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Ennis, Dan. "Native Calls for Mutual Respect Have Fallen on Deaf Ears,"
The Ottawa Citizen,
August 08, 1999, A15.
http://www.ottawacitizen.com/
BODY: I want to share a native Indian perspective on the question of
sovereignty as it applies to the First Peoples of Canada. The First Peoples
of this political illusion now known as Canada were sovereign peoples
through birthright, natural justice, treaty rights and through the British
common law concept known as the ''rule of law.'' The only thing that has
changed since that time has been the violent and genocidal impact that has
come from the ''white is right'' attitude of the transplanted Europeans who
were greeted openly by our people who were willing to share what they had .
. . Today eurocanadians speak of the need for moderation and compromise in
order to live together. What has moderation and compromise done for our
people over the past 500 years, other than loss of our land, our heritage,
our culture, our language, our spirituality, our identity and the loss of
our pride n ourselves? . . . . -- Dan Ennis, Tobique First Nation, New
Brunswick.
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"Facts and Figures on Indian Gambling,"
The Associated Press State & Local Wire,
August 8, 1999, Sunday, BC cycle
http://www.ap.org/
Facts about Indian gambling: -From 1988 to 1997, gambling revenues to
tribes jumped from $ 212 million to $ 6.7 billion, a more than thirtyfold
increase. Non-Indian casino gambling roughly doubled over the same period. -
The number of tribal casinos or bingo halls operating on Indian reservations
has grown from 70 in 1988 to 298 in 1998 in 31 states. - Of the 554
federally recognized Indian tribes, 146 run gambling facilities. - The 20
largest Indian casinos and bingo halls account for 50.5 percent of total
tribal gambling revenues, with the next 85 accounting for 41.2 percent. Some
tribes operate their casinos at a loss or have been forced to close. -
Indians from federally recognized tribes number about 1.65 million, or less
than 1 percent of the population. From the National Gambling Impact Study
Commission's final report in June.
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Grey, Colin and Derek McNaughton. "The Muddle Over What is Sacred: As Native
Religious Beliefs Revive, Some Elders Disagree Over What is Sacred,"
The Ottawa Citizen,
August 08, 1999, A4.
http://www.ottawacitizen.com/
Native spirituality continues to claw back from extinction, but chasms
between Indians over what is and what is not sacred for aboriginal people
have also begun to appear. One of those voids emerged early last month when
a museum curator in Hull, himself a Cree, told the Curve Lake First Nations
band near Peterborough they had no historical basis to call a collection of
rock carvings in Petroglyphs Provincial Park ''sacred.'' Bernard Assiniwi's
comments, reported in the Citizen, pitted him directly against the teachings
of Peter Ocheise, a highly-respected Ojibway elder, who said taking pictures
of the carvings froze spirits that inhabit them. The spectacle of two
authoritative native voices contradicting each other demonstrates just how
muddled native spirituality has become, even as it has re-emerged and
flourished over the last 30 years. The confusion is compounded by the
sharing of spiritual practices between different tribes and the
popularization of some rituals, like powwows, that were once regional. At
the same time, native spirituality has spawned more than its share of New
Age imitations and rampant hucksterism -- taking a place among tarot cards,
astrology, incense and aromatherapy . . . Michael Doxtater, a researcher at
the American Indian program at Cornell University, says behind such debates
lies a modern dialogue over Indian identity, the institutionalization of
Indian spirituality and the government's inability to deal with diverse
expressions of Indian faith. The government, in essence, accepts the
Indian's word because it feels natives have a right to determine what's
culturally significant. ''In prehistory, up until 200 years ago, before the
invention of the camera, I don't imagine there were too many opportunities
for Indians to be taking pictures of petroglyphs,'' says Mr. Doxtater. ''I
also think that the dispute between the elder and the museum is not about
sacrilization of Indian culture. What they're really talking about is
intellectual property rights.'' . . . Yet while sharing customs may be more
commonplace today, many experts say talking about native spirituality as an
entity is as absurd as talking about the Christian faith without
denominations. ''Why is it that there is an impulse always to define an
aboriginal perspective as unitary?'' asked Andrea Laforet, director of
Canadian ethnology service at the Museum of Civilization. Adds Lynda Lange,
a philosophy professor at the University of Toronto who specializes in
native religion: ''Native culture isn't static any more than anybody else's
culture,'' she says. ''People from European backgrounds or any other are
constantly in a position of rebuilding and reinterpreting their spiritual
beliefs, so I think it's really unfair and wrong to attack native people on
that score.''
