[NN-Dialogue] Wotanging Ikche--nanews11.008
Gary Night Owl
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19 Feb 2003 00:12:31 -0000
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| As historian Patricia Nelson | | Once a language is lost, it is |
| Limerick summarized in "The | | gone forever |
| Legacy of Conquest: The Unbroken | | * Of the 300 original Native |
| Past of the American West... | | languages in North America, |
| "Set the blood quantum at | | only 175 exist today. |
| one-quarter, hold to it as a | | * 125 of these are no longer |
| rigid definition of Indians, | | learned by children. |
| let intermarriage proceed as | | * 55 are spoken by 1 to 6 elders;|
| it had for centuries, and | | when they die, their language |
| eventually Indians will be | | will disappear. |
| defined out of existence." | | * Without action, only 20 |
| "When that happens, the federal | | languages will survive the next|
| government will be freed of | | 50 years. |
| its persistent 'Indian problem.'"| | Source: Indigenous Language |
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|http://www.indigenous-language.org|
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"Our elders talk about the spiritual battle that's been going on for
a long time. Industrialization has always wanted to control the land,
control the people. That's going on today."
"I believe that globalization is part of that. Globalization places no
value in people, no value in religious and spiritual principles, no
value in the protection of the commons. Spiritual values tie us to the
importance of protecting the Mother Earth, the plants, all animate and
inanimate things."
"When we lose that understanding, industry, development,and globalization
can do what they want to do, because there are no values behind their
structures. Globalization has created a system of corporate ownership
above the importance of plants, living things, and humans."
__ Tom Goldtooth, National Director, Indigenous Environmental Network
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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!
This week we had the pleasure of witnessing an interview with Chief of
Woodstock First Nation, Jeff Tomah. During the interview he expressed the
frustration he has experienced fighting the overt greed of the non-native
people and their government. He has little use for Indian Affairs and
with good reason. The very institution that is supposed to uphold First
Nation treaty rights has created some of the most intrusive violations,
particularly where harvesting of lumber, fish and other resources are
concerned.
An article in this issue brings even more focus to this problem.
"Disgruntlement over Resource use on Treaty Lands" By Wes Godin of the
Kenora Miner and News speaks of the growing support for both the Grassy
Narrows blockade and Grand Council Treaty 3's fight against the Ontario
government's forest management practices. Most readers are familiar with
the heinous acts by the Department of Fisheries against Burnt Church and
other Mi'kmaq for daring to exercise their treaty rights and fish. If you
wish to witness a Native boat being rammed go to either
http://www.owlstar.com/who_will_sing_for_us.htm or
http://www.wintercount.org
The Cobell Trust case against the U.S. Department of Interior would make
a bad movie if it weren't for the fact it is all true. A high ranking
federal director, Secretary of Interior Norton, has been found in contempt
for mismanagement of billions of trust fund dollars. In a show of spite
she has withheld royalty checks. Her Director of the BIA resigned, then
admitted he had destroyed records crucial to the case. If this were not
all fact you couldn't sell the damn script to a Hollywood agent.
How can anyone witness the above and not conclude there is a huge chasm
between the spoken promise from Ottawa or Washington and the actions
against our people? You cannot. You also have to conclude it is
deliberate.
We pray for our future generations. We cannot, we must not, we dare not
remain silent if those prayers are to have meaning.
Dohiyi Ani Oginalii
, , Gary Night Owl gars@nanews.org
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----------- News of the people featured in this issue ----------
- George Sebastian Williams Sr. - Eagle Feathers allowed into U.S.
- Crossings - $1.44 Million for
- Treaties: Atlantic Aboriginal Health
Ties that bound only One Side - B.C. Liberals offer
- UKB Attorney General issues Apology to First Nations
Voting Issue Opinion - Disgruntlement over Resource use
- Talks continue on Klamath on Treaty Lands
Tribes' Land Issues - First Nations Hunters on Trial
- Samish/City pledge to Join Forces - Brutality from New Soldiers in Blue
- Are Navajos receiving Gas, - BIA Officials
Oil Royalty Checks? replace Blackfeet Police
- Kiowa Tribe given - Study says S.D. Courts
Impossible Ultimatum unequal in Sentencing
- Gas well OK'd for National Monument - Crow Agency Man
- Hualapai oppose appears on Murder Charge
Red Lake Gas Storage Project - Native Prisoner
- Report finds Mine -- My Deepest Sympathy
could harm Sacred Lake -- 2 Disabled, Veteran NA Prisoners
- House passes Sandia Land Claim - History: Carlisle Indian School
- Tribe allowed say - Poem: In the Spirit of Columbus
in Salton Sea's Future - Verse: Hawaiian Book of Days
- Natchez bring Jobs, History - Specials This Week on APTN
but no Casino - NAMMY Winner Martha Redbone
- History is her Story at NYC's Gerwshwin
- Remaining Innu of Davis Inlet - This Week on AIROS
feeling Abandoned - Comanche Homecoming
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Tulalip tribal elder is mourned
Williams was a tribal chairman, board member
By Kate Reardon
Herald Writer
February 12, 2003
TULALIP - To many, Tulalip tribal elder George Sebastian Williams Sr. was
more than a great leader.
He was a good listener who practiced what he preached. He cared about
his fellow tribal members. And he helped lay the foundation that has
allowed the tribes to excel.
Williams died at his home on the Tulalip Reservation Sunday after a long
battle with prostate and bone cancer. He was 76.
He committed portions of more than four decades of his life, about 30
years total, to tribal governmental affairs, starting in 1949 and ending
in 1983. He served as tribal chairman for 20 of those years and the rest
as a board member.
He lobbied Congress and worked to find solutions to problems on the
reservation at the local, state and national levels.
Tribal Chairman Herman Williams said the tribe has seen a great loss.
"The most precious legacy is the foundation he helped lay for future
chairmen and boards," he said. "Without that, we could be floundering
around like a lot of other tribes are now. With that foundation, we're
setting the pace in Indian Country."
George Williams was instrumental in getting more land for the tribe so
it could rebuild its reservation, said his daughter, Carol A. Williams
Hunter, judge magistrate for the tribe.
He was also a family man.
"I learned so much from my father," the 55-year-old Williams Hunter said
Tuesday. "We used to camp on the beach. That's where we learned to respect
Mother Earth and the salmon and what the creator has given us."
Williams also comes from a long line of tribal leaders. His father,
Sebastian Williams, and five other men wrote the tribal constitution.
"I watched my father lead our people to where we are today," his
daughter said. "They were the forerunners for our people fighting for our
treaty rights and who we were as a sovereign nation."
Daughter Valerie Finkbonner, 48, said her father enjoyed meeting people.
"He was very friendly, warm and kind," she said. "I can't describe his
love for everybody out here."
Williams inspired many, including Mel Sheldon, board of director serving
as tribal treasurer and business chairman.
"He had this wonderful capacity to help everyone strive to another
level," Sheldon said. "He helped this tribe grow leaders."
Williams had vision.
"The Tulalips today would not be here if it wouldn't have been for the
likes of George Williams and of course other board of directors," Sheldon
said.
Many might remember Williams in his other role, a worker at the Tulalip
Landfill.
"After serving his people for many years, he worked at our garbage dump
and found another capacity to serve people in that humble capacity,"
Sheldon said. "The true meaning of serving people covers a wide array of
activities."
He will be missed by many.
"I don't know anybody who didn't go to daddy for his wisdom, strength
and understanding," Williams Hunter said.
Reporter Kate Reardon:
425-339-3455 or reardon@heraldnet.com.
Copyright c. 2003 The Daily Herald Co., Everett, Wash.
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February 12, 2003
Sioux Ann Titus
PINE RIDGE - Sioux Ann Titus, 18, Pine Ridge, died Thursday, Feb. 6,
2003, as the result of an automobile accident near Pine Ridge.
A one-night wake will begin at 3 p.m. today at Billy Mills Hall in Pine
Ridge.
Services will be at 2 p.m. Thursday, Feb. 23, at Billy Mills Hall, with
the Rev. Leon Matthews officiating.
Burial will follow at Holy Cross Episcopal Cemetery in Pine Ridge.
Sioux Funeral Home of Pine Ridge is in charge of arrangements.
February 13, 2003
H. Isabelle Witt
WANBLEE - H. Isabelle Witt, 81, Wanblee, died Friday, Feb. 7, 2003, in
Kadoka.
Survivors include four sons, Wilbur Witt, Kyle, Leon Grass and Donroy
Martinez, both of Wounded Knee, and Darnell Martinez, Arizona; two
daughters, Darlene Martinez, Billings, Mont., and Theresa Martinez, Sioux
Falls; and numerous grandchildren.
A one-night wake was Tuesday, Feb. 11, in Wanblee.
Services were Wednesday, Feb. 12, at Crazy Horse School in Wanblee, with
the Rev. Daniel Makes Good officiating.
Burial was at Grace Cemetery in Tuthill.
Sioux Funeral Home of Pine Ridge was in charge of arrangements.
Crystal E. Little
OGLALA - Crystal E. Little, 19, Oglala, died Tuesday, Feb. 4, 2003, in
Oakland, Calif., as the result of an automobile accident.
Survivors include her mother, Esther Sisto, San Pablo, Calif.; her
grandmother, Lucy Little, Red Shirt; and two brothers, Chaske Little,
Santa Fe, N.M., and Charles Little, Rapid City.
A one-night wake will begin at 1 p.m. Friday, Feb. 14, at Brother Rene
Church Hall in Oglala.
Services will be at 10 a.m. Saturday, Feb. 15, at the church hall, with
the Rev. Chris Primo officiating.
Burial will be at St. Bernard Cemetery in Red Shirt.
Sioux Funeral Home of Pine Ridge is in charge of arrangements.
Sioux Ann Titus
PINE RIDGE - Sioux Ann Titus, 18, Pine Ridge, died Thursday, Feb. 6,
2003, in Pine Ridge as a result of an automobile accident.
Survivors include her parents, Don Titus Sr. and Martha Titus, Pine
Ridge; her foster parents, Alvin and Joyce Fisherman, Pine Ridge; two
brothers, Don Titus Jr. and Richard Red Bear, both of Pine Ridge; four
adopted brothers, Frank Goings Jr., Cecil Goings, Dan Titus Jr. and
Leonard Fisherman, all of Pine Ridge; two sisters, Frances Titus and Donna
Titus, Pine Ridge; and two adopted sisters, Monica Titus and Carrie Titus,
both of Pine Ridge.
A two-night wake was Tuesday and Wednesday in Pine Ridge.
Services will be at 2 p.m. today at Billy Mills Hall in Pine Ridge, with
the Rev. Leon Matthews officiating.
Burial will be at Holy Cross Episcopal Cemetery in Pine Ridge.
Sioux Funeral Home of Pine Ridge is in charge of arrangements.
February 15, 2003
Anthony Joseph Hollow Horn Bear
RAPID CITY - Anthony Joseph Hollow Horn Bear, 57, of Rapid City, died
Wednesday, February 12, 2003, at Rapid City Regional Hospital.
He is survived by his wife, Marlene Hollow Horn Bear of Rapid City; one
son, John Hollow Horn Bear of Rapid City; one daughter, Toni Hollow Horn
Bear, her husband Dan and their children Isaac and Gabrielle Hollow Horn
Bear of Sacramento, CA; his mother, Dorothy Wright of Rosebud; three
sisters, Bernadette Moore, Luellen Wright and Karen Marshall, all of
Rosebud; six stepdaughters, Clara Eagle Tail of Rapid City, Celeste
McCormack of Jamaica, NY, Jayette Hull of Wagner, Denise Wiyaka of Madison,
WI, Denielle McNiel of Lake Andes, and Gail McBride of Wagner; one stepson,
Allen McBride of Sacramento, CA.
He was preceded in death by his father, Raymond Hollow Horn Bear.
Visitation will be from 3 p.m. to 7 p.m. on Monday, February 17, 2003,
at Kirk Funeral Home in Rapid City, with a prayer service at 7 p.m.
Services will be at 10 a.m. on Tuesday, February 18, at the funeral home,
with Fr. Bryan Sorensen officiating.
Burial will follow at Black Hills National Cemetery near Sturgis, with
full military honors.
February 18, 2003
Emma Lame
PINE RIDGE - Emma Lame, 91, Pine Ridge, died Sunday, Feb. 16, 2003, at
Pine Ridge Hospital.
Survivors include two sons, Richard Broken Nose and Ted Lame Sr., both
of No. 4 Community, Pine Ridge; three daughters, Mary Broken Nose and
Ethelene Lame, both of Pine Ridge, and Carrie Antoine, Chino Valley, Ariz.
; 35 grandchildren; 64 great-grandchildren; and 42 great-great-
grandchildren.
A two-night wake will begin at 2 p.m. Thursday, Feb. 20, at Billy Mills
Hall in Pine Ridge.
Services will be at 10 a.m. Saturday, Feb. 22, at Billy Mills Hall, with
the Rev. Steve Sanford officiating. Richard Broken Nose will officiate
over traditional Lakota services.
Burial will be at Holy Rosary Mission Cemetery in Pine Ridge.
Sioux Funeral Home of Pine Ridge is in charge of arrangements.
Copyright c. 2003 the Rapid City Journal.
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February 16, 2003
Mrs. Rosita Cachora Collins
Mrs. Rosita Cachora Collins, 85, passed away February 12, 2003 at
Phoenix Indian Hospital, in Phoenix, Arizona. She was born March 7, 1917,
in Ft. Yuma, Arizona, Quechan Nation. She worked as a Home Maker and
attended the Nazarene Church. Rosita was Revered Elder of the Quechan
Nation.
She is survived by her son, Amil Pedro and wife Anne of Youngtown,
Arizona; daughters, Lolita Bell of Laveen, Arizona, Georgianna Collins of
Laveen, Arizona; three grandchildren and one great grandchild; many nieces,
nephews and cousins.
Rosita was preceded in death by her husband, Benjamin Collins and one
daughter, Viola Pedro.
Visitation will be at Ft. Yuma Quechan Indian Reservation Big House,
Monday, February 17, 2003 beginning at 5:00 P.M.
Cremation services are to follow, Tuesday, February 18, 2003 at
5:00 A.M., at the Ft. Yuma Quechan Indian Reservation Cemetery.
Pallbearers will be: Amil Pedro, Douglas Osborne, Norman Osborne, Gorden
Osborne, Kenneth Billy and Lorey Cachora.
Honorary Bearers will be friends and relatives.
Copyright c. 2003 The Yuma Sun,
Sun Freedom Newspapers of Southwestern Arizona.
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February 13, 2003
Geneva Creekkiller
Geneva Creekkiller of Eucha died Saturday, Feb. 8, 2003, at Monroe Manor
in Jay after months of illness. She was 82.
Creekkiller was born Jan. 6, 1921, in Jay to Jackson Buzzard and Sara
(Smoke) Buzzard.
She lived in the Eucha area all of her life.
She was a homemaker and a member of Hillside Baptist Church.
She was married to Homer Creekkiller. He preceded her in death.
Survivors include one daughter and her husband, Virginia and Wallace
Jumper; four grandchildren, Harvey Creekkiller, of the home, Junior
Jumper, Roger Jumper and Carol Brock, all of Jay, and three great-
-grandchildren.
Services will be 2 p.m. Tuesday at Hillside Baptist Church with the Rev.
Larry Kingfisher officiating. Burial will be in Hillside Cemetery.
The family will receive friends from 6 to 8 p.m. today at Worley-
Luginbuel Funeral Home in Jay.
Copyright c. 2003 The Miami News-Record.
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February 11, 2003
Francetta Warrior Stubblefield
Funeral services for Francetta Warrior Stubblefield are scheduled for
1 p.m., Wednesday at Thomas Town Baptist Church in Sasawka.
Rev. Famous Cochran is set to officiate.
Internment will follow at Thomas Town Cemetery under the direction of
Stout-Phillips Funeral Home.
Stubblefield died Wednesday, Feb. 5 at her home in Sasakwa following a
lengthy illness. She was born Aug. 27, 1953 in Seminole to Herman
Warrior and Bertha Thurman Warrior.
She was reared in Seminole County and received her education at New
Model Elementary and graduated from Sasakawa High School. Following
graduation, she attended Oklahoma State Tech and graduated in 1975.
She married Melvin Stubblefield Sr. in Omaha, Neb. and he preceded her
in death Aug. 20, 2002.
Stubblefield worked for AT&T and later as a teacher's aide in Nebraska
until her illness. She then returned to Oklahoma with her family. She
was a lifelong member of Thomas Town Baptist Church where she was
baptized at an early age.
She is survived by son, Kaylum Stubblefield of the home; stepson,
Melvin Stubblefield, Jr., Omaha, Neb.; two grandchildren; sister, Jan
Warrior of Sasakawa; brothers Kenneth Warrior, Russell Warrior and Kerry
Warrior.
She was preceded in death by her parents and one brother.
Pallbearers will be L.B. Garfield, Johnny Glasm, Wellington Dindy Jr.,
Rudolph Garfield, Tommy Olden, and Mainard Roberts. Honorary pallbearers
will be Wallace Thurman, J.B. Thurman, James Thurman, and Calvin Harjo.
Flower girls will be Linda James, Dezeree Bradshaw, Lula Samilton,
Jerena Guess, Marilyn Gueint. Honorary flower girls will be Francis
Woodfork, Mary Lee Taylor and Maxcine Thurman.
Fred Harjo
Funeral services for Sasakwa resident Fred Sonny Harjo were held at 2
p.m. today at the Spring Baptist Church in Sasakwa. Revs. Fred Moppin and
Eugene Harjo officiated the services.
Interment followed at the Harjo Family Cemetery in Sa-sakwa, under the
direction of Stout-Phillips Funeral Home of Wewoka.
Harjo died Saturday, Feb. 8, 2003 at the age of 79.
He was born to Fouscharjoe and Mandy (Fixico) Harjo on March 15, 1923
in Sasakwa. Harjo's lost his parents at an early age, and he was raised
by his foster parents, Willie and Amey Palmer.
He was a lifelong resident of Seminole County, and attended school at
Sasakwa.
Harjo was a member of the Spring Baptist Church in Sasakwa.
He married Ida Harjo on May 17, 1945, and she preceded him in death on
Oct. 7, 1989.
Harjo was a veteran of World War II, and worked in housekeeping at
Valley View Hospital in Ada for 26 years prior to his retirement in 1993.
Harjo is preceded in death by his wife; his parents; his foster
parents; one daughter, Mandy Harjo; one brother, Homer Lee Harjo; and
one sister, Sylba Walker.
He is survived by his daughters, Martha Jane Harjo, Sasakwa, Frankie
Coley and Shawna Groves, both of Wewoka, and Laurie Owl, Seminole; his
brothers, Rev. Eugene Harjo and John Robert Harjo; seven grandchildren;
and three greatgrandchildren.
Pallbearers were Tommy Cunningham, Colton Coley, Micah Tarkington, Don
Branscum, Steve Dail, and Cecil Moon.
The Seminole Producer/Copyright c. 1999-2000 Arizona Newspapers Assn.
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February 12, 2003
Roy Ambrose Begaye
Feb. 4, 1958 - Feb. 8, 2003
Roy Ambrose Begaye, 45, of Shiprock, passed away Saturday, Feb. 8, 2003,
at his home. He was born Feb. 4, 1958, to Ambrose and Mary Begaye.
