NATIVE_NEWS: WithOut Rez Productions

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Date: Mon, 8 Nov 1999 06:15:46 -0800 (PST)
From: Eugene Johnson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: WithOut Rez Productions


Hey everyone,

Check out the WithOut Rez Productions web site.
WithOut Rez Productions is a Native owned and operated
record label. Their site is www.thegrid.net/worp. Help
support these Native businesses.

Eugene Johnson
(He Who Laughs A Lot)


Hey again everyone,

I'd like to bring another website to your attention.
Shadowyze is a Native rapper from Florida. His music
deals with the issues in Central America. "Murder In
Our Own Backyard" is his CD. If you want your children
to get involved in the issues around the world, this
man's music just may bring them into the fold. His
website is www.shadowyze.com. Support those Native
American businesses.

Eugene Johnson
(He Who Laughs A Lot)

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NATIVE_NEWS: DEMOGRAPHICS: american indian info

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sent by Amanda via FN list
Courtesy of the EPA American Indian Heritage Month Committee

Did You Know...?
There are approximately 2.4 million American Indians in the United States
(almost 1% of the U.S. population) (Census Bureau, June 1999).
There are 556 federally-recognized Tribes (December 1998 BIA list).
There are 314 reservations**the smallest is the Likely Rancheria in
California with under 2 acres and the largest is Navajo with about 16 million
acres in Arizona, Utah and New Mexico. There are also Tribes without land
bases, such as the Ponca of Nebraska and the Lytton Rancheria in California.
22% of the American Indian population lives on reservations and trust lands.*
The smallest Tribe, the Augustine Band of Mission Indians in California, has
a population of one. The largest Tribe, Cherokee, has a population of about
308,000.*
39% of the American Indian population is under the age of 20 (29% for total
U.S. population).*
8% of the American Indian population is over 60 years old (17% for total U.S.
population).*
American Indians tend to have larger families than the average. About 80% of
American Indians live in extended-family households.*

34% of American Indians over age 25 never graduated from high school.*
9% of American Indians have a bachelor*s degree or higher (3% have graduate
or professional degrees).*
The unemployment rate among American Indians is 14% (6% for total U.S.
population).*
One-third of the American Indian households lives below the poverty level
(Census Bureau, 1995).
In 1996, 67% of the Tribes had no gaming operations. Of the Tribes that did
have gaming, 10 of them earned more than 50% of the gaming income (GAO, A
Profile of the Indian Gaming Industry, May 1997).
Of the American Indian households located on reservations, *
20% lack complete plumbing facilities (hot and cold piped water, a flush
toilet, and a bathtub or shower). 11% lack complete plumbing and are also
crowded (more than 1 person per room).
About 1 in 5 disposed of sewage by means other than public sewer, septic
tank, or cesspool (e.g., outhouse, chemical toilet).
18% do not have complete kitchens (piped water, a range or cookstove, and
refrigerator).
1 in every 3 used wood to heat their home.
Only 39% of rural households in Native communities have telephones compared
to 94% for non-Native rural communities (EDA Assessment of Technology
Infrastructure in Native Communities, June 1999).
Of rural Native households, only 22% have cable television, 9% have personal
computers, and of those, only 8% have Internet access (EDA 1999).
In rural areas, 12% of Native households lack electricity and 23% lack gas
(EDA 1999).
* Based on 1990 Census. The data for American Indians (American Indian,
Eskimo, and Aleut) are based on self-identification of race; therefore, the
data do not represent enrolled tribal members.

NATIVE_NEWS: Harvey Arden on CNN Today

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Date: Wed, 3 Nov 1999 06:50:08 -0800 (PST)
From: Eugene Johnson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>


Harvey Arden will be on CNN today, November 3, 1999,
at 12noon EST (9:00am PST). Harvey is the editor of
Leonard Peltier's book "Prison Writings: My Life Is My
Sundance." Hopefully they wont slant this as
horrifyingly as they did their last report on Peltier.

Eugene Johnson
(He Who Laughs A Lot)

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NATIVE_NEWS: WTO Nov.4 Day of Action Alert

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TO: Forest Activists
FROM: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Matt McGovern-Rowen)
VIA: "Wild Rockies Alerts" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>

November 4, 1999 International Day of Education and Action Against the
WTOs Assault on Forests

On November 4, ask your senator to Sign Senate Letter Opposing the "Global
Free Logging Agreement" at the World Trade Organization

On November 4, 1999, forest protection activists from around the world
will join  together to let their governments know that they oppose
agreements that benefit multinational timber corporations at the expense
of ancient forests, forest communities  and threatened eco-systems.
Activists will hold press conferences, meet with government officials,
conduct teach-ins and hit the streets in protest.

A primary target for the day is the "global free logging agreement"
(GFLA) at the World Trade Organization (WTO).  The WTOs 135 member
countries are meeting in November to write new international trade and
investment agreements, including the GFLA being spearheaded by the
Clinton Administration.  The GFLA could  dramatically impact our ability
to protect the world's remaining forests.

The GFLA will lead to forest destruction and the removal of forest
protections by:
(1) rapidly eliminating tariffs on all wood products without putting
necessary environmental protections in place -- this will  increase
consumption, production and unsustainable logging; (2) discussing the
elimination of forest protection laws that the WTO considers "non-tariff
trade barriers."  Vital forest protection laws that could be eliminated
include: laws to protect forests from invasive pests, recycled content
requirements for office and news paper, eco-labeling and "smart wood"
laws, and bans on the export of raw logs and wood chips.

YOU ARE KEY TO STOPPING THE GFLA Senator Barbara Boxer (D-CA) has written a
letter to President Clinton opposing this attack on forests and forest
protection measures.  Senator Boxer's letter is modeled after a letter by
48 Democratic and Republican Members of the House of Representatives
opposing the GFLA that was sent to the President on July 28, 1999.  We hope
to have at least this many signatures on the Senate letter.

WHAT YOU CAN DO
On November 4, organize a group of people to call your Senator's office in
Washington, DC.  Ask for the Legislative Assistant who handles the
Environment.  Ask him or her to advise the Senators to sign Senator Boxer's
letter to President Clinton opposing attacks on forests and forest
protection efforts at the World Trade Organization.  You could also arrange
a meeting with the local environmental staff person and tell him/her how
you feel in person.

Please let us know how it goes!

Call the Capitol Switchboard at 1-202-224-3121 and ask for your Senator's
office.

TIMBER CORPORATIONS LEADING THE CHARGE
On November 4, many activists will protest the "global free logging
agreement" by identifying it's corporate sponsors.  Boise Cascade is a
poster child example of  U.S. multinational timber corporations that
over-cut their corporate timberlands and thousands of acres of public
forests.  These multinational timber corporations hope that the "global
free logging agreement" will aid them in their attempts to reduce forest
protections at home while looking for new, cheap sources of wood
overseas and ever increasing markets for their products.  Boise Cascade
has invested $200 million in Chile to build the world's largest chip
mill and  oriented strand board mill.  The project's sourcing area is
located in the heart of Patagonia, containing some of the world's most
intact temperate rainforest.

A DAY OF PROTEST AND EDUCATION
International activists have also called November 4 a day of protest
against the Free Trade  Area of the Americas (FTAA) and in support of
the indigenous peoples of Chiapas, Mexico.  On November 4 Trade
Ministers from 34 Latin American countries are meeting in Toronto,
Canada to discuss the FTAA, which is being hailed as the southward
expansion of NAFTA.  A mass mobilization against the FTAA is also taking
place in Toronto on that day.

The organizers of the respective actions have joined together to
denounce the current  practices of globalization and neoliberalism as
exemplified by so-called "free trade"  agreements.  These agreements
devastate the environment, undermine indigenous culture, destroy local
community control and lead to massive poverty.  The November 4 actions
will  promote healthy ecosystems, strong communities and solidarity with
indigenous peoples.

For More Information, Ideas, Background Material, Press Releases, etc.:
Contact Antonia Juhasz, American Lands Alliance (GFLA) at
[EMAIL PROTECTED] or (202) 547-9230, Jake Kreilick and Matt
McGovern-Rowan, Native Forest Network (Boise Cascade) at
[EMAIL PROTECTED] and [EMAIL PROTECTED] or (406) 542-7343
and Orin Langelle, ACERCA - Action for Community & Ecology in the
Rainforests of Central America (FTAA), at [EMAIL P

NATIVE_NEWS: Tule River Economic Plans Take Flight

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From: "brixey" 
Tule River Economic Plans Take Flight 

by Trudy Hibler
Porterville Online News Director, and Wire Reports 
October 29, 1999 

Not content to put all their economic development eggs in one basket, tribal leaders 
of the Tule River Indians have announced plans to start production of airplanes. 

Tribal leaders say profits from Eagle Mountain Casino are making it possible to create 
the new business. The tribe plans to operate the airplane manufacturing business at a 
site near the Porterville airport in partnership with Riley Super Skyrocket, a 
business based in Southern California. Riley converts Cessna-337 airplanes into two 
other models known as the Skyrocket and Super Skyrocket. Riley will continue operating 
its engineering and marketing departments from Carlsbad, California. Manufacturing and 
repair would be conducted at the Porterville site. 

The Tule River Indian tribe is negotiating with the City of Porterville on a lease of 
land located near the runway at the Porterville Airport. Once the lease is approved by 
both parties, a 16,000-square-foot hangar will be built as the manufacturing site. 

More than 100 jobs are expected to be created by this new business venture. No word on 
what the jobs will pay, only that wages will be higher than minimum wage. Jobs will be 
open to members of the general population as well as tribal members. 

The plant is expected to begin operations in the spring of 2000. No word on the cost 
of starting up operations. 

NATIVE_NEWS: Tribe Losing Battle Vs. Diabetes

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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Date: Mon, 1 Nov 1999 02:35:51 EST
Subject: Tribe Losing Battle Vs. Diabetes
Tribe Losing Battle Vs. Diabetes
.c The Associated Press

  GILA RIVER INDIAN COMMUNITY, Ariz. (AP) - Amputations and blindness are commonplace, 
and dialysis is a way of life.

The spread of diabetes among the 11,500 Pima Indians on this reservation south of 
Phoenix has become so severe some worry about annihilation - and others claim 
government researchers contributed to the problem.

``Thirty years of research for what?'' Franklin Jackson, a community leader, said in 
The Arizona Republic on Sunday. ``What did we get for all of this? We were human 
guinea pigs. They've just been watching diabetes take its course, but the people here 
have been hoping for a cure.''

Since 1965, the number of tribal members over 55 with diabetes has skyrocketed to 80 
percent from 45 percent, according to figures compiled by the National Institutes of 
Health.

Now, some Pimas are claiming that same government agency didn't do enough to attack 
what they call the ``Pima Plague.''

Officials with the NIH say they never misled the Pimas or promised them a cure during 
years of studies.

But dozens of interviews and government records show that the agency made critical 
decisions in the late 1970s and early 1980s that set back the fight against diabetes 
by at least a decade, the newspaper reported.

The NIH reportedly decided to focus its resources on Type 1 diabetes, even though that 
form affects none of the Pimas. Type 1, commonly referred to as juvenile diabetes, 
affects mostly whites. The Pimas suffer from Type 2, or adult-onset, diabetes.

While NIH scientists did study the origins of Type 2 diabetes among the Pimas, they 
allegedly put off testing methods of prevention until just three years ago. That 
decision forced the key researcher on the Pima project to test Type 2 prevention 
methods elsewhere because the NIH would not fund the experiment among the Pimas, the 
newspaper said.

Dr. Phillip Gorden, a director of the diabetes research branch of the NIH, defended 
the decision, saying the Type 1 study was more manageable and that new technology had 
just become available for testing.

Michael Mawby, the American Diabetes Association's vice president for governmental 
relations, believes the agency had a moral obligation to do more to help the Pimas.

``As the impact of diabetes was uncovered in the Native American community and in the 
Pimas in particular, there was a responsibility of the federal government to take more 
aggressive steps to address the problem, and they haven't done that,'' he said.

The tribe blames the spread of diabetes on dramatic changes in their lifestyles and 
diets, which had been stable for centuries. Cholla cactus buds and jackrabbit have 
been replaced by fatty, processed foods. Since hunting and farming have declined, so 
has exercise.

Obesity, a major risk factor, among the Pimas is growing. It is not unusual for Pima 
kindergartners to weigh more than 75 pounds and adults more than 300.

``I shock my people by saying that if we don't get this in check now, we'll become an 
extinct people 75 years from now,'' said retiring Pima Gov. Mary Thomas, herself a 
diabetic.

AP-NY-11-01-99 0235EST
Copyright 1999 The Associated Press. 

Reprinted under the Fair Use http://www4.law.cornell.edu/uscode/17/107.html doctrine 
of international copyright law.
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NATIVE_NEWS: KOLA: MP Vanoost's speech for Peltier Freedom Month

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Sylvain Duez-Alesandri, coordinator of the European LPSG Network asked
Belgian member of Parliament, Lode Vanoost, to write a letter which he
will read during the November Washington D.C. rally for Leonard  Peltier.
Below is MP Vanoost's speech.

===
From: "Lode VANOOST" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Date: Sun, 24 Oct 1999 14:33:12 +0200


"Dear Friends, I have been asked to write a message from faraway Brussels in
Europe. My dear friend Sylvain is reading it to you right now. I am a member
of the Belgian Parliament. In 1996 I introduced a resolution in our
parliament requesting the U.S. authorities to review Leonard's case and to
grant him clemency. This resolution was approved unanimously by all members
of the Chamber of Representatives. So far the President of the United
States, the great defender of human rights throughout the world, has been so
kind to not even acknowledge receipt of this document that was sent to him
and to members of his Cabinet. He obviously acts this way to show his
deepest respect to the democratic institutions of another country.

People here in Belgium sometimes ask me why I go through so much trouble for
people so far from my home who will never ever vote for me in an election. I
always answer them like this. What happens in far away places like East
Timor, Burma, Nigeria, Kurdistan, Colombia or South Dakota is of direct
concern to us. The people who suppress, abuse, torture, imprison, exploit
other people, they are the same ones that keep telling us that nuclear power
is safe, the same one that poison everything to dig up their precious
uranium,
the same ones that cut down the rain forests.  The people who keep telling us
that Belgium needs to spent more on its military budget for NATO's sake are
the same ones who train militias in El Salvador, Bolivia, Indonesia and
Turkey.
Those are the people that poison our rivers, make our air unbreathable and
why ? Because it's good for business. They are the same people who right now
are taking notes of what I have to say to you.  And as long as people like
that have it their way, what happened in Pine Ridge can and will happen right
here in Brussels, Belgium. That is why I do it. Becaue it matters.
Besides, what kind of trouble am I complaining about, I write letters, I do
debates in the parliament, I speak to people, ... What is that compared to
what
Leonard and his brothers and sisters in Latin America, in Africa, in Asia,
and, yes, in many European countries are going through right now? No, I do
not see my work as some kind of 'trouble', it's just something I have to do
as a decent human being.

I have a big poster of Leonard in my office, the big red one with the title
'The Indian Wars Are Not Over', it is hanging next to a big picture of
Nelson Mandela, taken on the day of this liberation. So is a picture of
Mumia Abu Jamal. I see it everyday. And besides, I invite you all, if you're
ever in Brussels, come and see for yourself, you're more than welcome. For
as long as that poster is not replaced by a picture of a FREE Leonard, I'll
go on with my work for him. I know in my heart that some day soon Leonard is
going to come Brussels with Bobby, Elsie, Sylvain, Gina and all the others
to give me that picture.

As Leonard says on one of my favourite records : "I've gone too far now to
start backing down. I don't give up. Not until my people are free will I
give up."  Well, if that's the way Leonard feels, who am I to think
otherwise. Don't give up. Don't back down. Not until Leonard is free. You
are fighting a good cause. Thank you."

Lode Vanoost
Agalev - Green Party
Belgian Parliament

NATIVE_NEWS: "Indian Summer" - more facts online

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Date: Sat, 30 Oct 1999 22:10:16
To: [EMAIL PROTECTED], [EMAIL PROTECTED], [EMAIL PROTECTED]
From: KOLA <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: "Indian Summer" - more facts online
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The "Indian Summer" webpages have been updated.

Intro at:


Sky Walkinstik-man-alone's letter at:


Facts about the exhibition and catalogue lies and mistakes at:


On this second page, there is a list of the sacred objects on display...

And finally, the on-line petition to the Museum and the Belgian King at:



We haven't finished scrutinizing the entire catalogue yet; and photographs 
will be added to the webpages later this week.

in Friendship & in Struggle,
Elsie Herten

NATIVE_NEWS: Fwd: Thurs 11/4, 11, 18, 23: Speak Out for Peltier! Call, Write, Fax!

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--- Indigenous Support Coalition of Oregon
<[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
 > Date: Sat, 23 Oct 1999 19:23:43 -0700 (PDT)
 > From: Indigenous Support Coalition of Oregon
 > <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
 > To: Indigenous Support Coalition of Oregon
 > <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
 > CC: Leonard Peltier Support Group of Eugene
 > <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
 > Subject: Thurs 11/4, 11, 18, 23: Speak Out for
 > Peltier! Call, Write, Fax!
 > 
 >  -Indigenous Peoples' Week-
 > 
 >  Speak Out for Leonard Peltier!
 >  All Day Thursdays November 4, 11, 18th 
 >  and Wednesday 23rd, 1999 
 >  5:00 am- 2:00 pm Pacific Standard Time
 > 
 >  Phone Calling, Faxing, Letter Writing:
 >  President Clinton, US Pardon Attorney
 >  US Bureau of Prisons for Executive Clemency,
 >  Pardon, New X-Rays and Medical Care for
 >  Leonard Peltier, Political Prisoner of War
 > 
 > Please be polite, keep a copy and share any replies
 > with ISCO!  Thank you.
 > 
 > Contact: President Bill Clinton  (202) 456-
 >  The White House (202) 456-2461 Fax
 >  1600 Pennsylvania Avenue NW  
 >  Washington DC 20500  [EMAIL PROTECTED]
 > 
 >  Re: Leonard Peltier #89637-132
 > 
 > -- Ask for Clinton to grant a pardon or Executive
 > Clemency for Leonard
 > Peltier and for his unconditional and immediate
 > release from Leavenworth.
 > 
 > Contact: US Pardon Attorney  (202) 616-6070
 >  Roger C. Adams
 >  500 First St. NW Suite 400
 >  Washington DC 20530
 > 
 >  Re: Leonard Peltier #89637-132
 > 
 > -- Ask for a pardon of Leonard Peltier, held without
 > parole for crimes he
 > did not commit.  Ask for his immediate and
 > unconditional release.
 > 
 > Contact: Kathleen Hawk, Director   (202) 616-2093
 > Fax
 >  Federal Bureau of Prisons (202) 307-3250
 >  Main Justice Building [EMAIL PROTECTED]
 >  19th Street & Constitution NW
 >  Washington DC 20530
 > 
 >  Re: Leonard Peltier #89637-132
 > 
 > -- Ask for Peltier to receive updated x-rays for
 > evaluation by the Mayo
 > Clinic and for him to be released for outside
 > medical care of his jaw.
 > 
 > Support the November Washington DC Campaigns for
 > Leonard Peltier!  Contact
 > the Leonard Peltier Defense Committee at (785)
 > 842-5774  [EMAIL PROTECTED],
 > the Leonard Peltier Support Group of Eugene (541)
 > 683-2789  [EMAIL PROTECTED],
 > Indigenous Support Coalition of Oregon [EMAIL PROTECTED]
 > for info or to help.
 > 
 > 
 >  For More Info:  [EMAIL PROTECTED]
 >  Indigenous Support Coalition of Oregon
 >  PO Box 11715 Eugene, OR 97440   (541) 683-2789
 > 
 >  -0-
 > 
 > 
 > 
 > 


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NATIVE_NEWS: Website Names Landowners Who Want Wildlife Killed At Taxpayer Expense

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Wanita Sears <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> replies:

 >New West Research
 >P.O. Box 9125 Santa Fe NM 87505
 >www.new-west-research-org
 >
 >For immediate release:   For more information:
 >October 28, 1999[EMAIL PROTECTED]
 >
 >
 >Website Reveals Information On NM Land Owners
 >Who Want Wildlife Killed At Taxpayer Expense
 >
 >
 >The Earth isn't dying -- it is being killed.
 >And the people killing it have names and addresses.
 >Utah Phillips
 >
 >
 >The names and addresses of New Mexico ranchers, businesses, and other >entities 
 >asking government agents to kill wildlife on their properties at >taxpayer expense is 
 >being revealed for the first time today on the website of >New West Research 
 >(www.new-west-research.org). The information can be found >under the heading “The 
 >Hall of Shame” in the War Against Wildlife section of >the website.
 >The information was requested from the U.S.D.A.’s “Wildlife Services” >(aka 
 >Animal Damage Control) program in January, 1999 by New West Research, a >public 
 >interest research project of the Zuni Mountain Coalition. The >government’s failure 
 >to release the documents resulted in a lawsuit filed >in >March, 1999 under the 
 >Freedom of Information Act by attorney Richard Mietz.
 >U.S.D.A. had previously maintained that the information was “private.” >Requested 
 >under FOIA were “copies of all signed agreements showing the >names and addresses of 
 >all New Mexico ranchers and other private agribusiness >interests which have current 
 >agreements with the government allowing agents >to go onto their deeded land or 
 >leased land for the purpose of poisoning, >trapping, shooting, aerial gunning, 
 >denning, or otherwise killing or >controlling wildlife.”
 >Over 2,000 current “agreements for control of animals” were finally >turned over 
 >earlier this month. The only information blacked out on the >forms >were the 
 >addresses of the government wildlife killers themselves. A database >of the 
 >information gleaned from the documents was created and is now on the >internet, 
 >showing each party’s name, address, telephone number, property >acreage, animal 
 >species to be killed, and killing methods allowed to be >used.
 >Some agreement forms were not completely filled out, resulting in gaps in
 >some of the data.
 >The data posted on the New West Research website covers most agreements >signed 
 >since 1990, except those that were too illegible to read. Also >excluded were dozens 
 >of agreements that called for harassment, but not >killing, of sandhill cranes, 
 >Canada geese, snow geese, and other migratory >birds, primarily along the Rio Grande. 
 >A separate database showing these>non-lethal, but still very disturbing, control 
 >activities is in the process of being created.
 >In FY 1997, federal agents killed an estimated 10,500 wild animals in New
 >Mexico, mostly on behalf of the livestock industry, at a cost of $2,256,486.
 >Kill numbers for FY 1998 have not yet been released by the government.
 >“The public has a right to know who’s asking the feds to kill our
 >wildlife at taxpayer expense,” said Patricia Wolff, Director of New West
 >Research. “This information will be especially valuable for adjacent
 >property owners and recreationists concerned about protecting themselves, their 
 >children, and their pets from poisons, traps, and aerial gunning.”
 >
 >Here’s what you’ll find in “The Hall of Shame”
 >
 >- Hundreds of ranchers are asking the feds to trap, poison, and gun down
 >coyotes, black bears, mountain lions, bobcats, foxes, badgers, porcupines,
 >skunks, beavers, prairie dogs, and other animals on their private and public
 >lands.
 >
 >- Republican Congressman Joe Skeen asked the feds to kill coyotes, bobcats,
 >black bears, and mountain lions on his ranch near Picacho. William
 >Brininstool, Chairman of the New Mexico State Game Commission, asked the feds to kill 
 >coyotes on his ranch near Jal.
 >Bill Humphries, a former State Land Commissioner, asked the feds to kill
 >coyotes and bobcats on his ranch near Lindrith. Colin McMillan, Republican
 >candidate for U.S. Senate in 1984, asked the feds to kill coyotes, mountain
 >lions, and black bears on his ranch near Tularosa. Kit Laney of the Diamond
 >Bar Cattle Company asked the feds to kill coyotes, black bears, and mountain
 >lions on his ranch near Winston. Sid Goodloe, touted as a “good rancher” by
 >ranching advocates, asked the feds to use aerial gunning, traps, snares, and
 >poisons kill coyotes on his property near Capitan.
 >
 >- The Baca Land & Cattle Co. asked the feds to kill beavers and coyotes on
 >its huge ranch near Jemez Springs. ABC newsman Sam Donaldson asked the feds to kill 
 >coyotes, bobcats, mountain lions, and black bears on his ranch near Hondo. Republican 
 >Stirling Spencer, a former Land Commissioner candidate, asked the feds to kill 

NATIVE_NEWS: UN Rights/not

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From: Marcel Guay <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>

Governments Backtracking on Rights
By Lisa Schlein

GENEVA (CP) _ Native activists are accusing governments of
backtracking on pledges to strengthen rights for
indigenous peoples.

Indigenous peoples from all parts of the world took part
in a two-week United Nations session, which ends today, to elaborate
a draft Declaration on the Rights of  Indigenous Peoples.

``I think the declaration could be renamed the United Nations
Declaration to Remove the Rights of  Indigenous Peoples
because that's what's happening on the floor with the proposed text,''
said Willie Littlechild of the Erminskin Cree Nation in
Treaty Six Territory on the prairies.

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NATIVE_NEWS: trouble in Newfoundland

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From: Marcel Guay <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Organization: http://www.canadianaboriginal.com

Oct 27 1999 17:59:00 - Source: CP [The Canadian Press]

Newfoundlanders torch Nova Scotia natives' property
GRAND BANK, Nfld. (CP) _ Renegade Nova Scotia Mi'kmaq who were
planning to catch crab off Newfoundland won little sympathy from
band officials Wednesday after their belongings were torched by
locals.

Police charged four men after angry residents of this small
fishing community took the natives' clothes and fishing gear
from a rented house early Wednesday, piled the property in the middle
of the street and set it on fire.
http://www.canadianaboriginal.com/daily/topstory
--
Marcel Guay,  Canadian Aboriginal News:
http://www.canadianaboriginal.com
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NATIVE_NEWS: Santee Sioux: Feds Freeze Indian Tribe's Accounts

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Subject: Feds Freeze Indian Tribe's Accounts

Feds Freeze Indian Tribe's Accounts
.c The Associated Press
  By PHIL ROONEY

SANTEE, Neb. (AP) - Federal prosecutors have frozen the bank accounts of the Santee 
Sioux Tribe in an attempt to shut down its casino.

U.S. Attorney Tom Monaghan said he intends to seize the assets to help pay more than 
$1 million in fines the tribe owes the government for operating its casino in defiance 
of court orders.

``It's the first step in the collection process,'' he said Tuesday. ``The tribe has 
not made any effort to pay those court-ordered fines.''

Santee leaders said the money included federal funds earmarked for health-care and 
social service programs. None of the money was generated from the casino, tribal 
chairman Butch Denny said.

``This is an attack on our elderly and children,'' Denny said. ``We are not going to 
let him get away with this. We are ready to fight.''

It was the latest development in a three-year effort by state and federal officials to 
close the casino on the Santee reservation near the South Dakota border in northeast 
Nebraska.

The tribe opened the Ohiya Casino in 1996 even though the state refused to approve it. 
Casino-style gambling, including slot machines, is illegal in Nebraska.

The Indian Gaming Regulatory Act of 1988 requires states to negotiate agreements with 
tribes to set rules and limits on gambling. The tribe sued the state, alleging it 
failed to negotiate in good faith.

The tribe says the casino's 23 jobs are much needed on the reservation - where the 
unemployment rate is 74 percent.

Neither the tribe or Monaghan knew exactly how much money was in the frozen accounts 
at two banks.

A federal judge started fining the tribe $3,000 per day in February for refusing to 
close the casino. The fine was doubled in July. None of the fines have been paid.

Monaghan also seized about $87,000 from a Santee account in South Dakota in 1997. The 
tribe responded by filing a lawsuit and opening secret accounts.

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NATIVE_NEWS: CNN/Time Leonard Peltier Transcript

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Date: 21 Oct 99 14:54:31 MDT
From: Wild Horse <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: CNN/Time Leonard Peltier Transcript

OK Here is the transcript. There is a few places that portions are missing.
 From what I can see the portions aren't major but I did mark each one. 

Marcel Lexis Nexus is the company that made the transcript up and was so kind
as to not charge me the 24.95 they charge for them.

Ish Feel free to distribute this.. And thank you for asking!!

If anyone would like the Microsoft Office format file of this transcript for
reprint purposes please let me know and I will be happy to send it to you.

Wild Horse

+
GREENFIELD: Welcome back to CNN & TIME.

Because we think of ourselves as such a politically stable country, we're
shocked when we hear of violence that erupts between federal authorities and
groups of private citizens. Think of Waco or Ruby Ridge.

Well, nearly a quarter of a century ago, in a more turbulent time in America,
there was another shootout, this one at the Pine Ridge Reservation in South
Dakota. It's case that is still controversial.

What actually happened at Pine Ridge in 1975? That remains unclear. What we do
know is that two FBI agents were killed and only one man has ever been
convicted and sent to prison for those crimes. That man is Leonard Peltier.


More now from Mark Potter.

(BEGIN VIDEOTAPE)

LEONARD PELTIER, CONVICTED OF DOUBLE HOMICIDE: I didn't kill these people. I
didn't kill them.

UNIDENTIFIED MALE: I feel in this case that justice was done, genuinely and 
honestly.

PELTIER: I didn't kill those agents. I didn't see who killed those agents. And
if I did know, I'm not telling. But I don't know. That's the point.

POTTER (on camera): Did you fire at those agents, Coler and Williams?

PELTIER: I shot in their direction, yes.

POTTER: You did shoot in their direction?

PELTIER: Yes, when I was running up toward the house. But I mean, I -- I  know
I didn't hit them. I know I didn't.

POTTER (voice-over): It's argument that Leonard Peltier, a Native American,
has made for years: that he is innocent of murdering two FBI agents in South
Dakota in 1975. He's been behind bars for those killings for nearly a quarter
century and still argues defiantly that the agents were at fault.

POTTER (on camera): So the deaths of those agents are not murders.

PELTIER: Not in Indian -- not in Indian people's eyes.

POTTER: What are they?

PELTIER: Self-defense.

POTTER: In the Badlands of South Dakota on the Pine Ridge Indian Reservation,
the mystery of exactly what occurred here on June 26th, 1975 is still
unsolved. What is known is the morning quiet was shattered by a
shootout  between a group of Native Americans and two FBI agents. The agents,
Jack Coler  and Ronald Williams, were wounded from afar, then executed at
point-blank range.

The only person ever convicted and imprisoned for the killings was Leonard
Peltier. He is serving two  consecutive life sentences at the Leavenworth
Federal Penitentiary.

All these years later, the case of the United States of America versus Leonard
Peltier remains controversial. Many argue that he has served more than enough
time in prison.

(on camera): What are you guilty of? Is there anything you concede?

PELTIER: Standing up for my people, saying, no more, America. God dammed, no
more. Stop killing us. That's what I'm guilty of.

POTTER (voice-over): But the FBI and federal prosecutors argue firmly that
Peltier is lying, that the agents' blood is on his hands and he should not be
released.

Nicholas O'Hara (ph) is a retired FBI supervisor.

NICHOLAS O'HARA, RETIRED FBI SUPERVISOR: Why should any civilized community
have to take somebody like that who has shown no remorse, no sorrow, no
acceptance of responsibility? The guy should never see the light of day.

POTTER (on camera): His argument for not showing remorse is that he's
victimized and he didn't do it.

O'HARA: That's bullshit. The evidence is absolutely incontrovertible of his
involvement in that -- in those double homicides. I've described Leonard
Peltier as a mad-dog. He is truly a mad-dog.

POTTER (voice-over): Lynn Crooks is an assistant U.S. attorney who helped put
Peltier in prison.

(on camera): Years later, decades later, you can still sleep well at night
thinking that the...

LYNN CROOKS, ASSISTANT U.S. ATTORNEY: Oh, absolutely.

POTTER: ... right man was convicted.

CROOKS: There's never -- there's never been a twinge of doubt that's ever
crept into my consciousness that Leonard was not a guilty participant in this
murder.

POTTER (voice-over): Still, not everyone is convinced he is guilty or received
a fair trial.

(BEGIN VIDEO CLIP)

WILLIAM J. CLINTON, PRESIDENT OF THE UNITED STATES: I am profoundly honored

NATIVE_NEWS: [CZC-updates] CZC Upcoming events/webpage/update

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**Please distribute this message whenever and wherever you see fit!**

This is an update by the Cincinnati Zapatista Coalition, if you wish to be taken off 
this list please Email us at [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Part 1 of 7 ­ Anderson High School Update:  a few of the people in SOS have decided to 
run for School Board this November.  Some members of the community seeing them as 
victorious against outside forces have made them into heroes.  The two individuals 
running are Harry Andreadis and Winnie Clayton.   Harry Andreadis’ family implied in a 
letter to the editor that their father received hate mail (didn’t say who, but who 
else could they mean?), and that he knew the REAL history of Native Americans unlike 
some of the uninformed individuals disagreeing with him.  Winnie Clayton was the one 
who made the quote about stopping AIM’s railroad.  To see more from this board meeting 
that was held in July please visit 
http://www.geocities.com/CapitolHill/1364/fhsbm071999.htm.  Those of us who are 
concerned about the R*dskin issue here in Cincinnati would ask that you write 
SuperIntendent John Patzwald about their mascot (there’s no point talking about those 
who are running for election, sin!
!
ce h
e can’t do anything about that anyway!).  For more background information on the issue 
at Anderson High School visit these two WebPages: 
http://www.geocities.com/CapitolHill/1364/Anderson5.htm and 
http://members.tripod.com/~AIM_Support/aim.htm.

Part 2 of 7 ­ November 15th, 1999 ­ there will be the first public and open meeting of 
the Cincinnati Zapatista Coalition.  The meeting begins at 7pm, and will be at 2008 
Queen City Avenue, in Cincinnati, Ohio.  Please bring a little food and drink for 
potluck, and your ideas.  For more information or directions please call (513) 
232-0362.

Part 3 of 7 ­ There will be an event called Harmony Fest here in Cincinnati, Ohio on 
November 6th, 1999 from 3pm ­9pm.  It will be held at the Columbia Performance Center 
at 3900 Eastern Avenue in Cincinnati, Ohio.  The Event is about solidarity and unity. 
There will be music, booths, speakers, a kid’s corner, and a vegetarian potluck 
dinner.  For more information please call (513) 541-0164.  (CZC will be present!)

