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Gary Night Owl
gars@speakeasy.org
Tue, 03 Jun 2003 23:25:33 +0000
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Aboriginal/AmerIndian Perspective about the First Nations of Turtle Island
June 7, 2003
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| 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. |
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"The most important issue facing Indian education today is accessibility.
It is essential for American Indian students to have access to American
Indian mentors, academic resources, adequate facilities, financial
support and tacit knowledge."
__ Justin McHorse, Taos Pueblo, student at the Institute for the
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| Indian Pledge of Allegiance | The Indian Pledge of Alleg-
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| 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!
The editorial for this issue comes from the beautiful lady Creator has
sent to share my walk, my wife Janet.
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They're so sorry...
Up until about a week ago, the Confederated Tribes of the Coos, Lower
Umpqua and Siuslaw Indians were considered the top prospect for acquiring
the former Air National Guard base at the scenic Coos Head site near Cape
Arago. The BIA was required to submit an application for the surplussed
land on behalf of the tribe -- it was one of those duties the tribes are
supposed to TRUST the BIA to do. Well, the BIA failed in its trust.
Still...again...once more. The paperwork didn't make it in on time, so
the tribes lose out, and it appears now that the local county has a real
good chance to create a money-making enterprise on the land. The BIA has
expressed regret and the tribes, understandably, are thinking of filing a
lawsuit. This was not a trifling loss for them.
I wonder about this whole scenario. Was it happenstance? Just more
bureaucratic bungling? Is it possible something a lot less bumbling and
stupid is at work here? Could it be that the BIA has figured out what
could happen when a Native Nation with intelligent leadership gets
surplussed lands? They certainly have a model. Chief Phillip Martin of
the Mississippi Band of Choctaw parlayed such a purchase into a wiring
harness factory that lifted his impoverished tribe and his unemployed
people into prosperity. It was a rousing success, and so were subsequent
enterprises bankrolled by that first venture. Fat chance of bright Choctaw
young folks who want a good future drifting off into nearby cities and
forgetting they're Choctaw now. Their opportunities are better right at
home. The Mississippi Band of Choctaw would be difficult to "extinguish"
because of low numbers, thanks in large part to an enterprise that began
with surplussed land.
So maybe this little oversight was just that. And maybe the tribal
trust mess isn't what it seems to be. Maybe the BIA isn't doing its dead
level best to commit oversights, omissions and miscalculations that will
so weaken the remaining tribes that they will cease to exist--and solve
the "Indian problem." But doesn't it make you wonder? Are all the
agencies of the Cabinet so consistently inept? And don't you wonder what
another agency -- the Security and Exchange Commission -- would do to a
private investment firm that made errors of this magnitude?
Addendum:
After the above note was written, Gary and I were watching 60 Minutes on
television. One of the segments was in regard to people in Germany who
feel they've lived with the shame of the Holocaust long enough. Those who
perpetrated it are mostly dead. The country has paid reparations to
victims, the criminals who were caught in the Nazi leadership have been
appropriately punished, the country's leaders have apologized through
several administrations, they've been helpful allies and good
international citizens for half a century, etc. So, they ask how long
will that one period of their country's history be what defines Germany?
Good question. It's fairly common belief that Hitler designed much of
his "Jewish program" (except for the ovens) based on the U.S. model for
solving the "Indian problem." Strategies in common included
"illegalizing" commerce with the undesirables and making it impossible for
them to prosecute crimes against them (see Georgia law just before the
Trail of Tears), relocation of individuals and communities with
confiscation of valuable property, isolation in concentration camps and
ghettos (reservations), pogroms (outright massacres such as Sand Creek and
Wounded Knee), officially sanctioned sterilization of women (beyond the 70s
in the U.S., as documented by the General Accounting Office). So where's
the U.S. contrition? What about reparations or apologies? Where is the
annual international flagellation? Maybe there's a reason Hitler found
the U.S. program so appealing. In the 1940s, and now, it is clear the U.S.
is getting away with this behavior and suffering no consequences
whatsoever.
Dohiyi Ani Oginalii
, , Gary Night Owl gars@nanews.org
(*,*) P. O. Box 672168 gars@speakeasy.org
(`-') Marietta, GA 30008, U.S.A.
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----------- News of the people featured in this issue ----------
- Feds miss Filing Deadline - Brazilian Tribe fights
for Coos Head Land to keep Lifestyle Alive
- County eyes Coos Head property - Non-natives fear
for Development Native Self-Government Deal
- Impasse leads to Trusteeship - Yellowknives say Giant Mine
over Kanehsatake caused Cancer
- Cherokee Nation votes BIA out - Comment:
- Cities that share Boundaries What do you mean 'We,' White Man?
with Tribes - Court Action Over Mercury Poisoning
- Gila Tribe banks on a River Walk - Drunk Shooters terrorize Cree Town
- Unique Visitor Center - Native Prisoner
presents Paiute History -- Pen Pal Address Update
- DOREEN YELLOW BIRD: - Rustywire: Metwe' Metwe'
Tourism on Reservations - History: Carlisle Indian School
- Colombia: Conflict - Poem: For the Brothers
affects Amazonian Peoples - Verse: Hawaiian Book of Days
- Upcoming Events
--------- "RE: Feds miss Filing Deadline for Coos Head Land" ---------
Date: Thu, May 29 2003 08:53:39 -0600
From: Gary Smith <gars@Speakeasy.org>
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http://www.owlstar.com/dailyheadlines.htm
http://www.theworldlink.com/articles/2003/05/28/news/news04.txt
Feds miss filing deadline for Coos Head land
By Andrew Sirocchi, Staff Writer
May 28, 2003
A missed deadline may cost the Confederated Tribes of the Coos, Lower
Umpqua and Siuslaw Indians years of work and the possibility to acquire
the scenic Coos Head site near Charleston.
The U.S. Bureau of Indian Affairs has failed to submit an application
initiating the land transfer and the General Services Administration the
past week opened the purchase of the former Air National Guard base to
public interest prospects.
The tribes were considered a lock to get the sought-after property, an
11-acre parcel that includes the Cape Arago lighthouse and a parcel that
overlooks the Pacific Ocean. Under federal guidelines, the tribes had
first dibs on surplused land but since the BIA missed the deadline
initiating the land transfer, Coos Head is now open to purchase by other
interested groups who can get federal sponsorship.
"They asked for a 30-day extension. That was granted and then they did
not, they were not able to submit a completed request package," said James
Biederman, GSA project manager.
Tribal Administrator Francis Somday II said his council is furious about
the BIA's handling of the matter, which may end up turning into a loss of
land and a potential learning and recreation center it wanted to build.
Somday said the tribes submitted its paperwork to the BIA in time but the
agency never followed up on the matter.
"(The tribes) had a real shot of getting Coos Head returned to it and
because one employee failed to do their job, the tribe loses again,"
Somday said. "The ownership of this property is part of the 1.6 million
acres the tribes gave up in the 1850s and it's going to be another tragedy
in the history of this tribe if Coos Head is not returned to its rightful
owner."
Phone calls to BIA representatives in Washington, D.C., were not
returned.
Somday has not ruled out a lawsuit against the BIA, if the tribes
discover they could force an injunction to stop the sale of the property
to another group.
"In a nutshell, we have our attorneys working on a potential lawsuit
against the BIA for violations of its own rules and regulations," he said.
The GSA follows a complicated, tiered process to determine who will get
surplused federal property.
Federal agencies, such as the BIA, get the first crack at the land.
Biederman said the BIA initially requested an extension from the initial
deadline to review environmental records for the site. The federal
government has for years been cleaning several benzene plumes that leaked
from military tanks but the cleanup has yet to be completed.
Biederman said he called the BIA to report the deadline was nearing but
he never heard back from the agency and let the extension expire.
Once federal agencies are excluded from the process, the GSA allows
anyone with an interest in using the property for public benefit a shot at
acquiring the parcel - if they can get federal sponsorship. While homeless
shelters have priority over all other interests, the Department of Housing
and Urban Development recently determined the site is unfit for use as a
homeless shelter, saying the buildings on the site are too deteriorated.
Biederman said the GSA is reviewing whether the tribes will have another
chance to acquire the property as a public interest group.
"We are discussing with legal counsel internally right now and with
respect of the issue of whether they can pursue this property as a public
body, whether the tribes would qualify as a public body under one of the
public benefit uses," he said.
Even so, the tribes no longer would receive priority treatment and would
compete for the ownership with other interested groups.
"The federal entities, including the BIA, no longer have a priority,"
Biederman said.
And other public interests are piling up.
Oregon International Port of Coos Bay officials have expressed some
guarded interest in working with the original Coos Head Working Group to
acquire the property for public use. The group, formed in the late 1990s,
included representatives from the port, Coos County, South Slough National
Estuarine Research Reserve, Coos Bay and North Bend and the Coquille
Indian Tribe as well as the Confederated Tribes.
"Five years ago it was clear," General Manager Allan Rumbaugh said. "The
port was interested in helping someone acquire the land."
Today, that support is not as clear but there still is interest.
Commissioner Cheryl Scott said she wants more information about the
contaminated areas on the site and wants to review a study produced by the
Coos Head Working Group in 1998 before making a decision. She also
expressed caution at the prospect that the property remains polluted.
In a study several hundred pages long, the Coos Head group developed a
number of alternative uses for the site, all largely based on the concept
that eco-tourism could be profitable for the area. Ideas were discussed
about using the site for a resort, for an educational interpretive center,
or a center combining lodging and learning.
The port by itself would not be able to sponsor the Coos Head group's
bid for the property but could be in a better position to seek federal
sponsorship.
Idle since 1996, when the Oregon Air National Guard closed the doors on
its Coos Head base and moved operations to Klamath Falls, the 40-acre site
is proving to be a highly sought-after piece of real estate in Coos County.
The GSA has not done an appraisal on the property and a price is unclear.
Somday said he has been working with the BIA and the GSA to determine if
the process can be reversed but he has been getting little from either
group.
"In the end, while these two agencies are bickering over this process,
who got hurt?" Somday asked. "The tribes."
Copyright c. 2003 Southwestern Oregon Publishing Company - Coos Bay, OR.
--------- "RE: County eyes Coos Head property for Development" ---------
Date: Mon, Jun 2 2003 08:24:56 -0600
From: Gary Smith <gars@Speakeasy.org>
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County eyes Coos Head property for development
By Andrew Sirocchi, Staff Writer
June 1, 2003
The Coos County Board of Commissioners is the latest in a growing list of
groups to express interest in purchasing a former Air National Guard base
at the scenic Coos Head site near Cape Arago.
Closed since 1996, when the Oregon Air National Guard moved operations
to Klamath Falls, the 40-acre Coos Head site has piqued the interest of
tribes, tourism promoters and now the county's governing body.
"I think we'd be remiss not to" go after the property, Commissioner
Nikki Whitty said. "It would just be a beautiful, beautiful site for some
sort of campus, a research facility, I don't even know what it might be."
Tourism promoters say the land, situated on a forested bluff overlooking
the Pacific Ocean, is invaluable for developing eco-tourism attractions, a
resort and an interpretive center. The Confederated Tribes of the Coos,
Lower Umpqua and Siuslaw Indians, meanwhile, have had a short-term goal of
moving their tribal headquarters to the site and a long-term vision of
developing a business venture.
The county commissioners, in contrast, are the first to voice a strictly
economic development interest for the property.
Commissioner John Griffith, while declining to address specifics, said
current proposals simply haven't suggested they would use the site to its
potential.
"It's a fabulous piece of property and the county would like to see some
sort of economic-positive stream," Griffith said. "We wouldn't want to see
it turned into something that would be underused. A piece of property like
that should return a very positive economic function to this area."
Griffith said ideally, the private sector would return the greatest
potential on the property but it's unclear how far federal guidelines will
allow industry to get. The land, nestled among state parks and beaches, is
currently being auctioned to public benefit interests by the General
Services Administration.
James Biederman, GSA project manager, said the public benefit screening
process typically considers homeless shelters, parks, schools, airports,
ports and correctional facilities first.
"Homeless shelters have first priority. Everyone else can get
sponsorships," Biederman said. "Entities interested in the property for a
public-benefit purpose can then submit an application to a federal
sponsoring agency."
Whitty said the county does not yet have a federal sponsor and the board
needs to discuss the issue further before deciding how to approach the
land deal. She said some economic development prospects may be able to fit
under the GSA's definition of public interest and surmised Coos Head would
be a prime location for a public health research facility, a campus for
pharmaceutical companies or a homeland defense research business.
Whatever the business, Whitty said the county must still work out
whether it would want to partner with an enterprise, sell or lease the
land.
"I'd really like to see private investment out there so whatever is
built would be on the tax rolls," Whitty said.
The GSA has ordered an appraisal on the property, which should be
completed within 90 days and Griffith agreed that the potential for a tax
benefit exists.
"Taxes on it could be considerable if it were developed to its full
potential," Griffith said. "That would be for schools and all the other
taxing districts."
That would not have been the case if the Confederated Tribes had
purchased the land.
The tribes were once considered the top prospect for acquiring the
property because the process to sell surplused land gives federal agencies
first right to bid.
The tribes would have been a lock to get the land but the failure of the
Bureau of Indian Affairs to submit the required application initiating the
land transfer may have cost the tribes the property.
Tribal officials, furious at the BIA's handling of the matter, have said
they are considering filing a lawsuit against the agency for missing the
deadline and hope that they still may be able to negotiate a deal with the
GSA.
Meanwhile, the sale process has moved to the second stage, in which any
agency that can garner federal sponsorship and has a proposal that would
benefit the broader public can bid on the land.
Tourism developers have eyed Coos Head for years and had already entered
an application for the property from the U.S. Bureau of Land Management.
In 1998, the Coos Head Working Group, which included representatives
from the port, Coos County, South Slough National Estuarine Research
Reserve, Coos Bay and North Bend and the Coquille Indian Tribe as well as
the Confederated Tribes, developed a lengthy study that included numerous
proposals for the land.
Alternative uses for the site all were largely based on the concept that
eco-tourism could be profitable for the area. Ideas were discussed about
using the site for a resort, for an educational interpretive center, or a
center combining lodging and learning.
Prior to becoming a commissioner, Whitty helped to develop the Working
Group study that promoted the site for tourism, but said much has changed
since the document was completed.
"I just think the economy has changed," she said. "The needs of the
county have changed. People need to sit back down and say what really
benefits the entire county with the development of this property."
Whitty said she hasn't discounted a tourism-based development but added
there are additional opportunities that offer more than seasonal economic
growth.
"I also think it's important to have something where people have family-
wage jobs or something where they live here year-round," she said.
Copyright c. 2003 Southwestern Oregon Publishing Company, Coos Bay, OR.
--------- "RE: Impasse leads to Trusteeship over Kanehsatake" ---------
Date: Wed, May 28 2003 08:12:01 -0600
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Impasse leads to trusteeship over Kanehsatake
By: Ross Montour
May 23, 2003
Ongoing divisions within the Mohawk Council of Kanehsatake have led to a
decision last week by Indian and Northern Affairs to place the community
under trusteeship and, so far, both sides of the leadership divide are
laying responsibility at the doorstep of the other.
Council Chief Steven Bonspille places the blame squarely on the
shoulders of Kanehsatake Grand Chief James Gabriel for what he called
Gabriel's "actions against" the community. Gabriel dismissed Bonspille's
accusations, countering that, if anyone was to blame, it was Bonspille and
two other councillors because of their refusal to accept an alternative
plan to assist the band out of a nearly $3 million deficit, which would
have preempted the need for trusteeship.
Gabriel said that numerous attempts had been made by Indian and Northern
Affairs to seek a less intrusive solution to his community's fiscal woes.
"There were tons of letters and attempts at dialogue offering the
preferable option of co-management but three of my fellow chiefs were not
interested. They have instead attempted to create another crisis in the
community," Gabriel said, pointing to last month's road blockade at
Kanehsatake.
The impact of Chief Crawford Gabriel's death last October has had a
telling effect on decision-making at Kanehsatake. Since then, the now six-
member council has been at loggerheads a number of times, the latest being
over the issue of band finances.
Gabriel argued third-party management could have been avoided had
Bonspille and fellow chiefs Pearl Bonspille and John Harding been willing
to cast their vote in favour of co-management.
Gabriel said it was because of the Bonspille faction's unwillingness to
move forward that Indian Affairs was left with no other option but to
place the council under trusteeship.
Bonspille balks at Gabriel's contention. "At this point I don't trust
anything James says - he's changed his positions so many times. There were
two meetings on the issue of co-management. At the first, we (Bonspille,
Pearl Bonspille and Harding) said that we would never support it. At the
next, James decided he did want to take part in it. I take everything he
says now with a grain of sand," Bonspille said yesterday.
Gabriel punctuated his frustration by pointing out that all of the
council members had signed a funding agreement with Indian Affairs which
obliged council to initiate specific remedies should the deficit reach
seven or eight per cent of the annual budget. The embattled Grand Chief
said that, no matter what Bonspille and his supporters say, they were
obliged to act responsibly under that funding arrangement.
Bonspille blamed Gabriel Monday for contributing to the growing deficit
by instigating and supporting legal battles against council. But,
Bonspille said the time for blame and finger-pointing was over. "It's time
for all parties to work together toward asserting our sovereignty in terms
of governance and to oppose third-party management," he said. "We have the
ability to manage our funds in Kanehsatake. Ottawa knows this and they
know why there's a deficit. There isn't a council in the country that can
foresee litigation. I don't like seeing our money going to lawyers and I
didn't get on council to sit in courtrooms. Before coming on to council
I'd never been in a courtroom - now I've spent more time in them than I
care to mention."
Finger-pointing aside, the Regional Director of Indian Affairs, Andre'
Cote', has already appointed the firm of Price-Waterhouse to act as trustee
over Kanehsatake.
"My three fellow chiefs have said they intend to prevent Price-
Waterhouse coming into the office. Unfortunately, they were not present at
a meeting held May 16 with the Department of Indian Affairs and Price-
Waterhouse. If they had been," Gabriel said, "they would have known that
the trustee made it clear that they would not be coming into the community.
They didn't want to add to the problems here."
As things stand now, Gabriel said that any attempt to deny the trustee
access to financial documents would be met decisively. "Price-Waterhouse
will simply suspend payment of bills. After all new dollars are placed
into the account controlled by Price-Waterhouse, they will only issue
cheques upon requests made to ensure that essential services are delivered
to the community," Gabriel said Wednesday.
A meeting is set to take place today between the representatives of
Price-Waterhouse and the Kanehsatake council. However, Bonspille says he
plans to sit and watch. He is concerned that, in spite of protests to the
contrary, there will be a layoff of council employees. "I don't buy that
there won't be any," he said yesterday.
easterndoor@axess.com
Copyright c. 1997-2000 The Eastern Door/Mohawk Territory, Kahnawake, QC.
--------- "RE: Cherokee Nation votes BIA out" ---------
Date: Wed, May 28 2003 08:12:01 -0600
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Tribe Votes Feds Out
By Marcus Blair
TIMES RECORD - MBLAIR@SWTIMES.COM
May 28, 2003
The Cherokee Nation no longer needs federal approval to change its
constitution after tribal voters passed an amendment Saturday.
The measure passed by 62 percent in the tribal election. It removes a
portion of the Cherokee constitution that requires the tribe to clear all
changes with the Bureau of Indian Affairs.
With federal involvement out of the way, Cherokees will finally have an
opportunity to approve a new tribal constitution on June 26. In 1999, the
constitution was approved by a convention of Cherokees, but the Bureau of
Indian Affairs would not ratify it.
The document contains several changes to tribal government that are
designed to reinforce the sovereignty of Cherokees, said Jay Hannah,
chairman of the constitution convention.
Some members of the tribe were surprised the measure didn't pass by a
greater margin, said Mike Miller, communications coordinator for the
Cherokee Nation.
He said some Cherokees voted against the amendment because they did not
understand it or they do not want the tribe to vote on a new constitution.
"There was some confusion about it," Miller said. "Some people put the
cart ahead of the horse and voted no right now because they didn't want
the second vote."
Also on Saturday, Cherokees re-elected Principal Chief Chad Smith. He
received 52 percent of the vote to defeat former chief Joe Byrd, L.S.
Fields and Robin Carter Mayes.
The race for deputy chief will be decided in a runoff June 26. Joe
Grayson Jr., who received 38 percent of votes, and Gary D. Chapman, who
received 33 percent, have advanced. Incumbent Hastings Shade and John
Cornsilk were defeated.
