It is archived at the Native American FTP site ftp.cit.cornell.edu
in the directory /pub/special/NativeProfs/newsletters; and is being
sent to gst@gnosys.svle.ma.us (Gary S. Trujillo) should he wish to
include it in his NATIVE-L or NATCHAT lists.
Thanks to Marc Becker, mbecker@uclink2.berkeley.edu, issues of Wotanging
Ikche/Kanoheda Aniyvwiya are now being archived at a World-Wide-Web site.
The URL is http://ukanaix.cc.ukans.edu/~marc/journals/nanews/
This is a test site, and at some point in the future the location of these
files will change.
"My father, you have made promises to me and to my children. If the
promises had been made by a person of no standing, I should not be
surprised to see his promises fail. But you, who are so great in
riches and power; I am astonished that I do not see your promises
fulfilled!
"I would have been better pleased if you had never made such
promises than that you should have made them and not performed
them. . ."
__ Shinguaconse ("Little Pine")
+- -- -- -- -- -- -- -- -- -- -- -+
| Indian Pledge of Allegiance | The Indian Pledge of Alleg-
| | iance was first presented
| I pledge allegiance to my Tribe,| on 2 December '93 during the
| to the democratic principles | opening address of the Nat-
| of the Republic | ional Congress of American
| and to the individual freedoms | Indian Tribal-States Relat-
| borrowed from the Iroquois and | ions Panel in Reno, NV. NCAI
| Choctaw Confederacies, | plans distribution of the
| as incorporated in the United | Indian Pledge to all Indian
| States Constitution, | Nations.
| so that my forefathers |
| shall not have died in vain | Walk in Beauty! Night Owl
+- -- -- -- -- -- -- -- -- -- -- -+
O'siyo Brothers and Sisters!
It is winter in much of Turtle Island, but soon it will be the time
of rebirth. I ask you to make sure there is not an elder or youth who
will fail to see the rebirth because none cared to look in on them
when there was cold or hunger too great to get across.
Peace! Night Owl
, , Gary Night Owl gars@genie.geis.com
(*,*) P. O. Box 672168 gars@netcom.com
(`-') Marietta, GA 30067, U.S.A. gars@igc.apc.org
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----------- News of the people featured in this issue ----------
Part A: Usenet and e-mail Part B: NATCHAT and NATIVE-L lists
- Did You Know - Conferences and Powwows - online
- Computer Companies (IBM) - Lakota Institute
and Native Americans - Death of an Elder
- Chehalis Reservation Youth Newsletter - Medicine Wheel
- Little Rock Reed Update - "Indian Giver" Offensive?
- Wolf News - Dreamcatchers
- New Lenox: Candlelight Vigil - Indian Claims Commission
- State Sovereignty/Paula Brady
- Poem: Wisdom, Knowledge, and Understanding
- Verse: Hawai'ian Book of Days
- Conferences and Powwows - offline
--------- "RE: Did You Know" ---------
Date: 01-08-95 14:56:00
From: Frosty Deere (frosty.deere@igloo.magicnet.com)
Subj: Did You Know
Native Net Echo: General Chatter
This is the thing I was speaking about that I posted way back in 1993 on the
BBS. See if you can see the connection to the present TAX and Land Grab. I
edited the original so you and others see this is not the first time they
have tried to pass a law like this.
---------------------------- <Original Message> ----------------------------
Date: 12-01-93
From: FROSTY DEERE
To: JOHN WALTERS
Subject: Did You Know
Did you know they passed a law that prevented Indians in western
Canada to sell grain, herbs or anything. If they had a cow and it had a
calf, it could not be sold with out permission of the Agent. If an non-
native was caught buying it could be taken away. Now this law was
reaffirmed in 1933 and was law till 1951. What this did was force native
farmers to stop farming and not raise cattle. So on one hand the
government wants the More [Y,n,=]? =native people to farm and become like
the whites but don't dare sell anything to make money. ( So who's the
blame for the present way of life of Canada's native people ? You know
its like this big tax thing in Canada, your children are going to have to
pay for todays mistakes unless you correct it. )
Did you know that native people they were not allowed to use
machinery and had to make their tools by hand. They could only farm 40
acres but the whites could farm 160 acres.
