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University Project Reveals American Indian History on Internet
TheAssociated Press
http://www.ap.org/
ATHENS, Ga. -- Rare manuscripts depicting the life of American Indians from 1763 to
1842 will soon be in the domain of ordinary readers under a venture by the University
of Georgia and the University of Tennessee to post the documents on the World Wide
Web. The collections depict everything from the first contacts of whites and American
Indians to the bacon-and-bread rations that defeated natives were given upon being
forced from their lands. "Original manuscript material of this type and from this time
period generally exists only in paper form, buried within vaults and closed stacks,
available only to the persistent researcher," said Bob Henneberger, project head with
the University of Georgia's libraries. "Digitization of these materials will provide
Web access to a substantially larger audience." The site will display 1,000 or more
original documents and pictures, and will centralize collections from Tennessee and
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An Indian Poet Rocks on the Rock
The San Francisco
http://www.sfgate.com/chronicle/
"It's always good to go home," says American Indian poet-performer John Trudell about
his recent visit to the Santee Sioux reservation in Nebraska, where he was born. "It's
strengthening to see your past and know you have someplace to go where you're part of
a people." Since the late '80s, Trudell has been creating spoken-word rock 'n' roll to
articulate his experiences and the plight of Indians. It's raised a cultural
consciousness that's much different from his turbulent political past, one that thrust
him into the national limelight 30 years ago as a spokesman for the American Indian
Movement ... But it was his role as the voice of the 1969-71 Indians of All Tribes
occupation of Alcatraz that brought Trudell to "lefty" prominence, as he broadcast
reports from the island live over KPFA with a portable transmitter. To commemorate the
event's 30th anniversary, the performer returns with his band on October 23 for a
celebration and reunion. Activist veterans are expected, along!
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h performers such as comedian Charlie Hill, New Mexico vocal ensemble Ulali and the
indigenous punk rocker Arrigon Starr. The anniversary brings attention to an event
that reintroduced indigenous people to the American social conscience through "red
power" ... During the occupation of Alcatraz, the issues were about land, sovereignty
and legal realities. Trudell agrees that establishing a tribal economic base is a good
thing, but the struggle is not over. "There have been some positive things that have
happened for the tribes, but it's a constant, vigilant fight about protecting what
resources we have in terms of land and rights. It has improved to some degree for us
as humans. There's not as much political activism coming out of the Native community
as there was 25, 30 years ago, but there's much more cultural and artistic work taking
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Dhaliwal Sets Limits for Fishing by Two Bands
CBC Newsworld Online
http://newsworld.cbc.ca/cgi-bin/go.pl?1999/10/10/fish_dispute991010
Burnt Church, N.B. - The Department of Fisheries and Oceans will enforce a ban on
lobster fishing supported by 33 of 35 native bands, and will impose regulations on two
other bands who chose last week to keep fishing. But native fishermen in Burnt Church,
New Brunswick, say the fisheries minister's rules are unfair. Dhaliwal's rules apply
to Burnt Church and to Indian Brook in Nova Scotia. In those places, where native
fishermen have voted to keep fishing, Dhaliwal says the DFO will regulate the fishery
to comply with conservation standards ... In his speech, Dhaliwal said he hoped all
sides would "focus on the long term and not be distracted by the short-term
situation." ... DFO officials spent the past several days trying to work out a
compromise with the reserve's band council. But native fishermen said they were
furious with the latest offer ... But the part of the offer that angered native
fishermen was the fact that they would only be allowed 300 lobster traps for the en!
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community and they would be restricted to fishing only in the nearby bay. A band
council spokesperson says straight dollar compensation was also talked about, but the
community wants nothing to do with that idea. Many natives believe the idea of
compensation sounds too much like selling their aboriginal rights.<><<<
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Hawaii and Race
The Washington Post
http://www.washingtonpost.com/
The Supreme Court heard arguments last week in the case of Rice v. Cayetano, a
constitutional challenge to a voting scheme in Hawaii overtly based on an ethnic
criterion ... In other words, one's ability to vote in certain statewide elections in
Hawaii is contingent on one's race, though the 15th Amendment to the Constitution
specifically insists that "the right of citizens of the United States to vote shall
not be denied or abridged by the United States or by any state on account of race."
Both a district court and the U.S. Court of Appeals for the 9th Circuit upheld this
arrangement. Both are wrong and should be reversed ... The history of Hawaii and the
eradication of its sovereignty do bear similarity to the history of native populations
on this continent. The notion that Hawaiian natives properly enjoy a special
relationship with the federal government flowing out of their dispossession a century
ago seems reasonable enough. Indeed, the trusts themselves may well be justi!
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le. But this does not make them Indians for constitutional purposes.