Cherokees in District 3 (Sequoyah County) re-elected David Thornton to
the Tribal Council and chose Phyllis Yargee as a new council member, both
with 22 percent of the vote. Incumbent Mary Flute-Cooksey was unseated and
Edith Locust Dalton and Sam Ed Bush Jr. also were defeated.
The only other race to result in a runoff was in District 4 which
includes portions of Wagoner, Muskogee and MacIntosh counties. Don Garvin
received 48 percent and Calvin Rock also advanced with 41 percent.
The following Tribal Council races were decided:
* District 1 (Cherokee County): Audra Smoke-Connor and Bill John Baker
were elected to two seats.
* District 2 (Adair County): Jackie Bob Martin and S. Joe Crittenden were
elected to two seats.
* District 5 (Delaware County and a portion of Otawah County): Linda
Hughes O'Leary and Melvina Shotpouch were elected to two seats.
* District 6 (Mayes County): Meredith A. Frailey and Johnny Keener were
elected to two seats.
* District 7 (Rogers County): Cara Cowan was elected.
* District 8 (Washington County and a portion of Tulsa County): Buel
Anglen and William G. "Bill" Johnson were elected to two seats.
* District 9 (Craig and Nowata counties): Charles "Chuck" Hoskin was
elected.
Copyright c. 2003 Ft. Smith, AR Times Record.
--------- "RE: Cities that share Boundaries with Tribes" ---------
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Cities that share boundaries with tribes ponder issues in common
By CATHY LOGG, The (Everett) Herald
May 27, 2003
EVERETT - As Snohomish County grows, more issues arise regarding the
intersection of authority between American Indians and government agencies,
both on and off the reservations.
Marysville, Arlington and Stanwood all have boundaries abutting tribal
lands or have tribal properties within their boundaries. Officials decided
they wanted to know more about police and taxing powers of the various
jurisdictions.
In a recent workshop, officials discussed those various intersections
with attorney Steve DiJulio, whose law firm often works on legal issues
involving various Washington tribes.
DiJulio's message: Communities should look at doing good business and
establishing good relationships with the tribes. He also urged
representatives of the three cities to establish a good relationship with
the federal Bureau of Indian Affairs so that issues can be adequately
addressed.
More and more, cities are involved with tribes in business, economic and
other issues that can be tricky if you don't know the law, Arlington Mayor
Bob Kraski said.
Though tribal members were invited but did not attend the workshop,
Marysville city administrator Mary Swenson said those who did attend got a
good general education on current law.
"It's better to be educated and know your neighbors rather than just
imagine what's going on and not getting the straight facts," Swenson said.
Since the advent of tribal casinos that have brought significant
gambling money to some tribes, American Indians now are expanding
development, on and off reservations, DiJulio said. That means that many
tribal members are facing more knotty issues these days, such as taxation,
insurance and building codes, than they did in the past.
"Tribes are becoming more entrepreneurial in looking at their revenue
opportunities," DiJulio told the group.
The Tulalip Tribes, for example, has used money from its Marysville
casino to develop the Quil Ceda Village business park, such anchor stores
as Home Depot and Wal-Mart. Next door to Quil Ceda, the Tulalip
confederation is building a new, larger casino, scheduled to open soon.
The Stillaguamish Tribe also has plans to build a casino.
With all this development, the tribes and the communities are working
hard to be good neighbors and have entered into a variety of agreements.
For example, Marysville Fire District provides some fire protection and
medical aid to the Tulalip reservation. The Marysville School District
educates Tulalip children. Tribal police plan to cross-deputize their
officers with Marysville police, and already have done so with the
Snohomish Regional Narcotics Task Force, Marysville police Chief Bob
Carden said.
The Greater Marysville Tulalip Chamber of Commerce met Friday to discuss
the results of a study conducted to determine the impacts of Quil Ceda
Village on the city. According to the study, the most substantial impact
of the reservation's development at Quil Ceda will be traffic, said Greg
Young, Marysville's grant writer and economic development coordinator.
Being good neighbors also means knowing who has what authority over whom,
and where. Tribes are independent, self-governing political communities
whose powers of self-government are limited only by federal laws, DiJulio
said. That means, for the most part, that state law doesn't apply to
tribal members on an Indian reservation.
Similarly, tribes have no authority over nontribal members on the
reservation, DeJulio said.
Depending on whether issues are civil or criminal, whether they involve
tribal members or nonmembers, and what type of land they're on all play a
part in determining who has governing authority. On tribal trust lands,
for example, state jurisdiction is limited to compulsory school attendance,
public assistance, domestic relations, mental illness, juvenile
delinquency, adoption proceedings, dependent children and the operation of
motor vehicles on public roads.
Tribes regulate their own members through taxation, licensing or other
means, and may exercise civil authority over non-Indians when the conduct
threatens or effects the tribe's political integrity, economic security,
or health and welfare, DiJulio said.
Big issues are looming that will affect all of the jurisdictions, such
as trust lands inside cities, the interrelationship of taxing issues, such
as on utilities that cross reservation land, or the development of service
contracts with tribal communities, DiJulio said.
Copyright c. 2003 Skagit Valley Herald/Mount Vernon, Washington
--------- "RE: Gila Tribe banks on a River Walk" ---------
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Gila tribe banks on a river walk
San Antonio attraction inspires plan
John Stearns
The Arizona Republic
May 28, 2003
The Gila River Indian Community is grading dirt and laying utilities for
its version of the San Antonio River Walk, the popular Texas attraction
with restaurants, shops, hotels and nightclubs lining the San Antonio
River.
"That's exactly where the idea came from . . . (but) there's some unique
differences, that's for sure," said Gary Williams, a tribal member and
marketing manager for the Wild Horse Pass Development Authority, which is
heading the work.
Gila River's as-yet-unnamed river walk will be a blend of high-quality,
low-density development lining both sides of the man-made river that links
the Sheraton Wild Horse Pass Resort & Spa and Gila River Wild Horse Pass
Casino.
Boats already transport guests more than one-half mile between the
facilities, and a concrete footpath lined with native vegetation rings the
east side.
Workers are preparing to pour the path on the west side of the river
this summer to create a nearly 1.5-mile loop, and they are readying some
of the roughly 200 acres around it for future shops, restaurants and
entertainment venues, including a possible events center and smaller hotel.
The first structures could be under way in a year or two.
The development is expected to house 20 to 30 establishments.
"Depending on what the market will bear, as far as the foot traffic, it
definitely can continue from that point on," Williams said of a project
that could take 10 years to build out.
Preserving tranquillity
But don't look for anything that will upset the area's tranquillity, a
key feature of the peaceful resort that hardly seems 11 miles from Phoenix
Sky Harbor International Airport and minutes off Interstate 10.
It won't be "Vegasville," Williams said.
Nor will it be Beverly Hills, "but there's a good, happy medium there in
which we can pull from, (from) an economic standpoint."
The project is yet another step in the tribe's development of the 2,400-
acre site that began with the casino.
The site branched to include two 18-hole Troon golf courses, then the
$175 million, 500-room Sheraton and spa that opened last October, plus an
equestrian center.
Feeling comfortable about those facilities' operation and returns, the
tribe is continuing its economic diversification.
Complementary plans
The river walk is designed to be an attraction in itself, while also
serving resort and casino guests.
It also is expected to support and benefit from a 350-acre business park
for which initial groundwork has been completed on tribal land, west of
the Firebird International Raceway.
It's all part of diversifying the tribe's economy beyond gambling,
revenue from which seeded the expansion and has generated the kinds of
opportunities envisioned when Congress enacted the Indian Gaming
Regulatory Act in 1988.
Gila's ultimate goal: tribal self-sufficiency.
"A self-sufficient tribe is where all the members are self-supporting"
and don't depend on the government to support them, said Urban Giff, the
development authority's vice chairman.
Jobs for the tribe's 14,000 to 16,000 members, most of whom live on the
372,000-acre reservation, are important project benefits and are enticing
some members back to the reservation, Williams said.
An upscale attraction
The river walk's size, tenants, budget and architectural details remain
to be finalized, but the look is likely to resemble the upscale Sheraton,
Williams said.
Recognizable brand-name establishments could complement stores that sell
American Indian artisans' work - jewelry, leather, clothing, art and more.
"It's not indecision, it's flexibility," Giff said of the fluid plans.
New life for tribe
The development is intended, like the hotel, spa, golf clubhouse and
surrounding river features, to educate outsiders about the Gila tribe,
known as the "river people." The new ventures, similar to life-giving
water, are giving the tribe new life, Williams said, adding that they also
add to Arizona's tourism industry and allow tribal participation in it.
"It sort of completes the package," Jay Butler, director of the Arizona
Real Estate Center at Arizona State University's W.P. Carey School of
Business, said of the river walk.
It helps to create more reasons for people to visit and stay beyond the
casino and resort, he said, noting similar successes at Las Vegas resorts.
Regional benefits
Karen Maurer, senior marketing director for the massive Chandler Fashion
Center, said the Gila tribe's plans will feed the region's growing
popularity and benefit everyone.
CB Richard Ellis is the real estate broker for the business park.
The company is using its contacts for prospective river walk tenants,
said Jerry McCormick, a CB first vice president in Phoenix.
"We're trying to create something out there that isn't anyplace else,"
McCormick said.
He believes the business park will help feed the river walk and vice
versa.
Proceeding carefully
No matter who the new business tenants are, growth will be calculated,
said Dale Gutenson, the general manager of the development authority.
"We view it as an incremental growth process," he said. "We need to
create activity and some critical mass."
The plan is flexible enough to allow the extension of the river if
necessary to accommodate the right tenants, he said.
Rich Carter, general manager of Troon's Whirlwind Golf Club, looks
forward to the river walk development.
"That is just going to add exposure to our facility," he said.
Copyright c. 2003 The Arizona Republic.
--------- "RE: Unique Visitor Center presents Paiute History" ---------
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Unique visitor center presents tribal history
Paiute-Park Service museum to launch Saturday
By PATRICE ST. GERMAIN
patrices@thespectrum.com
May 28, 2003
PIPE SPRING NATIONAL MONUMENT - It's the only visitor center of its type
in the National Park Service - a partnership to enhance a visitor's
experience and education and to provide cultural education for Indian
youth.
The Kaibab band of Paiute Indians has teamed up with the National Park
Service to create a new visitor center and museum and the Pipe Spring
National Monument located in Arizona on tribal land.
Entering in a new 20-year lease with the tribe, monument superintendent
John Hiscock said the tribe would also get a return on the entrance fees.
But the project was more than just a way to share entrance fees.
Kaibab Paiute Tribal chairwoman Carmen Bradley said the new center
provides a way to tell the story of the Southern Paiutes.
The museum encompasses the history of the area and the E'nengweng -
Paiute for ancient ones or ancestral peoples - up through the days of the
early Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saint pioneer settlers to the
present day life of the Kaibab Paiutes.
Bradley points to a photograph of Chuarrumpeak, her great, great, great,
grandfather who assisted John Wesley Powell in his exploration of the area.
Hiscock said at some point, he hopes to have a computer in a room set
off from the museum for people to look up descendants from the area. The
cultural center also has a collage of photographs of Paiutes. One of the
photographs shows a young woman with a baby in a cradleboard. The baby is
now about 75 years old.
Bradley said there are 250 enrolled members in the Kaibab band of Paiute
Indians, most of that number is made up of youth.
"I can count the elders on one hand," she said. Hiscock said that is
another reason the cultural center, preserving some of the Kaibab Paiute
history, is important.
"Anytime you lose an elder, much is lost," he said.
For anyone living in the desert southwest, water was and still is a
necessity for survival. The museum display begins with a water feature and
display of ancient water vessels.
The monument itself, on the Arizona Strip, is a spring that served as an
oasis to travelers and a water source for permanent settlers.
The water from rain and snow melt off the plateaus of central Utah, 200
miles to the north, runs down to a hard shale layer and flows southward to
the base of the Vermilion Cliffs where it is forced to surface at places
like Pipe Spring.
A ranch was built at the site, a tithing ranch and business venture as
part of Brigham Young's vision for the growing Mormon population.
In 1870 Anson Perry Winsor was appointed as the first ranch manager and
built what was called "Winsor Castle", two sandstone buildings facing a
courtyard which still survives.
Pipe Spring became a national monument on May 31,1923 as the
proclamation was signed by President Warren G. Harding to preserve the
ranch and historic buildings and interpret the associated history of the
pioneers and Indians.
The building, which is now the visitor center and museum, was built in
1973 by the tribe with assistance of the National Park Service, and housed
offices and visitor center. Now the park's administrative offices are
located at a building built as a casino. The casino operated for only one
year back in 1994 and 1995 before closing down.
Hiscock said the current partnership was initiated in 1998 although
Bradley said looking through tribal documents, the idea of a museum has
been in the works since the 70s.
The center will also serve as a contact and information station for
visitors to the northern areas of Grand Canyon National Park and Grand
Canyon Parashant National Monument.
The refurbishing of the building was paid for by grant money received by
the tribe and money the park applied for from fee-demo program funds. It
cost approximately $500,000.
Hiscock said in the last 10 years, visitation at the monument has been
between 50,000 and 60,000 visitors a year. He hopes that the new visitor
center, gift shop and museum will help encourage people to visit the
historic site.
Copyright c. 2003 The Spectrum/St. George, UT.
--------- "RE: DOREEN YELLOW BIRD: Tourism on Reservations" ---------
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DORREEN YELLOW BIRD COLUMN:
Tourism on reservations could work with controls
May 24, 2003
When North Dakota's state tourism knocks on the door of closed
communities such as the Indian reservations, the tribes tend to stand with
their heels dug into the ground and their hands firmly around the doorknob,
keeping the door tightly shut.
Part of the tribes' lack of enthusiasm for tourism - casinos being the
exception - is a mistrust of how the culture and image of Native people
will be portrayed when the tourists go home and their maps, tourist's
guides and binoculars are put away.
In a recent discussion with Roderic Hewlett, dean of the College of
Business and Graduate School at Minot State University, I learned some
possible links that could be beneficial to both the state and the tribes.
There are many possibilities for tourism on reservations, Hewlett said.
For example, European tourists keenly are interested in Indian
reservations and the culture of Native people - how they live today as
well as 200 years ago. The rest of the country finds Native American
culture fascinating, too, he said.
But I am skeptical about reservations opening their doors to a flood of
tourists unless the state works hand in hand with the tribe, and the
privacy of Native people is maintained.
As I drove home after my visit with Hewlett, some of the questions that
played in my mind were these:
There is no doubt that there is interest in the ceremonies and rituals
of Native people. Some tribes are on the side of keeping these ceremonies
and rituals off-limits. This issue of who can attend ceremonies is being
discussed around Indian country.
Here is where some of the problems have their roots. There are people
who were tourists, for example, who came back time and again to the same
ceremony until they were as familiar with the ritual as most elders. They
then took it upon themselves to duplicate the ceremonies they'd learned
without the sanction of a medicine man and spiritual leader.
There are non-Natives who have dubbed themselves medicine men and are
practicing the same ritual they learned from watching. There also are
people who claim to have some connection to a tribe and use that
connection as a way to become keepers and spiritual leaders.
Arvol Looking Horse, keeper of the White Buffalo Pipe, recently
proclaimed that some ceremonies need to be for Native people only. Shortly
thereafter, a group in Pine Ridge, S.D., said that no people should be
excluded from ceremonies. This issue has been on the table for only a few
months, so it seems there is more unraveling to do before a "way" becomes
set for the people. It is a complicated issue being examined by elders and
spiritual leaders. I suspect there will be hurt feelings before all is
said and done.
So opening the doors for tourism without a plan could come into direct
conflict with the proclamations of some of the tribal elders.
If tourists are excluded from ceremonies and only can walk the
reservation with map and guide in hand, they may find that Indian
reservations are not what they expected. There is poverty, addiction and
other problems.
Their view also will be clouded by the non-Natives' own stereotypes and
perspectives. So to see a good and accurate picture of cultural of Native
American people, people will need to look beyond the poverty. Tourists
also will need to experience or see the ceremonies and rituals, too. That
may be difficult.
Hewlett suggests a way that may work for some tribes . He said centers
could be built in places such as Minot, Bismarck, Grand Forks or Fargo. In
those centers, a taste of Native American communities could be served.
The centers' role would be to provide an experience in Native American
culture. As important, guideposts to the reservations could be established
through the centers so that tourists could visit the reservation and
participate in the Native American culture, but the privacy of Native
people there could be maintained.
Tourism on the reservation, after all, can be economic boon to
reservations and as lucrative as casinos have turned out to be.
Hewlett's right. With proper controls established by the tribal
governments and Native tourism directors, guideposts could establish a
viable way to increase incomes on the reservations and showcase and share
some of the culture - the gifts of the Creator - of Native Americans.
Tourism on reservations could work.
Yellow Bird writes Tuesday and Saturday. Reach her by phone at 780-1228 or
(800) 477-6572, extension 228 or by e-mail at dyellowbird@gfherald.com.
Copyright c. 2003 Grand Forks Herald.
--------- "RE: Colombia: Conflict Affects Amazonian Peoples" ---------
Date: Wednesday, May 28, 2003 06:27 pm
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Subj: Colombia: Conflict Affects Amazonian Peoples
From: Iniciativa Amazonica
The Latin American Human Rights Association
agenot@aldhu.com
COLOMBIAN CONFLICT AFFECTS AMAZONIAN INDIGENOUS GROUPS
More than 1.500 indigenous people from Colombia, most of them from
Amazonian ethnic groups, abandoned their territories in the last year due
to the Colombian conflict. They moved mainly toward Ecuador, Venezuela,
Peru and Panama.
The threats of guerrilla and paramilitary groups, together with the
fumigation of coca and poppy cultivations, arranged by government, are the
reasons for the displacement of people in this country.
According to a study made by the Colombian NGO "Consultancy for the
Human Rights and Displaced" (CODEHS), 2.9 million Colombians have been
displaced since 1985. Five percent of them are indigenous people and " the
Sate neither avoid their exile, clarified the facts, punished the
responsible ones, nor compensate the victims."
Indigenous people are the most affected by the conflict. The Zonal
Indigenous Organization of Putumayo (OZIP), in KA`DOARO Bulletin (May
2003), points out that 500 families from 12 indigenous settlements of
Putumayo were forced to leave their ancestral territories because of the
Colombian conflict. On the other hand, the National Indigenous
Organization of Colombia, ONIC, recently denounced that 50 indigenous from
Colombia were murdered and 27 were reported as missing in the last year,
in the Amazonian frontier with Ecuador and Peru.
According to declarations of the United Nations Office for Refugees,
ACNUR, around 200 people, including more than 90 children, left the area
of Rio de Oro, in the northwest of Venezuela, when paramilitary groups
entered the region. ACNUR also received not confirmed reports stating that
at least 600 people, including indigenous Bari, escaped toward the
mountainous area near Rio de Oro. In the last weeks, armed confrontations
between guerrilla and paramilitary forces in the border area, have been
reported. These armed groups also confronted the Venezuelan army.
ACNUR considers that these facts are evidences of the increase of the
Colombian conflict, and of the growth of humanitarian impacts in the
bordering countries. The Office for Displaced demands the combatants to
respect the rights of the civil population; and the governments of the
region to continue respecting its international obligations and
guaranteeing the asylum right.
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--------- "RE: Brazilian Tribe fights to keep Lifestyle Alive" ---------
Date: Sun, Jun 1 2003 16:18:40 -0700
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Brazilian tribe fights to keep lifestyle alive
City's growth threatens to destroy means of survival for Indian village
Monday, May 26, 2003
BY STAN LEHMAN
Associated Press
SAO PAULO, Brazil -- Children jostle into the village schoolhouse,
chattering happily in Guarani. For Giselda Jera, it's the sound of her
people's past -- and their uncertain future.
Jera, 21, is a teacher in Morro da Saudade, the largest of three
surviving Indian villages on the outskirts of Sao Paulo, South America's
biggest city. They are home to some 1,000 Guaranis, who are struggling to
preserve their culture against the advance of Western civilization.
Just 35 miles away, downtown Sao Paulo bustles in a cosmopolitan sprawl
of luxury high-rises, malls, theaters and hotels. With a metropolitan area
population of 18 million, the city has nearly reached the village gates.
