Articles appearing have been previously posted for public dissemination
and/or permission for inclusion has been secured.
Letters of authorization are on file. A list of those granting permission
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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This newsletter is a way of keeping the brothers and sisters who share our
Spirit informed about current events within the lives of those who walk the
Red Road.
It is archived at the Native American FTP site ftp.cit.cornell.edu
in the directory /pub/special/NativeProfs/newsletters; and part A
is being sent to the NATIVE-L mailing list, one of the NativeNet
lists managed by Gary Trujillo (gst@gnosys.svle.ma.us). It is also
echoed on AISESnet, IND-NET, and EIRP listservers and archived by
AISESnet.
Thanks to Marc Becker, mbecker@uclink2.berkeley.edu, issues of Wotanging
Ikche/Kanoheda Aniyvwiya are now being archived at a World-Wide-Web site.
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This is a test site, and at some point in the future the location of these
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Thanks to Phil Duran, duranp@wsuvm1.csc.wsu.edu, issues are now being
archived at the Washington State University gopher in the following
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"I admit that there are good white men, but they bear no proportion
to the bad; the bad must be the strongest, for they rule. They do
what they please. They enslave those of us who are not of their
color, although created by the same Great Spirit who created us.
They would make slaves of us if they could, but as they cannot do
it, they kill us! There is no faith to be placed in their words.
They are not like the Indians who are only enemies while at war and
are friends in peace. They will say to an Indian, 'my friend! my
brother!' They will take him by the hand, and at the same moment
destroy him. And so will you also be treated by them before long.
Remember! that this day I have warned you to beware of such friends
as these. I know the long knives; they are not to be trusted."
__ Pachgantschilhilas, Head Warrior of all Deleware
+- -- -- -- -- -- -- -- -- -- -- -+
| 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!
The words of Pachgantschilhilas ring true. He spoke them in the
eighteenth century, and they are as full of truth now as then. And we
are asked why we do not view time as a linear progression.
All life is a circle.
I know that all must be brought into the Sacred Hoop for it to be
mended. I often wonder how we will bring those who do not see even the
simplest of Circles into the greatest Circle of all.
Then I remember it is a thing that has been promised by Spirit. That
is how I know it will come to be. Aho!
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
- Appeal to Free Leonard Peltier - Conferences and Powwows - online
- Prisoner Rights Meeting - Lubicon Mailout
- Keep Those Cards and Letters Coming - Thoughts on Two Worldviews
- Penashue Interview
- Tribal Meeting on Clean Water Act
- Short Reviews of New and Recent Books on N. A.'s
- Poem: Full Moon
- Verse: Hawai'ian Book of Days
- Conferences and Powwows - offline
--------- "RE: Appeal to Free Leonard Peltier" ---------
Date: Wed, 31 May 1995 10:20 CST
From: MUNOZP@dnr.state.wi.us (Peter Munoz, PE/5, \(608\) 267-0798)
Subj: Appeal to Free Leonard Peltier
Mailing List: PNEWS-L <PNEWS-L@SJUVM.STJOHNS.EDU>
From: Prison Activist Resource Center <parcer@igc.apc.org>
Subject: Urgent alert: Leonard Peltier
_-_-_-_-_-_-_-_-_-_
Alerts, News & Analysis forwarded by the PeaceNet Prison Issues Desk
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\\\\\ACTION ALERT! +++++ FREE LEONARD PELTIER! +++++ ACTION ALERT!//////
FINALLY A POSSIBLE BREAKTHROUGH!
A legal motion is filed in a request to re-open Leonard Peltier's second
appeal for habeas corpus.
(note: a much longer posting which includes other press releases, legal
documents, and a statement by Leonard can be found on the Prison Issues
Gopher or in the PeaceNet conference "justice.prisons".)
PRESS RELEASE FROM LPD-C-CANADA - May 22, 1995
On Monday, May 15, 1995 lawyers for Leonard Peltier filed an
unprecedented legal motion in the federal Eighth Circuit Court of Appeals
in a direct request for the re-opening of his appeal for a new trial. With
all legal avenues seemingly exhausted since the dismissal of his third and
latest appeal on July 7, 1993, it is extraordinary that his case is being
re-introduced back into the United States judicial system on the grounds
of a mistake that has sat on record and uncorrected for the past 10 years.
In 1986 during Leonard's second appeal, the testimony of a government
prosecution witness, Norman Brown, which placed Leonard at the agents'
cars during the shoot-out, was erroneously taken into consideration by the
three-panel judges and could likely have been a prime factor in the ruling
against Leonard. Although Brown gave his testimony before a grand jury, he
recanted at trial, testifying that he had been coerced by the FBI to lie.
This misconception was neither corrected by Mr. Peltier's attorneys or the
government. The court's final ruling dismissed the appeal by what judges
determined was the distinction between a "possibility and a probability,"
as they required probable grounds to agree to the appeal and determined
they found only "possible" grounds.
