out. The following are the names: "Pitcher, Frank Everett; catcher, Robert Penn; 1st base, Harvey Warner; 2nd base, Bennie Thomas; 3rd base Josiah Powlas' short-stop, Levi St. Cyr; right-field, Chas. Moncravie; substitute, Stailey Norcross; Howard Logan, Manager, and Harvey Warner, Capt. --------- A new team has been organized who modestly call themselves "New Beginners." They express the hope to be prepared in a short time to compete with other teams of our school. Martin L. Smith is their chosen captain. The team stands as follow: Pitcher, Geo. W. Means; catcher, Martin Smith; 1st, base, Johnson Webster; 2nd base, David Turkey; 3rd base, James McAdams; right field, Luther Dahhah; center-field, Peter Snow; left-field, Ralph Nal-tu-ey; short-stop, Chas. Marksman; substitute, Ulysses Paisano. One small fellow who is just learning to speak English was not provided with a new hat. He had been overlooked, so he knocked on the door and asked Mrs. G., "Will you please give me a new pair of hat." --------- We have now fresh prints of Apache Contrast on elegant paper, almost equal to the photograph for five cents cash, or for two subscribers for the HELPER and a one-cent stamp. We are ready for several hundred orders. --------- Lost, strayed or stolen: One two-year-old hat, branded O.T. (cross) and bullet mark on left side. It was slightly sun-burnt although it originally enjoyed a white complexion. A liberal reward will be given to the finder. Apply a the HELPER Office. --------- Do you ever go to your friend's table or desk or room and touch things that do not belong to you? Then you are a sneak. Do you read the note you are carrying to someone? Then you are a sneak. Do you go to a girl's bureau drawer and touch things that are not yours? Then you are a sneak. When a person is writing something do you look over his shoulder and try to read it? Then you are a sneak. Have we any such terrible people at our school? Let each one of us look at ourselves very carefully and answer the question! --------- Mark Evarts has a right to feel proud of a set of single harness just completed, of the finest make, all hand made and silver mounted. Mr. Kemp, who is an experienced harness maker says it is the finest set of harness ever manufactured at the school and other boys have turned out beautiful work. This harness is Mark's own and he will sell at a fair price. All he wants is good interest on his money invested and fair remuneration for the extra time spent upon it. The harness, according to the Man-on-the-band-stand's judgment is worth every cent of a hundred dollars. Mark may sell for a little less, cash in hand. Call and see it! --------- May Paisano is dead. How we all miss her sweet face! A week ago Sunday she was in line at inspection, but soon after went to the hospital with a raging fever and headache. The fever was reduced in a few hours and May felt she was getting better. To ever one who addressed her she would sweetly smile and say "I am better." But at 7 o'clock last Sunday morning she became very weak and passed away quietly without a sign of distress. Her heart ceased to beat and May was gone forever. Dear May was so beloved by all the girls especially those of her own age that when the sad news of her death was announced an uncontrollable wail of sorrow filled the assembly room The day of her funeral the little casket was beautifully trimmed with flowers and the services were most solemn and impressive. Rev. Dr. Evans of the Methodist church, Carlisle, officiated. ====================================================== (Continued from the First Page.) ---------------------------------------------------- Ours is a noble ship, built of steel and driven by a monster 7000 horse power engine. Her crew is about 160 Chinamen. It takes 1600 tons of coal to carry