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Gary Night Owl
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As historian Patricia Nelson Limerick summarized in The Legacy of Conquest:
The Unbroken Past of the American West,
"Set the blood quantum at one-quarter, hold to it as a rigid definition
of Indians, let intermarriage proceed as it had for centuries, and
eventually Indians will be defined out of existence. When that happens,
the federal government will be freed of its persistent 'Indian problem.'"
My thanks to "John GrosVenor" <johng@televar.com> for this week's quote.
Mailing List: 1000 Tipis <1000Tipis@yahoogroups.com
Where we live, on the Colville Confederated Tribes reservation, there are
the original People, the Sanpoil and the Nespelem.
"With much anger and not a little irony, a SANPOIL spokesman declaimed
that his People did not want their Men 'to be branded or driven like cattle
from where they were born'. 'This country is ours and instead of the whites
giving it to us, we have given to them what they now occupy' "
"I want you to know if I thought the President was God Almighty that he
should make a reservation for us. Our God has given us the land we live on,
the laws we live under, He made all men equal, so that they could think for
themselves. We do not want the Whites to think for us. "
"We can think for ourselves. We do NOT want anything to do with your
President or any of his agents. Quillenstuten [GOD] is our Agent and is all
the One we want, and all the One we will listen to. We will NOT obey the
laws of the United States"
Chief Komotalakia --June 27, 1872
Sanpoil
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| Indian Pledge of Allegiance | The Indian Pledge of Alleg-
| | iance was first presented
| I pledge allegiance to my Tribe,| on 2 December '93 during the
| to the democratic principles | opening address of the Nat-
| of the Republic | ional Congress of American
| and to the individual freedoms | Indian Tribal-States Relat-
| borrowed from the Iroquois and | ions Panel in Reno, NV. NCAI
| Choctaw Confederacies, | plans distribution of the
| as incorporated in the United | Indian Pledge to all Indian
| States Constitution, | Nations.
| so that my forefathers |
| shall not have died in vain | Walk in Beauty! Night Owl
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| Journey | In the summer and early fall
| The Bloodline | of 1998 the Treaty Unity Riders
| | rode a thousand miles on horse-
| For all that live and live by law | back, carrying a staff and
| We Stand, we Call, We Ride | praying each step of the way.
| For All that fear and fear by sight |
| We Hear, we Listen, we Ride | These prayers were offered for
| For all that pray and pray by strength| each of us, and that the Unity
| We Feel, we Move, we Ride | of all Peoples might happen.
| For all that die and die by greed |
| We Hurt, we Cry, we Ride | Tatanka Cante forwarded this
| For all that birth and birth by right | poem on behalf of all the Unity
| We Smile, we Hold, we Ride | Riders that we might stop and
| For all that need and need by heart | ask if the next words we say, the
| We Came, we Went, we Rode. | next act we make is for the good
| | of the People or is it from ego
| Treaty Unity Riders | for self.
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O'siyo Brothers and Sisters!
Please forgive me for sharing a personal experience, but understand
sometimes we need to remind each other we can't outgive Creator.
My half-side, Janet, and I have the honor of helping our brothers
locked up in USP Atlanta.
They need to rebuild their sweatlodge and every place I looked for
willow I was coming up empty. This week I was going to appeal for
help in this same editorial space.
In fact, I had written the piece and was praying it would be read
by someone who could help, when the phone rang. It was a friend
asking if I could emcee an upcoming powwow. It falls on a date we
have already committed to support the brothers in USP Atlanta as they
observe the summer solstice. Janet told him so, and we asked if he
knew of a source of willow. He called another friend nearby who had
the needed willow.
Don't try to tell me this was anything but a response to the prayers
for help for these brothers who cannot go find enough willow themselves.
Again, please forgive me for taking your time to share a personal
moment; but I honestly cannot think of a better use for this space at
this moment.
Dohiyi Ani Oginalii
, , Gary Night Owl gars@nanews.org
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----------- News of the people featured in this issue ----------
- Former Red Lake Tribal Chairman - Civil Rights violated
Roger Jourdain in Miller Case
- Two die/ - Three accused of firing
Tribal Official hurt in Crash at BIA Officer
- Crossings - Thieves loot Indian Graves
- Tribal Elder's Widow - RCMP kept Secret Red Power File
faces Financial Hardship - Peltier Campaign Update
- Tribes push action on Sacred Sites - Native Prisoner
- House Committee hears -- Assistance for USP Atwater
Testimony on Native Trust -- Death Row Inmate in need
- Federal Judge okays of Religious Information
South Dakota Land Transfer - History: Carlisle Indian School
- Owner stalls Sand Creek - Rustywire:
Historic Site There was this one Hitchiker
- American Indian History - Poem: Dirt
comes Home from Europe - Verse: Hawaiian Book of Days
- Tribe votes down Akwesasne Name - Bushyhead's Stories
- Klamath Tribes may get Land Back introduce Cherokee Words
- Scrap Archaic Indian Act - Creek Nation aims
- Native Logging Case to Revive Languages
to be Appealed - Dreaming a Language Back to Life
- B.C. Supreme Court rejects - Native America Calling
Claim of Priest Abuse - Upcoming Events
--------- "RE: Former Red Lake Tribal Chairman Roger Jourdain" ---------
Date: Sat, 23 Mar 2002 10:18:46 -0600
From: Gary Smith <gars@Speakeasy.org>
Subj: NA News Item
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http://www.owlstar.com/dailyheadlines.htm
http://www.twincities.com/mld/pioneerpress/2915751.htm
Former Red Lake tribal chairman Roger Jourdain dies
BY KERMIT PATTISON
PIONEER PRESS
Fri, Mar. 22, 2002
Roger Jourdain
Roger Jourdain, who served more than 30 years as tribal chairman of the
Red Lake Band of Chippewa and became an influential leader in national
affairs, has died. He was 89.
"He was an extraordinary person," said Bill Lawrence, owner and editor
of the Native American Press/Ojibwe News. "He was extremely intelligent.
He had a very keen mind. He remembered details and historical events. He
was kind of a living history book of the reservation."
Upon word of his death today, the Minnesota House of Representatives
recognized Jourdain's contributions with a moment of silence.
In 1959, Jourdain was elected the first tribal chairman in Red Lake
after the previous government of hereditary chiefs was replaced by a
constitutional one. He remained in office 31 years.
Jourdain became an influential voice in Indian affairs. He served as a
delegate to the Democratic National Convention and often traveled to
Washington, D.C., to lobby bureaucrats and elected leaders. In 1986, he
was named Indian Man of the Year by the American Indian Heritage
Foundation.
Closer to home, however, his leadership increasingly faced challenges.
Critics said he had grown too authoritarian and secretive. Jourdain
frequently held council meetings in executive session and did not keep
minutes. In 1979, a riot broke out on the reservation and Jourdain's home
was burned. He moved off the reservation and resettled in Bemidji,
although he continued to serve as chairman.
In 1990, he faced a challenge from Gerald "Butch" Brun, a former logger
and tribal council member who had supported Jourdain in every previous
election. Brun won by 136 votes.
Jourdain later filed a legal challenge, claiming voting irregularities
and asking for a new election. The tribal court chief judge ruled against
Jourdain, however, saying he could not be a bona fide candidate because he
was no longer a resident of the reservation.
Lawrence, Jourdain's godson, became a political foe during the latter
part of his tenure. After Jourdain left office, however, the two men
reconciled and Lawrence said he developed a new respect for the man he had
helped drive from office.
"His intentions were for the benefit of the reservation," said Lawrence.
"Maybe some of the means I disagreed with at the time, but a lot of people
have come to respect what he accomplished."
Copyright c. 2002 St. Paul Pioneer Press.
--------- "RE: Two die/Tribal Official hurt in Crash" ---------
Date: Mon, 25 Mar 2002 08:38:22 -0600
From: Gary Smith <gars@Speakeasy.org>
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http://www.tucsoncitizen.com/local/3_23_02tohono_crash.html
2 die, tribal official hurt in O'odham reservation crash
DAVID L. TEIBEL
Tucson Citizen
March 23, 2002
Two people were killed Thursday in a six-car collision about five miles
east of Sells that critically injured a Tohono O'odham judge, tribal
authorities said.
The tribe is not releasing the names of the dead, two men who are
members of the Tohono O'odham Nation, said Alexandra Terry, executive
assistant to tribal Chairman Edward D. Manuel.
Tribal Deputy Chief Justice Betsy Norris was critically injured in the
crash, Terry said. Norris is expected to recover, Terry said.
The collision happened on the Ajo Highway about 9:30 p.m. when a
westbound vehicle hit a cow in the road, Terry said. The preliminary
investigation shows the second and third vehicles, also heading west,
plowed into the first vehicle, Terry said. A fourth vehicle swerved to
avoid the collision and collided head-on with Norris' car, she said.
Investigators believe the sixth car had been eastbound behind Norris and
that it rear-ended the judge's car, Terry said.
All of the injured were taken to hospitals. Terry said the tribe would
not identify any of the injured, except Norris.
In a written statement, Manuel called the collision "a tragic accident
and we are in a state of shock over losing two of our members."
The collision was the second fatal wreck along the Ajo Highway near
Sells this week.
On Tuesday, former Tucson City Councilman Ruben Romero was killed in a
one-car rollover that injured his wife and two other women.
Copyright c. 2002 Tucson Citizen.
--------- "RE: Crossings" ---------
Date: Mon, 25 Mar 2002 08:58:09 -0600
From: Gary Smith <gars@Speakeasy.org>
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March 20, 2002
Wanda Grace Yellow Boy
PINE RIDGE - Wanda Grace Yellow Boy, 37, Pine Ridge, died Saturday,
March 16, 2002, in Rapid City.
Survivors include two daughters, Cari Black Elk and Codi Black Elk, both
of Rapid City; her mother, Abigail Yellow Boy, Pine Ridge; three sons,
Dawson Black Elk Jr., Pine Ridge, Dustin Black Elk, Rushville, Neb., and
Lloyd Yellow Boy, Rapid City; four sisters, Roberta Yellow Boy, Allen,
April Adams, Martin, and Roxanne Holy Dance and Helen Holy Dance, both of
Slim Buttes; and four brothers, Russell Running Hawk, Kyle, Lawrence
Running Hawk and Alex Running Hawk, both of Pine Ridge, and Robert Yellow
Boy, Porcupine.
A two-night wake will begin at 3 p.m. today at Billy Mills Hall in Pine
Ridge.
Services will be at 2 p.m. Friday, March 22, at Billy Mills Hall, with
the Rev. Darrell New and the Rev. Abraham Tobacco officiating.
Burial will be at Body of Christ Cemetery in Pine Ridge.
Sioux Funeral Home of Pine Ridge is in charge of arrangements.
Robert John Brown
OGLALA - Robert John Brown, 19, Oglala, died Saturday, March 16, 2002,
in Pine Ridge.
Survivors include three sisters, Theresa Price, Pine Ridge, and Diana
Eagle Hawk and Magdalena Rojas-Riviera, both of Oglala, and three brothers,
Lambert Eagle Hawk and Evans Brown, both of Oglala, and Chauncey Brown Jr.,
Manderson.
A one-night wake will begin at 1 p.m. Thursday, March 21, at Oglala
Recreation Center.
Services will be at 10 a.m. Friday, March 22, at the recreation center,
with the Rev. Asa Wilson officiating.
Burial will be at Makasan Presbyterian Cemetery in Oglala.
Sioux Funeral Home of Pine Ridge is in charge of arrangements.
March 22, 2002
Eldon Ray 'Sugar Ray' Marshall Jr.
POTATO CREEK - Eldon Ray "Sugar Ray" Marshall Jr., 22, Potato Creek,
died
Tuesday, March 19, 2002, in Badlands National Park.
Survivors include his parents, Andrea Marshall, Wall, and Eldon Marshall
Sr., Allen; two sisters, Kay Bull Bear, Rapid City, and Yvonne Bull Bear,
Wall; and one brother, Meltino Bull Bear, Kyle.
A two-night wake will begin at 11:30 a.m. Sunday,
March 24, at St. Henry's Catholic Hall in Potato Creek.
Services will be at 10 a.m. Tuesday, March 26, at the hall, with the Rev.
Daniel Makes Good and the Rev. Cordelia Red Owl officiating.
Burial will be at St. Timothy's Episcopal Cemetery in Potato Creek.
Sioux Funeral Home of Pine Ridge is in charge of arrangements.
Copyright c. 2002 The Rapid City Journal.
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March 20, 2002
Stacy Ann Cortier
Stacy Ann Cortier, 27, of Dupree, SD entered the spirit world Wednesday,
March 6, 2002 at her home in Dupree, SD.
Funeral services were held March 15, 2002 at the Red Scaffold gymnasium
in Red Scaffold, SD with Fr. Anthony Kluckman, SCJ and Deacon Ted Knife,
Sr. officiating. Burial was in the Sacred Heart Catholic Cemetery in Red
Scaffold, SD under the direction of the Luce Funeral Home of Eagle Butte,
SD. Lakota traditional services were performed by Romanus Bear Stops and
Vernell Sitting Crow. Wake services were Thursday evening at the gym in
Red Scaffold.
Stacy Ann Cortier was born to Estrelita Mexican and Charles Cortier on
January 15, 1975 at the PHS Indian Hospital, Pine Ridge, SD. Stacy lived
her early life at Porcupine, SD with her parents and grandparents, Mabel
and Charles Mexican.
Stacy attended school at Cherry Creek, Red Scaffold, Pierre Indian
Learning Center, Job Corp at Utah and graduated from Takini High School on
May 26, 1996. While at Job Corp, in Utah, she married Lyndell Poleviyaoma
at Ute Indian Reservation on March 13, 1994. This marriage ended in
December, 1997. On June 26, 2000 she entered a blessed commitment with
Wade Jefferies through a Lakota Ceremony at the Bear Stops' Sun Dance.
Stacy knew her Lakota heritage and was learning the Lakota woicun
through her relatives at a very young age and was very respectful of the
ways. Tiospaye and kinship were very important in her life and she loved
to tell stories and play sports with her many nieces, nephews, and cousins.
One of her interest was bingo. She would come all the way from Pierre to
Red Scaffold to pick up her grandfather and take him to bingo.
Stacy will be remembered by her positive outlook, her happiness in life
and her caring ways. She liked to keep people happy by her laughter, jokes
and her keen sense of humor.
Stacy was very good with children and she raised her nephew, Jacob
Mexican, who was the center of her life. She is survived by her mother,
Estrelita Mexican Hoffman; brother, Christopher Mexican; special nephew,
Jacob Mexican, all of Pierre; special aunt, Veronica Holy of Howes, SD;
hunka sister, Michelle His Law, and adopted father, Vern Neshiem both of
Pierre; aunts, uncles cousins, nieces and nephews and grandfathers.
She was preceded in death by her father, Charles Cortier; grandparents,
Mabel and Charles Mexican, and Pearl and George Cortier; and a special
uncle, Marvin Holy.
She was loved and will be greatly missed by all her relatives and
friends.
Alex LeBeau
Alex LeBeau, 60, of Newell, SD passed away Tuesday, March 5, 2002 near
Sturgis, SD.
Funeral services were held Friday, March 15, 2002 at the HV Johnston
Cultural Center in Eagle Butte, SD with Rev. Norman Blue Coat and Chaplain
Tony Garter officiating. Burial was at the Black Hills National Cemetery
with military honors under the direction of the Luce Funeral Home of Eagle
Butte.
Alex LeBeau was born October 8, 1941 to Robert and Ida (Hates Him)
LeBeau. He grew up along the mouth of the Moreau River and attended St.
Joseph's Indian School, the Old Agency and Cheyenne-Eagle Butte School. He
graduated in 1960. He was in the C-EB band and played the drums and he was
also in the basketball Letterman's B's Club.
He joined the Army in 1960 and returned with an honorable discharge. He
traveled throughout the United States and visited many people and worked
as a carpenter most of his life. His nickname was "Tom Cat." He married
Elissie Kennedy and had two daughters, Patricia and April LeBeau. While
living in New Mexico he helped create Unci Maka Farms. He continued his
love of gardening and respect for Grandmother Earth all his life.
Alex was known throughout his life as an advocate for protecting
Grandmother Earth and lived to respect her. He loved the South Dakota
prairies, the Moreau River, and wildlife. He cherished his dream of
replenishing Earth by planting gardens and trees every spring wherever he
lived.
He always spoke of how wonderful and beautiful it was living on the
Moreau River before the Oahe Dam was built. He spoke of the hardship he
and his family suffered when they were forced to relocate. He also
participated in many Lakota activities. Last year he went on the Big Foot
Ride.
Alex is survived by four brothers, Sam LeBeau, Titus Stands, Jacob
Stands, and Richard Stands; two daughters, Patricia and April LeBeau; and
numerous nieces, nephews, grandchildren and cousins.
He was preceded in death by his father and mother, Robert and Ida (Hates
Him) LeBeau, and four brothers, Robert LeBeau, Clayton LeBeau, Paul Stands,
and Alvin LeBeau.
Casketbearers were Bob Pearman, Destry Iron Hawk, Garret Medicine,
Warren Ducheneaux, Russell "Rusty" Pearman, Hap Marshall, Wayne Lovelette,
and Gregg Baker.
Honorary casketbearers were Arienna Frakes, John LeBeau, Todd LeBeau,
Shannon Baker, Winona Medicine, Samual Buffalo, Alyce LaMott, Kendra
Buffalo, Earl Marcelle, Lena LeBeau, Archie LeBeau, Gilbert LeBeau, Fain
LeBeau, Jewel Bruner, Francine LeBeau Iron Wing, Colette LeBeau Iron Hawk,
Owen Ducheneaux, Curtis Frazier, Phillip Arrow Top Knot, Patrick Kennedy,
Sr., James Buffalo, Thomas Harwood, Trevor Harwood, Cassimir LeBeau,
Sullivan LeBeau, Marcella LeBeau, CR Lakota Akicita, Maynard Pretty Bear,
Seborne Iron Hawk, Lillian LeBeau Chase, and all friends and relatives.
Copyright c. 2002 ebnews.net/Eagle Butte, SD.
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March 19, 2002
Michael Wynn Morgan
RED ROCK - Services for Michael Morgan, 21, will be held at 10 a.m.,
Wednesday, March 20 at Sacred Heart Cathedral. Bishop Donald E. Pelotte,
SSS will officiate.
Morgan died March 17 in Albuquerque. He was born Oct. 5, 1980 in Gallup
into the Folded Arms People Clan for the Towering House People Clan.
Morgan graduated from Gallup High School and attended the University of
New Mexico-Gallup. He was a member of the Unity Club at Gallup High School.
His hobbies included arts and crafts and being involved with native songs
and dances.
Survivors included his parents, Ray Morgan Sr. and Ella Roanhorse Morgan
both of Red Rock; brothers, Red Morgan and Lynn D. Ornelas both of Red
Rock and grandfather, Johnnie Morgan of Red Rock.
Morgan was preceded in death by his brother, Jerry L. Harrison and
grandparents, Nasbah Morgan, Ambrose Roanhorse and Garnet Roanhorse.
Pallbearers will be friends and family members.
Rollie Mortuary is in charge of arrangements.
Rayland Ray Platero
GANADO, Ariz. Services for Rayland Platero, 19, will be held at 10 a.m,
Wednesday, March 20 at the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter Day Saints,
Grants. Pastor Melvin Harrold will officiate. Burial will follow at Grants
Memorial Park.
