NATIVE_NEWS: Congress releases money for CUT deal
And now:Sonja Keohane [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: Congress releases money for CUT deal Conditions require environmental impact statement LIVINGSTON (AP) - Congress has released money to complete the proposed buyout of the Church Universal and Triumphant's ranch adjoining Yellowstone National Park, but critics say the strings attached could delay the purchase. It could even perish, said Michael Scott of the Greater Yellowstone Coalition. The $6.5 million may be spent only upon completion of an environmental impact statement that redefines management of park bison and puts that policy to work on the ground, the Montana congressional delegation said. Sen. Conrad Burns and Rep. Rick Hill, both Republicans, support the requirement. Democratic Sen. Max Baucus opposes it. "This condition seriously jeopardizes completion of the Royal Teton Ranch purchase," Baucus said. But Hill said the money was released in a timely manner that underscores a commitment to the ranch deal. Church lawyer Joe Sabol said the deal remains alive for now, but could end if putting an environmental impact statement in place - a process that can span years - takes longer than the church is willing to wait. The conditions attached to the money may change, however. Spokesmen for Hill and Burns said they requested the restricting language at the urging of Gov. Marc Racicot. Racicot said Tuesday that alternatives may be acceptable. "We certainly don't want to place (the ranch purchase) at risk," said the governor, who spent much of Tuesday talking to the Interior Department. He and the agency's Karen Kovacs said they want to find ways to address the state's and the federal government's concerns about management of Yellowstone bison, which wander out of the park. The church ranch is one of the places they end up, and in past winters hundreds of bison have been shot there under a state-federal plan for bison control. In 1997, the church, the Forest Service and the Rocky Mountain Elk Foundation announced a plan to buy or place conservation easements on 7,850 acres of the ranch, which is rich with wildlife. Last month, Congress released $6.5 million to complete the first phase of the deal. The money now in question is for the second phase. The buyout has received strong support from conservationists, hunters and others eager to protect the habitat from possible development. A similar, less costly deal fell apart in 1981. The church and Rocky Mountain Elk Foundation, which has provided some funds for the acquisition, are working on final details of a purchase option that would last through 1999. Kovacs said completing an environmental impact statement and putting it into effect during that time would be nearly impossible, even in the unlikely event the document was not challenged in court. The church and the elk foundation remain committed to the project and will keep working on it, said Sabol and Ron Marcoux, a spokesman for the foundation.
NATIVE_NEWS: Fwd: Gov't Has Not Shown Indian Records
And now:Ish [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: Date: Thu, 24 Dec 1998 10:53:43 EST From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: [FN] Fwd: Gov't Has Not Shown Indian Records To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Return-path: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Gov't Has Not Shown Indian Records Date: Thu, 24 Dec 1998 03:00:10 EST Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII Content-transfer-encoding: 7bit Gov't Has Not Shown Indian Records .c The Associated Press By PHILIP BRASHER WASHINGTON (AP) -- After two years, and despite legal pressure, the government still hasn't produced records to show how much money it owes five American Indians. An additional 300,000 Indians may face the same predicament. ``It just proves everything we knew: that they've either destroyed the documents or lost the documents,'' said Elouise Cobell, who lives on Montana's Blackfeet reservation. ``It gives you proof that there was total mismanagement. It's our money.'' Cobell is one of the five lead plaintiffs in a class-action lawsuit filed in 1996 to contest the Bureau of Indian Affairs' long mismanagement of Indian land trust-fund accounts. The 300,000 accounts, worth an estimated $500 million, belong to individual Indians who receive royalties and other income from their land. As much as $1 million has flowed through some of the accounts in a single year, while others receive only a few dollars. A federal judge is threatening to hold Interior Secretary Bruce Babbitt and Treasury Secretary Robert Rubin in contempt for the delay in producing statements, checks and other documents for the five accounts. So far, only a fraction of the documents have been produced. The records already turned over raise new questions about the Bureau of Indian Affairs' problems. Of 67 checks that the BIA issued on the funds, only 11 had been endorsed by the account holder, said Robert Peregoy, an attorney for the Indians. The records also indicate Cobell was not awarded her portion