[NN-Dialogue] Wotanging Ikche--nanews10.047
Gary Night Owl
gars@speakeasy.org
20 Nov 2002 00:41:26 -0000
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As historian Patricia Nelson Limerick summarized in The Legacy of Conquest:
The Unbroken Past of the American West,
"Set the blood quantum at one-quarter, hold to it as a rigid definition
of Indians, let intermarriage proceed as it had for centuries, and
eventually Indians will be defined out of existence. When that happens,
the federal government will be freed of its persistent 'Indian problem.'"
"Out of the Indian approach to life there came a great freedom, an
intense and absorbing love for nature, a respect for life, enriching
faith in a Supreme Power and principles of truth, honesty, generosity,
equity and brotherhood as a guide to mundane relations."
__ Chief Luther Standing, Oglala
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| Indian Pledge of Allegiance | The Indian Pledge of Alleg-
| | iance was first presented
| I pledge allegiance to my Tribe,| on 2 December '93 during the
| to the democratic principles | opening address of the Nat-
| of the Republic | ional Congress of American
| and to the individual freedoms | Indian Tribal-States Relat-
| borrowed from the Iroquois and | ions Panel in Reno, NV. NCAI
| Choctaw Confederacies, | plans distribution of the
| as incorporated in the United | Indian Pledge to all Indian
| States Constitution, | Nations.
| so that my forefathers |
| shall not have died in vain | Walk in Beauty! Night Owl
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| Journey | In the summer and early fall
| The Bloodline | of 1998 the Treaty Unity Riders
| | rode a thousand miles on horse-
| For all that live and live by law | back, carrying a staff and
| We Stand, we Call, We Ride | praying each step of the way.
| For All that fear and fear by sight |
| We Hear, we Listen, we Ride | These prayers were offered for
| For all that pray and pray by strength| each of us, and that the Unity
| We Feel, we Move, we Ride | of all Peoples might happen.
| For all that die and die by greed |
| We Hurt, we Cry, we Ride | Tatanka Cante forwarded this
| For all that birth and birth by right | poem on behalf of all the Unity
| We Smile, we Hold, we Ride | Riders that we might stop and
| For all that need and need by heart | ask if the next words we say, the
| We Came, we Went, we Rode. | next act we make is for the good
| | of the People or is it from ego
| Treaty Unity Riders | for self.
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O'siyo Brothers and Sisters!
My thanks to my wonderful wife, Janet, for the editorial which follows:
Justice can happen, Indian voices can be heard in their communities, in
their states, and in the United States. It will not be easy; there will
be opposition -- sometimes violent and threatening, sometimes simply sly
"dirty tricks."
This last election, Lakota people in at least in one city, Martin, South
Dakota and one county, Bennett County, SD, proved that standing together
in the face of racism and injustice can put their own people inside doors
of government once closed to them. Those new Lakota officials are
committed to change, and with their community standing behind them, the
habits of officials in that city and that county will inevitably become
more hospitable to their Lakota citizens.
There were clear signs change was needed. A year ago, Gerald, "Jed"
Bettelyoun witnessed Bennett county police as they stopped two elder
Lakota women on the side of the road on a cold day, and left them standing
there in the cold, while the police officials repaired to their nice warm
car and sat there for a LONG time before releasing the women. He
determined then that he would step forward to make a difference for his
people.
Already Lakota were restive about openly discriminatory practices by
law officers, government officials, school officials and business people
in Martin, which is located in Bennett County. Enough was enough -- the
Lakota people organized.
Not only did they get out the vote -- they put up candidates among their
own people. Opposition officials did their best to disqualify Lakota
voters who registered, and to disqualify Lakota candidates. It just
didn't work in the face of overwhelming organization, determination and
turnout. In a county that had eighteen Lakota voters in the last election
-- this year 300 voted. For the first time, Bennett County has an Indian
sherrif, Charlie Cummings, and an Indian County Commissioner, Jed
Bettelyoun.
It's not enough to put just and fair non-Indians into office, although
that's certainly better than letting bigoted officials continue to hold
office. What's needed is participation by more Indians, and a movement up
the ladder of leadership by the ones in office now.
A few Indians have made it into the grass roots of politics, as law
officers, commissioners, city councilmen, school board members. These are
the training grounds for budding politicians. Its up to us to encourage
the courageous ones like Jed Bettelyoun and others like him to make the
kind of progress in their communities that will show they are worthy of
state legislative positions, and beyond. Maybe there will be more than
two Indian voices to speak for our people in the U.S. Congress and
something better than a proven yes man to a proven Indian-hostile white
boss representing us in the BIA.
Demographics are changing, too. The last census showed the Native
population to be about 2 percent. Not a lot to make changes. What many
of you may not be told is that in five years, that percentage will have
tripled to about 6 percent. Still not a lot, but not that far from the
percentage of black Americans who stood up in the 50s, and said "no more"
-- and were heard, and who raised up leaders in the subsequent generation
who have become leaders in our community and our nation today.
It may soon be possible for a Native American mother to dream, without
knowing her dream is beyond reason, of her son or daughter becoming a
governor, a senator, or even someday -- President, perhaps of the United
States, or perhaps -- of a sovereign nation closer to home but with as
much respect from the United States and the cities that neighbor them --
their own Native Nation.
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A suggestion worth considering arrived in thjis week's email, and I have
been granted permission to share it with you:
Date: Wed, 13 Nov 2002 15:40:27 +0100 (MET)
From: Sheila Cazzoli <deer_woman@gmx.net>
Subj: "Lakota Fund" example
Hello,
I was reading in Native American News that the Lakota Fund, a lending
organization, is working great. It is a non-profit organization for and
by Indian people. It provides education and training for people who want
to open a business. It trains them in accounting skills, writing business
proposals, etc.
I heard on the AIM live webcast that there are Canadian Indians that
have governmental programs but that they provide no money! Wouldn't it be
a great idea to tell the Canadian Indians about making non-profit lending
organizations that can lend money to Indians there who want to start their
own businesses?! I bet they'd jump at the chance! They could use the Lakota
Fund example as their guide to getting started.
Please spread the word! Thank you very much for your kind consideration.
Sincerely,
Sheila Cazzoli
Runs-Like-A-Deer Woman
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Winter is here.
Elders in those areas already need assistance... remember Secretary of
Interior Norton withheld checks after the court appointed monitor broke
into DoI computers.
If you know of a reliable point where funds can be sent to assist
these precious elders please drop me a note at gars@nanews.org
and make the subject (all caps) WINTER HELP.
-----> this list will remain up through January ----->
PLEASE email gars@nanews.org with any updates/additions
Date: Tue, 01 Oct 2002 20:46:06 -0500
From: Dodie <dodiefinstead@ev1.net>
Subj: fuel fund
Gary:
At this time this is the only fuel fund I have. If I receive more I will
pass them along to you. Thank you for including it. If you need addresses
for donations just let me know.
Dodie
Ndn-AIM Fund
c/o box 1334
Rapid City, SD 57709
At 04:20 AM 10/1/2002, you wrote:
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Date: Wed, 02 Oct 2002 02:35:47 -0000
From: "Dodie Finstead" <dodiefinstead@ev1.net>
After less than one year, the Northern Cheyenne School, who this time
last year had never received donations, with children often going
without supplies and clothing, now have more than they can handle and
store. They have requested that no more donations be sent to them at
this time as Vicki gave us a head up on. I want to thank Vicki, they
had not been able to contact us.
My suggestion would be the other fund in MT or to Carter Camp if you
were planning on sending to the Northern Cheyenne school. Please be
sure if you send used thing they are in very good condition.
If you do chose one of these two, please let them know you are sending
things so they can be expecting them.
Dodie
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Honor Your Spirit - Protect the Children
% Sue Buck
PO Box 901
Great Falls, MT 59403-0901
suemontana@mcn.net
The same needs as the other school, clothing, school supplies,
blankets, etc. Oh, don't forget the toys. :)
Carter Camp
P.O.Box 1012,
Rosebud S.D. 57570
cartercamp@yahoo.com
Carter and his wife distribute to families with children. So clothing
for all age children are need, from infants up. The basic needs toys,
blankets, warm things, diapers, panties, tooth brushes, hats, socks, etc.
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Date: Mon, 7 Oct 2002 11:43:21 +0300
From: "Brigitte Thimiakis" <thimiakischool@the.forthnet.gr>
Subj: IMPORTANT Note to Winter Request
From: Sue Buck - Please Read, and Forward -
IMPORTANT NOTE regarding the Urgent Winter Request for Donations
for Children and Elders
Recently we were all very happy to read that a large amount of donations
was sent to the Northern Cheyenne schools in MT. This was great news!
However, due to a recent inquiry about whether or not our project still
needed donations, we would like to draw your attention to the fact that
there are still great needs on the reservation. Please note that our
request and aim is to try and help the abandoned children's shelter and
elders' center on the reservation, which are totally separate from the
Northern Cheyenne tribal schools. They have great needs (also for the
most part, different from the needs of the tribal Schools). Please read
our list below. These needs have not been catered for and these children
and elders are still in need of warm clothing items for the winter. Toys
are also much needed so that the children at the shelter can have a
Christmas give-away .
After reading our request below, please do everything you can to support
these children and elders.
Many thanks for your time and help,
Respectfully,
Sue Buck
"Honor Your Spirit - Protect the Children"
[ PLEASE FORWARD where needed - thank you ]
Urgent Winter Request for Donations
Greetings,
If you wish to make a difference and help children and elders through
the harsh winter months in Montana, please take the time to read this
request. On behalf of reliable Northern Cheyenne contacts from Lame
Deer, we are once again collecting donations for the children's shelter
and senior citizens center on the Northern Cheyenne Reservation.
Our goal is to collect new and good quality used items for the shelter
and senior center, as well as toys which can be used for the children's
shelter at Christmas time. The toys will be distributed during the
Christmas give away but the clothes and blankets will be distributed
right away. During Montana winters, the temperature can drop to 30 or
40 degrees below zero so warm winter clothing can be lifesaving. Often,
when a child arrives at the shelter, all they have is what they are
wearing. This is very sad, but it is the reality these children have to
face. When a child leaves to go to a foster home, or some other place,
the people at the shelter try to send a weeks' worth of clothing with
the child so they will at least have something. In other words, what
ever is sent to the shelter can be used and there is a great need.
There is a very high turnover rate due to the extreme poverty in the Big
Horn and Rosebud Counties.
The senior citizens center is in special need of
- blankets
- warm winter coats
also needed by the seniors are socks, gloves, boots, hats and scarves
The children's shelter is in special need of
- warm winter coats and clothing
- a baby crib and related bedding
- twin size bedding of all types,
- blankets
- toys
The children range in age from 0 to 12 years.
Since they have school for the children at the shelter, there is also a
need for:
- educational toys,
- writing paper,
- pencils,
- crayons
or anything else used in schools.
They can also use grooming supplies like toothpaste, tooth brushes,
soaps and shampoos, combs, hair brushes, hair barrettes, rubber bands or
other types of hair or pony tail holders. Last but not least : pampers
diapers or pull-ups.
Please note that we have changed and reorganized our mailing
instructions from those suggested last year. Contact suemontana@mcn.net
for mailing information other than regular US Mail service. (Also
please include your name and address if you would like for us to
acknowledge/confirm receipt of your donations)
Donations can be sent to the following address:
Honor Your Spirit - Protect the Children
% Sue Buck
PO Box 901
Great Falls, MT 59403-0901
USA
The priority of our group, "Honor your Spirit - Protect the Children" is
to make sure all donations get to where they are supposed to and
recognized. It is very important to us to make sure that everything is
distributed fairly and to those in the greatest need.
Additional contact information:
Brigitte Thimiakis, Greece
thimiakischool@the.forthnet.gr
Celine Branchard, France
littlered@club-internet.fr
Sue Buck, Project Coordinator, MT
suemontana@mcn.net
Thank you for any assistance you can give.
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Date: Sun, 13 Oct 2002 19:39:02 -0400
From: "floyd perkins" <rezrollers@gpcom.net>
Subj: Housing
Dear Gary
Greetings, my name is Alice Perkins. I am a member of the Oglala Sioux
Tribe, Pine Ridge Reservation. Recently, my husband and I started
working with a couple of individuals out of Michigan and Denver, CO.,
to bring liveable, affordable housing to the reservation and to
create jobs for our people. Our efforts have been rewarding, but we
are struggling. Let me first give you an overview of our business.
Our fund receives donated or we buy lowcost mobile homes (used) from
individuals. We pay all the costs incurred to transport these homes to
the Pine Ridge Reservation. Costs include labor, driver payment,
fuel, food/shelter, cleanup cost, dumpster, permits, lot rent etc. The
cost varies with each mobile home we get. After delivering the mobile
homes to the reservation site, we inspect the homes for maintenance
and repair needs such as hotwater heater, furnace, roof, plumbing, floor
and windows etc... We fix these at our cost. Once the mobile home
is in liveable condition, we sell it at the total cost we paid out
for the home (delivery plus repair costs). These sales prices are
affordable, ranging from $3500 to $6500. Since we hire reservation Lakota
people to transport and repair these homes, we have created jobs
for drivers, laborers, prep workers, construction, plumbers, electricians,
escort, ect... The mobile homes are for buyers who do not qualify for
loans through the banks because of bad credit, no credit, slow credit or
whatever the reason. And these people are on a fixed income. Our
payments are set according to their income and what they can afford --
usually about $100 to $200 a month until paid in full. We work with the
buyers so that their payments go towards owning their own homes, which
otherwise would be impossible. This also helps to reestablish credit.
We also receive donor-directed homes (all costs are covered by the
donor, who chooses the individual who will receive the donated home).
Our problem is that we need funds to continue our efforts.
We are seeking donations to help with transportation costs and
supplies such as hotwater heaters, furnaces--any help would be
appreciated. Winter is coming and we have many families waiting for a
home. We have approximately 110 families on our waiting list, all of
whom are in great need of shelter. Immediately we need 3 furnaces and
5 hotwater heaters. Visit our web site at
http://www.americanindianhousing.com We had a very nice lady help set
this up for us.
Thank you.
Alice Perkins
HC 64 Box 58
Batesland, SD 57716
(605) 685-3362
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Date: Wed, 6 Nov 2002 07:33:45 EST
From: Dnnfvpks@aol.com
Subject: WINTER HELP
>To: gars@nanews.org
Dear Gary
My name is Dianne Mountain. I'm with Wolf Band of Norfolk, Va. and
Tidewater Native American Support Group of Virginia. I'm writing a request
for help on the Rosebud Reservation, Norris S.D. our group helps out as
much possible with assistance to our extended family at Norris. I work with
an elder and she helps distributes clothing, money to the children and
elders in her community. I would love to give you her address so that if
you can help with some fuel assistance that would be a blessing. They can
only get a delivery where they are at if there is at least 5 other family
in need for fuel. Your help would be very much appreciated.
Blessings Dianne Mountain
Teresa Ammiotte
PO Box / House #15
Norris , S.D. 57560
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Date: Saturday, November 16, 2002 12:00 AM
From: Dodie Finstead [mailto:dodiefinstead@ev1.net]
Subj: Please help-Coats for Kids from the Cherokee Nation
Mailing List: Native Lifeways <native-lifeways@yahoogroups.com>
Please repost.
Cherokee Nation is working to provide a Coats for Kids in Sequoyah County
this winter. Any and all help is appreciated and desperately needed.
This project was supposed to end today (Nov. 15) but the project has run
short in its goal and is asking for everyone's help. For more information
on this special project please review the following news story:
> http://www.cherokee.org/CurentNewsRelease.asp?ID=719
Dohiyi Ani Oginalii
, , Gary Night Owl gars@nanews.org
(*,*) P. O. Box 672168 gars@speakeasy.org
(`-') Marietta, GA 30007, U.S.A. gars@olagrande.net
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----------- News of the people featured in this issue ----------
- First Indian Bishop Dies - Grant to help Tribes
- Judy Trejo reclaim Land lost to Fraud
- O'odham Educator Rosilda Manuel - Luminaria honor all killed
- John Curotte at Big Hole/Bear Paw
- Crossings - Vice-Chief says no
- Tribe Land Allottees' to Gun Registration Laws
Numbers Dwindling - Relatives want BIA to make Changes
- Lakota Vote defeats Enemies - Native Prisoner
- Wisconsin Tribe acquires -- Montana State Prison:
New York Land Sacred Religious Items removed
- Protesters Challenge Plans - Rustywire:
to expand Mica Mine Navajo Grandma - Shi Ma Ssni
- Sensitive Maidu Cultural Areas - History: Carlisle Indian School
to be closed - Poem: Forever Cherokee Free Spirit
- Plans in works to develop - Verse: Hawaiian Book of Days
Wyoming Buffalo Jump - 73-Year-Old helps revive
- Tribe converts Nisqually Pasture Forgotten Language
into Marshland - This Week on First Peoples TV
- Doctor: Tribes need to Initiate - Native America Calling
own Health Care - Upcoming Events
--------- "RE: First Indian Bishop Dies" ---------
Date: Thu 14 Nov, 2002 08:57:13 -0700
From: Gary Smith <gars@Speakeasy.org>
Subj: NA News Item
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filename="REV. HAROLD JONES"
http://www.owlstar.com/dailyheadlines.htm
http://www.rapidcityjournal.com/articles/2002/11/14/news/local/news03.txt
First Indian bishop dies
By Dan Daly, Journal Staff Writer
November 14, 2002
CHANDLER, Ariz. - In 1972, the Rev. Harold Jones was consecrated as a
bishop in the Episcopal Diocese of South Dakota. He was the first American
Indian to be elevated to the office of bishop by any Christian
denomination.
A year later, in an interview with the Rapid City Journal, Bishop Jones
was still downplaying the historic precedent.
"It is secondary to being a bishop - my ministry is to all the people,"
he said. And according to those who knew him, Bishop Jones spent his life
balancing his Indian heritage and his ministry.
Bishop Jones died Tuesday in Chandler, Ariz., at age 92.
"I didn't see a dichotomy," the Rev. Ron Hennies of Rapid City, an
Episcopal priest and longtime friend of Bishop Jones, said.
"He lived the Native American concept of generosity. ... He'd give you
literally the shirt off his back, and he'd never check to see if he had a
spare," Hennies said. "He brought many of the characteristics of the best
of Native American culture with him to this Christian expression."
Hennies said he will serve as master of ceremonies at Jones' burial
ceremonies. Arrangements are pending with Osheim-Catron Funeral Home in
Rapid City.
"He was a fine mentor and a fine man," Hennies said. "He didn't get out
of me the best I could produce by bawling me out or laying out goals and
all that. He did it by modeling - humble and generous and Gospel-oriented
in the best sense of the word. ... I never wanted to short-change that
man."
Bishop Jones loved to tell stories and sing Lakota hymns, Hennies
recalled.
In a ceremony at St. Joseph's Cathedral in Sioux Falls, Jones was
consecrated as a suffragan bishop of the Episcopal Church on Jan. 11, 1972.
More than 1,000 people, from the Episcopal Church and other denominations
and faiths, attended. Parts of the ceremony were conducted in the Lakota
language.
His consecration marked the highlight of a career that began in 1938
with his ordination. Five days later, he married Blossom Steele at a
ceremony in Santee, Neb.
Jones began his work with 13 years of service at the Pine Ridge Mission,
first in the small rectory of Christ Church at Red Shirt Table. He also
lived at the rectories of St. John's, St. Peter's and Holy Cross.
Later, he served at the Cheyenne River Agency, Gettysburg, Dupree, Pine
Ridge, Wahpeton, N.D., Fort Defiance, Ariz., and Rapid City. After his
consecration as a bishop, the Joneses settled into their home in Rapid
City, and he began to travel throughout the South Dakota diocese.
Just nine months after he became a bishop, doctors diagnosed heart
problems in Jones. By 1976, he was forced to retire.
However, he remained active in the church and in the community.
In 1988, Hennies and Jones attended the ceremony in which the Rev.
Charles J. Chaput, an American Indian Roman Catholic priest, became the
bishop of Rapid City. Hennies recalled that Chaput hurried over to where
Jones and Hennies were standing. "Bishop Chaput said, `Your grace, I want
to humbly apologize for the press saying that I'm the first Native
American bishop,'" Hennies recalled. "That was such a nice moment. Bishop
Chaput made such a point of saying that."