"I am very worried about our future as a people," Jera said. "We have
succeeded in keeping our language and customs alive, but our lifestyle is
in danger because we no longer have enough room to hunt, fish or plant
sufficient corn, manioc and sweet potatoes, the way our grandparents did."
A mile from the nearest paved road, Morro da Saudade -- Portuguese for
Hill of Wistfulness -- is easy to overlook. Only a sign on a dirt road
saying "Indigenous Area" indicates the village is near.
Chickens and scrawny dogs wander among the 100 squalid huts of wood, mud
and tin. A few banana trees and tiny plots of corn, manioc and beans
barely provide the 136 families enough to survive.
Children in shorts and flip-flops chase a ball across the packed red
dirt of a village clearing. Except for the thatch-roofed prayer house and
"maloca," or community center, the scene isn't very different from a Sao
Paulo shantytown.
Jera remembers her grandfather's spinning tales of hunting and fishing
in the surrounding forests. Today, the trees are dwindling, the game is
gone, and many young Guaranis are abandoning the village and traditional
customs.
"White men started to settle this region about 30 years ago, cutting
down trees and vegetation to build their homes and destroying our means of
survival," said the school's principal, Kwaray Mirim.
It's a common plight for tribes in Brazil's developed south. Today, most
of the nation's 345,000 Indians live in the remote Amazon jungle, where
less contact with the modern world makes it easier to preserve traditional
ways.
The Guarani tribe is the largest of Brazil's 215 indigenous groups, with
about 35,000 members living in the cities, forests and coastal areas of
seven states.
A peaceful, semi-nomadic people, the Guarani arrived in this region
nearly a half century ago and roamed freely over hundreds of acres.
But in 1984 the government confined them to a 62-acre reservation "that
is too small for them to lead a dignified life," said Cristina Alves of
the National Indian Affairs Bureau.
Still, residents consider the area a "Tekoa" -- Guarani for good place
to live -- and don't want to leave. But Sao Paulo keeps expanding as poor
migrants from Brazil's arid northeast come in search of jobs and settle on
the city's edges.
"The rapid growth of these settlements forces the city government to
pave roads, provide public transportation, electricity and other utilities,
which in turn attracts more people to the region," said Mauricio Fonseca
of the Indigenous Peoples' Support Program.
Urban civilization now threatens to engulf the reservation and the
Guarani, he said. A commercial center is barely 6 miles away, where
Indians buy food and other goods they used to provide for themselves.
"With the exception of the handicrafts they sell in the city, the
Guarani have been deprived of their traditional methods of self-
sustainability," Fonseca said. "If they cannot hunt, fish and plant enough
crops, the material aspects of their culture will disappear and endanger
the survival of their cultural and spiritual traditions."
Sustained by donations from humanitarian groups and a government stipend
of about $50 a month per family, the Guarani are striving to keep to their
traditions.
Young children are taught Guarani history and religion in the "Opy," or
prayer house, a low-ceilinged thatched hut where village elders orally
impart Guarani lore.
Their education continues at the village's public school, where in
bilingual courses they learn Portuguese, math, geography and other
academic subjects.
But at age 14, they must go outside the village to attend high school.
Many drop out "because they are discriminated and shunned by the white
students," said Jera, the teacher.
Vandeli Karai, a village elder, said the tribe's only hope is to expand
the reservation. He said the idea is being discussed with local
authorities and the National Indian Affairs Bureau.
"If we get more land perhaps we will be able to recover the kind of
lives our forefathers once enjoyed," he said.
Copyright c. 2003 NJ.com/Star-Ledger, Newark, N.J.
--------- "RE: Non-natives fear Native Self-Government Deal" ---------
Date: Wed, May 28 2003 08:12:01 -0600
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Folks fear native deal
Damian Inwood
The Province
Tuesday, May 27, 2003
Westbank residents fear they'll have little meaningful input to challenge
sweeping powers in a newly ratified native self-government agreement.
Under the deal, approved by 57 per cent of the 600-strong Westbank band
on Saturday, the 8,000 non-native residents living on band land on long-
term leases would be governed by decisions made by the chief and a four-
member council.
"What we're concerned about is the amount of power being ceded by the
federal government and given to Westbank First Nations," said Bill Hardy,
who helped launch an unsuccessful court challenge to stop the weekend vote.
He wants an independent arbitrator to resolve disputes.
The deal still must be ratified by Ottawa and passed into law - likely
not before the fall.
Kelowna lawyer John McAfee, who presented the court challenge, said more
than taxation is at stake: "There are things like the Landlord Tenant Act,
the right of search and seizure, control over roads..."
Chief Robert Louie said non-natives have nothing to fear.
dinwood@png.canwest.com
Copyright c. 2003 The Vancouver Province.
--------- "RE: Yellowknives say Giant Mine caused Cancer" ---------
Date: Thursday, May 29, 2003 12:53 pm
From: Frosty <frosty@frostys.qc.ca>
Subj: Fw: Giant mine caused cancer, Yellowknives say
Mailing List: Frostys AmerIndian <frostysamerindian@yahoogroups.com>
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From: Don
http://north.cbc.ca/template/servlet/may28arsenic-ndilo05282003
Giant mine caused cancer, Yellowknives say
WebPosted May 28 2003 05:15 PM CDT
YELLOWKNIFE - Aboriginal people who live next to the Giant mine are
looking for compensation. The Yellowknives Dene say the mine has made
people sick and contaminated their land.
Dettah residents say their health and land were harmed by nearby Giant
mine
At a meeting Tuesday with federal government officials, elders said the
Giant mine has produced nothing for them except death and destruction.
They believe there's been an increase in the number of deaths caused by
cancer in N'dilo and Dettah. And they blame those deaths on the arsenic
trioxide that once belched from the Giant gold mine. Rick Edjericon, the
chief of Dettah, believes the arsenic has also contaminated their land.
"They've mined a lot of gold out of that area but they had no respect
for the land and the environment," Edjericon says. "At the same time the
government of Canada was continuing to give water licenses and permits and
so on."
The Yellowknives Dene have raised the issue of compensation several
times in the last six months.They've made it part of the discussion about
what to do with the arsenic trioxide stored at Giant.
Last night, the head of Indian and Northern Affairs in the Northwest
Territories was in Dettah to hear them.
Bob Overvold says the department's focus has been on the clean-up. But
he's willing to talk.
"In my response to Chief Edjericon, I said if you wanted to discuss the
issue, we're prepared to do that," Overvold says.
Overvold says he wants to clarify what exactly the Yellowknives want
compensation for. He says he hopes to set up a meeting with Edjericon
later this week.
Copyright c. 2003 CBC.
--------- "RE: Comment: What do you mean 'We,' White Man?" ---------
Date: Tue, May 27 2003 08:09:48 -0600
From: Gary Smith <gars@Speakeasy.org>
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Comment: What do you mean 'we,' white man?
Pull the plug on Bill C-7, says Chief ROBERTA JAMIESON ,
and leave First Nations government to First Nations people
By ROBERTA JAMIESON
Monday, May 26, 2003
As Ottawa pushes through the final phases of the First Nations
Governance Act (Bill C-7), Canadians are confused. The bill is supposed to
address the unacceptable results of colonialism -- so why is a
prescription for more colonialism the remedy?
Yet that is exactly what Prime Minister Jean Chretien and Indian Affairs
Minister Robert Nault seem intent on doing as they railroad through
Parliament an ill-conceived package of legislation that purports to teach
First Nations people how to be democratic.
Consider a recent Globe and Mail headline: If He Differs With Nault,
What Is Martin's Plan? The headline implied that it's up to Paul Martin to
come up with an alternative. Excuse me. Missing in these exhortations that
Mr. Martin spell out his plans to modernize native government is the
recognition that this remains the responsibility and right of First
Nations themselves, a right now constitutionally recognized. (Mr. Martin's
best option: to work with First Nations, and provide access to the real
tools of governance our people require -- lands, resources and fiscal
transfers.)
Meanwhile, Mr. Nault is engaged in a costly exercise of misinformation.
His $15-million consultation process preceding the introduction of C-7 was
a farce. Despite cross-country hearings, the lawmakers did not visit a
single First Nations community affected by the bill. They heard from 191
witnesses adamantly opposed to the legislation, and only 10 (including the
Minister and his officials) in favour. Despite evidence from the Canadian
Bar Association, the Indigenous Bar Association, and former minister of
Indian affairs Warren Allmand that C-7 will be struck down as
unconstitutional and in violation of treaties and inherent rights, Mr.
Chretien and Mr. Nault remain intent on ramming it through.
Let's look at one area that C-7 is supposed to address: more transparent
accounting for the $6-billion plus that is supposedly spent on native
programs and services. How much of this actually reaches First Nation
communities? In fact, more than 20 per cent goes to a mix of federal
administration and claims settlements. Less than 1 per cent goes to
building better governance and accounting systems.
Outside observers point out that hopelessness, substance abuse and
poverty are rife on some native reserves, and that in some instances, bad
government is a factor. Corruption, mismanagement, and undemocratic
conduct are totally unacceptable to First Nations. Accountability and
transparency are just as much goals for us as they are for Canadians.
Hardly a model of accountability, Indian Affairs itself is very much
involved in setting up situations in which bad government can flourish.
Observers sometimes demand to know why the Assembly of First Nations
isn't offering its own concrete reforms. Well, the AFN is composed of over
600 First Nations communities; it's not just an Ottawa office. Among the
witnesses at the C-7 hearings, a substantial number, including Six Nations
of the Grand River Territory, had concrete proposals, starting with an end
to the Indian Act. We need new mechanisms to make federal-First Nations
relations more like federal-provincial relations -- such as an undertaking
to create a minister of state for federal-First Nations relations to build
a new relationship free from the legacy of Indian Affairs.
For our part, to confirm the commitment that First Nations have to high
standards of democracy, spending accountability, leadership selection, and
the protection of human rights, First Nations should enter into
conventions in the same way most of the world's countries have committed
to international conventions. Many of our original forms of government,
long suppressed by the Indian Act, manifest these very features of
consensual decision-making and accountability. They await revitalization
and the space to operate.
In other cases, new mechanisms may be required. But in order to be
accepted, they must be of our own making and reflect our culture and
values -- not the prescription of a minister or prime minister stuck in a
colonial mindset where only they know what is good for us.
I challenge federal and political leaders to recognize and accommodate
new institutions, including a First Nations auditor-general (created by a
convention among First Nations rather than imposed from outside) and a
First Nations electoral officer. A First Nations human-rights agency could
receive appeals from decisions made by First Nations officials across
Canada to reconcile individual and collective rights now confirmed in the
Constitution.
These same agencies, regionally, could engage in public education and
provide for the development and exchange of best practices and capacity-
building initiatives. As well, many First Nations, including Six Nations,
are creating complaint-resolution mechanisms such as an ombudsman
(something Canada does not offer its own citizens at a federal level).
Many such options have already been put forward in Royal commissions and
other costly, exhaustive reports.
Action can be taken economically, without imposition on the rights of
First Nations, without legislation, without court challenges, and without
further damaging Canada's relationship with First Nations or tarnishing
Canada's reputation with the international community. It will require a
restructuring of the Assembly of First Nations into a dynamic, politically
active, responsive organization, one that allows First Nations to
represent all of their peoples, regardless of residence.
Mr. Chretien and Mr. Martin both understand that a prosperous,
honourable future for Canada requires dealing with unresolved aboriginal
issues. Additionally, Mr. Martin seems to understand that this can, and
must only, be done in co-operation with First Nations. C-7 must be left to
die.
I join many First Nations leaders who stand ready to work with those who
have the courage and vision to build a renewed relationship between our
peoples and Canada.
Roberta Jamieson, Chief at Six Nations of the Grand River, is a lawyer
and a former Indian commissioner of Ontario. For 10 years, she was
Ontario's ombudsman.
Copyright c. 2003 Bell Globemedia Interactive Inc. All Rights Reserved.
--------- "RE: Court Action Over Mercury Poisoning" ---------
Date: Sun, 1 Jun 2003 06:05:22 -0400
From: "MI-BRANCH-NAA" <mibranchnaa@chartermi.net>
Subj: B.C. Indian Band Preparing Court Action Over Mercury Poisoning
Mailing List: NAA ACTIVISTS LIST <naa-activists@yahoogroups.com>
B.C. Indian Band Preparing Court Action Over Mercury Poisoning
http://www.imdiversity.com/Article-Detail.asp?Article-ID=3D16867
by AP, The Associated Press
Fort St. James, British Columbia (AP) - Tl'azt'en First Nation leaders
say they face crippling health problems from more than six decades of
eating food and drinking water laced with mercury from a World War II-era
mine.
The 1,200 Tl'azt'en people, Carrier Indians who live in north-central
British Columbia, blame pollution from the Teck Cominco Ltd. mine for
untimely deaths and epidemic rates of cancer, arthritis, lupus, kidney
disease, birth deformities and crippled limbs.
The last straw may have been the death of band elder Sara Duncan on May
15 at age 73. A once-vibrant cultural leader and fisherwoman, Duncan died
with twisted, crippled hands and feet, balding head, dementia and the
stained purple gums associated with mercury poisoning.
"My mother was a respected cultural leader and a hard worker who
provided for her family," says Lucille Duncan, 48, "but after years of
eating fish and drinking water from Pinchi Lake, she died in pain, her
hair falling out, with dementia and all crippled, and her gums purple from
the mercury - just like her mother did - and now I have it."
On Tuesday, health researchers and lawyer Rory Morahan of Victoria met
with Chief Tommy Alexis, band council members, health workers and ailing
band members.
Morahan says he has been instructed by Alexis to prepare a lawsuit
against Teck Cominco and the Canadian government.
In 1985 the Whitedog and Grassy Narrows Indian bands in Ontario accepted
a $12 million (U.S.) settlement from Ottawa and two chemical corporations
for mercury waste contamination of fish in rivers and lakes.
Cominco, forerunner of Teck Cominco, operated a mercury mine on the
shores of Pinchi Lake, about 425 miles north of Vancouver, in 1940-44 and
again in 1968-75.
According to company reports from the initial mining phase, waste
mercury
was sluiced into the lake daily and mercury-laden tailings created a long
island.
Meanwhile, Carrier people drank the water and ate mercury-laden
whitefish, char, trout, ling cod, suckers, kokanee salmon, beaver and
moose.
In 1969 signs were posted in English to warn against eating fish from
the lake, but the Carrier people- most of whom spoke little English and
relied on fish as a staple of their diet - kept fishing and eating.
The company is now conducting environmental remediation and has spent
about $3 million (US$2.2 million) on cleanup and leachate prevention.
Mercury levels in Pinchi Lake fish are declining from peaks in the 1940s
and 1970s but remained far higher than other area lakes, according to
Cominco's environmental studies in 1999 and 2001.
"We will work co-operatively with the responsible government and health
a gencies and the Tl'azt'en people from the area," Teck Cominco spokesman
Doug Horswill said. "We have on our own begun our own remediation studies."
Duncan says she has the same high blood pressure and tingling, numb,
weak and twisted hands her parents and grandparents developed, as well as
lupus and tunnel vision.
Her mother had two miscarriages, two of her mother's children died in
infancy, two are very ill and another is severely mentally ill, she said,
adding that three of her own children have learning difficulties and a
fourth was born with physical and mental defects.
Former Tl'azt'en Chief Harry Pierre, 62, said that when he was hired to
clean out a mercury-contaminated mine shaft in 1967, before the mine
reopened, the 125 non-Indian workers always wore masks, filters and full
protective suits.
"We were told to wear a waterproof jacket and pump all that mercury
right into the lake," he said.
His father, who fished and trapped near the mine, had heart problems,
tunnel vision and crippled hands.
--------- "RE: Drunk Shooters terrorize Cree Town" ---------
Date: Tue, May 27 2003 08:09:48 -0600
From: Gary Smith <gars@Speakeasy.org>
Subj: NA News Item
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http://www.owlstar.com/dailyheadlines.htm
http://www.canada.com/montreal/montrealgazette/story
Drunk shooters terrorize Cree town
Firefighter wounded; 100 rounds fired
ANGUS LOTEN
The Gazette
Monday, May 26, 2003
Linda Awashish lived through the "scariest night" of her life Saturday
when two men went on separate, drunk shooting sprees in the Cree community
of Mistissini, about 90 kilometres northwest of Chibougamau.
No one was seriously hurt in the shootings, which occurred hours apart.
In both cases, the men were left to stagger through the streets firing
randomly with shotguns while police kept watch nearby.
"Our reserve is usually very quiet," Awashish said yesterday. "There's
not much violence here. Everyone's in shock."
Still, Mistissini police chief Calvin Blacksmith said drunk rampages are
"all too common" in the community of about 3,000.
"This sort of thing happens four, maybe five times a year. It's
ridiculous," he said.
Surete du Quebec and Chibougamau regional police were first called to
the reserve about 10:30 p.m. Saturday after a man armed with a 12-gauge
shotgun fired at least two dozen shots at the local police station,
wounding a volunteer firefighter in the arm.
Awashish said she was cleaning up after a family barbecue when she heard
a gunshot blast and the spray of buckshot across her front porch.
"We got the kids inside and I could see this guy walking down the road
with a (gun). He was very drunk and yelling 'Leave me alone' in Cree," she
said. "Everyone took cover inside and turned the lights out."
The man, who Awashish recognized as her 20-year-old neighbour,
eventually went home.
"He sat on the couch with his gun and turned his music on."
Blacksmith said the man, who surrendered to police around midnight, was
angry because they confiscated his bottle of liquor earlier in the day for
drinking in public.
Just hours later, the SQ was called back to the reserve when a second
man began firing shots into the air and at the ground.
The man, 24, wasn't picked up until late yesterday morning after
wandering into woods off the reserve. By then he'd fired more than 100
rounds, Blacksmith said.
Both men, who are known to police as troublemakers, will appear in a
Roberval court today on firearms charges.
Awashish said "these things always happen" around hunting season,which
began this month.
She blames alcohol. "A few people get drunk and get into fights. Hunting
rifles are still out and there's trouble," she said.
But Blacksmith said the real problem is the justice system.
"We're not getting the appropriate sentences for these guys. Every time
we bring someone in on serious charges, they're back out again in a few
months."
Blacksmith, a Cree who's lived on the Mistissini reserve for more than
30 years, points to a 1999 Supreme Court ruling requiring judges to
consider background and other social factors in sentencing aboriginal
offenders.
"They always bring it up to get a more lenient sentence. It means we end
up babysitting all sorts of serious offenders."
Strained resources and cramped living conditions on the reserve don't
help, he added.
"We've got a budget for eight cops in a community of over 3,000 people.
That's not enough."
aloten@thegazette.canwest.com
Copyright c. 2003 Montreal Gazette.
--------- "RE: Native Prisoner" ---------
Date: Tue, 3 Jun 2003 06:42:57 -0500
From: Janet Smith <owlstar@speakeasy.org
Subj: Native Prisoner
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Date: Mon, 02 Jun 2003 16:11:38 -0500
From: n shreve <neecheweya58@comcast.net>
Subj: Steve Novak
Steve's unit # is 10, I just mailed him a letter today.
Love & Peace,
Still
----- Original Message -----
From: "nativeredqueen69" <nativeredqueen69@yahoo.com>
Here is Steve's new addy:
Steve Novak #164789 Unit 10
Kettle Moraine Correctional Institution
P.O. Box 31, W9071 Forest Drive
Plymouth WI 53073-0031
"To those of us locked away in here, there's nothing more important than
being remembered."
Leonard Peltier
September 1998
Leavenworth Prison
"Prison Writings...My Life Is My Sun Dance"
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--------- "RE: Rustywire: Metwe' Metwe'" ---------
Date: Tue, Apr 22:09:25 2003 08:12:44 -0600
From: Gary Smith <gars@Speakeasy.org>
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http://www.geocities.com/SoHo/Nook/1574/Starmtn/metwe.html
Navajo Spaceships, Star mountain and Life
An online journal- Star Mountain-Navajo Life
Metwe' Metwe'...by Johnny Rustywire
Metwe' Metwe'
What does that mean "Metwe'?", these words come to mind, they speak of
family, of togetherness, of joining one people with another, taking in a
person from another family, another people to be included as your own.
I met them when they were a young couple, they had a child. Their house
was new and nice and they lived far from their homeland. They made a place
on a high mountain valley, a place to call home where they could raise
their children and bring them up in the way the two thought they should
live.