Platero died March 13 in Tucson, Ariz. He was born Jan. 26, 1983 in
Gallup into the Chiracahua Apache People for the Edgewater People Clan.
Platero graduated from Ganado High School. His hobbies included being
outdoors, music, DJ-ing, traveling, learning the Navajo language, comedy,
athletics and working with computers.
Survivors include his parents, Gloria Platero of Ganado and Juneray
Tsinnie of Window Rock and brother, Rydell Platero of Ganado.
Platero was preceded in death by her grandparents, Mary Martinez Platero
and Riley Platero.
Pallbearers will be Jason Platero, Travis Platero, Noel Jubin Johnson,
Jesse Desiderio, Matthew Gorman and Jeremy Bia.
The family will receive friends and relatives after the burial services
at the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter Day Saints.
Cope Memorial Chapel is in charge of arrangements.
March 20, 2002
Marklin Joe John
TWIN BUTTES - Services for Marklin John, 23, will be held at 10 a.m.,
Thursday, March 21 at Dine' Bible Methodist Mission. Rev. Don Phoebus will
officiate. Burial will follow at Gallup City Cemetery.
John died March 17, in Gallup. He was born Nov. 15, 1978 in Gallup into
the Black Streak Wood People Clan for the Meadow People Clan.
John attended Wingate Elementary School and Dine' Mission. He was
employed with Blue Beacon, Super Car Wash and worked in Farmington,
Espanola, Cortez and Albuquerque. His hobbies included working with horses,
working on vehicles, playing basketball and herding sheep.
Survivors include his parents, Betty Jack and Joe John of Twin Buttes;
brothers, Marvin Jack, Jonathan Jack and Albert John all of Twin Buttes;
sisters, Lola Yazzie of Spencer Valley, Isabelle John of Rehoboth, Lillian
Yazzie, Gwendolyn Spencer, Lucinda Jum and Josephine Jack all of Twin
Buttes.
John was preceded in death by his grandparents, Addie Jack and Billy
John Jack and brother, Robert John.
Pallbearers will be Marvin Jack, Albert John, John Weiss, Raymond Yazzie,
Jonathan Phoebus and Steve Miller.
Cope Memorial Chapel is in charge of arrangements.
Thomas K. Tsosie
KLAGETOH, Ariz. - Services for Thomas Tsosie, 52, will be held at 11 a.m.
Thursday, March 21 at St. Anne's Catholic Church, Klagetoh. Brother
Paul will officiate. Burial will follow at Community Cemetery, Klagetoh.
Tsosie died Feb. 19 in Klagetoh. He was born Aug. 23, 1949 in Ganado,
Ariz. into the Big Water People Clan for the Honey Comb People Clan.
Tsosie attended Intermountain Indian School. He was self-employed as a
rancher. He was a Vietam Veteran, 553d MPCO-Third U.S. Army. He was a
member of the Catholic Church and Native American Church. His hobbies
included being outdoors and watching sports on T.V.
Survivors include his sons, Jamie Benally of Phoenix, Thomason Tsosie
and Donovan Tsosie both of Klagetoh; daughters, Valerie Tsosie of Ft.
Defiance, Ariz., Janie Benally and Gina Benally both of Phoenix; mother,
Ruth K. Tsosie; brothers, Edward Tsosie of Greasewood, Ariz. and Daniel
Tsosie of Wide Ruins, Ariz.; sisters, Lena Holmes of Glendale, Ariz. and
Celia K. Lee of Fort Defiance, Ariz. and five grandchildren.
Tsosie was preceded in death by his father, Ben Tsosie; brother, William
K. Tsosie and sister, Marie K. Jim.
Pallbearers will be friends and family.
Tse Bonito Mortuary is in charge of arrangements.
March 21, 2002
John W. Redsteer
PHOENIX - Services for John Redsteer, 62, will be held at 10 a.m.,
Saturday, March 23 at the Black Falls Bible Church, Rock Stand, Ariz.
Burial will follow at the family cemetery, Naataanii.
Redsteer died March 17 in Phoenix. He was born Sept. 18, 1939 in
Sandsprings, Ariz. into the Many Goats People Clan for the Towering House
People Clan.
Redsteer attended Wingate High School and Fort Lewis College, Durango,
Colo. He joined the U.S. Army and served in Germany. He was a founding
member of the Curtis Huskon American Legion Post #112. He was a rancher
and former employee of Leupp Schools.
Survivors include his wife, Bessie M. Redsteer; sons, Wilford J.
Redsteer and Eugene W. Redsteer; daughter, Marvelle E. Redsteer; brothers,
Jack Redsteer, James Redsteer and Guy Redsteer; sister, Emily William and
seven grandchildren.
Eugene "Dink" Chicharello Jr.
SHEEPSPRINGS - Services for Eugene Chicharello Jr., 19, will be held at
11 a.m., Friday, March 22 at Cope Memorial Chapel. Asst. Pastor Ernest
Yazzie will officiate. Burial will follow at Gallup City Cemetery.
Chicharello Jr. died March 17 in Gallup. He was born July 13, 1982 in
Gallup into the Towering House People Clan for the Black Streak Wood
People Clan.
Chicharello Jr. attended Newcomb Elementary and High School. He was
employed with Blue Beacon Truck Wash as a bay attendent. His hobbies
included music, walking, putting together toy models and playing
basketball.
Survivors include his parents, Carolyn and Eugene Chicharello Sr. both
Sheepsprings; brothers, Earl Chicharello of Albuquerque and Erwin
Chicharello of Sheepsprings and grandparents, George Yazzie and Peggy
Chicharello.
Chicharello Jr. was preceded in death by his grandparents, Emma Watchman
Yazzie and James Chicharello Jr.
Pallbearers will be Wilfred Yazzie Sr., Edison Yazzie, Aldren
Chicharello, Christopher Jarvison, Derrick Ortiz and Ronrick Ortiz.
Cope Memorial Chapel is in charge of arrangements.
Ross Begay Sr.
CRYSTAL - Services for Ross Begay Sr., 81, will be held at 11 a.m.,
Friday, March 22 at the the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter Day Saints,
Crystal. Burial will follow on family land, Crystal.
Begay Sr. was born Jan. 15, 1921 in Crystal into the Edge Water People
Clan for the Red Streak Running into the Water People Clan.
Begay Sr. was a rancher. He was employed with Santa Fe Railroad, Navajo
Tribal Utility Authority and Navajo Forest Product Industry. He was vice
president of the Crystal Chapter, President of the Crystal Senior Citizen
Association, and an officer in the Native American Church. He earned his
Adult Education Certificate and feature in the book Enduring Cowboys.
Survivors include his sons, Toledo R. Begay, Franklin Begay, Christopher
Begay, Ross Begay Jr., John R. Begay, Richard M. Begay, Robert M. Begay,
Michael S. Begay and Daryl R. Begay; daughters, Theresa A. Kedelty,
Sharlynn Louise, Betty M. Roanhorse, Regina Begay, Patricia D. Begay,
Sharon A. Holyan and Rose M. Begay; brother, Alvin Begay; sister, Grace
Denetso; 45 grandchildren and 11 great-grandchildren.
Begay Sr. was preceded in death by daughters, Deanna Ruth Begay and
Rebecca J. Begay.
Pallbearers will Rose Begay Jr., Franklin Begay, John Ross Begay,
Richard M. Begay, Rodger Kee and Vernon Roanhorse. Tse Bonito Mortuary is
in charge of arrangements.
Newton Brown
SAWMILL, Ariz. - Services for Newton Brown, 89, will be held at 10 a.m.,
Saturday, March 23 at Our Lady of Blessed Scarement. Father Gilbert
Schneider O.F.M. will officiate. Burial will follow on family land,
Sawmill.
Visitation will be held one hour prior to services.
Brown died March 19 in Fort Defiance, Ariz. He was born July 4, 1912 in
Chinle, Ariz. into the Tangle People Clan for the Ute Division of the Red
Running Into the Water People Clan.
Brown was a tallyman and sheep rancher. His hobbies included watching
wrestling, watching the Dallas Cowboys and playing cards. He was a member
of the Native American Church.
Survivors include his sons, Paul Brown, Herbert Brown, Francis Brown and
Herman Brown; daughter, Lula M. Edison; brothers, Harry Brown and Robert
Brown; 60 grandchildren, 89 great-grandchildren and 18 great-great
grandchildren.
Brown was preceded in death by his parents, Mark and Mary Brown; wife,
Edna Brown; sons, Anslem Brown, David Brown and Norman Brown; daughters,
Susie Tallwood, Helena Fuson and Annie Marie Brown.
Pallbearers will be Marklin T. Edison, Aaron K. Edison, Dallas Brown,
Jethro Brown, Derrick Tallwood and Elmer Tallwood. The family will
receive friends and relatives after the burial services at Sawmill Chapter
House.
Tse Bonito Mortuary is in charge of arrangements.
March 22, 2002
Margaret L. Chicharello
COYOTE CANYON - Services for Margaret Chicharello, 56, will be held at
1 p.m., Saturday, March 23 at Cope Memorial Chapel. Burial will follow at
Sunset Memorial Park.
Chicharello died March 19 in Gallup. She was born April 17, 1945 in Fort
Defiance.
Chicharello graduated from Gallup High School, attended University of
Utah of Radiology School and University of New Mexico for Ultrasonographer.
She was employed as an X-ray Tech at Gallup Indian Medical Center.
Survivors include her sons, Ryan Chicharello of Fayetteville, N.C. and
Mario Chicharello of Coyote Canyon; daughter, Jaclyn Chicharello of Coyote
Canyon; and three grandchildren.
Chicharello was preceded in death by her husband Felix Chicharello Jr.
Pallbearers will be Mario Chicharello, Ryan Chicharello, Kris
Chicharello, Micheal Chicharello, Coby Garcia and Ace Garcia. The family
will receive friends and relatives after the burial services at Coyote
Canyon Chapter House.
Cope Memorial Chapel is in charge of arrangements.
Betty Yazzie Chee
COTTONWOOD, Ariz. - Services for Betty Chee, 78, will be held at 10 a.m.,
Saturday, March 23 at Black Mountain Mission. Pastor Frank James will
officiate. Burial will follow at Black Mountain Mission.
Chee died March 19 in Payson, Ariz. She was born Dec. 25 in Hardrock
Mission into the Red Bottom People Clan for the Salt People Clan.
Chee was a foster grandmother. She received many certificate awards.
Survivors include her husband, Wilson James Chee; sons, Danny Chee of
Springfield, Mo., Paul James and Fred James of Blue Canyon, Ariz.;
daughters, Marjorie Taylor of Cherokee, N.C., Earlinda Yazzie of Sanders,
Ariz. and Victoria Dixon of Yarmouth, Iowa; brothers, Henry James of Blue
Canyon and John James of Tolani Lake, Ariz.; sisters, Lucy Chase of
Hardrock Mission, Ariz. and Bessie Yazzie of Sanders; 13 grandchildren and
two great-grandchildren.
Chee was preceded in death by her parents and brother.
Copyright c. 2002 The Gallup Independent.
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March 19, 2002
Mildred Nina Heflin
Mildred Nina Heflin, 89, died at her home Thursday, March 14, 2002,
in Flagstaff, Ariz. She was born Jan. 31, 1913, in Farmington to OJ and
Jessie (Smith) Carson.
Mrs. Heflin grew up in Red Rock and Carson, N.M., on the Navajo
reservation. She graduated from Farmington High School and received a
teaching degree in 1933 from "Old" Fort Lewis A&M College at Hesperus,
Colo.
She and Reuben Heflin were married in 1937, and the couple operated
three different Indian trading posts between 1937 and 1966. Reuben built
the Wetherill Inn in 1965 and the Holiday Inn in Kayenta. Reuben Heflin
died in 1967 and Mrs. Heflin operated the Holiday Inn until 1972 when she
retired to Flagstaff.
With two of her children, she was part owner of two Burger King
restaurants until her death.
Mrs. Heflin enjoyed world travel, particularly visiting India. She loved
her family, gardening, archaeology, reading, animals and environmentalism.
She was a member of the Flagstaff Garden Club and Shakespeare Club, and a
volunteer for Northland Hospice.
Mrs. Heflin is survived by daughters, Edith Yogerst of Phoenix, Ariz.,
Nina Heflin of Kayenta and Sharon Heflin (Johnson) of Albuquerque; son,
Richard Mike of Kayenta; two grandchildren and four great-grandchildren.
She was preceded in death by husband, Reuben, her parents, and one
grandchild, Daniel Mike.
Services are at 11 a.m. today, Tuesday, at Flagstaff Mortuary Chapel,
with Pastor Bill Van Loan officiating.
Contributions may be made to the Arizona Humane Society or to any
hospice organization.
Arrangements are by Flagstaff Mortuary.
Jimmy Kee
Jimmy Kee "Na'hat'a'o'yil niiyah," 75, of Sweetwater, Ariz., died Sunday,
March 17, 2002, at the Maricopa County Hospital in Phoenix, Ariz. He was
born July 1, 1926, in Sweetwater.
He is survived by his mother, Mary A. Poyer of Sweetwater; four sons,
Dan Kee and wife, Lucy, of Sweetwater, Nelson Kee and wife, Juanita, of
Cortez, Colo., Jonas Kee of Grand Junction Colo., and Stanley Kee of
Sweetwater; three daughters, Daisy Kee, Sadie Kee, and Darlene Kee and
husband, Chavez Sagg, all of Sweetwater; three brothers, James Tom of
Immanuel Mission, Ariz., Ned Tom of Sweetwater, and John Tom of Red Mesa,
Ariz.; one sister, Jessie George of Sweetwater; 13 grandchildren, Vivian
Kee, Valencia Kee and husband, Roland Hoshnic, Belinda Topaha and husband,
Jimmy Topaha Jr., Brenda Jones and husband, Nathaniel Jones, Brian Kee,
Brena Kee, Ryan Kee, Darrell Kee, Donovan Kee, Darren Kee, Ashley Kee,
Chadley Sagg and Keenan Sagg; and five great-grandchildren, Christopher
Hoshnic, Cameron Hoshnic, Jamie Topaha, Jimone Topaha and Brendan Jones.
Visitation will be from 1 to 4 p.m. today, Wednesday, at Brewer, Lee and
Larkin Funeral Home in Shiprock.
Funeral services will be at 10 a.m. Thursday morning at Brewer, Lee and
Larkin Chapel in Shiprock. The Rev. Jack Nacki will officiate. Interment
will follow at To'Adin Cemetery in Sweetwater.
Pallbearers will be Darrell C. Kee, Donovan J. Kee, Chavez Sagg, Nelson
Kee, Jimmy Topaha Jr. and Bryan J. Kee. Honorary pallbearers will be Daisy
Kee, Stanley Kee, Chadley Sagg, Dan Kee, Jonas Kee, Keenan Sagg, Sadie Kee,
Darlene Kee, Valencia Kee, Christopher Hoshnic, Cameron Hoshnic, Roland
Hoshnic, Vivian Kee, Brena Kee, Brenda Jones, Nathaniel Jones, Brendan
Jones, Belinda Topaha, Jamie Topaha, Jimone Topaha, Ryan Kee, Darren Kee,
Lucy Kee, Juanita Kee, Ashley Kee, Mary Poyer, James Tom, John Tom and
Jessie George.
A reception will be held at Mary Poyer's residence after the graveside
services.
Funeral arrangements are with Brewer, Lee and Larkin Funeral Home in
Shiprock, (505) 368-4607.
March 22, 2002 - 1:18:01 AM MST
Billy Pinto
Billy Pinto, 69, of Bloomfield passed away Tuesday, March 19, 2002, in
Farmington. He was born March 12, 1933, in rural Counselor to Frank and
Asdzaa l Titsooi Pinto. He was a lifelong resident of Counselor.
He was preceded in death by his parents; one brother, Sam Lincoln Pinto;
and one grandchild.
Survivors include his wife, Mary H. Pinto of Counselor; two sons, John
Pinto and wife, Eleanor, Counselor, and Fred Pinto and wife, Rhoda, of
Bloomfield; one daughter, Rita Pinto Sandoval and husband, Anderson, of
Counselor; two brothers, Lincoln Pinto and Alfred Pinto, of Counselor;
half-brothers, Frankie Martinez of Fruitland and Myles Tso Harrison of
Counselor; 12 grandchildren and two great-grandchildren.
Funeral services will be at 1 p.m. today, Friday, March 22, at Living
Springs Baptist Church in Counselor. Pastor Tom Guerito will officiate.
Interment will follow at the family cemetery in Counselor.
Pallbearers will be Alonzo Harvey, Dixon Harvey, Calvin Pinto, Samuel
Pinto, Leslie Sam and Chester Beliditto. Alternates are Fred Pinto and
Alfred Harrison.
Arrangements are with Brewer, Lee & Larkin Funeral Home, 103 E. Ute St.
in Farmington, (505) 325-8688.
Copyright c. 1999-2002 MediaNews Group, Inc./Farmington Daily Times.
--------- "RE: Tribal Elder's Widow faces Financial Hardship" ---------
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Tribal elder's widow faces financial hardship
Posted: March 21, 2002 - 7:00AM EST
by: Kay Humphrey / Today Staff / Indian Country Today
EAGLE BUTTE, S.D. -- The widow of tribal elder Leonard Fiddler, whose
death on New Year's Eve or early New Year's Day aroused nationwide
indignation against the Indian Health Service, is suffering from financial
hardship because a death certificate hasn't been issued.
Marie Fiddler's husband, 66-year-old Leonard M. Fiddler of Green Grass,
S.D., a highly decorated Korean veteran and a descendent of Chief Big Foot,
died waiting for medical care.
Fiddler was known to nearly everyone on the reservation as a generous
man who often worked to preserve tribal culture and defend tribal treaties.
He suffered from a number of medical conditions including heart and kidney
problems as well as cancer. He had been taking medication for diabetes for
the past seven years, but it was only within the last year he began to
take daily insulin injections, Mrs. Fiddler said.
Family members believe he may have fallen into a diabetic coma on New
Year's Eve, but they are still uncertain about the time of his death.
Meanwhile, his wife can't draw his veteran's pension or social security
benefits without submitting a death certificate to the federal agencies.
Shirley Fiddler, the deceased tribal elder's stepdaughter, told a group
of tribal officials documenting IHS problems that the absence of the
income has been a severe hardship for her mother, who has no other income.
Recounting the events, Shirley Fiddler said her stepfather failed to
respond to his wife when she checked on him shortly after he finished
injecting his regular dose of insulin.
Mrs. Fiddler said in an earlier interview she noticed her husband hadn't
changed positions after laying down on the bed so she attempted to wake
him, but he didn't respond.
The elderly woman called police for assistance. An officer arrived and
attempted to resuscitate Fiddler, but the attempts to revive him ended
when an ambulance crew arrived.
Nearly two hours later, Mrs. Fiddler said, the ambulance workers placed
Mr. Fiddler, wrapped in a sheet, in the ambulance and drove away toward
the hospital, but a doctor at the IHS Hospital in Eagle Butte directed the
ambulance not to take Fiddler to the hospital.
According police reports, the doctor ordered the ambulance crew to take
him back to his residence or "throw him on the side of the road."
Shirley Fiddler of Green Grass said the family continues to be in debt
after the Veterans Administration and IHS fought over the remaining
balance of a bill for surgery.