Did you know that it was not till 1951 that the law was changed on
liquor. Before that any Indian found to be drunk or even having a bottle
could be arrested without a warrant even if it was inside his home. If
found guilty the person that turned them in would get half of the fine. (
So what this did, was make natives spy on each other. Sounds like
European methods of ruling people like they did in Germany and Russia ).
Did you know that it was not till 1884 the government started to
think about education of native people. But if the parent failed to send
the child they could be put in prison. One reason was that native would
hid in the bush with their children to protect them. ( Wonder how many
non-natives were ever sent to prison on this charge ?) Children were
treated like animals or common criminals till they were 18 years old at
boarding school. We also know that many were verbal abuse, physical abuse
and SEXUAL abuse. Many of the young women were even sterilized and raped.
Did you know that in 1947 a Father J.O Plourde told everyone in
Canada how the native people all wanted to go to these Roman Catholic
schools run by the Oblate Commission. But then in 1991 things changed
when charges were laid against the school and the Church. The the Church
in 1991 made a statement and they stated they were sorry these schools
ever existed. At that time they stated they were sorry for the sexual
abuse and physical abuse at the hand of the commission and the church.
Also at that time other churches also gave apologies for there roles in
destroying the culture and religions of the native people of Canada.
<END>
So you can see that the mentality has not changed only the time. As
like 1940's people were forced by laws to give up what they had and forced
to live in ghettos under government rules and laws. Break the law and you
could be sent to prison and killed and no one gave a damn. Sometimes I
get mad at my son but 99% of the time he is right. Only I can't do
anything and anything he speaks up about people think he is just a kid
with big ideas. Well have to run, but anything you find you can send to
me at Box 821, Kahnawake.
Peace
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--------- "RE: Computer Companies (IBM) and Native Americans" ---------
Date: 13 Jan 1995 17:37:22 GMT
From: shupe@crazyhorse.rchland.ibm.com (Jim Shupe)
Subj: Computer Companies (IBM) and Native Americans
Newsgroup: alt.native
[Editorial Note: In Volume 03, Issue 002 Turtle Heart lamented about
the lack of support AICAP had received from Computer
Companies. This is one response. I will remind all
our way is a way of balance. From different views we
seek consensus. _ Night Owl]
IBM has been supporting the AISES organization very well over the past
several years. Following is a list of current support activity at
AISES (NOTE: this is only some of the activities IBM has to help
NAs):
. AISES National Conference - $15,000 ($30,000 in '94 as a major
sponsor).
. AISES Leadership Conference - $5,000
. AISES Regional Conferences - $7,000 ($1,000 per Region)
. AISES student scholarships - $10,000
. AISES student IBM Thinkpad computer donations - 2 (one for the
Nat'l Conference and one for the Student Leadership Conference)
. AISES Board of Directors (I am on the Board)
. AISES Environmental Camp computer donation - $30,000
I hardly think that any of this qualifies as cowardly when one considers
that IBM has had to cut personnel and reduce benefits in the last few
years just to survive.
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The above text contains my opinions, not IBM's. Unless otherwise stated.
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Mitakuye Oyasin, JT Waya Gola Shupe <*> Tele: 507/253-4318
AFS ID: shupe@rchland INTERNET: jt_wayagola_shupe@vnet.ibm.com
--------- "RE: Chehalis Reservation Youth Newsletter" ---------
Date: Fri, 13 Jan 1995 15:35:13 -0800
From: EIRP News <EIRPnews@COOPEXT.CAHE.WSU.EDU>
Subj: Youth Newsletter
Mailing List: IND-NET <IND-NET%WSUVM1.BITNET@cmsa.Berkeley.EDU>
Mailing List: EIRP <EIRP%WSUVM1.BITNET@cmsa.Berkeley.EDU>
Hello All! I would like to introduce Joseph Daniels to our internet
community. He's a real computer whiz out here at the Chehalis
Reservation. We plan to submit the tribal youth newsletter and general
tribal newsletter on a regular basis.
