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to repost their words in this issue are listed at the end of part A.
I thank each of you for allowing your words to be shared with the people.
<----<<<< >>>>---->
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"You ask me to plow the ground. Shall I take a knife and tear my
mother's bosom? Then when I die she will not take me to her bosom to
rest.
"You ask me to dig for stones! Shall I dig under her skin for bones?
Then when I die I cannot enter her body to be born again.
"You ask me to cut grass and make hay and sell it and be rich like
white men, but how dare I cut my mother's hair?
"I want my people to stay with me here. All the dead men will come
to life again. Their spirits will come to their bodies again. We must
wait here in the homes of our fathers and be ready to meet them in the
bosom of our mother."
__ Wovoka, Paiute
+- -- -- -- -- -- -- -- -- -- -- -+
| 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!
Because we have been promised the Sacred Hoop will come together does
not mean an end to vigilance. Remember who makes the laws of the land
we honor.
Peabody Western Coal Company will renew their lease and scrape Big
Mountain away from the Hopi and Dine' without vigilance.
Sweet Grass Hills now has mining claims from multinational mining
interests who will leave only scars like those that line Spirit Mountain.
The Gros Ventre, Blackfeet, Salish, Kootenai, Plains Cree and Assiniboine
will lose this Sacred place to another Landusky Mine without vigilance.
Wounded Knee will be a tourist "attraction" with kiosks and Park Service
signs without vigilance.
There must be an end to the taking! Remain vigilant!
Thanks to Chris for the following address update:
Date: Tue, 16 May 1995 02:05:05 -0700
From: cmilda@ccit.arizona.edu
Subj: E-Mail addr. for _Red_Ink._
Mailing List: NATIVE-L (native-l@gnosys.svle.ma.us)
The purpose of this message is to forward the E-Mail address for
_Red_Ink,_ the ``Journal of the Month'' by Native American News,
_Wotanging_Ikche._
Just for the information of the NATIVENET world, _Red_Ink_ does (now)
have an E-Mail address, and I would like to pass it along. If you
would like to reach the editors of _Red_Ink,_ just address your E-
Letters to: RedInk@ccit.ARIZONA.edu .
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
- Environmental Alert - Conferences and Powwows - online
- Another Environmental Alert - Sacred Mother Speaks Through the Bars
- Hydro Quebec Apology - Arctic Refuge/Gwich'in People
- Innu Nation Response to - Right/Wrong
Cabinet Decision on LLFT - Round Valley, America's Most Wanted
- Oka Funeral - Lubicon Prayer Chain Formed
- Poem: Thunder and Snakes: - Rooted in Native Soil
Full Moon Dancing
- Verse: Hawai'ian Book of Days
- Conferences and Powwows - offline
--------- "RE: Environmental Alert" ---------
Date: Wed, 17 May 1995 15:07:45 -0400
From: Wanblisapa@aol.com
Subj: Environmental Alert
UUCP email
Hau, Kola!
I am sending the following environmental alert on to you.
Subj: Clean Water Down the Drain
Date: 95-05-09 22:36:22 EDT
From: Zen7
TO: All Activists
FR: Rick Hind, Legislative Director-Greenpeace
Melanie Silvercloud, Toxics Info Intern-Greenpeace
RE: Clean Water Down the Drain
On this Wednesday, May 10th, Congress has scheduled the Clean Water Act
for dismantling on the floor of the House of Representatives. This battle
is expected to last for several days, possibly into the following week.
The entire environmental community is unanimous in opposing this bill. As
you may have read in the NY Times, this bill was written by and for the
polluters. It will severely weaken the current law in many ways. It will
allow more toxics in our water, gut wetlands protection, cripple the Great
Lakes Initiative, require risk assessments and much, much more.
Reliable sources say that although the Congress is intoxicated on the
partial success of their "Contract", an environmental backlash may be
brewing. Some members of Congress have privately expressed concern to
Gingrich that such a naked attack on the Clean Water Act could backfire
politically.