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"Indian Health Service to Screen Patients for TB,"
The Associated Press State & Local Wire,
August 8, 1999, Sunday, BC cycle
http://www.ap.org/
FORT HALL, Idaho -- The Indian Health Service is looking for people who
were at the Not-Tsoo Gah-Nee Health Center on July 21 so they can be tested
for tuberculosis. A spokesman for the clinic said one of the patients that
day was diagnosed with active tuberculosis, and others who were there may
have been exposed to the disease. The Center for Disease Control has
recommended that a reservation-wide screening for tuberculosis be conducted
by the clinic staff. The screening will take place in mid-August at the
Tribal Business Center. Staff will conduct screenings in the reservation's
districts as well.
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Maddox, Teri. "Remnants of a Native American Village Found,"
The Associated Press State & Local Wire,
August 8, 1999, Sunday, AM cycle
http://www.ap.org/
O'FALLON, Ill. -- . . . For the past four years, archaeologists have been
studying parts of a 10-acre tract in south-central O'Fallon where they've
found evidence of a Native American village with an estimated 300 to 400
people. It will be months before archaeologists give a final report to the
Illinois Historic Preservation Agency, but they've already drawn some
conclusions. "This was one big village that was occupied around 1050 A.D. by
one generation, maybe two generations," said Tim Pauketat, 38, associate
professor of anthropology at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign,
who's leading the excavation this summer. It's believed that village
residents were affiliated with mound builders in Cahokia and may have
provided them with food from their farm fields.
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"Prehistoric Artifacts Uncovered in North Country,"
The Associated Press State & Local Wire,
August 8, 1999, Sunday, AM cycle
http://www.ap.org/
LAKE GEORGE, N.Y. -- At Fort William Henry, site of the famous 1757 battle
that inspired James Fenimore Cooper's "Last of the Mohicans," history keeps
rising to the surface. One of the oldest artifacts found at the fortress -
an American Indian spear point dating between 6000 B.C. and 7000 B.C. - was
unearthed last week along with several artifacts depicting the seizure of
the fort during the French and Indian War. "In three years of our diggings
here, this is the oldest spear point we've found by several thousand years,"
supervising archeologist David Starbuck said.
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"Putnam Pair Wants to Rebury Uprooted American Indians,"
The Associated Press State & Local Wire,
August 8, 1999, Sunday, BC cycle.
http://www.ap.org/
BUFFALO, W.Va. - The move to bring the uprooted remains of ancient
American Indians back to their burial site is celebrated in song. "Come
home, warriors, you've been gone too long from your sacred grounds..."
begins the haunting melody written by Basil Crawford and sung by his wife,
Maggie. But the 10-year residents of northern Putnam County are doing more
than just singing. They are gathering support to bring home ancient American
Indians once buried on land along the Kanawha River near the new Buffalo
Bridge. "This isn't an Indian issue," Maggie said. "It is a human being
issue. Treating our ancestors with respect in a morally proper manner is
what it is all about. Nobody wants their ancestors to be disturbed." But in
1963 and '64, for reasons the Crawfords haven't been able to uncover, the
remains of more than 600 early American Indians were unearthed, stored for a
while in a grocery store, and eventually moved to Ohio State University. The
forensic archaeologist at the university confirmed the remains are there.
"He told us, and these were his words, 'They are in plastic trash bags in
total disarray. . ."' Maggie said. "They need to come back. That's the
reason my husband and I are working so desperately." Basil, a Chippewa from
Parsons, and Maggie, a Powhatan or Tidewater native of Maryland, learned
about the Buffalo site after moving to the area from Tucker County.
Eventually, they started asking about efforts to return the remains to the
site, Basil said. "Nobody had an answer. We decided we had to do something,"
he said. Buffalo Mayor Bill Whittington suggested approaching the landowner,
American Electric Power. Out of a discussion with the company's land officer
in Columbus, the Crawfords have developed a proposal seeking a tract to be
developed as the Native American Historic Park and Burial Site. In the last
10 days, Buffalo Town Council, Buffalo Historical Society, Putnam County
commissioners, the county planning commission, the Buffalo Senior Center and
Del. Jerry Kelley, D-Putnam, have signed letters or resolutions supporting
the proposal.
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"Two Arrested in Theft of Ancient Arrowheads from Lamar Museum,"
The Associated Press State & Local Wire,
August 8, 1999, Sunday, AM cycle.
http://www.ap.org/
LAMAR, Colo. -- The estranged wife of a great-great-grandson of Black
Kettle, the Cheyenne Indian chief who survived the Sand Creek Massacre, has
been arrested in the theft of ancient arrowheads. Vickie Little Coyote, 50,
and Loed Ruijtenbeek, 46, were arrested in Medicine Lodge, Kan., following a
month-long investigation into the theft from the Big Timbers Museum in
Lamar. They are suspected of stealing four arrowheads worth more than $
5,000, Prowers County authorities said last week. The arrowheads were
originally found in southeastern Colorado and are from 8,000 to 10,000 years
old, according to museum records. The arrowheads were taken from a display
case in June, said Sheriff Jim Faull. They have not been recovered.
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