Visitation will be held from 5 to 7 p.m., today, Wednesday, Feb. 12,
2003, at Brewer, Lee and Larkin Funeral Home. Funeral services will be
held at 10 a.m., Thursday, Feb. 13, 2003, at First Baptist Church in
Shiprock.
Arrangements are entrusted to Brewer, Lee and Larkin Funeral Home of
Farmington, (505) 325-8688.
Copyright c. 1999-2003 MediaNews Group, Inc./Farmington, NM.
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February 11, 2003
Myron Denetdale
TOHATCHI - Services for Myron Denetdale, 81, will be held at 10 a.m.,
Wednesday, Feb. 12 at Naschitti Christian Reformed Church. Pastor Phillip
Destea will officiate. Burial will follow at Naschitti Community Cemetery.
Denetdale died Feb. 7 in Gallup. He was born Dec. 14, 1921 in Naschitti
into the Red Running into Water People Clan for the Bitter Water People
Clan.
Denetdale attended Tohatchi Boarding School, Rehoboth Christian School
and Albuquerque Indian School. He was employed with Rockwell
International, and was a member of the National Republican Party and the
Los Angeles Indian Club. His hobbies included jewelry making, watching
basketball and football games.
Survivors include his wife, Virginia Denetdale of Tohatchi; daughter,
Yvonne Denetdale of Tohatchi; brothers, Harrison Yazhe of Naschitti,
Ernest Yazhe of Nageezi, Herbert Yazzie of Gallup and Albert Yazhe of
Farmington; and sisters, Ethel Yazhe of Window Rock, Marie R. Begay and
Evelyn Billy of Naschitti.
Denetdale was preceded in death by her parents, Elsie Bell and
Bizazidesni Denetdale; brother, Silas Yazhe and Andrew YazzieAndrew
Yazzie and sister, Ella Eagleman.
Pallbearers will be Benjamin Billy, Dennison Billy, Roger Billy, Robert
Lee Jr., Gregory Lee and Perry Yellowhair.
The family will receive friends and relatives after the burial services
at the family residence, Tohatchi.
Cope Memorial Chapel is in charge of arrangements.
Hugh M. Plummer
COYOTE CANYON - Services for Hugh Plummer, 81, were held at 10 a.m.,
Saturday, Feb. 8 at the Christian Reformed Church, Tohatchi. Rev. Milton
Shirleson officiated. Burial followed at Tohatchi Community Cemtery.
Plummer died Feb. 4 in Albuquerque. He was born Feb. 2, 1922 in Coyote
Canyon.
Survivors include his wife, Marie E. Plummer of Coyote Canyon; sons,
Wayne T. Plummer of Window Rock, Victor Plummer and Robert Plummer both of
Shiprock; daughters, Corrina Goodman of Farmington, Gladys Silversmith of
Tohatchi, Henrietta Lucero of Rio Rancho and Yvonne Plummer of Gallup;
stepchildren Martha Lahti, Lucinda Clark, E.T. Largo, Judy Casaus,
Claudette Torres and Jimmie Largo; brothers, Richard Plummer and Herman
Plummer of Coyote Canyon, Marshall Plummer of Farmington, Abe Plummer of
Tsaile, Ariz. and Ned Plummer Jr. of Naschitti; sisters, Sena P. Clark and
Alice Barber of Coyote Canyon, Rita Jazzie of Yah Ta Hey and Pearl Begay
of Tohatchi; 25 grandchildren and 31 great-grandchildren.
Plummer was preceded in death by his parents; son, Hugh Plummer Jr.;
daughters, Penni Plummer-Goodman and Debbie Plummer-Tso; sister, Marlene
Plummer and brothers, Harold Plummer and Edward O. Plummer.
February 12, 2003
Roselyn Lynn Yazzie
KLAGETOH, Ariz. - Services for Roselyn Yazzie, 39, will be held at 10 a.
m., Friday, Feb. 14 at Klagetoh Catholic Church. Burial will follow at
Klagetoh Community Cemetery.
Yazzie died Feb. 8 in Phoenix. She was born May 5, 1964 in Ganado, Ariz.
into the Towering House People Clan for the Salt People Clan.
Yazzie attended Wide Ruins Boarding School, Aneth, Utah. Her hobbies
included riding horses, drawing and traveling.
Survivors include her daughters, Carmelita Yazzie and Lucita Yazzie;
parents, Rose Bonnie and James Yazzie Sr.; brothers, Ted
Bonnie Jr., Leon Jones of Wide Ruins and James B. Yazzie Jr. of
Klagetoh; sisters, Beverline Bonnie, Bonita Bonnie, Jocelyn
Bonnie of Wide Ruins, Orlene Yazzie, Darlene Yazzie and Arlene Yazzie of
Klagtetoh; grandmother, Maggie Yazzie and one grandchild.
Yazzie was preceded in death by her brother Sammuel Bonnie.
The family will receive friends and relatives after the burial services
at Klagetoh Chapter House.
Tse Bonito Mortuary is in charge of arrangements.
February 14, 2003
Leonard N. Hunt
HOLBROOK, Ariz. - Services for Leonard Hunt, 52, will be held at 10 a.m.,
Saturday, Feb. 15 at Rollie Mortuary Palm Chapel. Pastor Scott Tafoya will
officiate. Burial will follow at Sunset Memorial Park.
Hunt died Feb. 11 at Holbrook. He was born March 21, 1950 in Gallup into
the Satl People Clan for the Meadow People Clan.
Survivors include his sons, Virgil Hunt and Riley Yazzie both of Bread
Springs; and sisters, Clara Bernal Kilburn of Gamerco, Christine Charley,
Carol Yazzie and Rosemary Yazzie all of Gallup.
Hunt was preceded in death by his parents, Caroline Hunt and Warren
Yazzie; brothers, Donald Yazzie and Jerry Yazzie; grandparents, Agnes and
Billy Long.
Pallbearers will be Roland Bernal, Arnold Joe, Larry Livingston Jr.,
Anthony Mike, Andy Patterson and Wilfred L. Tom.
Rollie Mortuary is in charge of arrangements.
Eric Begay
GALLUP - Services for Eric Begay, 31. will be held at 11 a.m., Saturday,
Feb. 15 at Grace Navajo Bpatist Church, Gallup.
Pastor Ted Farris will officiate. Burial will follow at Gallup City
Cemetery.
Begay died April 10 in Pinedale. He was born April 08, 1971 in Gallup
into the Meadow People Clan for the Bitter Water People Clan.
Begay attended Gallup High School. He worked for Gallup McKinley County
School at Gallup Junior High School, Giants Station, eastside of town and
Cal-Mart food Store. His hobbies included fishing and traveling.
Survivors include his wife, Magdalene Begay of Gallup; sons, Christian S.
Begay of Gallup; daughers, Amber T. Begay and Alyssa James of Gallup;
parents, Ernest Begay of Chinle, Ariz.; brothers, Ervin Begay , Eitol
Billie and Chicago of Tuners and sisters, Arlene Begay and Aretha Begay
both of Tiwn Buttes.
Begay was preceded in death by his mother, Angella Billie Begay and
grandparents, Mary and Jack Billie.
Pallbearers will be Ervin Begay, Robertson Chee, Elliot Yazzie, Errol
Billie, Tommy Nelson Jr. and T. J. Woods.
The family will receive friends and relatives after the burial services
at Grace Navajo Baptist Church.
Cope Memorial Chapel is in charge of arrangements.
Paul A. Natonabah
FORT DEFIANCE, Ariz. - Services for Paul Natonabah, 61, will be
announced at a later date.
Natonabah died Feb. 12 in Flagstaff. He was born Nov. 8, 1941 in Fort
Defiance into the Red Running into the Water People Clan for the Tangle
People Clan.
A family meeting will be held at 6:30 p.m., Saturday, at Good Shephard
Mission, Fort Defiance.
Rollie Mortuary is in charge of arrangements.
Copyright c. 2003 the Gallup Independent.
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February 15, 2003
Richard Charles Crow, Sr.
COLSTRIP - Richard "Dickie" Charles Crow, Sr., 59, died peacefully at
the St. Vincent Hospital, Feb. 11, 2003, in Billings, after a long illness.
He was born July 31, 1943, in Poplar, to Bea (Belton) and Quentin Crow,
Sr. Dickie attended schools in Poplar and Stephan, S.D. He worked as a
carpenter, firefighter, in forestry and was a certified butcher. He
married his constant companion, Faith Big Back, on May 5, 1995, in Lame
Deer.
Dickie was a very kindhearted man who was devoted to his family and
friends. He liked to hunt, fish, travel and drive up in the hills.
He is survived by his wife, Faith in Colstrip; mother, Bea Belton of
Poplar; brothers, Ronald (Stinker) Crow, Bill (Babes) Prichard and Robert
Belton of Poplar, Mike Crow of Grand Canyon, Ariz., Warren (Kathy) Crowe
of Great Falls and Mickey Crow of Browning; sisters, Rhonda Mason of Wolf
Point, Terry (Jim) Barrons of Poplar, Jo Ann Nevins and Alma Carlson of
Browning. His children are Richard Crow, Jr., of Pryor, Jonas, Macon and
Jesse of Rocky Boy; daughters, Michelle (Dennis) DeMarrias of Ft. Belknap,
DeAnna (Marvin) Shields of Poplar, Tiki (Willie) Crow, Sunny (Wayne) Crow
of Tucson, Ariz., Beatrice "Munchie" Crow of Rocky Boy, Lindy (Ronald)
Crow of Poplar.
He was preceded in death by his grandmother, Florence Davis; father,
Quentin Crow, Sr.; brothers, Quentin "Butch," Leonard, Duane and Merlin
Crow; and daughter, Tina Crow.
A wake will be held in Lame Deer, Saturday, Feb. 15, 7 p.m., at Nancy
Big Back's (his very special mother-in-law's) home. Services will be held
at the Mennonite Church at 2 p.m. Sunday, Feb. 16. He will then be brought
back to Fort Peck, where he was born and raised. Rosary will be held at
the Our Lady of Lourdes Church in Poplar on Sunday, at 7 p.m. A Mass will
be held at 10 a.m. Monday morning, Feb. 17, at the Church. Dickie will be
laid to rest where he requested to be buried, at the Riverside Cemetery.
Dinner will be served after the funeral at the Church Center.
Copyright c. The Billings Gazette, a division of Lee Enterprises.
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February 12, 2003
Jesse James Brown
PABLO - Jesse James Brown, 21, of Pablo, a member of the Confederated
Salish and Kootenai tribes and descendant of the Blackfeet Nation, died
Monday of injuries he received in an auto accident south of Polson.
Rosary is 8 this evening at Elmo Hall. Funeral Mass is 10 a.m. Thursday at
Elmo Hall, with burial on the Brown property at Pablo. Grogan Funeral Home
of Polson is in charge of arrangements.
Survivors include his wife, Tina, and children Destiny and Dakota, all
of Pablo; his father, Thomas Brown of Browning; brothers Justin Brown of
Pablo and Kyle Brown and Tony Brown of Browning; grandmothers Alpha Brown
and Marjorie Blixt; and grandfathers Jimmy Blixt of Niarada and Jerry
Nicholai of Hot Springs.
February 15, 2003
Merle Lee Big Bow Sr.
ROCKY BOY - Merle Lee Big Bow Sr., 49, a landscaper who enjoyed planting
trees and lawns, fishing and hunting, died Thursday at his home after a
short illness.
His funeral is 10 a.m. today at Our Savior's Lutheran Church in Rocky
Boy, with burial in Rocky Boy Cemetery. A fellowship luncheon will take
place at the church after the burial.
Survivors include his wife, Anna Marie Big Bow of Rocky Boy; sons Merle
Big Bow Jr. of Great Falls, Robert Big Bow of Billings and Brian Big Bow
of Rocky Boy; a daughter, Leah Big Bow of Queensville; sisters Mary Big
Bow of Pablo, Hazel Eagle Man of Rocky Boy, Frances Big Bow of Pocatello,
Idaho, and Carol Misquito of Maple Creek, Saskatchewan; and five
grandchildren.
Copyright c. 2003 Great Falls Tribune, a division of Lee Enterprises.
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February 14, 2003
Stephen Bernard
RCMP investigating death of native elder after body discovered in snow
LENNOX ISLAND, P.E.I. (CP) - Police are investigating the death of a
Mi'kmaq man found lying in the snow outside his home Thursday morning.
A family member discovered Stephen Bernard face down in the midst of
some trees near the end of his lane on the Lennox Island reserve.
RCMP Sgt. Richard Thibault said a hunting rifle was found near the body.
"There was no indication at the scene at the time yesterday that the gun
had any relation to the death of the person," Thibault said. He also said
the man had no visible injuries.
The 78-year-old man was dressed only in light clothing, which Thibault
described as either pyjamas or what one might wear around the house, and
slippers.
Bitterly cold temperatures and high winds whipped into the province
Wednesday night and into Thursday.
Police have been treating the death as suspicious, notes the RCMP
release.
Thibault said police could not determine what caused the man's sudden
death and in such cases they immediately begin an investigation.
"We may be dealing with someone who died from natural causes," Thibault
said. "But until then, we have to cover all the bases."
(Summerside Journal-Pioneer)
Copyright c. 2003, CANOE, a division of Netgraphe Inc.
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February 15, 2003
Dave Thomas
THOMAS, Dave - 65, of Fort Folly First Nation, passed away February 14,
2003, in Sackville Memorial Hospital. Born in Moncton, N.B., he was a son
of the Late Peter and Kathleen (Bernard) Thomas.
He was a member of the Canadian Navy serving a long prestigious career
of 25 years from 1954 to 1979, retiring with the rank of Petty Officer
First Class. After returning to Fort Folly, he went to work at the
Dorchester Penitentiary as supervisor of electronics.
Dave was the Chief of the Fort Folly First Nations for seven years from
1990 until his retirement in 1997. Dave will be sadly missed by his wife
of 23 years, Marion (Cady), Fort Folly; daughter, Michelle Soulodre,
Winnipeg, Man.; step-daughter, Linda Maddox (James), Dartmouth;
grandchildren; Ben, Valerie and Jason; four great-grandchildren; aunt,
Dorothy Nye, Dorchester; several cousins; half-brother; Patrick McCarron,
Florida; half-sisters; Marie Roberts, Oldtown, Me.; Kathleen McCarron,
Florida. He is predeceased by his brother, John.
The remains are resting in the Jones Funeral Home, 70 Bridge St.,
Sackville, N.B. (364-1300) where visiting will be held 7-9 p.m. Saturday
and 2-4, 7-9 p.m. Sunday.
The funeral service will be held 11 a.m. Monday, February 17, in Jones
Funeral Home. Burial will take place in the spring at the Beaumont
Cemetery.
Those wishing to make donations may do so to either the Heart and Stroke
Foundation or the Canadian Diabetes Association. On-line condolences may
be made to: www.jonesfuneralhome.ca
Copyright c. 2003 The Halifax Herald Limited.
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February 15, 2003
Laura LouiseAnn nee Okeeweekow La Rose
Regina, SK
It is with great sadnessthat the family announces thepeaceful passing of
Laura LouiseAnn La Rose (Louise Ann) nee Okeeweekow on Friday, February 14,
2003 in her 75th year, with her loving family at her side.
She was predeceased by her father Norman Okeeweekow; Gabriella (Dubois);
brothers Gordon, Ernest, Mervin and Clifford; sisters Edith, Gladys, Freda
and Betty; and daughter Gail Annette.
Louise Ann is survived by her faithful daughter Joanne, and children
Gerald, Jeanette, Geraldine, James, Germaine and Dale, Terrance and
Clarence. She is also survived by her grandson Lance; granddaughter Laurie
whom she raised as her own; twenty three special grandchildren, and
nineteen great grandchildren; and lifelong companion Hugh Campbell. In
addition, Louise Ann is survived by her brother Delbert; special lifelong
friend Red McDonald; and numerous nieces, nephews and many many cherished
friends.
Prayers will be said on Sunday, February 16, 2003 at 7:00 PM in the
Chapel of Lee Funeral Home, 3101 Dewdney Ave., Regina, SK.
The Wake will be held on Monday, February 17, 2003 at 5:00 PM in the
Kahnesewapit School Gymnasium, Muscowpetung First Nation.
The Funeral Service will be held on Tuesday, February 18, 2003 at 11:00
AM, also in the Kahnesewapit School Gymnasium. Burial will follow at the
Muscowpetung Cemetery.
A very grateful thank you to the staff at the Pasqua Hospital: Dr. Clein,
Ross Larden, nurses from 3B, Palliative Care, and 4A. A special heartfelt
thank you to homecare nurse Janice Ciebart. Arrangements are in the care
of LEE FUNERAL HOME 757-8645
Copyright c. 2000-2003 Regina Leader Post Group Inc.
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February 13, 2003
Harry Clinton Big Throat
It is with great sadness that we the family of HARRY CLINTON BIG THROAT
announce his sudden passing on Friday, February 7, 2003, at his residence
on the Blood Reserve with his son Clint Jr. at his side.
He is survived by his loving wife Sally whom he married on May 28, 1994
(27 years); two sons: Clinton Jr. and Wacey; daughter Sandy; brothers:
Lloyd (Grace), Cletus (Justine), and Max (Melody); sisters: Audrey (Ben
Scout), Laverne, Emily (Lee Heavy Shields), and Clara; adopted children:
Cameron Bruised Head, Dylan Twigg, Brandon Scout, and Taila Big Throat;
godchildren: Chantel Scout, Logan Heavy Shields; numerous nieces and
nephews; grandparents, Mr. & Mrs. Jim Young Pine; uncles: Justin, Homer
(Bertha), and Randy (Lois) Young Pine; aunties: Pauline Healy, Theresa
Black Water (Stanley), Donna Big Throat, Veronica Brewer (Ray), Christine
Good Dagger (George), Adeline Young Pine, Jenny Solway, Stella (Leo
Russell); numerous cousins, grand uncles and aunts George Day Rider, Annie
Theresa Young Pine, Odile Day Chief, Rita Rabbit; and his mother-in-law,
Verden Chief Moon.
He was predeceased by his parents, Mr. & Mrs. Max Big Throat; his
brother Orville; paternal grandparents, Mr. & Mrs. Harry Big Throat;
uncles: Horace Big Throat, Kelly and Elroy Young Pine, Evelyn and Eugene
Twigg, Celina Twigg, Albert Plume; and numerous nieces and cousins: Pat,
Paula Weasel Head, Mr. & Mrs. Jim Big Throat, Barney Day Rider, Albert Day
Rider, Raymond Young Pine, and Jerry Young Pine.
Clinton was born on June 16, 1957 to Max and Annabella Big Throat. Our
family considered him a very special gift. After losing three unborn
infants, Clint was born on Father's Day. This was why our late grandfather
Harry Big Throat named him "KAAMATSISTAAWASII" which means "Happy to
Grow!" He was the eldest of nine children and also the eldest grandchild
of Mr. & Mrs. Jim Young Pine. He received his education in Standoff,
Granum, Fort Macleod, and St. Mary's High School. Clinton was a very
athletic person who loved all sports; hockey & rodeos being his greatest
love. In 1980 after he survived a major operation that left him with
Diabetes, he retired from hockey. He continued to support his sons,
brothers, nephews in sports of rodeo. Clinton farmed and ranched with his
late parents and his brothers. He will be sadly missed by his family and
friends.
