And now:[EMAIL PROTECTED] writes:
"H-AMINDIAN's FYI: News Items of Interest" website:
<http://www.public.asu.edu/~wendel/fyi/>
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Akana, Rowena M. [Chairman, Office of Hawaiian Affairs]. "[Editorial:]
Basic Rights of Native Hawaiians," The Washington Post, 3 November 1999, A34.
["In "Hawaii and Race" [editorial, Oct. 10], The Post said Hawaii violated
the 15th Amendment in creating the Office of Hawaiian Affairs to address
the needs of its indigenous people. The 15th Amendment ensures that every
American gets a measure of justice through self-determination. But for
nearly a century, native Hawaiians were not allowed to share in this basic
right ... The Constitution allows the federal government to deal with
"Indian tribes" as it deals with foreign nations--as political entities.
The Post argued that the term does not apply to native Hawaiians. True,
native Hawaiians are not "Indians," but neither are native Alaskans who
hold this political status ... before they were overthrown they were
organized as a nation, recognized internationally and executed treaties ...
Like other indigenous groups, native Hawaiians have a special trust
relationship with the federal government, acknowledged by more than 180
pieces of federal legislation. As a condition of statehood, the 1959
Admissions Act required Hawaii to take responsibility for the federal
government's obligations to native Hawaiians. In creating the Office of
Hawaiian Affairs, Hawaii has carried out the federal government's covenant."]
http://www.washingtonpost.com/
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Cherry, Paul. "Heart Attack Claims Icon of Oka Crisis: Ronald Cross, 41,
Became Folk Hero of Native Conflict," Calgary Herald, 3 November 1999, A10.
["If there is anything everybody could agree upon about Ronald ''Lasagna''
Cross it is that he rarely backed down from a fight. Hero, villain,
devoted father, warrior or trouble-maker. Cross, 41 -- the man called
everything under the sun after the 1990 Oka Crisis -- died of an apparent
heart attack Monday ... Tracy Cross, 38, said his older brother suffered a
heart attack a few years ago and was never the same man after the intense
pressure of the Oka Crisis and being put through what the provincial police
ethics committee recently referred to as an ''excessive'' beating at the
hands of three Surete du Quebec officers following the standoff ... Cross
did not back down from challenges. He took on the three police officers and
the result arrived this month as the police ethics committee suspended all
three (although they had already left the force). In 1992, Cross was
sentenced to six years in prison for aggravated assault, uttering death
threats, mischief and possessing a weapon in the presence of Canadian
Forces soldiers. For years, Cross quietly stuck to his complaint of not
being tried in Quebec Court completely in English. It was that complaint,
paired with another that produced the Quebec Court of Appeal's decision in
September, 1998 that ruled that prosecutors in criminal matters must speak
the official language of the accused ... Lasagna was released in August
after serving time for his role in the Oka Crisis -- the 78-day standoff at
Kanesatake touched off when provincial police officers stormed Mohawk
barricades erected to block expansion of the Oka municipal golf course into
an area Mohawks claimed as ancestral land. [Note: I have walked this land with friends
who live on the reserve...the land in question is a cemetery and the golf course would
have removed tribal graves in order to expand. The trench dug and fortified yet
remains with the occasional grain of corn scattered by those who defended their
ancestors sanctity..Ish]
During the aborted raid,Corporal Marcel Lemay of the Surete was shot and killed,
adding fuel to a
fire that would burn for weeks."]
http://www.calgaryherald.com/
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Cordes, Henry J. "Walthill Is Close Ballot[;] The Chairman of an Indian
Group Frets About the Future of Relations with the White-Majority School
Board," Omaha World-Herald, November 3, 1999, 1.
["A recall election Tuesday in northeast Nebraska may only increase the
racial strife between parents in a nearly all-Indian school and the
white-majority board that controls it. It appeared that an Indian parents
group in the Walthill School District narrowly failed Tuesday in its effort
to recall the board's president, Stan Modlin ... Tuesday's apparent results
- and the likelihood that Modlin, who is white, will continue to head the
board in a district where 99 percent of the children are Indian - were a
big disappointment to recall leaders. They say Modlin and other white
members of the board have taken several racist actions that have harmed the
interests of Indian children, including the firing of the school's American
Indian superintendent ... Racial tension has been high in Walthill in
recent years, with much of it centering on the school ... Last year, Modlin
engineered a white-majority takeover of the district's six-member,
all-Indian board. He filed as a candidate for the board and circulated
petitions to put three other white district residents on the ballot. All
four were elected, aided by the district's traditional low Indian voter
turnout."]
http://www.omaha.com/OWH/
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Daniszewski, Hank. "London West MP Heads Native Affairs Committee," The
London Free Press, November 3, 1999, A5.