The young mother had long black hair and in order to make money she made
frybread and she was good at it, putting in hamburger and beans with a
little cheese. She had some with chili, just hot enough to let you know
you were alive. She came from a place called Coal Mine Mesa, way out there
not too far from Tuba City. Her clan was Tlizi' Tlani, Many Goats, her
family was large and her father made her feel like she was the special one.
He prized her and gave her though to giver her his most valuable
possession.
The young woman's husband came from a place not too far her original
home, on a mesa with ancient adobe built one on top of another. His home
was at Second Mesa, where he was born into a clan with a place in the
community, an old place where centuries of a way of life based on the
seasons goes on still in this out of the way corner in Arizona.
She was a Navajo and he was a Hopi and they didn't know that about each
other when they first met. They learned about each other, their people
coming from different places, spoke different languages and had different
traditions, they came to know one another and decided to make a life
together. I once asked them about the Navajo-Hopi Land Dispute and how
they felt about it. They told me it was just something that was there and
didn't affect them, that they had their own lives to live and they were
far away from there. I would see them and visit with them, they both said
at times it was hard to adjust to another way of life different from your
own, and that in order to go on you have to overcome many things to make a
life together.
She left her family and he left his and they set up a life together far
North in Utah, far from their homeland. As time went on she wanted to
please her man and learn the ways of his people so she went with him,
driving South to the borders of Dinetah, passed her old place at Coalmine
Mesa and down the windy road to the place where his family lived. Second
Mesa it was called where the traditions of time, space, family and
relations require following the flow of the seasons. She stepped into his
world and his family looked at her, and she became Metwe'. It is how they
call those that come to join their family, their people and they take them
in.
During the ceremonies and dances in the village there was much work to
be done, and she stepped into it and learned to do it all, grinding corn
between stones, collecting wood and fashioning ground corn into a mush to
lay it out on a hot tin and roll it to make the bread they call Piki.
She butchered sheep, made stew and watched the children of the family as
the dancers were readied for the plaza. Her husband was one of these and
she learned how they take the time to follow certain practices. to dress
in an appropriate way and where she was to sit. She learned about the
gathering of plants, the preparation of harvests and offerings and the
ways of the katchina.
Metwe' Metwe' they called to her, please do this for us and she would go
and get something missed or forgotten. When the doings were done she
cleaned and put away the things a woman does, the pots, the pans, the
cloth, and worked to help her relations with the household duties. She
found that at each dance they went home and she worked learning the ways
of his people and remembering her own.
Coalmine Mesa a small place where there is no water, it had to be hauled
in from many miles away. There were few trees, and the place is a hard
place to make a life, but that is where her father came from. He told her,
we Navajo exist with the land, we don't change it but continue on with it,
to survive to go on and on. She listened and then one day her family moved
off that land forever. It lies within Hopiland now, no longer do any
Navajos live there. Her father went to Kinlani and worked there in town
knowing he would never be able to sleep in the land of his birth, he and
his children had to make a new life. It was hard. The folks in Washing'don
told him they would build him a new home anywhere for the loss of his
place. He thought about it and said he would let them know.
As time went on, the young couple needed a home to make their life. it
was her father who said, my daughter this is my gift to you, take this
home that is to be built for me and let it be yours. She looked at her
father and though he never said how he cared for her, she could see it in
his eyes, that is how are people are, we don't show outward affection, you
see it in how we do certain things, or in an action or like him in how he
looked at her.
In his face were the wrinkles of age, and his hands wore the mark of a
hard life on that empty land which once was his home. Sometimes when you
look into the eyes of an old person, especially the those who have seen
the sunrise of a place where they were born, you can look into them and
glimpse the early morning dawns of a lifetime, of herding sheep and
hauling wood and water on horseback from miles away at Moenkopi wash to
the west as he had done. That in there she saw the movement of yucca plant
standing in the wind and in it's roots the cleanliness of it for washing
and medicine. That the wind blown sand covered the tracks of her fathers
and mothers who had run to meet the dawn in their youths, and the sounds
of young girls reaching womanhood dressed in sash belts, silver jewelry
with coral and turquoise also running to meet the sun starting life as a
woman. These things she saw in her father's eyes as he gave away his
birthright to her to make a new life in a far off place.
Metwe' Metwe' (Metway is how it is said in the Hopi way of speaking) She
heard the sound and came back to the place, to Second Mesa and was
grinding corn and could see the feet of his feet, her man who stood not
too far ready to go to the plaza to dance for another season of rain, for
good corn and long days. He stood there with deerskin moccasins, with
ancient bells, with a loin cloth and sash belt, his body covered in paint
and a large red gourd rattle was by his side. Up ahead was the place they
entered to put on the masks, the deities, a Katchina he would be, with
long hair. His mother came to her and helped her with the corn.
This was a time for renewal, it was his people's time and their place.
She picked up her ground corn and followed her new mother into the pueblo,
and looking from this high spot to the west, there on the horizon was Coal
Mine Mesa, once her father's home. This was now her people, their way of
life was now her own.
When they returned to the high mountain valley she stepped into her
father's house, a house given to him by the United States Government the
walls were new, the sidewalk outside led through a yard of green grass.
She could see the mountains to the North and the snow on them and the
place was peaceful. Her husband drove into the driveway and parked the
truck and picked up their sons and went inside.
What are these places we call home and how do we get them, how are they
named? What is it about it that makes them that way, is it sacrifice, love
or fate? The Navajo-Hopi land case is settled by the courts, but the
people who lived there where did they go? Dreams and Broken Rainbows, when
rainbows break do they make a sound. Life goes on but at Coalmine Mesa the
wind blows with no one to hear. You can touch the yucca plants, their
spiny ends and hear the sound of a broken rainbow.
It was not so long ago, that her father was layed to rest in Kinlani
(Flagstaff) and a part of Coal Mine Mesa was also buried there. The hopes
and dreams of a new life resting in his children.
One time on trip to Hopiland, she didn't go with him but stayed to watch
the children. I am not sure what it is that makes one restless with life,
where one can walk out the door and never go back in; to find comfort in
the eyes of another while small children cry after you. It is what
happened with Metwe' and she is now alone with the kids, he has gone to
another woman. I saw him by chance not too long ago, he stood not too far
from me and when I saw him, he was quiet when I asked him about his
children. He smiled and looked away from me and spoke of his work in
California. After he left I learned that they were no longer together, the
daughter from Coal Mine Mesa had to find work in a nursing home and
struggles now with work and taking care of three kids. The home, the house
the gift of her father who passed away has been sold and now it is gone.
Where is Coal Mine Mesa, it is east of Tuba City, not even a wide spot
in the road, it is a windswept place. When you drive by there you wouldn't
think to stop, there is not much there to see now, but if you were to stop
and listen carefully when the storm clouds gather, and a few drops of rain
fall, and the sun begins to break through the clouds, you can hear the
sound of a broken rainbow. It sounds a little like a child crying.
Copyright c. 1999, Johnny Rustywire, all rights reserved.
--------- "RE: History: Carlisle Indian School" ---------
Date: Mon, 05 May 2003 23:37:41 -0400
From: Barb Landis <blandis@epix.net>
Subj: INDIAN HELPER, Carlisle Indian School.
[Editorial Note: These reprints are being included in this
newsletter so that you might know the mind of those who
ran institutions like Carlisle.]
THE INDIAN HELPER
-------------------------
A WEEKLY LETTER FROM THE CARLISLE INDIAN
SCHOOL TO BOYS AND GIRLS
CARLISLE, PA.
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VOLUME V NUMBER 35
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FRIDAY, May 2, 1890.
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[For the HELPER.
HOW THEY SPEAK PIECES IN JAPAN.(?)
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TOM'S name was called, and up he sprang,
A grin was on his countenance,
He looked from friend to friend, to see
How they would view the circumstance.
He stepped upon the platform high,
The words he should have said, were gone;
He laughed at his predicament,
Although his teacher looked forlorn.
Dick's turn had come, and very slow
He wound his way beyond the throng.
The platform reached, his piece began
With demonstrations loud and long
With sudden jerk his accents ceased,
He pulled his coat tail o'er and o'er,
Looked skyward, hemmed, and almost cried,
But could remember nothing more.
Then Harry stepped upon the stage
With form erect and manly tread;
No fool was he, to smirk, or fail
With dignity his piece he said.
He did not hesitate to speak,
He kenw his lesson, that was plain,
We'd sail across the sea to hear
Tom, Dick, and Harry speak again.
JAPANESE.
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LETTERS FROM CAPT. PRATT.
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TO HIS OWN CHILDREN.
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Although not intended for publication, we are sure that Capt. Pratt
would not object to our printing for the entertainment of the readers of
the HELPER the following parts of his most interesting letters received
this week, which a favored few have so greatly enjoyed:
STEAMER CHINA, PACIFIC OCEAN.
80 miles east of Japan, March 24, 1890.
We have passed the 180th meridian, where, by general consent each
day is born, and instead of being in the same day with you and several
hours later we have skipped one day and are a day ahead of you.
It is now 10 A.M. here, but at Carlisle it is 7:50 P.M. of
yesterday. We dropped Wednesday the 20th, that being the day we crossed
the meridian. It is not to be lost to us, however, fro we shall have two
days of the same name and date on our return.
We have been most unfortunate in our weather, which from San
Francisco to this has been stormy, with head winds and heavy sea, except
a few hours day before yesterday.
Of course quite all the passengers have been sick. Mamma and I are
no exception.
Seasick folks are an unsociable lot and it was only day before
yesterday that we began to get acquainted with our fellow passengers
generally. Now we have become somewhat chummy and each knows the
other's business and plans more or less.
My worst spell was on the morning of the 3rd day out.
The ship both tossed from side to side and pitched heavily, my head
ached and I felt extreme nausea in my berth, but determined to get up.
I was permitted to complete my dressing but was in an agony of
nausea.
I crawled to the deck and fresh air and felt some better, but for ten
days I was not free from distress.
we are all mostly over it now and I ma sure I am better for it all.
Our noble ship lunges ahead at the average rate of over 400 miles per
day in spite of the head winds and storms.
If our speed makes her take too much water a few less revolutions per
minute of the great propelling wheel are dropped until a lull enables
them to be taken up again.
Not one pleasant day.
Not a sail or other sign of earthly inhabitant since the morning
after we left San Francisco. Nothing but water and tossing to and fro.
When 2500 miles from California and the same distance from Japan we
had the company of gulls and stormy petrels.
They did not so much stay with us as seem to be at home in the vast
waste and heaving billows.
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(Continued on the 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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Entered in the P.O. at Carlisle as second class mail matter.
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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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Say "RENEWAL" when you pay
To renew. We beg you may.
==========
We are grieved to learn that Frank and Hope Locke's little daughter
born two weeks ago, has died.
==========
We have an interesting letter from our old pupil Peter Powlas, who
has been teaching for several years since he left Carlisle among his
people the Oneidas of Wisconsin. He says they have a debating society
every Friday night and that Joel Archiquette is the President. It is
well attended. The rest of the letter will appear in the RED MAN for
May.
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A letter from Mrs. Pratt, now in Japan, was received last week, which
measured by actual measurement eight yards. When Mr. Standing unrolled
it Saturday night before the students he first stood on the platform
which is three feet high, and then got up into the chair. The letter
then fell in folds on the floor as he continued to unroll, when Mr.
Potter took one end and carried it off toward the center of the room.
The proceeding caused a merry laugh and all wanted to hear the rich and
racy contents. Full extracts from the letter will be printed in the May
RED MAN.
==========
Last Friday night the school had another treat, such as comes to a
person but once in a life time. Captain Long, of Gettysburg, was here
with his Stereopticon and pictures of the battle of Gettysburg. The
pictures were fine and beside battle scenes included most of the new
monuments. Capt. Long's talk was intensely interesting to the
intelligent portion of his audience, although a little tedious to those
who could not understand the army terms. The position of the troops were
most vividly pictured and a realistic view of the battle as it occurred
has been stamped upon our memories in such a way that it can never be
effaced. Many thanks, Captain Long. Come again!
ARBOR DAY.
Arbor Day after a week or two of most charming weather turned out to
be rainy and damp, on account of which our Arbor Day celebration was not
carried out quite as planned. The ceremonies began at 9:30, A.M., by the
whole school singing a tree song to the tune of Auld Lang Syne after
which Mr. Standing gave an address.
The boys of each class then marched to the spot selected for their
special tree and planted it while the girls looked on from balconies and
windows. There were special trees for the graduating class and choir.
In the afternoon the school assembled and were entertained by
appropriate Arbor Day recitations and singing.
Singing, "Spring has come," "Nature's Tribute," and "April Song," by
the choir, and "The brave old oak," by the school; Recitations and
Declamations: "The Object of planting trees," Martin Archiquette:
"Interesting Trees," Louisa King; "The Elm Tree," Robt. Hamilton;
"History of Penn's Elm," Henry Phillips; "Little Acorn," Ulysses
Paisano; "Planting of the Apple Tree," Minnie Topi; "Exercise on Trees,"
boys of No. 5; a declamation by Harvey Warner; "The Live Oak," Otto
Zotom; "Among the Trees" Martinus Johns; and marching and singing by the
pupils as they marched, comprised the programme, the most of which was
excellently performed.
The lessons learned cannot easily be forgotten and will be of
practical value to us in the future.
==========
Married.
On last Wednesday evening, at the home of the bride's father, at the
Carlisle Indian Industrial School, Miss Maggie E. Jordan, to Mr. B. T.
Middleton, of Harrisburg. The officiating ministers were Rev. J.T.
Hammond and Rev. J.C. Brock, of Carlisle. Carriage loads of handsomely
dressed guests began to arrive at 7 o'clock and the occasion was one of
unusual brilliancy. Miss Maggie looked very sweet and pretty in her
bridal dress of rose-colored silk and lovely lace, and the handsome
groom as he stood beside his bride looked the picture of strength and
manliness.
A sumptuous repast was enjoyed after the ceremony and the bridal
party left on the midnight train for Harrisburg. Rich and beautiful
presents of silver and china and all the little keepsakes and useful
articles a bride naturally falls heir to have been pouring in for
several days. Long life and happiness to Mr. and Mrs. Middleton, is the
wish of their friends at Carlisle.
===================================================
At the Carlisle School is published monthly an eight-page quarto of
standard size, called THE RED MAN, the mechanical part of which is done
entirely by Indian boys. This paper is valuable as a summary of
information on Indian matters, and contains writings by Indian pupils,
and local incidents of the school. Terms: Fifty cents a year, in
advance.
For 1, 2, and 3 subscribers for THE RED MAN we give the same premium
in Standing Offer for the HELPER.
Address, THE RED MAN, Carlisle, PA.
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(page 3)
It takes Minor John and Paul Shattuck to work well and quickly.
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Dennison played a cornet solo at the Y.M.C.A. rooms in town on Sunday
afternoon, which was well received.
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Thomas Black Bear called and subscribed for the *Red Man* for himself
and the HELPER for his brother at home. Thomas appears to be all
business these days.
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Miss Ely returned Wednesday evening from a little visit to her Bucks
County home, where she attended the birthday anniversary of an aunt who
is ninety years old.
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After a lingering illness, little Belle Cohoe, died this week. She
was one of the girls who came from the Indian Territory last year, and
has been ill and a great sufferer from the day she arrived.
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Some of the girls who are not very well are going to live with Mr.
and Mrs. Bennett on the farm for a little while. That will be nice.
The-Man-on-the-band-stand almost wishes he did not feel very well so he
could have the same privilege.
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One of the pleasant features of choir practice especially to those
not in attendance is the serenade so often given as the young men march
from the chapel to quarters. Their rich and harmonious voices fill the
night air with music is appreciated by all who hear it.
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Mr. Potter has left Carlisle for his home at El Reno, Oklahoma. He
leaves behind many friends which his short term of service at the school
has made. The boys especially will miss him, as he made them feel he was
one of them. He entered into their sports and society life in a way that
was very helpful to them and which they highly appreciated. Others
besides the boys will miss Mr. Potter, and all wish him great success in
all that he finds to do.
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An amateur team has been born, known as the "Amateur Base Ball Club."
>From the way the names read they are not so very "amateurish" and the
others may well look a little out. The following are the names:
"Pitcher, Frank Everett; catcher, Robert Penn; 1st base, Harvey Warner;
2nd base, Bennie Thomas; 3rd base Josiah Powlas' short-stop, Levi St.
Cyr; right-field, Chas. Moncravie; substitute, Stailey Norcross; Howard
Logan, Manager, and Harvey Warner, Capt.
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A new team has been organized who modestly call themselves "New
Beginners." They express the hope to be prepared in a short time to
compete with other teams of our school. Martin L. Smith is their chosen
captain. The team stands as follow: Pitcher, Geo. W. Means; catcher,
Martin Smith; 1st, base, Johnson Webster; 2nd base, David Turkey; 3rd
base, James McAdams; right field, Luther Dahhah; center-field, Peter
Snow; left-field, Ralph Nal-tu-ey; short-stop, Chas. Marksman;
substitute, Ulysses Paisano.
One small fellow who is just learning to speak English was not
provided with a new hat. He had been overlooked, so he knocked on the
door and asked Mrs. G., "Will you please give me a new pair of hat."
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We have now fresh prints of Apache Contrast on elegant paper, almost
equal to the photograph for five cents cash, or for two subscribers for
the HELPER and a one-cent stamp. We are ready for several hundred
orders.
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Lost, strayed or stolen: One two-year-old hat, branded O.T. (cross)
and bullet mark on left side. It was slightly sun-burnt although it
originally enjoyed a white complexion. A liberal reward will be given to
the finder. Apply a the HELPER Office.
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Do you ever go to your friend's table or desk or room and touch
things that do not belong to you? Then you are a sneak.
Do you read the note you are carrying to someone? Then you are a
sneak.
Do you go to a girl's bureau drawer and touch things that are not
yours? Then you are a sneak.
When a person is writing something do you look over his shoulder and
try to read it? Then you are a sneak.
Have we any such terrible people at our school? Let each one of us
look at ourselves very carefully and answer the question!
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Mark Evarts has a right to feel proud of a set of single harness just
completed, of the finest make, all hand made and silver mounted. Mr.
Kemp, who is an experienced harness maker says it is the finest set of
harness ever manufactured at the school and other boys have turned out
beautiful work. This harness is Mark's own and he will sell at a fair
price. All he wants is good interest on his money invested and fair
remuneration for the extra time spent upon it. The harness, according to
the Man-on-the-band-stand's judgment is worth every cent of a hundred
dollars. Mark may sell for a little less, cash in hand. Call and see it!
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May Paisano is dead. How we all miss her sweet face! A week ago
Sunday she was in line at inspection, but soon after went to the
hospital with a raging fever and headache. The fever was reduced in a
few hours and May felt she was getting better. To ever one who addressed
her she would sweetly smile and say "I am better." But at 7 o'clock last
Sunday morning she became very weak and passed away quietly without a
sign of distress. Her heart ceased to beat and May was gone forever.
Dear May was so beloved by all the girls especially those of her own age
that when the sad news of her death was announced an uncontrollable wail
of sorrow filled the assembly room The day of her funeral the little
casket was beautifully trimmed with flowers and the services were most
solemn and impressive. Rev. Dr. Evans of the Methodist church, Carlisle,
officiated.
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(Continued from the First Page.)
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Ours is a noble ship, built of steel and driven by a monster 7000
horse power engine.
Her crew is about 160 Chinamen.
It takes 1600 tons of coal to carry her over. She has 56 boilers.
Her driving wheel is 21 feet in diameter, and each of the four
paddles weighs more than two tons.
Her shaft is a solid piece of steel, near 200 feet long and 19 inches
thick and turns the great driving wheel at the rate of 70 revolutions
per minute.
In our worst sea and strongest head wind we made over 12 miles an
hour.
A Chinese cook pre4pares for us the best of food, and Japanese waiter
boys serve it in the most gentlemanly manner.
Our state-rooms are large and almost elegantly fitted up.
We have a social hall where we gather and comment on the weather and
compare notes of each other's health.
Captain Matts and officers are polite, and taken altogether our lot
is not a hard one. Mamma is becoming quite her old self.
Tuesday 25th, we had a stormy night and shipped several heavy seas.
The Captain said we went under until our sea passed over the
smoke-stacks solid, which of course was a nautical yarn, but the upper
deck was heavily washed.
This morning there was a war of the two elements we contend against -
water and air.
