NATIVE_NEWS: Arizona kills water deal: U.S. compromise sought end to San Carlos flap
Posted by [EMAIL PROTECTED] : Date: Sun, 5 Dec 1999 03:12:05 -0700 (MST) From: "Chris Milda (_Akimel O`odham_)" Arizona kills water deal U.S. compromise sought end to San Carlos flap By Shaun McKinnon The Arizona Republic Dec. 3, 1999 http://www.azcentral.com/news/1203cap.shtml Arizona water officials once again rejected a compromise Thursday in a dispute with the federal government over a San Carlos Apache water settlement. After hearing details of the compromise from an Interior Department attorney, the Central Arizona Water Conservation District passed on the deal. The conservation district's 15-member elected board said the offer would cost Arizona taxpayers millions of dollars. The action means that disputes between the state and federal governments over who will pay for the Central Arizona Project Canal and how Indian water claims will be settled will persist for some time. Federal negotiators have reached an agreement with the San Carlos Apaches and several other parties. But because the pact involves water from the CAP Canal, the conservation district board also must approve the deal. Interior Secretary Bruce Babbitt, a former Arizona governor who first announced the San Carlos settlement in March, wants a final agreement soon. But Arizona water managers say the federal government is trying to stick Arizona with the $77 million cost of the CAP water that would be used in the settlement. State officials want the value of that water deducted from what Arizona owes the federal government for building the CAP, the 336-mile canal that carries water from the Colorado River to Phoenix and Tucson. "This is the core principle we've drawn the line in the sand over," said board member Grady Gammage, a Phoenix attorney who has participated in most of the recent water negotiations. "When water moves, the cost moves. I can't get past that." The Interior Department insists Arizona has misinterpreted the CAP contract. Assistant U.S. Attorney John Stemplewicz, who represents Interior on CAP and Indian settlements, said the federal government isn't trying to saddle Arizona taxpayers with any extra costs. But he said the CAP board's position is inconsistent with the law and with all of the CAP contracts. He said that without the compromise offered Thursday, the only way to settle the dispute may be in court, where he believes the federal government will prevail. At the heart of the dispute is not the San Carlos settlement itself, which is purely a federal issue, but a long-simmering disagreement over how much of the canal's $4.7 billion price tag Arizona owes the federal government. The state sued the Bureau of Reclamation over the issue, arguing that Arizona taxpayers in Maricopa, Pima and Pinal counties, who are assessed a CAP-related property tax, should not be responsible for cost overruns caused by the federal government. Arizona also insists that if the federal government takes a larger share of the 1.5 million acre-feet of water the canal delivers each year, it should deduct the value of that water from Arizona's final bill. *** Shaun McKinnon can be reached at (602) 444-7116 or at [EMAIL PROTECTED] Reprinted under the Fair Use http://www4.law.cornell.edu/uscode/17/107.html doctrine of international copyright law. <><><>> Tsonkwadiyonrat (We are ONE Spirit) http://www.tdi.net/ishgooda/ <><><>>
NATIVE_NEWS: Anti-Indian Movement
via Victor Rocha From: "Larry Kibby" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> The following is a list of "Anti-Indian" groups and organizations that was updated back in 1996. Some may have changed their names, such as People For the West, which is I believe now Americans For the West. The Anti-indian Movement can be traced back to the 1950's and '60's, with connection to Rev. Moon. 1) Interstate Congress for Equal Rights and Responsibilities-Wash/National 2) All Citizens Equal-National 3) Citizens Rights Organization-Montana 4) Cheyenne River Landowner Association-South Dakota 5) Concerned Citizens Council-Nebraska 6) Wisconsin Alliance for Rights & Resources 7) Trout Unlimited-National 8) National Wildlife Association-National 9) International Association of Fish & Wildlife-National 10) Wise-Use Movement-National 11) People For the West-National 12) National Mining Association-National 13) National Coal Association-National 14) Western States Coalition-National 15) American Land Association-National 16) concerned Citizens for Property Rights-National Documention on what and who makes up the "Anti-Indian Movement" can be found at the "Center for World Studies" or otherwise known as the "Fourth World Documention Center". At any rate, the study on the "Anti-Indian Movement" was done some time ago, and there is two parts to it, one being a fairly recent project. end original message** FROM THE FOURTH WORLD DOCUMENTATION PROJECT: http://www.cwis.org/tribfrnt.html In the following pages, we give a detailed account of the development of the Anti-Indian Movement, its ideology, its allies in government, business and extremist political groups Publication of what we have found will hopefully contribute to a new measure of understanding between Indians and non-Indians. Perhaps too, our findings will help prevent a recurrence of past Indian/non-Indian conflicts. With the knowledge of what is hidden, perhaps a peaceful conclusion to the present