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Adams, Glenn. "Governor Sympathetic to Indians' Concerns on Name," The
Associated Press State & Local Wire, 22 November 1999.
["AUGUSTA, Maine: A bill to drop the name "Squaw" from Maine lakes,
mountains and other features because many Indians consider it insulting
deserves a serious look, Gov. Angus King said Monday. But King stopped short
of endorsing it. State Rep. Donald Soctomah, a Passamaquoddy tribal
representative, has proposed changing the names of mountains, waterways, an
island and other geographic features and jurisdictions in the state that
bear a name that Indians say has a pejorative connotation ... However,
concerns have been raised that the issue could highlight the fact that the
word is offensive to Indians, in effect creating a new hate word."]
http://www.ap.org/
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Arrillaga, Pauline. "Gardening Project Seeks to Restore Food Security,
Tradition to Indian Nation," The Associated Press State & Local Wire, 22
November 1999.
["SELLS, Ariz.: Margaret Saraficio's garden produced enough squash this fall
for seven meals. To her that meant seven times she didn't have to spend
money at the store... Mrs. Saraficio, a 64-year-old basket weaver, is one of
dozens of people on the Tohono O'odham Indian Reservation who cultivated
gardens this year as part of a federally funded program to fight food
insecurity in poor communities ... In the old days, gardens not grocery
stores dominated the landscape of the sprawling reservation in southern
Arizona's Sonoran Desert... traditional gardening sustained the community
until World War II took the men from their families and a devastating
drought struck a few years later. One by one the gardens died off, and the
native food system was replaced with government commodities. Today, with 66
percent of the reservation's 18,000 residents living in poverty, commodities
and food stamps provide most of the meals for the Tohono O'odham ... The
Tohono O'odham Community Food System project looks to return to the
traditional ways, to improve both the availability and nutritional value of
food on the reservation ... This summer TOCA volunteers helped 50 families
plant gardens using seeds for traditional foods such as corn, squash and
tepary beans, a heat-tolerant crop that can help regulate blood sugar."]
http://www.ap.org/
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Biles, Jan. "Tribal Songs Dedicated in Memory of Professor's Father," The
Associated Press State & Local Wire, 22 November 1999.
["LAWRENCE, Kan.: Tribal music is an integral part of being a Comanche
warrior. Drum beats and chanting prepare the warrior for action by giving
him the strength to defeat any adversary, the wisdom to know when to engage
in combat and the restraint to apply only the force needed to establish
balance in his life. Cornel Pewewardy, an assistant professor of teaching
and leadership at the University of Kansas, had that image in mind when he
finished his latest recording with the Alliance West Singers and Intertribal
Veterans Singers. And that's why "The Warrior's Edge," an album of powwow
songs from the Southern Plains for Shortwave Records, is dedicated to his
father, Samuel "Doc" Pewewardy, a Comanche leader who was captured during
the Battle of the Bulge and held as a prisoner of war ... "I'm showing
there's a warrior amongst us who's a reflection of the warrior of the past,"
Pewewardy said of his father, who's in his 70s and lives in Oklahoma. "I see
an arsenal in him, whether he's fighting for tribal or human rights. He's a
father and grandfather. He was our Little League coach when I was growing
up. He's a deacon in our church, a very spiritual man. He encompasses the
warrior of today, and he's a good role model for our youths.""]
http://www.ap.org/
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"Court Handling of Indian Issues Knocked," The Associated Press State &
Local Wire, 22 November 1999.
["ALBUQUERQUE, N.M.: The American court system ignores written law and
treaties in favor of a vague "public policy" driven by money and bigotry
against Indians, the head of the Cherokee Nation has charged. Tribes and
their lawyers must convince judges that Indians are not "Hollywood icons"
but actual governments seeking redress from a fellow government, said Chad
Smith, the newly elected principal chief of the Cherokee Nation in Oklahoma
... Smith also said Indians need to retain their cultural identity to change
the view of the rest of the nation. The Cherokee tribe is at a crisis point
because children are not learning the Cherokee language or tribal lore, he
said."]
http://www.ap.org/
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Cox, Christopher. "The Forgotten War of King Philip; New Book Examines Dark
Side of Plymouth Colony's History," The Boston Herald, 22 November 1999,
031.
["American history has a warm, prominent spot for Massasoit, the Wampanoag
sachem. Not so for his son, Metacom. Just a half-century after Massasoit
helped the Pilgrims establish the Plymouth colony, his son, better known as
King Philip, led a revolt that very nearly chased the settlers from New
England. Massasoit's generosity is celebrated every Thanksgiving. But
Metacom, who directed a violent uprising that would set the tone for
subsequent treatment of native peoples, has receded into the fog of history.
"It's just an amazing event that is largely overlooked," said Michael J.