The wind had been heavy from the southwest but veered and came with
equal force from the northeast, which gave us a chopped sea and cuffed
us so as to make it appear to some that we might be striking rocks.
I put on my rubber boots and coat and went up to the bridge at the
pilot house for two hours.
The second officer was on watch and told me many of his experiences.
He ran away from home when quite a boy in 1863, and joined our Navy,
with which he saw some service along the coast of the Carolinas.
His home was in Liverpool, England.
When the war was over his vessel was ordered to Philadelphia.
A rumor got out among the sailors that all the men whose time to
serve was more than twelve months were to be sent to foreign stations.
As he was one and dreaded such a result he deserted.
Two weeks after his crew were all mustered out and received their pay
and bounty, which he had forfeited.
He has been quite everywhere on the seas and on all kinds of vessels.
It is now near noon. The sea has become more quiet and the air
clear. There is hope that we may see Fujiyama, the highest mountain in
Japan, this evening, and the Captain expects to anchor in the bay of
Yokohama by four o'clock tomorrow morning. Our spirits rise.
I drop this for dinner.
Five P.M. A false announcement that land is in sight calls every body
on deck.
My old Army field glasses fail to reveal the land though I go to the
pilot house, and we all return to the cabin to wait for further
announcements.
The weather has improved again and we almost have sunshine.
[Continued Next Week.]
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THE LITTLE BOYS MADE GLAD.
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Dr. Carlos Montezuma, a real Apache medicine man, being a graduate of
the Medical College of Chicago, sends the following letter with
substantial contents:
FT. STEVENSON, N. DAK., April 23, 1890.
______ ______: I often wish I could do something that would make
men and women out of our Indian children, and such is my desire. May I
show it by contributing $5.00 for the Library of the Little Boys'
Quarters? Regards to all. Very respectfully,
CARLOS MONTEZUMA, M.D.
When this letter was read to the little boys assembled for prayers,
it would have done Dr. Montezuma's heart good could he have heard the
enthusiastic and continued applause with which they made the house
resound in appreciation and gratitude for so thoughtful a remembrance
from one of their own kin, of whom they are proud.
------*---*-^-*---*------
Enigma.
I am made of 8 letters.
My 4, 6, 7 is a tin dish.
My 8, 4, 3 is a definite article.
My 2, 6, 8, 5, 1 is a turners machine.
My whole is a large animal.
SUBSCRIBER.
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ANSWER TO LAST WEEK'S ENIGMA: Annual Examinations.
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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: For the Brothers" ---------
Date: Sun, 25 May 2003 08:27:55 -0700 (PDT)
From: James Starkey <wolakota4us@yahoo.com>
Subj: For the Brothers
Mailing List: Rez Life <rezlife@yahoogroups.com>
Sure we had some good times, bad times and worse,
Sure its hard to be Lakota, sometimes seemed cursed,
Yeah we were thuggin', ain't layin' down no lie,
Making our own, rejecting the american pie,
But I know you, and I knew you, your memory remains,
Resisting the wasicu, champing hard at their reigns,
We couldn't speak it, couldn't describe what it was, we knew,
We held it, and knew one thing we could depend on was Crew,
Always Brothers, we didn't always get along or agree,
We were outnumbered, and surrounded by the enemy,
We knew how to keep the circle, and keep the faith, so strong,
I ain't pretending we were righteous, but we weren't always wrong,
Just finding our place, somewhere in the circling insanity,
Just hoping for a small taste, or whiff of our humanity,
You've all moved on now, and I'm here, doing life,
Seems fitting, I guess, I feel responsible to write of the strife,
Yeah, I remember you, Brother Lakin, Brother Ranson too,
Some of the best Bros moved too damn quickly through,
We had sunshine, snow and rain, heat and cold up on that Hill,
I honor you Russ, and Ernie, Franko and Bill,
So I write this, and I live for a few moments in times past,
Like a movie, smiling strong Brothers playing the cast,
Drama and comedy, farce and mystery and even some mime,
Intro the streets, climax and epilogue, pen time,
I recall your faces, and I sure enough recall your names,
I still hold the traces, and the memory the Man tries to claim,
I won't forget though, I won't allow you to not carry on,
Cause I still see my Brothers, the wasicu can't make you gone.
James H. Starkey
http://www.oyateunderground.com
--------- "RE: Verse: Hawaiian Book of Days" ---------
Date: Mon, 02 Jun 2003 11:30:37 -1000
From: Debbie Sanders <kepola@hgea.org>
Subj: Hawaiian Book of Days
A HAWAI`I BOOK OF DAYS, week of June 9-15
IUNE
(June)
(Kaaona)
9
The earth drinks the blessing of the summer rain.
10
Sorrow abides not in this place.
11
Turn every hardship into a triumph.
12
If you would win your heart's desire, you must give your heart to the task
of winning it.
13
Give freely of yourself in all endeavors.
14
In all things, turn anger into industry.
15
Even the clumsiest hand can create a thing of beauty.
(c) Copyright 1991 by D. F. Sanders
Me ke aloha i ka nani, ... Moe'uhanekeanuenue
(With love and beauty, ... Rainbow Dream)
--------- "RE: Upcoming Events" ---------
Date: Mon, 1 June 2003 15:39:14 -0
From: Gary Smith (gars@speakeasy.org)
Subj: Upcoming Events
=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=
EVENTS ARE FEATURED IN ODD NUMBERED ISSUES ONLY
=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=
Lists from Jim Anderson, OCB Tracker and Whispering Wind are listed here
for 60 days. Each web site is listed if you need a more complete list.
===================================
Date: Tue, 07 Jan 2003 14:39:10 -0000
From: moheya21 <no_reply@yahoogroups.com>
Subj: POWWOW INTERTRIBAL JUNE 6,7,8
Mailing List: Native American Chat <nativeamericanchat3@yahoogroups.com>
Where: BENTON HARBOR, MICHIGAN 1835 LYNCH RD
Sponsors: WALTER AND SUE RODRIGUEZ
VENDORS AND DRUMS CONTACT: SUE 616-849-3662
When:JUNE 6,7,8
Rustic Camping, or Motel 10 Mmiles away in St. Joe.
EVERYTHING IS FREE FOR VENDORS WE ONLY ASK THAT YOU DONATE ITEMS FOR
RAFFLES.
TO PARTICIPATE AND ENTER POWWOW WE ASK THAT YOU BRING A NON
PARISHABLE FOOD ITEM. THIS WILL GO TO FAMILIES WHO ARE IN NEED.
SATURDAY IS A POTLUCK, WE ASK THAT YOU BRING A DISH TO PASS.
===================================
Date: Fri, 11 Apr 2003 22:26:27 -0500
From: "Karen Cooper" <kcooper@uabmc.edu>
Subj: Blackwater Creek Pow-wow
Blackwater Creek American Indian Festival and Pow-wow
Jasper, AL
June 6-8, 2003
This event is sponsored by Aracoma Explorer Scout Drum/Dance Team
and Native American Girl Scout Troop 389.
Additional information about this event:
June 6-8, 2003 at Blackwater Creek RV Park off Curry Hwy (Hwy 257) and
Airport Road in Jasper, Alabama. All trader and demonstrator spaces are
full for this event. Contacts include: Paul @ 205-522-1652, Cecil @
205-221-3873 or myself @ 205-648-2529 or 205-706-0202.
There are some 74 RV spaces available at $12 per night and tent camping
on site is $5 per tent per night. The site has hot and cold water
showers and flush toilets. Host hotels: Holiday Inn Express
(205-302-6400--$57 per night) or Day's Inn (205-221-7800--$50 per night)
and Travel-rite Inn (205-221-1161--$47 per night). We feed continental
breakfast and afternoon meal to dancers, drum teams, head staff and
traders. This is an Intertribal social event: all dancers, drums and
public is invited and welcome. The same committee responsible for the
Honor the Children event is coordinating this one.
Head staff include: HL: Betsy Jolly (Echota Cherokee), HM: Bill Jolly
(Echota Cherokee), HV: Keith Little Badger and Don Nelson; AD: Little
Hawk Gatty and Keith Little Badger, HND: Grey Wolf Singers (Philadelphia
MS); HSD: Aracoma Lightning Singers, Guest Drums: All traditional drums
are welcome, if you are a drum and interested in attending, please let
us know so that we can work out necessary arrangements to make your stay
the best for the group.
Please contact me directly if you need additional
information/directions kcooper@uabmc.edu
===================================
Date: Tue, 25 Feb 2003 11:30:05 -0500
From: "Mark D. Millat" <MMillat@woh.rr.com>
Subj: POWWOW
Mailing List: ndn-aim <ndn-aim@yahoogroups.com>
Miami Valley Council for Native Americans, is having their 15th annual
POWWOW June 28 and 29, located 5 miles east of Xenia Ohio, at Blue
Jackets Outdoor Drama. Dance contest.. I will post more information as I
receive it.
Respectfully,
Mark D. Millat
===================================
Date: Saturday, January 01, 2000 08:07 pm
From: "Edna H. King" <twobraidz@hotmail.com>
Subj: Island in the Sun Inter-Tribal Pow Wow
>To: gars@speakeasy.org
Island in the Sun Inter-Tribal Pow Wow
Boozhoo!
Can you please add our Pow Wow to your listing?
Beausoleil First Nation is hosting it's annual
Island in the Sun Inter-Tribal Pow Wow on July 5th and 6th, 2003.
Beausoleil First Nation is located in the beautiful Georgian Bay
in Ontario. Camping sites are available.
Grand Entry is 1:00 pm - 7:00 p.m. on Saturday and Sunday at 12:00 noon
Here is a link to the BFN Pow Wow Site.
http://islandinthesunpowwow.tripod.com./
For more information contact:
Nadine Kidd -- (705) 247-2535 (no collect calls please)
Fax -- (705)247-2536
Email: revelationhunter@hotmail.com
Miigwech,
Edna H. King
===================================
Date: Fri, 14 Feb 2003 09:19:38 -0800 (PST)
From: "margrett okelley" <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
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52nd ANNUAL NORTH AMERICAN INDIAN DAYS
JULY 10-13, 2003
BROWNING, MONTANA
SPONSORED BY
BLACKFEET TRIBAL BUSINESS COUNCIL
MC'S earl old person, blackfeet
jay st. goddard, blackfeet
kenny scabby robe, sr., blackfeet
HOST DRUMS
american host: mandaree, international singing champions
canadian host: high noon, world singing champions
ARENA DIRECTORS
lucky white grass, frank goings, kevin kicking woman,
clarence comes at night
DANCE SPECIALS
alvin yellow owl iii, men's traditional $1,000 winner take all
miss blackfeet - myalyn spoonhunter, 2002 world champion teen girl's,
jingle dress special 16-25, in memory of peter tatsey
ld style shawl dance, 40 & over, 3 places & gifts, in honor of first miss
blackfeet, gail sharp, 1979-80, sponsored by leona sharp & family
audrey white grass scabby robe, drumming contest special & hand drum
contest, women's traditional contest, for more information contact: lucky
white grass at (406) 338-7552
prairie chicken dance showdown, sponsored by clinton croff, 1st place
champion jacket plus $1,000 plus, consolation prizes addes, for more
information contact: clintor or Justine croff at (406) 338-3703
women's golden age dance special - honoring the memory of bertha sharp
turle-ackerman, 1926-1987, first woman to dance modern style
CARNIVAL
sponsored by: candy apple amusement; rides: avalance, zipper, octopus,
tilt-a-whirl, scrambler, ferris wheel, kid ville, jolly frog, much, much,
much more!!!!
TWO MEDICINE RUNNING CLUB FUN RUN
saturday, july 12, 2003 at 2:00 p.m.,
contact: wendy or diana at (406) 338-7870 or 338-3876
N.A.I.D. GOLF TOURNAMENT
contact: vic hall at (406) 338-7440
REEVIS/WEBBER FAMILY BREAKFAST
in memory of "beatrice bear medicine,
friday july 11, 2003 7:00 - 10:00 a.m., campground arbor
N.A.I.D. RODEO
multi-sanctioned
july 11, 12, 13, 2003, $15,000 added & buckles per major event, all-
around saddles, youth rodeo & team roping jackpot on thursday, july 10th,
contact: mike tatsey at (406) 472-3398 or 338-5525
INDIAN RELAY/HORSE RACES
july 11, 12, 13, 2003 $15,000 cash & prizes, buckles & cooler blankets,
contact: Geri osbourne at (406) 338-3232, phillip rattler at 338-7748,
tony carlson at 291-0348, ernie fitz at 338-3489
STICK GAME TOURNAMENT
1st - $5,000 2nd - $3,000 3rd - $1,500 4th - $500
contact: jodi wippert at 338-7103 or myra knople at 338-7191
PARADE
saturday, july 12, 2003 at 11:00 a.m.
contact : jim mcneely at 338-7521
GIVEAWAYS
giveaways will be held on thursday and friday, july 10, 11, 2003
contact: jim mcneely at 338-7521
TEEPEES PAID DAILY
SECURITY & EMS PROVIDED
SEARCH & RESCUE TASK FORCE
ARTS & CRAFT BOOTHS
RATIONS/DAILY DISTRIBUTIONS
BLACKJACK TABLES
CATHOLIC SUNDAY MASS
sunday, july 13, 2003 at 10:00 A.M.
BISHOP ROBERT MORLINO, CELEBRANT
CAMPGROUND ARBOR
BROWNING UNITED METHODIST PARISH
SUNDAY SERVICES WILL BE HELD AT THE CHURCH AT 11:00 A.M.
VETERAN'S DAY
FRIDAY, JULY 11, 2003, WILL HONOR KOREAN WAR VETERANS,
PRESENTATION BY: MAJOR GENERAL JOHN E. PENDERGAST
N.R.M.A. OLD TIME DANCE
CCD CENTER, SATURDAY, JULY 12, 2003 AT 7:00 P.M.,
CONTACT: GALEN SINCLAIR AT 338-5456
COMPETITION CATEGORIES
MEN'S TRADITIONAL AGE 18-39 AND 40-54
MEN'S GRASS DANCE/CHICKEN DANCE
FANCY
MEN'S BUCKSKIN/WOMEN'S BUCKSKIN 55 & OLDER
WOMEN'S TRADITIONAL/FANCY/JINGLE DRESS
GOLDEN AGE 55 & OLDER
BOY'S TRADITIONAL/FANCY/GRASS DANCE
YOUNG MEN'S TRADITIONAL/FANCY/GRASSDANCE
GIRL'S TRADITIONAL/FANCY/JINGLE DRESS
YOUNG WOMEN'S TRADITIONAL/FANCY/JINGLE
For more information on 52nd annual north american indian days contact:
jodi wippert at (406) 338-7103 the north american indian days committee &
the blackfeet tribe are not responsible for travelers aid, weather damages,
accidents, or lost/stolen property.
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2ND SALINE RIVER BENEFIT POW WOW
AUG. 08-09-10 2003
ALL DANCERS DRUMS and GENERAL PUBLIC
WELCOME at the SALINE COUNTY FAIR GROUNDS
BENTON ARKANSAS
Special kids American Indian Educators
Educators will be demonstrating bow making,
using adlatle and styles of lodging
ARENA DIRECTOR--------------KIETH LITTLE BADGER-FLA.
MCEE----------------------------------GARY SMITH-GA.
HEAD MAN----------------------GARY THUNDER WOLF ALA.
HEAD LADY--------------------------VALERIE COOPER-AL.
HOST DRUM---------------------------------Shadow Wolf
HOST DRUM----------------------------Red Hawk Singers
ALL DRUMS AND DANCERS WELCOME
ALL TYPES OF CRAFTS
FEATURING CHIEF LITTLE HORSE FILM STAR
WE WILL BE HONORING ALL ELDERS,VETERANS,
Volunteer FIRE FIGHTERS WHO THE POW WOW IS FOR
WILL BE OFFERING FREE BLOOD PRESSURE CHECKs
ADMISSION: 5.00 ADULTS
___________3.00 CHILDREN UNDER 12 and SENIORS 55 AND UP
Fri. Aug 08-12 pm till 4 pm kids day all admission free
Fri Aug 08 gates open at 5 pm
grand entry at 7 pm inter-tribal till 10 pm
Sat.Aug. 09 gates open at 10 am
gourd dancing 12pm till 1 pm
grand entry and inter-tribal dancing till 6 pm
6 pm till 7 pm gourd dancing
7 pm till 10 pm grand entry and inter-tribal
Sun. Aug 10 gates open at 10 am
12 pm till 1 pm gourd dancing
1 pm till 5pm grand entry and inter-tribal dancing
BRING YOUR LAWN CHAIRS AND SPEND THE DAY
FRY BREAD AND INDIAN TACOS
ALCOHOL AND DRUG FREE EVENT
FOR MORE INFO OR DIRECTION
CONTACT ROBERT BELLINGER 501-860-7220
JIMMY 870-879-1396 or LARRY 501-868-4108
HOST MOTEL TO BE ANNOUNCED
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Aaron's Powwow Calendar Updated May 14, 2003
http://www.geocities.com/Athens/Olympus/9173/powwows.html
June 2003
June 6-7 - Thirty Fifth Annual Alabama-Coushatta Powwow Celebration
Location: Livingston, Texas.
Notes: MC, Dean Whitebreast; Arena Director, Daniel Tramper;
Head Gourd Dancer, Jack Battise, Sr.; Host Northern Drum, Elks Whistle;
Host Southern Drum, Otter Trail. Dance and drum contests.
Contact: Mary (936) 329-8906; Crystal (972) 826-2138; ccw1979@excite.com.
June 6-8 - Bois Forte Traditional Sah gii bah gah Days Powwow
Location: Bois Forte Reservation, Nett Lake, Minnesota.
Notes: Grand Entry Saturday 1 pm and 7 pm, Sunday 1 pm.
Honorariums for registered dancers and singers, all meals provided.
Camping and lodging available.
Contact: Linda Tibbetts-Barto (218) 757-0111, lbarto@rangenet.com.
June 7 - A Step Back in Time Mini-Powwow
Location: Woodland Plantation, Plaquemines, Louisiana.
Contact: (504) 391-0173.
June 13-14 - American Indian Cultural Association of North Carolina
Twenty Fifth Annual Powwow
Location: Van Hoy Family Campground, Union Grove, North Carolina.
Notes:
Traditional powwow, Southern Protocol, this is a family oriented event.
Contact: Ed de Torres (828) 464-5579, exdt@webtv.net;
Vendors contact Karen Hoyt (704) 786-5705, kdh1993@yahoo.com.
June 13-15 - Fifth Annual Prairie Band Potawatomi Nation Powwow Celebration
Location: Prairie People's Park, 158 and M Roads, Mayetta, Kansas.
Contact: Micki Martinez (877) 715-6789 ext 3999,
powwow@pbpnation.org, www.pbpnation.org.
June 19-21 - Forty Seventh Annual TIHA Summer Powwow
Location: Robinson Park, Llano, Texas.
Contact: (512) 243-1931; Vendors, (830) 665-9309.
June 20-22 - Dauphin Aboriginal Festival
Location: Dauphin, Manitoba, Canada.
Notes: Powwow, traditional crafts, square dancing, and more.
Contact: crazylegs420@hotmail.com.
June 20-22 - Sixth Annual Noongam Traditional Powwow
Location: Dow's Lake, Ottawa, Ontario, Canada.
Notes: All drums, dancers and native vendors welcome.
Free admission, public welcome.
Contact: (613) 786-1552; noongampowwow@yahoo.com; www.noongam.50megs.com.
June 20-22 - Fourth Annual Rocky Fork Traditional Powwow
Location: Rocky Fork Recreation, 74411 Rocky Fork Rd., Kimbolton, Ohio.
Contact: Michelle Hill (740) 439-4359, rockyforkpowwow@excite.com,
www.rockyforkpowwow.freewebspace.com.
June 28-29 - Tecumseh Traditional Outdoor Powwow
Location: Cal Zorn Recreation Center Park, Tecumseh, Michigan.
Notes: Intertribal dancing and singing. Arts, crafts,
and Native American food.
Contact: mseals@tc3net.com.
July 2003
July 4-6 - Hobby Horse Ranch Native American Festival
Location: Rt. 73, Fleetwood, Pennsylvania.
Contact: (610) 944-5797.
July 18 - 1st Annual Lheidli T'enneh Tannot'enne Society Competition Powwow
Location: Kin Centres I and II, 1040 Whenun Road,
Prince George, British Columbia, Canada.
