And now:[EMAIL PROTECTED] writes:
"H-AMINDIAN's FYI: News Items of Interest" website:
<http://www.public.asu.edu/~wendel/fyi/>
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Bailey, Tom Jr. "Bell Taught Others to Love Choctaw Ways," The Commercial
Appeal (Memphis, TN), 4 November 1999, A16.
["Wood Bell's old Chevrolet station wagon pulled up to the Chucalissa
Archaeological Museum and its reconstructed Native American village in T.O.
Fuller State Park one afternoon a few weeks ago. The gravely ill
79-year-old Choctaw stayed in the car as his sister went in to tell the
staff that Bell was outside. Through the open car window, Bell told the
half-dozen staffers, " 'I'm going to have to leave y'all for awhile. . . .
I wanted to see how y'all are doing, ' " recalled Chucalissa custodian
Dorothy Mosby. "It just hit me then; it just really touched my heart," said
Chucalissa tour guide Helen Thompson, also a Choctaw. Without his saying it
out loud, she said, "he was telling us he wasn't coming back anymore." Bell
died Oct. 19 of heart failure. As a tour guide at Chucalissa for 28 1/2
years, the respected Choctaw elder taught countless schoolchildren what had
been passed down to him about the ancient ways."]
http://www.gomemphis.com/
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Baldelli, Ann. "Small Church Critical in Recognition of Mohegan Tribe," The
Associated Press State & Local Wire, 4 November 1999, BC cycle.
["UNCASVILLE, Conn. -- If not for the Mohegan Congregational Church, there
would be no Mohegan Nation today. No Mohegan Sun Casino. The existence of
the small, white clapboard building, built on Mohegan Hill as a Christian
church and school 168 years ago, was critical in the federal government's
decision in 1994 to recognize the Mohegans as a continuously active
American Indian tribe. The church, where tribal members have gathered for
religious and social meetings for more than 160 years, was evidence of the
Mohegans' cohesiveness. "It is a symbol of our survival in this place,"
said Melissa Jayne Fawcett, the tribal historian. "It has been there since
1831, and it was literally kept alive by will alone." About two years ago,
tribal members agreed to restore the Church Lane church and add on to it."]
http://www.ap.org/
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Beaty, Bob. "Alberta Ruling Slows Abuse Cases," Calgary Herald, 4 November
1999, A14.
["A Calgary judge's ruling to force detailed disclosure from those claiming
they were abused in church-run residential schools is part of a process
that may slow claims to a snail's pace in Alberta, says a lawyer. Tony
Merchant, whose law firm has filed roughly half of the thousands of claims
from natives across Canada, said Alberta stands alone in how it is handling
these cross-country claims. Court of Queen's Bench Justice Terrence
McMahon released his 15-page decision on Wednesday on how the roughly 1,000
claims in Alberta must proceed after some defendants said many of the
claims were too vague to address ... In a November 1996 report, the Royal
Commission on Aboriginal Peoples described the schools as institutions set
up to ''kill the Indian in the child.'' Some of the plaintiffs claim
financial damages for cultural genocide, while others in addition claim
physical and/or sexual abuse, states McMahon's judgment."]
http://www.calgaryherald.com/
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Birnie, Peter. "Digging in the Darkness: Playwright Drew Hayden Taylor
Seems Happiest When His Work Enters the Uncomfortable Space Surrounding His
First Nations Heritage," The Vancouver Sun, 4 November 1999, C5.
["Drew Hayden Taylor is nothing if not blunt. In a telephone interview from
Toronto, he sniffles down the line and complains, ''I'm just getting over a
bad cold, and as I tell my friends, it's another fine gift your people gave
mine.'' My people are Scottish, his are Ojibway and Hayden Taylor is just
kidding. Sort of. He is best known as a playwright -- his latest social
satire, alterNatives, opens this week at the Firehall Arts Centre, which
presented his Only Drunks and Children Tell the Truth in 1997. But Hayden
Taylor is also the author of nine books, including a collection of
newspaper columns titled Funny, You Don't Look Like One: Observations of a
Blue-Eyed Ojibway. Its recent sequel, Funny, You Don't Look Like One, Too,
is further proof Hayden Taylor is happiest when digging for humour in the
dark regions surrounding relations between First Nations Canadians and
those who showed up later."]
http://www.vancouversun.com/
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"Bush's Comments on State Sovereignty Upsets Indians," The Associated Press
State & Local Wire, 4 November 1999, BC cycle.