Blossom Jones, who preceded her husband in death, worked as a teacher in
Bureau of Indian Affairs and public schools in the places where Bishop
Jones served. Their daughter, Norma Pederson, and son-in-law Jerry
Pederson, live in Chandler. At the time of his death, Jones was living in
the Chandler area, too. He died at Chandler Regional Hospital.
Contact reporter Dan Daly at 394-8421 or dan.daly@rapidcityjournal.com
Copyright c. the Rapid City Journal.
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Date: Thu 14 Nov, 2002 08:57:13 -0700
From: Gary Smith <gars@Speakeasy.org>
Subj: NA News Item
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filename="JUDY TREJO"
http://www.owlstar.com/dailyheadlines.htm
http://www.rgj.com/news/stories/html/2002/11/13/28060.php?sp1=&sp2=&sp3=
Paiute artist, educator Judy Trejo dies in Reno at 62
Sandra Chereb
ASSOCIATED PRESS
11/13/2002 10:29 pm
Funeral services were scheduled today for Judy Sam Trejo, a northern
Nevada Paiute who was instrumental in preserving the tribe's native
language through education, storytelling and song.
Trejo, of Nixon, died of natural causes Saturday at Washoe Medical
Center, according to the county coroner's office. She was 62.
"Judy was indeed an important figure in both song and language," said
Catherine Fowler, an anthropology professor at the University of Nevada,
Reno.
"She introduced curriculum in the Paiute language - was one of the first
to try to teach the language in a public school setting in Nevada," Fowler
said.
The night before she died, Trejo had returned from Las Vegas, where she
participated in programs sponsored by the Clark County Library District
honoring Native American Heritage Month.
"She was quite wonderful," said Suzanne Scott, a library employee who
worked with Trejo on the project. "She presented four programs in
storytelling and song."
"She was very knowledgeable and willing to share her culture," Scott
said. Her death is "quite a loss for the community."
Traditional Paiute ceremonies were held Wednesday at a private home on
the Pyramid Lake Paiute Reservation in Nixon north of Reno. Funeral
services were scheduled today, also in Nixon.
Born in Alturas, Calif., Trejo grew up on the Fort McDermitt Paiute-
Shoshone Reservation north of Winnemucca. She attended the Stewart Indian
School in Carson City before moving to Idaho, where she earned a
bachelor's degree in elementary education and a master's degree in
counseling from the College of Idaho.
Trejo returned to Nevada, where she taught first and second grade at the
Walker River Indian Reservation in Schurz for 20 years.
She continued teaching adult programs throughout her retirement and
shared her heritage with children through song and verse.
Trejo is perhaps best known for her recordings of Native American music.
"She was a wonderful singer, of both traditional and more contemporary
Native music," Fowler said. "She sang at many different venues around the
state and around the country."
Her first album, "Circle Dance Songs of the Paiute and Shoshone,"
received the 1997 American Federation Independent Music Indie Award for
Best Native American Album.
In 2000, her second album, "Stick Game Songs of the Paiute," was named
best historical recording at the Native American Music Awards.
"She was a very important artist, not only for her people, but also for
the Native American community as a whole," Robert Doyle, president of
Phoenix-based Canyon Records, said.
"She provided us not only with translations of the Paiute-Shoshone
lyrics, but the words themselves so we're able to provide an educational
resource."
Copyright c. 2002 Reno Gazette-Journal, a Gannett Co. Inc. Newspaper.
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O'odham educator Rosilda Manuel dies
By Eric Swedlund
ARIZONA DAILY STAR
November 15, 2002
Rosilda Manuel, the former director of the Tohono O'odham Department
of Education who was a strong proponent of bilingual education and
spearheaded the development of a tribal community college, died Nov. 7.
Manuel, 55, was an educator, administrator and author in Southern
Arizona for more than 30 years, specializing in bilingual education. She
also was recognized for her efforts to teach and preserve the O'odham
language.
Manuel also was an instructor at the Institute of Linguistics for Native
Americans in Albuquerque and at Pima Community College.
"She made some change on the nation overall," said Marietta Martin, who
worked for the last three years as Manuel's assistant director, taking the
top post after Manuel left in April because of health problems.
"We lost a great person."
Even after Manuel left her position, she remained as involved as she
could be, Martin said.
"She was still aware of what was going on and willing to help when she
could," she said.
"She's done quite a number of things, but mainly she's been a big
enforcer of bilingual education," she said. Manuel worked hard to develop
tribal scholarship programs, Martin said.
Jana Kooi, president of PCC's Community Campus, worked with Manuel for
many years to provide educational opportunities on the Tohono O'odham
Reservation. She called Manuel a dedicated, caring professional.
"She's always been so great a partner to work with, she's such a
wonderful woman."
Kooi said Manuel also was a fun person.
"She was truly delightful to spend time with," Kooi said. "I'll remember
her as a very dedicated and caring professional who wanted to make a
change in people's lives. She did that not only through how she lived her
life but how she supported education. We miss her desperately already."
Edward D. Manuel, tribal chairman, issued a written statement Thursday:
"Rosilda Manuel's commitment to education was nothing less than
extraordinary. She made history by putting education first above all else.
...Education is the very means for passing our language, our culture, and
our spirituality from generation to generation."
She is survived by her husband of 30 years, Frank Manuel.
* Reporter L. Anne Newell contributed to this report.
* Contact reporter Eric Swedlund at 629-9412 or swedlund@azstarnet.com.
Copyright c. 1999, 2000, 2001, 2002 AzStarNet, Arizona Daily Star.
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John Curotte, Elder
By: Kenneth Deer & Alex McComber
John Thoronhiate Curotte, a well-known community member and much
respected elder in Kahnawake, passed to spirit world this past Tuesday
evening after a hard fought battle with complications from diabetes. His
passing bring much sadness to the people of Kahnawake, as he had an impact
on so many people through his career as an ironworker, farmer and with the
Kahnawake Survival School; but mainly through his participation with the
Longhouse.
It was in 1963 when John Curotte and his son Joe reinstated into the
Longhouse. Joe recalled that there were very few people in the old
Longhouse at the end of the Old Tennessee Road, among them his mother
Grace, Dominic Diabo, Joe Phillips, James Montour, Sarah Montour, Belva
Montour, and Nias Sakari Zacharie. He remembered that Nias Sakari was
almost crying during the ceremony, saying "I never thought I would ever
see a father and his join the Longhouse." John went on to influence many
people to turn towards our traditions in the decades that followed.
John was born at the Kateri Hospital in 1923, delivered by Dr. Jacobs .
He was raised on his father's farm, across the road from the site of the
Caughnawaga Golf Club. It was there that John learned about animals and
farming, skills which would later play an important part in Kahnawake
education. He attended the elementary school in the village only until
grade four when his father withdrew him because he believed that "you
could not eat on books." Yet John received a wide and rich education
through many other ways.
John's life on the farm helped him develop a good work ethic and pride
that carried into his adult career as an ironworker. He worked throughout
the northeastern United States, the Maritimes and across the river in
Lachine at the Northern Electric plant. In 1979 he began his career at the
Kahnawake Survival School. It was here that his nickname "Baba" became
widespread as he endeared himself to many students and educators. At
Survival School, John operated the farm and helped counsel students and
staff as the school elder. Most people can recall a Baba John farm story
and he forged a special and close relationship with author, farmer and
teacher H. Gordon Green.
But John was best known for his contribution to the Longhouse. He sat
behind Turtle Clan Chief Angus Lahache, eventually being asked to take his
place. John presided over ceremonies and sat in council until recent times.
John was never a Condoled Chief, but he sat with the Turtle Clan title of
Tekarihoken. As with any position, he had to deal with many controversial
issues and he always stood by his principles. John withdrew from Longhouse
activities in the latter 1980s. Eventually, he was instrumental in the
expansion of the Longhouse on Mohawk Trail. He resumed responsibilities as
a ceremonial and political spokesperson at the Mohawk Trail Longhouse as
it developed and grew.
As interest in the ways of our traditions increased, so did John's
stature in the community. He was always willing to teach what he knew and
people gravitated to him. More than just a teacher, he imparted a down-
home wisdom which manifested itself through our traditions. He always had
kind words for those who sought his help.
John travelled to many different communities, both Aboriginal and non-
Native, sharing the life and experiences of the Kanien'keha:ka. He met
many people from around the world and presided at many a gathering. He
greeted the Dali Lama of Tibet in Montreal. With that smile on his lips
and that twinkle in his eyes, John would tell people that he and the Dali
Lama were close friends. The Dali Lama would say to him, "Hello, John."
And John would answer, "Hello, Dali."
As his age advanced and health concerns increased, John gradually
reduced his duties in the Longhouse. But even in his reduced role he was
happy to receive guests who sought his advice or a piece of his knowledge.
In his last days, his former Clan mother Norma Delaronde thanked him for
all the work he did for the Longhouse.
John married Grace Osoti:io Diabo in 1945 and is survived by her, their
five children - Roy, Joseph, Josie, Russel and Audrey - sons and
daughters-in-law, 16 grandchildren and six great-grandchildren. In his
final hours, John's family was at his bedside. His wife Grace held his
hand and, with a little smile on his face, he opened his eyes and looked
at her and said, "I only have eyes for you." Those were his last words as
he passed into the spirit world.
easterndoor@axess.com
Copyright c. 1997-2000 The Eastern Door.
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November 13, 2002
Alvin White Lance Sr.
BULL CREEK - Alvin White Lance Sr., 42, Bull Creek, died Saturday, Oct.
12, 2002, in an accident on Spring Creek Road.
Survivors include seven children, Alvin Jr., Dorothy, Heather, Samuel,
Julia, Larry and Tianna; two sisters, Violet Little Elk, Two Strike, and
Philomene White Lance, Bull Creek; three brothers, Homer White Lance and
Harlan White Lance, both of St. Francis, and Donald White Lance, McClester,
Okla.; and grandchildren.
Services were held Friday, Oct. 18, at St. Charles Catholic Church in St.
Francis.
Burial was at St. Charles Catholic Cemetery in St. Francis.
Holmes Funeral Home of Valentine, Neb., was in charge of arrangements.
November 14, 2002
William `Billy' Cottier Jr.
PINE RIDGE - William "Billy" Cottier Jr., 67, Pine Ridge, died Tuesday,
Nov. 12, 2002, in Pine Ridge.
Survivors include his mother, Mary Nelson, Pine Ridge; his wife, Cecelia
"Sister Babe" Cottier, Pine Ridge; five sons, Darrell Cottier, Dean
Cottier, Jerry Cottier, Tom Cottier and Jim Cottier, all of Pine Ridge;
three sisters, Crystal Eagle Elk, Emma Gallego and Sissy White Eyes, all
of Pine Ridge; 20 grandchildren; and 11 great-grandchildren.
Visitation will begin at 3 p.m. Friday, Nov. 15, at Sacred Heart Church
Hall in Pine Ridge.
Services will be at 10 a.m. Saturday, Nov. 16, at Pine Ridge High School
gym, with the Rev. Ben Tyon, the Rev. Agnes Tyon and the Rev. Joanne
Conroy officiating.
Burial will be at Holy Cross Episcopal Cemetery in Pine Ridge.
Sioux Funeral Home of Pine Ridge is in charge of arrangements.
November 15, 2002
Marcus F. `Spud' Mesteth Sr.
MANDERSON - Marcus F. "Spud" Mesteth Sr., 45, Manderson, died Wednesday,
Nov. 13, 2002, in Rapid City.
Survivors include his parents, Max and Cecelia Mesteth, Manderson; his
wife, LaVonne Mesteth, Manderson; three sons, Marcus Mesteth Jr., Rapid
City, and Casey Mesteth and George Mesteth, both of Manderson; one
daughter, Amber Mesteth, Rapid City; five brothers, Winston Mesteth, Moses
Bull Bear and A.V. Fire Thunder, all of Manderson, Bluch Fire Thunder Jr.,
Grass Creek, and Mick Martino, Philmore, Calif.; two sisters, Carol
Mesteth and Christine Bores A Hole, both of Manderson; and two
grandchildren.
A two-night wake will begin at 1 p.m. Saturday, Nov. 16, at Wounded Knee
School gym in Manderson.
Services will be at 10 a.m. Monday, Nov. 18, at the school gym, with the
Rev. Bill Pauly and the Rev. Ron Seminara. Mr. Wilmer Mesteth and Mr. Pete
Catches Jr. will officiate over traditional services.
Burial will be at St. Agnes Catholic Cemetery in Manderson.
Sioux Funeral Home of Pine Ridge is in charge of arrangements.
November 16, 2002
Susann Runs Along The Edge-Red Bear
ALLEN - Susann Runs Along The Edge-Red Bear, 40, Allen, died Thursday,
Nov. 14, 2002, in Alliance, Neb.
Survivors include five sons, Frank Red Bear and Moses Red Bear, both of
Allen, and Brian Red Bear, Darren Red Bear and Kadin Red Bear, all of
Alliance; one daughter, Pearl Red Bear, Nashville, Tenn.; five brothers,
Raymond Whirlwind Horse and Mike Whirlwind Horse, both of Alliance, Paul
Whirlwind Horse, Chadron, Neb., and John Whirlwind Horse and Moses
Whirlwind Horse, both of Allen; eight sisters, Verna Sanchez and Maria
Whirlwind Horse, both of Alliance, Cheryl Hudelson, Hannibal, Mo., Pauline
Hairy Shirt, Martha Whirlwind Horse and Molly Whirlwind Horse, all of
Allen, Billy Whirlwind Horse, Batesland, and Crystal Whirlwind Horse,
Chadron; her father, William Whirlwind Horse, Allen; and numerous
grandchildren.
A two-night wake will begin at 1 p.m. Monday, Nov. 18, at St. John of
the Cross Catholic Church in Allen.
Services will be at 10 a.m. Wednesday, Nov. 20, at the church, with the
Rev. Frank Smith, S.J., officiating.
Burial will be at St. John of the Cross Catholic Cemetery in Allen.
Sioux Funeral Home of Pine Ridge is in charge of arrangements.
Judith E. Clifford
BATESLAND - Judith Elaine Clifford, 61, Batesland, died Thursday,
November 14, 2002, at Rapid City Regional Hospital after a courageous
8-year battle with respiratory illness.
She was born March 30, 1941, to David O. and Barbara Pearl (O'Rourke)
Brewer, Sr. at Pine Ridge, SD. Judy attended and graduated from Holy
Rosary Indian Mission as class Salutatorian. She worked for the Shannon
County School District as bookkeeper and then payroll clerk for 28 years.
She retired in February 2000, because of health problems. She spent her
remaining years with her loving family in Batesland.
Survivors include two sons, Pat and Dave Clifford, Batesland; three
daughters, Anne and Denise Briggs, Batesland, and Therese Monroe, Pine
Ridge; four brothers, Dennis, Dean, and Duane Brewer, all of Pine Ridge,
Rich Brewer, Lawrence, KS; two sisters, Doris Giago, Brookings, SD, and
Colleen Brewer, Chadron, NE; 7 grandchildren, Jamie and Johna Martin,
Damian and Darnell Quintana, Jacob Briggs, Michael Clifford, all of
Batesland, and Jordan Clifford of Lawrence, KS; many nieces and nephews.
She is preceded in death by her parents, Dave and Barbara Brewer; two
brothers, Dave Brewer, Jr. and Delmar Brewer; and one daughter, Gloria
Clifford.
A one-night wake begins Sunday, November 17, at 1 p.m. at Billy Mills
Hall, Pine Ridge, SD.
Mass of Christian Burial will be Monday, November 18, at 10 a.m. at
Billy Mills Hall, with Rev. Steve Sanford, S.J. as celebrant.
Interment will be at Knight Cemetery, Batesland, SD.
Sioux Funeral Home is in charge of arrangements.
Copyright c. 2002 the Rapid City Journal.
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November 15, 2002
Magdalena Gallegos
Magdalena Gallegos, 75, died Thursday, November 14, 2002.
She is survived by her sons, Ray Gallegos and Lupe Gallegos; adopted
sons, Raynaldo Gallegos and Felipe Gallegos; a lot of grandchildren; one
great-grandchild, David; sisters, Consuelo, Tana, Antonia and Theresa;
brothers, Guadalupe and Celestino; and very dear friend, Andy.
Rosary will be recited Friday, 7:00 p.m., at Our Lady of Guadalupe
Church in Pena Blanca.
Mass will be celebrated Saturday, 10:00 a.m., at St. Bonaventure on
Cochiti Pueblo.
Interment will follow at Cochiti Pueblo Cemetery.
French Mortuary, 1111 University Blvd. NE.
Copyright c. 1997 - 2002 Albuquerque Journal: Albuquerque, New Mexico.
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November 14, 2002
Johnson Benally
Jan. 9, 1932 - Nov. 8, 2002
Johnson Benally, 70, of Shiprock went home with our Heavenly Father on
Friday, Nov. 8, 2002. He was born on Jan. 9, 1932 in Red Valley, Ariz., to
the late Taylor and Lucy Benally.
Funeral services will be held at 10 a.m., Thursday, Nov. 14, 2002, at
Chapel of Memories in Kirtland. Burial will be at the Shiprock Community
Cemetery. A reception will be held after the services.
Funeral arrangements have been entrusted to Chapel of Memories Funeral
Home of Kirtland, (505) 598-9636.
Copyright c. 1999-2002 MediaNews Group, Inc./Farmington, NM.
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November 14, 2002
George Allen Begay
FORT DEFIANCE, Ariz. - Services for George Begay, 37, will be held at 10
a.m., Friday, Nov. 15 at Cope Memorial Chapel. Calvin Lee will officiate.
Burial will follow in Coyote Canyon.
Begay died Nov. 9 in Flagstaff, Ariz. He was born Feb. 23 in Rehoboth
into the Red House People Clan for the Towering House People Clan.
Begay is a 1983 graduate of Window Rock High School and attended Fort
Lewis College/Dine' College. He was an Asst. Coach at Window Rock High
School and the Dine' College Ladies Basketball Team. He was a
Consultant/Programmer. His hobbies included computer programing, fishing,
golfing and playing guitar.
Survivors include his sons, Brett Allyn Begay of Fort Defiance, Ariz.
and Robbyn Hickman of Denver; parents, Walter and Mary Begay Sr. of Fort
Defiance; brothers, Timothy Begay of Phoenix, Walter Begay Jr. and
Anthony Begay of Fort Defiance; sisters, Sandi Begay of Fort Defiance and
Carrie Begay of Albuquerque.
Begay was preceded in death by his grandparents, Allan Lee and Nellie F.
Begay.
Pallbearers will be Ray Bedonie, Jeff Begay, Andrew Reed, Jay Notah,
Virgil Dahozy and Delbert James.
The family will receive friends and relatives after the burial services
at Coyote Canyon Chapter House.
Cope Memorial Chapel is in charge of arrangements.
Bennie Willie Sr.
BREAD SPRINGS - Services for Bennie Willie Sr., 51, will be held at 2 p.
m., Friday, Nov. 15 at Rollie Mortuary Palm Chapel. Pastor Bobby Willie
will officiate. Burial will follow at Gallup City Cemetery.
Willie Sr. died Nov. 9 in Gallup. He was born Nov. 24, 1950 in Bread
Springs into the Red Running into the Water People Clan for the Towering
House People Clan.
Survivors include his wife, Doris Willie of Bread Springs; sons,
Benjamin Willie, Bennie Willie Jr., Brandon Willie and Brian Willie all of
Bread Springs; daughters, Charmayne Willie and Kimberly K. Willie both of
Bread Springs; mother Mayme Willie of Bread Springs; brothers, Jimmy
Willie of Twin Lakes, Sammie Willie of Smith Lake, Alvin Willie, Ben C.
Willie both of Bread Springs; and sisters, Rose M. Begay, Betty Willie,
Elsie Willie and Rose Ann Willie all of Bread Springs.
Willie Sr. was preceded in death by his father, Ben Willie and brother,
Jerry Willie.
Pallbearers will be family members.
Rollie Mortuary is in charge of arrangements.
Pearl Upshaw Tsosie
TOHATCHI - Services for Pearl Tsosie, 53, will be held at 10 a.m.,
Friday, Nov. 15 at Tohatchi Christian Reform Church. John Kostylek will
officiate. Burial will follow at Tohatchi Cemetery.
