[NN-Dialogue] Wotanging Ikche--nanews09.031
Gary Night Owl
nn-dialogue@nativenet.uthscsa.edu
Wed Aug 1 00:50:00 CDT 2001
W O T A N G I N G I K C H E Otapi'sin Atsinikiisinaakssin
KANOHEDA ANIYVWIYA O It-hah-pe-hah Ah-num pah-le
Ha-Sah-Sliltha O o O ni-mah-mi-kwa-zoo-min
Un Chota O o O Aunchemokauhettittea
O o o o o O
VOLUME 09, ISSUE 031 O o O Es'te Opunvk'vmucvse
August 4, 2001 O o O Ximopanolti tehuatzin,
Mvskogee big ripening moon O inin Mexika tlahtolli
Cree moon when young ducks begin to fly
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As historian Patricia Nelson Limerick summarized in The Legacy of Conquest:
The Unbroken Past of the American West,
"Set the blood quantum at one-quarter, hold to it as a rigid definition
of Indians, let intermarriage proceed as it had for centuries, and
eventually Indians will be defined out of existence. When that happens,
the federal government will be freed of its persistent 'Indian problem.'"
"The white man does not obey the Great Spirit; this is why
the Indians never could agree with him."
__ Flying Hawk, Oglala Lakota
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| | 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
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| Journey | In the summer and early fall
| The Bloodline | of 1998 the Treaty Unity Riders
| | rode a thousand miles on horse-
| For all that live and live by law | back, carrying a staff and
| We Stand, we Call, We Ride | praying each step of the way.
| For All that fear and fear by sight |
| We Hear, we Listen, we Ride | These prayers were offered for
| For all that pray and pray by strength| each of us, and that the Unity
| We Feel, we Move, we Ride | of all Peoples might happen.
| For all that die and die by greed |
| We Hurt, we Cry, we Ride | Tatanka Cante forwarded this
| For all that birth and birth by right | poem on behalf of all the Unity
| We Smile, we Hold, we Ride | Riders that we might stop and
| For all that need and need by heart | ask if the next words we say, the
| We Came, we Went, we Rode. | next act we make is for the good
| | of the People or is it from ego
| Treaty Unity Riders | for self.
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O'siyo Brothers and Sisters!
Are you aware, truly aware there are native brothers and sisters fighting
for their very breath in Columbia and Ecuador? Are you aware the war for
basic rights continues in Chiapas? Are you aware Indian Brook and Burnt
Church are about to risk being rammed and shot by the Canadian Fisheries
for doing what they have done since before the colonialists arrived? - fish.
Somehow the intruders believe destroying the rainforest is more important
than the Quechan who live there. Somehow the colonialist occupation forces
believe the Marshall Decision does not apply because they overfished waters
and now want to deny basic rights to Aboriginal Peoples who depend on those
waters and those lobster for their very survival.
This is the same damn mentality that Andrew Jackson applied when he sent
the Cherokee on their "Trail of Tears" death march, in spite of a Supreme
Court ruling that said their home in Georgia was protected.
If you are aware, are you just blowing it off, or raising hell with your
Congressional/Parliamentary critter persons. Whose gunships and advisors
do you think are helping kill native brothers and sisters? Whose police
states do you think are piloting those craft that are ramming the Mik'maq?
Wake up! The "Indian Question" is still answered in the same deadly
way, and the only reason it isn't hurting you personally is because they
just haven't knocked on your door yet. And there are a few of us, like me,
as I've said before, who can pass for white if we choose to. I choose
not to.
Dohiyi Ani Oginalii
, , Gary Night Owl gars@nanews.org
(*,*) P. O. Box 672168 gars@speakeasy.org
(`-') Marietta, GA 30006, U.S.A. gars@olagrande.net
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----------- News of the people featured in this issue ----------
- Tribes found Rare Friend in Finney - Tribal Employee provides
- Cherokee Linguist Robert Bushyhead view from Both Sides
- Navajo Code Talkers to be Honored - Indian Kidney Woes
- Hopi Says Control of HPL Land pose Growing Threat
is the Real Issue - Congress may need to
- Food for Thought look at Tribal Courts
- Zapatista Sympathizers - Peltier Statement
block Highways from LPDC's Newspaper
- Retaliation charged as - Peltier's Birthday
BIA Official Jumps Ship - Native Prisoner
- McCain Hammers -- Denial of Religion
Indian Affairs Officials - Rustywire:
- Carpenters to launch It was just another Enemy Way
American Indian Project - Poem: Too Many Names...
- Unprotected Pueblitos - Verse: Hawaiian Book of Days
at risk of Ruin - Classes teach Dakota Language
- N.B. Natives Prepare To Fish - Mohegans Rebuilding Language
- First Nations Assembly - Indians race to Save Languages
creates Women's Council - Tribes race against Time
- DEA Seizes Hemp Crop to teach Dying Languages
- Proposal to dam 6 NWT Rivers - Upcoming Events
--------- "RE: Tribes found Rare Friend in Finney" ---------
Date: Sun, 29 Jul 2001 21:22:26 -0400
From: "Janet Smith" <owlstar@speakeasy.org>
Subj: obit
http://www.owlstar.com/dailyheadlines.htm
http://cjonline.com/stories/072901/kan_finneytribes.shtml
Last modified at 12:56 a.m. on Sunday, July 29, 2001
Tribes found rare friend in Finney
By Carl Manning
The Associated Press
To Kansas, she was former Gov. Joan Finney. To the Kickapoo tribe, she
was White Morning Star Woman -- an honored and revered person.
She was given her Kickapoo name -- Wah na ko qua -- in 1991 by tribal
elders after she became the first governor to recognize by official
proclamation the sovereignty of American Indian tribes.
"She was a much loved friend of the tribe," said Nancy Bear, tribal
chairwoman. "There are not too many people the Kickapoo would label as a
beloved friend -- a very revered type of friendship."
Finney, a Democrat who served as governor in 1991-95, died Saturday at
St. Francis Hospital and Medical Center in Topeka. She had been diagnosed
with liver cancer earlier this year.
Her reputation as a friend to the American Indians spread beyond Kansas.
"I think she will be remembered for moving in a direction that other
governors were afraid to go." Dennis Banks, founder of the American Indian
Movement
"The policies she developed with native people in Kansas could be
followed by other states," said Dennis Banks, one of the founders of the
American Indian Movement.
"I think she will be remembered for moving in a direction that other
governors were afraid to go," said Banks, a leader of the Wounded Knee,
S.D., occupation in 1973.
As governor, she led efforts in the 1990s for the state-tribal compacts
to have casinos on the reservations, starting with the Kickapoo and then
on the Prairie Band Potawatomi, Sac and Fox, and Iowa reservations, all in
northeast Kansas.
Many legislators opposed Finney because they didn't want gambling in the
state. But she saw the agreements as an economic boost for the
reservations and surrounding areas.
"It wasn't just gambling. She saw the economic potential for the tribes
who had gaming," Bear said. "The biggest issue was the economic assistance
for the tribes, for us to help ourselves."
No tribe will say how much they make from casinos. The National Indian
Gaming Commission says only that gross revenues were in the $85 million to
$175 million range for three Kansas casinos in 1998.
Lance Burr, former Kickapoo attorney general, said Finney was the only
governor who stood up for casinos on reservations. But her support
extended to other areas, including tribal sovereignty and the idea of fair
treatment of American Indians.
"Let the history of the 1990s record an end to the devious tactics and
calculated undermining of Indian nations' sovereignty, dignity and right
to self determination," Finney said in a 1992 speech.
Burr recalled that Finney was the first governor to invite tribal
leaders to meet at Cedar Crest, the governor's residence.
"She took it upon herself to ask what they felt about issues rather than
dictating policy to the tribes," he said.
Bear said even after Finney left office, she continued to visit the
Kickapoo reservation.
"She stayed involved. She was a true friend," Bear said.
Gary Mitchell, vice chairman of the Prairie Band Potawatomi tribal
council, said all tribes in Kansas benefited from Finney's support.
"We have a lot of economic gains on the reservation that wouldn't have
been possible without the tribal-state compact," Mitchell said. "She was
at the forefront of that, so she did everything possible to help all the
tribes."
Mitchell and Bear said Finney's legacy, in many ways, is seen on their
reservations -- improved roads, health and child-care services, college
scholarships and elderly assistance, all financed by casino revenues
Janet Smith
Owlstar Trading Post
http://www.owlstar.com
--------- "RE: Cherokee Linguist Robert Bushyhead" ---------
Date: Tue, 31 Jul 2001 08:44:05 -0500
From: Gary Smith <gars@Speakeasy.org>
Subj: NA News Item
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filename="ROBERT BUSHYHEAD"
http://www.owlstar.com/dailyheadlines.htm
http://www.citizen-times.com/news/12691438.shtml
Cherokee linguist Bushyhead dies at 86
By Quintin Ellison, STAFF WRITER
Posted: 07-30-01 01:30
CHEROKEE - Robert Henry Bushyhead, famed Cherokee linguist, minister,
educator and actor, died Saturday in a Cherokee hospital. He was 86.
Bushyhead will be best remembered for his work to preserve the Kituhwa
dialect of the Eastern Band of Cherokee Indians.
"It's a great loss," Ken Blankenship, director of the Museum of the
Cherokee Indian, said of Bushyhead's death. "Without the language, your
culture is pretty much gone."
In 1992, Bushyhead and his daughter, Jean, started recording the dialect
on video and audio. The recordings are used in Cherokee schools as part of
the Cherokee Language Project, allowing Cherokee the opportunity to hear
the language spoken correctly and fluently.
Today, many are involved in the project that had its beginnings with a
small grant. In the future, it will be Bushyhead who is credited with
providing the project's building blocks and for explaining the nuances and
complicated inflections that form the Kituhwa dialect.
Bushyhead was raised in the Yellow Hill community on the Cherokee Indian
Reservation. He was 6 years old when he first heard the English language.
In school, Bushyhead and other young Cherokee were forbidden to speak
their language. Bushyhead, however, refused to forget the Kituwah dialect
because he believed that language is the basis of culture.
"The loss of Robert Bushyhead to the perpetuation of the Cherokee
language is immeasurable," said Cherokee historian Lynne Harlan.
In addition to his work to preserve the language, Bushyhead - who
attended Carson Newman College, Fruitland Bible Institute and Harrison
Chilhowhee Baptist Academy - portrayed Elias Boudinot for 18 years in the
Cherokee drama "Unto These Hills."
Boudinot was the editor of the first newspaper that was written in an
Indian language in the United States.
In his rich life, Bushyhead was also a logger, interpreter, evangelist,
Baptist minister and lecturer.
A funeral service will be held at 11 a.m. Tuesday in the Whittier United
Methodist Church with the Rev. Ben Bushyhead and the Rev. Hal Finney
officiating. The family will receive friends from 7 to 9 p.m. tonight at
Moody Funeral Home in Sylva.
Contact Ellison at 452-1467 or QEllison@CITIZEN-TIMES.com
Copyright c. 2000 Asheville Citizen-Times
--------- "RE: Navajo Code Talkers to be Honored" ---------
Date: Thu, 26 Jul 2001 08:45:17 -0500
From: Gary Smith <gars@Speakeasy.org>
Subj: NA News Item
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filename="NAVAJO CODE TALKERS"
http://www.owlstar.com/dailyheadlines.htm
http://www.azcentral.com/news/articles/breaking/0725code25.html
Navajo Code Talkers to be honored for WWII role
Betty Reid
The Arizona Republic
July 25, 2001 12:00:00
Joe Palmer and Lloyd Oliver served together during World War II, and for
decades after, they remained buddies, getting together every once in
awhile to play pool and talk about the things you'd expect two old Marine
Corps buddies to talk about.
Except for the one thing the U.S. military told them never to talk
about: what they did in the South Pacific during the war.
This week, Palmer and Oliver will get medals for what they did for their
country during that war.
They and 27 other Navajo Code Talkers, many of whom have died, will be
given congressional Gold Medals for using their native language, Navajo,
to transmit military messages by telephone and radio in a form the enemy
could never decode.
The medal is Congress' highest expression of appreciation for
achievement and service.
The two elderly Arizona men were part of the first group of 29 Code
Talkers dispatched to the Pacific to serve their country. They are among
the five survivors of that original group.
Oliver, 78, leaves today for Washington, where he will meet President
Bush. Although the Phoenix resident is shy and hard of hearing, his eyes
sparkled and he grinned when handed a note asking him what he plans to do
with the medal.
He read slowly, sliding his index finger over each word.
"Just wear it, I guess," he said.
Palmer, who now lives in Yuma, can't go because of health reasons, but
he is sending his son, Kermit, to accept the medal on his behalf. Blessed
with a sharp mind, 79-year-old Palmer enjoys chatter, but he is blind and
tells people he "lives in the dark."
True to the clandestine nature of their war-time duty, Oliver and Palmer
were closemouthed about their military experience for years. After the war,
they were told to keep quiet about the Navajo code. Even after information
about it was declassified in 1968, they were reluctant to discuss it or
take credit for their deeds.
"I don't go around and brag about it," Palmer said. "I hear people talk
about the war. It stays in my heart."
Oliver's daughter, Violet Oliver Ojeda, remembers a time when she found
a book at the Gila River library, flipped the pages to photos of Navajo
Code Talkers and saw her dad in one of the photos.
"He's shy, and he won't talk about it at all," she said.
The two remained silent until 1998, when they were tracked down by
Vietnam War veteran Richard K. Begay, a former member of the Navajo Nation
Council and now an executive assistant to the Navajo Nation president.
Begay had set out to find all of the Code Talkers, and with the help of
the Navajo Code Talkers Association, he found more than 400 of them.
He was particularly interested in finding the original 29 Code Talkers,
but most of them had died. Only five remain: Oliver; Palmer; John Brown Jr.
of Navajo, N.M.; Chester Nez of Albuquerque; and Allen Dale June of West
Valley City, Utah.
With a push from Sen. Jeff Bingaman, D-N.M., all 29 were selected as
congressional Gold Medal recipients in December.
The Code Talkers will be recognized again this fall, when a movie about
their exploits, Windtalkers, starring Nicolas Cage, reaches movie theaters
across the country.
