NATIVE_NEWS: Fwd: (ENS) NEWS DECEMBER 29, 1998

[Ish]

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>Date: Tue, 29 Dec 1998 18:58:43 -0700
>From: Editor <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
>Subject:  (ENS) NEWS  DECEMBER 29, 1998
>To:   [EMAIL PROTECTED]
>
>ENVIRONMENT NEWS SERVICE (ENS)
>
>KASHMIR FORESTS TORCHED BY INDO-PAKISTANI WAR
>COMMUNITY INVOLVEMENT KEY TO PROTECTION
>CANCER CLUSTER APPEARS NEAR ILLEGAL NUCLEAR WASTE DUMP IN SICILY
>EU ENVIRONMENT COUNCIL AGREES ON MOTOR POLLUTION, OZONE DEPLETERS
>CHEMICAL INDUSTRY LEADERS ASSESS Y2K PLANT SAFETY
>NETHERLANDS PLEDGES $14.5 MILLION FOR ENVIRONMENT
>
>E-WIRE
>*  Industry Mounts New Attack on Wilderness, Warns Heritage Forests Campaign
>
>For Full Text and Graphics Visit:  http://ens.lycos.com
>***
>Send News Tips and Story Leads to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
>***
>
>KASHMIR FORESTS TORCHED BY INDO-PAKISTANI WAR
>
>By Ahmar Mustikhan
>KARACHI, Pakistan, December 29, 1998 (ENS) - A huge forest fire set off by
>the fight between India and Pakistan over Kashmir is ravaging the
>picturesque Neelam Valley, on the Pakistani side of the disputed
>territories, according to reports from the Azad Jammu and Kashmir’s (AJK)
>state capital of Muzzarabad.
>Copyright Environment News Service (ENS) 1998
>For Full Text and Graphics Visit:
>http://ens.lycos.com/ens/dec98/1998L-12-29-02.html
>***
>
>COMMUNITY INVOLVEMENT KEY TO PROTECTION
>
>By Diane Jukofsky
>MORAVIA, Costa Rica, December 29, 1998 (ENS) - An ambitious conservation
>project called AMISCONDE concluded in 1998, after five years of work
>outside La Amistad Biosphere Reserve, a 4.4 million acre (1.8 million
>hectare) park extending from southern Costa Rica into Panama.
>Copyright Environment News Service (ENS) 1998
>For Full Text and Graphics Visit:
>http://ens.lycos.com/ens/dec98/1998L-12-29-01.html
>***
>
>CANCER CLUSTER APPEARS NEAR ILLEGAL NUCLEAR WASTE DUMP IN SICILY
>
>By Susanna Jacona Salafia
>ROME, Italy, December 22, 1998 (ENS) - An old unused Sicilian potassium and
>sulphur mine is now suspected of being an illegal depository for a large
>amount of nuclear waste.
>Copyright Environment News Service (ENS) 1998
>For Full Text and Graphics Visit:
>http://ens.lycos.com/ens/dec98/1998L-12-22-01.html
>***
>
>EU ENVIRONMENT COUNCIL AGREES ON MOTOR POLLUTION, OZONE DEPLETERS
>
>BRUSSELS, Belgium, December 23, 1998 (ENS) - European Union environment
>ministers rounded off Austria's term as EU presidency Monday with key
>political agreements aimed at cutting air pollution from road traffic and
>phasing out further ozone-depleting substances.

>For Full Text and Graphics Visit:
>http://ens.lycos.com/ens/dec98/1998L-12-23-02.html
>***
>
>CHEMICAL INDUSTRY LEADERS ASSESS Y2K PLANT SAFETY
>
>By Claire W. Gilbert, Ph.D.
>WASHINGTON, DC, December 23, 1998 (ENS) - Chemical industry executives
>responsible for dealing with the Year 2000 computer problem are making
>computer corrections. But they are also looking at contingency plans and
>emergency response plans they told a gathering here Friday hosted by the
>Chemical Safety Board, a government agency, to report on Y2K plant safety.
>Copyright Environment News Service (ENS) 1998
>For Full Text and Graphics Visit:
>http://ens.lycos.com/ens/dec98/1998L-12-23-01.html
>***
>
>NETHERLANDS PLEDGES $14.5 MILLION FOR ENVIRONMENT
>
>WASHINGTON, DC, December 29, 1998 (ENS) - The Netherlands government has
>announced a US$14.5 million package of grants for environmental
>initiatives. The resources, which will be channeled through the World Bank
>for expenditure in 1999, will fund 20 initiatives.
>Copyright Environment News Service (ENS) 1998
>For Full Text and Graphics Visit:
>http://ens.lycos.com/ens/dec98/1998L-12-29-03.html
>
>***
>   E-WIRE PRESS RELEASE E-WIRE PRESS RELEASE E-WIRE PRESS RELEASE
>***
>
>TO NATIONAL AND ENVIRONMENTAL EDITORS:
>
>Industry Mounts New Attack on Wilderness, Warns Heritage Forests Campaign
>Oil, Agricultural, and Chemical Interests Join Timber Lobbyists In Peddling
>Misstatements to Journalists
>
>  WASHINGTON, Dec. 28 -/E-Wire/-- A fresh attack on wilderness has been
>mounted by a so-called institute sponsored by Amoco, Occidental Chemical,
>American Petroleum Institute, American Farm Bureau, Chlorine Chemical
>Council, Philip Morris Cos. and others.
>
> /CONTACT:  Peter Kelley for Heritage Forests Campaign, 202-887-8831,
>ext. 210/
>
>For Full T

NATIVE_NEWS: Fwd: Ward Valley Gathering February 12-15.

[Ish]

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>Date: Tue, 29 Dec 1998 17:48:40 -0800 (PST)
>X-Sender: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Unverified)
>To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
>From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Philip M. Klasky)
>Subject: Ward Valley Gathering February 12-15.
>
>JOIN WITH THE COLORADO RIVER NATIVE NATIONS ALLIANCE AND THE WARD VALLEY
>COALITION
>
>Commemorate and Celebrate the One Year Anniversary of the Victorious
>113 Day Occupation that Stopped the Desecration of Sacred Indian Land at
>Ward Valley.
>
>Come to Ward Valley, February 12 to 15, 1999, for a Gathering to Save
>Sacred Land, the Colorado River and the Endangered Desert Tortoise from a
>Nuclear Waste Dump.
>
>TRADITIONAL NATIVE AMERICAN CEREMONIES
>Friday, February 12, starting at 6:00pm to Saturday, February 13.
>
>STRATEGY MEETING, WORKSHOPS AND TOURS OF THE PROPOSED DUMP SITE
>Sunday, February 14
>
>We will defend Ward Valley until we stop the dump once and for all!
>
>Ward Valley is located 22 miles west of Needles, California.  Take the
>Water Road exit off Interstate 40.  Bring tents, sleeping bag, warm
>clothes, eating utensils, water.  No drugs, weapons or alcohol.  Food and
>sanitation provided.  Bring bulk foods to share.
>
>For more information contact Save Ward Valley (760) 326-6267, Alliance for
>Survival (909) 722-7574, BAN Waste Coalition (415) 752-8678,
>Greenaction (415) 566-3475.
>
>Volunteers needed, please call: (760) 326-6267
>
>Sponsored by the Colorado River Native Nations Alliance and the Ward Valley
>Coalition.
> 

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NATIVE_NEWS: Buffalo Nations rattles sabers over hazing

[Sonja Keohane]

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A quote from the article...

"Mease said he fears DOL will run the animals to death or cause injury to
people. "They're hurting them," he said. He also fears the stress of
running animals, sometimes for several miles, through deep snows, will
cause pregnant females to abort. "They're creating the very problem they're
concerned about," he said. "Aborted fetuses.""