Tsosie died Nov. 10 in Phoenix. She was born Aug. 1, 1949 in Fort
Defiance, Ariz. into the Edge Water People Clan for the Black Streak
People Clan.
Tsosie worked in Idaho. Her hobbies included puzzles, going to casinos,
shopping and cooking.
Survivors include her sons, Darrell Willie of Twin Lakes and Dave Willie
of St. George, Utah; daughters, Priscilla Willie and Marcella Salt both
of Standing Rock, Phyllis Willie and Rosita Willie both of Phoenix;
brother, Leslie Upshaw of Navajo; sisters, Adeline Brown of Twin Lakes,
Charlene Baca of Tuba City, Ariz., Caroline Wilson and Virginia Mares both
of Mexican Springs; and two grandchildren.
Tsosie was preceded in death by her parents, Evelyn Jim and Haswood
Upshaw; brother, Lester Upshaw and sister, Angela Begay.
Pallbearers will be Arnold Wilson, Leslie Upshaw, Michell James, Delwin
Sam, Rynell Tayah and Kenny Silver.
Cope Memorial Chapel is in charge of arrangements.
Leroy B. Shorty
CHURCH ROCK - Services for Leroy Shorty, 33, will be held at 1 p.m.,
Friday, Nov. 15 at Cope Memorial Chapel. Burial will follow at Gallup City
Cemetery.
Shorty died Nov. 9 in Gallup. He was born March 5, 1969 in Rehoboth.
Shorty attended Church Rock Elementary and Gallup High School. He was
employed with AHEC, A-1 Tire and Shaffer's Mr. Tire and was self employed
as a Kachina maker. His hobby was motorcycles.
Survivors include his sons, Lerando B. Shorty of Tohlakai, Leland Shorty
and Leonando Shorty both of Pinedale; daughter, Sheniel L. Shorty of
Tohlakai; mother, Rose Begay of Church Rock; brother, Francis Shorty and
stepfather Jimmy Begaye, both of Church Rock; sisters, Irene Peterson,
Roselyn Begay and Rose Begay all of Church Rock; and grandparents, Alice
and Kenneth Begay both of Church Rock.
Pallbearers will be Leo Begay, Harold Begay, Luke McCorky, Johnny Begay,
Jimmy Begaye and Johnson Begay.
The family will receive friends and relatives after the burial services
at the Church Rock Chapter House.
Cope Memorial Chapel is in charge of arrangements.
Copyright c. 2002 the Gallup Independent.
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November 15, 2002
Arnold Dean Steele
Arnold Dean Steele, lifelong resident of Ponca City, passed away Monday
afternoon, Nov. 11, 2002, in Prague, Okla. He was 61.
Funeral services will be held at 10 a.m. Friday, Nov. 15, 2002, at Grace
Memorial Chapel with Rev. Tony Hays, presiding. Interment will be at the
Pawhuska Cemetery under the direction of Grace Memorial Chapel.
Arnold Dean Steele was born April 14, 1941, at Pawhuska, the son of
Jonas M. (Johnny) Steele and Goldie Marie Shelton Steele. Mr. Steele
attended the Ponca City public schools. He was united in marriage to
Dorothy Hall on Dec. 15, 1969, in Miami, Okla. He was a small business
owner who provided small engine repair and maintenance. He was a member of
the Ponca Indian Baptist Church and his enjoyments included working on
lawnmowers, taking care of his yard, collecting antiques and taking care
of his dogs, especially Scooter.
He is survived by his mother of Stroud; two sons, Victor Dean Steele and
wife, Monica of Ponca City and Johnathon of Enid; one brother, Morgan
Jonas Steele Jr. of Ponca City; two sisters, Ruby Anderson and husband,
Bill, of Stroud, and Betty Pino and husband, Bill, of Albuquerque, N.M.;
one granddaughter; and numerous other relatives and friends.
He was preceded in death by his father on Feb. 14, 1976; his wife on
Dec. 27, 1976; and one infant sister, Lucy Ann Steele.
Casket bearers will be Dewayne Buffalohead, Dwight Buffalohead, Keith
Buffalohead, Freddie Others, George Littlevoice and Bill James.
Honorary casket bearers will be George Brown and Steve Buffalohead.
Memorial contributions may be made to the cause or fund of choice or to
the American Heart Association, 2227 East Skelly Drive, Tulsa, Okla.
74105-5913.
Levi Orris Moncooyea Jr.
Levi Orris Moncooyea Jr., Ponca City resident, was born July 2, 1959,
the son of Levi Moncooyea and Gloria Collins Moncooyea. In the fall of
2002, he left this life to join his heavenly father, having reached the
age of 43.
He was very talented. He was an artist, an avid reader, and was great at
helping others. He was experienced in everything, and supportive of the
Oklahoma Indian Theater and Dance Company.
Levi is survived by a brother, Charles Moncooyea of Tulsa; five sisters,
Glenda Harp, Vernice Willis, Susan Moncooyea, and Alvanita Fields, all of
Tulsa, and Holly Kemble of Ponca City; plus a number of other relatives
and many friends.
Levi was preceded in death by his parents and three brothers, Clyde
Warrior and Colin and Stanley Snake.
We will all miss his smile, humor and his stories.
A wake will be held at the Otoe Cultural Center at 7:30 p.m. Friday, Nov.
15, 2002. The traditional feast will be at noon, Saturday, Nov. 16, 2002,
at the Otoe Cultural Center, Red Rock, and burial will be at 2 p.m. at the
Otoe-Missouria Cemetery.
Casket bearers are Vance Lansford, James Lansford, Kelly Lowrance,
Floyde Lansford, Eddie Ramsey and Jason Burris. Honorary casket bearers
are Joe Young III, Clay Young, Justin Young, Carrey Young, Dave Littlecook
and Lawrence DeRoin.
November 17, 2002
Martha Marie Arbona
WICHITA, Kan. -- Martha Marie Arbona, resident of Ponca City, died
Thursday, Nov. 14, 2002, at Via Christi-St. Francis Medical Center in
Wichita, Kan. She was 58.
A prayer service will be held today at 7 p.m. at 517 North Fourth, Ponca
City. A Mass of Christian Burial will be held at 2 p.m., Monday, Nov. 18,
2002, at St. Joseph's Catholic Church in Tonkawa with the Rev. Larok
Obwana Martin, officiating. Burial will follow at Odd Fellows Cemetery in
Tonkawa. Arrangements are under the direction of Trout Funeral Home.
Martha was born July 6, 1943, in Concho, the daughter of Hewitt J. and
Ruth B. Americanhorse West. She was the granddaughter of Walter
Americanhorse, chief of the Northern Cheyenne Tribe.
On May 1, 1962, she married Vincent Anthony Arbona in Kingfisher. She
was a domestic violence counselor and she enjoyed picnics, her family and
friends. She was a member of St. Mary's Catholic Church.
Survivors include her husband; two sons, Vincent Arbona Jr. and Walter
Arbona of Ponca City; two daughters, Leisha Arbona and Christina Williams
of Ponca City; 12 grandchildren; one brother, Kevin West of Newkirk; and
six sisters, Lillian Keeney of Wichita, Hewetta Wilson of Tonkawa, Beverly
Alters of Howard City, Mich., Sybol Day of Perry, Sebrina West of Ponca
City and Cindy Jefferson of Blackwell. She was preceded in death by her
parents and one brother.
Casket bearers will be Mike Day, Mike Greenwood, Ronnie Day, Marty
Greenwood, Myron Davis and Bill Bridgeman.
Honorary casket bearers will be Ronnie O'Neil, Vincent Arbona III, James
Ray Arbona, Brian Jefferson, Kenny Brown, Patrick Horne and Dave Williams.
Memorials may be made to the American Kidney Fund, 6110 Executive Blvd.,
ockville, MD 20852.
November 18, 2002
Warren Ramey
Warren Ramey, longtime Ponca City resident, died late Saturday afternoon,
Nov. 16, 2002, at his home. He was 82.
The funeral will be 2 p.m. Wednesday, Nov. 20, in Miller-Stahl Funeral
Chapel with Pastor Robert Ferris, minister of the Newkirk First Christian
Church, officiating. Burial is to follow in Resthaven Memorial Cemetery in
Ponca City under the direction of Miller-Stahl Funeral Service.
Warren Gerald Ramey was born Nov. 9, 1920, in Arkansas City, the son of
Harvey James and Emily McPherson Pappan Ramey. He grew up on a farm east
of Newkirk in the Sweetwater community and attended Sweetwater School and
Newkirk High School. After finishing his education, he worked as a farm
hand for his father and for Mr. Cooley.
On July 20, 1942, he entered the U.S. Air Force and received training as
a gunner. On Jan. 15, 1944, Warren and Mary Frances Gilmore were married
in Wichita Falls, Texas, while Mr. Ramey was stationed at Shepherd Air
Force Base. He received his honorable discharge in January of 1946. In
April of 1946 they moved to Ponca City and he began his employment with
Continental Oil Company. He worked in the compound and packing department
for 35 years. He retired Jan. 31, 1981.
He was a member of the Kaw Indian Tribe, Woodlands Christian Church, the
American Legion Huff Minor Post 14, and the International Oil, Chemical
and Atomic Workers.
Survivors include his wife, Mary Frances; one son, Monte D. Ramey of
Houston; a daughter, Paula R. Spomer of Edmond; one sister, Charlotte
Engelking of Ponca City; and four grandchildren. He was preceded in death
by his parents.
A memorial fund has been established with Hospice of Ponca City, 1904 N.
Union, Ponca City, Okla. 74604.
Copyright c. 1998-2002 The Ponca City News.
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Golden Triangle On-Line Obituaries
The following obituaries appeared in the Cut Bank Pioneer Press,
Shelby Promoter or Glacier Reporter this week.
November 14, 2002
Dorothy Lorraine 'Rainie' Scriver
Dorothy Lorraine "Rainie" Scriver, formerly of Browning, died Nov. 3,
2002, at her home at Nanoose Bay, British Columbia, Canada, after a long
battle with kidney disease. Her wishes were for cremation.
There will be a small private reception at her home Saturday, Nov. 16 in
celebration of her life. Ashes will be scattered near her home at Nanoose
Bay, B.C. and, pending necessary arrangements being made, possibly in the
spring at her former ranch in Browning.
Scriver was born Mar. 8, 1924, in Bonner's Ferry, Ida., after which she
lived for extensive periods in both Canada and the United States. She
moved to Browning in 1959 where she resided until moving to Nanoose Bay,
B. C. in September of 2001 after the death her husband, Robert M. (Bob)
Scriver, in January of 1999.
She is survived by her brothers Bud McFarland of Nanoose Bay, B.C. and
Dan McFarland of Chilliwack, B.C. and their families.
Scriver was a very private, generous and talented person. She worked
very hard along side her partner and late husband, in the creation and
operation of the Montana Museum of Wildlife and Hall of Bronze in Browning.
During this time adopted some of the Native culture and was given the
Blackfeet name of Me-sin-skee-ah-kee, Badger Woman, at an annual pipe
opening ceremony. After her husband's passing, Scriver donated the bulk of
his significant works to the Montana Historical Society at Helena and to
the University of Alberta, Edmonton, where these impressive art
collections will remain as a legacy to the peoples of both Canada and the
United States.
Before her death, she also established a sizeable arts scholarship in
the name of Bob Scriver at his alma mater, Carroll College in Helena.
Along with her remaining family, she will be missed by the many friends
she had made over the years throughout her interesting and full life, and
by the new friends she recently made at her new home in Canada.
Carole Ann Larson
Former Browning native and Blackfeet tribal member Carol Ann (Woodward)
Larson, 59, of Cushing, Wis., died Oct. 18, 2002, at the Mayo Clinic in
Rochester, Minn. of scleroderma.
Services were held Oct. 23 at St. Joseph's Catholic Church in Taylors
Falls, Minn., with burial in Wolf Creek Cemetery in Sterling Township, Wis.
Edling Funeral Home of St. Croix Falls, Minn. handled the arrangements.
Survivors include her husband, Rick Larson of the family home in Cushing,
Wis. sons Joseph Peterson and wife Noelene of Sydney, Australia; Rick
Larson Jr. and wife Leslie of Centuria, Wis., Clifford Larson of Cushing,
Jonathan of Star Prairie, Wis., and Christopher Larson of Cushing; a
sister, Geri Baker and husband Jim of Cut Bank; her father, Calvin
Woodward of Browning; and a niece, Carol Zuback and family of Phoenix;
nephew Kurt Zuback and wife Carolyn of Browning.
She was especially proud of and loving to grandchildren Anthony, Angela,
Matthew and Chloe who live in Wisconsin. Aunts, uncles and other relatives
also survive.
She was preceded in death by her mother, Margaret of Browning and a
brother, Clark of Cut Bank.
Carole succumbed to scleroderma after a courageous struggle of one and a
half years. She was born Aug. 27, 1943 to Calvin and Margaret Woodward in
Browning. She attended grade school in Babb and high school in Browning.
She was a graduate of Haskell in Lawrence, Kan., and later became a
licensed beautician and cosmetologist after schooling in Denver. She
managed a beauty salon in Browning.
While employed in Glasgow, she met her husband, Rick Larson, and they
married in Oct. 31, 1970, and moved to the St. Croix valley on the
Wisconsin/Minnesota border. Carole was a homemaker, but still found time
while raising a family to create arts and crafts of which she enjoyed a
considerable talent.
Alma E. Caye
Alma E. Caye, 64, of Elmo. passed away on Saturday, Nov. 9, 2002 at St.
Patrick Hospital, Missoula.
Alma was born on Jan. 1, 1938 in Browning to John & Christine (Boy)
Mittens. She grew up and attended schools in Browning.
She moved to Dayton in 1956. Alma married Albert Caye in Couer d'Alene,
Idaho in 1958. They lived on the Pleasant Valley Ranch near McGregor Lake
for two years and then to Kellogg, Idaho for two years. They moved back to
her family's home in Browning for a short time before moving back to Elmo.
They lived in Glasgow from 1978-79. While in Glasgow, Alma received her
Early Childhood Education degree. They also lived in Hot Springs and
eventually moved back to Elmo.
Alma ran her own daycare in Elmo for a short time.
She loved to pick huckleberries, go on Christmas tree cutting trips,
sewing, baking, beading and playing in stick game tournaments. She
especially looked forward and enjoyed her trips to Bonners Ferry, Idaho to
play bingo at Thanksgiving every year.
Alma was a member of the Blackfeet Tribe.
She is preceded in death by four sons; Aaron, Francis, Jerome & August;
one sister, Veronica Newrobe, her parents and step-father Tony Santerno
She is survived by her husband Albert of Elmo, four daughters; Velma
Caye of Elmo, Genevie Caye and husband Brad Eneas of Big Arm, Alberta Caye
and Felicity Caye both of Elmo, three granddaughters; Christine Johnston,
Valerie Caye and Miranda Kenmille. six grandsons, David Kallowat, Duane
Kallowat, Allan Kenmille, Laurence Kenmille, Bassu Eneas and Youstah Eneas,
two great grandsons; MaKeelin Glass and Ozayo Burland and one great-
granddaughter; Rakeena Caye, two sisters, Colleen Swims Under of Big
Badger, and Dorothy Mittens of Tacoma, Wash., one brother, Billy Mittens
of Browning, and numerous nieces, nephews and other relatives in Elmo &
Browning.
Traditional wake services will begin on Monday at 4 p.m. at the Elmo
Hall.
Rosary will be held on Tuesday, Nov. 12 at 7 p.m. at the Elmo Hall.
A mass will be held on Wednesday at 11 a.m. at Elmo Hall with Father
Gary Reller officiating. Burial will follow at the Dayton Cemetery.
Arrangements are by the Grogan Funeral Home of Polson.
Mary Viola Running Fisher
Mary Viola (Whitehorse) Running Fisher, 70, of Browning, died Nov. 10,
2002 at IHS in Browning of Lung Cancer.
The funeral will be held today, Thursday, Nov. 14 at 2 p.m. at the
Little Flower Parish, with burial at Running Fisher Cemetery.
Day Family Funeral Home is handing the arrangements.
She was born in Rocky Boy on Oct. 2, 1932.
She was married on 1990 to James Running Fisher Sr. in Cut Bank, he
passed away on Aug. 10, 1995.
Running Fisher was an avid game player; she enjoyed beading, crocheting,
sewing and a good joke.
She is survived by her daughter, Georgianna Little Dog Futch, step-
daughters Mary E. Racine, Joanne Running Fisher, Valerie Heptner and Kathy
Arcand, sons Emil Joseph Long Neck, Daniel Jacob Bullchild, and stepsons
James Running Fisher and Joe Whitehorse, sisters Lorraine Spotted Bear,
Violet Butterfly, Kathleen Gopher, Linda Gopher, Ruby Gopher, Liza Smah
and Leona Sharp, brothers Joe Whitehorse, Johnny Roasting Stick, Rusty
Gopher and Robert Gopher. She is also survived by many grandchildren and
numerous nieces and nephews.
She was preceded in death by her husband James Running Fisher and two
sons, Orin and John.
Roy George Arnold McNabb
Roy George Arnold McNabb, 89, former parts manager, ranch worker and
Army veteran, died of heart failure Saturday at a Browning hospital.
Funeral has taken place with burial in Willow Creek Cemetery. Day Family
Funeral Home handled the arrangements.
Survivors include daughters Deana McNabb and Delma Jean Redneck of
Browning, Loretta Berthelson of Heart Butte, Nancy Higgins of Stevensville
and Cecile Rideshorse of Yuma, Ariz.; sons Leroy Bullshow of Heart Butte
and Roy H. McNabb of Browning; an adopted son, Dwight Held of Missoula; 30
grandchildren, 50 great-grandchildren and five great-great-grandchildren.
His wife, Cecile, died in 1968.
Roy was born Sept. 10, 1913, in Fargo, N.D., to John McNabb and Marie
(Probst) McNabb. He served in the Army in World War II with the 434th
Quartermaster Platoon Air Depot Group and participated in campaigns in
Sicily, Naples, Foggia, Rome, Arne, in the south of France and in the
North Apennines.
In 1947, he married Cecile Little Dog in Browning.
He earned an Honorary Associate of Arts degree from Blackfeet Community
College in 1994. Roy worked as a ranch hand, was the parts manager at
Shurrs Chevrolet and at NAPA and was a custodian at Browning High School
until he retired in 1978.
He was a member of the Northern Rocky Musical Association, and liked
picnics, berry picking, drives in the country, target shooting and playing
cards. He enjoyed high school sports and rarely missed a boys' or girls'
basketball or volleyball game, cross-country or track meet. He was an avid
reader of "Archie" and magazines such as National Geographic. Roy liked
watching the news, the "Price is Right," "Jeopardy" and "Wheel of Fortune."
He was also preceded in death by his parents.
Copyright c. 2002 Golden Triangle Newspapers.
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November 17, 2002
Clarence Three Irons, Jr.
LODGE GRASS - Clarence C. Three Irons, Jr., 18, of Lodge Grass died
Thursday evening, Nov. 14, 2002, of injuries sustained in a one-car
accident near Lodge Grass.
His Indian name, Iilapaa-chaho (He Who Has Many Many Friends), was given
to him by the Crow elder Pius Real Bird. He was born Dec. 19, 1983, in
Crow Agency, a son of Clarence and Joselyn Al-den Three Irons, Sr. He grew
up and attended schools in Lodge Grass, graduating in 2002.
While in high school, he actively participated in football, basketball,
Indian club, FFA and his favorite, Rodeo Club. He excelled in high school
rodeo in team roping, calf roping and bull dogging, and represented Lodge
Grass High School at several high school rodeo finals. He was currently
enrolled at Little Big Horn College, where he was a member of the college
rodeo team. He currently was in seventh place overall in the Big Sky
region. His rodeo talents enabled him to take part in numerous All-Indian
rodeo associations events, often winning buckles and saddles.
Indian, as he was affectionately called, was a member of the Baptist
Church, Ree Society, Big Lodge Clan and a child of the Bad War Deeds Clan.