["With native issues boiling over on both coasts, London West MP Sue Barnes
has been elected chairperson of the House of Commons committee on
aboriginal affairs and northern development. The 16-member committee is
certain to be a hot spot in coming months. Barnes said she is eager to take
on the challenge and encourage better understanding of the complex and
often emotional issues involving native treaty rights ... The committee
will have to deal with federal ratification of a historic treaty settlement
with the Nisga'a band in British Columbia. The provincial government has
reached an agreement to turn over about 2,000 square kilometres to the
native band ... The committee may also have to deal with recent Supreme
Court decisions on native fishing rights that have prompted clashes over
the lobster harvest in the Maritimes."]
http://www.canoe.ca/LondonFreePress/home.html
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Dorr, Robert. "Kerrey Seeks Details on Santee Funds," Omaha World-Herald,
November 3, 1999, 21.
["Sen. Bob Kerrey, D-Neb., has asked the Interior Department whether any
precedent exists for federal authorities to freeze bank accounts of the
Santee Sioux Tribe ... At the request of U.S. Attorney Tom Monaghan, a
federal judge last week authorized freezing the tribe's general bank
accounts in Nebraska and South Dakota banks ... Monaghan wants to seize
some of the tribe's deposited funds to help pay $ 432,000 in fines levied
against the tribe for continuing to operate a casino on its northeast
Nebraska reservation ... Meanwhile, the tribe was able to meet its payroll
last week by using funds that weren't frozen. The tribe hasn't been forced
to shut down any social programs, Tribal Chairman Arthur "Butch" Denny said
Wednesday ... Nebraskans for Peace criticized Monaghan's account-freezing
action. "The federal government has adopted a strategy intended to starve
the Santee out and literally bring them to their knees from hunger," said
Carol McShane, the Lincoln-based group's president."]
http://www.omaha.com/OWH/
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Doughton, Sandi. "Election '99 - Initiative 696: Ban on Nontribal Net
Fishing Defeated," The News Tribune, November 3, 1999, A6.
["Washington's commercial fishing industry comfortably survived an attempt
to scuttle it, as voters rejected a ballot initiative that would have
banned most non-Indian net fishing in state waters. Initiative 696 would
have applied to fishing for salmon, shrimp and groundfish species, such as
cod and sole. The measure would have eliminated the use of gill nets, purse
seiners and trawlers - methods that initiative backers said
indiscriminately kill endangered and plentiful fish species alike, entangle
sea birds and rip up the sea floor. The measure would not have affected
tribal salmon fishing, which accounts for about half the state's salmon
harvests."]
http://www.tribnet.com/
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"Five Charged with Cutting Trees on Reservation," The Associated Press
State & Local Wire, November 3, 1999, Wednesday, AM cycle.
[SHAWANO, Wis. "Five men indicted on federal charges for cutting down 48
trees on the Menominee Indian Reservation valued at more than $16,000 could
be sentenced to prison. Alex Peters, 40, of Keshena, a member of the
Menominee Tribal Enterprises' governing board, was charged with three
counts of violating federal law, a criminal complaint said. Four members of
his logging crew, also of Keshena, were also charged in the complaint.
Peters is also charged with theft of government property, which includes
the 48 standing green trees, theft from a Tribal Organization and
unlawfully cutting trees on tribal land between Feb. 1 and March 15. If
convicted, Peters could be sentenced to 16 years in prison and $501,000 in
fines."]
http://www.ap.org/
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Ghori, Imran. "San Manuel Band Elects 2 Leaders," The Press-Enterprise
(Riverside, CA), November 3, 1999, B3.
[SAN MANUEL RESERVATION [-] The San Manuel tribe has filled its two top
leadership positions, electing a new chairman and vice-chairman. Daron
Marquez, 29, of Upland was chosen as the chairman of the San Manuel Band
of Mission Indian's tribal council in a weekend election. Faustino Duro,
brother of former chairman Henry Duro, was selected as vice-chairman.