To some, recognition for the Code Talkers seems long overdue.
Most got no military recognition. Begay found the majority of the 29
original Code Talkers were discharged with only one stripe in 1945.
"They joined as privates and came out as privates," he said.
Palmer was discharged July 3, 1946, without receiving the honors he said
he had been promised by the military: a Purple Heart, a second stripe, a
Bronze Star and a presidential award.
"I never got it," he said. "It was all paper promises. I'd like to know
why they did that to me."
"They should have been recognized shortly after 1968 for their
contributions made in the war," Begay said.
"Bizaa yee nidaaz'baa," he added in Navajo. "They fought the enemy with
their language."
And the fight was a dangerous one. Palmer, who had his name legally
changed from Balmer Slowtalker shortly after the war, was wounded in
action, and Oliver survived a bomb attack on Guadalcanal.
In many ways, their stories are similar.
Palmer is from Leupp, 40 miles northeast of Flagstaff. In 1942, he met
up with a Marine recruiter at Albuquerque Indian School, a boarding school.
Palmer was mesmerized by the snappy Marine uniforms, dark blue with shiny
gold buttons and white caps.
"The land of the free and the home of the brave, that's good enough for
me," Palmer said.
A double-decker charter bus took him to Fort Wingate High School, an old
military depot turned into a school east of Gallup, N.M. He met other
young men there, but not Oliver, before a longer trip to Camp Elliot in
San Diego, the code talking school.
Before he left Fort Wingate, Palmer spoke with his stepmother, now
deceased.
"T/'izi yazhi nadiyeesh' heel neenidzaago," she said, promising to
butcher a young goat in celebration when he returned from the war.
"Adaa'ahalya." Take care of yourself, she told him.
Like many Code Talkers, Palmer carried a 30-pound radio.
"I kept it dry and clean like my rifle," he said. "I kept it in good
shape all the time."
On June 7, 1944, Palmer was injured when an artillery shell exploded
near him in Saipan. He was taken to Pearl Harbor Hospital and thereafter
to recovery centers in Washington and Oregon.
After being discharged in 1946, he went home to Leupp. But he found the
sprawling Navajo Reservation a difficult place to live. Jobs were scarce,
the roads unpaved, and even the food seemed foreign.
"Baah bisga' ei dee deet'aal nidee," Palmer said in Navajo. "I ate 2-
day-old hardened bread for a while."
He moved to Phoenix, then to western Arizona, working as a lineman in
Mohave Valley, and marrying Flora Mejo, a member of the Cocopah Tribe.
Occasionally, he would visit Phoenix and see Oliver, who had shared his
war experiences. Palmer retired in 1965 and now lives in Yuma with his
wife.
Oliver, who was plucked off the reservation in 1942 at age 19, also rode
on a charter bus to Fort Wingate. After training as a Code Talker, he
served on Guadalcanal, and at Cape Gloucester, Saipan and Peleliu.
He was a corporal when the Marines cut him loose in 1945.
Like Palmer, he moved from the reservation to Phoenix. He married into
the Gila River Indian Community and fathered four children before he and
his wife divorced.
Oliver became a silversmith and made classic squash blossoms and
bracelets.
As he grew older, memories of war began to fade.
Recently, Oliver touched a list of Navajo code words and realized how
much he had forgotten. "I used to know all these words," he lamented.
But some memories linger. Oliver remembers one night when "the bombs
rained" on Guadalcanal. He slept in a foxhole, and when he woke, bodies of
his fellow Marines and of Japanese soldiers were scattered around him.
He is grateful for surviving and is proud of his service.
"It's scary, even in the foxhole," Oliver said. "I'm safe, and I'm going
to see the president."
Reach the reporter at betty.reid@arizonarepublic.com or (602)444-8049.
Copyright c. 2001, azcentral.com. All rights reserved.
--------- "RE: Hopi Says Control of HPL Land Is the Real Issue" ---------
Date: Thu, 26 Jul 2001 08:45:17 -0500
From: Gary Smith <gars@Speakeasy.org>
Subj: NA News Item
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filename="HPL LAND HOPI ISSUE"
http://www.pechanga.net/
http://www.navajohopiobserver.com/navajohopiobserver/
myarticles.asp?P=444822&S=392&PubID=7119&EC=0
Hopi Says Control of HPL Land Is the Real Issue
Hopi Tribe: Notwithstanding the emotional hype surrounding the recent
Sundance at Big Mountain, the crux of the issue is the right of Hopi
people to control their land and resources.
The Hopi Tribe is a sovereign nation that can and will exercise the
rights afforded to all sovereigns, irrespective of public opinion - the
Tribe is not seeking favorable ratings in a popularity contest.
Tribes have fought for their rights for over 100 years and it is crucial
that all tribes exercise their sovereignty, as well as respect the
sovereignty of others.
This is our strongest defense against others who repeatedly seek to
undermine sovereignty in Indian Country.
Key to upholding sovereignty is strong, steadfast, and unwavering
leadership. Those politicians who are easily swayed by emotions and their
own self-interests lose focus on the larger picture of sovereignty and can
do much damage to it.
True leadership is demonstrated by those who stand up for sovereignty,
no matter how unpopular their decisions may be with the general public and
those who pretend to fight for human rights.
It is unfortunate when leadership declines to recognize the sovereignty
of a neighboring nation.
The world operates on principles of law and order, and those leaders who
support passive resistance and civil disobedience on the land of other
sovereigns undercut their own sovereignty.
It is an unsaid policy in Indian Country not to meddle in the internal
affairs of another tribal nation.
When intertribal issues need to be resolved, tribal governments come
together and establish intergovernmental agreements.
Such an agreement between the Hopi Tribe and Navajo Nation worked well
in ultimately producing the 1996 Settlement Act.
However, as negotiations for new legislative and congressional districts
continue, the Navajo Nation's response to events at the Big Mountain
Sundance substantiate the Hopi Tribe's discomfort with being represented
by a tribe that refuses to recognize Hopi jurisdiction.
The Sundance incident clearly indicates a Navajo Nation allegiance with
other Navajos regardless of Hopi sovereignty and lawful rights.
To the Hopi Tribe, there is no comfort in the promises made by the
Navajo Nation to support their latest redistricting proposal that they
will look out for Hopi interests when they refuse to recognize the
sanctity of Hopi borders.
Navajo Hopi Observer Online is a service of Verde Valley Newspapers, Inc.
Copyright c. 2001 Verde Valley Newspapers, Inc.
--------- "RE: Food for Thought" ---------
Date: Sat, 28 Jul 2001 17:49:42 +0000
From: Robert Dorman <redorman@theofficenet.com>
Subj: Food for Thought
------- FORWARD, Original message follows -------
From: Kc4behopi@aol.com
Mailing List: Big Mountain List <BIGMTLIST@topica.com>
FOOD FOR THOUGHT
July, 28, 2001
Asquali,
Ngungu'lawu Tutsqwa I'qatsi,
Friends of the Hopi Triditional Peoples
and Touch the Earth Foundation
Thank you for being our friends!
We have been very busy with the responsibilities that we have been
entrusted with. However, i wish to take this moment to say how much we
appreciate those whom have come to help and our new friends.
Things in Hopiland are still very troubled. Those of you that follow
the Native American News are aware of the so called "Hopi Tribal
Council" arresting the Grandmothers at Dinhe, for praying on the wrong
side of the fence without a permit, permission and imagine not even
their Culture?
I will just say this once, "The Hopi Traditional Peoples" had nothing
to do with this disruption of the Sacred Ceremony our Lakota Brothers and
Sisters that have come to stand with us in prayers and peace. We, the
Traditional Elders are Grateful. Yet our hearts are sad that the "Hopi"
name is associated with such disrespect to Elders and Sacred Teachings
of any other Spiritual Nations. We the Hopi know only a lasting peace
will come from a Spiritual Peace and must begin within each one's heart
and mind for themselves.
I hope you all will join us in prayer for peace and awakening of these
sacred truths for the Sacred 4 corners and all our relations.
.*Tutskwa I'qatsi 'Itam Tutskwa Nit Qatsi Suntutskwatavi Ngu'yungwa
(Land Is Life, We Land And Life Balance In Holding It*)
In service to the Holy Ones, dep se mana With Respect and Truth,
Katherine Cheshire
Touch the Earth Foundation
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for more background on the Big Mountain relocation issue.
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--------- "RE: Zapatista Sympathizers block Highways" ---------
Date: Tue, 31 Jul 2001 08:44:05 -0500
From: Gary Smith <gars@Speakeasy.org>
Subj: NA News Item
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filename="ZAPATISTA PROTEST"
http://www.owlstar.com/dailyheadlines.htm
http://www.arizonarepublic.com/arizona/articles/0730zapatista-ON.html
Zapatista sympathizers block highways in southern Mexico
Associated Press
July 30, 2001
SAN CRISTOBAL DE LAS CASAS, Mexico - Zapatista sympathizers blocked main
highways in the southern state of Chiapas on Monday in protest of an
Indian rights bill approved by Congress.
The demonstrators also urged President Vicente Fox to free nine
Zapatista sympathizers from jails, disarm paramilitary groups and stop
"political repression."
They blocked highways for hours across the state, bringing traffic to a
halt.
"A few hours of irritation is nothing compared to the 509 years of
historic injustice in Mexico's Indian villages," protesters said in a news
release.
Earlier this month, Congress approved a modified Indian rights law
opposed by many of the country's Indians.
The original law was drafted in 1996 to enact the only substantive
agreement between the government and the Zapatista National Liberation
Front since the rebels staged an uprising in 1994.
Former President Ernesto Zedillo, however, balked at the draft bill,
stalling peace talks with the rebels.
That draft was Fox's first proposal to Congress after taking office Dec.
1, and the new president applauded a Zapatista march to Mexico City
earlier this year to lobby for the bill.
But the version approved by Congress in April watered down clauses for
Indian autonomy and for rights over land and natural resources. That
angered the rebels and many other Indian groups.
Elsewhere in Mexico's southernmost state, peasants in the key Zapatista
stronghold of Marquez de Comillas accused police of beating up 41 rebel
supporters during an operation to rescue hostages held by a mob last week.
Chiapas Gov. Pablo Salazar ordered 300 police officers to storm the
isolated town Friday after a mob took six Secretary of Social Development
officials hostage demanding expanded federal benefits. After rescuing the
hostages, police took six of the mob's ringleaders into custody on
kidnapping charges.
Locals who organized a street protest Monday said the officers who
rescued the hostages later pulled Zapatista sympathizers from their homes
and beat them, then broke up a rally in support of the mob.
"Many men that were in their houses away from the protest and many
others that took their message to the streets were gravely and savagely
beaten," said Reynalda Pablo Cruz, a spokesman for local Zapatista
supporters.
Cruz said police beat up 41 men and forced more than 80 women and
children to flee town.
Protesters also accused police of wrecking dozens of farms and stealing
more than 80 animals and demanded that Salazar's government pardon the
kidnapping suspects.
Copyright c. 2001 The Arizona Republic. Gannett Co. Inc
--------- "RE: Retaliation charged as BIA Official Jumps Ship" ---------
Date: Thu, 26 Jul 2001 08:45:17 -0500
From: Gary Smith <gars@Speakeasy.org>
Subj: NA News Item
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filename="BIA WHISTLE BLOWER QUITS"
http://www.indianz.com/
Retaliation charged as BIA official jumps ship
WEDNESDAY, JULY 25, 2001
In what is being called yet another example of employee intimidation, Dom
Nessi -- the Bureau of Indian Affairs official whose once-private
revelation that trust reform was "imploding" led a federal judge to
appoint a court monitor to watch over the government -- has left his top-
level job at the troubled agency.
Effective this week, Nessi has resigned as the BIA's Chief Information
Officer, leaving to take up a similar position at the National Park
Service. News of the departure came as a surprise to a number of
Department of Interior officials, including Special Trustee Tom Slonaker,
who defended the government's trust reform plan in the wake of Nessi's
criticism.
"I wish him well," was all Slonaker could offer yesterday in response to
Nessi's exit.
Nessi was the first ever CIO at the BIA, taking on the task a little
over a year ago. He was shepherded into the position by former Assistant
Secretary Kevin Gover to oversee the BIA's nationwide computer systems, a
number of which are directly linked to the trust accounts of an estimated
300,000 American Indians throughout the country.
Nessi, in fact, came into his post as a former manager of the Trust
Assets Accounting Management System, or TAAMS, the government's answer to
more than one hundred years of financial incompetence. Beset by management
and planning problems -- Nessi was one six TAAMS managers in less than
three years -- the project has suffered numerous setbacks as Interior
officials admit the system has not met expectations.
But while Dennis Gingold, a Washington, DC, attorney who represents the
plaintiffs in the Cobell v. Norton lawsuit, has been critical of Nessi's
oversight, he had one explanation for the departure. According to Gingold,
Nessi is another in a long line of Interior employees who have been the
target of retaliation for contradicting the government's view that trust
reform is working.
"He was forced out," said Gingold of Nessi. "People [at the Interior]
wouldn't talk to him. He was viewed as a pariah."
One day after a federal appeals court ordered the government to provide
Indian beneficiaries with an historical accounting of their funds, Nessi
leveled a number of harsh charges against his department. He accused the
government of trying to fix the system using a plan "built on wishful
thinking and rosy projections."
"As a rule, I try not to make dire projections, but I am afraid in this
case, I have no choice," wrote Nessi in a February 23 memo to Slonaker. "I
believe that trust reform is slowly, but surely imploding at this point in
time."
While he said he agreed with some of Nessi's criticism, Slonaker
subsequently defended the High-Level Implementation Plan (HLIP) to members
of Congress and said the project is indeed on track. A month later,
however, US District Judge Royce Lamberth appointed Joseph S. Kieffer III
to the case in order to make sure the government is telling the truth.
Attempts to reach Nessi for comment were unsuccessful. He has already
begun work at his new job, National Park Service officials confirmed. His
office is located in the main Department of Interior building which houses
both the BIA and Slonaker's office.