her over. She has 56 boilers. Her driving wheel is 21 feet in diameter, and each of the four paddles weighs more than two tons. Her shaft is a solid piece of steel, near 200 feet long and 19 inches thick and turns the great driving wheel at the rate of 70 revolutions per minute. In our worst sea and strongest head wind we made over 12 miles an hour. A Chinese cook pre4pares for us the best of food, and Japanese waiter boys serve it in the most gentlemanly manner. Our state-rooms are large and almost elegantly fitted up. We have a social hall where we gather and comment on the weather and compare notes of each other's health. Captain Matts and officers are polite, and taken altogether our lot is not a hard one. Mamma is becoming quite her old self. Tuesday 25th, we had a stormy night and shipped several heavy seas. The Captain said we went under until our sea passed over the smoke-stacks solid, which of course was a nautical yarn, but the upper deck was heavily washed. This morning there was a war of the two elements we contend against - water and air. The wind had been heavy from the southwest but veered and came with equal force from the northeast, which gave us a chopped sea and cuffed us so as to make it appear to some that we might be striking rocks. I put on my rubber boots and coat and went up to the bridge at the pilot house for two hours. The second officer was on watch and told me many of his experiences. He ran away from home when quite a boy in 1863, and joined our Navy, with which he saw some service along the coast of the Carolinas. His home was in Liverpool, England. When the war was over his vessel was ordered to Philadelphia. A rumor got out among the sailors that all the men whose time to serve was more than twelve months were to be sent to foreign stations. As he was one and dreaded such a result he deserted. Two weeks after his crew were all mustered out and received their pay and bounty, which he had forfeited. He has been quite everywhere on the seas and on all kinds of vessels. It is now near noon. The sea has become more quiet and the air clear. There is hope that we may see Fujiyama, the highest mountain in Japan, this evening, and the Captain expects to anchor in the bay of Yokohama by four o'clock tomorrow morning. Our spirits rise. I drop this for dinner. Five P.M. A false announcement that land is in sight calls every body on deck. My old Army field glasses fail to reveal the land though I go to the pilot house, and we all return to the cabin to wait for further announcements. The weather has improved again and we almost have sunshine. [Continued Next Week.] ------*---*-^-*---*------ THE LITTLE BOYS MADE GLAD. ---------- Dr. Carlos Montezuma, a real Apache medicine man, being a graduate of the Medical College of Chicago, sends the following letter with substantial contents: FT. STEVENSON, N. DAK., April 23, 1890. ______ ______: I often wish I could do something that would make men and women out of our Indian children, and such is my desire. May I show it by contributing $5.00 for the Library of the Little Boys' Quarters? Regards to all. Very respectfully, CARLOS MONTEZUMA, M.D. When this letter was read to the little boys assembled for prayers, it would have done Dr. Montezuma's heart good could he have heard the enthusiastic and continued applause with which they made the house resound in appreciation and gratitude for so thoughtful a remembrance from one of their own kin, of whom they are proud. ------*---*-^-*---*------ Enigma. I am made of 8 letters. My 4, 6, 7 is a tin dish. My 8, 4, 3 is a definite article. My 2, 6, 8, 5, 1 is a turners machine. My whole is a large animal. SUBSCRIBER. ------*---*-^-*---*------ ANSWER TO LAST WEEK'S ENIGMA: Annual Examinations. ==================================================== STANDING