-pablo bellon
++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++
From: Mel Youckton <chehalis@coopext.cahe.wsu.edu>
CONFEDERATED TRIBES OF THE CHEHALIS RESERVATION YOUTH NEWSLETTER
(SUBMITTED BY JOSEPH DANIELS)
Native American Wisdom
The true Indian sets no price upon either his property or his labor. His
generosity is limited only by his strength and ability. He regards it as an
honor to be selected for a difficult or dangerous service, and would think
it shameful to ask for any reward, saying rather: "Let the person I serve
express his thanks according to his own bringing up and his sense of
honor."
Charles Alexander Eastman (Ohiyesa)
Santee Sioux
The Youth Newsletter
This is the Chehalis Tribal Youth Newsletter information for the youth on
the Chehalis Reservation. The youth can put things in this newsletter such
as artwork and stories. The newsletter will be put out about once a month
by Todd Denny and Joe Daniels. Todd will provide the information and I
will do the layout and editing. Plus the youth can put things in the
newsletter.
Todd Denny
Hello, I'm the new youth activities coordinator. Some of you may have gone
swimming, played frisbee, or gone skating with me recently. I grew up in
the cornbelt jungle surrounding east central Illinois where I played ice
hockey and basketball. I went to college with Kendal Gill of the
Supersonics and Nick Anderson of the Orlando Magic, but I'm not as good a
basketball player as them or I'd be in the NBA also.
I also enjoy running, hiking, frisbee and going to Pow Wows. Frisbee or
flying disc skills is one of my specialties. I've taught frisbee classes to
many students and performed shows. I once did a show for a Mariners/
New York Yankees game. Boy was I nervous! I'd also like to start a running
program and have a basketball team, would this interest any of you?
Although my speciality is in recreation I'm also going to work on arts and
craft projects and events. Gail is going to help me. We could do
woodworking, beads, drumming, dream catchers or anything else you have
in mind. I'd like to hear from you what activities would interest you. Feel
free to drop by my office in the tribal center to say hello and give me your
ideas.
If there are any parents who would like to help me with activities or
programs please give me a call. I can be reached at 273-5595 ext 156. I'll
need help with recreation activities, coaching and driving vans.
Activity Schedule
Currently our activity schedule looks like this.
> Monday Arts and crafts with Gail, 3:30-5:30 in the Tribal Center
Alcohol prevention room
> Saturday afternoon recreation event (look for flyers)
> Soon we will have the Oakville gym for evening activities on Tuesday
and Thursday evenings. (look for times)
I also will have a regular calender of programs and activities in the near
future.
See you soon, Todd
Youth Activities Coordinator
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This information provided courtesy of the EIRP Telecommunication Project:
eirp@wsuvm1.csc.wsu.edu
pablob@coopext.cahe.wsu.edu
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--------- "RE: Little Rock Reed Update" ---------
Date: 12 Jan 1995 02:24:33 GMT
From: pns@sage.uucp (PrisonNews Service)
Subj: Little Rock Reed Update
Newsgroup: soc.culture.native
The following is based on a report given on Prison News Radio, CKLN 88.1 in
Toronto
Little Rock Update
Little Rock Reed, a regular writer for Prison News Service, reports from
jail that he is optimistic that there will be a positive decision regarding
a writ of habeas corpus challenging his extradition from New Mexico to
Ohio. The defense and prosecution have until January 16th to present their
arguments in writing, and then a decision is expected within a few days.