conflicts can be found in a way that increases our collective respect for one another and our commitment to democratic resolution of conflicts. Overview The large-scale movement of non-Indians onto Indian reservations began with the U.S. government's 19th century General Allotment Act (1887). The U.S. government intended to destroy tribal governments and break up Indian reservations under, what was then considered, the progressive Manifest Destiny Doctrine - the historical inevitability of Anglo-Saxon domination of North America from sea to sea. By moving non-Indians onto Indian reservations as the new reservation land-owners and locating individual Indians on parcels of reservation land or off the reservation completely, the United States government hoped to eliminate Indian nations once and for all. Under the Indian Reorganization Act of 1934, the U.S. Congress only partially repudiated the Allotment law for its destructive impact on tribal peoples.. Four individuals have been involved in the organization of every coordinating or national organization in the Anti-Indian Movement since 1968: George Garland (QPOA), Pierce and May Davis (APORPMA) and Betty Morris (ICERR and QPOA). All come from the state of Washington. Garland and Morris are mainly concerned with the Quinault Indian Reservation. The Davises are mainly concerned with the Suquamish Indian Reservation. After 1983, these main anti-Indian activists were joined by more sophisticated organizers from the right-wing elements of American politics. State Senator Jack Metcalf, fund-raiser Alan Gotlieb, political organizer Barbara Lindsay, lawyer David L. Yamashita, and National Wildlife Federation activists Carol and Tom Lewis (all from Washington) joined the Movement .© 1995 Center For World Indigenous Studies E-mail [EMAIL PROTECTED] END EXCERPT Reprinted under the Fair Use http://www4.law.cornell.edu/uscode/17/107.html doctrine of international copyright law. <><><>> Tsonkwadiyonrat (We are ONE Spirit) http://www.tdi.net/ishgooda/ <><><>>
NATIVE_NEWS: Nebraska/Donations Help Santee Tribe Cope
Posted by [EMAIL PROTECTED] : sent by MaryM...thanks! Donations help Santee Tribe cope http://www.journalstar.com/stories/neb/sto3 (entire story at this Link.) No Author Specified SANTEE (AP) -- The Santee Sioux Indian Reservation has received an outpouring of donations since federal prosecutors froze $500,000 in tribal bank accounts because the tribe refuses to close its outlawed casino. Tribal business manager Roger Trudell said the tribe has received shipments of money, food, clothing and other items from various groups including the Red Cross, Salvation Army, other tribes and American Indian organizations. "We have received help from a lot of friends across the country," Trudell said. Reprinted under the Fair Use http://www4.law.cornell.edu/uscode/17/107.html doctrine of international copyright law. <><><>> Tsonkwadiyonrat (We are ONE Spirit) http://www.tdi.net/ishgooda/ <><><>>
NATIVE_NEWS: Counter FBI lies in the media!
Posted by [EMAIL PROTECTED] : From: "LPDC" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Subject: Counter FBI lies in the media! Date: Fri, 3 Dec 1999 18:32:34 -0600 MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="iso-8859-1" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit COUNTER FBI ATTACKS ON LEONARD PELTIER! We are sure that many of you have recently encountered the FBIs attempt to counter efforts to gain executive clemency for Native American, Leonard Peltier. They have spent thousands upon thousands of dollars on newspaper and radio ads wrought with misinformation and outright lies in an attempt to mold public opinion before our grass roots campaign can bring them the truth. They are also submitting a dear editor form letter to numerous papers. In the midst of new revelations about the FBIs shameless efforts to cover up important details regarding the Waco catastrophe, it is no wonder that they are now feeling so threatened as to launch a costly campaign to cover their tracks in regard to Leonard Peltiers case as well. In the advertisements, the FBI claim that they are attempting to spread the facts of the Peltier case while dispelling the inaccuracies Mr. Peltiers supporters have disseminated, supporters such as Amnesty International, the late Mother Theresa, and the Robert F. Kennedy Memorial Center for Human Rights to name a small few. Of course the ads did not contain contested facts or attempts to challenge Leonards claims. Instead, they were based on brutal insults and emotional, unfounded, and undocumented claims. Help get the facts of the Peltier case out. If your paper has printed slanderous dear editor letters about the Peltier case be sure to immediately respond with a dear editor letter of your own. Call the paper and let them know that you are outraged that they have printed such undocumented misinformation and ask them to print your letter. If your paper has not printed a slanderous letter, send a strong dear editor letter about Leonard s case to them before the FBI does. Hook it in to the holidays or other related current issues that your paper is interested in. Submit a letter no longer than 1000 words in double spaced format. Below are some points and rebuttals you can include in your letters. Thank you. LPDC FALSE STATEMENTS IN THE FBIs AD (Washington Post-Nov 99) The FBI would like your readers to believe that Mr. Peltier is a