His grandfathers, Joe Alden, Sr., and Bill Three Irons preceded him in
death. Survivors include his parents, Clarence and Joselyn Three Irons;
his brothers Greg (Kateri) of Crow Agency, Cameron (Louise) of Lodge Grass,
Alvin (Kristi) of Billings and Clay (Carrie) of Fort Smith; his companion,
Alisara Jackson; his grandmothers , Louise Three Irons of Crow Agency and
Ruth Alden of Lodge Grass; his grandfather Sam Bird in Ground, Jr., of
Garryowen; 11 adopted brothers, Shane Littlebear of Canada, Stoney Lane of
New Mexico, Rowdy Alexander of Dillon, Aspen Brugh of Wyola, Raymond Champ
of Billings, Regis Hogan of Crow Agency, Roland Redfield, Jr., Brian Old
Bull, Elijah Bear Below, Preston Guardipee and Beau Plenty Hawk of Lodge
Grass; one adopted sister, Britney Wyles of Wyola; his nieces, Kaliegh,
Mikayla and Victoria; his nephews, Rope, Eli and Beau, whom he enjoyed
spending time with; all of his roping friends; his extended family,
including the Bird in Ground, Alden, Pickett, Backbone, Falls Down and
Left Hand families; as well as his special circle of rodeo and college
friends, including Duke Dixie, Ole Els, Prince Brockie, James Brown and
the Fredericks.
Funeral services will be held 11 a.m., Monday, in the Lodge Grass High
School Gymnasium. Interment will follow in the Lodge Grass Cemetery.
Bullis Mortuary of Hardin has been entrusted with the arrangements.
Copyright c. The Billings Gazette, a division of Lee Enterprises.
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November 13, 2002
Mary Viola Running Fisher
BROWNING -- Mary Viola (Whitehorse) Running Fisher, 70, of Browning,
died of lung cancer Sunday at a Browning hospital.
Rosary is 7 this evening at Glacier Homes Community Center in Browning.
Funeral Mass is 2 p.m. Thursday at Little Flower Parish, with burial in
Running Fisher Cemetery. Day Family Funeral Home is in charge of
arrangements.
Survivors, all of Browning, include her daughter, Georgianna Little Dog
Futch; stepdaughters Mary E. Racine, Joanne Running Fisher, Valerie
Heptner and Kathy Arcand; sons Emil Joseph Long Neck and Daniel Jacob
Bullchild; stepsons James Running Fisher Jr. and Joe Whitehorse; sisters
Lorraine Spotted Bear, Violet Butterfly, Kathleen Gopher, Linda Gopher,
Ruby Gopher, Liza Small and Leona Sharp; brothers Joe White Horse, Johnny
Roasting Stick, Rusty Gopher and Robert Gopher; and many grandchildren.
She was preceded in death by two infant sons, Orin and John Michael.
Copyright c. 2002 Great Falls Tribune.
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November 16, 2002
Reginald "Reggie" H. Wells
Reggie was born on February 21, 1932 in Nisqually. He passed away on
November 13, 2002 after being involved in a car accident.
He is survived by his wife, Ramona M. Wells; his son, Clifford, and wife,
Susan; daughter, Lorena Guidry, and husband, Larry Jr.; 3 granddaughters,
Jolene and Jennifer Wells and Rachel Guidry; brothers, Raymond, Reuben,
Roy, and Willie; and sisters, Rosetta Klatush, Roberta Secena, Ruth
Hoskins, and Rena Wells.
He was preceded in death by his parents, William R. Wells, Sr. and
Josephine Skamink Wells; brothers, Ralph, Richard, Ronald, and Robert;
sisters, Ruby and Sophie; and a great-grandson, James Gilmore.
Reggie graduated from Chemawa Indian School in Oregon in 1951. After
graduation he served in the Army from 1953-1954 and was a veteran of the
Korean War. He then returned home to Nisqually and married his wife,
Ramona, on March 13, 1955. He worked as a farm laborer at the Deck Farm
for 16 years. He then went to work for the Holroyd Company as a truck
driver for 17 years until he retired. Reggie served on the Nisqually
Tribal Council for nine years. He was an avid fisherman and hunter. He
enjoyed gardening and going to the Red Wind Casino. He loved baseball,
basketball, and football, and participated in these sports throughout his
entire life. Reggie was very devoted to his family and his community. He
loved going to help them and visit with them.
There will be a viewing on Sunday, November 17, 2002, from 1:00 p.m. to
5:00 p.m. at the Olympic Memorial Gardens Chapel, 5725 Littlerock Road S.W.
, Tumwater, Wash. Funeral Services will be held at the Nisqually Tribal
Center on Monday, November 18, 2002, at 11:00 a.m. Internment will be held
immediately following at the Leschi Indian Cemetery.
November 17, 2002
Joseph A. Andrews, Sr.
Andrews, Joseph A. Sr., 89, of the Skokomish Indian Reservation, Shelton,
died Friday, Nov. 15, 2002, at home.
McComb Funeral Home, Shelton, 360-426-4803.
Copyright c. 2002 The Olympian.
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November 15, 2002
Janet Blood
JANET BLOOD Naatoyiikkaina'sooyilwa - "Holy Shiner" was called home by
the Creator on Friday, November 08, 2002 at the age of 64 years.
Born April 16, 1938 to her parents Alfred Blood and Rosie English, she
was raised by her maternal grandparents John and Emma English.
Left with happy memories are her children; Lewis, Marcella, Donna
(Allan), Cheryl (Neil), William (Kim), Duane (Cherry), her 27
grandchildren, 11 great-grandchildren. Her brothers; Wallace, Wilfred
(Martina), Charlie (Rhonda), Donald (Annie), Dewey, Blaine, Manuel, and
her sisters; Angeline, Sally, Peggy, Joanne, Yolanda (Sonny), and Cynthia
and adopted children; Kevin (Lori) Healy, Shawn (Pam) Little Bear, and
Sherrie Many Guns. She is also survived by many nieces and nephews.
Janet attended Sacred Heart School in Brocket from 1944 ~ 1954. She also
attended Midnapore Boarding School where she received her nursing aide
training in 1956. She married Morris Little Bear and they had six children
together. Janet worked hard all of her life. She worked at the Indian
Hospital in Cardston as a nurse's aide. For many years as a receptionist
for the Blood Tribe. Later as a child care worker at the Koo Konnon Group
Home until it closed. She also worked as a foster parent until illness
prevented her from working. Janet was strong in her faith to the end. She
never complained of the pain. She endured it in silence. She remained
humble and left it in God's hands. Family and friends would often come to
her for advice. Her home was open to all. Her laughter and friendship will
never be forgotten. Always by her side was her special granddaughter Emmy.
Janet was predeceased by her parents, also by her brothers; Narcisse,
Adolphus, Henry and by her sisters; Violet, Hilda, Eileen, and Beverly,
also by her special granddaughter Emmy Lou.
The family would like to thank all the people who supported us in our
time of need.
A Wake Service will be held ST. MARY'S IMMACULATE CONCEPTION CHURCH,
Blood Reserve, on Friday, November 15, 2002 from 7:00 P.M. to 11:00 P.M.
with Reverend Les Kwiatkowski O.M.I. officiating.
A Funeral Mass will be celebrated at ST. MARY'S IMMACULATE CONCEPTION
CHURCH, Blood Reserve, on Saturday, November 16, 2002 at 12:00 Noon with
Reverend Les Kwiatkowski O.M.I. Celebrant.
Interment to follow at the Little Bear Family Plot.
If friends so desire, Memorial Tributes in Janet's name may be made
to the Canadian Cancer Society, 317-10th Street South, Lethbridge, AB,
T1J 2M7.
Quincy Louis Weasel Head
The Funeral Service for QUINCY LOUIS WEASEL HEAD, beloved son of Jason
Weasel Head and Emily Knife will be held at Salmon Funeral Home, Cardston,
on Thursday, November 14th, 2002 at 2:00 p.m. with Father Leszek
Kwiatkowski Celebrant.
Interment in the St. Catherine's Cemetery, Blood Reserve.
Copyright c. 2000 Alberta Newspaper Group, Inc./Lethbridge Herald.
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November 15, 2002
Marjorie Rose Carrier Piapot, SK
CARRIER--Marjorie Rose was born September 22, 1922 and passed away
Wednesday, November 13, 2002.
Predeceased by her parents, Bella and Marius Nanipawis; one son, Gerald;
granddaughter, Claudette; one sister, Alice and one brother, James.
Marjorie leaves to mourn, her loving husband, Clifford; two daughters
Terry (Bill) and Shirley (Larry); two sons, Lloyd (Genevieve) and Glen
(Doreen); a special daughter in law, Christina; 15 grandchildren,
including special Granddaughter, Rae-Lynn and 5 great grandchildren. She
also leaves two sisters, Isabel Kaiswatum and Rose Dubois; one brother,
Alex Nanipawis and numerous nieces, nephews, friends and relatives.
Wake will be held at 4:00 pm, Friday, November 15, 2002, with Funeral
Service to be held at 10:00 am, Saturday, November 16, 2002, both from the
Piapot Band Hall.
ARRANGEMENTS IN CARE OF PARAGON FUNERAL SERVICES (359-7776)
Copyright c. 2000-2002 Regina Leader Post Group Inc.
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Tribe land allottees' numbers dwindling
2002-11-14
By Ron Jackson
The Oklahoman
ANADARKO -- Ten years ago, the federal government honored the original
land allottees of the Southern Plains Tribes. There were 99 honorees.
The government on Wednesday again recognized that same celebrated group
whose numbers have dwindled to nine. The ceremony was hosted by the U.S.
Bureau of Indian Affairs' Anadarko Indian Agency in conjunction with
National American Indian Heritage Month.
"I hesitated to come because I haven't been feeling well," said Carrie
Quoetone Sahmaunt, 98, a Kiowa tribal member and allottee No. 3,074. "But
my son really wanted me to come. He thought it would be nice, and I'm glad
because I got to see everybody.
"This is certainly a great honor."
Sahmaunt and eight others received a plaque and certificate honoring
their family's history from a land allottee period that dates from 1901 to
1918.
The awards were presented by BIA Director Neal McCaleb, who traveled
from Washington for the ceremony.
Other honorees were: James Conover, Clarence LeBarre, Marie P. Poncey,
Anna Coffee Gover, Julia Mahseet and Lee E. Viddaurri, all of the Comanche
Nation; Maggie T. Reid of the Kiowa Tribe; and Benedict Jozhe Jr. of the
Fort Sill-Apache Tribe.
Only Sahmaunt, Conover and Mahseet were able to attend.
"This is a great day for us to be able to honor and show the respect
that all the original allottees are entitled to," said Betty Tippeconnie,
the Anadarko agency's superintendent and event coordinator. "This is our
past. They left us a great legacy."
Mahseet, 95, didn't have to strain to remember her family's old home
place in Apache -- she still lives there.
"I think (the original allotment) was more or less considered a gift
back then," Mahseet said. "It was their land, and many of them picked the
land they wanted."
Allotments were given in three phases, beginning with 2,759 lots on Aug.
25, 1901, for members of the Apache, Caddo, Comanche, Kiowa and Wichita
tribes. The last 25 allotments were issued in 1918 to Fort Sill- Apache
tribal members shortly after their release as prisoners of war.
Jozhe, whose family settled outside present-day Apache, once was held by
Geronimo when she was a baby.
As for the Mahseet family, Julia's father, Jack Mahseet, scouted for his
own land before settling on 160 acres in Apache. He kept his selection
secret even to his relatives.
"People were always trying to come in and claim the land as their own,"
Mahseet said. "So my father didn't tell anyone about his."
The Mahseet children went on to graduate from Apache High School. Julia
Mahseet graduated in 1930.
"We went to public school when Indian children weren't really welcomed
in public schools," Mahseet said. "But we all graduated."
Conover, 95, said he remembers growing up on his family's land allotment
south of Anadarko with seven siblings. The land is still a source of
countless memories, including those involving his pet deer.
Wednesday, Conover said he was overwhelmed with pride and emotion.
"All this makes me feel like that's about it," said Conover, referring
to the few surviving land allottees.
Said McCaleb: "I have no words that add more luster to the lives of
these great people. I can only say I am so honored and pleased to be
here."
Copyright c. 2002, Produced by NewsOK/NEWS 9/The Oklahoman.
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Lakota Vote Defeats Enemies
by Ruth Steinberger
November 12, 2002
(Martin, SD) Organizing efforts throughout the past year paid off for the
Indian community in The City of Martin, in Bennett County, South Dakota on
election night. Charlie Cummings, an Indian, was elected Sheriff of
Bennett County, replacing Rus Waterbury, a white sheriff who has been at
the center of controversy that included allegations of racial profiling,
illegal searches, threats and intimidation.
Gerald, "Jed" Bettelyoun was elected to the County Commission, coming in
ahead of County Building Inspector Scott Larsen, who has remained at the
heart of controversy involving the condemnations of property owned or
rented by Indians. Bettelyoun said he decided to run after witnessing
deputies harassing some Indians who were stuck along the highway. He said
the situation bothered him for a couple weeks and he made a commitment to
run in the election for commissioner. Bettelyoun said he looks forward to
seeing the situation in Bennett County begin to turn around and to
residents working together.
Despite Bennett County being over 60% Indian, no Indians served on the
County Commission, or the school board.
Following several unsuccessful meetings with officials in which over
forty residents offered testimony concerning incidents of racism in the
City of Martin, many involving law enforcement personnel, activists
organized a demonstration in the town of Martin last February that drew 1,
200 people. After the march the LaCreek District Civil Rights Committee
organized a voter registration drive.
In the City of Martin election on June 4th, held on the same day as the
county primary, Oglala candidate Sandy Fly was elected to the City of
Martin School Board and three incumbent county commissioners were replaced
as candidates for the county-wide election on November 5, 2002.
The voter registration drive in Indian country of South Dakota was met
with aggressive objections by white Republican officials, who used claims
of fraud to discredit the organized effort that registered over 25,000
people.
Officials in Bennett County immediately threatened to block two of the
three candidates from serving because they work in positions funded by the
BIA. White officials invoked the Hatch Act, a federal law drafted in the
1930's intended to block federal employees from holding elected positions
to prevent racketeering.
Bennett County Auditor, Susan Williams, was a candidate for re-election
whose opponent was strongly supported by the Indian community. The County
Auditor is responsible for accepting the registration applications in
South Dakota, which call for a description if a mailing address and
physical address are not the same. With no mail delivery to homes in many
South Dakota Indian communities, residents of the No Flesh community in
Bennett County collect their mail at the Post Office in the town of Allen.
Some No Flesh residents wrote their physical address as being eight miles
north of Allen. They did not designate that they meant eight miles north/
northwest along a certain highway, using a more general description
instead. Williams blocked the registrations of some Indians from No Flesh,
claiming that eight miles north would have placed them into a different
county. Before the primary, Williams blocked around one third of
registrations brought in during the registration drive.
LaCreek District Civil Rights Committee Chairman, Jesse Claussen,
explained that there is no actual road the way that Williams calculated
the addresses and people would have had to have gotten out of their
vehicles and walked through private property to go eight miles directly
north of Allen. Claussen said, "Williams took blocking registrations to a
new level."
The main focus of the election for many Indians in Bennett County was
the ouster of Sheriff Waterbury, who lost by 72 votes.
Illustrating the point of what can be accomplished by high voter turnout,
Claussen referred to Election Day. He said, "It was a tense day, we
worked hard all day, we didn't know if we would make it." He cited the
voting tally from Allen and said, "Oglalas from Allen stormed in and saved
the day for us." Claussen pointed out that in the last general election,
18 votes were cast by Indians in Allen, while in this election that number
was 300. The votes from this small community tipped the scales, winning
the election for Charlie Cummings.
Copyright c. 2000-2001 Oklahoma Indian Times, Inc. All Rights Reserved.
--------- "RE: Wisconsin Tribe acquires New York Land" ---------
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Wisconsin tribe acquires New York land
By The Associated Press
Published on 11/14/2002
Stockbridge, N.Y. (AP) - A Wisconsin Indian tribe has acquired 125 acres
of upstate New York farmland, taking another significant step in re-
establishing their presence in New York after an absence of nearly 170
years.
"We have long sought to re-establish our presence in New York state, our
ancestral homeland," Robert Chicks, president of the Stockbridge-Munsee
Band of Mohican Indians, said Wednesday.
"The reacquisition of this property, where our people once flourished,
is yet another major step toward realizing our dreams of returning to New
York," he said.
The Stockbridge-Munsee were given the property by Trading Cove
Associates, which bought the former Madison County dairy farm more than a
year ago for $150,000, said Maureen Connelly, a spokeswoman for the
Stockbridge-Munsee.
"Trading Cove transferred the property at no cost and with no conditions,
" she said.
The farm is in the hamlet of Munnsville about 40 miles east of Syracuse,
not far from the Oneida Indian Nation reservation and the Oneida's Turning
Stone casino and resort complex.
Trading Cove, which helped the Mohegan Tribe develop the Mohegan Sun
casino in Connecticut, signed an agreement with the Stockbridge-Munsee 19
months ago to develop a major casino in New York.
The Stockbridge-Munsee have an application pending with the federal
Bureau of Indian Affairs to place 333 acres of land in trust near
Monticello in Sullivan County to build a proposed $600 million casino.
Connelly said it was the tribe's intention to reimburse Trading Cove "if
and when" the Stockbridge-Munsee settle their land claim with New York
state.
The Madison County parcel is within the more than 23,000-acre region the
Stockbridge-Munsee claim as its reservation in a suit filed in 1986. The
tribe has said it is willing to settle its pending land claim against the
state and it has been urging Gov. George Pataki to grant a gaming compact
so the tribe can open a casino in the Catskills.
But so far Pataki has been unresponsive to the tribe's appeal to
negotiate a settlement of the land claim or to discuss a gaming compact.
Earlier this year, Pataki opposed the tribe's request for a federal
mediator to help settle its land claim.
Pataki spokesman Joseph Conway indicated the state may not recognize the
property as reservation land. "This is irrelevant to any land claim or
casino issues and really changes nothing," he said.
Chicks said that based on past court decisions, the tribe considers the
reacquired Stockbridge site sovereign land that would be free of property
taxes and where it could create tax-free businesses, including Class II
gaming such as bingo and video poker.
However, Chicks said he was not sure what will become of the Madison
County land and that economic development projects and cultural projects
are under discussion.
"We haven't ruled anything in or out," he said.
The land acquisition is the second in New York for the Wisconsin tribe.
In May 2001, the tribe purchased an acre of property in Leeds, a
historically and archeologically significant Mohican site where remains of
at least five Mohican ancestors have been discovered.
Stockbridge-Munsee tribal members trace their roots to the Hudson Valley,
particularly the Albany area. The tribe's ancestors, called Mahicans,
migrated out of state into the Stockbridge, Mass., area before moving to
Madison County, living in Oneida Indian territory from the mid-1780s until
1834, when they were forced westward. The tribe lost its New York
reservation land after being stripped of the property illegally by New
York state, the tribe's lawsuit alleges.
Copyright c. 1998-2002 The Day Publishing Co.
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Protesters Challenge Plans To Expand Mica Mine
November 15, 2002
By Brendan Smith
Journal Staff Writer
PICURIS PUEBLO - Pueblo potter Jess Mermejo remembers collecting mica-
flecked clay with his aunt more than 50 years ago from a traditional site
now buried by a corporate mica mine.
About 60 people protested Thursday outside the mica mine north of Vadito
and at a mica mill site in Velarde, both of which are owned by Oglebay
Norton Specialty Minerals.
"We have to go other places for our clay for our pottery," said the 67-
year-old Mermejo. "Maybe we will get our land back. It is destroyed
already."
Oglebay Norton has submitted plans to the state Mining and Minerals
Division to expand the mine and adjoining waste piles, or tailings, of
rock and sand. But the publicly traded company recently withdrew plans to
expand the mill site, including proposed construction of a 2-acre tailings
pond and sand recovery unit.
Oglebay Norton listened to complaints from neighbors and decided against
expanding the 40-acre mill site, but it still plans to expand the mine,
said Steven Herron, manager of technical services and regulatory affairs.
Herron spoke with some protesters Thursday at the mill site.
"This place hasn't been managed well, and I know that," he admitted. "I
understand you all are outraged. You're angry. You have a right to be."
"We're going to do whatever it takes to bring this facility into
compliance," he said.
State agencies cited Oglebay Norton last month for environmental
violations at both the mine and mill site. The company repeatedly failed
to control dust and mica emissions at the mill, improperly stored sand
tailings at the mine and failed to reclaim disturbed lands to prevent
erosion at the mine.