The woman questioned the medical care her stepfather received. She asked
if the transition from taking insulin orally to an insulin injection might
have sent him into a coma.
In late December, he was taken to the IHS "My mother is taking it hard.
No death certificate was signed. They won't give her a VA pension. The
death certificate was floating around and no one wanted to sign it. She is
having a hard time and she doesn't have any income. How is she going to
pay her bills?"
The Office of the Inspector General sent a pathologist to conduct the
examination and the preliminary results indicated Fiddler died of a heart
attack.
Bourland said a report listing the time of death has been issued and he
confirmed the death certificate hasn't been signed.
Physician Janet Reid and then Ambulance Director Tim Smith were removed
from the facility, but Service Unit Director Clayton Bellegarde was
returned to his post, said Bourland.
Copyright c. 2002 Indian Country Today.
--------- "RE: Tribes push action on Sacred Sites" ---------
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Tribes push action on sacred sites
THURSDAY, MARCH 21, 2002
The Department of Interior's sole representative at a forum on tribal
lands came under fire on Wednesday for the government's record on the
protection of sacred sites.
Tribal leaders and representatives were unrelenting as they blasted the
department for allowing what they called a wholesale destruction of their
religious rights. They directed their anger at Jim Pace, a career
bureaucrat filling in for Assistant Secretary Neal McCaleb, who had a
prior engagement.
"If I went over in the Vatican," said John Brown, the historic
preservation officer for the Narragansett Tribe of Rhode Island, "and
urinated in an office or defecated in a hall, I would never get out of
jail. It would be the most horrendous and horrific crime. But these things
are done on our sacred sites every day and nobody cares."
"I don't have the time and inclination to listen to the lies," he said,
referring directly to his dealings with the Office of American Indian
Trust, which is headed by Pace.
Alan Jackson, President of the Quechan Nation of Arizona and California,
was equally critical. His tribe has been fighting to protect hundreds of
culturally significant trails and sites and convinced the Clinton
administration to deny a gold mine in the area.
But due to the political whims of the Bush administration, the tribe's
victory was erased "like snapping a finger," he said. He accused Secretary
Gale Norton and Deputy Secretary J. Steven Griles of acting to reverse the
decision "without even giving a thought to meet with us."
"The trust responsibility still lacks in all areas," Jackson said. He
added: "In the final end, we're not going to lose. We simply won't lose.
I'll tell you that right now."
Pace wasn't given time to respond to the complaints, which came at the
end of a panel discussion held at the Interior. But earlier, he said there
has been "positive momentum" and pointed to a case involving the Hoopa
Valley Tribe of California and new sentencing guidelines regarding the
destruction of cultural artifacts.
He also said McCaleb was reconvening a working group on the issue
pursuant to an executive order signed by former President Bill Clinton.
"Our society has a moral authority to protect sacred lands," he said.
Other panelists agreed there has been improvements in recent years.
Suzan Harjo, an activist whose work contributed to the passage of the
landmark 1990 repatriation law, said federal agencies have played a role
in preserving sites "acre by acre, bucket by bucket, rock by rock."
"It's a very different world," she said. "How wonderful that has
happened."
Tex Hall, president of the National Congress of American Indians, which
co-sponsored the forum, said part of the problem is tribal dependence on
the federal government. Since policies and funding can change at whim, he
encouraged tribes to work together because the government isn't fulfilling
its obligations.
"When is enough enough?" he asked.
Copyright c. 2000-2001 Noble Savage Media, LLC/Indianz.Com.
--------- "RE: House Committee hears Testimony on Native Trust" ---------
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House committee hears testimony on Native trust fund
BY JODI RAVE LEE Lincoln Journal Star
Monday. March 25, 2002
WASHINGTON, D.C. - The House Resources Committee took note of tribal
leaders' frustrations Wednesday with a trust fund system in total disarray,
a problem Native people blamed on government malfeasance, neglect and
ignorance.
"It is unfortunate, but true, that through both Democrat and Republican
administrations the Interior Department has acted like the Enron of
federal agencies when it comes to managing Indian trust assets," said Rep.
Nick Rahall, senior Democrat on the committee.
Sweeping changes have been proposed for the Interior Department's Bureau
of Indian Affairs, the bureaucracy charged in large part with overseeing
56 million acres of land and $1.1 billion annually in land-related revenue
for tribal and individual trust accounts.
Those who sat before the Resources Committee Wednesday included tribal
leaders, trust fund specialists and government officials, representatives
from the National Congress of American Indians, the Council of Large Land-
Based Tribes and the InterTribal Monitoring Association.
"The issues of trust reform and reorganization within the BIA are
nothing new to us in Indian Country," said Chairman Michaeal Jandreau of
South Dakota's Lower Brule Tribe. "We have endured many efforts - some
well-intentioned and some clearly not - to fix, reform, adjust, improve,
streamline, downsize and even terminate the BIA and its trust activities."
Acknowledgment of trust fund problems resulted in the 1994 Trust Fund
Management Reform Act, and more than $600 million has been spent since
1996 with what some see as few results.
The Cobell vs. Norton lawsuit of 300,000 individual Native account
holders has thrust the issue to a new level of scrutiny. "The lawsuit has
provided a collective strong voice for the account holders, which there
hasn't been before," said Suzan Shown Harjo, president of the Morning Star
Institute, who first witnessed congressional hearings on trust reform in
the early 1980s.
By day's end Wednesday it was clear congressional intervention is likely,
with suggestions including reforming the 1994 Trust Reform Act and
ensuring that Interior Secretary Gale Norton doesn't reorganize the BIA
without tribal input.
"The Bureau of Indian Affairs has a long history of decentralized
management and as a result does not have clear and unified policies and
procedures relating to trust management," Norton told the committee. "The
need for such clear and unified policies remains large, but very little
has been done."
A succession of court orders and opinions from the Cobell lawsuit has
forced Norton to find a way to reconcile individual trust fund accounts.
Her answer: Create the Bureau of Indian Trust Assets Management and strip
the BIA of those duties.
Tribes have resoundingly rejected her idea and now demand accountability.
"The failure of Congress to act decisively to hold the interior
secretary accountable for her malfeasance is disturbing and indefensible,"
said Elouise Cobell, a member of the Blackfeet Tribe of Montana and lead
plaintiff in the suit. "Since we initiated class-action litigation in 1996
to enforce the trust obligations owed by the United States, I have said
many times the government's bad faith and misconduct simply can't get any
worse." Reach Jodi Rave Lee at 473-7240 or jrave@journalstar.com.
Copyright c. 2002, Lincoln Journal Star. All rights reserved.
--------- "RE: Federal Judge okays South Dakota Land Transfer" ---------
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Federal judge okays South Dakota land transfer
By Jim Kent
Fort Thompson, S.D. - That difficult climb up the steep hill of treaty
compliance just got a little more demanding for South Dakota's Lakota
tribes. Federal District Court Judge Paul Friedman cut short efforts by
the Crow Creek Sioux tribe to stop the transfer of thousands of acres of
land along the Missouri River from the Army Corps of Engineers to the
state of South Dakota by giving the nod to the Congressionally-approved
land action. Lakota tribes object to the transfer, known as "the
Mitigation Act", and cite violations of the Fort Laramie Treaties of 1851
and 1868 - which marked the boundary of "Great Sioux Nation" at the east
bank of the Missouri River. The Lakota claim the land, the water, and the
historical, cultural and spiritual sites located there. The transfer is
mandated under Title VI of the Water Resources Development Act of 1999.
The Crow Creek Sioux tribe was able to postpone the transfer, initially
scheduled to occur on December 21, 2001, by taking the Army Corps to court.
On December 11, Judge Friedman agreed with the tribe's position that the
Mitigation Act "may" violate the U.S. Constitution and requested further
briefs on the issue to be presented to him during a February 2002 court
date. One of the judge's primary concerns was whether or not federal
historic preservation laws would be fully implemented if the land was
transferred. He noted that the Corps couldn't transfer land to the state
and execute the federal historic preservation laws at the same time.
Friedman also supported the tribe's contention that the Mitigation Act
violates the National Environmental Policy Act. But the judge suddenly
reversed himself by ruling in favor of the transfer at a February hearing
before the re-scheduled court date.
"Why would the judge do that," Crow Creek tribal attorney Pete Capossela
pondered. "He could've let the thing go in December, you know? Why would
he put it off one time and not put it off again? I initially took his
actions to mean that he had a pretty good understanding of what we were
talking about. I don't know, his decision was pretty strange and I think
we were all pretty stung. But he was rushing the hearing, and then he
made a ruling from the bench. He said 'I'm gonna' rule right now that the
Act is okay and I'm gonna' let the land transfer go through. If you guys
want to appeal that, that's what you have to do, period."
Capossela added that he felt the hearing was merely a formality and that
a determination on the issue had been made prior to the start of the
proceedings.
"He made his decision before the date of the hearing," Capossela
commented. "He used a hearing on whether or not to extend the stay on the
transfer as an opportunity to rule on the entire case and get it off his
plate."
The Crow Creek tribe filed an emergency appeal to reverse the Mitigation
Act and asked for a stay of the land transfer. The tribe has been joined
in its lawsuit by the Rosebud Sioux tribe. The Crow Creek tribe's appeal
was accepted, but the land transfer was permitted to proceed. Of the 91,
000 acres of land involved in the legislation, 16,000 acres have already
been transferred to the state. Capossela said the tribes have no intention
of giving up the battle, but added that it won't be an easy fight.
"We were very hopeful back in December," he remarked. "But, you know,
it's like we were climbing a mountain, and now we're climbing a mountain
on Mars. Now the burden is just overwhelming."
The Oglala Sioux tribe is also pursuing a lawsuit against the Army Corps
noting that the lands proposed for transfer cannot be given to the state
of South Dakota because they still belong to the Great Sioux Nation under
the Fort Laramie Treaty of 1868. The Cheyenne River Sioux Tribe and the
Lower Brule Sioux Tribe are included as defendants in that lawsuit, since
both tribes would benefit by receiving land and money from the transfer.
They are the only Lakota tribes in the state that will receive
compensation.
In his capacity as Fifth Member of the Oglala Sioux tribe, Lakota elder
Johnson Holy Rock spends his day dealing with treaty issues. He said the
lawsuit against the Corps and the other tribes has nothing to do with land
or money.
"It has to do with the treaties," he observed. "The boundaries of the
Great Sioux Nation as outlined in those treaties has not been
disestablished. And Senator Daschle's comments that only certain tribes
have a right to speak about this land, along with the state of South
Dakota is inaccurate at best. We are all a part of the Great Sioux Nation.
When our neighbors on the Rosebud put on their war bonnets and prepared
their war ponies and decided that they were going to join in the battle,
we thought that we better get involved, too, or we'll drown in the
Missouri."
South Dakota Senator and Senate Majority Leader Tom Daschle was the
sponsor of the two Congressional bills that led the way to the transfer.
The first, Mitigation Act 1, was signed by President Clinton on October 21,
1998, but repealed by Congress on July 27, 1999 after protests from the
five remaining Lakota tribes. But Daschle had already submitted a second
version of the first bill, called Mitigation Act 2, as a rider attached to
a separate piece of legislation. That version of the bill passed. The
state's Republican Governor Bill Janklow has supported Daschle's transfer
legislation because it will bring recreational sites along the Missouri
River under state control. Janklow plans to upgrade those areas as soon
as possible to add to the state's tourism revenue and in preparation for
the upcoming Lewis and Clark Bi-Centennial in 2004.
"Some people, including many of our own, may consider the Lakota to be a
conquered people," Holy Rock observed. "But I don't. And we're going to
take them to court to prove that."
Native American Times is Copyright c. 2000-2001 Oklahoma Indian Times, Inc.
--------- "RE: Owner stalls Sand Creek Historic Site" ---------
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Owner stalls Sand Creek historic site
March 19, 2002 - 11:00AM EST
by: David Melmer / Indian Country Today
CHIVINGTON, Colo. -- A rancher whose land holds numerous cultural and
historic sites related to the Sand Creek Massacre of 1864 has put the site
up for public sale.
More than 1,400 acres of William Dawson's land is key to the proposed
Sand Creek National Historic Site, yet it could come under private
ownership and be used for whatever the new owner decides, Dawson said.
On Nov. 29, 1864 the Methodist minister and militia volunteer Colonel
John M. Chivington ordered the 3rd Regiment of the Colorado Volunteers to
attack the Cheyenne and Arapaho encampment along the Sandy Creek.
The massacre took more than three hours and spread over 12,000 acres. In
the end more than 200 women, children and elders who attempted to escape
were hunted down and murdered. It became known as one of the most
horrendous assaults on American Indians in history.
Dawson said he preferred to have the land go to the Northern Cheyenne
and Arapaho Tribes, so that it could become part of the historic site. But
his negotiations with the National Park Service have not been memorable,
he said.
"It doesn't concern me who buys the land. I would hope, and I'm working
towards in the end the land would go back to the Cheyenne, because I think
that's where it belongs. I would hope some philanthropic group would buy
the land and donate it," Dawson said.
He dropped a hint to the news media that the land could be used as a
hunting club. To that thought, Sen. Ben Nighthorse Campbell, R-Colo., said
there had been enough killing on the site.
Dawson claims that the National Park Service paid more than $1 million
dollars for the Washita National Historic Site in Kansas and that his land
is worth the same, $1,000 per acre.
The National Park Service offered $332,000 for the property, which
amounts to about $226 per acre. Dawson wants $1.5 million for the property,
five times the offered price and more than five times the average per-acre
land value in Kiowa County.
The Kiowa County assessor's office put a value on ranch land of between
$100 and $130 and more if there is water. The Sand Creek runs through
Dawson's property. The assessor's valuation is based on tax evaluation,
but the selling price of ranch land in the area is between $200 and $300
per acre, according to real estate figures.
Dawson said he has a three-bedroom house, barns and steel corrals on the
property. He said he runs cattle on the property, but declined to say how
many. He also would not comment on any queries or offers he has had since
he publicized the sale of the property.
He claims the federal government has not negotiated in good faith. He
argues that land in other states was purchased by the Park Service for
$1,000 per acre. The Park Service did not confirm that purchase price. He
said Sen. Campbell could go back to Congress and make changes to the offer.
It was Sen. Campbell's bill that created the Sand Creek Historic Site.
Dawson claims the Park Service turned him over to the Internal Revenue
Service for investigation. An audit turned up nothing unusual, he said.
Park Service spokespeople denied the charge.
"Right now the negotiations are at a standstill," Dawson said.
That's not how the Park Service looks at it nor do any of the tribes
involved. The government agency is limited to offer only what the
appraised value of the property permits, said Rick Frost, former project
manager for the Sand Creek Historic Site. Work to put a project together
like this takes time, and the Park Service will pursue the project and see
it to completion, Frost said.
He said work is still underway to purchase all of the land that will
make up the Sand Creek Site. But he admitted the Dawson site was key to
the entire project. Frost said if some group or person would buy the land
for Dawson's asking price they could then sell it to the Park Service at a
loss.
"It is important to have a place like Sand Creek. We very much want to
make this happen. It is an education for the entire country," Frost said.
The Sand Creek Massacre Descendents committee has not been involved with
any of the actual negotiations over money or land acquisition, but in an
upcoming meeting with all the tribes involved, the Park Service and some
land owners may seek to get the tribes more involved.
"What went on in terms of discussions with the Park Service and Dawson
is not known to the tribes. We get information second-hand," said Steve
Brady, president of the Descendants association. "What we would like to do
is have land set aside as a perpetual memorial, whether that will happen,
I don't know for certain. We have a meeting scheduled between the tribes,
NPS and state of Colorado. Hopefully we will get more information. The
site acquisition is very important to the tribes."
Brady added that remains coming from the World Trade Center Site are
removed and treated with great respect, but remains of ancestors from Sand
Creek are still lying on shelves in museums.
Sen. Campbell's legislation, signed into law two years ago, stated that
the 1,465-acre Dawson Site was central to the entire 12,000-acre project.
Members of the Northern Cheyenne Sand Creek Descendants organization also
claim that sites on the Dawson property are crucial to the site.
"The Sand Creek massacre was one of the most disgraceful moments of
American history," Campbell said when he introduced the legislation.
Dawson said he turns in many trespassers each year, people looking for
campsites. He said members of the Cheyenne and Arapaho tribes are welcome
to come on the property and conduct ceremonies and pray, but non-tribal
members are not welcome.
Dawson and the Park Service are continually working with the Cheyenne
and Arapaho authorities and both sides claim it is important for the
tribes that this site becomes part of the historic structure of the
country.
Brady said the tribes have had good cooperation with Dawson and the Park
Service
"We are hoping the site will be completed. It is of profound
significance. Also there remain unfulfilled treaty obligations. In Article
6 of the 1865 Cheyenne/Arapaho treaty, Congress promised reparations.
Those remain unpaid. It was not addressed during 1998 bill negotiations;
the Senators were just reminded of the obligation," Brady said.
Copyright c. 2002 Indian Country Today.
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American Indian history comes home from Europe
March 18, 2002
ADA - Chickasaw Nation officials recently took delivery of thousands of
documents and dozens of maps from Europe that will be extremely useful in
reconstructing the history of the Chickasaw Nation.
Dr. Jay Segel and Ronald L. Monterosso of New England Antiquarian
Research & Title (NEART) discovered the documents and maps, which date
from the mid 1500s to the late 1700s, after scouring repositories in
England, France and Spain for records that can shed light on Chickasaw
history.
While Europe may seem an unlikely place to research American Indian
history, Segel and Monterosso are making a career of doing just that.
Monterosso said armies of bureaucrats in European capitols in the 1600s
and 1700s could devote far more time to record keeping than could
officials in rugged North American frontier cities who were more concerned
with survival and defense. Therefore, many records, including maps, deeds,
reports, correspondence, treaties and other documents concerning Native
American tribes exist only in Europe.
Returning from their most recent trip abroad, the pair delivered copies
of thousands of letters, reports, maps and other records that will help
historians, heritage preservation specialists, genealogists and others
gain a more complete understanding of Chickasaw life hundreds of years ago.
"It is essential that we collect as much of this valuable information as
is feasible in order to provide future generations as full and complete a
record of Chickasaw history as possible," said Chickasaw Nation Gov. Bill
Anoatubby. "While much of the culture, customs and accomplishments of our
ancestors is already in the historical record, there is a great deal more
that should be preserved for posterity."
Once the material has been catalogued, tribal citizens, historians,
genealogists and other interested members of the public will have access
to a treasure trove of information that was previously available only in
Europe.
One of the most eager to peruse the documents is Chickasaw historian
Richard Green.
"I'm producing a book-length manuscript of the social history of the
Chickasaws, so I need all the records I can get," said Green. "Because the
Chickasaws didn't leave behind written records, the only written records
there are were left behind by the colonials who had contact with the tribe.
Starting with the English maybe as early as 1685 and the French seriously
starting around 1699 and proceeding on."
Chickasaws of that time period had a tradition of oral history being
passed from generation to generation, and while some of that history has
survived to the present day, much of it has been lost.
Sadly, much of the written history of that era is also in danger of
being lost, according to Segel.
"These documents are very old and very rare. They literally are
crumbling in our hands when we are reading a lot of them. So there is not
an emergency, but it does need to be done with some sense of urgency."
That sense of urgency led to many hours of arduous research, which Segel
compared to finding pieces of a massive puzzle.