Part 4 of 7 ­ We’ve updated our website.  Please come and visit it!  The following 
sites are updated:
Our Main Page at http://www.geocities.com/CapitolHill/1364/
Our Events Page at http://www.geocities.com/CapitolHill/1364/events.htm
Our Chiapas Page at http://www.geocities.com/CapitolHill/1364/cpage1.htm and the help 
and links pages connected to this page have been updated as well.
And we’ve added two Zapatista Update Pages:
May ­ July at http://www.geocities.com/CapitolHill/1364/cupd0799.htm
August at http://www.geocities.com/CapitolHill/1364/cupdate899.htm
If you have any suggestions or have trouble viewing it let us know!  Thanks.

Part 5 of 7 ­ We’re planning an event for February 5, 2000.  This will be the 6th 
Anniversary of the Zapatista Uprising/Leonard Peltier Midwest Gathering.  We will have 
speakers.  Those invited so far are Tom Hansen of the Mexico Solidarity Network 
(http://www.mexicosolidarity.org), a speaker from the National Commission for 
Democracy in Mexico (the official reps of the Zapatistas in the US ­ 
http://www.igc.apc.org/ncdm), and a confirmed speaker from the LPDC 
(http://members.xoom.com/freepeltier).  There will be food, booths, merchandise, 
bands, food and clothing drive, cultural exchange, more information on the Zapatistas, 
Leonard Peltier, other pps, and other issues that face the original inhabitants of 
North and South America, and more!  We invite everyone to attend, and we will try and 
find locals willing to house people who come a long way for the event.  We’re looking 
for volunteers, people to hang up fliers, organizations to set up booths, speakers, 
more bands, donation!
!
s, a
nd ideas for cultural exchanges at the event.  We hope to see you there!  For more 
information please contact (513) 232-0362 or (513) 325-4179, email us at 
[EMAIL PROTECTED], or send us some mail at Cincinnati Zapatista Coalition, PO Box 
30401, Cincinnati, Ohio 45230.

NATIVE_NEWS: [mascot_mini] wahoo = curse

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From: "Robert Eurich" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>

Interesting that this idea was just suggested in another conversation and
that since the Wahoo was first used, in 1947, the Cleveland team has won
only one World's Series - 1948.

http://www.cleveland.com/news/pdnews/metro/c18scru.ssf

Indians wear curse on sleeve

Monday, October 18, 1999
By AFI-ODELIA SCRUGGS
THE PLAIN DEALER



But the Curse of the Wahoo has only begun to manifest itself.

Meditate on this: The Indians last won a World Series in 1948, but in the
past few years they have come heartbreakingly close.

Remember 1997, when the team snatched the sixth game right from under the
Florida Marlins' noses - only to lose the next night when the Marlins scored
the winning run in the bottom of the 11th inning?

Miserable Cleveland fans were moaning so loud, they couldn't hear the
Chief's diabolical laughter.

Wahoo is nothing but a jinx. And it's bound to get worse as long as he's
around.

There is only one thing left to do.

It's time to exorcise Wahoo.

It won't take a bell, book or candle. Chanting is not required, either. All
the team has to do is admit that the logo is a racist insult, and scuttle
it.

Give Wahoo some kind of proper going away, but put him to rest.

Take his mug off uniforms and paraphernalia. Replace him with a mascot that
the city will be proud to claim when Cleveland's baseball players are hailed
as the best in the world.

Do it now.

Or else he'll be smirking for years to come.

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NATIVE_NEWS: They Held The Rock'': 30th Anniversary Celebration of...

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"They Held The Rock'': 30th Anniversary Celebration of the Indians of All Tribes 
Occupation of Alcatraz to Be Held Saturday, Oct. 23 on Alcatraz Island

  LOS ANGELES--(ENTERTAINMENT WIRE)--Oct. 18, 1999--In November of 1969, ninety 
Native American students took over Alcatraz Island in hopes of reclaiming their land, 
their pride and their rights as "citizens of the Indian nations that gave birth to the 
United States of America."

  This historical event, known as the Indians of All Tribes Occupation of Alcatraz 
was the first national event to bring the plight of Native Americans to mass 
consciousness. On Oct. 23, from 9 a.m. to 4 p.m., hundreds of people, including the 
original occupiers of the island, will gather on Alcatraz to take part in a cultural 
and musical celebration, commemorating the 30th anniversary of this historical event.

  Performers include spoken word artist, John Trudell, who served as the national 
spokesperson during the occupation; Ulali; comedian Charlie Hill; Arigon Star; and 
Gayle Hanson-Johnson. Mayors Willie Brown and Jerry Brown will also participate in the 
celebration, which will feature California Indian dancing and a special honoring of 
all occupation veterans, American Indian activists and leaders.

  "As a result of the occupation, either directly or indirectly, the federal 
government ended its official policy of termination of Indian tribes and adopted a 
policy of Indian self-determination," said Trudell. "Today the occupation stands out 
as a beacon of pride for Native American people, a symbol of freedom and 
self-determination and a rebirth of our sense of identity, culture and traditions."

  The 90 Native American students led by Trudell, Adam Fortunate Eagle and the 
late Richard Oakes, along with Bay-area community members, took over Alcatraz Island 
and set in motion the "Red Power" movement of the 1970s. Trudell, as national 
spokesperson for the occupation force, initiated radio broadcasts through "Radio Free 
Alcatraz," which aired daily from the Island on KPFA public radio in Berkeley.

  National and international media flocked to the island to cover the story. Along 
with the media came attention from the U.S. government, particularly the FBI. "It took 
the non-indigenous community's support to allow us to do what we did," said Trudell. 
"The government called us `militants,' attempting to discredit us and ostracize us 
from the overall community."

  After 19 months, the occupation eventually ended in 1971, but something more 
lasting was poised to replace it: the American Indian Movement, A.I.M. Trudell served 
as national chairman from 1973-1979; with this high-profile position came increasing 
attention from the U.S. government, more notably the FBI, which has compiled a 
17,000-page file bearing his name, describing him as an "extremely effective 
communicator."

  "In the tradition of honoring our warriors, it is important for us to remember 
the bravery and sacrifices of those individuals who made the Alcatraz Occupation a 
watershed in the history of all Native Americans," said Trudell. "The 30th Anniversary 
celebration serves to acknowledge the contributions of all occupation veterans."

  Born in Omaha, Neb., on the Santee Sioux reservation, Trudell continues to 
spread awareness through his poetry, lectures and spoken-word music. His latest CD, 
"Blue Indians," which was released this year and produced by long-time friend Jackson 
Browne, allows Trudell's listeners entrance into that somewhat misunderstood life of a 
Native American.

  --30--jap/la ma/la
CONTACT: 
The Lippin Group
Robin Mesger, 323/965-0993

NATIVE_NEWS: SD:Mobile Home Park Opens For Tornado Victims

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From: Pat Morris <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>

http://www.kotatv.com/thestory.asp?story=3211

Mobile Home Park Opens For Tornado Victims 
   10/15/1999 - 5:27:58 PM 

- Keli Hiatt 
   It's called the jonas belt junior trailer park, dedicated this morning to
the man who died in the oglala tornado back in june.

Belt Village is a joint effort by FEMA, The Bureau of Indian Affairs and
Indian Health Services. To the people who lost their houses in the twister,
it's a place to call home. "It's kind of a happy and sad time because like
I said I don't think we'll ever forget those memories that we've seen," one
resident said.

Four months ago, Floyd Brings Plenty and his wife were injured in the june
tornado. Today, Floyd helps dedicate a new mobile home park dedicated to
the memory of Jonas Belt Junior, who died in the tornado. "I think it's a
culmination of months of hard work. It's a real success story in terms of
all the partnerships that were created to get to this point," Brings Plenty
said.

FEMA, along with other government and tribal agencies, broke ground on the
housing project, hoping to finish it in a hurry. Forty mobile homes
currently sit on the land but there's room for 200. FEMA says more homes
are on the way, but the final number will depend on the need.

Yesterday the tribal council decided to take over the trailer park and
maintain it so those living can call it home, permanently.


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NATIVE_NEWS: Another "deadline" :Eagle Mountain Casino Receives Warning

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From: "Mary Jo Brixey" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>

Eagle Mountain Casino Receives Warning 

by Trudy Hibler
Porterville Online News Director, and Wire Reports 
October 15, 1999 

Failure to sign a state gaming agreement may result in the shutdown of Eagle Mountain 
Casino. 

Federal authorities say the casino is now in violation of federal law and action may 
be taken. State tribes were given until October 13 to sign the agreement, known as a 
compact, with Governor Gray Davis. 

Council members of the Tule River Indian Tribe, operators of Eagle Mountain Casino, 
voted last week to reject the agreement. Tribal leaders say language in the compact 
pertaining to employer/employee relationships, environmental impacts and other issues 
go beyond the gaming issue and infringes on the tribe's right to self governance. 
Those leaders want to meet with Governor Davis to make what they call small changes to 
the agreement that would make the compact better fit the needs of the tribe. 

At issue is the tribe's use of Class III gaming. That category includes video slot 
machines and card games. Those types of games have been determined to be illegal to 
operate without a compact. 

Federal law requires tribes operating gaming establishments to sign an agreement with 
the state or face the possibility of having their gaming operations shut down. 

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NATIVE_NEWS: Arctic Tribe Struggles Between Oil and Caribou

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From: Pat Morris <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>

Arctic tribe finds itself in middle of struggle between oil and caribou
http://www.billingsgazette.com/region/991017_reg08.html



When Gwitchin tribal elders asked Norma Kassi to leave her village in the
Arctic wilderness, she agreed. 

Tell the world about ours, they said. Help us save it. 

"Our entire existence is based on the caribou," said Kassi, a member of the
Gwitch'n Nation, which lives in Canada's Yukon Territory. "To open this
sacred place, they don't need to." 

Kassi makes her home among her Gwitchin elders in the village of Old Crow,
80 miles north of the Arctic Circle. And for tens of thousands of years,
their elders before them have made their homes in the Canadian-Alaskan
wilderness, maintaining a delicate balance between themselves, the
environment and the animal that sustains their life the caribou. 

But lurking below the surface of this fragile caribou habitat is a wild
card that could change everything: oil maybe as much as 9 billion barrels. 

Many coalitions, conservation groups and environmentalists have joined
Kassi, 45, in telling the story of a potentially devastating collision
between U.S. multinational oil companies and the caribou calving grounds in
Alaska's Arctic National Wildlife Refuge. 

The Alaska Coalition, a group of more than 400 nationwide organizations,
launched an awareness campaign Oct. 14 in Lincoln, Neb., titled the Caribou
Commons Project. The show features the work of Ken Madsen, an award-winning
photographer, writer and environmentalist. Madsen will take a music and
slide show across the nation, with the tour ending in May. 

He will be joined throughout the tour by members of the Gwitch'n Nation.
His photos feature stunning images that capture the beauty of the Gwitchin
and life within the Arctic National Wildlife Refuge. 

"The coastal plain of the Arctic Refuge contains the last 5 percent of land
not available for oil exploration" on the Alaskan North Slope, said Jen
Schmidt, grassroots coordinator for the Alaska Coalition. She describes the
land as a national treasure, on par with Yosemite and Yellowstone national
parks. 

Today, 19 Gwitch'n communities roughly 7,500 native people are spread
across the Alaskan and Canadian wilderness. The Vuntut Gwitchin of the Old
Crow community make their home in the Canadian refuge area where the
Porcupine and Crow rivers meet. 

Tyler Sutton, a Nebraska attorney and board member of the Conservation
Alliance of the Great Plains who has traveled to Alaska's coastal plain,
described the area as "magical." 

"It has the feel of the American Great Plains," he said. "You have this
sense the land is alive." 

The caribou cross the Porcupine River, migrating across the
Alaskan-Canadian border during fall and spring. In summer, they calve on
the Arctic coastal plain in the Arctic National Refuge Area. 

To date, there are no signs of oil and gas development on the Canadian side. 

"Part of the issue here is the Gwitch'n people want the American side
protected from development," Sutton said. 

Added Charlene Porslid, a University of Nebraska-Lincoln assistant history
professor who grew up in Whitehorse in the Yukon Territory: "The Gwitch'n
Nation have been so successful in keeping that kind of development out
until now." 

But seismic tests performed in 1984 and 1985 reveal as many as nine billion
barrels of oil beneath the coastal plain. One of two bills before Congress
would make the 19.6-million-acre refuge a wilderness area. The other would
permit oil exploration. 

"Neither side has had enough power to get their bill through Congress and
signed by the president," said Phil Garrett, deputy manager of the Arctic
National Wildlife Refuge. 

Oil and gas exploration debates have continued for more than a decade, with
the Clinton administration opposed to development, said Mitchell Snow, a
U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service spokesman. 

Rep. Don Young, R-Alaska, chairman of the House Resources Committee,
introduced the most recent oil-exploration bill. 

Madsen and Kassi both encouraged people to get involved in protecting the
caribou environment. 

"It belongs to you. It belongs to me. Most of all, it belongs to the
Gwitch'n people," said Madsen. 

A number of people note the similarities between American Indians, the
Great Plains and buffalo and the Gwitch'n Nation, the coastal plain and the
caribou. 

Said Kassi: "The Arctic is a beautiful place to share. We don't want to
happen there what happened in the south. Surely, we've learned our lessons
by now." 

Louie LaRose, a Winnebago from Nebraska and president of the Intertribal
Bison Cooperative, has spoken with Gwitchin officials about caribou
preservation and U.S. tribal efforts to revive the buffalo culture. 

"We are talking about restoring that relationship, and they are talking
about saving their relationship," LaRose said. A loss of the calving
grounds would be disastrous, he said. "It would 

NATIVE_NEWS: Indian Alcoholism In Campbell's Sights

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From: Pat Morris <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>

http://www.denverpost.com/news/belt1017.htm

Indian alcoholism in Campbell's sights

By Bill McAllister
Denver Post Washington Bureau Chief

Oct. 17 - WASHINGTON - Sen. Ben Nighthorse Campbell, R-Colo., often points to his own 
reckless youth when pressing for change. Last week he recalled how some relatives 
often would offer him a liquor bottle.

If he took a swig, they would approvingly exclaim: "Ah, you're a real Indian!'' That 
remark, Campbell now concedes, points to what the senator now calls the most troubling 
health problem among Native Americans - alcoholism.

It is "the albatross around the necks of native people,'' he said. Alcohol and 
alcohol-related illnesses are among the biggest killers of Indians, especially young 
Indians, the senator has said. The mortality rate from alcoholism among native youths 
15 to 24 is 17 times higher than the rate for white youths.

As Campbell pointed out, you don't need an elaborate survey to witness the damage 
drinking has done to Native Americans. "I don't know of an Indian family, mine and 
yours included, that hasn't been touched by it,'' he told Bureau of Indian Affairs 
head Kevin Gover. "I've seen plenty of my relatives die from it.''

So in his role as chairman of the Committee on Indian Affairs, the senator, a Northern 
Cheyenne chief, decided to do something about it. But as a Republican, his approach 
had to be conservative.

Campbell's idea is to consolidate all federal substance-abuse programs in one agency, 
an approach he believes will channel more money into Indian country and enable tribal 
governments to better confront their leading health problem. He offered legislation 
this summer that would funnel all those monies through the Bureau of Indian Affairs.

Not surprisingly, Campbell's idea was greeted with scorn by many Indian leaders.

Groups like the Denver-based National Indian Health Board applauded his effort to 
focus more attention on alcohol abuse. But they wanted the coordinating role to go to 
the Indian Health Service, a Department of Health and Human Services agency that has 
had the responsibility for Native American health issues. Indeed, Gover, the assistant 
Interior secretary for Indian Affairs, went before Campbell last week to join the 
chorus and, in a rare bureaucratic move, request that the authority be placed 
elsewhere.

Gover said the BIA had been so preoccupied with other issues that it had failed to 
create an office to deal with alcohol and substance abuse issues even though Congress 
had mandated the BIA form such an office 10 years ago. He said he has made filling 
that office a priority and agreed with Campbell that alcohol abuse is the "most 
significant and troublesome problem'' facing Native Americans.

Michel Lincoln, deputy director of the Indian Health Service, said his agency was 
ready to accept responsibility for the program. He said the Clinton administration had 
consistently sought bigger budgets for his agency, and he believed it could handle the 
coordinating role with relatively few new staffers.

The new conservation policy President Clinton announced for national forests last week 
may be his attempt to leave a wilderness legacy, and predictably it upset some Western 
GOP lawmakers. Rep. Scott McInnis, R-Colo., called it "nothing more than an endrun by 
this president in a last-ditch effort to leave an environmental legacy.''

Whether some of Clinton's other final conservation ideas are implemented probably will 
depend on whether two congressional foes - one a Republican, the other a Democrat - 
can decide on what type of legacy they want to leave.

That's the assessment of the Wilderness Society's top lobbyist, Rindy O'Brien. She 
notes the administration also is making a strong push to make funding for the Interior 
Department's Land and Water Conservation Fund automatic.

Conservationists long have argued for such a move, saying that the fund, which 
supports many state and local parkland purchases, should be treated like highway 
monies.

Now to the amazement of many conservationists, House Resources Committee Chairman Don 
Young, R-Alaska, and Rep. George Miller, D-Calif., are working behind closed doors to 
devise a formula that would do just that. It's not just a legacy issue for Clinton, 
O'Brien noted.

Young is in his last year as chairman of the resources committee, and Miller, the 
ranking Democrat, may move to another committee as the ranking member. That puts 
pressure on both, if they are to work out their own legacies.

Polls show strong support for adding more wilderness areas, O'Brien said.

NATIVE_NEWS: BIA: Indian Accounts Suit To Be Mediated

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forwarded for informational purposes only..contents have not been verified..

From: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Date: Thu, 14 Oct 1999 18:06:24 EDT
Subject: Indian Accounts Suit To Be Mediated


Indian Accounts Suit To Be Mediated
.c The Associated Press
  By MATT KELLEY

WASHINGTON (AP) - A federal judge on Thursday ordered a mediator to step in to help 
with settlement talks in a multibillion-dollar lawsuit over the government's handling 
of accounts for individual American Indians.

Federal officials and lawyers for the Indians have acknowledged they began discussions 
weeks ago to try to settle the lawsuit, which is seeking court-enforced changes to the 
way the Interior Department handles more than 300,000 Indian accounts now worth more 
than $500 million. Both sides agree the accounts have been mismanaged for decades, 
suffering from inconsistent or nonexistent record-keeping, poor investment choices and 
lax oversight.

U.S. District Judge Royce Lamberth appointed George Washington University law 
professor Stephen Saltzburg as a mediator to oversee the settlement talks. Thursday's 
order from Lamberth requires both sides to report their progress on Nov. 1.

Lamberth's order requires that the talks be kept confidential.

The settlement talks represent a thawing in relations between both sides since this 
spring, when Lamberth held Interior Secretary Bruce Babbitt, Bureau of Indian Affairs 
head Kevin Gover and then-Treasury Secretary Robert Rubin in contempt of court for 
failing to turn over documents to the Indians. Babbitt has since said that fixing the 
problems with the accounts is a top priority.

AP-NY-10-14-99 1806EDT

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report may not be published,  broadcast, rewritten or otherwise distributed without  
prior written authority of The Associated Press. 

   

NATIVE_NEWS: Evidence Lacking To Indict Babbitt

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Evidence Lacking To Indict Babbitt
.c The Associated Press
  By H. JOSEF HEBERT

WASHINGTON (AP) - A special prosecutor has concluded there is insufficient evidence to 
indict Interior Secretary Bruce Babbitt or anyone else in connection with a federal 
Indian casino investigation.

The prosecutor's office said in a statement today that the evidence uncovered in the 
19-month investigation ``would not support a finding'' that Babbitt committee perjury 
or any other criminal act.

Special Prosecutor Carol Elder Bruce was to file a report on her investigation with a 
three-judge federal panel, probably in the coming weeks, closing the case, sources 
said.

``Ms. Bruce is declining prosecution and will not seek an indictment of Secretary 
Babbitt or anyone else,'' said the prosecutor's statement. It said the investigation 
included 450 witnesses and 630,000 pages of documents.

The case involved allegations that Babbitt had lied to Congress in his explanation as 
to why the Interior Department in 1995 rejected a permit for a proposed casino by 
three Wisconsin Indian tribes. Supporters of the casino charged that the decision was 
influence by promises of campaign contributions to the Democratic Party by rival 
tribes opposed to the permit.

The prosecutor's office said its investigation found no evidence to ``support a 
finding of a criminal quid pro quo'' and that perjury allegations against Babbitt, 
involving his congressional testimony, could not be proven.

Babbitt issued a statement saying he was ``gratified that the grand jury and 
independent counsel have determined after an exhaustive ... investigation that no 
charges are justified in this matter.''

``That is not surprising,'' said Babbitt.

Attorney General Janet Reno asked in February 1998 that a special prosecutor 
investigate the casino issue and Babbitt's congressional testimony. A month later, 
Bruce, a 10-year veteran of the U.S. attorney's office in Washington, was given the 
case by a three-judge panel.

The case was one of five independent counsel investigations of Clinton administration 
Cabinet officers in addition to Kenneth Starr's investigation of the president. One 
investigation involving Labor Secretary Alexis Herman remains unresolved.

Bruce sought to determine whether a request by three Chippewa tribes to open a casino 
in Hudson, Wis., was denied because of pressure from the White House after rival 
Indian tribes offered campaign contributions to the Democratic Party. The rival tribes 
eventually gave more than $300,000 to the party.

Babbitt, who testified for two days before the Bruce grand jury, denied there was any 
connection between campaign contributions and the casino decision. He also has denied 
intending to mislead senators during a hearing in late 1998 investigating the casino 
deal.

AP-NY-10-13-99 1459EDT

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report may not be published,  broadcast, rewritten or otherwise distributed without  
prior written authority of The Associated Press. 

  

NATIVE_NEWS: COMMENTARY: CNN's report on Leonard Peltier

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--- Eugene Johnson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
  Date: Mon, 11 Oct 1999 11:38:35 -0700 (PDT)
  From: Eugene Johnson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
  Subject: CNN's report on Leonard Peltier

  
  
  COMMENTARY ON CNN IN TIME'S REPORT ON LEONARD
  PELTIER
  
  by Eugene Johnson
  
I must admit that upon seeing the type of format Leonard Peltier's case was about to 
be presented, I stepped in looking for a fight, and found one.

I will also state at the beginning here that this show was not as slanted and biased 
as most network news programs, but it was still slanted and biased.

There was little mention of the case against Robideau and Butler who were found not 
guilty for reasons of self-defense. No questions as to why it was self-defense for 
these men and not Peltier.

There was very little mention of the circumstances behind the shoot-out. There was a 
brief discussion of the goons, yet no photographs were shown of the people they 
murdered. Little or no mention of the fact that the goons were supplied and supported 
by the FBI.

Prosecutor Lynn Crooks stated that "shooting FBI agents is a federal crime" 
However, he was never asked why the murders committed on the Pine Ridge Indian 
Reservation were never investigated by the FBI or anyone else considering ALL murders 
committed on an Indian reservation are federal crimes. Also, no questions as to why 
federal agents Williams and Coler were following a man for assault and theft, 
non-federal crimes. However, the reporter was sharp in catching Leonard Peltier saying 
at first he didn't see the bodies then admitting later that he did from a distance, 
making one question his reliability. Another question not asked is why were there over 
300 heavily armed FBI, national guard, BIA police, goons, etc., within 45 minutes of 
the Jumping Bull compound. The reporter hardly questioned the reliability of the FBI 
agents and prosecutor who were obviously well educated and must be respectable in 
order to gain such positions of authority. There was also no mention o!
!
f th
e fact that the prosecutor had stated they couldn't prove Leonard Peltier killed those 
two FBI agents, but someone had to pay. The reporter did not ask the feds the heavy 
questions.

I'd like to point out here, no interview with former US Attorney General Ramsey 
Clarke, the most respected Leonard Peltier supporter, was conducted. There was a brief 
snippet of the former US Attorney General of which I couldn't make out a word he said. 
Why didn't the reporter interview him for this report? Could it be because he was too 
respectable to be shown in support of Leonard Peltier? Could it be because he would 
have brought up the heavy questions that the reporter should have asked the FBI agent 
and prosecutor. It would have been a well respected > authority questioning the well 
respected authorities. Unless I can get a hold of Ramsey Clarke or he mentions it in 
the alternative medial, I may not learn the answer to this question.

Lynn Crooks stated that Leonard Peltier "supporters are either uninformed about all 
the evidence or blinded by emotion." However, I guess the same is not applicable on 
the feds and their supporters for railroading Leonard in light of the fact that 2 men 
were set free for reasons of self-defense.

Lynn Crooks also stated that the gunfire was "directed at two defenseless agents." 
Pardon me! These agents had guns! These agents were firing at women and children as 
well as men! If that's defenseless, then the US was defenseless when we bombed Kosovo.

During this news segment they repeatedly shown the photos of the dead FBI agents and 
their shot up car, a tool used to stir your emotions against the perpetrators. Their 
was one brief photo of Joe Killsright Stuntz's dead body. However, there were no 
repeated showing of his photograph. No photographs of the uninvestigated murders of 
Indian peoples on the rez.

A couple of sweet bits of information completely left out of the report: 1) 
COINTELPRO, the FBI's Counter-Intelligence program used to crush free speech and 
dissent from the dominant capitalist paradigm used against AIM, the Black Panthers, 
and Earth First. 2) No mention of the Department of Energy and the energy corporations 
and their desire to turn the Black Hills into a national sacrifice area which, in my 
personal opinion, is why COINTELPRO was there to begin with. Note here as well, 
Westinghouse and General Electric owns CBS and NBC.

Should I have stepped into this news program uninformed on this case, I would have 
supported the FBI agent and prosecutor because they are people of authority and were 
unquestioned by the reporter on the above subjects. Their respectability and authority 
go unquestioned. Leonard's credibility would have been lost when he admitted he 
actually saw the bodies. Plus, there were the constant flashes of the photo of the 
shot up car and the dead F

NATIVE_NEWS: Request for "legitimate contacts (name, address, phone) for Winter time donations

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 From [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Every year we (at the MJB site) prepare a short article and provide a
list of "known" sources that act as clearinghouses or distributors for
donations of warm clothing, blankets, gifts, supplies and monetary, in
regard to the Winter needs of First Nations Peoples.  As there has
already been snow in the Plains this is already belated.

Please send (privately to [EMAIL PROTECTED]) your known and experienced
contacts so we can update our seriously outdated list.  I request that
you only provide addresses or sources that you have verified or had
personal and positive experience with as there are many charlatans out
there looking for a quick profit at others expense ;-)  If you aren't
sure, don't send it please..

Best wishes and thanks
nokwisa

Contributing Editor
Minorities Job Bank Native American Village
http://minorities-jb.com/native.htm

NATIVE_NEWS: PONCA: A Day of Spiritual Healing

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A day of spiritual healing -- Photo
BY JODI RAVE Lincoln Journal Star
http://www.journalstar.com/stories/top/stox 

NIOBRARA -- Louis Headman faced east Friday as he stood at the foot of the open grave 
that held the bones of his Ponca ancestors. He then broke into a traditional song that 
spoke of hard times that once fell upon his people.

Headman, the Ponca Tribe of Oklahoma's repatriation coordinator, was joined by about 
35 tribal members on a balmy, 76-degree day near this northeastern Nebraska town. The 
group gathered to put their relatives to rest.

"Today is a day of spiritual healing for the Ponca," said Linda Stolle, Ponca Tribe of 
Nebraska vice chairwoman. "We can all take pride and solace in knowing that we did the 
right thing in bringing our ancestors home." The Ponca are the first tribe to collect 
and rebury human remains from the University of Nebraska-Lincoln after UNL officials 
agreed in September to repatriate more than 1,600 individuals to 17 Midwestern tribes.

Under the Native American Graves and Repatriation Act, universities such as UNL were 
required to report their inventory of sacred objects, burial items and native remains 
to the National Park Service by November 1995.

Ponca members picked up the human remains Thursday afternoon after a brief meeting 
with UNL Chancellor James Moeser.

"I hope today's event will mark a new relationship between the university and your 
tribe," said Moeser, speaking to about a dozen people during a noon luncheon.

Those present arrived at UNL to participate in prayers and a cedar-smudging of seven 
individuals -- two full skeletons and five partial ones -- that had been stored in 
cardboard boxes at a campus building. A number of tribal members praised UNL 
repatriation efforts.

"The university has been wonderful to work with," said Phillip Wendzillo, cultural 
director for the Ponca Tribe of Nebraska. "Everything yesterday was handled in a 
dignified manner. They allowed us to do the ceremonies our way and in our own time 
frame." Since the remains were picked up, they have remained under the constant care 
of their Ponca relatives.

Once the three boxes of bones were in the Poncas' possession, Ponca member Andy Tate 
placed them in a red, felt-lined cedar chest, which was supplied by the university at 
the tribe's request.

When the remains arrived in Niobrara, tribal members kept a steady vigil, never 
leaving them alone as they rested in the chest inside the old Ponca Agency building, 
which was filled with the smoke of cedar. On Thursday evening, a fire burned outside 
the agency, serving as a beacon to guide restless spirits back to their bones.

On Friday morning, the agency building began to fill as the Poncas prepared to give 
their relatives back to Mother Earth. After prayers, a procession coursed up a dirt 
road to the 125-year-old Ponca Cemetery.

As she stood in the cemetery, high on a hill, Debbie Robinette of Verdigre recalled 
playing in the cemetery as a kid.

"We were probably not supposed to play up here," she said, "but we were not afraid. We 
were taught death is not something to fear." Death, however, is something to be 
respected, she said.

This is why tribal members embraced the return of their relatives to Mother Earth. The 
tribe wanted a private and simple ceremony to mark their relatives' return to the 
Creator.

Headman was told by tribal elders to understate the reburial.

"Do it simple. Don't do anything elaborate," he was told.

And so it was.

"Their spirits are going to be free from this day on," said Headman, after he sang his 
traditional age-old song. "That's the way God made it. Someone interrupted that for 
some reason we don't understand." Said Randy Ross, a Ponca/Otoe-Missouria Indian and 
executive director of the Lincoln Indian Center: "I'm privileged and honored to be 
here. It makes me feel good to bring them home and put them to rest." Friday's burial 
was the second time Andy Tate, who lives in Omaha, helped retrieve and rebury his 
Ponca ancestors. Two years ago his tribe repatriated about 30 skulls from the 
Smithsonian Museum.

He said he feels no sense of closure from the most recent reburial. He said his work 
is never finished.

"We only have a sliver of those ancestors back. Until we receive all tribal remains, 
not just from this country but from Germany, England, France -- every European country 
-- we'll be finished. Until then it's still a fight." Stolle, Ponca vice chairman, 
agreed.

"It's been a long, sad frustrating journey to get where we are today," she said, 
recalling the story of Standing Bear. The Ponca chief left Indian Territory in 
Oklahoma so he could bury his son on traditional Ponca land in Nebraska. He was forced 
to appear in an Omaha courtroom in 1879, which resulted in a landmark civil rights 
case that determined that American Indians were human beings under the legal 
definition of

NATIVE_NEWS: Violence against FN in New Brunswick

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Subject: Mi'qmaw rez attacked
From: mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] ">[EMAIL PROTECTED]  (justanoldman)
Date: Mon, 04 October 1999 10:48 AM EDT

Two Mi'qmaw from Burnt Church rez in hospital. Critical after their truck
rammed by settler goons.. Burnt out trucks all over dock at the rez, not
sure if NDN trucks or not. All NDN parents keeping their kids at home. All
Mi'qmaw warrior societies out on lines at all communities..
news as it happens..
jaom/énéthekwé
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Anger explodes over fishing rights
N.B. fishermen destroy native traps in reaction to
off-season lobster catch endorsed by Supreme Court
KEVIN COX and DANIEL LEBLANC
The Globe and Mail
Monday, October 4, 1999


Yarmouth, N.S. and Ottawa -- 
KEVIN COX in Yarmouth, N.S. DANIEL LEBLANC in Ottawa

The simmering anger over off-season fishing boiled over in New Brunswick 
yesterday when a flotilla of non-native fishermen went out to sea and 
disabled hundreds of lobster traps owned by natives.

This led to clashes between natives and non-natives at the wharf in 
Burnt Church, N.B., and a tense meeting in Nova Scotia where non-native 
fishermen threatened to take similar action by Wednesday.

The New Brunswick incident was the first act of violence since a Supreme 
Court decision less than three weeks ago that recognized the terms of a 
1760 treaty that conferred on East Coast native people the right to earn 
a moderate livelihood from fishing and hunting, even during the off 
season.

Later yesterday, lobster buyers were also singled out. More than 100 
non-native fishermen and local supporters went to fish plants where 
native-caught lobster is sold, ordered employees out and wrecked some of 
the equipment.

About $25,000 worth of damage was caused to a plant in Pointe-Sapin and 
a plant in nearby Richibucto was also damaged.

Earlier yesterday, about 150 boats owned by non-native fishermen went 
out on Miramichi Bay -- off the coast of northeastern New Brunswick -- 
and raised native-owned traps, sliced them off their buoys or broke 
their wooden doors, freeing the catch.

The non-natives say the off-season fishing jeopardizes their livelihood.

Several of them later engaged in heated arguments and some shoving with 
native fishermen, who responded angrily that they had the unequivocal 
right to harvest the seas at this time of the year.

RCMP officers monitored the situation on the water aboard six coast 
guard vessels and a helicopter. The RCMP, which is investigating the 
confrontation, called on everyone to be patient and demonstrate good 
will. No charges had been laid by last night.

The non-native fishermen made no apologies for their actions.

"It's pretty clear the traps had to come out of the water," said Michael 
Belliveau of the Maritime Fishermen's Union.

Mr. Belliveau wants a moratorium on native fishing until next year, and 
added that non-native fishermen will not negotiate as long as the 
fishing goes on.

He blamed Ottawa for allowing the situation to get out of hand. The 
natives have set 6,000 lobster traps in the bay, he said, and caught 
more than 59,000 kilograms of lobster.

"Ottawa let this thing hang in the fire for 11 or 12 days, when it was 
evident within 24 hours of that [Supreme Court] decision which direction 
things were going. Whoever was calling the shots either wanted this kind 
of thing to result or was naive."

Mr. Belliveau said if charges are laid, the union will defend the 
fishermen who removed the lobster traps.