The BIA will begin searching for Nessi's replacement, said a
spokesperson, although immediate plans to name an acting CIO were not
clear. The CIO reports directly to James McDivitt, the Deputy Assistant
Secretary for Management.
Although he has left the BIA, Nessi's departure is not expected to
affect a pending court deposition, said Gingold. Nessi has already been
interviewed under oath once, admitting that he didn't know who was in
charge of the office that issues checks to Indian account holders despite
having direct oversight on the matter.
Copyright c. 2000-2001 Noble Savage Media, LLC / Indianz.Com
--------- "RE: McCain Hammers Indian Affairs Officials" ---------
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McCain Hammers Indian Affairs Officials
Tribal recognition process, Mohegan partner deal probed
By Ann Baldelli
Washington - U.S. Sen. John McCain ran roughshod over American Indian
regulators Wednesday, firing incriminating questions about tribal
recognition and Indian gaming management contracts at representatives from
the Department of Interior and National Indian Gaming Commission.
The Republican from Arizona seemed particularly perturbed about
allegations made about two former top officials of the Interior
Department's Bureau of Indian Affairs who reportedly reversed staff
recommendations and made decisions favorable to Indian tribes, in one case,
granting preliminary recognition for the Massachusetts-based Nipmucs.
During a Senate Committee on Indian Affairs hearing on the 1988 Indian
Gaming Regulatory Act, McCain verbally pummeled Sharon Blackwell, deputy
commissioner for Indian Affairs at the Interior Department, and Montie R.
Deer, chairman of the National Indian Gaming Commission.
In addition to questioning decisions regarding tribal recognition,
McCain hammered Blackwell and Deer about management contracts that non-
Indians have with tribes for gaming, asking pointed questions about the
Mohegan Tribe's buyout of its onetime partners, Waterford-based Trading
Cove Associates.
Reading from a July 18 Wall Street Journal article, McCain asked if
former BIA Director Kevin Gover and former Acting Director Michael
Anderson ignored recommendations from the Bureau of Acknowledgement staff
and recognized or granted preliminary recognition to three tribes,
including the Nipmucs, who could build a casino in northeastern
Connecticut.
Anderson reportedly OK'd preliminary recognition for the Nipmucs and
recognized the Duwamish Tribe of Seattle, while Gover granted federal
recognition to the Chinook Indians in the state of Washington, all in the
waning days of the Clinton Administration, and contrary to staff findings.
Without answering the question, Blackwell tried to explain the process,
but McCain cut her off, telling her to just answer yes or no.
"Did Mr. Gover reject staff findings and grant federal recognition?" he
barked.
"Mr. Gover did not follow staff recommendations," Blackwell answered.
"Did he rewrite staff findings?" McCain fired back.
"I'm not sure if he rewrote recommendations," Blackwell answered.
Obviously perturbed, McCain rephrased the question, and when Blackwell
repeated that she was unsure, McCain snapped, "Then ask your staff, were
their recommendations rejected and rewritten?"
Recognition questions
Then McCain zeroed in on Anderson, who replaced Gover as acting director
when President George W. Bush took over from Bill Clinton.
McCain asked about Anderson's recognition of the Duwamish and whether it
reversed an earlier Interior Department finding.
"Is this unusual?" McCain asked.
"It may be unusual," Blackwell answered.
The senator, considered a friend of American Indians, asked Blackwell if
there were other cases of BIA brass reversing the findings of their
genealogists, anthropologists and historians.
"I'm unaware of any cases at this time," Blackwell said.
Next, McCain questioned the Indian regulators about the Mohegan Tribe's
buyout of its former partner, Trading Cove, headed by Sol Kerzner and Len
Wolman.
The Boston Globe has repeatedly reported that Trading Cove used a side
deal it had made with the tribe in the early 1990s to build a future hotel
as leverage in the buyout negotiations, grossly inflating the value of the
deal, to in excess of $800 million.
McCain asked about the hotel contract, and whether the National Indian
Gaming Commission scrutinized it. He asked if Trading Cove really got $800
million and whether that was proper.
"Is this disturbing or outrageous?" he asked.
"Hindsight is a great thing," Deer, from the NIGC, answered. " ... I
think the law was followed. I think (the deal) was in accordance with the
law."
McCain noted that outside developers are entitled to no more than 40
percent of a tribe's gaming revenues, and asked if Trading Cove got more.
Deer didn't directly answer the question, but said the Mohegan Tribe
negotiated the deal within the law.
"It's a policy call," he said. "The tribe wanted this deal. And it's up
to Congress when policy ends and tribes make their own decisions."
"So why have the 40 percent rule?" McCain snapped.
The senator said he planned to submit more questions to Deer and
Blackwell.
"A lot of interesting things happened in final days of the Clinton
Administration, and we intend to get information and answers," he said.
Indian Affairs Committee Chairman Sen. Daniel K. Inouye of Hawaii asked
whether there is a difference between management and hotel contracts, and
whether the BIA and NIGC are watching out for American Indians' best
interests when non-Indian investors are involved in gaming deals.
"Tribes could be paying much more than they should be," he said. "Do you
have any recommendations so Indian tribes will not be snookered?" he asked.
"At what point do we let tribes conduct their own business and at what
point are we trustees?" asked Deer.
Sen. Ben Nighthorse Campbell of Colorado, vice chairman of the committee,
said he believes tribes should be able to negotiate their own deals.
"Even if the negotiations are bad, that's free enterprise," he said. "If
you want to say a tribe made a bad mistake, too bad, you have to live with
it. That's what real sovereignty and self-determination is all about."
Thomas Acevedo, chief of staff for the Mohegan Tribe, called Tribal
Chairman Mark Brown during a break in the Senate session to relay the
discussion.
Following the conversation, Acevedo released a statement from Brown.
"The Mohegan tribe stands behind its agreements not only with its
contractors but with its vendors and bondholders," the tribal chairman
said. "And we are pleased to hear that Chairman Deer of the NIGC
acknowledged that the Mohegan tribe complied with letter of law with its
agreements."
Decisions defended
Anderson defended himself after McCain's inquisition, saying he expects
the Inspector General's office to find his Nipmuc and Duwamish decisions
appropriate.
"There was no misconduct in any way, and I expect the Inspector General
will say that," said Anderson, who said he's already been questioned in
the matter. "These decisions were made with integrity. There was no
unethical conduct."
Anderson said he plans to ask for a meeting with McCain.
"Sen. McCain is very fair, but he's also a passionate advocate (of
Indian Country). He wants to ensure the integrity," he said.
Wednesday's hearing attracted about 250 people, many of them tribal and
tribal gaming representatives. Inouye said the hearing was the first in a
series on gaming matters.
"How is the Indian Gaming Regulatory Act working?" he asked. "How many
tribal governments have opted to conduct gaming on their lands, and
perhaps, more importantly, how many have really benefited from gaming?
"Some have done very well, this is true," Inouye said. "But how many
tribal gaming operations have failed, or are only marginally profitable?"
The senator said he and colleagues would look at the act and its
consequences, and determine if changes are needed.
a.baldelli@theday.com
Copyright c. 1998-2001 The Day Publishing Co.
--------- "RE: Carpenters to launch American Indian Project" ---------
Date: Fri, 27 Jul 2001 12:17:27 -0600
From: wes wildcat <wildcat@scd.ucar.edu>
Subj: Press Release
FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE
CARPENTERS TO LAUNCH AMERICAN INDIAN PROJECT
DENVER, COLORADO, July 26, 2001 -The Mountain West Regional Council of
Carpenters (MWRCC) announced today that it is launching an initiative that
will assist the Native American community with building projects,
including the renovation of the Denver Indian Center and the building of
wheelchair ramps for local Native Americans. The "American Indian Project"
is possible through the joint cooperation of the Denver Indian Center
Board of Directors, the Mayor's American Indian Advisory Council, and the
MWRCC. All carpenter work will be done by members of the carpenter's union
at no cost to the individuals or the community.
The project will officially kick-off with the building of a large,
extended wheelchair ramp on Saturday, July 28, 2001, at the home of Mr.
Richard Tall Bull, Sr., located at 1020 Hooker Street in Denver. The
public is invited to stop by on Saturday to watch the building project at
Mr. Tall Bull's home.
An elder of the Southern Cheyenne Nation, Mr. Tall Bull, 82, is a well-
known advocate in the local Native American Community. He was an advisor
on Indian affairs to Mayor Quigg Newton and was a founding leader of the
White Buffalo Council, an Indian advocacy group dedicated to promoting
Indian culture in the urban setting and to fundraising for Indian youth
scholarships. In the past, the community honored Mr. Tall Bull by naming
a park after him. Tall Bull Memorial Park is part of the City and County
of Denver's Daniels Park in Douglas County.
Will Ferrara, Political Director of MWRCC, said "We are honored to
provide building services for our brothers and sisters in the Native
American community and it is fitting to begin this project with the
building of a ramp at the home of Mr. Tall Bull. Our membership is
committed to building community projects and assisting wherever we can to
better the lives of people everywhere by improving their homes and
environment. Our members are skilled, trained carpenters who recognize
the value of a diverse community and the importance of community centers.
We're excited about the renovation of the Denver Indian Center and hope to
extend this project into our other membership states of Utah and New
Mexico."
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History at risk of ruin
NM pueblitos on state land virtually unprotected
07/10/2001
By Leslie Linthicum / Albuquerque Journal
DEVILS SPRING MESA, N.M. - The cliff dwellings of Mesa Verde and the
great kivas of Chaco Canyon are protected by National Park Service
rangers, entrance gates and admission fees. Many of the treasures of
Navajo archaeology are hidden away in sites protected by the Navajo tribe.
But some of the historical jewels of the Four Corners sit on state
land - open, accessible and virtually unprotected.
For a handful of pueblitos - examples of a unique early Navajo building
style that incorporated pueblo influences - their status as state trust
land properties has contributed to their ruin.
By state law, the Land Office can make money only from the 9 million
acres of state trust land in New Mexico primarily through oil, gas and
mining leases and disburse that money to public schools, universities and
hospitals.
It cannot spend money to take care of the natural resources on its land.
That means it can't pay to have watersheds stabilized, unauthorized trash
dumps cleaned up and fire-prone forest lands thinned. It also has meant
that the stacked stone pueblitos, among other archaeological sites on
state trust land, have been deteriorating.
"We haven't been able to do a thing about it," said Ray Powell,
commissioner of public lands.
Last year, the office took two tacks toward preserving the
archaeological sites on its lands: It put together a proposal that would
change state law to allow the agency to spend some of its money on work on
a handful of the ruins. And it started asking for volunteers to keep an
eye on the buildings.
Lawmakers earlier this year approved the use by the office of $1.2
million for about a dozen projects to improve state lands, including the
stabilization of two pueblitos. And the site steward program has grown
quickly to include 42 volunteers, recruited through local museums, who
take care of sites.
Mr. Powell says the preservation money and the stewards give the sites a
fighting chance against weather and vandals. The hope is that the sites
will be kept alive to illustrate the region's intriguing past.
"When it's a pile of rocks," Mr. Powell said, "it's so much more
difficult to tell the story. And this is not about a culture that is gone.
It's about a culture that is thriving and here today."
The pueblitos that still stand dot the canyon country south of Navajo
Lake in northwest New Mexico.
Navajo homeland
The region is Dinetah, the Navajo homeland. It is the place, according
to legend, where the Holy People chose for the Navajo people to emerge
into this world and live in safety and harmony.
Navajos built the dwellings in the final years of the 17th century and
the beginning of the 18th. It was a time of turmoil in the region. Pueblo
residents fleeing during the tumult of the Pueblo Revolt sought shelter,
intermarried and added some of their architectural touches.
Roaming Utes and Apaches fought over sheep, cattle and corn and prompted
Navajos to build on high ground.
The pueblitos are important to archaeologists and historians because
they offer a glimpse into an unsettled period before Navajos established
the communities they live in today and pueblo people returned to their
homes.
Old Fort Ruin, an example of a large pueblito, perches on a ledge high
over San Rafael Canyon on the western edge of Rio Arriba County. The Land
Office points to it as an example of what a little money spent on
stabilization can do.
A natural-gas well sits about 100 yards away from the ruin, and the
country is crisscrossed by gas company roads.
The pueblito covers about a third of an acre, surrounded by stone and
mud mortar walls. Inside are the remains of 13 rooms, a plaza and seven
hogans made with juniper logs and mud.
Larry Baker, director of the Salmon Ruins Museum in Bloomfield, said Old
Fort Ruin was in danger of collapsing into a pile of rocks and sand when
the San Juan County Museum Association got a $40,000 grant to stabilize
its remaining walls by 1996.
Now that the pueblito is shored up against the elements, volunteer
stewards visit at least once a month to monitor the site and alert the
Land Office if they find evidence of vandalism.
Anyone can visit any portion of state trust land. It is a simple matter
to get a $25 annual recreational permit from the Land Office in Santa Fe
or any of the district offices. Most people do not get permits, though,
especially those looking for pots to loot or petroglyphs to deface,
officials said.
Teri Paul, an archaeologist who organizes the volunteers, said even a
monthly visit helps keep people with bad intentions away.
"Just knowing someone might be there seems to make people think twice,"
Ms. Paul said. "We really believe that we're seeing a difference."
The program has a waiting list for sites around Farmington, and the Land
Office hopes to be able to expand the program to include all of its
millions of acres throughout the state.
While Old Fort Ruin can now be monitored for further deterioration, two
other pueblitos will get face-lifts this year.
Getting help
Truby's Tower and Three Corn Ruin are two looming stone fortresses built
high on bedrock outcroppings. The two buildings have been listed among the
most endangered historic places in the state by the New Mexico Heritage
Preservation Alliance.
Vandalism has been a problem, but weather and age are the biggest
culprits in the continuing damage of the buildings.
The Land Office will spend about $20,000 to stabilize Truby's Tower.
Three Corn Ruin, perched on a stone outcropping, will require about
$70,000 to restore, mostly because of its precarious location. Workers will
have to build scaffolding to reach the ruin, Mr. Baker said, and carry
buckets of mud up the scaffolding. A notched log ladder the early Navajos
used to reach the fortress was stolen years ago, he said.
Three Corn Ruin and Truby's Tower are in relatively good shape, Mr.