"Basically, what we are doing, each piece we bring back, whether it be
from a repository in Spain or Scotland or France, they all go to the
fabric of making a whole picture. So first of all, you need to find all
the pieces from the various repositories throughout the world to make the
full puzzle.
"This trip was a huge success. We produced documents that had to do with
language, that had to do with genealogy, that had to do with positions,
with culture, with customs - the green dance, the black drink. It's an
amazing collection of documents."
Copyright c. 2002 The Ada Evening News.
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Tribe votes down `Akwesasne' name; future label uncertain
By SUSAN TOBIAS Staff Writer
March 24, 2002
AKWESASNE - In a referendum Saturday, voters rejected the St. Regis
Mohawk Tribe's proposed name change to Akwesasne Mohawk Nation.
In a press release, tribal spokeswoman Rowena General said 358 voters
want to keep the St. Regis Mohawk name, a label given to the tribe in the
1750s when missionaries came to the area. Favoring the change were 131
voters. Seven ballots were invalid.
"We were Akwesasne before they (the missionaries) came," said General.
"We even had Indian names for our rivers. But the bottom line is up to the
public."
Earlier this month tribal leaders received approval from the Federal
Bureau of Indian Affairs to change the community's name.
Tribal leaders said the change would eliminate any question on which
form of tribal government is recognized by the U.S. government.
The Akwesasne Mohawk Nation Council, headed by a three-chief system, is
the decision-making arm of the community. The Tribal Council had been
working on the name-change proposal since July, following years of
discussions.
This change allowed the tribal nation to officially change mailing
addresses from Bombay, Fort Covington and Hogansburg to Akwesasne. It also
allowed publication of the Akwesasne name in the Federal Entities List
published by the BIA.
It wasn't long before the council heard the rumblings of concern.
Leaders hoped to bring a peaceful resolution to the problem with public
meetings and the referendum.
"At the beginning of this process, the Tribal Council reassured our
community it would uphold the will of the Mohawk people. We have done our
duty to allow the people to have their say through their voices," said
Chief Alma Ransom in a press release..
"We're certainly disappointed that we don't have more voter
participation from the silent majority. We've given it our best."
But when Ransom was reached by phone later Saturday, she said the
results of the referendum are not anything to be upset about.
"This is not a real no," she said. "It just gives us direction on which
way to go. Then we'll go to the next level. It's a long process."
Ransom said the next few months will begin a new selection process,
perhaps a competition to look at other names.
"We could have residents propose another Indian word with several
combinations. It's simply a result-oriented process."
Sub-chief Harry Benedict said in the same press release that the
"process has been interesting and had received organized opposition from
the alliance of the Constitutional Party and the Handsome Lake Longhouse
group."
Benedict also pointed out that the Mohawk Council of Akwesasne, the
Mohawk government with Canadian jurisdiction, changed its name from "the
Iroquois of St. Regis Band of Indians" through a resolution in April 1985.
They did not hold a referendum on the change.
"The referendum results come as a disappointment and are contrary to the
requests this Tribal Council has received from the community," Benedict
continued.
"It is my opinion that we must protect the democratic electoral
processes of the St. Regis Mohawk Tribe. Referendums of the St. Regis
Mohawk Tribe are legally binding, and we will honor the results."
Constitutional Party partisan Philip Tarbell said he feels the community
has rejected the leadership of the three-chief government.
"People object to how they jam things down their throat," Tarbell said.
"They never brought things back to the good interest of the community."
Tarbell estimated about 6,000 live in the community. He said about 1,000
turn out for elections each June.
"But this time 73 percent of the voters who turned out rejected the way
they work," he added. "Our next step will be a re-evaluation of the
situation within the BIA."
Copyright c. 2002, Plattsburgh Publishing Co., Plattsburgh, NY,
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Klamath Tribes May Get Land Back
JEFF BARNARD
Associated Press Writer
Tue, Mar. 19, 2002
GRANTS PASS, Ore. - Interior Secretary Gale Norton said Tuesday she is
considering giving Klamath Tribes back their reservation lands as part of
a strategy to balance water needs in the Northwest's drought-stricken
Klamath River Basin.
The tribes' have had a long-standing desire to get back 692,000 acres of
reservation lands liquidated by the federal government. The land is now
part of the Winema and Fremont national forests.
"Klamath Tribes have property rights that must be respected and
interests that must be honored as we develop solutions," Norton said in a
statement from Washington.
Interior Department officials will meet with tribe members as part of a
Cabinet-level task force's effort to assure water for farmers as well as
fish and wildlife, said agency spokesman Mark Pfeifle.
Tribal Chairman Allen Foreman pledged full cooperation to Norton and the
task force. The tribes believe that if their land was returned, they could
manage it better than the forest service, ultimately improving the
ecosystem and resolving the water conflict.
When drought made water supplies tight last spring, the Endangered
Species Act required the federal government to hold back water from the
Klamath Reclamation Project, a federal irrigation system serving 220,000
acres of farmland straddling the Oregon-California border. The water was
dedicated to endangered suckers in Upper Klamath Lake and threatened
salmon in the Klamath River.
The irrigation shut-off produced a long summer of confrontations among
farmers, the tribes, conservationists and the federal government over how
to allocate the basin's waters.
The Klamath Water Users Association - representing farmers and
businesses dependent on the Klamath Project - grudgingly supported talks
between the Interior Department and the tribes.
"We are supportive that the secretary is willing to sit down with
folks," said Executive Director Dan Keppen.
Copyright c. 2002 Associated Press. All rights reserved.
Copyright c. 2002 Aberdeen American News.
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Scrap 'archaic' Indian Act, native leader says
It should be replaced with act reflecting fact most natives
don't live on reserves, chief says
Rick Mofina
Vancouver Sun
Tuesday, March 19, 2002
OTTAWA -- Most natives don't live on reserves and they want the Indian
Act replaced with an Aboriginal Peoples Act to reflect reality, says the
chief of one of Canada's largest aboriginal groups.
"The Indian Act's time has come. It's archaic, unfair and paternalistic"
says Dwight Dorey, national chief of the Congress of Aboriginal Peoples.
His remarks are in notes for his appearance today before the Commons
aboriginal affairs committee, which is reviewing the 126-year-old Indian
Act.
Indian Affairs Minister Robert Nault is expected to table new First
Nations' governance legislation by June.
Dorey says Canadians and law makers have been ignoring "the aboriginal
reality in Canada."
"Namely that by far the largest number of aboriginal people do not live
on Indian Act reserves, nor do we benefit from the provisions of the
Indian Act," Dorey says.
More than 1.1 million people have aboriginal ancestry in Canada, of
which some 73 per cent do not live on Indian Act reserves, or First Nation
communities, Dorey says, citing Statistics Canada figures.
Some federal estimates put Canada's aboriginal population at 1.4 million
with more than 900,000 living off-reserve.
By his measure, Dorey says, his organization represents the interests of
some 800,000 off-reserve aboriginal people living in urban, rural and
remote areas throughout Canada.
"Off-reserve aboriginal people want the Indian Act replaced with an
Aboriginal Peoples Act that accommodates their interests as soon as
possible."
Such an act, as recommended by the 1996 royal commission on aboriginal
peoples, would recognize aboriginal nations and implement the inherent
right of self-government, Dorey says.
Loosely defined, the Indian Act allows the government to determine who
is a status Indian. The government can also determine a reserve, or create
a native band, all of which are subject to the laws of the Indian Act.
Non-status Indians may have lost their status for reasons including
residency or, as was the case with women until 1985, marriage to a white
man.
Dorey says that while some aboriginal people regained or were granted
status through Bill C-31 in the mid-1980s, his group wants the government
to review its policies on band membership and review how it determines who
is an Indian.
In his notes, Dorey also calls for the elections of band councils to
include "all band members and not just those living on Indian Act
reserves."
The Congress of Aboriginal Peoples joined the National Aboriginal
Women's Association, other native groups and senior Indian affairs
department officials on an advisory committee created by Nault to give him
options to consider before he updates the Indian Act.
The Assembly of First Nations, representing 630 bands, withdrew its
representative from the committee in December because of objections to the
process for formulating the legislation.
Copyright c. 2002 Vancouver Sun.
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March 22, 2002
Native logging case to be appealed to the Nova Scotia Court of Appeal
HALIFAX (CP) -- The Assembly of Nova Scotia chiefs has launched its
appeal of a court decision that ruled natives don't have the inherent
right to log Crown lands.
Chief Lawrence Paul, Chair of the Assembly of Nova Scotia Mi'kmaq Chiefs,
said Friday the group will seek leave to appeal to the Nova Scotia Court
of Appeal in the case of Keith Lawrence Julien.
Paul said in a news release that the key issue is the fundamental right
of Aboriginal people to harvest trees on Crown lands.
"By not accepting our claims to treaty rights and aboriginal title, the
Nova Scotia Supreme Court has denied us one of our basic rights," he said.
Julien faces 40 charges of logging on Crown lands during the winter of
1998-99.
The defendant claims a constitutional right to log on provincial lands
based on rights established in the Mi'kmaq treaties of 1760-61, the Royal
Proclamation of 1763, and aboriginal title as recognized by the Supreme
Court of Canada.
"The Julien case is a very important one for Nova Scotia's Mi'kmaq,"
said Bruce Wildsmith, co-counsel for the Assembly and a professor of law
at Dalhousie University.
"We are pleased to note that Nova Scotia Supreme Court Justice Edward
Scanlan in his decision did recognize an aboriginal right to harvest trees
for firewood and other modest uses, and we hope to convince the Nova
Scotia Court of Appeal to recognize a reasonable extension of that right."
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March 22, 2002
B.C. Supreme Court rejects native residential school claim of priest abuse
VANCOUVER (CP) -- The B.C. Supreme Court has rejected a woman's claim
that she was sexually abused by a priest at a native residential school.
The woman, who attended the Sechelt Indian Residential School in 1967
and 1968, said she was repeatedly sexually assaulted by an Oblate priest.
But Justice Kathryn Neilson found that the woman failed to prove that
she was sexually assaulted by Brother Ian McDougall.
The woman, a member of the Hamalco band, said she was raped two or three
times a week for the first two or three months at the school after her
arrival at age 14.
The woman said she was physically punished, including being strapped for
speaking her native language and having to scrub the floor with a
toothbrush.
She said two nuns at the school pushed her down the stairs when she
became pregnant, causing a miscarriage.
But Neilson found the woman's story inconsistent.
"Having examined her answers to interrogatories, at discovery and in
giving evidence at trial, I must conclude that at times the plaintiff has
failed to grasp the importance of the oath," Neilson wrote in a judgment
posted on the B.C. Supreme Court Web site Friday.
The accused priest, however, was consistent and frank in his evidence,
the judge said.
"I also found him convincing in relating his shock when he heard about
the plaintiff's allegations against him and the devastating effect that
they have had on him," Neilson wrote.
It's estimated that more than 100,000 aboriginal children aged six and
up attended the national network of residential schools from 1930 until
the last one closed outside Regina in 1996.
Thousands of aboriginal people across the country are suing the federal
government and the various churches that ran the schools.
More than 4,500 lawsuits have been launched with at least 9,000
claimants who allege physical or sexual abuse.
The federal government has set up Indian Residential Schools Resolution
Canada, a department focused on resolving the lawsuits.
Fifteen trials are expected to start in British Columbia, Alberta and
Saskatchewan in the next year.
Copyright c. 2002, Canoe, a division of Netgraphe Inc.
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Civil rights violated in Miller case, tribe says
By LEE WILLIAMS
Argus Leader
published: 3/22/02
Teens accused of shooting at girls should be tried as adults
The Sisseton-Wahpeton Dakota Nation has called for a federal civil rights
investigation after a court decision issued Wednesday said that two Miller
teens would not be prosecuted as adults for allegedly shooting at a
carload of Crow Creek girls late last year.
Jacob Thompson, vice chairman of the tribe, issued a written statement
calling for an immediate civil rights investigation by the U.S. Attorney's
Office.
"The state's criminal justice system was more concerned about the
rehabilitation of the non-Indian perpetrators, rather than the wrongs
committed on young women who are from Indian tribes," Thompson wrote. "If
even-handed justice cannot be administered in a state court, then the
federal court is the next step."
Michelle Tapken, acting U.S. attorney for South Dakota, declined comment.
Miller city officials and law enforcement also declined comment.
In Wednesday's opinion, Circuit Judge Jon Erickson ruled that the two
unnamed Miller youths, age 16 and 17, should be prosecuted by the juvenile
court system for the Nov. 1 shooting in Miller, which occurred after a
Crow Creek basketball game.
Tribal members say the decision wasn't surprising.
"We're noticing a trend throughout South Dakota - an unhealthy trend -
where our people are always coming up short in these types of heavy
decisions," said Glenn Drapeau, a tribal council member for the Yankton
Sioux Tribe.
Erickson, basing his decision on the evidence presented during two days
of testimony earlier this month, ruled that the youth's needs would be
better met by the juvenile system than the adult court system. The
prosecution did not present witnesses to the contrary.
Erickson said Thursday that he is forbidden to comment about an ongoing
case.
The five Crow Creek High School students and their 20-year-old friend,
who are Lakota and Dakota, were not injured in the shooting.
Tribal leaders across the state have been watching the case.
"It's being followed throughout Indian Country because precedent is
being set," Drapeau said. "It's not a big mystery - those towns that are
racist to us. Every time we go to these places, we see it. What do we do
to the people who do these things to our children?"
Erickson wrote in his decision that racial slurs and taunts were heard
at the game before the incident, but the comments could not be linked to
the two youths, and it did not appear as though their actions were
racially motivated.
Harold Frazier, vice chairman of the Cheyenne River Sioux Tribe, would
have liked to see the youths tried as adults.
"I would like to see equal justice in this state, regardless of who the
people involved are," he said.
Tom Iron, the vice chairman of the Standing Rock Sioux Tribe, said he
has seen Indian children as young as age 12 prosecuted as adults.
"This case has been the buzz of Indian Country," Iron said. "Native
Americans are powerless in state or federal court. Whatever the non-
-Indians decide, the Indians suffer the consequences. It's been that way
for many, many years."
In his written statement, Thompson asks who is safeguarding the victims'
rights.
"These female Indian youth have been harmed emotionally by the failure
of the state's criminal justice system," he wrote.
Lucille Weasel Bear's daughter Arlene was one of the girls involved in
the shooting.
"She came home right after the shooting, and stayed home for two weeks,
refusing to go back," her mother said. "She wrote ... a suicide letter. We
took her to two ceremonies. She eventually went back to school."
Lucille Weasel Bear, who lives in Pine Ridge, said her daughter
developed her own negative racial feelings after the shooting.
"She's beginning to not like white people," Weasel Bear said. "I told
her she can't put down all white people based on the actions of one."
Law enforcement officials in Miller have declined to comment. The
sheriff, chief of police and state's attorney did not return calls for
comment.
Mayor Tom McGough also declined comment.
The Rev. Richard Gould of United Methodist Church in Miller said he
heard about the decision Thursday afternoon.
"One of the positive things is that soon we'll be able to put this
behind us and start dealing with it on a healing level," Gould said.
The Rev. Brian Jones of First Presbyterian Church said: "I don't think
any parishioners have ever expressed an opinion about whether they (the
defendants) should be moved to adult court. I don't have any further
comment. I have to defer to the judge's decision."
Several tribal members contacted Thursday said the outcome would have
been different if the races or jurisdictions of those involved had been
reversed.
The incident occurred Nov. 1, and the youths were not charged until Nov.
14. The delay caused some tribal members to question the handling of the
case and this week's ruling added to concerns.
Capt. James Two Bulls, chief of police of the Lower Brule Sioux
Reservation, said his officers would arrest anyone who shoots at a carload
of teens.
"They'd have been arrested instantly, regardless of their color," Two
Bulls said. "They'd be prosecuted in tribal court but would most likely
end up in federal court."
Two Bulls wouldn't go so far as to say this case represents a double
standard of justice.
"But I'd say it doesn't help, as far as how it looks," he said.
Iron said any youth who fires a shotgun at someone on the Standing Rock
reservation would be arrested.
"We'd throw them in jail, charged as adults, no matter who they are," he
said.
Tribal leaders from the Sisseton-Wahpeton, Cheyenne River and Yankton
reservations agree.
"We would have arrested them and charged them as adults," said Drapeau,
the Yankton tribal council member. "We would have upheld the law."
Reach reporter Lee Williams at lwilliam@argusleader.com or 331-2318.
Copyright c. 2002 Copyright Argus Leader.
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3 accused of firing at BIA officer
GAZETTE STAFF
A Crow Agency man and two boys were arrested on suspicion of shooting at
a Bureau of Indian Affairs officer after a standoff early Monday.
Charles Lance, 23, and two boys, one 15 and the other 16, were charged
with assault, among other violations after BIA Sgt. Ed Eastman reported
that his patrol car was shot.
Eastman was patrolling near Crow Agency about 3:30 a.m. Monday. As he
crossed the railroad tracks traveling west on Highway 1 and passed St.
Dennis Hall, the Catholic church, Eastman heard gunfire and an
explosivelike sound inside his patrol car, according to the BIA. Eastman
realized his car was shot and radioed for other officers.
A bullet had gone through the patrol car's back window, tore through the
solid metal rear prisoner cage, went through the rear seat and entered
part way into a second solid metal prisoner cage. It came to a stop about
6 inches from Eastman, in the area of his arm and hip, said Senior Special
Agent Bob Pease.
BIA and Crow Tribal officers determined that the shot came from the
Interstate 90 overpass at Crow Agency, where they found a 30-06 caliber
shell casing and three sets of footprints in the fresh snow.
BIA K-9 officer William Fallsdown and his dog, Kelly, tracked the
suspects for more than a mile into Crow Agency, south under the Little Big
Horn Bridge, under a railroad bridge and to a house in the Mason Housing
development.
Officers surrounded the house and tried to make contact with the people
inside. The officers could hear movement in the house but no one would
answer the door. About 21/2 hours later, around 6:25 a.m., Lance and the
two boys came out. Officers later took from the house a 30-06 caliber
rifle with scope as evidence.
Pease said other people, including women and children, were in the house
but were not considered to be in a hostage situation and were not charged.
Lance was arrested and held in Crow Agency on suspicion of aggravated
assault, disorderly conduct and other tribal charges, Pease said. He
posted bond and was released Thursday.
Officers arrested Lance on a federal charges of assault on a federal
officer and possession of an illegal firearm Friday morning in Crow Agency
and took him to Yellowstone County jail. He is scheduled to appear Monday
in Federal Court in Billings.
The boys, Pease said, were charged with assault and other tribal
violations. Friday afternoon the tribe sent the boys to a juvenile
detention facility in Oklahoma, he said. The U.S. attorney may opt to
bring federal charges against the boys, who Pease believed would spend
several months the Oklahoma facility.
Copyright c. 2002 The Billings Gazette, a division of Lee Enterprises.
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Thieves loot Indian graves
March 20, 2002
RICHMOND (AP) - A new type of criminal is desecrating Virginia's history,
and the main target is Indian remains.
Looters dig up grave sites and steal ceremonial headdresses masks,
jewelry, turquoise, metal, skulls and bones - anything they can get their
hands on and anything they can sell for top dollar. Some collectors will
pay thousands for a piece of the past.
"For the collector, it's not about the ceremonial or religious value -
it's about how it looks on their mantelpiece," said Robert D. Hicks, a
law-enforcement specialist with the Virginia Department of Criminal
Justice Services.