Picuris Pueblo lost a court challenge last year to stop a state-
permitted 20-year expansion of the mine to more than 80 acres, including a
pit up to two-thirds of a mile long and about 400 feet deep.
Those expansion plans are being revised, but Herron said he doesn't know
any details about the changes.
The pueblo claimed the mine site as ancestral land before it was
declared part of the Carson National Forest. Former mine owner Franklin
Industrial Minerals then obtained the land by patenting mining claims
under the federal Mining Act of 1872.
Mica, a flaky, semi-transparent mineral, is trucked from the mine to the
mill for processing for use in paint, cosmetics and other products.
Oglebay Norton owns one other mica mine in North Carolina.
The local environmental group Vecinos del Rio joined pueblo members and
others for the protest. Neighbors of the mill site are concerned about
possible health problems from breathing mica dust, which covers their
homes and crops and enters the water supply through nearby acequias,
Vecinos President Donna House said.
"Oglebay Norton has not at all been a good neighbor," she said. "They've
been polluting our water. They've been polluting our air."
The company has about 30 employees at the mill site, while only about
five contracted miners run the mine, Herron said.
Copyright c. 2002 Albuquerque Journal.
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Sensitive Maidu cultural areas around lake to be closed
November 6, 2002
By MARY WESTON - MediaNews Group
OROVILLE - Three "culturally sensitive" sites around Lake Oroville may be
closed to the public by mid-November.
Dan Peterson of the Department of Water Resources made the announcement
at the Oroville Area Recreation Committee Friday, following a long
discussion about lake access.
Peterson said the gates could be closed at the Enterprise and McCabe
boat launches in two weeks, with access limited to paved areas at the
Foreman Creek area.
All three areas contain Maidu burial grounds and sacred sites that were
previously covered by water. With lake levels dropping, the newly exposed
areas are being damaged by off road vehicles said Art Angle, tribal legacy
coordinator for the Enterprise Rancheria.
"We're seeing people four-wheeling on burial grounds," Angle said. "The
reverence of our sacred sites has not been protected."
Angle said the tribes had written a letter to Governor Gray Davis and
DWR requesting the gates be locked at these areas to prevent further
desecration.
Some sites in the area are covered by water at 825 feet, but Angle said
other sites are exposed all year.
Patricia Reece-Allen, Coordinator for Berry Creek Rancheria, said she
had written a letter to Kate Foley at the state Department of Parks and
Recreation, but she didn't answer.
"Two weeks later state parks installed a floating toilet right off the
burial grounds," Reece-Allen said.
Peterson said DWR proposed closing the gates at Enterprise and McCabe as
soon as possible and putting up signs at Foreman limiting access to paved
areas. Peterson said state parks will be enforcing the new rules.
Violators will be ticketed and fined by park rangers.
Peterson said some areas would be re-opened when the lake rose. He said
the cultural sites would be addressed during relicensing. In the meantime,
DWR and state parks would have to take steps to insure the sites aren't
damaged.
Others urged an alternative approach to allow public access in the areas.
Scott Lawrence, General Manager of Feather River Recreation and Park
District suggested restricting off-road vehicles but leaving them open on
a trail basis. If damage continues, he said, then close the gates.
Jake Albright said the public should be notified and given a chance to
respond before DWR limits access.
Tribal representative vehemently opposed leaving any of the sites open.
"How many recreation areas do you have on your burial sites?" Angle
asked
Peterson said he would take the issue back to Sacramento and discuss it
with DWR representatives, but DWR would have to protect the sites.
Mary Weston is a writer for the Oroville Mercury-Register.
Copyright c. 2002 Chico Enterprise Record.
--------- "RE: Plans in works to develop Wyoming Buffalo Jump" ---------
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Plans in works to develop Wyoming buffalo jump
Associated Press
November 16, 2002
SUNDANCE, Wyo. (AP) - Plans are being made to develop the Vore Buffalo
Jump just west of the South Dakota line into a tourist attraction.
From about 1500 to 1800, Plains Indians took advantage of the natural
sinkhole and chased bison herds into it. Bison were butchered at the site,
which now contains a wealth of artifacts in near-perfect condition.
"We are going to create a world-class facility with teepees, earth
lodges and the sinkhole," said Gene Gade, president of the Vore Buffalo
Jump Foundation.
Gade said tourists visiting the attraction would contribute $4.3 million
to the area's economy and create about 60 jobs.
"Given that most visitors to Wyoming come to enjoy scenery, Western
history and wildlife, there could be no better 'Welcome to Wyoming' than a
fully developed Vore Buffalo Jump, just inside the state's northeast
entrance and immediately beside Interstate 90," said Campbell County
Commissioner Craig Mader.
At least six tribes used the buffalo jump during a "critical period" of
American history, according to Gade, a University of Wyoming extension
agent and educator.
Mader said the foundation is proposing to continue scientific
investigation at the site and allow people to "look over the shoulder" of
archaeologists.
"We intend to have some outstanding living history by the Northern
Cheyenne and Crow where one can step in and feel like you are walking into
that century," Gade said.
The project is expected to cost between $10 million and $11.5 million,
with some funds coming from private foundations.
Gade said the site could be self-supporting after two years in operation.
The state and several American Indian tribes are possible partners in the
venture.
Copyright c. 2002 Associated Press. All rights reserved.
Copyright c. 2002 The Billings Gazette, a division of Lee Enterprises.
--------- "RE: Tribe converts Nisqually Pasture into Marshland" ---------
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Tribe converts Nisqually pasture into marshland
Reclamation expected to boost salmon recovery
The Olympian, Olympia Washington
Saturday, November 16, 2002
JOHN DODGE - THE OLYMPIAN
NISQUALLY DELTA -- Pasture land converted back to saltwater marsh -- a
centerpiece of Puget Sound salmon recovery -- was on display here Friday.
The tide slowly rolled across 31 acres where man-made dikes that held
back the forces of Mother Nature for nearly 100 years were recently
removed by the Nisqually Indian tribe on farmland purchased from farmer
Ken Braget.
Goodbye cows. Welcome home salmon.
About 50 people active in statewide salmon recovery efforts gathered as
the tide lapped at their feet. They hailed the $200,000 project as a prime
example of how to restore habitat for the benefit of salmon.
"You're going to see the salmon jumping here the next time you're here,"
Nisqually tribal member Billy Frank Jr. said. "It's going to be a magical
place."
"This project is a model for the whole Puget Sound," said William
Ruckelhaus, chairman of the state Salmon Recovery Funding Board.
And it could just be the beginning, noted Jean Takekawa, manager of the
neighboring Nisqually National Wildlife Refuge.
The U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service is studying a proposal to take out
some refuge dikes to allow some of its refuge land to return to a place
where the Nisqually River mixes with the South Sound tides.
And the tribe, which purchased the 410-acre Braget farm in 1999, wants
to convert another 110 acres over the next couple of years, Tribal
Chairman John Simmons said.
Three generations of blood, sweat and tears went into the farm on the
Pierce County side of the river, Braget said.
"The land was borrowed by the Bragets for 100 years," he said. "Now it's
being put back in the best option for the good of the order."
Estuaries, the places where fresh water meets the sea, are where
juvenile salmon get acclimated to their new life in saltwater before
embarking on their ocean journey.
Up and down the Pacific Coast, estuaries have been diked, filled and
lost to development. In the Nisqually Delta, 35 percent of the natural
wetlands have been blocked by dikes, said Jeanette Dorner, the tribe's
salmon restoration program manager.
"A major reason chinook are in trouble here is because they don't have
enough estuary habitat," she said.
Puget Sound chinook salmon, including Nisqually River chinook, are
listed as threatened under the federal Endangered Species Act.
Young salmon from other rivers are likely to benefit from the Nisqually
estuary projects, Dorner said. Juvenile salmon from as far away as the
Green River near Seattle have been detected using the Nisqually estuary.
"Projects like this is what it takes to recover the fish," said Jeff
Koenings, director of the state Department of Fish and Wildlife.
The tribe received a $178,000 grant last year from the state Salmon
Recovery Funding Board to restore the 31 acres. It came on the heels of an
adjacent, eight-acre pilot project completed in 1996.
The tribe learned quickly that saltwater plants colonize voluntarily
when the dikes are removed, providing habitat for other aquatic life,
waterfowl and shorebirds.
Studies suggest the Nisqually wild chinook population could be doubled,
simply by restoring all 800 acres of diked delta, Dorner said.
Friday's ceremony included dance and song by students from nearby Wa-He-
Lut School.
Simmons said he will present a resolution to the Nisqually Tribal
Council next week, asking them to name the project after tribal council
member and tribal fisherman Reggie Wells, who died in a truck accident
Wednesday.
John Dodge covers the environment and energy for The Olympian.
He can be reached at 360-754-5444 or e-mail at jdodge@olympia.gannett.com.
Copyright c. 2002 The Olympian.
--------- "RE: Doctor: Tribes need to Initiate own Health Care" ---------
Date: Tue 12 Nov, 2002 08:19:35 -0700
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Doctor: Tribes Need To Initiate Own Health Care
By BILL BERGSTROM
Associated Press Writer
November 12, 2002
PHILADELPHIA -- Swiftly spreading diabetes among American Indians shows
vividly that tribes need to take the initiative for their own health care
rather than count on government programs or other outside help, an
American Indian doctor said Monday.
"How long are we going to wait for someone else to solve this problem
for us," Dr. Yvette Roubideaux, an assistant professor in public health
and medicine at the University of Arizona Health Sciences Center, said in
a session at the 130th annual meeting of the American Public Health
Association.
Congress has established a $400 million program to combat diabetes among
American Indians, launching 330 new programs, many of which focus on
prevention, but the problem continues to worsen, Roubideaux said.
Rather than more grants and research to reverse the trend, she said,
"One way is to start to reclaim our responsibility for Indian health in
Indian communities."
The convention is expected to draw some 13,000 people as it continues
through Wednesday at the Pennsylvania Convention Center. Roubideaux spoke
at a session on how integrating tradition healing practices into health
care can gain trust and increase participation by indigenous people.
Patricia Cochran, executive director of the Alaska Native Science
Commission, said the approach makes patients feel more at home at the
Alaska Native Health Center in Anchorage.
In addition to receiving modern medical treatment, "They can see a
native healer, they can eat native food," said Cochran, an Inupiat Eskimo
born and raised in Nome, Alaska. "You can have dry fish. You can have
caribou stew. You don't have to eat Jell-O."
Roubideaux, a member of the Rosebud Sioux tribe who has served as
president of the Association of American Indian Physicians, said
traditional tribal values would help reverse the rapid advance of diabetes
among Southwestern Indians.
Cases among American Indian and Alaska Native adolescents ages 15 to 19
increased by 68 percent between 1990 and 1998, she said.
"In the Southwest it is so prevalent in some communities that one of
every two adults has diabetes," she said. "Of most concern, the prevalence
of diabetes among children is increasing, as young as 5 or 10 years old.
It's very scary."
"A century ago we did not have this problem. They were very active,
hunting, farming and gathering, not sitting in front of a computer or a TV.
They ate healthy foods, meats, fish, vegetables and fruits. They ate small
amounts," Roubideaux said. "Now we are walking around with Big Gulps. We
are driving to McDonald's with big pickups when McDonald's is only a block
away."
Noting that the session title referred to "modern problems and ancient
solutions," Roubideaux said tribal values would help individuals stick to
goals of eating healthy foods, getting exercise and getting medical care.
"When we were a traditional people we focused on staying in balance, we
focused on praying, on eating healthy, on practices that kept the group
healthy," she said.
The approach would adds to a public health professional's role of
providing medical care, Roubideaux said.
"It is also important to empower people as they try to take over
responsibility for their own health," she said. "I had a little bit of
that right out of residency, wanting to go in and save the community, but
what we need to do is help the community save itself."
Copyright c. 2002 Yankton Daily Press & Dakotan.
--------- "RE: Grant to help Tribes reclaim Land lost to Fraud" ---------
Date: Wed, 13 Nov 2002 02:30:32 -0600
From: Chris Spotted Eagle <cseagle@tc.umn.edu>
Subj: Lost Tribal Land
Mailing List: Minnesota Indian Affairs <minn-ind@tc.umn.edu>
$20 million grant to help tribes reclaim land lost to fraud
Robert Franklin
Star Tribune Published Nov. 13, 2002
James J. Hill ran his train tracks across the plains and through
American Indian land, once wangling special legislation to transfer
Montana reservation property to his railroad.
Now money descended from the St. Paul empire builder's family will help
tribal members reclaim some of the millions of acres they lost to
widespread fraud more than a century ago.
In announcing the biggest grant commitment in its 78-year history, the
Northwest Area Foundation said Tuesday that it will allocate $20 million
over the next decade to the Indian Land Tenure Foundation, which it helped
form last year.
The money is believed to be the largest grant ever to an Indian-
controlled organization, said Karl Stauber, foundation president.
"We see this initiative as having potentially a major impact on poverty
reduction" among Indians, who make up "the poorest population" in the
foundation's eight-state region stretching from its St. Paul headquarters
to the West Coast, Stauber said.
Cris Stainbrook, president of Indian Land Tenure, will unveil details
today at the National Conference of American Indians in San Diego.
He said the foundation will work to educate tribal people about land
ownership and management.
It hopes to coordinate and develop models for land programs and work
with local groups such as the White Earth Land Recovery Project in
northwestern Minnesota, he said.
Some tribes in Minnesota and elsewhere have been reclaiming or
repurchasing land for farming, timber production, wildlife protection,
other economic development or cultural or religious reasons.
Stainbrook said Indians nationally lost about 90 percent of reservation
land they were given in the 19th century. That includes more than 65
million acres in Northwest Area's eight-state region.
Use of some land is hamstrung by allotments in which ownership passes
down to as many as 500 descendants of an original owner.
Many urban Indians, including those in the Twin Cities, are landowners
and "some know it and some don't," he said, and "you've got thousands of
people who are probably holders of an undivided interest [of land]
scattered on reservations throughout the country because you've got so
many tribes represented."
Stauber noted that "land is a critical cultural, economic and spiritual
asset in Indian country, and the eight states we work in are blessed to
have a third of the Indian reservations in the United States."
Meanwhile, he said, "poverty has been a reality for native populations
since they were forcibly relocated on the reservations."
The Northwest Area Foundation was founded in 1934 by Louis W. Hill, son
of James J., founder of the Great Northern Railway.
The foundation plans to pour millions of dollars into a relatively few
communities -- including one in Oregon and one in South Dakota -- to fight
poverty. Discussions also are underway in north Minneapolis.
Helping the Indian community reclaim land involves "absolutely some
irony," Stauber said. "And some payback."
-- Robert Franklin is at rfranklin@startribune.com.
Copyright c. 2002 Star Tribune.
--------- "RE: Luminaria honor all killed at Big Hole/Bear Paw" ---------
Date: Wed 6 Nov, 2002 08:10:27 -0700
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Indians included
Luminaria honor all killed at Big Hole, Bear Paw
Associated Press
November 6, 2002
HAVRE, Mont. -- For the first time since the Nez Perce War 125 years ago,
the National Park Service set out luminaria on the battle sites at the Big
Hole and the Bear Paw to honor the dead.
The glow of about 160 candles was a new element to the anniversary
observances. For decades, the only memorials were to government soldiers.
"It's a sad place -- both of them. They both have their own tragic
stories," said W. Otis Halfmoon, a National Parks Service worker whose
great-grandfather was among the warriors killed at Big Hole.
The Big Hole was known as Gibbon's Battlefield for Col. John Gibbon, the
commander who led the attack on the Nez Perce and Palouse Indians there.
After the civil rights movement, the American Indian movement and a
reawakening of Indian culture, Native Americans began walking these battle
sites to reclaim their side of the story. In 1977, the first pipe ceremony
was held at Bear Paw to honor ancestors.
Halfmoon was there.
"I was an angry young man. I didn't care about white people at all," he
said. "I grew up with much resentment toward the soldiers -- I knew my
history well."
Many of the dead at Big Hole were women and children, killed in the
attack at first light.
Halfmoon joined the U.S. Army and remembers talking with friends who had
served in Vietnam. In their stories of feeling caught between their
personal beliefs and the politics of the day, Halfmoon heard an echo from
1877. He studied history again, this time reading soldier accounts and
diaries.
"Some of the soldiers at Big Hole were actually cheering for the Nez
Perce to get away," he said. "This did not fit my stereotype of the
soldiers."
Richard Luppi, who had two great-grandfathers fight in the battle,
remembers his first visit to the site in 1955. The rifle pits hastily dug
by soldiers could still be seen.
"I didn't see any tepees or any recognition of Native Americans," Luppi
said.
Copyright c. 2002, The Spokesman-Review.
--------- "RE: Vice-Chief says no to Gun Registration Laws" ---------
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Sask. native federation vice-chief says no to federal gun registration laws
November 12, 2002
REGINA (CP) -- Preparing for a showdown with Ottawa over gun registration
laws, a vice-chief of the Federation of Saskatchewan Indian Nations is
refusing to list his firearms with the federal government.
Greg Ahenakew said the registration law, which takes effect Jan. 1,
infringes on treaty rights. He added that while he doesn't advocate
breaking the law, the federation will lend legal support to any
Saskatchewan aboriginal person who chooses to do so.
"What I will say is I have a gun and I am not going to register it,"
Ahenakew said Tuesday.
"If you truly believe that that is your right not to register your gun,
then don't do it, but every individual needs to make that choice."
Ahenakew pointed out the federation is challenging the gun control laws
in court, and though confident his group will win, he cautions it could
take up to eight years.
"We're saying we have no problem with public safety, but we don't like
what you have done with this act because you have infringed upon our
rights and you have done so without consultation," Ahenakew said.
"We're saying if there is going to be a firearms law then it's going to
be a First Nations' firearms act."
The federation is the latest group to speak out against Bill C-68, which
requires all firearms to be registered in a national database by the start
of next year.
David Austin of the Canadian Firearms Centre said that the federal
government has every intention of defending the registry against the
federation's challenge.
With about 50 days left before the deadline, about 70 per cent of guns
have been registered in Canada, he said, and the centre has no reason to
believe that non-compliance among aboriginal people will be a problem.
"The problem is that, on the registration, we have no way of
distinguishing between an aboriginal and a non-aboriginal," Austin said.
"Looking across the country we have no reason to see that they are not
part of the norm."
Saskatchewan Justice Minister Chris Axworthy spoke out in favour of the
federation's challenge.
"We hope the FSIN challenge will be more successful and gun owners
across the province support FSIN in undermining, as best they can, the
firearms legislation," Axworthy said.
The Canadian Alliance has been the most vocal critic of the gun laws,
calling the registry a wasteful bureaucracy that does nothing to protect
Canadians.
A number of gun groups have balked at the laws as well. Their protests
have ranged from the sensational to the frightening.
In Manitoba, one man successfully registered his soldering gun in the
database to point out what he called ignorance in the system, while in
Edmonton, a campaign was started to mail old phone books to Ottawa in
hopes the feds would have to pay for the postage.
In June, the firearms processing centre in New Brunswick had to be shut
down for almost a week when someone mailed two packages of white powder to
the building. Local police have said the packages came from Alberta.
Copyright c. 2002, CANOE, a division of Netgraphe Inc.
--------- "RE: Relatives want BIA to make Changes" ---------
Date: Wed 13 Nov, 2002 08:16:22 -0700
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Relatives want BIA to make changes
November 12, 2002
ALBUQUERQUE, N.M. (AP) - Families of two Nebraska couples killed in a New
Mexico traffic crash involving a Bureau of Indian Affairs employee who was
driving drunk want the BIA to change its policies on who drives government
vehicles.
The relatives, in an amended lawsuit filed here Wednesday, asked a
federal judge to prevent employees who have drinking problems and recent
arrests for driving while intoxicated from driving or being assigned a BIA
vehicle.
BIA officials said Friday the agency has revised its driving policy
nationwide and that the revisions are being implemented.
The amended lawsuit, which seeks unspecified damages, was filed by
relatives of Edward and Alice Ramaekers of Norfolk, Nebraska, Larry and
Rita Beller.