Obviously, groups are encouraging EVERYONE to call their Representative at
(202)224-3121 to vote AGAINST the (Bud) Shuster Dirty Water Bill (H.R. 961).
To find out who your Representative is, call the following # for your time
zone and press 5: Eastern (800-347-1997), Central (800-366-2998), Mountain
(800-359-3997), Pacific (800-726-4995). Email is more than encouraged-if you
need you Reps. address drop a line to TOXICS GP and I will get it to you.
(Please forward copies of your email to the same box so that we can track
our effectiveness!)
Another way to slow down the House and send that same message would be to
call Newt Gingrich's nerve center, his press office, at (202)225-2800.
Again, please forward copies of Email to TOXICS GP and if you choose to
call your Rep. drop a line and let us know who you called. This is the only
way we can truly measure our effectiveness in the grassroots battle to save
our environment. Thanks!!
Peace, Melanie Silvercloud
Toxics Information Intern-GP
--------- "RE: Another Environmental Alert" ---------
Date: Wed, 17 May 1995 15:08:04 -0400
From: Wanblisapa@aol.com
Subj: Another Environmental Alert
UUCP email
Hau, Kola!
I am forwarding this message on to you. Another environmental alert.
Subj: not about water but about TREES 95-05-05 22:30:47 EDT
From: GRAVITY360@aol.com
Subject: Emergency - Gorton Rider passes
EXTREMELY URGENT:
The House and Senate have passed the so-called Gorton Rider to the
Rescission bill. The rider requires the US Forest Service to sell SIX BILLION
BOARD FEET of timber off our national forests in the next two years and
SUSPENDS ALL ENVIRONMENTAL LAWS AND JUDICIAL PROCESS with regards to the
sales.
This bill will mean the end of the last roadless areas throughout the
west, particularly in the Rocky Mountain states and the likely end to ancient
forests in the Pacific Northwest with some exceptions.
The bill was written by Slade Gorton of Washington state, a timber
industry hack who admitted taking $34,000 in campaign donations from the
timber industry last year.
HELP HELP HELP:
1> The last hope is a veto from President Clinton. Please write Clinton and
ask him to veto the Rescission Bill because of the forest killing amendment.
Short messages are best. E mail and US mail and even phone calls to the White
House are all urgently needed. This is the most important forest issue of the
last two decades.
E mail address = president@whitehouse.gov
Gore e-mail address = Vice.President@whitehouse.gov
(202) 456-1111
1600 Pennsylvania Ave, Washington D.C. 20510
2> Call your representative and ask them to tell Clinton to veto the
Rescission bill unless the forest killer amendment is stripped from it.
Other state residents, capitol switchboard = 202 225 3121.
3> write letters to the editor and call your newspaper urging them to write
an editorial on the subject soon. If you want more detail contact me or call
202 686-5888.
Please help now. This is not business as usual. Please forward this
message widely. Please act. We need new voices in the fight for our common
survival.
--------- "RE: Hydro Quebec Apology" ---------
Date: 16 May 95 20:47:00 -0500
From: FROSTY.DEERE@igloo.magicnet.com (FROSTY DEERE)
Subj: Hydro Quebec Apology
UUCP email
Quebec Canada..
Quebec Hydro electric has apologized for a report sent out in 1991 about
stating the Natives ( Cree ) were a threat to security of Quebec's Hydro
stations.
They stated that at no time did the tell or give permission for Hydro
Police to spy on the Cree or environment groups that support the Cree.
The Cree and others presented a complaint in 1993 when it was learn that
a report that the police were given new directions to follow. Hydro Quebec's
report requested that the force gather information. They wanted them to look
into things like radical social groups and were moving to terrorism.
The Cree have pull complaint but still feel that Hydro can not be
trusted and no one can blame them.
The 188 police state that their job is to protect the sites and have
nothing to do with spying on anyone, or any groups.
Grand Chief Namagoose was upset the a public inquiry was not done to
look into the what this police force was doing or had been doing up till now.