During his ten years as an Ohio state prisoner, Little Rock earned the
enmity of the Ohio Correctional officials by being a strong fighter for
the rights of prisoners, particularly the right of Native prisoners to
practice their traditional spiritual ways. For his efforts, Little Rock
served more than twice as long as most people charged with a similar
robbery offense.
In 1992 he was released on parole with a warning he would do the remaining
fifteen years on his sentence if he were re-arrested. Little Rock
continued to work on behalf of Native prisoners, writing and editing a
book called "The American Indian in the White Man's prison: a question of
genocide", and speaking out against the abuse that happens in American
prisons whenever he was given the opportunity. In April of 1993, with only
six weeks parole remaining, Little Rock was charged with "threatening" a
Kentucky man whose wife had been helping Little Rock with his support work
for Native prisoners. The Ohio Department of Corrections jumped on this
opportunity and charged him with parole violation even though Dinah Devoto,
the alleged victim's wife, testified that it was Little Rock who was
threatened. Fearing for his life, Little Rock went underground, eventually
going to New Mexico. He lived a semi-clandestine existence for over a year,
continuing to write and speak out on behalf of prisoners. He was
particularly vocal around the role of Ohio Correctional officials role in
precipitating the Easter 1992 uprising at the maximum security prison at
Lucasville, Ohio, where Little Rock had spent many years..
Little Rock was arrested on September 23rd in New Mexico under a federal
warrant for allegedly fleeing two arrest warrants. He was given bond, and
then rearrested. He decided to file a writ of habeas corpus to challenge
the extradition since it was fraudulently obtained. In a hearing which
resumed last week after breaking for Christmas, Little Rock and his
lawyers detailed the ways in which Ohio Correctional officials had
conspired against Little Rock. Judge Peggy Nelson of the 8th Judicial
District Court of New Mexico has been apparently moved by the power of
Little Rock's testimony as well as the strength of evidence entered
against the prison officials. She told the prosecuting attorney that "the
charges against the Ohio officials are very serious, and you (the
prosecutor) have not responded to them, therefore I have to introduce them
as fact". In essence this means that the Judge is accepting as proven that
Little Rock's life would indeed be in danger if he were to be returned to
Ohio, that there was and is an ongoing conspiracy by Ohio prison officials
against Little Rock, that the extradition request is not valid, and that
New Mexico should not return him to Ohio for these reasons.
The Judge has given the defense and prosecution ten days to submit their
arguments in writing. Little Rock sees this as a good sign. If the
extradition request is denied, it would indeed be a major victory since
such requests are virtually always routinely challenged. Little Rock says
that this is the first time he has ever had the opportunity to outline his
situation to a Judge, and in this case she actually listened and learned,
often complimenting the defense on the strength of their defense.
In a phone call on January 10, 1995 Little Rock Reed reported that a
hunger strike that he and 5 other prisoners had started on Friday January 6,
1995 had been ended when officials at the county jail in Taos N.M. agreed
that the food being supplied for the prisoners by a local hotel was
inadequate, to the point of being unedible. A story in the Santa Fe New
Mexican on January 7, 1995 presented a very inaccurate account of the
prisoners demands. It failed to note that the prisoners had previously
tried to grieve the issue, but that there was no response to the grievance.
It mocked the prisoners as being upset at having bacon and eggs every
morning. It was the mouldy and rotting food that the prisoners objected to.
The reporter, Francesca Klein, was upset that she was mislead by the
prison officials when she was eventually given a chance to speak to the
prisoners. It does seem that the usual standards of journalism (if that
isn't an oxymoron) that one speaks to both sides of a story seldom apply
when prisoners represent the "one side". But perhaps it will give MS Klein
more incentive to ensure that the prison officials are true to their word,
though it is more likely that once Little Rock has been released, the
minimal living conditions at the jail will revert to the normally low
standards. Besides agreeing to improve the quality of the food, the
officials also agreed to provide outside recreation time, and contact
visits (face to face contact, rather than through glass, via a telephone.)