"We have a huge, burgeoning national and international market for old
things," Mr. Hicks said Saturday at the Conference on Indian Affairs
sponsored by the Virginia Council on Indians.
Stealing from burial grounds is illegal under the U.S. Archaeological
Resources Protection Act. It prohibits the excavation, removal, damage,
sale, purchase and transportation of items that are "of past human
existence," of archaeological interest or that are more than 100 years old.
The Native American Grave Protection and Repatriation Act also protects
sites from theft and vandalism.
In 1995, Mr. Hicks started a program to train law-enforcement officials
how to identify and examine crime scenes involving theft of resources,
which he dubbed "time crime."
Mr. Hicks showed slides of holes in the ground - evidence of looters. A
stray cigarette butt or beer can littered some scenes. In one photo, a
young boy playing "archaeologist" posed next to the body of a young Indian
he dug up.
"I can't even watch, it makes me so angry," said Reeva Tilley, chairman
of the Virginia Council on Indians.
Indians must be particularly diligent to avoid grave desecration, Mr.
Hicks said. In one Tennessee town, the sheriff deputized some members of a
local Cherokee tribe to patrol an Indian cemetery frequented by grave
robbers. When the patrols began, the looting stopped, he said.
Virginia has countless tiny cemeteries and makeshift burial grounds that
are hundreds of years old and tucked away in the woods or deep in fields.
They are prime targets for looters, who sell the artifacts through a
close-knit community of dealers behind the scenes at auctions, Mr. Hicks
said. One antique pot from a tribe in the southwestern United States sold
for $400,000.
Dealers also sell illegal items online, making the job of law
enforcement even more challenging.
Internet auction sites allow anonymous dealing of illegal antiques, Mr.
Hicks said. A quick search of a popular Web auction site produced
advertisements for several high-priced Indian artifacts more than 500
years old.
"It's been immensely difficult for law enforcement to penetrate the
inner circle," Mr. Hicks said.
Copyright c. 2002 News World Communications, Inc.
--------- "RE: RCMP kept Secret Red Power File" ---------
Date: Tue, 19 Mar 2002 20:43:30 -0800
From: "mikola 18" <mikola18@hotmail.com>
Subj: "RCMP kept secret 'Red Power' file on dissident natives"
Mailing List: ndn-aim <ndn-aim@yahoogroups.com>
http://www.canada.com
Monday, March 18, 2002
"RCMP kept secret 'Red Power' file on dissident natives; Fear of armed
confrontation with natives revealed in newly released documents from '70s"
By RICK MOFINA
Vancouver Sun
OTTAWA -- "The RCMP monitored and compiled lists of potentially violent,
politically active native Indians for inclusion in a secret "Red Power"
photograph album during the 1970s, according to newly released
intelligence documents.
Canada's spy agency of the day, the RCMP Security Service, feared "armed
confrontation" between the government and native activists, and threats to
a pipeline running between Canada and the U.S., inspired by militant
native actions to the south, according to the records.
The RCMP intelligence records focus on the so-called Red Power movement
in Canada, which was committed to radical political action. Red Power
members found alliance with such U.S. groups as the National Congress of
American Indians and the American Indian Movement.
Those rights-based organizations called on native Indians to choose
between assimilation and being Indian, and advocated that U.S. and
Canadian government obligations to Indians are binding.
During the 1970s, tension in which AIM played a prominent role permeated
parts of North America's native community, which culminated in violence at
Wounded Knee, S.D.
"The appearance of the American Indian Movement (AIM) and its unifying
factor in the Indian community has resulted in cross-country travel by
individuals in which we maintain an interest," says a report marked
"secret" and dated April 5, 1973, titled Red Power Canada.
It was distributed to RCMP division commanders across the country with a
request that each division submit a list of individuals it felt should be
included in a Red Power photograph album being set up.
"It will be difficult to select individuals to be included," cautions
the report, which bears the notation "not to be disseminated outside the
Force."
"This album is to contain individuals whom you feel may be involved in
acts of violence or whose movements we should be monitoring."
Accompanying Security Service documents indicate that its concerns with
native activism of the era were heightened "following the participation of
Canadian Indians at the occupation of the Bureau of Indian Affairs offices
in Washington, D.C., early November 1972," says one confidential
intelligence report dated March 23, 1973.
The tensions of the time were marked by an armed standoff early in 1973
for native rights led by AIM at Wounded Knee, located near the Pine Ridge
Reservation in South Dakota.
"The support which AIM has in Canada did not become apparent until AIM
arrived at Wounded Knee," says the report.
While hostilities between AIM and the U.S. government were developing,
"the Metis Nation of Saskatchewan, using representatives from the Metis
Society of Saskatchewan, contributed physically and financially to AIM's
cause," say the records.
They also say the RCMP noted that AIM received additional support from
natives across Canada."
Copyright c. 2002 Vancouver Sun
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FREE LEONARD PELTIER
--------- "RE: Peltier Campaign Update" ---------
Date: Fri, 22 Mar 2002 22:27:54 -0600
From: "lpdc" <lpdc@freepeltier.org>
Subj: PELTIER UPDATE!
Mailing List: LPDC <lpdc@freepeltier.org>
UNTIL FREEDOM IS WON!
UPDATE ON THE PELTIER CAMPAIGN FOR TRUTH AND JUSTICE
INCLUDED IN THIS MESSAGE:
Updates on the Motion to Reduce Leonard's Sentence, Progress Made Toward
Obtaining New Evidence, Civil Rights Case, Government Reform Committee
Dear Friends,
We are writing today with both good and bad news on the case of Leonard
Peltier. But before we begin we want to thank all of you who have been
sponsoring LPDC speakers and organizing Peltier events in your communities.
Raising awareness continues to be essential and supporters have organized
several successful events. Let's keep the LPDC speakers bureau busy and
word of Leonard's case flowing! We also want to let you know that there
will be three important events on June 26 marking 27 years since the
shoot-out occurred. They include gatherings in Oglala, South Dakota, San
Francisco, California and Boston, Massachusetts. We encourage you to plan
on attending one of these events or organizing something in your community.
More details will be released soon.
BAD NEWS, BUT NOT SURPRISING
We regret to announce that the motion to reduce Leonard's sentence was
denied by the U.S. District Court of North Dakota. We expected this case
to be a challenge because of the many procedural obstacles it involved
combined with the political nature of the Peltier case, especially in this
district. However, we had hoped for more fairness given that Judge Benson,
who tried Leonard, is no longer hearing cases.
Judge Magnison denied the motion without a hearing based upon issues of
timeliness. A motion to reduce sentence is supposed to be filed within a
year following a conviction. However, we argued that filing at this late
date was justified because of significant developments that occurred since
trial, citing cases in which exceptions had been made due to extraordinary
circumstances. The court said that the significant developments in
question (government admission that it can't prove who shot
agents/ballistics) had already been litigated. Judge Magnison refused to
consider these issues despite the clearly different character of the case,
which sought a review of sentence and not a new trial like before.
Attorney Eric Seitz is appealing the decision to the Eighth Circuit.
NOW WHAT?
We MUST obtain new evidence and demand a new trial for Leonard Peltier.
We are confident that key evidence exists in the thousands of documents
that are withheld by the FBI and fortunately, we are moving closer to
obtaining them.
GOOD NEWS!
Thanks to the persistent letters of supporters in Massachusetts,
Representative Barney Frank wrote to the FBI insisting that the withheld
documents be released given Clinton's Executive Order requiring the
disclosure of documents after the passage of 25 years. The FBI Office of
Public and Congressional Affairs responded by saying, "After receipt of
your letter.the FBI consulted with the National Archives and Records
Administration (NARA) to request that the investigative records pertaining
to Mr. Peltier that are 25 years or older be considered of significant
historical interest subject to declassification review. NARA agreed and
the process of declassification review has begun. Upon completion, the
material will be accessioned to NARA and a declassified copy will be
provided to your office. We anticipate completion of this project by the
end of the year." Attorney Mike Kuzma, who is handling Leonard's FOIA
requests, wrote to NARA to learn when the declassification would be
completed. Mike also asked that he be provided copies of the documents.
NARA responded, "We have been informed that the records are still in the
physical and legal custody of the FBI. The FBI has completed its
declassification review and is currently processing the records for
transfer to NARA and their subsequent public release. The transfer is
expected to occur in May of this year. Following the transfer, NARA may
require additional time to prepare for the public release of the records."
This is a very positive development for us and strengthens our chances for
obtaining new information. Furthermore, the documents are now protected
against destruction because of their historical classification. The
battle is not over, as we expect the documents to be partly censored for
reasons of "national security" like before. But, we plan to demand the
full release and exposure of the documents in court.
It should also be noted that Mike Kuzma continues to pursue the
documents through the Freedom of Information Act process. Requests have
been submitted to FBI headquarters and numerous field offices across the
country. With the exception of Portland, Oregon, all offices have reported
that they possess records. We anticipate filing one or several suits to
demand the release of these documents in the near future. Mike Kuzma is
also working with law students involved in the Innocence Project of
Osgoode Hall and the LPDC of Canada to obtain documents generated around
the extradition.
MORE GOOD NEWS!
The civil rights complaint against the FBI has been drafted and the
finishing touches are being added now. This case argues that the FBI
violated Leonard's Constitutional Rights by lying to the Department of
Justice, former President Clinton, the Parole Commission, and the public
with the sole intention of denying Leonard fair clemency and parole
reviews, thus costing him his long deserved freedom. We plan to do a
major press blitz on the day the case is filed and we will need your
participation. This is our chance to undo much of the disinformation
disseminated by the FBI through the press in recent years. Please be
prepared to forward the press release to your local media. We will let
you know when we determine the exact date it will be filed. Please stay
tuned.
NOTE: This case represents another opportunity to access the withheld FBI
documents through discovery.
KEEP PUSHING CONGRESS FOR INVESTIGATIONS!
Meanwhile, a window of opportunity continues to exist with the House
Committee on Government Reform. As you know this committee is planning to
investigate cases of FBI misconduct leading to wrongful convictions. We
must press the Reform Committee to shine its spot light on Leonard's case.
Please continue to write Representative Burton on a regular basis, and cc
your letters to your representative. A recent phone call to Rep Burton's
office indicates that he is collecting and taking notice of our letters.
Please send us copies of any response letters you receive from officials
so that we can track their positions.
LET US KNOW
Let us know if you are organizing anything for Leonard whether it be for
June 26 or any other date so that we can help by publicizing it. Do not
hesitate to contact us to share your ideas and suggestions about building
pressure and awareness for the freedom of Leonard Peltier!
Thank you.
In Solidarity,
LPDC
Until Freedom Is Won!
The New Peltier Justice Campaign
Leonard Peltier Defense Committee
PO Box 583
Lawrence, KS 66044
785-842-5774
www.freepeltier.org
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--------- "RE: Native Prisoner" ---------
Date: Tue, 26 Mar 2002 08:19:12 -0600
From: Janet Smith <owlstar@speakeasy.org>
Subj: Native Prisoner
From: "catrelkim" <catrel@rapidnet.com>
Sent: Friday, March 22, 2002 1:37 AM
Subject: Assistance at USP Atwater request
I am seeking assistance for the Circle at USP Atwater (CA). The
Circle there has no programs in place, no ceremony, no Spiritual
Advisors, outside volunteers ... nothing. Would anyone knowing of
anyone who would be willing to work with the native inmates and
administration on getting programs started please contact me?
Regards,
Kim
From: Brigitte Thimiakis
Date: Friday, March 22, 2002 5:57 PM
Subj: Request for Help, from George Lopez
{Please forward}
>From Valerie Scott - NAPS -
======================================================
Please note that NAPS has removed the names of relatives to respect their
privacy. Anyone willing to undertake research or to assist this prisoner
in obtaining his BIA registration, should ask him for further details.
George M. Lopez, #79354 3H20, SMU II - ASP Eyman,
P.O. Box 3400, Florence, AZ 85232
As you can see by my return address that I am an inmate in a state prison.
My situation I this: I am on Death Row, pending appeals, decisions by
courts as to whether I live or die. But I am in need of religious and
cultural information, as those Native Americans imprisoned in most
Florence units are without a Native American contractor, as per Chaplain
Kelley, Eyman Unit.
First allow me to give you a brief history and maybe it can give you some
insight as to the "whys" of my situation. I was born on 5 February 1953,
in a home in Tombstone, Arizona, but transported to a hospital in Benson,
AZ. My grandfather, AL, a Chiricahua Apache, born in the early 1870s,
took me to live, learn and know the ways of the Apache, when I was 2 years
old. His home was in the high mountains of the Sierra Madres, near the
towns of Pierda Negra and Janos. I lived, learned with him, my nurse, a
Yaqui curandera, a group of Elders and their families.
When my grandfather died in 1960, I was sent to live with my family in
Tombstone, AZ. I was then sent to a Catholic school to be 'rehabilitated'
and taught the Christian ways, as my mother, AGML and her family were
devout Catholics who had come from Spain (Barcelona or Altima). The
problem I now face is that my grandmother, R, a Yaqui born in Belen, and
my grandfather A had to escape to the Sierra Madres with their families.
That's where they met, had children, and tried to live. But my
grandmother grew tired of that life and a few years after the birth of my
father, MAL, came to Tombstone, AZ. My father was born on 28 February
1928.
In Tombstone, at that time, it was best to be called a 'Mexican" rather
than an 'Indian', so that's how we became Mexicans. Now that I wish to
receive spiritual help and cultural information, I am told by DOC and the
Chaplain's Office, that I must have a BIA number to participate in this.
So I have written to a list of agencies given to me by the Arizona
Inter-Tribal Council for any registration of family members so that I can
have this number.
So far, no luck! Except information from a book entitled, "The Apache
Diaries" by Goodwin & Goodwin, published by the University of Nebraska,
sent to my by Don Decker, Director, Yauapai-Apache Nation, Apache Culture
Office, 2400 Datsi, Camp Verde, Arizona 86322-8412. Where he states that,
"If you contact the warden there, have Larry Foster of the Native American
Prison Spirituality Office visit you and you can explain your situation to
him. Just by the mere fact that you proved that your ancestry was from
the Sierra Madres area is justification for your participation in the
sweat lodges there".
But I've done just that, only to be told that I don't have a number!
So I am not eligible to participate in ANY Native American ceremonies,
including to purchase or obtain smudging material, so I am asking for any
support you or your organization can give to me, to make my stay here at
SMU II a bit more tolerable.
I have asked my siblings to help, but I guess they don't acknowledge
that part of the bloodline. I grew up with my grandfather and the old
ways, and even when I was 'rehabilitated', I secretly tried to worship in
the old ways. My father asked me not to 'rock the boat', and I respected
his wishes, until he passed away in 1998. Now I must do what I can to
follow my heart, blood and spirit, before my life is taken. Please help me
to get that number and help me find someone willing to re-teach me the
ways before it is too late.
Thank you!
=====
NAPS (Native American Prisoner Support)
http://www.hri.ca/partners/naps/
--------- "RE: History: Carlisle Indian School" ---------
Date: Mon, 18 Mar 2002 21:54:29 -0500
From: Barbara Landis <blandis@epix.net>
Subj: March 15, 1889 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
============================
VOLUME IV CARLISLE, PA.
=============================
FRIDAY, MARCH 15, 1889 NO. 30
=============================
THINK.
When you are tempted much to say
An angry word, do *not* I pray.
Just bite your tongue a little while
And screw your face into a smile,
And think.
When you are tempted much to take
A little thing, if bad thoughts make
You covet what is not your own,
Just go into a room alone
And think.
When you are longing much to be
Like some wise person that you see,
Just take your little book and read
The lessons that to-day you need,
And think.
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ARE INDIANS KIND TO ANIMALS?
------
The following story of a Carlisle girl now in the country, was
overheard by the Man-on-the-band-stand the other day and answers the
above question very nicely :
The family doctor who had been sent for to see a sick person in the
house where the girl lives, drove up to the door one cold day this
winter and hastily tying his horse hurried in to the house to see what
he could do for the sick.
While he was in the house the Indian girl noticed that the horse
stood shivering in the cold, and she went to the barn, got a blanket and
put it on the horse.
When the doctor came out he said: "Why some one has been very kind to
blanket my horse so niceIy. I wonder who it was."
"It was I," said the Indian girl modestly.
"You," said the Doctor. "I thank you very much and here is ten cents
for the trouble.
"It was no trouble," replied the girl, but she kept the money and the
next day sent it to Carlisle to pay for the INDIAN HELPER.
So the Man-on-the-band-stand is glad to tell the story that the
readers of his paper may see that Indians have kind hearts and that his
children on farms like the INDIAN HELPER so well that they are willing
to spend the last ten cents for it.
SUCCESSFUL MEN.
Who are they? They are those men who, when boys, were compelled to
work, to help better themselves or their parents, and who, when a little
older, were under the stern necessity of doing more than their
legitimate share of labor, who as young men, developed their minds and
wits by persistent study in moments that are ordinarily wasted.
Hence, in reading the lives of eminent men who have distinguished
themselves, we find the youth passed in self-denials.
They sat up late, rose early to the performance of imperative duties,
doing by daylight the work of one man and by night that of another.
A banker of high integrity, and who started in life without
shilling, said the other day:
"For years I was in my place of business at sunrise, and often did
not leave for fifteen or eighteen hours."
"What is your secret? asked a lady of Turner, the distinguished
painter.
He replied: "I have no secret, madam, but hard work."
Says Dr. Arnold: "The difference between one man and another is not
so much in talent as in energy."
"Nothing," says Reynolds, "is denied well-directed labor, and nothing
is to be attained without it." "Excellence in any department," says
Johnson, can now be attained by the labor of life-time but it is not to
be purchased at a lesser price."
"There is but one way to succeed," says Sidney Smith, "and that is by
hard labor, and the man who will not pay that price for distinction had
better at once dedicate himself to the pursuit of the fox."
"Step by step" reads the French proverb, "one goes very far."
"Nothing," says Mirabeau. "is impossible to a man who can and will.
This is the only law of success."
------------
Hypocrites seldom deceive anybody. It is never difficult to detect
the counterfeit.
===================================
(P. 2)
The Indian Helper.
-----------------------------
PRINTED EVERY FRIDAY, AT THE INDIAN
INDUSTRIAL SCHOOL, CARLISLE, PA. BY THE
INDIAN PRINTER BOYS.
--> THE INDIAN HELPER is PRINTED by Indian boys, but EDITED by
The-Man-on-the-band-stand, who is NOT an Indian.
-----------------------------
Price: - 10 cents a year.
==============================
Address INDIAN HELPER, Carlisle, Pa.
Miss M. Burgess, Manager.
==============================
Entered in the P.O. at Carlisle as second class mail matter.
==============================
The INDIAN HELPER is paid for in advance, so do not hesitate to take
the paper from the Post Office, for fear a bill will be presented.
=============================
SQUEEZED INTO SHAPE.
----
At English Speaking Meeting, on Saturday night we were again
entertained by a talk from Mr. Mason Pratt.
This time he took for his subject "Iron."
He carried us most interestingly through all the different processes
of converting iron-ore into rails for rail-road purposes and into
various other shapes of usefulness.
The squeezing of the huge pieces of iron into shapes, by pressing
them through immense rollers, etc., gave Captain a test upon which he
spoke very earnestly after Mr. Mason was through.