OFFER: - For FIVE new subscribers to the INDIAN HELPER, we will give the person sending them a photographic group of the 13 Carlisle Indian Printer boys, on a card 4 1/2 X 6 1/2 inches, worth 20 cents when sold by itself. Name and tribe of each boy given. (Persons wishing the above premium will please enclose a 1-cent stamp to pay postage.) For TEN, Two PHOTOGRAPHS, one showing a group of Pueblos as they arrived in wild dress, and another of the same pupils three years after, or, for the same number of names we give two photographs showing still more marked contrast between a Navajoe as he arrived in native dress, and as he now looks, worth 20 cents a piece. Persons wishing the above premiums will please enclose a 2-cent stamp to pay postage. For FIFTEEN, we offer a GROUP of the whole school on 9x14 inch card. Faces show distinctly, worth sixty cents. Persons wishing the above premium will please send 6 cents to pay postage. ============================================= [Transcribed weekly by Barbara Landis. For more information about the Carlisle Indian School, go to http://www.epix.net/~landis] --------- "RE: Poem: For the Brothers" --------- Date: Sun, 25 May 2003 08:27:55 -0700 (PDT) From: James Starkey Subj: For the Brothers Mailing List: Rez Life Sure we had some good times, bad times and worse, Sure its hard to be Lakota, sometimes seemed cursed, Yeah we were thuggin', ain't layin' down no lie, Making our own, rejecting the american pie, But I know you, and I knew you, your memory remains, Resisting the wasicu, champing hard at their reigns, We couldn't speak it, couldn't describe what it was, we knew, We held it, and knew one thing we could depend on was Crew, Always Brothers, we didn't always get along or agree, We were outnumbered, and surrounded by the enemy, We knew how to keep the circle, and keep the faith, so strong, I ain't pretending we were righteous, but we weren't always wrong, Just finding our place, somewhere in the circling insanity, Just hoping for a small taste, or whiff of our humanity, You've all moved on now, and I'm here, doing life, Seems fitting, I guess, I feel responsible to write of the strife, Yeah, I remember you, Brother Lakin, Brother Ranson too, Some of the best Bros moved too damn quickly through, We had sunshine, snow and rain, heat and cold up on that Hill, I honor you Russ, and Ernie, Franko and Bill, So I write this, and I live for a few moments in times past, Like a movie, smiling strong Brothers playing the cast, Drama and comedy, farce and mystery and even some mime, Intro the streets, climax and epilogue, pen time, I recall your faces, and I sure enough recall your names, I still hold the traces, and the memory the Man tries to claim, I won't forget though, I won't allow you to not carry on, Cause I still see my Brothers, the wasicu can't make you gone. James H. Starkey http://www.oyateunderground.com --------- "RE: Verse: Hawaiian Book of Days" --------- Date: Mon, 02 Jun 2003 11:30:37 -1000 From: Debbie Sanders Subj: Hawaiian Book of Days A HAWAI`I BOOK OF DAYS, week of June 9-15 IUNE (June) (Kaaona) 9 The earth drinks the blessing of the summer rain. 10 Sorrow abides not in this place. 11 Turn every hardship into a triumph. 12 If you would win your heart's desire, you must give your heart to the task of winning it. 13 Give freely of yourself in all endeavors. 14 In all things, turn anger into industry. 