And now:[EMAIL PROTECTED] (S.I.S.I.S.) writes:
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Date: Tue, 09 Mar 1999 15:16:33 +0200
From: Long Standing Bear Chief <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Blackfoot Confederacy Meeting
The Blackfoot Confederacy will meet on Friday March 12, 1999 starting at
1:00 p.m. and again on Saturday March 13, 1999 starting at 9:00 a.m. The
meeting will be held in the conference room of the Boys and Girls Club in
Browning, Montana to decide the issues it will be pursuing for the coming
year and the new millenium.
Also, actions that will be taken to get recognition in the United Nations.
Some of the issues of concern are:
1. Canadian and American authorities stopping the free flow of gifts for
Sun Dance Ceremonies
2. Rights of native people to pass unmolested through the "borders" of
Canada and the US when the Blackfoot Confederacy never gave its consent to
allow the whites to set up boarders separating their people.
3. Setting up of tribunals to gather evidence of child abuse in the
residential schools of Canada and the boarding schools of the US.
4. Submission of articles to the Pikanii Sun, a news and culture jounrnal
for the Blackfoot Confederacy.
5. Public relations inititatives with Siksika, Akainaiwa, and Pikanii
members, the other allies and the general public.
6. Education effort to inform members regarding the fraudulent nature of
Treaty 7 in Canada
8. Legal action regarding the illegal imposition of Glacier and Pondera
Counties on the Blackfoot Nation in 1919 when Blackfoot were not citizens
of the US.
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