Tougias, 44, of Franklin who, along with Eric B. Schultz, has co-authored a
new history, "King Philip's War" (Countryman Press, $ 29.95) about the
now-forgotten conflict ... the conflict held special resonance during the
subjugation of the Plains Indians. King Philip's War, in fact, served as a
template for subsequent treatment of native people: land encroachment,
attacks on civilians, forcible removal. That disquieting legacy goes a long
way toward explaining the current obscurity of King Philip's War, explain
the authors. "In 20th century terms, the removal of aboriginal people by
force from their land is not a very glorious war," Schultz said."]
http://www.bostonherald.com/
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"Final Straw for First Nation Dealing with Ontario Hydro 'Brown-Outs,'"
Canada NewsWire, 22 November 1999.
["CONSTANCE LAKE FIRST NATION: The Constance Lake First Nation, an Indian
Band located 30 km northwest of Hearst on the east shore of Constance Lake,
is suffering serious drinking water shortages as a result of poor Ontario
Hydro service to the Reserve, and Band members are prepared to stop paying
their Hydro bills. Recently, power disruptions have knocked out the Band's
water treatment and pumping station, leaving the community with an uncertain
water supply. This week, the water supply was shut off to the entire
community. Besides the obvious health and safety concerns, the community's
daycare was forced to shut down, and school children were unable to attend
classes."]
http://www.newswire.ca/
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"First Americans Mortgage Corporation, PMI Mortgage Insurance Company And
Staten Island Savings Bank Launch 'A-' Native American Loan Program," PR
Newswire, 22 November 1999.
["OVERLAND PARK, Kan.: Dustan R. Shepherd, president of First Americans
Mortgage Corporation (FAMC), a subsidiary of AmeriResource Technologies,
Inc. (OTC Bulletin Board: ARET), announced today that the company has
finalized an agreement with PMI Mortgage Insurance Co. (a subsidiary of PMI
Group, Inc. (NYSE: PMA) and Staten Island Savings Bank (NYSE: SIB) to
deliver an "A-" loan product to Native American home buyers with less than
perfect credit. This product will allow the three companies to approve loans
that they believe represent good risk, even though the borrower falls short
of traditional "A" quality mortgage standards. The product will also allow
the team to expand its current Native American marketing strategies to
include more borrowers."]
http://www.prnewswire.com
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Gardner, Amanda. "The Thrifty Gene, Lessons from a Tribe's Disaster," Daily
News (New York), 22 November 1999, 14.
["Before World War II, diabetes was virtually unknown among Arizona's Pima
Indians. Today, they have the highest rate of diabetes in the world: 50% of
the adults have Type 2 ... In 1962, geneticist James Neel proposed the
"thrifty gene" theory to explain why diabetes was becoming epidemic among
the Pima. Populations that traditionally relied on farming, hunting and
fishing, he said, alternated between periods of feast and famine. As a
result, they developed a gene that enabled them to store fat in times of
plenty, drawing on their reserves when times got tough ... Comparing the
Arizona Pima with another Pima community, in the Sierra Madre mountains of
Mexico, seems to support the theory. Though genetically the same as the
Arizona Pima, the Mexican community has maintained its traditional lifestyle
and diet. Only three out of 35 Sierra Madre Pima studied in 1994 had
diabetes."]
http://www.nydailynews.com/today/-/-/default.asp
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Jones, Lucy. "The Inuit Want to Hunt Seals Again ... And Heal Their Wounded
Culture," Business Week, 22 November 1999, 4.
["Just the mention of Greenpeace makes Arquato Mattiwise spit onto the
permafrost parking lot. Like the other Inuits of Illulissat, a Greenlandic
settlement situated north of the polar circle, the 52-year-old Mattiwise
used to be a hunter ... Today he makes a living taking cruise- ship
passengers in a battered taxi to watch the sun set over the creaking
icebergs. ''I prefer hunting,'' he says. ''But the outside world didn't give
me a choice.'' Greenland's sealskin market took its first hit in 1972, when
the U.S. government passed the Marine Mammal Protection Act banning the
import of such products. Crusades against seal hunting in the mid-'80s then
caused the European market to crash ... Now the hunters are fighting back.
The World Trade Organization will hold a meeting of ministers in Seattle at
the end of this month to promote further liberalization of trade ...
Contrary to the impression given by environmental groups, the harp seal is
not an endangered species ... Since WTO regulations prohibit countries from
setting up barriers to trade in products from animals that are not
endangered, bans on seal product imports should be lifted, the Greenland
government will argue ... But Illulissat, like most other towns in
Greenland, has social problems the tourists rarely see ...they also have
one of the highest rates of HIV infection in Europe. Alcoholism is
widespread. Suicide is common among young men. ''There is a loss of
self-esteem brought about by the dramatic changes in society,'' says Grethe
Kramer, a substance-abuse counselor."]
http://www.businessweek.com/index.html
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"Mohegan Tribe Unveils Plan for New $29 Million Employee Center," The
Associated Press State & Local Wire, 22 November 1999.
