This note is just to let you know that the reason you have received no
NATIVE-L mailing list articles for more than a week is that I am now
experiencing serious hardware problems on the computer which is used
as the hub of the message relay system. Unfortunately, I am not now
even aware of the real cause of the problem, but I do know it is not
as simple as I had thought at first.
I am currently preparing a message which represents something of an
"open letter" to the NativeNet community explaining the broader
implications of the fact that the current system is so vulnerable to
a single point of failure and indicating some ways we might think
about remedying that situation, to create something that is more
robust. I will also give some history, and indicate likely future
directions, to explain, especially for the benefit of newer subscribers,
and to try to put the current problems into a broader context.
I regret the inconvenience of this service interruption, especially
since it comes just as we had established the link with Usenet.
I would ask that everyone hold on to your articles for the time being,
since I have no convenient means to relay them to the mailing list.
However, here are several articles which were received recently, just
to attempt to deal with some important and timely matters.
I hope to send my "open letter" message before the weekend.
Best regards to all,
Gary
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Gary S. Trujillo gst@gnosys.svle.ma.us
Somerville, Massachusetts {wjh12,bu.edu,spdcc,ima,cdp}!gnosys!gst
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From: CUBLDR.Colorado.EDU!leeson_k
Date: 21 Mar 1993 09:42:27 -0700 (MST)
Subject: HPSfAA INFORMATION
Message-Id: <01GW2DDNQFNM8ZDZ5X@CUBLDR.Colorado.EDU>
Gary, I promise this is the last of this for awhile. They are so late in
getting the informtion out. I've put alot of work into it. I hope they
get a good response. I should ask Dr. Walker for Independent Study credit.
Not a bad idea. Could you please post this to the network for me. thanks
again, Karen
HIGH PLAINS SOCIETY FOR APPLIED ANTHROPOLOGY
PRELIMINARY PROGRAM
13TH ANNUAL MEETING
APRIL 30, MAY 1 & 2, 1993
Friday, April 30 Workshops (pre-registration required)
1:00 - 3:00 p.m. Rapid Rural Assessment: Susan Scott-Stevens
3:15 - 5:00 p.m. Native American Marketing Opportunities in Europe:
Gordon Bronitsky
7:30 - 8:30 p.m. Opening Address: Westview Publishing, "Publishing
Priorities for Applied Anthropologists in the 90's"
8:30 - 10 p.m. Wine and Cheese Reception in Dinosaur Hall
Saturday May 1
8:00 a.m. Continental Breakfast
9:00 a.m. Keynote Address: Dr. Muriel Crespi, US National Park Service
10:15 - 11:30 a.m. Session 1: Museum Anthropology 1993: Interfacing with
Many Publics
Chair: Joyce Herold, Curator of Ethnology, Denver
Museum of Natural History
12:00 - 1:15 p.m. HPSfAA Annual Business Meeting (box lunch may be ordered)
1:15 - 2:45 p.m. Session 2: Environmental Policy: Ramifications for
Applied Anthropology
3:00 - 4:15 p.m. Session 3: Moving from Action to Advocacy
Chair: Carla Littlefield
6:30 p.m. Dinner (reservations required)
Dinner Speaker: Dr. David Stephenson, Esq.,
"Legislation and Applied Anthropology"
Omer Stewart Award
Sunday, May 2
8:00 a.m. Continental Breakfast
9:00 - 10:15 a.m. Session 4: Education: Impact of Legislation and Policy
Chair: Michael Higgins
10:30 - 11:45 a.m. Session 5: Roundtable Discussion: Summing Up and
Recommendations to HPSfAA for Legislative Action Plan
1:00 - 5:00 p.m. Visit the Denver Museum of Natural History
Volunteer papers will be delivered through the planned sessions that
include education, environment and action/advocacy.