["PHOENIX -- Some American Indian leaders say Texas Gov. George W. Bush
offended them for asserting that state law "reigns supreme" over issues
such as Indian gambling. "My view is that state law reigns supreme when it
comes to the Indians, whether it be gambling or any other issue," Bush said
four weeks ago in Syracuse, N.Y., where he was attending a fund-raiser. Ron
Allen, first vice president of the National Congress of American Indians,
said Bush's remark wasn't a slip of the tongue, but a political calculation
in his bid for the Republican nomination. The Bush campaign did not attempt
to clarify the remark Wednesday, saying it came in response to a question
about Indian land claims. "Governor Bush believes the states should have
the opportunity to work out a fair settlement with Indian tribes without
interference from the federal government," Bush spokesman Scott McClellan
said."]
http://www.ap.org/
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"Civil Rights Panel Considering Whether to Investigate S.D. Deaths," The
Associated Press State & Local Wire, 4 November 1999, BC cycle.
["SIOUX FALLS, S.D. -- A federal panel is considering whether to
investigate race relations in South Dakota following the recent deaths of
several American Indians. The U.S. Commission on Civil Rights is expected
to discuss at a meeting in Washington, D.C. on Friday whether it should
come to South Dakota. If it does, commissioners could pass along a report
of its findings to the U.S. Justice Department, Attorney General Janet Reno
or another federal agency. They also could choose to recommend additional
study or public hearings."]
http://www.ap.org/
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Davenport, Paul. "State Board Balks at Naming Highway Aftor Actor, Indian
Vets," The Associated Press State & Local Wire, 4 November 1999, PM cycle.
["PHOENIX -- In the end, it wasn't whether a highway should be named after
John Wayne or American Indian veterans. Instead, a state board went along
with a policy that discourages naming highways at all. The state Board of
Geographic and Historical Names on Wednesday unanimously rejected proposals
to rename parts of Arizona 347 in southeastern Maricopa County and
northwestern Pinal County to the John Wayne Parkway and the American
Indians Veterans Memorial Highway. Board members cited a Department of
Transportation policy that discourages naming of numbered highways without
"compelling justification." A proliferation of named highways could confuse
motorists, according to the ADOT policy."]
http://www.ap.org/
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Eggertson, Laura. "New Treaties Better Option Than Court Fights, MPs Told,"
The Toronto Star, 4 November 1999.
["OTTAWA - Canadians should embrace negotiations with Canada's native
peoples instead of fighting court battles that reinforce an adversarial
relationship, says Indian Affairs Minister Bob Nault. ''Time and again, we
are seeing aboriginal people successfully advocate for and receive
recognition of their aboriginal and treaty rights,'' Nault told a
parliamentary committee yesterday. That leaves two options: fighting more
court battles, where the government has no control over the outcome, or
negotiating. Negotiation is the best way to ensure the federal government
has some control over the outcome of new treaties or the interpretation of
historical ones, Nault told the committee."]
http://www.thestar.com/
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Fergusson, Robb. "Culture of Frustration[;] Dysfunctional Indian Affairs
Agenda Perpetuates Climate of Misery," [Editorial/Opinion], The Calgary
Sun, 4 November 1999, 15.
[" ... But as historically vague and politically incorrect as they all
were, regardless of their view, they [books on Native Americans] told a
common story. It was a story of compelling cultures, with a profound
spirituality, proud traditions, fierce independence and strong communities.
Even then, I couldn't reconcile that history with the Natives I saw from
the back window of the family's '58 Ford when we drove down Winnipeg's Main
St. Two blocks north of city hall, we'd drive through a notorious
infestation of motley beer parlours -- 17 of them in four square blocks.