Leonard was convicted on April 18, 1977 for the deaths of two FBI
agents and sentenced to two consecutive life sentences. The testimony of a
government ballistics expert was later completely contradicted when
Leonard's defense introduced previously suppressed evidence which stated
that a rifle linked to him could not have shot the fatal bullets. The
Eighth Circuit Court of Appeals stated that key, exculpatory ballistics
evidence had been "withheld from the defense." No eyewitness has ever
placed Leonard near the bodies of the two agents. Government prosecutors
have admitted in open court that they "don't know who killed the agents"
and yet Leonard Peltier has served almost 20 years of false imprisonment.
A decision to re-open the appeal will likely take several months, but
could be as early as June. Meanwhile, Leonard's clemency request is still
pending and we are asking people to phone, fax and send their letters to
President Clinton and to U.S. Attorney General Janet Reno. Write to:
President Bill Clinton, Executive Office of the President, The White House,
1600 Pennsylvania Ave., Washington, D.C. U.S.A. 20500. Fax at (202) 456-
2461. To Janet Reno, Attorney General, Dept. of Justice, 10th &
Constitution, Washington, D.C. U.S.A. 20530. Fax: (202) 514-4371.
For more information, contact the LPDC, P.O. Box 583, Lawrence, Kansas,
U.S.A. 66044; (tel: (913) 842-5774; Fax: (913) 842-5796.
___________________________________________________________________________
Prison Activist Resource Center| PeaceNet Prison Issues Desk
PO Box 3201 Berkeley CA 94703 | <prisondesk@igc.apc.org>
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<parc-info@igc.apc.org> for an auto-response w/ details on many resources.
--------- "RE: Prisoner Rights Meeting" ---------
Date: Thu, 25 May 1995 17:37:38 -0600 (MDT)
From: HARRAGARRA DEANA <harragar@spot.Colorado.EDU>
Subj: Prisoner Rights Meeting
UUCP email
Hi Gary,
The Prisoner Rights Meeting was held May 24, 1995 and co-hosted by the
Navajo Nation Corrections Project and the Native American Rights Fund
(NARF).
The facilitators were Walter Echo-Hawk, Senior Staff Attorney at NARF,
and Len Foster, Spiritual Advisor Navajo Nation Corrections Project. The
goal of the meeting was forming a Prisoner Rights Coalition. For more
information on the Prisoner Rights Coalition please contact: Len Foster,
Spiritual Advisor, The Navajo Nation Corrections Project, P.O. Drawer
709, Window Rock, AZ 86515, telephone 602/871-6244, telefax 602/871-2266.
If you are aware of Native prisoners with free exercise of religion
problems and/or would like to be a part of the Coalition, please write to
Len Foster. His office is coordinating all Coalition information and
mail-outs.
deana harragarra waters
National Indian Law Library
Native American Rights Fund
--------- "RE: Keep Those Cards and Letters Coming" ---------
Date: March 1995
From: WEJOT 68 (Dee Smith)
Subj: Keep Those Cards and Letters Coming!
diskette via Postal Service
So many times we hear of outrages in Indian Country, and shake our heads,
things are getting so bad, what can we do? Not many of us are in a
position to go the front lines, and some of us cannot even spare much
money to help with relief. But there is something that just about anyone
can do, and that is, write!
It is said, the pen is mightier than the sword. And, as a partaker in
many letter writing campaigns, I can vouch that this is true! A few
victories off the top of my head -- letter writing campaigns figured
prominently in stopping the sludge dumping at Torres-Martinez res, in
halting the mining at Cortez gold, and in slowing down the rape of the
land and the peoples of the earth which were carried out by such giants as
Hydro-Quebec, Reynolds Aluminum, and Peabody Coal. We letter writers have
helped halt further desecration of the Cherokee burial grounds in
Tennesse's, and are working to save Mt. Shasta. We are helping to bring a
dose of reason to the conflicts in Canada and Mexico, thus helping save
countless lives. Also we bring solace and a hope of justice to prisoners
such as Leonard Peltier, Eddie Hatcher, Grandfather Thundercloud, and many
others. In fact, between an earlier draft of this article and the current
one I got some great news -- Eddie Hatcher is paroled! We can console the
elders and prisoners who are left alone, help bring justice and healing.
We can comfort the afflicted, and afflict the comfortable, merely for the
cost of a little time, energy, stationery, and a postage stamp! And as we
give, we receive. And our strength grows, and our numbers grow, and our
voices grow, and the flowers grow on the tree.
So please, keep those cards and letters coming! When you see something
that moves you, take a moment to write. Write to the bigwigs, let them
know that we know what's going on. Maybe awaken their consciences, or at
least their sense of public decency! Write to those at the front of the
struggle, let them know that they have support out there. Just say what's
on your mind and heart. It doesn't have to be long or fancy, sometimes a
few words on a postcard can work wonders. But it is best if written from
your heart, and the heart speaks when it is ready! So keep stamps and
stationery handy when you read your newsletters or online messages, within
easy reach for when your heart speaks. What's going thru your mind and
heart as you read about this stuff? What is the ranter inside you saying?
Type it up or write it down, and send it off! Make yourself heard!
Don't worry about getting on some kind of list. We're all already on it.
