And now:[EMAIL PROTECTED] writes:
"Today's News" webpage:
<http://www.public.asu.edu/~wendel/fyi/today.htm>
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Birnbaum, Gregg. "Hillary Won't Show Hand on Casinos," The New York Post,
18 October 1999, 009.
["Monticello: First Lady Hillary Rodham Clinton last night disappointed
Democrats in the Catskills when she failed to throw her support behind
legalized casino gambling. Local officials in the economically depressed
region that decades ago was the booming Borscht Belt had pressed Mrs.
Clinton to line up in favor of a casino that has been proposed here by the
St. Regis Mohawk Indians ... Mrs. Clinton's spokesman, Howard Wolfson, also
would not say where the first lady stands on legalizing gambling in New York."]
http://www.nypostonline.com/
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"Both Sides Agree Saturday March Was Successful," The Associated Press
State & Local Wire, 18 October 1999.
["Watertown, S.D.: American Indians will gain more attention and respect
for peaceful protests such as one held Saturday in Sisseton over the death
of Justin Redday, the Roberts County prosecutor says. "The protest should
show people in the rest of the state, and throughout the U.S., how to do it
successfully," said Kerry Cameron. As Roberts County states attorney, his
decision not to prosecute a grand jury indictment for vehicular homicide
against Mark Appel is at the center of the controversy."]
http://www.ap.org/
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Eggertson, Laura. "Dhaliwal's Rough Crossing," The Toronto Star, 18 October
1999.
["Ottawa: When Chief Michael Augustine first laid eyes on Fisheries
Minister Herb Dhaliwal, he thought he'd found a kindred spirit. ''My first
impression was he was a minority,'' said Augustine, chief of the Red Bank
First Nation in Miramichi, in eastern New Brunswick. ''I thought he'd have
a better insight and understanding on how minorities feel in Canada or
anywhere else. I thought he'd at least understand that part of it.''
Dhaliwal, 46, was born in Chaheru, a village in northern Punjab, India. He
emigrated to Vancouver at 6. He is Canada's first Sikh cabinet minister. He
is a self-made millionaire. He was, until Aug. 2, the jovial genie in
charge of Revenue Canada - a department that seldom made waves. Then a
cabinet shuffle put Dhaliwal at the head of a troubled department. Now he's
embroiled in a firestorm ignited by a Supreme Court decision that affirmed
aboriginal treaty rights. And minority or not, Dhaliwal quickly found
himself on the wrong side of some Atlantic chiefs ... Ron MacDonald, former
Liberal MP Barely two weeks after his first meeting with the aboriginal
leaders, the traditional Mi'kmaq chief accused him of speaking with
''forked tongue'' and betraying their interests. ''We were very
disappointed,'' said Augustine ... The mistrust makes Dhaliwal uneasy. With
all the earnestness of a friendly schoolboy who doesn't understand where
he's gone wrong, his face serious, Dhaliwal stresses he does feel a bond
with the aboriginal people he's met. He is a Sikh - a minority in India for
hundreds of years ... Charlie Power, Conservative fisheries critic ''Herb
Dhaliwal is responsible for turning a court decision into a fisheries
problem and into a serious race relations crisis,'' Conservative fisheries
critic Charlie Power said late last week."]
http://www.thestar.com/
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"Fish Talks Head to N.S.," The Calgary Sun, 18 October 1999, 24.
["The man faced with the challenge of resolving a month-long feud over
expanded Native fishing rights will visit one of the key Maritime
battlegrounds this week. James MacKenzie, recently named lead negotiator by
federal Fisheries Minister Herb Dhaliwal, said yesterday he will address
the demands of Yarmouth fishermen who want Ottawa to restrict the Native
fishery. "The present interim arrangements as they apply or do not apply to
the commercial fishers and the aboriginal fishers should be examined as
soon as possible to see if ... we can come up with a more acceptable
arrangement," MacKenzie said from Ottawa ... MacKenzie, originally from
Glace Bay, N.S., is also the federal government's chief negotiator for land
claims with the Labrador Inuit."]
http://www.canoe.ca/CalgarySun/home.html
SEE ALSO:
"Fishing Negotiator to Visit Protest Site, Official Will Listen to
Non-Native Complaints," The London Free Press, 18 October 1999, A8.
http://www.canoe.ca/LondonFreePress/home.html
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"Hidden graves: ''My lands are where our dead lie buried, Inscription on
the Crazy Horse Memorial, South Dakota,'" Copley News Service, 18 October 1999.