A Wake Service will be held at ST. MARY'S IMMACULATE CONCEPTION CHURCH,
Blood Reserve, on Friday, February 14, 2003 from 6:00 P.M. to 11:00 P.M.
A Funeral Mass will be celebrated at ST. MARY'S IMMACULATE CONCEPTION
CHURCH, Blood Reserve, on Saturday, February 15, 2003 at 12:00 Noon with
Reverend Les Kwiatkowski O.M.I. Celebrant. Interment to follow at St.
Catherine's Cemetery.
Andrew James Wolf Child
ANDREW JAMES WOLF CHILD (KIIHTSIPIAPI'SI) passed away February 7, 2003,
surrounded by his loving family, at the Lethbridge Regional Hospital,
after a brief illness, at the age of 86 years.
Andrew (Mac) was born on the Blood Reserve August 31, 1916 to Harry and
Jane Wolf Child. He was raised by his maternal grandparents, Mr. and Mrs.
John Striped Wolf, from a young age, after his parents died. Andrew was
educated at the St. Mary's Residential School on the Blood Reserve. Andrew
was humble, kind, spiritual, and religious, as well as a deeply
traditional person who believed in and lived according to the traditional
and customary beliefs and practices of his tribe. He was a member of the
Horn Society for 29 years altogether. His last spiritual partners in the
Horn Society were Jeffrey Bull Shields, his wife Vicky, and the late John
Yellow Horn. He was also a member the Brave Dog Society and Coin Society.
He was the last surviving member of the Pigeon Society prior to its last
resurrection by others. Andrew's religious beliefs were reflected by his
acceptance of all Christian denominations. These were existent throughout
his life as were his traditional religious beliefs. For the last few years
he has been an active member of the Full Gospel Church. He would go to
gospel camp meetings with his nephew Gabriel Gros Ventre Boy and his
family. He enjoyed going to these meetings. Andrew had strong ethics and
morals that comprised of the mental and physical aspects of humanity.
These were evident in his spiritual, religious, and personal life. He
lived by the guiding principles of hard work and maintaining good physical
health. His family was also an important part of his life. He took care of
his younger relatives, always ensuring everyone was well. He was also a
spiritual advisor to his nephews and nieces.
Andrew considered his nieces, nephews, and cousins as his brothers,
sisters, and children because he never had a family of his own. He is
survived by his nephew and caregiver Gabriel (Erlena) Gros Ventre Boy and
their children Blaine and Christy; his adopted brothers Tom (Phyllis) Holy
Singer, Steve (Elsie) Mistaken Chief; nephews David (Evelyn) Striped Wolf,
Urban Calling Last, Clement Black Rabbit, Andy and Kevin Stump; brother-
in-law Pete Gros Ventre Boy; adopted sisters Mary Louise (Norbert) Fox,
Mabel Beebe, Mae (Pete) Knife, Teresa (Alphonse) White Man Left, and
Elizabeth Red Crow; cousins, Bruce (Ann Marie) Wolf Child, Alice (Gerald)
Shepard, Albert (Elizabeth) Hunt, Albert Wolf Child, Margaret (Jim) Young
Pine, and Jeffrey (Vicky) Bull Shields; adopted grand- nephews Randy,
Wesley (Maureen), Randolph, and Deanie (April) Gros Ventre Boy, Louis,
Marvin, Nick, Deon Gros Ventre Boy, Reno Shouting, and Lloyd Striped Wolf,
Norbert, Vince, and Shawn Many Grey Horses, and David Jr., Lloyd, Dwayne,
Jamie Good Rider; adopted grand-nieces Shelly and Tamie Many Grey Horses,
and Shirley Good Rider; Caroline and Cheryl Striped Wolf, Carolyn (Jason)
and Brett Gros Ventre Boy, Dana Gros Ventre Boy and Kelly Eagle
Tailfeathers; special cousins Stanley Black Water, Billy Eagle Bear, Clive
First Rider, Joe Beebe, Annie Bare Shin Bone, Rachel Crying Head, Julia
Morgan, Mary, Margaret, Rosabelle and Nora First Rider, and Chris (Suzy)
Strangling Wolf.
Andrew was predeceased by his parents; maternal and paternal
grandparents; uncles Philip Aberdeen Sr., Frank Holy Singer, Nick and
George Striped Wolf, John Many Chief Sr., Guy and Edward Wolf Child; aunts
Mary Many Chief, Agnes Eagle Bear, Annie White Man Left, Mrs. Rides At The
Door, and Mary Rose Low Horn; sister Ruby Gros Ventre Boy; brothers Harold
and Meldon John Striped Wolf; nieces Clara Crying Head, Judy Gros Ventre
Boy, Brenda Many Grey Horses; nephews Duane Black Rabbit, Melvin and
Travis Many Grey Horses, Timothy and Harold Jr. Striped Wolf; other
numerous nephews, nieces, and cousins; and his best friends Paul Hairy
Bull and Edward Little Bear.
Andrew's family tree is comprised of his relatives by the surnames of
Crowshoe, Crow Eagle, North Peigan, Born With A Tooth, Gier, Weasel Bear
from the Peigan Nation; Striped Wolf, Mistaken Chief, Eagle Bear, First
Rider, Bare Shin Bone, Bull Shields, Black Water, Medicine Crane, and Low
Horn from Kainai; Harrison, Many Hides, and Wagner from the Blackfeet
Reservation in Browning, Montana; and Yellow Sun and Turning Robe from
Siksika. The immediate family apologizes for omissions of numerous other
relatives not mentioned.
The Wake Service will be held on Thursday, February 13th at Senator
Gladstone Hall, Blood Reserve from 7 to 11:00 p.m. and will continue at
the residence of Gabriel Gros Ventre Boy, Blood Reserve. The Funeral
Service will be held at Senator Gladstone Hall, Blood Reserve on Friday,
February 14th, 2003 at 11:00 a.m. Interment in the Blood Band Cemetery,
Blood Reserve.
February 16, 2003
Annie Cotton
On February 10, 2003, ANNIE COTTON was called home to be with her Lord
and Saviour Jesus Christ in heaven. Surrounded by family and friends, she
passed away peacefully. Her life was filled with the blessings of God. She
passed away knowing that she had served God faithfully.
A Wake Service will be held at the Kainai Gospel Church, Standoff on
Sunday, February 16, 2003 beginning at 6:00 p.m. and will continue at the
Annie Cotton residence at 11:00 p.m.
The Funeral Service will be held at Senator Gladstone Hall on Monday,
February 17, 2003 at 11:00 a.m. with Pastor Jim Knowlton and Rev. Boyd
Thomas officiating.
Interment in St. Catherine's Cemetery. If friends desire, memorial
donations may be made in Annie's memory to the Native Outreach Church,
General Delivery, Fort Macleod, AB. T0L 0Z0.
Copyright c. 2000 Alberta Newspaper Group, Inc./Lethbridge Herald.
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Ties that bound only one side: Treaty rights explored
February 15, 2003
The United States Government has entered into well over 600 treaties with
Native American Nations since 1776 and 371 of these were ratified by
Congress.
Theoretically, this means that there are a lot of binding words out
there. Realistically, there aren't.
The term "Indian Giver" didn't make it into everyday speech because
tribes would give things and then take them back - it was the other way
around.
The Dakota Treaty Conference was held last week out at Jackpot Junction
and tribal members from many different states and Canada took part in the
three-day long ongoing discussion.
It was not an anti-establishment festival, nor was it a eulogy for the
way things could have been.
The conference was an in-depth look at the status of the various
treaties the southern Minnesota Native Americans signed with the state and
federal government over the course of the 19th century.
James McGuire, an attorney from New York involved in a couple of
groundbreaking legal actions involving tribal governments and the federal
government out west, spent two hours outlining the history of treaties in
Southern Minnesota and any present-day ramifications they might have.
"I'll give you information about the treaty and what the government's
position is on it today," he said. "Please don't shoot the messenger."
Starting with Pike's Purchase, dated Sept. 23, 1805, the federal
government exchanged money for land - in this case, the Native Americans
ceded tracts of land at the base of the Minnesota and Mississippi Rivers.
"This was - and maybe still is - your land," McGuire said, explaining
that current tribal members who can trace their lineage back to the treaty
era - and can show that they were not represented - must, by legal
definition, be allowed aboriginal rights to the land itself - many rights
removed over the course of a century.
The Treaties of Aug. 19, 1825 and July 15, 1830 followed. The various
tribes were warring - and the government brokered a cease fire - and took
two million acres in the process.
The Treaty with the Sioux of 1836 noted what land each tribal unit still
had. In the Treaty of the following year, the Mdewakenton ceded 5 million
acres - "All Sioux Land East of the Mississippi."
"Normally, when you give away that much land, you get something in
return," McGuire said, noting that this treaty was extensively litigated
from 1920 into the 1960s. Claims were made and the occasional tribe, group
or individual came away with some recognition or financial award.
"If we play the treaty rights game, we are playing a game that that the
outcome has already been decided," Francis Yellow, a Cheyenne River
Reservation delegate to the Convention, said. "We are looking out over a
huge cultural divide. Someday future generations will return to these same
questions - and if we don't remember spiritual law, what are we going to
give them?"
The next treaty between the Minnesota bands and the government stands
out as one of the reasons of the U.S.-Dakota War of 1862.
Traverse des Sioux was been a crossroads and meeting place for centuries.
American Indians gathered there to hunt and traverse the river using the
shallow crossing just north of present day St. Peter. During the 1800s,
they were joined by Europeans who came here to trade furs and farm the
fertile prairie.
In 1851, the U.S. government signed a treaty with the Sisseton and
Wahpeton bands of the Dakota Indians at this spot.
This treaty opened millions of acres to land-hungry settlers and
speculators, while at the same time reduced tribal land to two strips of
land along the upper Minnesota River (the tribes relinquished rights to
more than 25 million acres in this document). The agreed-upon price: $1.4
million, to be paid out over the course of 50 years. In 1858, the annuity
amount was increased and half of the land (north of the Minnesota River)
was surrendered.
Traverse des Sioux grew into a small town, complete with five taverns,
two hotels, several churches, some 70 buildings and a population of about
300.
In 1856, St. Peter was chosen as the county seat. By 1869, nothing was
left of the once-booming town of Traverse des Sioux.
In fact, Traverse des Sioux would have fallen off the map completely,
also Beaver Falls, had the name not been attached to the treaty.
At the time the treaty was signed, the Sioux Nation stretched from Red
Wing over to the Rocky mountains. The Dakota (the four easternmost of the
seven tribes) signed the treaty: The Mdewakanton, the Wahpekute, the
Sisseton and the Wahpeton.
There were an estimated 7,000 tribal members living at the Upper and
Lower Agencies when war erupted in 1862.
To the victor went the spoils.
The federal government pushed through legislation the following year
that nullified all of the previous treaties with the tribes. This also has
been in the courts through the years.
Even as this group convened and spoke of problems with the government,
it needs to be mentioned that many of the delegates wore their patriotism
on their sleeves.
A delegation of Lower Sioux Military Veterans presented the nation's
colors before the activities of each day, and took them down at the close.
- Daryl Thul
Copyright c. 2003 Redwood Falls Gazette.
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UKB Attorney General issues opinion on voting issue
By: Eddie Glenn, Press Staff Writer
February 10, 2003
A dispute between United Keetoowah Band council members over which
members have voting rights has, at least for now, been settled by the UKB
Attorney General.
According to the Keetoowah Tribal Justice Act, "The supreme governing
body of the tribe shall be the Council of the United Keetoowah Band of
Cherokee Indians in Oklahoma. The council shall consist of nine members
male or female, 21 years of age or over, elected to represent the nine
districts of the old Cherokee Nation and four officers, elected at large a
provided in Article VI." The officers elected at large are the chief,
assistant chief, secretary, and treasurer.
A majority of the council members however, have contended that the
assistant chief, secretary, and treasurer did not have voting rights on
the council. The chief votes only in the event of a tie vote.
UKB Attorney General Ken Bellmard issued an opinion on the matter,
stating that the conjunction "and" in the above section of the Keetoowah
Tribal Justice Act indicates that the council is made up of 13 members -
nine elected from the districts and four officers elected at large.
"If someone disagrees with my opinion, they can certainly take it to the
Keetoowah court," said Bellmard.
Copyright c. 2003 Tahlequah Daily Press.
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Talks continue on tribes' land issues
But no proposals yet
By LEE JUILLERAT
February 12, 2003
Discussions involving land and water issues are ongoing between the
Klamath Tribes and top officials in the Interior Department, but no
proposals have yet been developed.
"What we're trying to do is figure out what a specific proposal would be.
We're nowhere near having one yet," said Bill Bettenberg, director of
Interior's Office of Policy Analysis, who is leading negotiations with
tribal leaders.
Last summer, Interior Secretary Gale Norton agreed to open discussions
with tribal leaders on ideas that could return former reservation lands to
the tribe and ease water concerns. The tribes have senior water rights,
but those rights have not been quantified.
Bettenberg said tribal leaders are interested in obtaining national
forest lands, including a large portion of the Chiloquin Ranger District.
"It's very much a conceptual beginning," said Bettenberg of discussions.
He is scheduled to visit with tribal leaders later this month.
The tribes have long expressed a desire to get back 692,000 acres of
reservation lands liquidated by the federal government in the 1960s and
'70s that are now part of the Fremont-Winema National Forests. The Klamath
Tribes, which includes the Klamath, Modoc and Yahooskin band of Paiute
tribes, had a reservation that covered 1.2 million acres and a thriving
timber economy when the tribe was terminated in 1954.
The tribes have been holding a series of community meetings to help its
"working group" establish recommendations to a general council meeting set
for 10 a.m., Feb. 22, at Mills Auditorium.
At the general council, the working group will make a recommendation "as
to the direction the tribes should take in talks with the U.S.," according
to a letter from tribal chairman Allen Foreman.
"Today we live in an age of possibility," said Foreman. "Sixteen years
ago we moved from a status of non-recognition to a recognized government
heavily dependent on the United States for our survival and economic well
being. Now we have a chance to move to an age of independence."
Foreman urges immediate action, noting, "For the first time in a
generation we have high-level government officials seriously discussing
the return of our homelands. Because of this we now have a rare and a
priceless opportunity to overcome the persistent problems and burdens that
were brought to us by termination."
Bettenberg emphasized the discussions are aimed at long-term solutions
that will benefit the tribes and ease water concerns.
"I'm not involved in anything that's short-term," said Bettenberg. "I'm
not involved in the operating plan or that sort of thing. If we can come
up with good proposals that can gain broad community support, those would
need to be turned into legislation."
Bettenberg, who has made several Klamath Basin visits, termed the
problems "pretty complex. For an irrigation project there is an unusually
small amount of water storage. That means it's difficult to even out dry
and wet years."
Along with discussions with tribal leaders, Bettenberg has met with
water users, "But just to tell them we're in an early conceptual stage.
Everybody understands we ultimately will have to have proposals that will
generate broad community support."
No immediate public meetings are planned, he said, because, "If we had a
big community meeting the first question would be, 'What's being
proposed?' At this point, nothing."
Regional Editor Lee Juillerat covers Lake, Siskiyou, Modoc and northern
Klamath counties. He can be reached at 885-4421, (800) 275-0982,
or by e-mail at lee@heraldandnews.com.
Copyright c. 2003 Herald and News. All Rights Reserved.
--------- "RE: Samish/City pledge to Join Forces" ---------
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Samish, city pledge to join forces on mutual issues
February 12, 2003
By NANCY WALBECK, American staff writer
Samish Tribal Chairman Ken Hansen promised the city of Anacortes there
would be "no surprises" while the tribe does business in the Anacortes
community.
Mayor Dean Maxwell pledged the same, saying the city will keep its
"lines of communications open" to the tribe.
"This is key. We have to make sure the phone lines are open, for the
benefit of the community and the region," Maxwell said Monday night at the
Fidalgo Bay RV park.
The meeting between the Samish tribal council and the city council was
the first of its kind, in the form of a council study session.
Foremost, both groups said, was continuing a longstanding partnership
that has been, for the most part, cordial. Now, Hansen and Tribal General
Manager Rick Landers said, is the time to formalize agreements between the
parties.
"There is a lot the tribe can offer the city, and the city can offer the
tribe," Hansen said.
The Samish Tribe, more than 800 members now, is part of the Coast Salish
and is considered the dominant group in Western Skagit County and the San
Juan Islands.
Through a federal bureaucratic error, however, the tribe lost its tribal
designation under treaty status.
After a long legal battle, those rights were restored a few years ago.
Since then, and even before, the tribe has established business and social
service entities in the community.
For instance, the tribe has a day-care and Head Start program in the
city as well as a daily lunch program for senior citizens. The tribe also
is planning to build homes on property near Lake Campbell and is
negotiating to buy the RV park.
Hansen and Maxwell said that both city council and the tribal council
have similar goals. Both want to provide jobs for Fidalgo Island residents
and the affordable housing that should go with it.
Maxwell urged the tribe to partner with the city on redeveloping the
Wilson Hotel, a 19th century building at Eighth Street and Commercial
Avenue. The structure needs to be refurbished, but little money is
available to do so, Maxwell said.
The tribe, however, has tax credits it can use for redevelopment, in
cooperation with others, Landers said.
"You have access to money we don't have. There used to be 40 to 60
apartments in the glory days," Maxwell told Hansen.
Tribal members said they were interested, although uncertain at this
stage, how to help the hotel project.
Hansen did say that the tribe supports retaining the international ferry
run between Anacortes and Sydney, for cultural as well as economic reasons.
Hansen said the city can use the services of the tribe's lobbyist, in
Olympia and Washington, D.C., if that would help the city's case.
The city also had some help to offer, about $100,000 toward completion
of the Tommy Thompson Trail, which lies in and around the RV park. The
city has that money as part of a grant that wasn't used, and needs to be
spent before year's end.
Other issues were discussed informally, but with the underlying
consensus that more formal agreements on public safety, such as fire and
police, among other issues, will be set out in what is called memoranda of
understanding or agreement.
These formal declarations, often used to establish jurisdictional and
legal areas of concern among and between governmental parties, will be the
next step, Hansen and Maxwell agreed.
"There is a potential from both sides, at the staff level, for
agreements on planning, law enforcement, the fire department," Landers
said.
Copyright c. 2002-2003 Skagit valley Publishing/Anacortes American.
--------- "RE: Are Navajos receiving Gas, Oil Royalty Checks?" ---------
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Are Navajos receiving gas, oil royalty checks?
By Jim Snyder/Shiprock Bureau
Friday, February 14, 2003
NAGEEZI - Have Navajos received their full gas and oil royalty checks or
not? It depends upon who is giving the answer. One local Interior
Department official says yes, while a Navajo official says no.
Navajos living in the eastern "checkerboard" region of the Navajo
reservation have been receiving gas and oil royalty checks from the
Interior Department, said Kevin Gambrell Thursday. Gambrell is director of
the Farmington Indian Minerals Office.
"Landowners are getting their checks. They have been for the last six
months," he said, despite the fact that his office's computers still
cannot communicate with the Bureau of Indian Affairs office in Gallup,
Albuquerque or Washington.
Nageezi Chapter President Calvert Garcia said those checks are estimates
only some of which were underpaid and not all allottees get them each
month.
"Kevin is employed by the BIA. Their numbers are somewhat different,"
Garcia said. "They will tell you they (allottees) are getting their checks.