(Although please do try, for safety's sake, to avoid anything that could
be construed as a threat or an obscenity.) Don't worry that you're not an
elder or a medicine person. It's not only elders and medicine people we
need to hear from; we also need to hear from the warriors! And no less
than Rand Corp. has acknowledged us as such! The time will come when
anyone who gives a d... will be a warrior of one sort or another, as it
was in the past it will be again.
Soon a mighty tree will spring up into full sight, a tree of justice and
healing, to make things good again. Its branches and roots will spread far
and wide, and it will be covered with leaves and fruit and flowers. It
will be a source of life for many peoples and other living things.
Everyone will look at it and wonder, this great tree looks like it has
grown for hundreds of years but we did not see it before, it seems to have
sprung up overnight. But it didn't spring up overnight. It's been forming
under the ground and in the world of Spirit for a very very long time. We
are the tree. We are the people. Everyone who understands, everyone who
cares, regardless of tribe, race, color, gender, age, language, religion,
whatever, we're all part of the tree. Our numbers are growing. Our voices
are growing. It's time to make ourselves heard.
--------- "RE: Penashue Interview" ---------
Date: 95/05/26 22:10
From: James D. Audlin (j.audlin@genie.geis.com)
Subj: Penashue Interview
GE Electronic Mail
O'siyo, folks!
The following is an interview with Peter Penashue, President of the Innu
Nation, in Labrador. It is from the \Peace Brigades International Bulletin\,
May 1995. Republication is allowed of the following. I have corrected
several punctuational, spelling, and grammatical mistakes in order to
improve the clarity. --Distant Eagle
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PBI What is the impact of the Canadian judicial system on the Innu?
PP: The Canadian judicial system has failed the Innu. The European
colonizers set up institutions and laws which came from a foreign European
perspective. They didn't consider the economic, cultural, or social needs.
They set up an adversarial system with officials from outside the area, non-
Innu. They chose to implement a system designed by and for Europeans, and
developed over many years in the European system based on old traditions,
which are conservative. This was planted in the heart of Innu land. The
cultural clash produces outbreaks of chaos which are dealt with in the
Canadian system.
The Innu people had never dealt with Europeans; they came straight out of
the bush where they had only answered to themselves and their families. In
the last forty years, Innu have no longer had any responsibility for their
own decisions. Someone who has committed a crime already feels inferior, and
then finds himself in a place where he has little understanding of the
system or the language. People plead guilty because they feel intimidated.
This is the system that has operated on the Innu. We have no input and no
control.
When the six kids died in the fire [six children from Davis died in a house
fire while their parents were out drinking], it shocked the Innu community.
It led us to have a community enquiry. People who were watching the chaos in
our community wanted other Innu to understand what was happening. The
enquiry terrified the government, who wouldn't pay for it. They didn't want
to know what the Innu people were thinking.*
To change our chaotic life and bring stability and order, we needed to look
at the problem and look at ways to proceed. We decided we couldn't separate
welfare dependency and country life from the judicial system. We needed to
look at the whole; we needed holistic healing. Family violence, sexual
abuse, breaking and entering, and drinking, are symptoms of much deeper
hurt, pain, and confusion. The judicial system is not outside of
counselling, healing, and social reconstruction.
We've said that the institutions are either working for us or against us. We
advocate courts and institutions be more humane. For example, the RCMP
[Royal Canadian Mounted Police] only deals with the facts, then the crown
takes it to court. The crime is compartmentalized and moves away from the
community. The judge looks at the previous decisions on similar sentences;
he is afraid to do anything radical.
More emphasis should be placed on healing individuals so that the same
problems are not recycled over and over again. It needs to be kept in mind
that each case is going to be different and has to be judged by its own
merits.**
Our approach is that the federal and provincial governments aren't going to
disappear, and we would wait forever for them to give us some power. So we
say: "Work with us, and help us look at this process in the context of
community living." Some people won't want to go through the healing process,
but no one wants to hurt people. People have become as they are because of
internalized anger and hatred. Community healing and counselling needs to be
available to people. The Canadian system produces monsters.
People in Canada are reactive, not proactive. People in power should put
programs in place for young people in school to help deal with personal
problems. There are children who are going through personal and family
crises who aren't sure how to get help. Because children are unable to deal
with such crises as sexual abuse and family violence, they will be hyper,
will not listen, will act out, lash out, and display violent behaviour.
These are the same people who will end up in prison ten years from now with
charges such as murder. But no one is dealing with them right now; they just
wait until they are criminals, and then lock them up. We can't deal with
people in isolation. Problem families create problem families. People don't
start out bad.
PBI: Do you think there is a difference in the way Native and non-Native
people view basic human nature?
PP: I don't want to say this is a Native way of seeing people. It's more
like a human way of seeing people. Some people have gone beyond humanity to
individualism, and that's what society teaches. There is no sense of
community or togetherness in Canada. People close off and stop feeling. They
become like machines. Then they either become drunks, or they stay sober and
get competitive.
PBI: Will you be able to carry your community with you in your vision of a
new justice system?