violent man with a violent past. However, not only did Mr. Peltier have an absolutely clean record prior to his conviction in question, but Lynn Crooks, the US prosecutor in this case, consistently concedes that they cannot prove who actually shot the agents, making the FBIs slanderous statements toward Mr. Peltier without any basis whatsoever. What is well documented is the fact that Mr. Peltier is a victim of FBI misconduct. Had the FBI not falsified affidavits, withheld exculpatory evidence, threatened witnesses, and manufactured evidence, Mr. Peltier would not be where he is today. To begin establishing Mr. Peltier as a violent man, the FBIs ad opens by describing Mr. Peltier as a fugitive wanted for the attempted murder of a police officer. What the FBI fails to mention is that Mr. Peltier was found innocent of this charge after the police officers girlfriend testified that the officer had shown her a picture of Mr. Peltier and told her he was helping the FBI to frame up a big one. This was the first time Mr. Peltier was unfairly targeted because of his activities in the American Indian Movement. Again, Mr. Peltier has NO past record of violence. The ad states that the agents had entered the Jumping Bull property on June 26, 1975 to arrest a young man in connection with a recent abduction and assault of two young ranchers. In fact, the agents had no physical warrant in their possession for such an arrest, and the warrant that had been issued was for the theft of a pair of cowboy boots and assault, not for abduction. On reservations, such crimes are investigated by the Bureau of Indian Affairs Police, not the FBI. The FBIs version of what occurred that day is dramatic and imaginative, however not the least bit documented. For example, there is no evidence that Mr. Peltier was followed by the agents onto the property that day. There is no evidence that the agents were following a red and white van and in fact there is plenty of evidence that they were following a red pickup truck, a vehicle that could not be linked to Mr. Peltier. There were no eyewitnesses to the shootings of the agents. There is no evidence that Mr. Peltiers gun fired the fatal shots. Mr. Peltier never admitted to going down to the bodies; he only said that he had seen the bodies from a distance. In short, the FBI is claiming to know what it cannot know by the evidence which exists. The ad goes on to state that after the shoot out, an Oregon state trooper stopped a recreational vehicle in which Mr. Peltier was hiding. They say that Mr. Peltier ran from the R
NATIVE_NEWS: NEWS BRIEFS
Posted by [EMAIL PROTECTED] : <>><><>><> Victor Rocha's [EMAIL PROTECTED] California Indian Gaming News Digest WWW.PECHANGA.NET Pechanga Band of Luiseño Indians <>><><>><> Sunday, December 5th,1999 Suburbia is where the developer bulldozes out the trees, then names the streets after them. ~ Unknown <>><><>><> California Gaming tribes earn community's support as their financial prominence grows http://www.signonsandiego.com/news/utarchives/cgi/idoc.cgi?514047+unix++www.uniontrib.com..80+Union-Tribune+Union-Tribune+Library+Library++(casino) Not long ago I saw a local tribal activist moved to tears by a public display of support for Indian casinos. <>><><>><> Casino's revenues doled out to local governments http://wire.nj.com/cgi-bin/nj_nview.pl?/home1/wire/AP/Stream-Parsed/FINANCIAL/g6024_AM_MI--CasinoRevenueShar (MOUNT PLEASANT, Mich.) (AP) -- The Saginaw Chippewa Indian Tribe gave local governments $3.9 million -- or 2 percent of gross slot machine revenues -- from the Soaring Eagle Casino and Resort as mandated by a 1994 state compact that legitimized native gaming. <>><><>><> Code Talkers assail film script Complain of inaccuracies, focus on Anglos http://www.azcentral.com/news/1205codetalk.shtml (ALBUQUERQUE) The first major Hollywood movie to tell the story of the Navajo Code Talkers is encountering opposition from some of the Code Talkers themselves. <>><><>><> Before The Padres http://www.laweekly.com/bestofla99/essays/essay212.php3 The Southland at the Turn of the Last Millennium (CALIFORNIA) A thousand years ago, historians believe, the Gabrielino Indians were already well-entrenched in a feudal network of villages and townships, from Laguna to Topanga to San Bernardino. <>><><>><> Temecula's past goes beyond incorporation http://www.inlandempireonline.com/news/news15.shtml The city, whose name dates back hundreds of years, celebrates an anniversary this month. (TEMECULA) This month, candles on a cake mark 10 years of being city. But anyone who thinks area history began with incorporation should think again. <>><><>><> California Tribes look to reburial for healing http://www.fresnobee.com/searchSite/0,1906,119002,00.html Sunday's ceremony involves reinterment of Native Americans' remains. (FRESNO) In ceremonies that American Indians hope will help heal decades of injury and insult, the skeletal remains of more than 150 people from Valley tribes will be removed Sunday from storage at Fresno State and reburied on reservation land near Lemoore. <>><><>><> Gov. Davis picks tribal leader for state panel Appointment might improve relations with state's Native Americans http://www.signonsandiego.com/news/utarchives/cgi/idoc.cgi?514051+unix++www.uniontrib.com..80+Union-Tribune+Union-Tribune+Library+Library++(casino) (SACRAMENTO) -- Gov. Gray Davis named a Southern California tribal leader to a