Hydro spoke persons claim they have never spied nor do they intend to
and that the police were only to protect the sites and from anyone stealing
electricity.
Anyway have you ever known anyone that has a police force admit to
spying on someone ?
Anyway in the end Hydro gives it word it will spy on the Cree or anyone
else. Gee, this is so hard to not believe, when we think of things like wire
taps, cellular phones, scanners that might just be for enjoyment.
Peace Frosty Deere.
--------- "RE: Innu Nation Response to Cabinet Decision on LLFT" ---------
Date: Wed, 24 May 1995 10:09:11 -0300
From: Larry Innes <es051322@ORION.YORKU.CA>
Subj: Innu Nation Response to Cabinet Decision on LLFT
Mailing List: INNU-L <INNU-L@odie.ccs.yorku.ca>
INNU NATION RESPONSE TO FEDERAL CABINET DECISION TO INCREASE LOW-LEVEL
FLYING AND INNU APPEAL TO EUROPEAN GOVERNMENTS TO ATTACH CONDITIONS TO
RENEWALS OF LOW-LEVEL FLYING AGREEMENTS
INNU APPEAL TO EUROPEAN GOVERNMENTS
Today the Innu Nation released letters that it had sent to
the Defence Ministers of the Netherlands and Great Britain and to
Chancellor Kohl of the Federal Republic of Germany appealing to those
governments not to renew their contracts to conduct low-level flying over
Nitassinan unless five conditions were met. The letter to Chancellor Kohl
is attached. Identical letters were sent to the Defence Ministers of the
Netherlands and Great Britain.
The Innu Nation is appealing to the European governments to
respect Innu rights and environmental rights, rights which were completely
disregarded by the government of Canada in its May 1st decision to approve
an increase in the number of military training sorties from 7,000 to
18,000, including 15,000 low-level sorties, over an expanded area of
130,000 square kilometres with additional bombing ranges.
The Innu Nation is appealing to people and organizations of
goodwill everywhere to both denounce the decision of the government of
Canada and to join with the Innu Nation in asking that the European
governments refuse to renew the Multinational Memorandum of Understanding
("MMOU") to conduct low-level flying over Nitassinan until the government
of Canada agrees to certain minimal standards of human rights and
environmental protection as proposed by the Innu.
The 130,000 square kilometres approved for the flying is
the homeland of 13,000 Innu people. It is not a wasteland. The area is in
the heartland of the Innu traditional land upon which we are dependent for
our survival. The low-level flying severely threatens the environment and
consequently our culture.
RECKLESS DECISION BY CANADIAN CABINET
We find it incredible and reckless that Environment
Minister and Deputy Prime Minister Sheila Copps and Indian Affairs Minister
Ron Irwin would endorse the Cabinet decision which so completely disregards
the rights and future of the Innu people and the environment. This is
particularly distressing since there is no international security
justification for the continuation let alone the dramatic increase in the
number of low-level training flights. The decision was made solely for the
economic benefit of the Canadian government and the 8,600 people of the
largely non-Aboriginal community of Happy Valley-Goose Bay. The decision is
in callous disregard for the human rights of the Innu people who will
suffer all of the impacts of the flying while the benefits go to
non-Aboriginal people.
In its decision of May 1st, the government virtually rubber
stamped the February 1995 recommendations of the federal Environmental
Assessment Panel. The Panel found scientific uncertainties about the
environmental and health effects of the project, uncertainties about the
Department of National Defence's (DND's) avoidance program and social
tension and polarization around the proposal. It added that with these
problems, a first reaction might be that the project should not proceed.
Nevertheless, the Panel recommended an increase in the number of flights
because of the economic benefits to Happy Valley-Goose Bay. The Panel's
recommendations and the decision of Cabinet are a transparent and immoral
choice for short term economic benefits over human rights and environmental
protection. This decision should be of great concern to everyone who
believes economic growth should be leavened with appropriate attention to
human rights and the environment.