The two couples were killed Jan. 25 when the car they were in was hit
head-on by a BIA pickup truck driven by Lloyd Larson of Crownpoint. Larson,
who was intoxicated when he drove the truck the wrong way down Interstate
40, pleaded guilty to four counts of second-degree murder and was
sentenced to 20 years in prison.
"The families are very concerned with seeing that reforms are made
within the federal government," said Jason Bowles, one of the attorneys
for the Beller family.
The government has 60 days to respond to the lawsuit.
The families want U.S. District Judge William P. "Chip" Johnson to order
the BIA to conduct background checks on current employees or turn their
names over to the state Motor Vehicles Division to do so.
The lawsuit accuses the bureau of negligently entrusting government
vehicles to Larson. The lawsuit said the agency let him continue driving
despite a driving record that included nine DWI arrests and several
suspensions of his driver's license.
The lawsuit contends the BIA should have been aware of Larson's history.
The complaint also contends the agency negligently hired, retained,
trained and supervised its employees. The lawsuit cited a 1994 instance in
which a supervisor helped Larson get a limited driver's license after
Larson's regular license was suspended after a DWI arrest.
BIA spokeswoman Neda Darling in Washington, D.C., said a revised policy
was sent to all employees at the end of summer "and we're working very
hard to implement it."
She did not have full details or a copy of the policy, but said it
requires periodic checks of employees' driving records. She said it also
calls for driver's licenses issued by the federal government.
Kathy Love, one of the attorneys for the Ramaekers family, said, "We
would like to see any such policies before we can comment on what effect
it would have on the injunctive relief we requested."
Larson worked for the BIA's Navajo Region from 1987 until he resigned in
April.
Copyright c. 2002 Gallup Independent.
--------- "RE: Native Prisoner" ---------
Date: Tue, 19 Nov 2002 08:19:12 -0600
From: Janet Smith <owlstar@speakeasy.org>
Subj: Native Prisoner
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Date: Friday, November 15, 2002 6:42 PM
From: Brigitte Thimiakis
Subj: ALERT : Sacred Religious Items removed - NEW retaliation
From: justicenetwork
Greetings,
On Saturday, November 09, 2002, Father Pins told the Prayer Warriors at
MSP that they could no longer keep their cedar, sage, sweetgrass and
kinnickinnick in the Religious Activity Center (RAC). Father Pins also
ordered that all Native American Sacred Religious items that are used for
the Sweat Lodge and Talking Circle be removed from the RAC. Please note
that ONLY the Native Americans are being asked to remove their religious
items. Please also note that the Religious Activity Center Building was
donated by the community for ALL religions. This happened a few days after
the permanent cancellation of the Talking Circle, and should be added to
the list of previous acts of discrimination and retaliation against these
prisoners -- who are only asking to have their constitutional rights
respected.
As you can see, administration is not addressing the issues - on the
contrary! Obviously, the prison does not consider Native Americans to be
human beings; the prison and DOC obviously do not consider them worthy of
equal rights.
We ask everyone who possibly can, to please fill out the witness form or
write letters and send them to the Human Rights Bureau by regular mail, e-
mail or fax or even pony express if necessary. In other words please just
contact them in whatever form that works for you, but please contact them!
We are very much afraid that the prison's next step will be retaliation
against the Prayer Warriors themselves, such as being unjustly sent to
Maximum Security, for months, if not years. We just can't let this
happen!
Please also call the prison and Bill Slaughter, Director of MT DOC, to
request they take immediate measures to ensure that the Native American
Inmates's religious rights are respected so that they are able to honor
their Spirituality according to their faith, as they are entitled by the
Constitution. (contact info at the bottom of this post)
Thank you once again for your continued support.
Respectfully,
<> Justice For First Nations Prisoners Network <>
justicenetwork@ifrance.com
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Contact information is as follows:
Mr. Bill Slaughter, Director of Corrections
The Montana Department of Corrections
1539 11th Avenue, P.O. Box 201301
Helena MT 59620-1301
Tel :(406) 444-3930 ; jbouchee@state.mt.us
MSP Warden Mike Mahoney, 500 Conley Lake Road, Deer Lodge, MT - 59722
(406) 846-1320, ext. 2200; mmahoney@state.mt.us
Please
- ask them to put an end to the violations of Native American spiritual
rights
- ask them to make sure that the Sweat Lodge ceremony and Talking Circle
are held on a regular basis.
- also that their sacred items are treated with respect and allowed to be
kept in the RAC room.
- remind them that not only is Spirituality a very important part of
Native American life, but to many of these prisoners it is also the main
way to rehabilitation available that answers to their specific cultural
needs.
- ask them to make sure there is no retaliation against these prisoners.
These prisoners are merely requesting to honor their Spirituality
according to the Policy.
Please do NOT forward this post to Montana authorities or our contact info
- Thank you for your support !
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Date: Friday, November 15, 2002 6:43 PM
From: Brigitte Thimiakis
Subj: Response from MSP
>From Justicenetwork
Greetings,
Below is the response (form reply) that was sent by the Montana State
Prison in reply to the inquiries of many supporters.
It is worth noticing that the prison still emailed the same response on
Oct 15th even though the Sweat Lodge Ceremony had AGAIN been cancelled 3
days before - the prison did not even bother to justify it. It was
cancelled on Oct 12th which was also Columbus Day, and to the Brothers it
was like another slap in the face, because it was the date which started
the genocide of the First Nations.
The replies we get from the prison and DOC are basically PR, not saying
anything really, except giving a few excuses when they can think of one,
or letters meant to intimidate and discourage the supporters concerned
citizens, reporters and legislators.
Not only have they dismissed the problems and the injustice of the
cancellations of the Sweat Lodge ceremonies, but they have also allowed
the Catholic Chaplain to cancel permanently the Talking Circle, which
meant so much to the Native American prisoners, and as if it was not
enough, to order the removal of their sacred herbs and items from the RAC
room, which was donated for the purpose of ALL religions.
The Montana Human Rights Bureau has to be told the truth! Please contact
them using the form and contact info provided in a separate post. <see
previous editions of Wotanging Ikche>
Please also email or call the prison and DOC and request that the Native
American prisoners rights be respected !
Thank you,
<> JUSTICE FOR FIRST NATIONS PRISONERS <>
justicenetwork@ifrance.com
- Contact info for your letters is listed below -
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Date: October 10, 2002
From: Mike Mahoney, Warden
Montana State Prison
Montana Department of Corrections
Re: Cancellation of Sweat Ceremonies at Montana State Prison
On Saturday October 5th, 2002 both the high and low side sweat ceremonies
were cancelled at Montana State Prison, due to a scheduled annual
Alcoholics Anonymous gathering that took place at the Religious Activity
Center (RAC). The Sweat Lodge is located outside of the RAC and
periodically sweats are cancelled when other Prison Programs, Groups,
Religions etc. have scheduled events or gatherings.
Montana State Prison schedules weekly Saturday sweats for the high side
and low side Native American inmates, each side is scheduled for four (4)
hours. The Religious Activity Center is a non-denominational, multi
purpose building within Montana State Prison. At times the RAC is
scheduled for other activities and/or major spiritual gatherings for many
of the denominations we serve. Montana State Prison cannot accommodate
these events and still allow eight (8) hours for sweat ceremonies each
weekend.
Montana State Prison will offer the Native American inmates the
opportunity to still have a Pipe Ceremony when Sweats are cancelled to
accommodate a major spiritual program. The logistics of this ceremony
have not been finalized, the following issues still need to be addressed;
staff supervision, identifying a sponsor (traditionalist/elder) and
inmates are in disagreement as to the blend of kinnickinnick needed for
the ceremony.
Montana State Prison has over 1600 inmates that practice some 22
different denominations. The ability to meet the spiritual and program
needs of all inmates in a fair and equal manner is a commitment made by
myself as Warden and is paramount to Montana State Prison.
It is important that we all work together to meet the spiritual
programming needs of all denominations in a manner that is consistent with
sound correctional practice.
Questions regarding Religious programming at Montana State Prison should
be directed to Jack Powers, Rehabilitative Services Program Manager.
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Contact information is as follows:
1) Mr. Bill Slaughter, Director of Corrections
The Montana Department of Corrections
1539 11th Avenue, P.O. Box 201301 Helena, MT 59620-1301
jbouchee@state.mt.us Tel :(406) 444-3930
2) MSP Warden Mike Mahoney, 500 Conley Lake Road, Deer Lodge, MT - 59722
mmahoney@state.mt.us Tel: (406) 846-1320, ext. 2200;
--------- "RE: Rustywire: Navajo Grandma - Shi Ma Ssni" ---------
Date: Wed, 17 Jul 2002 08:35:17 -0600
From: Gary Smith <gars@Speakeasy.org>
Subj: NA News Item
- - - - - - -<Forwarded news>- - - - - - -
filename="RUSTYWIRE/GRANDMA"
http://www.geocities.com/SoHo/Nook/1574/grow/grandma.html
Navajo Spaceships- Laughing Road
An Online Writing Journal, Prose & Poetry by John Rustywire, Navajo
Navajo Grandma- Shi Ma Ssni
by Johnny Rustywire
On the Navajo reservation in my home area. I remember when I was young I
would go out with my grandmother, her name was Ada, but to me she was
always grandma (Shi masain')... she used to take the sheep out of the
corral and count them out as they walked out, she knew them all. The goats
were smart she didn't worry about them, they would walk around and then
find their way back. Sheep were not so smart and so we had to follow them
and make them go this way and that way, they move slow those sheep, so you
have to get behind them and carry a tin can filled with noisy rocks
attached to the end of a wire, so you could spin it over your head and
throw it and the sheep would move the way you wanted them to.
We would walk through sagebrush and the path was well worn from her many
years of going this way. We took the long way and walked very slowly up
and down the red sandstone hills and washes. I used to walk from cedar
tree to cedar tree to get a little shade. My grandma her hair white and
bent with age would walk with a walking stick and would tell me to go get
that sheep who was wandering off and I would run over to the sheep and
bring him back to the pack...
We left early in the morning and would walk till midday. We would end up
at a spring a couple two or three miles from the house and would take a
break. My grandpa had fixed a pipe in the ground and a dipper would hang
on the tree above a small pool of water and the sheep would stand there
and drink it. My grandma had a place she always sat and we would eat
biscuits, jam and water. I used to look at her, she was wrinkled but they
looked like laughing lines, a happy worn face. I thought I would like to
look like that if I were old, but not really, I was still too young.
She had an easy manner about her and would say don't look at me, you
will wear me out, Sonny, and then she would smile and laugh. We used to go
out and she would wear those long traditional dresses that went down to
the ground and on occasion I could see her tennis shoes. She told be about
all her children, the ones and I knew and the one that did not make it
through child hood. She pointed out a place where my father had put a
cradle board in a tree, for my names sake, because I was named for one
baby who did not make it. I took his place she said. She said times in the
old days were hard and there was no medicine and doctors like now and that
was the way it was.
I remember one time I asked where do we go from here, she pointed to the
way we had come and said we will take the other way back but we will get
back home at the same time. I said no, not that, I mean what happens when
we don't live anymore, she looked at me and said, we stay here, this is
our place. If you live right you will feel good and get to see all your
friends and family you knew that have gone on.
I looked into her eyes, they were old and she knew what she was saying,
she said someday I will be gone to and you will remember herding sheep
with me... right now you are tired of it, but sometimes you get to just
sit and look at everything that is here, she motioned to the sky and said,
Sonny look up there you can see the clouds, they move slowly in the sky. I
sat there and watched them and they did move ever so slowly. She said take
the time to look at them and what is going on around you, you have to
remember to do right each day, the clouds they are there for us to travel
on in the next life.
She took the apron she had on, put a croner of it in the water and
called me to her. She washed my face and touched my cheek....she reached
into her dress and pulled out a small buckskin pouch tied at the top, she
undid the tie and inside it was all lined with yellow fine powder. Tah dah
deen. This was always my favorite part about her; I can see her now as she
always did it the same. She reached into the bag and took a pinch of it in
her fingers. I stood up in front of her and she told me this was the
blessing of the earth, corn pollen and she blessed me by putting it on my
head and in my mouth and putting some in the wind and she said this is for
you to remember me and this place.....
On the way home I went to find a lost lamb that went into a ravine and
the thought of my grandma dying came to me and I started to cry. I sat on
a rock and cried my eyes out thinking about her being gone. She found me
and scolded me for letting the sheep get lost, but she held me close which
is unusual because my people are not outwardly affectionate and she said
silly boy, go find the sheep. I went and found it and we went back home.
Later that evening as I sat by the kerosene lamp, I watched my
grandparents and how they talked to one another while getting ready to
have supper. The house is small, just two rooms, but there was enough room
for at the table and I sat there. I watched my grandpa, (Shi'che) bring in
a load of wood, and put some in the firebox, and taking two small pieces
opened the top of the wood stove with a poker, stirred the fire and then
put the wood in it. My grandma went to the shelf along the wall and
reaching behind it's curtain cover, pulled out the jam and put some on the
bread. My grandpa sat down by me and grandma brought the coffee over and
poured him a cup. My grandpa served me a bowl of stew and grandma gave me
fried bread. It is how I remember them, making small talk and how they
moved together, as if they had practiced this along time. I fixed in my
mind a memory...of them together.
Later in life my Grandma would say she saw other members of her family
in the trees not far off. My father would go out there across the way by
the wash and she would point to tell him where they were but he could not
find them, he would return to the house with no one. I could not see them
but I guess she could. When she passed away I went into the hills and
cried alone. Sometimes that is what you have to do to get it out because
nothing else is left to be done.... I did that and now I think about the
good times and remember her gift of tah dah deen- corn pollen and hope
that I can do the same for my children and sometimes to a child who comes
to our home who needs to hear a good word or two. I remember the good
times and know that someday I will see them, as long as I walk straight
and believe that is how it will be for everyone...
Copyright c. 1999, Johnny Rustywire, all rights reserved.
--------- "RE: History: Carlisle Indian School" ---------
Date: Mon, 11 Nov 2002 22:28:02 -0500
From: Barbara Landis <blandis@epix.net>
Subj: July 5, 1889 INDIAN HELPER
[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.
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VOLUME IV NUMBER 46
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FRIDAY, July 5, 1889.
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THE MOUNTAIN AND THE SQUIRREL.
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The mountain and the squirrel
Had a quarrel,
And the former called the latter
"Little prig!"
Bun replied,
"You are doubtless very big,
But all sorts of things and weather,
Must be taken in together
To make up a year,
And a sphere:
And I think it no disgrace
To occupy my place.
If I'm not so large as you,
You are not so small as I,
And not half so spry;
I'll not deny you make
A very pretty squirrel track.
Talents differ; all is well and wisely put;
If I cannot carry a forest on my back,
Neither can you crack a nut."
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TWO "FOURTHS OF JULY."
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It was in 1776, in Philadelphia. This city was then near the centre of
the Colonies. There were thirteen of these, there was no United States
of America on the morning of that Fourth of July, 1776. These thirteen
colonies had each sent representatives to the Congress that was discussing
what to do about England's treatment of them, and the war that had just
begun.
Some of the representatives wanted to be free from England altogether.
They had drawn up a paper in which they declared themselves free and
independent states.
But should they sing this paper?
If they did it, England would consider them rebels, and if she could
get hold of them would put them to death because they had resisted her
authority.
So, the men in this Congress had to choose. If they signed the paper
they might be put to death, if they did not sing it they would refuse to
do what was for the best interest of their country. But all the three or
four days that they hesitated they were not hesitating
because they feared for themselves, but because they wanted to be sure
that the country was strong enough in will and courage to carry out what it
would undertake.
The people were ready for the Declaration of Independence; Congress was
sitting with closed doors, but the watchers outside knew what was going
on. "Will they do it?" they asked themselves.
How they waited, how slowly the hours went by, and the days!
At last the third day came. Noon came, and passed, and still the people
waited, and still the Declaration was not signed. A man had been stationed
in the tower to ring the bell and so announce the good news to the city the
moment that the signing was over. This man's little son was waiting in the
hall to carry the news to his father, if there should be any news.
But one o'clock came, and went, and there was nothing. It began to look
as if, after all, there was going to be nothing.
Two o'clock sounded.
Up the long stairs flew the boy's light feet.
"Ring, father," he shouted, "ring, ring; they've done it."
Then the bells pealed out; then the guns fired; then the people
rejoiced.
Was it because they were going to have an easy time of it and become a
great nation? They were going to become a great nation -- but as to the
easy time, well, that never makes persons, or nations, great. So, they
chose to the hard time, to struggle for long years, to be poor, to have
many hardships, sometimes to be in danger of losing everything but freedom,
but this they could never have lost, because they would have given their
lives instead.
The ringing of the bells and the firing of the guns that day meant
gladness that they were strong men and not cowards. A great deed had been
done, and they were ready to pay the cost of it.
This Fourth of July gave us the United States of America.
Almost a hundred years had gone by; the country had grown greater and
greater; it
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(P. 2)
The Indian Helper.
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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.
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Address INDIAN HELPER, Carlisle, Pa.
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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.
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How Governor Beaver Defined Success.
Before Dr. reed's inaugural Tuesday evening, Gov. Beaver made3 a short
address wishing success to Dickinson College. In this he told what he
meant by the success of a college. It was to make its students strong and
honest and intelligent men and women, depending upon themselves, doing
right and making good records for themselves in their after lives.
While he talked, some of his listeners thought of how many great men in
America had spent their school days in little country school houses no
larger than some of those that the Indian boys and girls go to in the
country about Carlisle.
And yet these men had become strong and honored and had led many others
because in these little school houses they had learned to study and to
think; it had made no difference to them whether the walls were large or
small, they had found them the right size to work in. They had sharpened
their minds upon their lessons, as a good mechanic sharpens his tools,
and when they had gone out into the world they had found plenty of
material to use them upon.
It is good to think that the boys and girls at the Carlisle School have
the same opportunities that some of the greatest men in the country have
had.
And there is one thing more to be remembered. All the men who became
great had the *will* to use these opportunities.
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This is the report given of one of the boys upon a farm: "J____ assume
s the duties devolving upon him with the same quiet, straight-forward
manner which has characterized him during all the time he has been with us
during the past two summers. He is respectful, truthful and conscientious"
One of the girls living in Philadelphia writes to the Man-on-the-band-
stand:
"I have a very beautiful place here, and can see the carriages, people
and street cars going and coming. I like my place very much and will try
to do the best I can. Mr. and Mrs. ____, Annie, Sam and I are going to
the seashore on Wednesday morning to Rehoboth, Delaware, and stay there
until September. I am looking forward for a happy time. I have a pretty,
large, comfortable room all to myself and I also have gaslight in my room.
Yesterday Annie and I went to Wanamaker's store and rode on street cars
to our place. Eleven of us Indian girls when we reached Broad Street
Station, we were scattered then and we were sorry to part from each other."
==============
THE INDIAN HELPER, a weekly letter from the Carlisle Indian Industrial
School, to boys and girls, has come several times to the *Bulletin,* and
in a bright and cheery way, in short paragraphs shows the course of life
at the school; such a paper must win the interest of the pupils in forming
a taste for reading. The printing is done by the fingers of Indian boys,
who also do all the mechanical work on the larger paper published there
called THE RED MAN. - Hartford *Bulletin.*
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During the last week the following pupils have gone out upon farms:
Norman Cassadore, Cotton Wood, Nicholas Ruleau, Gilbert Pusher, Isaac
Baird, Donald Water, Austin Navajoe, Eagle Little Hawk, Stacy Matlack,
Billy Norkok, George Nyruah, Levi St. Cyr, Chas. Damon, Otto Zotom, Joe
Harris, Thos. Pelcoya, Lyman Kennedy, Clay Domineah, Albert Silas, Peter
Snow, Jonas Place, Richard W. Yellow Robe, Levi Levering, Stailey Norcross,
William Tivis, Thos. Wistar, Jesse Cornelius, Lorenzo Martinez, Susie Bond,
Susie Gray, Isabella T. Dogs, Carrie Deroun, Amelia Elseday, Lois P. Scalp,
Lydia Flint, Nellie Robertson, Emmaline Clark, Rose Howell, Mattie Khuno,
Nellie Iddings, Etta Robertson.
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The picture brought before us last Sunday night by Miss Hamilton of a
little Indian girl in camp after she had returned from Carlisle to her
people was a picture with a great lesson in it. Miss Hamilton was there
and saw with her own eyes the neat tent in which the Carlisle girl lived.
