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Altepeter, Twylla. "Lakota Man Uses Storytelling Skills to Enlighten and
Brighten Lives," The Associated Press State & Local Wire, 23 November 1999.
["CROOKSTON, Minn.: His art is as old as the dawn of mankind. Words are his
medium, the audience his palette. Francis Country uses words to paint vivid
images, evoke emotions and pass along wisdom. The Sisseton, S.D., man is a
traditional Lakota storyteller. He was a presenter at the Native American
Festival held recently at the Crookston Central Junior High School ... "The
stories and the songs go back to healing. Stories we tell will help you
understand things that are happening in your community and your home." ...
Country says he uses the stories to reach people of all races. He has
appeared at various universities across the country and finds the students
particularly receptive to his "feelings to feelings" stories."]
http://www.ap.org/
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"American Indian College Students Lead 1999 Macy's Thanksgiving Day Parade
As Millions Watch on NBC & CBS Networks," PR Newswire, 23 November 1999.
["Traveling from Indian reservations across the nation to New York City, 24
Native college students will share tribal songs and dances on the first
float of the 1999 Macy's Thanksgiving Day Parade. Hailing from
reservation-based tribal colleges, these students will wear the colorful
attire of 20 different tribes. Macy's has invited the students to join its
lead float in order to showcase tribal culture and Indians' contributions
to Thanksgiving. The American Indian College Fund is sponsoring the
students' trip to celebrate its 10th anniversary supporting tribal college
scholarships. "Indian culture is not a thing of the past," said Richard
Williams, College Fund executive director. "Our students will show that
Indians today are contributing to American society, while using education
to advance our culture into the next millennium."']
http://www.prnewswire.com
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Baker, Deborah. "Tribes, Media Groups Clash over Casino Records," The
Associated Press State & Local Wire, 23 November 1999.
["ALBUQUERQUE: Opening the books of Indian casinos would give their
competitors too much of an edge, tribes have told the state Gaming Control
Board on Tuesday. But the New Mexico Press Association and an
open-government group said keeping financial records secret erodes public
confidence in the gambling industry. "This is the quintessential area for
organized crime and crime in general, and it's not going to work without
significant disclosure," Press Association lobbyist Pat Rogers said. The
longstanding tug of war over the records was renewed last week when the
attorney general said the financial information the Gaming Control Board
gets from tribes is public record."]
http://www.ap.org/
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Campbell, Kim. "Lessons on Native Americans: Thanksgiving and Beyond," The
Christian Science Monitor, 23 November 1999, 14.
["Every year at Thanksgiving, kindergarten teacher Tina Larson struggles
with creating educational activities about native Americans that don't feed
the stereotypes her students pick up from cartoons ... Teachers are often
hampered by limited access to information about Indian culture, or by
inaccurate and outdated materials ... Those involved with Indian education
programs say resources are readily available that can help teachers go
beyond feathers and tepees. They also emphasize that lessons on native
people can be taught throughout the school year and across disciplines; and
urge teachers to point out that Indians are a people of the present and not
just the past."]
http://www.csmonitor.com/
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Dodd, Robert E. "Native American Month Is a Significant Time," Chattanooga
Times / Chattanooga Free Press, 23 November 1999, B7.
["November is a month of many distinctions. The one most significant to me
is the designation of Native American Heritage Month. My grandfather is
Kiowa. My grandmother is Kiowa ... I walk tall and carry the pride of my
ancestors ... I am no one's mascot, curio or discovery."]
http://207.69.235.40/
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"Grant Would Aid Creation of Tribal Supreme Court," The Associated Press
State & Local Wire, November 23, 1999, Tuesday, BC cycle.
["SIOUX FALLS, S.D.: The U.S. Justice Department is providing a grant for a
unified tribal supreme court in South Dakota, a move that some say could
ultimately lead to more jobs and business on Indian reservations ...
Instead of having to deal with a different set of regulations on each of
the state's nine reservations, a unified court would create a consistent
forum for settling legal questions when business deals don't work out.
"This is an important step," said Michael Jandreau, chairman of the Lower
Brule Sioux Tribe. "I think financial institutions are going to be more
interested in dealing with reservations if there is a consistent
interpretation of the laws." ... While the tribes would establish the
court, it would be administered by a nonprofit organization called the
Wakpa Sica Historical Foundation. To date, eight of South Dakota's nine
tribes have signed on to the Wakpa Sica project. Only Cheyenne River has
not."]
http://www.ap.org/
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Helmer, John. "Geronimo's Story A Lesson for Russian Generals," The
Straits Times (Singapore), November 23, 1999, 45.