of her deceased father's land until more than 15 years after he died, according to auditors hired by the plaintiffs. Cobell periodically gets a check for $200 in earnings from that and other land she's inherited, but she's been unable to find out how much acreage is involved or what kind of income it produces. ``We don't know if that $200 should be $200 or $20,000. They can't tell you that,'' she said Wednesday. U.S. District Judge Royce Lamberth, who has frequently clashed with the Clinton administration, has set a contempt hearing for Babbitt and Rubin on Jan. 11. In a separate case Tuesday, Lamberth accused Commerce Department officials of illegally destroying evidence in connection with charges that the agency sold slots on trade missions for donations to Democratic candidates. He's the same judge who earlier fined the administration $286,000 for making inaccurate statements about the makeup of its health care task force. At a Dec. 15 hearing in the Indian case, government lawyers gave the judge a variety of reasons for failing to turn over the records, including possible viral contamination of two storage facilities in Albuquerque, N.M., and rodent infestation at another site. The government hopes to have the material by the hearing next month, said Ed Cohen, an Interior Department lawyer. ``The plaintiffs have been aggressive in seeking records,'' he said. ``We're doing the best we can in producing them. We're doing this all at the same time that we're trying to fix the system.'' He declined to comment on specific cases. Settlement talks in the lawsuit have so far gone nowhere. The Interior Department says there are too many records missing to come up with accurate statements, so straightening out those accounts has taken a lower priority to deciding what to do about 2,000 tribal accounts worth $2 billion. The BIA has had similar problems in accounting for those funds. AP-NY-12-24-98 0259EST 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. =-=-=FREE LEONARD PELTIER=-=-= If you think you are too small to make a difference; try sleeping in a closed room with a mosquito African Proverb =-=http://www.tdi.net/ishgooda/ =-= IF it says: "PASS THIS TO EVERYONE YOU KNOW" Please Check it before you send it at: http://urbanlegends.miningco.com/library/blhoax.htm
NATIVE_NEWS: Bison
And now:Sonja Keohane [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: Some good urls regarding the bison situation: Some good links: http://www.twosocks.com/bison.htm and some good articles, by Fred DuBray and others, not new but still true: http://www.hcn.org/1998/jun08/dir/Feature_Don't_fenc.html
NATIVE_NEWS: Fwd: [DOEWatch] States get together to protect Smokies ---- Ozone-----SNS----power usage
And now:Ish [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Date: Thu, 24 Dec 1998 13:06:26 EST To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: [DOEWatch] States get together to protect Smokies Ozone-SNSpower usage From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Source: A HREF="http://www.oakridger.com/stories/122398/stt_1223980005.html" http://www.oakridger.com/stories/122398/stt_1223980005.html December 23, 1998 States get together to protect Smokies by Paul Nowell Associated Press CHARLOTTE -- North Carolina has signed an agreement that Tennessee and the federal government reached earlier to protect Great Smoky Mountains National Park from industrial pollution. Tuesday's announcement came as a Dec. 31 deadline for the air quality accord's expiration was approaching. If another state did not sign the agreement by the end of the year, it would have been nullified. "The agreement is an important step toward protecting air quality in North Carolina's most pristine areas, from the Great Smoky Mountains to the coast," said Wayne McDevitt, secretary of the North Carolina Department of Environment and Natural Resources, who signed the document on Gov. Jim Hunt's behalf. The agreement, or memorandum of understanding, now takes effect March 1. It also includes a sunset clause that calls for the pact to expire if at least one other Southeastern state does not sign it by the end of 2000. Tennessee had signed on last year to the agreement with the U.S. Department of Interior, after a compromise with business interests was reached. The national park is suffering from high levels of ozone and other air pollutants. The pact calls for early notification if an air-polluting industry wants to locate or expand near the park or other protected areas. In October, some 200 people showed up at the hearing at the University of North Carolina at Asheville to listen to officials from both states as well as the National Park Service and the U.S. Forest Service. Several speakers complained about personal property rights or suggested that such a pact would put the two states at a competitive disadvantage against other Southeastern states in the high-stakes game of industrial recruiting. Despite some opposition, most of the speakers urged North Carolina officials to sign the agreement. The proposal would give federal agencies a clearer role in reviewing