But native leaders were quick to condemn the non-natives' "vigilante" 
tactics.

"If it was us going out, when we didn't have access to the fishery, we 
would be dealt with [using] the full force of the law," said Rick Simon, 
regional vice-chief for Nova Scotia and Newfoundland at the Assembly of 
First Nations.

The government also condemned the non-natives, and called on them to be 
patient.

"It's a bit unfair to think that we can resolve this so quickly, and 
come up with interim arrangements. These [native] people have been 
waiting for hundreds of years to get this treaty reaffirmed," said 
Marc-André Lanteigne of the Department of Fisheries and Oceans.

He said that he understands the concerns of the non-natives but that the 
DFO can prevent native fishing only if it affects conservation efforts.

The DFO started meeting with native groups on Saturday and is still 
trying to come up with an agreement. Fisheries Minister Herb Dhaliwal 
was supposed to visit the Maritimes on Friday but is expected to 
reschedule his trip for earlier in the week.

Meanwhile, the tense New Brunswick situation was uppermost in the minds 
of many fishermen at a meeting in Yarmouth, N.S., yesterday.

The Nova Scotia fishermen have vowed to use their boats to pull up 
native fishing gear on Wednesday if the local native bands do not do it 
voluntarily.

The non-native groups insist that aboriginal fishermen should not be 
catching lobster during a closed season. They are also

NATIVE_NEWS: Anger against Natives flares in Canada fish dispute

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http://biz.yahoo.com/rf/990930/1b.html

Thursday September 30, 2:26 pm Eastern Time 
Anger against natives flares in Canada fish dispute
(Note offensive language in paragraph 17) 
By Andrea Hopkins 
BURNT CHURCH, New Brunswick, Sept 30 (Reuters) - Every day for more than a week, 
fisherman Leigh Morrison has watched Mi'kmaq Indians haul tubs of precious lobster out 
of the cold Atlantic, load them onto pickup trucks and drive away. 
And every day, he and others who ply their trade in the depleted fishing grounds of 
Miramichi Bay in northern New Brunswick get a little angrier.


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NATIVE_NEWS: 3-MINUTE SOUND SAMPLE FROM NEW LEONARD PELTIER CD,March for Justice from the Activist Shop

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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Message-ID: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Date: Sat, 25 Sep 1999 17:08:45 EDT
Subject: 3-MINUTE SOUND SAMPLE FROM NEW LEONARD PELTIER CD
To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Hey-Ish--

Please POST!  Help get Leonard out!  November's the month!
..


LISTEN TO THIS!  Click on "Instant Play" when you get there!

  http://chooser.mp3.com/cgi-bin/ra/1001/245206/2/mp3s/2/reverend_goat/my_
life_is_my_sundance_op.ram">Click here: MP3.com - Reverend Goat 

  or go to http://www.MP3.com/revgoat

...
NOTE FROM HARVEY ARDEN--  
   
Editor of Leonard Peltier's PRISON WRITINGS: MY LIFE IS MY SUN DANCE

9/25/99

 PRE-ORDER PELTIER CD NOW!

While I was in New Orleans two weeks ago a digital recording was made of my 
70-minute reading from Leonard's book PRISON WRITINGS: MY LIFE IS MY SUN 
DANCE, and a well-known N.0. blues musician, Reverend Goat Carson (who runs 
the annual White Buffalo Festival) along with CD producer George Ingmire of 
Mi Abuelo Productions, are setting the reading against a background track of 
drum, buffalo-jawbone harp and other blues/native instruments.  A CD is now 
being produced, to be released in November in time for the BIG PUSH for 
Leonard's freedom.

To help finance the manufacture, we're hoping to get PRE-ORDERS NOW at $17.50 
(including s/h) per CD .  If you know any individuals or groups who would 
like to pre-order the CD please put them in touch with me at [EMAIL PROTECTED] 
or [EMAIL PROTECTED]  Or have them call me at 1-202-244-4693.  The CD 
will retail for an industry standard $22.95-so PRE-ORDERS at $17.50 each save 
$5.45 each;  5 or more copies ordered by groups or vendors (or individuals) 
can be had for $12.50 each (inc. s/h) --a $10.45 savings (or profit) per CD.

We're looking for "salespersons" who can get as many PREORDERS as possible.  
Perhaps you--or some people you know--could help get paid preorders?  If so, 
for orders of 20 and over, we are offering $1.50 "commission" for each CD  
PRE-ORDERED AND PAID IN ADVANCE. 

Checks should be made out to WISDOMKEEPERS, L.L.C. and send to:

PELTIER CD
THE WISDOMKEEPERS PROJECT
4101 Legation St., N.W.
Washington, DC 20015

There's a notice about this on our website: www.wisdomkeepers.com

/Harvey Arden, Leonard's editor
 202-244-4693email [EMAIL PROTECTED]

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To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
From: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Subject: Walk for Justice/Mark White Bull

A message from the Activist Shop
Please post and pass freely





I'd like to take this time to thank all those who have purchased an item from the 
Activist Shop which generated funds for the Walk for Justice! Your support is greatly 
appreciated! I'd also like to remind you all that from this point on, all monies 
generated are going straight to Mark White Bull in SD. (see 
http://members.tripod.com/activistshop/whtbull.htm)

This is an on-going need for these folks who stand on the front lines...let's not 
forget them in our prayers and our actions!!  Thank you again..

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NATIVE_NEWS: "The Michigan Daily": What's in a name?

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Date: Sat, 25 Sep 1999 07:51:29 -0500 (CDT)
From: "Progressive Resource/Action Coop." <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>

 >From "The Michigan Daily"

http://www.michigandaily.com/daily/1999/sep/09-23-99/sports/sports8.html


What's in a name? Huron controversy rising again at Eastern, other
schools

By David Horn
For the Daily

A symbol of pride.

An important school tradition.

A disrespectful, callous, even blatantly racist stereotype that
accomplishes nothing but the propagation of bigotry in our society.

Native American mascots are different things to different people, and as
schools face increasingly intense pressures from Native American
interest groups, the rules of the mascot game are changing.

In 1991, Eastern Michigan left behind its traditional 'Huron' nickname
in favor of Echo the Eagle. Pamela Young, director of public relations
for the school said. "The kids like Echo. They are proud of their school
and proud of their teams."

That said, some Eastern Michigan traditionalists, including students,
faculty, and local fans, will be pushing the next administration to
bring back the Huron nickname.

"The President and the Board of Directors made the choice eight years
ago. It was the right choice, and there are certainly not plans to
change it back," Young replied.

Groups like the Huron Restoration Committee will face resistance not
only from the school administration, comfortable in their 8-year-old
decision, but also from native Huron Nation tribe members, such as Ish
Tewehsho'non of the Wyandot Indians and online editor of the Native
News.

"I have plans to put into writing our community's opinion regarding
this... People are not mascots, we're not cartoons. We have a right to
exist of ourselves, not to embody another's culture," said Tewehsho'non.


Ten years ago, Eastern Michigan faced political pressure from a number
of activist groups, Native American-based and otherwise. The Native
Americans who argue against stereotypical mascots are not alone.

Joining them are a variety prominent politicians and organizations,
including the NAACP, American Jewish Committee, and the United Methodist
Church. These groups have asked their members to boycott products and
games that support certain teams, and have demanded that both college
and professional teams "change face."

Many have responded. Like Eastern Michigan, a number of Division I, II,
and III schools have undergone mascot changes. Mid-American Conference
rival Miami University replaced the politically unpopular 'Redskin' in
October of 1997 with Swoop the RedHawk.

College nicknames such as the Florida State Seminoles and Illinois
Fighting Illini are among those that have caused controversy.

Yet in Tallahassee, the matter appears to be under control, according to
Browning Brooks, Director of Media Relations at Florida State.

"We use Seminole symbolism that pays homage to the tribe... with the
approval of Chief (James) Billie of the Seminole Tribe of Florida. We
involve the tribe in planning the clothing of Chief Osceola, who rides
an Appaloosa horse, Renegade, at football games. Members of the tribe
participate in Homecoming festivities and, in fact, crown the prince and
princess.

"All activities relating to the use of the name Seminole are treated
with the utmost respect and sensitivity and are known to, and approved
by, the tribe itself,"

Brooks responded via e-mail.

"Chief Billie is on record saying that he resents outside interference
by other Indians, non-Seminoles, who want all Indian nicknames banished
nationwide. (Chief Haney) suggested that if anyone were going to protest
the name being used, it should be the Seminoles," Brooks added.

Among those who support a nationwide banishment of Native American
mascots is Dr. Dennis Tibbetts, Director of Native American Studies at
Northern Michigan.

"Even if Florida State 'makes it accurate,' they are still using symbols
that are a part of certain faiths. The eagle feather, for example, is
used as a sign of honor in many ceremonies. What does it mean that it is
also used on the football field? The (Seminole) tribe can agree, but
people outside can still object," Tibbetts argued.

Perhaps the most politically charged debate over team mascots is at
Illinois. The image of the fictional Chief Illiniwek, mascot for more
than 70 years, could disappear from the logo, as groups such as the
Progressive Resource/Action Cooperative (PRC) gain support to oust this
strong Illinois tradition.

Brooke Anderson of the PRC suggests that a "stubborn Board of Trustees"
will keep Chief Illiniwek at Illinois for a long time. Even though "a
new mascot may usher in a new era of sensitivity at U of I."

"The Chief and the environment he creates at the University makes Native
American enro

NATIVE_NEWS: Y2K: Gas and Oil Industry Senate Report

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complete report converted to HTML and indexed at:
http://www.greenspun.com/bboard/q-and-a-fetch-msg.tcl?msg_id=001SFC

excerpt:
Status

FERC released its first overall assessment of the Y2K status and preparedness of the 
gas and oil industry in September 1998, and has issued two updates since that timeÐ in 
January 1999 and in May 1999. API and AGA, in coordination with the Gas Research 
Institute and the Interstate Natural Gas Association of America, collected and 
analyzed surveys of its members to assess the industry's compliance with Y2K 
requirements. These surveys form the basis for the FERC assessment. Assessment results 
are shown in Figure 5 for embedded systems.

The original survey was sent to more than 8,000 gas and oil companies. Only 638, or 
fewer than 10%, responded. Notwithstanding this low response rate, the fact that most 
of the 66 big companies responded means that about 66% of total oil and gas 
consumption was represented in the survey. In later surveys, FERC reported the 
percentage of consumption rather than the actual number of companies responding to the 
surveys. The percentage grew to 88% of consumption in the February survey, and to 93% 
of consumption in the survey released in June 1999. While 93% participation is 
excellent, it could still mean that more than 1,000 small companies did not 
participate. This raises concerns for the customers served by these small companies.

Each survey asked companies to indicate the stage their companies were "in," not the 
stage they had completed. This makes it difficult to determine the true status of the 
industry. Making matters worse, one of the stages companies could indicate on the 
survey instrument was "completed or Y2K Ready." but FERC did not report survey results 
for this category.

When Senator Bennett asked members of the oil and gas working group about this 
omission in a June 28, 1999, meeting, they indicated that only 20% of the companies 
reported having their business systems completely Y2K ready. Only 16% of the companies 
reported that their embedded systems were completely Y2K ready.

Nevertheless, the most recent survey issued in June 1999 indicates that 94% of 
responding companies estimate they will be ready by September 30, 1999, and all 
estimate they will be ready by the end of the year. This projection seems unrealistic 
given the low state of readiness reported to the Committee Chairman in June 1999.

The Committee can only conclude either that many companies are 99% ready and will 
finish the last 1% of their systems in the next few months, or that many oil and gas 
companies will not complete Y2K remediation efforts in time.

In light of the late completion dates estimated by many companies, the Committee 
recommends that significant resources be devoted to contingency planning. This must be 
stressed because, as shown in Figure 5, fewer than 40% of the companies have actually 
developed and tested contingency plans.

The Committee remains concerned about the Y2K status of countries from which the U. S. 
imports oil. About 55% of the oil used in the U. S. comes from foreign sources. Yet, 
as depicted in Figure 6, many of these countries have a high risk of Y2K disruptions. 
This risk is based on recent country assessments from a variety of sources, including 
Global 2000, the World Bank, CapGemini, the State Department, and the Gartner Group, 
and considers both the Y2K readiness of the oil companies as well as the 
infrastructure in those countries.

Indeed, of the top 10 countries from which the U. S. imports oil, three are at high 
risk for disruption in oil production and transportation; one is at medium risk; three 
are at low risk (similar to the U. S.); and the status of three are unknown.

NATIVE_NEWS: Native American Mascots in the State of Indiana

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Letters in support of the following are encouraged..send to:   [EMAIL PROTECTED]
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Date: Sat, 25 Sep 1999 02:20:42 -0400
From: Albert RunningWolf <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Subject: Native American Mascots in the State of Indiana
X-Priority: 1 (Highest)
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Dear  Dr. Suellen K. Reed ,
   We are writing to express our dismay about school districts that use
Native American nicknames, logos and mascots which are derogatory to
Native American people. The depiction's and names do not honor Native
American people but rather objectify them. It is particularly
inappropriate for a school district to be a vehicle of institutional
racism. The use of Native American nicknames and logos in schools
insures that children in attendance learn how to tolerate and embrace
stereotypes of Native Americans and how to perpetuate and maintain
discriminatory acts against a group of people.
  As long as using Native American people as mascots for “fun and
games” exists, so will opposition to it. At this point, opposition to it
is growing and will not go away.
  No Indiana school district would consider endorsing such portrayals
and antics for other ethnic groups such as African Americans, Asian
Americans, or American Chicanos. It is a simple matter of respect to
listen to the Native American community which is affected by such
symbolism and imagery.
  We encourage the Indiana Department of Education to change the
policy of allowing Native American nicknames, logos and mascots in our
public schools. By taking this action our state will demonstrate its
willingness to promote more accurate and authentic understanding and
awareness of Native American people.
  Many schools across the country from elementary to college
institutions have taken such action and eliminated the use of a Native
American nickname, logo or mascot. We hope that the Indiana Department
of Education will soon join this list.

  Thank you for your attention and consideration of this matter.

   Sincerely…….



--
Albert RunningWolf
Chairperson
A.I.M. Central Indiana Support Group
P.O. Box 102
Brookville, IN 47012
765 647-5362 (fax & voicemail)
765 647-4947 (personal)
...still strong in the spirit and in the struggle!



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   mascot, 1997

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NATIVE_NEWS: A Path to Resolution for the Saginaw Chippewa Conflict

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Date: Sat, 25 Sep 1999 01:40:16 -0500
To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
From: Cyd Crue <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: A Path to Resolution for the Saginaw Chippewa Conflict
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American Indian Arbitration 
Institute*
*FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE
9/25/99

For more information contact: 
Michael Haney at Soaring Eagle Hotel (517)775-
Dwight R. Carpenter, Attorney at Law, (517)386-4114
Marion Neyome AKA Williams (517)772-9045


Members of the Saginaw Chippewa Indian Tribe of Michigan eagerly await a
Court decision that will delineate a plan for a resolution of their Tribal
conflict.  

Today, Saturday, September 25th, 1999 the Appellate Court of the Saginaw
Chippewa Indian Tribe of Michigan will convene at 1:00 PM to act on a
petition by Kevin Chamberlain to remove the Tribal Council recognized by
Bureau of Indian Affairs' Kevin Gover and headed by Philip G. Peters.

The Court strongly encouraged the participation of the government of the
United States, by and through the Department of Interior "in light of the
fact that but for the issuance of the letter of August 10, 1999, from
[Kevin Gover], this matter would not be before this Court", as explained on
the 9/20/99 Court order.

The people are ready to receive Mr. Gover. Over 300 supporters wearing
red, yellow, black and white shirts are expected to take part in a "Freedom
for Our Future March" in support of Chamberlain and against the BIA
recognized Council. The march will begin at 12:00 noon at the Tribal At
Large building and will follow the route to the Court building. 

Michael Haney, Executive Director of the American Indian Arbitration
Institute, will address the crowd in his capacity as a consultant in the
resolution of this conflict. 