The Natives I saw on Main Street were neither noble nor savage. They were
bleak and broken, damaged souls, ravaged by alcohol and cloaked in despair
... The Mi'kmaq lobster dispute has galvanized Canadians' feelings. On the
surface, it's no more significant than any of a dozen Native disputes which
have flared in the militant and litigious years since the Oka standoff. But
none of those generated even a fraction of the scores of letters to the
editor that have crossed my desk in the past few weeks. Some are
unpublishable screeds from out-and-out racists. Some are reasoned arguments
of history or law. Some state simple -- or simplistic -- cases of
economics. Many are from Natives -- some reeking of a sense of
victimization, others carrying an equally strong message of pride. Some are
angry, some are hateful, some are hopeful. But like those books I read so
long ago, all have a common theme. Without exception, every letter I've
read is written from an underlying sense of frustration. The system is just
not working -- from anyone's perspective, Native or non-Native."]
http://www.canoe.ca/CalgarySun/home.html
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"First Nations: Head of Yukon Council Under Criminal Investigation," The
Vancouver Sun, 4 November 1999, A16.
["WHITEHORSE -- The head of the Council of Yukon First Nations resigned
Wednesday, days after police revealed he was under criminal investigation."]
http://www.vancouversun.com/
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Frommer, Frederic J. "Sen. Campbell Asks Reno to Investigate Anti-Indian
Fliers," The Associated Press State & Local Wire, 4 November 1999, AM cycle.
["WASHINGTON (AP) - The chairman of the Senate Committee on Indian Affairs,
Ben Nighthorse Campbell, has asked Attorney General Janet Reno to
investigate the proliferation of fliers in South Dakota that proclaim a
"hunting season" on American Indians. "This hate-filled propaganda exhorts
'hunters' to murder human beings," Campbell, R-Colo., wrote in a letter
dated Friday but released on Thursday. "When such an ad authorizes hunting
season on human beings, and places a limit on how many can be killed,
surely it is reason for law enforcement to take action. Such a solicitation
to commit mass homicide must run afoul of federal law" ... The flier is
made to look like a legal notice for hunting animals, telling hunters, "The
1999 Big Game hunting season in the state of South Dakota has been canceled
due to shortages of deer, turkey, elk and antelope. However, this does not
mean there will be no hunting. In the place of the big game animals this
year we will have open season on the Sioux reservations.""]
http://www.ap.org/
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Giago, Tim. "Geronimo Ad Discounts History," The Denver Post, 4 November
1999, B11.
["SIOUX FALLS, S.D. - The great Chiricahua Apache warrior and leader
Geronimo would spin in his grave if he knew the U.S. Census Bureau was
using his portrait in an ad campaign aimed at American Indians. U.S. Census
2000 hopes to make up for the shortcomings of the 1990 Census that missed
so many people, particularly minorities. American Indians were among the
most miscounted or not counted at all. In the picture ad featuring
Geronimo, the writing across his forehead reads, 'I have spoken. I will
continue to be heard.' And in real small print, 'The Census is my voice.'
The Census is my voice? Geronimo would have said, 'The Census is my
demise' ... Taken from his homeland in chains because he stood up as a
patriot to defend his people, Geronimo died in exile far from his beloved
mountains of Arizona. He made peace with President Theodore Roosevelt by
becoming a part of his inaugural procession in 1905 but was still held a
prisoner at Fort Sill until his death. U.S. Census 2000 will target the
American Indian community using the portraits of Geronimo and other great
chiefs and it will probably find that the poorest counties in the United
States are still on the Indian reservations of America. The more things
change the more they stay the same. GERONIMO!"]
http://www.denverpost.com/
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Gordon, Sean. "Quebec Endorses Government for Nunavik," The Gazette
(Montreal), 4 November 1999, A8.
["Quebec's northern Inuit have moved one step closer to self-governance,
winning support from provincial and federal authorities for a tripartite
commission to study the establishment of a new government for the region
now known as Nunavik. The joint commission would not undertake its mandate
with a view to launching another fully fledged Arctic territory, but rather
would seek to establish a government structure that will ultimately answer
to the National Assembly. Sources said Native Affairs Minister Guy
Chevrette will give his signature to an accord tomorrow formalizing the
creation of a panel similar to the one that was struck to oversee the birth
of Nunavut, Canada's newest territorial government."]
http://www.montrealgazette.com/
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"Governor Aims for 6 Percent Revenue Sharing for Indian Casinos," The
Associated Press State & Local Wire, 4 November 1999, BC cycle.