HIGH PLAINS SOCIETY FOR APPLIED ANTHROPOLOGY
13th Annual Meeting: April 30, May 1 & 2, 1993
Hotel Accommodations:
Landmark Inn $45/night/room Contact: Joy Furlong, Sales
455 S. Colorado Boulevard 1-800-528-1234 (toll free)
Denver, CO 80222 303-388-5561 (direct)
We have reserved private rooms and rooms with two beds for this special
rate. Be sure to identify HPSfAA's Annual Meeting when you make your
reservations. The Landmark Inn will provide transportation to the Denver
Museum of Natural History for $1. each way. Vans run about every 20-30
minutes. They also have airport transportation through Airport Boulevard
Company for $3. one way. Vans run every half hour from the Hotel Pickup
Zone at Stapleton Airport. Look for the white van with red-white-blue
circle ABC. Call 1-800-228-0668 for more information.
[ The registration form which followed was garbled. Please get in touch
with Frances Dahlberg for registration information. --Gary ]
Please return to: Frances Dahlberg Taylor, Treasurer
875 Aurora Avenue
Boulder, CO 80302
Deadline for reservations for the May 1st dinner is April 26.
-30-
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From: calshp.cals.wisc.edu!colemanj (John Coleman)
Date: Sun, 21 Mar 93 12:52:21 CST
Subject: Anti-Fishing Protests let by Minn. Vikings
Message-Id: <9303211852.AA15663@calshp.cals.wisc.edu>
Posted by colemanj@calshp.cals.wisc.edu for the Midwest Treaty Network
TREATY RIGHTS STRUGGLE IN MINNESOTA
Ever want to travel back in time Now is your opportunity to take a time
warp back four or five years, by looking at our neighboring state of
Minnesota.
The Mille Lacs Chippewa Reservation is located on four parcels of land
near Mille Lacs Lake Minnesota, between Minneapolis and Duluth. Tribal
members are to begin harvesting fish off the reservation this Spring,
exercising their rights under the treaties of 1837 and 1855. In an
agreement signed with the Minnesota DNR, the tribal government said
spearers and gillnetters would take about three percent of the walleye
in Mille Lacs Lake.
In a March 3 referendum, tribal voters approved the agreement, which
included a state financial payment to limit the tribal harvest. The
'yes' vote came mainly from the main parcel of the reservation--the part
with the tribal headquarters--which is located within territory cede by
the 1855 treaty. Urban Mille Lacs members, and members within lands
ceded by the 1837 treaty--opposed the agreement. Some said the
agreement would not recognize the 1837 treaty. The new 37-55 Treaty
Alliance is made up of Chippewa who oppose limitations on their exercise
of treaty rights. They are taking the legal route to prove that the
Mille Lacs government has no right to limit the harvests of other
Chippewa who want to harvest in ceded territory.
But even the DNR-MIlle Lacs agreement is not enough of a limitation for
anti-Indian sportsmen's groups. Led by former Vikings football coach
Bud Grant, the Hunters and Anglers Club is casting out exactly the same
arguments that PARR did in Wisconsin circa 1988-89. On March 27, the
group is holding a rally in the Twin Cities to press their arguments of
Chippewa fish depletion and anti- Caucasian discrimination. PARR
leaders are among the speakers at the rally. The American Indian
Movement is sponsoring a counterprotest.
The Twin Cities media is much more aware of treaty issues than the
Wisconsin media was half a decade ago. It has had experience with a
large Native community, AIM actions, and the Wisconsin spearing
controversy. However, they tend not to give much coverage either to
traditionalists who disagree with their tribal council, or to Minnesota
whites who feel the sportsmen's groups do not represent them. Some of
the local papers around Mille Lacs have been repeating the claims of
those groups without checking their accuracy.