THE PROPOSED MONITORING INSTITUTE
The Cabinet attempted to justify its decision by announcing
the establishment of an Institute to monitor and propose mitigation of the
ongoing impacts of the low-level flying on the environment.
The Innu support an institute with appropriate terms of
reference and composition. However, we disagree fundamentally with the
"adaptive management" philosophy proposed for the institute. Adaptive
management operates on the basis of admitting that we do not know what the
impacts of low-level flying are, but permits the activity to proceed (and
in this case increase dramatically) while we set up an institute to monitor
the impacts.
This is a very perilous approach. It is the same
business-as-usual approach under a new name that led to the destruction of
the east coast cod fishery, the near destruction of the Great Lakes and
countless other environmental problems. The Innu believe that their rights
and the environment should receive due attention and that the low-level
flying should not be continued or increased until the DND can meet the onus
of demonstrating that the activity can be undertaken without serious
violation of the rights of people or the environment. The Innu are not
guinea pigs! In the case of low-level flying, the DND did not come close to
meeting this onus despite having spent over $10 million over a ten year
period. The Panel recommended that the institute be set up for the very
reason that it found that the DND had not met the onus either in terms of
compiling adequate baseline environmental data, adequate research on the
impacts of the low-level flying on the environment, or with respect to its
avoidance strategy.
On March 28th, the Innu Nation informed Environment
Minister Copps, Minister of National Defence Collenette and Indian Affairs
Minister Irwin that the Innu were prepared to discuss their participation
in the institute based on the same five conditions we are now urging the
European governments to attach to the MMOU.
At that time, the Innu Nation also requested that its
technical people meet with the technical people of the three Ministries to
further outline their problems and concerns with the recommendations of the
Panel and the possible participation of the Innu in the institute. The Innu
heard nothing in response to either request until the public announcement
of the Cabinet's decision on May 1st. So despite critical public comments
to the contrary, Canada in fact refused to discuss this matter with the
Innu.
PROPOSED INSTITUTE LACKS CREDIBILITY
In endorsing the Panel's recommendation for the institute,
Canada made these comments which deepen our concern about the credibility
of the proposed Institute.
+ The Institute for Environmental Monitoring and Research will be an
advisory body reporting to the Ministers of the Environment and National
Defence (emphasis added)
+ The activities of the Institute "are intended to support the
viability of the proposed low-level flight training (emphasis added)
+ The Institute will support research and studies "which support the
low-level flying project (emphasis added)
+ The Institute will among other tasks "have a mandate to engage in
public education and information dissemination on the impacts and effects
of low-level flying.
The Innu are profoundly disillusioned about the refusal of
Canada to work with us in setting up a responsible institute that is more
than an advisory committee to the DND which has such a long and consistent
record of completely ignoring Innu concerns.
EFFORTS DIRECTED TO INTERNATIONAL ARENA
Over the next year, the Innu will concentrate on persuading
European governments and people to attach responsible conditions to their
willingness to renew their agreements to conduct low-level flying. These
efforts will be directed at the governments of the Netherlands, Germany and
Great Britain who are presently conducting low-level flying and the
governments of France, Italy and Belgium who are discussing the matter with
Canada.
The conditions are set out in the attached letters to those
governments. The Innu appeal is that these governments refuse to sign
agreements until Canada meets the five reasonable conditions.
HUMAN RIGHTS
The Innu appeal to these countries is based on
international respect for human rights. The Innu hope to persuade these
governments that it would be immoral and in violation of the international
human rights of the Innu and devastating for the environment if they were
to accept Canada's invitation to continue low-level flying without Canada
agreeing to the five conditions.
We believe that European governments should not continue
low-level flying just because Canada is issuing an invitation. Neither
should European governments rely on the environmental assessment or the
rubber stamping of that report by the Canadian Cabinet.
Respect for human rights means that European governments
have their own responsibility to determine it is responsible to conduct the
low-level military training in Nitassinan. If they rely simply on Canada's
permission to conduct the low-level flying, European governments are in
violation of the international covenants they have signed because it is the
direct action of those governments in conducting the low-level flying that
negatively impacts on the Innu people, violating their human rights and
destroying their environment.
