And now:[EMAIL PROTECTED] writes:
[excerpted from:"Today's News" webpage:
<http://www.public.asu.edu/~wendel/fyi/today.htm>]
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"Appeals Court Throws Out Oklahoma Tribal Housing Dispute," The Associated
Press State & Local Wire, 13 October 1999, BC cycle.
["DENVER -- A federal appeals court on Tuesday threw out a dispute over
public housing subsidies that was brought by several Oklahoma Indian tribes,
ruling the Sac & Fox Nation, the Potawatomi Nation and Kickapoo Tribe failed
to cite federal grounds for their concerns."]
http://www.ap.org/
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Auld, Alison. "Non-Indians Charged in Fish-Dispute Vandalism," The Gazette
(Montreal), October 13, 1999, A7.
["BURNT CHURCH, N.B. Eighteen charges were laid yesterday in the destruction
of hundreds of Indian-set lobster traps in New Brunswick's Miramichi Bay
early this month. Terry Boucher, spokesman for the federal Department of
Fisheries and Oceans, said an undisclosed number of non-Indian fishermen
would be charged with having lobster traps on their boats during a closed
season. The RCMP also announced yesterday that 25 people had been charged
with 49 Criminal Code offences relating to clashes in northeastern New
Brunswick over Indian fishing rights. Burnt Church has been divided along
racial lines since a Supreme Court of Canada ruling on Sept. 17 upheld a
1760 treaty that effectively gave Micmac, Maliseet and Passamaquody Indians
the right to fish year-round and without licenses."]
http://www.montrealgazette.com/
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Baca, Kim. "State Law Boosts Tribal Youth Programs," The Santa Fe New
Mexican, 13 October 1999, B1.
["ALBUQUERQUE -- New Mexico tribes were encouraged Tuesday to take advantage
of a recent revision in a state law that allows them to enter into
intergovernmental agreements with the state to get social services for
troubled American Indian youth living on reservations. Ada Pecos Melton,
president of the American Indian Development Associates, said those working
in law enforcement and social services in Indian country requested changes
in the state Children's Code after finding deficiencies in tribe's social,
mental health and incarceration programs. "As service providers, we
couldn't get access to the state's resources," said Melton, who worked as
probation officer for Laguna Pueblo, at the Second Annual Native American
Juvenile Justice Summit. "What we are saying is that these children are
state citizens and they should have access to state resources, and that is
what this law is doing.""]
http://www.sfnewmexican.com/
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Carson, Rob. "Many Takers As Tribe Gives Away Salmon; Number of Returning
Fish Much Higher Than Expected," The News Tribune, 13 October 1999, A10.
["The unusually high number of chinook salmon returning to Washington
hatcheries this fall has spawned two unusual programs. The Nisqually Indian
Tribe has been giving away free fish at its Clear Creek Hatchery on Fort
Lewis - a give-away program so plentiful and popular it is attracting lines
of 200 to 300 people. And so many fish returned to the state's Voight's
Creek Hatchery in Orting that the Puyallup Tribe of Indians has been able to
put naturally spawning salmon back in the upper Puyallup River for the first
time in 95 years. Bill St. Jean, hatchery biologist at the Clear Creek
Hatchery, said he was expecting 10,000 fish but instead got 30,000. Tuesday
alone, St. Jean said, hatchery workers recovered about 1 million eggs. This
is the fifth year the tribe has offered free salmon, according to Tony Meyer
at the Northwest Indian Fisheries Commission. But this year, Meyer said, the
numbers of extra fish are unprecedented."]
http://www.tribnet.com/
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Graettinger, Diana. "Passamaquoddy Seek Reservation Post Office," Bangor
Daily News (Bangor, Maine), 13 October 1999.
["INDIAN TOWNSHIP -- Rain or shine, snow or sleet, the Passamaquoddy people
want their post office on the reservation and not in a neighboring town.
Saying that it is a matter of American Indian pride, the tribe, through its
state representative, Donald Soctomah, plans to appeal to the federal
government for help in establishing a community post office on the
reservation. At present, tribal members have to cross the bridge that
connects Indian Township and Princeton to get their mail at a small post
office on Route 1. But if the U.S. Postal Service approved a post office on
the reservation, the return address would be Passamaquoddy Community of
Indian Township and not Princeton. . . . Soctomah said a petition has been
circulated at Indian Township and, to date, more than 200 of the 800 people
on the reservation have signed it."]
