And now:Sonja Keohane [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes:
Something that I think has been known for a long time...a quote
from the article below: "This isn't a disease management issue, it's a
battle for who will control public lands and public wildlife."
http://www3.gomontana.com/
And now:Sonja Keohane [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes:
http://www.billingsgazette.com/wyomingframe.htm
Washakie statue funds to be requested by Geringer
RIVERTON, Wyo. (AP) - The Legislature should provide funding to help place
a statue of Chief Washakie in the U.S. and Wyoming capitol
And now:Sonja Keohane [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes:
http://biz.yahoo.com/prnews/981215/nv_full_ho_1.html
Tuesday December 15, 9:03 am Eastern Time
Full House Resorts Announces:
Approval of Class III Compact
Paves Way For Battle Creek Casino
LAS VEGAS, Dec. 15 /PRNewswire/ -- Full House
And now:Sonja Keohane [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes:
Monday December 14, 6:40 pm Eastern Time
Many Indian languages face extinction in Canada
OTTAWA, Dec 14 (Reuters) - Canada's Indians are losing their native tongues
as many of their languages are swallowed up by English and French, a study
And now:Sonja Keohane [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes:
Please note this:
Comments on the environmental assessment will be taken until Jan. 13. The
study is available from the Forest Service by calling (406) 329-3028 or on
the Internet at www.fs.fed.us/r1/gallatin
And now:Sonja Keohane [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes:
Sounds as if the Crow are in a good bargaining position. It's been
a long time in coming,imo.
http://www.billingsgazette.com/
Thursday, February 18, 1999
Crow seek to settle 2 issues before making water deal
By LORNA THACKERAY
And now:Sonja Keohane [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes:
Article and photos: http://www.billingsgazette.com/
Saturday, February 20, 1999
March focuses on bison slaughter
Gazette photos by David Grubbs
An unidentified Lakota Indian breaks the crest of a hill on
horseback Friday on a long trek
And now:Sonja Keohane [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes:
This is a new twist here, the need to eradicate brucellosis so that
it cannot be used during a war.
Who do they think they are they kidding?
http://www.billingsgazette.com/wyomingframe.htm
Oklahoma scientists work on new
And now:Sonja Keohane [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes:
I think this kind of article is highly irresponsible. No where in
the article does it say where this "research" was done and by whom it was
done. There is indication of why it was done and who paid for the study.
This information is
And now:Sonja Keohane [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes:
With the high crime rate and the high mortality rate...anyone have
data on the birth rate?
http://www.billingsgazette.com/regionframe.htm
Mortality rate high among Indian youth and getting worse
By PAYAL KAPADIA
Medill News
And now:Sonja Keohane [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes:
http://www.billingsgazette.com/regionframe.htm
LEGAL LIABILITY FEARS
State agency holds off on bison pen
By JOE KOLMAN
Gazette Bozeman Bureau
WEST YELLOWSTONE - Citing legal liability fears stemming from a
probable confrontation with
And now:Sonja Keohane [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes:
For any with an interest. The school district in which I reside
has an "Indian" mascot. The photos are mine and were taken 27 Feb. 1999:
http://www.pond.com/~sonjakeo/radnor.html
And now:Sonja Keohane [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes:
I am glad that this is getting more press coverage. This disease
has been seen in wildlife for some time. Please, all who are interested in
the Bison situation, take some time to read the article, there are a number
of excerpts below.
And now:Sonja Keohane [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes:
More Bison habitat...hopefully.
http://www.gomontana.com/index.shtml
Congress ready to cut final check onCUT land deal
Key congressional committee chairmen have removed restrictions that could
have delayed indefinitely the
And now:Sonja Keohane [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes:
From the Salt Lake Tribune: A quote from the slaughtermen " But
Montana livestock officials say the new testing is inconclusive"
Must be also that DOL cannot conclude a new day has begun when they
see the sun rise...
And now:Sonja Keohane [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes:
http://dailynews.yahoo.com/headlines/
Mound May Belong To Early Indians -
(PINEVILLE) -- Archaeologists think a mound in a southwest Missouri farm
field is one of the last remnants of a centuries-old Native American tribe.