By SCOTT McMILLION Chronicle Staff Writer
12/29/1998

Buffalo Nations rattles sabers over hazing

A leader of a protest group that opposes repeated hazing of bison in the
West Yellowstone area said Monday he could not rule out direct interference
with the hazing.

"I'm not saying yes and I'm not saying no," said Mike Mease, co-founder of
the protest group Buffalo Nations. "There might be individuals within our
group that might be considering it."

Last winter, a handful of Buffalo Nations members were arrested for
interfering -- or attempting to interfere -- with Montana Department of
Livestock officials when they captured or killed bison.

Such activities are known as "direct action" and last winter consisted
mostly of people locking themselves to equipment or defying orders to stay
out of areas.

Interfering with a herd of running bison being chased by people on
snowmobiles could pose some obvious hazards.

Mease's group sent out a press release Sunday maintaining DOL is harming
bison and other wildlife with the hazing.

"We simply are not going to stand by and watch as DOL agents haze these
animals to death," said group member Dan Brister.

see complete article at url above

NATIVE_NEWS: Perhaps a warning for MDOL?

[Sonja Keohane]

And now:Sonja Keohane <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:

If it is against the law for dogs to chase wild animals, why is it
ok for MDOL to chase (haze) wild animals (bison) ?  Maybe the State
game wardens should warn MDOL.

Seems to me that this statement also applies to the chasing
(hazing) of the YNP bison:

"He said it's particularly hazardous at this time of year, because
the game animals are at a lower altitude, and are expending most of their
energy in just staying alive."




State game wardens warn dog owners

MISSOULA - State game wardens are reminding dog owners in rural areas to
keep track of their pets because dogs can be shot by wardens if they're
seen chasing game animals.

Domestic dogs chasing deer and elk is an increasing problem in Western
Montana, said Jeff Darrah, a Montana Fish, Wildlife and Parks game warden
captain in Missoula.

He said it's particularly hazardous at this time of year, because the game
animals are at a lower altitude, and are expending most of their energy in
just staying alive.

"It is bad, especially when it's this cold out," Darrah said. "A dog is
frisky, full of food, and ready to go. But critters are out there 24 hours
a day, burning a lot of energy just to stay alive."

He said dogs can also be caught in leg-hold traps during legal trapping
season, and they could become a mountain lion's meal if caught.

NATIVE_NEWS: Fwd: QUERY: History of Alcohol in Indian Country

[Ish]

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>Date: Tue, 29 Dec 1998 15:31:11 -0600
>Reply-To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
>Sender: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
>From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Bernard & Feather Rock)
>To: [EMAIL PROTECTED], [EMAIL PROTECTED],
>[EMAIL PROTECTED], [EMAIL PROTECTED]
>Subject: QUERY: History of Alcohol in Indian Country
>X-Sender: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
>
>We are looking for resources pertaining to the history of alcohol in Indian
>Country.  Especially the use of alcohol as a political tool against Indian
>nations.
>
>Mii Gwetch
>Bernard J. Rock, Sr.
>
>   >>>
>
>  North Central Minnesota
> Native American  Veterans
>Outreach and Resource Center
> 

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NATIVE_NEWS: Fwd: Judge Halts Middle Soup Timber Sale

[Ish]

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>X-Sender: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
>Date: Tue, 29 Dec 1998 13:54:36 -0700
>To: "Wild Rockies Alerts" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
>From: Wild Rockies InfoNet <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
>Subject: Judge Halts Middle Soup Timber Sale
>Sender: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
>
>PRESS RELEASE: FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE
>12/24/98
>
>CONTACT:
>Arlene Montgomery
>Friends of the Wild Swan
>406-886-2011
>mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]
>
>
>JUDGE HALTS MIDDLE SOUP TIMBER SALE
>
>A Montana District Court Judge has given the forest an early
>Christmas present by calling a halt to the logging of the Middle Soup
>Timber Sale on the Swan River State Forest.  Judge Thomas Honzel ordered
>the Montana Department of Natural Resources and Conservation (DNRC) to
>complete a supplemental Environmental Impact Statement (EIS) on the
>economics of this timber sale and complete an adequate cumulative effects
>analysis on the impacts that previous logging has had on old-growth forest
>habitat and the sensitive wildlife which depend upon it.  Friends of the
>Wild Swan, a Swan Valley conservation organization, brought the lawsuit
>against the DNRC.
>
>The court upheld Friends of the Wild Swan's claim and found that
>the final EIS did not fully analyze the cumulative impacts of all of the
>past and proposed logging in the area.  "DNRC's EIS ignored the fact that
>substantial logging has occurred in this forest.  This has severely
>degraded the habitat for many sensitive wildlife species," said Arlene
>Montgomery, spokesperson for Friends of the Wild Swan.
>
>In a confusing turn of events the state disclosed earlier this year
>that it had mismarked the trees to be cut in the sale.  The volume of
>timber to be logged as well as the price which Plum Creek Timber Company
>would pay for it were reduced.  However, the state's analysis failed to
>disclose that this timber sale would now lose money, rather than generate
>revenue for the school trust.  The state rejected two other alternatives in
>its Environmental Impact Statement because they would not make any money
>for the school trust.  "The DNRC appears to be handing out valuable public
>assets to timber companies that rightfully belong to the school children of
>Montana,"  Friends of the Wild Swan's Montgomery stated.
>
>While this timber sale was under court review, DNRC granted Plum
>Creek Timber Company a waiver and allowed them to begin logging the
>project.  The court's decision enjoins all logging of the Middle Soup
>Timber Sale until the state complies with the court's order.  "We are
>pleased that the court will not allow this timber sale to go forward at
>this time.  Old-growth forests take at least 200 years to grow.  To allow
>logging without fully analyzing the consequences destroys Montana's rich
>wildlife heritage and forecloses options for future generations. "
>Montgomery said.
>
>This is the second time that the Middle Soup Timber Sale has been
>stopped by the courts.  In 1994 a District Court Judge also found the DNRC
>to be in violation of the law in their first version of this timber sale.
>

>Arlene Montgomery
>Friends of the Wild Swan
>P.O. BOX 5103,  SWAN LAKE, MT  59911
>mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]
>
>
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NATIVE_NEWS: Fwd: Indian Telecommunications Conference (no attachments)

[Ish]

And now:Ish <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:

>X-Mailer: Windows Eudora Pro Version 3.0 (32)
>Date: Tue, 29 Dec 1998 11:56:56 -0700
>To: [EMAIL PROTECTED],[EMAIL PROTECTED]
>From: "Lisa A.Nelmida" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
>Subject: Indian Telecommunications Conference
>Reply-To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
>X-Comment: Nevada Indian Environmental Coalition
>
>The National Indian Telecommunications Institute and the Ford Foundation
>are hosting Digital Council Fires: A Native American Telecommunications
>Conference in Albuquerque May 13-16, 1999.  
>
>We are currently seeking papers on Indian Telecommunications issues from
>Tribal People.  I have attached and embedded the official call for papers
>for the conference to this email.  Registration information can be found at
>the following web site:  http://www.digitalcouncilfires.org/
>
>Please call, 505.986.3872, or email me if you have questions or suggestions.
>
>E Malama A Hui Hou,
>Lisa
>
>Digital Council Fires: 
>A Native American Telecommunications Conference
>Albuquerque, NM
>May 13-16, 1999
>
>CALL FOR PAPERS
>
>The National Indian Telecommunications Institute (NITI) is a private
>non-profit organization that employs advanced technology to serve American
>Indians, Alaskan Natives, and Native Hawaiians in the areas of education,
>economic development, language and cultural preservation, tribal policy
>issues and self-determination.  NITI is currently soliciting papers and
>presentations on telecommunications access and content issues in Indian
>Country for Digital Council Fires: A Native American Telecommunications
>Conference.
>
>Papers are welcome in any of the following categories as they relate to
>Native Americans, telecommunications and technology:
>
>I. Culture & Education
>II. Images
>III. Policy & Regulation
>IV. Economic Development
>V. Sovereignty
>VI. Anticipating the Future
>
>Possible Topics
>1. Current and future uses of technology to improve education at tribal
>schools and/or tribal colleges.
>2. Native American stereotypes in the electronic media (e.g., Internet,
>radio, film, and television).
>3. Current and future uses of technology to promote self-determination for
>Native Peoples.
>4. Barriers to telecommunications access in Indian Country including but
>not limited to economics, infrastructure, training, politics, regulation or
>deregulation, or lack of information about existing programs or policies.
>5. Native American telecommunications networking: what opportunities exist;
>what problems limit effective networking?  [This refers to intertribal or
>intratribal use of LANs, concerns over cultural or other information
>protection.]
>6. Current and future uses of technology to augment or achieve cultural or
>language preservation.
>7. Unique problems, success stories, and/or potential applications of
>telecommunications technology for Urban Indians (e.g., using technology to
>help Urban Indians stay connected to the Reservation).
>8. Tribal use of technology to document historical events or land claims
>(e.g., use of global positioning satellites (GPS) or geographical
>information systems (GIS) for mapping tribal land, etc.).
>9. Current and future uses of technology to support tribal micro or macro

>enterprise on the reservation.
>10. Tribal plans on current and future use of technology on the
>reservation.  Tribal Council members or designated representatives only.
>
>Topics outside this list will be considered.  Please call the Digital
>Council Fires Review Committee to discuss your topic ASAP.
>
>Presentations will be disseminated in a panel format.  Papers should be
>approximately fifteen minutes long and allow five minutes for discussion.
>Submit one copy of an abstract (300 words maximum) with your title but no
>name plus a separate page with your name, address, telephone number, email
>address, and FAX number and the title of your paper by email (preferred),
>regular mail, or FAX to:
>
>Digital Council Fires Review Committee
>National Indian Telecommunications Institute
>110 N. Guadalupe St., Ste. 9
>Santa Fe, NM  87501
>Phone:  505.986.3872
>FAX:505.989.4271
>Email:  [EMAIL PROTECTED]
>
>Accepted papers will be published in traditional and electronic formats
>following the conference.
>
>DEADLINE:  March 1, 1999
>
>
>
>Lisa A. Nelmida
>Development Coordinator
>National Indian Telecommunications Institute
>110 N. Guadalupe St., Suite 9
>Santa Fe, NM  87501
>Email:  [EMAIL PROTECTED]
>Voice:  505.986.3872
>FAX:   505.989.4271
>Web:   www.niti.org 


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NATIVE_NEWS: Stone Circle of Mystery Buried Artifact Found at Miami Building Site

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 From: WILLIAM EDGAR POOL <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
To: LAWRENCE SAMPSON <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>; AKE HARALD ANDERSEN
<[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Date: Tuesday, December 29, 1998 12:38 PM
Subject: Mysterious Stone Circle Found


  Stone Circle of Mystery
Buried Artifact Found at Miami Building Site 


M I A M I,   Dec. 23 In the shadows of this modern city s gleaming towers,
under the remains of a blighted apartment block, archeologists digging
through the rubble of centuries have uncovered a mysterious circle in stone. 
 The circle, formed of dozens of holes bored into the limestone bedrock
with rudimentary tools and located just a few steps from the mouth of the
Miami River, is a startling window into Florida s pre-Columbian history in
the heart of a bustling metropolis, archeologists say. 
 A cache of artifacts including shells, beads and pottery shards has
persuaded some experts that the circle is likely the foundation of a
Tequesta Indian building at the site of one of Miami s first trading posts
founded by northern settlers. 
 But another, more intriguing theory has been advanced; that the circle
is a celestial calendar, perhaps made by a breakaway band of Mayas, the
sophisticated Central American Indians who lived in the Yucatan, Belize and
northern Guatemala. 

Stonehenge in Negative 
It looks like Stonehenge in negative. Instead of stones, holes, T.L. Riggs,
a surveyor who has studied Mayan culture, said. 
 Whatever the relic turns out to be the site was uncovered in August
and researchers are in the initial stages of identifying and dating the
artifacts it is a vision of Florida past in the bedrock of a city built on
glitter. 
 It has generated more questions than answers, said Bob Carr, an
archeologist and director of Miami-Dade County s Historic Preservation
Division, which is heading the archeological dig at the site. 
 Historians expected to find Indian artifacts when bulldozers moved in
to demolish the old Brickell Apartments and prepare the site for a new
luxury tower. The patch of land at the mouth of the Miami River was widely
known to have been a homestead and trading post for the Brickell family,
early Miami settlers, in the 1870s. 

Near Old Tequesta Hotel Site 
The site lies in the shadow of a Sheraton hotel and is a stone s throw
across the narrow river from a Hyatt hotel erected on the site of a
Tequesta village. The native Indians inhabited the region when Ponce de
Leon, the Spanish explorer, landed in Florida in 1513 seeking the Fountain
of Youth. 
 The Tequesta all but vanished due to war and disease following the
arrival of the Europeans. 
 This summer, when the diggers scraped bedrock through a thick layer of
landfill and midden the black earth formed from the refuse of previous
occupants they uncovered a series of man-made holes in the form of an arc. 
 Riggs, the surveyor, extrapolated the arc, etching a circle on the
ground where he expected the rest of it might lie under the dirt. A backhoe
dug along the outline and more holes emerged in the form of a perfect
circle 38 feet in diameter. 

Septic Tank in Middle of Circle 
The mysterious circle, amazingly, survived the construction of the Brickell
Apartments unmarred. Work crews buried a septic tank in the middle of the
circle without touching the holes. A sewer pipe sits beside the southern
point. 
 Nothing like this has ever been found in south Florida, said John
Ricisak, a Miami-Dade historic preservation specialist who has worked at
the site for months. To my knowledge, if it is the foundation of a Tequesta
structure of some sort, it would be the first hard evidence of one that s
ever been documented archeologically. 

 Although both Ricisak and Carr believe the site is likely Tequesta,
Ricisak said the celestial calendar theory would not be as far out as it
might seem. 
 It would not be unprecedented, he said. In the Old World, for example,
there was Stonehenge. 

May Be of Mayan Origin 
Riggs, who spent years living in Central America and studying the Maya,
theorizes that a group of Maya may have made their way to the U.S. mainland
through the Florida Keys hundreds of years ago. Some of the holes in the
circle were meticulously cut in the shapes of marine creatures like the
manatee, turtle and dolphin, he said. 
 This is unique in the world. I don t think anyone has ever discovered
where glyphs have been carved into the ground, he said. There will be a lot
of doubters. This would be the first evidence of the Maya in Florida. 
 But Michael Coe, professor emeritus at Yale University and a leading
expert on Mayan culture, downplayed the likelihood that the circle is Mayan. 
 I think the chances against it are tremendous. There has never been
any Mayan artifact found in Florida, Coe said. The Maya really stayed put.
They never got up into the United States. There is no hard evidence that
they

NATIVE_NEWS: Organizing for solidarity with Peltier Feb. 6/99

[S.I.S.I.S.]