"Squeezed into shape."
No doubt, if the iron knew when it came out of the hill the amount of
heat and driving and pushing and squeezing it would have to go through
before it could become the iron for the rail-road or the razor or the
watch-spring it would shrink from being so worked over.
But it must undergo all this before it can become of much use to the
civilized world.
An application was made from this to the life of a growing person
starting on the road to usefulness.
To become useful we must submit to hard squeezing into shape.
The Captain then referred to the story which Mr. Mason gave of his
college friend, how after years of hard study in college, when he left
college to begin business for himself he began" in a machine-shop or
foundry.
Where did he begin?
In a high place in the foundry?
No.
He first wheeled sand along with common laborers.
That was the only way he could get in the shop, and he saw there was
a chance to work higher, so he took the wheel-barrow first.
In a few weeks he was given a little higher work, that of carrying
boards for the carpenter.
A few weeks more he was promoted to the office where he had to work
all night over large sheets of figures.
He did not complain about this hard work, but kept faithfully at it.
Now he is in the drafting room, where he draws parts of great
locomotives and other machinery and gets good pay for his work.
No doubt in a few years he will come out at the top of the heap of
mechanical engineering.
He is *working his own way up* by good and faithful service.
He is being "squeezed into shape" like the iron and it is making a
MAN of him.
Let us take this lesson home to ourselves.
When we leave Carlisle let us not think we know too much to begin low
down in any useful work we can find.
Remember the Captains' closing quotation:
"He that is faithful over a few things shall be made ruler of many."
===========
It is not work that wears men out prematurely. It is worry. Work is
healthy; you can hardly put more on a man than he can bear. Worry is the
rust on the blade. It is not the revolution that destroys the machinery,
but the friction.-[Beecher
===========
Cornelia, who lives at Mrs. Millers's in town sent a club for the
HELPER this week and promises more, soon. Several of our boys and girls
out from the school have made themselves agents for the
Man-on-the-band-stand's paper and it pleases the gentleman very much to
see his children get thus into business habits.
-----------
Jemima Two Elks writes that she enjoys going to school with white
children and loves her teacher.
-----------
Edwin Yastgumu, stood at the head of his spelling class when he wrote
last week from his farm home in Bucks County. He takes his books home
nights and studies after his work is done, and he means to get on as
fast as he can.
-----------
Four little hearts were made glad this week by a present of the
INDIAN HELPER from a kind friend at Mittineague, Mass. They were who
have not money to pay for it themselves.
===================================
Capt. and Mrs. Pratt are in Jamestown, N. Y.
-----------
Frank Jannies is becoming a particularly neat workman at his
trade-carpentering.
-----------
The painting of a new show-case has been very nicely done by Raymond
Stewart.
-----------
W. F. Campbell says he much prefers carpentering to painting and goes
at it like an old hand.
-----------
We would like to print all the Enigmas received from our little white
friends, but it is impossible. We thank them, however, for showing such
interest in our work.
-----------
The carpenters are very busy in the shop filling the requisition for
wardrobes for the boys' rooms. Those for the Large Boys' Quarters are
nearly completed, then the little boys will have their turn.
-----------
The new horse, Charley, is so big that he has a special set of
harness made for him, which is now being done in the harness shop. He
takes a twenty-two inch collar. The traces for his harness stitched by
Knox Nostlin show very superior work.
-----------
Asked one of our teachers of her class, "What is the difference
between present, past and future time?" No one could answer. In
explaining she said, "Now, next summer maybe we will go to camp again in
the mountains. "What time is that?" "Summer time," was the confident
reply of one of her hopefuls.
-----------
THE RED MAN out to-day contains an interesting article from Miss
Sparhawk, one from Dr. Given, pointed editorial matter and school notes,
besides high comments from the leading papers of the day on the Indian
Question and Oklahoma. It is well worth reading through and through.
Subscription price, fifty cents a year, single copy five cents.
-----------
One of the most remarkable features of the blind entertainment, the
account of which we printed last week, was inadvertently omitted. It was
the memory exercise given by a young man who for several minutes
answered questions fired at him by Rev. Dr. Brown and others in
reference to the content of any chapter of the Old Testaments they
chanced to select. In Chronicles and Kings he was perfectly at home and
made not a single failure. The young man left the platform amid the
enthusiastic applause of an amused audience.
Married.
PRATT-CRANE--On the 14th inst. in Jamestown, N. Y., Mr. Mason D.
Pratt, son of Capt. Pratt, to Miss Mabel Crane.
The happy couple go directly to Dubuque, Iowa, where Mr. Pratt has
engaged in business. The good wishes of the Man-on-the-band-stand and
their host of friends at Carisle go with them.
-----------
On Saturday Prof. Woodruff arrived from his visit among boys on
farms.
-----------
We can afford to talk about the weather when it is so lovely as it
was for several days this week.
-----------
When a room girl after she dusts the books puts them back on the
shelf up-side down and does it often what can be the matter with her?
-----------
Jack Standing called and renewed his subscription for the HELPER, and
he did it in a real business-like way, too, just like any other man.
-----------
A telegram of congratulations signed by all the teachers and officers
of our school was sent to Mr. and Mrs. Mason Pratt, yesterday morning.
-----------
The largest and best flag the Carlisle School can afford (and it is a
beauty) waved gracefully in the breeze, yesterday, in honor of the
wedding of Mr. Mason Pratt and Miss Crane.
-----------
The first edition of the HELPER from which our pupils and teachers at
the school are supplied comes out Thursday evenings. Who is going to
attend the Missionary meeting tonight? An interesting time is
anticipated.
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LOST.-From the printing-office, a pair of scissors. How can the
Man-on-the-band-stand do his clipping from exchanges if he has no
scissors? Will the boy who carried them off to cut hair please return
them? Five cents reward will be given for the return of this valuable
piece of property, and no questions asked.
-----------
Died.
EUNICE-On Saturday the 9th. inst., Eunice Sois, aged one year and
five months.
Our little Eunice had all that care and attention could give, and yet
she was taken from us. The disease from which she suffered went to her
brain and for two days she lay in a stupor from which she was not able
to rally. On Sunday afternoon she was buried and many a heart sank in
sorrow as the pretty little white coffin, covered with the choicest
flowers and containing the remains of our beloved baby was lowered in
the grave.
===================================
(p. 4)
DRINK AND WORK.
-----
"I drink to make me work," said a young man, to which observation an
old man replied thus:
"That is right! You drink and it will make you work!
Hearken to me a moment, and I'll tell you something that may do you
good.
I was once a very prosperous farmer.
I had a good, loving wife, and two as fine lads as ever the sun had
shone on.
We had a comfortable home and used to live happily together.
But we used to drink ale to make us work.
Those two lads I have laid in drunkards' graves.
My wife died broken-hearted, and she now lies by her two sons.
I am seventy-two years of age. Had it not been for drink I might have
been an independent man, but I used to drink to make me work--and it
makes me work now!
At seventy-two years of age, I am obliged to work for my daily bread.
Drink! Drink ! and it will make you work."-[Ex.
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How Cigarettes are Made.
It is understood that at the present time quite a number of
manufacturers are making cigarettes in the following manner:
Cigar stumps are-collected from the streets, bar-rooms, railroad
stations, and other places by children and foreigners who make a good
living in this way, it is said.
When the stumps are brought in to the cigarette maker, they are first
dried by being before a fire.
When dry they are rubbed between the hands until they are shredded to
the size of a pin's head.
The stuff is then rolled in paper and sold for cigarettes, and these
are what boys smoke!
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"The importance of fidelity in small things is seen in the fact that
small occasions are coming continually, while great ones seldom occur.
Thus our education in faithfulness will depend not so much on our
doing right on great occasions, as in the small but frequent tests of
daily life.
It is these which educate us to good or evil."
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Don't think that your belonging to a church, being active in a Sunday
School or the Y. M. C. A., is going to save you. Christ said, "Blessed
are the pure in heart, for they shall see God."-[Y. M. C. A. Advocate.
A boy of grit, of tact, of talent, will under the most adverse
circumstances in this America of ours, push himself to the front, and
render a good account of himself, while the boy sluggish in disposition,
low in aims, a lover of ease and self-indulgence, will as easily fall
into the no-account, lazy, indifferent pauper and criminal classes.
----------
The Sitka "North Star" says of one of their Indian girls:
A girl who had served in the kitchen a short time and was learning to
bake bread, was told to turn the bread pan around. She took the bread
out of the oven and turned it up-side down on top of the stove.
----------
When respiration ceases our education is finished, and not a moment
sooner.
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Enigma.
A little boy nine years old sends the following enigma:
I am made of 12 letters.
My 1, 2, 3, is what I like to write with.
My 8, 9, 10, 4, 11, 2, is the name of a girl.
My 5, 7, 6, is what a fox is.
My 8, 12, 11, 10, is what some girls are when they have new clothes.
My whole is the name of a state in the Union.
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ANSWER TO LAST WEEK'S K PUZZLE: Shop bell.
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STANDING OFFER: - For FIVE new subscribers to the INDIAN HELPER, we
will give the person sending them a photographic group of the 15
Carlisle Indian Printer boys, on a card 4 1/2 X 6 1/2 inches, worth 20
cents when sold by itself. Name and tribe of each boy given.
(Persons wishing the above premium will please enclose a 1-cent stamp
to pay postage.)
For TEN, Two PHOTOGRAPHS, one showing a group of Pueblos as they
arrived in wild dress, and another of the same pupils three years after,
or, for the same number of names we give two photographs showing still
more marked contrast between a Navajoe as he arrived in native dress,
and as he now looks, worth 20 cents a piece.
Persons wishing the above premiums will please enclose a 2-cent stamp
to pay postage.
For FIFTEEN, we offer a GROUP of the whole school on 9x14 inch card.
Faces show distinctly, worth sixty cents.
Persons wishing the above premium will please send 5 cents to pay
postage.
For THREE new subscribers we will give the picture of Apache baby,
Eunice. Send a l-cent stamp to pay postage.
Persons sending clubs must send all the names at once. If the stamp
to pay postage on premium does not accompany the subscription list we
take it for granted that the premium is not wanted.
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At the Carlisle Indian School is published monthly an eight-page
quarto of standard size, called THE RED MAN, the mechanical part of
which is done entirely by Indian boys. This paper is valuable as a
summary of information on Indian matters and contains writings by Indian
pupils and local incidents of the school. Terms: Fifty cents a year, in
advance.
For 1, 2 and 3 subscribers for THE RED MAN we give the same premiums
offered in Standing Offer for the HELPER. Address, THE RED MAN,
Carlisle, PA.
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Transcribed by Barbara Landis. For more info see
http://www.carlisleindianschool.org.
--------- "RE: Rustywire: There was this one Hitchiker" ---------
Date: Wed, 02 Jan 2002 11:47:36 -0000
From: "Rustywire" <rustywire@hotmail.com>
Subj: there was this one hitchhiker
Mailing List: Rez Life <rezlife@yahoogroups.com>
I remember this one hitchhiker I picked up late one night on the road
near Woodsprings, not far from Kinlichee west of Window Rock headed
toward Ganado, it was on State route 264. It was this time of year
and it was snowing, late and there was no moon. It was cold and the
wind was blowing the snow in swirls.
There was no traffic, it was late at night and I hadn't seen anyone
on the road since I left St. Michaels. I was in a police unit, Navajo
PD headed out to the Joint Use Area, Hopiland, those were the days of
border disputes and they were taking Navajo cattle and we were on 24
hour patrol driving the back roads from Jeddito to Pinon then west to
Hard Rock, Dinnebito and Big Mountain then South to Sand Springs
along the Turquoise Trail then along the road to Coal Mine mesa, it
was a 48 hour shift, maybe 300-400 miles along dirt roads not many
tourists drive.
Anyway, as I was driving along the road, there was lone stick figure,
a dark shape on the road that I passed. I knew it was someone walking
out there late n the highway and a long ways from anywhere. I stopped
and went back to pick them up.
I thought it must be an old person, since the figure was small in
size wrapped in a blanket head to toe. I stopped and could the person
standing in my headlights, wrapped against the blowing crystals of
cold snow. It looked to be an old woman but I could not see her face.
She stood by the door to the police unit and couldn't open the door.
Her fingers were too cold, so I opened the door and said in
Navajo. "It is too cold, get in Grandmother, I am headed to Dinnebito
and can give you a ride"
She didn't say anything just got in and we headed down the road. My
unit was warm, I had shot gun mounted in the middle, was wearing my
side harm, had a .223 with a scope and an AR-15 in the trunk. The
unit was marked and I was in uniform dressed in a green down jacket
with good boots so I was warm and ready for anything. Well she didn't
say anything to me. Sometimes hitchhikers are like that too tired to
talk, and it was cold out so I could see why. The ride was quiet, she
didn't say a word. She looked from the size of her to be an old
woman, but I couldn't see her face.
I drove on down the road passed Morgan Shell, Ganado, Burnside
Junction, and Whipporwill turnoff, Steamboat, Toyei, and Beshbito,
passed Jeddito and into Keams Canyon where I gassed up. I got some
strange looks from the BIA cops from North Dakota that numbered
probably 200 or so who were sent to watch the Navajos and their
errant cattle. They watched me as I watched them. The old woman was
asleep. Some of the BIA cops in their blue uniforms were looking
inside my unit as I was paying for the gas. They didn't say anything
to me when I got outside. Even though we were cops we were on
different sides, in a way, they didn't talk to me. They were looking
at the old woman but they couldn't see her face either.
I drove off through Hopiland, passed Second and Third Mesa and then
got to Dinnebito turnoff. I stopped by the road and the old
hitchhiker just sat there. I said, I am going to Hard Rocks from
here. She didn't say anything just motioned with one arm to go ahead.
I left the paved highway and headed north on the bumpy washboard road
leading to Big Mountain. I drove thirty miles went past the boarding
school and thought to myself I wonder if she knows where she is
going, Maybe she has no place to go and just wants to ride around in
a warm car. I asked where are you going Grandmother, but she said
nothing, just motioned with her covered arm to go forward. I watched
the road it was dark.
Way out in the middle of nowhere there is a mission surrounded by
small houses. It was foggy and the dark, as I got to the mission
there were no lights on in any of the houses. It is a remote place.
The only light was from a glowing cross on the church, green neon
cross that seemed to float above the fog; it glowed strangely in the
dark. There was a mist on the ground and road was rutted so the ride
was a hard ride, bouncing up and down the road.
As I slowed there was a pickup that had been following me for
sometime, the lights appeared in my rear view mirror. I parked by the
mission turned my lights off and waited for the pickup. Who would be
following me around this place?
I waited with my quiet rider and then I saw it was two BIA cops in
BLO truck, they looked lost and so I got out and went to talk to
them. They were surprised to see my flashlight come on as I
approached them. They stopped and rolled down their windows. They
were from someplace up north, they looked lost.
What's going on guys, I said. I had thermos in one hand and offered
them a cup of coffee. They looked at one another, wondering whether
to take it. After all if worse came to worse we could be trying to
arrest each other over the JUA maybe, maybe not, who knew what was to
happen. They thought for minute. I said, there isn't another cup of
hot coffee anywhere for a hundred miles I said. They took the thermos
and poured themselves a cup. It broke the ice, we talked a little bit
about our work, the cold and things cops talk about and then I went
back to my unit to get back on the road. I told those two to head
East into to the dark, they would pass Wepo Wash of Hillerman fame
and then would come across a dirt road headed South that road would
take them back to Second Mesa. It would take them pass Awatovi, the
site of a Hopi village massacred by the other villages way back in
the 1600's, I told them not to stop there since there were some
strange things known to happen to people who went there especially
this time of night. They just looked at one another and I left them
there.
When I got back to my unit the old one was gone. The door to the unit
was left open and she was nowhere to be seen. As I looked around all
I saw were the dark shapes of the houses not one had a light on. A
chill went up my spine as I wondered who I had given a ride to. I got
in my unit and headed down the road, heading North up through Black
Mesa and thought about getting to someplace where there were some
lights. Maybe the dispatcher at Kayenta PD might have a cup of hot
coffee waiting for me as I drove north through the fog. I switched
radio channels and called out.
820 to Kayenta. 820 to Kayenta. All I heard was static. 820 to
Kayenta, I called out, then after a little bit. I heard Rose the
dispatcher say, Is that you Sgt. Rustywire, her voice was friendly. I
said it's 820, we were supposed to be professional on the airwaves
and besides the other guys were listening. After all they were
following me around. I'm coming in for a cup.
She said when will you be here. I said I am at Black Mesa and will
see you in an hour and she said I will brew some up for you. I said
thanks, I told her I just dropped off a skinwalker, maybe I can find
one for you out here for you to bring back with me. She double
clicked the mike, meaning an affirmative ok and I laughed as I drove
North through Black Mesa heading toward sunrise.
rustywireyahoo.com
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--------- "RE: Poem: Dirt" ---------
Date: Thu, 31 May 2001 13:52:35 -0500
From: nokwisa <swillett@RO.COM>
Subj: dirt
dirt is not a dirty word
i wear it
like a trademark
on jeans
shirt cuffs
painted in stripes
across my face
they laugh
warrior painted
to do battle
against progress
replant the trees
replenish the grasses
tend the native
herbs
they slash and burn
i walk into
the supermarket
stringing the perfume
of sage
through the aisles
and offer tender
with stained hands
the frowning clerk
shakes her head
the old farmers
comment
crazy lady
putting trees back in that good field
the berries are blooming now
like one hundred years before
they scratch and tear at the skin
of intruders
but offer up a bounty
to those that know their value
nokwisa c. 2001
--------- "RE: Verse: Hawaiian Book of Days" ---------
Date: Mon, 18 Mar 2002 06:21:13 -1000
From: Debbie Sanders <kepola@hgea.org>
Subj: Hawaiian Book of Days
A HAWAIIAN BOOK OF DAYS, week of April 1-7
APELILA
(April)
(Welo)
April was the last of the 6 months in the Hoo-ilo, or Winter, period of
ancient times, which ran from November through April.
1
The earth's magic is a gift of wonder.
2
Never abandon your dreams.
3
Memories dwell within the soul.
4
Return to the places of childhood -- there is your cycle renewed.
5
Happiness and fulfillment are found only in our own hearts.
6
Age cannot hinder the joyful spirit.
7
Alone, we are restored; with others, we are fulfilled.
(c) Copyright 1991 by D. F. Sanders
Me ke aloha i ka nani, ... Moe'uhanekeanuenue
(With love and beauty, ... Rainbow Dream)
--------- "RE: Bushyhead's Stories introduce Cherokee Words" ---------
Date: Thu, 21 Mar 2002 08:20:19 -0600
From: Gary Smith <gars@Speakeasy.org>
Subj: NA News Item
- - - - - - -<Forwarded news>- - - - - - -
filename="KITUWAH STORIES"
http://www.pechanga.net/
http://www.heraldsun.com/state/6-207715.html
Bushyhead's stories introduce Cherokee words to preschoolers
By MARK BARRETT
Mar 20, 2002 : 1:10 am ET
CHEROKEE, N.C. -- When the late Robert H. Bushyhead was working with his
daughter and others on a lengthy project to record his encyclopedic
knowledge of the Cherokee language, every once in a while he would pause
to spend a moment "chasing rabbits."
"Dad would just scoot back in the chair and say, 'Did I ever tell the
story about ... ?'" said daughter Jean L. Bushyhead. Then he would relate
a traditional Cherokee story he had learned while sitting by the fireplace
as a boy.