[" ... Russia has been too big, its army too powerful, and its generals too
victorious for too long to understand warfare from the point of view of the
small, the weak, and the defeated. This is hardly the time for the military
academies to start teaching this perspective, let alone the history of the
Indian wars. At the moment, Russia's generals have much the same attitude
towards the Chechen conflict as generals Crook and Miles exhibited towards
the Apaches. There is one lesson, however, which Russia's generals should
study from Geronimo's story: The US government, Geronimo concluded, can
never be counted on to honour its agreements, especially not the ones it
reaches with adversaries it can't catch or kill. This week's pow-wow in
Istanbul demonstrates how ridiculous it should be to believe anything
else."]
http://www.straitstimes.asia1.com
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"King Weighs 'Squaw' Bill," Portland Press Herald, November 23, 1999, 2B.
["AUGUSTA: A bill to drop the name "Squaw" from Maine lakes, mountains and
other features because many Indians consider it insulting deserves a
serious look, Gov. Angus King said Monday. But King stopped short of
endorsing it. State Rep. Donald Soctomah, a Passamaquoddy tribal
representative, has proposed changing the names of mountains, waterways, an
island and other geographic features and jurisdictions in the state that
bear a name that Indians say has a pejorative connotation ... Asked about
the bill on Monday, King said he had no definitive position, but he has
discussed it with Indian lawmakers and will take it up further with tribal
officials. King said he was "sympathetic to their concern.""]
http://www.portland.com/
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"Law Enforcement Officers Meet with Protesters to Discuss Upcoming Raid,"
The Associated Press State & Local Wire, November 23, 1999, Tuesday, BC
cycle.
["MINNEAPOLIS: Law enforcement officers plan to raid an encampment of
Highway 55 protesters, but first they visited the camp to participate in an
Indian pipe ceremony and talk about their plans. Capt. Kevin Kittridge of
the Minnesota State Patrol and Minneapolis Police Lt. Bud Emerson said
Thursday's meeting was part of an effort to avoid violence and injuries.
"I said that if faced with passive resistance, we will not allow officers
to use chemicals or pain compliance," Kittridge said ... "It was a pretty
good, open discussion about how things are going to go down," said Jim
Anderson, cultural chairman of the Mendota Mdewakanton Dakota Community, a
group claiming that the boulevard under construction in South Minneapolis
will go through land sacred to Indians. Opponents have been camping on
property in the highway's path since August 1998 ... Anderson acknowledged
that being evicted - and arrested - is a virtual certainty."]
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Maffly, Brian. "A Gap in Time; Parowan Gap Had Astronomical Importance for
Ancient American Indians, Rock Art Scholars Assert," The Salt Lake Tribune,
November 23, 1999, C1.
["PAROWAN GAP: ... Cut by a river that disappeared long ago, the Narrows
at Parowan Gap is regarded as a sacred spot where ancient American Indians
chiseled petroglyphs into the rock walls on both sides of the great notch.
The rock art is perhaps the work of Fremont Indians, who mysteriously
abandoned the area 800 years ago, or descendants of the Southern Paiute who
inhabit the region today ... Gazing east, you can make out the profile of a
human face that naturally occurs in a 20-foot rock hanging on the Narrows'
south wall. According to Paiute legend, the face is that of Tobats, the
creator. Every Nov. 5, the "cross-quarter" midpoint between the equinox and
winter solstice, the path of the morning sun cuts through Tobats' "mouth,"
formed by a horizontal slit in the rock, as if the god were swallowing the
sun for the winter. These observations, [archaeoastronomer Nowell] Morris
contends, support his theories about ancient Native Americans' use of the
Narrows as a calendar and observatory ... While many Paiutes disagree,
Warner and [Jesse] Morris contend a park would be an appropriate way to
honor the place and educate the public about the importance of
archaeological sites. A federal highways grant provided seed money to start
a park project years ago, but the work has since bogged with no completion
in sight."]
http://www.sltrib.com/
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"Monacan Indians Get Back Remains," The Associated Press State & Local
Wire, November 23, 1999, Tuesday, AM cycle.
["RICHMOND, Va.: The Monacan Indian tribe will get back the remains of
more than 100 of its ancestors, 98 years after the bones were discovered in
Rockbridge County. "It's a time of celebration - and a time to finally put
our ancestors at rest," said Diane Johns Shields, the Amherst County-based
tribe's coordinator of economic and social development. The Valentine
Museum in Richmond had displayed the remains years ago. For the past
decade, they've been kept by the state, which believed federal approval was
necessary to return the remains ... Monacan leaders said they were hampered
by a 1990 federal law calling for return of human remains or sacred objects
to Indian tribes. The law deals with tribes officially recognized by the
U.S. government, a list of 555 tribes that does not include the Monacans.
They and seven other Virginia tribes with formal state recognition are
seeking federal recognition ... Last week, the Native American Graves
Protection and Repatriation Review Committee met in Salt Lake City and
approved the request. A formal letter will be sent to Virginia soon, said
Timothy McKeown, a staff member of the committee."]
http://www.ap.org/
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Nitze, Sam. "A Trip to Bountiful - Festival Celebrates Community,
Traditions of Native American Culture," The Providence Journal-Bulletin,
November 23, 1999, 1D.