http://www.bangornews.com/
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Jones, Lucy. "Greenland Takes Up the Fight for Inuit Hunters; Fairness of
Trade Bans On Export of Seal Parts to Be Challenged," The Guardian (London),
13 October 1999, 18.
["Salik Hans used to be a hunter. He never made much money selling fur from
the seals he and his family ate but it was enough to buy groceries at the
government store in the settlement of Illulissat, 250 miles north of the
Arctic Circle, in western Greenland. Today he and other local hunters stand
by their battered taxis smoking as they wait to take tourists from cruise
ships to watch the sun set over the icebergs. 'I prefer hunting but the
outside world didn't give me a choice," he said. The harp seal is not
endangered: at least 4m inhabit the waters off Greenland, and the Inuit kill
only 70,000 a year. However, anti-fur cam paigns by environmentalists and
trade barriers preventing the import of seal parts make it almost impossible
for Greenlanders to sell fur abroad. 'Traditional hunting communities have
been destroyed by campaigns based on emotion instead of scientific
evidence,' said Aqqaluk Lynge, president of the Inuit Circumpolar Conference
(ICC), which represents Inuits in Alaska, Greenland, Canada and Russia.
'It's like an economic sanction against the northern communities.' . . . The
World Trade Organisation is meeting in the US city of Seattle next month to
promote further liberalisation of trade. Greenland's government plans to
push the export of seal parts on to the conference's agenda."]
http://www.guardian.co.uk/
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Loviglio, Joann. "FBI Recovers Geronimo Headdress," The Associated Press
State & Local Wire, 13 October 1999, AM cycle.
["PHILADELPHIA -- An eagle feather headdress last worn by Apache leader
Geronimo in 1907 was confiscated by federal authorities after a man put it
up for sale on the Internet for $ 1.2 million, officials said Wednesday. . .
. Because the headdress is made from eagle feathers, it is a crime to sell
it under the Migratory Bird Protection Act and the Bald and Gold Eagle
Protection Act. The charges carry a maximum penalty of five years in jail
and a $ 250,000 fine, FBI spokeswoman Linda Vizi said. "The government is
going to pursue a forfeiture that would make it (the headdress) the property
of the government," Vizi said. "If the forfeiture is granted, we'd like to
offer it to a museum.""]
http://www.ap.org/
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Macintyre, Ben. "Red Indian Genes May Have Set Churchill on the Warpath,"
The Times (London), 13 October 1999.
["WHEN Winston Churchill pledged his blood, sweat, toil and tears to defeat
Nazism, it may have been American Indian blood he was offering. For
according to his grandson and namesake, Britain's wartime leader was
descended from one of the most ferocious Indian tribes. This remarkable
twist in the family tree of the great British Prime Minister was revealed
yesterday by the former MP Winston S. Churchill, who is researching what he
believes are his Indian ancestral roots. Part of Churchill's genetic
heritage was the aristocratic blood of the Dukes of Marlborough, but part
may also have come from the Iroquois Indians of North America, who had a
particular talent for warfare, scalping and complex political negotiations.
. . . As evidence, he points to photographs showing the darker features of
his great-grandmother, Jennie Jerome's mother. "She's got Red Indian written
all over her face," Mr Churchill said - a remark suggesting he may not have
fully grasped the nuances of racial politics in America, where Indians are
usually Native Americans, and never "red". . . . Sir Winston, who is said
to have hinted at his Cherokee ancestry, would also have been delighted to
have descended from a particularly bloodthirsty band of Indians. . . . The
name Churchill is surprisingly common among American Indians, most notably
among the Cherokee of Arkansas, who were once part of the Iroquoian family.
But a dose of Indian blood has become something of a fashion statement in
America, and historians have questioned Mr Churchill's claims, suggesting
that these may be based more on wishful thinking than hard evidence."]
http://www.the-times.co.uk/
SEE ALSO:
Macintyre, Ben. "Churchill's Grandson Lays Claim on Indian Roots:
Historians Doubtful of Family Link to Iroquois," The Ottawa Citizen, 13
October 1999, A9.
http://www.ottawacitizen.com/
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Martin, Chip. "Natives Have Cause for Suspicion," The London Free Press,
October 13, 1999, A3.
["Is London in a rush to flush? Selection of a west side site for the new $
60-million Southside sewage treatment plant has surprised First Nations
people who live downriver and past whose land the plant's effluent will
flow. It wasn't supposed to be this way. More than a year ago, city council
delayed picking a preferred site to meet First Nations representatives and
discuss their concerns. Since then, only limited technical contact has
occurred. A meeting slated for March was cancelled at the request of the
native communities but never rescheduled. "This comes as a complete
surprise," said Joe Miskokomon, chief of the Chippewas of the Thames, when
told the site has been picked. "This is very disappointing and it's not a
good way to create a good relationship." He said native settlements in the
London area were expecting technical data about effluent quality. "We have
yet to have a face-to-face sit down." Also expressing surprise was Harry
Doxtator, chief of Onyota'a (Oneida First Nation), who said he was awaiting
an expected meeting with city representatives. The native communities don't
like London dumping any more sewage into the Thames River. They argue it
will further deteriorate the quality of the water in which they fish, it
will add further urban development and may impact an aquifer from which the
Chippewas draw drinking water. The First Nation of the Thames,
Munsee-Delaware and Onyota'a had already sent letters to federal and
provincial agencies urging London's plant be halted until their
environmental concerns are properly addressed."]
http://www.canoe.ca/LondonFreePress/home.html
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"Mexican Floods Toll 349, Could Reach 600: Only 30 of a Possible 200
Residents Survive After They Took Refuge in a Hillside Catholic Church," The
Vancouver Sun, October 13, 1999, B2.