15 Even the clumsiest hand can create a thing of beauty. (c) Copyright 1991 by D. F. Sanders Me ke aloha i ka nani, ... Moe'uhanekeanuenue (With love and beauty, ... Rainbow Dream) --------- "RE: Upcoming Events" --------- Date: Mon, 1 June 2003 15:39:14 -0 From: Gary Smith (gars@speakeasy.org) Subj: Upcoming Events =+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+= EVENTS ARE FEATURED IN ODD NUMBERED ISSUES ONLY =+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+= Lists from Jim Anderson, OCB Tracker and Whispering Wind are listed here for 60 days. Each web site is listed if you need a more complete list. =================================== Date: Tue, 07 Jan 2003 14:39:10 -0000 From: moheya21 Subj: POWWOW INTERTRIBAL JUNE 6,7,8 Mailing List: Native American Chat Where: BENTON HARBOR, MICHIGAN 1835 LYNCH RD Sponsors: WALTER AND SUE RODRIGUEZ VENDORS AND DRUMS CONTACT: SUE 616-849-3662 When:JUNE 6,7,8 Rustic Camping, or Motel 10 Mmiles away in St. Joe. EVERYTHING IS FREE FOR VENDORS WE ONLY ASK THAT YOU DONATE ITEMS FOR RAFFLES. TO PARTICIPATE AND ENTER POWWOW WE ASK THAT YOU BRING A NON PARISHABLE FOOD ITEM. THIS WILL GO TO FAMILIES WHO ARE IN NEED. SATURDAY IS A POTLUCK, WE ASK THAT YOU BRING A DISH TO PASS. =================================== Date: Fri, 11 Apr 2003 22:26:27 -0500 From: "Karen Cooper" Subj: Blackwater Creek Pow-wow Blackwater Creek American Indian Festival and Pow-wow Jasper, AL June 6-8, 2003 This event is sponsored by Aracoma Explorer Scout Drum/Dance Team and Native American Girl Scout Troop 389. Additional information about this event: June 6-8, 2003 at Blackwater Creek RV Park off Curry Hwy (Hwy 257) and Airport Road in Jasper, Alabama. All trader and demonstrator spaces are full for this event. Contacts include: Paul @ 205-522-1652, Cecil @ 205-221-3873 or myself @ 205-648-2529 or 205-706-0202. There are some 74 RV spaces available at $12 per night and tent camping on site is $5 per tent per night. The site has hot and cold water showers and flush toilets. Host hotels: Holiday Inn Express (205-302-6400--$57 per night) or Day's Inn (205-221-7800--$50 per night) and Travel-rite Inn (205-221-1161--$47 per night). We feed continental breakfast and afternoon meal to dancers, drum teams, head staff and traders. This is an Intertribal social event: all dancers, drums and public is invited and welcome. The same committee responsible for the Honor the Children event is coordinating this one. Head staff include: HL: Betsy Jolly (Echota Cherokee), HM: Bill Jolly (Echota Cherokee), HV: Keith Little Badger and Don Nelson; AD: Little Hawk Gatty and Keith Little Badger, HND: Grey Wolf Singers (Philadelphia MS); HSD: Aracoma Lightning Singers, Guest Drums: All traditional drums are welcome, if you are a drum and interested in attending, please let us know so that we can work out necessary arrangements to make your stay the best for the group. Please contact me directly if you need additional information/directions kcooper@uabmc.edu =================================== Date: Tue, 25 Feb 2003 11:30:05 -0500 From: "Mark D. Millat" Subj: POWWOW Mailing List: ndn-aim Miami Valley Council for Native Americans, is having their 15th annual POWWOW June 28 and 29, located 5 miles east of Xenia Ohio, at Blue Jackets Outdoor Drama. Dance contest.. I will post more information as I receive it. Respectfully, Mark D. Millat =================================== Date: Saturday, January 01, 2000 08:07 pm From: "Edna H. King" Subj: Island in the Sun Inter-Tribal Pow Wow >To: gars@speakeasy.org Island in the Sun Inter-Tribal Pow Wow Boozhoo! Can you please add our Pow Wow to your listing? Beausoleil First Nation is hosting it's annual Island in the Sun Inter-Tribal Pow Wow on July 5th and 6th, 2003. Beausoleil First Nation is located in the beautiful Georgian Bay in Ontario. Camping sites are available. Grand Entry is 1:00 pm - 7:00 p.m. on Saturday and Sunday at 12:00 noon Here is a link to the BFN Pow Wow Site. http://islandinthesunpowwow.tripod.com./ For more information contact: Nadine Kidd -- (705) 247-2535 (no collect calls please) Fax -- (705)247-2536 Email: revelationhunter@hotmail.com Miigwech, Edna H. King =================================== Date: Fri, 14 Feb 2003 09:19:38 -0800 (PST) From: "margrett okelley" Subj: Comanche Homecoming 3rd week in July 2003 >To: gars@nanews.org Dear Sir: Please include the Comanche Homecoming dates in your calendar of events. The Comanche Homecoming will be July 17,18,19, & 20, 2003 at Sultan Park, Walters, Oklahoma This will be the 50th annual homecoming... free parking, camping, rations, contests, and parade. Thank you. Margrett O. Kelley =================================== 52nd ANNUAL NORTH AMERICAN INDIAN DAYS JULY 10-13, 2003 BROWNING, MONTANA SPONSORED BY BLACKFEET TRIBAL BUSINESS COUNCIL MC'S earl old person, blackfeet jay st. goddard, blackfeet kenny scabby robe, sr., blackfeet HOST DRUMS american host: mandaree, international singing champions canadian host: high noon, world singing champions ARENA DIRECTORS lucky white grass, frank goings, kevin kicking woman, clarence comes at night DANCE SPECIALS alvin yellow owl iii, men's traditional $1,000 winner take all miss blackfeet - myalyn spoonhunter, 2002 world champion teen girl's, jingle dress special 16-25, in memory of peter tatsey ld style shawl dance, 40 & over, 3 places & gifts, in honor of first miss blackfeet, gail sharp, 1979-80, sponsored by leona sharp & family audrey white grass scabby robe, drumming contest special & hand drum contest, women's traditional contest, for more information contact: lucky white grass at (406) 338-7552 prairie chicken dance showdown, sponsored by clinton croff, 1st place champion jacket plus $1,000 plus, consolation prizes addes, for more information contact: clintor or Justine croff at (406) 338-3703 women's golden age dance special - honoring the memory of bertha sharp turle-ackerman, 1926-1987, first woman to dance modern style CARNIVAL sponsored by: candy apple amusement; rides: avalance, zipper, octopus, tilt-a-whirl, scrambler, ferris wheel, kid ville, jolly frog, much, much, much more!!!! TWO MEDICINE RUNNING CLUB FUN RUN saturday, july 12, 2003 at 2:00 p.m., contact: wendy or diana at (406) 338-7870 or 338-3876 N.A.I.D. GOLF TOURNAMENT contact: vic hall at (406) 338-7440 REEVIS/WEBBER FAMILY BREAKFAST in memory of "beatrice bear medicine, friday july 11, 2003 7:00 - 10:00 a.m., campground arbor N.A.I.D. RODEO multi-sanctioned july 11, 12, 13, 2003, $15,000 added & buckles per major event, all- around saddles, youth rodeo & team roping jackpot on thursday, july 10th, contact: mike tatsey at (406) 472-3398 or 338-5525 INDIAN RELAY/HORSE RACES july 11, 12, 13, 2003 $15,000 cash & prizes, buckles & cooler blankets, contact: Geri osbourne at (406) 338-3232, phillip rattler at 338-7748, tony carlson at 291-0348, ernie fitz at 338-3489 STICK GAME TOURNAMENT 1st - $5,000 2nd - $3,000 3rd - $1,500 4th - $500 contact: jodi wippert at 338-7103 or myra knople at 338-7191 PARADE saturday, july 12, 2003 at 11:00 a.m. contact : jim mcneely at 338-7521 GIVEAWAYS giveaways will be held on thursday and friday, july 10, 11, 2003 contact: jim mcneely at 338-7521 TEEPEES PAID DAILY SECURITY & EMS PROVIDED SEARCH & RESCUE TASK FORCE ARTS & CRAFT BOOTHS RATIONS/DAILY DISTRIBUTIONS BLACKJACK TABLES CATHOLIC SUNDAY MASS sunday, july 13, 2003 at 10:00 A.M. BISHOP ROBERT MORLINO, CELEBRANT CAMPGROUND ARBOR BROWNING UNITED METHODIST PARISH SUNDAY SERVICES WILL BE HELD AT THE CHURCH AT 11:00 A.M. VETERAN'S DAY FRIDAY, JULY 11, 2003, WILL HONOR KOREAN WAR VETERANS, PRESENTATION BY: MAJOR GENERAL JOHN E. PENDERGAST N.R.M.A. OLD TIME DANCE CCD CENTER, SATURDAY, JULY 12, 2003 AT 7:00 P.M., CONTACT: GALEN SINCLAIR AT 338-5456 COMPETITION CATEGORIES MEN'S TRADITIONAL AGE 18-39 AND 40-54 MEN'S GRASS DANCE/CHICKEN DANCE FANCY MEN'S BUCKSKIN/WOMEN'S BUCKSKIN 55 & OLDER WOMEN'S TRADITIONAL/FANCY/JINGLE DRESS GOLDEN AGE 55 & OLDER BOY'S TRADITIONAL/FANCY/GRASS DANCE YOUNG MEN'S