PP: My own people can be just as reactionary. But I think that some day soon
people are going to say "yes, this is the way we need to go forward." Every
case is different, and some will still go to court because they are in
denial. We will have to compromise and go through the courts, but eventually
we hope to opt out of the courts. People in pain feel that no one
understands them. We have to carry on with what we are doing. There is no
other option for us, because otherwise we are going to end up with a large
proportion of our community in jail.
called \Gathering Voices\. (footnote by PBI North America Team)
one titled "Justice" for amplification of the preceding three paragraphs.
(footnote by Distant Eagle)
--------- "RE: Tribal Meeting on Clean Water Act" ---------
Date: Thu, 25 May 1995 13:42:09 -0500
From: berryj@Okway.okstate.edu (John Berry)
Subj: Tribal Meeting on Clean Water Act
Mailing List: IND-NET <IND-NET%WSUVM1.BITNET@cmsa.Berkeley.EDU>
Mailing List: EIRP <EIRP%WSUVM1.BITNET@cmsa.Berkeley.EDU>
Important please read, forgive duplicate posts. John Berry
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Subject: Tribal Meeting on Clean Water Act
Author: Denise Bambi Kraus <bambi@gwis2.circ.gwu.edu> at SMTP
Date: 5/25/95 11:46 AM
Tribal Clean Water Act Meeting in Washington, DC
From: The National Tribal Environmental Council
2221 Rio Grande, NW
Albuquerque, New Mexico 87104
505/242-2175 fax: 505/242-2654
NTEC is concerned about H.R. 961, particularly House amendments to
Sec. 518 that will seriously affect tribal authority to regulate
water quality programs in Indian country. In response to these
actions, NTEC is facilitating a three-day meeting in Washington, DC
for tribes to mobilize and express their tribal positions regarding
H.R. 961.
H.R. 961 contradicts tribal sovereignty and the federal Indian
policies of self-governance and intergovernmental cooperation. EPA
established the treatment as a state (TAS) program, with approval by
Congress, to authorize tribes with the primary authority to develop and
implement water quality programs to protect the health and welfare
of the reservation populations. The current language of H.R. 961
will effectively eliminate tribal authority over lands owned in
part or whole by non-members. Tribes will also be subject to
overly burdensome administrative review and face greater challenges
in federal district court over tribal authority.
Several tribes have sent letters to Congress to urge the
elimination of amendments to Sec. 518; however, the House
leadership has continued to march toward the destruction of Sec.
518. Tribes need to work with the Senate to deter any efforts to
include similar language in a Senate Clean Water Act bill.
NTEC proposes to accomplish this purpose by convening a forum for
tribes to receive a briefing and to strategize for Congressional
meetings. A one-day session will be held on June 20 with all
invitees. The briefing will assist tribes with scheduled meetings
on June 21-22 on the Hill. NTEC is also considering scheduled
meetings with other national environmental organizations for the
attending representatives from tribal organizations.
NOW is the time for tribes to work together and prevent any
potential amendments to Sec. 518. NTEC will develop an agenda for
June 20 and distribute at a later time, however, a draft plan is
attached for your consideration. If your tribe/organization will
be attending, please fax the attached confirmation form to NTEC as
soon as possible. We look forward to working with you and seeing
you in D.C.
If you have any questions, please contact Jerry Pardilla (Penobscot),
Executive Director, NTEC, or Jill Peters, NTEC, at 505-242-2175.
PLAN FOR TRIBAL CLEAN WATER ACT MEETING
Hosted by the NTEC
Proposed Dates: June 20-22
Purpose:
Host one-day strategy meeting for Tribes regarding recent activity
on Clean Water Act Amendments. Two-day lobbying activities for
Tribes to visit congressional delegation.
INVITED PARTICIPANTS
TRIBAL ORGANIZATIONS:
National Congress of American Indians; Council of Energy Resource
Tribes; All Indian Pueblo Council; Inter-Tribal Council of Arizona;
Nevada Indian Environmental Coalition; Native American Fish &
Wildlife Society; United South and Eastern Tribes; Columbia River
Inter-Tribal Fish Commission; Affiliated Tribes of Northwest
Indians; Tribal Operations Committee
TRIBES:
Member Tribes of NTEC (64 Tribes)
Other Tribes as determined
PARTICIPANTS:
Don Wharton, Native American Rights Fund
Kevin Gover, Gover, Stetson & Williams
Sam Deloria, American Indian Law Center
Dean Suagee, Hobbs, Strauss, Dean & Walker
George Waters, Consulting Services
Eric Eberhard, LynDee Wells, Dorsey & Whitney
Bob Pelcyger, Fredericks & Pelcyger
CONGRESSIONAL STAFF:
Steve Heeley, Staff Director, Senate Committee on Indian Affairs
Loretta Tuell, Minority Counsel, Senate Committee on Indian Affairs
Chris Stearns, Subcommittee on Native American and Insular Affairs
ARRANGEMENTS:
All participants will be responsible for own travel and lodging
arrangements.