The mound is
And now:Sonja Keohane [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes:
A quote from the article: " But Arnold Gertonson, Montana's state
veterinarian, said the
state does not intend to change its bison policy."
I think what we have here in Gertonson, is one of those rare
examples of the product of
And now:Sonja Keohane [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes:
http://www3.gomontana.com/
By SCOTT McMILLION Chronicle Staff Writer
12/18/1998
More bison hazed back to park
The Montana Department of Livestock plans to keep hazing bison back into
Yellowstone National Park as long as the weather
And now:Sonja Keohane [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes:
I hate to sound "anti-rancher" but haven't heard anything that
ranchers are "for" if it's an animal other than a cow. They don't like
wolves and they don't like bison.
http://www.abqjournal.com/news/3news12-18.htm
Friday,
And now:Sonja Keohane [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes:
http://biz.yahoo.com/rf/981221/beg.html
Monday December 21, 6:24 pm Eastern Time
Canada's mixed-blood Metis
claim constitutional win
By Gilbert Le Gras
TORONTO, Dec 21 (Reuters) - Canada's mixed blood Metis won a major legal
victory on
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
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:
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
And now:Sonja Keohane [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes:
Forwarded with permission:
This comes from Jim Horsley the author of the work: "Washita -
Genocide on the Great Plains" available at the following site:
http://www.dickshovel.com/was.html
Anyone with comment or
And now:Sonja Keohane [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes:
Unfortunately, imo, it seems that those business which exist ONLY
because of their proximity to YNP, think it is their right to control the
winter use.
Even if the YNP bison had any money, they couldn't buy a break from
some of
And now:Sonja Keohane [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes:
http://dailynews.yahoo.com/headlines/ts/story.html?s=v/nm/19981210/ts/immigrati
on_1.html
Thursday December 10 3:39 PM ET
U.S. Says Chinese Smuggling Ring Used Tribal Land
By James Vicini
WASHINGTON (Reuters) - U.S. and Canadian officials
And now:Sonja Keohane [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes:
IMO, nothing will deter the MDOL slaughtermen from their efforts,
except public scrutiny and outrage. Thank God for the Buffalo Nations
folks.
http://www.billingsgazette.com/regionframe.htm
MIGRATION SEASON
Buffalo hazing begins
And now:Sonja Keohane [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes:
http://www.billingsgazette.com/regionframe.htm
Blackfeet Tribe starts talks on water-rights agreement
Final agreement probably is years away
HELENA (AP) - Blackfeet Tribal Council members elected this year have
entered the lengthy
And now:Sonja Keohane [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes:
It is not surprising that this development seems to be out of
control, see: http://www.dickshovel.com/rogue.html and this article:
http://www.billingsgazette.com/wyomingframe.htm
Region-wide review in southwest Wyoming not
And now:Sonja Keohane [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes:
http://www.billingsgazette.com/wyomingframe.htm
Tribe requests human remains, burial artifacts from Wyoming
LARAMIE, Wyo. (AP) - Leaders from Montana's Kootenai tribe are expected to
make a claim for human remains and burial artifacts
And now:Sonja Keohane [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes:
Please note that in TEN years they have not found an instance of
brucellosis transmission from bison to cattle.
And yet, both Montana and Wyoming claim this fear of economic
terrorism (other state's sanctions) is what drives them
And now:Sonja Keohane [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes:
http://www.billingsgazette.com/wyomingframe.htm
Wyoming official says brucellosis tests to end
CHEYENNE, Wyo. (AP) - The state's six-county brucellosis testing program
for cattle will likely end this month, according to a state
And now:Sonja Keohane [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes:
http://dailynews.yahoo.com/
Tribe To Vote On Casino Tomorrow - (KESHENA) -- The Menonimee Indian Tribe
is scheduled to vote tomorrow on a 200-Million-dollar casino in Kenosha.
The vote concerns several proposed amendments to the tribe's
And now:Sonja Keohane [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes:
Just wondering if this finding has any bearing on the Ward Valley
situation. I believe that dump was to be an unlined location and the
opponents were concerned, among other things, about ground water
contamination...