["SANTA FE -- Gov. Gary Johnson is aiming to lower New Mexico's
revenue-sharing requirement for American Indian tribes with gambling
casinos by at least 10 percent. "We've got to get the revenue sharing down
to the 6 percent range," the governor said Wednesday during a mock news
conference at a Santa Fe middle school. Some tribes have refused to pay the
state regulatory fees and 16 percent of their slot machine proceeds as
required by gambling compacts signed in 1997. Some are making partial
payments, and some have entered into arbitration with the state over the
requirement. Johnson said he doesn't think tribes have acted improperly by
refusing to comply with the compacts' revenue-sharing requirements. "They
are not bending the law," Johnson said. "All these disputes have to do with
the state of New Mexico not recognizing the (federal) Indian Gaming
Regulatory Act and all of its provisions.""]
http://www.ap.org/
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"Headdress Seized in Undercover Sting to be Returned to Standing Rock
Tribe," The Associated Press State & Local Wire, 4 November 1999, BC cycle.
["BOZEMAN, Mont. -- An 80-year-old eagle feather headdress seized in an
undercover sting two years ago is being returned to the Standing Rock Sioux
Tribe in North Dakota, the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service has announced.Tim
Mentz, preservation officer for the tribe, is anxious to research the
origins of the headdress, which will probably be displayed in the tribal
council building. The headdressincludes 33 eagle feathers and intricate
bead and ribbon work. Mentz said the number of feathers is significant
since "each feather represents an accomplishment" by the person for whom it
was made. It was seized in Bozeman, Mont., in 1997 from Donald Steven Borud
of Bismarck, N.D."]
http://www.ap.org/
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Kelley, Matt. "Consolidating Indian Land Holdings Will Save Millions, Feds
Say," The Associated Press State & Local Wire, 4 November 1999, AM cycle.
["WASHINGTON -- A pilot program to consolidate small American Indian land
interests, some as tiny as one three-millionth of an 80-acre tract, could
save the federal government millions of dollars and countless bureaucratic
headaches, officials told Congress Thursday. Bureau of Indian Affairs
officials also said a Senate proposal would help solve similar land
ownership problems that plague reservations across the country. "The only
asset most tribes have is land, but under the current land use (system),
they can't use it," BIA head Kevin Gover told a joint House-Senate
committee meeting. In the pilot project on three Wisconsin Chippewa
reservations, the BIA has spent $1.6 million buying more than 8,000 small
fractions of various land tracts, Gover said. That has allowed the federal
government to return more than 4,000 acres to the tribes and will
eventually save the BIA more than $2.5 million in administrative costs, he
said. At issue is a complex problem often called "fractionated heirship."
Because of unique laws governing reservation lands, some individual tracts
can have hundreds or even thousands of owners descended from the tract's
original owner. "It's like a bad pyramid scheme, only upside down," Gover
said."]
http://www.ap.org/
SEE ALSO:
Kelley, Matt. "Backers Say Bill Would Clear Way for Oil, Gas Drilling on
Navajo Land," The Associated Press State & Local Wire, 4 November 1999, AM
cycle.
http://www.ap.org/
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"Kerrey Seeks Details on Santee Funds," Omaha World-Herald, 4 November
1999, 24.
["Sen. Bob Kerrey, D-Neb., has asked the Interior Department whether any
precedent exists for federal authorities to freeze bank accounts of the
Santee Sioux Tribe. "I want to make sure there is a precedent for us to
actually freeze cash and assets other than what has been generated off
gambling," Kerrey said Tuesday. At the request of U.S. Attorney Tom
Monaghan, a federal judge last week authorized freezing the tribe's general
bank accounts in Nebraska and South Dakota banks. Kerrey has been gathering
information about the funds-freezing issue, Jody Ryan, his press
secretary, said Wednesday. Monaghan wants to seize some of the tribe's
deposited funds to help pay $ 432,000 in fines levied against the tribe for
continuing to operate a casino on its northeast Nebraska reservation."]
http://www.omaha.com/OWH/
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Lockwood, Robin. "Offense at Native American Prayers Is Shocking,"
[Opinion], The Tennessean, 4 November 1999, 13W.