--------- "RE: Short Reviews of New and Recent Books on N. A.'s" ---------
Date: 1 May 1995 18:38:29 GMT
From: Steve Brock (brock@colorado.edu)
Subj: Short reviews of new and recent books on Native Americans
Newsgroups: alt.native,soc.culture.native
Here are several short reviews of new and recent books by, and
about, Native Americans. All are written by Steve Brock:
GHOST SINGER by Anna Lee Walters. University of New Mexico Press,
1720 Lomas Blvd. N.E., Albuquerque, NM 87131-1591, (505) 277-2346,
(505) 277-9270 FAX. 248 pp., $17.95 paper. 0-8263-1545-3
This is the novel the Smithsonian Institution doesn't want you to
read. Walters has written a thrilling and complex story (now out
in a paperback edition) about Navajo ghosts, the bodies they once
inhabited stored in cardboard boxes at the Smithsonian, who haunt
and murder the anthropologists studying them, as well as members of
their own tribe. Grade: A.
SUNDANCE: THE ROBERT SUNDANCE STORY by Robert Sundance with Marc
Gaede. Chaco Press, 5218 Donna Maria Ln., La Canada, CA 91011,
(818) 952-0108, FAX: (818) 952-7267. Illustrated, afterword. 300
pp., $12.95 paper. 0-9616019-8-1
Robert Sundance (Rupert Sibley McLaughlan), born on the Standing
Rock Sioux Reservation, roamed all over the West, was arrested over
500 times, and spent most of his adult life in an alcoholic daze.
In 1975, however, he sued the city and county of Los Angeles and
won his case, bringing wide-ranging reforms to the way street
alcoholics were treated. Sundance's memoir vividly documents his
relentless bid to be heard. Grade: B.
DREAMKEEPERS: A SPIRIT-JOURNEY INTO ABORIGINAL AUSTRALIA by Harvey
Arden. HarperPerennial, a division of HarperCollins Publishers,
Inc., 10 E. 53rd St., N.Y., NY 10022-5299, (800) 242-7737, (800)
822-4090 FAX. Illustrated, maps. 219 pp., $14.00 paper. 0-06-
092580-9
Arden, a writer for National Geographic magazine, toured the
Australian outback and recorded recollections, contemplations, and
speculations of Aboriginal holymen, tribal healers, and lawmen, who
constantly directed him to "get his own Dreamtime," i.e., do not
co-opt their religion. Overly sentimental in places, "Dreamtime"
is better used as a travel guide than a spiritual primer. Grade:
B-. Also by Arden: "Wisdomkeepers" (1991).
OCEAN POWER: POEMS FROM THE DESERT by Ofelia Zepeda. University of
Arizona Press, 1230 N. Park, #102, Tucson, AZ 85719, (800) 426-
3797, (602) 882-3065 in Arizona, (602) 621-8899 FAX. The Universi-
ty of Arizona Press online catalogue and order form may be accessed
from the Internet by telneting to INFO.CCIT.ARIZONA.EDU. Login as
INFO. From the Main Menu choose 5 (On-line Information Services),
3 (University of Arizona Information), 1 (Campus Services), and 4
(University of Arizona Press). Afterword. 91 pp., $19.95 cloth
(0-8165-1517-4), $9.95 paper (0-8165-1541-7).
Zepeda, an associate professor of linguistics at the University of
Arizona, reflects on her life as a Tohono O'odham woman: stirring
clouds with a harvesting stick, growing hair so long it can be worn
as a dress (to be used as a pillow when laid to rest), possessing
a body in rhythm with oceans and moons. Not so somber is her
frolicsome version of "Under the Sea," ("It's so much better, down
where it's wetter"). Many of the poems are printed in both English
and O'odham, and one is entirely in O'odham. Intensely personal,
remarkably accessible. Grade: A-. "Ocean Power" is volume 32 in
the "Sun Tracks" American Indian Literary Series.
INDIANS, FRANCISCANS, AND SPANISH COLONIZATION: THE IMPACT OF THE
MISSION SYSTEM ON CALIFORNIA INDIANS by Robert H. Jackson and
Edward Castillo. University of New Mexico Press, 1720 Lomas Blvd.
N.E., Albuquerque, NM 87131-1591, (505) 277-2346, (505) 277-9270
FAX. Illustrated, index, bibliography, notes, three appendices.
214 pp., $32.50 cloth. 0-8263-1570-4
When Spanish colonists erected 21 missions along the coast of
California, they persuaded (and on several occasions, forced) the
members of many California Indian tribes to provide labor, as well
as being ripe for conversion to Catholicism. Jackson and Castillo
document attempts to modify the social and religious lives of the
tribes, and tribal efforts to maintain a separate identity. Grade: B.
MESSENGERS OF THE WIND: NATIVE AMERICAN WOMEN TELL THEIR LIFE
STORIES, edited by Jane Katz. Ballantine Books, 201 E. 50th St.,
N.Y., NY 10022, (800) 726-0600, FAX: (212) 572-8700. Illustrated,
index, selected bibliography, notes, map. 331 pp., $23.00 cloth.