the impact of large new or expanding industries on the mountains and wilderness areas. Federal law gives national parks and wildernesses of more than 5,000 acres special protection. This summer record ozone levels were recorded in the North Carolina mountains, and manmade haze obscured visibility in the national park. According to Jim Renfro, the park's air resource specialist, haze has cut the average visibility at the park from 93 miles to 22. Acid rain has tainted mountain streams, and high ozone levels are causing leaves on some 30 plant species to turn yellow or fall off. The smog also causes breathing problems in people. On 43 days this summer, the air exceeded the federal health standard. The proposed agreement explains what information federal agencies can require from industries and on what timetable. Industry groups have been fighting the proposed agreement. They say it does not set clear standards and could cost extra time and money to satisfy the federal agencies. "Here at the 11th hour, we have a rush to judgment," Ed Scott of North Carolina Citizens for Business and Industry said prior to Tuesday's announcement. "We are being perceived as evil and the business community is very frustrated," he said. "We don't feel like we had a fair hearing." Scott said his organization's stance is that North Carolina should have waited until after the Governor's Summit on Mountain Air Quality next April in Asheville, which will be hosted by Hunt. Comments: Well one thing to notice is Oak Ridge is wanting an SNS project which uses a lot of electricityit is a linear accelerators--which are very power hogging. This means the area coal fired power plants--Bull Run and Kingston steam plants of TVA will have to burn a lot more coal and emit a lot more NOx and SOx and more ozone--Oak Ridge projects affect the Smokies. Also, Oak Ridge wastes affect the smokies as all the radiation in contact with air makes ozone-tons of it. Upping the area coal burn will also increase the low dose heavy metals everyone in the area breathes which will in turn go to bone and affect immune health. Uranium and mercury and other bone seeking trace metals are released to air via coal burning. There are was to filter this out some and protect the public and the rising health crisisand we need this more than an SNS. The environmental impact statements on SNS will likely try to leave off the power usage and
NATIVE_NEWS: Fwd: [DOEWatch] SNS document open to public
And now:Ish [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Date: Thu, 24 Dec 1998 13:15:29 EST To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] X-Mailer: AOL 3.0 for Windows 95 sub 52 Subject: [DOEWatch] SNS document open to public From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Source: A HREF="http://www.oakridger.com/stories/122398/new_1223980022.html" http://www.oakridger.com/stories/122398/new_1223980022.html December 23, 1998 SNS document open to public From staff reports An outline of the environmental effects the Spallation Neutron Source will bring with its construction has been released in the draft form of an environmental impact statement for the project. The draft environmental impact statement outlines the potential environmental impact from the construction of the one-megawatt, six-football- field-length, $1.3 billion facility at four possible locations -- Oak Ridge, Los Alamos, N.M., Brookhaven National Laboratory in New York and Argonne National Laboratory near Chicago. Work on the Oak Ridge site has begun. A public hearing on the draft environmental impact statement will be held Jan. 28 at the American Museum of Science and Energy. A copy will soon be posted on the Web at http://tis.eh.doe.gov/nepa/. General information on the Spallation Neutron Source can be viewed at http://www.ornl.gov/sns/. Hard copies of the draft environmental impact statement can be obtained by writing David Wilfert, EIS manager of the Spallation Neutron Source project at 200 Administration Road, 146/SNS, Oak Ridge, TN 37831. Or call or e-mail at (800) 927-9964 and [EMAIL PROTECTED] The public comment period ends Feb. 8, 1999. Comments: The one-megawatt may be the beam energy and the power used to gain that can be hundreds of times the beam power.Spellation sources are power and energy hogs of massive proportion. This sends up area generation of SOx and NOx and ozone from the power plants that use coal. It also increases the levels of heavy metals in the air which directly affect the cancer and immune illness rates. The SNS documents need to be accountable for the total system analysis on power usagehuman health effects--damage to the smokies--etc.There will also be a significant amount of tritium used and nuclear wastes generated for long term burials. Does a toxic superfund site like Oak Ridge need this kind of extra health burden to affect the many already sick--most who know all the numbers would say no.We need to spend this money on emissions controls---not neutrons. Oak Ridge already has a neutron source. To unsubscribe from this mailing list, or to change your subscription to digest, go to the ONElist web site, at http://www.onelist.com and select the User Center link from the menu bar on the left. =-=-=FREE LEONARD PELTIER=-=-= If you think you are too small to make a difference; try sleeping in a closed room with a mosquito African Proverb =-=http://www.tdi.net/ishgooda/ =-= IF it says: "PASS THIS TO EVERYONE YOU KNOW" Please Check it before you send it at: http://urbanlegends.miningco.com/library/blhoax.htm
