And now:Ish <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: >Date: Sun, 21 Feb 1999 18:49:31 -0600 >From: Zoltan Grossman <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> >Reply-To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] >X-Mailer: Mozilla 2.0 (Macintosh; U; PPC) >To: wisc-eco <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> >Subject: Walt Bresette > >"He was like the north star," a friend says, " He held up the sky over >northern Wisconsin and the people followed him." > >Walt Bresette, an Anishinabe peace and justice advocate died this morning >Feb. 21 from a heart attack while he was visiting some friends in Duluth. A >member of the Loon Clan, the 51-year-old Red Cliff Chippewa defended >treaty rights and fought to prevent metallic sulfide mining, and to prevent >acid from a mining operation being shipped across northern Wisconsin. > >Bresette was a US Army veteran. He was a co-founder of the >Witness for Nonviolence, Midwest Treaty Network, >Anishinaabe Niijii, Lake Superior Greens, Wisconsin Greens, >and was an inspiration to many others. > >He was an elegant speaker and writer. Walt Bresette along with Rick Whaley >wrote "Walleye Warriors: An Effective Alliance Against Racism and for the >Earth" The book tells the story about the interracial alliance that rose >up in the 1980s at Wisconsin boat landings to protect Chippewa >spearfishing, sovereignty, the land, and the water. > >Walter and his wife Cass Joy ran a native crafts and art business the Buffalo >Bay Trading Company on the Red Cliff Chippewa Reservation until a few >years ago. Their children are Claudia, Katie, and Robin. > >At a meeting in Tampa, Florida during the 1980s, Walt >received a special gift. The gift came from an alert and agile old woman. >It was the war club belonging to the Sauk leader Black Hawk who more >than a hundred and fifty years ago fought the US Army trying to move him >and his people from their homeland. > >Walt Bresette carried Blawk Hawk's war club to the ceremonies, to the boat >landings, to the mining protests, and to the schools and churches until >his death Sunday morning. > >There will be a wake at Red Cliff on Tuesday evening feb. 23, >and a funeral on Wednesday Feb. 24. We do not yet know the >time or place, but will post a message to this list as soon as we do. > > >Sandy Lyon >[EMAIL PROTECTED] >715-766-2725 > >Relayed by Midwest Treaty Network >http://www.alphacdc.com/treaty/content.html > &&&&&&&&&&&&&&&&&&&&&&&&&& Tsonkwadiyonrat (We are ONE Spirit) Unenh onhwa' Awayaton http://www.tdi.net/ishgooda/ &&&&&&&&&&&&&&&&&&&&&&&&&&