["Respect for the burial places of the past is a hallmark of a decent
society. Whether it is the desecration of a Jewish cemetery in Berlin, a
plan to dig up and relocate graves for expansion of an airport runway in
Detroit or making museum displays out of skeletal remains from American
Indian burial mounds, there are few issues that foster greater outrage than
disrespect for the dead ... and their descendants. Indian groups in
Michigan are proposing a state law that would prohibit disruption of
American Indian burial sites. Federal law already protects such sites on
U.S. property, but the new legislation would extend such protection to
state and private lands. Unfortunately, the record on the location of these
sites is sketchy. Archaeologists pinpoint a few places where agricultural
villages were situated, even after the time of European settlement. The
Downriver area is especially rich in them. But the burial sites of nomadic
bands, or of those killed in dimly remembered battles, are almost
impossible to locate before the soil is turned."]
http://www.copleynews.com/
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"Insurer Refuses to Service Native Area," The London Free Press, 18 October
1999, A8.
["Calgary: A decision by an Alberta insurance company to stop selling auto
policies in an area with a predominantly aboriginal population has plenty
of precedents in North America, an insurance expert says. Norma Neilson,
chairperson of insurance and risk management studies at the University of
Calgary's school of management, said geographic discrimination occurs
everywhere. "The same thing has happened in central Los Angeles on
homeowner's insurance," said Neilson. "But it's a coincidence (that it's a
particular group of people), not cause and effect. "The whole objective of
any system of underwriting is to group people who represent similar
characteristics together." The Alberta Motor Association first announced it
would stop selling auto insurance to anyone living in T0C 1N0, which
happens to be the postal code for Hobbema, Alta., and home to four Indian
bands totalling about 13,000 people."]
http://www.canoe.ca/LondonFreePress/home.html
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Koidin, Michelle. "Tiguas Ask Judge to Dismiss State's Lawsuit," The
Associated Press State & Local Wire, 18 October 1999.
["El Paso, Texas: The Tigua Indians asked a judge Monday to throw out a
lawsuit filed by the state attorney general seeking to shut down their
casino, claiming immunity to such an action. Attorney General John Cornyn
sued the Tiguas last month, contending that slot machines and card games
run at the Speaking Rock casino on the tribe's southeast El Paso
reservation are illegal. In papers filed Monday in U.S. District Court in
El Paso, attorneys for the Tiguas argued that as an Indian tribe, they have
sovereign immunity to being sued unless Congress issues a waiver. The tribe
also said the attorney general lacked authority under state law to sue
them, and that approval from the state Legislature was necessary in order
to do so."]
http://www.ap.org/
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"Mother of Slain Man Wants Convicted Killers Freed," The Associated Press
State & Local Wire, 18 October 1999.
["Fort Totten, N.D.: When Eddie Peltier's body was found on the Devils Lake
Sioux Indian Reservation 16 years ago, his mother sought justice. Her
campaign continues today, but it has taken a twist. Gladys Peltier now
believes the two men convicted of killing her son are not murderers, but
victims themselves: victims of a conspiracy propagated by the reservation
police officer once credited with helping crack the case. But prosecutors
in the case, and former police officer James Yankton, say court rulings
since the conviction of Richard LaFuente and John Perez in 1986 clearly
show that the right men are behind bars, and the case is closed. ... Murder
convictions against LaFuente and Perez were upheld, but in 1994 two of the
four key witnesses in the trial renounced their testimony, saying they had
lied under oath because of threats by Yankton. He denies that charge ...