TRADITIONAL/FANCY/GRASSDANCE GIRL'S TRADITIONAL/FANCY/JINGLE DRESS YOUNG WOMEN'S TRADITIONAL/FANCY/JINGLE For more information on 52nd annual north american indian days contact: jodi wippert at (406) 338-7103 the north american indian days committee & the blackfeet tribe are not responsible for travelers aid, weather damages, accidents, or lost/stolen property. =================================== 2ND SALINE RIVER BENEFIT POW WOW AUG. 08-09-10 2003 ALL DANCERS DRUMS and GENERAL PUBLIC WELCOME at the SALINE COUNTY FAIR GROUNDS BENTON ARKANSAS Special kids American Indian Educators Educators will be demonstrating bow making, using adlatle and styles of lodging ARENA DIRECTOR--------------KIETH LITTLE BADGER-FLA. MCEE----------------------------------GARY SMITH-GA. HEAD MAN----------------------GARY THUNDER WOLF ALA. HEAD LADY--------------------------VALERIE COOPER-AL. HOST DRUM---------------------------------Shadow Wolf HOST DRUM----------------------------Red Hawk Singers ALL DRUMS AND DANCERS WELCOME ALL TYPES OF CRAFTS FEATURING CHIEF LITTLE HORSE FILM STAR WE WILL BE HONORING ALL ELDERS,VETERANS, Volunteer FIRE FIGHTERS WHO THE POW WOW IS FOR WILL BE OFFERING FREE BLOOD PRESSURE CHECKs ADMISSION: 5.00 ADULTS ___________3.00 CHILDREN UNDER 12 and SENIORS 55 AND UP Fri. Aug 08-12 pm till 4 pm kids day all admission free Fri Aug 08 gates open at 5 pm grand entry at 7 pm inter-tribal till 10 pm Sat.Aug. 09 gates open at 10 am gourd dancing 12pm till 1 pm grand entry and inter-tribal dancing till 6 pm 6 pm till 7 pm gourd dancing 7 pm till 10 pm grand entry and inter-tribal Sun. Aug 10 gates open at 10 am 12 pm till 1 pm gourd dancing 1 pm till 5pm grand entry and inter-tribal dancing BRING YOUR LAWN CHAIRS AND SPEND THE DAY FRY BREAD AND INDIAN TACOS ALCOHOL AND DRUG FREE EVENT FOR MORE INFO OR DIRECTION CONTACT ROBERT BELLINGER 501-860-7220 JIMMY 870-879-1396 or LARRY 501-868-4108 HOST MOTEL TO BE ANNOUNCED =================================== Aaron's Powwow Calendar Updated May 14, 2003 http://www.geocities.com/Athens/Olympus/9173/powwows.html June 2003 June 6-7 - Thirty Fifth Annual Alabama-Coushatta Powwow Celebration Location: Livingston, Texas. Notes: MC, Dean Whitebreast; Arena Director, Daniel Tramper; Head Gourd Dancer, Jack Battise, Sr.; Host Northern Drum, Elks Whistle; Host Southern Drum, Otter Trail. Dance and drum contests. Contact: Mary (936) 329-8906; Crystal (972) 826-2138; ccw1979@excite.com. June 6-8 - Bois Forte Traditional Sah gii bah gah Days Powwow Location: Bois Forte Reservation, Nett Lake, Minnesota. Notes: Grand Entry Saturday 1 pm and 7 pm, Sunday 1 pm. Honorariums for registered dancers and singers, all meals provided. Camping and lodging available. Contact: Linda Tibbetts-Barto (218) 757-0111, lbarto@rangenet.com. June 7 - A Step Back in Time Mini-Powwow Location: Woodland Plantation, Plaquemines, Louisiana. Contact: (504) 391-0173. June 13-14 - American Indian Cultural Association of North Carolina Twenty Fifth Annual Powwow Location: Van Hoy Family Campground, Union Grove, North Carolina. Notes: Traditional powwow, Southern Protocol, this is a family oriented event. Contact: Ed de Torres (828) 464-5579, exdt@webtv.net; Vendors contact Karen Hoyt (704) 786-5705, kdh1993@yahoo.com. June 13-15 - Fifth Annual Prairie Band Potawatomi Nation Powwow Celebration Location: Prairie People's Park, 158 and M Roads, Mayetta, Kansas. Contact: Micki Martinez (877) 715-6789 ext 3999, powwow@pbpnation.org, www.pbpnation.org. June 19-21 - Forty Seventh Annual TIHA Summer Powwow Location: Robinson Park, Llano, Texas. Contact: (512) 243-1931; Vendors, (830) 665-9309. June 20-22 - Dauphin Aboriginal Festival Location: Dauphin, Manitoba, Canada. Notes: Powwow, traditional crafts, square dancing, and more. Contact: crazylegs420@hotmail.com. June 20-22 -