powerful state board yesterday in a rare appointment that underscores the emergence of the state's American Indian population. <>><><>><> Pequot annexation case goes to court in January http://www.boston.com/dailynews/338/region/Pequot_annexation_case_goes_to:.shtml (MASHANTUCKET, Conn.) (AP) The Mashantucket Pequot tribe's bid to annex 165 acres of land in southeastern Connecticut will go before a federal appeals court next month. <>><><>><> Tribe loses attempt to penalize coalition http://www.spokane.net/news-story.asp?date=120499&ID=s715268&cat=section.Tribal_news (IDAHO) No civil penalty will be imposed against a coalition of local governments as a result of the Nez Perce Tribe's petition for public information. <>><><>><> Interior to Reconsider Wis. Indian Casino T http://washingtonpost.com/wp-srv/WPlate/1999-12/02/224l-120299-idx.html he Interior Department agreed yesterday to set aside its controversial 1995 denial of a gambling casino license for three Wisconsin Indian tribes and to reconsider their application under guidelines giving them a chance to remedy any shortcomings. <>><><>><> Best in the West Best in the World http://www.abqjournal.com/biz/3bout11-29-99.htm Northwestern New Mexico, where the Navajo silversmiths live, is famous for its trophy buckles (AZTEC) Rodeo season is over, but orders continue coming in for belt buckles handmade by Navajo artisans at Frontier Trophy Buckles. <>><><>><> OTHER SOURCES: <>><><>><> A web-based version of today's and recent news are
NATIVE_NEWS: Dine..legal assistance/financial please read IMPORTANT
Posted by [EMAIL PROTECTED] : Date: Sat, 04 Dec 1999 11:04:24 -0800 To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] From: "Charles M. Miller" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Subject: Dine Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" You might be interested in these emails which I have recently sent out: Kee Shay, a Dine resister, and Marsha Monestersky, an activist who has been supporting and helping the resisters for the past several years, have been served exclusion orders by the Hopi Tribe. Pursuant to these orders, the Hopi Tribe hopes to exclude Kee Shay and Marsha from the Hopi Reservation, which tribe contends includes the Hopi Partitioned Lands. Hearings on the exclusion orders are set in January for Marsha, and February for Kee Shay. If the Hopi Tribe prevails in these hearings, and excludes Marsha and Kee Shay this will serve as a precedent for the Hopi Tribe to serve other resisters with exclusion orders. As it stands now, it remains unclear what the Justice Department will do next February 1, 2000 with regard to the resisters. With this uncertainity the Hopi Tribe is looking for ways it can evict the resisters if the Justice Department does not take action. Therefore, these two exclusion hearings, the first of their kind, are critically important to the resisters. I am an attorney who has been representing Marsha and Kee Shay in this process. I know of at least one other lawyer who is interested in joining our effort, and there may be others. However, in order to launch an effective and winning defense we need financial support. Right now we have none. We are desperately in need of funds to support the Marsha and Kee Shay's defense and stop the Hopi Tribe from launching its own forced relocation of the Dine people. Please Help. Second email In northern Arizona today there are several hundred traditional Navajo families (Dine, in their own language) who are facing forced relocation from their traditional homelands. This is largest forced relocation since the relocation of the Japanese in World War II. The purpose of the relocation: to help the coal companies, such as Peabody coal, get to the coal deposits underneath the land where these people now live. On February 1, 2000 the US government can begin forced relocation by going to court and evicting these people. This relocation process has been going on since 1974. Thousands have already been relocated. As a result health problems have increased, subicide levels increased, serious depression and other forms of mental illness increased. Many of the relocatees rather than be helped, as promised by the US government, have lost their homes, and now live in destitute conditions. The people who remain on the land, who have until February 1st 2000, are some of the most traditional of the Dine. Manyare grandmothers (The Dine is a matriarchal society) who tend their sheep, and live in their traditional way. Part of that way is their spiritual connection and duty to the land on which they live. To remove them from their land, as one Grandmother has said, is to disappear us. Many people have come to the aid the resisting Dine. I am a lawyer who has been working on this issue for over 12 years. We are now at a point where we must find a way to stop the relocation and secure the traditional land for the Dine. I have talked to other lawyers who are interested in working on a team of lawyers to fight for the people. I have visited the land several times, at my own expense, to meet with the people and see what can be done. We have developed some legal strategies which have a reasonable chance of success in working to stop this forced relocation. We have tried to raise funds to support what will be a costly legal effort, but so far have not been able to do so-many foundations have turned us down. We need your suport.