0-345-39060-1
Katz introduces twenty-five Native American women who relate, in
their own words, what life means to them, what has shaped it so
far, and what the future seems to hold for them and their loved
ones. Divided into themes such as "Mending the Tears, Weaving the
Strands" and "Look Little Ones, All the Places are Holy," these
inspirational narratives contain a common vision: preservation of
culture and language are mandatory for tribes to continue to exist.
Highly recommended as a supplemental text for undergraduate classes
in Women's Studies. Grade: A.
NATIVE AMERICAN LIVES: PERFORMERS, edited by Liz Sonneborn. Facts
on File, Inc., 460 Park Avenue South, N.Y., NY 10016, (800) 322-
8755, FAX: (212) 213-4578. Illustrated, index, selected annotated
bibliography. 128 pp., $17.95 cloth. 0-8160-3045-6. For ages 10
and up.
From Emily Pauline Johnson and Iron Eyes Cody to Graham Greene and
John Trudell, Sonneborn profiles eight of the most famous American
Indian performers: musicians, actors, a humorist (Will Rogers), and
a ballerina (Maria Tallchief). Included are a short history of
each performer's birthplace, a biography, and a discussion of their
body of work. Noticeably missing from the volume are Floyd Crow
Westerman and Carlos Nakai. Grade: B. Also in the "Native
American Lives" series: Spiritual Leaders; Scholars, Writers, and
Professionals; Political Leaders and Peacemakers; Artists and
Craftspeople; and Athletes.
THE PHOTOGRAPH AND THE AMERICAN INDIAN by Alfred L. Bush and Lee
Clark Mitchell. Princeton University Press, 41 William Street,
Princeton, NJ 08540, (800) 777-4726, FAX: (609) 258-1335.
Illustrated (more than 300 black-and-white and color photographs),
bibliography, biographies of photographers. 360 pp., $79.50 cloth.
0-691-03489-3
By the mid-1800s, the had camera became another instrument for
exploiting American Indians. In 1985, a conference and exhibition
at Princeton looked back at the changing agendas of Indians,
photographers, and Indian photographers, and this catalog documents
the 150-year-history, with many famous stereotypes set alongside
recent photomontages. The result is a visually rich, wide-ranging,
and at times disturbing record, essential for photographers,
scholars of American Indians, and fine arts libraries. Grade: A.
THE CIRCLE IS SACRED: A MEDICINE BOOK FOR WOMEN by Scout Cloud Lee,
Ed.D. Council Oaks Books, 1350 E. 15th St., Tulsa, OK 74120, (800)
247-8850, (918) 583-4995 FAX. Illustrated. 272 pp., 17.95 paper.
0-933031-97-1
This is the type of book that makes Indians cringe. Scout Cloud
Lee advertises herself as a "recreation therapist" and a "pioneer
in the field of experiential learning technologies." It says
nowhere that she has one drop of Indian blood, yet her new book of
women's rituals and ceremonies incorporates many sacred Native
American ceremonies, some even using eagle feathers. I'm all in
favor of gender-based consciousness-raising, but not at the expense
of another culture, and especially not at a ranch in Oklahoma
that's a "sacred ceremonial playground." Grade: D-.
CHIEF: THE LIFE HISTORY OF EUGENE DELORME, IMPRISONED SANTEE SIOUX,
edited by Inez Cardozo-Freeman. University of Nebraska Press 901
N. 17th St., Lincoln, NE 68588-0520, (800) 755-1105, (402) 472-6214
FAX. The University of Nebraska Press online catalog is available
on the Internet by telneting to CRCVMS.UNL.EDU, username INFO,
choosing UNIVERSITY PRESS, and ONLINE CATALOG. Illustrated,
chronology, selected bibliography. 250 pp., $26.00 cloth. 0-8032-
1469-3
Delorme, who collaborated with Cardozo-Freeman in writing "The
Joint," is now the subject of her new biography, which relates
Delorme's youth in Aberdeen, Washington as part of a "dissolving
family," spending most of his fifty-five years in reformatories,
detention centers, and penitentiaries, and now residing in a
psychiatric hospital, suffering from alcoholism and depression.
Delorme has experienced several lifetimes of adversity, and his
story should be required reading by Indian healthcare administra-
tors and practitioners. Grade: B.
THE AMERICAN WEST by Dee Brown. Charles Scribner's Sons, 866 Third
Ave., N.Y., NY 10022, (800) 223-2336, (800) 445-6991 FAX.
Illustrated, index, bibliography, maps, selected chronology. 460
pp., $25.00 cloth. 0-02-517421-5
The publicity material says this is the "best single-volume history
of the Old West," but it forgot to insert one word: it's the best-
promoted single-volume history of the Old West. Brown, unfortu-
nately, sits on his laurels and plunders his other works for
material on the Native Americans, settlers, and ranchers and
cowboys who battled over who got to live where. The book, with its
solid collection of archival photographs, is well-written and
readable. Most of us, however, have read it before. Grade: C+.
LANGUAGE OF THE ROBE: AMERICAN INDIAN TRADE BLANKETS by Robert W.