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Tribe Helps Itself in Canadian Lobster War; A Court Decision Backing Native Fishing
Rights Has Enraged Whites and Split a Community
The London Telegraph
http://www.telegraph.co.uk/
In a remote corner of Canada, a gang of native warriors in camouflage fatigues stamp
their feet around a beach fire, faces masked as much against the biting wind from the
Atlantic as the watching eyes of local police. Here, in the village of Burnt Church,
New Brunswick, is the front line in a fishing war that has suddenly turned bloody and
bitter. The conflict threatens to revive ancient tribal hostilities, dormant since Gen
Wolfe stormed the fortress of Quebec and drove the French into the sea. In the past
few days violence has broken out and buildings have been burnt as members of the
Mi'kmaq tribe and local white inhabitants battle over rights to the brief but
lucrative autumn lobster harvest ... The atmosphere of intimidation has proved fertile
for militant groups such as the First Nation Warriors, who sport paramilitary uniforms
and now mount a 24-hour patrol on the wharf used by the tribe's boats. ..."We just
want the opportunity to go out and make a living," said Jim Au!
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ine, a spokesman. "We are not a violent people. The non-natives call us savages, but
who are the savages now?" ... Whites do not see why the Mi'kmaq should be able to set
traps while they must remain tied up at the quayside. They are also angry that the
tribe is exempt from expensive fishing licences. Unregulated fishing, they argue, will
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Communities Torn Asunder in Lobster War
The Toronto Star
http://www.thestar.com/
BURNT CHURCH, N.B. - Martina Parker has had enough. Had enough of the violence and the
tension between native and non-native that has gripped her northern New Brunswick
community ever since she and other aboriginals began exercising their right to catch
lobster for profit. ''I'm just tired of it,'' Parker says as she and her 13-year-old
grandson load wooden lobster traps on to an old trailer on the Burnt Church wharf. ''I
don't feel like fishing anymore. I've proved my point.'' ... One non-native fisherman
said relations between the two communities have been set back half a century and many
wonder how things will ever heal now ... Non-native fisherman Bill Loggie, who traps
lobster on Miramichi Bay, is also bitter. ''As long as I'm living . . . I'll never
have anything to do with natives,'' Loggie says. A moment later, he clarifies. Loggie
says he knows some natives who are ''just as good as anybody,'' it's only some of the
more radical ones he plans to avoid."<><<<<
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Wampanoags Continue Search for Gaming Site
The Associated Press
http://www.ap.org/
Boston: The Wampanoag tribe has visited several southeastern Massachusetts communities
in recent months scouting out possible locations for a high-stakes bingo facility,
tribe Chairwoman Beverly Wright said Sunday. Members of a committee charged with
finding a suitable, privately owned site for the bingo facility visited the Taunton
Expo Center and locations in other communities, which Wright declined to identify.
Wright was speaking about the tribe's history and economic prospects as part of
"Indigenous Peoples Sunday" at the Community Church of Boston ... Wright said the
Wampanoags need gaming revenues to boost education and health care. Unlike other
American Indian tribes such as the Navajos who rely on mining or tourism to make
money, the Wampanoags have no steady form of income as a group, Wright said. "Living
on Martha's Vineyard is very hard for us to do any kind of economic development,"
Wright said ... Ideally, the tribe would be allowed to open not just a bingo facil!
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but a casino with slot machines, Wright said, but the Legislature would have to vote
to allow the casino.
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Nevada Land Held Sacred by Tribe Placed on Historic Places Register
Las Vegas Review-Journal
http://www.lvrj.com/
A granite outcrop near Laughlin known as Spirit Mountain, or 'Avi Kwa'ame' by American
Indian tribes, has been added to the National Register of Historic Places, according
to the Bureau of Land Management. By placing it on the national register, the federal
government recognizes the property 'as the sacred place of origin and a site of
ultimate religious significance to the Yuman-language speaking people, who have lived
along the Colorado River and surrounding area for centuries,' a BLM statement
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Archaeologists Reconsidering Conventional Wisdom About Red River War
The Associated Press
http://www.ap.org/
The Valleys of Caprock Canyons, Texas: Capt. Wyllys Lyman watched the blood trickle
between his fingers as he choked on the dusty air. Gathering what was left of his
ammunition and courage, he loaded his pistol and peered around the wooden frames of
the circled wagons. The arrows that whizzed past his head confirmed his worst fear:
Lyman and his men were surrounded by Comanches ... The Comanches understood how easily
soldiers were overcome by the merciless Texas plains. They knew that by trapping
Lyman's men, they would die in a countryside so tough that one soldier described it as
"not only ... a bad place to die, it wasn't even a good place to be buried" ... Over
the last several months, state archaeologist Patricia Mercado Allinger and her team
have pieced together more battles surrounding the last war to move the Comanches,
Cheyenne and Arapahos from the Texas Panhandle than any researchers in the last 50
years. "It's kind of like you have to play detective," Allinger says!