NATIVE_NEWS: Fwd: En;FZLN Declaration on Acteal Report, Dec 22
And now:Ish [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: Date: Thu, 24 Dec 1998 17:41:55 -0600 (CST) To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Chiapas95-english) Reply-To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: En;FZLN Declaration on Acteal Report, Dec 22 This message is forwarded to you as a service of Zapatistas Online. From: "NUEVO AMANECER PRESS" [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: "NAP ENGLISH-A"[EMAIL PROTECTED] Date: Thu, 24 Dec 1998 14:42:17 + Subject: FZLN Declaration Reply-to: [EMAIL PROTECTED] ORIGINALLY PUBLISHED IN SPANISH BY THE FZLN-L TRANSLATED BY LESLIE ANN LOPEZ FOR NUEVO AMANECER PRESS ** The Blackest of Zedillo's Government Declaration The "investigation" into the genocide committed against the indigenous people of Acteal, Chiapas has added mockery to injury. The Attorney General (Procurador General de Republica--PGR) and the ensemble of federal and Chiapan institutions have functioned not to punish those directly and intellectually responsible for the crime, but to pacify their American and European associates. Every report, every declaration they make, does not seek to satisfy the Mexican civil society's thirst for justice, but to ease the discomfort of the governments and the big North American and European Community investors. Their "White Book" will go down in history as one of the most obscure acts of justice ever. Thus the PGR has played the role of Tartuffe--grand moralizing discourses which end up trivializing into banality the true reasons for the massacre--and instead of acting as the public ministry of the nation, by carrying out a judiciary inquiry, he disguises himself as an anthropologist or historian, and after a year of "research," he informs the Nation that the results are the same as those he reported one week after the massacre: that the problem had nothing to do with a political plot among local and federal power players, nor with the existence of paramilitaries, nor with the military siege of the indigenous communities, but is all about an old inter-family rivalry, which was aggravated by the "unconstitutional" formation of the autonomous municipality and due to the existence of the EZLN. What's left but to take one more step towards ignominy by saying, "If the Mexican Army had been present in Acteal on December 22nd, these incidents would never have occurred." As if the army hadn't been in the region, as if its presence hadn't damaged and upset the social environment, as if the arrival of the army hadn't brought alcohol, drugs and prostitution to the communities. The PGR's world-in-reverse makes the victims the victimizers, and vice versa. Such is the justice of the Mexican PRI-State. The nation's "lawyer," probably without realizing it himself, has just completed a supplementary demonstration--for those who had any doubts--of the existence of a whole, systemic, conspiratorial relationship among the federal and state powers. The explanation that he offers is a word-for-word replication of the state government's explanation--repeated so often by Homero Tovillas Christiani, Uriel Jarquin, Marco Antonio Bezares, Jorge Gamboa Solis and Cesar Ruiz Ferro (both during and after the massacre) that it became wearying. But if he failed as a lawyer, Mr. Madrazo was a fiasco as an anthropologist. The problem is not that for thirty years various families have conflicted over the control of the region, but that, unlike thirty years ago, the community of the Chenalho' municipality is no longer willing to be subjugated and exploited by a handful of families (especially the Arias family), which for more than thirty years has represented the interests of the Institutional Revolutionary Party--the same one in which Mr. Ernesto Zedillo, Jorge Madrazo, Cesar Ruiz Ferro and Albores Guillen are militants. Therefore it is absolutely correct to indicate that the genocide at Acteal is a State crime and not simply the act of a small gang out of control. The indigenous autonomy promoted by the EZLN is the response to the federal government's deceitfulness in not respecting the Accords signed at San Andres. It reflects the will of the communities to put in practice that which was agreed upon. For the Nation's "lawyer," the origin of the problem is not the evasive hoax executed by the government he represents, but the dignified attitude of the indigenous communities. If Madrazo wants to be a good historian he should track down the numerous documents signed by PRI governments which have gone unfulfilled. Specifically in the case of the indigenous situation, the government has sought to cheat the global community by signing Agreement 169 of the International Organization of Labor, which is a commitment to recognize the rights of original peoples and to establish, within the national State framework, the right to autonomy. The government has also sought to fool national civil society, particularly its indigenous sector, by