Kapoun with Charles J. Lohrmann. Gibbs Smith, Publisher, P.O. Box
667, Layton, UT 84041, (801) 544-9800, FAX: (801) 544-5582.
Illustrated (more than 300 black-and-white and color photographs),
bibliography, notes. 191 pp., $34.95 cloth. 0-87905-468-9
From clothing staple to currency used in negotiating business deals
to gift of deep friendship to collectible work of art, the trade
blanket has become popular once again. Kapoun traces the history
of trade blankets, robes, and other articles of clothing produced
by Capps, Oregon City, Buell, Racine, and Pendleton prior to World
War II. With numerous color plates, and a section on modern
collecting (don't miss those designed by Hopi weaver Ramona
Sakiestewa), this book is a beauty. Grade: A-.
WORDS OF POWER: VOICES FROM INDIAN AMERICA, edited by Norbert S.
Hill, Jr. (Oneida). Fulcrum Publishing, 350 Indiana St., Suite
350, Golden, CO 80401, (800) 992-2908, (303) 279-7111 FAX. Index of
speakers, list of sources. 68 pp., $9.95 cloth. 1-55591-189-7
Native Americans from the past and present voice their thoughts on
subjects such as educating children, preserving natural resources,
traditional values, friendship, and leadership. Inspirational and
insightful, "Words of Power" is an appropriate gift for any
occasion. Grade: B. Hill is the executive director of the
American Indian Science and Engineering Society at the University
of Colorado at Boulder.
COLUMBIA RIVER BASKETRY: GIFT OF THE ANCESTORS, GIFT OF THE EARTH
by Mary Dodds Schlick. University of Washington Press, P.O. Box
50096, Seattle, WA 98145-5096, (800) 441-4115, (206) 543-3932 FAX.
Illustrated (191 total, 56 in color), index, list of sources,
glossary, notes, map. 248 pp., $60.00 cloth (0-295-97249-1),
$35.00 paper (0-295-97289-0).
Schlick provides information on the wide variety of textiles made
by mid-Columbia River Indians (from Richland to Vancouver,
Washington) and their ancestors, as well as their cultural
significance. Included are many archival photographs and close-up
examples, accumulated from the author's relationship with tribes
that has lasted for over 40 years. The book won an award for best
book of 1994 from the Pacific Northwest Bookseller's Association.
Grade: A-.
THIS PATH WE TRAVEL: CELEBRATIONS OF CONTEMPORARY NATIVE AMERICAN
CREATIVITY. Fulcrum Publishing, 350 Indiana St., Suite 350,
Golden, CO 80401, (800) 992-2908, (303) 279-7111 FAX, in associa-
tion with the National Museum of the American Indian. Illustrated
(60 total, 40 in color), appendix, notes, lists of exhibitions.
128 pp., $24.95 cloth (1-55591-205-2), $18.95 paper (1-55591-208-7).
Published in conjunction with one of the three current exhibitions
of the National Museum of the American Indian, "This Path We
Travel" profiles fifteen artists and their works, most of it in
their own words. Also included are several essays on the project.
Though the actual exhibit, a collaborative effort created specifi-
cally for the museum, is confusing and unfocused, the book does
well in describing the perspective of each artist. Grade: B. The
exhibition runs through July, 1995.
HAIDA MONUMENTAL ART: VILLAGES OF THE QUEEN CHARLOTTE ISLANDS, by
George F. MacDonald. University of Washington Press, P.O. Box
50096, Seattle, WA 98145-5096, (800) 441-4115, (206) 543-3932 FAX.
Illustrated (296 total, 18 in color), selected bibliography, notes,
maps. 248 pp., $29.95 cloth. 0-295-97362-5
This paperback edition of the 1983 original which was published by
the University of British Columbia, presents MacDonald's thirty-
year exploration of Haida villages. The book is divided into two
parts: an introduction to Haida culture and dwellings, and an
inspection of over twenty individual villages. Especially
interesting is the author's photography and mapping of Haida
structures and carved sculptures, popularly-known as "totem poles,"
most of which are still in place. Grade: A.
NORTH AMERICAN INDIAN ANTHROPOLOGY: ESSAYS ON SOCIETY AND CULTURE,
edited by Raymond J. DeMallie and Alfonso Ortiz. University of New
Mexico Press, 1720 Lomas Blvd. N.E., Albuquerque, NM 87131-1591,
(505) 277-2346, (505) 277-9270 FAX. Illustrated, index, referenc-
es. 442 pp., $32.95 cloth. 0-8263-2614-0
The fifteen essays on kinship, social organization, and culture
history in this new text provide current interpretations while
combining structural and historical approaches. The volume is
dedicated to anthropologist Fred Eggen (1906-1991), and all of the
contributors are former students. Highly recommended as a textbook
in introductory classes on American Indian Anthropology.
Grade: A-.