Friends and relatives of Robert Bushyhead gathered at the Museum of the
Cherokee Indian recently to celebrate both the publication of one of those
stories in book form and the life of Bushyhead, who was a leader in
efforts to preserve Cherokee language and culture before he died last July
at age 86.
Bushyhead was a minister, interpreter, logger and actor -- he portrayed
Cherokee newspaper editor Elias Boudinot for 18 years in the Cherokee
outdoor drama "Unto These Hills" -- but was probably best known for his
work to preserve the Kituwah dialect of Cherokee.
It's Bushyhead's voice, among others, that guides Cherokee children
learning the language today.
He and his daughter started recording the dialect on video and audio in
the early 1990s.
Those recordings are a key resource for the Cherokee Language Project, a
program his daughter heads that brings language lessons to preschools on
the Eastern Band of the Cherokee Indians' reservation.
Years ago, many Cherokee children were sent off to boarding schools and
told not to speak their native language. Several people at the Museum
gathering said knowledge of the language has faded or died out almost
altogether in some families.
Cherokee is now taught in local schools, but, "In my age group on down,
(many Cherokees) have never heard it" used in every day life, said Jean
Bushyhead.
Cherokee resident Juanita Wilson said the language "is a way of looking
at the world" and "identifies who the Cherokee are." But, she said, some
young people "don't identify with it."
The book, "Curious One: A Cherokee Story," is a children's book about a
young Cherokee girl who becomes stranded in a tree because of her
curiosity.
It introduces Cherokee words and will be used to pass the language on to
preschoolers, said Kay Thorpe Bannon, who put the story in writing. Tribe
member Revina Sneed illustrated the book.
The book is available at the museum and some area bookstores, she said.
Proceeds benefit the Cherokee Language Project.
Copyright c. 2002 Associated Press. All rights reserved.
Copyright c. 2002 The Durham Herald Company.
--------- "RE: Creek Nation aims to Revive Languages" ---------
Date: Thu, 21 Mar 2002 08:20:19 -0600
From: Gary Smith <gars@Speakeasy.org>
Subj: NA News Item
- - - - - - -<Forwarded news>- - - - - - -
filename="CREEK LANGUAGE REVIVAL"
http://www.owlstar.com/dailyheadlines.htm
http://www.newsok.com/cgi-bin/show_article?ID=837436&pic=none&TP=getarticle
Creek Nation aims to revive languages
2002-03-20
>From Staff and Wire Reports
OKMULGEE -- The Creek Nation is trying to revitalize the Maskoke and
Euchee languages through radio and publications. The tribe's
communications department has launched an effort to provide radio
broadcasts and publications in the two languages.
The tribe is now accepting nominations to fill 11 positions on the
language committee of the communications department. Nominees must be able
to speak or read and write one of the two languages.
For more information, call Stephanie Barnett at (918) 756-8700, Ext. 312.
Copyright c. 2002, Produced by NewsOK.
--------- "RE: Dreaming a Language Back to Life" ---------
Date: Mon, 25 Mar 2002 08:38:22 -0600
From: Gary Smith <gars@Speakeasy.org>
Subj: NA News Item
- - - - - - -<Forwarded news>- - - - - - -
filename="PEQUOT LANGUAGE"
http://www.owlstar.com/dailyheadlines.htm
http://www.norwichbulletin.com/news/stories/20020323/localnews/1880115.html
'Dreaming'a language back to life
Tribe works to 'awaken' nearly lost tongue
By GAIL ELLEN DALY
Norwich Bulletin
Saturday, March 23, 2002
On the Mashantucket Pequot Reservation, in the brightly colored Child
Development Center, words are being uttered that haven't been heard in
hundreds of years.
To the children in the tribe's development center, it is simply the
"Flag Song." But these children are a link to the tribe's past, to its
culture, to its language.
The simple song about honoring a flag was developed with the few words
the Pequots have recovered so far and has been put on tape.
"I'm so proud when I hear the children at the Development Center
singing, " said Charlene Jones, a member of the Pequot Tribal Council who
is spearheading the effort to retrieve lost Indian languages. "They have a
greater understanding of who they are and every parent becomes emotional."
At this point, the words are not written, just spoken. Jones said Friday,
however, that Indian lawyer Gerald Hill, who works with the Indigenous
Language Institute in New Mexico, has begun helping her committee write a
planning grant to assess the "interest and commitment" of tribal members
and non-tribal members in continuing the project.
Most people take language for granted. But for the Pequots, recreating
their all but extinct tongue is a way to regain a sense of identity and
secure the tribe's culture. "We're breathing life into the Pequot
language," she said.
The Pequots are not alone. The Passamaquoddy Language Program in eastern
Maine has been renewed, with several tribal members able to speak the
language fluently. Linguist Jessie Little Doe Fermino, a Mashpee Wampanoag
who gained a fellowship at Massachusetts Institute of Technology, began
the Wampanoag Language Reclamation Project in 1993.
"Language is the soul of a nation," said Chief Oren Lyons of the
Onondaga Nation. "It is the cornerstone of culture."
A long process
Douglas H. Whalen has called recreating languages a long, slow,
extremely difficult process.
"It's like watching slow motion," he said.
Whalen, president of the New Haven-based Endangered Language Fund at
Yale University's Department of Linguists, is also the founder of the
program that in the last five years has funded 53 language revitalization
projects.
"Language is a big part of the cultural identity of native peoples and
can have a big impact on the people's lives," he said. "When a language is
gone, it's gone forever."
The fund is a program that supports ongoing projects all over the world.
Whalen noted, for example, that Cornish, spoken in the English section of
Cornwall, disappeared in the early 20th century. It is now being revived,
but since the language is related to Gaelic and Welsh, the revival is
easier.
Jones believes language is a major piece of the tribe's culture.
"Personally, and for the tribe, language gives people a better
understanding of themselves," she said. "Our culture wants to survive and
language completes the circle. It gives us a sense of self."
Fragments endure
She realizes it is a long-term project.
Growing up on the reservation, she recalled, even her family could only
speak a few fragmented words.
Outlawed by the 1638 Treaty of Hartford, her native language may not
have been spoken in hundreds of years. Fortunately for those involved in
its recreation, much written documentation remains.
Early missionaries who worked to convert native people to Christianity
needed to learn the native languages. They intermarried, thus learning
each other's languages.
A diary by Ezra Stiles of Yale University dates from the late 1700s and
even contains written conversations. He made notes stating the people
spoke with "guttural sounds."
John Eliot's Bible is a complete translation of the Old and New
Testaments into Massachusett.
The first edition, printed at Harvard University in 1663, was the first
Bible printed in the New World. A young Nipmuck named James assisted Eliot.
When the copies were destroyed during King Phillip's War, Joseph resumed
his printing duties in Cambridge, with the priority of printing a second
edition of Eliot's Bible.
In 1933, 64 copies of the second edition were still in existence. Today
only three remain. The pristine copy at the Mashantucket Pequot Museum and
Research Center sold at Christy's Auction House a number of years ago for
$285,000. The museum's acquisition department paid "something more than"
$50,000 for the copy.
Jones believes that one copy is at Plimouth Plantation and the third in
the British Museum of Mankind.
"But the translation loses part of the meaning," she said. "It loses
some of the uniqueness and -- after such a long break -- dialect becomes
difficult."
Place names are listed on old cartographer's maps, although the names
were subject to the cartographer's interpretation.
The Pequots are one of two local tribes using Eliot's Bible as a guide
to language revitalization.
Compare notes
Gay Story Hamilton, chairwoman of the Mohegan Tribe's Council of Elders,
who is also a member of the Endangered Language Fund Board of Directors,
is leading her tribe's effort at awakening their language.
"We start with what's recorded," she said, "including Eliot." She noted
that much came from Fidelia Fielding's diaries, which contained some of
the language. Fielding, the last fluent Mohegan speaker, died in 1908.
The first step is to look at neighboring Algonquian languages, which
contain many similarities.
"If there is no word in Mohegan," she said, "we look at the closest
geographical place where the word exists -- especially the Narragansett
and Wampanoag language."
Starting with a basic number of words, it then becomes possible to have
a conversation. Hamilton said the tribe is currently at that point.
Interactive CDs are being recorded, which should be completed by next year.
'Awakening' a process
"The next goal is to write scripts using the basic vocabulary and
elements of grammar," she said. "Down the road, we'll train people and
have classes for tribal members."
Western tribes still retain their language. However, said Jon Reyhner,
an associate professor at Northern Arizona University, only tribes in New
Mexico, Arizona and Montana have had their language handed down through
the generations.
In "awakening languages," Reyhner suggests a number of successful
approaches: Use teams of dedicated people. Use immersion speaking as much
as possible. Set goals. Build up, not out, by using vocabulary and work
through language variation issues.
He said the three Ms are methodology, materials and motivation.
"Bring back songs and greetings," Reyhner said, as they are the culture
which should never be lost. Jones agreed that Pequot would primarily be
spoken at ceremonial events and songs.
Pequot is part of the Algonquian language group, which means that all
words have similar roots, much as the Romance languages have similar roots.
The Seneca tribe of western New York, for example, is part of the Iroquois
language group.
Daryl Baldwin, a member of the Miami Tribe of Indiana, Ohio and Illinois
and director of the Miami Project, said his language was fragmented and
fell dormant during a short span of 100 years. The effort to reclaim Miami
began in 1995.
As part of the Miami Project, Whalen said, children are spoken to only
in Miami.
Baldwin called reclamation a community issue that can only succeed with
the support and participation of the community.
Hamilton pointed out that her tribe is using the same method as the
Miami tribe. "It's a disadvantage not having speakers, but we have none,
so no one alive knows what Mohegan sounded like." Nevertheless, she
believes that they have done a remarkable job in a short period of time.
Whalen believes when the Pequot project is complete, it will be as real
as possible under the circumstances, as there is much that has been
reasonably well recorded.
Jones is convinced the Pequot language can be revived. "Within five
years, with diligent research, we should have a dictionary," she said.
Verbal communication would be primarily for ceremonial use. Eventually, a
curriculum to teach children the language would be developed.
All Indian papers are being transcribed with the Tribal Council's
blessing.
"We're fortunate that Foxwoods' success has afforded us the means to do
this -- to have the research center," Jones said. "This is my lifelong
dream and I've lived to see it come to this point."
Recognizable roots
Like European languages, some American Indian languages use similar
words for the same object or emotion. For instance, "cat" is "chat" in
French, "Katze" in German and "gato" in Spanish.
The new and old testaments of the Bible translated into Massachusset -
Mamusse wunneetupanatamwe up - Biblum God naneeswe nukkone testament kah
wonk wusku testament.
Examples of Native languages using root words:
Cree - awihiwe-w - "he lends to him"
Fox - awihiwe-wa - "he lends something to him"
Menominee - Aswhewew - "he lends him something"
Ojibwa - awi?iwen - "lend something" the question mark means "not known."
Cree - nipiw "he dies"
Fox - nepwa - "he dies"
Menominee - Nepuah - "he dies"
Ojibwa - nip - "die"
Cree - keko - "which or what kind"
Fox - kekohi - "something, anything"
Menominee - kekoh - "something, anything"
Ojibwa - keko - "something"
Cree - kakike - "forever"
Fox - kakikewa - "forever, eternally"
Menominee - kekek - "forever, eternally, permanently"
Ojibwa - kakeke - "all the time, forever."
Copyright c. 2002 Norwich Bulletin. All Rights Reserved.
--------- "RE: Native America Calling" ---------
Date: Tue, 26 Mar 2002 09:27:33 -0600
From: Eric Martin <emartin2@unl.edu>
Subj: NAC Topics for 3/26 - 3/28 + Different Drums Honors Birds + more...
1) NAC Topics for 3/26 - 3/28
2) Voices From The Circle
3) Different Drums Honors Birds
4) alterNative Voices
5) Earthsongs - Apache jazz bassist, John-Carlos Perea
1) NAC Topics for 3/26 - 3/28
Listen live every weekday from 1-2pm ET by going to www.airos.org or tuning
into your local radio station. For a list of affiliates go to
http://www.nativeamericacalling.com/nac_affiliates.shtm
TUE - 3/26: Multi-Cultural Global Ecology:
Global ecology is an issue that affects us all, regardless of race,
ethnicity, or economic class. It is also an issue that has tended to divide
the world, and will continue to do so, as long as people in power abuse
Mother Earth for short-term financial gains. Some say that what is needed
is a new definition about what it means to be civilized, and a new
recognition of the interdependence of ecological responsibility. How do we
confront the entrenched problems in our world society and begin to reverse
the inequities that currently exist? Guests include Joseph Rael of the
Picuris and Ute tribes, and author of the book "Being and Vibration."
WED - 3/27: Book of the Month - "Sister Nations":
In recognition of Women's History Month, what better way to pay tribute to
Native women than to highlight the work of established and emerging Native
women writers? This compilation of fiction, prose and poetry, which is just
arriving in bookstores, honors the diverse experiences and the role of
women in our Native communities. The editors of "Sister Nations," who also
contribute writings to the book, blend the text into a lively and
thought-provoking anthology of the complexities of the Native American
female experience. Guests include co-editors Heid Erdrich of the Ojibway
Nation and Laura Tohe of the Navajo Nation.
THU - 3/28: Tibetan Monks: Trespassers in Their Own Land:
When China invaded Tibet in 1959, 6,500 monasteries were destroyed or
closed. Traditional training programs were being taught in these
monasteries. Fortunately, some Monks who lived and practiced the ancient
Tibetan culture were able to escape. Today, the endangered Tibetan culture
leads a fragile existence in the exiled refugee communities in India and
Nepal. The Tibetan Buddhist culture, like many Native American cultures, is
in danger of being lost. How does a centuries-old culture survive when it
is removed from its aboriginal homeland? Guests include members of the
Drepung Loseling Institute.
2) Voices From The Circle
This week, VOICES FROM THE CIRCLE/AIROS listeners will hear something new
and something old.
Bill Miller asks you to be the "Braveheart." Mary Youngblood makes us feel
sentimental with something from her new CD -- the song "Caress The Smile."
Northern Cree makes us all feel welcome in the scared pow wow circle with a
tremendous "Intertribal." Brule enables us to feel what it's like to ride
with "Sacred Horses." Jeff Ball, with vocal assistance of Walela, performs
a great version of the Steve Miller Band's "Fly Like An Eagle." Upper
Michigan's Jody Thomas Gaskin sings a song of regret "My Sister." Murray
Porter perks our seasonal interest with a timely story about the "Changing
Of The Seasons." Ulali paints a bluesy North Carolina picture of "Going
Home." Native Healing helps us to listen in on "Whispering Ancestors." Papa
John & Daniel let us feel the experience of being a "Wind Voyager." This
time, Jeff Ball plays his beautiful flute without vocals on "White Man's
Moccasins." Georgia Wettlin-Larsen concludes this week's VFTC by singing a
"Lakota Flute Song."
Listen online by going to www.airos.org (All Times ET)
Saturday - 3/30: 3pm
Sunday - 3/31: 4am, 3pm
Monday - 4/01: 4am
3) Different Drums Honors Birds
Birds have always held an important place within indigenous cultures. Some
birds nourish our bodies as an important food source; others symbolize the
most sacred communication with the Creator. The feathers of birds are an
important part of regalia worn in dance and ceremony. In some tribes, the
name of a particular bird or the attributes of birds in general may be used
to define a clan, and thus be understood by an individual to be an
important part of his or her identity. Also, stories about birds and
animals help us to comprehend the meaning of many things that happen during
this life we all share on Mother Earth.
This week on Different Drums, we share traditional and contemporary songs
and stories relating to the birds, including the bluebird, woodpecker,
crow, goose, buzzard, eagle and condor. Tribes represented include the
Yupik of the far north, San Juan Pueblo and Navajo of the desert southwest,
Mikmaq of the northeast, Seminole from the swamps of Florida, Lakota from
the plains, Northern Tutchone from Canada, and more. Join us for an
interesting hour of honoring things with wings, this week on Different Drums.
Listen online by going to www.airos.org (All Times ET)
Tuesday 3/26: 10am, 4pm, 10pm
Wednesday 3/27: 4am
Saturday 3/30: 5pm
Sunday 3/31: 6am, 5pm
Monday 4/01: 6am
4) alterNative Voices
Susie and Vernon discuss what constitutes a survey in Indian Country and
what's up with the Fighting Whites in Greeley, Colorado. And how can one
get those T-shirts.
We also announce the finalists nominated for Harvard's 2002 American Indian
Tribal Governance Awards.
Our website is always available with events, jobs, scholarships,
announcements and news you can use. www.alternativevoices.org
Listen online by going to www.airos.org (All Times ET)
Wednesday 3/27: 10am, 4pm, 10pm
Thursday 3/28: 4am
Saturday 3/30: 6pm
Sunday 3/31: 7am, 6pm
Monday 4/01: 7am
5) Earthsongs - Apache jazz bassist, John-Carlos Perea
Next time on Earthsongs, new music from Indigenous-American artists John
Trudell, Bill Miller, Arigon Starr, Quetzal, Lila Downs and Greg Serrato.
Then host Gregg McVicar visits with Apache jazz bassist and educator
John-Carlos Perea.
All this and plus the Native Word of the Day. Details at www.earthsongs.net.
Listen online by going to www.airos.org (All Times ET)
Thursday 3/28: 10am, 4pm, 10pm
Friday 3/29: 4am
Saturday 3/30: 4pm
Sunday 3/31: 5am, 4pm
Monday 4/01: 5am
Eric Martin
Native American Public Telecommunications (NAPT)
Web Communications Specialist
emartin2@unl.edu
Listen to Indian Radio on the Internet 24 hours a day at nativetelecom.org
To subscribe to AIROS' electronic program guide e-mail airos@unl.edu with
the subject heading subscribe.
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From: Gary Smith (gars@speakeasy.org)
Subj: Upcoming Events
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Date: Thu, 14 Mar 2002 09:48:45 -0800
From: John Berry <jberry@library.berkeley.edu>
Subj: Fwd: DQU/UCD Pow wow flyer
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UC Davis and D-Q University
32nd Annual Pow wow
April 5-7, 2002
D-QU:
UCD:
Friday 6
PM-Midnight NEW LOCATION: Freeborn Hall
Points will be taken for
exhibition Saturday 11 AM-Midnight
Grand Entry at Noon and 7:30 PM
Sunday 11 AM-Midnight
Grand Entry at Noon
UCD HEAD STAFF:
Host Northern Drum: Sage Point (Fort Hall, ID)
Host Southern Drum: Red Buffalo (Fresno, CA)
MC: Rudy Clark
Arena Director: Gary Bell
Head Man: Doug Schofield
Head Woman: Josette Wahwasuk
Head Gourd Dancer: Billy Wahnee
**FREE Admission** UCD Parking $4/day
**Open Book Pow Wow**Foods**Arts/Crafts**
To reserve time for specials, sponsor dances or for more info, CALL
(530) 752-4936
http://spac.ucdavis.edu/nacd.html
Directions to DQU: Take I-80 and take the HWY 113 exit. Exit on Covell
Blvd and turn left at the light. Travel approximately 8 miles. DQU
will be on the right hand side of the road.