January 6, 1999
And now:Sonja Keohane [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes:
http://www.billingsgazette.com/regionframe.htm
FROM NEBRASKA TO MONTANA
30 Northern Cheyenne complete 400-mile trek
Runners fight weather, fatigue to commemorate escape 120 years ago
By JENNIFER McKEE
Of The Gazette Staff
BUSBY - Battling
And now:Sonja Keohane [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes:
From the Boseman Chronicle. Anybody know what happened to the
statement APHIS made in the winter of 96-97 that said allowing the bison to
wander into Montana would not cause them to rescind Montana's brucellosis
free status? If that is
And now:Sonja Keohane [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes:
Interesting, it says: "Almost from the beginning, public sentiment
ran decidedly against hunting the buffalo." imo, if we keep up the
publicity, public sentiment will stop the MDOL slaughtermen, public
sentiment has already slowed them
And now:Sonja Keohane [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes:
Friday December 11 1:08 AM ET
Judge: Indian Slot Machines Illegal
SPOKANE, Wash. (AP) - A federal judge ruled Thursday that slot machines at
tribal casinos are illegal, clearing the way for the government to seize
the gambling devices from two
And now:Sonja Keohane [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes:
http://dailynews.yahoo.com/headlines/local/
Action On Indian Reburial Demanded - (SANTA FE) -- They rest in pieces...
but not in peace. Armond Minthorn, a member of the Umatilla tribe of
eastern Oregon, says the bones of thousands of
And now:Sonja Keohane [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes:
http://dailynews.yahoo.com/headlines/local/state/california
Ancient Bones Found - (TORRANCE) -- Archaeologists have uncovered the bones
of at least 50 people at an Indian burial site located on Arco refinery
property. Experts are calling
And now:Sonja Keohane [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes:
The current issue, January/February 1999, of "National Parks" the
magazine of the National Parks and Conservation Association
http://www.npca.org/ has the following comment on pg 50:
"Record Number of Comments on Bison Plan"
And now:Sonja Keohane [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes:
I am passing along the entire article from the Bozeman Chronicle
because it give a clear explanation for MDOLs rejection of the APHIS
definition of "low risk".
As you can see Racicot and MDOL want "financial" assurances from
the
And now:Sonja Keohane [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes:
Hey...yeah!...any little bit works for me...a generous lawyer and a
town that is afraid of bad publicity
http://www.billingsgazette.com/regionframe.htm
Garbage board refuses bison carcasses
WEST YELLOWSTONE (AP) - Carcasses
And now:Sonja Keohane [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes:
A fairly long article, but it takes the time to explain this
"orphan band" of Navajo people and how they became located separately from
the larger reservation.
Aquote from the article:
"If it is rebuffed by the larger
And now:Sonja Keohane [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes:
From the Gallup Independant, this article about relocation and
broken promises:
http://www.cia-g.com/~gallpind/NEWLANDS.html
Welcome to New Lands, "home of broken dreams" : New Lands residents
find buildings, promises both empty
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An article from the San Juan Sun, a newspaper located in
Farmington, NM.
http://www.sanjuansun.com/
Administration promises unity
Nathan Tohtsoni
Sun Staff
In a year in which the Navajo Nation saw four presidents, the nation's
And now:Sonja Keohane [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes:
Gaming and Sovereignty are mutually exclusive..?
http://www.billingsgazette.com/regionframe.htm
Tribes urged to unify in face of federal, state gambling challenges
By JOHN K. WILEY
Associated Press Writer
SPOKANE, Wash. (AP) -
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From the Billings Gazette:http://www.billingsgazette.com
Agency hazes bison back into park
YELLOWSTONE NATIONAL PARK (AP) - For the first time this winter, National
Park Service rangers on Friday hazed bison from near the north entrance
And now:Sonja Keohane [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes:
For any with an interest, Syracuse Online has a photo and a couple
of articles on this issue:
http://www.syracuse.com/news/
and some background and history:
http://www.syracuse.com/features/oneida/
as
And now:Sonja Keohane [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes:
Business as usual, it seems, when it comes to Indian Nations and
money owed by governments...local or Federal. Stealing from Indians has
always been and is still ok and the situations are always full of lies and
dirty hands...
And now:Sonja Keohane [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes:
Interesting reasoning here, again, imo, an example that the cattle
business runs the state of Montana. Anyone who leases land in order to
protect it as wildlife habitat will have their lease rates increased
dramatically.