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NATIVE_NEWS: NEWS BRIEFS

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Andersen Consulting Selected to Take Interior Department Agency's Systems
Into 21st Century 
Business Wire, 23 September 1999.
http://www.businesswire.com/
The U.S. Department of the Interior, at a ceremony today, signed a
seven-year contract valued at $ 47 million with Andersen Consulting to
transform royalty management for the Department's Minerals Management
Service. The two-part project will involve the Minerals Management Service
and Andersen Consulting working together to upgrade and enhance the Royalty
Management Program's current systems and to realign information technology
strategies to better support the program's performance goals. The new
system will improve the process of accounting for and disbursing the
billions of revenues the government collects from mineral companies
extracting minerals from federal and Indian lands ... The Royalty
Management Program is responsible for ensuring that revenues from federal
and Indian mineral leases are efficiently, effectively and accurately
collected, accounted for and disbursed in a timely manner.
~~~

Appeals Court Reinstates Lawsuit by Black Seminoles 
The Associated Press
http://www.ap.org/
Oklahoma City - The 10th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals has reinstated a
lawsuit filed on behalf of 1,500 black Seminole Indians seeking a share in
millions of dollars of benefits other Seminoles receive. The Denver appeals
court ruled Tuesday that a judge in Oklahoma City erred last year when she
dismissed the suit in which black Seminoles said they were being unfairly
excluded from a variety of financial benefits. The U.S. Bureau of Indian
Affairs was sued because it refused to grant certificates that would make
the black Seminoles eligible for benefits such as housing, education and
food assistance.
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Clinton Declares 7 N.M. Counties, Indian Reservation Disaster Areas
The Associated Press 
http://www.ap.org/
President Clinton has declared seven counties disaster areas eligible for
federal assistance in the wake of devastating summer floods. Gov. Gary
Johnson asked Clinton last month to declare parts of New Mexico disaster
areas because of July and August floods. And on Wednesday, New Mexico's
U.S. senators announced that the White House had declared Dona Ana, Luna,
Mora, Rio Arriba, San Juan, Sandoval and Sierra counties eligible for
disaster aid. The Mescalero Apache reservation also was declared a disaster
area, Sens. Pete Domenici, R-N.M., and Jeff Bingaman, D-N.M., said in
separate news releases. As a result of the designations, the federal
government will fund 75 percent of the cost of repairing or replacing
disaster-damaged public facilities for eligible local governments, the
senator said.


Powwow to Honor Native Americans 
The Charleston Gazette, 23 September 1999, D-7.
http://www.wvgazette.com/
This weekend, Appalachian American Indians of West Virginia, a
state-recognized tribe, will conduct one of its primary cultural
events of the year, its annual Homecoming Powwow. Thousands of West
Virginians claim to be descendants of Native
Americans living throughout West Virginia from the last century. About
4,000 of them have banded together in a formal organization
recognized by a West Virginia legislative declaration, and including tribal
roll cards and recorded genealogies by a federal legal process to verify
bloodlines.


Four Directions: A Legacy of Powerlessness Leads to
Misuse of Power
The Bismarck Tribune
Long Feather, Cheryl
http://www.ndonline.com/
"Power tends to corrupt, and absolute power corrupts absolutely.' -- Lord
Acton (1887). Power is one of the aspects of "civilized" society to which
American Indian people have had difficulty adapting. Like alcohol, the
concept of the power to control others has seduced people into acting
contrary to traditional American Indian teachings. Long ago, our ancestors
believed in personal power and not the power of kings and monarchs. Indeed,
the concept of democracy -- the power of the common man -- came from Native
American philosophy. Back then, American Indian leaders led by persuasion
and example and not by force or threat. Throughout the years, however, the
personal power of the American Indian people was taken from them. The
decisions they used to make for themselves -- where to live, where and when
to hunt, how to clothe themselves, what language to speak -- were abrogated
and made by others. Gradually, treaties limited the areas in which the
people were allowed to live and the areas in which they were allowed to
hunt ...Today, the legacy of this powerlessness has permeated the
reservations. Powerless people believe that they are manipulated by others
and that they lack the access to resources to change it. They believe they
are being forced or controlled by forces outside of themselves and that
they do not have the power to make their own decisions. This sense of
powerlessness creates resentment, hopel

NATIVE_NEWS: PRIVATIZATION PE SAKASTEW NATIVE DETENTION CENTRE ALBERTA???

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PRIVATIZATION PE SAKASTEW NATIVE DETENTION CENTRE ALBERTA???
Edmonton Sun  9/24/99
Prison ponders privatization
  By THE CANADIAN PRESS

An Alberta prison on an aboriginal reserve is considering bringing
in private American corrections firms to help run its programs and
operations. Three representatives of Texas-based firms that design, build
and operate prisons were touring the Pe Sakastew federal
minimum-security prison on a reserve near Hobbema yesterday.
The men were invited by Roy Louis, chairman of the facility's
citizen advisory committee. "I'm very impressed with what they do there,"
said Louis, who recently returned from a tour of Dallas-area jails run by
private companies. "Perhaps ... we could do something like this in Canada."
  Provincial Justice Minister Dave Hancock said he's willing to listen to
proposals for private corrections in Alberta. "Everything's worth looking
at," he said. Chris Cuny, vice-president of the Dallas-based engineering
company Aguirre Corp., said he came to Alberta to assess business
opportunities for private corrections firms. "We're here just kind of
kicking tires," he said.
Cuny, whose firm builds prisons, was in Edmonton at the Canadian
Congress of Criminal Justice with architect Kendall Phinney and
criminal justice consultant Bob Viterna. Together, the three have
been involved with the design, construction and operation of more
than 40 prisons in the United States. Some are wholly owned by companies
such as the Corrections Corp. of America. Private firms have so far been
shut out of Canada. Both Louis and Cuny recognize that for-profit operators
in Canadian prisons would represent a major shift. 

But Louis said an agreement signed last Sunday may allow aboriginals to
hire whoever they want to run programs at their prisons - or even the
prisons themselves. Under the five-year deal, Ottawa handed over
responsibility for rehabilitation programs to Native Counselling Services
of Alberta. 
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NATIVE_NEWS: Vancourver: Diocese faces bankruptcy in abuse case

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Subject: Canada  9/24/99
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Diocese faces bankruptcy in abuse case
Vancouver Sun  9/23/99
Damages in a number of decades-old sex-abuse suits has Anglicans in the
Cariboo facing the prospect of selling off church buildings. 
   Douglas Todd, Sun Religion Reporter 

The Anglican diocese of the Cariboo is considering declaring bankruptcy
following a B.C. judge's landmark ruling that the church must pay damages
for the sexual abuse 30 years ago of a native Indian boy at a residential
school. The Cariboo diocese, which includes 45 Anglican congregations from
Prince George to Kamloops, is preparing contingency plans for how to
operate a diocese without church buildings --which might have to be sold to
pay a string of victims, said Archbishop David Crawley, the province's top
Anglican. 

Crawley said that as far as he knows it would be the first time in Canadian history a 
Christian denomination has filed for bankruptcy. "It's a sad possibility. If there is 
a move to bankruptcy, and the physical assets are lost, then there will have to be a 
massive restructuring of the diocese," Crawley said Wednesday.  "In small towns, many 
people say the community dies when the church dies -- there goes the place where you 
and your children were married, where you went to Girl Guides and Cubs, where you sent 
your loved one off to war. Yet, if the buildings go, we'll still have the priest and 
the worshipping congregation." The Cariboo diocese, Crawley said, may have enough cash 
and liquid assets to cover the undisclosed award Justice Janice Dillon awarded Aug. 30 
to Floyd Mowatt, who was abused while attending St. George's Indian residential school 
near Lytton.  But at least four other abuse lawsuits are still to be ruled on by the 
courts and "if the costs awarded are similar,!
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" th
e diocese might have to declare bankruptcy , Crawley said. There is no immediate plan 
to sell any of the Cariboo diocese's large or small sanctuaries, he said.

All the lawsuits against the Cariboo diocese relate to abuse inflicted by St. George's 
dormitory supervisor Derek Clarke, who was convicted six years ago for his sexual 
reign of terror in the early 1970s on many boys at the defunct federally funded, 
church-run school.  Dillon decided the Anglican church was 60% and the federal 
government 40%responsible for the abuse. One of Mowatt's lawyers, Allan Early, said 
the judge's decision strengthens the case for thousands of abused native Indians who 
have launched similar lawsuits against the Anglican, Roman Catholic and United 
Churches, which ran dozens of other residential schools in the Canadian West.  The 
roughly 5,000 active Anglicans in the Cariboo may have to consider meeting in homes 
and rented facilities if the lawsuits force bankruptcy on the church, said Crawley, 
who is making public comments on the cases.

Cariboo Bishop James Cruickshank is not speaking to the media. Crawley said the court 
has ordered that the amount of Mowatt's award not be publicly disclosed. But the 
denomination's national Anglican Journal newspaper has said the amount is "believed to 
be about $200,000."  That does not include the church's legal expenses, which Crawley 
described as "enormous." It remains legally uncertain whether the court could order 
the sale of church buildings to pay off Cariboo diocese's debt, the archbishop said.If 
the churches are seen as being held in trust for the purposes of worship, then a 
liquidator may not have access to them.  Crawley noted the question of whether church 
buildings must be sold to pay damages is one of the key issues that has to be resolved 
in the crucial legal dispute involving Christian-brother-run Vancouver College and the 
sexual-assault victims of Mount Cashel orphanage in Newfoundland. The liquidator of 
the Christian Brothers order has maintained that Vancou!
!
ver 
College must be sold to cover the cost of damages to dozens of young men molested by 
Christian Brothers at Mount Cashel. But Vancouver College's lawyers say the school is 
held in trust and therefore protected. The Vancouver College case has not yet gone to 
trial.
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NATIVE_NEWS: Mohawk's Declare "Offshore" Status

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Mohawks declare 'offshore' status
Kahnawake reserve says it will license online
gambling, stock trading
  Mark Stevenson
  The Ottawa Citizen  9/24/99

A native reserve is about to license the first Internet gambling operation on North 
American soil, a move its leaders say will help it assert its autonomy and compete 
with offshore tax shelters where most online gaming firms now locate.

Canada has one of the largest concentrations of publicly traded Internet betting 
companies in the world. But the overwhelming majority of them conduct their 
transactions through computer servers based elsewhere, at tax havens in the Caribbean 
and Central America, for fear of prosecution in North America.

Now, the Kahnawake Mohawk Nation, located 30 kilometres south of Montreal, is offering 
low fees, "state of the art bandwidth," and the legal protection of a "sovereign 
nation" in a bid to tap the explosive growth of Internet gambling companies, said 
Chief Davis Rice.

He heads Mohawk Internet Technologies, which now employs 31 people as part of a 
$3-million investment by the reserve.

The Mohawks say they will defend their right to host Internet gamblers, despite the 
current legal limbo surrounding the issue. They are also planning an online stock 
market, with low brokerage fees and investments not allowed at traditional North 
American stock markets, as part of their bid to be a major "offshore banking (site) on 
the shores of the St. Lawrence."

"Anything that the Mohawks do is somewhat controversial," said Mr. Rice. "(But) we're 
prepared to defend this. And judging from the reaction ... this is a win-win 
combination."

Mr. Rice said the band has already signed up a major online gaming firm and 40 others 
have expressed serious interest since it declared itself open for business earlier 
this month at the World Gaming Congress and Expo in Las Vegas.

Mohawk Internet Technologies, which plans to begin operations next month, intends to 
make its money by charging the gaming firms fees for the use of its services.

Liberal MP Dennis Mills, who introduced an ill-fated private member's bill to allow 
the federal government to regulate the industry and stop revenues from being lost 
offshore while protecting consumers, welcomes the move by the Mohawks to license 
online gaming. He said it could persuade high-tech Canadian gaming firms to locate in 
Canada instead of offshore.

"I think it's fantastic," said Mr. Mills. "They're filling a huge vacuum. Reserve 
status has certain rights and privileges that we sometimes forget. ... It could be a 
huge breakthrough for Internet gaming."

But the enterprise is on uncertain legal ground.

Under Canadian law, only the provinces and some charities can run gambling operations, 
although none of them are currently online. The provinces could run their own 
computer-based betting if they wanted to, but neither they nor the federal government 
can authorize anyone else to do so, said Hal Pruden, legal counsel for the federal 
Justice Department.

Mr. Pruden said in two separate cases before the Supreme Court, aboriginal groups have 
been denied the right to run large-scale gambling operations on native soil without 
government approval. Neither of the cases, however, dealt with online gaming.

Even if Internet gambling operations are run offshore, it may be illegal in Canada to 
place a bet or offer betting to Canadians. The issue is not settled because no one has 
tested it.

So the legality of the move by the Kahnawake Mohawks is unclear.

"I can't comment on whether it's legal or not," said Mr. Pruden. "Applying the 
Criminal Code to see whether it's legal or not would be up to the band's lawyers or up 
to the Attorney General of Quebec."

The Mohawks have already informed the province of their intentions and plan to be up 
and running by mid-October, said Mr. Rice.

In the United States, Louisiana, Nevada and Illinois have banned Internet betting and 
Congress is considering doing the same, said Sue Sneider of the Interactive Gaming 
Council, a international trade group representing 75 online gambling firms. This means 
gamblers caught betting online in those states can be charged.

By most estimates, Canada has one of the largest concentrations of publicly traded 
Internet gambling companies in the world. Companies like CryptoLogic, a Toronto firm 
that has become the largest supplier of casino games and electronic commerce software 
to online casinos, dominate the industry.

However, because of the legal limbo surrounding their existence, places like 
Gibraltar, Antigua, St. Kitts, Dominica and Costa Rica are aggressively luring 
Canadian companies with licences to operate, low taxes and anonymity.

Ms. Sneider, of the Interactive Gaming Council, said the booming Internet gaming 
industry now has about 700 Internet sites run by 200 operators.

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NATIVE_NEWS: Canada: fishing woes

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Canadian Press/New Brunswick  Telegraph Journal
September 24, 1999
The Maritime Fishermen's Union has called on Prime Minister Jean Chrétien
to suspend the effects of last week's Supreme Court ruling recognizing
natives' right to hunt and fish. In a letter to Mr. Chrétien, MFU executive
secretary Michael Belliveau urged him to act
"immediately and decisively" to suspend the judgment until cabinet can
"properly deal with it." The letter said the high-court decision is causing
"confusion and consternation" among commmercial
fishermen as they watch natives fishing lobster "with impunity" during a
closed season. "This is a potentially explosive situation and requires
political action," said Mr. Belliveau in his letter.
And federal Fisheries Minister Herb Dhaliwal yesterday repeated calls for
restraint and calm yesterday as tension over native fishing rights mounts
in the Maritimes. "We've asked people to just be patient and show .Ö.Ö.
good will and that we work together," Mr.
Dhaliwal said in an interview. "We're observing and monitoring the
situation very closely, and recording all activities. And we'll be
evaluating the situation on a day-by-day basis." The issue will also be
raised when Mr. Dhaliwal meets today with Canadian fisheries ministers in
Quebec City. "I think we all recognize that we need to deal with it in an
expeditious fashion," he said. In the interim, Mr. Dhaliwal has instructed
his officials to meet with native leaders, non-native commercial fishermen
and others affected by the ruling, he said. The Minister is confident that
potentially ugly confrontations will be avoided. "It's not in anybody's
interest to jeopardize the resource in any way. And I think it's in
everybody's
interest to deal with this in an orderly and rational basis."

Meanwhile, backed by the weight of the Supreme Court of Canada, Maritime
aboriginal leaders are making plans to take a share of the region's Crown
resources. Chiefs from across Eastern Canada met at the Tobique reserve in
western New Brunswick yesterday to begin work on a strategy to take full
advantage of a recent high court ruling giving the Mi'kmaq and Maliseet
unfettered hunting and fishing rights. The chiefs headed into their private
meeting confident that it's a whole new ball game, and they had little
sympathy for corporate and conservation concerns about a possible
free-for-all on Maritime waterways and in the woods.Natives in New
Brunswick and Prince Edward Island were back on the water yesterday,
pulling in
hundreds of kilograms of out-of-season lobster and infuriating non-native
fishers who are worried about depleted stocks.''The non-Indians don't want
to share,'' said Chief Lawrence Paul of Millbrook, N.S., co-chairman of the
Atlantic Policy Congress of First Nation Chiefs. ''But due to the Supreme
Court decision, the rules of the game have changed and they'll have to
share, whether they like it or not. I think the bottom line on the whole
thing is not conservation, it's not about saving fish stocks, the bottom
line is greed.'' It's not just commercial lobster fishermen who are worried
about the impact of unlimited aboriginal fishing rights. In New Brunswick,
conservation groups dedicated to saving the endangered Atlantic salmon are
calling for restraint. ''The recent Supreme Court decision introduces yet
another large weight to the burden of conserving our fish and wildlife
resources,'' said J.W. (Bud) Bird, head of the Miramichi Salmon
Association. ''It is a matter of very serious concern that a new commercial
motivation toward possibly excessive harvests has been confirmed in the law
of our land.'' Some politicians have called for a cooling-off period to let
the dust settle from the Supreme Court decision in the case of Nova Scotia
Mi'kmaq Donald Marshall Jr.  The case went to the high court after
Marshall, who first came to national attention in the 1980s for spending 11
years in prison for a murder he didn't commit, was convicted in 1996 of
catching eels out of season and without a licence.

The ruling upheld a 1760 treaty between the Mi'kmaq and British Crown
giving aboriginals an unlimited right to hunt, fish, gather and trade.
Chief Edwin Bernard of the Tobique First Nation said he had some sympathy
with the desire to step back and digest the decision before plunging full
bore into commercial fishing and hunting. ''But there's another part of me
that says our people have been suffering for over 200 years, so why wait
any longer,'' Mr. Bernard said. ''This treaty was signed in 1760 and here
it is 200 years later and we're just getting our rights back.'' The chiefs
are hoping to put together a position paper outlining rules and regulations
to guide aboriginal hunting and fishing. Mr. Bernard said they are
especially concerned about conservation. They've agreed to another meeting,
possibly next week, which will involve lawyers who worked on the Marshall
case. Mr. Paul rejected

NATIVE_NEWS: SD: Many Horses Case: Committee Wants New Prosecutor

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Many Horses Case: Committee Wants New Prosecutor
http://www.yankton.net/stories/092499/new_0924990017.html
 ABERDEEN (AP) -- American Indian activists and others upset with 
an investigation into the death of Robert ''Boo'' Many Horses say they want a new 
prosecutor in the case.

''We don't trust the state's attorney, Dan Todd, and we feel he is going to let the 
four defendants get away with their crimes,'' said Mark White Bull, a member of the 
Justice for Boo Committee.

Todd, the Walworth County state's attorney, said he was prosecuting the case as 
vigorously as possible.

''Right now we're awaiting a decision from the magistrate judge on the preliminary 
hearing,'' he said. ''Until the judge makes his decision there is nothing else we can 
do.''

The hearing was held early last month to determine if there's enough evidence for the 
case to proceed. Judge Tony Portra also gave lawyers extra time to submit written 
arguments.

Many Horses was found dead June 30 in a garbage can in a Mobridge alley. Autopsy 
results showed he died of alcohol poisoning.

Four white teen-agers charged in connection with the death are under house arrest.

Layne Gisi, 19, is charged with first- and second-degree manslaughter, aggravated 
assault, and abuse or neglect of a disabled adult.

Ryan Goehring, 16; Joy Lynn Hahne, 18; and Jody Larson, 19; all are charged with 
aiding and abetting and with being an accessory to a crime and not reporting it.

Each could get up to life in prison if convicted of first-degree manslaughter or 
accessory to first-degree manslaughter.

The Justice for Boo Committee included its request for a new prosecutor in a list of 
allegations presented Tuesday to Assistant U.S. Attorney David Zuercher.

Among the charges:

-- Many Horses' death was a hate crime, based upon past incidents involving the 
defendants.

-- Numerous other people should have been interviewed to show a pattern of behavior by 
the defendants.

-- The investigation was improperly conducted, and at times hindered, by investigators.

Todd denies all the allegations.

Other disagreements also have surfaced. White Bull said Zuercher and U.S. Department 
of Justice officials had promised to step in if charges against the four white 
defendants were dropped or further reduced.

Zuercher said he never promised any federal prosecution.

''I did meet with them, along with the DOJ, and I will be passing along their 
allegations to the U.S. attorney and to the civil rights division of the DOJ, but no 
promises were made,'' he said.

Zuercher said the meeting was arranged by the Department of Justice's community 
relations division, which goes into areas of racial tension and tries to lessen the 
problems through communication.

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NATIVE_NEWS: ENVIRO: Mapping the Pollutors: What's new at scorecard.org

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Updates on local pollution in your area.  There have been three new big developments 
at scorecard.org, so we invite you to: 

1) Check out the most recent toxic chemical release information available

2) Use our new mapper to get a street map of pollution in your area

3) Rank your community against the rest of the country



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Send this update to a friend!



THE MOST RECENT TOXIC CHEMICAL RELEASE INFORMATION NOW AVAILABLE

The latest data from U.S. EPA indicate that manufacturing firms released over 2 
billion pounds of toxic chemicals to the environment in 1997. Texas tops the list of 
polluted states with over 240 million pounds of chemical releases. Lee County in 
Mississippi experienced the largest releases of recognized carcinogens; Hamblen County 
in Tennessee had the largest releases of recognized developmental toxicants. Magnesium 
Corp of America retains the title of number one polluter in the U.S., releasing over 
62 million pounds of toxic chemicals (more than 35 entire states). 


Find the polluters in your area at http://www.scorecard.org/env-releases/


USE SCORECARD'S NEW MAPPER TO VIEW STREET MAPS OF POLLUTION IN YOUR AREA

Scorecard now uses a java-based mapper that can zoom to street level anywhere in the 
US and present information on toxic releases from manufacturing firms and air 
pollution from all sources. The mapper also displays graphs that summarize trends in 
chemical releases, sources of air pollution problems, etc. 

Explore the maps for your community at http://www.scorecard.org/community/index.tcl 



RANK YOUR COMMUNITY AGAINST THE NATION
Scorecard has also developed a new way of conveying how areas or facilities rank on a 
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visitors quickly determine whether their community scores well or poorly on pollution 
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NATIVE_NEWS: AP: American Indians protest in Rapid City

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Thu, Sep. 23, 1999
American Indians Protest in Rapid City
The Associated Press
http://www.ap.org/

American Indian activists are keeping a pledge to call
attention to what they say is racism in South Dakota. About
100 people marched Tuesday in Rapid City. Another protest
is scheduled today in Pine Ridge. They want to raise
awareness about the unsolved deaths of several American
Indians in the state, including cases in Rapid City and
Mobridge. In the past 16 months, the bodies of eight men
have been found along Rapid Creek in Rapid City. Six of
them were American Indians. Some have complained that the
police are doing little to investigate the deaths because
most of the victims are Indians.
"I have no problem telling the press or the governor, that
this state is a racist state just like in the deep South,"
said marcher Mark White Bull, of Wakpala. "And I have no
problem saying this that this rage is going to boil over
quickly in this state," White Bull said. "I believe it's
going to be a replay of 1973."

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NATIVE_NEWS: Groups file intent to sue on Flathead NF Road program

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Date: Fri, 24 Sep 1999 11:38:20 -0600
To: "Wild Rockies Alerts" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
From: Wild Rockies InfoNet <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Groups file intent to sue on Flathead NF Road program

FOR  IMMEDIATE  RELEASE
September 23, 1999

Contact:  Keith Hammer, Swan View Coalition at 406-755-1379
Arlene Montgomery, Friends of the Wild Swan at 406-886-2011

KALISPELL, MT - Two local conservation groups have put the Forest Service
on notice that they intend to file a lawsuit over the Flathead National
Forest's road reclamation program.  In a notice required sixty days in
advance of filing a lawsuit under the Endangered Species Act, Swan View
Coalition and Friends of the Wild Swan's attorney, Dan Rohlf, explains that
the Flathead has illegally redefined what constitutes a "reclaimed" road
without also reinitiating formal consultation with the Fish and Wildlife
Service, which has the final say on the effects to threatened and
endangered species.

At issue are the effects that leaving stream-bearing culverts in roads
"reclaimed" for grizzly bear security have on both the bears, fish
(especially the threatened bull trout) and water quality.  When the
Flathead issued its Forest Plan Amendment 19 in 1985, it specifically
required that all stream-bearing culverts be removed in order to prevent
the inevitable blow-out of culverts and to eliminate the need to
continually monitor them in areas intended to be secure for the bears.

Last May, however, the Flathead substantially changed its definition of a
"reclaimed" road by issuing Forest Plan Implementation Note #13.  It allows
culverts to remain in "reclaimed" roads and substantially reduces the
degree to which the road must be obliterated to minimize human use.  There
was no formal public involvement in the making of the new rules, nor was
there formal consultation with Fish and Wildlife Service.  And that, the
groups contend, violates the National Environmental Policy
Act, the National Forest Management Act and the Endangered Species Act.

"Amendment 19 was designed as an integrated program that purposefully
requires culvert removals in order to protect fish, while also better
protecting bears and saving the taxpayer unaffordable maintenance costs,"
said Swan View Chair Keith Hammer.  "This new policy amounts to 'let's not
and say we did.'"

Arlene Montgomery, Program Director for Friends of the Wild Swan, noted
that all environmental analyses conducted for Amendment 19 concluded that
the effects on native fish would be positive only if the culverts were
removed.  "Now, in spite of the fact bull trout has since been listed as a
threatened species, the Flathead has arbitrarily dropped the culvert
removal requirement," she said.  "An example of the unreasonableness of
this new policy is Ranger Chuck Harris' recent decision to leave two
already plugged culverts in North Lost Creek, even though Friends of the
Wild Swan offered to pay for their removal.  He dismissed the
recommendations of his staff and Fish, Wildlife and Parks biologists who
warned that there is a high risk of 700 tons of road ending up in the
westslope cutthroat and bull trout spawning streams below.  Protection of
our native fish and water quality should be in the forefront of Forest
Service policy, obviously it is not."

END

Arlene Montgomery
Friends of the Wild Swan
P.O. Box 5103
Swan Lake, MT  59911
mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]


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NATIVE_NEWS: Addendum-Native Americans Gather Against Indian Mascots

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*FOR IMMEDIATE
RELEASE
**National Coalition on Racism in Sports and the Media
** 

**
9/24/99

For more information contact: 
Vernon Bellecourt, National President (612)721-3914
Michael Haney, National Executive Director. (217)840-6584 
Paula Ostrovsky or Cyd Crue. NCRSM-IL. Co-Coordinators. (217)355-6757 or
(217)840-6594 
Patrick Oray.NCRSM-IL. Co-Coordinator. (217)337-1514

RE: The National Coalition on Racism in Sports and the Media
(NCRSM)gathering on October 15th-17th, 1999 "Mending the Circle", schedule
changes:

1. Friday October 15th at the Wesley Foundation ((1203 W. Green St.,
Urbana, IL) ): 
"The Real Chiefs Speak Out", benefit banquet, at 6:30 PM with a keynote
address by Chadwick Smith, Principal Chief of the Cherokee Nation, OK, will
also feature Kevin Chamberlain, Chief, Saginaw Chippewa Indian Tribe of
Michigan who will provide musical entertainment.

2. Saturday, October 16th the group will lead a march and rally against
racist mascots at the University of Illinois' Homecoming football game,
starting at 9AM at the Wesley Foundation. (NOTE TIME CHANGE)

"Mending the Circle" is co-sponsored by the Champaign County Branch of the
NAACP, the General Commission on Religion and Race of the United Methodist
Church, Racial Justice Now, the Society for the Study of the Indigenous
Languages of the Americas, the University YMCA, and The
Octopus-Champaign-Urbana's Free Alternative Weekly. In addition, the final
concert is co-sponsored by Central Illinois' Community Radio, WEFT 90.1 FM,
Champaign.

Press and the general public are welcome to attend. For more information
call 217-355-6757, 217-337-1514, or 217-840-6594, e-mail
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  We could have just as easily chosen any
uncivilized animal."
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   mascot, 1997

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NATIVE_NEWS: ENVIRO BRIEFS: (ENS) News September 23, 1999

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ENVIRONMENT NEWS SERVICE (ENS)

SEVEN MILLION TIRES ABLAZE IN CALIFORNIA
BUSINESS COSTS FOR AIR PERMITS LOWER THAN FORECAST

AMERISCAN: SEPTEMBER 23, 1999


E-WIRE
*  Millions of Children Exposed to Life-Threatening Air Pollution

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SEVEN MILLION TIRES ABLAZE IN CALIFORNIA

MODESTO, California, September 23, 1999 (ENS) - An enormous tire fire is
burning in Stanislaus County 20 miles west of Modesto. Seven million tires
covering 35 acres are ablaze sending a thick cloud of black smoke straight
up about 3,000 feet into the air.
Copyright Environment News Service (ENS) 1999
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BUSINESS COSTS FOR AIR PERMITS LOWER THAN FORECAST

ATLANTA, Georgia, September 23, 1999 (ENS) - Federal clean air regulations
cost companies less than industry estimates, and may actually save
businesses time and money, a new study reveals. The Georgia Institute of
Technology research is believed to be the first detailed examination of
business costs involved in applying for permits under Title V of the 1990
Clean Air Act Amendments.
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ENVIRONMENT NEWS SERVICE AMERISCAN: SEPTEMBER 23, 1999

Alaska Wildlife Wetland Donated to Izembek Refuge
In the largest conservation gift ever in Alaska, the Richard and Rhoda Goldman Fund 
and The Conservation Fund have donated 8,496 acres of land to the U.S. Fish and 
Wildlife Service (USFWS) for addition to the Izembek National Wildlife Refuge. The 
donated lands, located at Morzhovoi Bay, round out the western boundary of the Izembek 
Refuge. "This land donation from the Goldman Fund will be an important addition to the 
Izembek National Wildlife Refuge," said USFWS regional director Dave Allen. "Wetlands 
are an important habitat in Alaska, and this Refuge is a large marine lagoon complex, 
which is extremely valuable to certain wildlife species." The lagoons, bays and 
marshes of Izembek, recognized as wetlands of international importance, play a 
critical role in maintaining healthy populations of several species of 
waterfowl.<

Summer 1999 Drier and Warmer Than Normal
Summer 1999 in the United States was much drier than normal, with two states - 
Connecticut and Rhode Island - having their driest summer in 105 years, the National 
Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA) reports. The preliminary data for 
meteorological summer, June through August, is from NOAA's National Climatic Data 
Center (NCDC). "The average total precipitation for the contiguous United States for 
the period June through August was well below the long term average, falling below the 
long term average for the first time in eight years," said William Brown, a 
climatologist at NCDC. The period June through August ranked as the 22nd driest summer 
since 1895. The national averaged precipitation was 7.58 inches; the normal value is 
8.24 inches. Mean temperature for the contiguous U.S. was well above the long term 
average. Almost six percent of the country was much warmer than normal, while about 
one percent of the country averaged much cooler than normal. Five of the last !
!
six 
summers have been above the long term mean. Temperatures around the world were higher 
than normal as well. "The global mean temperature for the period June through August 
1999 was well above the long term average," said Mike Changery, a climatologist at 
NCDC. "In fact, for nearly every month in the past 10 years, the global mean land 
temperature has been above the long term (1880-1998) mean.

Agreement Signed to Remove Washington Dam
A voluntary agreement to remove Condit Dam on the White Salmon River in southwestern 
Washington state was approved Wednesday by federal and state agencies, utility 
representatives, the Yakama Nation and environmental groups. The agreement follows two 
years of negotiations between the Yakama Nation, PacifiCorp, American Rivers, State of 
Washington, Department of the Interior, National Marine Fisheries Service, and USDA 
Forest Service, over the timing and costs for dam removal. Condit was built in 1913 
and provides up to 14 megawatts of electricity to customers of Portland, Oregon based 
PacifiCorp.<<<

Logging Halted by Bats Resumes
Timber harvest will be allowed to resume on the Shingle Mill timber sale on the 
Allegheny National Forest (ANF) following a four month moratorium prompted by the 
presence of endangered bats. On May

NATIVE_NEWS: Grant allows tribe to hire two officers

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Grant allows tribe to hire two officers
http://www.journalstar.com/stories/neb/sto2

OMAHA (AP) -- The Omaha Tribe Police Department has received a federal grant 
to add two police officers to its force.

The U.S. Department of Justice awarded the $243,070 grant through its 
Community Oriented Policing Services.

The COPS Tribal Resources grant will fund 75 percent of the total salary and 
benefits of each officer hired for three years, up to a maximum of $75,000 
per officer.

It also allows the Omaha Tribe to train the officers and purchase 
crime-fighting equipment. <<

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NATIVE_NEWS: [BIO-IPR] Council of Europe PA rejects bio-patenting

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Date: Fri, 24 Sep 1999 16:00:24 +0800
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BIO-IPR docserver


TITLE: Biotechnology and intellectual property
AUTHOR: Parliamentary Assembly of the Council of Europe
PUBLICATION: Recommendation 1425 (provisional edition)
DATE: 24 September 1999
SOURCE: Press Unit PACE
URL: http://stars.coe.fr/index_e.htm
NOTES: The recommendation below was adopted in plenary on 23 September 1999. 
The original proposal calling for this motion (Doc. 8459) as well as the 
committee opinion on it (Doc. 8532) can both be downloaded from the PACE 
website in English or French. 
A political organisation set up in 1949, the Council of Europe works to 
promote democracy and human rights continent-wide. It also develops common 
responses to social, cultural and legal challenges in its 41 member states.



Council of Europe
Parliamentary Assembly
Strasbourg, 24 September 1999

Provisional edition


BIOTECHNOLOGY AND INTELLECTUAL PROPERTY

Recommendation 1425 (1999) [*]

1. The Assembly recalls its Recommendation 1213 (1993) on developments in 
biotechnology and the consequences for agriculture.

2. It is aware that the patent system, as a system for the protection of 
intellectual property, is an integral part of market economy and therefore 
can be a driving force for innovation in many technological questions.

3. A guideline on patents legislation should help to develop criteria for 
granting patents continuously according to technological progress in favour 
of both the interests of the claiming party, as well as the interests of the 
public in regard to public order, morality and general aspects of state 
economy.

4. Living organisms are able to reproduce themselves even if they are 
patented and in view of this special quality of living organisms, the scope 
of a patent is difficult to define, which makes it nearly impossible to find 
a balance between private and public interests.

5. The Assembly deems it necessary to oblige scientists, as well as 
scientific research and development units working in the field of 
biotechnology, to conform with the Convention on Biological Diversity (Rio 
de Janeiro, 1992). guaranteeing both the principle of free scientific 
approach to worldwide genetic resources and the interests of developing 
countries in sharing the benefits of technological progress.

6. However, it is aware that for ethical reasons there are also severe 
reservations against patenting living organisms.

7. It considers that the issue of patenting living organisms should comply 
with the provisions of the Convention on Biological Diversity, and that 
greater account should be taken of the interests of developing countries in 
the Agreement on TradeRelated Aspects of Intellectual Property Rights (TRIPS 
Agreement) of the World Trade Organisation; it asks the World Trade 
Organisation to comply with the Convention on Biological Diversity.

8. The Assembly has taken note that Directive 98/44/EEC on the legal 
protection of biotechnological inventions of 6 July 1998 (BioPatenting 
Directive of the European Community) was challenged at the European Court of 
Justice by the governments of the Netherlands and Italy, and that Norway is 
considering not implementing it.

9. The Assembly considers that monopolies granted by patent authorities may 
undermine the value of regional and worldwide genetic resources and of 
traditional knowledge in those countries that provide access to the these 
resources.

10. It considers that the aim of sharing the benefits from the utilisation 
of genetic resources on this broader view does not necessarily require 
patentholding but requires a balanced system for protecting both 
intellectual property and the "common heritage of mankind".

11. It also considers that the many outstanding questions regarding the 
patentability and the scope of protection of patents an living organisms in 
the agrofood sector must be solved swiftly taking into account all interests 
concerned, not least those of farmers and developing countries.

12. The Assembly therefore believes that neither plant, animal nor human 
derived genes, cells, tissues or organs can be considered as inventions nor 
be subject to monopolies granted by patents,

13. For these reasons, the Assembly recommends that the Committee of 
Ministers, in cooperation with the European Union, the World Intellectual 
Property Organization, the Food and Agriculture Organization, the World 
Trade Organization, Unesco and in accordance with the Convention on 
Biological Diversity (CBD):


i. study in detail all aspects linked to the protection of intellectual 
property in biotechnological innovations with a view to further improving 
international legislation in this field;

ii. assess and review the effects of granting pate

NATIVE_NEWS: Judge puts Indian tribe in driver's seat State, Potawatomis must negotiate tribal license plates.

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Date: Fri, 24 Sep 1999 01:41:33 -0500
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Judge puts Indian tribe in driver's seat 
State, Potawatomis must negotiate tribal license plates. 

By CARL MANNING 
The Associated Press 

A federal judge issued an order Thursday blocking the state from enforcing
its motor vehicle registration laws against the Prairie Band of Potawatomi
Indians who drive with tribal tags on their vehicles.

U.S. District Judge Dale E. Saffels also ordered the tribe and officials of
the Kansas Department of Revenue and Kansas Highway Patrol to negotiate
over the question of whether tribal members can travel off the
121-square-mile reservation in Jackson County with their Potawatomi plates.

In a recent lawsuit, the Potawatomis maintain they are a federally
recognized Indian tribe with sovereign powers within their reservation
based on numerous treaties, court decisions and federal law. As such, they
say they have the right to issue their own license plates.

The revenue department, which issues Kansas license plates and enforces
motor vehicle registration laws, maintains it is following a state law that
doesn't allow the agency to recognize the tribal tags off the reservation.

Defendants in the case are Secretary of Revenue Karla Pierce; Sheila
Walker, director of vehicles;, and Col. Don Brownlee, Kansas Highway Patrol
superintendent.

"The court finds that if the defendants are not enjoined from enforcing the
Kansas motor vehicle registration and titling laws pending the outcome of
this case, the plaintiff would suffer irreparable injury," Saffels'
seven-page order said.

Saffels also ordered both sides to participate in settlement conference in
an effort to reach compromise. That conference must occur within 45 days
and will be overseen by U.S. Magistrate Karen Humphreys, of Wichita.

"The court finds that it may hasten the resolution of this case if the
parties participate in mediation," the order said.

In a statement, Pierce said, "It is the department's position that the
temporary restraining order applies only to law enforcement actions (the
issuing of tickets) and not to the administrative processes of the Division
of Motor Vehicles."

"However, with that said, this is just one step in a long process to reach
a final resolution to this case. Simply put, this is a marathon, not a
sprint," Pierce said.

In recent months, some tribal members have driven on state highways with
Potawatomi tags in hopes of getting at least one ticket to set the stage
for a test case. The lawsuit was filed by the tribe after one of its
members was ticketed for driving on a state highway with a tribal tag. 

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NATIVE_NEWS: "RUN FOR LEONARD" Kick-Off for November Freedom Month

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Date: Fri, 24 Sep 1999 01:17:57 -0400
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Organization: League of Indigenous Sovereign Nations of the Western Hemisphere
Subject: "RUN FOR LEONARD" Kick-Off for November Freedom Month
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Leonard Peltier Freedom Month
  
A special call to all American Indians of all Nations: Help in making a
strong statement/showing of native representation by joining the
ceremonial runners on this journey from Philadephia to Washington, D.C.!

The "RUN FOR LEONARD," sponsored by the International LPDC Office, will
be the kick-off for events planned throughout the month of November.
Native American ceremonial runners, along with both native and
non-native supporters, will begin their two-day run on Saturday, October
30th at the historical Liberty Bell in Philadelphia. The morning
schedule is as follows:

7:00 a.m. - Prayer Ceremonies and Speech
9:00 a.m. - Drumming with the "Sovereign Nations" Drum Group
10:00 a.m. - Run Begins

Following the speech, prayer and drumming session at the Liberty Bell,
the runners will begin their journey to the White House in Washington
D.C. On Monday, November 1st, they will be met by all local supporters,
and religious leaders of high standing, such as Archbishop Desmond
Tutu, together with a Native American religious leader of equal
standing. Together they will welcome the runners, and officially open
Leonard Peltier Freedom Month.

Many more native runners are requested to join the "Run for Leonard" to
make this the strongest showing of native support ever for Leonard. 

Please pass this information on to as many native lists, organizations
and Native American school and university groups as possible. For
additional information, please contact Janet Cavallo, LPDC designated
"Run for Leonard" coordinator in Philadelphia.  Contact can be made via
e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] or by telephone: 215-387-8538.

It's 1999, why is Leonard Peltier still in prison???

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Download LPDC Freedom Month Information to copy and distribute at your
events. Available files include:

Leonard's Letter about November
Leonard Peltier Freedom Month Proposal
Endorsement Form
"Sign-Up to Help" Form
"What Can I Do" List of Suggestions

Files and other information are linked from: 
http://www.lisn.net/home.htm#peltier-month
 Just click on the DOWNLOAD link in the lower left
 portion of the Freedom Month information box. 

Or go directly to http://www.lisn.net/peltier2-print.htm#download-files

It's 1999, why is Leonard Peltier still in prison???



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NATIVE_NEWS: Legislative Impact Interior Appropriations Update

[Ish]

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Date: Thu, 23 Sep 1999 22:14:05 -0400
From: Joe Paczkowski <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>

By a  vote of 89 yeas to 10 nays, (Vote No. 291), the Senate passed H.R. 
2466, making appropriations for the Department of the Interior and
related agencies for the fiscal year ending September 30, 2000, and for
other purposes.   (9/23/99 7:10 PM)

The measure now goes to conference with the House.

http://www.legislativeimpact.com 

NATIVE_NEWS: Legislative Impact Update / Red River Valley

[Ish]

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Date: Thu, 23 Sep 1999 22:00:58 -0400
From: Joe Paczkowski <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>

A new bill was introduced yesterday (9/23/99), which directly impacts 
tribes. Legislative Impact will be adding this bill to our database 
shortly. 

H.R.2918 

SPONSOR: Rep Pomeroy, Earl (introduced 09/22/99) 

A bill to amend Public Law 89-108 to increase authorization levels for 
State and Indian tribal, municipal, rural, and industrial water
supplies, 
to meet current and future water quantity and quality needs of the Red 
River Valley, to deauthorize certain project features and irrigation 
service areas, to enhance natural resources and fish and wildlife
habitat, 
and for other purposes. 



http://www.legislativeimpact.com 

NATIVE_NEWS: Fwd: Walk for Justice & SD murder investigation report

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  From the Offices of:  AMERICAN INDIAN MOVMENT 
NATIONAL FIELD OFFICE

E-mail Address: [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Dear Friends,
Nowa Cumig AKA Dennis Banks and myself have just returned from the Walk for Justice in 
Rapid City, SD. The walk and subsequent meetings and events were extremely successful. 
 This success would not have been possible without your prayers, support and messages 
of good wishes, which continue to strengthen us and all of Indian country. Pilamaya

The walk organized at Roosevelt Park in Rapid City about 10 am. with speeches by Nowa 
Cumig and several others. There was a heavy media and police presence. The marched 
began about 11am and moved from the park to the federal building in Rapid.

At the federal building speeches regarding the deaths in Rapid, White Clay, Mobridge 
as well as other places were addressed. Nowa Cumig was the main speaker and was very 
motivating as usual. The walk continued on to the Pennington County Courthouse where 
more speeches were delivered. Many people drove by and honked or waved their support. 
The march then continued on to the Rapid City Police Station but stopped on the way to 
sing & drum traditional songs outside the jail for the benefit of the prisoners 
inside. At the Police station more speeches and statements were made. Afterwards the 
march returned to Roosevelt Park and we regrouped at the Oyate Center in Lakota 
Village in the northern section of Rapid City.

During the march the Rapid City Police were respectful and accommodating, and in my 
view were not intimidating at all. ( No I'm not on drugs ).

At the Oyate Center there were several representatives of area law enforcement who 
agreed to discuss with us the issues surrounding the Rapid Creek murders. Included 
were the Pennington County Sheriff, two investigators from the Rapid City Police 
Department and a Deputy Sheriff (who had been working in plain clothes throughout the 
march). Nowa Cumig, Mark White Bull (Mobridge) and myself convened with these people 
in a private office for discussions. As promised, a representative of U.S. Senator Tom 
Daschle's office, joined the discussion via phone hook up.  The law enforcement 
officers were very forthcoming with information regarding their efforts in solving the 
Rapid Creek murders and efforts in preventing additional assaults on Indian people. 
Much of the information provided to us is confidential and could compromise ongoing 
investigations if listed here so I won't.

Quite frankly, the investigation into these deaths is far more involved then we had 
previously believed. ( one of the investigators is an enrolled member of the Oglala 
Lakota Nation).  Senator Daschle's office was also extremely helpful and well-informed 
(as he should be) of the issues surrounding the deaths of Indians in SD. Mark White 
Bull stressed the issue of the murderers of Boo Many Horses in Mobridge being charged 
with manslaughter instead of murder.  After the private meeting Nowa Cumig stated to 
the law enforcement officials that he believed they were putting forth their best 
efforts to solve the Rapid Creek murders but since the murderer(s) are still at large 
more needs to be done and a coalition between the Indian community and law enforcement 
must be established to secure the welfare of Indian people. They agreed.  We are now 
in the process of establishing "citizen patrols" of the area's where the murders took 
place, working in conjunction with law enforcement and !
!
esta
blishing credible liaisons between us and them. Following the meeting the officers met 
with the Indian community gathered at the Oyate Center and enjoyed frybread and soup 
with us. A few of the people vented their anger and frustration with the police in 
general but overall the community meeting was positive.

Afterwards, Nowa Cumig and myself met with the Head of the FBI for South Dakota. He 
gave us a run down of the investigation into the Killings at White Clay (Pine Ridge). 
Although he was not as forthcoming as local law enforcement he did enlighten us to 
their efforts in bringing the murderer(s) to justice. He said a large contingent of 
investigators was assigned to this case, more than he has seen in seven years on a 
single investigation.

I'm sure that after reading this there are those who may feel that we have been 
deceived by the police or fallen victim to a conspiracy of lies. We believe those 
officials we spoke with were honest and truthful, after all, they did not have to be 
there nor share this information with us.  On the other hand, this report is not to be 
interpreted as meaning we have complete trust in any law enforcement agency or 
individual. We will never let down our guard.  The investigation to find the killer(s) 
responsible for the Rapid Creek murders is ongoing and intensified as a result of all 
of our actions and prayers.  I truly believe we have moved closer to apprehending the 
killer(s) and 

NATIVE_NEWS: News Briefs

[Ish]

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News Briefs from Victor Rocha's pechanga.net

MORE THAN 10,000 GUESTS TO ENJOY FOOD, DANCES, ARTWORK AND CONTESTS AT UPCOMING 
MORONGO POW-WOW Over $50,000 to be awarded in prizes at ninth annual event --
http://www.pechanga.net/more_than_10.htm 
  MORONGO INDIAN RESERVATION, CA -- Hundreds of the country's top Native American 
dancers, singers, drummers and artists will convene for this year's ninth annual 
Thunder and Lightning pow-wow, hosted by the Morongo Band of Mission Indians.  For 
three days - September 24, 25 and 26 - the Morongo Indian reservation will reverberate 
with the call of tribal drums, as visitors and contestants come together to celebrate 
the rich history of this country's native heritage.  Thunder and Lightning is one of 
the largest annual pow-wows in California. 
~~~

Senator criticizes Babbitt over mismanagement of Indian accounts
http://www2.startribune.com/stOnLine/cgi-bin/article?thisStory=80947121 
  -- WASHINGTON (AP) -- The Senate' s only American Indian accused the Interior 
Department of making excuses instead of seriously trying to make amends for 
mismanaging more than $3 billion of American Indians' money. Sen. Ben Nighthorse 
Campbell, chairman of the Senate Indian Affairs Committee, clashed Wednesday with 
Interior Secretary Bruce Babbitt at a hearing on the money issue, saying Babbitt' s 
department dragged its feet and hindered efforts to correct problems with missing 
paperwork, lax oversight and poor investments for the Indian funds. " Indians are owed 
more than promises, and enough is enough, " said the Colorado Republican and member of 
the Northern Cheyenne tribe. " Indian Country has continued to be asked to wait for 
their money, and Indians still don' t have their money." 