There were stands and tables made of old boxes neatly covered with such
material as she could find. There was soap in a dish and a wash basin on
a box in the corner of the tent and a clean towel hanging near. Every
thing about the girl was kept neat and clean. Because she had to live in
camp was no reason why she should live in dirt. Can we ever forget Miss
Hamilton's earnest question - in one girl returning to camp can live in
this way, may not others?
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(page 3)
Clarence White Thunder has taken charge of the chapel.
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Howard Logan is librarian and Postmaster at the Large Boys' Quarters.
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Forty four sets of double harness were made in the harness shop during
the last quarter.
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Miss Phillips takes Miss Rote's place at the Teachers' Club during the
month of July. She has her mother with her.
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It is only a short time back to Cyrus Field's first cable, but nine of
them now connect America and Europe, and measure up 113,000 miles.
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The old stable is to be torn down and a new one built on the same site
This new one will be more roomy and convenient, and better adapted to
the needs of the school.
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Everything in its place. And in such rainy times we can't help feeling
that there is some place for the mud. But it must be out of doors. So
don't take it in on your feet, boys.
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Charley Dagnett played the gallant on Saturday by taking Esther Miller,
Katie Grinrod and Clara Faber, pleasure riding. The M.O.T.B.S. thought
Charley rather small for such a large undertaking, but he proved himself
equal to the occasion, and they had a delightful ride to Holly and returned
by Boiling Springs.
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The very clouds have this week wept copiously. Was it because so many
have left this happy circle? Besides a large number of students, several
of the most worthy of our corps have taken their departure not to return.
Miss Ella Patterson, for nine years connected with the school, first as
teacher, then as matron of the small boys and her sister Miss Bessie, for
nearly six years a teacher in the primary department, both most faithful
and efficient workers, are among the number leaving. Then, there is
faithful Miss Wilson who has stood by the ship for nine years at the
Hospital, often under the most trying circumstances imaginable. She will
be greatly missed. Miss Marsh, who has gone to other fields of labor, has
been with us but a short time, but long enough to win many and lasting
friends among officers and pupils of the school. Not the clouds alone
wept, but many a co-worker and pupil shed tears of sorrow at the departure
of these tried friends.
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School closed last Friday.
Miss Rote is off for a two months' rest.
Cutting wheat on the school farms this week.
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Miss Seabrook has taken Miss Wilson's place at the hospital.
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Mrs. Sarah Hamilton is visiting her daughter at this school.
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Chester Cornelius is taking a few days' trip through Bucks' County and
visiting the pupils.
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Misses Cutter, Shears, Cooke, and Paull, teachers, are off for their
summer vacation. Others are to follow shortly.
-------
Miss Fisher, Cecilia Londrosh and Clara Faber attended the Millersville
Normal School Commencement this week.
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The new walks are nearly finished. Who will help to tread them? And
who will be selfish and wear off the grass on the sides and let the other
people tread the walks for them?
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Mrs. Given has taken Miss Patterson's place as mother of the small
boys, and the boys are going to try to be just as good as they can possibly
be, so as to give their new mother no trouble.
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The ventilator on the printing office is nearly finished. The
M.O.T.B.S. looks on with approbation, and the printers are already feeling
the comfort of it in the July heat.
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The lone cornetist Monday evening at the Boys' Quarters, won the hearts
of all his hearers as he played so feelingly and beautifully a few old
familiar tunes. He was evidently off by himself enjoying the twilight,
and threw his whole soul into the music.
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Mr. Ezra Stailey, of the Pennsylvania Institute for the Blind,
Philadelphia, is with us again and will fix up our mattresses. He cannot
see, but there are few persons with good eyesight who are as expert as he
in this line of work. Mr. Stailey was warmly welcomed by the pupils who
knew him of old, and by the teachers and officers of the school.
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Do you think that croquet on the green is the only kind to be enjoyed?
No, indeed. Nearly every day there is a game being played on the red,
and a game that the little players enjoy famously, too. It is in the
girls' quarters, and it is parlor croquet upon a red blanket thrown over a
great table. The little girls have stakes, and wickets, and balls, and
everything to make them happy, down to contented minds; no, up to those.
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(continued from first page.)
had nearly three times as many states as at first.
Again there came a Fourth of July that will be remembered as long as the
history of the country is told. The southern states wanted the union
no longer; they had declared themselves out of it and were fighting to
break it up and destroy our greatness. For three days before this Fourth
of July, 1863, a terrible battle had been going on. On the morning of the
Fourth the country did not know what was happening down here at Gettysburg.
In the morning the bells rang as usual on the Fourth. but at noon there
came no such sound. For all over the country, men were holding their
breath in suspense. They did not even know whether there was any longer
the United States of America, perhaps they had no longer any nation to
be proud of. And those who had sons and brothers and fathers and husband
s in the army seemed all day to be hearing the cannon and to be seeing
the ruin and the carnage of war.
Then the glorious news of victory came, and all the land went wild with
joy. Didn't the bells ring then? And the cannon thunder out its triumph?
We were still the United States of America, we had still a country to be
proud of.
Why?
Because, as in that other time so long before, men had stood ready to
suffer and die for their country.
When the anniversary of this day comes round to us, this Fourth of July
that saw the beginning and the saving of a nation, what can we do to keep
it worthily? It does not seem enough to fire off cannon and have
fireworks. In those days this was done because something else that was
strong and great had been done first.
But what have we done, or what can we do that will give us a right to
rejoice in the Fourth of July, and will make us more worthy of those who
have done so much for us?
The one thing that we notice about them is that they never thought of
what they could get out of the country, but only of what they could give
to it, even to their lives. This is why we love and honor them, and why
they have had power to set apart a day that so many millions of people
keep.
If it comes into our hearts that we have a great country and that we
ought to do something to show our pride in her and our love for her, then
we shall keep the Fourth as the people of those days would be most glad
to have us do.
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Joe Harris Took Them Through Safely.
=
J. B. Harris, one of the best workmen among our Indian printer boys,
was placed in charge of a party of nine yong men going to country homes.
That Joe is equal to such
business is shown by the following interesting letter, which, we hope he
will not object to our printing:
LANGHORNE, BUCKS CO., PA., July 1st, '89.
DEAR MISS ELY: - When we arrived at Philadelphia I did as you directed
me. The boys and myself went down stairs and took our baggage and then
I had to pay $1.25 for the five trunks which were taken to Third and Berks.
Then all the nine boys got into a street car and I bought exchange
tickets which amounted to 72 cents.
At the station I bought three tickets to Langhorne, two to Woodbourne,
one to Yardley, and three to Newtown.
When we got to Third and Berks I had all the baggage checked to the
different places.
From the thirteen dollars which you gave me I have left $4.86, but I
had only one cent of my own, and to write a letter to you I have taken a
cent from the $4.88 which leaves $4.87.
Pardon me for stealing that one cent because I had to arrange it some
way and I concluded that I would do this because I knew it would be all
right, and this letter had to be written.
Please tell me what shall I do with the money. If I have to send it
back, tell me the best and safest way.
I am very glad that I was sent to this delightful home, these people
are so kind and good to me.
-----+--~--+-----
Enigma.
I am composed of nine letters.
My 2, 3, 6 is a small animal much hated.
My 1, 2, 5, 4 is what everybody should have.
My 6, 5, 8, 9 is found in the sea.
My 2, 7, 9 is a bitter herb.
My while is something that we heard about last Saturday night and that
if we do not have we must try very hard to get, or lose our friends.
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STANDING OFFER: - For FIVE new subscribers to the INDIAN HELPER, we will
give the person sending them a photographic group of the 15 Carlisle Indian
Printer boys, on a card 4 1/2 X 6 1/2 inches, worth 20 cents when sold by
itself. Name and tribe of each boy given.
(Persons wishing the above premium will please enclose a 1-cent stamp
to pay postage.)
For TEN, Two PHOTOGRAPHS, one showing a group of Pueblos as they arrived
in wild dress, and another of the same pupils three years after, or, for
the same number of names we give two photographs showing still more marked
contrast between a Navajoe as he arrived in native dress, and as he now
looks, worth 20 cents a piece.
Persons wishing the above premiums will please enclose a 2-cent stamp to
pay postage.
For FIFTEEN, we offer a GROUP of the whole school on 9x14 inch card.
Faces show distinctly, worth sixty cents.
Persons wishing the above premium will please send 5 cents to pay postage.
For THREE new subscribers we will give the picture of Apache baby, Eunice.
Send a l-cent stamp to pay postage.
Persons sending clubs must send all the names at once. If the stamp to
pay postage on premium does not accompany the subscription list we take
it for granted that the premium is not wanted.
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For more info see http://www.epix.net/~landis
--------- "RE: Poem: Forever Cherokee Free Spirit" ---------
Date: Wed, 4 Sep 2002 15:00:51 EDT
From: WhiteEagleLady@aol.com
Subj: Forever Cherokee Free Spirit
Mailing List: Tsalagi <tsalagi@yahoogroups.com>
Oh Great Spirit help me always to speak the truth quietly to listen
with an open mind when others speak and to remember the peace that
may be found in silence.
FOREVER CHEROKEE
Why did they do it
Please help me understand
Was it hatred of my People
They made many promises
Not one did they keep
They lied with a smile
No tear did they weep.
They called us hostile savages
Because our skin was red
They vowed they'd never stop
Til my People all were dead
My People are proud warriors
And battled hard and long
But the fighting only brought
The singing of Death's song.
They tried many ways
To destroy all the Nations
They arrested our great leaders
And put us on Reservations.
They could take my father's land
For it was not ours to give
It was a gift from Grandfather
Simply a place for us to live.
They forbid us from following
All the Native Ways
But belief in the heart
Can never be taken away
Now I walk among them
Their skin the same as me
But in my heart and spirit
I am Forever Cherokee!
--------- "RE: Verse: Hawaiian Book of Days" ---------
Date: Tue, 12 Nov 2002 06:32:34 -1000
From: Debbie Sanders <kepola@hgea.org>
Subj: Hawaiian Book of Days
A HAWAI'I BOOK OF DAYS, week of November 25-December 1
NOWEMAPA
(November)
(Welehu)
25
Be grateful for the ancestors who helped shape your life.
26
In every conversation, it is important to learn to listen.
27
The pearl is a wondrous creation of the sea.
28
We become what we feel.
29
Time is merciful to those who do not worship it.
30
Be as young as you feel in your dreams.
KEKEMAPA
(December)
(Makalii)
December was the time when the trailing plants died down and the south wind,
the Kona, prevailed.
1
May your spirit be filled with song and laughter.
(c) Copyright 1991 by D. F. Sanders
Me ke aloha i ka nani, ... Moe'uhanekeanuenue
(With love and beauty, ... Rainbow Dream)
--------- "RE: 73-Year-Old helps revive Forgotten Language" ---------
Date: Tue, 29 Oct 2002 08:18:16 -0700
From: Gary Smith <gars@Speakeasy.org>
Subj: NA News Item
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filename="TUTUTEN"
http://www.owlstar.com/dailyheadlines.htm
http://www.imdiversity.com/villages/native/Article_Detail.asp?Article_ID=13452
73-Year-Old Helps Revive His People's Forgotten Language
by AP, The Associated Press
Karen Mccowan, The (Eugene) Register-Guard
Agness, Ore. (AP) _ On the same riverbank where Army troops burned his
great-grandfather's village in 1856, Gilbert Towner on a recent weekend
was teaching his disappearing native language to a new generation of
tribal descendants.
Ten learners from all over the Northwest converged here, deep in the
Coast Range canyons of the Rogue River. Their camping chairs formed a
semicircle around Towner, a spare, soft-spoken Korean War veteran. As he
smiled at a student, crinkles framed his gentle eyes like tributaries on a
map.
The very way he pronounces their tribal name is a reminder that Tututen
is a particularly rare jewel among the treasure trove of native languages
once spoken in Oregon.
Long Anglicized as "Tu-TOOT-ni," the tribe's name is "tu-tu-DE-NE" in
Towner's soft, deliberate rendering.
The Tututni _ "the people close to the water" _ were among a handful of
tribes tucked into a linguistic pocket along the Southern Oregon Coast.
For centuries, they lived in autonomous family villages and spoke
languages more akin to Navajo or Apache than other Northwest Indian
tongues.
Then came the Rogue River Indian War of 1855-56 and their removal to
reservations 200 miles north.
After 150 years of displacement, forced resettlement among other tribes
and government "assimilation" programs that brutally punished young
speakers, Tututen hadn't been in regular use for decades. Only three known
"elder speakers" remain.
Just this summer, the language was declared officially dead.
Lane Community College instructor Jerry Hall and others had organized a
Tututen language workshop for late June.
Towner had agreed to drive more than 600 miles to come teach the tongue
here at Singing Springs Resort near the confluence of the Rogue and
Illinois rivers.
But the 73-year-old, who lives in Idaho with his Nez Perce wife, had not
regularly spoken Tututen since he was removed from his Siletz home at age
5. He was sent to Chemawa Indian School, where he and other students
remember being beaten for speaking their native tongues.
To refresh his memory before the June workshop, he traveled to Siletz to
visit another speaker, 79-year-old Eddie Collins. Towner's uncle by
marriage, Collins had spoken Tututen until age 17, when he enlisted in the
Army during World War II.
But the visit was an exercise in frustration. It had been too long _
Towner just couldn't remember the words. The only other known speaker, an
89-year-old woman, had declined to participate.
"We declared Tututen extinct," Hall says.
Nevertheless, Towner agreed to attend the Agness workshop, led by John
Medicine Horse Kelly and Wendy Campbell of the Intensive Language Project
at Carleton University in Ottawa.
"That's when things came together almost miraculously," Hall says.
"Wendy and Gilbert started going through oral histories on old tapes and
aluminum records, and Gilbert started remembering pronunciations and
rhythms. Words and phrases began coming back to him."
It was an intensive two weeks for the 15 participants, with some
sessions running 12 hours.
"But, by the end, people were composing sentences, dialogue, even songs,
" says Hall. "We felt Tututen was no longer extinct, and Gilbert committed
to continue teaching it."
So Towner again made the long drive to Agness in September, the same
weekend dozens of tribal descendants in the Confederated Tribes of the
Siletz made their "Run to the Rogue." The annual event retraces in reverse
the 230-mile Trail of Tears their exiled ancestors marched up the coast to
Siletz in 1856.
For Towner, hearing Tututen on the tongues of young people again was
"momentous" _ particularly along that stretch of the Rogue.
The language sessions met just upriver from the fishing village where
his great-grandfather served as war chief, just downriver from the canyons
where miners and other advocates of "extermination" ambushed surrendering
Indians.
Like other native tongues, Tututen is a highly metaphorical language,
characterized by vivid word-picture phrases.
Consider `Ish-lelt'a,' the term for twins.
It translates "noses stuck together," according to a "Tututen Lexicon"
compiled by Humboldt State University linguistics professor Victor Golla.
Praying is "talking upwards."
Pregnant is "belly-she has."
Towner loves Tututen's picturesque nature.
"When you describe something, it creates a much more vivid picture in
your mind than English does," he says.
Towner's experience as a native speaker _ even seven decades removed _
proved the key to reviving Tututen, says Medicine Horse Kelly.
"Gilbert knows the sounds," he says. "Without him, the project would not
have been possible."
That Tututen survives at all is a miracle. More than two dozen native
languages were once spoken in Oregon. Most have disappeared or are
disappearing, though at least six tribes have begun active language
revival programs.
When Towner's ancestors were resettled on what was the Siletz
Reservation, speakers of more than a dozen different languages were forced
to live together without the resources promised them by treaty. Under such
circumstances, everyone had to abandon their native language to talk with
other community members as they struggled together for survival.
Towner remembers his grandmother walking five miles into town each day
with her daughter.
"About halfway, there was a meadow where they would flatten out the
grass and sit down to smoke and talk in our language," he says. "When they
got to the store, my grandmother would still speak it. She didn't care who
was around."
Things were very different after he was sent to the Chemawa boarding
school just outside Salem.
"Whenever they heard you speak your language, they would whip you with a
leather strap," he recalls.
By high school, he'd accepted his fate as an English-speaking Chemawa
student.
"I got into sports and really liked it there," he recounts.
After receiving a purple heart in Korea, he returned to Oregon, at one
point living in Springfield and working in logging as a choker-setter.
Later, he would work as a correctional officer, postal worker and
Bonneville Power Administration printer.
Only after his 1983 retirement did he grasp the impact of losing his
language.
"The language was dead for 147 years in this country," Towner says. "To
be able to bring it back to life by speaking these words in this place
makes me really happy. I can feel the spirit of The People. They are
approving very highly."
Copyright c. 2002 The Associated Press. All rights reserved.
Copyright c. 2002 IMDiversity Inc. All rights reserved.
--------- "RE: This Week on First Peoples TV" ---------
Date: Mon, Nov 18 08:03:22 2002 -0700
From: Gary Smith <gars@Speakeasy.org>
Subj: NA News Item
- - - - - - -<Forwarded news>- - - - - - -
filename="WORLD LINK TV"
Available on DirecTV (800-531-5000), Channel 375,
and on EchoStar/Dish Network (800-333-3474), channel 9410
= = = = = = = = =
This program's length is: 01:00 hour
You can see this program at the following times:
Thu, Nov 21, 9:00 PM ET (Thu, Nov 21, 6:00 PM PT)
Fri, Nov 22, 3:00 AM ET (Fri, Nov 22, 12:00 AM PT)
Fri, Nov 22, 9:00 AM ET (Fri, Nov 22, 6:00 AM PT)
Fri, Nov 22, 3:00 PM ET (Fri, Nov 22, 12:00 PM PT)
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First Peoples' TV: Singing our Stories
A visionary journey through the landscape of Native North American music
from Tuscarora singer/songwriter Pura Fe to pop icon Rita Coolidge, from
Blackfoot composer Olivia Tailfeathers and the Old Agency Singers to the
traditional music of the Zuni Olla Maidens. This ground-breaking film
profiles the "First Ladies" of indigenous song and pays tribute to the
precious musical archive they preserve and celebrate. Through their
language, heritage and homelands, the stories and songs of the women link
the past to the present as they trace the voices of their ancestors.
"Singing Our Stories" is part of the "First Peoples' TV" series made
possible by DreamCatchers, a non-profit organization working to bring
Native films to a wider audience.
This film is available from Vision Maker Video.
A service of Native American Public Telecommunications, Inc.
email: VisionMaker@unl.edu
FAX (402)472-8675
Phone (402)472-3522
--------- "RE: Native America Calling" ---------
Date: Mon, 18 Nov 2002 12:02:44 -0600
From: "AIROS (American Indian Radio On Satellite)" <airos@unl.edu>
Subj: Hear the Nammys Again (Nov 20th and Nov 23rd) + NAC Topics
+ Honoring Our Vets + more ...
1) Hear the Nammys Again: November Encore Broadcasts
2) NAC Topics for 11/18 - 11/22
3) Voices From The Circle: Honoring Our Vets
4) alterNative Voices
5) Earthsongs Features Keith Secola
1) Hear the Nammys Again: November Encore Broadcasts
If you weren't able to make it to Milwaukee for the 5th Annual Native
American Music Awards on September 7th, don't worry.
Let American Indian Radio On Satellite (AIROS) take you there this November.
You will feel like you are there when you listen to all the best Nammy
highlights served up to you within this 2-hour feed that will run on
AIROS.org Wednesday, November 20, 2002 2 - 4pm ET and Saturday, November
23, 2002 9 - 11pm ET.
AIROS producers Jim DeNomie (Bad River Chippewa) and Barbara Jersey
(Menominee/Potawatomi) of VOICES FROM THE CIRCLE will bring you all the
highlights of the entertainment event of the year in Indian Country.
Jim and Barb will take you to the 22,000 seat Marcus Amphitheatre located
on the Indian Summer Festival grounds and site of America's largest Native
American cultural festival on the western shore of Lake Michigan in
Milwaukee, Wisconsin.
Hosted by Crystal Gayle, the awards show features over 30 awards
presentations and ten live musical performances, including:
Gary Small with special guest Graham Lear of Santana
Micki Free of Shalamar
Jana, 2001 Best Pop Artist
Martha Redbone, four time Nammy nominee
Cherokee Nation Children's Choir
Howard Lyons
AND MORE ...