People have gotten last year's estimated payments ... if you ask certain
individuals, they will tell you that they have not received a check since
last year."
Adding to Garcia's problems is the fact that the Interior Department has
ordered its employees not to comment on the Cobell verses Norton lawsuit,
which prompted the disruption of those full royalty payments last year.
The lawsuit was a top agenda item during a community meeting Thursday at
the Nageezi Chapter.
"We cannot talk about that, it is under a court order," Gambrell said to
more than 150 Navajos sitting in the multipurpose building.
The lawsuit demands the government make a full accounting of the money
that 300,000 Native Americans are owed across the country.
"The mismanaged trust accounts amounts to billions of dollars in lost
revenue to our tribal members who have oil and gas resources that are
leased," Garcia said.
U.S. District Judge Royce Lamberth, who is overseeing the lawsuit,
ordered the Interior Department to shut down its Internet sites and stay
offline in December 2001. That disruption caused a complex system of
royalty payments to totally break down, prompting an investigation last
year by U.S. Sen. Jeff Bingaman, D-N.M.
Gas and oil companies using land belonging to a Navajo family, for
example, pay royalty payments due those owners to the U.S. government, who
in turns pays the family. That system is antiquated and needs to be
revamped, Garcia has said.
The court order reads in part: Parties to the litigation, their agents
and officials, and their counsel shall not communicate, through the U.S.
mail or any other mode of communication, with any class member in this
litigation regarding this litigation or the claims involved therein.
"They have been told not to comment on the lawsuit, they've been told to
be real positive," Garcia said. He added that "An order was given by
Secretary (of the Interior Gale) Norton that anybody who says anything
negative about the lawsuit, their job is on the line."
Garcia said he held the meeting because he would like to see
coordination between the Navajos and the BIA to settle the matter.
"We're not seeing any progress," he said after the meeting.
Also attending the meeting was Navajo Vice President Frank Dayish Jr.,
Navajo Council Speaker Lawrence Morgan and Hogback Chapter Council
Delegate Ervin Keeswood, chairman of the Navajo Government Services
Committee and other Navajo officials.
"At least we addressed (the problems) to new leadership," Garcia said,
adding that was the only thing really accomplished at the meeting. "We are
dealing with a big bureaucracy the BIA government," he added, saying a lot
of changes are needed in Washington. "The trust responsibility, they (the
U.S.) doesn't realize how much the population has grown ... they can't
fulfill their obligation."
Garcia has said he would like to see the BIA taken out of the equation.
"The Navajo government has to create a reform solution on their own on
how they can have solutions without involving the BIA," he said.
Those solutions, according to Garcia, would include appointing Navajo
allottees to formulate a plan and develop a database and trust management
center. Garcia also recommends the consolidation of all trust activities
from the Mineral Management Service, the Office of Trust Fund Management
and the BIA.
Lastly, he recommends appointing a trust reform director at the local
level.
"Creating a database-trust management center will enable Navajo
allottees to utilize a one-stop shop to have their royalty benefit
processed at one area," Garcia said. "This center should be located in
Farmington where most Navajo allottees who receive IIM (Individual Indian
Monies) reside."
Jim Snyder: jims@daily-times.com
Copyright c. 1999-2003 MediaNews Group, Inc./Farmington, NM.
--------- "RE: Kiowa Tribe given Impossible Ultimatum" ---------
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Kiowa Tribe given impossible ultimatum leaders say
By Louis Gray
General Manager
February 14, 2003
Kiowa Tribal leaders say the BIA is giving them an impossible deadline to
meet in order to stave off a Federal take-over of programs. The Bureau of
Indian Affairs has given the Kiowa Tribe 45 days to comply with 24
measures or lose control of its three largest, federally funded programs.
The 7 page letter was sent to the Kiowa tribe on January 27 diving them
short deadline to clear up problems at the Carnegie based tribe. Vice-
Chairman Hess Bointy said it's "impossible" to meet all of the demands in
the short amount of time given by the BIA.
"We are responding by letter point by point," Bointy said in regards to
the demands. He said the unreasonable demands amount to "harassment" by
BIA officials and believes the move is "politically motivated."
Bointy said Donald Tofpi the BIA official who wrote the letter is
related to many of the people trying to undermine the KBC business
committee.
There has been a conflict on the KBC between the leadership and
committee members. There have been few meetings and the conflict has at
times been violent and resulted in poor communication. The BIA has labeled
the Kiowa Tribe as "high risk," and past financial reporting has revealed
financial problems from 1998 to 2002.
Bointy said if the BIA takes over they might keep the employees as
contractors or actually take over operations themselves.
"I don't believe they want to do either of those things," Bointy said.
BIA officials have said in published reports that they would run the
programs.
Copyright c. 2000-2001 Oklahoma Indian Times, Inc.
--------- "RE: Gas well OK'd for National Monument" ---------
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Gas well OK'd for national monument
The Daily Times
February 13, 2003
DOLORES, Colo. Based on the results of an environmental assessment, the
Bureau of Land Management has issued a Finding of No Significant Impact
and Decision Record regarding Questar Exploration and Production's
proposal to drill one conventional gas well.
The well is located on Mockingbird Mesa in the Canyons of the Ancients
National Monument, about 18 miles northwest Cortez, Colo., Ann Bond with
the San Juan Public Lands Center said in a news release Tuesday.
Questar's proposal calls for 1.5 acres of federal lands to be cleared of
vegetation, leveled, graded, and surfaced with gravel, if necessary, for
the well pad site. The associated road and pipeline would disturb 2.5
acres of federal lands. The EA addresses potential impacts on natural and
cultural resources in the project area of construction, operation,
reclamation and abandonment of the wells associated with approval of
Questar's Application for Permit to Drill. The well would be accessed
through an existing locked access gate on a native-surfaced oil and gas
access road on Mockingbird Mesa in Montezuma County.
About 85 percent of CANM is leased for oil and gas resources. The
Monument Proclamation states that development of existing leases is
allowed, subject to valid and existing rights, when those activities do
not create new impacts that would interfere with proper care and
management of the objects protected by the proclamation.
The planned drilling depth of about 6,600 feet would target the Ismay
and Desert Creek formations of the Paradox Group on an existing oil and
gas lease issued by the BLM. The Proposed Action conforms to the BLM's San
Juan/San Miguel Resource Management Plan of 1985 and to Interim Management
Guidelines for the Monument.
The BLM prepared an environmental assessment that was open for public
comments. Five comment letters were received. Some of the issues of
concern included cultural resources, air quality, noise, and recreation.
The environmental assessment has considered potential impacts and
identified mitigations to minimize or prevent these impacts.
Hard copies of the Decision Record, FONSI and EA are available at:
Dolores Public Lands Center, 100 North Sixth Street, P.O. Box 210, Dolores,
CO 81323, and San Juan Public Lands Center, 15 Burnett Court, Durango, CO
81301.
Information: Dave Swanson, (970) 385-1370.
The EA is also available on the Web at:
http://www.co.blm.gov/canm/index.html
http://www.co.blm.gov/sjra/index.html
Copyright c. 1999-2003 MediaNews Group, Inc./Farmington, NM.
--------- "RE: Hualapai oppose Red Lake Gas Storage Project" ---------
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Hualapai Nation stands firm in opposition of proposed
Red Lake Gas Storage Project
By Linda Stelp
Miner Staff Writer
February 15, 2003
The Hualapai Nation continues to firmly oppose the Red Lake Gas storage
project, tribal council members told project consultants and a federal
official Wednesday.
Representatives from Aquila, the company proposing the natural gas
storage project, and several consultants speaking on behalf of the project
- including a geologist, a Washington D.C. lawyer and environmental
experts - met with the Hualapai Nation Tribal Council and tribal
environmental consultants.
"We thought this meeting was to give us information about the project,"
said chairwoman Carrie Imus, during the meeting. "We did not realize that
the purpose of this meeting is to encourage us to change our position from
that of an intervener to a cooperating agency."
During and after an Aquila presentation, Rafael Montag, representative
of the Federal Energy Regulatory Commission project manager, repeatedly
asked tribal council members to consider changing their status from that
of an intervener - an agency that does not agree to the project, but must
be informed in writing of all proceedings - to a cooperating agency.
"You have a lot of environment and cultural concerns," Montag said. "The
Hualapai Nation could be a cooperating agency in the environment
assessment, but an intervener cannot also be a cooperating agency.
"As a cooperator you will have a role in preparing the environmental
assessment for the proposed Red Lake project," he said. "We want the
involvement of the Hualapai Nation."
Councilman Wilford Whataname Sr. asked why - with all the environmental
concerns from opponents of the project in Kingman and the Hualapai Nation
- a more detailed Environmental Impact Study of the project has not been
conducted.
"I don't have the specifics as to why an EIS was not prepared," Montag
said. "We look at impacts to the environment. If they cannot be
significantly addressed at the EA (environmental assessment) level, it
goes to EIS, which is more detailed."
Council members and consultants asked questions about water and air
quality and expressed concern about the project. An underground natural
gas storage facility would be built 30 miles north of Kingman and just
miles from the reservation.
Aquila, an energy holding company based in Kansas City, bought the
storage project from Southwest Gas Corp. in January 2002, intending to
build the storage facility with pipelines connecting it to interstate
natural gas pipelines.
The sale included 36,000 acres and the right to develop a salt cavern
storage facility and the water and mineral rights needed to build it.
The project would include two underground salt caverns, about 52 miles
of various diameter pipeline, equipment to generate 34,000 horsepower of
compression and auxiliary gas storage facilities.
In documents dated Jan. 30, the Federal Energy Regulatory Commission
(FERC) stated the Red Lake project fulfills the public need for additional
gas storage but that an environmental assessment would be needed.
Geologist Lantz Indergard, a remediation and resource specialist for
Arcadis, an environmental firm in Phoenix, explained that only brackish
(very salty) water would be used for the project.
However Don Bay, Director of Natural Resources for the Hualapai Nation,
expressed concerns about the water.
"You say you are using only brackish water, not fresh water, but if the
extended drought in the Southwest continues, we many need to recycle that
brackish water someday," Bay said. "Some communities are already recycling
brackish water."
Tribal resource specialist Loretta Jackson said Red Lake is a place of
cultural significance to the tribe, and as such is protected under the law.
"We look at the needs of our children and their children," Whataname
said. "You come here and say you want to build a plant, but you are not
going to live here. We are taking the risks with the project, but get none
of the benefits."
Council member Sherry Counts agreed.
"FERC asked us and is continuing to ask us to be a cooperating agency,
but you are asking us to give up our rights. We have to make a statement
here," Counts said. "Once we say we will cooperate, we have no more say."
The Red Lake Gas Storage Project will cost from $150 million to $200
million to build and about $1.5 million a year to operate, Cook said.
The Aquila team addressed air quality issues, stating air emissions will
be insignificant, with air quality most affected during the construction
phase of the project.
Although the issue of salt contimination the fresh water supply was
raised at the meeting, Indergard stated there is little danger of that
happening.
"We will use only brackish water, which occurs at depths greater than
1000 feet below ground surface, and the total mount of the brackish water
necessary to complete the facility represents less than 0.08 percent of
the available groundwater supply," he said.
After the meeting Indergard said the greatest risk from the project
comes not from the salt but from the natural gas at the connecting point
where the natural gas goes from one of three interstate pipelines into
pipes leading to the storage facility; and gas at the Red Lake well.
At the end of the meeting Imus spoke on behalf of the council.
"The Hualapai Nation will continue as interveners for the Red Lake
Project," she said.
Red Lake Gas Storage project manager Mark Cook said the gas storage
facility is needed to supply more natural gas to all communities.
"Making more natural gas available will benefit everyone," Cook said.
"Rates are going to be cheaper, and it will increase the value of that
land, generating more taxes."
Copyright c. 2003 Kingman Daily Miner.
--------- "RE: Report finds Mine could harm Sacred Lake" ---------
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Report Finds Mine Could Harm Sacred Lake
By BEN NEARY | The New Mexican 02/13/2003
An Arizona power company's plan to pump groundwater for a huge coal mine
in western New Mexico could harm a lake sacred to Zuni Pueblo, a new
hydrology report commissioned by the pueblo says.
For years, Zuni Pueblo has opposed plans by the Salt River Project, an
Arizona utility company, to develop the proposed 18,000-acre Fence Lake
Mine on the border of Catron and Cibola counties.
Zuni Gov. Arlen P. Quetawki Sr. wrote to officials at the U.S.
Department of Interior last week stating the new report by the pueblo's
hydrology consultant, Glorieta Geoscience of Santa Fe, shows pumping water
from the Atarque aquifer at the mine site could harm the lake.
The report shows the federal government should prohibit SRP from pumping
water from the aquifer, Quetawki told the federal officials.
The report states that the Atarque aquifer is continuous between the
mine site and the lake.
"The Atarque is one of several important sources of water and salts to
the Zuni Salt Lake," the report notes.
Salt River Project proposes to pump 85 gallons of water a minute from
the ground at the mine site. Most of the water would be used for dust
suppression. Plans call for mining to continue at the site for 40 years.
In response to Zuni's past demands for hydrology tests, the government
last year blocked SRP from using the Dakota Aquifer, the other main
aquifer in the area.
If the federal government grants the pueblo's request to block SRP from
pumping from the Atarque aquifer, it could be fatal to the mine project.
An attempt to reach Nedra Darling, a spokeswoman for the U.S. Bureau of
Indian Affairs in Washington, D.C., for comment was unsuccessful Wednesday.
The mine site is about 10 miles north of Zuni Salt Lake, an area sacred
to the Zunis and other Indians in the Southwest. Brine flows from the
ground at the lake, and Indians use the salt in religious ceremonies.
Plans call for SRP to build a rail line to carry coal from the mine to a
power plant in St. John's, Ariz., just across the state line.
Robert L. Barnard, the mine-project manager for SRP in Scottsdale, Ariz.,
said Wednesday that the company hasn't yet reviewed the pueblo's new
hydrology report. He said none of the company's studies would agree with
any conclusion that pumping water from the Atarque aquifer would harm the
salt lake.
"We're moving right along for construction starting this summer and for
coal to be delivered in 2005," Barnard said.
Copyright c. 2003 Santa Fe New Mexican.
--------- "RE: House passes Sandia Land Claim" ---------
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House passes Sandia land claim as part of spending bill
02/14/2003
(Albuquerque-AP) - Twenty-three years of negotiation have brought the
Sandia Land Claim Act to its final step.
The measure containing the settlement is included in the spending bill
approved by Congress Thursday night. It is now headed to President Bush.
The measure includes benefits for all those who participated in the
negotiations.
Sandia Pueblo Governor Stuwart Paisano he's excited. He says most of his
forefathers that started this process are no longer around.
Paisano says the pueblo is one step away from preserving and protecting
the Sandia Mountains.
Senators Pete Domenici and Jeff Bingaman sponsored the amendment.
The Forest Service retains ownership of the land, but the bill also
creates a trust for the Indians, protecting tribal interests.
Copyright c. 2003 KOB-TV Interactive Media,
a division of Hubbard Broadcasting, Inc.
--------- "RE: Tribe allowed say in Salton Sea's Future" ---------
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Tribe allowed say in Salton Sea's future
Authority forms partnership with Torres Martinez
By Benjamin Spillman
The Desert Sun
February 14th, 2003
LA QUINTA - A Coachella Valley Indian tribe that has half of its land
submerged beneath the Salton Sea will have a greater role in crafting the
future of the troubled lake.
The Salton Sea Authority voted unanimously to "coordinate and support"
future sea restoration efforts with the Torres Martinez Desert Cahuilla
Indians.
The long-awaited pact between the tribe and the sea's official
caretakers means each side formally recognizes and supports the other's
role in finding a way to prevent an environmental disaster in the Salton
basin.
"It is natural," said Torres Martinez administrator Mary Belardo of the
tribe's interest in the sea's future. "It is more of an environmental
concern. It is a body of water, which is something we respect."
The alliance not only ensures the authority will consider the will of
the tribe in restoration decisions, it also lends the Salton Sea Authority
more credibility with the federal government, said Michael Walker, program
manager for the Bureau of Reclamation's Salton Sea Restoration Project.
Walker said the federal government, which is considered by many to be
responsible for finding and funding a solution to the seas problems, has a
special obligation to consider the concerns of tribal governments.
"This agency takes it seriously," Walker said of the government's
obligation to help tribal government manage natural resources. "(The
Torres Martinez) have a hand and a real vested interest in what happens to
the sea."
The tribe, with about 600 members, occupies about 25,000 acres of land
in the eastern Coachella Valley, much of it under the sea or near the
shoreline.
In 1909, the tribe was awarded 11,800 acres under the then newly formed
Salton Sea with the understanding that the sea would evaporate and expose
the land.
It didn't, and in the 1920s, President Calvin Coolidge twice ordered the
Imperial and Coachella water districts to continue sending agricultural
runoff into the sea and perpetuating its existence.
The sea, which is replenished by agricultural runoff from the Imperial
and Coachella valleys, has no outlet for water besides evaporation. As a
result, salts, nutrients and contaminants that drain into the sea remain,
and concentrate, when the water evaporates.
The sea already is about 25 percent saltier than the Pacific Ocean. If
it gets much saltier, fish will no longer be able to breed. Without fish,
the sea would lose its value as one of the most important migratory bird
stops in western North America.
Nutrient concentration is another problem. The nutrients fuel algae that
chokes oxygen from the water, resulting periodically in massive fish kills.
Cost estimates to solve the complex problems on a scale large enough to
fit the 35-by-15-mile sea are in the billions of dollars.
A law authored in 2001 by former Assemblyman Dave Kelley, R-Idyllwild,
made it legally possible for a Torres Martinez representative to occupy a
seat on the Salton Sea Authority board of directors. Created in 1993, the
Salton Sea Authority currently consists of Imperial and Riverside counties,
the Coachella Valley Water District and the Imperial Irrigation District.
The tribe, however, did not immediately join the authority board.
Belardo said Torres Martinez officials were hesitant because they did
not believe the authority had a clear vision for the sea's future and they
doubted whether a tribal voice would make a difference.
"It didn't seem like (the Authority) had any direction," she said.
But a sea-restoration proposal in October by USFilter Corp. of Palm
Desert piqued the tribe's interest, Belardo said.
She said the tribe did not like much of the plan that called for
reducing the sea to a circular river and selling treated inflow to coastal
California to pay for the project. Tribal officials, she said, favor a
revision of that plan that would preserve the northern portion of the sea
much as it exists today, with some enhanced wetlands habitat along the
shore.
Tribal decision-makers approved the two-page pact Saturday, Belardo said.
The deal does not immediately make the tribe a full, voting member on
the board. But it calls for tribal and authority officials to pursue "full
membership" for the tribe in the future.
In other business the authority:
* Directed executive director Tom Kirk to pursue approximately $2.1
million in funding to test an experimental desalination technique at
the sea.
* Issued a request for proposals for consulting services to help identify
and develop a preferred method for long-term preservation of the sea.
Benjamin Spillman can be reached at 778-4643
or by e-mail at Benjamin.Spillman@thedesertsun.com
Copyright c. 2003 The Desert Sun.
--------- "RE: Natchez bring Jobs, History - but no Casino" ---------
Date: Fri 14 Feb 2003 09:21:18 -0600
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Natchez bring jobs, history - but no casino
By Laura Lindenberger - The Union-Recorder
February 14, 2003
SPARTA - Rachel Pashman has been asked if she's bringing a casino to
Hancock County more times than she can count. And, for the record, she has
no casino-related plans.
