And now:Ish <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: To: "ishgooda" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> MIME-Version: 1.0 From: "KOLA International Campaign Office" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Subject: Mount Graham update 04/11/99 Date: Sun, 11 Apr 99 11:45:37 PDT Content-Type: text/plain; charset="ISO-8859-1"; X-MAPIextension=".TXT" Mount Graham update 04/11/99 ========================== Wendsler Nosie, Sr. lives in Peridot, on the San Carlos Reservation in southeastern Arizona. The San Carlos Apache Reservation was established in 1871 when the U.S. Army confined the western Apache tribes and clans to this reservation. Nosie served on the eleven-member San Carlos Apache Tribal Council in the 1980s and 1990s. He was a member of the Council at the time of the Council's original 1989 opposition declarations against the Mount Graham telescope desecration financed by the German, Vatican, and Italian governments and the University of Arizona. The astronomers have spent millions of dollars in lobbying and courtroom litigation in attempts to claim the back door "rider" they sneaked through Congress in 1988 without public hearings exempted their Mt. Graham telescopes from all U.S. cultural and religious protection laws. Despite the many appeals of the Medicine People, Elders -- and the Tribal Council's protests that the telescopes constituted "...a display of profound disrespect for a cherished feature of our original homeland as well as a serious violation of our traditional religious beliefs... etc.", the German, Vatican, and University of Arizona construction crews began foundation digging at the mountain summit in April 1991. Wensler Nosie, for the past two decades, has been director of Rural Opportunities of Arizona (ROA). In classrooms at San Carlos, ROA prepares young Apache men and women for employment in the marketplace both on and off the reservation. There are not many sources of employment on the reservation (unemployment can exceed 40-60%). ROA seeks to prepare and educate Apache youth for many workplace options. In March 1999 the Nosie family had a Sunrise Dance for their daughter, Alicia. This is the second daughter of Wendsler to undertake this deeply religious Apache ceremony. At the Sunrise Dance the Apache Mountan Spirit Dancer, or Gaahn, which reside in certain sacred mountains such as Dzil Nchaa Si An (Mount Graham), are key participants. Wendsler Nosie will be traveling in Europe this April to meet with German and Italian people, both in and out of goverment, in hopes that those governments and their astronomers will terminate financing of this cultural outrage and relocate their project elsewhere. Scientific studies in the 1980s by the leading astronomy institutions in the U.S. found 38 continental U.S. mountains superior to Mount Graham, and that Hawaii was clearly superior. University of Arizona studies, belatedly completed in 1993, after construction was underway, discovered that UofA had blundered. They had mistakenly lobbied Congress for the site with the poorest visibilty on Mount Graham. They also discovered that another existing observatory in Arizona was far superior. In timing with Mr. Nosie's trip to Europe, San Carlos Vice- Chairman Velasquez Sneezy recently (March 24, 1999) sent a letter to Chancellor Gerhard Schroeder of Germany and President Oscar Scalfaro of Italy. Sneezy stated: "Please forego funding this project. We believe your people wish to honor and respect the beliefs and traditions which have been with us Apache for centuries." For additional info: Mt. Graham Coalition, P.O. Box 15451, Phoenix, Arizona 85060, fax (602) 840-3001; tel (602) 840-0052. Also see: <http://users.skynet.be/kola/mtgrah.htm> and on-line petition against the telescopes at: <http://kola_hq.hypermart.net/actmtg.htm> <+>=<+>=<+>=<+>=<+>=<+>=<+>=<+> In accordance with Title 17 U.S.C. section 107, this material is distributed without profit or payment to those who have expressed a prior interest in receiving this information for non-profit research and educational purposes only. <+>=<+>=<+>=<+>=<+>=<+>=<+>=<+> urls: http://users.skynet.be/kola/index.htm http://kola-hq.hypermart.net <+>=<+>=<+>=<+>=<+>=<+>=<+>=<+> "Injustice Anywhere is a Threat to Justice Everywhere" FREE LEONARD PELTIER!!! NO TELESCOPES ON MT. GRAHAM!!! &&&&&&&&&&&&&&&&&&&&&&&&&& Tsonkwadiyonrat (We are ONE Spirit) Unenh onhwa' Awayaton http://www.tdi.net/ishgooda/ &&&&&&&&&&&&&&&&&&&&&&&&&&