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NOTE: Please send comments or inquiries about this post to the original
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Date: Mon, 28 Dec 1998 09:06:51 -0800
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  please post widely
NORTHWEST LEONARD PELTIER SUPPORT NETWORK
P.O. BOX 5464
TACOMA, WA 98415-0464 USA
e-mail; bayou@blarg,net

  ORGANIZING INTERNATIONALLY FOR FEBRUARY 6, 1999
  INTERNATIONAL DAY OF SOLIDARITY WITH LEONARD PELTIER

 Greetings,

  Though the support for the case of Leonard Peltier keeps growing, what
is needed at this time is a major push. I hope that I do not need to
explain why Leonard's case is, not only important to the struggles of
Indigenous People, but it is also important to all social activists. (those
that may not be up on Leonard's case send me an e-mail and I'll send
you information). The reality in the struggles to support political
prisoners like Leonard is that the public show of support has to be built
so large that it can overcome the political reasons that keeps them in
prison.

   In the case of Leonard there are strong political forces working against
him. There is the FBI and its cover-up of it's programs to suppress
activists. There is the multi-national energy companies who fear the truth
getting out on how they steal land. There is the U.S. Government that
fears the truth getting out on it's policies against Indigenous People (the
death squad that operated, which was trained and armed by the FBI is
no different than the type of things that have been done at the School of
the Americas), it's suppression of activists that it fears and that it is
working hand in hand with the multi-national companies against the
interests of the people. This is alot to overcome. But it can be done. But
to overcome this we need a united force of all people who believe in
solidarity in social struggles.

  We need help in organizing as many marches and rallies as possible
for February 6, 1999. It matters not if some locations the turn out is
small, for that is a begining of building support in that area. It matters
not if the location seems to out of the way, it is not. For the message
we need to send is that Leonard's case is well known and is supported
far and wide. We can combine our solidarity by press statements that
list all the locations and by people of each location issueing statements,
signed by all that are sent to Clinton (calling for clemency), to U.S.
congress people (calling for congressional hearings), to the U.S.
embassies, and any other places that may seem useful.

  We here of the Northwest Leonard Peltier Support Network, have had a
very active campaign for justice for Leonard. In a little over 5 years we
have had 46 rallies in our region and we have gotten out information on
Leonard's case to thousands of people around the world. We are asking
for emergency donations so that we can get the word out to publications
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NATIVE_NEWS: Fwd: 'DIPITY Murder in Mexico..UPDATE

[Ish]

And now:Ish <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:

>From: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
>Date: Tue, 29 Dec 1998 13:23:17 EST
>To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
>Subject: 'DIPITY Murder in Mexico
>Reply-To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
>
>[EMAIL PROTECTED] replies:
>I am disturbed by this story coming out of Mexico. Philip True, a San Antonio
>Express-News reporter who disapeared for 13 days in Mexico, was found dead on
>December 16. After the initial autopsy, the official cause of death was from
>exposure, that Philip had been drunk, had fallen, and died. Philip was a
known
>drinker. After a representative of the US FBI was dispatched, a secondary
>autopsy supposedly revealed that he had been strangled. No other findings of
>this autopsy have been released. Authorities moved swiftly, gaining the
>confessions to the murder from two Huichol Indians. The story goes that
Philip
>was taking pictures of and hiking on Indian land, so he was killed. He had
>been to this locale before, without incident.  At a recent news conference,
>the two accused Indians were quite literally paraded in front of the media,
>and would not respond to questions from the media. It is known that one of
the
>men has a pregnant fiance'.The investigation is "ongoing".  I think this
>stinks to high heaven, I would like to hear some other opinions..
>
>
>Lawrence
> 

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NATIVE_NEWS: Mendota Raid update/action directory

[Ish]

And now:Ish <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:

From: "T. Hall" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>

http://members.aol.com/viewcamp/day141.html


A letter from Jill Walker with some pressing questions that need
to be answered.

December 28th, 1998

Dear Friends,

I want to wish all of you the warmest regards for the holidays,
but I'd like to ask that you take a few moments to read the
following, and take whatever action you can before we're too deep
into the new year. A single phone call or letter helps a lot.
Also passing the word on to others who will call or write helps
even more. This is important to ALL Minnesotans.

It has been 8 days since Governor Arne Carlson unleashed 600
police officers on peaceful protesters of the re-route of Highway
55 in Minneapolis. The 7 remaining homes in the path of the
re-route on Riverview Road were destroyed, the encampment
demolished, the debris removed, and the space "filled in" in 7
short hours. Most of the trees remain, and the area, with time,
could be restored to a beautiful natural state -- more park land!

New rumors suggest that the Minnesota Department of
Transportation is going to remove those trees any day now. A
lawsuit challenging the legality of the highway is still under
appeal, other lawsuits are being filed, and to my understanding,
trees were not to be removed before February 1999. Let's hope
MnDOT exercises some patience to let legal avenues take their
course.

Earth First! is now occupying the site of the Four Trees -
200+-year-old bur oaks arranged in the four directions and sacred
to the Mendota Mdewakanton Dakota People - which are also in the
path of the re-route, just south of Riverview Rd.

In light of recent events and present rumors, I wanted to pose a
few questions as well as suggest actions you can take to help
out:

- Why didn't Arne Carlson ever take a public position or meet
with project opponents before taking military-style action
against a nonviolent encampment?

- If the raid took place because of safety concerns regarding an
illegal gas hook up, why did the police burn fires all over the
place (these bonfires are recorded in photographs)?

- Why did the police smear pepper spray into the eyes of
nonviolent, unarmed protesters, and why did they force some of
these protesters to lay face down in the snow in subzero
temperatures for 30 minutes or more?

- Why were the police allowed to operate with blatant disregard
for sacred Native American objects and artifcats?

- Were constitutional and international human rights violated?

- Why didn't the Minnesota Department of Transportation meet with
the federal mediator from the Justice Department before taking
this action?

- Why would the Minnesota Department of Transportation choose
such extreme action when the Park & River Alliance lawsuit
challenging the legality of this highway is still under appeal?

- If the re-route of Highway 55 cannot be re-examined because of
the cost to do so (the only reason given), how can the State of
Minnesota justify spending hundreds of thousands, if not
millions, of dollars to arrest 30-some protesters?

- How is it that MnDOT can use taxpayer dollars to send nearly
60,000 copies of pro re-route propaganda to south Minneapolis

residents, and claim there is not enough money to re-examine this
small portion of the highway?

- Why did MnDOT refuse to do a Supplemental Environmental Impact
Statement when clearly the original EIS contains glaring
omissions? Why won't MnDOT acknowledge the existence of
substantial new information since the original EIS?

- Why is the Minnesota Department of Transportation telling the
public the Minnesota Indian Affairs Council approves construction
near Coldwater Spring when MnDOT is well aware the Council voted
unanimously in November 1998 to support legislation to protect
the flow of the Spring because the Spring is in peril? And why
wasn't the Spring given any mention in the 1985 Environmental
Impact Statement for this project?

- Why are our elected officials choosing to align with MnDOT,
ignoring thousands of Minnesotans they are supposed to represent?

- Is there really only ONE WAY to build this corridor? MUST the
Light Rail Transitway depend on the re-route? Do we really lack
the capacity to deal with a few blocks and a parking lot? Do you
accept this?

Friends, whether or not you agree with occupation as a mode of
protest, please remember: Tens of thousands of people oppose the
re-route; our right to a thorough Environmental Impact Statement
is being violated; Native American concerns have not been fairly
addressed; the highway is illegal; and MnDOT and our elected
officials refuse to listen. MnDOT is like a runaway truck and our
government is behind the wheel.

What is to become of environmental activism if forceful action
and disregard for public opinion replace meaningful dialogue and
fair consideration of options? Will people empowered for the
first time to act become disillusioned, never to act again?