For more information about Little Rock Reed, contact Prison News Service at:
sage!pns@noc.tor.hookup.net
--------- "RE: Wolf News" ---------
Date: Mon Jan 09, 1995
From: [JimC in OR] (j.casto@genie.geis.com)
Subj: Wolf News
GE Electronic Mail
Exciting news!!
The Wolf Education and Research Center (WERC) in Idaho is going to build a
new facility on Nez Perce Tribal Lands. I don't know the _exact_ location
but the WERC headquarters are in Ketchum, Idaho near the Sawtooth
Mountains.
The WERC is a public education and scientific research facility for the
gray wolf of the Northern Rocky Mountains. They have been part of the
effort to restore the wolf to Yellowstone and Idaho. Their wolves are also
called "The Sawtooth Pack."
When the center opens (expected in September 1995), among other things
they will have Nez Perce storytellers around the campfire. You will be
able to join in singing a tribal hunting song and listen to the wolves
respond with their music.
Wife and I have "sponsored/adopted" one of their wolves. His name is
"Kamots". According to the WERC, "Kamots" is Blackfoot for "to go free".
JimC
--------- "RE: New Lenox: Candlelight Vigil" ---------
Date: 16 Jan 95 23:17:05 -0600
From: raph@fnalv.fnal.gov (Jim Hawtree <raph@fnalv.fnal.gov>)
Subj: New Lenox: Candlelight Vigil
Newsgroup: soc.culture.native
FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE
Groups to Gather Across State
to Honor Ancestors of All Nations
The Honor Guard at New Lenox, men and women who stand watch at the New
Lenox Golf Course Development Site in honor of the Native ancestors
buried there will pray In a special way on Sunday evening, January 22.
"There have been atrocities committed against Native American
gravesites since foreign nations first came to our shores," said
Joseph Schranz, White Earth Ojibwe, President of Midwest SOARRING
(Save Our Ancestors' Remains & Resources Indigenous Network Group). He
refers to policies followed from the Pilgrims' arrival to the present
that allow the excavation of Native American remains for study and
storage. "This desecration must stop, and it is our people's way to
first ask for guidance and strength from the Creator."
The Honor Guard has prayed for support in this issue from the
beginning of its inception in May of last year, but they believe a
more inclusive emphasis is needed. They will have a candlelight
prayer ceremony that honors the ancestors of *all* nations. We must
bring to public attention a central truth that this country was
founded on--the right of all peoples that their dead lie undisturbed
after burial," Schranz said.
Historical references show that the foundation of the United States
was built on common law practices that are as old as religion itself,
and one of these is respect for the dead. A British prime minister,
Ewert Gladstone, wrote:
Show me the manner in which a nation or a community cares
for its dead, and I will measure with mathematical exactness
the tender sympathies of its people, their respect for
the laws of the land, and their loyalty to high ideals.
American cases all agree in principle: The normal treatment of the
deceased, once there has been a decent burial, is to let it lie. The
idea is so deeply woven into our legal and cultural fabric that it is
commonplace to hear it spoken of as a "right" of the dead. Yet this
universal law has failed to protect the graves and the dead of Native
American people. Estimates of up to two million Native remains are still
held captive in museums, universities and government agencies--and the
desecration continues.
A common question posed by Native Americans is, "How would non-Indians
feel if we did the same thing to their gravesites, their relatives?"
"The fact is, we wouldn't," said Schranz. "We respect the spirits of all
peoples. It's our tradition."
The Honor Guard hope that the candlelight service will help renew the
universal reverence for the dead that Chief Seattle, of the Suquamish
Nation, noted was lacking in the immigrants of the mid-1800's: "You
wander far from the graves of your ancestors, and seemingly without
regret." A long line of abuses followed in the wake of this attitude
which makes a sharp separation between the past and the present. One of
the most infamous was the Surgeon General's Order of 1868 that made the
search for Indian crania and other body parts an official federal policy.