Both will serve in an interim capacity, filling out terms of two officers
who resigned. The entire five-member tribal council is up for re-election
in March."]
http://www.inlandempireonline.com/
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"Haida Natives Seek to Prove They Hold Title to Queen Charlotte Islands,"
The Associated Press State & Local Wire, November 3, 1999, Wednesday, BC cycle.
["VANCOUVER [-] The Haida Nation's plan to file a lawsuit to prove they
hold title to the Queen Charlotte Islands has complicated negotiations
between the tribe, the government and the forest industry. But there are
still hopes an agreement can be reached before Christmas on Haida
involvement in forestry management, said federal government spokesman John
Watson ... The president of the Council of the Haida Nation said the Haida
are still willing to meet to discuss forestry issues. But Guujaw, who goes
by a single name, said they are more interested in going to court because
of governments' unwillingness to negotiate fairly with aboriginal groups
... The province has not been able to renew or issue new timber licenses on
the Queen Charlotte Islands since the British Columbia Supreme Court ruled
in November 1997 that the Haida's aboriginal rights prevented the province
from giving logging companies exclusive rights to log on Crown land ...
Meanwhile, an invitation for First Nations to play a role in the
establishment of a First Nations timber access steering committee has been
rejected by the Union of B.C. Indian Chiefs and the First Nations Summit,
which represents more than 100 First Nations involved in the treaty process
in British Columbia. Provincial Aboriginal Affairs Minister Dale Lovick,
who issued the invitation Friday, said the committee could provide an
opportunity for First Nations to gain more access to the timber resource.
Robert Louie, a First Nations Summit executive, said First Nations are
tired of taking part in committees and want government to take action."]
http://www.ap.org/
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Johnson, Kevin. "Indians, FBI Face Off in Washington," USA Today, November
3, 1999, 19A.
["WASHINGTON -- Native Americans from across the USA have been arriving
here this week to revive a dated yet controversial campaign: petitioning
President Clinton to grant clemency to convicted murderer Leonard Peltier.
Imprisoned for nearly a quarter-century for the slayings of two FBI agents,
Peltier has nearly exhausted his appeals. Support is mounting, however, to
free the Anishinabe-Lakota Indian leader, regarded by his defense team and
others as a political prisoner. His strongest defenders include Hollywood
celebrities and a who's who of victims-rights advocates. On the other side
is the FBI. The FBI Agents Association, a powerful lobby of retired and
active agents, is warning Clinton that Peltier's release would be "a tragic
injustice and a moral blow to the entire community of law-enforcement
professionals in the United States." With Peltier's supporters camped in
Lafayette Square, a park across the street from the White House, the agents
association is directing its message to Capitol Hill in newspaper
advertisements and radio spots. Not since 1994, when more than 500 Peltier
supporters descended on Washington, have the two sides waged such
aggressive efforts."]
[NOTE: The webmaster for the Association for Retired FBI Agents may be reached at:
[EMAIL PROTECTED] for comments on the full page ad which is now net posted..Ish]
http://www.usatoday.com/
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Morris, Chris. "New Brunswick Natives Seek Increase in Share of Logging:
Minister Takes Band Proposal to Cabinet," Calgary Herald, November 3, 1999, A9.
["FREDERICTON [-] New Brunswick is considering giving aboriginals a bigger
share of the province's rich timber stands. Natural Resources Minister
Jeannot Volpe revealed Tuesday he will take a proposal to cabinet Thursday
to increase the amount of lumber natives can take from Crown land. Volpe
made the announcement after a meeting with members of the Big Cove First
Nation. The minister made no promises that the aboriginal allotment, which
currently stands at five per cent of the total allowable cut, would be
increased. He said he has been asked by Big Cove leadership to make the
request and he's hoping to find some way to ensure peace in the forests ...
The Big Cove reserve on New Brunswick's east coast has been carrying out
what the province considers illegal logging on Crown land. The reserve,
New Brunswick's largest Mi'kmaq community with a population of about 2,000,
says the harvesting is legal and in accordance with a recent Supreme Court
of Canada ruling upholding centuries-old treaties in the Maritimes. The
high court decision in the case of Donald Marshall Jr. stated that natives
have a treaty right to year-round hunting, fishing and gathering. Native
leaders say ''gathering'' includes logging, but the province of New
Brunswick says it does not."]
http://www.calgaryherald.com/
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"Most Incumbents Retained in Saginaw Chippewa Vote," The Associated Press
State & Local Wire, November 3, 1999, Wednesday, BC cycle.