Peltier said evidence she and her late husband gathered indicate that her
son was killed at a party in an incident probably involving jealousy over a
woman, and that his body was left on the highway where it would look like
it was run over in the dark by a passing motorist. ... Peltier says her
family has uncovered evidence that shows her son might have been killed by
members of Yankton's family. The evidence has been dismissed by
prosecutors, and the courts, as absurd and unreliable."]
http://www.ap.org/
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"Muckleshoots' Borders Questioned," The Seattle Times, 18 October 1999, B2.
["Auburn: Two South King County residents are raising questions over the
boundaries of the Muckleshoot Reservation, claiming that nearly 400 acres
should not be included in the tribe's domain ... A federal judge will
likely make the final call on the contested land, the northeast corner of
the reservation also known as Section One."]
http://www.seattletimes.com/
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"Slickpoo Named Indian Elder of the Year," The Associated Press State &
Local Wire, 18 October 1999.
["Kamiah, Idaho: Protecting and expanding knowledge of the Nez Perce
language drove Allen Slickpoo to become an authority on tribal history and
culture. Although his strong voice was silenced just more than a year ago
by a stroke, Slickpoo continues to bring national attention to his tribe.
He has been named the 1999 Indian Elder of the Year by the National Indian
Education Association ... "As a mentor, Mr. Slickpoo nurtures all the young
people who show interest," said Isabel E. Bond, director of Upward Bound at
the University of Idaho, who wrote a letter supporting Slickpoo's
nomination. "He has been a fountain of information, training and role
modeling for those who work to preserve the culture of the tribe." In
addition to his extensive Army service and college education, Slickpoo has
made a name for himself as an expert in tribal history and culture. He was
one of six Indians nationwide to attend a three-month training session at
the Smithsonian Institute in 1973."]
http://www.ap.org/
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"2 Arrested As Fishermen Protest," The Ottawa Sun, 18 October 1999, 11.
["The man faced with the challenge of resolving a month-long feud over
expanded Native fishing rights will visit a key Maritime battleground this
week. James MacKenzie, recently named lead negotiator by federal Fisheries
Minister Herb Dhaliwal, said yesterday he will address the demands of
Yarmouth fishermen who want the federal government to restrict the Native
fishery. "The aboriginal fishers should be examined as soon as possible to
see if . . . we can come up with a more acceptable arrangement," MacKenzie
said, adding he will land in southwest Nova Scotia tomorrow or Wednesday."]
http://www.canoe.ca/OttawaSun/
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Batt, Tony. "Bill Targets Unions in Indian Casinos," Las Vegas
Review-Journal (Las Vegas, NV), 18 October 1999, 1D.
["Washington: Indian casinos in California could block labor unions from
organizing their workers under a bill introduced this month by Rep. J.D.
Hayworth, R-Ariz. In an unusual provision, the legislation specifically
criticizes John Wilhelm, president of the Hotel Employees and Restaurant
Employees International Union, who has urged tribes to negotiate collective
bargaining agreements with gaming employees. Hayworth's bill prohibits
labor agreements from being included as part of tribal-state gaming
compacts. The legislation's most immediate effect would be in California,
where the union issue has arisen in talks between tribes and Democratic
Gov. Gray Davis ... The gaming commission report, released in June after a
two-year study of gambling's economic and social impact, recommended that
Congress should enact legislation establishing worker rights to organize at
tribal casinos 'only if there is not substantial voluntary progress toward
this goal over a reasonable period of time.'"]
http://www.lvrj.com/
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Bertrand, Donald. "Searching for Respect: Activist Playgrounds Site of
Buried Ancestors," Daily News (New York), 18 October 1999, 1.