In the following decades, over 4000 heads were taken from battlefields,
burial grounds, POW camps, hospitals, fresh graves, and burial scaffolds
across the country for the Army Medical Museum.
"To us our ancestors are still with us, a part of our lives," said
Schranz. "The past is part of our present and our future, and we will be
in mourning until the last human remain is returned to the earth."
The ceremony at New Lenox will be one of many in this state wide
expression of concern--and hope. Candlelight vigils will take place at
the same time across Illinois. Bill Brown, of the Creek Nation, has
organized a ceremony for Zion, near the northern border. "Development
has destroyed so much of the land here," said Brown. "There are many
mounds that have been dug into, but many that have not, and we're praying
to preserve the ones that are left."
Kathy Baird, of the Crow Nation, plans a ceremony at the confluence of
the Illinois and Mississippi Rivers in the southwestern corner of the
state. "This is where Pere Marquette wrote the first record of Indians in
Illinois in his journal," she said. Baird has been working on burial
sites issues since the struggle began in 1990 to close Dickson Mounds.
She views the disturbance of Indian gravesites as part of a tragic
legacy. "This is one more historical wrong against the Indian," she
said. "When is enough, enough?" She quotes Bill Tall Bull, of the
Northern Cheyenne, in his statement before the U.S. Senate in 1987
regarding gravesite desecration: "It is uncivilized, savage, barbaric,
inhuman. It is sick behavior, it is un-Christian, it should be punishable
by law."
Daniel Wolfshadow, Lakota Nation, who has organized the prayer service to
be held at the Illinois State Museum, spoke of experiences that point to
the critical need for amended gravesite protection laws. He is currently
working to protect the Olcott Mounds in Rochester, IL. "When I stand on
those mounds, where the villages once were, I can hear laughter--the
sound of living, of being a family. Even if the remains that are here
are disintegrated to dust, it is the dust of my ancestors. I want it to
remain free." He and co-worker, Frank Wolfe, of the Omaha Nation, were
recently admitted into he curation chamber of the State Museum where up
to 2000 Native American remains are still stored. He expressed his
experience there simply, "It broke my heart."
Thirty-four states have passed unmarked burial protection laws in recent
years, yet most fail to prevent excavation, nor are provisions made for
the return of prehistoric remains. The regulations governing Illinois
law allows remains to be removed for as minor a reason as needing fill
for road construction. This occurred near Glen Carbon in Southern
Illinois in 1993, when the Illinois Historic Preservation Agency gave the
Department of Transportation permission to use the remains site as a
borrow pit.
"And it is not only Native Americans who are affected--this is one thing
we're here to point out," said Schranz. "Disrespect knows no
differences. If it can happen to one people, it can happen to all."
Last year, vandalism in a cemetery near New Lenox sparked concern in
local citizens. Such graveyard violation indicates a modern loss of
understanding of traditional sacred tenets.
The ceremonies are organized to unite people of all races and
denominations in a common effort. In the southeastern part of Illinois,
Randal Blain, Lakota Nation, spokesperson for the Two River Council, is
planning ceremonies from Golconda to Carbondale. He is working with a
student group from Southern Illinois University called Friends of Native
Americans, with both Indian and non-lndian membership. They recognize
this time as a vital link across all the generations. As Christine
Hicks-Wagner states, "We carry the memory, born in blood, through breath
of ancient memory. We do not forget the journey taken before us, and the
journey yet to come."
"We invite all who wish to join us--in spirit or by organizing their own
candlelight vigils--to pray wlth us next Sunday evening," said Schranz.
"It will be an honor to stand with all the ancestors."
==========================================================
For more information, contact Joe Schranz at 708-383-6773.