Baker said. The towers are so well-preserved and so dramatically
illustrate the defensive posture of the early Navajos, he said, that money
spent on stabilization will give visitors for years to come an
understanding of life in the canyons 300 years ago.
Distributed by The Associated Press
Copyright c. 2001 The Dallas Morning News
--------- "RE: N.B. Natives Prepare To Fish" ---------
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Lobster War Looming: N.B. Natives Prepare To Fish
Defiant New Brunswick Native Band Vows To Drop Lobster Traps In Mid-August
FREDERICTON, 10:58 a.m. EDT July 16, 2001 -- The countdown to
confrontation on New Brunswick's Miramichi Bay has begun.
Mi'kmaq fishermen are set to head out on the bay's choppy waters in
mid-August and start fishing for lobster under their own rules, stubbornly
defying Ottawa and the federal fisheries department.
"We're going fishing," states Brian Bartibogue, a band councillor at the
Burnt Church reserve, which sits on the shore of Miramichi Bay in
northeastern New Brunswick.
"We know the police and fisheries officers are gearing up for trouble,
but what else can we do? Why are we branded as criminals for trying to
survive by fishing in our own backyard?"
This is the third year of an impasse between the Mi'kmaq reserve of
about 1,400 people and the fisheries department.
There is no solution in sight as yet another native fishing season
approaches.
"The same dynamics are at play," says fisheries spokesman Andre Marc
Lanteigne.
In 1999, the Supreme Court of Canada ruled that Donald Marshall Jr., a
Mi'kmaq from Nova Scotia, had a treaty right to fish eels. It also said
the Mi'kmaq, Maliseet and Passamaquoddy bands can hunt, fish and gather to
earn a moderate livelihood, within rules set by Ottawa.
Federal negotiators have been trying ever since to set parameters
acceptable to First Nations, non-native fishermen and others with
interests in the fishery.
They are working to strike new deals with 34 Atlantic First Nations to
replace one-year interim agreements that expired last March.
To date, seven bands have signed deals and seven others have reached
agreements in principle.
But not Burnt Church, where Bartibogue admitted there is bitterness over
the lack of resolve in other Atlantic bands.
"It's pretty hard to take, especially when the same ones signing these
deals are telling us to keep up the good fight, that we're standing up for
native rights," Bartibogue says.
The bands signing agreements say they need the money.
Ottawa spent nearly $200 million last year buying out non-native
licences and offering boats, equipment and training to bring First Nations
into the East Coast fishery following the Supreme Court ruling.
The deals being offered this year are reportedly valued in total at
about $500 million over several years and include money for training and
gear.
There will also be more money spent on enforcement.
Last year, the federal fisheries department spent $13 million on
enforcement against the people of Burnt Church and the Indian Brook band
in Nova Scotia, which also set illegal lobster traps.
At Burnt Church, the impasse led to dangerous confrontations on the
water.
Several times from August to October, fisheries officers raided waters
near the reserve and confiscated illegal traps.
Native warriors and fishermen responded by racing out in boats to try
and protect the traps. Rocks were thrown, boats were rammed, there were
several injuries and numerous charges were laid against natives under the
Fisheries Act and the Criminal Code.
Most of those charges are still working their way through the courts.
The situation this year could be made worse by a decline in the lobster
catch during the authorized, commercial season which ended in June.
Mike Belliveau of the Maritime Fishermens' Union, which represents non-
native fishermen in the Miramichi area, says the catch was down by about
15 per cent from the previous year.
Belliveau says commercial fishermen have no tolerance for a second,
commercial season run exclusively by, and for, native people.
"There's no tolerance for that. Zero," he says.
Belliveau says he can't believe anyone has the stomach for more violence,
although he believes there are troublemakers on the reserve.
"Nobody is interested in going through last year's business again,"
Belliveau says. "I can't see why Burnt Church would be interested either.
There are a few who get caught up in these kinds of things, but I can't
imagine the community is interested in doing that again."
Bartibogue insists the community as a whole is interested in defending
its treaty right to make a worthwhile life for its people, instead of
relying on welfare.
"Canada is considered one of the best countries in the world in which to
live, unless you're aboriginal," he says.
"There's no work and our children are suffering. But Canadians seem to
accept that as the status quo for aboriginal people, the norm. Come live
here for a week and you'll be ready to fish for lobster next month."
Copyright c. 2001 by The Canadian Press. All rights reserved.
--------- "RE: First Nations Assembly creates Women's Council" ---------
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First Nations assembly creates women's council
WebPosted Jul 20 2001 8:59 AM EDT
HALIFAX, N.S. - Native women say they are finally getting the recognition
they deserve with a new Assembly of First Nations (AFN) women's council.
But others on the AFN say it gives the women special treatment they don't
warrant.
The new association will give women more authority in the Assembly of
First Nations
The Canadian Native Women's Association was approved at the AFN
conference on Thursday. The body's interim leader said the association
gives women more authority in the assembly. But women are rarely granted
positions of authority.
"I don't want to be mean, but we're not ready yet," said Michelle Audet.
Chief Shirley Clark of the Gloosecap First Nation says the AFN needs to
change. "It's just for them [women] to have a voice," she said. "Because
the majority is men, this way they will have a voice."
FROM JULY 19, 2001: Native leaders want wide ranging discussions
INDEPTH: Aboriginal Canadians
Others, such as Bill Wilson, say granting special status to women in
this way is wrong. He says the women haven't earned the right to hold
positions of authority. "If there are no women at the table, that's their
fault," he said.
But the women say their issues will now be heard and dealt with.
Copyright c. 2001 CBC All Rights Reserved
--------- "RE: DEA seizes Hemp Crop" ---------
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DEA seizes hemp crop from Pine Ridge
By The Associated Press
RAPID CITY - Drug Enforcement Agents have again raided a hemp farm on the
Pine Ridge Indian Reservation.
Farmer Alex White Plume's farm was also wiped out last August as federal
agents seized about 2,000 of the illegal plants from the farm.
White Plume said he has the right to grow hemp under the Fort Laramie
Treaty of 1868.
Because hemp belongs to the same family as marijuana, it has been
illegal to grow in the United States since World War II.
Marijuana normally contains 3 percent to 15 percent or more of the
psychoactive ingredient tetrahydrocannibol, or THC, the substance that
gives marijuana its kick. Hemp usually has 1 percent THC or less.
White Plume said he plans to file a lawsuit demanding $1,000 for each
plant killed Monday.
And although he faces legal opposition, he said he plans to replant his
crop.
Hemp stalk fibers can be used to make clothing, shoes, building
materials, strong cords and ropes, a substitute for fiberglass, paper and
other products.
Federal officials have said that permitting hemp farming would send the
wrong signal to young people and would allow marijuana farmers to hide
their crops with industrial hemp plants.
--------- "RE: Proposal to dam 6 NWT Rivers" ---------
Date: Tue Jul 17 16:30:02 2001 -0700
From: Larry Innes <linnes@innu.ca>
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Mailing List: Innu People Forum list <INNU-L@YORKU.CA>
July 13, 2001
Six N.W.T. rivers to be dammed under $26B plan
Huge hydro potential: Fish and furs not enough, minister tells Dene chiefs
Ed Struzik
Edmonton Journal
TULITA, N.W.T. - The government of the Northwest Territories has outlined
a $26-billion plan to dam six major rivers in the Canadian North.
Joe Handley, the Territories' economic development minister, told Dene
chiefs meeting in Tulita yesterday the territories need hydro developments
because the government can no longer count on furs, fish and diamonds for
revenue.
"Diamond mining will peak in about eight or nine years unless significant
new finds are discovered," he said. "Fur will never come back. And
there's a limited potential for commercial fishing and forestry in the
Northwest Territories.
"Hydro could drive industry down the road, and provide us with revenues
through exports to southern Canada and the United States."
Mr. Handley's department has targeted six rivers for development: the
Mackenzie, Bear, Lockhart, Talston, Snare, Lac la Marte and Slave rivers.
The Talston and Slave are located just north of the Alberta border.
The proposed development is seen as a long-term project.
"The Territories' hydro opportunities are huge and undeveloped," he
said. "The potential is the biggest in Canada, and perhaps the world."
A report Mr. Handley's department issued yesterday indicates that the
N.W.T. could derive up to $600-million in revenue annually if all the dams
went ahead.
The projects would also reduce carbon dioxide emissions in the
Territories by a million tonnes annually.
Most of the Territories' communities, mines and other industries rely
heavily on diesel fuel, which results in huge greenhouse gas emissions.
That fuel is either flown, trucked, barged or shipped into the North at
tremendous cost.
Mr. Handley said energy alternatives, such as coal-fired generating
plants and nuclear power, are not acceptable. And natural gas reserves,
considered to be vast in the N.W.T., are not the only answer.
Unlike the James Bay project in northern Quebec, the dams would not
block river flow and flood regions. Instead, they would be run-of-the river
projects that divert only part of the river. Still, the hydro vision is
bound to raise environmental concerns because it has ecological
consequences.
The proposals has also angered at least one aboriginal community. Akaitcho
chief Archie Catholique told Mr. Handley bluntly that his people will not
allow any damming of the Lockhart River, which flows into the east arm of
Great Slave Lake.
The Lockhart is among the wilder and more scenic rivers in the southern
half of the Territories, and the area around it is being targeted as a
national park.
Parry Falls, on the Lockhart, is also regarded as a holy place for the
people who live near it.
"We are open to business," said Mr. Catholique. "But my elders have
told me not to touch the Lockhart. It's a place they go to pray and be
healed. They do not want it developed. We did not ask the government to go
there. We don't even want to discuss it."
Joe Rabesca, the grand chief of the Dogrib Nations, said the damming of
the Snare or Lac la Marte rivers in his region west of Yellowknife is an
option his people are considering.
But he insisted that if a dam is built on one of the rivers, it will be
built by the Dogrib and on their terms.
Mr. Handley, however, had his supporters, and he was undaunted by some
of the fears and doubts expressed about the prospects for such a huge
venture.
"This would allow us to be clean and green. It would provide us with huge
revenues and with cheaper power supplies for our communities."
Mr. Handley appealed to the chiefs to work in partnership with the
territorial government to develop some of the projects. He also suggested
some Alberta companies have expressed interest in the development options.
"This isn't going to happen tomorrow," said Mr. Handley. "But it's
something we have to consider if we are going to continue to have a
healthy economy and provide services to the people and the communities."
--------- "RE: Tribal Employee provides view from Both Sides" ---------
Date: Wed, 25 Jul 2001 09:06:26 -0500
From: Gary Smith <gars@Speakeasy.org>
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http://www.pechanga.net/
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Tribal employee provides view from both sides
To the Editor,
It amazes me when I hear comments about Indians from non-Indians.
Some non-Indians believe Indians get monthly checks for being Indians
and on Indian rolls. Some people see Indian car tags on cars and complain
about tax money. Or they see Indian businesses and complain about level
playing fields or imply legal tax evasion. Others make snide comments
about Indian commodities.
My question is this: Who is it who can't see the forest for the trees?
What's that saying about the grass being greener on the other side of the
fence?
I am a non-Indian. I am employed by an Indian tribe. Granted, that could
make me biased. But it also gives me the opportunity to see and compare
the grass on both sides of the fence.
First, Indians don't get monthly checks from anyone, unless it's their
Social Security checks. Some tribes have paid a "per-capita" to tribal
members, but these are only once in a lifetime (if they're lucky) and well
under the five figure mark (often less than half).
The BIA offers federal grants for certain programs, usually medical and
housing, but then the government gave a white college professor half-a-
million dollars some years ago to fund a study proving that when children
get older they stop believing in the Easter Bunny and Santa Claus (no
fooling!). Besides, look at the mess the BIA made out of the trust money
for Indians the past several decades.
Look at the social programs and health programs tribes create with their
business-generated income. These are programs our tax dollars would
normally fund. Indians have severe health problems -- diabetes is a major
threat -- that needs stringent medical care that the tribes pay for and
treat in their own self- and grant-funded clinics.
It is really no different than other non-Indian programs such as Youth
and Family Services, low-income housing for non-Indians (Aldridge Hotel),
or even some mental health agencies that receive federal funding (non-
Indian).
Glasses and dental work are paid for by tribes for members who can't
otherwise afford them. Should they go without simply because it might
offend me or other whites who do pay for our own? I'm not that selfish,
and I have a stronger social conscious than that. Besides, the
optometrists and dentists who supply the majority of these services are
non-Indians. This should make Regeanesque Republicans happy since it is
trickle-down economics.
I don't believe all the comments I hear are necessarily racist, although
I know some are, but I am convinced these comments are based on not
knowing (definition of ignorance) the facts. Ignorance can be cured by
learning. Let's learn and we'll find a common ground.
Bill Putman, Shawnee
Copyright C. 1997-2001 The Shawnee News-Star
--------- "RE: Indian Kidney Woes pose Growing Threat" ---------
Date: Fri, 13 Jul 2001 08:11:27 -0500
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Indian kidney woes pose growing threat
2001-07-12
By Lisa Tatum
Staff Writer
The miracle of genetics that allowed American Indians to survive
starvation and other hardships throughout the centuries is turning against
them now, leaving them vulnerable to deadly kidney disease, said one of
the country's top experts on the subject Wednesday.
Dr. Andrew Narva, an official with the Indian Health Services Kidney
Disease Program, spoke about the growing epidemic of kidney disease in
American Indians during the first day of the National American Indian
Kidney Health Conference in Oklahoma City.
"The number of people with kidney disease has tripled in Indian
communities," Narva said.
As a doctor who cares for more than 100 Indians in New Mexico, Narva
said he sees the effect of the population's high calorie diets and limited
physical activity.
He said members of the race that once went days without eating while
they hunted are now paying the price for a genetically changed metabolism.
The result is severe weight gain that leads to what some call the terrible
triad: diabetes, hypertension and kidney disease.
The three diseases are closely linked, Narva said.
"Type II diabetes is the biggest cause of kidney disease," he told an
audience that included health professionals and kidney disease patients
from across the country.
Diabetes, which has been linked to obesity, causes scarring in the
kidneys that subsequently decreases the organ's ability to filter poisons
from the body.