Notes: Over $45,000 prize money. Camping available.
Contact: (250) 963-8451; Fax (250) 963-8490; vanessaw@telus.net.
July 18-20 - The Lenape/Renape Wampanoo Confederacy Powwow
Location: The Ancoda Farm, Tuckachawan, Connecticut.
Contact: (860) 935-9226.
August 2003
August 29-31 - 22nd Annual Stockton Communiy Labor Day Weekend Powwow
Location: Webster Middle School Field, Stockton, California.
Contact: (209) 953-4803, Fax (209) 953-4261; clydehodge@earthlink.net;
www.geocities.com/nativeteacher/.
September 2003
September 17-20 - First Annual Miss Indian Rodeo America Pageant
Location: Oklahoma City, Oklahoma.
Notes: CDIB card required.
Contact: Deborah Robertson rodeobest@aol.com; www.rodeobest.com/apic.
September 26-28 - 2003 Richmond Powwow
Location: Richmond, Kentucky.
Notes: Intertribal dancing.
Contact: (859) 623-6076; richmondpowwow@hotmail.com;
www.homestead.com/richmondpowwowassn/.
September 27-28 - Gathering of the People Powwow
Location: Vigo Conservation Club, Terre Haute, Indiana.
Contact: (812) 694-8745.
October 2003
October 10-12 - Fifth Annual Northern Lights Casino Thanksgiving Powwow
Location: Prince Albert Communiplex, 6th Avenue North, Prince Albert,
Saskatchewan, Canada.
Notes: Dance and drum contests. Mc, Russel Standingrock
and Tommy Christian; Host Northern Drum, Whitefish Jrs.
Categories include: Mens Fancy, Traditional, Grass;
Womens Fancy Shawl, Jingle.
Contact: (306) 764-4777; ctyrellstanding@hotmail.com.
October 11-12 - First Annual American Indian Powwow
Location: Faulkner Park, 3 miles north of Lindale, Texas.
Notes: Intertribal dancing, everyone welcome. Vendor space available.
Contact: m.l.bailey@prodigy.net; cheroke2@earthlink.net.
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Aboriginal Multi-Media Society Updated May 14, 2003
Aboriginal Community Events Listing
http://www.ammsa.com/ammsaevents.html
June 2003
June 6, 2003
5th Annual Wetu Oiyokpi Wacipi 2003
Sioux Valley School
Sioux Valley, Manitoba
Mark (204) 855-2536
June 6-8, 2003
Muskeg Lake First Nation Powwow
near Marcelin, Sk
306-466-4959
June 7 - 8, 2003
Aundeck Omni Kaning Pow Wow
(Ojibways of Sucker Creek)
Honouring Our Past,
Celebrating Our Future
Gail Nootchtai: (705) 368-0903
Scott Madahbee : (705) 368-2228
Henry Shingoose Traditional Powwow
Selkirk, Manitoba
Mike: (204) 269-3430
Barrie Native Friendship Center Powwow
3rd time it will be Traditional
Barrie Fairgrounds
Barrie, Ontario
David: (705) 721-7689
9th Warroad Traditional Powwow
Warroad City Park
Warroad, Minnesota
(218) 386-3430
June 9, 2003
The National Aboriginal Business Association's
2nd Annual Golf Tournament
Calgary, Alberta
Contact: Fred McDonald at (403) 617-8484
June 10 - 22, 2003
13th Annaul First Peoples Festival
Land InSights - Terres En Vue
Montreal, Quebec
Tel: (514) 278-4040
Fax: (514) 278-4224
Web Site: www.nativelynx.qc.ca
Email: tev@nativelynx.qc.ca
June 12-14, 2003
Coming Full Circle National Training Session
and 12th Annual General Meeting
The National Indian & Inuit Community Health Representatives Organization
Travelodge Hotel & Convention Centre - Ottawa West
Ottawa, ON
For more information: www.niichro.com
Email: judij@niichro.com
June 13 - 14, 2003
Sucker Creek Powwow
Sucker Creek First Nation
Manitoulin Island, Ontario
Gail: (705) 368-2228
Bobby Bird Memorial Golf Tournament
Jackfish Lodge, Saskatchewan
Alice: (306) 663-5100
June 13 - 15, 2003
21st Annual Traditional Pow Wow
Whitesand First Nation, Ontario
Melanie White-Bouchard: (807) 583-1479
Hope Tibishkogijig: (807) 583-1771
Witchekan Lake Powwow
near Spiritwood, Saskatchewan
(306) 883-2787
135th White Earth Celebrations
White Earth, Minnesota
Powwow Committee: (218) 983-3285
Heart Lake Annual
Treaty Days Celebrations
Heart Lake, Alberta
Paula or Sam: (780) 623-2130
June 14 & 15, 2003
2nd Annual Metis Intertribal Gathering
The Woodland Metis Tribe, The Nimkii Band and The Big Turtle Clan
Hosted at Black Swan Lake US Hwy 50, 18 miles east of Bedford, Indiana
SnowWolf Wagner: (317) 209-9697 David Arnold: (317) 271-8311
Wayne Gillham: (812) 401-5220
Terry RedHawk Harris: 1-800-421-9659
Sheshegwaning First Nation Annual
JIING-DA-MOOG Traditional Powwow
Sheshegwaning First Nation, Ontario
Ph: (705) 283-3292
www.sheshegwaning.org
18th Strawberry Moon Powwow
Campgrounds - Mole lake, Wisconsin
(715) 478-7500
Three Fires Homecoming
Traditional Powwow
Riverside Park
Grand Rapids Michigan
(616) 458-8759
June 15 - 21, 2003
Native Awareness Week
Calgary, Alberta
(403) 296-2227
June 16, 2003
CCAB Circle for 2015 Golf Tournament
Cochrane AB
(416) 961- 8663 x222
June 16 - 17, 2003
Urban Treaty Days in Saskatoon
Saskatoon, Shewan
(306) 244-2100
June 18th, 2003
Calgary Head Start Society
Graduation Powwow
Calgary, Alberta
Amie: (403) 215-0386
June 19 - 22 , 2003
Red Bottom Centennial Powwow
Fort Peck Res. Fraser, Montana
(406) 768-5155
June 20, 2003
Summer Round Dance
Canadian Native Friendship Center
Edmonton, Alberta
(780) 479-1999
June 20 & 21, 2003
National Aboriginal Day Pow Wow
Lethbridge Exhibition Park South Pavillion
Lethbridge Alberta
June 20: Opening Ceremonies 6 pm
Evening Grand Entry 7 pm
June 21: Sunrise Ceremony
Pancake Breakfast 10 am
Afternoon Grand Entry 1 pm
Evening Grand Entry 7 pm
Competition Pow Wow
hosted by
Lethbridge Aboriginal
Interagency Committee
Info: (403) 317-7101
Wanuskewin Park Powwow
NE of Saskatoon, Saskatchewan
(306) 931-6767
June 20 - 22, 2003
Sakimay First Nation Powwow
near Grenfell, Saskatchewan
(306) 697-2831
NAES College 11th Annual
Contest Powwow
Chicago, Illinois
Leonard Malatare: (773) 761-5000
3rd Prince George Native Friendship Center
Competition Powwow
Massey Place Stadium,
Prince George, British Columbia
(250)564-3568
12th Annual Powwow
Grand Celebration
Hinckley, Minnesota
1-800-472-6321
FREE Outdoor Celebrations at the Vancouver Art Gallery
Vancouver, British Columbia
Germaine: (604) 951-8807
Noongam Taditional Powwow
Dow's Lake
Ottawa, Ontario
all drums, dancers and native vendors welcome
free admission, everyone welcome
Info: Phone: (613) 786-1552
e-mail:noongampowwow@yahoo.com
web site:www.noongam.50megs.com
Manitou Rapids Traditional Powwow
Manitou Rapids First Nation
Emo, Ontario
(807) 482-2479
June 21, 2003
National Aboriginal Day Celebrations
Duck Lake Regional Interpretive Centre
Nicole / Celine: (306) 467-2057
June 21 - 22 , 2003
Saskatchewan Indian Federated College
25th Annual Powwow
University Grounds
Regina, Saskatchewan
(306) 546-8537
Wanuskewin Heritage Park
and Saskatchewan Indian Cultural Center Competition Powwow
Phone: (306) 931-6767
www.wanuskewin.com
Wikwemikong Traditional Powwow
Hosted by Wekwemikong's Satellite
Community of Murray Hill, Ontario
Manitoulin Island, Ontario
Karen: (705) 859-2100
Grand Valley American Indian Lodge
Buffalo Traditional Powwow
Buffalo Ranch, 4600 Fruitridge Avenue
Grand Rapids, Michigan
(616) 364-4697 / 363-3936
June 21st, 2003
National Aboriginal Day in Regina
Wascana Park
Regina, Saskatchewan
(306) 780-6527
June 21st, 2003
National Aboriginal Day in Saskatoon
Saskatoon, Saskatchewan
Mae Henderson: (306) 244-0174
June 23, 2003
5th Annual Anishinabek
Veterans Memorial Golf Tournament
Orillia, Ontario
Phone: 877-702-5200
or (705) 497-9128 ext. 2261
June 23 - 24, 2003
Aboriginal Financial
Management Strategies Forum
Ottawa, Ontario
Info: 1-888-777-1707
Web Site: www.insightinfo.com
June 24 - 26, 2003
IHS Mental Health Training
Sioux Falls, South Dakota
Health Promotion Programs
The University of Oklahoma
555 East Constitution Street
Norman, Oklahoma 73072-7820
Phone: (405) 325-1790
Fax: (405) 325-7126
E-mail: hpp@ou.edu
June 26 - 27, 2003
Aboriginal Women In Business Conference
Niagara Falls, Ontario
Milestone Office: (519) 754-3302
June 27, 2003
Fort McKay First Nation Treaty Day
Fort McKay, Alberta
(780) 828-4220
June 27-29, 2003
Badlands Celebration Powwow
Fort Peck Reservation
Brockton, Montana
(406) 768-5126
Return of the Drums Community
Powwow & Festival
Kelso Beach, Owen Sound, Ontario
1 (866) 202-2068 or (519) 371-1147
Web Site: www.nativecentre.ca
June 28 - 29, 2003
42nd AAMJIWNAANG
Competition Powwow
(formerly Chippewas of Sarnia)
Sarnia, Ontario
Sheena: (519) 336-2968
Dokis First Nation 9th Annual
Traditional Gathering
Dokis, Ontario
South of Sudbury
Gladys Goulais: (705) 763-9939
Veronica Dokis: (705) 763-2269
June 30th, 2003
Beardy's Okemasis Treaty Days
near Duck Lake, Saskatchewan
306-467-4523
July 2003
Kainai Indian Days
Standoff, Alberta
(403) 737-3753
July 3 - 6, 2003
Miapukek 8th Annual Powwow
Ktaqmkuk Mi'kmaq Traditional Gathering Powwow Grounds
Conne River, Newfoundland
Kelly: (709) 882-2470 / 2710
July 4-6, 2003
Wahpeton Dakota Nation Powwow.
north of Prince Albert, Saskatchewan
306-764-6649
Erminskin Annual Powwow
Hobbema, Alberta
Emily: (780) 585-3835
Leech Lake 4th of July Powwow
Cass Lake, Minnesota
(218) 335-8200
White Bear Powwow 2003 Celebrations
White Bear First Nation, SK
Irene: (306) 577-4553
Wildhorse 9th Annual Powwow
Umatilla Indian Reserve
Pendleton, Oregon
1 (800) 654-9453
Yukon International Storytelling
16th Annual Festival
Rotary Peace Park, Yukon Territory
Lilyan: (867) 633-7550
www.yukonstory.com
Flathead Nation Powwow
Arlee, Montana
(406) 745-2700
Sisseton Wahpeton Sioux Wacipi
136th Annual
Sisseton, North Dakota
(605) 698-3942
Northern Cheyenne Annual
July 4th Powwow
Lame Deer, Montana
(406) 477-6284
July 4-13, 2003
Calgary Stampede and
World Famous Rodeo
Calgary, Alberta
1-800-661-1767
July 5 - 6, 2003
Munsee-Delaware Nation
9th Annual Traditional Gathering
Munsee-Delaware Nation Park
and Gathering Grounds
Carmen/Floyd: (800) 257-7279
or (519) 289-5396
14th Annual Traditional Powwow
Sheguiandah First Nation
Hwy #6, Sheguiandah, Ontario,
Manitoulin Island
(705) 368-2781
July 10-13, 2003
North American Indian Days
Blackfeet Browning, Montana
(406) 338-7276
40th Annual Sac & Fox Powwow
Stroud, Oklahoma
Kim: (405) 968-9531
July 11-13, 2003
Sagamok Anishnabek
19th Annual Traditional Powwow
Sagamok Spiritual Grounds
12km South of Massey, Ontario
Linda (705) 865-2172
Carl (705) 865-1553
One Arrow Traditional Powwow
east of Rosthern & Batoche, Saskatchewan
(306) 423-5493
White Shield Powwow
White Shield, North Dakota
(701) 743-4535
Cold Lake Treaty Days
Cold Lake First Nation, Alberta
Noella: 1-888-222-7183
Enoch Annual Competition Powwow
Enoch, Alberta
(780) 470-4505
Echoes of a Proud Nation
13th Annual Powwow
Kahnawake Territory, Quebec
Laurie: (450) 632-8667
July 12 - 13, 2003
Mississaugas of Scugog
7th Annual Powwow
Mississaugas of Scugog Island, Ontario
Anne: (905) 985-1826
July 15-17, 2003
Assembly of First Nations
24th Annual General Assembly
Shaw Conference Centre
Edmonton, Alberta
Bonny Maracle: (613) 241-6789 x 297
July 17-20, 2003
Standing Arrow Powwow
Elmo, Montana
(406) 849-5968
July 17 - 26, 2003
Klondike Days
Edmonton, Alberta
1 (888) 800-7275
July 18, 2003
20th Anniversary Open House
Windspeaker
Aboriginal Multi-Media Society
13245 - 146 Street
Edmonton, Alberta
780-455-2700
July 18-20, 2003
Mandaree Hidatsa Celebration Powwow
Mandaree, North Dakota
(701) 759-3277
Carry The Kettle Powwow
South of Sintaluta, Saskatchewan
(306) 727-2169
Onion Lake First Nation Powwow
Onion Lake, Saskatchewan
(306) 344-2149
Standing Arrow Powwow & Horse Games
Elmo, Montana
(406) 849-6018
Wahcinca Dakota Oyate Powwow
Fort Peck Res. Poplar, Montana
(406) 768-5186
Sioux Valley
Competition Powwow & Games
Sioux Valley, Manitoba
Anna: (204) 855-2671
July 22-24, 2003
Sturgeon Lake Powwow
near Shellbrook, Saskatchewan
(306) 764-1872
July 25-27, 2003
Back To Batoche Metis Days
near Batoche, Saskatchewan
(306) 343-8285
The Little River Band of Ottawa Indians
10th Annual Anishinaabe Family Language & Culture Camp
Powwow Grounds, Manistee, Michigan
Kenny: (231) 933-4406
www.Anishinaabemowin.org
Touchwood Agency Tribal Council Powwow
near Raymore, Saskatchewan
(306) 835-2125
Keeweena Bay Powwow
Ojibway Campgrounds
Baraga, Michigan
(906) 353-6623
La Ronge 1st Powwow
Lac La Ronge, Saskatchewan
(306) 835-2125
Bitteroot Valley All Nations Powwow
10th Annual
Hamilton, Montana
(406) 363-5383
Wendake, Carrefour des Nations
Wendake (near Quebec City)
Contact: Marjolaine McKenzie
Phone: (418) 843-5550
Fax: (418) 843-2666
E-mail: pow.wow@cnhw.qc.ca
Native Contemporary Art Festival the 25th
2nd Annual Powwow 26th-27th
July 26-27, 2003
Milk River Indian Days
Fort Belknap, Montana
(406) 353-2886
Grand River Powwow
Chiefswwod Tent & Trailer Park
Six Nations of the Grand River
Brant County Road 54
Ohsweken, Ontario
1(866) 393-3001 or (519) 445-4061
Web Site: www.grpowwow.com
Gathering of Nations Powwow
Brunswick House FN &
Chapleau Cree FN host
Powwow during Chapleau's Nature Festival
Margaret: (705) 864-0174
Gagaguwon Powwow
Oscoda, Michigan
Joe/Sue: (906) 739-1994
August 2003
August TBA
Crooked Lake Powwow
Bradview, Saskatchewan
Colleen: (306) 696-3581
Aug.1-3, 2003
Little Red River Powwow
near LaRonge, Saskatchewan
(306) 953-7200
10th Annual Traditional Pow Wow
Thessalon First Nation, Ontario
Melva Bissaillion: (705) 842-2670
Thessalon First Nation
10th Annual Traditional Powwow
Thessalon First Nation
Powwow Grounds, Ontario
Melva: (705) 842-2670
Oglala Lakota Powwow & Rodeo
Pine Ridge, South Dakota
605-867-5821
Kamloopa Days
Kamloops, British Columbia
Carrie: (250) 828-9700
Rocky Boy's Annual Powwow
Rocky Boy's Agency
near Box Elder, Montana
(406) 395-4690
August 1 - 4, 2003
Lac La Biche Powwow
Lac La Biche, Alberta
(780) 623-4255
Wikwemikong 43rd Annual
Cultural Celebrations
2 Days Competition,
1 Day Traditional Powwow
Wikwemikong Thunderbird Park
Manitoulin Island, Ontario
Cynthis: (705) 859-2385
August 2 - 3, 2003
10th Annual Rekindling Our Traditions Powwow
Fort Erie, Ontario
Lila: (905) 871-8931
19th Annual First Peoples Festival
Royal BC Museum
Victoria, British Columbia
Leslie: (250) 384-2311
August 8th, 2003
Standing Buffalo Powwow
Fort Qu' Appelle, Saskatchewan
(306) 332-4685
August 4-10, 2003
Norway House Cree Nation
Treaty & York Boat Days
Norway House, Manitoba
Anthony: (204) 359-4729
August 7-10, 2003
Siksaka First Nation Powwow
near Gliechen, Alberta
(403) 734-5315
Hays Annual Powwow
Hays, Montana
(406) 673-3158
Omak Stampede and
World Famous Suicide Race
Omak, Washington
Contact: 1 (800) 933-6625
August 8th, 2003
Standing Buffalo First Nation Powwow
Fort Qu'Appelle, Saskatchewan
(306) 332-4685
August 8-10, 2003
Big Island Lake Powwow
(formerly Joseph BigHead)
near Pierceland, Saskatchewan
(306) 839-2277
Genaabaajing 13th Annual
Traditional Powwow
Serpent River First Nation, Ontario
Fran: (705) 844-2418
Heart Lake 4th Annual
Competition Powwow
Heart Lake First Nation, Alberta
Paula or Sam: (780) 623-2130
Millbrook First Nation 6th Annual
Traditional Powwow
Truro, Nova Scotia
Lavinia: (902) 897-0958
Big Grassy Powwow
Big Grassy, Ontario
Daryl / Gary: (807) 488-5614
Songhees Powwow
Maple Bank Park, British Columbia
Angela: (250) 385-3938
August 9 & 10, 2003
Saugeen Competition Powwow
Saugeen First Nation, Onario
(519) 797-2781
August 9-10, 2003
16th Annual Traditional Pow Wow
Tyendinaga Mohawk Territory, Ontario
Sharon John: (613) 966-5602
August 12-14, 2003
Cowessess Powwow
near Broadview, Saskatchewan
306-696-2520
August 13-18, 2003
Crow Fair & RodeoCrow Agency
60 miles south of Billings, Montana
(406) 638-3793
August 14-17, 2003
Algonquins of Pikwa'kanaga'n
Traditional Powwow
Pikwa'kanaga'n (Golden Lake), Ontario
(613) 625-2800
Shakopee Powwow
Prior Lake, Minnesota
(952) 445-8900
August 15-17, 2003
Kahkewistahaw Powwow
near Broadview, Saskatchewan
(306) 696-3291
Muskoday First Nation Powwow
Veterans Memorial Park
Muskoday First Nation, Saskatchewan
Leroy: (306) 764-1282
Island Thunder Powwow
Khotwutsun Soccer Field
Duncan, British Columbia
(250) 748-9404
Aug. 16&17, 2003
Thunder Mountain Lenape Nation
5th Annual Native American Festival
Location: Saltsburg, PA
Contact: (724) 459-5276
Chippewas of the Thames First Nation
27th Annual Competition Powwow
30km Southwest of London
Thames First Nation, Ontario
(519) 289-2232
8th Wahnapitae First Nation
Traditional Powwow
Wahnapitae First Nation, Ontario
(705) 858-0610
10th Whitefish River Powwow
Sunshine Alley, Birch Island, Ontario
(705) 285-4321
Bernie Metecheah Memorial Rodeo
Halfway River First Nation
Wonowon, British Columbia
Info: Jeff: (250)261-7276
Joe: (250) 743-7743
Office: (250) 772-5050
August 18-21, 2003
Nekaneet International
Healing & Medicene Gathering
Maple Creek, Saskatchewan
Vonnie: (306) 662-3660
August 20-22, 2003
27th Annual Aboriginal Elders Gathering
Town Center Stadium
Coquitlam, British Columbia
(250) 544-1667
August 21-24, 2003
Schemitzun 2003
Mashantucket, Connecticut
(860) 396-6188 / 6290
August 22-24, 2003
Mistawasis First Nation Powwow
near Leask, Saskatchewan
(306) 466-4800
6th Rapid River Anishinabe Powwow
Hiawatha Forest, Rapid River, Michigan
(906) 474-9910
19th Annual Northern Gathering
Ojibways of the Pic River First Nation
Heron Bay, Ontario
(807) 229-1749
www.picriver.com
3rd Annual Spirit of The North Celebration
Shooting Star Casino & Event Center - - Mahnomen, Minnesota
Special Hotel Rate - Call (800)453-STAR
All Craft Vendors Welcome
Info.: (218) 846-0957
20th Annual Kehewin Cree Nation
Competition Pow Wow
& Handgame Tournament
Contact: Irvin Kehewin
E-mail: irvinkehewin@yahoo.ca
Fort Kipp Celebration
45th Year Fort Peck Reservation
Poplar, Montana
(406) 768-5155
August 23-24, 2003
Shawanaga First Nation Healing Center
6th Annual Powwow
Shawanaga First Nation, Ontario
(705) 366-2378
Silver Lake 9th Annual
Traditional Powwow
Silver Lake, Ontario
(613) 548-1500
August 24-27, 2003
137th Winnebago Homecoming
Winnebago, NE
(402) 878-3222
August 29-31, 2003
Poplar Indian Days
Fort Peck Reservation
Poplar, Montana
(406) 768-3826
The Minwaashin Lodge Women's Gathering
Ottawa, Ontario
(613) 741-5590
August 30-31, 2003
Frog Lake Labour Day Powwow
Frog Lake , Alberta
(780) 943-2173
Labor Day Powwow
Cass Lake, Minnesota
(218) 335-8200
21st Annual Labor Day Powwow
Grove City, Ohio
Carol: (614) 443-6120
September 2003
September 3-7, 2003
57th Annual Navajo Nation Fair
Window Rock, Arizona
(928) 871-6478
www.navajonationfair.com
September 6 & 7, 2003
Grand Valley American Indian Lodge
42nd Annual Traditional Powwow
Riverside Park, Grand Rapids, Michigan
(616) 364-4697
Email: wabushna@aol.com
September 12-14, 2003
Tyendinaga Mohawk Territory County Fair
Tyendinaga Mohawk Territory, ON
WM. J. Brant : (613) 967-1129
(613) 396-3800 / 967-3603
September 16-19, 2003
10th Annual National Conference and AGM
The Drum is Calling...Journey to New Horizons
CANDO
Whitehorse, Yukon
Phone: (780) 990-0303
Email: cando@edo.ca
Web site: www.edo.ca
September 19-21, 2003
Gathering of Veteran's
Neillsville, Wisconsin
Mark: (715) 743-4224
Moosomin First Nations Powwow.
