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Britt, Donna. "Bridging a Rift In 2 Cultures,"
The Washington Post,
August 6, 1999, B01.
http://www.washingtonpost.com/
Last week, about 250 of the Buffalo Soldiers' 1,000 members gathered in Portland,
Ore., for the group's annual reunion. Celebrants attended workshops, rode in mounted
parades and swayed to Dixieland jazz played in honor of New Orleans-born Buffalo
Soldier Moses Williams, a Medal of Honor recipient who died 100 years ago. Among
honored guests on the dais and in color guard presentations were members of the
Northwest Indian Veterans Association. If you don't see the irony in Native American
veterans celebrating with the nation's oldest black veterans' association, you're like
many Americans: clueless about the controversial history that links, and separates,
the groups . . . "My people were massacred," said Eulynda Benalli, of Albuquerque, her
face framed by long, night-colored hair. "It's not okay to justify what happened to
us." She was speaking at Unity '99, last month's joint convention of the national
associations for black, Latino, Asian and Native American journalists in !
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tle. The panel, "Rashomon Effect: Conflicting Truths on the Buffalo Soldiers,"
explored how the celebrated black cavalrymen came to be viewed as dashing heroes by
African Americans and as murderers by some Indians. The panel was fascinating, partly
because of the warmth shared by audience members, whose histories would seem to put
them at odds. "People didn't want to argue," moderator Frank del Olmo recalls. "They
wanted to understand each other's point of view." How fitting for a panel whose
title--from Japanese film director Akira Kurosawa's classic about a crime viewed
differently by four witnesses--suggested how relative truth is, even when the facts
are undisputed . . . Panelist Jodi Rave, a Mandan-Hidatsa Indian, was an intern
pursuing an article about the Buffalo Soldiers for the Minneapolis Star Tribune when
she learned of some Native Americans' abiding resentment. Asked one: Why glorify a
group "when what they did was kill native people?" Suddenly, Rave discovered, "I!
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had
a very conflicting story." . . . Of course, some Indians resent that men "who'd just
gotten their freedom in one of [America's] bloodiest wars ever . . . turned around and
were sent to the plains to take away another people's freedom," Rave said recently.
"But we've all experienced atrocities at the hands of the U.S. government." As a
native person and a journalist, she added, the most important thing "is that these
stories, good and bad, get told." And that people be open to hearing them. Rave's most
satisfying moment on the panel occurred afterward, when journalists crowded around to
thank her. "Most of them," she marvels now, "were African American.
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Brooks, Diane. "Tulalips Challenge Monroe Growth -- Tribes Say Salmon at
Risk,"
The Seattle Times,
August 06, 1999, B1.
http://www.seattletimes.com/
The Tulalip Tribes have taken up the fight against Monroe's growth plan for the
Milwaukee Hill area above the city, filing a complaint with a state growth-management
board. "We're trying to deal with rapid development and its impacts on salmon, water
quality and water quantity," said Terry Williams, the Tulalips' fisheries director.
That growth has been "fairly horrendous in its impacts to the Snohomish River basin,"
he said. Monroe lies on the edge of the Skykomish River, which flows into the
Snohomish. The Tulalips claim treaty fishing rights in the entire drainage basin. The
Tulalips recently filed a petition with the Central Puget Sound Growth Management
Hearings Board, asking whether Monroe's plans for a 600-acre upland area north of
Highway 2 would protect salmon streams, wetlands and steep slopes. Monroe expects
1,100 to 1,200 homes eventually to be built in that 600-acre area, under zoning rules
that allow four units per acre, excluding sensitive lands.
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"Court Gives Indians Standing to Sue Over Road Project,"
The Associated Press State & Local Wire,
August 6, 1999, Friday, PM cycle.
http://www.ap.org/
FRANKLIN, Tenn. -- Indians rejoiced after a judge in Williamson County again agreed to
give them standing to fight a state road project in court . . .The group is seeking to
block the project near the intersection of Hillsboro Road and Old Hickory Boulevard.