Those who
And now:Sonja Keohane [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes:
From the ABQ Journal:
http://www.abqjournal.com/news/2news05-11.htm
Tuesday, May 11, 1999
Pecos Ancestors' Bones Returning Home
The remains of more than 2,000 residents of the once large pueblo are being
repatriated for reburial
And now:Sonja Keohane [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes:
Here I go with my same old song, I think they will continue to
slaughter bison until everyone agrees that making the YNP herd "brucellosis
free" ( I still don't know exactly what that means) is a necessary thing to
do.
This is what
And now:Sonja Keohane [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes:
The rally was sponsored by the National Congress of American
Indians, their web address is: http://www.ncai.org/
The article:
http://www.billingsgazette.com/region/990513_reg01.html
Indians rally to demand equality for
And now:Sonja Keohane [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes:
Another situation where wildlife is threatened by a disease of
domestic cattle.
Bovine TB is not brucellosis, but it produces the same reaction in
the USDA and the cattle business, when found in a herd of domestic cattle.
I
And now:Sonja Keohane [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes:
I find this galling...
Babbitt, a man accused of withholding evidence in the BIA "lost
Indian money" lawsuit, will go to Montana, the home of "Racicot the
Slaughterer"and he will "observe some bison"?
The land in
And now:Sonja Keohane [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes:
Any who have been following the YNP bison issue and it's connection
to the federal grazing leases in the area, will be interested in these
numbers.
The feds charge Montana cattlemen (welfare cowboys) $1.37 AUM
(animal unit/month)
And now:Sonja Keohane [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes:
http://www.nytimes.com/aponline/a/AP-Indian-Rally.html
June 26, 1999
American Indian Rally Turns Violent
Filed at 10:59 p.m. EDT
By The Associated Press
PINE RIDGE, S.D. (AP) -- A demonstration by American Indian activists
turned
And now:Sonja Keohane [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes:
I think the question has been raised before: "Why are cattle
allowed to graze in a National Park?" I think it is a bad idea, because it
seems that no matter what is said or done cattle take precedence over
wildlife.
And now:Sonja Keohane [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes:
The people will speak for themselves about this, but, this is also
near the park (just north of Jackson) and I hear no one speaking about the
effect on wildlife in and around YNP.
And now:Sonja Keohane [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes:
After hearing the comments regarding Pine Ridge and what could be
done there to help increase employment and create jobs and although what
works for one community does not always work for another, I thought this
was an interesting article.
And now:Sonja Keohane [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes:
For those who remember the issues (sent to the list by Norman
Fournier) of the Daishowa paper company and the lawsuits they lodged
against the Friends of the Lubicon for instigating boycots against those
who used the paper products of
And now:Sonja Keohane [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes:
For any with an interest, this site has transcripts of the Civil
Action 96-1285, Elouise
Cobell, et al., v. Bruce Babbitt, Secretary of the Interior, et al.
The page has a list of daily transcripts starting on 7 June 1999
with
And now:Sonja Keohane [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes:
Rarely, if ever, have I heard of the many unsolved murders /
deaths of Lakota people on Pine Ridge being referred to as "hate crimes".
It is also rare, imo, that the deaths / murders on Pine Ridge are commented
on by the national media.
And now:Sonja Keohane [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes:
Forwarded from the First Nations list:
See http://www.minorities-jb.com/native/apnews/newsframe.html
for an update on the Pine Ridge dragging issue...
--
And now:Sonja Keohane [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes:
http://www.nytimes.com/aponline/a/AP-Indian-Gambling.html
August 31, 1999
Govt., Tribes Negotiate on Casinos
Filed at 8:21 p.m. EDT
By The Associated Press
SACRAMENTO (AP) -- Though Gov. Gray Davis offered to double the number of
Indian-run slot
And now:Sonja Keohane [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes:
For more reference information:
http://www.dickshovel.com/rogue.html on this chronic mismanagement by the
US government and the Minerals Management Services of the Department of the
Interior http://www.mms.gov/
And now:Sonja Keohane [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes:
Now that the Feds have deicded to sue the tobacco industry, I
wonder how this will affect the lawsuits proposed and or already filed by
some Indian Tribes.