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eeping her metal detector from side to side. "You can use the artifacts and their
location to determine the framework of a particular battle." Allinger's reconstruction
of Lyman's near-death experience is an amalgamation of written accounts and her own
findings - the recovered remains of wagons, bloody arrowheads, tomato cans and bullet
casings. A soldier who documented the battle after hearing about it from Lyman
highlighted the soldiers' suffering in the heat and the Indians' sudden, inexplicable
withdrawal, even though they had superior numbers and position. Allinger, who works
for the Texas Historical Commission, was charged almost two years ago with collecting
artifacts and documenting battles in what's known as the Red River Indian War. The
war, which began in 1874 after an Indian raid on a U.S. trading post left three men
dead, lasted about a year ... Every site bolsters Allinger's belief that historians
mistakenly accepted soldiers' accounts that the Indians were the a!
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ssors and that the United States merely wanted to push the Indians onto Oklahoma
reservation territory ... University of Texas archaeology professor Thomas Hester, who
is not connected to the project, says Allinger's challenge to conventional wisdom has
drawn widespread attention from her peers. "As an archaeologist, you dream about the
chance to uncover unknown facts that change or reshape the way an event is looked
upon," Hester said. "Allinger is definitely doing that. There is no question that the
previous notion of the Indian War on the plains is changing.",.<><<<<
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Nez-Perce Hold Annual Memorial, Gov. Kempthorne Attends
The Associated Press
http://www.ap.org/
LEWISTON, Idaho -- Six Indian drummers started the ceremony shortly after 10 a.m. They
sat on metal folding chairs under a white nylon canopy and as they sang, people
continued to arrive to the grassy field in the Nez Perce National Historical Park near
Lapwai. Wilfred A. Scott waited to begin speaking until Idaho Gov. Dirk Kempthorne and
Tribal Chairman Samuel N. Penney finished touring the museum together and were seated
in the front row. "When we do these memorials, we're here to honor our ancestors,"
Scott said. "We're not here to ask for forgiveness. All we want is to let the spirits
know we remember them. We do not want to ask for apologies" ... Scott also presented
Kempthorne with an eagle feather, one he said had been to many of the memorials.
"We're going to present this feather to the first governor that has ever participated
in one of these memorials," Scott said. Kempthorne said he would display it in his
office in the state Capitol. Axtell rode up on his horse to !
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take
the microphone from Scott and present the two Indian blankets draped over a riderless
horse in the parade. One was in memory of Chief Lookingglass, who was a "great leader,
encourager, planner and spiritual man," Axtell said.<><<<<
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Native Tribes Have Senate Santas
The Tampa Tribune
http://www.tampatrib.com/
WASHINGTON - A tiny portion of a huge defense spending bill had some unexpected
consequences in Tampa. Once called "Christmas tree bills," appropriations are among
the most complicated undertakings Congress completes each year - massive and detailed
measures that spell out how and where the federal government spends billions of
dollars. "It used to be called the Christmas tree bills because everyone got their
presents," explained Sandy Maisel, a professor of government at Colby College in
Maine. One of those "presents" was a law worth $ 500 million to a Native Alaskan
corporation, thanks to a no-bid contract with MacDill Air Force Base in Tampa. And
the gift may be the sort that keeps on giving, offering vast opportunity for Native
American-owned firms that want to do business with the Defense Department.<><<<<
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State Dealing With Racial Animosity as Native American Day Arrives
The Associated Press
http://www.ap.org
SIOUX FALLS, S.D. -- Racial animosity is high as Native American Day arrives in South
Dakota for the 10th time on Monday. Recent high-profile events have led to accusations
of racism between whites and American Indians in the state. Indians cried foul over
the recent dropping of charges against four white teen-agers in Mobridge after Robert
Many Horses, 22, was found dead in a garbage can ... Authorities later said race
apparently was not a factor in that attack. But Martin Mayor Bill Kuxhaus said the
incident had set back efforts at reconciliation. Protesters from Pine Ridge have had
several marches to nearby Whiteclay, Neb., to protest the sale of alcohol to Indians
and the handling of the investigation into the death of two tribal men. And scores of
marchers in Rapid City on Sept. 21 said law enforcement is doing too little to solve
the deaths of six Indian men and two non-Indians in Rapid Creek since May 21, 1998 ...
"I have no problem telling the press or the governor t!
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this state is a racist state just like in the Deep South," Mark White Bull of Wakpala
said during the September march in Rapid City. "And I have no problem saying that this
rage is going to boil over quickly in this state.<><<<<
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