MORAL DUTY ON COUNTRIES NOT TO EXPORT HARM
The responsibility of the European governments not to
export harmful substances or activities is obvious from the following
examples. When a responsible government considers whether or not to export
toxic wastes, it goes beyond inquiring whether another country will accept
the toxic waste. Since the toxic waste could harm the people of the
proposed host country, the exporting country has the duty to ensure that
the proposed host country meets international standards for the disposal of
toxic wastes. Another example is the proposed export of pharmaceutical
products. A responsible government will not permit the export of drugs
which are deemed unsafe for its domestic market to another country where
drug standards are below internationally accepted standards. To do so would
endanger the health of the people in the host country and constitute a
violation of the international human rights covenants which the exporting
country has signed. A third example is the issue of Apartheid in South
Africa. Most European governments did not say to the Blacks in South Africa
"The South African government has a policy of Apartheid, so we will respect
that policy". Instead, the governments made their own judgments of whether
Apartheid was in keeping with international human rights standards and
imposed sanctions against the South African government. These sanctions
were instrumental in the abolition of Apartheid.
It is our position that the European governments owe the
same duty of care and responsibility with respect to the low-level flying
that it is exporting to Nitassinan. If the European governments did their
own investigation, they would discover that the Treaty which they entered
in 1986 with Canada to conduct the low-level flying is with the wrong
country. In the Treaty, Canada purports to give the European governments
permission to conduct low-level flying over Nitassinan for a period of ten
years, running from 1986 to 1996 with the details to be set out in a
Memorandum of Understanding. When the European governments signed the
Treaty, they were under notice from the Innu Nation that Canada had no
right to sign the Treaty because the Innu Nation had never entered into a
Treaty with Canada giving Canada permission to licence activities in
Nitassinan. Since they are under notice, the European governments have a
responsibility to conduct their own investigation of Canada's treaty making
capacity. It is a contravention of human rights standards for the European
governments to simply accept the word of the Canadian government regarding
this matter.
CONSTITUTIONAL RIGHTS
The Innu Nation have what is legally described as
"unextinguished aboriginal title" protected in s. 35(1) of Canada's
Constitution Act (1982). The Innu have such rights because they have never
entered into a Treaty with Canada to set out their respective rights and
responsibilities in Nitassinan. Canada has recognized its responsibility to
negotiate a Treaty with the Innu Nation and negotiations have been underway
for some years, although they have been unilaterally suspended by
governments for two long stretches of time over the past three years.
Canada's Constitution provides that the Treaty will have Constitutional
protection. Canada has no right to enter a Treaty with the European Nations
before it has entered a Treaty with the Innu Nation. This is the conclusion
that the European governments would reach if they conducted their own
investigation based on the requirements of international human rights.
In conducting the low-level flying, without appropriate
conditions, the European governments are not only in violation of
international rights, they are also interfering with the possibility that
Canada, Newfoundland and Innu can reach agreement on the terms of their
Treaty. They are accordingly prejudicing the rights of the Innu people. The
situation is comparable to a civil dispute between two neighbours over a
piece of property. Until the dispute is settled, neither of the parties has
the right to dispose of the property in dispute or to give a third party
any rights regarding the disputed property. If either party attempts to do
so it also makes agreement between the parties much more difficult to
achieve. A third party on notice of the dispute has the duty not to enter
an agreement respecting the property with either of the parties.
The European governments have a positive duty to inform
Canada that until Canada has settled its relationship with the Innu or the
Innu have approved of the Treaty, the Europeans will not enter a Treaty
with Canada because such a Treaty would violate the international rights of
the Innu people and the Innu Nation. European governments often say they
cannot interfere with the internal affairs of Canada. But in entering the
Treaty with Canada they are interfering with the internal affairs of the
Innu Nation and are interfering with the Treaty negotiations between Canada
and the Innu Nation. The fact that Canada welcomes this interference does
not change the situation as the Innu Nation opposes the interference and
the European governments must make their decision based on the concepts of
international law and human rights.