It is not clear what action the anti-Indian groups plan to take during
the harvesting season. No boat landing protests have been announced,
and Mille Lacs members have not formally invited
Witnesses-for-Nonviolence. Contact: 37-55 Treaty Alliance, HCR3, Box
562-7, McGregor, MN 55760
==> 930324-084542x <==
From: calshp.cals.wisc.edu!colemanj (John Coleman)
Date: Sun, 21 Mar 93 12:54:18 CST
Subject: Nuclear Waste on Mississippi Reservation Island
Message-Id: <9303211854.AA15712@calshp.cals.wisc.edu>
To: nn.general@gnosys.svle.ma.us (Native Net)
Posted by colemanj@calshp.cals.wisc.edu for the Midwest Treaty Network
PRAIRIE ISLAND NUCLEAR STORAGE
In voting unanimously to grant Northern States Power Company a
Certificate of Need to expand its spent nuclear fuel storage on the
flood plain of the Mississippi River next to the Prairie Island
Mdewakanton Dakota Indian Community, the Minnesota Public Utilities
Commission (PUC) ignored many hours of expert testimony that the power
from the Prairie Island plant could be re-placed in a variety of ways.
The PUC justified its decision by citing assurances from the Department
of Energy that the spent fuel would be removed to its Yucca Mountain
Repository in the next 20 years. Three days after the Commission made
its decision Yucca Mountain suffered an earth-quake of intensity Richter
5.6 which caused $1 million damage.
The following paragraphs are excerpted from an article on page 1 of the
Los Angeles Times, for Monday, December 28, 1992:
"Northern States ran into a buzz saw of opposition to its plan to store
more radioactive waste at its nuclear power plant on Prairie Island,
about 50 miles southeast of Minneapolis on the Mississippi River...
"At Prairie Island, storage space was running out and Northern States
sought permission in 1990 to build new facilities. The loudest
objections came from the Mdewakanton Sioux Indians, who have a 600-acre
reservation adjoining the plant.
"'Our main concern is that this will become permanent storage and this
small group of Indians will be forced to live with it for generations,'
said William J. Hardacker, a lawyer for the tribe...
"After an administrative law judge ruled that Minnesota law prohibited
the storage of more waste at Prairie Island, it was now Department of
Energy Secretary Hazel O'Leary who helped craft a behind-the-scenes
compromise to avoid shutting down the reactors, according to Sanda, the
public service commissioner.
"As a result, Northern States received the OK from regulators in June to
store 287 tons of additional radioactive waste on the island."
In the first week of November it was learned that Northern States Power
Co had begun construction of the radioactive waste dump near the
Mdewakanton Dakota Reservation on Prairie Island next to the Wisconsin
border. Contact: The Prairie Island Coalition Against Nuclear Storage
P O Box 174, Lake Elmo, MN 55042 Wisconsin State Group 715/792-2890
Diane Rother. Coalition Hotline: 920-5943.
==> 930324-084551x <==
From: star1.boku.ac.at!h440t4 (Schwarzbauer Peter)
Date: Mon, 22 Mar 93 16:22:49 MET
Subject: Austrian TV interested in BC indigenous groups
Subject: Austrian TV tries to locate traditional Group in BC - A request
Background
In connection with the International Year on the Indigenous People
of the World the national Austrian TV obviously also wants to con-
tribute in one way or another. I was approached by a prominent
Austrian TV-journalist, responsible for foreign affairs. What he
wants is the following:
In order to demonstrate what could be lost if socalled
"development" goes on in Canada, the Austrian TV wants to make a
longer documentary on an indigenous group in BC, which still more
or less maintains a subsistence way of life. One thing, which
should come out from this documentary is to demonstrate that sub-
sistence economy in terms of survival is not of purely economic
nature, but a cultural question as well.
The person involved is not at all looking for Indians like the way
white people would like to see them or which are living in way of
the past century. He is looking for a group still living from the
land, the water etc. (at least to a substantial degree), maybe si-
milar to the situation of the Lubicon Cree 15 years ago.
