How do we join this protest?
Lorraine Pozzi <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
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On Mon, 29 May 1995, Jackie Van Brocklin wrote:
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> [No wonder he was so lackluster on the recent "500 Nations"
> series......]
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> Jackie
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> Subject: Protest against K. Costner's development plans
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> *The Independent* (London)
> Saturday, 20 May 1995
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> "A five-star hotel and casino. Well thanks, Kevin"
>
> by Alix Sharkey
>
> Today, a "spiritual gathering" takes place on a tract of
> land in the Black Hills of South Dakota. Hundreds,
> perhaps thousands, will converge on the site where film
> star Kevin Costner and his brother Dan are building a
> 320-room luxury hotel-casino complex. Most of the
> protestors will be Lakota Sioux Indians, who claim that
> Costner is building on land that belongs to them.
>
> Standing at the centre of a six-state area once known to
> white settlers as "Indian country," the Black Hills, or
> Paha Sapa, are sacred to the Sioux. These were their
> burial grounds and holy lands, where they came on "vision
> quests," and held their annual Sundance rituals. Only
> 150 years ago they lived a semi-nomadic existence, here
> on the Great Plains.
>
> But once settlers discovered gold in the hills, the US
> government systematically persecuted the Indians to the
> edge of extinction, herded them on to reservations that
> were little more than concentration camps, and did its
> best to annihilate their language and culture. The Black
> Hills were sold off to property developers, gold and
> mineral mining companies, and timber firms. Anything
> left over was declared National Forest land, and the
> Indians were denied access for religious ceremonies.
>
> Now, Kevin Costner is hoping to attract thousands of
> European and Japanese tourists with a five-star monument
> to kitsch called The Dunbar. The long-suffering Sioux
> regard this as the last straw, and plan to occupy the
> land today in order to make a peaceful protest.
>
> The bitter irony here, of course, is that Costner built
> his Hollywood career on the back of Sioux culture. In
> his 1990 film *Dances with Wolves*, Costner portrayed Lt
> John Dunbar, an 1860s cavalryman who becomes enchanted
> with the Lakota way of live and "goes native." *Dances
> with Wolves* made more than $500m worldwide, and Costner,
> as director, producer and star, took about 10 percent of
> that sum.
>
> And how did he repay the Indians whose culture, language
> and history he had employed so freely? Did he build a
> hospital on one of South Dakota's four reservations? Did
> he set up a college trust fund to educate underprivileged
> Indian kids? Did he buy a piece of the Black Hills and
> give it back to the Sioux, so that they could perform
> their religious ceremonies there?
>
> Well, no actually. Despite the unthinkable wealth
> generated by *Dances*, and the fact that South Dakota's
> Indians are, according to the latest US government
> census, the poorest people in the entire United States,
> nobody can recall Costner donating so much as a dollar to
> an Indian cause. Perhaps he thinks they should be
> grateful that he is investing $100m in the Dunbar resort
> (where they can apply for minimum-wage jobs, washing
> dishes and the like). But nobody really knows what he
> thinks, because Costner refuses to discuss the matter.
>
> Of course, Kevin Costner can produce deeds of ownership
> for the land. But so can the Sioux, whose papers date
> from 1851, when the first Fort Laramie Treaty was signed
> with the US government, acknowledging the Indians'
> ownership of 60 million acres of the Great Plains,
> including the 7.3 million acres of the Black Hills. In
> 1868, a second treaty was drawn up, reducing the Indian
> land to 26 million acres, but still including the area
> now being developed by Costner.
>
> There is also the small matter of 1980s US Supreme Court
> ruling, which declared the Lakota Sioux the rightful
> owners of the Black Hills, and denounced the government's
> appropriation as a "rank case of dishonourable dealings
> .. unparalled in American jurisprudence." (The Sioux,
> however, rejected the Court's award of $105m as
> "insulting." You can see their point: the hills have
> yielded over $250bn of gold alone in the last 100 years.)
>
> "I believe the Dunbar resort is not only illegal, because
> the Black Hills issue remains unresolved," says Mitchell
> Zephier, a Lakota Sioux jeweller, "but it comes down to
> whether or not we hold the earth to be sacred. And the
> earth *is* sacred, you know, it's a gift to all of us.
> It's not about material gain. It's about sustaining
> life, and life itself is sacred."
>
> Costner's PR people say he "wants to leave a legacy" in
> the Black Hills. But what kind? He can bequeath yet
> another symbol of avarice and deceit, a luxury palace for
> the privileged classes. Or he could still rebuild
> bridges with the Lakota (who even now are unwilling to
> condemn him) and put something back into the land from
> which he has already taken so much. Just a fraction of
> his casino budge could establish sustainable subsistence
> farming on the reservations, for example.
>
> Maybe Kevin Costner sill realize that this debate goes
> much deeper than the argument about his casino. It
> extends beyond the Black Hills, and has significance for
> all of us, touching on the very nature of our
> relationship with the earth. It begs the question of
> whether we are prepared to recognize and maintain the
> sacred nature of the land, or if indeed we agree that
> everything has its price, and anything can be bought and
> sold.
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>From [EMAIL PROTECTED] Mon May 29 16:41:05 1995
Date: Mon, 29 May 1995 18:48:09 +0000
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (susan wismer)
Subject: Re:women's contribution to the economy
The following is a call for papers that will be of particular interest to
Canadian subscribers. However, we are also looking for comparative
information and useful methodologies from other countries and would
appreciate any advice and/or sources that could be of use or assistance.
Please, feel free to pass this along to others!
Call for Papers
Women's Contribution to the Canadian Economy
The Canadian Women's Foundaiton is sponsoring a research project examining
women's role in economic activity and economic development in Canada.
Proposals for submissions are invited addressing the following research
questions:
1. What does the Canadian economy need to succeed in the next ten years,
and how do the current and potential
contributions of women relate to these factors for success?
2. What needs to be in place in our society to support a healthy economy
and how does the paid and unpaid work of women relate to these supports?
3. What would be the impact on the Canadian economy if women had equality?
The focus of the project will be on identifying what the results would be
of removing current barriers to the full economic participation of women
and the full valuing of women's current and potential economic
contribution. Contributors will have the opportunity to participate in a
one day symposium. Support to assist with travel costs will be available.
Results of the project will be published in an edited volume.
Contributors are invited to address the broad range of women's paid and
unpaid current and potential contributions to a healthy Canadian economy in
areas including, but not limited to:
- entrepreneurship among women, including jobs created, taxes paid,
revenues generated, community impacts;
- direct and indirect contributions of women's labour market activity;
- human resource capacity of girls and womn regarding current and emerging
areas or skill shortage;
- value and significance of unpaid work in the home and in the broader
community;
- the relationship between social, economic and environmental well-being,
including costs and benefits associated with social, economic and
environmental equity.
The Canadian Women's Foundation was incorporated as a public charity in
1989. Its mission is to raise and grant funds to charitable projects that
help girls and women across Canada to achieve greater self-reliance and
economic independence. CWF is dedicated to long term systematic change
that will bring about the equality of women and girls in Canada.
Interested contributors should submit a brief (one page) proposal including
a title and abstract for the proposed paper and a short biography of the
author(s). All proposals should be submitted by JUNE 30, 1995 AT THE
LATEST. Contributors will be contacted after that time to identify a date
for the symposium. Final versions of all papers should be submitted by
September 15, 1995. Please direct inquiries and send proposals to:
Susan Wismer
Assistant Professor,
Department of Environment and Resource Studies
University of Waterloo,
Waterloo, Ontario. N2L 3G1
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