CANADA'S POLICY TO ASSIMILATE THE INNU
Canada's offer to European Nations to use land and airspace
that is the subject of negotiations between it and the Innu Nation is
consistent with Canada's policy of attempting to assimilate First Nations
people and to drive them from their traditional lands. In our view, the end
result of this assimilation policy will be the social if not the physical
extermination of the Innu people in violation of the international
covenants which recognize the right of Indigenous Nations and peoples to
self-determination. By conducting low-level flying in Nitassinan the
European governments are participating in this process of assimilation and
cultural genocide of the Innu people.
The onus on the European governments not to continue to fly
unless Canada meets the five conditions is particularly high because two
hundred years of assimilation pressures have taken a heavy toll on the Innu
people. The social and physical conditions of the Innu are well below
international standards and the imposition of low-level flying could be
"the straw that breaks the camel's back". The right and honourable thing
for the European governments would be for them to inform Canada that they
will discontinue the low-level flying until Canada has resolved its dispute
with the Innu people or met the five conditions.
ONUS ON DND TO DEMONSTRATE SAFETY OF LOW-LEVEL FLYING
With respect to the environment, it is not acceptable for
the European governments to simply accept the finding of the environmental
assessment process in Canada and Cabinet's rubber stamping of those
recommendations. The Innu critique of the Panel's report is available upon
request from the Innu Nation. It is not acceptable to conduct the flying
without knowing the impacts or without Canada agreeing to reasonable
conditions. If the European governments consider that low-level flying is
acceptable they should conduct the low-level flying over their home
countries rather than exporting it to Nitassinan where the traditional way
of life of the Innu people is dependent on the land and its resources. If
it is unacceptable for low-level flying to be conducted over their home
countries it is equally as unacceptable for the European governments to
export the low-level flying to other people in another country. Responsible
nations must adopt responsible policies. It is no longer acceptable to
require that individual or collective victims demonstrate damage before a
proponent is required to stop questionable activity. The onus has long been
on the victim and the earth is now in peril.
Reversing the onus is not a difficult political decision
when there is absolutely no good military reason why the low-level military
flying should continue.
Larry Innes es051322@orion.yorku.ca (direct to me)
Environmental Advisor innu@web.apc.org (general to Innu Nation)
Innu Nation
P.O. Box 119
Sheshatshiu, Nitassinan (Labrador) Phone: (709) 497-8398
via Canada A0P 1M0 Fax: (709) 497-8396
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--------- "RE: Oka Funeral" ---------
Date: 95/05/18 22:57
From: Art Horovitch (a.horovitch@genie.geis.com)
Subj: Oka Funeral
GE Electronic Mail
May 18
The mayor of Oka, Quebec has asked that the provincial government
step in to help settle their latest dispute with the Mohawk
community of Kahnesatake.
A week ago two young Mohawk men died tragically in a boating
accident on Lake of Two Mountains. In order to bury these men in
the sacred burial grounds of the community, the band council
ordered a couple of trees cut to expand the over-crowded cemetery.
The town of Oka claims that this land belongs to them and the
Mohawks have no right to bury the men there or to cut trees. This
is the same property, the Pines, that sparked the dispute over
expansion of the golf course in 1990.
The funeral of the two men is scheduled to begin at 2 pm this afternoon.
Newspaper and other media personnel are being excluded from the
area as Mohawks are not allowing them up on the hill in the area of
the Pines. A Mohawk spokesperson said that the ceremony is very sacred and
is not open to any outsiders. The Provincial police say that as it is a
public road, the Mohawk do not have the right to block the road but say they
have no plans at the moment for any sort of action.
Unfortunately, the death of these two Haudenosaunee has become
the excuse to flare tensions in the area once more.... an area
where tensions are running fairly high with the planned vote in
June on a native run casino promoted by the Band Council.
The funeral did take place without incident.