["MONTVILLE, Conn.: The Mohegan tribe on Monday revealed plans for a new $29
million center for employees of its Mohegan Sun casino. The center will
include a training facility, fitness center and a computer laboratory. The
30,000-square-foot center will be located on the ground floor of a new,
seven-story complex. It also will include a wellness center, a dry cleaner,
a bank, and other amenities."]
http://www.ap.org/
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Montgomery, David. "General Custer Was Doomed by Sleaze, New Evidence
Suggests," The Scotsman, 22 November 1999, 9.
["... new evidence has emerged about the circumstances leading up to
Custer's "last stand" ... Experts claim that a letter written shortly before
the general's final battle suggests he was a victim of government sleaze
after uncovering corruption in the administration of the US president,
Ulysses S Grant. The document indicates personal animosities led to Gen
Custer's Indian expedition being fatally delayed and the number of his
troops being drastically reduced ... The letter, which has just gone on
display at the Custer Battlefield Museum in Garryowen, Montana, was written
by the then-secretary of war, William Belknap. It discusses Gen Custer's
damaging testimony in an investigation of corrupt Indian agents ... Mr
Belknap and President Grant's brother, Orvil, were powerful political
figures damaged by Gen Custer's testimony about the scandal before a
committee in the House of Representatives the month before his death ... A
spokesman for the Custer Battlefield Museum said: "Political infighting and
petty small mindedness made Custer the sacrificial lamb, a fate he certainly
did not deserve." ... It is claimed that Gen Custer's political difficulties
during the spring of 1876 and his testimony in Washington, DC, concerning
the governmental corruption on the frontier rebounded on him. His enemies
ensured that a thorough investigation, which might have cleared up some of
the mystery, never took place."]
http://www.scotsman.com/
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"Morongo Indian Tribe Reaches Out at Thanksgiving to Homeless and Families
In Need in Los Angeles, San Francisco," PR Newswire, 22 November 1999.
["LOS ANGELES: Over the holiday, the Morongo tribe will provide more than
20,000 meals for low-income families and individuals in California through
organizations like the Los Angeles Mission, Para Los Ninos and United
American Indian Involvement. This is the third year in a row that the tribe
has undertaken this effort. Unemployment and welfare once ran high on the
Morongo Band of Mission Indians' reservation. Today, self-sufficiency
created by tribal gaming on their own land, enables them to help others in
need this Thanksgiving. According to Eric Foley, president of the Los
Angeles Mission, the Morongo tribe's donation will help double the number of
meals served to Los Angeles homeless and hungry this Thanksgiving. "The
Morongo Indians know and understand what difficult times are all about. Like
many of the families we are trying to help, our struggles are far from
over," said Mary Ann Martin Andreas, Morongo tribal chairwoman. "Through
tribal gaming, we have become self-reliant and are now able to provide for
our families and reach out to others in need. Almost 400 years ago the
Plymouth Pilgrims faced similarly difficult times as they worked to rebuild
their lives in a new land. The Indians helped to save the lives of those
first pilgrims by lending a helping hand. We hope to honor the spirit of
that original Thanksgiving."']
http://www.prnewswire.com
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Ruble, Renee. "Osage Producer Supports Koch," The Associated Press State &
Local Wire, 22 November 1999.
["TULSA, Okla.: Mac Alloway has worked in the oil fields for 69 years and
six states, and he has never heard that Koch Industries made adjustments to
cheat producers out of oil ... The civil lawsuit only involves federal and
Indian leases. Koch had about half of its Indian leases in Osage County,
where Alloway struck black gold in the 1970s. He began selling to Koch a
decade later after a producer praised the Wichita, Kan.-based company ...
Alloway never permitted adjustments for any conditions. It would have gone
against the oil policies of the Bureau of Indian Affairs, which oversaw the
leases for the Osage Nation royalty owners, Alloway said."]
http://www.ap.org/
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Simmons, Lee. "Indian Group Negotiates Redevelopment of Rock Hill, S.C.,
Mall," The Herald (Rock Hill, SC), 22 November 1999.
["The Rock Hill Mall may get its long-promised face-lift at last. The
Catawba Indian Nation is negotiating with Charlotte's Childress Klein
Properties to redevelop the deteriorating mall and its surrounding 34 acres
at Cherry and North Anderson roads ... The Catawbas purchased the mall site
in 1997 and opened the $ 3.5-million Catawba Bingo hall. At the time, tribal
leaders speculated that the mall could house restaurants and shops with a
large anchor tenant but ultimately called the process a "long-term
decision.""]
http://www.heraldonline.com/
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Smith, Christopher. "Navajos and Hopis at Odds over Remains of Anasazi;
Tribes in New Fight on Old Question," The Salt Lake Tribune, 22 November
1999, A1.
