Medicine Wheel Alliance/Associated with Northern Cheyenne
Cultural Commission
PO box 37, Huntley, MT 59037 406-348-2079-Nicol
PO Box 763, Lame Deer, MT 59043 477-6215-Tallbull
The Board of the Medicine Wheel Alliance
Bill Tallbull, Chairman John Hill, Sr., Vice-Chairman
Floyd Youngman Haman Wise, Sr.
Phillip Underbaggage Pat Chief Stick
Curley Bear Wagner Liisa Ellis
"Sam" Hartley Jo Smith
Coordinator, Nicol Price
*******ACTION ALERT**********ACTION ALERT*******
The Big Horn Forest in Wyoming has opened up a comment period of 30
days (December 1-31, 1993) for input from the general public on
management of the Medicine Wheel and Medicine Mountain; towards the
putting together of a Programmatic Agreement (PA) which will
include measure to manage the site next summer and development of
an Historic Properties Management Plan (HPMP) in the future.
The PA will be drafted at a three-day January meeting (Jan 21-23, 1994)
in Billings, MT.
The Medicine Wheel Alliance, being one of the signatories to this
summers Memorandum Of Agreement (MOA), will be participating in the
drafting of the PA and also the HPMP in the future.
Your comments are needed. If you were at the Wheel this summer, we
would like you to send your comments in on how you felt about the
3-mile walk, the interpreters that were there, the talks given you
by the interpreters, and anything else you would like to comment
on.
If you weren't there, the Medicine Wheel Alliance would like your
letters of support for:
1) 24 days being set aside for ceremonial use of the site and the
mountain and requesting that the site be closed to through traffic
and disturbance by other people than ceremonial people, whether there
has been request made for ceremonial time or not;
2) that the road remain closed to thru traffic unless for the elderly
or handicapped or those with livestock interests to the west of the site;
3) at least 8 interpreters be hired for the entire summer, with
preference given to Native American from the tribal reservations
surroundings the Big Horn Mtns.
4) hours be from 7:00 AM to 7:00 PM, seven days a week from July 1
thru Oct. 15.
5) that all development, such as mining, timbering, snowmobiling,
be restricted within the temporary boundary of 2-1/2 mile radius of
the Wheel.
6) the ethnographic work now taking place and urge the Forest
Service to fund phase Phase 3 of this study in 1995 so an official
boundary can be projected in the future.
Your comments at this time will be important as they will help
direct the provisions of the Programmatic Agreement. the Medicine
Wheel Alliance has worked long and hard on this so please take time
in this busy season to get your thoughts on paper and sent to:
Bighorn National Forest
Attn: Medicine Wheel
1969 S. Sheridan Ave.
Sheridan WY
82801
Thank you from the board of the Medicine Wheel Alliance.
"When we walk upon Mother Earth, we always plant our feet carefully
because we know the faces of our future generations are looking
up at us from beneath the ground. We never forget them."
-Oren Lyons, Onondaga Nation
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milo@scicom.alphacdc.com Michele Lord Alpha Institute
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