--------- "RE: Poem: Thunder and Snakes:Full Moon Dancing" ---------
Date: 23 Jul 1994 18:09:03 -0500
From: turtle@aicap.s21.com (Turtle Heart)
Subj: Thunder and Snakes:Full Moon Dancing
Newsgroup: alt.native
ssssssssssssssssssssssssss..........
as the Thunder
walks across the wide sky
Snake
moves the same way
upon the belly of the earth
moon-light
falls like a sacred arrow
pounding softly
upon the hearts of dancers
dancing in the night wind
holding their own thunder
breathing their own breathing
pushing
their dreams into the silent dust
dancing by holding
holding feathers through the long night
Tobacco Indian
--
Turtle Heart turtle@soft21.s21.com (Ahnishinabeg)
American Indian Computer Art Project BBS 619-374-2100
Land of Kaw-ii-su ancestor: Land of Light
--------- "RE: Verse: Hawai'ian Book of Days" ---------
Date: 95/05/19 00:15
From: Debra F. Sanders (dfsanders@genie.geis.com)
Subj: Verse: Hawai'ian Book of Days
GE Electronic Mail
A HAWAIIAN BOOK OF DAYS, week of May 28-June 3
MEI
(May)
(Ikiiki)
28
I have walked this land before in a child's dream of freedom.
29
Today's memories will be cherished tomorrow.
30
We are all voyagers in life's ocean.
31
In the tiniest of shells is found the eternal cycle.
IUNE
(June)
(Kaaona)
June was the time when the fishermen got their a-ei nets in readiness for
catching the opelu, procuring in advance the sticks to use for keeping
its mouth open.
1
To walk between the islands is a secret of the ancients.
2
Summer rain is illuminated by the beauty of a rainbow.
3
Time is little more than a kiss of wind upon the land.
(c) Copyright 1991 by D. F. Sanders
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(With love and beauty, ... Rainbow Dream)
--------- "RE: Conferences and Powwows - offline" ---------
Date: Thu, 25 May 95 08:00 -0500
From: Janet Smith (Evening Star) (jans@genie.geis.com)
Subj: Upcoming conferences and powwows not previously posted
to Mailing Lists NATCHAT or NATIVE-L
GE Electronic Mail
This coming weekend is Memorial Day. Native Americans have traditionally
honored warriors, so this is a BIG powwow weekend all over the country.
Also, this week, a VERY early announcement of a powwow in the planning
stages -- for those of you who might be thinking of participating,
instead of observing.
From: GROS112@UIDAHO.EDU@INET02# Internet Gateway
To: GARS Gary Smith
Gary: can you announce (if it has not been already) a powwow for next year?
21st ANNUAL PAH-LOOTS-PU CELEBRATION
Washington State University Beasley Coliseum
Pullman, WA
SESSION I
Saturday 3/30/96 Grand Entry 1200 on close 4:30pm
SESSION II
Saturday March 30, 1996 Grand Entry 6pm Close 11:30 pm
SESSION III
sunday March 31, 1996 Grand Entry 12pm close 5:30 pm
HOST DRUM-TBA
4-5 CONTRACTED DRUMS- TBA
HEAD MAN DANCER- TBA
HEAD WOMAN DANCER- TBA
WHIP MAN- TBA
Queen Contest, Raffle Tickets, Craft Tables, College Tables
Interested people can contact PowWow Committee at Address below.
Please leave your name and telephone number with message.
Pah-Loots-Pu Pow Wow Committee
Native American Student Center
Multicultural Center Rm 107
Washington State University
Pullman, WA 99163
(509) 335-8676
Sponsored by: ASWSU, Ku-Au-Mah N.A.W.A. AISES. N.A.A.
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From: Becky Lundberg <blundber@csci.csc.com>
Newsgroups: soc.culture.native
Subject: Pow Wows
The following posting is in response to a couple of
folks looking for pow-wows in the mid-east U.S. states:
(Sorry--didn't come up with any in WV)
This information comes from the newspaper, "News From
Indian Country."