Opponents, tribal members split over proposed amphitheater 
http://flash.oregonlive.com/cgi-bin/or_nview.pl?/home1/wire/AP/Stream-Parsed/OREGON_NEWS/o1926_PM_WA--MuckleshootAmphit
 
-- AUBURN, Wash. (AP) -- Hard feelings were evident as supporters and opponents 
squared off at a public hearing over an amphitheater project proposed by the 
Muckleshoot Indian Tribe. About 300 people showed up for Wednesday's hearing, which 
was the only public chance to comment on the $30 million, 20,000-seat White River 
Amphitheatre before a final environmental impact report is issued, probably in 
January. A draft report, released last month, concludes the tribe can adequately 
reduce the effects of traffic, noise and glare. The amphitheater would be located amid 
farmland seven miles southeast of downtown Auburn. 
~~~

2 Mescalero Candidates Taken Off Ballot 
http://www.abqjournal.com/news/5news09-23-99.htm  
-- LAS CRUCES -- Two candidates previously certified for Tuesday's ballot in the 
Mescalero Apache tribal presidential primary were removed from the ballot this week in 
what critics are calling "bad politics" by tribal President Sara Misquez. The names of 
Ben Martinez, a 28-year-old portfolio manager for Chase Bank of Texas, and Oliver 
Enjady, a 47-year-old painter and former tribal vice president, were removed from 
sample primary ballots posted on the reservation Wednesday, Enjady said. Both men had 
anticipated the development in interviews about the Tribal Council's removal from 
office Monday of Rufina Laws, chairman of the Election Board overseeing next week's 
primary. 


More than 100 Tribes Visit Coachella Valley 
http://www.msnbc.com/local/KMIR/31332.asp 
-- PALM SPRINGS More than 100 tribes around the United States are visiting the 
Coachella Valley this week to learn ways on saving their precious land. The Agua 
Caliente Band of Cahuilla Indians is hosting the event to give workshops on estate 
planning, leasing of Indian land and title management. One tribal member from Arizona 
claims it s an informational symposium to make sure reservation Indian boundaries 
remain protected. The 9th annual symposium ends on Thursday. 

Tribes mistakenly get OK for gambling compacts 
http://www.lvrj.com/lvrj_home/1999/Sep-23-Thu-1999/business/12006292.html 
-- SAN DIEGO -- Two Indian tribes mistakenly received legislative approval for 
gambling compacts with Gov. Gray Davis in the frenzy of last-minute action before the 
1999 session ended. In one of its last acts of the session, the Legislature earlier 
this month hurriedly passed a bill approving gambling compacts with 57 tribes. But two 
of those tribes had not signed a gambling compact with Davis. Mesa Grande had no 
intention of putting a casino on its north San Diego County reservation, and Jamul 
hasn't decided whether to pursue gambling or collect a share of the revenues from 
other tribes' slot machines. "We were in the midst of a midnight session and getting 
compacts cranked out that night," said Davis spokeswoman Hilary McLean. 
~

Tribes believe cigarette plant will be fin

NATIVE_NEWS: Native Americans Tour Israel Gov't.

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lead via pechanga.net
Today: September 23, 1999 at 9:14:55 PDT
Native Americans Tour Israel Gov't.
http://www.lasvegassun.com/sunbin/stories/w-me/1999/sep/23/092300083.html
ASSOCIATED PRESS

JERUSALEM (AP) -- A delegation of Native Americans, some wearing feathered headdresses 
and others carrying drums, toured the Israeli parliament on Thursday.

Tribal leaders greeted Speaker Avraham Burg with a drum salute, accompanied by singing 
and dancing. Burg tried on a headdress given to him as a present and pounded a drum.

"This kind of spiritual expression has never been expressed here. You are the 
pioneers," said a smiling Burg, whose regular work days are filled with trying to keep 
unruly Israeli legislators in line.

The 100-strong delegation, which is on a tour of Israel, represented the First Nations 
of North America, an umbrella group of Native American tribes.

Tribal leader Will Mayo of Tanana, Alaska, gave Burg a bead necklace. He told Burg the 
necklaces were once used as currency by some Native Americans. The speaker said the 
gift was timely, noting the Knesset was in budget talks.

Other gifts included a feather headdress for Israeli Prime Minister Ehud Barak and 
necklaces, sculptures, beads and a blanket for Burg.

Burg presented the group with a piece of olive wood a dove of peace. As he left, Burg 
was once again saluted with drumming. This time, Burg joined the circle and pounded on 
the drum.

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NATIVE_NEWS: FCNL Native American Legislative Updates for September 23, 1999

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From: Aura Kanegis <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
To: 
Subject: FCNL Native American Legislative Updates for September 23, 1999
Date: Thu, 23 Sep 1999 15:48:59 -0400
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The following are updates and action suggestions from the Friends Committee
on National Legislation (FCNL) regarding Indian affairs legislation for the
coming two weeks.  These messages focus on selected legislation which
Congress is considering now, and suggest some points that you may wish to
make in your communications with Congress.  These messages are intended as a
supplement to other FCNL Native American Program materials and do not
reflect FCNL's complete policy position on any issue, nor do they include
all pertinent facts on any topic.  For more information, or to request the
FCNL Indian Report and other background documents, please contact Aura
Kanegis, FCNL Legislative Associate for Native American Affairs:  (202) 547-
6000 ext. 112; 245 2nd St. NE, Washington, DC 20002; [EMAIL PROTECTED]

STATE TAXATION OF TRIBAL GOVERNMENTS.  On May 13th, Rep. Visclosky (IN)
introduced HR 1814, a bill which would require Indian tribes to collect and
pay state sales taxes on goods sold on tribal lands.  It would instruct the
Department of Interior to take tribal lands out of trust status if a retail
establishment on that land is not paying "qualified state taxes", and would
give tribes that have compacts with surrounding state governments priority
in receiving federal grants. While the Supreme Court has ruled that states
may collect taxes on sales made to non-Indians by reservation businesses if
the burden of collection does not fall on the tribe, the law does not
require states to do so.  

States accept the sovereign authority of other states to establish their own
tax laws. Likewise, the sovereign authority of tribal governments to
establish their own tax laws should be recognized by state governments.
Several states have worked out voluntary agreements with tribes for the
collection of taxes equivalent to sales made to non-members, while other
states have waived their claim to collect these taxes in deference to tribal
sovereignty. HR 1814 would undermine these decisions. 

Tribal trust lands are critical to tribal survival and cultural
preservation, and their status should not be threatened as a means to force
tribes into tax agreements with state governments.   If enacted, H.R. 1814
would shift important aspects of the federal trust responsibility into state
government hands. Tribal governments would have no recourse against state
and local governments that refused to negotiate the required tax agreements
or that proposed unfair tax compacts. Unlike the federal government, states
are not accountable to the trust responsibility. Petroleum marketers,
convenience store associations, and truck stop owner associations are
pushing for the House Resources Committee to consider HR 1814 this fall.

ACTION: Contact Rep. Visclosky, members of the House Resources Committee,
and your representative to voice opposition to HR 1814. Congress should be
encouraging tribes to reclaim trust lands and consolidate their
reservations, not pursuing legislation which threatens the removal of trust
status on tribal lands.

INTERIOR APPROPRIATIONS.  Last week the Senate resumed debate on H.R. 2466,
the FY 2000 Interior appropriations bill, which includes funding for many
important tribal programs.  The bill has now been set aside indefinitely in
response to disagreements over issues unrelated to Indian affairs.  When
final action is completed on the bill a House-Senate conference committee
will meet to work out a compromise between House and Senate versions of the
bill.

Several policy provisions of concern to tribes are contained in either the
House or Senate versions of these bills.  These include the following:

An amendment by Sen. Graham (FL) would block the Secretary of the
Interior from implementing procedures for tribes to pursue when a state does
not act in good faith to negotiate tribal-state compacts as required by the
Indian Gaming Regulatory Act. 

Section 125 of the Senate bill calls for a redistribution of Tribal
Priority Allocations (TPA)funding.  Due to a recently released study
highlighting the administrative faults of the Bureau of Indian Affairs, the
already underfunded Bureau has been called to clean up its management
problems at the expense of Indians who rely heavily on TPA, their most
important source of federal funds. The Federal government should increase
funding for TPA to meet the demonstrated shortfalls in funding this
important aspect of the Federal government's trust responsibility to tribes.

Section 324 of the Senate bill would continue the moratorium on new
and expanded 638 tribal contracting.  The contracting at issue enables
tribes to provide gene

NATIVE_NEWS: Ipperwash meeting, Oct 5, Toronto

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Date: Wed, 22 Sep 1999 23:49:48 -0700
From: Ann Pohl <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
To: [EMAIL PROTECTED], [EMAIL PROTECTED], [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Subject: Ipperwash


Coalition for a Public Inquiry into the Death of Dudley George
announces an

   IMPORTANT PUBLIC MEETING
   TUESDAY, OCT. 5, 1999, 6:00 - 8:00 PM

  Native Canadian Centre, 16 Spadina Rd. Toronto
  (just north of Bloor)

Agenda will include:

- preparations for November Vigil in Ottawa:
- Justice for Leonard Peltier and Dudley George;
- the Ontario Liberals' proposed Truth About Ipperwash Act,
- the latest news on related court cases.

Your support is needed! Please plan to attend.

Info: 416-537-3520
Visit our website at http://www.web.net/~inquiry






.
Bob Olsen, Toronto  [EMAIL PROTECTED]
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NATIVE_NEWS: Toronto: Visiting Lectureship on Native Health, Oct.18 - Nov. 5, 1999

[Ish]

Date: Thu, 23 Sep 1999
14:47:47 -0400
From: Chandrakant Shah <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject:  Visiting Lectureship on Native
Health, Oct.18 - Nov. 5, 1999

Dear Friends:

You may find the following announcement useful. Please circulate it
widely, and NO Registration is required for attendance. 


10th Annual Visiting
Lectureship on Native Health
Healthy Children: Healthy Nations
Oct. 18 - Nov. 5, 1999


VISITING LECTURERS

Mr. Ovide Mercredi LLB, PhD
Former National Chief, Assembly of First Nations
Mr. Richard Budgell M.A.
Manager, Aboriginal Child & Youth Section,
Health Canada
Mr. William J. Mussell B.A., M.S.W., M.Ed.
Manager & Principal Educator
Sali’l’shan Institute, British Columbia
Deputy Grand Chief Jim Morris
Nishnawbe-Aski Nation

INAUGURAL LECTURE

Mr. Ovide Mercredi 
Healthy Children: Healthy Nations
Mr. Richard Budgell
Better Beginning, Better Future

October 19, 2:00 - 4:30 p.m. • Hart House Theatre, 7 Hart
House Circle., St. George Campus, University of Toronto
 • Sponsor: Aboriginal Child & Youth Section, Health 
Canada


PUBLIC LECTURES AND FORUM

LECTURE


Mr. Bill Mussell: Keeping the Momentum in School
October 26, 2:00 - 3:30 p.m. Medical Sciences Bldg., Room
4171, 1 King’s College Circle,
University of Toronto. Sponsor: The Hospital for Sick Children
Foundation.


FORUM


Mr. Bill Mussell: Keeping the Momentum in School
October 26, 7:30 - 9:30 p.m. North York City Hall, Council
Chambers, 5100 Yonge St.
Sponsor: Toronto Committee on Community, Race & Ethnic Relations
(North York Division) and University of Toronto.


LECTURE


Mr. James Morris: Youths: the Future
November 2, 2:00 - 3:30 p.m. Medical Sciences Bldg., Room
4171, 1 King’s College Circle,
University of Toronto. Sponsor: The Ontario Ministry of Health,
Government of Ontario


These speakers will be available to the University Community for
presentations.
For furthur information contact Dr. C.P. Shah by e-mail at
<[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
or phone at 978-6459 or 978-6961.


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NATIVE_NEWS: Canada 9/23/99

[Ish]

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Date: Thu, 23 Sep 1999 09:47:52 -0400
To: [EMAIL PROTECTED],[EMAIL PROTECTED]
From: Lynne Moss-Sharman <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Canada9/23/99


~~ 
18th-century diary helped judges rule treaty is still valid
New Brunswick Telegraph Journal  9/22/99
By PHILIP LEE 

For now we see as through a glass, darkly. - St. Paul, to the Corinthians.
The landmark Supreme Court of Canada decision that acquitted Nova Scotia
Mi'kmaq Donald Marshall Jr. of illegal fishing charges is grounded in a
compelling historical detective story.
Justice Ian Binnie, writing for the majority, begins the story by
presenting two images that reach across the great divide of more than two
centuries of history. On an August morning six years ago, Donald Marshall
Jr. and a friend fired up their outboard and
motored out into the waters of Pomquet Harbour where they landed 463 pounds
of eels. They later sold their catch for $787.10. Mr. Marshall was arrested
and began his journey to the Supreme Court.

On another August morning 235 years earlier, missionary John Seycombe of
Chester, N.S., noted in his diary: "Two Indian squaws brought seal skins
and eels to sell." "The thread of continuity between these events, it
seems, is that the Mi'kmaq people have sustained themselves in part by
harvesting and trading fish [including eels] since Europeans first visited
the coasts of what is now Nova Scotia in the 16th century," Justice Binnie
writes.
"From this distance, across more than two centuries, events are necessarily
seen 'as through a glass, darkly.' "Mr. Marshall's lawyers argued he was
entitled to continue to harvest fish and sell his catch by virtue of a
treaty his people signed with the British in 1760. The Supreme Court of
Canada agreed. The Marshall decision is significant because it is the first
Supreme Court decision that recognizes the right of Mi'kmaq people to fish
and hunt for commerce.

However, the story doesn't end there; the fallout from this extraordinary
decision has just begun. The Supreme Court justices have studied and
interpreted the historical evidence and in a general way applied it to
modern realities.The court leaves natives with the difficult task of
collectively interpreting the Marshall decision. Government regulators have
been handed the monumental task of setting and enforcing limitations on
native harvesting and commerce in the interest of conservation, for the
court's decision by no means implies that there be anarchy in our woods and
on our waters. In its broader context, the Marshall decision is another
step in the process of sorting out the profound implications of the
recognition of aboriginal and treaty rights when the Canadian
Constitution was patriated in 1982. Fredericton lawyer Gordon Gregory
served as New Brunswick's deputy minister of justice during
the time of the constitutional negotiations in the early 1980s
Mr. Gregory recalls asking then-premier Richard Hatfield, "What does this
mean, this provision for aboriginal rights?" "They'll work it out," Mr.
Hatfield replied.

"We now know who 'they' are; 'they' are the courts, the members of the
Supreme Court of Canada," Mr. Gregory says. "It's a broad sweep. It's a
significant step for Mi'kmaq people."Who would have thought that a note in
a missionary's diary would later take on the significance that it did. We
are looking at grains of sand against a broad historical backdrop. All we
have are the grains of sand."

To fully appreciate the implications of the Marshall decision we must
strain as the Supreme Court justices did to understand our history "as
through a glass, darkly."The Marshall decision is the Supreme Court's
interpretation of the Treaty of Peace and Friendship
signed on March 10, 1760, in Halifax. The Mi'kmaq people and the British
negotiated the treaty in the winter of 1760 during a period of great
military and political turmoil following the fall of the French fortresses
at Louisbourg and Quebec the previous year. The Mi'kmaq people had been
allies of the French. Meanwhile, the British were in the process of
expelling the Acadians from Nova Scotia, which then included New Brunswick.
Six years before the Halifax treaty was signed, the British Governor of
Nova Scotia had issued a
proclamation offering rewards for the killing and capturing of Mi'kmaq
people throughout Nova Scotia, a decree that launched the Mi'kmaq-British
wars. Justice Binnie notes that the Mi'kmaq were a fighting force to be
reckoned with in the 18th century. They had fierce raiding parties on land
and were accomplished sailors who had seized 100 European sailing vessels
before 1760.

"They [the Mi'kmaq] were not people to be trifled with," Justice Binnie
writes. "However, by 1760, the British and Mi'kmaq had a mutual
self-interest in terminating hostilities and establishing the basis for a
stable peace. "The treaties were entered into in a period where the British
were attempting to expand and secure

NATIVE_NEWS: Canada News Briefs (cont)

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Date: Thu, 23 Sep 1999 09:47:52 -0400
To: [EMAIL PROTECTED],[EMAIL PROTECTED]
From: Lynne Moss-Sharman <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Canada9/23/99

RICHARD CONDO
Ottawa Sun  9/23/99 
Condo heated in court
By RICHARD ROIK, Ottawa Sun

Career criminal Richard Condo accused a justice of the peace of
being "unjust" yesterday after his latest court appearance ended
with heated words. Condo, the 35-year-old Ottawa man accused of abducting
his ex-wife and savagely beating her while out on bail last May, had hoped
a special court appearance yesterday would get him a quick trial date. But
Justice of the Peace Mike Jolicoeur shot down the bid before Condo had
finished. "Can I have this remanded to Monday?" Condo then asked. "No,"
Jolicoeur answered. "How's that?" Condo continued. "Because I told you so,"
the JP answered."That's a little unjust," Condo shot back. Only moments
earlier, Crown prosecutor Des McGarry had said he was willing to start the
trial "very quickly," but noted that Condo is still undergoing a
psychiatric assessment at his own request. McGarry also pointed out that
Condo's girlfriend, lawyer Diane Magas, is now a co-accused in the case and
should be present for any legal proceedings. Condo faces a host of charges
connected to the abduction of his estranged wife Yvonne McGuire on May 31.
He was out on bail on charges of criminally harassing McGuire and
assaulting both her father and her lawyer. 
 

NEPHEW GUILTY MANSLAUGHTER, UNCLE Roseau Reserve
Winnipeg Sun  9/23/99
CRIMEBRIEFS COLUMN

A nephew who killed his uncle with a "vicious, savage" beating
should spend the next 10 to 12 years in prison, court heard
yesterday. Crown attorney Dale Tesarowski said Arthur Arnold Nelson, 27,
deserved the penalty for pummeling Riley Earl Nelson, 49, to death at a
house party at Roseau Reserve in October 1998. Nelson was charged with
second-degree murder, but a jury convicted him Sept. 3 of manslaughter.
Nelson is "mortified" by the pain he has caused his family, said defence
lawyer Amanda Sansregret. "His mother's brothers and sisters aren't talking
to each other. The family is decimated ... by the death of a family
member." Justice Theodore Glowacki reserved his decision until a report on
the impact Nelson's aboriginal background had on his crime is ready.

~~~
WARRIORS TRIAL
Winnipeg lSun  9/23/99
Gang delay fix
By KATHLEEN MARTENS, COURTS REPORTER

Another day, another delay in the Manitoba Warriors trial. But
this two-week recess should put the complex legal case back on
track. The massive conspiracy trial, which accuses an alleged city street
gang of organized crime, has bogged down amid conflict-of-interest
problems. Justice Ruth Krindle proposed a solution yesterday: The legal
firm Phillips Aiello can stay on the case if six independent lawyers
canvassed its six clients about the situation. If the clients agree, their
original lawyers will defend them during the lengthy trial as planned, but
independent lawyers would take over when an alleged
gang-member-turned-Crown-witness
testifies against them. The move is needed to distance Phillips Aiello
lawyers from ex-client Kingsley Kline. The firm cannot cross-examine a
former paying customer. Krindle's other choice was removing Phillips Aiello
from the case over the protests of its clients, who wanted to keep their
lawyers. That move could have delayed the trial another three to six
months. Dave Phillips, a partner in the firm, said his firm wasn't prepared
to pick up the tab for more lawyers. Defence lawyers are being paid by
legal aid, while the salaries of Crown prosecutors, court staff, the judge
and security officers are also funded by taxpayers. The province also spent
$3.5 million building the special Chevrier Boulevard courthouse for the
trial. Krindle said she'd deal with the financial question later. 

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MASS SUICIDE THREATENED: COLUMBIA
9/23/99
Mass suicide threatened by Colombian tribe
Opponents of oil drilling
 Knight Ridder 

BOGOTA, Colombia - An Indian tribe that has threatened to jump off
a 425-metre Andean cliff in a collective suicide if oil development
proceeds on ancestral lands has heard some bad news: Exploratory
oil drilling will go ahead. Juan Mayr, the environment minister, issued a
permit on Tuesday for Occidental de Colombia to drill a single exploratory
well at a site abutting an U'wa tribal reserve. 
Occidental de Colombia, a subsidiary of the Occidental Petroleum
Corp. of Bakersfield, Calif., said drilling of a 500-metre well at a site
known as Gibraltar would begin in mid-2000. 

A spokesman for the U'wa, a remote tribe that believes oil is the
sacred blood of Mother Earth and should be kept in the ground, said
the group was "deeply saddened."  "We are looking at the information to see
what action the community w

NATIVE_NEWS: Canada 9/23/99

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Date: Thu, 23 Sep 1999 09:47:52 -0400
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From: Lynne Moss-Sharman <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Canada9/23/99

EDITORIAL GLOBE AND MAIL  9/23/99
A suicide defines a social dead end
The cycle of death-in-life for Canada's natives must finally be broken

Sherman Laron Labelle is famous in death. The Stoney Indian was variously
the product of a broken home, a broken child-welfare system, a broken
school, a broken alcohol-treatment facility and, most famously, the broken
way most natives live in Canada.
Faced with these social realities, Sherman Laron Labelle did that most
masochistic of teenage things and punished the world by
killing himself.  The sadness of his suicide inspired Alberta
Provincial Judge John Reilly to look at his  death, not as an individual's
act, but as the culmination of a social pathology. In a
report last week, Judge Reilly described how a cabal of leaders on the
Stoney Indian Reserve near Morley -- one of the richest in Canada, with
annual revenues of more than $50-million -- both squandered and
misappropriated public funds. He said misgovernment and misappropriation
ensured that Sherman Labelle would never
get the services he needed.

As a partial remedy, Judge Reilly recommended that, instead of the reserve
income going to the band council for redistribution, reserve members should
receive government cheques and have some of it taxed back to pay for
services. The principle asserts that a fundamental
component of a true democracy emerges when you turn welfare recipients into
taxpayers. Taxpayers can stand up at community meetings and say, as they
continually do in non-native communities,
"as a taxpayer, I think . . ."; that is, I think such-and-such as the
person who pays the salaries of you government employees, as
your real "boss."

Native reserves need residents to feel they are the boss, and the elected
chiefs -- their families or hanger-ons -- are aboriginal-style public
servants. The same redemptive psychology applies
to people who own their own homes. It makes sense that some semblance of
private property -- maybe an English-style freehold on the collective
reserve -- come into being. If it is "your" house, and not the band's
house, you won't -- as often happens on reserves -- trash your dwelling in
an act of shelter suicide.

But, as the Alberta judge also points out, it is not clear that these and
other structural changes will truly efface the bleakness of aboriginal life
in much of Canada. And, in Judge Reilly's words, "We are responsible for
what they suffer today if we continue to
do nothing about it." It is clear that if there is not some kind of
intrinsic economy on reserves, people living on them will always collapse
into social pathologies of one sort or another.
Therefore, while it undoubtedly causes social upheavals in non-native
communities, the recent efforts of natives to gain fishing,
logging and other treaty-based rights must  be applauded.

Working, like paying taxes, makes communities, and the people in them,
healthier. It is also salutary for natives living on
reserves in which no hope of a functioning indigenous economy exists to
leave. However, to ensure that this is not a movement from a place where
there is nothing to do to a place where there is
nothing they know how to do, native education must become paramount both
for non-natives and for aboriginals. Work-study programs, computer
training, deep literacy must become the native religion of the 21st
century. With education, all things are possible. Without
it, more and more Sherman Laron Labelles are inevitable.

Margaret Wente on when helping hurts
MARGARET WENTE  Globe and Mail  9/23/99

On May 21, 1998, a 17-year-old boy named Sherman Labelle stood on a pail,
tied his belt around his neck and around the branch of a tree, kicked the
pail out from underneath his feet, and hanged himself.
In my neighbourhood or yours, this would have been news, because Sherman
was the 48th person to kill himself in a very short span of time. In my
neighbourhood or yours, even in the worst parts of Toronto, people would be
crying bloody murder. But Sherman was just another dead Indian kid on just
another hopeless reserve. No news
there.

Alberta Provincial Court Judge John Reilly is trying to make it news. Judge
Reilly is a crusader, a renegade and all-round thorn in the side of the
authorities. He is responsible for administering justice in the
jurisdiction of Cochrane, Alta., that includes the Stoney reserve. In the
parade of human misery that marches daily through his courtroom, the vast
majority are native people. A couple of years ago, facing his 999th violent
drunk, he turned activist.
Instead of sending the guy to jail, he ordered a full-scale inquiry into
conditions on the reserve, including financial mismanagement.
He was way out of line, of course; he's just a small-time judge, and the
big-time provincial officials slapped him down

NATIVE_NEWS: CONGRESSIONAL PORK WILL KILL YELLOWSTONE BISON

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Subject: CONGRESSIONAL PORK WILL KILL YELLOWSTONE BISON

CONGRESSIONAL PORK WILL KILL YELLOWSTONE BISON

CALLS AND FAXES URGENTLY NEEDED TO SAVE TAX DOLLARS AND BISON


The House and Senate have passed Agriculture Appropriation Bills which
contain hundreds of thousands of dollars for unnecessary research and
killing bison outside of Yellowstone National Park.  The differences in
these bills will be ironed out by a House/Senate Conference Committee
which will begin its deliberations this evening (September 21).

Specifically, the Senate bill (S. 1233) includes $750,000 for Montana to
construct and operate a quarantine facility and for the capture,
testing, and slaughter of bison who wander outside of Yellowstone
National Park.  This is nothing but Congressional "pork" promoted by
Senator Conrad Burns (R-MT) and is a waste or your tax dollars.

This appropriation, if approved, will be used to operate bison traps on
the Gallatin National Forest -- public land -- and on private land near
the western border of Yellowstone where potentially hundreds of bison
may be captured, tested, and shipped to slaughter.   The private land
trap is located mere feet from the Yellowstone boundary and is baited
with fresh hay to lure bison out of the Park.   The private land and
Gallatin forest trap are entirely unnecessary since there are no cattle
grazed in the West Yellowstone area between November and June,
eliminating any perceived risk of BRUCELLA ABORTUS transmission between
bison and cattle.

Any leftover funds will be saved to be used for the future construction
of a bison quarantine facility.  This is unnecessary expenditure of your
tax dollars because none of the agencies involved in bison management
have decided to build and operate a quarantine facility for bison and,
if constructed, such a facility would be a death trap for bison.
Furthermore, Congress has already allocated $1.5 million for a
quarantine facility.  Any past or future allocations for a quarantine
facility are likely illegal as they may predetermine the outcome of the
ongoing National Environmental Policy Act process by pressuring the
agencies to approve such a facility.

The Senate bill also includes $610,000 for the Greater Yellowstone
Interagency Brucellosis Committee (GYIBC).  The GYIBC is comprised of
all the state and federal agencies involved in bison management.  It has
been given the responsibility of resolving the ongoing controversy
surrounding bison management in the Greater Yellowstone Ecosystem.
Unfortunately its current solutions focus on manipulating and killing
bison and elk to eradicate the bacteria while leaving the domestic
livestock industry untouched.  Though the Senate bill does not specify
how this money would be spent, allowing the GYIBC member states
(Wyoming, Idaho, and Montana) to control these funds is unacceptable.

Finally, the House and Senate bills propose $150,000 and $500,000,
respectively, for brucellosis vaccine research at Montana State
University.  These experiments, if funded, are unnecessary, could
potentially result in the killing of dozens of bison, and continues to
promote wildlife vaccination over cattle vaccination as a solution to
this controversy.

CALLS AND FAXES ARE URGENTLY NEEDED TO THE MEMBERS OF THE HOUSE/SENATE
CONFERENCE COMMITTEE (LISTED BELOW) TO OPPOSE THE EXPENDITURE OF FEDERAL
TAX DOLLARS ON UNNECESSARY EXPERIMENTS AND DEADLY MANAGEMENT OF
YELLOWSTONE BISON.  IT IS IMPERATIVE THAT YOU CALL OR FAX ON SEPTEMBER
21 OR 22 SINCE IT IS NOT KNOWN HOW LONG THE CONFERENCE COMMITTEE WILL BE
MEETING.  PLEASE TELL THEM THAT YOU DO NOT OPPOSE THE HOUSE OR SENATE
AGRICULTURE APPROPRIATION BILLS, BUT THAT YOU DO OPPOSE THE USE OF
FEDERAL TAX DOLLARS TO KILL AND EXPERIMENT ON BISON.

If you are a constituent of any of the Senators or Representatives
listed below, it is imperative that you take action immediately.  If you
are not a constituent of any of the conference committee members, call
and fax as many offices as you can to tell them that you are a citizen
of the United States and that you oppose the use of your tax dollars to
kill and experiment on bison.

The important points to make in your call or fax are:

1. Congress has already allocated $1.5 million for a bison quarantine
facility which the agencies have not decided to build and which has not
been subject to environmental impact analysis or public comment.
Providing additional funds is unnecessary and illegal since it may
unduly influence the ongoing Environmental Impact Statement process.

2. There is no justification for continuing to trap, test, and slaughter
Yellowstone bison.  There are no domestic cows in the vicinity of bison
in the winter and bison are hazed back into the Park before cattle are
returned to private or public lands in the spring.

3. Congress should not allocate federal tax dollars to stat

NATIVE_NEWS: Update: TNAT

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Re:  TNAT

Within the past two weeks, Joe Winter was ordered by the University of New 
Mexico to shut down the TNAT program, and to turn over all records, including 
confidential material, to the University's Internal Audit.  (The audit was 
ordered when the program was taken over by the University museum.) On advice 
of counsel, Professor Winter stated that he would do so, providing that a 
mutually agreed upon, independent third party, such as a minister, Native 
American faculty member, or a cultural anthropologist, would review the 
records prior to Internal Audit's receipt and remove any confidential 
material, or sensitive cultural or religious material.

The University has agreed to this condition in writing.  

Professor Winter is taking a few family days, but asked that his profound 
thanks and appreciation go to everyone who has expressed concern, and 
willingness to help.  When this is all over, he may very well reinstitute the 
TNAT program under the auspices of a non-profit organization completely 
separate from the University. 

Martha E. Ture 
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NATIVE_NEWS: En;R.Varolli,Discussion on SOA on PBS Newshour,Sep 22

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Subject: discussion on SOA on PBS Newshour
Date: Wed, 22 Sep 1999 13:06:27 -0700

The Newshour with Jim Lehrer, on PBS, had a substantial report on the issue of the 
closing of the SOA yesterday.

To read the transcript, or listen to real audio of the report, visit
http://www.pbs.org/newshour/

And Please MAKE CALLS TO SENATORS urging support of the Moakley Amendment to HR 2606
Close the SOA!!


**
The Mastiff Association
for the Rights of Indigenous &Colonial Peoples
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NATIVE_NEWS: Indigenous on Earthsongs

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Date: Wed, 22 Sep 1999 23:02:18 -0500 (CDT)
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Indigenous fans don't miss this:

This week on Earthsongs we sample the work of Lunar Drive, Mary Youngblood,
Rita Coolidge, Santana and Los Lobos.  

The young blues sensations, Indigenous, currently on tour with BB King, are
featured on this week's program. The three brothers and a sister, who make
up this popular band, received much of their early inspiration from their
father, a musician and activist in the American Indian Movement.

To listen LIVE on the Internet go to airos.org/audio.html and click on
"Listen to AIROS on-line right now"

The program will air (ALL TIMES ET)

8/23/99: 10am, 4pm, 10pm
8/24/99: 4am
8/25/99: 4pm
8/26/99: 5am, 4pm
8/27/99: 5am

Additional program listings can be found at www.earthsongs.net.


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Comming this fall
from the National Museum of the American Indian:

Coyote Bites Back: Indian Humor

Memory and Imagination: The Legacy of Maidu Indian Artist Frank Day






  


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NATIVE_NEWS: Babbitt Faulted on Indian Accounts

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Babbitt Faulted on Indian Accounts
http://www.newsday.com/ap/rnmpwh1m.htm

By MATT KELLEY Associated Press Writer

WASHINGTON (AP) -- The Senate's only American Indian on Wednesday accused
the Interior Department of making excuses instead of seriously trying to
make amends for mismanaging more than $3 billion of American Indians' money.

Sen. Ben Nighthorse Campbell, chairman of the Senate Indian Affairs
Committee, clashed with Interior Secretary Bruce Babbitt at a hearing on
the money issue, saying Babbitt's department dragged its feet and hindered
efforts to correct problems with missing paperwork, lax oversight and poor
investments for the Indian funds.

``Indians are owed more than promises, and enough is enough,'' said the
Colorado Republican and member of the Northern Cheyenne tribe. ``Indian
Country has continued to be asked to wait for their money, and Indians
still don't have their money,'' Campbell said.

Babbitt retorted that Campbell's own proposed solutions were
``ill-advised'' and ``fantasy.''

``It's just creating another process to quarrel over,'' Babbitt said.

The department's Bureau of Indian Affairs oversees trust accounts for both
individual Indians and tribes: about 1,500 accounts worth more than $2.5
billion for 338 tribes and more than 300,000 accounts for individual
Indians worth more than $500 million.

Babbitt and other department officials admit that both kinds of accounts
have been mismanaged for decades and are plagued by incomplete, inaccurate,
missing or contradictory record-keeping. Auditors could not account for
billions of dollars' worth of past transactions involving the accounts.

Last week Campbell introduced legislation that would create a
semi-independent ``special trustee'' at the department to oversee ``data
cleanup'' -- the process of checking paper records, ensuring they are
accurate and entering them into a computer database. Campbell's proposal
also would create an independent commission to hear from tribal leaders and
other experts about what other steps should be taken to solve the account
management problems.

Tribes have criticized the handling of the trust funds for years, and a
group of individual account holders is suing the department, seeking court
oversight of reform efforts and billions of dollars in compensation. The
judge in that case cited Babbitt and BIA head Kevin Gover for contempt of
court earlier this year for repeated delays in handing over documents.

A lawyer for the Indians, Keith Harper, said Wednesday that both sides have
recently been trying to negotiate a settlement to at least part of the
case. Harper said his clients want the courts to have a role in overseeing
reforms, whether or not Campbell's legislation requiring more independent
oversight of reform efforts passes.

``I don't think anything Congress does should dissuade the court from
taking a role,'' Harper said in an interview. ``Congress can't have a
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NATIVE_NEWS: 18th-century diary helped judges rule treaty is still valid

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Date: Wed, 22 Sep 1999 13:57:57 -0400
From: Lynne Moss-Sharman <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Canada  (2)  9/23/99

:
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18th-century diary helped judges rule treaty is still valid
New Brunswick Telegraph Journal  9/22/99
By PHILIP LEE 

For now we see as through a glass, darkly. - St. Paul, to the Corinthians. The 
landmark Supreme Court of Canada decision that acquitted Nova Scotia Mi'kmaq Donald 
Marshall Jr. of illegal fishing charges is grounded in a compelling historical 
detective story. Justice Ian Binnie, writing for the majority, begins the story by 
presenting two images that reach across the great divide of more than two centuries of 
history. On an August morning six years ago, Donald Marshall Jr. and a friend fired up 
their outboard and motored out into the waters of Pomquet Harbour where they landed 
463 pounds of eels. They later sold their catch for $787.10. Mr. Marshall was arrested 
and began his journey to the Supreme Court.

On another August morning 235 years earlier, missionary John Seycombe of Chester, 
N.S., noted in his diary: "Two Indian squaws brought seal skins and eels to sell." 
"The thread of continuity between these events, it seems, is that the Mi'kmaq people 
have sustained themselves in part by harvesting and trading fish [including eels] 
since Europeans first visited the coasts of what is now Nova Scotia in the 16th 
century," Justice Binnie writes.

"From this distance, across more than two centuries, events are necessarily seen 'as 
through a glass, darkly.' "Mr. Marshall's lawyers argued he was entitled to continue 
to harvest fish and sell his catch by virtue of a treaty his people signed with the 
British in 1760. The Supreme Court of Canada agreed. The Marshall decision is 
significant because it is the first Supreme Court decision that recognizes the right 
of Mi'kmaq people to fish and hunt for commerce.

However, the story doesn't end there; the fallout from this extraordinary decision has 
just begun. The Supreme Court justices have studied and interpreted the historical 
evidence and in a general way applied it to modern realities.The court leaves natives 
with the difficult task of collectively interpreting the Marshall decision. Government 
regulators have been handed the monumental task of setting and enforcing limitations 
on native harvesting and commerce in the interest of conservation, for the court's 
decision by no means implies that there be anarchy in our woods and on our waters. In 
its broader context, the Marshall decision is another step in the process of sorting 
out the profound implications of the recognition of aboriginal and treaty rights when 
the Canadian Constitution was patriated in 1982. Fredericton lawyer Gordon Gregory 
served as New Brunswick's deputy minister of justice during the time of the 
constitutional negotiations in the early 1980s Mr. Gregory recal!
!
ls a
sking then-premier Richard Hatfield, "What does this mean, this provision for 
aboriginal rights?" "They'll work it out," Mr. Hatfield replied.

"We now know who 'they' are; 'they' are the courts, the members of the Supreme Court 
of Canada," Mr. Gregory says. "It's a broad sweep. It's a significant step for Mi'kmaq 
people."Who would have thought that a note in a missionary's diary would later take on 
the significance that it did. We are looking at grains of sand against a broad 
historical backdrop. All we have are the grains of sand."

To fully appreciate the implications of the Marshall decision we must strain as the 
Supreme Court justices did to understand our history "as through a glass, darkly."The 
Marshall decision is the Supreme Court's interpretation of the Treaty of Peace and 
Friendship signed on March 10, 1760, in Halifax. The Mi'kmaq people and the British 
negotiated the treaty in the winter of 1760 during a period of great military and 
political turmoil following the fall of the French fortresses at Louisbourg and Quebec 
the previous year. The Mi'kmaq people had been allies of the French. Meanwhile, the 
British were in the process of expelling the Acadians from Nova Scotia, which then 
included New Brunswick. Six years before the Halifax treaty was signed, the British 
Governor of Nova Scotia had issued a proclamation offering rewards for the killing and 
capturing of Mi'kmaq people throughout Nova Scotia, a decree that launched the 
Mi'kmaq-British wars. Justice Binnie notes that the Mi'kmaq were a f!
!
ight
ing force to be reckoned with in the 18th century. They had fierce raiding parties on 
land and were accomplished sailors who had seized 100 European sailing vessels before 
1760.