NATIVE_NEWS: Fwd: En;CDHFBC,State Shameful on Acteal Memorial, Dec 23
And now:Ish [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: Date: Thu, 24 Dec 1998 17:39:02 -0600 (CST) To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Chiapas95-english) Reply-To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: En;CDHFBC,State Shameful on Acteal Memorial, Dec 23 This message is forwarded to you as a service of Zapatistas Online. From: "NUEVO AMANECER PRESS" [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: "NAP ENGLISH-A"[EMAIL PROTECTED] Date: Thu, 24 Dec 1998 09:58:58 + Subject: From Fray Bartolome Human Rights Center Reply-to: [EMAIL PROTECTED] ORIGINALLY RELEASED IN SPANISH, BY FRAY BARTOLOME HUMAN RIGHTS CENTER TRANSLATED BY ROSALVA BERMUDEZ-BALLIN FOR NUEVO AMANECER PRESS * HUMAN RIGHTS CENTER FRAY BARTOLOME DE LAS CASAS, A.C. PRESS BULLETIN DECEMBER 23, 1998 The Mexican National Army, Public Security and the National Migration Institute displayed a shameful attitude yesterday during the commemoration ceremonies for the Acteal massacre. A year after the events at Acteal, yesterday, December 22, 1998, thousands of Mexican and foreign people attended the religious celebration to commemorate the women, children and men killed. The was presided by Bishops Don Samuel Ruiz and Raul Vera in the company of the priests of the San Cristobal de las Casas, Tuxtla Gutierres, and other Dioceses; among the participants were the victim's widows, widowers and orphans. A helicopter from the Mexican National Army flew over several times over the spot where the celebration was taking place as well as over the sanctuary where the victims are buried. They interrupted the act. The Public Security forces, Migration agents and members of the Mexican National Army constantly patroled the highway passing through Acteal and with an intimidating attitude they took pictures and video of the people at the entrance of the community. At the military and migration posts located at the entrance to San Pedro Chenalho and Las Limas, soldiers of the Mexian National Army also took video of the people on the highway. In the same manner, they acted as National Migration Institute agents , taking over their functions and asking passerbies for their identification. The Fray Bartolome de las Casas Human Rights Center is aware of several foreigners whose migratory form was taken away from them and who were given a citation to show up today, December 23, at the National Migration Institute's offices. These actions show that the government continues its campaign against international solidarity people because they are considered inconvenient witnesses. This Human Rights Center deeply laments the scoffing attitude and the lack of respect to a people in mourning and who refuses to forget its brutally massacred dead at the hands of paramilitaries linked to the regular forces and all the people in solidarity with them. We denounce, before public opinion, these shameful acts which, once again, show contempt on the part of official offices to the Indigenous people who fight for a dignified life and a just peace. * * * ___ NUEVO AMANECER PRESS-N.A.P.To know about us visit: http://www.nap.cuhm.mx/nap0.htm (spanish) *** In accordance with Title 17 U.S.C. section 107,this material is distributed without profit or payment to those who have expressed a prior interest. This information is for non-profit research and education purpuses only. **We encourage you to reproduce this information but please give credit to the source, translator and publication. thank you.** General Director:Roger Maldonado-Mexico Director Europe: Darrin Wood-Spain Advisor and Special Correspondent:Guillermo Michel-Mexico. NAP Coordination:Susana Saravia *[EMAIL PROTECTED]* -- To unsubscribe from this list send a message containing the words unsubscribe chiapas95 to [EMAIL PROTECTED] Previous messages are available from http://www.eco.utexas.edu/faculty/Cleaver/chiapas95.html or gopher://eco.utexas.edu. =-=-=FREE LEONARD PELTIER=-=-= If you think you are too small to make a difference; try sleeping in a closed room with a mosquito African Proverb =-=http://www.tdi.net/ishgooda/ =-= IF it says: "PASS THIS TO EVERYONE YOU KNOW" Please Check it before you send it at: http://urbanlegends.miningco.com/library/blhoax.htm
NATIVE_NEWS: Fwd: 9th Circuit treaty shellfish decision at issue in cert petition
