And now:Ish <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: LISN NEWS, INFORMATION & UPDATES Volume 2, #21 (4-8-99) posted by: League of Indigenous Sovereign Nations of the Western Hemisphere <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> ISSUE CONTENTS: (1) FYI: Natives Allegedly Paid to Protest in Manitoba (2) Timbi-Sha Shoshone: Bigger Role for Death Valley Tribe (3) Environment: Amazon Rainforest Disappearing Faster Than Once Thought (4) FYI: NON-Commercial Exclusive Report: Yugoslavia-Kosovo-Macedonia---- [A Grassroots Report] --------- In Memory of Chief Vernon Sly Fox Pocknett, Mashpee Wampanoag Nation Memorial Page: http://www.lisn.net/wampanoag.htm#vernonpocknett ================================================================ Source: The National Post http://www.nationalpost.com/news.asp?f=990408/2457785 Via: Turtle Island Native Network| Canada's Aboriginal News and Information Network http://www.turtleisland.org/front/_front.htm A 1999 Media Award Winning Web Site Thursday, April 08, 1999 Natives allegedly paid to protest in Manitoba $75 each: Chief plays coy, but says 'you get paid for your honorarium when you travel' Adam Killick National Post WINNIPEG - Native protesters may have been paid as much as $75 each to attend a protest outside the Manitoba legislature which saw the worst violence at the provincial seat of government in living memory. David Newman, the Minister for Native Affairs, said he had been told protesters were paid to travel from reserves in south-central Manitoba to participate in the demonstration, which turned violent resulting in a number of injuries and 11 people being arrested after riot police discharged pepper-spray. Rod Bushie, the grand chief of the Assembly of Manitoba Chiefs, would only say: "You get paid for your honorarium when you travel. You've got to eat." In what is quickly becoming a war of words between Conservative cabinet ministers and Manitoba native leaders, a second chief said: "I don't think it should make any difference with our people whether they [were paid] or not." Louis Stevenson, an organizer of the protest and the chief of the Peguis First Nation, about 150 kilometres northwest of Winnipeg, refused to answer the question of whether or not money was handed over. The aboriginal leaders held a news conference to call for an inquiry into what they claimed were human rights abuses perpetrated by the police in quelling the riot. "What we faced [Tuesday] was unreal," said Mr. Bushie. "It was like South Africa." In the protest, police, dressed in full riot gear, tackled protesters when they were passed over into the building. One woman complained that two officers picked her up by her hair. Another woman was carried away after being trampled in the crush. Gary Filmon, the Premier, dismissed any suggestion the police had abused the protesters. "I don't think that there were any human rights violations, and I know that all of the process and procedures are being examined. They were given an opportunity to demonstrate outside the legislature," he said, adding that the Throne Speech and the budget presentation are the only two days of the sitting where galleries are open only to invited guests. "They knew that, and that was the reason why they caused the demonstration, so that they could have a disruption." Mr. Bushie and Mr. Stevenson were among those given invitations by the government. Yesterday, Mr. Stevenson tore his unused invitation to pieces. Mr. Newman said he had a meeting last week with Mr. Stevenson, who had undertaken to provide an economic plan for his First Nation -- which has close to 90% unemployment -- the next day. "The only answer that I've got so far was the demonstration," he said. Native leaders, besides asking for an end to chronic unemployment, housing and health-care problems, also want an apology from Mr. Filmon for the vote-splitting scandal. He is expected to meet with them today. "I'm happy to do that," Mr. Filmon said of the apology. Copyright © Southam Inc. All rights reserved. ================================================================ Source: Washington Post (Printed Edition) INSIDE THE AGENCIES | Department of the Interior "Bigger Role for Death Valley Tribe" By William Claiborne Washington Post Staff Writer Tuesday, April 6, 1999; Page A21 For years, Native Americans have had a token--some say trivialized and humiliating--presence at some of the nation's most majestic national parks, often sitting outside a tepee weaving blankets as a stereotyped reminder of who originally inhabited the land. However, as a result of a new agreement in principle with the National Park Service, a tiny California Indian tribe has tentatively been given broad responsibilities in running large parts of the 3.2-million-acre Death Valley National Park. The tribe will acquire 300 acres for building a limited number of houses and the use of 1,000 acres for resuming traditional harvesting activities, which will become part of a cultural education program for visitors. The tribe also will share in the management of a 300,000-acre expanse of parkland and will be given ownership of more than 6,000 acres outside the park that now are administered by the Bureau of Land Management. The deal with the 300-member Timbi-Sha Shoshone Tribe, which since 1933 has been confined to 40 acres in one corner of the austerely beautiful but scorching desert park, still must be approved by Congress. But if ratified, it could pave the way for management-sharing deals in other U.S. parks where Native Americans have long-standing claims on land, park officials say. "If the Miccosukee experience in Florida was an example of how not to involve tribes in parklands, this is definitely an example of how it should be done," said John Reynolds, director of the Park Service's western regional office in San Francisco, who negotiated the deal with the Timbi-Sha. Reynolds was referring to the Miccosukee Indians, who after being blocked by the Park Service on environmental grounds from building 65 homes on wetlands at the edge of the Everglades National Park, won legislation overriding the ban last year. Indians have asserted claims to land in a number of other U.S. parks, and the Death Valley agreement is seen as a model for other compromise deals. The Timbi-Sha agreement gives tribal members, most of whom moved out of Death Valley after it was added to the park system 66 years ago, the right to build 50 homes, a tribal government complex, a cultural center and a tourist inn at Furnace Creek, the park's center of tourist activity. Reynolds said the Timbi-Sha will conduct traditional activities, including gathering pine nuts and collecting willow branches for basketmaking. "What