near Cochin, Saskatchewan
1-800-252-4977
Sept. 26-28, 2003
Last Chance Community Powwow
Helena, Montana
(406) 439-5631
Gathering of the Good Minds
A Celebration of First Nations Arts and Wisdon
FREE ADMISSION
London, Ontario
Dan & Mary (519) 659-4682
Email: dsmoke@uwo.ca
Mid-America All Indian Center Powwow
Wichita, Kansas
(316) 262-5221
September 27 & 28, 2003
10th Anniversary Native American Foundation Inter-Tribal Powwow
Waimea Ballfield Waimea, Hawaii
Email: waimeapowwow@yahoo.com
October 2003
October 10-12, 2003
5th Annual Northern Lights Casino Thanksgiving Pow Wow
Location: Prince Albert
Communiplex
Prince Albert, Saskatchewan
MC Russel Standingrock Rockyboy,MT
Tom Christian Popular,MT
Additional Info:1-306-764-4777
Email: nlcchampionship2k3@hotmail.com
Website: http://www.siga.sk.ca/NorthernLights/AboutUS.aspx
October 15-17 2003
School Days
October 17-19 2003
Powwow
Lower Muskogee Creek Tribe
Tama Trible Town
Whigham, Georgia 39897
Phone: (229) 762-3165
Email: cate_esse@yahoo.com
web site: http://www.rose.net/~mvr
October 18-19, 2003
Wahta Mohawks 3rd Annual Powwow 2003
Iroquois Cranberry Growers, Hwy #69 North Mactier
Bill: (705) 756-2354
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Updated May 14, 2003
Andersons-web.com http://andersons-web.com/native_events.htm
June 7 - 8, 2002: 22nd Annual Yuba-Sutter Pow Wow Yuba College, Marysville,
California. For information e-mail jgraham@mjusd.k12.ca.us or call 530-
749-6196 between 8 a.m. and 2:30 p.m.
June 13 - 14, 2003: 25th Annual Powwow of the American Indian Cultural
Association of North Carolina in Union Grove, North Carolina. For
information e-mail: exdt@webtv.net or call Ed at 828-464-5579
June 27 - 29, 2003: 4th Annual New Windsor Intertribal Pow Wow at the
Village Park and Rodeo Grounds, Village of New Windsor, Illinois. For more
information call Jeannie Herbert 309-667-2214. E-mail: tribtres@winco.net
Visit the web site at: http://www.ciopo-inc.com/index.html
June 27- 29, 2003: Trade Days Festival, Trade, Tennessee. For more
information contact: Jerry Laney 229-787-5180 evenmings or email:
jerry@NativeWayProductions.com this is on the web at: http://www.
NativeWayProductions.com
July 5 - 6, 2003: Wagon Trails Pow-Wow Wagon Trails Resort 4051 State
Route 46, Jefferson, Ohio. For information call: 330-326-3248.
August 16 - 17, 2003: 5th Annual Thunder Mountain Lenape Nation Festival
in Saltsburg, PA. You can look this event up on the web at: http://www.
questpublish.com/thundermountain . For information call 724-459-5276 or
e-mail: thundermountain@questpublish.com or write Thunder Mountain Lenape
Nation, 1200 Nowrytown Rd., Saltsburg, PA 15681.
August 16 - 17, 2003: Dance Till Dark Pow Wow by the Red Hawk American
Indian Society at the Willow Ranch South Hubbard Road, just off Rt. 422,
Coitsville Township, Ohio. For more information call: Donna Wynn 1-330-
534-0424 or e-mail: WhBuffaloEagle@aol.com
September 20 - 21, 2003: 15th Annual "Everything is Sacred" Pow Wow
Gathering - 2003 at the Borchard Community Park 190 No. Reino Road,
Thousand Oaks, California. Check it out at http://www.everythingissacred.
com Hosted by the California Indian Council Foundation. For more
information contact 805-493-2863 or e-mail: TheWHITEHAWK@MSN.com
October 15 - 19, 2003: Lower Muskogee Creek Tribe Powwow at Tama Trible
Town, Whigham, Georgia 39897. Contact 229-762-3165 e-mail: cate_esse@yahoo.
com Seen on the web at: http://www.rose.net/~mvr
October 24 - 26, 2003: Southeastern Intertribal Powwow, Friendly City
Park/EB Hamilton Complex, Trifton, Georgia (I-75 @ 2nd Street, exit 63A &
west 2 miles) Contact Jerry Laney 229-787-5180 evenings or e-mail
Jerry@NativeWayProductions.com on the web at http://www.
NativeWayProductions.com
November 14 - 16. 2003: Tullahoma Intertribal Powwow, South Jackson Civic
Center grounds, Tullahoma, Tennessee. Contact Jerry Laney 229-787-5180
evenings or e-mail Jerry@NativeWayProductions.com this can be seen on the
web at: http://www.NativeWayProductions.com
A word of advice, no matter how hard we try, mistakes happen!
Please try to get in contact with the event staff and verify the
important information before leaving for it.
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OCB TRACKER Updated May 14, 2003
California's Native News www.ocbtracker.com
http://www.ocbtracker.com/index.htmlMay 21th, 2003
June 6th - 8th, 2003
Standing Bear Powwow
Bakersfield City College
Bakersfield, CA
Host Southern Drum: Hummingbird Singers, Head Man: Henry Allen,
Head Woman: Arlene Allen, MC: Saginaw Grant.
Host Motel: Best Western Crystal Palace Inn (800) 424-4900
- Mention Standing Bear Powwow
Admission: 4.00
Info: Gene Albitre (661) 589-8414
email: nahpc@bak.rr.com
June 7th - 8th, 2003
22nd Annual Yuba-Sutter Powwow
Marysville, CA
Info: (530)749-6196
June 7th - 8th, 2003 -- DATE CHANGE
7th Annual Multi-Cultural Youth Powwow
Pioneer Park downtown
Reedley, CA 93654
Saturday 10:00 a.m. to 9:00 p.m. Sunday 10:00 a.m. to 6:00 p.m.
CONTESTS: Watermelon Eating, Cake-walk,
Over $500 in Raffle Prizes and Talent show
OPEN TO THE PUBLIC A SPECIAL INVITATION TO ALL GOURD DANCERS
ALL DRUMMERS, DANCERS, & TIPIS ARE WELCOME
NO DRUGS OR ALCOHOL ALLOWED
ORGANIZED BY FOURWINDS LODGE
FOR MORE INFORMATION CALL ONEHAWK at 559 485-5036
or 559 338-0509 fourwindsl@sbcglobal.net
or onehawkh@psnw.com To get to Reedley's Pioneer Park:
Take highway 99 to the Manning exit just south of Fresno,
then go east on Manning Ave, until you pass the Kings River bridge.
At first stoplight Manning will then become "I" Street,
keep going on "I" Street to 8th Street and turn left to the park.
http://fourwindslodge.tripod.com
Info: 559 485-5036
June 13-14,2003
American Indian Cultural Association of North Carolina 25th
Van Hoy Family Campground
Union Grove, North Carolina
Traditional Powwow - Southern Protocol This is a family oriented event
For more information contact Ed de Torres- (828)464-5579,
email: exdt @webtv.net
Traders contact- Karen Hoyt- (704)786-5705 email- kdh1993@yahoo.com
June 14th - 15th, 2003
7th Annual Inter-Tribal Powwow
San Luis Rey Mission Grounds
4050 Mission Ave.
Oceanside, CA
All dancers and drums welcome! Food booths, arts and crafts booths,
contest dancing, opportunity drawings. Peon games at dusk!
Sponsored by the San Luis Rey Mission Indian Foundation.
Info: Carmen Mojado (760) 724-8505
email: charlotte@slrmissionindians.org
June 14th - 15th, 2003 -- DATE CORRECTION
20th Annual Indian Fair
Balboa Park
San Diego Museum of Man
1350 El Prado
San Diego, CA
Info: (619) 239-2001
June 18th, 2003
American Indian Chamber of Commerce Monthly Meeting
(every third Wednesday)
11138 Valley Mall
Suite 200
El Monte, CA
Upstairs at the Bank of America building
Meetings starts 6:30 potluck social, 7:30 call to order.
Info: (626) 442-3701 or (714) 898-6364
June 20, 21, 22, 2003
Noongam Traditional Powwow
Dow's Lake
off Carling Ave and Preston
Ottawa, ON
Grand Entries: Friday 6 p.m. Saturday 12 p.m. and 6 p.m. Sunday 12 p.m.
Giveaway 5 p.m. Feast 6 p.m. All drum groups,
dancers and native vendors are welcome.
no admission fees donations welcome at the gate, everyone is welcome,
bring your lawn chairs. for more information phone (613)786-1552,
e-mail:noongampowwow@yahoo.com, website address:www.noongam.50megs.com
http://www.noongam.50megs.com and email:noongampowwow@yahoo.com
Info: (613)786-1522
June 21 & 22nd, 2003
8th Annual Two Sisters Pow Wow
Regatta Field
Rte.113 Pawtucket Blvd
Lowell, Mass
Host Drum: Walking Bear Singers Hours: 10-5pm both days ARea142385@aol.com
Info: AnnMarie 978-459-7214
June 28th - 29th, 2003
19th Annual Tehachapi - Indian Hills Powwow
Indian Hills Campground
Tehachapi, CA
Arts and crafts, food. All drums and dancers are welcome.
Info: (661) 822-1118
June 27th - 29th, 2003
2003 California Basketweavers Gathering
Yurok Tribal Lands
off Hwy 101
Klamath, CA
Info (530) 478-5660
email: ciba@ciba.org
web: www.ciba.org
June 28th - 29th, 2003
4th Annual Big Time
Lake Sonoma
Warm Springs, CA
Info: (707) 837-8596 or (707) 838-1774
July 4th - 6th, 2003
Pechanga Casino Powwow
Pechanga Casino - Activity Field
Temecula, CA
Info: (888) PECHANGA
Contest powwow, arts and crafts booths, native foods.
July 4th - 6th, 2003
Three Rivers Powwow
13505 S Union
Manteca, CA
Info: (209) 858-2421
July 11-13, 2003
19th Annual Taos Pueblo Pow Wow
Taos Pueblo, New Mexico
Taos, New Mexico
A contemporary contest pow wow held on the grassy fields a few miles
from historic Taos Pueblo. Arts and crafts vendors and a wide variety
of food vendors to be sampled! djlujan@laplaza.org
Info: Taos Pueblo Tourism 505-758-1028
July 16th, 2003
American Indian Chamber of Commerce Monthly Meeting
(every third Wednesday)
11138 Valley Mall
Suite 200
El Monte, CA
Upstairs at the Bank of America building
Meetings starts 6:30 potluck social, 7:30 call to order.
Info: (626) 442-3701 or (714) 898-6364
July 17, 18, 19, 2003
Nevada Indian Days Powwow
Churchill County Fairgrounds
Scheckler Road & Hwy 95 South
Fallon, NV
Competition Dancing, Men's Fancy Spotlight Special, Princess Contest,
Gourd Dancing, Native Arts & Crafts,
Vendor applications please call or email.
Info: Francine Tohannie 775-427-2014 or 775-423-2949
July 19th - 20th,2003
12th Annual Lake Casitas Pow Wow
Lake Casitas
Lake Casitas Recreation Area
Ojai, CA
Contest pow wow, all drums welcome, camping, fishing, boating,
M.C.Tom Phillips. Head Staff TBA
www.goldcoastfestivals.com
Admission $10 adults, $5 children
Info: Dick (805) 496-6036
July 25th-27th,2003
Bitterroot Valley All Nations 10th Anniversary Powwow
BMX track/ driving range
4 miles south of Victor , MT. or 4 miles N. of Hamilton, MT. right along
the Lewis and Clark trail ( hwy.93)
Victor, Montana
Traditional and competition dancing, first 10 drums paid.
All dancers and drummers are welcome,
We offer dry camping for dancers, drummers and vendors.
Food vendors and native American arts and crafts market.
Please call for a vendor application if you are interested in
vending at our event www.allnationsmt.homestead.com
Info: Beckie : (406) 363-5383
July 25 - 27, 2003
1st Annual Competition
La Ronge, Saskatchewan
Info: Call Rose (306) 425-2157, Doris (306) 425-3284 or Anne (306) 425-3645
July 27th - 28th, 2003
8th Annual Big Time
Shingle Springs Rancheria
Hwy 50 east of Sacramento
Shingle Springs, CA
Free and open the public. Native dancers, vendors
Info: (530) 391-2540
August 16th - 17th, 2003
Thunder Motain Lenape Nation 5th Annual Native Ameican Festival
Saltsburg, PA
Join us for a Cultural Heritage Experience Proceeds Benefit
Thunder Mountain Programs & Land Purchase
Grand Entry Noon both days-Dancing until 5 p.m.
Shop for Unique Gifts & Collectibles: Native Arts & Crafts Hear, See,
Experience: Traditional Drumming, Dancing & Singing
Treat Your Tastebuds: Native Foods
Have Fun: Children's Activities & Dances, Public Participation Dances,
Storytelling Learn -
Native American Heritage: Hands-on Living History Area with Wigwams,
Tipi, Reproduction Artifacts, Garden
thundermountain@questpublish.com www.questpublish.com/thundermountain
Info: Call Pat (724)-459-5276
August 20th, 2003
American Indian Chamber of Commerce Monthly Meeting
(every third Wednesday)
11138 Valley Mall
Suite 200
El Monte, CA
Upstairs at the Bank of America building
Meetings starts 6:30 potluck social, 7:30 call to order.
Info: (626) 442-3701 or (714) 898-6364
August 22nd - 24th, 2003
34th Annual Southern California Indian Center Powwow
Orange County Fairgrounds
Fair Drive
Costa Mesa, CA
Info: (714) 962-6673
email: scicgg@indiancenter.net
web: http://www.indiancenter.net
August 29th - 31st, 2003
Barona Powwow
Barona Ball Field, past Barona Casino
Lakeside, CA
Contest dancing, food booths, craft booths, camping
Info: (619) 561-5560
August 29 - 31, 2003
Stockton Labor Day PowWow
Stockton
Stockton, CA
web site: www.geocities.com/native teacher e-mail: twolegsx2@yahoo.com
Info: NAIC (209) 953-4803; or Julie (209) 477-5383
September 5th - 7th, 2003
Sycuan Pow Wow
Sycuan Reservation
Alpine, CA
Contest dancing, food booths, craft booths, camping
Info: (619) 445-7776
Sept 6th -7th 2003
7th annual Traditional family Pow-wow
Lake Silverwood, Black Oak area
Highway 138
Hesperia, Ca
Saturday 12:00pm -9:00pm. Grand entry 12:00 noon.
Dinner break 5:30,grand entry 6:30pm Sunday 12:00pm-7:00pm.
Grand entry 12:00 noon.
This a family event and we strongly encourage our young dancers.
All drums, dancers and public welcome!! Head staff TBA. Specials TBA
Info: (909) 887-6006
September 13th - 14th, 2003
9th Annual Precious Sunset Pow-wow
Recreation Point
Bass Lake
Bass Lake, CA
Arts and crafts, food, hand drum contest, princess contest,
team dancing contest. Camping available. MC: Wallace Coffey;
Arena Director: Art Martinez.
Info: (559) 855-2705; fax: (559) 855-2695
September 17th, 2003
American Indian Chamber of Commerce Monthly Meeting
(every third Wednesday)
11138 Valley Mall
Suite 200
El Monte, CA
Upstairs at the Bank of America building
Meetings starts 6:30 potluck social, 7:30 call to order.
Info: (626) 442-3701 or (714) 898-6364
Sept 20 - 21, 2003
15th "Everything is Sacred Pow Wow Gathering"
Borchard Park
190 No. Reino Rd.
Thousand Oaks, CA
MC, Brian Brightcloud, Headman Anthony Sanchez,
Host Drum-Stronghold Singers-Cree Nation, Lead Singer-Val Shadowhawk,
Honored Guest-Mr. Joe Morris, Sr. Navaho Code Talker,
Arena Director, Dean Webster, Chicken Dance Contest-Winner takes all!
