And now:Ish <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: Published Friday, July 16, 1999 Obituaries: Amos L. Crooks, former vice chair of tribe http://www2.startribune.com/stOnLine/cgi-bin/article?thisStory=80766068 Lucy Y. Her / Star Tribune Amos L. Crooks, the first vice chairman of the Shakopee Mdewakanton Dakota Community, died of cancer Tuesday at his home in Prior Lake. He was 79. "He was known on the reservation as the 'pipeman,' the one who carves," read a Minneapolis Star article in April 1980. In 1959, Amos moved his family to Shakopee, where he had lived for a while during his childhood. Shakopee was the land of his ancestors. "It would be, he thought, a place to iron out the wrinkles in his soul, the right place to raise the children," the article read. By an act of Congress, any American Indian of direct Mdewakanton descent has a right to live on a piece of the Shakopee land, which was set aside in 1888. The Mdewakanton originally lived in the Mille Lacs area, but they migrated south and lived along the Mississippi and Minnesota rivers. By the time white settlers arrived, there had been a Mdewakanton tribe in the Shakopee area for a long time.<<end excerpt ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Developer wants $50 million for Miami Circle http://www.naplesnews.com/today/florida/d302838a.htm Friday, July 16, 1999 Associated Press MIAMI - The developer of the property where a circular stone formation carved by Tequesta Indians was discovered wants Miami-Dade County to pay $50 million for the land. The amount was presented in court on Wednesday as Dade officials sought to take over the 2.2-acre property for the creation of an archaeological preserve. Attorneys are disputing the land's value. Developer Michael Baumann planned a 600-unit, twin-tower apartment complex on the property. His attorneys have argued that the county should pay for the value of the land, as well as potential lost profits. "Our appraisals are not completed," Baumann's attorney Toby Brigham told Miami-Dade Circuit Judge Fredricka Smith on Wednesday. Baumann spent $8 million to buy the property at the mouth of the Miami River. He spent an additional $6.6 million in architectural, legal, engineering and other fees and expenses, according to court documents. The land may be worth $50 million - triple the county's estimate - because someone might pay that amount for the land and the development plans, Brigham said.<<end excerpt ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ New aboriginal channel to rely on re-runs this fall http://www.nunatsiaq.com/nunavut/nvt90716_06.html Fledgling network hopes repackaged regional material will be new to viewers in other parts of the country. SEAN McKIBBON Nunatsiaq News IQALUIT — Viewers tuning into Canada's new Aboriginal People's Television Network (APTN) may see something familiar this fall— re-runs. But network executives hope those viewers will be uncommon. To fill its programming slots, APTN is looking at buying rights to rebroadcast shows simply because there isn't enough new material out there. "As far as programming goes it's a challenge. There are a lot of great documentaries and half-hour and one-hour shows, but very little series," says Abraham Tagalik, the chief operating officer of the new network and chairman of APTN's progenitor, Television Northern Canada. "There's a really great regional aboriginal current affairs show out of Manitoba, and something similar from Saskatchewan and B.C." says APTN's director of communications Jennifer David. But many people from other parts of the country haven't seen those programs yet she says. She says the new network will provide a national venue for aboriginal productions that didn't exist before and APTN is banking on that wider audience. He says new, on-going shows will have to be developed, but until that happens the network will have to rely on existing material. He says $5 million has been budgeted to aquire shows from independent producers and another pot of money— $55,000 according to APTN's website— has been allocated for script and concept development. "Our setting up will benefit abriginal radio, newspapers, television. The sky is really the limit interms of utilizing whats out there," said Tagalik. The only original programing that will be produced by the new network itself will be the news, but that won't be up and running until January, says Tagalik. By January the network should have a studio set up at its new headquarters in Winnipeg.<<< ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ 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/ &&&&&&&&&&&&&&&&&&&&&&&&&&