The 800-year-old remains of two Indian infants were unearthed there earlier this year.
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Graettinger, Diane. "Festival Today to Celebrate Tribal Culture,"
Bangor Daily News (Bangor, Maine),
August 6, 1999.
http://www.bangornews.com/
PLEASANT POINT -- The Passamaquoddy Tribe this weekend will celebrate the richness of
its culture through music and dance at the third annual Sipayik Indian Day
Celebration. According to the tentative schedule, festivities will begin at noon today
with the arrival of warrior canoeists from Indian Township organized by state tribal
Rep. Donald Soctomah, Frank Cleaves and Marla Farrell, all of Indian Township.
There will be canoe races at 6 p.m. On Saturday, the events will begin with a sunrise
ceremony at 5 a.m. That will be followed by a tour of the reservation museum.The
museum, a repository of Passamaquoddy culture, will be open Saturday and Sunday.
Tribal member Margaret "Dolly" Dana will be on hand to greet visitors and offer tours.
The museum was organized in 1977 by curator Joseph Nicholas, who gathered photographs
and artifacts that depict the tribe's history and culture.
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Mapes, Lynda V. "Tribe Gets Window to Net Chinook -- Small Runs Predicted,"
The Seattle Times,
August 06, 1999, B1.
http://www.seattletimes.com/
Tribal fishermen soon will gillnet a corner of Elliott Bay to capture chinook that
state fish biologists say are returning home to spawn in such low numbers that a sport
fishery could not be allowed in the bay this summer. The Muckleshoot Tribe will open a
12-hour gill-net fishery on Green River chinook in Elliott Bay and the lower Green
River at 8 p.m. Wednesday. The Suquamish Tribe, which also has a treaty right to fish
in the same area, is mulling whether to join the fishery. The Muckleshoots' decision
drew immediate criticism from sport fishermen. "We are very disappointed," said Frank
Urabeck of the Northwest Marine Trade Association. "There is a conservation concern,
and we had hoped the tribe would refrain. The numbers just aren't there." . . . Pat
Patillo, state fish biologist, said a small take of Green River chinook by the tribe
is sustainable. But that can be hard to pull off. The size of the run and number of
fish that will be caught are hard to forecast. Last yea!
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e Muckleshoots forecast a run of 15,500 fish and a take of about 2,000. The run was
bigger, and their take in tribal gill nets was, too, with 3,280 chinook caught. The
12-hour opening is half what the tribe had hoped for but the most it thinks is
appropriate, said Paul Hage, associate director of fisheries. He said the tribe will
fish with about 15 to 20 skiffs in the river and 10 in Elliott Bay. Jay Zischke, a
fish manager for the Suquamish, was surprised by the Muckleshoots' decision. "That's
not our first choice," he said of the 12-hour opening. "We will have to have some
discussions internally to see how we react to that."
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"Menominee Tribal Members Likely to Receive $ 27 Million,"
The Associated Press State & Local Wire,
August 6, 1999, Friday, AM cycle.
http://www.ap.org/
KESHENA, Wis. -- The Menominee Tribe will likely receive $ 27 million as compensation
for the federal government's action decades ago. The House and Senate approved a
settlement this week that resolves a lawsuit filed by the tribe in 1967. The Menominee
sought compensation after Congress temporarily terminated the tribe's federal status
in the 1950s. The lawsuit also claimed the Bureau of Indian Affairs mismanaged the
tribe's assets, including its forests and mills, in the 1960s and '70s. The Menominee
Tribal Fairness Act of 1999 passed the House Monday and received Senate approval
Wednesday. President Clinton is expected to sign the bill later this month, according
Todd Glass, spokesman for Sen. Herb Kohl, who sponsored the legislation in the Senate.
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"Mineral Leasing Bill Passes Senate,"
The Associated Press State & Local
Wire, August 6, 1999, Friday, AM cycle.
http://www.ap.org/
The Senate has passed a bill that would change the percentage of approval needed
before Indian land owners can explore for oil, gas and minerals on their properties.