==========================================================
--------- "RE: State Sovereignty/Paula Brady" ---------
Date: 15 Jan 1995 20:24:32 GMT
From: kibby@scs.unr.edu (Larry Kibby)
Subj: State Sovereignty/Paula Brady
Newsgroups: alt.native,soc.culture.native
STATE RIGHTS ACTIVIST
PETITION
FOR
SOVEREIGNTY
State Right Activist have advocated that there is a growing
number of citizens within 14 Western States and throughout the country,
that are putting their names to a petition that demands the 104th
Congress return "ALL" Public Lands to states, abolish the income tax
and pare back federal agencies to bare bones.
Included within this voice is an explanation to define in clear
and simple terms to the common citizen that "TREATIES" cannot give expanded
authority to the Executive Branch beyond what is limited in the
Constitution.
State Right Activist hope that county governments across the states
such as here in Nevada in Elko County, and country would pass resolutions
in support of the petition, in order to reduce the rule of "Tyrannical
Bureaucrats" who commit overt acts of usurpation with no regard for citizens
life, liberty and property.
In this effort to declare "Sovereignty" the State Rights Activist
have indicated no recognition in regards to "Tribal Sovereignty", that
are historically those Treaties which under Article VI of the Constitution
declare all Treaties to be the Supreme Law of the Land. Many of these
Treaties have contents within their bodies that declare certain lands to be
within their Traditional Territory, that has been declared to be associated
with so-called Public Lands, that the State Rights Activist are after.
The State Rights Activist have made it very clear, in a manner of
speaking, that their attack is against the Federal Government and its
agencies of the Bureau of Land Management and the U.S. Forest Service,
however, within the Traditional Movement of the Native American Indians,
it is the goal and objective to assure that those Traditional Territories
having a significant value of importance to the Tradition and Traditional
Belief of the Nations, be preserved and protected with relation to those
Ceremonial and Burial areas, used Traditionally for time immemorial.
Every effort must be made to hinder and or distort the State Rights
Activist Movement, in order for all Native American Indian Nations to be
given the opportunity to enhance their goals and objectives in their
struggle to identify and have full control over their Traditional Territory
so established and proclaimed within those Treaties which are the Supreme
Law of the Land.
Regards of support for the NAtive American Indians Traditional Rights
and Sovereignty should be immediately directed to the President:
Western Shoshone Historic Preservation Society, Elko, Nevada
Paula Brady - c/o Consultant/Director, Larry Kibby
--------- "RE: Poem: Wisdom, Knowledge, and Understanding" ---------
Date: Tue, 10 Jan 1995 06:50:31 -0800 (PST)
From: Larry Kibby <kibby@scs.unr.edu>
Subj: "Wisdom, Knowledge, and Understanding"
UUCP email
"Wisdom, Knowledge and Understanding"
Oh Great Spirit
Hear my prayer
For these are my words,
To Father Sun,
To Grandmother Moon,
To Mother Earth
To all my relations
That have been Created as I.
To the East
Where Father Sun rises
Bringing to us a new day
A new meaning of life,
A light in which to see
The path before us.
To the South
Where the warm air comes to us
Bringing heat and warmth,
The seasons of spring
And summer.
To the West
Where Father Sun goes
To bring to us darkness,
So as we may see the universe
And search for the questions
Of our life.
To the North
Where the cold winds come from
Bringing to us the seasons
Of fall and winter.
Oh Great Spirit
Hear my words
for to you I offer
My heart and soul
You made me
What I am
And I am Indian
America's Prisoners of War
I pray for my people of the past
Whose blood covers this our Mother Earth
I pray now as an Indian
Blood of my Ancestors.
Larry Kibby
kibby@pogonip.scs.unr.edu
--------- "RE: Verse: Hawai'ian Book of Days" ---------
Date: 95/01/14 20:09
From: Kepola (dfsanders@genie.geis.com)
Subj: A HAWAI'IAN BOOK OF DAYS, week of January 22-28
GE Electronic Mail
A HAWAI'IAN BOOK OF DAYS, week of January 22-28
I