["Directed by a federal law that gives religion and science equal weight, a
federal panel meeting in Salt Lake City over the weekend struggled to
resolve a question that dates back a millennium. Are Navajo Indians directly
related to the Anasazi, the mysterious people who lived in the Four Corners
area from the time of Christ before seemingly vanishing by 1300? In the case
of Chaco Canyon, the National Park Service believes the answer is yes ...
The Park Service's surprising inclusion of the Navajo people in the list of
tribes with ancestral ties to Anasazi remains at Chaco has inflamed
long-standing animosities the Hopi Indians, and some other "pueblo" tribes
of the Southwest, harbor toward Navajos. Besides complex land and
reservation boundary disputes, the fight stems from a feeling that the
nomadic Navajo tribe has ap-propriated indigenous Hopi and Puebloan culture
as its own, from weaving and pottery to social customs and views of
creation. Most experts believe Navajos migrated into the Four Corners area
after the Anasazi disappeared ... "Laws like NAGPRA strike at the heart of a
scientific archaeology because they elevate Indian cultural traditions and
religious beliefs to the level of science as a paradigm for describing or
explaining reality," wrote paleoanthropologist Geoffrey Clark last spring in
The Skeptical Inquirer, a magazine dedicated to scientific analysis of the
paranormal. "Political considerations thus take precedence over
disinterested evaluation of knowledge claims, with tragic and irreversible
results." ... "We have an ancient way of life that is being pitted against
science," said NAGPRA Review Committee member Armand Minthorn of the
Confederated Tribes of the Umatilla Indian Reservation in Oregon, embroiled
in its own court fight over reburying Kennewick Man, a 9,300-year-old
skeleton that may shed new light on human colonization. "That is not right.
The law says you must hold scientific fact in equal weight with what the
tribes present." ... Adding to the confusion is the tendency of all cultures
to assimilate pre-existing structures or land forms as part of their own
heritage. Park Service experts said all tribes in the region of Chaco Canyon
associate the Anasazi dwellings as part of their own heritage, regardless of
whether they can prove direct ancestral ties to the original inhabitants."]
http://www.sltrib.com/
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Whitney, Susan. "Indigenous Peoples Celebrate -- Again," The Deseret News
(Salt Lake City, UT), 22 November 1999, B02.
["Today, the Monday before Thanksgiving, is Utah's first official Indigenous
Peoples Day. Or, depending on who's counting, this could also be considered
the third Indigenous Peoples Day of 1999, here in the Beehive State. Since
1991, the Utah Coalition of La Raza has held the annual Cesar Chavez
luncheon on Columbus Day. Hispanics call that day Dia de la Raza, or the Day
of the Race. In Utah, Columbus Day has become a symbol of indigenous people.
Then, too, a celebration is held every year on July 24 at Liberty Park ...
In other states, the 1992 protests evolved into an annual Columbus Day
celebration of American Indian arts and culture. The United Nations has also
declared Columbus Day to be Indigenous Peoples Day. So by celebrating an
Indigenous Day on the Monday before Thanksgiving, Utah is somewhat unique."]
http://www.desnews.com/
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"Your Turn,""The National Magazine," CBC TV, 22 November 1999.
["BRIAN STEWART: The city of Winnipeg has a problem -- one of the worst
crime rates in the country. So when a tough new anti-gang law came into
effect, Manitoba wasted no time putting it to work. The consequences were
the subject of a documentary last week. Here is your reaction to our report,
"The Indian Courthouse." ... ED BOSVELD / CHATHAM, ONTARIO: Your report on
"The Indian Courthouse" was probably more biased than the system it
purported to examine. The attempts to trivialize the Warriors' offenses were
pathetic ... What your report implicitly suggested is that the Warriors
should be treated differently because they are native and that would be
wrong. ... DOROTA BUDZISZEWSKA / COQUITLAM, BC: I feel that your reportage
is attempting to discredit any attempt of curbing the lawlessness in
Winnipeg. It's mentioned that natives are over-represented in the jail
system. Well that's the reality of who they are. They are the ones who are
responsible, who are engaging themselves in criminal activities ... GREG
POIRIER / BURNS LAKE, BC: My heart goes out to the family of that boy who
tried to play hero at that robbery you reported. But what the boy's dad said
really lit my fire. He spoke about us Indians running around like "a pack of
animals." This man spoke like a true white man. His views on animal packs
and Indians are right on. It's true. To most white people we are a pack of
animals, who wander off the reserve into town from time to time. But where
he and most whites are mistaken, there is no time left to resolve social
issues. This country had an entire century to resolve what they started."]
http://www.cbc.ca/
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