the Park Service gains is official recognition of incorporating the Timbi-Sha culture into the park in a way that the public can learn about their traditions," Reynolds said. "What they gain is a means to return to where they used to be." Tightening Conservation Plans The U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service of the Interior Department and the National Marine Fisheries Service of the Commerce Department have drafted new guidelines aimed at tightening habitat conservation plans to protect endangered species as a trade-off for permitting economic development in areas where such species live. In an attempt to reduce conflicts between developers and environmentalists, Congress amended the Endangered Species Act in 1982 and allowed for the creation of habitat conservation reserves on land that might ordinarily be developed for residential or commercial use. In exchange for yielding part of their land for protected habitat reserves, developers typically receive waivers allowing them "incidental takes"--in other words, destruction--of endangered species on building sites. A "no-surprises" clause in many of these agreements assures developers that they can continue work without costly interruptions to satisfy environmental requirements. In the Clinton administration's first term, the number of habitat conservation plans grew from 14 to 236, with 200 more under development, said Jamie Rappaport Clark, director of the Fish and Wildlife Service. "We've learned a great deal about what makes an effective [plan] as we've worked with hundreds of landowners and other partners to develop voluntary agreements over the past four years," Clark said. Among the changes, the draft guidelines more clearly spell out the duration of incidental-take permits and explicitly lay out biological goals in habitat plans. © Copyright 1999 The Washington Post Company ================================================================ Source: http://www.newsworld.cbc.ca/cgi-bin/templates/view.cgi?/news/1999/04/07/amaz on990406 Amazon rainforest disappearing faster than once thought WebPosted Thu Apr 8 08:53:59 1999 BELEM, BRAZIL - Researchers have uncovered some disturbing news about the destruction of Brazil's Amazon rainforest. A new study suggests 15,000 square kilometres are disappearing every year -- twice the annual damage previously believed. The researchers found that the most common method of gauging deforestation --using satellite photos-- is flawed. Distant satellite don't pick up the loss of trees from selective logging; nor do they notice areas of damage from forest fires, which can appear healthy due to early new growth when viewed from above. When airplane surveys and on-the-ground interviews were used instead of satellite images, the damage was found to be at least twice the official, satellite-based estimate. The findings come from the Woods Hole Research Center in Massachusetts, and the Institute of Environmental Research in Belem, Brazil. Their study was published in Thursday's issue of the journal Nature. The official Brazilian estimate of the amount of the original rain forest that has been spoiled over the years is 13 per cent. This latest study estimates the number is closer to 16 per cent. The Amazon rainforest is thought of as the "lungs of the Earth" because it filters so much of the planet's carbon dioxide gases. It is also home to about a third of the world's plant and animal species. Copyright © 1999 CBC All Rights Reserved ================================================================ Subject: NON-Commercial Exclusive Report Kosovo/Macedonia Date: Thu, 8 Apr 1999 05:49:16 -1000 From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] NOTE: You can sub to RomNews if you like by sending the moderator listed at the end. Mostly Euro/North direct and frontline reports. This is a grassroots report which we're not getting in the mainstream - so I'm passing it on. /< ________________________________ From: "RomNews Network" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: "RNNNewsletterB" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> X-Loop: one Subject: RNN Exclusive / Situation in Balkan-SR Yugoslavia-Kosovo-Macedonia Date: Thu, 8 Apr 1999 13:34:57 +0200 X-Priority: 3 Situation in Balkan-SR Yugoslavia-Kosovo-Macedonia Kumanovo / MACEDONIA ( RNN Correspondent ) April the 8th, 1999 Great thank fullness and warm greetings to all of you who want to help us in these critical moments. Your help in these moments is most needed. The situation in Kosovo and Yugoslavia according to the information from the refugees and telephone contacts made, is as follows: Very, very difficult, most of the cities in Yugoslavia are ruined, there are victims of the bombing but the People are united. Still no information but the is no such official information. One refugee who wanted to stay unknown told us that Urosevac is ruined by the NATO strikes, the refugees are running to save their lives, but nobody is enforcing them. Is there more such information, we don't know. The borders are closed by the Yugoslav side. There are refugees waiting on the no man's land between Yugoslavia and Macedonia. Every night and lately along the day the citizens from Tetovo Kumanovo and some other places hear laud noise of airplanes and explosions near the living areas. NATO strikes, the refugees are running to save their lives, but nobody is enforcing them.Is their lives, but nobody is enforcing them. Is there more such information, we don't know. Situation in Macedonia The GOV. and our primeminister on the press conference said that the only innocent victim from this war is Macedonia. The state is begin- Ning to feel big consequences from this. This refugees are placed in families and promisses for help were not kept. The number of refugees is over 13000. The right number of Roma refugees is still unknown, from the information we have their number is over 1200. We succeeded to procure little help through foreign donors and Roma organizations. If the war on Balkan continues it will make the situation of the Roma from Macedonia worse, they have had it hard already. The refugee families placed within their relatives are big burden for them. Republic of Macedonia for the years past managed to secure and provide peaceful life for all the citizens on democratic way. The question is raised:Why not to stay so, further on? Once again, we would like to thank us very much for your help and contacts with us and God bless you all. P.S. today , April 8,1999, is the Day of the Roma people in the world. Since 1971 when the first Congress in London was held, the true development of Roma People have started. 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