--------- "RE: Poem: Full Moon" ---------
Date: 23 Jul 1994 18:09:03 -0500
From: turtle@aicap.s21.com (Turtle Heart)
Subj: Full Moon
Newsgroup: alt.native
(Full Moon)
Light and wind
upon the flowering earth
gathered like a song
gathered like names
of all my relations
gathered with a knife
sharp knife made of old stone
i slice dreams from the sky
and cook them on my belly
Tobacco Indian
Ahnishinabe
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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: 95/05/27 17:18
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 June 4-10
IUNE
(June)
(Kaaona)
4
The lullabies of night creatures sing me to my dreams.
5
To the youthful heart, the whole world is filled with wonder.
6
The fragrance of summer blossoms pervades my dreams.
7
Waste nothing -- use every gift the land gives you.
8
Swim with the dolphins, and learn the magic of their world.
9
The earth drinks the blessing of the summer rain.
10
Sorrow abides not in this place.
(c) Copyright 1991 by D. F. Sanders
Me ke aloha i ka nani, ... Moe'uhanekeanuenue
(With love and beauty, ... Rainbow Dream)
--------- "RE: Conferences and Powwows - offline" ---------
Date: Thu, 1 Jun 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
From: "Roger Ironcloud" <rironcloud@acf.dhhs.gov>
To: IND-NET@listproc.wsu.edu
The Child Care Bureau of the Administration on Children, Youth and
Families is pleased to invite you to attend the National Tribal Child
Care Conference at the Red Lion Hotel, Seattle, Washington, July 31 -
August 3, 1995. The theme of the conference is "GUARDIANS OF OUR
SACRED TRUST - TRIBAL LEADERSHIP IN CHILD CARE."
The conference will provide an opportunity for Tribal leaders and
administrators of child care programs to share the vision of child care.
It will also serve as a forum for discussion of new implementation
strategies and common challenges that face Indian and Alaska Native
communities, families and children.
In accordance with this year's theme and the focus on leadership, we
encourage administrators to invite elected Tribal officials to attend
this exciting conference. Special tracks for Tribal officials to plan
the delivery of comprehensive services to children and families in local
communities have been incorporated into the framework of this conference.
The hotel has extended its conference rate to the weekends before and
after the Tribal Child Care Conference on a space available basis.
The cutoff date to secure the hotel conference rate is July 8, 1995.
Please direct inquiries to:
Elina N. Gross,
Logistics Coordinator
Child Care Technical Assistance
1025 Vermont Avenue, NW, Suite 610
Washington, D.C. 20005
telephone: (202) 639-4465; fax (202) 628-2903
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From: FROSTY.DEERE@igloo.magicnet.com (FROSTY DEERE)
Just a few Pow-wow's that I know of in Canada this summer...
Echo's Of a Proud Nation. Mohawk 5th Annual Pow-wow
July 8 - 9, 1995
Call 514-632-8667
NOTE.. This pow-wow is 10 miles from Montreal Canada. Loads of places to
stay, camp, and meet people. Free Parking and cost is $5.00 per day.
Pine Creek Pow-wow
June 16, 17, 18, 1995
Call 204-524-2478
White Earth 127th Pow-wow
June 9, 10, 11, 1995
Call 218-983-3285
Hannaville Pow-wow
June 24, 25, 1995
Call 906-466-2342
Alexis 17th Pow-wow
July 7, 8, 9, 1995
Call 403-967-2225
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From: berryj@Okway.okstate.edu (John Berry)
SOVEREIGNTY SYMPOSIUM VIII
June 5,6,7 and 8, 1995
Doubletree Hotel, Warren Place, 6110 S. Yale, Tulsa, Oklahoma
(918)495-1000
Presented by the Oklahoma Supreme Court, The Oklahoma Indian Affairs
Commission and the Sovereignty Symposium, Inc.
The sovereignty symposium was established to provide a forum for the
exchange of common legal issues in a scholarly, non-adversarial
environment. The Supreme Court espouses no view on any of the issues,
and the positions taken by the participants are not endorsed by the
Supreme Court.
20.5 Hours CLE credit for lawyers will be awareded including four
hours of ethics.
Registration fee: $125.00 if made by 5/25/95, after that date,
registration is $150.00. The symposium will provide a limited number of
scholarships to law students and to other qualified candidates based on
interest and financial need. Please send scholarship applications to
Vice Chief Justice Yvonne Kauger of the Oklahoma Supreme Court, Rm 204,
State Capitol Building, Oklahoma City, OK 73105
Registration after 5/25/9 $150.00
Registration for Federal, State or Tribal Judges within the 9th or
10th Circuits is $75.00
Registration for Oklahoma State Judges is $50.00
Luncheon Ticket for June 7th $12.50 per person
Language Preservation Seminar June 6-7 $20.00 (not included in
Symposium registration.
Educator's Luncheon Ticket June 5 $11.00 per person
Symposium registration for persons attending only the June 6
afternoon and evening Oklahoma Bar Association-Indian Law Section
program, $100.00 per person.
Send registration to: The Sovereignty Symposium, Inc.
1915 N. Stiles, Suite 305
Oklahoma City, OK 73105
Payment check or money order in U.S. dollars.
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Schwarzbauer Peter(Lubicon Lake Indian Nation), James D. Audlin,
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