"They [the Mi'kmaq] were not people to be trifled with," Justice Binnie writes. 
"However, by 1760, the British and Mi'kmaq had a mutual self-interest in terminating 
hostilities and establishing the basis for a stable peace. "The treaties were entered 
into in a period where the British were attempting to expand and secure 

NATIVE_NEWS: Elders: WINDFALL FOR PINETREE

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WINDFALL FOR PINETREE
Brantford Expositor  9/22/99
by ELIZABETH MEEN 

Brantford -- Pine Tree Native Centre is one of only three Canadian organizations to be 
awarded a windfall by an American institute. The Brantford centre was awarded a 
whopping $50,000 U.S. (more than $70,000 Cdn.) for a program that makes it easier for 
Aboriginal elders to be healthy and happy. The money is almost 15 times the current 
budget of this particular program -- $5,000 a year -- and was provided by the 
University of Pennsylvania Institute on Aging, sponsored by drug company SmithKline 
Beecham.

The other Canadian recipients were the Canadian Ethnocultural Council in Ottawa and 
South Asian Family Support Services in Scarborough. Fourteen programs across North 
America were selected based on an earlier application process. There are an estimated 
14,000 urban Aboriginal people in Brantford and Hamilton areas, and many of them are 
older than 65 and isolated. Life Long Care in Brantford promises meal delivery, 
medical transportation to Six Nations Health Services and elsewhere, home nursing, 
home repair, and visiting. It was praised as a new wave in sensitive healing, 
delivering services to native seniors who face barriers in culture, language, comfort 
and health care. Supporters celebrated along with award sponsors at the King Street 
centre on Tuesday.

There was food and entertainment by the Spirit Wind Dancers, some testimonials and a 
few tears shed. Congratulatory letters were received from Prime Minister Jean Cretien, 
Premier Mike Harris, federal Health Minister Allan Rock, and Brant MPP Dave Levac. 
Provincial Health Minister Elizabeth Witmer was on hand as the minister funding the 
program. Voluntarism is "the key strength of any health system," Witmer said. Program 
co-ordinator Val Montour said additional ministry funding would also help. While she 
appreciated Witmer's comments about the importance of volunteers, she admitted she 
lobbies tirelessly -- relentlessly, even -- for more money.

"This (award) feels great because we're so underfunded and it hinders what we can do," 
she said. The $50,000 U.S., a one-time boost, will go to economic development 
initiatives that can generate more cash: toward the re-created Kanata village, 
expected to be a major attraction in this area, and the retail and wholesale craft and 
gift enterprises. And some dollars will be used to buy a used car for meals-on-wheels 
and medical calls. But Montour said it isn't enough to pay for the rapid expansion of 
the program. And hers is the little program that already grew. A registered nurse, 
Montour launched the Life Long Care program in April 1997 with four volunteers serving 
about a dozen vulnerable seniors. Now she works with 44 volunteers serving 375 regular 
clients. And she believes she could double the load if funding allowed. "In one month 
we spent $1,300 on meals on wheels. Medical transportation? That's really expensive. 
By the time we reach all the people I need to be reaching, I!
!
'll 
have 700 or 800 people," Montour said.

Programs are funded on the $5,000-a-year budget and the province also pays Montour's 
salary. Affectionately known as Val (Never-Say-Can't) Montour, she has rarely met a 
friend or politician she wouldn't recruit to the cause. Mayor Chris Friel tells of 
being partnered with Montour in a canoe ride on the Grand River. They started 
paddling. She started lobbying for cash. Eventually, they hit some rapids and he 
couldn't hear a thing. Water poured in the craft and they briefly went under. They 
surfaced, none the worse for wear although much wetter, "and I look up and Val is 
still talking," he said. She laughed at his story. "It's just so frustrating," she 
said. "There's so much to do, so much we do now. Once I get started talking about my 
program, I can't stop. And I can never give anything less than 110%."

Friel said the recent death of his grandfather underscored the need for senior care in 
all communities."This is exactly what we need: to know there's dignity and they will 
have the respect they fought for, right to the end of their lives." Program volunteer 
Mary Jamieson came on board to help others after the program helped her family. News 
of her father's incurable cancer had devastated everyone. "Somehow, out of the haze, 
came Val Montour. She counselled us, filled us in on `this apparatus,' and `that 
program,' made calls, watched our children, supported us emotionally and urged us to 
prepare physically." Best of all, said Jamieson, Montour could talk to Jamieson's 
father, and he with her. "She understood his beliefs and his wish to see his death as 
a welcome event. We are grateful that, for all my father spoke about the need to be 
kind to others, somebody was kind to him and helped him make that graceful exit to the 
other side," she said. Senior Gordon Jones said after illn!
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NATIVE_NEWS: OPINION: Onus falls on 'white' society for First Nations' devastation

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Tuesday 21 September 1999
Onus falls on 'white' society for First Nations' devastation
http://www.calgaryherald.com/opinion/stories/990921/2887188.html
It's time to do something that will make a difference
Catherine Ford, Calgary Herald

Somewhere between the myth of the mighty savage and the stereotype of the drunken 
Indian lies the reality and the fate of Canada's aboriginal peoples.

I don't presume to have any answers, but I will presume, as should all Canadians, that 
at the heart of the sorry state of too many First Nations reserves lies the attitude 
of non-aboriginal Canadians, the paternalism of the federal government and the 
intransigence of the provinces.

No one will accept blame. No one will actually do anything that might make a 
difference.

It's not that research and recommendations are missing. The pile of papers and reports 
on the "state" of aboriginal communities would fill a good-sized warehouse -- which is 
where most of them are gathering dust, including it seems, the 1996 final massive 
report of the Royal Commission on Aboriginal People.

Last week's devastating report by Alberta Judge John Reilly on the suicide of a 
teenage aboriginal boy, and a new book by Trent University's John S. Milloy on the 
residential school system, entitled A National Crime, are only the latest.

How weighty does the pile become before every Canadian with a heart and a conscience 
is embarrassed into action?

Or can we continue to plead ignorance of the devastation in aboriginal communities?

How can anyone deny the elephant in the living room?

Reilly's report blames the teen's death on "vested interests" in the Stoney Reserve 
west of Calgary who diverted money meant for social programs in order to control their 
people.

The boy's death was caused, said Reilly, by a serious of institutional failures that 
left him with no place to go for help. And so he killed himself.

He's not the first.

The list is embarrassingly long.

What would our reaction have been if 120 residents of the small town of Claresholm had 
died in drug- and alcohol-related deaths in the past decade? Yet 120 did die in a 
similar-sized Stoney community of just over 3,000. Our outrage has been conspicuous in 
its absence.

We didn't set out to destroy the people who were here before us. But we nearly 
succeeded through paternalism, ignorance and abuse. Complicit in the destruction were 
residential schools whose systemic pattern of abuse -- physical, emotional and sexual 
-- left a legacy of bitterness that has never been resolved. The residential schools 
tried to "kill the Indian" in the Indian child and just about succeeded. Period.

Yet it was all meant benignly: a process of good intentions, writes Milloy, rooted in 
the need for education among aboriginal peoples.

What they got instead was a nightmare.

The system meant to civilize First Nations was, says Milloy, "the most damaging of the 
many elements of Canada's colonization of this land's original people."

We can only surmise the situation is so overwhelming -- the reality of poverty, 
starvation and despair in the midst of the plenty that is this country, so alien -- 
and the "cure" so expensive no one will take responsibility for what is necessary.

Maybe we don't even know what is necessary, although a host of studies has clearly 
shown that the template of "white" society laid over an aboriginal one has spawned a 
disaster of epic proportions.

Natives must dance a gavotte between the present and the past, between needing to be 
members of a larger society in which we all share and the tribal society of which they 
are rightful members.

It's not a choice many of us want or need to make. Multiculturalism permits a citizen 
to do both -- be Canadian and something else, claim all the rights and privileges of 
citizenship and celebrate another heritage, be protected from discrimination based on 
ethnic background and participate fully in the life of the larger Canadian community.

Such rights apply to every Canadian except, it seems, the first Canadians. We begrudge 
them the rights and abilities to do what every other Canadian believes to be a 
birthright.

On the door of my office is a sign: Stay Calm. Be Brave. Wait for the Signs. It's the 
sign-off for the scathingly ironic -- and deeply funny -- series of radio sketches 
from the pen of Thomas King called The Dead Dog Cafe Comedy Hour. It's a great recipe 
for dealing with life's vicissitudes.

Certainly Canada's natives have, for the large part, stayed calm. They've been brave 
in the face of racism and discrimination that puts them on the bottom rung of urban 
society.

And the signs? Courts have identified native rights as among the chief issues we face 
in the next century.

Only a cynic would believe we would continue to ignore the obvious.

Catherine Ford can be reached by e-mail at [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Reprinted under the Fair Use http://www4.law.cornell.edu/uscode/1

NATIVE_NEWS: NEWS BRIEFS

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Casinos Not Tribes' Cure-All
The Deseret News
http://www.desnews.com/

Despite the advent of casino-style gambling, most American Indian tribes
still need hundreds of millions of dollars more each year to meet their
basic needs. Of 166 tribes that had casinos in 1996, 28 lost money and only
54 experienced profits worth more than $10,000 per tribal member, according
to a recent report by the Bureau of Indian Affairs. Adding gambling
proceeds to government subsidies, the tribes still find themselves at the
low end of the economic spectrum. American Indian communities have long
suffered from poor infrastructure, limited investment and shifting federal
policy. Presented with those realities, it was folly to believe that these
institutional problems could be overcome by a couple of good years of
gambling revenue ... The numbers suggest all of the tribes are underfunded.
Taking money from one tribe and giving it to another would seemingly be an
attempt to equalize poverty. Such funding shifts could violate the federal
government's constitutional and treaty obligations.

~~
Interior Secretary Says Mesa's Ruins Deserve Added Protection
http://www.ap.org/
Black Canyon City, Ariz.: Interior Secretary Bruce Babbitt said Monday
that an Arizona plateau rich with prehistoric Indian ruins needs new
protections to preserve it from encroaching urban sprawl. "With the future
coming at us, I think we have to acknowledge that a well-kept secret can be
hidden no longer," said Babbitt, standing on a rock wall that forms part of
a bastion overlooking one of Perry Mesa's many canyons. Archaeologists say
Perry Mesa was home to thousands of people from roughly 1200 to 1400. Some
believe its many ruins were militarily and politically allied fortresses
designed to fend off attacks from outsiders ... The federal government
already owns most of Perry Mesa, which is managed by the Bureau of Land
Management and the National Forest Service ... Babbitt said additional
protection is needed to focus attention on the area so the public has an
opportunity to learn of its history and to help ensure the ruins- most of
which have not been studied in depth by archaeologists - are protected.
Phoenix is only about 30 miles to the south, and new development is closer
than that, Babbitt noted. Though making the area into a national park is a
possibility, the more realistic options are to make it a national monument
or designating it as a national conservation area, Babbitt said.

Indian Tribes Fear Handling Sacred Remains
  The Associated Press 
http://www.ap.org/
Tulsa, Okla.: The return of human remains and buried objects to American
Indian tribes and nations is a mixed blessing, several tribal officials
say. Indians have long maintained their right to rebury their ancestors and
burial objects that have sat in museums and in university collections for,
in some cases, longer than a century. The tribes were granted the ability
to reclaim remains and objects in the 1990 Native American Graves
Protection and Repatriation Act ... However, some items in museum
collections have placed tribal members in a quandary because they are so
sacred some fear just handling the objects will cause spiritual
disturbances. "We have what we call sacred bundles that were, you might
say, big, strong medicine. And those things, we believe, had a lot of power
at one time. No one knows how to use those sacred bundles anymore," said
Francis Morris, repatriation coordinator for the Pawnee Nation ... "We
don't know whether they ought to be buried or be kept. No one knows
anything about them anymore," he said. "We can't use them and they may
cause bad luck. We don't know what we are going to do with those things."
Morris said the Pawnee Nation is seeking the return from the Smithsonian
Museum in Washington, D.C., of nine skulls of Pawnee scouts who worked for
the U.S. Army. The scouts were beheaded in Kansas as they were awaiting
discharge from their service, after the U.S. surgeon general put out a
bounty of $ 50 a head for Indian skulls so he could study them.

~~~
Conference Highlights Intricacy of Indian Law
  Bangor Daily News
http://www.bangornews.com/
Rockport: Decades after the landmark court decisions established the
sovereignty of Indian tribal government, the battles continue.
Conflicts between labor laws and unions, the status of non-American Indian
businesses operating on reservations, and Indian hiring preferences often
drive federal law and tribal sovereignty together like a square peg into a
round hole, attorneys specializing in Indian affairs say. These issues and
others were explored Friday by attorneys representing tribes from around
the country at the Indian Law Conference at the Samoset Resort. One of the
featured speakers, 1996 Green Party vice presidential candidate Winona
LaDuke, a member of the Chippewa tribe in Minnesota, related the battle for
eco

NATIVE_NEWS: Colombia Rejects 'Cultural Genocide' Claim, OKs Oil Drilling Near Indian Land

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from: League/LISN <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Colombia Rejects 'Cultural Genocide' Claim,
OKs Oil Drilling Near Indian Land

September 22, 1999
Web posted at: 2:04 a.m. EDT (0604 GMT)

In this story: 

Threat of mass suicide
Balancing need for energy
Spiritual beliefs, fear of violence

RELATED STORIES, SITES
http://cnn.com/WORLD/americas/9909/22/colombia.oil.01/index.html#r  

Also --- CNN Message Board: Indigenous Peoples 
http://community.cnn.com/cgi-bin/WebX?13@@.ee87a8a


BOGOTA, Colombia -- The Colombian government has granted a U.S. petroleum giant a 
license to explore for oil next to Indian lands, rejecting a remote tribe's assertion 
that the result would be "cultural and environmental genocide."

Environment Minister Juan Mayr announced the decision to allow Los Angeles-based 
Occidental Petroleum Corp. to conduct exploratory drilling just outside a 543,000-acre 
reserve inhabited by the tiny U'wa Indian nation.

Calling the cultural threat and the environmental impact minimal, the government said 
Tuesday it granted the license to promote economic development and prevent Colombia 
from becoming an oil importer.

A tribal spokesman said Tuesday the U'wa were considering a drastic response to the 
government's action.

Threat of mass suicide:

"We are looking at the information to see what action the community will take. Mass 
suicide is one option we are considering," Evaristo Tegria said in Cubara, the main 
town on the of 8,000-member tribe's reservation.

"This spells cultural and environmental genocide."

The decision is the latest twist in a seven-year battle by the semi-nomadic U'wa to 
prevent drilling on their ancestral lands. The U'wa, who fish and farm in the hilly 
forested territory near Colombia's border with Venezuela, first received international 
notice in 1997 when they threatened to commit mass suicide if the government allowed 
exploitation of the land. Their cause gained support from environmental groups ranging 
from the Sierra Club to Greenpeace to the Rainforest Action Network.

Balancing need for energy:

The permit that Occidental received Tuesday would allow it to sink the first test well 
in the northeast Samore block, just outside the U'wa reservation. If sizable petroleum 
deposits are found in the area, the company will have to reapply for a license to take 
the oil out of the ground.

The 500,000 acre exploration block is tipped to harbor up to 2.5 billion barrels of 
crude, which would help ensure Colombia's energy needs well into the next millennium.

Oil is Colombia's top export, bringing in some $2.5 billion per year in foreign 
reserves. But output is currently stagnated at about 850,000 barrels per day and the 
country faces the prospect of having to import oil again by 2004 if no major new finds 
are made.

But the U'wa insist the entire Samore block, including parts outside the government- 
approved reservation, was the territory of its semi-nomadic ancestors.

Spiritual beliefs, fear of violence:

According to the U'wa's long-established spiritual beliefs, drilling for oil on its 
tribal lands that span the cloud forests and plains of northeast Colombia, is 
tantamount to sucking the lifeblood out of Mother Earth.

A major oil project so close to U'wa lands also would attract the same kind of 
violence and environmental destruction that plagues oil-producing regions throughout 
Colombia, Tegria said.

Rebels hiding in the jungle have kidnapped oil executives and have carried out 55 
dynamite attacks on pipelines this year, sending oil gushing into the jungles. 
Thousands of soldiers have been detailed to guard the installations.

An Occidental executive said Tuesday his industry was being unfairly blamed for strife 
endemic to a country where guerrillas have a nationwide presence.

"To say that oil is a magnet for violence is to ignore the reality of Colombia, where 
in many areas you have violence and no oil development, " said the company official, 
speaking to The Associated Press on condition of anonymity.

Mayr said the government could ensure the U'wa are shielded from any violence 
associated with the oil industry's coming.

That's almost impossible to guarantee, said David Rothschild, director of the Amazon 
Coalition, a Washington D.C.-based environmental group that has backed the U'wa cause. 
"The Colombian government has shown no ability to keep violence out of these areas. So 
the promises are hollow."

Three American activists working with the U'wa were kidnapped near the reserve and 
killed in March by a unit of the rebel Revolutionary Armed Forces of Colombia, or FARC.

Three American Activists:
http://cnn.com/WORLD/americas/9909/22/colombia.oil.01/link.americans.jpg

The Associated Press and Reuters contributed to this report.



-- 

League of Indigenous Sovereign Nations of the Western Hemisphere
"Many Nations, One People"
L.I.S.N. is an alli

NATIVE_NEWS: Canada 9/22/99 (2 of 2)

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ANGLICAN MINISTER'S WIFE MURDERED, NATIVE MAN CHARGED
Murder suspect in court 
WebPosted: 9/21/99 At: 3:10:16 PM Thunder Bay Source

Murder charges have been laid against a Thunder Bay man in
  connection with the death of a city woman. OPP arrested 31-year-old
Kenneth Delbert Quewezance Monday after police discovered the
 body of Merle Brown in her south side S. Archibald St. home. [police
were called to the residence at 6am]  There are now indications Brown's
husband was also a victim in the incident. Police have confirmed the murder
victim as 61-year-old Merle Brown, wife of Rev. Robert Brown [honourary
minister St. Paul's Anglican Church across from McKellar Hospital]. Deputy
Police Chief Bob Herman says despite a post mortem, investigators can't yet
determine the exact cause of death. But he says they do have enough
information to lay numerous charges against a 31-year-old city man.
Quewezance covered his face to the media as he made his first appearance in
provincial court Tuesday. Herman says there is no indication anyone else
was involved in Brown's death. However, it appears she wasn't the only one
home around the time of the murder. Information released by police Tuesday
indicates Quewezance had recently taken up residence on N. Archibald St.,
just a few blocks up from the Brown home and he did know the victim.
Further forensic testing into the cause of death is expected to be complete
in 4-8 weeks. [part-time coroner Dr. Steve Klassen refused comment when
cornered by reporters outside the home]   Quewezance will be back in court
on Friday.  

~~
NATHAN PELLETIER
Wednesday, September 22, 1999 
Killing called a thrill
'He said that he had finally done what he had been
thinking about'
  By KEVIN MARTIN, CALGARY SUN

Samantha Brunet was slain for the thrill it brought her cross-dressing
step-brother, a Calgary court was told yesterday. And accused murderer
Nathan Pelletier, 18, talked of a plot to kill
his entire family by dousing them in gasoline and setting them
ablaze. Winnipeg youth worker Christine Brandt said she spoke to Pelletier
by phone just hours after he was found clad in women's clothes near his
dying and bloodied step-sister. "He said that he had finally done what he
had been thinking about, or dreaming about -- that he had used a knife,"
Brandt testified. "He said that he had gotten a thrill out of doing it."
Pelletier is charged with first-degree murder in the Jan. 13, 1998, slaying
of Brunet, 12, who was repeatedly stabbed in their northeast home. Brandt,
a youth worker who dealt with Pelletier in Winnipeg, said the accused
entertained thoughts of killing his entire family.

Pelletier, then just 16, was living with Brunet, her mom, his dad,
and a younger half-sister after moving to Calgary months earlier.
"He talked about having weird thoughts and dreams," Brandt told
lead Crown prosecutor Beth Miller. "His dad thought he was playing games
when he talked about these voices," she said. "The night before he thought
about pouring gasoline on the family and burning them." Brandt said she
received a phone call from Calgary homicide Det. Robin Greenwood about 9:30
p.m. Jan. 13. Greenwood then put Pelletier on the line. She said Pelletier
confessed his plan initially was to commit suicide after carrying out his
homicidal plot. "He did mention he did originally also plan to kill
himself, but he got no thrill out of doing it," she said. "He spoke about
the whole family and himself." Pelletier's hearing was adjourned
prematurely yesterday when defence lawyer Alain Hepner, after a break in
Brandt's testimony, told Justice Sandy Park his client couldn't continue.
Miller told Park the accused will be assessed by a doctor before court this
morning. "It may not be a medical doctor (who looks at him) but it will be
someone who's in a position to make an assessment," Miller said. 

~~
PRECEDENT SETTING CHARGE IN CANADA, CHILD DEATH
Wednesday, September 22, 1999 
Parents try to avoid attention
   By TONY BLAIS, Sun Media

EDMONTON --  An upset Edmonton couple who are charged in their
five-year-old son's death tried to avoid the spotlight after making a brief
court appearance yesterday. And the lawyer representing Robert Shaw, 42,
and Starlene Gibson, 34, said the possibly unprecedented case could have an
impact on parents across Canada. Shaw and his ex-wife are charged with
criminal negligence causing death after their son, Leslie Shaw, was killed
by a cable TV van while riding his bike near their home on Aug. 17.  Gibson
cried throughout most of yesterday's short court appearance. The case was
put over until Oct. 6 for election and plea, and the couple spent almost
the entire morning holed up in the courthouse cafeteria to avoid TV cameras.
Shaw did tell reporters he is unhappy with the charges and again
disputed the fact that police say the parents were warned more
than once about not letting their kids pl

NATIVE_NEWS: Canada 9/22/99 (1 of 2)

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Date: Wed, 22 Sep 1999 09:39:02 -0400
To: [EMAIL PROTECTED],[EMAIL PROTECTED]
From: Lynne Moss-Sharman <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Canada9/22/99

~~
WARRIORS TRIAL
Wednesday, September 22, 1999 
Warriors trial faces delay
By KATHLEEN MARTENS, Winnipeg Sun

The judge in the Manitoba Warriors case will decide today
whether he'll remove a law firm with a conflict-of-interest problem
and bring in an outside lawyer to get it under way. Justice Ruth Krindle's
decision on the involvement of the Phillips Aiello firm could delay the
trial for months or finally get the complex case moving. The firm
represents six of 29 accused street gang members in the province's first
organized crime trial. It was originally defending seven, but one
--Kingsley Kline -- recently accepted a deal to become a Crown witness in
exchange for charges being dropped.  That put his former Phillips Aiello
lawyer and his colleagues in an awkward position. They can't cross-examine
a former client and know confidential information about his alleged
involvement. As well, his former lawyer is now a potential witness.
Dave Phillips, a partner in the firm, told the judge yesterday Phillips
Aiello believes it is in a conflict-of-interest position and should be off
the case. But its remaining clients don't want their lawyers to  withdraw,
he said. A withdrawal could postpone the trial, which is expected to last
12 to 18 months, by three to six months. The six accused would need time to
hire new counsel who would have to familiarize themselves with the case.
Phillips said his firm is willing to follow the direction of the judge.
"We're prepared to leave it to the court," he said. Crown attorney Bob
Morrison suggested an independent lawyer be hired to represent the six
accused while Kline and his former lawyer are witnesses. A short wait now
to bring in an outsider could prevent a lengthier delay, he added, noting
all 29 defendants are in custody. "If there's to be a crisis here, we might
as well have it now," Morrison said. The use of an independent lawyer would
have to be approved by the affected clients. Krindle reserved her decision
until this morning. 

~~~
DON'T FORGET: SOUTH AFRICAN DOCTORS PRACTISING IN CANADA NOW,
NEAR YOU  (Manitoba, Alberta, Saskatchewan)
Wednesday, September 22, 1999 
South Africa med school to apologize
   By AP

JOHANNESBURG --  In the twisted world of apartheid, black medical students
weren't even considered good enough to examine white cadavers. The handful
admitted to apartheid era medical schools were denied specialist training,
cordoned off in separate changing rooms and dining halls and thrown out of
lectures. Only in the 1980s were they allowed to see white patients -- but
not in gynecological or obstetrics wards. Now, five years after the end of
white-minority rule, the country's leading medical school is doing
something rare in post-apartheid South Africa: Issuing an apology for the
mistreatment of black people. Administrators at the health sciences faculty
of the University of the Witwatersrand recently completed a draft apology.
In the coming weeks, they'll circulate it for approval among the 150-member
faculty board. The text will accompany a plaque to be unveiled on the
campus in February, said Dr. Yosuf Veriava, deputy dean. 

~~
Wednesday, September 22, 1999 
Ruling a reprieve for band Lawyer on lam
  By KEVIN MARTIN, CALGARY SUN

Hiring a lawyer who later went on the lam from the law and hid
in Europe has saved some Stoney band members $200,000 for now.
The Alberta Court of Appeal said the group wasn't properly
represented by maverick Ontario lawyer Bruce Clark because he
wasn't licensed to practise in this province. The top court ordered the
lawsuit between the band and several members over logging rights back to
square one. That negates a ruling that the group, including former chief
Philomene Stevens and several family member, must pay damages of $200,000.
The three-member panel said the defendants weren't able to mount a proper
defence because Clark wasn't a legitimate member of the Law Society of
Alberta. The group was sued by the Stoney band in January 1995, for logging
on a parcel of land in 1994. Clark's statement of defence claimed no
Canadian court had
jurisdiction to hear the case. In December 1995, the Stoney band
defendants switched lawyers. "It was then discovered Clark had been
suspended from the Law Society of Upper Canada, had an outstanding warrant
for his arrest in B.C. and was apparently somewhere in Europe," said the
appeal court. "Since (they) wrongly believed that they were properly
represented by a lawyer who in fact had no standing before the court."
Clark later returned to B.C., where he was sentenced to three months for
contempt of court. 

~~
JUDGE REILLY
Judge lays blame for reserve suicides
'HELPLESSNESS AND HOPELESSNESS'
A report on the han

NATIVE_NEWS: En;IMG, Oil Fuels War in Mexico, Sep 22

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Subject: OIL FUELS WAR IN MEXICO

PRESS RELEASE
22/09/99

CONTACT: Heike Vornhagen 091-581688 (Galway One World 
Centre) or Simon Jones 01-6760435 (Irish Mexico Group)

OIL FUELS WAR IN MEXICO

The One World Centre and the Irish Mexico Group are holding a 
public meeting about the war in Chiapas (Mexico)  on Wednesday 
06.10.99 at 8pm in the Victoria Hotel, Queen St., off Eyre Square, 
Galway.

Simon Jones of the IMG explained that "The Mexican government 
has been fighting a low intensity war against the Zapatista rebels, 
since the uprising in January 1994. It now emerges that, as well as 
defending the interests of big landowners, the government is also 
after oil and gas deposits under the indigenous lands of the 
Lacandon Forest. More and more troops are being sent into the 
region and the repression is increasing."

The Irish Mexico Group was set up in 1995 to inform people in 
Ireland about the Zapatistas and their struggle. The group also 
coordinates a peace camp in Chiapas and is looking for volunters 
to go to Chiapas as human rights observers.

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NATIVE_NEWS: Students pick nickname Red Hawks to replace Redmen at Milton High

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Students pick nickname Red Hawks to replace Redmen at Milton High
http://www.jsonline.com/news/state/sep99/milton22092199.asp
By Kathleen Ostrander
  Special to the Journal Sentinel
Last Updated: Sept. 21, 1999

Milton - Students have chosen Red Hawks as the new nickname to replace the embattled 
Redmen nickname retired by the School Board after numerous votes and meetings earlier 
this year.

Opponents of the Redmen nickname had argued it was racist and sexist. Supporters 
argued it was steeped in tradition and never meant to be offensive, and they say 
they're organizing a recall for School Board members who voted in July to retire the 
Redmen name.

Last week, students in grades 7 through 12 first narrowed the choice of three 
nicknames - Red Hawks, Red Storm and Mavericks - to just Red Hawks and Mavericks after 
a vote last week.

On Tuesday the students voted again, and it was 597 for Red Hawks and 325 for 
Mavericks.

Because the School Board had already approved all three choices, said Milton School 
District Superintendent Douglas Waitrovich, the students will be rooting for the Red 
Hawks at their Friday homecoming and using that nickname in the traditional floats and 
decorated business windows.

"We are moving forward," Waitrovich said. "Each part of this is very emotional on the 
part of students and some parents, and we recognize that. The School Board will 
approve the new nickname on Monday and discussions will start on a new logo."

Waitrovich said it is likely the committee that worked on nickname change will come to 
the board with more than one choice of a Red Hawk logo and mascot, and then possibly 
the students will vote again. "We are working out details whether we will have some 
sort of contest or if we will solicit logo suggestions from the community and our 
graphics arts classes."

He said he is aware some students at some sporting events are using traditional Redmen 
cheers and are acting as if the board never voted to retire the nickname. "We are 
trying to remain neutral in this and let the students work this out themselves," 
Waitrovich said. He said it is possible some students are distressed over the loss of 
the nickname, but some of the cheers are also probably attributed to teens attempting 
to irritate the administration.

Votes for Redmen in balloting both Tuesday and last week were not tallied by those 
checking the ballots, he said. He declined to say how many ballots said Redmen and 
said that information would be given to the school board and if they wanted to release 
that later, they could.

Maggie Larsen, with Citizens for Better Representation, which opposes the change, said 
it was unfair of the district not to count and announce the Redmen totals along with 
the others.

"I don't like any of the choices," said Larsen, who has sent two sons to Milton High. 
"Red Hawks is the first name they latched onto when they were talking about a change." 
She said although some students may be using the Redmen cheer as an irritant, many of 
them are genuinely upset about the change and don't think their concerns have been 
addressed.

She said her group, which was originally planning on getting an injunction to block 
the change, has changed its tactics.

"We are going for a recall of School Board members now," she said. The group had 
gotten advice from the Menomonie group that recalled three School Board members there 
after they voted to retire that district's Indian logo.

"We will be filing intent to recall papers by the end of the week," she said. Larsen 
declined to say which School Board members the group would be recalling. The July 19 
vote to retire the Redmen name was 5-2.

"The board certainly respects their rights to organize a recall," Waitrovich said. 
"This is a very emotional issue."


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NATIVE_NEWS: INDIAN PROGRAMS - EPA

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INDIAN PROGRAMS - EPA
http://web.fie.com/htbin/wfSearch?State=/wrk/allallprog.Tit.Moz&Mode=Item&Item=84&ItemLink=/htdoc/fed/epa/any/any/prog/min/epapgaaj.htm
Submission Date: Ongoing



PROGRAM DESCRIPTION:

Section 518(c) of the Clean Water Act authorized EPA to
create a grants program to help pay for the planning, design
and construction of wastewater treatment systems to serve
Indian Tribes and Alaska Native Villages.

Tribes and Native Alaskan Villages face significant human
health, water quality and environmental problems because of
the lack of adequate wastewater treatment. These problems--and
the corresponding lack of existing environmental
structure--exist because of many factors, including local
economic conditions, disperse populations, political and
cultural barriers, and the lack of significant environmental
investment by federal and state agencies.

The Indian Set-Aside program seeks to help alleviate these
problems and to focus attention on the needs of Native
populations. Millions of dollars in grants funds have been
made available for wastewater projects on Indian lands and in
Alaska Native Villages. EPA will continue to work with Tribes,
Alaska Native Villages and other federal agencies to achieve
adequate wastewater systems.

The Indian Set-Aside (ISA) Program is administered by EPA
through a cooperative effort with the Indian Health Service
(IHS). Applicants can obtain a copy of the guidance document
entitled "Guidelines and Requirements for Applying for Grants
from the Indian Set-Aside Program" dated, April 1988, to
determine how to apply for these grants. An Addendum to the
guidance document was issued in March 1995. The guidance
document can be obtained by contacting EPA's Regional Indian
Set-Aside Coordinator for the area in which you are located:

  Regional Office Indian Set-Aside Coordinators

Region 1   Region 6
Debbie Kerr  Gene Wossum
Environmental Protection Agency Environmental Protection Agency
Water Management Division   Water Management Division
JFK Federal BuildingFountain Place 12th Floor
One Congress Street Suite 1200
Boston, MA 02203-00011445 Ross Avenue
(617) 565-4886  Dallas, TX 75202-2733
(CT,ME,MA,NH,RI,VT)  (214) 665-7173
 (AR,LA,NM,OK,TX)

Region 2Region 7
Muhammad Hatim Gerald Gutekunst
Environmental Protection Agency Environmental Protection
Water Management Division Water Management Division
290 Broadway   726 Minnesota Avenue
New York, New York 10007-1866 Kansas City, KS 66101
(212) 637-3855  (913) 551-7484
(NJ,NY,PR,VI)   (IA,KS,MO,NB)

Region 4Region 8
Fred Hunter Terry Griffith
Environmental Protection Agency Environmental Protection Agency
Water Management Division Water Management Division
61 Forsyth Street   999 18th Street, Suite 500
Atlanta, GA 30303-3104Denver, CO 80203-2466
(404) 562-9477  (303) 312-6153
(AL,FL,GA,KY,MS,NC,SC,TN)   (CO,MT,ND,SD,UT,WY)

Region 5Region 9
Charles Pycha   Loretta Vanegas
Environmental Protection Agency Environmental Protection Agency
77 West Jackson BoulevardWater Management Division
Chicago, IL 60604-3507   75 Hawthorne Street
(312) 886-0259 San Francisco, CA
(IL,IN,MI,MN,OH,WI)   (415) 744-1946
 (AZ,CA,HI,NV,TT)
Region 10
Judy Fey
Environmental Protection Agency
Water Management Division
1200 Sixth Avenue
Seattle, WA 98101
(206) 553-1302
(AK, ID, OR, WA)


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NATIVE_NEWS: Residents to March, Allegations of Tribal Mismanagement at Pine Ridge

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link provided by Pat Morris
http://www.kotatv.com/thestory.asp?story=3026
Residents to March, Allegations of Tribal Mismanagement at Pine Ridge 
09/21/1999 - 11:35:21 AM

- Mike Anderson A MARCH IN PINE RIDGE IS SET FOR WEDNESDAY, THIS TIME TO PROTEST 
AGAINST ALLEGED MISMANAGEMENT OF TRIBAL GOVERNMENT. ALLEGATIONS OF MISUSE OF FUNDS AND 
EXCESSIVE LAYOFFS HAVE SOME ON THE RESERVATION CALLING FOR A FEDERAL AUDIT. ORGANIZERS 
SAY THAT $1.7 MILLION DOLLARS WAS WRONGLY TAKEN FROM RURAL WATER PROGRAMS, AND 
$900,000 WAS REDIRECTED FROM THE RESERVATION'S CASINO FUNDS.