Free Admission & Parking. More to be announced.
http://everythingissacred.com
Info: Call Richard (805) 493-2863
September 26, 27 and 28
Bishop Paiute Tribe Annual Handgame Tournament
Tribal Gym
390 North Barlow lane
Bishop CA
All Handgame Players are welcome to come and compete for the guaranteed
cash and bragging rights for your tribe, last years reigning champs were
the Fish Lake Shoshones, This year will host yet another True Double
Elimination, $175 entry fee per team, 2 to 5 players per team,
www.paiute.com
Info: (760) 872-1823
October 10th - 12th, 2003
5th Annual Northern Lights Casino Thanksgiving Powwow
Prince Albert Communiplex
Prince Albert, Saskatchewan
Info: (306) 764-4777
Email: nlcchampionship2k3@hotmail.com
Website: http://www.siga.sk.ca/NorthernLights/AboutUS.aspx
Oct. 11-12, 2003
1st Annual Native American Intertribal Fellowship Powwow
William Carey International University
1539 E. Howard
Pasadena, CA
Info: Bryan BrightCloud 818/870-0000
October 25, 2003
1st American Indian Pow Wow
Faulkner Park
3 mi. North of Lindale
Lindale,Texas
Update Date has changed. from 10/11/03 to 10/25/03.
Electricity is available around Pavilion only
so Food Vendors will be limied.
Spaces with electricity $45.00 without electric $40.00.
Those needing power bring heavy duty extension cords.
Wooded area with small lake, camping allowed.
Our people will provide security.
Contact Louise Bailey m.l.bailey@prodigy.net
or Pat Barbour cheroke2@earthlink.net
Info: 903 882 8380
January 2-3,2004
After the New Year Contest Pow Wow
Shonto Preparatory School
hwy 98/160
Shonto, Az
M/C-Dennis Bowen-Tuba City AZ;A/D-Lee Williams, Tempe AZ;
Host Northern Drum-Eagle Creek Singers, Dennehotso AZ;
HeadMan/Lady-pick per session;
Grand Entry-Fri(Jan 2) 7 pm, Sat(Jan 3) 1 & 7 pm;
Special Contest-Men's Grass Dance Special and Drum Contest;
Flag Ceremony and Veterans Give-Away
Info: 928/672-2652
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Whispering Winds Updated May 14, 2003
A Magazine of American Indian Crafts*Material Culture*Powwow
http://www.whisperingwind.com/
JUNE 2003
6-8 Standing Bear Powwow 2003 Bakersfield College Campus, Bakersfield CA.
Info: (661) 589-8414
6-7 35th Annual Alabama-Coushatta Pow-Wow. Info: 1-800-926-9038
or (936)-563-1100.
6-8 Black Water Creek Powwow. Black Water Creek RV Park, Jasper, AL.
Info: (205) 648-2529.
7 A Step Back in Time "Mini Powwow" Woodland Plantation, Plaquemines LA.
Info: (504) 391-0173
7-8 American Indian Association 3rd annual de ha lu yi Pow Wow.
Millington, TN. Traditional- All drums and Dancers welcome, bring lawn
chairs this is an outside event. More more info contact
Rita at 901-876-3900 or RitaSevenFlowers@aol.com
7-8 2nd Annual Gathering Keepers of the Circle. 1180 Main St, Rotterdam
Junction, NY 12150. Info: ckeepers@aol.com
7-8 Queen Rippling Waters Intertribal Powwow. Lebanon Fairgounds,
Mack Rd., Lebanon, CT. Info: (860) 892-1039 or moheganeak@aol.com
7-8 Five Nations Powwow & Green Corn Festival. Info: (770) 402-8288
or (770) 265-3853
13-14 37th Annual Will Rogers Indian Club of Springfield Powwow.
Ellis O. Jackson City Park, Marshfield, Mo. Info: (417)788-2706
13-14 American Indian Cultural Association of North Carolina 25th
Annual Powwow. Van Hoy Family Campground, Union Grove, NC,
Info: Ed de Torres (828)464-5579, email: exdt@webtv.net
14 Cherokee Festival & Northern Cherokee Reunion. Boone County Fair
Grounds, Columbia, MO. Susan R. Robinson at: Dove3002@aol.com
13-15 2nd annual Native American Intertribal Gathering. Lake's Rocky Top
Retreat, Crossville, TN. Info: Dana & Gloria Sappier (931)788-3917
or (931)707-7971. gourdancer@tnaccess.com
14-15 2nd Annual METIS Intertribal Gathering hosted by The Woodland Metis
Tribe, The Nimkii Band and The Big Turtle Clan. Black Swan Lake, US Hwy 50,
18 miles east of Bedford, Indiana.
19-21 47th Annual TIHA Summer Powwow. Robinson Park, Llano, TX.
Traders: (830) 665-9309. Info: (512) 243-1931.
19-21 Mowa Choctaw Pow wow. 19 miles north of Mobile on Hwy 43, Calvert, AL
Info: 251-829-5500
20-22 6th Annual Noongam Traditional Powwow. Dow's Lake, Ottawa, Ontario.
More information (613)786-1552. E-mail:noongampowwow@yahoo.com
Website:wwww.noongam.50megs.com
20-22 14th Annual Honor the Firekeepers Traditional Powwow. Dunn Field,
Lake Geneva, WI. Info: (262) 248-2784.
20-22 1st Annual Sky Ute Casino Pow Wow. Southern Ute Indian Tribe,
Ignacio, CO. Info: (970) 563-3372. mcotton@southern-ute.nsn.us
20-22 6th Annual Noongam Traditional Powwow. Dow's Lake, Ottawa,
Ontario.; For more information: (613)786-1552
or email: noongampowwow@yahoo.com; www.noongam.50megs.com
21-22 8th Annual Two Sisters Pow Wow. Rte 113, Pawtucket Blvd, Lowell,
MA. Info: AnnMarie or Jackie at 978-459-7214. email: ARea142385@aol.com
21-22 Gateway to Nations. Floyd Bennett Field, Brooklyn, NY
21-22 Saracen Memorial Traditional Benefit Pow Wow, Regional Park, Pine
Bluff, AR. Vendors call - Jim Olsen 870-879-1396 or Bill Horn 870-879-1069
Sponsors-Saracen Memorial Traditional Benefit Pow Wow Committee and Pine
Bluff Jefferson County Historial Musuem. email-wtribble122@comcast.net
27-28 1st Annual Camel Rock Casino Pow Wow. Camel Rock Casino, Tesuque
Pueblo, NM. Info: www.camelrockcasino.com or Tunte Eaton @ 505-986-6021 or
Chad Eaton @ 1 800-Go-Camel ext. 201
27 - 29 Trade Days Festival, Old Trade School grounds, Trade, TN.
Info: Jerry 229-787-5180 www.NativeWayProductions.com
or email nativeway@mindspring.com
28-29 15th annual 'Keeping the Tradition' Pow Wow, sponsored by the
Miami Valley Council for Native Americans. Blue Jacket Outdoor Drama,
approximately 5 miles east of Xenia, OH.
For more info, e-mail us at TMVCNA89@aol.com, or call (937) 275-8599.
JULY 2003
3-5 Trail of Tears Drama. Cherokee Heritage Center, Tahlequah, OK.
Info: (918) 456-1995. www.cherokeeheritage.org
3-6 4th Annual July Celebration. Powwow Road, Arlee, NT.
Info: (406) 745-4984
3-6 Northern Cheyenne Powwow. Powwow Grounds, Lame Deer, MT.
Info: (406) 477-6284
3-6 Oneida Powwow. Norbert Hill Center, Oneida, WI. Info: (800) 236-2214
4 Bear Soldier Powwow. Bear Soldier District, McLaughlin, SD.
Info: (701) 854-7202.
4-6 Traditional Chippewa Powwow. Skunk Road Powwow Grounds,
Sault Ste Mari, MI. Info: (906) 632-6280
July 4th Weekend - Quapaw Powwow. Beaver Springs Park, Quapaw, OK.
Info: (918) 542-1853
July 4th Weekend - Leech Lake Powwow. Memorial Grounds, Cass Lake, MN.
Info: (218) 335-8289.
4-6 Calico Dancers Good Time Powwow. Harry J. Betar Jr. Recreational Park,
South Glens Falls, NY. Info: (518) 793-1693
4-6 Mashpee Wampanoag Powwow. Mashpee Wampanoag Indian Tribal Council,
Tribal Lands, Mashpee, MA. Info: (508) 477-0208
4-6 Toppenish Powwow & Rodeo. Rodeo Grounds, Toppenish, WA.
Info: (509) 865-7588
4-6 9th Annual Woldhorse Powwow. Wildhorse Resort & Casino, Pendleton, OR.
Info: 541-1510.
5-6 Sussex County Powwow. Sussex County Fairgrounds, Augusta, NJ
11-13 First Annual Medicine Eagle Gathering of the People Powwow. Rank
Park, Keokuk, Iowa. Info: Dee Hagmeier, Pow wow Director (319) 526-3846
or (319)463-7367.
11-13 Honor all Children Pow-wow. Negaunee Michigan (old airport grounds
off of US 41). Info: CathyMorningLight Woman at Cathymorninglite@yahoo.com
11-13 FirstAnnual "Medicine Eagle" Gathering of the People Powwow. Rand
Park, Keokuk, IA. Info: (319) 526-3846 or (319) 463-7367
11-13 5th Annual Circle of Nations "Pauline R. Hunt" Powwow. Flushing
Meadows-Corona Park Lake, Queens, NY. Info: (516) 292-9447.
redballer76@yahoo.com
12-13 Gathering of The People sponsored by United Cherokee of Ohio, Inc.
Preble County Fairgrounds, Eaton, OH.
Info: Chief Laughing Bear Lawson two_bears45005@yahoo.com
18-20 The Lenape/Renape Wampanoo Confederacy Powwow. The Ancoda Farm,
Tuckachawan, CT. Info: (860) 450-1587
18-20 45th Annual Little Beaver Celebration Powwow. Dulce, NM.
Info:(505) 759-4322
18-20 Nevada Indian Days Pow Wow. Fallon, Nevada (located 1 hour east of
Reno, NV). Info: Fran Tohannie 775-427-2014 or ftohannie@hotmail.com
18-20 White Buffalo Society Pow Wow. The Gaston Fairgrounds in Indiana
for information contact mohrman@wesnet.com
18-20 Tamkaliks Celebration. Wallowa Band nez Perce Trail, Wallowa, OR.
Info: (541) 886-3101
18-20 Corn Creek Annual Traditional Powwow. Corn Creek, SD.
Info: (605) 747-2381
18-20 Mandaree Celebration & Powwow. Powwow Grounds. Info: (701) 759-3311.
18-27 Cheyenne Frontier Days. Frontier Park, Cheyenne, WY.
Info: (800) 227-6336. www.cfdrodeo.com
AUGUST 2003
1-3 Fort Randall Traditional Wacipi. Powwow Grounds, Lake Andes, SD.
Info: (605) 384-3641.
1-3 Menominee Nation Contest Powwow. Woodland Bowl Powwow Grounds,
Keshena, WI. Info: (715) 799-5645
1-3 19th Annual Little Elk's Retreat Powwow. Saginaw Chippewa
Campgrounds, Mt. Pleasant, MI. Info: (989) 775-4072
1-3 Peigan Nation Celebration Powwow. Powwow Grounds, Brocket, AB, Canada.
Info: (403) 965-3940
1-3 Lake of the Eagles Traditional Powwow. Eagle Lake First Nation,
Ontario, Canada. Info: (807) 755-5526
1-3 Oklahoma Indian Powwow. Concho, OK. Info: (405) 262-0345
2-3 American Powwow. Indian Hall Grounds, Kingston, RI.
Info: (401) 732-0621
3-4 Saco River Intertribal Powwow. Hussey Field, North Conway, NH.
Info: (603) 356-9075
6-10 82nd Intertribal Indian Ceremonial. Red Rock State Park, Gallup, NM.
Info: (505) 863-3698
7-9 Trail of Tears Drama. Chereokee Heritage Center, Tahlequah, OK.
Info: (918) 456-1995
7-10 Shoshone Bannock Powwow. Fort Hall, ID. Info: (208) 238-3700
7-10 Meskwaki Indian Pwwow. Tama, IA. Info: (641) 484-5366
7-11 Gallup Intertribal Indian Ceremonial. Gallup, NM.
Info: (800) 233-4528
8-9 Parmelee Community Traditional Wacipi. Powoww Grounds, Parmelee, SD.
Info: ((605) 856-2538
8-10 26th Annual IICOT Powwow of Champions. Tulsa State Fairgrounds,
Expo Bldg., Tulsa, OK. Info: (918) 836-1523 www.iicot.org
9-10 22nd Annual Paumanauke Powwow. Tanner Park, Copiague, Long Island.
Info: (631) 661-7558
9-10 Triangle Native American Society (TNAS) Powwow. Dorton Arena @ NC
State Fairgrounds, Raleigh, NC. Info: sandonlee@earthlink.net;
(919) 225-7751; vendors: 4locks@bellsouth.net
16-17 Thunder Mountain Lenape Nation 5th Annual Native American Festival.
10 a.m. to 6 p.m, Location: Avonmore, PA. Info: 724-459-5276,
thundermountain@questpublish.com or visit: www.questpublish.com
16-17 Mohegan Wigwam Pow wow. Fort Shantok Uncasville, CT.
info 1-800-MOHEGAN ext 6277
18-20 World Summit of Indigenous Entrepreneurs - The first ever World
Summit of Indigenous Entrepreneurs (WSIE) - in honour of the United
Nations Decade of the World's Indigenous People, will be held at the BMO
Financial Group Institute for Learning in Toronto, Canada. There will be
entrepreneurs representing over 40 countries.
Info: http://wsie.wtuglobal.org/intro.php.
or contact Ms. Dana Snell at 416-736-5646
22-23 3rd Annual Spirit of The North Celebration. Shooting Star Casino &
Event Center, Mahnomen, MN.
Info: Thomas Mason (218)846-0957 ortmas34@hotmail.com
22-24 6th Annual Rapid River Anishinabeg Traditional Pow-Wow. Rapid River
MI - Upper Peninsula, 8 miles north of Rapid River in the Hiawatha
National Forest. Spiritual conference on Friday. Free Admission.
Info: (906) 235-1812 or (734) 623-0686
22-24 5th Annual West Valley City Native American Assn. Inc., Festival
and Contest Pow Wow. Cultural Celebration Center, 1350 West 3300 South.
West Valley City, Utah. Info: Harry James Sr. (801) 973-2078;
Vendor: Chrishel James, (801) 973-2078
26-28 12th Annual American Indian Council Spring Traditional Powwow.
Boone County 4-H Grounds, Community Bldg.,Lebanon, IN.
Info: (765) 482-3315.
29-31 22nd Annual Stockton Community Labor Day Weekend PowWow. Webster
Middle School Field, Stockton, CA. Info: (209)953-4803 FAX: (209)953-4261;
clydehodge@earthlink.net or www.geocities.com/nativeteacher
29- 30 33rd Annual LIHA Powwow, on the Dulac Land Trust, "Home of LIHA",
Sanbornton, NH. Info: (603) 934-4537 or tipihill@yahoo.com
30-31 43rd Annual Tecumseh Lodge Powwow, Tipton, Indiana
30-31 12th Annual Sounds of Thunder Mountain Contest Pow Wow.
Kaibab Indian Reservation, Pipe Spring, AZ.
Info: (928) 643-7245 or cbulletts74@yahoo.com
Aug30-Sept.1,2003 at the Heimat Haus 4555 Jackson Pike St.Rt.104 Grove
City,Ohio. Sponsored by the Native American Indian Center Of Central Ohio
PO Box 07705 Columbus,Ohio 43207-0705 (614) 443-6120 naicco@aol.com
SEPTEMBER 2003
5-7 First Annual Contest Powwow sponsored by the Eastern Missouri All
Nations American Indian Council. Woodson Terrace City Park, Woodson
Terrace, MO. Info: pawneewarrior@hotmail.com or call 636-978-8732.
6-7 13th Annual Powwow, Keepers of the Circle. 1180 Main St, Rotterdam
Junction, NY 12150. Info: ckeepers@aol.com
11-13 DRUMS ON THE POCOMOKE Native American Festival and Pow Wow.
Cypress Park, Pocomoke, MD. Info: Gail Fox (757)331-2188
midnightstar002@msn.com
Diane Baldwin (757)824-3060 firewolf@intercom.net
Trudy Smack (302)732-9350 pokey9350@aol.com
13 Cannes Brulee Native American Village Powwow. 10am-6pm. Kenner's
Rivertown, Kenner, LA. Info: (504) 468-7231 ext 220
13-14 9th Annual Precious Sunset Powwow. Recreation Point, Bass Lake, CA.
Info: (559) 855-2705
13-14 11th Annual Four Winds Powwow. Killeen Special Events Center,
Killeen/Ft. Hood, Tx. Info: Four Winds - Box 10035 -
Killeen, Texas 76547-0035 (254) 618-5132 - e-mail fourwinds@seacove.net.
Web site www.fourwindstx.org
17-20 First Annual Miss Indian Rodeo America Pageant. Oklahoma City OK,
CDIB card required. www. rodeobest.com/aipc Email Contact: National
Director, Deborah Robertson rodeobest@aol.com
19-21 2nd Annual Crystal Valley Native American Pow-Wow. Romney, WV.
Info: www.crystalvalleypowwow.com
20-21 FDR PowWow, FDR State Park, Westchester, NY.
27-28 10th Annual Hart of the West Intertribal Pow Wow. William S. Hart
Park & Museum, Newhall, California. Info: (661)255-9295,
email: rmschultz@mindspring.com
27-28 Gathering of the People Powwow. Vigo Conservation Club,
Terre Haute, IN. Info: (812) 694-8745
27-28, 2003: Mt. Juliet Powwow. Mt. Juliet Horse Arena Mt. Juliet, TN.
Info: (615) 443-1537.
27-28 10th Anniversary Native American Foundation Inter-Tribal Powwow.
Waimea Ballfield, Waimea, Hawaii. Info: email:waimeapowwow@yahoo.com
OCTOBER 2003
4 11th Annual Nemki Friendship Pow-Wow. 2003 at the the Batavia Middle
School, 1501 S Raddant Rd, Batavia, IL 60510. Info: (815)667-4976
or Jeff Glaser (630)879-0117.
4-5 6TH Annual Choerkee Nation of New Jersey Powwow. 40th Street Park,
Irvington, NJ. Info: (973) 351-1210.
4-5 First Outdoor Powwow in Perrysburg, Ohio,
"They Walked Here Before Us - A Woodland Indian Celebration".
Buttonwood Park, Perrysburg, OH. Info: (419) 874-9378
or perrysburgpowwow@hotmail.com
24-26 Southeastern Intertribal Powwow. Friendly City Park/EB Hamilton
Complex, Tifton, GA (I-75 @ 2nd Street, exit 63A & west 2 miles).
Info: Jerry 229-787-5180 www.NativeWayProductions.com
or email nativeway@mindspring.com
NOVEMBER 2003
1-2 First Annual Native American Indian Gathering 2003 sponsored by The
Four Bay Winds. The Lockhouse, Havre de Grace, MD.Traders by invitation
only. Info: Amy Paul (Blessing Bird) 410-942-0542
14-16 Tullahoma Intertribal Powwow. South Jackson Civic Center grounds,
Tullahoma, TN. Info Jerry 229-787-5180 www.NativeWayProductions.com
or email nativeway@mindspring.com
15 Third Annual Cherokee Youth Center Pow Wow. Cherokee Youth Center,
Cherokee, NC.
Info: Helen Martin (828) 497-3119, or email: singerdad@GONmail.com.
JANUARY 2004
Dec 31-Jan 11 Thunder in the Desert. 10,000 years of culture,
150 tribal nations, 13 days, 1 location - Rillito Raceway Park,
Tucson, AZ. Info. www.usaindianinfo.org or call (520) 622-4900
MARCH 2004
5-7 Middle Tennessee State University 5th American Indian Festival,
Tennessee Livestock Center, Murfreesboro, TN -
Website:http://www.mtsu.edu/~powwow email: powwow@mtsu.edu
phone: 615-898-2872. All dancers welcome. All drums welcome.
Venders by invitation only.
2003 Powwows in the United Kingdom
JULY 13th / 14th BUFFALO FARM
BUSH FARM, WEST KNOYLE, WILTSHIRE 01747 830263
AUGUST 16th.WATTLEHURST FARM, A24, DORKING ROAD, KINGSFOLD,
WEST SUSSEX 01322 386423 01322 386423
NOVEMBER 8th NORTHAMPTON CLIFTONVILLE MIDDLE SCHOOL,
CLIFTONVILLE ROAD NORTHAMPTION 01604 414155
DECEMBER 6th MILTON KEYNES KINGSTHORPE MIDDLE SCHOOL,
NORTHFIELD WAY, NORTHAMPTON 01752 845092
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