Hypertension, also common in overweight people, worsens kidney damage.
Narva said statistics show that American Indians experience three to
four times more kidney failure than whites.
"Virtually every Indian family has someone on dialysis," he said.
The conference will continue through Friday at the Clarion Inn
Convention Center, 737 S Meridian Ave.
All content copyrighted c. 2001 The Oklahoma Publishing Co.
--------- "RE: Congress may need to look at Tribal Courts" ---------
Date: Sun, 22 Jul 2001 20:05:45 -0500
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Justices Say Congress May Need to Look at Tribal Jurisdictional Woes
BY ELIZABETH NEFF
THE SALT LAKE TRIBUNE
Saturday, July 21, 2001
RENO -- Impressed by their first-hand look at justice in American Indian
country this week, U.S. Supreme Court Justices Sandra Day O'Connor and
Stephen Breyer said a solution to jurisdictional woes plaguing tribal
courts may ultimately rest in the hands of Congress.
"We saw some real problems . . . among them, jurisdictional issues where
federal courts have been involved," O'Connor said during a panel
discussion with educators at the National Judicial College in Reno on
Friday.
"We sense a real need to address those problems. I'm wondering if maybe
it isn't time to look to Congress."
Tribal courts have jurisdiction over nonfelony crimes committed by
Indians on reservations. Generally, they can hear civil cases involving
disputes that arise on tribal land between Indians, or between Indians and
others.
Friday's discussion marked the end of the justices' historic tour of two
tribal courts at the Spokane Indian Reservation in Wellpinit, Wash., and
on the Navajo Nation reservation in Window Rock, Ariz. this week.
The justices' tour came at an awkward time, less than a month after the
high court unanimously ruled the Fallon Paiute-Shoshone tribal court did
not have jurisdiction to hear a lawsuit filed by tribal member Floyd Hicks,
who sued Nevada state officials in 1991. Hicks claimed his civil rights
were violated when state game wardens searched his home on the reservation
for evidence of illegal hunting of California bighorn sheep off the
reservation. Nevada had asserted it was immune to the lawsuit, and the
Supreme Court agreed, although O'Connor, Breyer and Justice John Paul
Stevens disagreed with the majority's reasoning.
The three justices found the "majority's sweeping opinion, without cause,
undermines the authority of tribes to make their own laws and be ruled by
them."
The ruling has been decried as further eroding the jurisdiction of
tribal courts over non-Indians on tribal land.
"This goes a long way in denying tribal courts jurisdiction over non-
Indian defendants," said University of Utah professor Alex Tallchief
Skibine, a former deputy counsel for Indian affairs in the U.S. House of
Representatives. "But this is becoming an issue more and more as
reservations have non-Indians living on them."
Many of the tribal judges from across the country in attendance Friday
were skeptical about looking to the nation's legislators to mend the
historically strained relationship between tribal and non-Indian courts.
"There is a problem dealing with congressional solutions, and it really
lies at the heart of Indian law and constitutional government," said Carey
Vicenti, a professor at the judicial college who sits on several tribal
appellate courts. "When tribes are concerned about something, they go to
Congress [and] find they are outnumbered."
Vicenti, a member of the Jicarilla Apache tribe, added: "Umbrella-type
legislation is a good idea, but from a practical standpoint, we are so
vulnerable that we are constantly subjected to marjoritarian tyran- ny."
Many in the American Indian community hoped the visit would provide the
justices, whose trip was sponsored by the National American Indian Court
Judges Association, with an understanding of how justice is meted out in
Indian country, the importance of tribal sovereignty and the needs of
tribal courts for more resources.
According to the National Tribal Resource Center, 484 tribes report they
have a judicial system in place, with 350 of those including judges with
law training and clerks to record proceedings.
Two tribal courts serve American Indians living in Utah, one on the
Navajo Nation reservation and another on the Uintah and Ouray Tribal
reservation.
There are about 14,634 Navajos and 2,940 Utes living in Utah, according
to figures from the 2000 census.
Marcella King-Ben, an associate justice for the Navajo Nation Supreme
Court, said she thought the visit was a good first step toward a better
understanding between both groups. King-Ben is one of several students who
graduated Friday from a judicial college class entitled "Essential Skills
for Tribal Appellate Judges."
"It was wonderful to have the justices come and see and experience for
themselves how Indians run their government and their courts with limited
resources and facilities," she said.
Copyright c. 2001, The Salt Lake Tribune
--------- "RE: Peltier Statement from LPDC's Newspaper" ---------
Date: Thu, 26 Jul 2001 10:48:57 -0500
From: LPDC <lpdc@idir.net>
Subj: Peltier statement from LPDC's newspaper
Mailing List: LPDC <lpdc@mail-list.com>
Dear Friends,
Below is Leonard Peltier's statement from the July/August issue of the
Leonard Peltier Defense Committee's bi-monthly news paper, "Spirit of
Crazy Horse." Peltier issues a new statement for each publication. The
paper reports on current issues facing Indigenous Peoples, such as
environmental racism, treaty rights/land disputes, social issues,
developments regarding self determination and de-colonization, and
religious rights. The paper also covers prison issues, political
prisoners, and environmental issues. This printing contains a special
piece written by Dr. Michael J. Yellow Bird that defines colonialism and
describes its affects on Indigenous Peoples. The piece also outlines ways
in which colonization continues in this country today. Additionally, this
edition contains a statement from Roberta Blackgoat, a Dine' elder who has
resisted relocation from her homeland, Big Mountain in Arizona, for some
30 years, as well as many other important articles.
Also, each publication contains a special educational piece on the
history of the Peltier case. For example, this printing portrays key FBI
documents as well as quotes from the court record. Subscribing to "Spirit
of Crazy Horse" is a great way to stay up to date and support the efforts
of the Leonard Peltier Defense Committee. Click here if you are
interested in subscribing:
http://www.freepeltier.org/newspaper.htm#top
In Solidarity,
LPDC
JULY - AUGUST
STATEMENT OF LEONARD PELTIER
Greetings Brothers, Sisters, Friends, and Supporters,
My granddaughter, Alex just turned 18. Earlier this summer my grandson,
Cyrus turned 16. I can hardly believe it. I guess as grandparents we
sometimes lose track of how many years have gone by until we turn around
and find that our grandchildren have become young adults - despite our
refusals to recognize them as anything but our "babies." It makes me
think about how much I have missed of their lives and I anxiously wonder
if they will be okay and if they will be able to live good lives after all
that our family has been through.
It also makes me think about the current state of our young people in
general. How are our youth handling the challenges and obstacles that
their generation faces? Do they know they have the power and ability to
effect change and carry on the struggle passed down to them by the
generations before? Or has the repression that my generation faced kept
us from encouraging our kids and grandkids to carry on efforts to secure
our Human and Indigenous Rights? None of us would ever want what happened
to Anna Mae or to Joe Killsright Stuntz to happen to our kids - or to any
kids. But still we must ask ourselves; do we really protect our young
people when we allow them to accept the status quo? Or will feelings of
powerlessness, hopelessness and despair take their toll instead? And why
aren't we outraged over the fact that we must choose between political
repression and a bleak existence?
That is why it is so important that the abuses my generation suffered be
officially recognized and exposed. As we can see, the FBI will continue
abusing its power as long as they are allowed to. The flow of new
information about FBI misconduct seemingly has no end. Now we are hearing
reports about the FBI "losing" guns. And of course I can't help but to
think back to the GOON squads and wonder how many guns the FBI "lost"
while they were collaborating with them.
I want to encourage you to support the LPDC's efforts to press Congress
for hearings and for the declassification of FBI documents. The full
truth must be exposed, if not for those who lived it, then at least for
the protection of our future generations.
In the Spirit of Crazy Horse,
Leonard Peltier
Leonard Peltier Defense Committee
PO Box 583
Lawrence, KS 66044
785-842-5774
www.freepeltier.org
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--------- "RE: Peltier's Birthday" ---------
Date: Thu, 26 Jul 2001 10:56:00 -0500
From: LPDC <lpdc@idir.net>
Subj: Peltier's Birthday - September 12
Mailing List: LPDC <lpdc@mail-list.com>
LEONARD PELTIER'S BIRTHDAY - SEPTEMBER 12 - INITIATE LOCAL ACTIONS
September 12, 2001 will mark Leonard Peltier's 57th birthday. What better
way to celebrate than to support his freedom by organizing a local action
on his behalf? There are many things you can do. Here are some actions
that have been held in the past to commemorate Leonard Peltier's birthday:
* Hold a demonstration or vigil: Help keep the Peltier case in the public
eye by organizing a demonstration or vigil in protest of Peltier's
wrongful imprisonment and the FBI's obstruction of justice.
* Host a fundraiser birthday party: Organize a gathering - serve food
and cake, sponsor entertainment, and/or show a video on the case in honor
of Peltier. Collect donations from the attendees in support of Leonard
Peltier's continued defense.
* Conduct a day of outreach: Maintain a presence in a busy area of your
community (parks, street corners, concerts or events, etc.). Set up a
literature table, grab a clipboard and collect signatures from passers by,
or hand out leaflets.
Please let us know as early as possible if you are organizing something
so we can help publicize it. We also encourage you to invite your local
press to cover your event. If you need help constructing press materials,
feel free to contact us.
In Solidarity,
LPDC
Leonard Peltier Defense Committee
PO Box 583
Lawrence, KS 66044
785-842-5774
www.freepeltier.org
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--------- "RE: Native Prisoner" ---------
Date: Mon, 30 Jul 2001 20:34:13 -0400
From: "Janet Smith" <owlstar@speakeasy.org>
Subj: Native Prisoner News
Tell a Native American Prisoner someone cares!
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#89637-132
Box 1000
Leavenworth, KS 66053
Birthday: 9/12/44
Ancestry: Ojibwa-Lakota
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Indian inmate calls denial of religion a sure `death sentence'
The Associated Press
SANTA FE - An inmate whose petition to practice sweat lodge ceremonies in
prison was denied Thursday says he has been given a death sentence.
State District Judge Stephen Pfeffer agreed with the state Corrections
Department that security concerns at the Penitentiary of New Mexico's
North Unit near Santa Fe outweigh Elton Bear Eagle Chavez's right to
practice his religion as he wants to.
"They just gave me a death sentence," Chavez told his supporters as he
left the courtroom.
The 36-year-old Lakota Sioux has been on a hunger strike for 17 days in
protest of the department's decision not to allow the sweat lodge and pipe
ceremonies.
The restrictions on Chavez's religious rights are "reasonably related to
the security of the facility," Pfeffer said. Allowing the practices would
"result in an unfair application of rights to one group of prisoners."
Chavez has been hospitalized at the prison's infirmary for more than two
weeks. He has refused intravenous feeding for the last two days, Assistant
Public Defender Nina Lalevic said.
Corrections Secretary Rob Perry said the department has obtained a court
order to force Chavez back on the intravenous feeding drip.
"We want to make sure Mr. Chavez doesn't critically hurt himself," Perry
said.
Chavez began a similar hunger strike in March. The department also
obtained a court order then and force fed Chavez through intravenous tubes.
Chavez is serving a 13-year sentence for attempted murder and criminal
damage to property. He was sent to the maximum-security prison for his
role in a riot at the Lea County Correction Facility over access to
religious ceremonies for Indian inmates.
Chavez alleged the state Department of Corrections confiscated religious
articles, including a pipe, eagle feathers, eagle claws, a drum and a
ceremonial whistle. The public defender said the seizures violate state
law.
"The sweat lodge is the foundation of my life," Chavez told the court
during a five-hour hearing Wednesday. "It helps me to address the things
that put me (in prison)."
Pfeffer had to decide whether Corrections Department policies violate
the state Native American Counseling Act, which guarantees Indian inmates
at least six hours a week for religious activities and the right to
possess certain religious items - unless they're deemed a threat to
security.
The law allows Indian inmates to keep such items as cedar, corn pollen,
eagle and other feathers, tobacco, drums, gourds, medicine bundles and
other traditional items. The Chavez case centered around whether the sweat
lodge and religious articles constitute a valid security threat.
Corrections Secretary Rob Perry told Pfeffer that his department must
severely restrict access by maximum security inmates to sweat lodges
because of security concerns and fairness to inmates of other religions.
"Another inmate might say, "If Mr. Chavez can have his pipe, why can't I
have my crucifix?" ... Perry said. "What do I do with a Muslim inmate who
wants to sit on a rug and pray facing Mecca for six hours a week? We would
have to hire 200 more corrections officers. Inmates would start seeing
this as a way to manipulate confinement."
Perry said he was not aware of any violent incidents in New Mexico or
elsewhere during sweat lodge ceremonies, but said the potential is there
in a ritual that involves fire, hot coals, a shovel and a rake.
Prison policies implemented earlier this year allow Indian inmates in
administrative segregation prisons - the penitentiary's North and South
facilities south of Santa Fe - to use sweat lodges about every three
months. Most inmates in the facilities have been discipline problems. They
are confined to their cells 23 hours a day and not allowed contact with
other prisoners.
They also are allowed to keep only a minimum number of religious
articles, Perry said. Chavez is allowed one eagle feather and a medicine
bag.
Lalevic said she would appeal Pfeffer's decision.
Copyright c. 2001 The Albuquerque Tribune.
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--------- "RE: Rustywire: It was just another Enemy Way" ---------
Date: 18 Jul 2001 17:25:09 -0700
From: rustywire@yahoo.com (john rustywire)
Subj: It was just another Enemy Way
Newsgroup: alt.native
She stood a ways off, just beyond the firelight. The embers from the
bonfire lit up the sky and made the night gold on this bit of open
space among the sage.
She glowed with the color of firelight, reds and gold giving her a
soft flow against the black night.
Summer Sing, the Nightway, where people travel for miles to gather on
a flat stretch of ground, to sing in a circle all night, and then to
dance the night away, to talk and to laugh. That is how it is done,
while a short distance away the healing ceremony goes on.
It was July and the nights were warm and pleasant. Folks gathered by
the firelight and when the songs raised up in the night caused the
ground to swell, the motion of dancers near the cedar fire swayed back
and forth.