NATIVE_NEWS: Policy on human remains hampers new thinking on archaeological finds
Posted by [EMAIL PROTECTED] : From: "hansenhouse" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Policy on human remains hampers new thinking on archaeological finds Policy on human remains hampers new thinking on archaeological finds Sunday, December 5, 1999 By SOLVEIG TORVIK SEATTLE POST-INTELLIGENCER EDITORIAL WRITER SANTA FE, N.M. - Australia has its ancient aborigines, Europe its Neanderthals, Africa its celebrated human precursor Lucy. But America has nobody home until the day before yesterday - 13,000 years ago. At least, that's what we've long been asked to believe. It's counterintuitive to suppose that early humans turned up their noses at American real estate for as long as many learned scholars insist they did. But scholars, unlike the rest of us, are bound by the rules of evidence. And the evidence of earlier human habitation on this continent has been non-existent. Of course, that may be because, until recently, few archaeologists thought the evidence was there to find. If America's human prehistory is a blank page, nearsightedness on the part of those who are trying to write it has been a contributing factor. As Dr. Albert C. Goodyear put it at a recent archaeological conference in Santa Fe: "You don't look for what you don't believe in." Now, as the 21st century dawns, archaeologists and anthropologists are scrambling to come to terms with mounting evidence that suggests people may have arrived here much earlier, and from different places, than conventional wisdom has dictated for most of this century. The conference, held under the auspices of the Smithsonian Institution and the Center for the Study of the First Americans at the University of Oregon, was the first in 40 years on the fractious subject of the peopling of the Americas. Turmoil triggered by new discoveries and sharp disagreements about what they mean served as the backdrop to often archly contentious proceedings. As a result of provocative new discoveries that challenge their assumptions, many archaeologists indicated they've resolved to "dig deeper," literally and figuratively, into the mystery, and that's a welcome development. Getting archaeologists to believe in the possibility that people may have lived here before 13,000 years ago may be too much to ask, given the paucity of irrefutable evidence. Simply proceeding on the assumption that it's a serious possibility is good enough for starters. Happily, the profession now seems poised to think outside the box. But as ill luck would have it, this seismic shift in archaeologists' mental approach to human prehistory in the Americas comes just as the federal government has determined that its duty lies in facilitating destruction of what little evidence does exist that might allow scientists to shed light on who came here when. This is a lamentable congruence of events. Tantalizing new scientific evidence that suggests humans may have arrived here in many disparate waves from more than one direction and tens of thousands of years earlier than commonly accepted is irrelevant, according to official U.S. policy. Human remains, even those many thousands of years old, routinely are given by U.S. Park Service officials to tribes for reburial on the unscientific assumption that the remains are ancestors of modern Native Americans. Yet those remains, some of which appear not to resemble modern Native Americans, may hold invaluable answers to the peopling of the Americas puzzle. The likely result of the government's failure to acknowledge that the prevailing story of the peopling of the continent may be wrong will be that evidence to support that assertion will be lost forever. It's bad enough that a good deal of the evidence already may have been lost. It's worse that it's been by deliberate government design. Some of it has been buried, both literally and figuratively, on government orders, in Idaho and Minnesota. And if tribes have their way with Kennewick Man's remains, soon it may be buried in Washington state as well. That skeleton was found in 1996 on the banks of the Columbia River and is dated as 8,000 to 9,300 years old. The government's anti-scientific behavior was a chief complaint of many of the 1,200 conference participants who came to Santa Fe to sort through the mess that scientists, government bureaucrats, Congress and Indian tribes have made of human prehistory in the Americas. It's a complaint well worth making. The government's unreasonable response to the bitter battle between tribes and scientists for possession of old human bones - Kennewick Man most prominent among them - threatens to deprive everyone who lives here, Native Americans most notably, of the truth about human prehistory on this continent. The Park Service's human remains repatriation policy "is driven by expediency," Keith Kintigh, president of the Society of American Archaeology, charged at the conference. The SAA supports most Indian claims, he stressed, but culturally unaffiliated remains - that is, those thousands of y
NATIVE_NEWS: Fwd: Thanks to the first 121 Position Paper E supporters!