["To the Editor: I am Cherokee, and one of the defenders of our sacred
burial sites at Old Hickory and Hillsboro Roads. I attend the prayer
vigils. I still am shocked that a pastor would deny us parking because we
were praying. No, we were not praying upon the church property, as a matter
of fact, in respect of religious beliefs, we did not hold ceremony or pray
upon the church property. I am still having a difficult time coming to
terms with a church that would deny prayer upon its property. This world
cannot seem to understand why our children are shooting each other in our
schools. Perhaps our religious leaders in our churches should take a long
look at the intolerance that is taught and sanctioned by the church ... All
churches pray to that creator. We as American Indians pray to the same
creator. Our prayers are prayed in the way we have been taught to pray. We
have prayers answered just like everyone else. We express our respect for
the religious beliefs of others. We uphold that everyone in this great
country has the right to worship the creator in the way they have been
taught. Our battle for the sacred burial sites of our ancestors is part of
our culture. There is nothing to fear. We fight for our constitutional
rights, for our spiritual beliefs. Because we understand that we are part
of the whole, we understand that our battle encompasses all religions in
the United States. If we are denied our rights to protect our sacred burial
sites, then, you, too, are being denied these same rights for your dead. If
we are not allowed to pray in the ways our creator taught our people, then
you cannot be allowed by the same protective laws to pray as you understand
and have been taught to pray by your religious leaders."]
http://www.tennessean.com/
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"Native Sex Abuse Explosion Reported," CBC Newsworld Online, 4 November 1999.
["CALGARY - There has been an explosion of sexual abuse in First Nations
communities over the past 50 years, according to an Alberta doctor who
treats native sex offenders. Dr. Roger Holden also says First Nations
people are far more likely to be convicted for sex crimes. And most of the
victims are native children. Holden recommends more First Nations people
get involved in treating sex offenders."]
http://newsworld.cbc.ca/cgi-bin/go.pl?1999/11/04/abuse991104
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Preston, Julia. "Chiapas Bishop Follows Rule, Reluctantly, to Submit
Resignation," The New York Times, 4 November 1999, A7.
["MEXICO CITY -- Bishop Samuel Ruiz Garcia, the embattled prelate who
championed the cause of the Indians in Chiapas State and tried to make
peace between the government and the Zapatista rebels, turned 75 today and
offered his resignation, obediently but reluctantly, to Pope John Paul II.
Because Bishop Ruiz has often clashed with the Vatican, the pope is
generally expected to accept the resignation promptly. The bishop made it
clear that he considered his term to be effectively over. But in a sign of
his distress, he said he would wait until the last minute, just before
midnight, to sign and send his letter to Rome ... Bishop Ruiz, who is in
his 40th year as diocesan leader, developed a fervent following among his
Indian parishioners, who called him "Tatic," which means father in one
Indian language. For four years after the Zapatistas' brief armed uprising
in January 1994, he was a pivotal mediator in talks to end the rebellion.
In 1993, the Vatican, through its papal nuncio in Mexico, publicly invited
Bishop Ruiz to step down. But many Mexican bishops rallied behind him. So
the Vatican allowed him to continue until he reached the mandatory
retirement age of 75. He was a doctrinal conservative when he was anointed
bishop at the age of 35. But his thinking changed on donkey-back journeys
to mountainside villages where he saw the misery in which the Indians
lived. In the 1970's, Bishop Ruiz mobilized a network of more than 2,000
Indian Bible teachers in remote areas of Chiapas, the first Indian
organization to be so extensive. "His contribution more than anything else
was to get those people started on the course of organizing themselves,"
said John Womack, a historian from Harvard University."]
http://www.nytimes.com/
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Richmond, Randy. "Removal of Artifacts Angers Natives," The London Free
Press, 4 November 1999, A3.