And now:Ish [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: Date: Thu, 24 Dec 1998 16:14:13 -0800 From: Tom Schlosser [EMAIL PROTECTED] Organization: MSAJ Seattle 206 386 5200 X-Mailer: Mozilla 4.05 [en] (Win95; I) To: Triballaw mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: 9th Circuit treaty shellfish decision at issue in cert petition Reply-To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] X-Comment: Nevada Indian Environmental Coalition Ninth Circuit constues shellfish proviso of treaty fishing right The Ninth Circuit Court of Appeals substantially upheld the district court in the United States v. Washington proceedings in late January. A link to the case is http://laws.findlaw.com/9th/9635014o.html The shellfish case was filed by the tribes in 1989 as a subproceeding in United States v. Washington State. District Judge Rafeedie ruled in December 20, 1994, affirming the tribes' treaty rights to an equal sharing (50%) of all shellfish resources in Puget Sound that were not "staked and cultivated". Because of the complexities of the decision the court also ruled that all fisheries would remain status quo until an implementation agreement between the tribes and the state was in place. The Implementation Order and final judgment issued August 28, 1995, whereupon all parties appealed to the Ninth Circuit.. The Court on January 28, 1998 rejected defendants' appeals and affirmed Judge Rafeedie's first decision upholding the tribes' treaty rights to take all species of shellfish at all places they are found within each tribes's usual and accustomed areas, including on privately owned tidelands and in all deep water locations. The Ninth Circuit reversed Judge Rafeedie's decision that the State can stake and cultivate shellfish beds. The tribes have a right to 50% of all shellfish on State tidelands, regardless of whether the State enhanced them Restrictions on tribal harvest on private tidelands were upheld but the court asked Judge Rafeedie for clarification. The defendants' appeal basically failed while the tribes succeeded partially on cross-appeal. The decision was amended on petitions for rehearing. In an earlier post I noted that Washington State now seeks review by the United State Supreme Court. To remove your name from this list send a message to "[EMAIL PROTECTED]" with the message "unsubscribe triballaw" =-=-=FREE LEONARD PELTIER=-=-= If you think you are too small to make a difference; try sleeping in a closed room with a mosquito African Proverb =-=http://www.tdi.net/ishgooda/ =-= IF it says: "PASS THIS TO EVERYONE YOU KNOW" Please Check it before you send it at: http://urbanlegends.miningco.com/library/blhoax.htm
NATIVE_NEWS: Fwd: Important Info on State Dept. UNGWIP
And now:Ish [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: X-Mailer: Microsoft Internet Mail News for Macintosh - 3.0c (405) Date: Sun, 29 Nov 1998 06:00:06 -0200 Subject: Important Info on State Dept. UNGWIP From: Cliff Alles-Curie [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: Cliff Alles-Curie [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sender: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Reply-To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] regarding the United Nations Working Group on Indigenous Peoples the following commentary from Fourth World Bulletin is available at the American Indian Movement - Autonomous Chapters website at: http://www.horizons.k12.mi.us/~aim/index.html "Further Motion by State Department to Railroad Indigenous Rights" [http://www.horizons.k12.mi.us/~aim/papers/statedptrailtrain98.html] -excerpts- "...in practice, the US adamantly refuses to be held accountable to the terms of any of the instruments promulgated to protect human rights..." "State's plan is clearly intended to neutralize that document [Draft Declaration on the Rights of Indigenous Peoples] and to sterilize the movement for recognition and protection of indigenous peoples' rights." "More than any other state, at any time, the United States has used indigenous peoples as expendable instruments to achieve foreign policy objectives. Just a few of these peoples include the Kuna Indians of Panama, the Baltic peoples and Ukrainians and Georgians of the Soviet Union, the Hmong of Laos, the "Montagnards" of Vietnam, the Tibetans of China, the Ovimbundu of Angola, the Kurds of Iraq (in 1975, 1991, and currently), and the Miskito Indians of Nicaragua. Most of the time, these peoples have played the roles of proxies in covert operations of the CIA, and thus State has never had to account for them in the "official" foreign policy it represents." and the accompanying article "Stop Making Sense: State's Distortion of US Indigenous Policy" [http://www.horizons.k12.mi.us/~aim/papers/statesdistortionstop98.html] -excerpts- "Violation of the treaties was policy while Congress and various presidents simply stood aside as the War Department set about destroying the indigenous nations of the mainland through outright genocidal wars that continued into the 1890s. After that, the ethnocidal Dawes Act of 1887 took over, ordering the dispossession and "privatization" of Indian communal lands (most established by treaties) for the explicit purpose of breaking down indigenous national identity. The Dawes Act was so successful that the infamous Meriam Report of 1924 gave testimony to a broad understanding that Indians were at the point of disappearing as distinct peoples at the beginning of