Posted by Sonja Keohane <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> : A follow up to this issue, for any with a continued intrest. Please consider giving this project your support if you are able. Thanks, Sonja X-Authentication-Warning: world.std.com: brunner@localhost didn't use HELO protocol Date: Sun, 05 Dec 1999 14:54:46 -0500 From: Eric Brunner <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Subject: Thanks to the first 121 Position Paper E supporters! --- Blind-Carbon-Copy To: [EMAIL PROTECTED], [EMAIL PROTECTED], [EMAIL PROTECTED], [EMAIL PROTECTED], [EMAIL PROTECTED], [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Thanks to the first 121 Position Paper E supporters! Date: Sun, 05 Dec 1999 14:54:46 -0500 From: Eric Brunner Oki all, We have set something of a high-water mark in ICANN's brief but tulmultuous history, the normal course of comment-events is hundred(s) of emails, all in opposition to each other. The "score" for the Interim Report on new generic top-level domains is about 10 for all other positions (Papers A, B, C, D, F, and G) combined, to our 121 as of this morning. As the public comment period is extended to Jauary 10th, I ask that you do two things: 1. ask your personal acquaintances, relatives, friends and elders to add their voices to yours. Make a personal request to lists you participate in for others to send positive comments to the [EMAIL PROTECTED] public comments archive. Numbers are important. Hitting the one-K mark will be historic. 2. reread Position Paper E critically, thinking about issues not identified, and solutions to any problems you or anyone else brings up. Some issues already mentioned: plastic shawcritters and wannabees pricing structure of secondary level domains authority of NIEC/Treaty7/NITI/InterCOUP/Wampumpeag, and NCAI tribal and non-tribal trademark registration Some resources: 1. The Indigenous Intellectual Property Constituency archive: http://www.iipc.tp or http://www.world.std.com/~iipc 2. An overview (in formal ICANNesse) of our position at the start of WG-C: http://www.dnso.org/dnso/dnsocomments/comments-gtlds/Archives/msg0.html 3. How the European Regional (RIPE NCC) is organized http://www.ripe.net/docs/ripe-161.html Kitakitamatsinopowaw, Eric Brunner Principle Author, Position Paper E --- End of Blind-Carbon-Copy
NATIVE_NEWS: Approval Process for ICANN Dispute-Resolution Service Providers
Posted by [EMAIL PROTECTED] : Date: Sun, 05 Dec 1999 20:13:20 -0500 From: Eric Brunner <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Reply-To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Oki all, Organizations seeking provisional approval as service providers under the ICANN UDRP (dispute resolution policy) should take the following steps: 1. Become familiar with the Uniform Domain Name Dispute Resolution Policy and the Rules for Uniform Domain Name Dispute Resolution Policy. 2. Contact Louis Touton ([EMAIL PROTECTED]; +1/310/823-9358) to discuss the implementation schedule and procedures for submitting an application for approval. In general, applications should contain: a. An overview of the applicant's capabilities and background in providing alternative dispute-resolution services. b. A list of the names and qualifications of the panelists the applicant proposes to include on its published list and a description of the screening requirements applicant has used in selecting panelists to be included on its list. c. A description of training and educational measures the applicant proposes to employ for listed panelists with respect to domain-name disputes, the UDRP Policy, and the UDRP Rules. d. A commitment by the applicant not to prevent or discourage any of its listed panelists from serving as panelists for domain-name disputes administered by other approved providers. e. A copy of the applicant's proposed supplemental rules (including fee schedule). f. A proposed schedule for applicant's implementation of its program for administering proceedings under the policy, including a statement of applicant's administrative capacity in terms of number of proceedings initiated on a monthly basis. g. A description of how the applicant proposes to administer proceedings, including its interactions with parties, registrars, ICANN, and other approved providers. h. A description of how the applicant intends to publish decisions of panels in proceedings it administers and a commitment to provide ICANN with copies of all portions of decisions of panels not published. 3. Be prepared to enter a Memorandum of Understanding with ICANN outlining the terms of applicant's approval as a dispute-resolution service provider under the Uniform Domain Name Dispute Resolution Policy. As some of you can guess, I think that within the triballaw/native-telecoms lists we can come up with an application to preform ADR (hey, I've already done one). See: http://www.icann.org/udrp/udrp.htm Reminder: [EMAIL PROTECTED] needs every "I support Position Paper E" we can muster. There are 121 as of today, many from TLers, but we're about 300 subscribers here on TL, so about 3/4ths of "us" haven't made the effort, and I have no idea why that is. Kitakitamatsinopowaw, Eric
NATIVE_NEWS: MASCOTS: Milton appeal fails/ UND: Badge of Honor? or Disgrace?