["ACALAMA, Mexico -- The villagers had hoped their community Catholic church
would be a safe place to seek shelter from the incessant rain. It provided
them little protection, however, when the hillside cornfield above them
broke away and slammed into their village. Only about 30 of the 150 to 200
Nahuatl Indians in Acalama are believed to have survived the landslide last
Thursday. The survivors are among the few who tried to flee when they heard
the thunderous mountain of mud bearing down on them, area residents said.
The rest are missing and probably dead. That would make the slide in
Acalama, a village in Puebla state 145 km northeast of Mexico City, perhaps
the worst disaster in a week of devastating floods and mudslides. The
precise number of deaths in Acalama was not known and was not reflected in
the official national death toll, which reached 349 Monday. But unofficial
counts, based on information from local governments and witnesses, run as
high as 600."]
http://www.vancouversun.com/
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"Mi'kmaq Spelling Preferred by Natives," The Toronto Star, 13 October 1999.
["For decades Canadian children were taught that ''Micmac'' Indians lived in
eastern Canada. Now, however, the spelling is accepted as ''Mi'kmaq.'' This
is preferred by communities involved in the fishing dispute in the
Maritimes, and has been adopted by The Star."]
http://www.thestar.com/
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Moser, Patrick. "Hunger and Despair in Disaster-Stricken Mexican Villages,"
Agence France Presse, October 14, 1999.
["AMIXTLAN, Mexico, Oct 13 (AFP) - Heading off on a long trek through
shin-deep mud to read a mass for the dead Wednesday, Father Ismael Osmedo
shook his head sadly at the tragedy that killer storms have wrought among
Indian communities of Mexico. Relief organizations estimate 500 people died
in more than one week of floods and mudslides. The government puts the
number at 341, but no one knows for sure how many were carried away by
swollen rivers or remain buried under the rocks and muds that came crashing
down the mountains. As he headed to the small village of Tapayula, Osmedo
said he had been told hundreds had died there; while people from the region
who hiked for hours to food distribution centers spoke of dozens. A massive
landslide destroyed the church that served as a shelter for villagers who
lost everything to the torrential rains, according to various reports from
villagers. Indian communities of the mountainous Sierra, in the eastern
state of Puebla, appeared to be the worst hit by the tragedy that robbed
many of the little they had."]
http://www.afp.com/
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"Navajo Farm Project Struggles Despite Millions in Government Funding," The
Associated Press State & Local Wire, 13 October 1999, BC cycle.
["ALBUQUERQUE, N.M. -- When it is complete - if it is ever completed - the
Navajo Indian Irrigation Project, which brought green vegetable farms to an
arid swath of San Juan County, will have cost about $ 1 billion. It's all
money from the United States government meant to settle water claims and
establish a farm to provide jobs and industry for the Navajo tribe. But to
date, the 61,000-acre Navajo Agriculture Products Industry farm, known as
NAPI, has been a huge financial failure. Despite a few profit-making years,
it has lost an average of about $ 1 million annually over the past 24 years.
Last year was one of the worst: $ 4 million in the red. . . . To change the
tide, the company has cut its work force from 320 full-time employees last
year to 182 today. It hopes to trim the number to 160. . . . In addition to
cutting jobs, Bates instituted a direct-deposit system to cut payroll costs;
planted pumpkins, a high-profit crop; and brought crop insurance to guard
against large losses due to uncooperative weather. Bates, who has managed
the farm since 1993, knows that this is do-or-die time and hopes that
reforms have not come too late. After years of struggle, the success of the
whole venture rests on the dimming likelihood that a french-fry processing
plant will be built to chop up the farm's potatoes. . . . The biggest
obstacle to profitability, Bates said, is the continued expansion of the
farm as the Bureau of Reclamation works toward its goal of irrigating 100
percent of the 400-square-mile project. Six of the planned 11 sections are
open now, constituting 60,000 acres. A seventh 10,000-acre section is due to
open this year. Bates said each time a section is opened, the farm must pay
to have it leveled, buy center-pivot irrigating systems for the fields,
enrich the soil and plant and fertilize cover crops to ready the earth for
vegetable planting. "It's not farmland. You make it into farmland," Bates
said. "And it's an expensive process." But calling off expansion isn't an
option the tribe would support."]
http://www.ap.org/
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"Opposition Goes on the Attack in First Question Period," CBC Newsworld
Online, October 13, 1999.