I wonder if the IHS is included as a party to this lawsuit?
The
And now:Sonja Keohane [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes:
http://dailynews.yahoo.com/headlines/local/state/south_dakota/
Native American Trip Called A Success - (PIERRE) -- A group of Native
Americans from South Dakota has returned from a week-long trip to the
nation's capital. They're calling it
And now:Sonja Keohane [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes:
http://dailynews.yahoo.com/headlines/local/state/new_york/
Tribal Leaders Prepare For Trial - (SYRACUSE) -- Leaders of the Cayuga
Indian tribe are preparing for trial. They are trying to reclaim more than
64-thousand acres of land in
And now:Sonja Keohane [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes:
http://www.billingsgazette.com/region/991014_reg03.html
Tribes in Montana get $8M from U.S. to combat crime
WASHINGTON (AP) - The Justice Department awarded $89 million in grants to
Indian communities in 26 states - including Montana - to
And now:Sonja Keohane [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes:
http://www.billingsgazette.com/region/991018_reg10.html
Lawyer says decision on Little Shell tribe recognition not too far off
GREAT FALLS (AP) - After several bureaucratic delays and more than a
century without land, the federal
And now:Sonja Keohane [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes:
http://www.insidedenver.com/news/1104anna8.shtml
AIM leader says FBI had role in death
Group's head maintains woman kidnapped, killed
By Karen Abbott
Denver Rocky Mountain News Staff Writer
Twenty-four years ago, Anna Mae Pictou-Aquash
And now:Sonja Keohane [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes:
Syracuse Online has a section of its online edition devoted
to Indian land claim issues. Both the Oneida and the Cayauga have
made claims on local land.
http://www.syracuse.com/features/landclaim/
There is also an
And now:Sonja Keohane [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes:
Anyone wishing more information about Penn State, let me know
and I will give you my daughter's address, she is a graduate student
there.
http://www.navajohopiobserver.com/news4.htm
Penn State offers fellowships for American
And now:Sonja Keohane [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes:
Note from the article in the Sioux Fall newspaper:
"Means... said he has a movie-production company that is
planning a fictionalized story in which the female lead character is
named Anna Mae. "It's my ode to her," he said."
And now:Sonja Keohane [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes:
This is the url for the first page of a six page article on
Notah Begay:
http://espn.go.com/otl/americans/begay1.html
Wednesday, November 17
Notah Begay's long walk
Tom Farrey
ESPN.com
The question, the basic reason Notah Begay
And now:Sonja Keohane [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes:
I'd be interested in any thoughts about this. I guess from a
financial point I know why they are doing this, but I think I am
disappointed that they have chosen this way to raise awareness.
I spoke with David Cournoyer ( see
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The article below is a couple of days old, but I was
wondering if anyone had heard of this proposal before or any more
about it?
It is interesting to me that the DOJ has provided funding for
this project
Posted by Sonja Keohane [EMAIL PROTECTED] :
So if this was a ceremony, I imagine the Army color guard was
there with their flag complete with the battle streamer "honoring"
the massacre of the women and children at Wounded Knee.
Want to read about this "battle
Posted by Sonja Keohane [EMAIL PROTECTED] :
From Yahoo local headline news:
http://dailynews.yahoo.com/h/lo/st/nm/
Pueblo Receive Threats Of Violence -
(SAN ILDEFONSO
PUEBLO) -- A wave of concern has come across San Ildefonso
Pueblo officials. The reservation was threatened
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
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For any with an interest:
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Coming this Friday, December 10, 1999
Posted by Sonja Keohane [EMAIL PROTECTED] :
An opinion piece from the Bozeman Chronicle:
This season's version of the "blame game". Who is to blame
for the slaughter of the YNP bison? Racicot would like to blame the
NPS, or more frequently APHIS or DOI.
Posted by Sonja Keohane [EMAIL PROTECTED] :
For any with an interest:
http://www.tucsoncitizen.com/news/archive/Story1253790.html
ABC to air 100-tribe Tucson powwow on New Year's Eve
A 10-day powwow involving more than 100 Native American tribes that
starts here Dec. 31 has
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