A new category for Best Christian/Gospel Recording has been added to this
year's Nammy Awards.
This feed of the program has been remixed and remastered for even better
sound quality.
2) NAC Topics for 11/18 - 11/22
Listen live every weekday from 1-2pm ET by going to www.airos.org or tuning
into your local radio station. For a list of affiliates go to
http://www.nativeamericacalling.com/nac_affiliates.shtm
MON - 11/18: Literacy in Native America:
Reading and writing go hand in hand and are major components of literacy.
Unfortunately many of our Native children often have below average reading
and writing scores. The Office of Indian Education, National Congress of
American Indians (NCAI) and the National Indian Education Association
(NIEA) announced that they are working together to revive a President Bush
executive order that promotes Indian education. How much emphasis do the
executive order and the Leave No Child Behind Act put on literacy in Native
America? How do we get our Native students to not only read more but also
gain a lifetime appreciation for books? Invited guests include
representatives from the Morongo Community Library's "Morongo Rez Readers"
and the "If I Can Read I Can Do Anything" programs.
TUE - 11/19: Privatizing the Internet:
The World Wide Web and the Internet were developed to make communication
between computer networks uniform for military purposes. Today, people buy,
sell, talk and learn at the tap of a mouse key. There have been efforts to
control use of the web. If it's not for collecting lost taxes, then it's
for censoring free speech and controlling pornography. Recent decisions by
the Federal Communications Commission are restricting Internet service
providers access to cable Internet networks. How does this impact Native
communities and their use of the Internet? Will the digital divide get even
wider? Guests include Mark Wahl, Center for Digital Democracy.
WED - 11/20: Tribes & the U.S. Department of Defense:
As the U.S. gears up for war in Iraq, more and more direct and indirect
resources are being committed to America's military machine. The Department
of Defense already has an Indian incentive program that encourages
contractors to subcontract with tribes and Indian owned businesses. Are
tribal nations already under contract with defense? Are other tribal
communities ready and willing to put their time and energy into the war
efforts? What kind of work have tribes done in the past for the DOD and
what are their prospects for the future? Guests include Pete Homer,
President/CEO of the National Indian Business Association.
THU - 11/21: Evictions in Oneida Country:
A housing beautification code established on the Oneida reservation has led
to the filing of a United States Federal Civil Rights complaint under the
Indian Civil Rights Act. Nineteen members of the Oneida Nation filed the
complaint on November 13, 2002. According to the complaint, Oneida leader
Arthur Ray Halbritter and others have denied the plaintiffs' of their human
and civil rights. Are the Oneida tribal members' claims valid and are they
being treated unjust, or do they just not want to comply with the new code?
Invited guests include representatives from the Plaintiffs and Arthur Ray
Halbritter of the Oneida Nation.
FRI - 11/22: Skin Walkers:
The characters of Jim Chee and Joe Leaphorn, the Navajo gumshoe team, come
together on film in the PBS presentation of this made for TV movie. These
two Native police officers take on mystery and murder, based on the Tony
Hillerman crime novel "Skinwalers." Director Chris Eyre takes the story of
the murder of Roosevelt Bitsie on the Navajo Reservation and transforms it
into a Native whodunit. But the issue of death has brought up criticism
from traditional factions in the Indian community. Are certain taboos to be
avoided in different forms of entertainment? Is the story respectful of
Native beliefs? Invited guests include Author Tony Hillerman, Wes Studi
(Joe Leaphorn), Adam Beach (Jim Chee), Director and Chris Eyre.
3) Voices From The Circle: Honoring Our Vets
This week, VOICES FROM THE CIRCLE listeners will hear continued honors for
our Native Veterans; those Ogitchidah and Ogitchidah-Kwe, Indian men and
women warriors, who have put their lives on the line for us.
We begin with the mixed musical idioms of pow wow and jazz with the Chief
Cliff Singers and jazz composer Don Pullen and "Eagle Staff is First."
Dine' Radmilla Cody inspires all Americans with her Native tongue
recordings of "America The Beautiful" and "God Bless America."
Lakota Thunder continues by honoring "World War I Veterans."
Brule' contributes two great songs honoring our vets; "Brave Hearts" and
"Warrior's Song."
Jay Begay also sings us two songs, "Soldier Boys" and "Code Talkers."
Composer Peter Buffet's new "Ojibwe" CD includes music and song germane to
today's program, "Seventh Fire," "Words are Songs" and "Walking the Path."
The LCO Soldier's Drum of Lac Court O'reilles in Wisconsin offers an "Air
Force Song."
Mohicanuck, Bill Miller adds his honors with his compelling rendition of
"Brave Heart."
Next week, VOICES takes you on a tour of the Aircraft Carrier USS Nimitz as
honoring our Indian veterans continues.
Listen online by going to www.airos.org (All Times ET)
Monday - 11/18: 4pm, 10pm
Tuesday - 11/19: 4am
Saturday - 11/23: 3pm
Sunday - 11/24: 4am, 3pm
Monday - 11/25: 4am
4) alterNative Voices
This week on alterNative Voices' Vernon volunteers to be a contestant on
Survivor III - on the REZ. Hear the qualifications and the prize!
News stories include the women's drum group dropping suit against St.
Thomas University in St. Paul, MN; the first Native football player for the
Green Bay Packers in 1897 and the 'big bird' sighting in Alaska.
This week's music mix has Bill Miller's holiday release, Douglas Blue
Feather, the Little Wolf Band, Brule and Spirit Nation.
Check our events calendar online anytime at www.alterNativeVoices.org
Listen online by going to www.airos.org (All Times ET)
Wednesday 11/20: 10am, 4pm, 10pm
Thursday 11/21: 4am
Saturday 11/23: 6pm
Sunday 11/24: 7am, 6pm
Monday 11/25: 7am
5) Earthsongs Features Keith Secola
Keith Secola is like your cool big brother -- good stories, wise insights,
great jokes and wherever he is, it's a party. Keith will be our featured
artist on Earthsongs when we revisit our "Lunch with Keith" from this time
last year in Albuquerque. And host Gregg McVicar will bring us a flavorful
assortment of modern Native side dishes from Brent Michael Davids, Jerry
Alfred and the Medicine Beat, Without Rezervation, Ronnie Spector and Marc
Nadjiwan.
All this and plus the Native Word of the Day. Details at www.earthsongs.net.
Listen online by going to www.airos.org (All Times ET)
Thursday 11/21: 10am, 4pm, 10pm
Friday 11/22: 4am
Saturday 11/23: 4pm
Sunday 11/24: 5am, 4pm
Monday 11/25: 5am
Listen to Indian Radio on the Internet 24 hours a day at airos.org
To subscribe to AIROS' electronic program guide e-mail airos@unl.edu with
the subject heading subscribe.
--------- "RE: Upcoming Events" ---------
Date: Mon, 18 Nov 2002 15:39:14 -0
From: Gary Smith (gars@speakeasy.org)
Subj: Upcoming Events
=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=
EVENTS ARE FEATURED IN ODD NUMBERED ISSUES ONLY
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Lists from Jim Anderson, Aaron, OCB Tracker and Whispering Wind are
listed here for 60 days. Each web site is listed if you need a more
complete list.
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Cherokee River Indian Community Presents:
Our First Annual
Indian Market and Native American Craft Fair
American Indian Arts and Crafts-Entertainment-
Native Food-Demonstrations
December 4-7, 2002
Where?
On the Cherokee River Indian Community reservation
located 12 miles south of Moulton, AL and 3 miles
east of Highway 33 in the Bankhead National Forest
on forest road 244 which is just North of the fire
tower.
Admission $2.00 per person over 16 years of age
Just in Time for Your Christmas Shopping
Vendor Space Available $15.00 per day
American Indian Arts and Crafts Act will apply
and be enforced
For more information write: or call:
Cherokee River Indian Community Steve Bison
Dept. 10 256-292-3423 or
1060 County Road 67 Kleita Bagwell
Moulton, AL 256-292-3984
email: mail@cric.org
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Date: Tue, 14 May 2002 21:35:45 -0500
From: "raven davis" <ravenspiritwalker@msn.com>
Subj: Oxford 2003
To: <gars@speakeasy.org>
Hello Gary: Please add this to NA news
Native Solutions 5th Annual Intertribal Pow Wow
April 25-27, 2003
Proudly Presents an evening with:
Joanne Shenandoah on Saturday April 26, 2003 at 8:00 p.m.
Oxford Civic Center, Oxford, AL
Opening for Joanne is Larry Campbell
Doors open at 7:00 p.m.
Tickers now on sale contact: Mark or Ruth (256) 820-6315 or
email ravenspiritwalker@yahoo.com; thunderhawk2062@yahoo.com;
Tony ( 256) 835-0110; Cindy (256) 831-9373
Northern Host Drum-Greywolf singers
Southern Host Drum-Buffalo Heart
Headman-Don Redbear
Headlady-TBA
M/C- Gary Smith
A/D-Buck Tucker
Native American Warrior Society and Honor Guard
All Drums and Dancers Welcome Vendors by invitation only
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Aaron's Powwow Calendar
http://www.geocities.com/Athens/Olympus/9173/powwows.html
Last updated on Updated 18 October 2002
December 2002
December 7 - Cherokee Clothing Class and Adams Corner Christmas
Location: Cherokee Heritage Center, Tahlequah, Oklahoma.
Contact: (918) 456-6007.
December 15 - Powwow Photograph Exhibit
Location: Sam Noble Museum of Natural History, Norman, Oklahoma.
Contact: (405) 325-4712.
December 21 - Winter Solstice Walk
Location: Spiro Mounds Archaeological Center, Spiro, Oklahoma.
Contact: (918) 962-2062.
December 31 - New Year's Eve Hand Game and Ghost Dance
Location: Pawnee Nation Reserve, Pawnee, Oklahoma.
Contact: (918) 762-4048.
December 31 - Good Medicine Society New Year's Eve Dance
Location: Fairgrounds, Oklahoma City, Oklahoma.
Contact: (405) 943-7935.
January 2003
January 18 - Morning Star Celebration
Location: John Carroll School, Bel Air, Maryland.
Notes: Benefit powwow for the St. Labre Indian School in Ashland, Montana.
Doors open at 11 am, Grand Entry 1 pm. Evening feed for participants,
dancing resumes at 5:30 pm.
MC, Don Hockeberry;
Host Southern Drum, Cades Gap;
Northern Drums, Oak Leaf Singers and Bum Kneez.
Traders by invitation only.
Contact: Gary Scholl (410) 838-8333 ext 14;
Vendors contact Linda Coates (410) 885-2800.
I have collected these listings from various places on the web and from
usenet, as well as other listings that I receive and requests from powwow
organizers. I do not take responsibility for the accuracy (or spelling) of
any of these listings. Use the contact information provided to make sure
that the powwow has not changed date, time, location, or other details. In
most cases, I have included all of the information that I have for each
listing. If you have corrections to make or would like to see your powwow
listed here, please send me an e-mail message with the appropriate
information (you must include the event name, exact date, city, state, and
a contact number or email; any additional information is helpful but not
required).
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Aboriginal Multi-Media Society
Aboriginal Community Events Listing
http://www.ammsa.com/ammsaevents.html
This page updated Updated 18 October 2002
November 21 - 23, 2002
2nd Annual National Lands Managers Gathering
Vancouver, BC
705-657-7660 or 250-828-9732
November 27 - December 1
Canadian Aboriginal Festival
Toronto, Ontario
Ron or Catherine (519) 751-0040
Dec. 2 - 6, 2002
Native Welleness Centre, San Diago, Ca
(503) 666 - 7669 Jillene Joseph
December 5 - 8, 2002
The 6th Annual Aiokpachi Tashka Sepokni Pow Wow
Held in Leesburg Florida
Location: Hwy 27 South of Leesburg Florida
Information: Marvin T. Silver Fox (352) 326-9294
E-Mail LeesburgPowwow@aol.com Tom Wolfeyes: cell (352)603-4070
E-Mail: magna700@atlantic.net
December 26, 2003 to January 4, 2004
Thunder in the Desert
10 day multicultural event showcasing and sharing of songs, dances, foods,
arts & crafts, educational and cultural exchanges of each unique nation.
An event to inspire the youth as they enter into the 21st century.
Tucson, Arizona, USA
Thunder in the Desert
POBox 27626
Tucson, Arizona 85726-7626 USA
Contact: www.usaindianinfo.org
February 4, 2003
Blueprint For The Future Aboriginal Youth Career Fair
Vancouver Convention & Exhibition Centre, 999 Canada Place
Youth registrations: Marisha Roman (mroman@naaf.ca)
Speaker and booth registrations: Valerie Birdgeneau (vbirdgeneau@naaf.ca)
Tel: (416) 926-0775
Fax: (416) 926-7554
Website: www.naaf.ca
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Andersons-web.com http://andersons-web.com/native_events.htm
Updated Download: Updated 18 October 2002
This page has been designed to help you find Native American Events.
We post information on Pow-Wows, Festivals, Rodeos, Art & Craft Shows,
Seminars and any other type of gathering that represents the Native
American Culture. Near the bottom of this page we have our contact
information and links to other sites that we know carry information on
Native gatherings. We hope you will use this site as your gateway to our
Native American Culture.
February 23, 2003: 1st annual Marysville Winter Pow Wow
Marysville Youth Civic Center, Marysville, California.
For information call: 530-749-6196 or e-mail jgraham@mjusd.k12.ca.us
April 24 -26, 2003: 20th Annual Gathering of Nations Pow-Wow, New Mexico.
Information can be found on their web site at:
http://www.gatheringofnations.com/powwows/index.htm
March 28 - 30, 2003: 4th Annual Circle of Friends Pow Wow
in Forest City, Arkansas.
For more information call Cinda, Frank or Max Brent at 870-295-3675
or e-mail: powwow@lakewebs.net
A word of advice, no matter how hard we try, mistakes happen! Please try
to get in contact with the event staff and verify the important
information before leaving for it.
Anderson's
11372 Timber Lane
Brooksville, Florida 34601
e-mail: powwows@andersons-web.com
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OCB TRACKER Updated 18 October 2002
California's Native News www.ocbtracker.com
http://www.ocbtracker.com/index.html
December 6th - 8th, 2002
29 Palms Band Powwow
Trump 29 Casino (formerly Spotlight 29)
Indio, CA
Info: (760) 775-3239
Please note-all dates in this calendar are advisory in nature. Event times,
locations, dates etc change without notice. None of these events are
produced by us. Call ahead to make sure that this information is correct.
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Whispering Winds Updated 18 October 2002
A Magazine of American Indian Crafts*Material Culture*Powwow
http://www.whisperingwind.com/
EMAIL us your dates
For dates to appear in Whispering Wind Magazine, dates need to be
submitted at least 3 months in advance.
Last Update: March 26, 2002
These dates are published as a public service and are gathered from
flyers, emails, phone calls.
Whispering Wind or its publisher Written Heritage, Inc., are not
responsible for incorrect dates or locations.
It is always a good idea to contact the sponsoring organization for
verification.
NOVEMBER 2002
22-24 Pahrump Social Powwow. Petrack Park, Pahrump, NV.
Info: (775-727-5800 or (866) 722-5800.
22-24 5th Annual American Indian Center of South Carolina Powwow.
Jamil Temple, Columbia, SC. Info: (803) 790-8214
28-29 32nd Annual Poarch Creek Indian Thanksgiving powwow . 5811 Jack
Springs Rd., Atmore, Alabama 36502 (251) 368-9136
29-Dec 1 36th Annual La Indian Heritage Assn Powwow. Hidden Oaks Camp
Ground, Robert, LA. Info: 1-800-359-0940
29-Dec 1 Canadian Aboriginal Festival. Sky Dome, Toronto, Ontario.
Info: (519) 751-0040
DECEMBER 2002
7 Dighton Winter Social. Dighton Council Hall, Digton, MA.
Info: (508) 880-6887
7 Cherokee Clothing Class & Adams Corner Christmas. Tahlequah, Cherokee
Heritage Center, Info: 918-456-6007
14-15 14th Annual North American Native Arts Festival. Vancouver
Aboriginal Friendship Center, Vancouver, BC, Canada.
Info: (604) 253-1020. www.geocities.com/kakilani2000/nativeartsfestival
21 3rd Annual Indian Education Powwow. Tualip Community Center,
Marysville, WA. Info: (360) 651-3400
27 Brave Dog Society Powwow. Senator Gladstone Hall, Standoff, Alberta,
Canada. Info: (403) 737-3163
28-31 In the Spirit of the New Year Powwow. White Earth Community Center,
Naytahwaugh, MN. Info: (218) 846-9749
31 New Year's Eve Hand Game and Ghost Dance. Pawnee, Pawnee Nation
Reserve, Info: 918-762-4048
31 Good Medicine Society's New Year's Eve Dance. Oklahoma City,
Fairgrounds, Info: 405-943-7935
29-Jan 1 Toppenish Creek New Year's Powwow. Long House, White Swan, WA.
Info: (509) 865-5121 ext 4304.
JANUARY 2003
18 Morning Star Powwow. John Carroll School in Bel Air, Maryland,
Info: Gary Scholl - 410-838-8333 ex14;
Traders contact Linda Coates - 410-885-2800.
25 Dighton Intertribal. Council Hall, Dighton, MA. Info: (508) 880-6887
25 Indian Education Powwow. Tualip Community Center, Marysville, WA.
Info: (360) 651-3400
FEBRUARY 2003
2-16 American Indian Expo. Flamingo Travellodge, Tucson, AZ.
Info: (520) 622-4900
22 11th AnnualRed Creek Mid-winter Festival. Dickinson College,
Carlisle, PA. Info: (717) 677-8026
22 Indian Education Powwow. Tualip Community Center, Marysville, WA.
Info: (360) 651-3400
22 North Carolina School Powwow. Charles R. Eilber Center, Durham, NC.
Info: (919) 286-3366
MARCH 2003
14-16 7th Annual Apache Gold Casino Pow Wow. Over $50,000 in prize monies.
San Carlos Apache Reservation, San Carlos, AZ.
Info: 1-800-APACHE 8 ext. 3259
21-23 39th Annual Florida Indian Hobbyist Association Pow Wow.
Fort Pierce, FL at the St. Lucie County Fairgrounds (Midway Road &
State Road 70). Traders (by invitational only).
Info: Chuck Haythorn, Pow Wow Chairman at 561-622-0789
or email webmaster@fiha.org.
21-23 Denver March Powwow. Denver, CO. Info: (303) 934-8045
28-30 Hozhoni Days Pow Wow. Fort Lewis College. Miller Student Building,
Durango, CO. Info: 970.247.7221
28 Indian Education Powwow. Tualip Community Center, Marysville, WA.
Info: (360) 651-3400
28-30 Fourth Annual Circle of Friends Powwow, Wiley T. Jones Fairgrounds,
Forrest City, AR. Info: (870) 295-3275.
email: powwow@lakewebs.net
http://www.geocities.com/justalittleotter/CircleofFriendsPowwow.html
APRIL 2003
11-13 Aquini's Native American 8th Annual Spring Powwow. Rice Pavilion,
Gulfport, MS. Info: (228) 826-5271
24-26 20th Gathering of Nations. The Pitt, Albuquerque, NM.
Info: (505) 836-2810
25-27 Mantle Rock Pow Wow. Crittenden Co Fairgrounds, Marion, Ky.
Info: sbckamama1@aol.com
MAY 2003
10 The Clinton Service Unit Youth Powwow. Clinton Indian Hospital Grounds,
Clinton, OK. Info: Gladys or Tracy (59\80) 323-2884
or gladys.nowlin@mail.ihs.gov
17-18 Fort Defiance Powwow. Info: Karen or Kelly @ Defiance Tourism Bureau
1-800-686-4382 for vendor info and visitor info.
Memorial Day Weekend - Giveswater Service Club Annual Dance,
Info: Oliver Littlecook @ (580)762-5909
JULY 2003
18-19-20 white Buffalo Society Pow Wow. The Gaston Fairgrounds in Indiana
for information contact mohrman@wesnet.com
SEPTEMBER 2003
17-20 First Annual Miss Indian Rodeo America Pageant. Oklahoma City OK,
CDIB card required. www. rodeobest.com/aipc Email
Contact: National Director, Deborah Robertson rodeobest@aol.com
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