Directions to UCD Freeborn Hall: Take I-80 and get off on the HWY 113
exit. Exit on Russell Blvd. and make a right at the light. Follow
Russell Blvd. and make a right on Howard Way
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Date: Sat, 2 Feb 2002 21:28:18 -0600
From: "Klieta Eaton Bagwell" <kbagwell@HiWAAY.net>
Subj: Homecoming Festival
Cherokee River Indian Community
Homecoming & Indian festival
1100 County Road 67, Moulton, AL
Everyone welcome and invited !
Free admission, Free parking, Free primitive camping
APRIL 6 & 7, 2002
Friday April 5th is setup day for venders & campers
Contact: Steve Bison, Klieta Bagwell, Juanita Lusk or Gene Bagwell
256 318-3584, 256 318-3423, 256 292-3584(256 905-0444 on Tues & Thur)
Information on Head dancers, MC, arena director, etc will be announced
Host Drum: Buffalo Heart
Other drums welcome
The Public is invited to come and enjoy Native American Indian Food,
American Indian Drums & Dancers, storytelling, hand made crafts, Blowgun
competition, cakewalk, fun, games and more.
Horseshoe pitching contest: sponsored by SilverWolf horse Sanctuary!
Entry fee $1.00 1st 2nd & 3rd place prizes
SPONSORS
Silverwolf horse
Alabama Minority
Sanctuary
Consumers council
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Hogohegee Indian Center
No bad attitudes, language, politics, or hurt feelings
Tobacco abuse in designated areas only
Thank you for your support in teaching our children the true values of
our community.
Directions: From I65 take the Hartselle Hwy 36 exit, (between the
Decatur & Cullman exits) go west about 20 miles. turn south on hwy 33 go
about 10 miles turn east at the Cherokee River Indian Community Sign
(it's between the 15 - 16 miles markers) Go 3 miles to reservation
>From Cullman take the hwy 157 exit, turn west on hwy 36, turn south on
hwy 33 follow directions above.
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Native Solutions Presents:
4th Annual Intertribal Powwow - Oxford Lake Park
Exit 185 off I-20 April 26-28, 2002
Fri 5-9pm Dancing & Storytelling
Sat 10am-8pm Grand Entry 11am
Sun 10am-5pm Grand Entry 12noon
Admission $5 Adults, Seniors 65 & up and Children 12 & under free
Native American Honor Guard and Warrior Society
Host Nortern Drum - Grey Wolf Singers
Host Southern Drum - Shadow Wolf Singers
Headman - Don Redbear
Hedlady - Donna Dulaney
MC - Gary Smith
AD - Buck Tucker
Special Native American flute performance - Larry Campbell
Special Appearance, Dallas TX author & Speaker - Kicking Eagle
No Drugs or Alcohol - Bring your own chairs
Iron Forging, Beadwork, Dreamcatcher and Healing with Herbs demos
For more Info call Tony 256 835 0120; Cindy 256 831 9373;
John or Rachel 256 835 2638; or Mark or Ruth 26 820 6315
Vendors - Contact Mark or Ruth Davis only
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anderson's native american events page
http://andersons-web.com/billyone.html
this page has been designed to help you find native american events. we
have posted information on pow-wows, festivals, rodeos, art & craft shows,
seminars and many other types of gatherings that represents the native
american culture. please feel free to send us information about your
gatherings to post. along with our list of events, we have included links
to all other event pages that we are aware of so that you can use this
page as your native american event index page. as hard as we work to make
sure the information we post is correct, mistakes seem easy to make.
therefore before you depart for a gathering, please use the contact
numbers given and verify all of the important information for yourself.
we can be contacted as follows:
write us:
anderson's
11372 timber lane
brooksville, florida 34601
Anderson's Web Powwows
May 3 - 5, 2002: 15th Annual Indian Celebration and Powwow Presented by
the East Tennessee Indian League at the Farmer's Market Knoxville,
Tennessee I-640, Exit 8. For More Information contact: 865-579-1384 or
email: TWDBear@aol.com
May 10 - 11, 2001: The Augusta Pow Wow (new location see flyer) FLYER
CLICK HERE! Augusta Georgia . The flyer mentions a belt and pictures of
this belt. You may view these pictures by clicking HERE. For more
information call 706-771-1221 or e-mail: krazywilly@mindspring.com
June 1 - 2, 2002: Pistcataway Indian Tribe celebrating it's 20th year with
a very large pow wow at their reservation in Maryland. For more
information e-mail: TopcopinDC@aol.com
June 26 - 29, 2002: Yes 2002! National Powwow 12. July, 2002 in Tipton,
Indiana. The committee is looking for input and suggestions on how to make
The National Powwow experience more enjoyable and rewarding. See our Web
Site at: www.nationalpowwow.com Please send input to: J. Ford Griggs,
Chairman, National Powwow 12, Rt. 3, Box 110, Bartlesville, Oklahoma 74003,
Telephone 918-662-5317, Fax 918-662-5317, or e-mail at: FordGriggs@aol.com
August 2 - 4, 2002: Pow Wow at Frank Liske Park in Concord, North Carolina,
Ridgie Tucker will lead the host Southern Drum. There will be Gourd
Dancing. Jim Charlton and Amy Anderson will be the head dancers and Jim
Anderson will MC once again. The dates and place are still tentative but
it is expected to remain at the park and the dates will be very close.
Once the committee gets everything together for this one we will update
this notice. You should put this little dance on your calendar as it has
been outstanding the last few years. For more information contact George
Hoyt (704)786-5705 or e-mail him at: gehoy@concordnc.com
August 17 - 18, 2002: 22 Annual American Indian Hobbyist Pow - Wow at the
Flying W Ranch Star Rt. 2 Box 150 Tionesia, PA. 16353. Write for
information or call: 814-463-7663.
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Aaron's Powwow Calendar
http://www.geocities.com/Athens/Olympus/9173/powwows.html
I have collected these listings from various places on the web and from
usenet, as well as other listings that I receive and requests from powwow
organizers. I do not take responsibility for the accuracy (or spelling) of
any of these listings. Use the contact information provided to make sure
that the powwow has not changed date, time, location, or other details. In
most cases, I have included all of the information that I have for each
listing. If you have corrections to make or would like to see your powwow
listed here, please send me an e-mail message with the appropriate
information (you must include the event name, exact date, city, state, and
a contact number or email; any additional information is helpful but not
required).
April 2002
April 5-7 - Aboriginal Student Council of the University of
Alberta First Annual Competition Powwow
Location: Butter Dome, University Campus, Edmonton, Alberta, Canada.
Notes: Dance, drum, hand drum and iron man/iron woman contests.
Drum money for non-placing and non-competing drum groups.
All winners paid in Canadian funds. First Grand Entry Friday 7 pm.
Everyone is welcome.
Contact: Shannan Awasis (780) 930-2026, smokinbuffalo1@hotmail.com.
April 6-7 - Florece April Fools Day Festival
Location: Florence/Laurderdale Coliseum, Florence, Alabama.
Notes: Grand Entry 10 am. All drums and dancers welcome.
Head Man, Bill Jolly; Head Lady, Teresa Boduck; Host Drum, Whitehorse;
Guest Drum, Redbird; Arena Director Bear; MC, Farron Weeks.
Contact: katydid30us@vallnet.com.
April 12-14 - Tifton Intertribal Powwow
Location: Friendly City Park, E.B. Hamilton Complex, Tifton, Georgia.
Notes: Princess contest.
Contact: Jerry Laney (229) 787-5180 evenings;
Native Way Productions, 8788 Gravel Hill Rd, Albany GA 31705,
e-mail Jerry@NativeWayProductions.com; http://www.nativewayproductions.com
April 19-21 - Musical Echoes, A Native American Cultural Event and
Flute Gathering
Location: The Landing, Ft. Walton Beach, Florida.
Notes: Flute, drum, tipi contests.
Contact: (850) 243-4405.
April 20-21 - Three Rivers Intertribal Powwow
Location: Mitchell Hall, UW-La Crosse, La Crosse, Wisconsin.
Contact: Tracy Littlejohn (608) 785-8225, Hinuga1@aol.com.
April 25-27
Nineteenth Annual Gathering of Nations Powwow,
Miss Indian World, and Indian Traders Market
Location: Albuquerque, New Mexico.
Notes: Over 3,000 Native singers and dancers and over 500 tribes from
all over the world come to Albuquerque, New Mexico, USA to exchange
culture and tradition and sing and dance competitively and socially.
Everyone is invited. Visit the web site for information, photos, sound
and video clips, history, educational information, giveaways,
free e-mail, message boards, chat, free e-cards, and more.
Contact: e-mail web@gatheringofnations.com;
http://www.gatheringofnations.com.
April 25-28 - Native Way Indian Festival and Powwow
Location: Tobosofkee Recreation Area (Sandy Beach), Macon, Georgia.
Contact: Jerry Laney (229) 787-5180 evenings;
Native Way Productions, 8788 Gravel Hill Rd, Albany GA 31705,
e-mail Jerry@NativeWayProductions.com; http://www.nativewayproductions.com
May 2002
May 4-5 - Ninth Annual Choctaw Apache Traditional Powwow
Location: Ebarb High School Ball Park, 53440 Hwy 482, Ebarb, Louisiana.
Notes: Head Man, Oosahwe; Head Lady, Lori Barham Gray;
Head Gourd Dancer, Herbert Johnson Sr.; Arena Director, Thomas Muskrat;
Host Drum, Drum Busters. All dancers and drums are welcome.
Contact: (318) 645-7392; fax (318) 645-2589; colton@cp-tel.net;
http://cate.50megs.com/Index.htm.
May 11 - Ninth Annual Occoneechee State Park Native American Heritage
Festival and Powwow
Location: Buggs Island Lake, Occoneechee State Park, Clarksville, Va.
Notes: Native dancing, arts and crafts and food. Everyone welcome.
Contact: Julie West, Clarksville Lake Country Chamber of Commerce,
PO Box 1017, Clarksville VA 23927, (804) 374-2436, (800) 557-5582;
http://www.kerrlake.com/chamber/powwow.
May 31-June 2 - Fifty Second Annual Tulsa Powwow
Location: O'Brien Park, Tulsa, Oklahoma.
Contact: Jack Anquoe (918) 743-3628.
June 2002
June 6-8 - Celebration 2002
Location: Juneau, Alaska.
Notes: "Celebration is a monumental biennial gathering of Alaska Natives,
which exemplifies the dynamics of Tlingit, Haida, and Tsimpshian cultural
activities including singing, dancing, storytelling, and visual art and
encourages thousands of individuals to participate in positive activities
highlighting traditional singing and dancing, arts and crafts, and Native
languages."
Contact: Jayne Dangeli, Sealaska Heritage Foundation, One Sealaska Plaza
Suite 201, Juneau AK 99801; (907) 463-4844; fax (907) 586-9293;
jayne.dangeli@sealaska.com; http://www.sealaska.com/.
June 26-29, 2002 - National Powwow 12
Location: NEW LOCATION - Tipton County Fairgrounds, Tipton, Indiana.
Contact: http://www.nationalpowwow.com/.
July 2002
July 13-14 - Howard County Powwow
Location: Howard County Fairgrounds, West Friendship, Maryland.
Notes: Admission $7 adults, $4 children.
Contact: (410) 442-1022; Barry Richardson (252) 257-5383,
now-cdcbarry@coastalnet.com.
July 18-21 - Standing Arrow Powwow
Location: Elmo, Montana.
Contact: Richard Nichols (406) 849-6018 days.
July 27-28 - Wakichipi Richmond Powwow
Location: RIR Complex, 600 E. Laburnum Ave., Fairgrounds, Richmond, Va.
Notes: Admission $7 adults, $4 children.
Contact: (804) 345-7223; Barry Richardson (252) 257-5383,
now-cdcbarry@coastalnet.com.
August 2002
August 17-18 - Ninth Annual Powwow by the Sea
Location: Memorial Coliseum, 402 S. Shoreline, Corpus Christi, Texas.
Notes: Sponsored by the Coastal Bend Council of Native Americans.
Contact: cbcna@worldnet.att.net; http://home.att.net/~cbcna/cbcna002.htm.
September 2002
September 14-15 - Tenth Annual Four Winds Powwow
Location: Killeen Special Events Center, W.S. Young Dr., Killeen, Texas.
Notes: $15,000 prize money (no catagories combined),
Grand Entries at 1 pm and 7 pm with Gourd Dancing at 12 noon and 6 pm.
Admission $1.00 ages six and up.
Multi-cultural presentation during dinner hour on Saturday.
Contact: Paula Brock (254) 699-3167; e-mail Fourwinds1@hotmail.com;
http://www.fourwindstx.org; Fourwinds Intertribal Society,
Box 10035, Killen, TX 76547-0035.
October 2002
October 11-13 - Hagerstown Powwow
Location: Hagerstown Fairgrounds, Hagerstown, Maryland.
Notes: Admission $7 adults, $4 children.
Contact: (301) 791-3246; Barry Richardson (252) 257-5383,
now-cdcbarry@coastalnet.com.
October 31-November 3 - Fredericksburg Powwow
Location: Fairgrounds, Fredericksburg, Virginia.
Notes: Admission $6 adults, $4 children.
Contact: (540) 373-1776, (800) 678-4748; Barry Richardson (252) 257-5383,
now-cdcbarry@coastalnet.com.
November 2002
November 15-17 - Gread American Indian Exposition
Location: Richmond Showplace, 3000 Mechanicsville Tpke., Richmond, Va.
Notes: Over $10,000 in dance and drum prize money.
Admission $7 adults, $4 children.
Contact: (804) 225-8877; Barry Richardson (252) 257-5383,
now-cdcbarry@coastalnet.com.
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Date: Mon, 4 Feb 2002 22:58:06 -0800
From: "NorthStar" <NorthStar@InterCorp.com>
Subj: Powwow Information - May
Mailing List: Tsalagi_Unole <tsalagi-unole@yahoogroups.com>
May 4-5 - Ninth Annual Choctaw Apache Traditional Powwow
Location: Ebarb High School Ball Park, 53440 Hwy 482, Ebarb, Louisiana.
Notes: Head Man, Oosahwe; Head Lady, Lori Barham Gray; Head Gourd Dancer,
Herbert Johnson Sr.; Arena Director, Thomas Muskrat;
Host Drum, Drum Busters . All dancers and drums are welcome.
Contact: (318) 645-7392; fax (318) 645-2589; colton@cp-tel.net;
http://cate.50megs.com/Index.htm.
May 11 - Ninth Annual Occoneechee State Park Native American Heritage
Festival and Powwow
Location: Buggs Island Lake, Occoneechee State Park, Clarksville, Virginia
Notes: Native dancing, arts and crafts and food. Everyone welcome.
Contact: Julie West, Clarksville Lake Country Chamber of Commerce,
PO Box 1017, Clarksville VA 23927, (804) 374-2436, (800) 557-5582;
http://www.kerrlake.com/chamber/powwow.=20
May 17-19 - First Annual Wolf Creek Intertribal Powwow
Location: Hwy. 59 Flea Market Grounds, Summerdale, Alabama.
Notes: Friday 9 am to 2 pm Children's Education Day. $1500 prize money.
Head Man, Charles Jones; Head Lady, Deborah Jones; MC, John Ferguson;
Arena Director, Michael Raven Crowdog;
Contemporary Recording Artist, Dave 'White Wolf' Trezak.
Food vendors still needed [as of 1/3/02].
Contact: Chief Gene Griffith (251) 986-5433; Tribal Office (251) 989-2714;
standingbull@wolfcreeksoutherncherokee.com; littlewolf@monacanindian.com;
http://www.geocities.com/wolfcreekband/home.html.
May 31-June 2 - Fifty Second Annual Tulsa Powwow
Location: O'Brien Park, Tulsa, Oklahoma.
Contact: Jack Anquoe (918) 743-3628.
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Aboriginal Multi-Media Society AAMSA
Aboriginal Community Events Listing
http://www.ammsa.com/ammsaevents.html#anchor388226
For more information on Powwows: the traditions and dances, check out
Windspeaker's Guide to Indian Country.
To add your event to this listing please e-mail us at: market@ammsa.com
April 6, 2002
Oklahoma University's Miss Indian OU Pageant,
Lloyd Noble Center
Norman, Oklahoma
Phone: 405-325-3163
April 6 - 7, 2002
"Art Under The Oaks" Indian Market
Honor Heights Dr
Muskogee, Oklahoma
Phone: 918-683-1701
April 6 - 30, 2002
"Art Under The Oaks" Exhibit & Sale
Honor Heights Dr
Muskogee, Oklahoma
Phone: 918-683-1701
April 9 - 13, 2002
Annual Symposium on the American Indian
Northeastern State University
Tahlequah, Oklahoma
Phone: 918-456-5511 x 4351
April 12 - 13, 2002
Northeastern State University Powwow
University Campus
Tahlequah, Oklahoma
Phone: 918-456-5511 x 4351
April 12 - 13, 2002
Oklahoma University's Stomp Dance and Powwow
Lloyd Noble Center
Norman, Oklahoma
Phone: 405-325-3163
April 14, 2002
Lecture Series: "Mainstreet",
Cherokee Heritage Center
Tahlequah, Oklahoma
Phone: 918-456-6007
April 19 - 21, 2002
Apache Rattlesnake Festival and Powwow
Fairgrounds,
Apache, Oklahoma
Phone: 580-588-2880
April 19-21, 2002
Sixteenth Annual
Arizona State University Spring Competition Pow Wow
Tempe, Arizona
Phone: (480) 965-5224
Email: pow_wow@asu.edu
Web site: http://powwow.asu.edu
April 19 - 21, 2002
Old Fort Days Heritage Festival
Fort Gibson Historic Site
Fort Gibson, Oklahoma
Phone: 918-478-4780
April 20, 2002
Apache Tribal Princess Dance
Apache Tribal Building
Anadarko, Oklahoma
Phone: 405-247-7695
April 25 - 26, 2002
Indian Territory Days
Cherokee Heritage Center
Tahlequah, Oklahoma
Phone: 918-456-6007
April 25 - 27, 2002
Indian Festival & Powwow
Talihina School Gym
Talihina, Oklahoma
Phone: 918-567-2539
July 25 to July 28, 2002
Moosehide Gathering
Dawson City, Yukon
Contact: Lue Maxwell
Special Events Coordinator
Box 599, Dawson City, Yukon Y0B 1G0
(867)993-5385
(867-993-6553)fax
luene.maxwell@gov.trondek.com
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Char-Koosta News
The official news publication of the Flathead Indian Nation
http://www.charkoosta.com/pow.html
Upcoming Powwows
.......... 2002
May 10, 11 and 12, 2002: Cahaba Shrine Park, 6001 Pulaski Pike, Huntsville,
AL; 256/539-5844
May 18, 2002: Helbolb Powwow at Everett Community College (1220
Rockefeller Ave.), Everett, WA; 425/388-9268 or 338-9562
June 14, 15 and 16, 2002: 33rd Annual Delta Park Powwow/Encampment, East
Delta Park, Portland, OR; 503/760-1737; Bowandarrowcc@aol.com
July 3 through 7, 2002: 104th Annual 4th of July Celebration in Arlee, MT;
406/745-2700, 745-4984, 726-3135; ruthq@blackfoot.net;
http://go.to/Arlee_powwow
July 12, 13 and 14, 2002: 12th Annual Montour International Powwow,
Western Idaho Fairgrounds, Boise, ID; 208/383-0125
Let us announce your Powwow.
Please include a phone number or functioning e-mail address for
confirmation purposes.
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