"This bill removes antiquated rules and regulations that have hindered economic
development in Indian Country," U.S. Sen. Jim Inhofe, R-Okla., said Friday.
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Murray, Don. "Native Woman's Sentence Sparks Outrage,"
The London Free
Press, August 6, 1999, A1.
http://www.canoe.ca/LondonFreePress/home.html
Heather Faye Pitawanakwat may be out of jail before her victims have finished healing,
the mother of one victim said yesterday after the 18-year-old native woman was
sentenced for drunkenly stealing a cab and causing a three-car pileup. "This is
garbage," said Mary Yeo, mother of James Yeo. He and his fiancee Harmoney Regamy were
seriously injured in the violent May 15 crash on Wellington Road South at Shaver
Street. Reacting to the judge's use of a Criminal Code section advocating leniency for
aboriginal offenders in giving Pitawanakwat 2 1/2 years in penitentiary, Yeo said:
"She's not sorry . . . I don't buy the whole thing." Yeo said Pitawanakwat essentially
"got away with it because she said 'I'm an Indian . . . I have a drinking problem . .
. I've had a hard life.' Well, we've all had hard lives." The sentencing provisions,
available to judges for about two years, favour rehabilitative measures over long
prison terms for aboriginals and others from disadvantaged backgroun!
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. . Pitawanakwat's lawyer Liana Marcone urged Superior Court Justice Thomas Heeney to
consider the aboriginal aspect in sentencing. She said Pitawanakwat is one of 10
children, all of whom have been seized at various times by children's aid societies.
She herself was taken at three. Marcone said Pitawanakwat's odyssey with alcohol began
at 12 while living in a booze-battered reserve on Manitoulin Island. Pitawanakwat's
mother and stepfather also have problems with alcohol, Marcone said. She said her
client was dry for five months last year and was trying to get into treatment when the
accident occurred. The charges are the first for her as an adult, Marcone said,
seeking a sentence of two to three years. But assistant Crown attorney Geoff Beasley
said Pitawanakwat "has had almost totally continuous involvement with the justice
system since she was 12 years old." She also doesn't have a driver's licence, he said,
in asking for a sentence of up to 4 1/2 years. Heeney said he co!
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ered the tragic impact Pitawanakwat had on her victims' lives. Heeney said he was
being more lenient than he would for a non-aboriginal " who has not been presented
with the minefield of obstacles she has had in growing up.
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Parmet, Sherry. "Indians Take Aim at Mascots; School in Highland, Valley College
Cited,"
The Press Enterprise (Riverside, CA.),
August 06, 1999, B01.
http://www.inlandempireonline.com/
For 25 years, Serrano Middle School's mascot has been a Warrior. An Indian chief is
depicted on the Highland school's stationery and on a painting that graces the
entrance to the campus' brick building. "I see it as very respectful," Serrano
Principal James Dilday said. "It's not a caricature or cartoon . . . But I'm not on
the other side and don't know the true feelings of some of the Indian people, either.
" A growing group of local American Indians is joining a national movement to
eliminate the use of Indian mascots, and they're waging a campaign against the San
Bernardino City Unified School District. Ten American Indians representing a number of
associations expressed their anger at a school board meeting earlier this week." . . .
The issue resonates across the country, from the Los Angeles Unified School District,
where the school board decided in 1997 to remove all Indian-themed mascots, to the
nation's capital, where American Indian groups successfully convinced fe!
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dera
l judges last April to revoke the Washington Redskins' pro football team trademark.
Indians say they find mascots dressed in ceremonial garb leading war cries or doing
the tomahawk chop the most infuriating. Ed Gomez, an American Indian who teaches his
culture's history at Valley College, wants to see them eliminated. "When you have
Indian mascots, you have people coming to games in our regalia chasing a bulldog or
chopping another's head off, and you get all the woo-woo-woos," he said. "That breeds
ignorance and stereotypes and is disrespectful to some of our most sacred customs."
