And now:Ish <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: Johanns to travel to Pine Ridge BY DON WALTON Lincoln Journal Star http://www.journalstar.com/stories/neb/stox Gov. Mike Johanns has decided to go to the town of Whiteclay and the Pine Ridge Indian Reservation in South Dakota on Tuesday to meet with Indian leaders. The governor will be accompanied by two U.S. Department of Justice officials, including U.S. Attorney Tom Monaghan of Omaha. Johanns will meet in Whiteclay with Harold Salway, president of the Oglala Sioux Tribe, then travel with him to Pine Ridge to meet with other Indian leaders. Whiteclay is the border town in northwest Nebraska that has become the focal point of protests over the unsolved killings of two Oglala Lakota Indians and the sale of millions of dollars of beer annually to reservation Indians. Indians plan to march on the community again today. Johanns said he decided to accept the invitation Salway extended to him when the two leaders met in Chadron to discuss Indian concerns a week ago. "I look forward to this opportunity to travel to the Pine Ridge Reservation and continue the dialogue between the state of Nebraska and the Lakota Nation," the governor said Friday. Meetings or reservation tours will be dictated by an agenda developed by Salway and the tribal leadership, the governor's office said. Among those traveling with Johanns, in addition to Monaghan, will be Ken Vampola, a tribal judge from Nebraska; and Pascual Marquez, senior conciliation specialist with the U.S. Department of Justice in Kansas City, Mo. Other participants will include Greg Beam, director of the governor's western office in Scottsbluff; Joan Francis, a Nebraska Panhandle-area health and human services consultant and Border Tiospaye member; and Tom Cook, a member of the Nebraska Indian Commission. Frank LaMere, a Winnebago Indian leader who has argued against continued alcohol sales in Whiteclay, said he was glad Johanns will be making the trip, but it "absolutely (will) not" affect plans for today's march on the community. LaMere met with the governor in Lincoln Friday. In that meeting, LaMere said Johanns stressed his administration's resolve to deal honestly with the issues at Whiteclay. "We will see where that resolve takes us," LaMere said. "The posturing is over, and it is time for us to begin to find the truth about Whiteclay," LaMere said. "When we find that truth, I fully expect the governor, the U.S. attorney and others to take appropriate and decisive action to shut down Whiteclay." Asked if he were referring to the truth about alcohol sales or unsolved killings near the town, LaMere said many people on the reservation believe the two issues are linked. The bodies of Wilson Black Elk Jr. and Ronald Hard Heart were found on June 8 in a culvert near the Nebraska border. Today's march at Whiteclay will be peaceful, he said. LaMere was among nine Indians arrested last weekend when marchers from the reservation crossed a police line erected by Nebraska State Patrol troopers at Whiteclay. A protest rally on June 25 resulted in some looting and arson at the border town. Reprinted under the fair use http://www4.law.cornell.edu/uscode/17/107.html doctrine of international copyright law. &&&&&&&&&&&&&&&&&&&&&&&&&& Tsonkwadiyonrat (We are ONE Spirit) Unenh onhwa' Awayaton http://www.tdi.net/ishgooda/ &&&&&&&&&&&&&&&&&&&&&&&&&&