["OTTAWA - Members of Parliament returned to the House of Commons on
Wednesday after a long summer recess. The session got off to a boisterous
start in Question Period, with the Opposition attacking the government over
everything from taxes to fishing . . . But most of Wednesday's Question
Period was devoted to issues the throne speech didn't address. NDP leader
Alexa McDonough rhymed off a list: from the cash crisis facing Prairie
farmers, to the chaos created by last month's Supreme Court ruling on native
fishing rights. The Opposition parties say Wednesday's Question period is a
warning to the government that the throne speech won't stop them from using
this session of Parliament to attack the government's failures of the past."]
http://newsworld.cbc.ca/cgi-bin/go.pl?1999/10/13/qperiod991013
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Plevin, Nancy. "Arroyos Leaves Northern Pueblos Housing Authority," The
Santa Fe New Mexican, 13 October 1999, A1.
["Tony Arroyos, the man who blew the whistle on corruption at the Northern
Pueblos Housing Authority and then took over the federal taxpayer-funded
agency three years ago has left following an audit that found continuing
financial irregularities. But neither the U.S. Department of Housing and
Urban Development, which oversees Northern Pueblos, nor the authority itself
would say whether Arroyos was fired, and Arroyos couldn't be reached for
comment. And while a HUD official called the problems detailed in the audit
"significant," Cate Stetson, attorney for Northern Pueblos, downplayed them
as "not a big concern." A year before a 1996 series by the Seattle Times
exposed fraud throughout HUD's Indian housing programs including the use of
$ 45,000 to remodel the home of Northern Pueblos' then-board chairman, Jose
Santiago "Jimmy" Viarrial, while ignoring needier tribal members Arroyos had
unsuccessfully tried to get HUD to investigate Viarrial and Executive
Director David Perez. . . . The recently completed audit of the authority
which oversaw construction of badly needed housing on Tesuque, Picuris,
Taos, San Ildefonso, Nambe and Pojoaque pueblos found $ 156,000 in
questionable payments and overpayments to contractors, theft of more than $
16,000 in home-buyer payments and $ 20,000 in ineligible and questionable
travel expenses."]
http://www.sfnewmexican.com/
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Richardson, Miles. "Treaty: Negotiations Will Help Avoid Chaos," The
Vancouver Sun, October 13, 1999, A14.
["Barbara Yaffe, in her Oct. 5 column argues that, ''special rights for
natives threaten our otherwise civil society.'' The B.C. Treaty Commission
sees a greater threat in the disregard for the rule of law, the absence of
negotiated agreements and threats of violence. Ms. Yaffe repeats the common
misconception that First Nations are being ''given special rights'' to
resources and land. This is simply not the case. Aboriginal rights exist
whether or not they are set out in a treaty or agreed to by anyone . . .
While making the required decisions, the courts have continually said that
the best way to resolve these issues is through good faith negotiations with
give and take on all sides. In British Columbia, we have a
once-in-a-generation opportunity to deal with disputes and conflicts over
land and resource use that takes into account everyone's interests. -- Miles
Richardson, Chief Commissioner, B. C. Treaty Commission."]
http://www.vancouversun.com/
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Toughill, Kelly. "Vandalism Charges Laid in Atlantic Fish Dispute," The
Toronto Star, October 13, 1999.
["HALIFAX - The first charges in the war over native fishing rights were
laid in Miramichi yesterday, when dozens of non-native fishermen were
charged with vandalism and fishing out of season. The RCMP charged 25 people
with 49 crimes committed on sea and land and federal fishery officers laid
charges against 18 people. The legal crackdown comes 10 days after
non-native fishermen destroyed 3,700 native lobster traps legally set in
Miramichi Bay. It comes two days before federal fisheries officers plan to
remove 900 remaining native traps under new rules set out recently by
Fisheries Minister Herb Dhaliwal. The three-week-old war follows a Supreme
Court decision that recognized the right of Mi'kmaq and Maliseet people to
fish and hunt for profit throughout the region. That decision prompted
hundreds of natives to fish lobster out of season, infuriating their
non-native neighbours."]
http://www.thestar.com/
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Wood, Erica. "Tepee Provides a Hands-on History," The Kansas City Star, 13
October 1999, 9.
["An 18-foot tepee could be seen Friday nestled between split-level houses
and an elementary school on a small hill in Grandview. A group of
third-graders at Meadowmere Elementary School helped build the tepee in
preparation for their study of Native Americans later this semester. They
were assisted by Terry Anderson, a park ranger with the Johnson County Park
and Recreation District. Anderson does two-hour presentations on Native
Americans for first-, second- and third-graders. On Friday, he instructed
two groups of third-graders at Meadowmere. "I talk about Indian life in a
tepee and out on the prairie," Anderson said."]
http://www.kcstar.com/
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