More Anti-Indian Comments in C-NEWS List

Scott Robert Ladd (scottrobertladd@juno.com)
Thu, 5 Dec 1996 08:15:17 PST

Three weeks ago, I published a short article about anti-Indian
sentiments in Alaska, reporting an item I found in the open and
public C-NEWS (Conservative News) Mailing List. The
"Interesting Items" column appears there every week or so, with
items from conservative talk radio and publications. The column
is posted by Alex Gimarc <agimarc@anchorage.net>.

C-NEWS publishes numerous items by large, mainstream
conservative groups, including Eagle Forum, Rush Limbaugh,
Cal Thomas, Ken Hamblin, pro-family and pro-life organizations.

As I said before: We need to watch what these people are saying.

-- SRL

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From: Alex Gimarc <agimarc@anchorage.net>
To: c-news@world.std.com
Date: Tue, 03 Dec 1996 08:21:37 -0900
Subject: C-NEWS: Interesting Items 12/2

Sunday, Nov 10, 1996 - Interesting Items

[Non sequitor items 1-2 deleted - SRL]

3. Venitie. The 9th Circuit Court provided yet another example of
legislating from the bench two weeks ago with a ruling in a native
case. Background: There were no Indian wars in Alaska, so the
legislation that sets up native rights, lands and other things has
been contained in the Statehood Compact, and two laws passed in
1971 and 1980. The 1971 ANCSA law basically transferred $500
million from the feds, $500 million from the state and 44 million
acres to the 220+ tribes up here. In return, the tribes agreed to
give up all aboriginal rights and be Alaskans. The locals saw the
mess down south and tried to do it better. In recent years
unfortunately, the lure of special treatment and special rights has
been too great for some and they have proceeded down the path of
litigation in an attempt to get through the judiciary what Congress
has not legislated. As usual, local democrats have used promises of
support in creating Indian Country - essentially 220+ new nations -
in return for votes, and carried over 80% of the native vote in the
bush the last gubernatorial election. In the Venitie case, a
village tried to tax a contractor in town to build a school. The
contractor said no, the state stepped in to support the contractor
and the entire thing went to federal court. Gov Knowles, who
dangled promises of Indian Country in his election campaign, is now
in the uncomfortable position of having to fight this decision.

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