Arriving with cousins, three of them; looking for chance to see some
old friends, relations and to hear the goings on around this area
known as Sanostee not too far South of Shiprock. Getting ready
earlier, meant a sweat, a quiet time to reflect and cleanse the mind
and body, to relax and feel the flow of the days' hardships melt away.
This is done alone in a small sweat made for one at the edge of the
forest, it is way of tradition.
Then to dress with clean clothes, a sign of respect to the family
where you will visit and spend the night, a pair of Wrangler Jeans,
some Dan Post boots, and a cotton shirt, western type. The old ones,
you know those clothes that are broken in from wear, the favorite
ones. You can really feel at ease in those clothes, they are soft and
supple. Comfort is the name of the game tonite.
Outside, an old beat up Chevy pulls up, baby blue, the Nez boys rush
in and say, What's the hold up and with a final look around, you take
off and away you go. Talking and laughing.
Eshkee, (Boy) You got cash money to pay for the dances?
Nah, he's got commodity cheese in his bag to cover it. (the Sing is a
woman's choice dance, and when you are asked you have to pay the lady
or else)
Do you think those girls from Bistai' will be there?
They don't have any good ones, that's a bad place. Nothing grows there
except rocks.
Maybe that one girl from there might come.
Oh, you mean the Towering House woman, she comes from Coyote Pass. I
remember her from a rodeo over there, a couple of months ago.
What is she called? I don't know her name.
You mean the one with long hair, down to her waist. Wears white boots.
Yeah, I think she is the one.
You mean that good looking one. She was with this one guy from Carino
Canyon, down by Gallup, big cowboy dude. I think she is still with
him, he had his arm around her.
Maybe, she will be there, think so?
Don't worry about it, she won't look at you.
She could be there you know.
Nay, ain't gonna happen, forget about it, think about the ribs and the
singing.
Baloney here is wanting some mutton ribs, the kind that are hot and
tasty and the grease runs down your arms.
It's Bedonie, not baloney, don't call me that.
That one girl, she was in (Totah-where the rivers meet)Farmington not
too long ago, he thinks to himself, she was at the store there with
her family and when she looked at him there was a certain look in her
eyes, yes I remember the way she looked. Maybe she might be there.
The rode on and took the dirt road cutting through the cedars, a
chizh-a-teen (narrow wood hauling road) the kind you have to know
where you are going to use. It was a bumpy ride and they travelled
through washes and bluffs, going slowly across big rocks and kept on
as the night fell.
In the distance, the flow of three bonfires lit up the sky and as the
drove into the Manygoats place, they could see that there were alot of
people already gathered there, trucks, cars and some wagons were
scattered all through the area. In the middle of it was the cha-oh
(large wooden shade house) where women were cooking and one could find
pop, cooked mutton, frybread, sweets and corn cooked in the ground,
sweet sweet corn. People were standing around their vehicles, and
children ran about playing with one another. On one side was the
ceremonial hogan where a second cha-oh sat for the immediate family
and visitors. It was crowded like how it is when you come out of a
movie house, people walking elbow to elbow. It was hard to see who all
was there, since the night was thick and the light from the bonfires
cast red shadows, a glow that flickered on the faces and bodies as
they walked by.
The four made their way to the food and found a plateful of ribs and
sat down on some rocks and ate. They joked and saw old friends and
family there. Across the way the center was open for a place to dance,
where woman asked the men and they stepped in time with one another.
The women's arm locked around the back of the man she danced with him
and his arm over her shoulder, a blanket or large rug covered them
both as they moved, There were many out there. He sat down and
finished off the ribs and the dogs were waiting for him to finish so
they could have a treat as well.
He stood up and saw his cousins had wandered off. He looked around to
see it he could see them. There she was. She stood a ways off, just
beyond the firelight. The embers from the bonfire lit up the sky and
made the night gold on this bit of open space among the sage.
She wore a white squaw dress, satin which hung down to the ground,
covering her dark brown moccasins fastened with a silver button that
gleamed in the firelight. Around her waist, she wore a large silver
concho belt, an old fashioned one, a family heirloom which covered as
red sash belt, the fringes hung down by her side. Her velvet blouse
was dark blue, shimmering in the light and when she turned she wore
two large turquoise beaded necklaces, with a string of orange coral
hanging down from her neck. Her long black hair was hanging loose and
free down her back and she held a pendelton blanket.
In that instant there was no one else there but just them two. She
moved in slow motion it seemed. She glowed with the color of
firelight, reds and gold giving her a soft flow against the black
night. She had soft eyes and yet her face was strong, as if she knew
this was her time and place. She was delicate, but yet moved with a
glow of Navajo women, who had come down through the centuries,
strength in her bones and yet soft at the same time. Her eyes were
dark and twinkled against the night, she was a sight.
He stepped toward her, and she moved the shawl, flicking him with it's
end. He was her choice to dance, and so they moved to the dirt floor
cut out of the sage. He looked into her eyes and thought, it is good
to be born here among these people, and I can hear that song they are
singing. How does it go. "On horseback I go, across mountains and
canyons I go, she waits for me there, she waits for me there. On
horseback I go, on horseback I go." It was just another Enemy Way Sing
on the Navajo Rez.
rustywire
rustywire@yahoo.com
--------- "RE: Poem: Too Many Names..." ---------
Date: Thu, 26 Jul 2001 22:50:17 -0500
From: koga suyeta <evb@vallnet.com>
Subj: Too Many Names...
Mailing List: ndn-aim <ndn-aim@yahoogroups.com>
(Recuerde ... Comandante Efrain Bamaca Velasquez)
...from "Demasiados Nombres," by Pablo Neruda (trans. by Natahle)
"Time can't be cut
"with your tired old scissors;
"and all the names of the days
"are wiped away by the water of the night.
"No one can be named Pedro,
"no one Rosa or Maria --
"all of us are dust and sand,
"all of us but rain in the rain.
"They told me of Venezuelas, of Paraguays and Chiles,
"and I couldn't understand what they said;
"I know that the earth has a skin,
"and I know that it doesn't have a name.
"Once I lived with the roots
"and I loved them more than the flowers;
"once I spoke with a stone
"and it rang like a bell.
"Now, having slept all these nights --
"what am I named, or not named?
"And should I awake, who am I,
"if I wasn't I when I slept...?"
- Pablo Neruda
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--------- "RE: Verse: Hawaiian Book of Days" ---------
Date : Tue, 24 Jul 2001 06:06:13 -1000
From: Debbie Sanders <kepola@hgea.org>
Subj: Hawaiian Book of Days
A HAWAIIAN BOOK OF DAYS, week of August 6-12
AUKAKE
(August)
(Mahoe-mua)
6
Your spirit will lead you to those you were meant to know.
7
Take time to look at clouds and sunsets and the beauty of nature.
8
Make your mind a quiet place of peace and solitude.
9
No truth is ever absolute.
10
The orchid embodies the perfection of diversity.
11
Never be afraid to experience life.
12
The song of the ocean is captured forever in the tiniest shell.
(c) Copyright 1991 by D. F. Sanders
Me ke aloha i ka nani, ... Moe'uhanekeanuenue
(With love and beauty, ... Rainbow Dream)
--------- "RE: Classes teach Dakota Language" ---------
Date: Mon, 16 Jul 2001 08:09:56 -0500
From: Gary Smith <gars@Speakeasy.org>
Subj: NA News Item
- - - - - - -<Forwarded news>- - - - - - -
filename="DAKOTA LANGUAGE"
http://www.owlstar.com/dailyheadlines.htm
http://web.duluthnews.com/content/duluth/2001/07/16/local/du_LANG0716.htm?
Monday, July 16, 2001
Classes teach Dakota language
Associated Press
SHAKOPEE, Minn. -- The small group gathering each day at the community
center looks like a typical class with flash cards sprawled about. But to
the Shakopee Mdewakanton Sioux Community, this group represents its future
voice.
The six adults, ranging in age from 19 to 61, are the first class in a
new program to preserve the Dakota language. With financial help from the
community, the goal is for the students to eventually move into jobs
teaching youth the tribe's native tongue.
"We're all here because we have this yearning to revive (Dakota) so it's
a living language," said Gabrielle Strong, 38, who is on leave from her
job as executive director of Ain Dah Yung, a shelter for homeless and
runaway Indian youth in St. Paul.
The tribal council of the Shakopee Mdewakanton Sioux Community has
employed five of the students to learn the language in two years of
coursework and to help preserve it.
All of the students talk of the lessons as a chance to get something
back that was taken generations ago. They all know elders who were sent to
mission schools or public schools and don't know the language. As those
friends have heard they're taking classes, they ask the students to speak
some Dakota for them.
"We are survivors," Strong said.
There also is a sense of urgency. Francis Steindorf, the director of the
community's education department, heard at a Dakota language conference
last summer that "there are about 30 Dakota-language speakers in Minnesota.
Most are over the age of 60."
Some linguists predict only about 20 American Indian languages will
survive past 2050.
This year, the Grotto Foundation in St. Paul announced its plan to spend
$5.6 million over 15 years for the preservation of native languages.
Recently, the foundation approved funding for a language immersion camp
run by the Mille Lacs Band of Ojibwe and a unique course run by the Leech
Lake Band of Ojibwe, using instruction in the sport of lacrosse as a
language immersion program.
Copyright c. 2001 Duluth News Tribune. All rights reserved.
--------- "RE: Mohegans Rebuilding Language" ---------
Date: Sun, 29 Jul 2001 20:54:07 -0400
From: "Janet Smith" <owlstar@speakeasy.org>
Subj: language
http://www.ctnow.com/scripts/editorial.dll?eetype=Article&eeid=4992337&
render=y&Table=&ck=&userid=1&userpw=.&uh=1,0,&ver=3.0
Mohegans Rebuilding Language
By WILLIAM WEIR
The Hartford Courant
Jul 29 2001 12:00AM
UNCASVILLE - Fidelia Fielding, the last fluent speaker of the Mohegan
language, died in 1908. Since then, echoes of the language have faded into
obscurity.
But a combination of detective work and what could be called linguistic
forensics have helped the tribe and a team of scholars reconstruct the
language, word by word.
It's a daunting task, but one that tribal elders say is worth the effort
because resurrecting the Mohegan dialect is critical to restoring the
tribe's sense of identity.
The effort began in earnest about three years ago, but had stalled until
a key discovery earlier this year at Yale University's Beinecke Library.
There, linguistics researcher David Costa found a cache of documents
about Mohegan life and language compiled by, among others, Ezra Stiles, an
18th-century theologian and scientist who was Yale's second president.
Everything then fell into place.
"We were going crazy, doing this Sherlock Holmes thing, trying to find
the Ezra Stiles documents," said Beth Lee MacDonald of Big Head
Interactive, a California production company that is helping the tribe put
together lesson plans for teaching the language.
Tribal elders say the ultimate goal is to bring the language back into
Mohegan homes and everyday conversation. At the very least, it will be
used in ceremonial settings.
"I think that the relationship between language and culture is so
interconnected," said Gay Story Hamilton, chairman of the tribe's council
of elders in Uncasville. "We want to get back some of what we had."
In the past few years, the Mohegans have built up both the financial
resources and the sense of community needed to make such an ambitious goal
realistic, if not a guaranteed success.
Close to a year ago, the tribe members believed the bulk of their
language work was done and had begun developing formal lesson plans. But
they soon discovered serious inconsistencies in the material, and the
project came to an abrupt halt.
Most of the original research was based on the diaries of Fidelia
Fielding, which were long believed to be the only Mohegan writings left.
Fielding, who served as tribal culture-keeper, was born in 1827 and
lived in both pre-reservation and post-reservation eras of Mohegan society.
Because no one else could converse with her in the language for the last
50 years of her life, her skills were increasingly influenced by English-
speaking peers, corrupting the sentence structure and vocabulary of her
later writings, Hamilton said.
Costa, formerly of the University of California at Berkeley, was hired
by Big Head Interactive in January this year. He remembered another
researcher mentioning the Stiles documents at Beinecke and saw references
to them in his materials.
Costa and Beinecke's librarians spent hours searching before they were
able to finally produced a file that included Stiles' accounts of Mohegan
life and translations of about 150 Mohegan words, accompanied by a
somewhat spotty pronunciation key.
Further searching produced an even more valuable document: notes jotted
on the blank pages of a book called "Almanac of Celestiall Motions of 1669.
" The notes, written by James Noyes, a 17th-century minister from
Stonington, provided a vocabulary key and more accurate pronunciations for
about 300 Mohegan words.
Costa is also working from writings of other Algonquian tribes, such as
the Narragansett and Wampanoag, to help him identify patterns and make the
appropriate changes to fill in gaps in the Mohegan language.
For instance, a word in the Natick dialect of the Wampanoag Indians of
Massachusetts that contains a "Y" would likely be the same in Mohegan, but
with an "N" instead of the "Y." Languages of the Unquachog or Nipmuck
Indians would use an "L" or "R" in the same place.
"They're very close to Mohegan," he said. "Just a small handful of
changes are needed to get from one dialect to another."
Costa has headed up language restoration projects with a few tribes
throughout North America, most recently the Miami tribe of Oklahoma.
Interest in reviving the languages began to surge about five years ago,
he said, when it became apparent how quickly they were dying. By some
counts, about 100 American Indian languages remain, many of which are
spoken by just a handful of people. When Columbus arrived on the continent,
there were more than 300 Indian languages.
More than just a relic of a past era, language serves as a window to its
speakers' world view. The Mohegan language, Costa said, categorizes all
nouns as either animate or inanimate. For instance, all the limbs of a
body are considered animate, but the body itself is inanimate.
Many of the languages died as a result of policies of both the U.S.
government and of certain tribes that either prohibited the teaching of
American Indian languages or strongly discouraged it. Languages became
even more endangered after World War I, when tribes became less isolated.
Despite her wish to speak in Mohegan with others, Fidelia Fielding never
passed on her knowledge for fear that any proteges would suffer reprisals
for speaking the language. Tribal officials at the time believed
assimilating into English-speaking culture was the best thing for American
Indians.
Hamilton, who serves on the board of directors of Yale's Endangered
Language Fund, believes television to be among the biggest obstacles to
restoring the language. Most homes, including those of tribe members, have
at least one television.