We as American citiz

NATIVE_NEWS: PICTORIAL history of genocide The RED Holocaust

[Ish]

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http://www.iwchildren.org/redskinhate.htm 

RESCIND THE MEDALS OF (DIS)HONOR

http://www.eden.com/~jdkc/

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NATIVE_NEWS: WOUNDED KNEE MASSACRE: 108 YEARS AGO TODAY

[Ish]

And now:Ish <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:

http://www.dickshovel.com/study.html
Who cares about this stuff?
As a high school student I was always annoyed by students who would ask:
Why do we have to learn this stuff [history] anyway? We learn history so we
don't repeat our mistakes. This is the common answer that my teachers, my
father, and just about any other adult would give. This answer made perfect
sense to me then, and I easily accepted it. In high school, students learn
about the Nazi-Holocaust, and rightfully so. Information abounds regarding
this topic. However, my teachers never taught me that our country has a
Holocaust of its own (actually there are two; one killing 40 to 60,000,000
Africans, and one killing 100,000,000 Native Red Peoples). 

Hitler himself often expressed his admiration for the expediency in which
the American Christians removed the Native Americans and gave them mass
graves like the one in Wounded Knee, South Dakota.

WOUNDED KNEE MASSACRE: http://www.dickshovel.com/WKmasscre.html


Custer was illegally trespassing on Sioux territory in 1876 in blatant
violation of the Treaty of 1868 when his well-armed men were
attacked by Indians from all directions. The Indians wanted soldiers
out of their home, much like the colonists wanted the British out of
their homes. Needless to say, the long haired Indian killer, Custer, and
all his men, would not see another dawn. This absolute defeat enraged
and embarrassed whites across the country into a crazed frenzy.
Years after Custers defeat, his wife would painfully admit that Custer
was in the wrong saying: "There was a time after the Battle of the
Little Big Horn when I could not have said this, but as the years have
passed I have become convinced that the Indians were deeply
wronged." (Gessner pp. 7). In 1887, The General Allotment Act gave
reservation Indian males 160 acres of the worst land to make farms.
The land surplus created by giving Indians only 160 acres, reduced the
size of reservations by 10s of millions of acres, angering the
dispossessed Indians. The white land claims that followed were
romanticized by recent movies like "Far and Away." Nowhere in this
movie were dispossessed Indians noted. 

To have an understanding of what led up to the Wounded Knee
Massacre, one must at least read Dee Brown's book. A greatly
shortened version will be presented here. Fourteen years after the

Little Bighorn Battle, and after many wars between whites and
Indians, the evil Massacre at Chankpe Opi Wakpala, or Wounded
Knee Creek, took place. On December 28, Big Foot and his band of
Minneconjous were sighted by US soldiers. They agreed to follow the
soldiers to Pine Ridge near Wounded Knee, as they were headed there
for protection anyway. Of the Great Sioux Chiefs, only Red Cloud, in
his old age, was still alive. Sitting Bull and Crazy Horse were already
slain, and the Ghost Dance Religion (which promised an end to
obliteration of the land by whites) kept the people from complete
destitution. On a bitter cold December morning, captured Indians,
who had already been disarmed, were gathered in a shallow valley of
Wounded Knee Creek. Soldiers, many still hungry for avenging
Custers defeat, were positioned all around the surrounding bluffs. The
soldiers had positioned four Hotchkiss guns around the encampment
(Hotchkiss guns could hurl shells and shrapnel for a distance of two
miles). 

When the disarmament process was nearing an end, a
misunderstanding occurred. Brown reports that a young Indian named
Black Coyote, who was deaf, did not know what was going on, and
the soldiers harassed him. It is unclear who fired the first shot, many
say it was Black Coyote. The 1998 Encyclopedia Americana says a
medicine man incited a young man to resist, and that firing broke out.
These things aside, it is clear who was ready to execute a massacre.
Gessner reports that 12 drunk soldiers of the Seventh Cavalry
staggered to the ailing Chiefs tent during the disarmament and
beckoned him to come outside; when he crept to the teepee entrance,
12 bullets entered his body. At that point, the Indians, 230 women and
children and 120 men, fled in terror. The Hotchkiss guns and the
soldiers opened up on the Indians indiscriminately. The huge
Hotchkiss guns were firing almost a shell a second (Brown pp. 444),
raking and shelling all of them. Their teepees were torn to pieces, and
to be sure, so were many women and children. Nearly 300 of the
original 350 men, women, and children, lay dead. Some accounts put
the number at exactly 308 dead, and everyone else, wounded. The
soldiers lost 25 dead and 39 wounded, most of them struck by their
own bullets or shrapnel (Brown pp.444). The dead Indians were left
scattered on the ground. A blizzard was blowing

NATIVE_NEWS: Fwd: U.S. District Court disconnects National Indian Lottery

[Ish]

And now:Ish <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:

>Date: Tue, 29 Dec 1998 09:27:51 -0800
>From: Tom Schlosser <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
>Organization: Morisset Schlosser Ayer & Jozwiak, 801 2nd Ave., Ste. 1115,
Seattle, WA 98104, 206 386 5200, (206 386 7322 fax)

>Subject: U.S. District Court disconnects National Indian Lottery
>Reply-To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
>X-Comment: Nevada Indian Environmental Coalition
>
> The ruling that closed the National Indian Lottery is Memorandum
>Decision and Order, AT&T Corp. v. Coeur d'Alene Tribe, No.
>CV97-392-N-EJL, U.S.D.C. Idaho December 17, 1998).  You can get the
>document in fax image format at
>http://209.161.15.65/ecm/dc_images/10006980.tif   Save the file to your
>disk, then use Microsoft Imaging for Win95 (one of the Accessories) to
>read it or print it.
>
> Judge Lodge rejected the tribal court's ruling that AT&T must not deny
>the tribe 800# access for the lottery, on the ground that the tribal
>court was wrong on a matter of federal law: the preemptive effect of
>IGRA.  Because the placing of a lottery wager is a "gaming activity"
>within the meaning of 25 U.S.C. 2710(d)(1), Judge Lodge held, that
>activity could be shielded from state law only if it occurs on "Indian
>lands" and is authorized by a compact.  While the tribe has a compact
>with Idaho it does not have compacts with the States to be accessed by
>the 800#.  Therefore those States' laws banning or limiting lotteries

>applied to activities off Indian lands.  The judge denied as moot AT&T's
>request for a ruling that the tribal court lacked authority to
>adjudicate the dispute.  However, he noted that federal courts are the
>final arbiters of federal law, quoting FMC v. ShoBan, 905 F.2d 1311,1314
>(9th Cir. 1990).  The tribe plans to appeal.
>
> To remove your name from this list send a message to
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> 

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NATIVE_NEWS: Good Medicine to stage seventh celebration on New Year's Eve

[Ish]

And now:Ish <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:

Good Medicine to stage seventh celebration on New
   Year's Eve

http://www.okit.com/goodmedicine.htm
   Ask any Native American and chances are they know of a person
who has/had a
   problem with alcohol and/or substance abuses. Of all the
problems Native peoples
   endure, the despair of the heart and mind is the hardest to
remedy, with physical
   healing a close second. Just as tribal ceremonies are held each
year to restore the
   balance of our world, so must we as individuals renew our hearts
and minds for
   another year.

   In the fall of 1992, a small group of friends organized a
pow-wow to be held on New
   Year's Eve. They sought an environment where friends, families,
and the Indian
   community could come together in a wholesome atmosphere instead
of the usual
   celebrations associated with the end of the year. They called
that first dance the
   Good Medicine pow-wow. What began in 1992 as a celebration of
sobriety has
   continued to grow, from 500 people in attendance that first year
to over 5,000 in
   1997.