Pashman is the primary community clan mother and tribal judge of the
Natchez tribe, a community of Native Americans that hopes to call Hancock
County home soon.
Unrelated to a tribal group from Oklahoma that tried to bring in a
casino in 1999, Pashman says the Natchez simply want to return to their
roots and work on not only restoring native culture and history to the
area, but also help the local government improve health care, jobs and
diversity.
"We look forward to trying to work with leaders to establish a better
sense of diversity," Pashman said. "(We will bring) education (about
Native Americans), a restoration of our historical roots here and we hope
to preserve some of our history and culture.
"Our intent is to restore our ceremonial grounds," she added. "My
feelings are that my people are from there. We are basically trying to
preserve our culture and history.
One of the tribe's plans, Pashman said, is to build a replica village in
the area of Shoulderbone Creek. According to historical documentation,
Pashman said, there was originally a Natchez village there.
"We have burial grounds and ceremonial grounds that we are able to trace
back for centuries," she said. "A chief from the 1540s that met with
DeSoto is buried there. We just want to keep our community going there."
Pashman says she has documents proving her ancestors were forced out of
their homes in Hancock County in the 1830s.
"In 1832, as part of the removal process, we were literally forced to
walk out of the county," she said. "I have relatives that walked to
Oklahoma in 1828 and returned (to Hancock) in 1830."
Pashman said although her tribe was forced out during the removal
process and ended up in different parts of Georgia, Alabama and even
Oklahoma, people began to slowly trickle back to their home areas in the
late 1830s. The return process, she said, was a much easier process.
Although she was not sure how many Natchez are currently in Hancock
County, there are approximately 7,000 registered Natchez in the state.
Pashman said she thinks many people with Native ancestry are still
unregistered because of the racial tensions of the south during the mid-
60s.
"It was illegal to be Native American until 1962 and because of the
racial climate of 1962, most people would not come forward out of fear,"
she said.
Pashman, who said she comes from a long line of tribal chiefs, is in the
process of moving to Hancock County from south Georgia.
"We're gonna take (the moving back process) in phases," she said. "That
depends on how well we do with different parts of development."
One of the tribe's plans for developing in Hancock County is to restore
the county's hospital, which was closed several years ago because of
increasing costs for maintenance and operation.
"We're trying to open the hospital as a Native American health facility
with programs that will target the health needs of Native Americans,
Hispanics and the locals from that area," she said. "We're trying to make
a strong effort to assist the community in finding jobs and employing
local people and our people."
To begin the process of communication between the community and the
Natchez, Pashman is planning a festival for the last week of April.
Festival of the Little Green Corn, which will run April 28 through May 4,
is a homecoming celebration, she said.
"(The festival will) feature Native American vendors, craft displays,
storytellers and food, so some of the native people can learn about our
culture," she said.
Laura Lindenberger covers Hancock and Putnam counties for
The Union-Recorder. She can be reached at (478) 453-1451
or by e-mail at newsroom@unionrecorder.com
Copyright c. 2003 The Union Recorder.
--------- "RE: History is her Story" ---------
Date: Mon 10 Feb 2003 08:11:33 -0600
From: Gary Smith <gars@Speakeasy.org>
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History is her story
By JAMES HAGENGRUBER
Of The Gazette Staff
February 9, 2003
BRIDGER - When Dan Aadland was teaching a course on Montana history at
Bridger High School in the late-1970s, the school's friendly, soft-spoken
custodian offered to decorate the classroom with his family's collection
of historical photos.
Aadland had no idea what was in store, but readily agreed to the offer.
The next morning he walked into his classroom and was stunned at the sight.
Ringing the room were museum-quality portraits of legendary Northern
Cheyenne heroes, as well as lesser-known women from the tribe. On one of
the chalkboards, the elderly custodian, Varble Tuell, had also sketched a
large mural of the Little Bighorn Battlefield in colored chalk.
"These were too good to not be known," Aadland remembers thinking at the
time.
"I didn't think the kids would care. I couldn't believe their reaction,"
Tuell recalled.
Over the next two decades Aadland and Tuell worked together on a book
project to share the photographic legacy of Tuell's long-dead mother,
Julia Tuell. The effort resulted in the 1996 publication of "Women and
Warriors of the Plains - The Pioneer Photography of Julia Tuell."
The book was a pleasant surprise, a reaction similar to what Aadland
experienced in his Bridger classroom.
"The fact that most of her photographs have remained unpublished until
now spices them even more, for they are an unopened present," Aadland
wrote in the book. "Most of Julia's photographs have been hidden all too
long. It is time they spoke to more people, and we hope they will do so
now."
Varble Tuell, now 89 and retired, had a simple reason for promoting his
mother's work: "She was a pioneer woman, I tell you, and I'm proud to be
her son."
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The tale of Julia Tuell is a classic Western.
She was born in 1886 in Kentucky. At 15, she met her ticket to the
recently tamed West: P.V. Tuell, a well-established schoolteacher 27 years
her senior. The couple lived and taught on Indian reservations in
Minnesota and South Dakota before settling on the Northern Cheyenne
Reservation in 1906.
Julia Tuell became fast friends with many in the tribe, including aging
warriors who still had fresh memories of fighting Lt. Col. George A.
Custer. Along with teaching and raising her own family, Tuell found time
to photograph the tribe's painful transition from nomadic dwellers of the
High Plains to life on the reservation.
"Their saga from the early 19th century until the reservation days is
the stuff of epic poems," Aadland wrote.
But Tuell didn't just focus her lens on chiefs and warriors. She went
beyond the cliches, using her Eastman Kodak 8 by 10 glass plate camera to
record old women butchering dogs, sad-eyed children on the first day of
school, mothers grieving over dead babies and ancient ceremonies performed
for the last time.
"She was in such a unique position to see things and photograph things
no other white had," said Aadland, who has since retired from teaching and
now ranches and writes full-time in Absarokee.
Aesthetics aside, Tuell's most important work was photographing the last
Massaum Ceremony, or Animal Dance, of the Northern Cheyenne Tribe in
August 1911, Father Peter John Powell wrote in his introduction to "Women
and Warriors of the Plains." Powell, of Chicago, is an honorary chief and
expert on Cheyenne spirituality. Tuell worked with noted historian George
Bird Grinnell to record the complicated five-day ceremony.
"Tuell's greatest legacy remains her capturing and preserving of the
mystery and power of the last great Massaum among the Northern Cheyenne
people," Powell wrote. "In the faces of the priests, holy women and
participants, we see reflected the strength of the Cheyenne people, a holy
people."
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Varble Tuell was born in 1913 on South Dakota's Rosebud Sioux
Reservation. P.V. Tuell was 54 when his final child entered the world.
Varble may now be retired, but his life is anything but slow. His mother
instilled in him an intense curiosity for the world and a belief that each
second should be valued.
Childhood was a constant adventure, Tuell recalled. There were travels
across the reservation in his mother's Model T Ford. Time spent in the
darkroom, helping print images off glass plates using a kerosene lamp. His
playmates were Sioux children - he didn't attend school with a nonrelated
white child until he was a teenager. He also befriended dignified,
leathery-faced warriors who could still recall the great battles.
Conversations were not difficult; Tuell spoke Sioux. Like other little
boys, Tuell had a dog. Unlike most other boys, Tuell often saw his dog's
offspring become soup.
"I had a bird dog. Sometimes she'd have 12 pups at a time. What could I
do with all of them? There was no way to feed them all. I'd sell them for
a quarter apiece, and the Sioux would make soup out of them," he said,
adding that he tried the soup on occasion. "I didn't want to hurt their
feelings."
The Tuells left the reservation in 1929. Varble Tuell would have loved
to have gone to art school, but this wasn't possible for a young man
without money during the Great Depression. He hit the rails, traveling the
country hoping to find work.
"I was hungry a lot in those days," he said.
Tuell spent the next 50 years working jobs from construction to
custodian and raising four children. After work and on weekends, he carved,
etched, wrote poetry and nourished his lifelong love for the natural world.
A few blocks from Tuell's small home in Bridger is a tiny shed, "My
museum," he calls it. The building is full of his artwork.
"I wish I had the chance to be a full-time artist," he said, surveying
the cold shed.
Not far from his private museum is an overturned washtub. Tuell put the
washtub there to protect a large anthill from raccoon raids. "If I ever
get to feeling lazy, I go over and take a look at them," he said, before
citing his favorite Bible passage from the Book of Proverbs. "Go to the
ant, you sluggard; consider her ways and be wise!"
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P.V. Tuell died in 1942. Julia Tuell spent her final days living in
Southern California, dying in 1960.
She never developed relationships with the East Coast art world, and
most of her images were unknown outside of a small circle of family and
friends, Varble Tuell said. After her death, her collection of 8 by 10
glass plate negatives were stacked carefully in a wooden apple crate and
stored in the San Bernadino, Calif., home of her sister.
Varble Tuell made copies of most of the images before they were stolen
from his elderly aunt's home, he said. "Thank God."
The exact date of the theft isn't known, Tuell said. His aunt was feeble
and in her 90s when a series of burglaries occurred. An unknown amount of
time passed before the family realized that the glass plates were gone.
In the years since, Varble Tuell has tried to keep his mother's legacy
alive. She belongs , he said, in the pantheon of great American
photographers. That's what prompted the elaborate display in a Bridger
classroom nearly three decades ago.
Copyright c. The Billings Gazette, a division of Lee Enterprises.
--------- "RE: Remaining Innu of Davis Inlet feeling Abandoned" ---------
Date: Wed, 12 Feb 2003 11:03:01 -0500
From: "Frosty" <frosty@frostys.qc.ca>
Subj: Fw: Remaining Innu of Davis Inlet feeling abandoned
as they await new homes
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Remaining Innu of Davis Inlet feeling abandoned as they await new homes
February 11, 2003
DAVIS INLET, Nfld. (CP) - Mary Jane Andrew feels like she and her five
children have been abandoned in their desolate island community. Forgotten,
she says, by Davis Inlet's band council and the federal government.
While the majority of the Labrador community's former residents settle
into their new, modern homes in nearby Natuashish, Andrew and several
other Innu families have been told they will have to spend at least four
more months in the old community, which is quickly becoming a ghost town.
"We feel we have been abandoned in Davis with nothing in place for us,"
Andrew said. "Nobody's speaking for us and nobody is telling us anything."
The historic resettlement, which started last Dec. 14, was supposed to
be completed by March. But 30 of the 133 houses still haven't been
completed, forcing some residents to spend another spring in their
dilapidated homes, many of which have no running water.
Federal officials now say the project will be completed in June.
The community health clinic has moved to Natuashish and the remaining
residents in Davis Inlet are worried their school may be shutting its
doors next.
Andrew, a nurse in the community, says she and five other Innu women are
trying to raise money for airfare so they can attend a meeting in St.
John's on Wednesday to vent their frustrations about the continuing delays.
The meeting, originally scheduled to be held in Natuashish, is for
federal officials, project engineers and band councilors from Davis Inlet.
So far, the women have had little luck in getting donations. But Andrew
said she's determined to attend, even if it means dipping into her meagre
savings.
"We have not been encouraged to go to this meeting," she said. "This is
not going to stop me. I will be in that St. John's meeting on Wednesday ...
I'm very frustrated and angry."
Steven Joudry, regional director general of the federal Indian Affairs
Department, said the meeting is supposed to be for staff only, but
residents will not be locked out.
"It's not exactly a public meeting but there's nothing that's going to
be discussed that's secret," he said. "This is information that the
chief and council have ... Individual residents would certainly be able
to get that information ... from the chief and council."
Andrew said she wants the federal government to provide compensation for
those families left behind.
The relocation project, which is expected to cost $152 million, was
created to help the 680 Innu of Davis Inlet escape deplorable living
conditions while helping them overcome widespread problems with alcoholism,
family violence and substance abuse.
The community was supposed to move en masse last fall, but construction
delays pushed the move back to mid-December when the first 23 families
travelled across a frozen strait of salt water to reach the newly
constructed town 15 kilometres away. People have been slowly moving in
ever since as more houses are finished.
Andrew said rumours are swirling in the community that the construction
workers will be taking a break from working on the houses from mid-
February to the end of March.
Cajetan Rich, director of the Innu relocation project, couldn't be
reached for comment.
Describing the move as "disorganized and irresponsible," Andrew stopped
short of agreeing with band chief Simeon Tshakapesh who last week called
the project "a disaster."
"They should . . . not leave anyone behind. Take everybody with you or
don't take anybody at all," she said.
"They left their responsibilities behind in Davis. It' been very
humiliating and embarrassing."
Many residents without finished homes have moved in with family members
in Natuashish, causing overcrowding. The situation has led some to start
drinking again.
"Some of the houses have 15-20 people living in that house, three or
four families, " said RCMP Const. Guy Turcotte in Natuashish.
"There's still drinking problems ... I don't think people will change
right away."
For Andrew, the wait for a new home has meant making a choice between
her work and her family.
Last Friday, she quit her job at the new nursing centre in Natuashish
because the twice daily snowmobile trip across the ice, often alone in
blizzard-like conditions, was keeping her away from her children too often.
She also can't move in with family members who have new houses because
they're already overcrowded.
--------- "RE: Eagle Feathers allowed into U.S." ---------
Date: Wed 12 Feb 2003 08:23:13 -0600
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By: Kenneth Deer
February 7, 2003
Getting stopped with eagle feathers at the U.S. border can be a thing of
the past. A new policy will now allow Natives from Canada to bring
personally owned, legally possessed eagle items into the United States for
cultural and religious use.
Persons from various Indigenous Nations have been harassed at border
points over the years, particularly those travelling on the powwow circuit.
The U.S. Bald and Golden Eagle Protection Act prohibited anyone from
entering or leaving the United States with eagles, eagle parts or eagle
feathers. In 1999, the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service (FWS) introduced
eagle transport permits to accommodate enrolled members of U.S. federally
recognized tribes who travel internationally with eagle items for
religious use.
But now, beginning this past February 1, Natives from Canada will be
allowed to bring personally owned, legally possessed eagle items into the
United States.
Anyone entering the United States with eagle items must now declare
these items with the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service or the U.S. Customs
Service by filing a FWS Form 3-177 (Declaration for Importation or
Exportation of Fish or Wildlife). This form must be filed when entering or
leaving the U.S.
The number and type of eagle items must be the same when leaving or
returning to the U.S., in other words, no trading of these items.
This policy is only available to persons carrying a "Certificate of
Indian Status" issued by the Federal Government of Canada.
When declaring your eagle items, you may be asked to present these items
for inspection. The FWS says that it will avoid handling the articles and
make every effort to show respect for the religious or cultural value of
the articles.
In filling out the form, you must declare the species, type, country of
origin, and number of eagle items. You cannot declare items that do not
belong to you.
"The Across Borders: Beadwork in Iroquois Life exhibit encountered
problems when we sent it to Niagara Falls, N.Y. and Manhattan," said
Kanatakta, Executive Director of Kanien'kehaka Onkwawan:na Raotitiohkwa.
"We needed negotiations with the U.S. Customs in order for our material
to get through. This happened each time our exhibit crossed the border. We
hope that this new policy will help us in the future."
Copyright c. 1997-2000 The Eastern Door/Kahnawake, Mohawk Territory.
--------- "RE: $1.44 Million for Atlantic Aboriginal Health" ---------
Date: Sat 15 Feb 2003 21:21:28 -0600
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Minister Thibault announces $1.44 million for Atlantic aboriginal health
February 15, 2003
HALIFAX (CP) - Ottawa is providing $1.44 million over four years to
create a centre for research into aboriginal health issues in Atlantic
Canada.
Federal Fisheries Minister Robert Thibault announced the funding Friday,
saying it was designed to increase the number of aboriginal people engaged
in health research and improve the health of Canada's aboriginal community.
"The Atlantic Aboriginal Health Research Program will be a welcome
addition to our community," he said.
"The centre, a collaboration with the aboriginal community, will
undoubtedly be an important resource for Atlantic Canada as we work to
better understand and address the health needs of our aboriginal
communities."
The centre, to be located in Halifax, will focus on research to reduce
smoking and alcohol consumption, improve nutrition and encourage physical
exercise.
It will also do research on mental health, especially the "connection
between addictions, stress, depression and suicides among aboriginal
youth."
Other such centres are located in Quebec City, Ottawa, Toronto, Winnipeg,
Saskatoon, Edmonton and Vancouver.
Copyright c. 2003, CANOE, a division of Netgraphe Inc.
--------- "RE: B.C. Liberals offer Apology to First Nations" ---------
Date: Wed 12 Feb 2003 08:23:13 -0600
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B.C. Liberals offer apology to First Nations in throne speech
February 12, 2003
VICTORIA (CP) - British Columbia's Liberal government apologized Tuesday
for the past treatment of the province's natives by all governments.
"Your government deeply regrets the mistakes that were made by
governments of every political stripe over the course of our province's
history," said the Liberal government's throne speech read by Lt.-Gov.
Iona Campagnolo.
"Errors have been made in the past," the government said. "Our
institutions have failed aboriginal people across our province."
Last year, the government held a provincewide referendum on aboriginal
treaty negotiations that was soundly criticized by aboriginals, social
groups and non-aboriginals as an attempt by the majority to impose its
views on a minority.
The government said the referendum was its attempt to kickstart a
stalled treaty negotiation process that had cost millions and had yet to
result in a single treaty settlement.
The throne speech promised reforms to involve aboriginals in industry,
tourism and recreation services.
"No words of regret can ever undo the damage that has been done to First
Nations in all the years we have shared this land together," the
government said. "Your government is determined to provide a new level of
economic opportunity for First Nations communities and people."
B.C. Premier Gordon Campbell said he met Monday with aboriginal
representatives.
"This is something we have felt was important to do for some time," he
said. "It's also important for us to move forward with a sense of
reconciliation."
The throne speech also included a so-called heartlands economic strategy
designed to open the doors of prosperity in all corners of British
Columbia.
"The heartlands economic strategy will bring together transportation,
energy, forestry, tourism, agriculture and new technologies to create a
powerful economic force for regions and provinces as a whole," the
government said.
About 2,500 protesters crowded the lawn in front of the legislature as
the session opened inside. They were kept back from the building by
temporary steel fencing and a platoon of police officers.
The spring legislative session is expected to focus on rebuilding the B.
C. forest industry.
Campbell, whose Liberals hold a massive majority, enters the session
fighting political and personal demons associated with a drunk-driving
charge.
Campbell was charged with drunk driving in January while vacationing in
Maui. He also faces three traffic violations, including speeding, in
connection with the drunk driving charge.
Joy MacPhail, Opposition New Democratic Party leader, has called for
Campbell's resignation, saying he no longer has the moral authority to
govern.
Protester Tom Blair, 82, held a placard that showed Campbell's Hawaii
mug shots from his drunk driving arrest.
"He's speeding. He's going way over the speed limit, and he's drunk and
he's the premier of British Columbia," said Blair.
"He shouldn't be doing what he's doing, and then he makes excuses that
he's doing that on his own time, which is wrong."
MacPhail said Campbell missed a golden opportunity in the throne speech
to show British Columbians knocked down by government cuts a little for
compassion and hope for the future.
She said she found no relief, but couldn't resist taking another shot at
the premier's personal troubles.