Reviving the Mohegan language doesn't mean shutting out English-speaking
culture altogether, Hamilton said, but vigilantly staying in touch with
their own.
The tribe expects the restoration research to be complete by fall. A
formal curriculum for teaching it will then be developed. Tribe members
will act out skits to be filmed for audiovisual CD-ROMs, which will be
used in language classes. Lessons will also be taught at day-care
facilities on the Mohegan reservation.
Because of the long dormant state of Mohegan language, there will be
some gaps.
New words for anything that has come along since Fidelia Fielding's time
will be based on descriptions of the thing or idea in question. For
instance, a word for "computer" might translate literally to "thought
keeper."
The language has already made its way into the tribe's administrative
offices. Employees routinely greet each other with "tin kutaya?" ("how are
you?") and voice mail messages begin with "aquy" ("hello").
But the key to restoration, tribal officials say, is getting children
interested.
Shane Long, the tribe's cultural outreach director, is encouraged by his
daughter's apparent aptitude for Mohegan and hopes other children will be
equally eager to learn the language. Jessica Long is, as she'll cheerfully
tell you, "pasukokun," which means that she's 9 years old. Though she's
hardly fluent in the tribe's language, Jessica is learning quickly and is
already pretty good with numbers and a few phrases.
Janet Smith
Owlstar Trading Post
http://www.owlstar.com
--------- "RE: Indians race to Save Languages" ---------
Date: Fri, 27 Jul 2001 08:36:34 -0500
From: Gary Smith <gars@Speakeasy.org>
Subj: NA News Item
- - - - - - -<Forwarded news>- - - - - - -
filename="SAVE LANGUAGES"
http://www.owlstar.com/dailyheadlines.htm
http://www.vny.com/cf/News/upidetail.cfm?QID=206117
Indians race to save languages
Thursday, 26 July 2001 13:18 (ET)
By PHIL MAGERS
DALLAS, July 26 (UPI) -- Many American Indian tribes are in a race
against time to save their languages because young people are not learning
their tradition and the elders who would be their teachers are quickly
passing from the scene.
Language scholars estimate about half of the 300 or so native languages
spoken before Columbus landed in the Americas are now extinct.
Most tribes have language preservation programs but in the past 10 years
they have stepped up efforts to save the spoken words of their people
because they know if they don't, that distinctive part of their culture
could be lost, according to Indian leaders and experts.
"We lost two or three in the last two weeks that were fluent elders,"
says Hastings Shade, deputy principal chief of the Cherokee Nation at
Tahlequah, Okla. "They knew a lot of our customs and ways. They say when
you lose an elder, you lose a library of knowledge."
The Cherokees, which have one of the few written Indian languages
created by their own people, also operate one the most active preservation
programs. The written Cherokee language is based on the alphabet created
by Sequoyah and adopted by the tribe in 1821.
An estimated 10,000 Cherokees are considered fluent speakers and another
20,000 can speak a few words, says Shade, but he warns that's only a small
percentage of the 250,000 members. He says the tribe is taking measures to
ensure that the language is passed on.
"This coming school year we will do a full immersion program with 3-
year-olds at the Head Start," he says. "It will be kind of a volunteer
basis. If the parents want it, they can send their children to this class.
As the child goes to school, the parents also have to take Cherokee
classes."
The Cherokee language is also taught at Sequoyah Elementary School in
Tahlequah, plus a few public schools and colleges in Oklahoma.
But Hastings wants the program expanded. For smaller tribes with fewer
fluent speakers the urgency is more pronounced than for the Cherokees.
Indian languages originally were only spoken, but missionaries,
anthropologists and linguists developed written languages for many of the
tribes over the years. Each tribe has its own language but there are
regional dialects in the spoken form. Preserving the oral tradition
depends on adult speakers teaching the language to the younger generation.
In some tribes the language is disappearing so fast there are fears a
generation may someday be left without a language to pass on to their
children, says Ofelia Zepeda, co-director of the Institute of American
Indian Language Development at the University of Arizona in Tucson.
"You are trying to create new speakers in the young population, but at
the same time you are very likely losing your old speakers," she says.
"You can't wait around."
As a result, the enrollment in a summer program at the university that
teaches Indian teachers methods of language instruction is growing every
year. About 67 students from tribes in the United States and Canada
enrolled in the 20-year-old program earlier this year.
At the Indigenous Language Institute in Santa Fe, N.M., Director Inee
Slaughter agrees many tribal leaders feel the urgency to preserve their
language more than ever.
"They recognize that it's a race against time," she says.
Programs must be well planned and effective, she says, and that's the
mission of the institute as a clearinghouse for information on the
preservation of native languages. The institute develops instructional
materials and sponsors programs to further preservation of the native
languages.
In April, the institute's third annual Youth Language Fair for
preschoolers through 19 attracted 185 youths representing 13 languages and
tribes, some from as far away as the Eastern Band of the Cherokees in
North Carolina. This was up from only 12 entries the first year.
Slaughter says one of the biggest challenges is convincing youngsters of
the importance of learning their tribe's language when they live in an
English-speaking world.
"We are saying you are the carrier of the history, wisdom, and all the
traditions that make the people who they are," she says.
Copyright c. 2001 by United Press International. All rights reserved.
--------- "RE: Tribes race against Time to teach Dying Languages" ---------
Date: Sun, 29 Jul 2001 22:05:58 -0400
From: "Janet Smith" <owlstar@speakeasy.org>
Subj: more language
http://www.denverpost.com/Stories/0,1002,53%257E79247,00.html
Tribes race against time to teach dying languages
By Gwen Florio
Denver Post Staff Writer
Sunday, July 29, 2001 - BURGESS JUNCTION, Wyo. - Elmer Main is a member
of one of the most exclusive groups in the world.
The 80-year-old is one of maybe 10 people alive who are fluent in Gros
Ventre, the language of his ancestors. He is afraid that when he and the
others die, the tribe's soul will die with them. That breaks his heart.
"If we lose our language, we lose our culture," said Main, speaking here
last week at a gathering of the Learning Lodge Institute, a group founded
to save the languages of Montana's 11 tribes. Every last one of those
languages is endangered.
Consider: Of the nearly 2,000 Assiniboine people, who share the Fort
Belknap reservation in northern Montana with about 3,000 members of the
Gros Ventre tribe, fewer than 150 are fluent in their language. Only about
850 of the 17,000 Blackfeet, whose reservation is west of Fort Belknap,
Mont., speak their language, and most of them are over age 65.
And, while 82 percent of the Crow tribe's 10,000 members were fluent in
Crow 30 years ago, almost none of the tribe's youngest members - those in
kindergarten through fourth grade - spoke it by 1995, according to Dale
Old Horn, a linguist and head of general studies at Little Big Horn
College on the Crow reservation.
On the reservations, there are a number of people who speak the
languages among themselves. The situation can be more difficult for
Indians in cities such as Denver, where there may be people from several
tribes, none of which share a common language.
"These urban people, they don't speak so fluently. Only a few elders and
some purebloods here" speak their own language, said Bill Center, a Lakota
elder living in Denver who teaches his language to both Indians and Anglos.
"It's really hard for the younger people. ... At least on the reservations,
they sing the songs, the sundance songs, the ceremonial songs - that keeps
it alive."
Linguist Doug Whalen, who heads the Endangered Language Fund at Yale
University, said, "It's easy to tell when a language is in grave danger.
If the youngest speaker is 50 years old, then a language is pretty well on
the way out."
By that standard, nearly all of the 185 Indian languages still spoken
among the more than 550 federally recognized tribes in the United States
are endangered, said Darrell Kipp, who co-founded the Piegan Institute in
Browning, Mont., in 1987 to preserve native languages.
As Lanny Real Bird, a professor at Little Big Horn College who organized
last week's four-day gathering of language instructors for the Montana
tribes, said: "We're in a tragic state."
Genocide to "ethnocide'
Elmer Main's personal tragedy started when he began attending a mission
school at age 6. He was still on the reservation, but, culturally, he'd
stepped into another - white - universe.
"They cut off my braids," he said. "They took away my moccasins." And
the Jesuits who ran the school spanked the little boy for speaking the
only language he knew.
The whole idea was part of a decades-old policy by the government and
various religions to "civilize" the Indians. They were forbidden to wear
traditional dress, practice tribal ceremonies and rituals, or speak their
own languages.
"First, the U.S. government practiced genocide," said Old Horn,
referring to the turn-of-the-century Indian wars and disease epidemics
that decimated the tribes. "When that didn't work, they practiced
ethnocide."
It very nearly worked. A generation after Elmer Main was ordered to
forget his own language, Clarena Brockie never really got a chance to
learn it at all. Brockie's parents spoke fluent Gros Ventre, but forced
themselves to speak English around their daughter for fear she would get
in trouble if anyone overheard her speaking Gros Ventre. Brockie said she
felt the loss of language keenly.
"It connects you to everything," said Brockie, 51, who attended last
week's Learning Lodge meeting. She pointed out that Gros Ventre is the
language of prayer, of ceremony, of song.
She inclined her head toward a nearby tepee, where four men sang Crow
and Cree songs in a high falsetto, to the insistent beat of a rattle and
water-filled drum. "That's who you are," she said.
By the time the next generation came along, in the form of Terry Brockie
- now 32, a relative of Clarena Brockie's - the language was almost gone.
Terry Brockie grew up speaking English exclusively. His grandmother
spoke the old language, but she died when he was young. It wasn't until he
was a grown man and living away from home that his interest was awakened,
after he found himself dreaming repeatedly of his grandmother.
"She was telling me, "That's not you. You should be following your
Indian ways.'"
That's where, for Terry Brockie, Learning Lodge came in.
`Now it's up to us'
Johnny Arlee, 60, of the Salish-Kootenai reservation on Flathead Lake in
western Montana, said he sometimes wishes children were forced to learn
Salishian, the same way he was forced to learn English at St. Ignatius
Mission School.
These days, Arlee - who emphasizes his respect for traditional ways by
wearing shell earrings, an elk-tooth necklace and waist-length braids
wrapped in red yarn - teaches an eight-week language course for adults at
Salish-Kootenai College.
"I tell them, "This is it. If you don't learn, this is the end of the
trail.'"
While Arlee laments the fact that he works with his students for only 15
days out of the year, he says the language program has come a long way
from the days of paper and pencil and incomplete vocabulary lists when the
tribe initiated it in 1975.
About that time, tribes around the country started scrambling to save
their languages, compiling dictionaries, composing grammars, and
instituting rudimentary bilingual programs. In Browning, Mont., the Piegan
Institute served as a clearinghouse. The institute runs an elementary
school for 50 children in kindergarten through eighth grade in which the
children, already fluent in English, are taught totally in Blackfeet.
Four years ago, the 11 tribes that populate Montana's seven Indian
reservations banded together to apply for a grant from the Kellogg
Foundation. The money funded a number of Learning Lodge programs -
everything from one-on-one tutoring to total immersion camps - and also a
yearly gathering where language instructors can compare notes. But the
money runs out in September.
This year's final Learning Lodge gathering was held last week in the
Bighorn Mountains of Wyoming, just south of the Montana border, on what
historically was Crow territory. The 50 people who attended listened as an
impassioned Terry Brockie described his efforts to learn his grandmother's
language via a "speaker-learner" program in which tribal elders such as
Main, and Fred Gone, 71, tutored him.
"They are treasures in our tribe," Brockie said after apologizing for
being so bold as to speak before his elders.
Brockie urged people to keep teaching, and learning, their languages,
even when the money for such programs is gone.
"Our grandfathers fought for our culture and our ways," he said. "Now
it's up to us.
"Someday, I'm going to be the elder," he said. "And I don't want my
grandchild to come to me and say, "What is this?' and not be able to tell
him."
Janet Smith
Owlstar Trading Post
http://www.owlstar.com
--------- "RE: Upcoming Events" ---------
Date: Sun, 29 July 2001 15:39:14 -0
From: Gary Smith (gars@speakeasy.org)
Subj: Upcoming Events
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Date: Tue, 12 Jun 2001 09:43:48 -0800
Subj: Honoring All Elders
From: Andre P. Cramblit <andrekar@ncidc.org>
http://www.ncidc.org/nwit2001.htm
September 22, 23, 2001
20th Annual Elders Gathering
Honoring the Late Frank Gist Sr.
California Tribal Dance Demonstration 3-6pm Saturday
Redwood Acres Fairgrounds
3750 Harris St. Eureka, CA
--
Andre Cramblit, Operations Director-Northern California Indian Development
Council
NCIDC (http://www.ncidc.org) is a non-profit that meets the development
needs of American Indians and operates an art gallery featuring the art of
California tribes (http://www.americanindianonline.com)
===================================
Date: Wed, 11 Jul 2001 00:41:29 -0500 (CDT)
From: susanbates@webtv.net (Susan Bates)
Subj: Day of Mourning
>To: gars@speakeasy.org (Gary Night Owl)
The Medicine Society to which I belong is going to hold a Day Of
Mourning on October 13, 2001, in Springfield, Missouri. The purpose of
this event is to remember all the people who were murdered, kidnapped,
raped, tortured, infected with disease and ripped from their culture
since the arriving of Columbus.
It is my intention to gather as many names of these people as possible.
The names will be read slowly with the beat of a drum to mark their
presence.
If you know the names of any of your ancestors who died in this manner,
please send them to me and I will see that they are honored. If you
don't know the name, you may say something like, " In Memory of my
Great-great grandfather who died on the Trail of Tears," or "In Memory
of the 50 people who were murdered at ... by....."
Now is the time to honor our Ancestors. It is up to you.
You can e-mail me at susanbates@webtv.net
or write to me at
Susan Bates, RR 3 Box 654, Cabool, MO 65689
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Date: Mon, 23 Jul 2001 08:58:56 -0700
From: Diaz, Joe A (NBVC) <DiazJA@nbvc.navy.mil>
Subj: FAITA
"SAVE THE DATE"
10th Annual First Americans in the Arts Awards
Century Plaza Hotel, Beverly Hills, CA
Saturday, February 2, 2002
for more info call 818.623.9520
www.firstamericans.org
Thank you, Joe A. Diaz Trustee
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AUGUST 2001
2-5 Menominee Nation. Woodland Bowl, Keshena, WI (715) 799-3341 or
(715) 799-5114
3-5 46th Annual Yankton Sioux Tribe Traditional Wacipi. Kanke Andes, SD.