   From that humble beginning, the Good Medicine Society (GMS) was
formed. It's
   continuing mission is to promote sobriety and bring awareness,
pride and recognition,
   not only to the recovery of self, but also to that of our Native
peoples. The celebration
   continues as Good Medicine prepares for its Seventh Annual New
Year's Eve
   Sobriety Pow-wow to be held on December 31, 1998 in the Kitchens
of America
   Building, Oklahoma State Fairgrounds, Oklahoma City.

   Fund-raising has been become a yearlong endeavor as the power
continues to grow
   in popularity and GMS works to ensure the success of the other
events they sponsor.
   In kind and monetary donations are greatly appreciated. GMS
prints a pow-wow
   program in which businesses may advertise and commemorative
T-shirts are sold
   each year with major contributions recognized on the shirt and
with a banner at the
   dance. Arts and crafts booths are sold on a first-come-first
served basis but can be
   reserved in advance.

   There is no admission charge for the pow-wow.
<>>> 
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NATIVE_NEWS: Fwd: Re: Wounded Knee...this Day 108 years ago

[Ish]

And now:Ish <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:

>From: "Virgil H. Huston Jr." <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
>To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
>
>"History is Written By Those Who Hang Heroes"
>--Robert Bruce
>
>Virgil
>> http://www.dickshovel.com/WKmasscre.html
>> "There is nothing to conceal or apologize for in the Wounded Knee
>> Battle - beyond the killing of a wounded buck by a hysterical recruit.
>> The firing was begun by the Indians and continued until they stopped
>> - with the one exception noted above."
>> 
>> "That women and children were casualties was unfortunate but
>> unavoidable, and most must have been [killed] from Indian
>> bullets...The Indians at Wounded Knee brought their own destruction
>> as surely as any people ever did. Their attack on the troops was as
>> treacherous as any in the history of Indian warfare, and that they were
>> under a strange religious hallucination is only an explanation not an
>> excuse."..<> 
>> WE HAVE NOT FORGOTTEN...
>> 
>> =-=-=FREE LEONARD PELTIER=-=-= 
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>> try sleeping in a closed room with a mosquito
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>> IF it says:
>> "PASS THIS TO EVERYONE YOU KNOW"
>> Please Check it before you send it at:
>> 
>> http://urbanlegends.miningco.com/library/blhoax.htm
>> 
> 

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NATIVE_NEWS: Mashantucket PequotTribal Nation presents New Year's "Sobriety" Pau-Was

[Ish]

And now:Ish <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:

The Mashantucket Pequot Tribal Nation presents New Year's "Sobriety"
Pau-Was (powwow), December 31st - January 2nd, in the Gathering Space at
the Museum & Research Center, Mashantucket, CT.

GRAND ENTRY:  Thursday - 8 PM, Friday - noon & 6 PM, Saturday - 1 PM

DRUMS:  Mystic River, Silver Cloud, Youngblood.  ALL DRUMS WELCOME

CATEGORIES/PRIZES:  
Golden (50+) - Men's Eastern Straight.  Women's Eastern Blanket.
$300, $200, $100, $50, $50 

Adult (18 - 49) - Men's Eastern Straight, N/S Traditional, Grass, Fancy.
Women's Eastern Blanket, N/S Traditional, Jingle, Fancy
$300, $200, $100, $50, $50 

Teens (13 - 17) -Boys Traditional, Grass, Fancy.  Girls E.
Blanket/Traditional, Jingle, Fancy 
$150, $100, $75, $50, $25 

Juniors (6 - 12) - Boys Traditional, Grass, Fancy.  Girls Traditional,
Jingle, Fancy
$50 all places (5 total) 

DANCE REGISTRATION:  Thursday 6 - 8 PM, Friday 12 - 1 PM, NO CHARGE

Free admission to event, Free parking, Bring your own chairs.

New Year's Dinner provided for participants and their families.

Specials or Giveaways:  Call ahead to make arrangements

Powwow Information and Hotel Information:  860-396-6530 or 860-396-6547

Sponsored by the Youth Cultural Department, GONA, and the Tall Pine House

-

  ++
  You can have peace, or you can have freedom,
  Don't ever count on having both at once. 
  ~Lazarus Long 
  ++


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NATIVE_NEWS: Wounded Knee...this Day 108 years ago

[Ish]

And now:Ish <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:

http://www-personal.umich.edu/~jamarcus/ammmy.html
On December 29, 1890, there was an encounter
between Big Foot’s band of Miniconjou Sioux and
the 7th US Cavalry at Wounded Knee Creek on the
Pine Ridge Reservation of South Dakota. This
confrontation is seen as the last major ar med
conflict between the Indians and the whites in the
United States. Although some authors make a brief
mention to the incident, saying, "The Army trapped
the Indians... and destroyed them">> 
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NATIVE_NEWS: Fwd: Makah Indians Learning Patience

[Ish]

And now:Ish <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:

From: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Message-ID: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Date: Tue, 29 Dec 1998 09:41:31 EST
From: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Subject: Makah Indians Learning Patience
Date: Tue, 29 Dec 1998 03:23:23 EST

Makah Indians Learning Patience

.c The Associated Press

By PEGGY ANDERSEN

NEAH BAY, Wash. (AP) -- The Makah Indian tribe has waited more than 70 years
to return to the Pacific to hunt gray whales. For some, the last three months
have been among the longest.

No one here has ever hunted the whale. There is much to learn, and time has
taken away the teachers. One lesson is clear already: Some things cannot be
rushed.

Dozens of reporters stampeded here in late September, responding to a report
that the tribe's first whale hunt in decades was under way. The hunts had
stopped in the 1920s, when commercial whalers brought the world whale
population to the brink of extinction.

But since Oct. 1, when the tribe was officially cleared to hunt, the Makah
have yet to venture into the Pacific to search for a whale. Foul weather,
inexperience, mechanical problems, disagreements over procedures -- all manner
of obstacles have conspired to keep harpoon away from target.

Most of the reporters are gone, along with protesters and their ships. The
Makah, meanwhile, are still trying to recreate a store of lost knowledge.

Some Makah elders remember tasting whale meat as children. Some of the women
were taught how to prepare the meat, how to render the oil. Some of the men
know how to fashion whaling canoes from tall red cedar.

But so much time has passed, there is no one still alive who knows how to
whale. And hunting the whale -- especially in small boats, especially in
winter seas, especially gray whales -- is dangerous.

But if any people have whaling in their genes, it is the Makah.

They are the ones who could ``find the way to resurrect it,'' said Ed
Claplanhoo, a member of the Makah Whaling Commission and former tribal
chairman.

Whaling remains a vital part of tribal tradition. The story is still told of
how the thunderbird brought the whale to the Makah one hungry year long ago.
The image of the whale -- in the Makah colors of black and red -- decorate the
school, local homes, costumes and baskets. Huge weathered whale skulls and
bones adorn front yards in this community of 2,000 -- 1,400 of them among the
tribe's 2,300 enrolled members.

The pending hunt goes against tradition: a communal, tribal hunt, pooling the
available knowledge.

``A commission hunt,'' some say without enthusiasm.

Traditionally, whaling families mounted their own hunts, with their own secret
preparations and sacred songs. Some aspects of this pooling business have not
gone well, but lessons are learned, ruffled feelings smoothed -- the process
continues.

At this point, there is a pool of 17 men to fill out the eight-man whaling
crew. They've been chosen from the 23 families with a representative on the
tribe's whaling commission.

There is one canoe -- the 32-foot red-and-black Hummingbird -- and two
motorized support boats. Another canoe is being built -- a longer, broader
craft in the whaling tradition, its silky golden surface glimmering in the

shadows.

When the hunt takes place, the plan is to follow a ceremonial harpoon strike
from the canoe with high-powered rifle fire from the support boats, trying for
a quick, humane kill.