"I'm sure that Gordon Campbell is searching for his own heart these
days," MacPhail said.
Campbell, who is to give a provincewide television address Wednesday
night, said resource communities throughout British Columbia comprise the
heartlands.
"They pump the resources and revenues through our province that we need
to sustain our public services," he said
The heartlands strategy is the government's attempt to put its economic
ideas into action, the government said.
"The B.C. heartlands strategy will open up new partnerships with First
Nations, new investments in transportation infrastructure, new
opportunities for tourism, sport and recreation from a successful Olympics
bid, and a revitalized forestry industry," said the government.
The government promised to move toward economic and social
reconciliation with B.C. First Nations.
"Your government will prove this year that it is serious about
negotiating workable, affordable treaties that will provide certainty,
finality and equality," said the government.
"It will take bold new steps to advance issues that are common to most
treaty tables, such as governance, certainty and access to fish."
The government promised to explore the possibility of creating a new
national park in the Okanagan region and forecast the start of an offshore
oil and gas industry by 2010.
The government used the throne speech to trumpet the introduction of its
new income-based drug program.
The program, to be introduced later this month, is aimed at ending the
inequality that has allowed British Columbians with higher incomes to pay
less for their drugs than lower income people, the government said.
Copyright c. 2003, CANOE, a division of Netgraphe Inc.
--------- "RE: Disgruntlement over Resource use on Treaty Lands" ---------
Date: Fri 14 Feb 2003 09:21:18 -0600
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Disgruntlement growing over resource use on treaty lands By Wes Godin
Miner and News Staff
February 14, 2003
Support continues to roll in for both the Grassy Narrows blockade and
Grand Council Treaty 3's fight against the Ontario government's forest
management practices.
On the day First Nation leaders from Northwestern Ontario issued a call
of action for support of Grassy Narrows blockaders, Grand Chief Leon
Jourdain confirmed that Manitoba chiefs and Nishnawbe Aski Nation (Treaty
9) have also joined in the stand they are taking against the extracting of
resources on treaty land.
"This is the tip of the iceberg of what is yet to come," said Jourdain.
With the reaffirmed support of the majority of Treaty 3 chiefs in
Winnipeg last Friday, the chiefs will formalize a strategic plan at a
upcoming meeting, said Jourdain.
In a meeting scheduled Feb. 24, chiefs from Treaty 3 and chiefs in the
Nishnawbe Aski Nation will discuss a common plan of action, said Jourdain.
"Our back is up against the wall - enough is enough," said Jourdain.
He said there needs to be a new basis for discussions of the management
of the forests.
Grand council believes it needs to be a part of the discussions
involving forest harvesting plans on treaty land.
A government-to-government relationship works when a management board or
committee is established with both representation of aboriginal and the
forest companies, Joe Kuhn, natural resources co-ordinator for the grand
council has said in past interviews.
Nishnawbe Aski, which represents 49 remote First Nations in the Treaty 9
region, has also joined in the fight because it fears the same logging
practices will soon start affecting more of their communities.
David Paul Achneepineskium, executive director of Nishnawbe Aski Nation,
said the logging and mining industries in the area of their communities
are currently looking at expanding their operations near Nishnawbe Aski
Nation traditional lands.
Aroland First Nation of Nishnawbe Aski Nation located north of Geraldton
has also erected a road blockade near their community and Mishkeegogamang
First Nation and Hornepayne First Nation are considering similar blockades
as of Wednesday.
Although the local Ministry of Natural Resources has proposed to meet
with Grassy Narrows leadership in hopes of coming up with a resolution to
their concerns, both Chief Simon Fobister of Grassy Narrows and Jourdain
believe the only way for change is through discussion with the Minister of
Natural Resources or the Minister of the Environment.
Jourdain said they are looking into requesting a meeting with the
Minister of Natural Resources.
The coalition of First Nations across Northwestern Ontario believes the
Ontario government has allowed resource industries to extract resources on
treaty land without any compensation or discussion from the First Nations.
The local MNR said there has been extensive consultations with First
Nation communities in the planning process of forest management plans
going on around their community.
Copyright c. 2003 Kenora Daily Miner and News.
--------- "RE: First Nations Hunters on Trial" ---------
Date: Thu, 13 Feb 2003 12:06:12 -0500
From: "Frosty" <frosty@frostys.qc.ca>
Subj: First Nations Hunters on Trial
Mailing List: Frostys AmerIndian <frostysamerindian@yahoogroups.com>
She:kon kwe kwe Kahente
Nia:Wen kowa for you message and hope to see more from you in the future.
----- Original Message -----
Date: Thursday, February 13, 2003 12:54 AM
From: Kahente
FWD from the Union of BC Indian Chiefs:
of possible interest for those of you who still naively believe in the
integrity of the Canadian legal and academic systems - this concerns an
utterly unqualified and discredited University of Toronto anthropologist
who is paid by the Depts. of Indian Affairs and Justice to lie in court
(this is the same professor who once testified in an Alberta case that his
research proved that historically there were no Blackfoot people in
southern Alberta because the records clearly indicated that the aboriginal
people of that area were not Blackfoot, but "Pieds Noire Indians").
************************
In 1999 three members of the Mohawk Nation were charged for hunting deer
on Indian Point in Presquile Provincial Park (near Brighton). The harvest
was initiated by the Mohawks after deformities and starvation in the herd
made it clear that the deers numbers far exceeded what a land base of that
size could sustain. Mohawk people have always asserted title and
responsibility for lands that include Presquile Park, however, the action
taken in 1999 was not based upon "aboriginal rights" but rather the need
for a humane approach to the man-made crisis affecting the deer. Ministry
of Natural Resources personnel who, under their terms of employment, are
responsible for such maintenance, charged three men under the Firearms Act.
Since then the matter has slowly been making its way through the
judicial system. The last set of court dates marked the beginning of the
crowns case. Their star witness is one Alexander von Gernet. An
Anthropology Professor at the University of Toronto, it appears he is one
who could quit his day job. In fact, U of T itself seems somewhat confused
as to his current employment. A University website providing information
on faculty members described von Gernet as an "Advisor to the Departments
of Justice and Indian and Northern Affairs." When questioned in court, von
Gernet denied that he acted as an advisor to the Government, but
acknowledged that it was an understandable assumption for the University
to have made.
Indeed further investigation shows how someone might well come to that
conclusion. The Aboriginal newspaper Windspeaker ran a Freedom of
Information Act request on the academic only to find that von Gernet was
in fact retained by the Department of Indian and Northern Affairs and paid
more that $321,000.00 for a 40 month contract covering the period of time
between July 10th , 1999 and October 31st 2002. That works out to an
average of $8,025.00 a month. This is of course in addition to his salary
as an Adjunct Professor in Department of Anthropology at the U of T. Not
suprisingly the sections that would have shown exactly how many
days/hours(?) the Professor worked to earn this lofty salary were blacked
out by DIAND's access to information and privacy officials.
The contract was made with the residential schools unit of DIAND's
litigation management activities branch, and the research unit of the
litigation management activities branch. The contract is a "standing
offer" agreement, meaning DIAND can "call-up" von Gernets "services" on an
"as and when required" basis.
A review of his own Curriculum Vitae shows that the Government has
certainly been getting its moneys worth. Besides the notable achievements
of having been published by and lectured for the Frasier Institute, von
Gernet has testified as an expert witness for the crown no less than
eleven times in Native Rights/Land Claims cases. In each instance his
testimony has directly contradicted evidence brought by the First Nations
band or individual(s) involved. Indeed during the course of his testimony
in the Presquile case, the good Professor made the truly incredible
statement that it was his personal belief that the Iroquois Confederacy
never existed at all, but instead was simply a construct made up by the
British to intimidate the French in a time of war. I suppose that as the a
figment of the British imagination, the Iroquois Confederacy, much less,
the Mohawk Nation cannot possibly have any traditional hunting grounds at
all.
The trial (and Professor von Gernet's testimony) continues February 13th
in Campbelford.
Government contract information courtesy of:
Windspeaker
v.20(6) O'02 pg 6
Barnsley, Paul
OTTAWA
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--------- "RE: Brutality from New Soldiers in Blue" ---------
Date: Tue 11 Feb 2003 08:48:06 -0600
From: Gary Smith <gars@Speakeasy.org>
Subj: NA News Item
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filename="POLICE BRUTALITY"
http://www.owlstar.com/dailyheadlines.htm
http://www.startribune.com/stories/562/3644933.html
Dave Stephenson: Indians are facing brutality from new 'soldiers in blue'
Feb. 11, 2003
White men in blue uniforms have long been the bane of Native America.
In the 19th century, U.S. cavalry soldiers descended on American Indian
villages and perpetrated unimaginable depredations: massacres, rapes,
mutilations and a plethora of other atrocities.
In the 20th century, another breed of blue-uniformed domestic soldiers
replaced the cavalry. The American police are invested with the same
presumptions of superiority as their 19th-century counterparts, and are
equally obsessed with oppressing and brutalizing Indians.
Indeed, at the inception of the 21st century, the systemic brutality and
racism of the police are raging unabated.
Recent allegations that the Minneapolis police assaulted, urinated on
and left two homeless Indians outside at zero degrees are appalling. But
instances of police brutality against American Indians in Minneapolis and
other Midwestern and Western cities are commonplace.
Many will feign surprise at the allegations; there will more palavers
among police, City Council members and community leaders; apologies,
assurances and symbolic gestures will pour out; many will ascribe the
actions to a "few bad eggs," as did Little Earth Executive Director Ellie
Webster.
But the sad fact is that brutality, racism and notions of infallibility
are institutionalized in the collective psyche of the American police, in
Minneapolis and elsewhere.
Police abuse of American Indians, other minorities and the poor is
woefully frequent. The recent incident has sparked outrage solely because
there were witnesses.
Circling the wagons
The vast majority of these incidents go unobserved and unreported. The
police are a tight-knit, fraternal organization with a subculture that
resists oversight and demands loyalty to one's fellow officers.
When police abuse occurs, victims typically don't complain. They are
usually poor minorities, or, like the current victims, poor, Indian and
homeless. When complaints do occur, they are handled internally, by the
very force that committed the offense. Police circle the wagons and move
to defend their fellow officers, keeping with the edicts of their
profession.
Many have expressed astonishment and indignation at the current
allegations. Many are incredulous at the thought of police officers
beating and urinating on poor Indians and leaving them to the elements.
But those who would express shock should consider the sordid history of
the American police.
How many Rodney Kings, Malice Greens, Amadou Diallos, Abner Duimas,
Charles Lone Eagles and John Boneys does it take to convince Americans
that these are not isolated incidents? How many peaceful American Indian
protests have to end violently with tear gas and baton?
Only a complete restructuring of the current system will engender any
meaningful change. It is tarnished and broken beyond repair.
In Minneapolis, birthplace of the American Indian Movement and home to
tens of thousand of American Indians, wanton police brutality must not be
tolerated.
If left unchecked, the contemporary soldiers in blue will go on
brutalizing and usurping, as did their progenitors and spiritual brothers
in the 19th century.
-- Dave Stephenson, a Tlingit Indian who lives in St. Paul,
is a freelance writer.
Copyright c. 2003 Star Tribune. All rights reserved.
--------- "RE: BIA Officials replace Blackfeet Police" ---------
Date: Sun 16 Feb 2003 09:50:42 -0600
From: Gary Smith <gars@Speakeasy.org>
Subj: NA News Item
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filename="BLACKFEET POLICE"
http://www.greatfallstribune.com/news/stories/20030216/
BIA officials replace Blackfeet police
By SONJA LEE
Tribune staff writer
February 16, 2003
The U.S. Bureau of Indian Affairs took over the tribal police department
on the Blackfeet Indian Reservation Saturday, effectively firing more than
30 tribal employees and staffing the department with BIA officials.
Blackfeet Tribal Secretary Gordon Monroe said the council was notified
at noon that the BIA planned to take over the department.
By 2 p.m. more than 50 BIA officials were in Browning, and an hour later
the department's 37 tribal police officers, dispatchers and other staff
members were relieved of their duties.
"They were stripped of everything, including their dignity," Monroe said.
"It was very unprofessional. You could almost hear the Seventh Cavalry
coming over the hill. To me, we just went back in time about 120 years."
BIA officials were unavailable for comment. A dispatcher -- who answered
the department's phone Saturday evening by saying "BIA police department"
-- said a skeleton crew was on staff and no one was authorized to talk to
the media.
Two years ago, a draft report by the BIA blasted the Blackfeet Law
Enforcement Services for being influenced by tribal politicians,
improperly hiring staff, incorrectly reporting cases and mismanaging
budgets.
The Blackfeet Tribe became a self-policing reservation in 1995.
Monroe said the council has been trying to work with the BIA. "We've
been talking with them and addressing the problems," he said. "We felt we
were on the right track."
Titus Upham, a former council member, said he was traveling to Conrad
when he saw 25 federal police vehicles in a row headed toward Browning. He
said he assumed the officers were on their way to the border for homeland
security measures, but when he returned to Browning, the BIA vehicles were
all over town.
Upham said the takeover is somewhat ironic. When the tribe took over the
police department in the '90s, tribal members were upset with the BIA over
the same issues that the BIA is now upset over, he said.
Upham said he can see the pros and cons to the BIA having control. His
biggest concern, however, is that 37 residents are now without employment.
"And the BIA doesn't always have a big enough force to serve the
county," he said.
The BIA does have more financial backing, he said. One problem has been
the Blackfeet tribal jail, which is in extremely bad condition; the tribal
council has struggled to find money to upgrade the facility.
Monroe said the council, law-enforcement employees and the bureau will
meet at 9 a.m. Monday to discuss re-employment opportunities.
Copyright c. 2003 Great Falls Tribune. All Rights Reserved.
-=-=-=-
Date: Sun 16 Feb 2003 20:58 -0600
From: "RedFish" <red_fish@centurytel.net>
Subj: Marvin Bad Wound...new BIA Chief of Police
for the PIKUNI PEOPLE....hmmmmmmmm
Newsgroup: alt.native
Well it appears that the White Fascist "Amerikan" Government has decided
to invade the Sovereign Blackfeet Nation once again by sending in the
"Bureau of Indian Affairs" to "take over" the law enforcement agency there.
Where is the United Nations when you really need them???? Seems they
will take up for other sovereign nations such as Bosnia and Kuwait, but
when it comes to small underdeveloped nations like the Blackfeet Nation
they overlook it. Guess the press is not as shiny for the very small
nations ennit?.
Everybody who disagrees with the BIA invasion of sovereign lands please
call (406)338-7368 and tell the federal invaders and their goons to
GET OUT!
The Bad Wounds and others there also are good people........BUT.....
everytime Indians get their ass in a crack it is always from "helping" the
whites out. The way it is now is that the BIA feds can say "look...."WE"
only helped the Pikuni get their shit straight.
Pikuni's are still in charge...we aint."
yeah....right.
Now "I" say....when the feds showed up in their military caravan all the
PEOPLE should have just backed off and let them take control. EVERY Indian
should have just said "well you whites want it ... there it is". That way
it would be easy to get them out of Pikuni country....which is a SOVEREIGN
NATION and one where whites do not have any say at all legally.. Trouble
is.....some Indians think the whites really want to help us.
hehe....yeah right.... they want to help us out of our water and land.
AS LONG AS THE WHITES ARE ABLE TO KEEP US DIVIDED WE WILL NEVER WIN. WE
LEARNED THIS OVER 100 YEARS AGO WHEN THE CROW LED CUSTER TO GREASY GRASS.
UNITY IS OUR ONLY HOPE.
******************
Randy RedFish
PO Box 361
Port Aransas, Texas 78373
Amskaapiinaa
--------- "RE: Study says S.D. Courts unequal in Sentencing" ---------
Date: Fri 14 Feb 2003 09:21:18 -0600
From: Gary Smith <gars@Speakeasy.org>
Subj: NA News Item
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filename="JUST-US"
http://www.owlstar.com/dailyheadlines.htm
http://www.rapidcityjournal.com/articles/2003/02/14/news/local/news11.txt
Study says S.D. courts unequal in sentencing
February 14, 2003
SIOUX FALLS (AP) - South Dakota must correct inequities in the justice
system that lead to American Indians getting longer prison sentences than
whites, a researcher said.
Indians convicted of crimes in the state are sentenced to 57 percent
more prison time than whites, according to research by Richard Braunstein,
an assistant professor at the University of South Dakota.
"We have found substantial disparities, embarrassing disparities,
unconscionable disparities," Braunstein said. "By a matter of law, South
Dakota may not be in hot water. As a matter of moral obligation to its
citizens, it's drowning."
Braunstein explained his research at a Sioux Falls meeting of the South
Dakota Advisory Committee to the U.S. Commission on Civil Rights.
His research has not isolated race as the single motivating factor for
discrepancies in sentencing, nor does Braunstein expect it to. But the
results still demand a response, he said.
"We have a great deal of reform to engage," Braunstein said.
Looking at a period from 1994 to 2000, Braunstein followed 18,186 people
who had experiences with the Division of Criminal Investigation, the
Unified Judicial System and the Department of Corrections. The study
included 4,398 people who went to prison.
Braunstein found that, on average, Indians were sentenced to 1,847 days
in prison, or a little more than five years. Whites were sentenced to an
average of 1,179 days in prison, a little more than three years.
Braunstein is still looking at circumstance that would explain the
sentencing gap but said some situations stand out.
"Say an 18-year-old breaks into a house, causes damage, steals liquor
and goes out and gets into a couple of fights," he said. "You can imagine
the person is just stupid and not a criminal and shouldn't be kept in
prison 20 years."
In such a scenario, common sense can prevent a long prison sentence,
Braunstein said.
"Whites enjoy this much more than Indians in South Dakota," he said.
He also said circuit judges may be reluctant to release Indian
defendants, concerned they will return to a reservation, where they will
be beyond the reach of the state court system.
Braunstein will comment on his research in the March edition of the
South Dakota Law Review, a publication of the University of South Dakota
Law School.
His work updates and corrects preliminary data that became public last
fall. Former Gov. Bill Janklow commissioned the research to determine if
race affects how people are charged, prosecuted and sentenced in the state.
Copyright c. 2003 the Rapid City Journal.
--------- "RE: Crow Agency Man appears on Murder Charge" ---------
Date: Tue 11 Feb 2003 08:48:06 -0600
From: Gary Smith <gars@Speakeasy.org>
Subj: NA News Item
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http://www.owlstar.com/dailyheadlines.htm
http://www.billingsgazette.com/index.php?id=1&display=rednews/
Crow Agency man appears on murder charge
By CLAIR JOHNSON
Of The Gazette Staff
February 11, 2003
Crow Agency resident Quinton Birdinground Jr., accused in the shooting
death of a Garryowen man Saturday morning, appeared in federal court
Monday on a criminal complaint.
U.S. Magistrate Richard Anderson set a preliminary hearing and detention
hearing for Friday and ordered Birdinground back to the Yellowstone County
Detention Facility until then.
Birdinground, 23, is charged with murdering Emerson Pickett, 30, at the
home of Emilia Rose Othermedicine in Crow Agency.
According to an affidavit by FBI Special Agent Matthew J. Oravec, Crow
police and emergency personnel responded to a call at 4:30 a.m. and found
Pickett with a gunshot wound. Despite efforts by officers, Pickett died.
The shooting occurred after a night of drinking at Othermedicine's house.