["MIDDLETOWN - With steady, rumbling blasts from a cottonwood drum as its
heartbeat, a native American village, Otanick, was brought to life Saturday
at the Norman Bird Sanctuary. The occasion was A Bountiful Harvest - a
living history presentation meant to show life on an Indian homesite on
Aquidneck Island during Colonial times ... Proceeds from the event, which
was organized by the bird sanctuary and the Aquidneck Indian Council, will
benefit Lucy's Hearth, a homeless shelter for women and children."]
http://www.projo.com/
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"Proposal Puts 27,000 Acres of Grazing Land in the Balance," The Associated
Press State & Local Wire, November 23, 1999, Tuesday, BC cycle.
["BILLINGS, Mont.: The Bureau of Land Management has identified 27,104
acres of federal lands in 12 eastern Montana counties for a proposed land
exchange with the state. Some of those parcels, which range in size from
36 acres to 757 acres, would be traded to Montana for state school lands on
the Crow Reservation in the third phase of a public lands exchange intended
to compensate the tribe for a century-old survey error. When the third
phase of the Crow Boundary Settlement Act agreement is completed within the
next few years, all the school tracts on the 2-million-acre reservation
will be in the hands of the Bureau of Indian Affairs to be held in trust
for the tribe. Earlier this month, the BLM officially published the list
of lands being considered for the exchange and gave the required two-year
notice to ranchers on the federal leases that their grazing privileges
could be altered if the tracts they are using wind up in state hands."]
http://www.ap.org/
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Richard, Randall. Pequot Indian Tribe Finances a Widow's Quest for
Justice," Providence Journal-Bulletin, November 23, 1999, Domestic News.
["PROVIDENCE, R.I.: From the day her husband was found hanged in a Darwin,
Australia, jail cell in 1985, the odds against Letty Scott have been
staggering. As an aborigine woman of the Anmatyerre Nation of the Western
Deserts of Central Australia, Scott had neither money nor friends in high
places. All she had, she says, was her faith in God, a passion for justice
and a determination to travel to the ends of the earth, if need be, to
bring her husband's killers to trial ... Thanks to the Mashantucket
Pequots, the odds against Letty Scott are no longer quite so staggering.
Not only does Letty suddenly find herself with friends in high places, but
her once lonely struggle is no longer penniless. Behind it is the
considerable fortune and influence of the Pequots, owners of Foxwoods
Casino, the richest gambling emporium in the world. Since learning of her
struggle, Letty said, the tribe -- as a token of its solidarity with
oppressed indigenous cultures throughout the world -- has spared no expense
in coming to her aid. The tribe not only has given Letty, her 14-year-old
son, and a family friend food and lodging at the Mashantucket resort for
the past four months, but it also has been flying them around the globe --
all expenses paid -- to pursue virtually every judicial remedy available."]
http://www.projo.com
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"Tribe Resumes Negotiations to Buy Dog Track," The Associated Press State &
Local Wire, November 23, 1999, Tuesday, AM cycle.
["MADISON, Wis.: The Ho-Chunk Nation has resumed efforts to buy the Geneva
Lakes Greyhound Track after negotiations with the track fell apart earlier
this month, track and tribal officials said Tuesday. Several issues need
to be resolved before the purchase is completed, said Jeff DeCora, the
tribe's legislative council. He declined to provide details because
negotiations have just resumed ... The tribe said in April that it wanted
to buy the race track to expand its business ventures into dog racing. The
tribe reached a tentative $38 million agreement with track owners that
month. The negotiations broke down after Glick refused to extend them past
the beginning of November ... The tribe has hinted it might be interested
in putting a casino on the land. Gov. Tommy Thompson "wasn't very
enthusiastic" about that prospect, Thompson spokesman Kevin Keane said."]
http://www.ap.org/
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Ward, Carol J.G. "Culinary Influence of Native Americans Runs Deep in
America's Kitchens," The State (Columbia, S.C.), November 23, 1999.
["COLUMBIA, S.C.: Elsie Taylor Goins remembers when her family's
Thanksgiving menu depended upon her grandfather's success at hunting.
Goins, a Cherokee Tribal Council member, said the day started with a
breakfast of fried rabbit, hot grits and hot buttered biscuits and frybread
... Because Native Americans made their ancestral homes all across the
United States, their culinary influence runs deep in America's kitchens.
On Thanksgiving Day, traditional dishes might include turkey with cornbread
dressing, cranberry sauce, succotash, corn, sweet potato casserole, stewed
tomatoes, squash and pecan pie. Many of these dishes are rooted in Native
American cuisine. This November during Native American Heritage Month,
Goins and her son Will Goins, CEO of the Eastern Cherokee, Southern
Iroquois and United Tribes of South Carolina, want to remind people of that
connection.
http://www.thestate.com/
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