Request:
I am not very familiar with indigenous groups in BC, so I would
like to make that call in the Native-Net in order to find out,
whether anyone can name such groups (if possible with adress, na-
mes telephone-numbers, and fax-numbers). I will of course also
write to Indian associations in BC and to the AFN and use other
more informal avenues to find that information as well. But
please, if someone has a good idea, send it to the following
adress:
E-Mail: h440t4@mail.boku.ac.at
Mail: Peter Schwarzbauer, Weissgasse 9-13/2/1, A-1170 Vienna,
Austria, Europe
phone: +43 (1) 45-33-51 (private), +43(1) 47-654/ext. 315 (office)
Fax: +43(1) 310-51-75
Thanks a lot
Peter Schwarzbauer
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From: <MEMSTVX1.bitnet!ADOBECKA>
Date: Wed, 24 Mar 1993 11:00 CST
Subject: Native Americans of the South
I am a graduate student at Memphis State University. I am searching for
sources on the agenda of the Native Americans in the south. I am interested
in what issues they see and feel are important for them to address, to spend
their time and money on. Why are these issues important to them? What
obstacles do they face in addressing them? Are the issues, political,
economic, educational, etc.?
Any help would be appreciated.
Please respond to the address below.
Angela Dobecka
ADOBECKA@MEMSTVX1.MEMST.EDU
ADOBECKA@MEMSTVX1.BITNET
==> 930324-164504x <==
From: Jim Maupin <vma.smsu.edu!JRM748F>
Date: Wed, 24 Mar 93 15:12:38 CST
Subject: Indian Self-Determination and Educational Assistance Act
To: nn.general@gnosys.svle.ma.us
Dear Subscribers:
I am working on a research project focusing on the Euroamerican social
construction(s) of American Indians and the "Indian Problem" implicit
in the formulation and ongoing implementation of the 1975 Indian
Self-Determination and Educational Assistance Act and its recently
amended variation on the theme of self-governance. I would be most
grateful for assistance in locating the following information:
1. the "official" legislative history of the committee hearings and
debates that occurred during the formulation stage,
2. names of congressional personnel, congress people and staffers,
who participated in those hearings and debates,
3. names of groups and individuals providing testimony at committee
hearings,
4. information regarding contract proposals rejected by the BIA,
5. information regarding contract proposals accepted by the BIA,
6. information regarding contract proposals accepted by the BIA, but
subsequently terminated.
7. information regarding the kinds of records within the BIA that
might be available for analysis, and
8. any other information that you consider to be important or
potentially useful.
Any assistance you are able to provide will be graciously
appreciated.
Thanks!
Jim Maupin
Political Science Department
Southwest Missouri State University
901 S. National Ave.
Springfield, MO 65804-0094
(417) 836-6955 (417)836-5630
JRM748F@SMSVMA
==> 930324-174504x <==
From: Jim Maupin <SMSVMA.bitnet!JRM748F>
Date: Wed, 24 Mar 93 15:38:16 CST
Dear Subscribers:
I am working on a research project focusing on the Euroamerican social
construction(s) of American Indians and the "Indian Problem" implicit
in the formulation and ongoing implementation of the 1975 Indian
Self-Determination and Educational Assistance Act and its recently
amended variation on the theme of self-governance. I would be most
grateful for assistance in locating the following information:
1. the "official" legislative history of the committee hearings and
debates that occurred during the formulation stage,
2. names of congressional personnel, congress people and staffers,
who participated in those hearings and debates,
3. names of groups and individuals providing testimony at committee
hearings,
4. information regarding contract proposals rejected by the BIA,
5. information regarding contract proposals accepted by the BIA,
6. information regarding contract proposals accepted by the BIA, but
subsequently terminated.
7. information regarding the kinds of records within the BIA that
might be available for analysis, and
8. any other information that you consider to be important or
potentially useful.
Any assistance you are able to provide will be graciously
appreciated.
Thanks!