Oravec said in the affidavit that Othermedicine and a friend had been
drinking and met Pickett and another man at the Crow multipurpose building.
The four decided to meet at Othermedicine's home to drink after the bars
closed at 2 a.m.
Othermedicine and her friend went home and men arrived later. Another
couple came and went. Two other people arrived, including Leitha
Yellowmule. Most people either went to bed or left.
Pickett and Yellowmule, who used to date, went into a bathroom to talk
and closed the door. Othermedicine asked them to come out because she was
alone and went into the kitchen, the affidavit said.
Birdinground, who is known as Junior, showed up through a kitchen door
and asked where Yellowmule and Pickett were. He walked into the living
room, from where the two in bathroom could be heard.
Othermedicine told the agent she heard the sound of a door getting
kicked in and then a bang like a gunshot. She went into the living room
and saw Yellowmule, Pickett and Birdinground struggling together in the
hallway. Birdinground's hand was up in the air and he was holding a .38-
caliber pistol.
Othermedicine grabbed Birdinground's wrist and yelled, "What are you
doing?"
Birdinground then threw Othermedicine down and another shot went off,
the affidavit said. Othermedicine's glasses got knocked off, and with
blurred vision she could see Birdinground hitting Pickett, the agent said.
Yellowmule was hovering over Pickett. By the time Othermedicine retrieved
her glasses, Birdinground was gone.
Yellowmule told the agent that she had gone to Othermedicine's because
Pickett had called and asked her to come over. The two had dated off and
on.
Yellowmule said that without warning, Birdinground kicked in the
bathroom door and shouted something before firing. She told the agent she
thought more shots were fired as the three struggled in the hallway.
Yellowmule tried to shield Pickett from Birdinground and got shot in the
hand.
Yellowmule told the agent that earlier in the evening, she was at a
party and saw Birdinground drinking and snorting methamphetamine. The two
had been in a common-law relationship and had broken up in October 2002.
Birdinground recently had cared for their children while Yellowmule
attended Montana State University-Billings.
Copyright c. 2003 The Billings Gazette, a division of Lee Enterprises.
--------- "RE: Native Prisoner" ---------
Date: Tue, 18 Feb 2003 06:42:57 -0500
From: Janet Smith <owlstar@speakeasy.org
Subj: Native Prisoner
=====
Date: Sunday, February 16, 2003 8:02 PM
From: "Dawn Deer" <newdawndeer@yahoo.com>
Subj: My Deepest Sympathy
Mailing List: Iron Natives <ironnatives@yahoogroups.com>
My Deepest Sympathy
It is my prayer that this bright new day in the life of the family and
all their friends of Robert H. Wilson also known as Standing Deer are all
in good health and the best of spirits with happiness in your heart and a
smile on your face as that is how Standing Deer would like it to be for
everyone he did leave here behind.
I have been asked so many times throughout the years of my life working
for the people. Just what is it about the Indian prisoners you work for
so hard. What do they do for you? Well, they do not have to do anything
for me, as the things I do for them is my calling. I will share with you
just what a man named Standing Deer did for me.
First, I would like to tell you his arrival to USP Lewisburg. The place
they call the "Big House." In the fall of 1981 it was a Wednesday night,
time for me to go up to meet with the members of the Lewisburg
Spiritual/Cultural Council of Native Nations. When my van came up behind
a Pennsylvania State Police car with two troopers in it.
Then a white Department of Justice van filled with guards. I would say
eight of them. Then a big white bus with a big orange line on each side.
There were four men in the front, a prisoner in the middle, and four more
men in the rear of the bus.
You know it was Standing Deer in the middle. Another Department of
Justice vehicle in the front of the bus with two more in that one.
Another Pennsylvania State Police car with two more troopers while
Standing Deer had more protection then the President of the United States
or what did they think there was going to be Indian (AIM) raid on the
caravan.
I needed to get around all those vehicles by 5:30 so that I could get
cleared to be with the Native American Spiritual Community, which started
at 6:00 pm. I did get to witness the caravan of the five vehicles come up
through the lane lined with pine trees on each side of the road to the
"Big House," which they call Lewisburg. I cleared the first check point
which was a gun tower at that time. The tower guards told me to walk to
the next check point. Once through the door after being buzzed in a guard
and a Chaplain was there to meet me. I was told to enter a little room
to the right of the door. I just walked through. I was told there was a
hot entering the institution and I had to be out of sight and the little
5 x 5 room would do the trick and I would be safe.
I did not have any fear of this brother. They shuffled him by the
little room then moving fast. I could hear their boots slapping the floor,
the jingling of their keys. I could hear the shackles they had on his
ankles hitting the floor once in a while. As things got quiet and
everything seemed to get back to the norm the door to the little room
opened and I then went out to the desk and was checked out and was
cleared to go back in to the Chapel.
Was escorted by a Chaplain and guard that night. The brothers of the
Native American Spiritual Community knew about the arrival of their
brother, Standing Deer.
Well, just what was it that this Indian brother did in my life. I
became a paralegal for the Lewisburg Prison Project. Then I went on to
Lyconning College to get paralegal teachings. After about six weeks
Attorney Lenny Sheridan asked me to become his paralegal and I was up at
Lewisburg every week to see Standing Deer to monitor his conditions there
in the hole and to see that he was safe. I have learned to love this man
whom they call Standing Deer and never did fear him when I was in his
presence. His love for the Creator, the People and Leonard Peltier was
the biggest desires in this life to see Leonard Peltier free.
We can remember the Standing Deer by the happiness in his heart, the
smile on his face and to continue the work for the freedom of Leonard
Peltier.
With the Greatest Respect to All Our Relations,
Art Woolsey
=================
Date: Saturday, February 15, 2003 3:44 AM
From: "Brigitte Thimiakis" <thimiakischool@the.forthnet.gr>
Subj: 2 Disabled, Veteran NA Prisoners Need Your Words of Encouragement
Two Disabled, Veteran Native American Inmates Need Your Words of
Encouragement
We recently posted information about 2 disabled Native American
prisoners who are victims of medical neglect at Montana State Prison.They
are both Veterans. A request was posted to help them with letters to the
administration of the prison where they are incarcerated. Their situation
is still very difficult and we are concerned about them. Please send them
a note or letter of encouragement so they know that they are not alone.
(cards are not allowed).
You can find the information about their situation below.
Here is their address:
JOSEPH CHARLES QUIBELL # 21409
700, Conley Lake Road,
Deer Lodge, MT - 59722
(Joseph never receives letters. A few words of encouragement would mean
so much to him.)
FREDDIE JOE LAWRENCE # 37147
700, Conley Lake Road,
Deer Lodge, MT - 59722
(Fred is Apache, his birthday happens to be next week.) (unfortunately
birthday cards are not allowed, please use plain stationary)
Background information: Joseph Quibell, a Korean War veteran, was
recently transferred to a block that does not provide wheelchair
accessibility, although he has impaired vision because of glaucoma, severe
diabetes, has only one leg, and the leg he does have is frequently swollen
due to fluid retention. He has recently been placed in circumstances
where he has to go up and down stairs on crutches, with only one swollen
leg and poor eye sight. The stairs are such that he cannot easily
maneuver the steps due to their non-slip protection-his crutches get stuck
on the material.
Because of this, he cannot always have his meals, in particular his
breakfast, on schedule, and his blood sugar level becomes very erratic so
he must have large doses of insulin to correct the problem. His wheel
chair was also appropriated one day because the prison said they needed it
for someone else. He was subsequently forced to skip meals or risk a bad
fall from using crutches in the snow and ice.
In this same non-wheelchair-accessible unit is another Native American
inmate, Fred Lawrence, who was recently confined to a wheel chair by
medical services due to degenerative disk disease. He also has cancer of
the liver, and a stomach that is swollen way beyond normal size due to
this condition. It is critical that he receive an evaluation by a panel of
doctors, but as of Jan. 30th, he has not seen them. He has recently also
been without a wheelchair for several days and, because of that, fell and
badly bruised both knees in the fall. He was forced to go without meals
due to this injury and his existing physical condition and limitations.
There was a brand new wheelchair sitting unused at the time that he was
told was for another inmate and that he had to do without. When they
finally did bring a wheel chair for him to use, it had a broken wheel.
Fred Lawrence is also a Viet Nam veteran.
Thank you,
Brigitte
thimiakischool@the.forthnet.gr
<Justice For First Nations Prisoners Network>
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--------- "RE: History: Carlisle Indian School" ---------
Date: Thu, 13 Feb 2003 20:42:16 -0500
From: Barbara Landis <blandis@epix.net>
Subj: January 31, 1890 INDIAN HELPER, Carlisle Indian School.
[Editorial Note: These reprints are being included in this
newsletter so that you might know the mind of those who
ran institutions like Carlisle.]
THE INDIAN HELPER
-------------------------
A WEEKLY LETTER FROM THE CARLISLE INDIAN
SCHOOL TO BOYS AND GIRLS
CARLISLE, PA.
============================
VOLUME V NUMBER 22
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FRIDAY, January 31, 1890.
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THE FARMER.
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The farmer leads no EZ life,
The CD sows will rot:
And when at EV rests from strife
His bones will AK lot.
In DD has to struggle hard. 1
To EK living out;
If IC frosts do not retard
His crops, there'll BA drought.
Both NZ cannot make to meet,
And then for AD takes
Some boarders, who so RT eat
&E no money makes.
Of little UC finds this life;
Sick in old AG lies;
The debts he OZ leaves his wife,
And then in PC dies. --[Ex.
========
NOT ASHAMED OF HIS PEOPLE.
---------
Rev. Sherman Coolidge, is an Arapahoe Indian, a young man, and a
preacher in the Protestant Episcopal Church.
He is a full Indian, the distinctive features of the race being as
strongly marked upon his visage as upon any Indian face we ever saw.
We saw Mr. Coolidge last October at the Mohonk Conference of the
friends of the Indian.
We ate at the same table with him and conversed with him.
We saw no difference between him and any Episcopal clergyman of any
other race, or between him and a gentleman and scholar of any other
race.
In an address before the Mohonk Conference, after Henry Kendall had
said, "Since I have been separated from my parents I respect them more
and I love them more," Mrs. Coolidge supported this Carlisle experience
with his own, as follows:
My people have received me after fourteen years of absence in
civilization, and have looked up to me and been proud of me. When I
suggested anything in the way of improvements or when I asked them to
convene together, that I might speak to them on any subject, they came, as
our friend said, "up to time." So that they do not have prejudice always.
It depends much upon the man. Some of the Indians are only allowed to
stay a few years in the East. If they stay two or three years, they
have only a smattering of education. Those are the ones who sometimes
get the disrespect of the people. But, when one is educated enough to
stand his own ground, and is recognized and encouraged by the white
people there or in the East, then these people will have much pride and
respect for him, and will heed his advice and his words."
And is it not evident, from the above that all the Indian boy or girl
needs to make him or her equal to great tests of character is
OPPORTUNITY? - EXTENDED OPPORTUNITY?
Does not the Indian deserve this?
Is it not his right?
Does the school on a reservation furnish all the opportunity an
Indian needs to make him a man?
Is the reservation school good enough for a white boy or girl?
Would the parents of a white child think for a moment of placing
their son or daughter in a school on a reservation to obtain the
education, skill and experience necessary to fit them for life's duties?
On a reservation we say, where civilization is almost entirely shut
out and where savage rites and customs are continually practiced?
Every sensible person would answer most emphatically, "That is not
the place to send my child."
Then is it good enough for an Indian?
"Oh, yes," say some people - some *big* men, whom who are called
great men - even Congressmen.
The Man-on-the-band-stand thinks that if there must be reservations
and reservation schools the Indian children who live there should go to
them, if they cannot have better chances, but he says with his whole,
big, wise heart "give Indian boys and girls as good a chance as can be
found, whether it be in the East, in the West, in the North or in the
South."
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(Continued on Fourth page.)
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(page 2)
The Indian Helper.
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PRINTED EVERY FRIDAY, AT THE INDIAN
INDUSTRIAL SCHOOL, CARLISLE, PA. BY THE
INDIAN PRINTER BOYS.
--> THE INDIAN HELPER is PRINTED by Indian boys, but EDITED by
The-Man-on-the-band-stand, who is NOT an Indian.
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Price: - 10 cents a year.
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Address INDIAN HELPER, Carlisle, Pa.
Miss M. Burgess, Manager.
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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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Always say RENEWAL when you re-subscribe. Put the word after every
renewal.
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KEEP your conduct abreast of your conscience, and very soon your
conscience will be illuminated by the radiance of God.
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Madge Nason is having a nice time at her home in Minnesota, and she
writes a nice letter about it, some of which will he printed in the Red
Man.
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We hear that La Grippe has gotten among the Indians of the North West
and that they are dying by the hundred. Let us be thankful that we have
had kindly care and that death has thus far been prevented.
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Applications for boys and girls to live in country homes are coming
in fast. The best of our students only should be given this grand
privilege of spending a few months in the country. Those who cannot
behave themselves and those who shirk their work should not be allowed
to go, and we have no doubt that such will be the case.
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On Saturday evening, the English speaking meeting was devoted to
making arrangements to celebrate Emancipation Day for the Indian, on the
8th of February. All Indian school superintendents and Indian Agents
received a letter from the Commissioner of Indian Affairs to celebrate
the 8th, that being the day when the Dawes Land in Severalty Bill was
signed by the President of the United States. At our meeting a committee
was appointed to arrange a programme in accordance with the wishes of
the Commissioner. After the celebration we will give the proceedings in
full either in the Red Man, or the HELPER if not too long.
OUR GOOD TIMES.
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The school exhibitions, consisting of speeches, declamations,
dialogues, music and other entertainment, held in the chapel, and the
school sociables held in the gymnasium are events of the month looked
forward to with the most pleasant anticipations. We were not
disappointed in the exhibition of last Friday night. As those in
attendance passed by the band-stand on their way to quarters the
Man-on-the-band-stand heard more than one say "the best this year" and
other words of commendation.
Miss Moore and Nellie Robertson opened the exercises with a piano
duet. The singing all through the evening was especially worthy of
mention, and the declamations and recitations very well rendered. The
Dialogue between Walter Anallo and Cotton Wood is deserving of more than
passing notice, while the declamation of Benj. Caswell, on account of
his graceful gestures was truly refreshing. As there were a number of La
Grippe colds in the audience opportunity was given several times during
the evening for all hands that wished to satisfy the desire to cough, to
do so, that quiet might prevail while the speaking was going on. This
was intensely amusing to the little folks as well as big ones of whom
were able to scare up a cough, when the time came.
At the close of the exercises our Superintendent was so stirred that
he made one of the most thrilling speeches of the year.
Freedom was his subject, and he said that as he had been listening to
the efforts of the students the word worked in his mind and seemed to
grow and grow until it was so large he could not hold it.
It is well that he could not, for those who heard the speech
certainly have a better idea of what real FREEDOM is than ever before.
FREEDOM for the Black Man;
FREEDOM for the White Man;
FREEDOM for the Red Man;
FREEDOM from ignorance, superstition and every thing that keeps us
down.
That is what we must have.
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Studying or reading or writing in front of a blazing lamp with no
shade will ruin the strongest eyes.
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AT the Carlisle Indian School is published monthly an eight-page
quarto of standard size, called THE RED MAN, the mechanical part of
which is done entirely by Indian boys. This paper is valuable as a
summary of information on Indian matters and contains writings by Indian
pupils, and local incidents of the school. Terms: Fifty cents a year, in
advance.
For 1, 2, and 3 subscribers for THE RED MAN, we give the named
premiums offered in Standing Office for the HELPER.
Address, THE RED MAN, CARLISLE PA.
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Little Nina has started to school.
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There has been some skating at the cave which the boys found out in
due season.
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Tennis in the gymnasium at the noon hour is now the "racquet" for
some.
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Who can write the poem straight, on the first page, spelling all the
words right?
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The Teachers" Club will hardly get into their new quarters this week,
alter all, owing to delay in painting.
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Marbles are still the rage, not only among the wee boys but the young
men of the place occasionally indulge in a game.
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There has been so much bright sunshine this week that the
Man-on-the-band-stand's eyes are a little weak from the effects.
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The bright and Spring-like afternoon, Wednesday, brought out the band
to my stand. I much prefer music to naughty boys, every time.
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Mr. Campbell is getting pretty well around with visiting pupils on
farms and may possibly be home this week. He certainly is having fine
weather.
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The poor, old, dilapidated gymnasium piano is getting "all fixed up".
The man who has the job says we will not know it when done. We hope not,
unless it gets over the grip.
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Mr. Given, Misses Paull and Moore found a skating pond at the
Craigheads, and spent Saturday afternoon at that exhilarating past time.
The ice was a little "cracky," but they claim to have had a good time,
notwithstanding.
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La Grippe has told so perceptibly on our force of printers that it
now seems impossible to catch up on the *Red Man,* and get out on time.
We are late again, but are going to make one more grand effort to come
out with the February number somewhere near the middle of the month.
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The last five minutes of school, on Wednesday, the
Man-on-the-band-stand said to his chief clerk "Take a run around through
the school-rooms and see what they are all about." The clerk obeyed
orders and found in No. 13 the little folks spelling by sound, and doing
splendidly. They read from the board speaking the words distinctly,
showing that sound drill is just the thing. In the other rooms pupils
were digging hard at examples in Arithmetic, analyzing sentences,
studying the Dawes Bill, reciting in concert and doing other interesting
things, not thinking for a moment about stopping because the time was
up. In the last room visited the clerk was struck with the truth of the
verse that the little boys were reciting, "An industrious boy will make
an industrious man; a lazy boy will make a lazy-man." In all, the run
was an inspiring one and very pleasant.
Miss Dawson of the sewing-room is quite ill of Pneumonia at her home
in town.
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Capt. Pratt spent a day in Washington this week, looking after
affairs connected with the school.
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The Enigma written for the Indians by one who signs "Pale Face," is a
good one but too long for the HELPER.
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Briggs Cornelius and Samuel Gruett are our youngest printers, but
they are learning to handle the steam engine as skillfully as the best.
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We are pleased to learn that William Archiquette has entered the
carpenter shop. Success to the carpenter's tools. We hope he will keep
an edge on them.
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Mr. Potter is around with Indian boy and tape-measure taking the
dimensions of shops and other buildings, plans of which are ordered to
be sent to the Department.
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A large company of boys and girls and teachers attended the Y.M.C.A.
entertainment given by the Schubert Quartette of Chicago, on Wednesday
evening and enjoyed the treat immensely.
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There have been 374 cases of La Grippe treated in the hospital since
La Grippe season began. Fourteen of these had Pneumonia, but all have
come out wonderfully well, owing to patient care and attention of the
hospital force.
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Charlie Horse is getting younger apparently every day he lives. The
lady who one day this week jumped in the carriage at the school house
and rode with Nicholas around to the stable, he giving her permission to
drive, thought it was spirited Bell she was driving.
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The supply of old carpets from the Department just received will
cover the floors of several rooms which need it badly. The teachers'
Parlor comes in for one, a pretty red one, which with piecing and
turning out will help out wonderfully, in brightening up the room and
making it comfortable.