["London-area native leaders are angry the University of Western Ontario
and the city have removed 3,000 aboriginal artifacts from an archeological
dig in London without telling them. Peter Timmins, the archeologist in
charge, says he's not required by law to notify the bands. He reported the
find to the First Nations services office on campus. "That's not good
enough," said Chief Joe Miskokomon of the Chippewas of the Thames. "A
student services office has nothing to do with this." The finding of what
may be Ojibway artifacts makes it even more important for the local band to
be notified, he said. "Clearly the artifacts represent our culture and our
people and we would like to see them preserved. We would like to see
whether or not they should be returned to our community." "This is the
first I've heard of the dig," said Chief Harry Doxtator of the Oneida
Nation of the Thames ... Ontario's Cemeteries Act requires archeologists to
notify natives only when human remains or burial grounds are found, said
Michael Johnson of the Citizenship, Culture and Recreation Ministry. The
ministry encourages archeologists to notify the nearest bands when
artifacts are found, he said. "But that's up to them to do." Miskokomon
said he knows it's not the law to notify bands. "We are relying on the
archeologists' goodwill. "We have a community a very short distance away
from that location. One would have thought it would have been appropriate
to call us." Miskokomon said he will be contacting Western to see why his
band wasn't notified."]
http://www.canoe.ca/LondonFreePress/home.html
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Ruble, Renee. "Koch's Chief Executive Testifies," The Associated Press
State & Local Wire, November 4, 1999, Thursday, PM cycle.
[TULSA, Okla. "Being vague on specifics, Charles Koch said he was aware as
head of Koch Industries that the company received more oil than it paid for
over years. But Koch, chairman and chief executive of Koch Industries,
said he couldn't recall any specific conversations regarding company
overages, or receiving oil without paying for it. The second hour of his
videotaped testimony is scheduled to be played today in the federal trial
against Koch Industries. The Kansas-based company is accused of training
employees to underreport the amount of oil it purchased from Indian and
federal leases in the 1980s."]
http://www.ap.org/
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Schrag, Peter. "The Dark Side of the California Dream," The San Diego
Union-Tribune, November 4, 1999, Opinion.
["Kevin Starr, California's ebullient state librarian and its premier
social historian, gave a talk the other day that he called, only
half-facetiously, " Confessions of a Recovering Mythoholic." He
acknowledged that, like a lot of others, he probably hadn't been as ready
to see the dark, California noir side of the state's past as he should have
been -- the massacre of Indians in the gold fields, the racism and
xenophobia, the abuse of natural resources, the often brutal treatment of
immigrants and the unemployed, Okie and Mexican. The talk was part of a
larger conference at the University of California, Santa Barbara, called
"Myths of California." And like the conference itself, what gave the talk
its real importance was the recognition that California had to be taken
seriously as "one of the constituent elements of the American
consciousness" and thus needed a more hard-headed appraisal. That might
require not a rejection of myths, but at least a better understanding."]
http://www.uniontrib.com/
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Stack, Peter. "Brosnan Film to Open American Indian Series," The San
Francisco Chronicle, November 4, 1999, B3.
["The 24th annual American Indian Film Festival, the oldest of its kind,
opens next Thursday on an unconventional note -- a movie featuring Pierce
Brosnan, the James Bond of the '90s. Brosnan stars in Richard
Attenborough's new film, "Grey Owl," screening at 7:30 p.m. at the Palace
of Fine Arts Theater. The festival runs through November 19 at the Palace
of Fine Arts and the Kabuki. "Grey Owl" is about a 19th century
Englishman, Archibald Belaney, who passed himself off as an Apache and
lived among Ojibway First Nation people in Canada. He was a wilderness
explorer and trapper, but after falling in love with a Mohawk woman, Pony
(played by Annie Galipeau), he gave up hunting and became an
environmentalist, writer and lecturer."]
http://www.sfgate.com/chronicle/
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"Street with Two Schools Named Indian Pride Drive," St. Louis
Post-Dispatch, November 4, 1999, 6.
["The Pacific Board of Aldermen is changing the name of West Orleans Street
to Indian Pride Drive."]
http://www.postnet.com/
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"Village Will Spotlight Indian Life in Louisiana," The Times-Picayune,
November 4, 1999, 7F1.
["Plaquemines Parish residents and visitors will be invited to travel back
in time Saturday to observe history firsthand as Iberville and Bienville
exchange gifts and greetings with American Indians living in Louisiana.
The historical re-enactment will be the finale of "Faces of Plaquemines
Past" and "Glimpses of Indians Past," two Francofete celebrations in honor
of the 300th anniversary of the founding of Louisiana. But participants
who join the celebrations will get to meet more than just the French
explorers. Actors portraying historical figures, and average people who
lived in the parish throughout its history, will stage additional
re-enactments at four Plaquemines Parish cemeteries."]
http://www.nola.com/
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