["MOUNT PLEASANT, Mich. [-] Eight incumbents and four newcomers have been
elected to the tribal council of the Saginaw Chippewa Indian Tribe,
troubled by factional disputes. Those re-elected Tuesday include Chief
Phillip Peters, the Morning Sun of Mount Pleasant reported ... The Tribal
Council in control up to Tuesday's election required federal intervention
to take office. The Bureau of Indian Affairs removed a previous council
after several elections were invalidated."]
http://www.ap.org/
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"N.S. Pushes for Pipeline Despite Mi'kmaq Objections," CBC Newsworld
Online, 3 November 1999.
["HALIFAX - The government of Nova Scotia wants the National Energy Board
to allow the Sable Gas Pipeline to go ahead while the pipeline partners
work out a deal with the Union of Nova Scotia Indians. Last week, a court
ruled that the Mi'kmaq were not properly consulted about the project by
Maritimes and Northeast Pipeline or by the energy board."]
http://newsworld.cbc.ca/cgi-bin/go.pl?1999/11/02/pipeline991102
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"Navajo 'Code Talker' Protests Cage Movie," Star Tribune (Minneapolis, MN),
November 3, 1999, 5E.
["Navajo Indians have accused Oscar-winning actor Nicolas Cage of
"dishonoring" them in an upcoming film about the tribe's radio operators,
whose native-language messages helped defeat the Japanese during World War
II. Sam Billison, 74, president of the dwindling Navajo Code Talkers'
Association, is protesting "Windtalkers," directed by John Woo ... The 400
code talkers were so valuable that each had a Marine bodyguard assigned to
kill him rather than allow the code to fall into Japanese hands. The hero
of "Windtalkers" is a bodyguard played by Cage. Billison has written to
Cage: "For too long in Hollywood our people's stories have been told only
through others' eyes and in inaccurate and dishonorable ways. Even more
disturbing is that it appears that this movie is going to tell our story
with a white actor as the hero.""]
http://www.startribune.com/
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"New Treaty Hearings Disappoint Nisga'a," CBC Newsworld Online, 3 November
1999.
["PRINCE GEORGE. B.C. - B.C.'s Nisga'a First Nation is questioning the
value of holding more public hearings into its land claims treaty with the
province and federal government. Ottawa says a Commons committee will
consult British Columbians on their views. But the Nisga'a say the process
will simply be going over old ground."]
http://newsworld.cbc.ca/cgi-bin/go.pl?1999/11/03/nisga991103
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"Potawatomi Sharing Revenue with Red Cliff," The Associated Press State &
Local Wire, November 3, 1999, Wednesday, AM cycle.
["MADISON, Wis. [-] The Forest County Potawatomi tribe says it paying more
than $50,000 a month to a poorer state tribe, the Red Cliff Chippewa. "We
got into revenue sharing with Red Cliff because there was a state of
emergency there," tribal chairman Phil Shopodock said. "They had fallen on
pretty hard times." Kevin Keane, a spokesman for the governor, said last
month that a tribal revenue-sharing provision in the latest gambling
compacts negotiated between Wisconsin Indian tribes and the state had not
been implemented. But Tom Krajewski, a spokesman for the Potawatomi, said
this week that that tribe is transferring $54,422 a month, or about
$653,000 a year, to the Red Cliff ... Shopodock said the tribe's monthly
transfer of funds to the Red Cliff band began in July 1998. He said the
payments by his tribe to the Red Cliff band provide a structure for broader
revenue sharing among the state's tribes. Shopodock said 10 of 11 tribal
governments signed a resolution supporting a similar plan in January 1998.
"The state looked at it and never got back to us," he said. "It's on their
desk. They have to tell me what's wrong with it." Scott Scepaniak,
administrator of the state Division of Gaming, said the state objected to
the tribes' proposal because they would fund it partly with money deducted
from tribal payments to the state."]
http://www.ap.org/
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"Reservation Grass Fire Still Smoldering," The Associated Press State &
Local Wire, November 3, 1999, Wednesday, AM cycle.
["Isolated fires that have been burning since Sunday on the Standing Rock
Indian Reservation have not yet been brought under control. But Bob
Demery, the ground operations manager, said Wednesday the fires are no
longer a threat to people or major property."]
http://www.ap.org/
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