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On Tuesday afternoon we were busy picking type and doing other
printing-office work when all of a sudden strains of music were heard in
the distance. Of course sticks must drop, proof-sheets fly, presses
stop, the engine cease to puff, and all heads look out of the window. It
was the Empire band of town approaching, followed by the Sarah Zane
Steam Fire Engine Company of Winchester, Virginia and the Cumberland
Company of town. They presented a grand appearance in their brilliant
uniforms, the Cumberland carrying the fine silver water pitcher and
silver cups which had been presented to them by the visiting Company.
They also had with them the handsome silver trumpet which a New York
City Company had presented to them at the time of the Centennial
celebration, a few mouths since. The Empire band favored the shop corner
with a few choice selections.
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(Continued from the First Page.)
Rev. Mr. Coolidge, Rev. Chas. Smith Cook, of Pine Ridge Agency, Dakl,
and other noble Indians whom we know by reputation, but not personally
as we do these two gentlemen, are living examples of what my be
accomplished for the Indian by continued contact with enlightened
people.
Mr. Cook and Mr. Coolidge ovvupy high and responsible positions in
life.
Where did they get the knowledge and experience to fit them for such
positions?
EXPERIENCE is the great thing, where did they get it?
Not on an Indian reservation alone.
It cannot be acquired there.
Each of these men were privileged with years of association with
enlightened people other than their kin.
Opportunity for gaining the same experience that you adn I need to
fit us for the responsible duties of life will do as much for the Indian
as it is doing for you and me.
Let every intelligent reader decide whether or not the Indian should
have this opportunity.
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ARE THE INDIANS GRATEFUL BEINGS?
The above question is frequently asked, and it may seem to some who
have to do considerable with the race that the Indian is not thankful as
a rule for kindness shown him. But that he may be thnkful without
expressing it is shown in the following incident:
A kindness had been shown to a chief on a western reservation where
the Canadian French have mingled considerably with the Indians.
The chief said to a person who had carried a gift to him from a
friend:
"Tell the person who sent this gift to me that when a Frenchman
receives a kindness he is thankful in his heart.
The head has a tongue; it can talk.
But when an Indian receives a kindness he is thankful in his heart.
His heart has no tongue; it cannot talk."
This is no excuse, however, for an educated Indian boy or girl to
keep back expressions of gratitude when he reallyl feels gratitude.
It was an Indian who told the above incident to a highly educated
audience and at the end he said'
"I have learned by education that there is a communication between
the heart and the brain, and what the heart feels the brain can express
through the tongue."
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The Answer to the Enigma of the HELPER of January 24th is Hollow
Horned Bear, instead of Hollow Horned Bull as stated last week.
Our Cat not the Smartest.
Two little subscribers write: "We read in the INDIAN HELPER of a bed
Jack Standing made for a cat, so we thought we would write and tell you
about our cat.
His name is Peter and is about five years old. He looks like a
tiger, but never bites or scratches us.
He will lie in our dolls' cradles, being dressed in doll dresses and
will take milk from a bottle. We take him to bed every night where he
snuggles down like a baby.
When he hears the dinner bell no matter where he is he will run for
the dining-room, so evenings when he is out doors and we want him to
come in we go to the front door and ring the bell.
When he comes in instead of going through the hall to the sitting
room he always goes through the parlor as though the hall was not good
enough for him.
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Enigma.
I am made of 21 letters.
My 16, 11, 19 must be done with one foot.
My 21, 11, 1, 9 is a pretty flower.
My 8, 2, 3 is a general nick-name for a small boy.
My 14, 20, 15, 18 is a part of your foot.
My 10, 7, 12 is a beautiful tree.
My 5, 6, 17, 4, 13 is the name for the comb of a rooster.
My whole is what a subscriber thinks that EVERY BODY should do and
the Man-on-the-band-stand is of the very same opinion.
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ANSWER TO LAST WEEK'S ENIGMA: White Ghost.
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Answer to Last Week's Puzzle.
SIX IX XL
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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 13
Carlisle Indian Printer boys, on a card 4 1/2 X 6 1/2 inches, worth 20
cents when sold by itself. Name and tribe of each boy given.
(Persons wishing the above premium will please enclose a 1-cent stamp
to pay postage.)
For TEN, Two PHOTOGRAPHS, one showing a group of Pueblos as they
arrived in wild dress, and another of the same pupils three years after,
or, for the same number of names we give two photographs showing still
more marked contrast between a Navajoe as he arrived in native dress,
and as he now looks, worth 20 cents a piece.
Persons wishing the above premiums will please enclose a 2-cent stamp
to pay postage.
For FIFTEEN, we offer a GROUP of the whole school on 9x14 inch card.
Faces show distinctly, worth sixty cents.
Persons wishing the above premium will please send 6 cents to pay
postage.
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[Transcribed weekly by Barbara Landis. For more information about
the Carlisle Indian School, go to http://www.epix.net/~landis]
--------- "RE: Poem: In the Spirit of Columbus" ---------
Date: Tue, 11 Feb 2003 17:06:43 -0000
From: naakt_engel <naakt_engel@yahoo.com>
Subj: in the spirit of columbus
Mailing List: ndn-aim <ndn-aim@yahoogroups.com>
in the spirit of columbus
In the Spirit of Columbus
rape
plunder
murder
enslave
conquer them with 50 men
using missiles
yellow gold or black
take it because you can
free them from a tyrant
bring them chrisitanity
set up another in its place
a promise not kept
never intended to keep
hold the land in trust
a sop
wrapped in white tape
--------- "RE: Verse: Hawaiian Book of Days" ---------
Date: Sun, 9 Feb 2003 17:03:02 EST
From: Debbie Sanders <kepola@hgea.org>
Subj: Hawaiian Book of Days
A HAWAI'I BOOK OF DAYS, week of February 24-March 2
PEPELUALI
(February)
(Kau-lua)
24
See the world through the eyes of a child.
25
Love is a gift that grows only with the giving.
26
What is once found is never truly lost.
27
I return to the earth to find the place of my beginnings.
28
Within me lie the wellsprings of my own renewal.
29
My heart sees what the eye cannot.
MALAKI
(March)
(Nana)
March was the season when the malolo, the flying fish,
swarmed in the ocean.
1
Everywhere I look, I see beauty.
2
Listen if you would hear the music of the land.
(c) Copyright 1991 by D. F. Sanders
Me ke aloha i ka nani, ... Moe'uhanekeanuenue
(With love and beauty, ... Rainbow Dream)
--------- "RE: Specials This Week on APTN" ---------
Date: Mon, Feb 17 08:03:22 2003 -0700
From: Gary Smith
Subj: NA News Item
- - - - - - -- - - - - - -
filename="APTN"
Available on Star Choice (1-888-554-STAR), channel 350
and on Bell ExpressVU (1-888-SKY-DISH), channel 441
= = = = = = = = =
Aboriginal Peoples Television Network is a full featured
network available to Canadian DBS viewers on Star Choice
and Bell ExpressVU. The weekly program grid is available
at http://www.aptn.ca/Schedule/schedule_html
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This week on CONTACT, APTN's National Live Call-In Program
Friday February 14, 2003, 07:00 PM Central/8 pm et/5 pt
"Language"
To take part during the show, call toll-free 1-877-647-2786,
or email your questions and comments to contact@aptn.ca.
More Info:
http://www.aptn.ca/en/Community/ContactCurrentAffairs/index_html
APTN Specials This Week
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APTN INDIE
Independent Aboriginal short films on the edge
APTN National News: Contact
Live weekly call-in discussions with Rick Harp
APTN Sur scene
Aboriginal music & performance from across Canada
Adventures in Sir Arthur Conan Doyle's The Lost World
Animated adventures in a lost, prehistoric jungle
Adventures of the Aftermath Crew
Explore the weird and wonderful surprises of Math
Bingo & A Movie
Watch great Aboriginal movies & win cash & prizes
Buffalo Tracks II
Host Lorne Cardinal w/Grandma Susie+Special Guests
Buffalo Tracks III
Talk & Variety with Lucie Idlout & Herbie Barnes
CG Kids I
Wacky & talented young hosts explore Canada
CG Kids II
A new season exploring Canada's amazing geography
Cooking With The Wolfman
Award-winning chef David Wolfman & special guests
Cool Jobs III
Travel with wacky young hosts looking at Cool Jobs
Eastern Tide
Stories from Atlantic Canada's Mi'kmaq People
Exhibit A: Secrets of Forensic Science I
Host Graham Greene examines investigative secrets
Exhibit A: Secrets of Forensic Science II
Host Graham Greene examines investigative secrets
First Music & Arts 2002/03
Up & coming artists & musicians with Waneek Horn
Great Canadian Rivers
The complex beauty & power of rivers across Canada
JumpStart
Sharing the fun, teamwork and inspiration of sport
Longhouse Tales
Hector Longhouse's Aboriginal legends come to life
Mataku
Unique, mystical world of Maori supernatural tales
North of Sixty
Complex issues, difficult passions & hard-won joy
Pow Wow Trail
Indian nations gather to honour & celebrate
Reel Insight
Independent Aboriginal documentary films
Rhythms of the Metis
Meet the foremost Metis artist families & Elders
The Creative Native
Innovative demonstrations from unique artists
The Last Reservation
The Atchoum tribe is trapped in the wrong time
The Raccoons
Sneers, a raccoon family & their hilarious friends
The Seekers
Youth-driven, bold, satiric; seeking the future
World's Indigenous People
International Indigenous peoples cultures & issues
--------- "RE: NAMMY Winner Martha Redbone at NYC's Gerwshwin" ---------
Date: Sat, 15 Feb 2003 23:02:29 -0700
From: Ronnett Crafton <ronnett@earthlink.net>
Subj: NAMMY Press Release
>To: "NAMMY Media
WHO: NAMMY AWARD WINNER MARTHA REDBONE AT NYC'S GERSHWIN
WHAT: An Intimate Evening Of Native Funk And R&B
WHEN: TUESDAY FEBRUARY 25th AT 8PM
WHERE: LIVING ROOM, GERSHWIN HOTEL, 7 East 27th Street NYC
Martha Redbone, the NAMMYS' 2002 Debut Artist of the Year, with be making
a rare and intimate appearance at the critically acclaimed Living Room on
Tuesday, February 25th. Recent performers at "Live from the Gershwin
Living Room" include; Debbie Harry and Nina Hagen.
Martha's award-winning debut CD "Home of the Brave" is summed up by
Billboard in one word...Stunning. It sounds like music that was cooked up
at a dinner party where the Guests included Sly Stone and Prince, Minnie
Riperton and Al Green."
Don't miss the NAMMYS' Best Debut Artist, Martha Redbone, in this rare and
intimate NYC appearance! Admission is $8.00. Limited seating is available.
For Further Information
Call 917-468-1175
or visit www.gershwinhotel.com
SPREAD THE WORD...SUPPORT NATIVE MUSICIANS
A NAMA Presentation
--------- "RE: This Week on AIROS" ---------
Date: Mon, 17 Feb 2003 11:18:04 -0600
From: "AIROS (American Indian Radio On Satellite)" <airos@unl.edu>
Subj: NAC Topics for 2/17 - 2/21 (Including Current Events)
+ Voices From The Circle features Smokeytown,... + more...
1) Native America Calling
2) Voices from the Circle
3) Different Drums
4) Earthsongs
5) AlterNative Voices
6) Oyate Ta Olowan
7) Native Sounds, Native Voices
8) New Letters on Air
1) NATIVE AMERICA CALLING
Native America Calling, the AIROS flagship program, is a live one-hour
call-in show, now distributed to over 40 Native and non-Native radio
stations across Indian Country, Monday-Friday at 1 p.m. ET.
Monday, February 17 - Get Up And Go:
According to research many Americans are overweight! A sedentary life style
contributes to obesity and weight gain, two conditions which can strain
health care services for those with health problems attributed to being
overweight. How do we stop the couch potato mentality and get people moving?
A workshop that assists in developing recreational activities for Native
youth is working to tackle the issue of obesity and their work is available
to tribal officials. Are these workshops the answer? What can put the `get
up', in `get up and go'? Guests include Judy Shepard, Native American
Recreation and Sports Institute and Teresa Bell, Reno Sparks Colony.
Tuesday, February 18, - Bear Butte Under Fire:
Bear Butte is an honored place where Native Peoples, including the Cheyenne,
Lakota, Arapaho, Kiowa, Mandan, Hidatsa, Arikara and other Native nations
pray, seek spiritual wisdom and guidance, renew cultural traditions and
sacred objects, mark passages of life and make pilgrimages and offerings.
Located in South Dakota the mountain is a National Historic landmark. Many
already consider the peace, tranquility and safety of Native people who pray
there in danger because of high-volume tourism but a new proposed rifle-
shooting range has sparked new controversy. What are the federal, state and
tribal governments doing to protect Bear Butte and to halt any development
or activity impeding Native Peoples in the exercise of religious freedom
there? Guest: Suzan Harjo (Cheyenne & Hodulgee Muscogee) of the Morning
Star Institute.
Wednesday, February 19 - Reuniting Adoptees:
It is estimated that between the years of 1941 and 1978 twenty-five to
thirty-five percent of all Indian children were removed from their homes
and placed in orphanages, white foster homes, and adopted by non-Native
families. Today, many of those children are adults and many may wonder about
their biological families. How can these individuals find information about
their relatives? What is needed to assist in searching for birth parents and
extended family members? What is needed to help families in the reunification
process? Also what about those children who were voluntarily given up by
their parents, what rights do they have in researching their family
histories? Guest: Sandra White Hawk (Sicangu Lakota) of the First Nations
Orphan Association.
Thursday, February 20, - Music Maker- Medicine Dream:
Songs from the hearts and the spirit of the Ktaqmkum Mi'kmaq people of
Newfoundland, Canada, is the essence in the latest release from Medicine
Dream. Tomegan Gospen is the title of the CD and it pays tribute to our
elders. It's also the Mi'kmaq name of a traditional caribou hunting camp.
Based in Anchorage, Alaska, Medicine Dream is a band that has merged a
traditional message with a contemporary tempo and sound. Can the message of
ancestral teachings be conveyed through a modern-day genre? Will the new CD
be an award winner for the band? Joining us are Paul Pike, founder of the
band, and Buz Daney, a band member.
Friday, February 21, - Indian In the Spotlight-Peter MacDonald:
Once considered the most powerful Native American in the country and also
credited with bringing the Navajo people into the modern world, Peter
MacDonald, Sr. served as chairman of America's largest Indian tribe, the
Navajo Nation, for almost 4 terms. It has been over two years since his
release from federal prison where he served 7 of his 14 years for conspiracy
and burglary. What has the former tribal leader been doing since his release
and how is his health? What does he have to say about his time in prison and
the reasons for his imprisonment? Also what are his opinions about the state
of Native America? Guest: Peter MacDonald, Sr. of the Navajo Nation.
2)VOICES FROM THE CIRCLE
Voices from the Circle highlights Native news, music, issues, entertainment
and storytelling from reservations and urban communities. The weekly
program is produced and hosted by Barbara Jersey (Menominee/Potawatomi) and
Jim DeNomie (Bad River Chippewa) at WLUW on Loyola University.
2/17 - 2/24: Voices From The Circle
Boozhoo! Posoh! Greetings!
This week VOICES FROM THE CIRCLE producers Jim DeNomie and Barbara Jersey
have assembled, perhaps, the widest array of NDN music since...well...since
last week!
VOICES opens with the New Age sounds and Esperanto words of AO on "Mother."
Jim Boyd teams up with Annie Humphrey on a sweet rendition of "I'll Be
There."
Smokeytown helps keep us in pow wow shape with an "Intertribal" from the
good old days.
Steve Osbourn contributes two relax trax to this week's show; "Feel the
Beat" and "Longhouse."
Arigon Starr explains what it is like to be a "Man Without A Tribe."
Peter Kater collaborates with rising Indian star Chenoa Egawa as they
explore the "Midnight Realm."
Cheyenne Gary Small answers the age-old question... "Do Indians ever get
the Blues?" with a slick version of "I Like It Like That."
`nishnabe Keith Secola chips in two tunes this week. One a good old "Circle
Dance" and his classic anthem, "Frybread."
The Cherokee National Children's Choir put their beautiful language to the
best use by singing "I'll Fly Away."
Menominee Wade Fernandez submits an excellent tribute to the young ones
with "Music for the Seventh Generation."
Arigon Starr returns for our finale with a rousing "Indian Land Forever!"
May All Your Frybread Dreams Come True!
Jim DeNomie and Barbara Jersey, VOICES FROM THE CIRCLE/AIROS
Qusetions or suggestions? Contact us at urbaneagles@msn.org
3) DIFFERENT DRUMS
Different Drums is a weekly hour of music and words from today's Native
Americans, frequently profiling individual artists or featuring current
issues in Indian Country. Hosted by Alaskan producer Tricia King, Different
Drums has been honored with eleven state and national awards since its
beginning in 1996.
4) EARTHSONGS
Earthsongs is a weekly, hour-long music program on contemporary music by
Native artists such as Robbie Robertson, Indigenous, Bill Miller, Murray
Porter, Joanne Shenandoah, and Robert Mirabal.
5) ALTERNATIVE VOICES
AlterNative Voices features Native music, interviews, and news reports
relevant to Indian Country. AlterNative Voices is produced and hosted by
Z. Susanne Aikman (Eastern Band Cherokee) and originates from KUVO-FM in
Denver.
Sitting in at the news desk is Mark Charles (Navajo) while Vernon Cawker is
away on business.
2003 events are lining up on our calendar at www.alterNativeVoices.org
6) OYATE TA OLOWAN
Oyate Ta Olowan, Songs of the People, is a rare and authentic collection
of Native American music. This landmark series steps off the beaten trail,
traveling to far places in order to introduce you to talented native
musicians in their homelands.
7) NATIVE SOUNDS-NATIVE VOICES
Oyate Ta Olowan, Songs of the People, is a rare and authentic collection of
Native American music. This landmark series steps off the beaten trail,
traveling to far places in order to introduce you to talented native
musicians in their homelands.
8) NEW LETTERS ON THE AIR
New Letters on Air, the radio companion to the literary quarterly New
Letters, is a half-hour literature program produced in the studios of
KCUR-FM on the University of Missouri-Kansas City campus. Every week, the
program presents a distinguished writer of fiction, nonfiction and poetry
reading from his or her work and talking with our host about the craft of
writing and personal inspirations.
--------- "RE: Comanche Homecoming" ---------
Date: Fri, 14 Feb 2003 09:19:38 -0800 (PST)
From: "margrett okelley" <margrettok@elvis.com>
Subj: Comanche Homecoming 3rd week in July 2003
>To: gars@nanews.org
Dear Sir:
Please include the Comanche Homecoming dates
in your calendar of events.
The Comanche Homecoming will be July 17,18,19, & 20, 2003 at
Sultan Park, Walters, Oklahoma
This will be the 50th annual homecoming...
free parking, camping, rations, contests, and parade.
Thank you.
Margrett O. Kelley
--------- "RE: Upcoming Events" ---------
Date: Mon, 17 Feb 2003 15:39:14 -0
From: Gary Smith (gars@speakeasy.org)
Subj: Upcoming Events
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The following have granted permission for their original articles to
be reposted in order to help mend the Sacred Hoop:
Gary Smith, Frosty Deere, Russell Diabo, Kahente, Randy RedFish,
Dawn Deer, Art Woolsey, Brigitte Thimiakis, Janet Smith,
Johnny Rustywire, Debbie Sanders, Barbara Landis, Trisha Jacobs,
Ronnett Crafton, Margrett O. Kelley
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