IN ADDITION, ABOUT 40 TRIBAL COUNCIL WORKERS APPOINTED BY TRIBAL PRESIDENT HAROLD 
SALWAY HAVE ALL BEEN LAID OFF. TRIBAL LEADERS HAVE NOT BEEN AVAILABLE FOR COMMENT.

THE MARCH WILL BEGIN AT NINE O' CLOCK, WEDNESDAY MORNING IN PINE RIDGE.
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NATIVE_NEWS: Montana DOL and CWD and bison

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From: Sonja Keohane

Interesting article about  Chronic Wasting Disease (CDW) and The
Montana Dept of Livestock (MDOL)



Excerpts:

[Chronic wasting disease is a neurological disorder found in elk and deer
that causes brain damage, results in severe weight loss and eventually is
fatal. It is related to 'mad cow disease' in cattle, scrapies in sheep and
Creutzfeldt-Jakob Disease in humans.

Both game farm animals and wild deer and elk have been diagnosed with CWD
in the United States, though no case of CWD has been diagnosed in Montana.]
end of excerpt-

It is obvious that the state vet and DOL are trying to see that CWD
does not become a problem in Montana.

Wild deer and elk migrate across state lines at many seasons of the
year.  Therefore it is entirely probable that there are wild animals in
Montana dying of this disease (CWD).

I am struck by the contrast to the fairly calm approach that is
taken here by MDOL to the problems of CWD when I compare that to their
fanatical and murderous approach to the YNP bison that migrate into Montana
in the winter months.

Just as there has never been a case of CWD "diagnosed in Montana"
according to this article, there has *never* been a case of cattle being
infected with brucellosis because of contact with wild bison...in Montana
or anywhere else.

Cold and snow have started to return to the high country and soon
as the YNP bison move, as they have for hundreds of years, north into
Montana and into the crosshairs of the MDOL sharpshooters, the atrocity of
shooting healthy bison from the last free ranging herd in this
countrywill begin again. 

NATIVE_NEWS: Ethics? I don't think so..

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This( http://add.about.com/library/weekly/aa092199.htm?PM=59_106_T  ) the article "Not 
Dead Yet"this is one of the most disturbing articles I have read.  This professor 
touts the reasonableness of murder of "nonhuman" humans and defines such as those who 
are in one way or another less able to live a fulfilling life than another.  He has 
been appointed to teach ethics at a major university.
Attention was brought to this article on another list.
Am re posting the heads up here..This needs to be ended...my stomach is churning.
Ish

NATIVE_NEWS: Canada 9-21-99 (2 of 2)

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National Post  9/21/99
Tuesday, September 21, 1999
Parents charged in boy's death question motive
Precedent-setting case: 'I wonder if there's racism involved?'
father asks
  Ric Dolphin  National Post 

Inside one of the curtainless walk-ups on this treed street of scruffy
apartments, just north of the Vietnamese section of Edmonton, the parents
of Leslie Shaw are not in the mood to talk to reporters. Raymond Shaw, 42,
and Starlene Gibson, 34, were charged Friday with criminal negligence
causing death, after their five-year-old boy was killed while riding his
bicycle unsupervised and without a helmet. The charges are believed to be
the first of their kind in Canada, pitting individual rights against the right
of the state to monitor the actions of parents toward their children.
Leslie was coming out of the alley behind his apartment -- the alley where
the Asian gangs sell their crack cocaine at night -- when a Videon cable
television van backed over him. "He was crossing the street," remembers
five-year-old Nellie Bush, who sometimes rode with Leslie, and lives with
her father in an apartment across 105 Street. "Then he had a car accident.
And there was blood this big," she says, drawing a circle with her arms. 

Leslie died at the base of a poplar tree, on the sidewalk in front of the
Prince of Wales Armoury, where Mr. Shaw and Ms. Gibson were placing a
flower when they were arrested. They were to appear in Edmonton provincial
court this morning. No charges were laid against the van driver, who took
grief counselling to help him cope with the
trauma of the incident.  Inside his apartment, the boy's father, Mr. Shaw,
says, "come into my office," and, clutching a disposable lighter and a
cigarette, leads the way to the laundry room in one of the scruffier of the
scruffy buildings on the block. He's a short, long-haired, prematurely
wizened Cree man, with a paunch, a broken nose and a stoop. He says he
fathered of all three of Ms. Gibson's children (the remaining son and
daughter, younger than Leslie, are now in the custody of social services),
but usually lives in another part of town. 

Ms. Gibson, says Mr. Shaw, is too upset to talk to a reporter. She is
glimpsed through the crack in the door, dressed in shorts and a tank top,
black hair bobbed and a cigarette in hand. Gibson is the name she is
charged under; but at the time of her son's death she was using the surname
"Pugh."  Down the hall an altercation is taking place between the
building's caretaker and a 20-year-old shirtless white boy, whose native
girlfriend, her eye blackened, stares mutely from their $425-a-month
apartment. Police and neighbours say that Ms. Gibson allowed Leslie and his
brother Rick, 4, to ride their bikes unsupervised all the time, but Mr.
Shaw doesn't really want to talk about that. "I wonder if there's
racism involved," he says. He wonders aloud why police didn't charge Terry
Onstine. (This last remark is pointed at the recent case in nearby Stony
Plain where 11-year-old Tyler Onstine was shot to death during a play fight
with a 13-year-old in a house full of liquor and firearms. The 13-year-old
was convicted of manslaughter, but Tyler's father was not charged with
criminal negligence.)  Mr. Shaw won't say anything more, and bids the
reporter leave. 

Richard Bush, 40, is a straight-backed former soldier who's responsible for
several of the apartments in this area and prides himself in cleaning up
buildings that were once the preserve of deadbeats and were sometimes
visited late at night by the SWAT team. 
"I actually wrestled a coke dealer right on the street out there." 
Mr. Bush, like virtually all the people quizzed in the area, believes the
laying of criminal negligence charges to be a promising sign, a sign that
society is perhaps ready to clean up its own building. "I would have kicked
those parents right in the goddamn ass for that kind of thing," he says, a
Maritime accent only slightly diminished by the decades in Alberta. "When I
let Nellie go out there I keep my eye on her every ... minute. She tags
along with me when she's not in kindergarten, got her own set of keys, her
own little toolbox. She just loves it!"



Feds crack down on Musqueam leases 
Frank Luba, Staff Reporter The Vancouver Province  9/21/99

The federal department of Indian affairs shocked Musqueam Park
leaseholders yesterday by starting legal actions that lead to eviction. The
department sent registered letters to leaseholders on the Musqueam Indian
reserve in Vancouver's southwestern sector,
notifying them that the terms of their leases are being enforced. 
That means the residents could be sued or evicted. "The leaseholders are
shocked and extremely dismayed because this is a complete reversal," said
Kerry-Lynne Findlay, a resident and lawyer who
is acting as spokeswoman for the leaseholders.  The proceedings are against
five tenants who have made no payments since 1995 and 68

NATIVE_NEWS: Canada 9/21/99 (1 of 2)

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Date: Tue, 21 Sep 1999 19:50:37 -0400
From: Lynne Moss-Sharman <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Canada  9/21/99

~
The B.C. land-claims talks are heading for a crackup
GORDON GIBSON  Globe and Mail
Tuesday, September 21, 1999

VANCOUVER -- This is a report card on the emerging crisis
in aboriginal affairs in British Columbia. The summary: Parties at the
treaty table get a "D," and the Supreme Court of Canada
gets an "F." For the government version, tune in to Pocahontas on the
Disney Channel. The wheels are falling off the band-by-band set of treaty
negotiations begun in 1993. The idea was to reconcile
the past, resolve native land claims and bring legal certainty to B.C.'s
resource base. All was proceeding well until, in December of 1997, the
Supreme Court brought down its now-famous Delgamuukw decision. The judgment
was a breathtakingly irresponsible piece of invented law and amateur social
engineering. The court found   for the first time in
130 years of jurisprudence that aboriginal title exists, but  it declined
to say how much, or where. This is a wee bit important, given that 104% of
the province is under
overlapping land claims.

The court said compensation is owed for past infringement of title, but
declined to say how or where to calculate this. This question too is of
mild interest, since all of downtown Vancouver has doubtless been used by
aboriginals from time immemorial. Then, without even deciding who owned the
land at issue in Delgamuukw, the court sent the case back for retrial. The
judges airily observed (as they moved on to wreak destruction in other
fragile parts of the
CANADIAN CHINA SHOP?)that while the judgment raised "difficult economic
considerations," these "obviously cannot be solved here." Just caused here.
It was immediately obvious that this ruling
would seriously destabilize B.C. treaty negotiations. 

When you go into a bargaining session and hand a sledgehammer to the people
on one side, their behaviour is predictable. They will stare at the thing,
check the heft, and then start to use it on the other side. Which leads us
to the news stories of today. The public has a small inkling of what is in
store in the continuing unauthorized (I will not call it illegal, because
no one knows) cutting of trees by
the Westbank band in south-central B.C. Other bands have said they will
follow. A new blockade was announced yesterday.Victoria has no idea how to
respond to dozens of such actions all over the
province. A native security force is on standby, suggesting a veiled threat
of violence if the government clamps down. Third-party commercial
operations are being pressured. A coalition of bands in the Okanagan region
is calling for an international boycott of B.C. lumber taken unjustly from
aboriginal lands. If you thought the environmentalists had clout with the
Home Depots of the world, watch this one.

Why these actions now? Behind the scenes, bargaining is at an impasse. The
native side of the table wants to talk, reasonably enough, about its new
Delgamuukw rights: title and compensation. Ottawa and the provinces
adamantly refuse to discuss either. We will
talk only about the future, they say; this may include land and cash for
treaties, but tying it to the past is too complicated. Those are fine
words, but the governments know and the natives know that we're
talking about big money. Before the Nisga'a treaty settlement, the rule of
thumb (always denied by governments) for the cost of settlement was $70,000
per B.C. status Indian, or a total of about
$10-billion. Based on Nisga'a, that went to $15-billion. Now go to the full
Delgamuukw and we are talking $30-billion to $50-billion, and conceivably
more.

Add two other elements to this: a concern by the natives for their mounting
legal costs (though a cynic would be sure that the
taxpayer will end up looking after these) and a demand for "interim
measures," to stop the Crown from stripping land of timber and other
resources while negotiations over that land proceed. Since those measures
would shut down the province, the natives' saw-off demand is an interim
transfer of some land and some cash. Governments naturally see this
concession as lessening the pressure to   settle, and
resist. Meanwhile, the log trucks roar down the highway and the natives get
angrier at the taking of what they consider
their trees.  So the wheels are falling off. The B.C. government is
paralyzed by leadership questions. The federal government has
never cared much about B.C. except as a lucrative source of taxes; those
trees aren't being cut in downtown Ottawa, after all.
And in the band-by-band negotiations, the Indian side of the table often
lacks a clear mandate. However, there is no uncertainty at the
"summit" level -- the name given to the umbrella native bargaining group. A
July statement 

NATIVE_NEWS: Native Americans Gather Against Indian Mascots

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*FOR IMMEDIATE
RELEASE
**National Coalition on Racism in Sports and the Media
** 

**
9/21/99

For more information contact: 
Vernon Bellecourt, National President (612)721-3914
Michael Haney, National Executive Director. (217)840-6584 
Paula Ostrovsky or Cyd Crue. NCRSM-IL. Co-Coordinators. (217)355-6757 or
(217)840-6594 
Patrick Oray.NCRSM-IL. Co-Coordinator. (217)337-1514

The National Coalition on Racism in Sports and the Media (NCRSM), a group
headed by Native American leaders Vernon Bellecourt, Michael Haney and
Charlene Teters, is launching a three day gathering to reinforce their
campaign to eliminate Indian mascots and all racist stereotypes of American
Indian people. "As long as Indian people are seen as cartoon characters or
static beings locked in the past, our social and economic problems will
never be seriously addressed", explains Michael Haney. 

On October 15th-17th, 1999 Native American leaders, activists, scholars,
and supporters will convene in Urbana, Illinois, home of the University of
Illinois and its "Chief Illiniwek" mascot. 

The bulk of "Mending the Circle", this year's Symposium, will take place
Friday October 15th, from 9AM to 5:30 PM, at the Wesley Foundation (1203 W.
Green St., Urbana, IL) keynotes and panel discussions will feature Clyde
Bellecourt (co-founder of the American Indian Movement), Bill Means (Chair
of the International Indian Treaty Council) and Dr. LaNada Boyer, NCRSM-ID
Coordinator, (special keynote on the Anniversary of the Alcatraz Take Over)
among other honorable guests. This will be followed by a benefit banquet at
6:30 PM with a keynote address by Chadwick Smith, Principal Chief of the
Cherokee Nation, OK. 

Saturday, October 16th the group will lead a march and rally against
racist mascots at the University of Illinois' Homecoming football game,
starting at noon at the Wesley Foundation. 

Finally, on Sunday, October 17th, the NCRSM will host a town meeting on
racism at The Virginia Theatre (203 W. Park Avenue, Champaign, IL) from 2
to 4 PM and then close the Symposium with a benefit concert at the same
venue from 7 to 10 PM with Native American artists: Ulali, Julian B and
Floyd Red Crow Westerman. 

Ulali features Pura Fe (Tuscarora), Soni (Mayan, Apache, Yaqui) and
Jennifer (Tuscarora). Together, they weave beautifully haunting harmonies
encompassing Tuscarora, Mayan and Apache music as well as music from other
First Nations' cultures. Julian B is a young Native American rap artist
with a strong political message, and Floyd Red Crow Westerman, well
respected Lakota elder and new Chairman of the NCRSM, has appeared in
numerous films (Dances With Wolves, The X-Files) and toured the world with
Sting in support of Indigenous Rights. 

"Mending the Circle" is co-sponsored by the Champaign County Branch of the
NAACP, the General Commission on Religion and Race of the United Methodist
Church, Racial Justice Now, the Society for the Study of the Indigenous
Languages of the Americas, the University YMCA, and The
Octopus-Champaign-Urbana's Free Alternative Weekly. In addition, the final
concert is co-sponsored by Central Illinois' Community Radio, WEFT 90.1 FM,
Champaign.

Press and the general public are welcome to attend. For more information
call 217-355-6757, 217-337-1514, or 217-840-6594, e-mail
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NATIVE_NEWS: SD: Treaty Gathering

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>From: KOLA <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
>Subject: Treaty Gathering
>
> >Date: Mon, 20 Sep 1999 23:15:41 -0500 (CDT)
> >From: Northen Plains Media Consortium <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
> >Subject: Treaty Gathering
> >
> >Press Release
> >
> >  The Restoration of the Tetuwan Oyate Treaty Gathering will be taking
> >place in Eagle Butte on September 25,1999 beginning at 10am-6pm at the
> >Cultural Center next to Super 8.
> >  Discussion will include the 1999 session of the working group on the
> >world's indigenous populations and the TSNTC Gathering of Many Nations
> >held last June in Lower Brule and the support of the world court case.
> >The upcoming United Nations' meetings in October 1999 on the Draft
> >Declaration on the rights of the world's indigenous peoples. Many other
> >issues have developed as part of the discussion and comments from the
> >people will be needed.

NATIVE_NEWS: SD Newspaper Assoc. Minority Affairs Cmtee

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Mon, 20 Sep 1999
NPMC <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>

Press Release

The SD Newspaper Association has re-instituted the
association's dormant Minority Affairs Committee. The
Committee's purpose is a vitally important one and that is
to devise programs and processes that will increase the
number of Native Americans working for newspapers in South
Dakota.
This re-institution of the Minority Affairs Committee has
recruited Harold Iron Shield as a member. Iron Shield's
long involved Journalism career will bring some insight to
the committee to assist in Native American recognition in
the Journalistic area and to those who are working in
journalism. Iron Shield is currently the Director of the
Northern Plains Media Consortium and also co-ordinates the
Dakotah News Service.  The only regional news service
providing news to 7 radio stations and 17 tribal newspapers
in the region.
The organization is 15 years old this year and will
celebrate in April, 2000 in Grand Forks, North Dakota.

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NATIVE_NEWS: Native AIDS

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D.E thanks.:)

"AIDS Outbreak Feared for U.S. Tribes"

New York Times
(09/07/99) P. D7; France, David

Some public health officials are concerned that the AIDS epidemic
is about to take off among Native Americans in the United States.
Ron Rowell, executive director of the National Native American
AIDS Prevention Center, said, "We know HIV is being transmitted
on the reservations, but the tribal leaders are just not paying
attention."  According to the Centers for Disease Control and
Prevention, 1,939 cases of AIDS were diagnosed among American
Indians and Alaskan Natives between 1981 and December 1998.  But
some experts note that the rate could be too low, due to spotty
surveillance information and the stigma surrounding homosexuality
in many tribes.  Indeed, a recent study by CDC epidemiologist Dr.
Doug Thoroughman found that the actual number of gonorrhea cases
  was 82 percent higher than reported, while the numbers of
syphilis and chlamydia cases were 36 percent and 45 percent,
respectively, higher.  Also, a study by the Intertribal Council
of Arizona and others last year discovered that 58 of 92 tribal
health departments questioned were not reporting HIV or AIDS
cases.

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NATIVE_NEWS: Annan vows that U.N. will cross borders to intervene

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Date: Tue, 21 Sep 1999 01:17:38 -0500
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Can we now say "Here comes the U. N. to Indian Country"? I notice he states
"-- should not be allowed to stand" and did not state "Shall not be allowed
to stand".

Just a little use of the word may and the mandatory command of the word shall.

Jim Oyler

Annan vows that U.N. will cross borders to intervene

http://www.washtimes.com/news/news2.html
By Betsy Pisik
THE WASHINGTON TIMES

NEW YORK
Leaders of the United Nations warned at yesterday's opening of the U.N.
General Assembly that national borders will no longer be a deterrent to
justified humanitarian intervention.
  Traditional considerations of national sovereignty will no longer be
taken into account, Kofi Annan, secretary-general of the U.N., told the
opening session of the 188-member world body. Governments must not allow
divisions within the Security Council to derail legitimate intervention in
places such as Rwanda and Kosovo, he said.
  "If states bent on criminal behavior know that frontiers are not an
absolute defense, if they know that the Security Council will take action
to halt crimes against humanity, then they will not embark on such a course
of action in expectations of sovereign impunity," he said. 
  "Massive and systematic violations of human rights -- wherever they
may take place -- should not be allowed to stand."
  Traditional talk of human rights, globalization and conflict
resolution took on new immediacy against the backdrop of civilian
atrocities in Kosovo and in East Timor, where U.N. troops, mostly
Australian, began 
-- Continued from Front Page -- 
arriving yesterday.
  Leaders of several nations -- including France, Britain, Norway, South
Africa and Tanzania --largely agreed with that view at the opening session
of the two-week opening debate of the U.N. General Assembly.
  However, the newly elected president of Algeria, Abdelaziz Bouteflika,
denounced international interference without the consent of a government.
  "We remain extremely sensitive to any undermining of our sovereignty,
not only because sovereignty is our final defense against the rules of an
unequal world," said Mr. Bouteflika, "but because we are not taking part in
the decision-making process by the Security Council."
  Mr. Bouteflika was speaking in his capacity of head of government as
well as the current president of the Organization of African Unity.
  President Clinton, by tradition the second speaker on the opening day,
postponed his appearance until today in deference to the Jewish high holy
day Yom Kippur. The U.N. declined to move the opening day of the debate to
accommodate the Jewish holiday.
  The leaders of Cambodia, Bangladesh, Namibia, Georgia, Jordan, El
Salvador and Ivory Coast also spoke yesterday, often at considerable
length. Although this two-week session is usually referred to as the
General Debate, there is little direct engagement on the issues.
  France, traditionally one of the most supportive U.N. members, called
for an expansion of the organization's role to prevent human rights
violations.
  "The United Nations' mission is not limited to the settlement of
conflicts between states," Lionel Jospin, the prime minister of France,
said. "With man's growing aspirations for greater freedom and
responsibility, its mission extends to the protection of human dignity,
within each state and, when necessary -- as the Charter allows --against
states."
  Denouncing "state-instigated violence," Mr. Jospin urged his
colleagues to "uphold the principle of international intervention under
U.N. auspices, to assist the victims."
  Robin Cook, Britain's foreign secretary, echoed Mr. Jospin's sentiments.
  "We have a shared responsibility to act also when confronted with
genocide, mass displacement of people or major breaches of international
humanitarian law. To know that such atrocities are being committed and not
to act against them is to make us complicit in them."
  He reaffirmed Britain's commitment to contribute British police
officers to U.N. forces.
  But Portuguese President Jorge Fernando Branco de Sampaio spoke with
evident sadness of the havoc wrought on his nation's former colony, East
Timor, and blamed the United Nations for not protecting the people who it
had encouraged to decide their own future. 
  "The very credibility of the U.N. itself was as stake," he said. "How
could the United Nations, having organized the popular consultation, betray
the confidence placed in it by the people of East Timor?
  The United Nation's authorization of the Australian-le

NATIVE_NEWS: Appeals court rules against punitive action by EPA

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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] via Tribal law list
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Please notice this ruling would allow states to have sole responsibility
over cleanup if a state was allowed and did in fact impose it own cleanup
standards first.

The EPA would be cut out.

Jim Oyler
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http://www.kcstar.com/item/pages/local.pat,local/3773dc89.920,.html
Appeals court rules against punitive action by EPA

By MICHAEL MANSUR - The Kansas City Star
Date: 09/20/99 22:15

A federal appeals court has ruled that the U.S. Environmental Protection
Agency cannot seek penalties against a company for violating
hazardous-waste laws if state regulators already have taken enforcement
actions. 

The ruling from a three-judge panel of the 8th U.S. Circuit Court of
Appeals in St. Louis may affect federal enforcement actions across the
nation, far beyond the interests of Harmon Industries, a Blue Springs
manufacturer of railroad safety equipment that initiated the federal court
litigation. EPA hit the company with a $2.7 million penalty in 1991. 

"This is going to affect EPA throughout the (judicial) circuit and,
possibly, throughout the country," Robert Payne, corporate counsel at
Harmon Industries, said Monday. "Others will look at this as a
well-reasoned resolution to the question." 

EPA and Justice Department officials said no decision on an appeal had been
made. 

"But the EPA is concerned that this ruling will have a negative impact on
the federal enforcement program," said Cristine Romano, a Justice
Department spokeswoman in Washington. "It creates doubt whether EPA can
assist states in enforcing hazardous-waste cases." 

Kansas City lawyer Terry Satterlee, who represented Harmon in the
litigation, said some lawyers are speculating whether the case might also
affect the way EPA enforces its federal clean-air and clean-water laws.
"But that's yet to be determined," Satterlee said. 

This is the first time that a federal court has ruled on the enforcement
authority of EPA in states that have authority to enforce the
hazardous-waste law known as the Resource Conservation and Recovery Act,
Satterlee said. 

Environmental leaders in Missouri raised concerns about the decision. "This
is a concern because of the weak enforcement decisions and settlements by
the state," said Ken Midkiff of the Sierra Club in Missouri. 

Midkiff said he didn't think the ruling would affect potential federal
action against Premium Standard Farms, a Missouri-based hog producer.
Earlier this year, the EPA announced it would investigate the company's
compliance with the federal Clean Water Act. But state officials had just
settled numerous violations with the company. 

In most states, the EPA has given its authority to state regulatory
agencies to enforce the federal hazardous-waste law. But across the nation,
it has levied penalty and enforcement actions in several instances in which
the state has been delegated authority to enforce the hazardous waste law.
Those are the type of cases that might be affected by the ruling. 

The appellate ruling from St. Louis, filed last week, springs from 1987,
when Harmon notified state hazardous waste officials that it had learned
its employees had dumped hazardous chemicals behind the company's Grain
Valley plant. 

The Missouri Department of Natural Resources investigated and was
negotiating an agreement with Harmon about how it would clean up the
contamination. As part of the deal, state regulators eventually agreed not
to impose penalties on Harmon, partly as a reward for voluntarily reporting
its violations. 

In 1991, the EPA levied its penalty, saying Harmon had dumped toxic
solvents on the ground from 1973 to 1987. EPA officials said at the time
that the federal agency had grown impatient waiting for state regulators to
take enforcement actions. 

Later, through an administrative appeals process, the fine was reduced to
$586,716. 

Harmon decided to fight the penalty in federal court, saying the EPA didn't
have the authority to issue the penalty since it had delegated authority to
Missouri officials to enforce the federal hazardous-waste law. 

U.S. District Judge Ortrie Smith sided with Harmon in 1998. 

The EPA appealed the ruling, contending that the language of the act allows
it to initiate an enforcement action against a violator even in states
where state regulators enforce the law. All it needs to do is notify the
state in writing if it intends to initiate the enforcement. 

Harmon's attorneys argued that in such situations states have been granted
enforcement authority in lieu of the EPA. 

More than a dozen industry groups, including the American Forest & Paper
Association and the American Petroleum Institute, filed briefs in support
of Harmon. 

"What's the point of working with the state agencies that are supposed to
have

NATIVE_NEWS: ENVIRO BRIEFS: (ENS) NEWS SEPTEMBER 20, 1999

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ENVIRONMENT NEWS SERVICE (ENS)

EUROPE TOPS BUSINESS SUSTAINABILITY INDEX
DEVASTATING EARTHQUAKE HITS TAIWAN
MILLENIUM CELEBRANTS SWARM MT. KILIMANJARO


AMERISCAN: SEPTEMBER 21, 1999


E-WIRE
*  PR Watch Reports 'Greenwashing An Olympic-Sized Toxic Dump'
*  Health Care Without Harm: Koop Under Fire for Inaccuracies in Plastics
Report

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EUROPE TOPS BUSINESS SUSTAINABILITY INDEX

BRUSSELS, Belgium, September 20, 1999 (ENS) - Europe is the "clear front
runner" in a new global Dow Jones index ranking companies according to
sustainability principles, according to one of the organisers if the index.
Published in cooperation with ENDS Environment Daily
Website: http://www.ends.co.uk/envdaily }
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DEVASTATING EARTHQUAKE HITS TAIWAN

TAIPEI, Taiwan, September 20, 1999 (ENS) - An earthquake measuring at least
7.6 on the Richter scale shook Taiwan early this morning, killing 270
people and injuring hundreds more. A measurement by the French National
Earthquake Surveillance Network placed the strength of the quake at 8.1 on
the Richter scale. In any case, it is the most severe earthquake to hit
Taiwan this century.
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ENVIRONMENT NEWS SERVICE AMERISCAN: SEPTEMBER 21, 1999

Supercomputer to Create Weather Forecast Models
One of the fastest computer systems in the world has just been acquired by the 
Department of Commerce to help the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration 
(NOAA) further improve existing weather forecast models and develop new ones, Commerce 
Secretary William Daley announced last week. The $15 million contract has been awarded 
to High Performance Technologies, Inc. (HPTi) of Reston, Virginia, to provide a High 
Performance Computing System to NOAA's Forecast Systems Laboratory, located in 
Boulder, Colorado>>

Hydrogen Explosion Shuts Nebraska Nuclear Reactor
A hydrogen gas explosion at the Cooper Nuclear Power Plant near Brownville, Nebraska 
Friday has caused the shutdown of the Nebraska Public Power District reactor. An 
"unusual event" was declared and area residents were notified, although no evacuations 
took place. The building in which the explosion happened is separate from the main 
reactor building. Nuclear Regulatory Commission spokesman Breck Henderson told ENS 
that there was no release of radioactive materials "greater than technical 
specification limits." Henderson said some radioactivity is present in all gases 
released from nuclear plants. The plant is now stable in cold shutdown mode. An 
electrical problem in sump pumps at the base of the plant's gas release towers caused 
the hydrogen explosion. This pumping system is used to remove radioactivity from the 
gases released into the atmosphere, so the reactor is not permitted to operate if 
these pumps are not in service.<

Public Input Not Sought in Montana Coal-Railroad Deal
Ranchers in southeastern Montana's remote Tongue River Valley say Governor Marc 
Racicot is to blame for the impasse over the transfer to the state of $10 million in 
federal mineral assets, part of the 1998 federal buyout agreement for the New World 
gold mine near Yellowstone National Park. The Montana citizens group Northern Plains 
Resource Council, has released two letters signed by numerous area landowners calling 
on Racicot and Secretary of Interior Bruce Babbitt to resolve the impasse by 
considering assets other than the Otter Creek coal tracts in the Tongue River Valley 
which have been the principal subject of negotiations..
If the deadlock persists, the Otter Creek Tracts will automatically transfer to the 
state on January 1, 2001 under the deal approved by Congress as part of the 1998 
Interior Appropriations Act. Originally line-item vetoed by President Bill Clinton, 
the transfer was reinstated when the U.S. Supreme Court ruled presidential line-item 
vetoes unconstitutional.<<

Black Hills Proposed Wilderness Could Be Logged
The public comment period closed today on the U.S. Forest Service proposal for a 
commercial timber sale in the Beaver Park Roadless Area in the Black Hills National 
Forest (BHNF). Due to extensive logging everywhere else on the BHNF, Beaver Park may 
be the last forested Roadless Area in South Dakota that remains eligible for 
wilderness designation, forest protectionists say. The proposed logging would 
eliminate the "wilder

NATIVE_NEWS: White Bison Calf, Sacred to Indians, Born in Northern Michigan

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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
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Date: Mon, 20 Sep 1999 00:17:05 EDT
Subject: Did you hear about this?
To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]


  White Bison Calf, Sacred to Indians, Born in Northern Michigan,
Flesher, John.
  The Associated Press State & Local Wire, 
17 September 1999

[To the casual observer, it might be a mere oddity. But Earl Roe knows the
white bison born a week ago on his Ogemaw County farm is a sacred symbol to
many Americans.  It's the second white calf born to the same mother within
three years, Roe said Friday. The other died shortly after birth in 1997,
but the latest arrival, which Roe named White Lightning, seems healthy ...
According to Lakota Sioux legend, long ago a young spirit woman delivered a
holy pipe to the people with instructions on using it for prayer. As she
walked away, she turned into a white buffalo calf.]

http://www.ap.org/ 
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NATIVE_NEWS: Anna Mae..from the Ottawa Citizen

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http://www.ottawacitizen.com/national/990917/2869917.html
The family of a slain Canadian native-rights figure yesterday named a Canadian man 
they claim executed her 23 years ago in what they believe was part of a conspiracy 
involving the FBI and the American Indian Movement.

The body of 30-year-old Anna Mae Aquash, who had been shot in the back of the head, 
was found Feb. 24, 1976 near the South Dakota Indian reservation of Pine Ridge.

No one has been charged in the Nova Scotia woman's unsolved abduction and killing, 
which stems from the 1975 shooting deaths of two FBI agents and a native man.

Saying they now know that a Canadian man currently living near Whitehorse in the Yukon 
killed her, and that they know why, Ms. Aquash's family and supporters gathered 
yesterday in Ottawa to make an emotional appeal to the Canadian government and the 
public for support in pushing for charges.

"We need the truth to heal and 23 years has been too long," said Ms. Aquash's 
daughter, Deborah Pictou-Maloney, 34, of Halifax.

The family said FBI informants and other forces within the FBI and AIM were behind Ms. 
Aquash's killing.

In 1975, FBI agents Jack Coler and Ray Williams went to a farm near Wounded Knee, 
South Dakota, to investigate a theft report but an altercation broke out that ended in 
the deaths of the agents and a native man, Joe Stuntz, 24.

AIM security chief Leonard Peltier, who fled to Canada and was later extradited in 
what is now a controversial case, was charged in the agents' deaths. At the time, the 
FBI believed Ms. Aquash knew who did the killings.

The family believes she was killed because of fears she could expose FBI informants 
within AIM who also participated in the conviction of Mr. Peltier.

Ms. Aquash, who was a member of AIM, was not an informant in the deaths of the FBI 
agents but had information and "she knew who the informants were," said her cousin 
Robert Pictou-Branscombe, a 52-year-old Vietnam veteran from Rimrock, Arizona.

He alleged Ms. Aquash was made by the FBI to look as if she betrayed AIM as an 
informant, which resulted in her abduction from the Denver home of AIM members, where 
she had been staying after the killings.

Three people abducted her to South Dakota, where she was questioned about being an FBI 
informant prior to her death, Mr. Pictou-Branscombe said. He named a man who he said 
now lives in the Whitehorse area as "the trigger man," and another man living in 
Denver and a woman living in Nebraska as other accomplices in the case. 

For legal reasons, the suspects named by Mr. Pictou-Branscombe are not named in this 
article. The Canadian named as a suspect could not be reached for comment.

The RCMP has been aware of the case and is helping in the investigation, said force 
spokesman Sgt. Marc Richer. "The RCMP received information in February 1998 pertaining 
to the case and passed it to Denver police, the lead agency. The RCMP is assisting, as 
needed," Sgt. Richer said, declining to elaborate.

To suggest that forces within AIM were behind Mr. Aquash's slaying, is wrong, said 
Vernon Bellecourt, national representative for AIM.

"We believe very strongly that the FBI, and other government agencies on the 
periphery, were using extremist informants to set up what has been characterized as 
the execution death of Anna Mae Aquash," Mr. Bellecourt said from St. Paul, Minnesota 
"It has been said, we don't know who shot Ann Mae Aquash, but that the FBI was behind 
it." 
Mr. Bellecourt said Ms. Aquash was an innocent caught in a complex web. 
The FBI dismisses the accusation that it was involved in Ms. Aquash's death, FBI 
Special Agent Paul McCabe said from the bureau's Minneapolis office, which oversees 
cases in South Dakota.

"The FBI, along with local authorities and the U.S. Attorney's Office, is continuing 
its investigation (of Aquash's death) and does not comment on who is, or who is not, 
an FBI informant," Special Agent McCabe said.