Jim Maupin
Political Science Department
Southwest Missouri State University
901 S. National Ave.
Springfield, MO 65804-0094
(417) 836-6955 (417)836-5630
JRM748F@SMSVMA
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From: foesydney@peg.pegasus.oz.au
Date: 24 Mar 93 19:51 PST
Newsgroups: ran.ragforum
Subject: Sydney Action - Sarawak
Message-ID: <270200080@peg.pegasus.oz.au>
MEDIA RELEASE
24th March 1993
Trees at Tourist Commission
Venue: The Malaysian Tourist Commission
12.00 noon Wednesday 24th 1993
Australian and Malaysian international relations underwent further
strain today when visitors entering the Malaysian tourist bureau
were greeted by rainforest demonstrators dressed as trees. Members
of the Network of Overseas Students Collective (NOSCA) and the
Sydney Rainforest Action Group (SRAG) stated they were protesting
human rights abuses against Malaysia's tribes people.
Spokesperson Alex Ryan said,
"We are responding to a call for help from the Dayak natives of
the Malaysian state of Sarawak. Australians planning to spend
money in Malaysia should be aware that they could be financing the
destruction of an indigenous people in this, the UN's year of
indigenous peoples"
Ryan linked the Malaysian government's involvement with
uncontrolled rainforest logging in the Dayak homelands. She said,
"Since 1987, 600 Dayaks have been arrested by a tainted government
promoting indiscriminate logging. Malaysia had shown sensitivity
in its relations with Australia in the past, but it can not expect
the Australian public to display a great respect for a Malaysian
administration when that administration promotes this
destruction."
Ryan said that todays action was one of many similar events
occurring overseas. She said,
"Well known rainforest activist and writer Bruno Manser is
conducting a 23 day fast in Basel Switzerland. Bruno lived with
the Dayaks for six years and is seen as an international
spokesperson for them"
For further info contact
Alex Ryan 02 212-1132 SRAG
02 360-5640 after hours
==> 930325n041432x <==
From: Lee.Rhiannon@f203.n612.z90.pegasus.oz.au
Date: 25 Mar 93 12:28 PST
Subject: SARAWAK BLOCKADE UPDATE
Newsgroups: rainfor.general
Message-ID: <3503.2BB26174@pegfido.pegasus.oz>
Sender: Notesfile to Usenet Gateway <notes@igc.apc.org>
THIS REPORT HAS BEEN PREPARED BY MALAYSIAN ACTIVISTS WHO RECENTLY
VISITED THE AREA OF THE BLOCKADES.
SARAWAK BLOCKADE UPDATE
On 23.02. 1993, there are about 1,000 Penans (including
children and women) blockading against Samling Timber Company
in the upper Selaan River area, Upper Baram which is near the
former famous Long Ajeng blockade. This is the third time they
have erected blockade on their ancestral land, the last remaining
virgin forest for their survival. While manning the blockade on
24.02.'93, the company sent their agents and one Police man to
check whether the blockade was on. Due to large number of the
Penans manning the blocakade, the Police and company agents
went back to the base camp.
On 25.02.1993, four soldiers were brought by the Company
to the site. They saw the Penans still manned the blockade.
Then on 27.02.'93, the company brought in 17 soldiers, Police and
argents and again they saw the Penans manned the blockade. On
28.02.'93, there were 20 soldiers, Police Officers and agents
came to the blockade site. Without any warning, they dismantled
the blockade but after 30 minutes, the Penans rebuilt the wooden
blockade. On 1.03.'93, fifty soldiers and Police came to the site
and threatened the Penans by pointed guns at them. The following
day (2.03.'93) eight soldiers came and told them that if they
didn't dismantle the blockade, one thousand soldiers will be
coming tomorrow. The Penans told them they were ready to die
for the sake of their land.
The Police are now trying to arrest four of the leaders
who earlier escaped. So far, there was no Penans arrested until
now. There are 21 Penans longhouses involved in this protest
against logging intrusion into their ancestral land. The Penans
are determined to continue their struggle to achieve their goal.
Their problem is they are going to face shortage of food soon.
Despite the harrassments by the soldiers, Police Officers, Forest
Officers and company agents, the blockade is still manned by
the Penans until today.
Since the blockade started last year in November until
March this year, the mass media never published the events. A
Japanese Student from Yokohama witnessed the events from 10.02.
to 10.03. '93. According to him, the Soldiers were using
binoculars focusing at both sides of the logging road to see
whether they are foreigners watching the blockade or taking
photographs.
