NATIVE_NEWS: Reservation, Two Counties To Get Relief From Floods
And now:Ish [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: links via Mary...thanks..:) Ish There are two articles in the Saturday Lincoln Journal Star which may be of interest: Reservation, Two Counties To Get Relief From Floods BY Jodi Rave -- Lincoln Journal Star http://www.journalstar.com/stories/rav/sto11 Reservation, two counties to get relief from floods BY JODI RAVE Lincoln Journal Star Gov. Mike Johanns declared a state of emergency Friday for two northeastern and north-central Nebraska counties, including the Santee Sioux Reservation, recently hit by heavy thunderstorms. The Santee Sioux Tribe plunged into a "water crisis" Thursday after flooding earlier this week contaminated wells leading to a reservoir containing its public water supply. The Nebraska Emergency Management Agency and Nebraska Health and Human Services System are working with officials in Cedar and Knox counties and Santee village to assess damage to bridges and roads. "Of immediate concern is the flooding and shutdown of the village of Santee's well field," said Chris Peterson, a spokesman for Johanns. "The water wells for Santee are inoperable, and water must be brought into the community by truck." At least two 6,000-gallon water trucks are hauling water from Creighton, 45 miles away, to maintain water pressure in the reservation reservoir. Santee residents normally use about 30,000 gallons of water daily. Floodwater crept into the wells when up to 9 inches of rain fell in Knox and Cedar counties earlier this week, according to the state Health and Human Services System. Two flooded wells, nine miles south of Santee, normally supply water to a 100,000-gallon reservoir. It held only 20,000 gallons Friday morning, said Arthur "Butch" Denny, Santee tribal chairman. "All of our guys are out hauling water and hustling," he said. "It's kind of a tough one. You run out of water, what do you do? Everybody's trying to pull together to hope we get through this." Santee residents, meanwhile, are encouraged to drink bottled water and use water sparingly, said Jack Daniel, an environmental health administrator at the Health and Human Services Department. While village residents have limited, undrinkable tap water, many rural residents with flooded private wells have no toilet or tap water. Flooded wells are located along Bazile Creek, which runs through the reservation. The Santee reservoir normally supplies water to 780 people. "This is an unusual event for two reasons," said Daniel. "It's unusual because we seldom have this kind of weather drop this much water, and second, we do our best to locate and construct our wells to minimize such impact upon our water systems." The extent of contamination won't be known until today, when water tests are complete. "It's very serious," said Joe Creager, a registered nurse at the Santee Tribal Health Center. "If the tests show the system is contaminated this could go on for quite a while." Ground Breaking Set For Indian Museum http://www.journalstar.com/stories/rav/sto10 WASHINGTON (AP) -- After 10 years of planning, fund raising and fighting over architecture, groundbreaking for the National Museum of the American Indian is set for Sept. 28. The 5-story structure will occupy a 4.3-acre site between the Capitol and the Washington Monument. It will be the last available spot on the Mall -- right next to the Air and Space Museum, the most popular showplace of the Smithsonian Institution's 17 facilities. Last year museum officials there counted 28 million visitors. END EXCERPT 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/ UPDATES: CAMP JUSTICE http://shell.webbernet.net/~ishgooda/oglala/
NATIVE_NEWS: FYI: PELTIER BOOK--REVIEWS STAGED READING
And now:Ish [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: Subject: Re: PELTIER BOOK--REVIEWS STAGED READING Date: Fri, 23 Jul 1999 23:48:48 EDT From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] via LISN (list snipped) Beth-- I'm on AIROS "Different Drums" tonight (4AM), 5 PM Sat, 4am Sun, 5 p Sundouble check these...they're Eastern Time (ET) Click on A HREF="http://airos.org/audio.html"AIROS/A Are you sending off that message of mine into cyberspace? Thanks for all your help, Beth. There's still almost no media coverage of the book, I'm sorry to say. Not a single metro daily--to my knowledge--has reviewed or even mentioned it. They're building a WALL OF SILENCE around it. I see now, that's their strategy: keep the book away from the American public at large; see that it's sold only at the fringes and periphery. Ask people--how can we tear down that WALL OF SILENCE--as political and evil, to my mind, as the BERLIN WALL. I believe the Internet's the place to do it...as well as the streets where the books are sold. Why is the Washington POST not being picketed? Their silence for years on Peltier SCREAMS for a public outcry. One thing's for sure, to use a slight wrinkle on the Washington POST's own slogan, "IF YOU GET IT (the Washington POST), YOU DON'T GET IT (the REAL news of Leonard Peltier and what's really going on in the country.) The major papers and media outlets of this country are apparently all complicit in this spineless silence. Leonard's poem "The Message," from his book PRISON WRITINGS, reads almost prophetically: Silence, they say. is the voice of complicity. But silence is impossible. Silence screams. Silence is a message, just as doing nothing is an act. Beth, any way you can help break through or down or leap over or tunnel under this WALL OF SILENCE, please do--and encourage EVERYBODY to do the same! We must each be an Army of One in Leonard's behalf until they come to their senses, end this ongoing "ethnic-cleansing" against Indian People, and give our brother back to us--and by "us" I mean the whole of humanity. I see the media's silence on Peltier and many other crucial issues as "A CONSPIRACY OF IGNORANCE"--nobody's TELLING them not to publish; they're just afraid if they publish the truth somebody WILL give them a hard time. It's my belief the FBI, DOI etc would just as soon let Leonard quietly out; politically they can't say so, can only mouth the old lies, but they of all people know what REALLY happened and they know LEONARD was framed and kangarooed in a manner worthy of the KGB. Louis Freeh and the others would just as soon put this travesty behind them. Millions have demanded they do so. Why drag this baggage from the darkest days of the Cold War into a new Millennium? The time to free Leonard is NOW!!! I'm putting my prayers on the FBI doing the right thing and whispering to Bill, even as you read this, to sign Leonard's executive clemency appeal. It will be the noblest moment in any of their lives! /Harvey Arden -- League of Indigenous Sovereign Nations of the Western Hemisphere mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] LISN Web Site: http://www.lisn.net To subscribe to the mailing list on the new server, please send an email to mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] with the content: subscribe league Disclaimer: This material is distributed in accordance with Title 17 U.S.C. section 107. All copyrights belong to original publisher. LISN has not verified the accuracy of the forwarded message. Forwarding this message does not necessarily imply agreement with the positions stated there-in. 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/ UPDATES: CAMP JUSTICE http://shell.webbernet.net/~ishgooda/oglala/