["If a local activist has his way, children will frolic no more in a
Flushing playground. That's because, says activist Mandingo Tshaka, the
playground, at 46th Ave. and 146th St., sits atop a long-forgotten burial
ground for black, Native American and indigent Queens residents dating from
the 19th and early 20th centuries. Known as Martins Field, the playground
was scheduled to undergo a $ 1 million rehabilitation project in 1996 when
Tshaka, a Bayside resident and a Matinecock Indian, took evidence to Parks
Department and other city officials that his ancestors and hundreds of
others were buried at the site ... For more than two years, the park rehab
was put on hold while attempts were made to cool the conflict between local
residents who want their park and Tshaka, who wants the playground removed
and the site memorialized. "What is hallowed is hallowed. You don't play on
the dead. Those people there have never been given the eternal rest that is
supposed to be given to the dead. It is my ancestors that have been
desecrated, not theirs," Tshaka said.'}
http://www.nydailynews.com/today/-/-/default.asp
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Stevenson, Mark. "Mexico's Indians Live, Die in Hamlets Clinging to
Mountainsides," The Associated Press State & Local Wire, 18 October 1999.
["La Sierra Norte de Puebla, Mexico: There is a legend here that evil lives
in the mountain called Coxazantla, and that if the people don't pay the
devil his due, the mountains will close in and crush them. What the
torrential rains of early October did to the Indian villages in central
Puebla state seems almost part of a legendary curse. One village, Mixun,
disappeared when a 100-foot gorge opened beneath it. Another, Acalama, was
buried - probably forever - when a 500-foot hillside collapsed on top of it
... The Indians moved up into the rugged mountains of Puebla centuries ago
to avoid Spanish conquerers who virtually enslaved them, and to preserve a
way of life that has left the land around their hamlets exhausted ...
Perched in wood and tarpaper shacks far above the valley floors, on land no
one else wants, the Indians preserve languages like Nahuatl, Totonaco and
Otomi, though their children speak Spanish and no longer use traditional
dress."]
http://www.ap.org/
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"Students, Faculty Respond to Cuts," The Associated Press State & Local
Wire, 18 October 1999.
["Santa Fe: Students at the Institute of American Indian Arts have started
a letter-writing campaign to Congress and are seeking help from their
tribes, saying the school needs more support than it's getting. Under a
compromise version of funding for the school, IAIA is getting $ 2.12
million for the year that began this month, about half of last year's
appropriation. The House this year wanted to cut the two-year Indian arts
school off entirely; the Senate proposed to fund it at $ 4.25 million. Five
years ago, the school received $ 9.4 million from Congress ... The last
round of budget tightening at the institute shut down entire programs, such
as Native American dance, and caused faculty members to be laid off ...
IAIA student Sonny Stickman, a 38-year-old museum studies major who is
student body president, was intent on increasing support for the institute
from the Alaska Federation of Nations. "We're telling all the students to
get in touch with their tribal government," said the Alaska native, a
Koyukon Athabascan tribal member. "We're asking for a show of support from
any Indian community when they get together.'"]
http://www.ap.org/
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"Tsawwassen Treaty Talks to Resume This Week," The Vancouver Sun, 18
October, 1999, B1.
["Treaty talks involving the Tsawwassen First Nation and the provincial and
federal governments resume Thursday in Delta, with the public invited to
observe the negotiations ... It is seeking to add another 1,172 hectares of
property to the present reserve of 290 hectares."]
http://www.vancouversun.com/
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"U.S.-Canada Confederacy of Native Groups Works Behind the Scenes in
"Lobster War", Reports TIME Canada," Canada NewsWire, 18 October 1999.
["The recent Supreme Court decision to grant expanded fishing rights to New
Brunswick and Nova Scotia Mi'kmaq natives has added a contentious new twist
to Canada-U.S. relations, reports TIME Canada in its October 25th issue, on
newsstands this week. The ruling has established a provocative precedent
for native groups on both sides of the border to demand a voice in
decisions that affect shared resources between the two countries. Those
voices may soon be getting louder. In his TIME Canada column 49th Parallel,
Stephen Handelman reports that an alliance of Canadian and U.S. native
groups dubbed the Wabanaki Confederacy quietly took part in the "lobster
war" sparked by the Supreme Court decision. The contingent reported
regularly to tribal leaders in both the U.S. and Canada, and established a
third -- but unnoticed -- part to the conflict, alongside the Mi'kmaqs and
outraged non-native fishers."]
http://www.newswire.ca/
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