Posted by [EMAIL PROTECTED] : From: "Robert Eurich" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Dec 5 1999 http://www2.startribune.com/stOnLine/cgi-bin/article?thisStory=81154078 State rejects plea of recall targets Statewire MILTON, Wis. (AP) -- The state Elections Board has rejected an appeal from two school board members who face a recall election because they voted to oust a popular high school nickname some found insensitive. Wilson Leong, a school board member targeted for recall, learned Friday of the Election Board' s conclusion. He said he may bring the matter before Rock County Circuit Court in Janesville. A community group launched a recall campaign after the school board voted to retire Milton High School' s nickname " Redmen" and a logogram depicting an American Indian. Critics said " Redmen" excluded Indians and women. Students were given a short list of alternative nicknames, and selected " Red Hawks." A recall election that overhauls the school board could open the way for a referendum on the choice of a name, Menomonie school board members Ron Mikesell and Greg LaPean told a Milton rally Oct. 2 at the high school. Three years ago, Mikesell and LaPean were part of a recall campaign in the Menomonie School District that removed school board members and reinstated " Indians" as Menomonie High School' s nickname. Petitions with 2, 154 signatures were filed Oct. 22 with the Milton school board clerk, naming Leong, Dale Beaty and Michael Pierce. An election is scheduled Jan. 4. Leong and Pierce challenged the petitions, arguing the documents did not specify a reason for a recall. The petitions accuse board members of " breach of public trust." " Breach of public trust" does not, by state statute, constitute a reason for recall, says David C. Moore, a Janesville lawyer representing Leong and Pierce before the Elections Board. The board insists the " breach of public trust" is adequate. ><>< From: "Robert Eurich" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Published: Sunday, December 5, 1999 http://www.northscape.com/news/docs00/1205/27141DD.htm This is a pretty detailed history of the 28 year controversy at the UND. Also note this excerpt from another source which clarifies the "ice sculpture incident" mentioned in the current article. "In the 60s and early 70s the university's "Greek" houses sponsored a winter festival in which each house created an ice sculpture for homecoming week. In 1972 one of the houses created a sculpture of a topless, Native woman with a sign pointing to her bare breast, saying, "Lick em Sioux". A Native American student found the sculpture offensive and took an ax to it. A full scale riot broke out with members of the Greek houses and Native students fighting each other. The Native student with the ax was the only person arrested. The next day the university president, at the request of members of AIM, dropped the charges against the Native student and banned the winter festival." http://members.tripod.com/earnestman/und.htm Badge of honor . . . or disgrace? Nickname and controversy have long history at UND By Ian Swanson Herald Staff Writer When UND two weeks ago unveiled a new Indian-head logo created by a Native American artist, controversy over the school's Fighting Sioux nickname was re-ignited. But this was far from the first chapter in the Fighting Sioux nickname debate at UND. Although many believe the controversy surrounding UND's nickname and Indian-head logos is a 1990s phenomenon, the debate actually has a 28-year history. It's a debate, and a history, that has had almost as many chapters as UND has had Indian heads. Sammy Sioux UND's Fighting Sioux nickname has a long, rich history with the school. Its use dates back to the 1930s, and for most of the decades between the 1930s and 1970s there was little if any debate over its use. Those decades were a different era at UND. During the 1960s and early '70s, the campus was painted with a collection of Native American images and logos used by student and staff organizations. In the 1960s, basketball cheerleaders at UND wore head feathers and fringed dresses, and it wasn't uncommon for students to dress in war paint for athletic events. It would be years before universities began trademarking and licensing their logos. "It's hard to imagine the way it was back then. The campus was covered in things," said Dave Vorland, executive assistant to UND's president, who will wind up a long career at UND this spring. Vorland was a UND faculty member from 1968 to 1970, and returned to direct UND's Office of University Relations in 1974. He assumed his current duties in 1993. Many of the Indian images seen on UND's campus in the 1960s and 1970s were caricatures. They included Sammy Sioux, a cartoon character used on the jackets of the Golden Feather spirit club. "I don't think anyone ever approved it," Vorland said of Sammy Sioux. "People thought it was nifty,
NATIVE_NEWS: Minnehaha 25 Go to Trial in Minneapois
