And now:Ish <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
Greenspan, Elizabeth. "Hohokam Halt Wal-Mart Plan; Coolidge Site May Hold
Relics," The Arizona Republic, August 2, 1999, B1.
Five hundred years after their disappearance, the Hohokam Indians are involved in a
20th century land battle - this time against economic growth. Construction of a
Wal-Mart store in Coolidge, scheduled to begin in May, has been put on hold while
company officials sort out claims by archaeologists that the land contains valuable
Hohokam artifacts. Wal-Mart's 35-acre plot lies across a highway from the Casa Grande
Ruins National Monument, the oldest archaeological reserve in the country and the only
national monument of the Hohokam Tribe. "From an archaeological standpoint, it would
be hard to pick a worse spot to build on in Arizona," said Keith Kintigh, an
anthropology professor at Arizona State University who also is president of the
Society for American Archaeology. The ruins date back to A.D. 1250 and are part of a
critical Hohokam period, Kintigh said.
http://www.azcentral.com/
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"Enrollment Surge Offers Hope at Haskell Indian Nations U.," The Associated
Press State & Local Wire, August 2, 1999, Monday, AM cycle.
LAWRENCE, Kan. -- For a university struggling to keep new students and hold its own in
the shadow of the Jayhawk, recent enrollment surges at Haskell Indian Nations are
welcome news to school officials. The addition of four-year degree programs has
propelled the growth. About 1,050 students from more than 140 tribes and 38 states are
expected to enroll at the school, up from 898 students last fall. How many of those
actually stay remains to be seen, as money and student retention problems persist at
Haskell . . . "One of the ironies is that funding is based on historical numbers, not
enrollment," said Haskell administrative officer Marv Buzzard. More disturbing may be
that Haskell is currently losing 35 to 40 percent of its students during their first
semester. Another 12 to 15 percent quit during their second semester, said counseling
director Benny Smith. A retention plan is in the works, but various factors are
complicating those efforts. Haskell draws most of its student!
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om smaller high schools and rural areas, but increasingly young American Indian
students are less aware of their native cultures. Full-blooded, native-speaking
students were always the minority at Haskell, and now they are even rarer.
http://www.ap.org/
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Hendee, David. "After a Century, Ghost Dance Shirt Comes Home Sioux Honor
Return of a Relic Ghost Shirt's History," Omaha World-Herald, August 2,
1999, 1.
Wounded Knee, S.D. -- A sacred cotton shirt - plundered from the body of an Indian
warrior on a frozen battleground more than a century ago - was returned Sunday in a
solemn ceremony of Sioux prayers and wailing Scottish bagpipes. On hallowed ground
cleansed by a cold morning rain, the afternoon-long ceremony marked the homecoming of
a Sioux artifact that was on display in the Kelvingrove Museum in Glasgow, Scotland,
for more than 100 years . . . Sunday's ceremony at the site of a mass grave dug in the
battleground for unknown dozens of victims of the massacre marked the end of a
seven-year effort to return the shirt to the Sioux in South Dakota. About 200 people
attended the ceremony. (7) After 28 descendants of Wounded Knee victims joined Zack
Bear Shield in prayer at a granite monument to the dead and Goldie Iron Hawk sprinkled
tobacco - a spiritual food - on the graves from a wooden bowl, a hawk appeared and
soared high above the hushed hillside. Marcella LeBeau, a Sioux w!
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orked with Earl on the return, said her people's spirit was broken that fateful day at
Wounded Knee. "This will bring about a sense of closure to a sad and horrible massacre
in the history of the Lakota Nation," she said. "Now, healing can begin."
http://www.omaha.com/OWH/
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Kennedy, Kelly. "Through Ignorance, Unearthing Trouble; Amateur
'Archaeologists' Destroy Link to Past During Illegal Dig, Dig Destroys a
Link to Region's History" The Salt Lake Tribune, August 2, 1999, A1.
GLEN CANYON NATIONAL RECREATION AREA -- On a 15-foot-wide overhang in Lake Powell's
Forgotten Canyon, a 900-year-old twig roof clings to its structure at Crumbling Kiva
Ruin. Traces of pictographs gaze down on the tiny site -- a reminder of the ancient
people who may have used this place for worship. "Now imagine 30 kids with shovels and
toothbrushes," interjects park services investigator Jim Houseman. On April 1, 1994,
an Idaho middle-school teacher took his Kellogg Archaeology Society club to the site
to pique an interest in history. Unfortunately, he didn't check the rules first.
Teacher David Dose agreed to a pretrial diversion in Salt Lake City's U.S. District
Court in May after violating the Archaeological Resources Protection Act.
Investigators say his class dug without a permit and excavated, damaged and altered an
ancient dwelling -- a misdemeanor offense. "I dreamt up this field trip as an outreach
of a lesson," Dose says, explaining that the club included children !
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might not ordinarily get to spend time in national recreation areas . . . Park
services archaeologist Christine Goetze researched the Crumbling Kiva Ruin to
determine the damage done during the field trip. A videotape Dose made of the trip
helped. "If we knew we were doing something illegal, I wouldn't have made 40 copies of
the tape to pass around," Dose says. The tape shows the group entering several
buildings, digging holes and taking pieces of prehistoric corncobs, Goetze says. The
National Historic Preservation Act was passed in 1979 to control looting. People now
must have a permit for archaeological work. The statute also calls for a public
awareness program.
http:/www.sltrib.com/
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Natives lose in N.W.T. political realignment
WebPosted Mon Aug 2 07:56:43 1999
YELLOWKNIFE - MLAs in the Northwest Territories have voted to nearly double the number
of urban ridings in their legislative assembly.
The bill ends 20 years of dominance by rural aboriginal ridings.
The 14-seat assembly had no option but to pass last week's electoral reform bill. It
was ordered by the courts to eliminate under-representation of urban areas.
Still, aboriginal leaders consider the bill a power grab by the non-aboriginal urban
areas.
After this December's general election, the capital city of Yellowknife will control
more than one-third of the seats.
Roy Erasmus, an aboriginal MLA, says redrawing the political map threatens race
relations in a territory almost evenly divided between aboriginal and non-aboriginal.
Territorial Premier Jim Antoine took an unusual step to appease the aboriginal
population. Before passage of the bill, he inserted a sunset clause repealing the new
seats after only one election.>>
http://newsworld.cbc.ca/cgi-bin/go.pl?1999/08/02/nwt990802
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