``We need to get out there,'' says Wayne Johnson, the whaling captain chosen
earlier this month. ``We need to get it done.''

That would mean facing the open sea and the gray whale, a usually placid
marine mammal up to 45 feet long.

The southbound migration by 23,000 whales is late this year. Scientists
believe warmer temperatures could be a factor.

The delay means the grays will come during the winter storm season, a
dangerous time that can bring weeks of 25-foot swells and howling winds. The
crew has most of the equipment it needs, including radios and wetsuits.

Claplanhoo believes the whaling crew should wait until the new canoe is ready,
a date that has been postponed several times. Some now say January, some
April.

The tribe is allotted a maximum of five whales a year -- 20 through 2002 --
and some say that is designed to provide one whale to each of the old
villages.

But at this point, all attention is on the first whale.

``I only need one,'' says Claplanhoo, who wonders if anyone has need for more
in these modern times.

Meat can be had at Washburn's General Store, but most Makah supplement their
diets with foods harvested from their rich land and sea -- deer, elk, grouse,
berries, roots, salmon, halibut, seal and shellfish.

For centuries, whale was a central part of Makah diet, as whaling was a
central part of Makah life and culture.

Some of those who remember it miss it. Some who don't remember it would like
to know what they are missing. Many believe a return to traditional foods
would restore health to a community where diabetes and other problems are
link

NATIVE_NEWS: 1,000 by 2000 AISES campaign

[Ish]

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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Subject: 1,000 by 2000 AISES campaign
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Please forward this on and circulate as appropriate:  The American Indian 
Science & Engineering Society (AISES)  is requesting our members and
supporters 
to step forward to assist our organization thru:

a) Renewal of Professional General/Special Memberships ($40/annual);

b) Joining AISES at the Professional level (particularly for college
graduates & 
other supporters now out in the working world, to continue AISES involvement);

c) Pledge or become a Sequoyah Fellow ("1,000 by 2000" campaign discussed
at the 
November 20th Anniversary AISES Conference in Denver & via the letter from 
Tommie Lee, AISES Board Chairman reprinted below).  Sequoyah's are donors who 
have contributed $1,000 or more to AISES -- they become lifetime AISES
members. 
Pledges to the Sequoyah Fellowship are also accepted -- contributing a lesser 
amount annually ($500/$300/$200/$100/$50 - but, hopefully by 2000, however)
to 
meet the Sequoyah Fellow requirement.

Membership/Sequoyah forms can be found at the AISES website at 
 or by mail:  AISES; 5661 Airport Boulevard;
Boulder, CO 
80301-2339; phone: 303/939-0023; fax: 303/939-8150

Thank you for your assistance & support.

Alan Moomaw (Walla Walla/Okanogan/Sisseton/Yankton/Assiniboin descent)
Member of AISES Board of Directors (Sequoyah Fellow - 1989)


1000by2000/1000by2000/1000by2000/1000by2000/1000by2000/1000by2000

Letter from AISES Chair Tommie N. Lee

Dear Friends:

As the AISES Board of Directors Chair, I can't imagine my life without my 
involvement in the American Indian Science & Engineering Society.  I have
been 
supported by AISES as a student and now, as a professional.

I am excited about the future of AISES and the 20th Anniversary Conference.
 It 
is an opportune time to celebrate the life of our Society.  The Board of 
Directors and I are committed to AISES and we are pledged as lifetime members 
through the Sequoyah Fellowship.

Our challenge is to have 1000 Sequoyahs by the year 2000.

Since 1991, over $590,000 has been given to the Sequoyah Fellowship 
(approximately 590 Sequoyahs).  As we head into the next millenium, our
Society 
wants your support.

Through the Sequoyah Fellowship, you will become an AISES lifetime member and 
you will make another 20-year impact on the future of the American Indians
and 
Alaska Natives.

Be part of the "1000 by 2000"; join me by becoming a Sequoyah Fellow today.

signed
Tommie N. Lee
AISES Chairman
3M Production Supervisor
Sequoyah Fellow


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NATIVE_NEWS: Fwd: Fumo luoco

[Ish]

And now:Ish <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:

>Date: Mon, 28 Dec 1998 21:36:06 -0500
>From: *Noquisi* or Evergreen <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
>
>> Subject:  "Fumo louco" (crazy tobacco)
>>
>> http://www.pmac.net/tobacco.htm
>>
>> Genetic Engineering
>>
>> Brazil's Secret: Crazy Tobacco
>>
>> December 12, 1997
>> by Todd Lewan
>> AP National Writer
>>
>> 
>> SANTA CRUZ DO SUL, Brazil (AP) -- Freakish tobacco plants that explode from
>> the soil in this remote river valley grow huge leaves on stalks as thick as
>> Louisville Sluggers. The growers here call it fumo louco -Crazy tobacco.
>>
>> Crazy not just because it grows so big and so fast. Crazy because it has
>> been genetically altered by one of the world's largest tobacco companies to
>> pack twice the nicotine of other commercially grown leaf.
>>
>> The farmers of Brazil's southernmost state are growing it by the ton for
the
>> world market, The Associated Press has found, though it could not be
learned
>> for certain which countries are importing the nicotine-rich leaf.
>>
>> Fumo louco -- the farmers' generic term for several related strains of
high-
>> nicotine tobacco -- is the offspring of a genetically altered plant created
>> in U.S. laboratories for Brown & Williamson Tobacco Corp., the third
largest
>> U.S. cigarette maker. The seed was then secretly shipped to Brazil in
>> violation of U.S. export law.
>>
>> 
>> Fumo louco blends give cigarette makers a new tool for adjusting nicotine
>> levels in their products. They may also provide the U.S. Food and Drug
>> Administration with a new argument for the assertion that the tobacco
>> industry intentionally manipulates nicotine levels to "hook" smokers. At
>> stake is the question of whether the FDA should have the power to regulate
>> nicotine as a drug.
>>
>> The FDA has been aware that a high-nicotine tobacco had been developed but
>> did not know that it is being cultivated in large commercial quantities,
>> said Mitch Zeller, an FDA deputy associate commissioner.
>>
>> However, 18 Brazilian farmers openly acknowledged they are growing the
high-
>> nicotine leaf by the ton, and many said they have been growing it for more
>> than five years.
>>
>> "It's weird stuff," Oliveira said in his native Portuguese. The nicotine
>> content is so high that "just the crazy smell of it gets you dizzy. But
sir,
>> it comes up like nothing you've ever seen."
>>
>> Farmers estimated that half of the roughly 40,000 acres under tobacco
>> cultivation in the region are devoted to the high-nicotine leaf. That means
>> an area about one-and-a-half times the size of the island of Manhattan is
>> covered in fumo louco.