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NATIVE_NEWS: History: A Hundred Years Ago - Carlisle - Week 120

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Date: Mon, 20 Sep 1999 19:25:23 -0700
From: Barbara Landis <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>

THE INDIAN HELPER 
 ~%^%~ 
   A WEEKLY LETTER 
  -FROM THE- 
  Indian Industrial School, Carlisle, Pa. 
 
  VOL. XIV. FRIDAY, August 11, 1899  NUMBER 42

What shall I do to be forever known?"
Thy duty ever.
"This did full many who yet sleep unknown,'
Oh, never never!
Think'st thou perchance that they remain unknown
Whom thou know'st not?
By angel trumps in heaven their praise is blown;
Diving their lot.

"What shall I do to gain eternal life?
Discharge aright
The simple duties with which each day is rife?"
Yea, with thy might.
Ere perfect scheme of action thou devise
Will life be fled;
While he who ever acts as conscience cries,
Shall live, though dead.
-SCHILLER.
  ==
HAPPY COUNTRY GIRLS.
---
The girls at the sea-shore are having a happy time in their work and
at their play.  Mamie Ryan, one of them, writes an interesting letter
telling some of their exploits.
She says in part:
Dear Man-on-the-band-stand: I want you to know what grand times we
girls are having here at Cape May.
You know Cape May is acknowledged to be one of the finest sea-shore
resorts, and I am proud to think that we have such lovely homes.
For sea-bathing, there is nothing like it when we get in once, but we
have to look out for the waves which are very strong sometimes.
Susie Yupe swims like a fish and little Eunice Baird enjoys herself
riding along the beach on wheel
Last week I went to visit Nettie Pierce and Ella Sturm at Court
House, and while there I was the guest of the Sheriff's wife.  I went
all through the jail and as for cleanliness it was as clean as could be.
Cape May Court House is the county seat of Cape May county, and the
house where I staid is where all the business is transacted.
Sometime soon I am going to visit the light house and life saving
station which I am sure will be very interesting to me.
Amelia Clark and I often wish that the boys and girls could come down
here and enjoy themselves as we do.
We hope to go back in a few weeks and then we will study real hard.
I can hear the ocean roaring like an angry lion, but happy are those
who live near the ocean."

GIVEN UP ALL HOPES.

Juanita Bibancos, who went to her home in Hoopa Valley, California,
last year says:
"I am at present enjoying good health, but oh, you have no idea how I
long to go back to dear old Carlisle.
I have given up all hopes of going to school any more.  I hated to do
so but I couldn't help it.
My father is an old gentleman at the age of 68, my brother is only
13, and that leaves everything to me.
We have a small farm where my brother and I are living.
My father carries the mail, so we are all alone.
When school opens I will be entirely alone as my brother has to go to
school.
I wish the HELPER was as big as the Red Man, so I could read more.  I
always read my HELPER twice to get all the good out of it.
I will close hoping that you are just as well as I am."
===
HOW MOST BOYS WITH EDUCATED FATHERS THINK.
Some one says:
At ten years of age a boy thinks his father knows a great deal.
At fifteen he knows as much as his father.
At twenty he knows twice as much.
At thirty he is willing to take his advice.
At forty he begins to think his father knows something, after all.
At fifty he begins to seek his advice, and at sixty - after his
father is dead - he thinks he was the smartest man that ever lived.

(page 2)
   THE INDIAN HELPER 
 
  PRINTED EVERY FRIDAY 
 --AT THE-- 
Indian Industrial School, Carlisle, Pa., 
   BY INDIAN BOYS. 
---> THE INDIAN HELPER is PRINTED by Indian 
boys, but EDITED by The man-on-the-band-stand 
  who is NOT an Indian. 
---
 P R I C E: --10  C E N T S  A  Y E A R 
 
Entered in the PO at Carlisle as second 
 class mail matter. 
 
Address INDIAN HELPER, Carlisle, Pa. 
   Miss Marianna Burgess, Manager. 
 
Do not hesitate to take the HELPER from the 
Post Office for if you have not paid for it 
some one else has.  It is paid for in advance. 
---
 Eugene Tahkapeur.

Last week the charred bones of Eugene Tahkapeur were

NATIVE_NEWS: Nia:wen for your words of support!

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   From: [EMAIL PROTECTED]Subject Nia:wen for your words of support!
via League LISN
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
To: LEAGUE
Subject: Nia:wen for your words of support!
Date: Mon, 20 Sep 1999 14:28:52 -0400

Subject: Nia:wen for your words of support!
Date: Mon, 20 Sep 1999 11:03:16 PDT
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She:kon,
I wanted to send a note out to all those who sent me words of
encouragment 
and congratulations. I know that it has been a while since they were
sent 
but I have finally had a moment to sit down and write a few words.
Winning gold at the Pan Am Games was a great moment for me because it
was 
not just a gold for me and my team but for all those that have supported
me 
along the way. I believe that a athlete cannot achieve their dreams
alone. 
It takes a team of people around them to help them along the way. I was 
lucky that I had people like my mother and sisters to encourage me when
I 
was down and keep me focused in the right direction.
I often tell people that it has been a 17 year journey getting to the 
Olympics. It has been 17 years that I have been active in sports and I
have 
had to learn to love the work or I would have gone crazy and quit a long 
time ago.
When young people ask me for advice I often tell them that simply
learning 
the disapline that is required in sport is a achievement in itself. You
will 
bring this trait with you into all parts of your life and bring success.
I 
am not afraid of the hard work that makes a dream possible because it
makes 
achieving the dream so much sweeter.
When I walked into the stadium in Winnipeg during the opening ceremonies
it 
was the most amazing feeling that I have ever felt. I had dreamed about
it 
for as long as I could remember and standing with my team waving to the 
crowd brought tears to my eyes. I knew that I was not alone but with all
of 
my own "team" and thier hopes and dreams.
When I spoke to the youth of Kahnawake I told them "When the day comes
to 
walk into the opening ceremonies in Sydeny next year, you will all be
there 
with me holding my hand and sharing in my success. I believe that the
more  
native youth that succeed the more successful the Native community
becomes.
I offer a huge Nia:wen for all you good words and thoughts and I hope
that 
you will be thinking about me about this time next year when i am in the 
Olympic waters of Sydney fighting to bring home the gold for all of you!
Thank you again!
Waneek Horn-Miller


-- 

League of Indigenous Sovereign Nations of the Western Hemisphere
"Many Nations, One People"
L.I.S.N. is an alliance created to unite all Indigenous people
of the Western Hemisphere into one great Confederation to
politically empower our Nations as one people.
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NATIVE_NEWS: SOUTH DAKOTA/D.C.: Sacred Fire Alarms DC Park Police

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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Kathy Kern, Rochester, NY)
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Date: Mon, 20 Sep 1999 13:19:36 CDT
Subject: SOUTH DAKOTA/D.C.: Sacred Fire Alarms DC Park Police
To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
CPTnet
September 20, 1999
SOUTH DAKOTA/WASHINGTON, DC: Sacred Fire Alarms DC Park Police

A fire engine and four park police cars pulled up to the painted black
pick-up truck carrying the Oceti Sakowin (First of Seven Council Fires) fire
Wednesday, raising a minor ruckus on the Washington, DC, Mall.

  Fire-fighters and officers got out of the truck and squad cars and came to
inspect the smoke issuing out of a stovepipe from the back of the pick-up.

The Lakota and Dakota elders and young people rallied, concerned about
whether the fire-fighters would try to put out the Sacred Fire which had led
them all the way to Washington. Women wearing shawls and skirts gathered
around a yellow banner saying "Treaty Rights are Human Rights; Uphold the
Fort Laramie Treaty."

As one man sang to the beat of a hand drum, Lakota youth in baggy pants and
sweatshirts held up hand-lettered signs reading, "We are the Seventh
Generation of which Black Elk spoke and we want our land back,"  "One does
not sell the land on which the people walk" (a quotation from Crazy Horse),
and "Senator Daschle, you can't have our land or our water."

One fire-fighter quipped, "You want to get arrested."

An incoming hurricane caused a constant drizzle during the
morning and afternoon, as people came and went to meetings with legislative
assistants to discuss the violation of their
treaties.  The previous (sunny) day, elders and youth of the
Sioux Nation had passed out leaflets.   But by the time the fire truck,
sirens blaring, pulled up beside the small pick-up,
spirits were a little bedraggled.

As the firemen inspected the woodstove and pipe carrying smoke out the back
end, a few umbella-carrying tourists stopped to watch the action.  A nearby
bus driver snapped his own photos. When the fire-fighters learned that there
was a fire extinguisher in case of emergency, they said that everything was
up to code and left.

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NATIVE_NEWS: ALEXIE TO MAKE "Reservation Blues"

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From: "George(s) Lessard" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
  ALEXIE TO MAKE DEBUT
Sherman Alexie, who wrote Miramax's "Smoke Signals," has been tapped by
the company to  write and direct an adaptation from his own novel
"Reservation Blues."
  http://www.variety.com/article.asp?articleID=1117755564

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  Media Arts, Management & Mentoring
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NATIVE_NEWS: AIROS: NAC topics for the rest of Sept

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From: Eric Martin <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: NAC topics for the rest of Sept

AIROS' electronic program guide for 9/20/99

Tune into Native America Calling LIVE on the Internet via RealAudio every
Mondy - Friday from 1-2pm ET

Native America Calling Website: nativecalling.org

MON - 9/20: Smart Genes:
Scientists at Princeton University recently created a "super mouse" by
cleverly altering its DNA to make it smarter. They claim that DNA
engineering made the mouse learn faster and remember longer. If we can
improve learning and memory in mice, can we do the same for humans? Should
we use genetics to make ourselves, our kids, and even our parents smarter? 

TUE - 9/21: Nuclear-Free Pacific Rim:
For more than forty years, the Pacific Rim has been the most popular spot in
the world for industrialized nations to test their atmospheric and
underground nuclear weapons. The indigenous peoples of the region feel they
are getting close to the beginning of the end for nuclear testing and
nuclear weapons in general. We take you live to a nuclear-free conference on
the Polynesian Island of Tahiti.

WED - 9/22: Self-Determination in the South Pacific:
Control over the island communities of the South Pacific have been
essentially divided up between four countries; Britain, France, Germany and
the United States, all of whom impose their own form of imperialistic rule.
Will the chains ever be broken? Join us as we continue our coverage from Tahiti.

THU - 9/23: What's Better, Being Single or Married?:
Since talking about relationships always seems to be a hot topic on the
show, we resurrect the issue once again. This time, we ask whether the
bachelor life or the wedded life is better. Is everyone looking for the
rapture and bliss that matrimony has to offer? Or are they happy staying single?

FRI - 9/24: Hepatitis
Did you know that hundreds of thousands of Americans are infected with
hepatitis each year?  Did you know some strains of hepatitis can be
contracted by just touching a doorknob up to a week after the infected
person contaminates it?  If you would like to learn more about this disease
with possible fatal consequences, tune in to the next "Wellness Edition" of
Native America Calling as Sharon McConnell and her guests discuss Hepatitis.

MON - 9/27: The Condition of Native American Studies:
Many Native studies programs at campuses and universities are under attack.
Funding is being threatened and Native educators find themselves defending
and justifying their existence. Will they survive?

TUE - 9/28: TBA

WED - 9/29: Losing the Drug War:
America has poured billions of dollars into what some say is a losing war on
drugs. Should we continue to throw money at a drug program that has gone up
in smoke? What are the alternatives? Guests include New Mexico Governor Gary
Johnson.

THU - 9/30: Book-of-the-Month: "A Peoples Ecology":
Tewa author and University of New Mexico professor Greg Cajete of Santa
Clara Pueblo explores sustainable living from a Native perspective through a
collection of well-written modern essays.
---
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NATIVE_NEWS: Canada 9/20/99

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Date: Mon, 20 Sep 1999 08:15:54 -0400
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Subject: Canada  9/20/99 


ALBERTA: Stoney Nation fires tribal administrator
Globe & Mail
Monday, September 20, 1999

CALGARY -- The Stoney Nation, racked by controversy in the past few years, has fired 
its tribal administrator, Rick Butler. The news came a day after a judge's  scathing 
report, which blamed social conditions at the reserve for the suicide of a 17-year-old 
boy. In a report released Friday after an inquiry into the suicide by hanging of 
Sherman Labelle, Judge John Reilly said the teenager was the victim of a corrupt power 
structure that deprived him of help. Judge Reilly accused "vested interests" on the 
reserve of diverting money meant for social programs. He said Mr. Labelle's death was 
the result of institutional failures that kept him from getting help.

Two years ago, before Mr. Butler was hired, the oil-rich reserve incurred a 
$5.6-million deficit despite $50-million in revenues. The reserve has since balanced 
its books. CP

~~
National Post  9/20/99
Alberta parents charged with negligence in son's bike death
Lawyers surprised by arrest
 Marina Jimenez
 National Post, with files from The Canadian Press and
The Edmonton Journal

An accident with tragic consequences has turned into an unprecedented criminal case in 
Edmonton, after police laid charges of criminal negligence causing death against the 
grieving parents of a five-year-old boy who was hit by a car while riding his pink 
bicycle. The case pits the state's ability to monitor parents against individual 
rights and the boundaries of parental responsibility. It is believed to be the first 
of its kind in Canada, although parents in the U.S. have been charged for not securing 
their children properly in car seats.

Police charged Robert Shaw, 42, and Starlene Gibson, 34, on Friday, a month to the day 
after their son Leslie collided with a van that was backing up on a busy street in the 
family's downtown Edmonton neighbourhood.  Mr. Shaw and Ms. Gibson were just heading 
out the door to place a rose at the base of a tree near where Leslie died, when police 
arrested them on their doorstep. Officials from Alberta social services seized the 
family's other two children, and have placed them in the care of relatives.

Lawyers say they are astonished that police decided to lay such an onerous charge. 
Criminal negligence causing death is punishable by life in prison and is usually 
reserved for those who have shown a "wanton and reckless disregard for the lives and 
safety of others." This is a high benchmark by which to measure parental standard of 
care, says David Cunningham, an Edmonton criminal lawyer. "I question whether it's 
appropriate to charge parents in these situations," said Mr. Cunningham. "Criminal 
Code sanctions are a blunt tool and don't always address the issues. What's the goal 
of a prosecution such as this? To promote education and acknowledge responsibility? I 
don't think so."

Bryan Boulanger, spokesman for the Edmonton Police Service, said he knew the charges 
would spark criticism, but felt they were justified in part because the family was 
repeatedly warned to supervise their children while playing outdoors. Police 
interviewed neighbours who confided that they too had been involved in a number of 
near-collisions with Leslie. Mr. Shaw and Ms. Gibson would sometimes supervise Leslie 
and his three-year-old brother, Frankie, from their balcony, while the boys played in 
the street.

This summer, the neighbourhood was undergoing construction and the streets were filled 
with barricades. On Aug. 17, Leslie was riding his bicycle by himself when he collided 
with a cable installer's van that was backing out of a lane behind his home. "The boy 
made an operator error. () He was riding on the wrong side of the street and he 
basically erred, turned or careened into the back of the van," said Sgt. Boulanger. 
"But a five-year-old doesn't know what a flashing light is. We feel that Leslie's 
death is directly attributable to a lack of parental supervision."

A clergyman, an aboriginal resource officer, a social worker and a victims' service 
officer were all present on Friday when police arrested Leslie's heartbroken and 
traumatized parents. "I think it's sick," Mr. Shaw told The Edmonton Sun. "I just got 
back from burying my son and now this. This is our worst nightmare."  Most cases of 
criminal negligence causing death centre on drunk drivers with terrible driving 
records who kill or injure someone. To obtain a conviction in this case, the Crown 
must prove that the parents knowingly, intentionally and purposefully endangered their 
son's life, said Bruce Gunn, a criminal lawyer who specializes in these cases. 
"Failing to look out the window would not be enough for a

NATIVE_NEWS: Mushrooms Used as Fertilizer

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Date: Sun, 19 Sep 1999 22:46:14 -0500
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Mushrooms Used as Fertilizer
By JEFF BARNARD Associated Press Writer

GRANTS PASS, Ore. (AP) -- Mike Amaranthus opened the glass door of a
refrigerator case and peeled back the top of a plastic container to reveal
a musty brown powder.

"Two tablespoons of this powder contains more spores than there are people
on earth," he said. "You can imagine what you can do with 50 pounds."

Amaranthus and a handful of other entrepreneurs are selling the spores of
mushrooms, puffballs and truffles as an organic and highly successful
alternative to chemical fertilizers and pesticides.

To make his point, Amaranthus offers test plants -- roses, maple trees and
marigolds -- grown with and without the fungi. Those inoculated with spores
are bigger, leafier, and have more blooms.

"Most people relate to fungi moldy bread and itchy toes, but 90 percent of
the world's plants form a beneficial relationship to fungi that we call the
mycorrhizae," said Amaranthus, a soil scientist.

Hence the name of his company, Mycorrhizal Applications Inc.

The relationship can be traced to the earliest fossils of land plants,
leading scientists like Amaranthus to theorize that fungi helped ancient
aquatic plants make the jump to the hostile environment of dry land.

The fungi attach to the roots of the plant and help it take in moisture and
nutrients through a network of tiny filaments called hyphae that spread
through the soil, increasing the root mass 10 to 10,000 times. The plants
feed the fungi in return.

Amaranthus first ran across mycorrhizae in 1976, when he started working
for the Siskiyou National Forest. Many foresters still regarded the white
and yellow strands they saw on tree roots as pathogens attacking the trees,
but he found that they were beneficial.

Through his doctoral work in forest ecology at Oregon State University and
later work for the U.S. Forest Service's Pacific Northwest Research
Station, Amaranthus helped unravel the secret life of trees and mycorrhizal
fungi.

In 1997, he left the woods to bring mycorrhizae to the marketplace. He ran
through his retirement savings getting started, but is now making a profit
and employing five people full time.

The spores come from mushrooms, puffballs and truffles harvested from the
wild as well as cultivated areas around the world. Amaranthus won't divulge
financial information but says last year Mycorrhizal Applications sold
enough spores to inoculate 200 million plants. They are gearing up to
produce enough for 1 billion plants.

Amaranthus' business is small. Plant Health Care Inc., in Pittsburgh, Pa.,
claims the title of industry leader, with annual revenue of $100 million
four years after startup.

The company supplies beneficial bacteria as well as mycorrhizal spores for
arborists, nurseries, landscapers, turf farms, golf courses and fruit and
vegetable growers.

"We think that because of regulation of soil fumigants as well as
increasing regulation of certain classes of chemical pesticide, more and
more growers are becoming open to and interested in the below-ground
ecology of the plant," said President Wayne Wall.

Complaints against the soil fumigant methyl bromide, used to control things
like root-eating nematodes, are growing because of fears over ozone
depletion and health risks. The Environmental Protection Agency recently
moved to ban methyl parathion, which is commonly sprayed on apples, over
child health concerns.

Research has shown that mycorrhizals help plants absorb essential
micronutrients such as calcium, and can even help control pests like
root-feeding nematodes.

Mount Angel hops grower John Annen tried some spores to see if they would
help him root a difficult strain of hops in the greenhouse. He began using
them on everything after his success rate nearly doubled.

He said the hops treated with mycorrhizals have bigger root systems, need
less fertilizer and resist insects better, allowing him to skip one
application of insecticide.

"When I first heard about it I was very skeptical," he said. "I checked it
out with a few people at the college, field men, whatnot, and they told me
this was nothing new, it had been studied for years, but nobody went
anywhere with it. What this stuff can do is absolutely amazing."

Plants link up with specific fungi, so Mycorrhizal Applications makes
custom mixes for commercial clients in a liquid, powder or gel. The spores
can be mixed with potting soil, dripped on through irrigation, sprayed on
by crop-duster, or dropped in the soil at planting time.

The above-ground results produced by fungi could be achieved applying
fertilizer every two weeks, but 70 to 90 percent of nitrogen applied in
nurseries is not absorbed by the plants and ends up getting washed into
rivers, where it i

NATIVE_NEWS: Indian side of Little Bighorn presented in new book

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Date: Sun, 19 Sep 1999 22:23:33 -0500
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http://www.newsday.com/ap/rnmpmt08.htm
Indian side of Little Bighorn presented in new book

NEW YORK (AP) - The faces staring out from the page are leathery, chiseled,
emotionally opaque. The names - Goes Ahead, White Man Runs Him, Yellow
Robe, Iron Hawk - resonate as war cries and gunfire once did across the
treeless hills of eastern Montana.

These Indians were there when Lt. Col. George Armstrong Custer and some 200
U.S. cavalry troopers met death at Little Bighorn on June 25, 1876. They
were the Crow and Arikara scouts who rode with Custer, and the Sioux and
Cheyenne braves who destroyed him that hot Sunday afternoon.

Just as the outcome permanently tarnished Custer's reputation, it left the
Indians a bitter legacy that for some, has lasted 123 years, says Herman J.
Viola, author of a new book that looks at the famous battle from the
Indians' point of view.

"None of the four tribes involved find any comfort in the events of 1876,"
says Viola, curator emeritus of the Smithsonian Institution.

"The Crow and Arikara not only feel betrayed by the government they sought
to help, but today they are more often seen as traitors for helping the
cavalry hunt down their traditional enemies," he says.

"The Cheyenne and Sioux, on the other hand, suffered terribly for their
victory. In fact, elderly descendants of the Cheyenne and Sioux who were
present at Little Bighorn still fear some sort of retribution awaits them
if their family connection to Custer's demise is revealed."

Viola's book, "Little Bighorn Remembered, the Untold Indian Story of
Custer's Last Stand," will appear next month. It includes many obscure and
previously unpublished details about the most famous event of the 19th
century Indian wars.

Among these are the Cheyenne oral legend that Custer's death was
retribution by the Everywhere Spirit - or God - for breaking a promise
never to attack the tribe and that some of Custer's troops may have drunk
whiskey just before the battle.

The book also includes a new reconstruction of Custer's movements at Little
Bighorn by National Park Service archaeologist Douglas Scott, and the first
publication of all 41 drawings of the battle by Sioux chief Red Horse,
which Viola calls a "Native American Bayeux Tapestry."

The overriding theme is the conflict among the Plains tribes that
transcended war with the Army - Crow and Arikara versus their traditional
enemies, the Sioux and Cheyenne.

"This is not the Indians against the cowboys - this is Indians against
Indians," Viola said in an interview.

"I am very excited about this book," says Joseph Medicine Crow, of Lodge
Grass, Mont., a tribal historian who at 86 may be the last living person to
have known anyone present at the battle of Little Bighorn.

Medicine Crow's great-uncle, or "grandfather in the Indian way," was White
Man Runs Him, an imposing 6-foot-6 warrior who was one of the six Crow
scouts with Custer that day and survived only because Custer released the
scouts from duty.

As a boy, Medicine Crow listened as White Man Runs Him and four other
former scouts told stories of their relationship with the flamboyant
soldier they called Son of the Morning Star.

In the book, Medicine Crow says the Crows' friendly ties with the whites
were based on a 100-year-old tribal prophecy that resistance meant eventual
disaster and an 1825 treaty that was consummated by the ritual touching of
a knife blade to tongues.

"This was a sacred oath that will be kept forever," Medicine Crow says.

He adds that in later years, when asked to help the army fight the Sioux
and Cheyennes, the Crows saw themselves as using - rather than being used
by - the whites.

"Crow survival was at stake. The Crows believed then - and still believe -
that they honorably used the white man as allies in their continuing
intertribal struggle with their worthy traditional enemies," Medicine Crow
says.

While the Sioux led by the famous Sitting Bull and Crazy Horse have always
overshadowed their Cheyenne allies, the Arikara are "the real forgotten
people" on the other side, says Viola, although they lost three scouts
killed and the Crows none.

Even after 123 years, fear and suspicion persists, Viola says. "Old, old
Indians still are afraid to talk about Little Bighorn. They still think the
government is going to punish them. They say, 'you don't know the
government."'

This is especially true with Cheyennes, who according to rumors may still
have "Custer memorabilia" - paper money, weapons and battlefield artifacts
- hidden away, he said.

Among the more talkative Cheyennes was Rev. Joseph Walks Along, a Mennonite
preacher who recalled his grandfather, Yellow Robe, 12 at the time, saying
the Indians didn't expect a fight until they saw

NATIVE_NEWS: Wyandotte mention...Tribes struggle for identity

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Date: Sun, 19 Sep 1999 17:28:12 -0700
From: "D. E." <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>

Tribes struggle for identity

By JOE ROBERTSON
c. Tulsa World
9/19/99

  MIAMI, Okla. -- They hang on, tenuously, like the single feather tethered by a 
string to a small stick planted near a grave on a windy Oklahoma plain.

The story of the eight Ottawa County tribes and their desire to right environmental 
wrongs could begin in many far-away places. It could begin on the lava beds of 
northern California, or in birch forests beyond the Great Lakes, or in soft woods of 
the Deep South.

It can also begin here, where a feather tosses in the wind that whistles
through the solitary pines someone planted years ago to keep these old graves company.

This particular grave has a new stone replacing the old. Under the chiseled name of 
James Long and the years 1845-1891, it reads, "Youngest Warrior in Modoc War." Other 
graves in the small Modoc Cemetery in a northeastern Oklahoma field defy deciphering, 
the inscriptions worn beyond recognition.

The Modoc, like their neighbors, the Eastern Shawnee, the Wyandotte, the Miami, the 
Peoria, the Ottawa, the Seneca-Cayuga and the Quapaw, number among the smallest tribes 
in the state.

Together, the eight tribes have embarked this summer on a new effort to recover 
damages and demand the cleanup of tons of lead mining waste left behind years ago by 
companies given leases to mine the land that the eight uprooted tribes were forced to 
call home.

Separately, members of the tribes look back through archives and spoken histories, 
trying to recover faded traditions, forgotten ceremonies and lost languages.

"It's a sad story," Charla Reeves said. She was talking of the story of her tribe, the 
Peoria. She said it in a tone she knew might come across as trite. It's easy to say 
it. There is a too easily vague understanding of the hardships suffered by Indian 
nations herded against their will some 130 years ago into what was then set aside as 
Indian Territory.

Yes, it is a sad story. There are eight sad stories. A thousand sad stories.

"But we should learn about the people who were here first," Reeves said.

Eight tribes, one problem Of course the eight tribes have learned to work together, 
said Lamont Laird. He is Eastern Shawnee. They have to work together to protect what 
little they have left. "It's as if once we were all moved here, we realized we're all 
stuck here together," Laird said. "In the old- timers' stories, you hear how they did 
a good job reaching out and helping each other."

Most of the tribes, like the Quapaw from the South, had already been decimated by 
diseases such as small pox that spread insidiously through the tribes after they came 
into contact with Europeans.

Most of the tribes, including the Ottawa, Wyandotte and Shawnee, splintered into bands 
each time they were forced westward, from the Great Lakes to the Ohio Valley, into 
Missouri or Kansas and then Oklahoma.

All of them have stories, like the history Rhonda Dixon tells of the Ottawa, how some 
of them swam for islands in the Great Lakes rather than be moved.

They have found in archives the diaries of federal agents overseeing Indian removals, 
like the diary Dixon cites where the agent matter-of-factly refers to the Ottawa 
Indians as "savages" and describes a day when three of them died as a day of "no major 
losses."

The Modoc came, 153 of them, all loaded up in box cars from California in 1873, 
considered prisoners of war after many of them fought the U.S. Army for several months 
rather than give up their homes.

Over the years, the tribes saw their lands chopped up into allotments and the rest 
given to white settlement. Then much of the Quapaw land was leased by the Bureau of 
Indian Affairs to mining companies.

That these eight tribes survived and can join together to assert sovereignty in the 
name of environmental protection is a miracle, several tribal historians agreed.

Even if they are successful, the joint effort with state officials, lawyers and the 
University of Tulsa could take years to bring any remedy for the lead mining waste 
that has endangered the health of Indian and non-Indian residents alike.

Nothing has moved quickly. The health hazards of the 40 square miles of mining area 
with its waste piles and acid mine drainage first came to the attention of state and 
federal officials in 1979. It was named the Tar Creek Superfund Site and placed on the 
National Priority List in 1983 but remains mostly uncleaned as the century comes to a 
close.

But compared with the task of recovering unique tribal cultures, the environmental 
cleanup may be the easier job.

Lost cultures Only the Quapaw and the Seneca- Cayuga have any full-bloods left among 
tribal members, and they can be counted on one hand. In most cases, tribes are turning 
to linguists in various universities to piece together the tribes' lost languages from 
whatever words living

NATIVE_NEWS: Exploiting the Indian Trademark

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via Martha
Date: Sun, 19 Sep 1999 15:13:05 -0700
Subject: Exploiting the Indian Trademark
From: "David Handy" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>

We would like to call your attention to the struggle the Cow Creek Band of
Umpqua Tribe of Indians has undertaken to stop the exploitation of the
Indian Trademark by non-Indian commercial enterprises, specifically the
Indian Motorcycle Company of America.

Basically, the Cow Creeks had entered into an agreement with a federal
receivership to acquire the Indian Motorcycle Trademark, in order to revive
the Indian Motorcycle line, with a manufacturing plant on Tribal lands.  The
deal would also have resulted in very large royalty payments to pan-Indian
organizations.

The receivership reneged on the deal, cheating the Cow Creeks out of
significant financial investments, Indian Country of substantial financial
support for Indian organizations, and awarded the Indian Trademark to a
non-Indian Canadian group.

The Cow Creeks have sued on behalf of Indian Country to stop the use of the
Indian trademark by all commercial, non-Indian groups, not only the Indian
Motorcycle Company of America. This effort has been formally endorsed by the
NCAI and is supported by NARF.

For details visit http://www.indiantrademark.com/

Spread the word and send the web address to your own contacts.

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NATIVE_NEWS: Kill the salmon kill the people (culturacide)

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NORTHWEST COAST INDIANS:
ENVIRONMENTAL IMPACTS

By [EMAIL PROTECTED]



Prior to the advent of the Europeans to the homelands of the Northwest Coast
Indians, the people could depend on the Natural World for their survival.
The Northwest Coast people's diet was 90% dependant on fish, salmon being the
primary fish eaten, the rest of their diet was supplemented by game, which
was plentiful, and minimal gathering of wild plants sustained them, too.  The
Natural World provided the people with an abundant source of food that could
feed immense populations.

To the Northwest Nations, the salmon was and is as central to the economy and
culture as the buffalo was  and is to the Native Nations of the Great Plains.
  I use the phrase was and is because too many people wrongly think that
Native American Indian ways of life, traditional teachings, and other
cultural ways are extinct, which they are not!  While many of our traditional
economy and ways have been greatly impacted, especially by assimilation and
environmental poisoning, many traditional people still remain and are holding
on strong to their unique cultures, languages, and traditional teachings,
even in the face of  overwhelming odds.

The main lesson we all need to learn in order to survive is that we all share
this planet together.  While some mistakenly think that the environmental
degradation only impacts other peoples and other cultures, there is only one
Mother Earth and what one does to her, one does to themself.

The natural environment and the people are intricately tied together. If one
impedes or destroys the Natural World of which Native peoples are dependent
for cultural and economic survival, one commits not only ecocide, but one
commits genocide of the culture.  In other words, if one takes away the
salmon, that is ecocide.  If one takes away the salmon and the people stop
doing the ceremonies for the fish, then that is killing of the cultural.  If
the Salmon is eradicated, and the ceremony no longer done, then the future
generations will lose their traditional teachings and may become assimilated
to the dominant culture's way of life and forget their traditional teachings.
  This is not only a problem for the Northwest Nations it is a problem that
all the First Nations of Turtle Island face and must prevent from happening.


As I mentioned before, the Northwest Nations are delicately tied together
with the Natural World.  Their traditional ecological knowledge, which is
embedded within their traditional teachings provides for living in harmony
with the Natural World.  Since the Salmon is central to their survival, the
Northwest Coastal Indians have ceremonies and events to show their respect
for the life and duty of Salmon that are done to thank the Salmon and to
assure that they return the following year.  The following words are an
excerpt from the book Ecocide of Native America:

"The salmon were also part of the spirit world of Northwest peoples. They
were believed to be spirit beings who had their village under the western
ocean. Their annual pilgrimages to the rivers and bays were seen as acts of
voluntary sacrifice for the benefit of their human friends. Though they
seemed to die, the spirits simply removed their outer "Salmon robes" and
journeyed back to their undersea homes.  But they would return again if their
gifts of flesh were treated with respect".


One of the ways the  Salmon is treated with respect is by the First Salmon
Ceremony.  The first Salmon to return from its long journey from the ocean is
caught and placed on a mat or cedar board with its head facing upstream.
Then, the Salmon is often sprinkled with down as the ceremonial speech
begins. The fish is cooked and divided amongst the people gathered.  There is
gift giving and other events, songs, etc. that continue for several days.
During these several days, many migrating salmon are freely returning home to
spawn after which they die.   The important thing to see here is that the
traditional ecological knowledge inherent in the Northwest Indians
traditional teachings (ceremonies and practices that allow many fish to go
through) provides for making sure that enough salmon are allowed to spawn to
assure the future of the salmon population.

Unfortunately, the salmon runs have been greatly impacted by dams, pollution
and over fishing by commercial industries. Thus, many salmon are on the
endangered species list.  Dams are a big problem for salmon because not only
do they create obstacles for fish to migrate over, but many baby salmon that
hatch in fresh water are killed by the hydroelectric dams or explode when the
pressure fluctuates as they attempt to float out to salt water.

Dams also change the water temperature and the quality.  Many salmon that do
return from the ocean have problems finding their way back to their
traditional spawning beds, which have also changed due to dams and other
construction that has changed the wa

NATIVE_NEWS: Santee Sioux Tribal Leaders to be honored at conference

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supplied by Mary M..thanks..:)
Santee Sioux tribal leaders to be honored at conference
BY JODI RAVE Lincoln Journal Star
http://www.journalstar.com/stories/neb/sto3 (entire story at this Link)


Santee Sioux tribal leaders -- beleaguered by court battles, daily fines and 
head-to-head clashes with state officials over their outlawed casino -- were 
asked this week to accept an award for their efforts.

On Monday, Santee Tribal Chairman Butch Denny and tribal council members will 
attend the National Indian Gaming Association's annual conference in Prior 
Lake, Minn. They will be honored during the three-day event for refusing to 
close the tribe's small casino in northeastern Nebraska during a 3 1/2-year 
battle with state officials.  

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