Last year 24th November, they had erected blockade at the
same place which lasted for a week. On 31.11.'92, the company
brought in 10 trucks of soldiers, Police, Forest Officers and
agents at the blockade site and dismantle the wooden blockade
without due respect for negotiation.
2. The Berawan tribe staged a human barricade on their
NCR land to stop the construction of Interbational hotel
and building a road leading to the Famous caves at Mulu
National Park last year. The Berawan people are demanding
the authority to recognise and protect their NCR land.
These demands were made before the Mulu was declared as
National Park in 1980. Until to day the authority makes no
attempt to give due recognition to their right over the
land. The Berawan people people is suing the State
government for trepassing and interferring with their
customary right on the said land.
The Berawan people are planning to formulate actions
against this company in order to slow down the work and
and to create public attention. According to one of the
leaders there are 2,000 acres of their ancestral land taken
by the National Park.
3.On the 1st. november, 92 , forty one Iban tribe four
longhouse in Balingian near Sibu, sarwak were detained and
remanded 14 days because they defending their ancestral
land from further damaging by the company. The area is
about 3, 000 acres of forest which provides jungle produce
and food resources for the community.
In fact on several occasions, the people have been trying
to get the company to meet their demands such as
compensation on land already and to provide social services
to the communities affected by logging. While their case
is still pending for hearing, the people continue to
defend their the last area of their forest land. Now the
company is temporarily stop entering the area to log
timber.
4. Early March this year, one Kenyah age 28 from Long Geng
was detained and remanded for a week on charge of criminal
intimidation. He was with a group of people who chased away
the company surveyors from entering their ancestral land.
He is now waiting for his case for hearing.
Long Live The Indigenous People Year '93 is yours To Act.
BACKGROUND
Sarawak is the biggest State in Malaysia situated on the
Northwestern part of the Island of Borneo. In the South and
Southeast is bordered by Kalimantan and to the Northeast, the
State Brunei and Sabah. Sarawak is separated from West Malaysia
by a 650 Km wide stretch of South China Sea. Geograhically it is
124,449 sq. Km. or 38% of the total land area of the Country. The
population is approximately 1.7 million in 1990. There are more
than three-quarters of the population (82%) live in the rural
areas. Th Dayak people has 37 ethnic groups, with the majority
living in the rural areas.
The Dayak people still practice shifting cultivation and carry
out hunting-garthering activities in the forests and fishing in
the rivers for their basic food and other essential needs.
Although most of them they have planted cash crops such as
rubber, pepper, cocoa and coffee to supplement their economic
needs but quite often the price is fluctuating in the markets.
Sarawak is one of the richest States in Malaysia for its
mineral wealth such as Oil, Gas, Coal and timber. However, the
major Industries are controlled by a few. While the oil, the
major wealth of Sarawak, 5% of the revenue goes to Sarawak, the
rest goes to Shell and the Federal government. Generally ,
Sarawak's wealth are only in the hand of few elites and
politicians while the rest of the population especially the
Dayak remains poor and marginalised. Sarawak is still backward
compared to West Malaysia.
For three decades since the annexation of Sarawak to
Malaysia, the Dayak NCR land rigths are no match to "Modern
Land Law". Thousands of native land have been declared as State
land, National Parks, reserved forests and for the purpose of
"Modern Development Projects". These include large plantation
schemes, hydro-electric power dam, commercial logging and other
projects which economically and culturaly dislocated the Dayak
people. These development, particularly the indiscriminate
logging activities have also deprived them of their livelihood
and at the same time destroy their environment.
The majority of the Dayak people do not know their rights,
thus they are cowed into submission. They are made to believe
that to question the government policy and authority is an act
of anti-government and is subject to arrest under ISA or Emergency
Act detain indefinitely without trial. These draconian laws
restrict the people activities and always ready to be used at
the discretion of the government to supress people's actions
against unjust policies.
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* Origin: Lee (90:612/203)
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