The debate evokes deep wells of resentment among American Indians, who see themselves
as one of the last ethnic groups that people feel free to mock.
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"Plant's Fate Up to Tribal Council,"
The Associated Press State & Local
Wire, August 6, 1999.
http://www.ap.org/
FARMINGTON, N.M. -- Time is running out on a proposed Navajo french fry plant in
northwestern New Mexico. The Navajo Nation Council has yet to decide whether to hold
an Aug. 13 special session at which the $ 85 million plant could be discussed, Council
Delegate Wallace Charley said. Preliminary work on a tribal gasoline tax, the main
issue awaiting council action, is unlikely to be completed by the then, Charley said.
"We're about ready to lose the french fry project," Charley said. "We're dragging our
feet." He said the council would have to approve $ 20 million toward the plant, which
would make french fries at Navajo Agricultural Products Industry south of Farmington.
Up to 500 could be employed on an annual payroll of $ 12 million. Charley blamed the
delays on failure of the Navajo Department of Justice to coordinate with the Bureau of
Indian Affairs.
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"Salish-Kootenai Tribal Chairman Mickey Pablo Dead at Age 51,"
The Associated Press State & Local Wire,
August 6, 1999, Friday, AM cycle
http://www.ap.org/
Michael T. "Mickey" Pablo, chairman of the Confederated Salish and Kootenai Tribes and
one of Montana's most prominent American Indian leaders, died Thursday night of
complications from surgery. He was 51. Pablo was pronounced dead at the Polson
hospital at 8:45 p.m. after being rushed there from his home west of Elmo. Hospital
officials said emergency medical personnel were dispatched to his home at 7:02 p.m.
after a report that Pablo was having difficulty breathing. Lori Ryan, administrative
officer in the state Office of Indian Affairs in Helena, said a tribal staffer told
her Pablo had undergone knee surgery earlier this week and that his death apparently
was due to a blood clot that developed and went to his heart. The tribes later
confirmed Pablo died "due to postsurgery complications from a knee injury," and Lake
County Deputy Coroner Mike Sargeant said the cause of death was listed as
cardiorespiratory arrest. "Everybody's in shock over this," Ms. Ryan said Friday. "He!
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was
one of the most visible tribal leaders and a wonderful person."
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"Settlement Reached in Water Protection Lawsuit,"
The Associated Press State & Local Wire,
August 6, 1999, Friday, BC cycle.
http://www.ap.org/
A settlement has been reached in a lawsuit that accused the federal Environmental
Protection Agency of not enforcing laws designed to protect South Dakota's rivers and
lakes. Several environmental groups and the Oglala Sioux Tribe sued the EPA last year.
The lawsuit said federal officials had not complied with provisions of the Clean Water
Act. The groups involved included the Spearfish Canyon Trust, Citizens to Restore
Terry Peak Mountain, Boulder Canyon Concerned Citizens, the South Dakota Resource
Coalition, the Prairie Hills Chapter of the Audubon Society and ACTion for the
Environment.
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"Tribes Accuse U.S.DA of Discrimination,"
The Associated Press State & Local Wire,
August 6, 1999, Friday, BC cycle.
http://www.ap.org/
NEW TOWN, N.D. -- Eighteen American Indian tribes are accusing the U.S. Department of
Agriculture of discriminating against reservation farmers, and say they plan to sue.
The tribes in North Dakota and other states accuse the USDA of foreclosing on Indian
farmers without giving them an adequate opportunity to refinance their government
loans. Tribes also allege that the USDA wrongly denies loans to many young Indian
farmers and ranchers. Laura Trivers, a USDA spokeswoman, said some complaints of
discrimination have been filed by American Indians. She did not know how many
complaints there were, or in what state or states they originated. "We take all those
complaints very seriously," she said. "We've put a lot of things in place so such
discrimination can't happen, but anytime there are complaints we will investigate."
The tribes allege that the USDA is threatening their livelihoods by removing hundreds
of thousands of acres of land that is held in trust for the benefit of ind!
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ual American Indians and tribes.
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