>>
>> The farmers said they sell their high-nicotine tobacco to Souza Cruz, a
>> Brazilian company owned by B.A.T. Industries, the same British conglomerate
>> that controls Brown & Williamson.
>>
>> Souza Cruz did not respond to questions. Brown & Williamson spokesman Mark
>> Smith said that "it would be inappropriate for us to comment" because of
>> pending government investigations. The U.S. Justice Department has convened
>> grand juries in Washington, D.C., and New York state to investigate whether
>> tobacco companies and their officials lied to the government about
>> manipulating nicotine levels in their products.
>>
>> After farmers sell their fumo louco to Souza Cruz, it goes to the company's
>> processing plant in Santa Cruz do Sul. Souza Cruz boasts it is the world's
>> biggest. About a third of the tobacco processed at the plant is
>> high-nicotine leaf, according to Louis Radaelli, a company genetics
>> researcher, and several former Souza Cruz technical experts.
>>
>> Once the leaf enters the plant, it is difficult to learn where it goes.
>> Souza Cruz mixes it with other tobaccos to form some of its blends, and the
>> recipes are trade secrets.
>>
>> Souza Cruz is among the world's biggest exporters of tobacco, and about a
>> fifth of its production goes to cigarette makers in the United States.
>> Britain, Japan and Germany are also major customers. The company does not
>> use high- nicotine leaf in cigarettes marketed in Brazil, but declined to
>> explain why.
>>
>> 
>>
>> Months after the FDA's Y-1 [the code name for a nicotine-rich tabacco]
>> disclosure to Congress, growers and Souza Cruz agronomists said, the
company
>> ordered farmers to stop cultivating high-nicotine strains.
>>
>> But the growers have kept planting it and, they say, Souza Cruz keeps
buying
>> it, praising its quality and paying top prices.
>>
>> The commercial production of genetically altered, nicotine-enhanced tobacco
>> may have implications for the pending $368.5 billion tobacco settlement
>> between cigarette makers and attorneys general of 40 states.
>>
>> The biggest stumbling block to the settlement is whether the FDA should
>> regulate tobacco as a drug. Tobacco companies contend that nicotine isn't
>> addictive and insist that they vary

NATIVE_NEWS: Fwd: Executive Order of Dec. 10

[Ish]

And now:Ish <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:

I believe this is the relevant paragraph:

Sec. 6.  Judicial Review, Scope, and Administration.  (a) Nothing in
this order shall create any right or benefit, substantive or procedural,
enforceable by any party against the United States, its agencies or
instrumentalities, its officers or employees, or any other person.

Ergo..nada.
Ish


>Reply-To: "Koga Suyeta" 
>From: "Koga Suyeta" 
>To: "Ish" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
>Subject: Executive Order of Dec. 10
>Date: Tue, 29 Dec 1998 03:12:26 -0600

>
>
>THE WHITE HOUSE
>
> Office of the Press Secretary
>
>For Immediate Release  December 10, 1998
>
>
>
>EXECUTIVE ORDER
>
> - - - - - - -
>
>IMPLEMENTATION OF HUMAN RIGHTS TREATIES
>
>
>   By the authority vested in me as President by the Constitution and
>the laws of the United States of America, and bearing in mind the
>obligations of the United States pursuant to the International Covenant
>on Civil and Political Rights (ICCPR), the Convention Against Torture
>and Other Cruel, Inhuman or Degrading Treatment or Punishment (CAT), the
>Convention on the Elimination of All Forms of Racial Discrimination
>(CERD), and other relevant treaties concerned with the protection and
>promotion of human rights to which the United States is now or may
>become a party in the future, it is hereby ordered as follows:
>
>   Section 1.  Implementation of Human Rights Obligations.  (a) It shall
>be the policy and practice of the Government of the United States, being
>committed to the protection and promotion of human rights and
>fundamental freedoms, fully to respect and implement its obligations
>under the international human rights treaties to which it is a party,
>including the ICCPR, the CAT, and the CERD.
>
>   (b) It shall also be the policy and practice of the Government of the
>United States to promote respect for international human rights, both in
>our relationships with all other countries and by working with and
>strengthening the various international mechanisms for the promotion of
>human rights, including, inter alia, those of the United Nations, the
>International Labor Organization, and the Organization of American
>States.
>
>   Sec. 2.  Responsibility of Executive Departments and Agencies.  (a)
>All executive departments and agencies (as defined in 5 U.S.C. 101-105,
>including boards and commissions, and hereinafter referred to
>collectively as "agency" or "agencies") shall maintain a current
>awareness of United States international human rights obligations that
>are relevant to their functions and shall perform such functions so as
>to respect and implement those obligations fully.  The head of each
>agency shall designate a single contact officer who will be responsible
>for overall coordination of the implementation of this order.  Under
>this order, all such agencies shall retain their established
>institutional roles in the implementation, interpretation, and
>enforcement of Federal law and policy.
>
> (b) The heads of agencies shall have lead responsibility, in
>coordination with other appropriate agencies, for questions concerning
>implementation of human rights obligations that fall within their
>respective operating and program responsibilities and authorities or, to

>the extent that matters do not fall within the operating and program
>responsibilities and authorities of any agency, that most closely relate
>to their general areas of concern.
>
>   Sec. 3.  Human Rights Inquiries and Complaints.  Each agency shall
>take lead responsibility, in coordination with other appropriate
>agencies, for responding to inquiries, requests for information, and
>complaints about violations of human rights obligations that fall within
>its areas of responsibility or, if the matter does not fall within its
>areas of responsibility, referring it to the appropriate agency for
>response.
>
>   Sec. 4.  Interagency Working Group on Human Rights Treaties.  (a)
>There is hereby established an Interagency Working Group on Human Rights
>Treaties for the purpose of providing guidance, oversight, and
>coordination with respect to questions concerning the adherence to and
>implementation of human rights obligations and related matters.
>
>   (b) The designee of the Assistant to the President for National
>Security Affairs shall chair the Interagency Working Group, which shall
>consist of appropriate policy and legal representatives at the Assistant
>Secretary level from the Department of State, the Department of Justice,
>the Department of Labor, the Department of Defense, the Joint Chiefs of
>Staff, and other agencies as the chair deems appropriate.  The principal
>members may designate alternates to attend meetings in their stead.
>
>   (c) The principal functions o

NATIVE_NEWS: Fwd: Indians Charged in Reporter's Death

[Ish]

And now:Ish <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:

>From: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
>Date: Tue, 29 Dec 1998 00:04:32 EST
> 
>From: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
>Return-path: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>

>
>Indians Charged in Reporter's Death
>
>.c The Associated Press
>
> By ADOLFO GARZA
>
>MEXICO CITY (AP) -- Investigators charged Monday that the two Mexican Indians
>accused of killing American reporter Philip True attacked him because they
>didn't want their pictures taken.
>
>Horacio Vega said that the suspects became angry at True's alleged attempt to
>photograph them. Vega, homicide investigator with the Jalisco state attorney
>general's office, charged they strangled True and later stole his camera and
>belongings.
>
>Juan Chivarras de la Cruz, 28, and Miguel Hernandez de la Cruz, 24, were
>charged with homicide and robbery.
>
>True, 50, Mexico City correspondent for the San Antonio Express-News,
>disappeared while hiking alone through a remote region of the Sierra Madre in
>western Mexico, where he was pursuing a story on the Huichol Indian culture.
>
>His body was found Dec. 16 in a shallow grave in west-central Jalisco state.
>The suspects were arrested Saturday.
>
>In a story proposal submitted earlier this year to his editors, True said the
>Huicholes, unlike other indigenous groups in Mexico, ``have retained a
certain
>joy in their life.''
>
>``A day near a Huichol community is marked by the nearly constant sound of
>children laughing and playing,'' True wrote. ``This kind of joy gives them a
>certain integrity in their being that allows them to welcome in strangers.''
>
>Fernando Benitez, a recognized authority on the Huichol Indians, has written
>that the group, which lives in Mexico's remote western mountains, distrusts
>outsiders and tries to avoid contact with them.
>
>Express-News Editor Robert Rivard said in a written statement, ``the evidence
>surrounding their arrest, details they provided investigators in their
>statements, and the recovery of Philip's personal property all suggest the
>right suspects are in custody.''
>
>As to fears the arrest will lead to cultural tensions, Rivard's statement
>said: ``We hope Huichol representatives will join us in condemning the
murder,
>which we regard as an isolated incident that in no way reflects upon the
>larger community.''
>
>AP-NY-12-28-98 2122EST
>
> Copyright 1998 The Associated Press.  The information  contained in the AP
>news report may not be published,  broadcast, rewritten or otherwise
>distributed without  prior written authority of The Associated Press. 


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