Timonium
May 26-28
State Fair Grounds
Timonium, MD
919-257-5383
21st De Un Da Ga
May 26-29
Yellow Creek State Park
Penn Run, PA
814-944-5116
13th Wacipi (editors note: _The Circle_ and _The Spike_listed this as
the 13th Moon When the Ponies Shed Traditional Wacipi)
May 27-29
Fort Hayes Vocational Sch.
Columbis, OH 614-443-6120
Upper Mattaponi
May 27
Sharon School
King William, VA
804-769-3851
Latimore Valley
May 27-29
Latimore Valley Fair Grounds
York Springs, PA
717-632-5246
2nd Machapunga-Tuscarora
June 3-4 Moratok Park
Willimaston, NC
919-793-6117 or 919-793-1359
American Indian Pow-Wow
June 10-11
Perry Co. Fair Grounds
Newport, PA
717-632-5246
Keeping the Tradition
June 24-25
Blue Jacket
Xenia, OH
513-275-8599
American Indian Pow-Wow
July 1-3
Arcadia Volunteer Fire Fighters Co. Fair Ground
Upperco, MD
717-632-5246
Return to Beaver Creek
July 14-16 Materazzo Farms
Belvidere, NJ
908-475-3872
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POWWOWS IN PRINT - MEMORIAL DAY WEEKEND!
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From _The Spike_ for Memorial Day Weekend - May 26-28
19th Annual Odawa Native Friendship Center Powwow, Ottawa, Canada
Info: 613-238-8591
6th Annual Giss-I-Was Creek Indian Powwow, Marion MI
Info: 616-281-3640
Iroqois Arts Celebration, Howes Cave, NY
Info: 518-296-8949
1st Inter-Tribal Powwow at Panama Rocks, Panama, NY
Info: 717-995-5177
"Drums Along the Rock" Social Powwow, Janesville, WI
Info: 414-473-7748
Annual Spring Planting Moon Pow-wow, Topsfield MA
Info: 617-884-4227
Second Annual Cherokee Festival, Temple Univ., Ambler, PA
Info: 215-549-0828
17th Annual Lansing Indian Center Inter-Tribal Powwow, Lansing, MI
Info: 517-487-5409
Upper Mattaponi's 8th Annual Spring Festival and Native American
Powwow, King William, VA
Info: 804-769-2497
14th Annual Memorial Day Weekend Powwow, Cherokee, NC
Info: 704-497-3028
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From flyers collected at other powwows:
Memorial Day Powwow - North Bay Clan, Lower Creek Muscogee Tribe
Lynn Haven, FL
Info: 904-265-3345
American Indian Festival, Gwinnett Co. Fairgrounds, Lawrenceville, GA
Info: 706-795-5743
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From _Char-Koosta News_
Boarding School Reunion Powwow, White Swan, WA
Info: 509-865-5151, ext 335
Memorial Day Pow Wow, Lame Deer MT
(no info number given)
Leland Kicking Woman Memorial Pow Wow, Browning, MT
Info: (406) 338-3173
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From _The Circle_
Leech Lake Spring Pow Wow, Veterans Memorial Ground, Cass Lake, MN
Info: 218-335-6060
Celebration of Sobriety Traditional Powwow, Red Lake, MN
Info: 679-3395
May 29 - Dakota Dance Clan Annual Memorial Day Pow Wow, Sisseton, SD
Info: 605-698-7676
Also...on May 31, Honoring the Elders Pow Wow. Traditional Pow Wow
and Feast with Giveaway for the Elders at the site of the future
Elders Lodge, St. Paul, MN. Info: 644-1173
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From _News from Indian Country_
Delaware Powwow, Copan, OK
Info: 918-336-5272
Honoring All Veterans Powwow, Keshena, WA
Info: 715-799-5152
5th Santa Fe Powwow, Pojoaque land, Pojoaque Pueblo, NM
Info: 505-983-5220
6th Texas Championship Powwow, Houston, TX
Info: 713-464-1164
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