the present century." "John Collier, Franklin Roosevelt's Commissioner of Indian Affairs in the 1930s was responsible for authoring the embodiment of the "Indian New Deal." Collier himself explained the intent of the IRA [Indian Reorganization Act of 1934] explicitly in terms of the British colonial practice of "indirect rule," which he explicitly sought to emulate.British colonialism had reached its greatest expanse by the 1930s, when virtually every colony was subjected to one version or the next of indirect rule. In both the British and American versions of indirect rule, colonial administrators identified local strong-men whom they could corrupt with the power of money, guns and political authority, and whom they could then prop up as the "leaders" of the peoples whose lands and resources the colonizers coveted." from the Fourth World Bulletin - Summer 1998g - Fourth World Center for the Study of Indigenous Law and Politics University of Colorado - Denver [http://www.cudenver.edu/fwc/] =-=-=FREE LEONARD PELTIER=-=-= If you think you are too small to make a difference; try sleeping in a closed room with a mosquito African Proverb =-=http://www.tdi.net/ishgooda/ =-= IF it says: "PASS THIS TO EVERYONE YOU KNOW" Please Check it before you send it at: http://urbanlegends.miningco.com/library/blhoax.htm
NATIVE_NEWS: Fwd: Porno website abusing name of Oglala Warrior/FWD. from KOLA
And now:Ish [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: Date: Thu, 24 Dec 1998 19:27:45 -0600 (CST) X-Sender: [EMAIL PROTECTED] X-Mailer: Windows Eudora Pro Version 2.2 (16) To: Freedom Heart Rising [EMAIL PROTECTED] From: Freedom Heart Rising [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Porno website abusing name of Oglala Warrior/FWD. from KOLA FWD. from KOLA: A group on the Internet has set up a website using the name CrazyHorse. This is a PORNOGRAPHY site! Suggestions: 1. DO NOT visit the website (http://www.crazyhorse.com) They count how many folks visit their site, so do not give them any business. 2. WARN your friends and family... This isn't about whether or not pornography is good or bad. We, at KOLA, couldn't care less about pornography (unless children are involved). This is about the name of one the greatest American Indian leaders ever. His name is being used in a most inappropriate manner. This is an assault on all American Indian people. 3. EMAIL BOMBARDMENT! Here are some addresses for the website coordinators. We can bomb them with protest mail. * Devon Taylor, Webmistress: [EMAIL PROTECTED] * Rob Caprio, Vice President Director of Operations: [EMAIL PROTECTED] * Renato Carrettin, Vice President of Marketing Corporate Development: [EMAIL PROTECTED] * Jim Berkey, Computer Services: [EMAIL PROTECTED] * Frank (Al) Spencer: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sample letter: -- To:Devon Taylor, Rob Caprio, Renato Carrettin, Jim Berkey, FrankSpencer December 24, 1998 As an international human rights organization, founded by Mniconjou Lakota, we want to express our shock, and extreme offense for your use of the name "Crazy Horse" for your pornography site (re: http://www.crazyhorse.com). Please understand that we are not commenting on, or condemning (nor condoning for that matter) pornography itself. We are only very appalled by the grave disrespect you show by (ab)using the name of a great Oglala Lakota warrior and holy man, in the context of mainstream, predominantly "white American" sex. We urge you to stop the abuse of our honored ancestor's name "Crazy Horse", and to rename your site business immediately. If not, we see ourselves obliged to bring this matter to the attention of Bruce Babbitt, U.S. Secretary of the Interior; the White House; the European Parliament; the U.N. Inter-Workinggroup on Indigenous Peoples; and the International Indigenous Court of Justice which will reconvene in June 1999 in South Dakota. Awaiting your reply, Elsie Herten, Lloyd Bald Eagle, executive director chairman KOLA International Campaign Office email: [EMAIL PROTECTED] -- Thank you for writing. Please pass this along. elsie +=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+ In accordance with Title 17 U.S.C. section 107, this material is distributed without profit or payment to those who have expressed a prior interest in receiving this information for non-profit research and educational purposes only. +=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+ If ever you wish to be removed from this mailing list, simply send a message to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with *unsub* in the text or subject body. +=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+ "Injustice Anywhere is a Threat to Justice Everywhere" FREE LEONARD PELTIER!!! FREE WOLVERINE!!! NO SCOPES ON MT. GRAHAM!!! =-=-=FREE LEONARD PELTIER=-=-= If you think you are too small to make a difference; try sleeping in a closed room with a mosquito African Proverb =-=http://www.tdi.net/ishgooda/ =-= IF it says: "PASS THIS TO EVERYONE YOU KNOW" Please Check it before you send it at: http://urbanlegends.miningco.com/library/blhoax.htm