Posted by [EMAIL PROTECTED] : X-From_: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Mon Dec 6 00:47:16 1999 Received: from a.mx.tdi.net (a.mx.voyager.net [209.153.128.22]) by core01.mx.voyager.net (8.9.3/8.9.3) with ESMTP id AAA08242 for <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>; Mon, 6 Dec 1999 00:47:07 -0500 (EST) Received: from freedom.mtn.org (freedom.mtn.org [198.174.235.1]) by a.mx.tdi.net (8.9.3/8.9.3) with ESMTP id AAA90110 for <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>; Mon, 6 Dec 1999 00:46:52 -0500 (EST) Received: from [198.174.167.106] (dial-106.mtn.org [198.174.167.106]) by freedom.mtn.org (8.9.3/8.9.3) with ESMTP id XAA14191; Sun, 5 Dec 1999 23:14:27 -0600 Mime-Version: 1.0 X-Sender: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Unverified) Message-Id: Date: Sun, 5 Dec 1999 23:18:46 -0600 Press Release*Press Release*Press Release*Press Release*Press Release* Who: MINNEHAHA 25 GO TO TRIAL Where: Hennepin County Government Center When: Monday, December 6th, 1999, 9:00 AM What: The State of Minnesota is prosecuting 25 people for attempting to save Native American sacred sites and Minnehaha Park from the destruction caused by the Minnesota Department of Transportation's attempt to reroute Highway 55. The Minnehaha 25 will face a group trial and face charges ranging from trespassing to failure to obey a peace officer. Most of the defendants are being prosecuted for non-violent civil disobedience or non-violent direct action during the months of July and August of 1999. These defendants put their bodies in harm's way to attempt to stop the widespread destruction that now scars Minnehaha Park. Many of the defendants are members of the Mendota Mdewakanton Dakota Community and other Native American First Nations and will be challenging their charges as violations of their Treaty Rights. Others will be mentioning the other flagrant violations of Federal Law that MnDoT has been guilty of during this road project. Also, charges of discrimination will be brought against the Minneapolis Police Department and Minnesota State Troopers for their selective arrests of Native Americans and their gross misconduct against civilians exercising their First Amendment Rights. There will be a Rally held at 8:30 AM on December 6th in the Atrium of the Hennepin County Government Center in Downtown Minneapolis. The defendants will be available for interviews with the media. Please come and support them during the trial, or call the Hennepin County Prosecutor's office and demand that these charges be dropped. Press Contact Number (612) 910-0730 Press Contact Person: Jim Anderson live simply
NATIVE_NEWS: Soldier at Little Big Horn gets new tombstone 122 years after his death
Posted by [EMAIL PROTECTED] : From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Received: from mtiwmhc03.worldnet.att.net (mtiwmhc03.worldnet.att.net [204.127.131.38]) by a.mx.tdi.net (8.9.3/8.9.3) with ESMTP id AAA91173 for <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>; Mon, 6 Dec 1999 00:52:28 -0500 (EST) Received: from sharp-points ([12.75.142.211]) by mtiwmhc03.worldnet.att.net (InterMail v03.02.07.07 118-134) with SMTP id <19991206055201.TEBV959@sharp-points> for <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>; Mon, 6 Dec 1999 05:52:01 + Message-Id: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Date: Sun, 05 Dec 1999 23:51:27 -0600 Subject: Soldier at Little Big Horn gets new tombstone 122 years after his death Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" http://www.kcstar.com/item/pages/local.pat,local/37740eaa.c05,.html Soldier at Little Big Horn gets new tombstone 122 years after his death By JAMES HART - The Kansas City Star Date: 12/05/99 22:15 The most important day of Capt. George W. Yates' life was his last day. On June 25, 1876, he was one man among five companies that died with George Custer near a river in southeast Montana -- the Battle of Little Big Horn, Custer's Last Stand. For 122 years, Yates has been buried at Fort Leavenworth Military Cemetery, but his tombstone failed to honor his service at Little Big Horn, Gettysburg and other historic battles. On Sunday, historians and military personnel dedicated a new tombstone, one with the special shield emblem that notes Yates' service during the Civil War and the Indian Wars. "You just want to make sure they get credit for everything they do," said Col. Clay Edwards, the president of the Fort Leavenworth Historical Society. About 20 persons stood in the snow around Yates' grave. A few men wore Union blues, complete with black boots and spurs. A bugler played taps. Sgt. 1st Class John W. Wilson of Olathe caught the oversight in 1998 when he was giving cemetery tours. Wilson, a National Guard recruiter, studies Custer history. Last summer, Wilson contacted cemetery officials, who quickly agreed to fix the oversight. Yates was 33 when he died, a captain with the 7th Cavalry. He spent almost half his life in uniform after enlisting at 18. He fought at the First Battle of Bull Run and was wounded at Fredericksburg. He served with Custer during the Civil War, and their wives were friends. Later, Yates worked for Custer in the 7th Cavalry. Few details survived Little Big Horn, but one account suggests Yates was one of the last commanding officers to die. "Nobody knows what happened," said Vincent Heier, a St. Louis priest and Custer historian. Yates was buried at the battlefield a few days after he died. In 1877, he was reinterred at Fort Leavenworth. Yates began life as nobody special but earned a spot in history by faithfully doing his duty, Edwards said. He left military service twice but came back both times. The Sunday ceremony and tombstone replacement are unusual cases, said Jeff Barnes, a cemetery director for the Department of Veterans Affairs. Reprinted under the Fair Use http://www4.law.cornell.edu/uscode/17/107.html doctrine of international copyright law. <><><>> Tsonkwadiyonrat (We are ONE Spirit) http://www.tdi.net/ishgooda/ <><><>>