Info: (605) 384-3641.
3-5 17th Little Elk's Retreat. Campgrounds, Mt Pleasant, MI (517) 775-4072
or 800-225-8172
3-5 Kaw Nation. Kaw Lake, 15 miles from Kaw City, OK (417) 384-7114 or
(580) 269-2552 ext 260
3-4 Bell Powwow. Powwow Grounds, Stillwell, OK (918) 696-4480
3-5 Third Annual Gathering sponsored by The Wolf Clan of Central Illinois.
Riverton Illinois. Info: StarWalker at 217/627-9153. Traders welcome! For
Trader space, call or write John Skenandore, 1229 East Brown, Springfield,
Illinois 62703, 217/638-6137.
3-5 Oklahoma Indian Nations Powwow. Concho Powwow Grounds, Concho, OK.
Info: (405) 262-0345.
4-5 Hon-dah Resort. Hon-Dah, AZ (520) 369-0299
4-5 6th Annual Long Island Native American Task Force Powwow. Main Street
School, Setauket, Long Island, NY. Info: ( 631) 399-1536.
4-6 41st Wikwemikong. Thunderbird Park. Manitoulin Island, Ontario
(705) 859-2385
6-8 ISU Spring. Reed Gymnasium, ISU Pocatello, ID
6-12 70th American Indian Expo. Caddo Co. Fair Grounds, Anadarko, OK
(405) 247-6651
9-12 Midwest's Ultimate Powwow. 5 miles west of Tama, Iowa 800-944-9503
10-12 Little Shell Celebration, Newton, North Dakota (701) 627-3634 or
(701) 627-3483
10-12 Kul-Wicasa Oyate Fair & Wacipi, Lower Brule, South Dakota
(605) 473-5561
10-12 Nesika Illakee. Siletz, Oregon 800-922-1399 ext 230
10-12 24th IICOT Champions. Tulsa State Fair Grounds, Tulsa, Oklahoma
(918) 836-1523. www.iicot.org or email: iicot@aol.com
10-12 The Thunderbird Society Powwow. Fairgrounds, Vandalia ,MO.
Info: De Givens (573) 874-3454.
11-12 6th Annual Ancestors Powwow. Heathsedge, Abbey Road Dover, Kent,
England. Centreland Singers; Kim Oakshot, M.C. Info: 011 44 1304 241091
11-12 Paumanauke Powwow. Tanner Park, Copiague, Long Island.
Info: (631) 661-7558.
16-19 Wichita Tribal Dance. Wichita Tribal Park, Anadarko, OK.
(405) 247- 2425.
16-20 Crow Fair Celebration. Crow Agency , Montana. Info: 9406) 248-6910.
17-19 51st Annual Tulsa Powwow. Mohawk park. Info: (918) 743-3628
17-19 90th Chief Seattle Days. Downtown Suquamish, WA (360) 598-3311
17-19 Shakoppe Mdewakanton, Prior Lake, Minnesota (612) 445-8900
18 2nd Annual Native American Music Festival. Bardstown Airport (no city,
state listed). Info: (502) 348-0425 bryant@bardstown.com
18-19 19th Annual Traditional Powwow. Boone County 4-H Grounds, Lebanon,
IN. Info: (317) 545-5057 or aicindiana@hotmail.com.
18-19 2nd Annual Competition Pow Wow sponsored by Red Hawk American
Indian Cultural Society. Willow Ranch, Coitsville Twp., OH.
Info: Rose Marie Tullio at 1-330-755-4971
18-19 8th Annual Powwow. Corpus Christi, TX. Info: (361) 358-9298.
23-26 Schemitzun 2001. Powwow Grounds, Mashantucket, CT 800-224-CORN
23-26 Ponca Nation Powwow. White Eagle Park, White Eagle, OK.
(580) 762-8104.
24-26 First Annual Traditional Powwow hosted by the Shooting Star Casino,
Mahnomen, MN. Info: (218) 573-2104 or tmas34@hotmail.com
24-26 4th Sac & Fox of Missouri. Hwy 75, Powhattan, Kansas (785) 742-7471
or (785) 467-8000
24-26 125th Rosebud Celebration. Powwow Grounds, Rosebud, South Dakota
(605) 747-2381
24-26 33rd Southern California. Orange County Fair Grounds, Costa Mesa, CA
(714) 962-6673
24-26 27th Annual Powwow sponsored by the Baltimore American Indian
Center. Catonsville Campus Athletic Fields, Baltimore, MD.
Info: (410) 675-3535.
25-26 Ramapough Lenape Powwow. Sallies Field, Ringwood, NJ.
Info: (201) 529-1171.
29- Sept 2 Celebration of Metis History Powwow. Lewiston, MT.
Info: (406) 248-2948
30-Sept 2 Poplar Indian Days. Powwow Grounds, Poplar, MT (406) 768-3826 or
(406) 768-3351
31- Sept 3 Wee Gitchie Ne Me E Dim. Veterans Memorial Grounds, Cass Lake,
MN (218) 335-8289
31- Sept 4 Spokane Labor Day. Powwow Grounds, Wellpinit, WA (509) 258-4581
SEPTEMBER 2001
1 The Pueblo Friendship 9th Annual Powwow Association. Pueblo Depot
Activity, Pueblo ,CO. Info: Susan (719) 561-4223.
1-2 41st Annual Tecumseh Lodge Powwow. Tipton, IN. Info: (317) 745-2858
or email: rlkmeyer@aol.com or www.tlodge.srphoto.net
1-2 27th Thamesville. Moravian Reserve, Ontario (519) 692-3969 or
(519) 627-9291 or (519) 692-3936
1-3 Northern Arapaho Powwow. Arapaho, WY. Info: (800) 433-0662.
1-3 Labor Day Weekend Celeb. Black River Falls, Wisconsin 800-294-9343
1-3 19Annual Labor Day Weekend Traditional. Heimat Haus St. Route 104,
Grove City, OH. Info: (614) 443-6120. email: naicco@aol.com
1-4 Choctaw Nation Labor Day Festival. Tribal Capital Grounds, Tuskahoma,
OK. Info: (918) 569-4465.
6-9 55th Navajo Nation Fair. Wind Rock, Arizona (520) 871-6478
6-9 United Tribes. UTTC Campus, Bismarck, North Dakota (701) 255-3285
7-8 31st Coharie People's. Clinton, North Carolina (910) 564-6909
7-9 2001 Indian Summer Traditional Pow Wow. Credit Island in Davenport,
IA. All drums welcome! Info: Les Miller 319-381-3547 or
e-mail lsmma@qconline.com
7-9 Indian Summer. Maier Festival Park, Milwaukee, WI (414) 774-7119
7-9 81st Southern Ute. Sky Ute Downs Arena, Ignacio, CO (970) 563-4156 or
(970) 563-0100
7-9 12th Sycuan Powwow. Powwow Grounds, El Cajon, CA (619) 445-7776
7-9 4th Annual Credit Island Traditional Pow Wow. Host drum War Pony.
Hosted by Urban Indian Tribal Organization. Info: Les Miller at
319-381-3547.
7-9 Northern Cherokee Pow wow. Clinton, MO. Info: (660) 884-7999.
(Contest)
8-9 14th Trail of Tears. Trail of Tears Park, Hopkinsville, Kentucky
(270) 886-8033
8-9 8th Precious Sunset. Recreation Point, Bass Lake, California
(559) 855-2705
13-15 Pendleton Round-up Rodeo & Powwow. Pendleton, OR. Info: 800-457-6336.
14-16 Great Mohican Indian Powwow. Mohican Reservation, Loudonville, OH.
Info: 1-800-766-CAMP
14-15 Fort Sill Apache Dance. Ft. Sill Apache Tribal Complex. Apache, OK.
Info: (580) 588-2298.
14-15 7th Annual North Ameican Indian Alliance Powwow. Butte Civic Center,
Butte,MT (406) 782-0461.
14-16 The Great Mohican. Loudonville, Ohio (419) 994-4987
14-16 26th Guilford NAA. Country Park, Greensboro, North Carolina
14-16 Salmon Homecoming Celebration. Seattle Aquarium, Seattle, WA.
Info: (206) 386-4315
14-16 8th Annual St. Francois River Powwow. Park Hills Mineral Area
College, Farmington, MO. Info: (573) 756-6702.
14-16 Mahkato Traditional Pow-Wow Honoring the 38 Dakotah. Land of
Memories Park, Mankato, MN.
Info: http://www.turtletrack.org/MahkatoWacipi/
15 8th St. Francis River, Mineral Area College, Park Hills, Missouri
(573) 756-6702 or (573) 756-3658
15 TIHA Annual Fall Powwow. Robinson Park, Llano, TX. Info: (830) 665-9309.
15-16 Native American Festival. Colonial Plantation, Ridley Creek State
Park, Media, PA. Info: (717) 284-3427 or (610) 566-1725.
15-16 8th Annual Hart of the West Intertribal Powwow. William S. Hart Park
& Museum, Newhall, CA. Info: (661) 255-9295.
15 11th Annual All Children's Powwow. Wheelwright Museum of the American
Indian, 704 Camino Lejo, Santa Fe, NM 87505. Info: 800-607-4636.
www.wheelwright.org or email: pr@wheelwright.org
15-16 9th annual Four Winds Powwow. Killeen Special Events Center, Killeen,
TX Info: (254)699-3167 Paula Brock. www.fourwindstx.org or
email: fourwinds1@hotmail.com
15-16 New Hampshire Intertribal Council Powwow. Beaver Dam Campground,
Berwick, ME. Info: (603) 528-3005.
21-23 29th Annual National Indian Day Celebration & Powwow. Pavillion,
White Swan, WA. Info: (509) 874-2473.
21-23 Grand Bois Inter-Tribal Powwow. Grand Bois Campground, Hwy 24, Borg,
LA. Info: ( 504) 594-1068.
21-23 29th National Indian Days. White Swan Pavillion, White Swan, WA
(509) 865-5121 ext. 408
21-23 7th Council Tree. Confluence Park, Delta, CO 800-874-1741 or
(970) 874-1718
21-23 Great Lakes Championship, Fair Grounds Park, Detroit, MI
(313) 871-1303
21-22 2nd Eschikagou. Hyde Park, Chicago, IL (505) 836-2810
22-23 Mountain in the Sky, Belleayre Mt. Ski Ctr, Highmount, New York
(914) 254-5782 or (914) 254-4238
22-23 6th Blanchard. Millstream Fair Grounds, Findlay, Ohio (419) 423-8194
or (419) 422-2561
22-23 19th Mount Juliet. Ward Agricultural Center, Lebanon, TN
(615) 444-4899 or (615) 443-1537
27-30 7th Annual Drums Along the Trail Powwow. Davascus, VA.
Info: (540) 475-3430
28-29 Standing Bear Powwow. Standing Bear Native American Memorial Park,
Ponca City, OK. Info: (580) 762-1514.
28-29 2nd Annual Buffalo River Powwow. Airport Road, Linden, TN.
Info: (931) 589-5876.
28-30 11th Casino Morongo, Casino Grounds, Cabazon, California
800-252-4499 ext 3804 or (909) 849-3080 ext. 274
28-30 19th Annual Native American Days. Angel Mounds State Historic Site,
Evansville, IN. Info: Bill Spellazza at (812)853-3956 or
email curator@angelmounds.org.
28-30 10th Comanche Nation Fair. Craterville Park, Cache, Oklahoma
(580) 492-4988
29 Northern Plains Tribal Arts Wacipi. Stewart Center, Univ of Sioux Falls
Campus, Sioux Falls, SD. Info: 1-800-658-4797.
29-30 2nd Annual T.P.R.C. Benefit Powwow. Odessa College Sports Center,
Odessa, TX (915) 335-7986.
29-30 50th Annual Chickahominy Fall Festival & Powwow. Chickahominy Tribal
Ctr, Charles City County, VA. Info: (804) 829-2781.
29-30 8th Annual Intertribal Powwow. Waimea Ball Park, Big Island of
Hawaii. Info: (808) 885-5569.
29-30 8th Intertribal by the Sea. Memorial Coliseum, Corpus Christi, TX
(361) 883-9980 or (361) 643-0399
29-30 "Lest Our Children Forget" 2001 Powwow. Siena Heights University
Fieldhouse, Adrian, MI. Info: (517) 263-1659 or mdc@cass.net
29 American Indian Days Celebration. St. Joseph Indian School, Chamberlain,
South Dakota (605) 734-3300
OCTOBER 2001
5-6 Fayetteville. Memorial Arena, Fayetteville, North Carolina
(910) 483-8442
5-7 Lenape Tears Powwow. McCall's Farm, Lehighton, PA. Info: (570) 929-
3102. cegr@intergrafix.net or www.lenapenation.org 11 Annual Cahokia
Mounds Pow Wow. Cahokia Mounds Museum, Collinsville, IL. Info: Lowell
Davis 217-688-2442
5 - 8 Annual Sukutt Menyl Feista - Torres Martinez Desert Cahuilla
Indians, Thermal CA. Info: 760-397-8144
5-8 West Coast Powwo Cruise departing from Los Angeles, CA.
Info: (760) 369-2232
6 Ponca Hethushka. Ponca Cultural Center, White Eagle, OK.
6-7 Rainbow Dancers present Worlds largest buffalo festival / pow wow.
Farmer Dave's Buffalo Ranch, Farmer City, IL. info-(309)3822779 or
walkhawk2@ntslink.net or www.powwows.2ya.com
6-7 27th Annual American Indian Powwow. Thomas Square, Honolulu, Oahu.
Info: (808) 734-5171.
6-7 Council Oak Powwow. Dighton, MA. Info: (508) 880-6887.
8-10 15th Annual Black Hills Powwow. Rushmore Plaza Civic Center, Rapid
City, SD (605) 341-0925.
12-14 The 2001 Clarksville, TN Area Intertribal Pow-wow. Info: Doug "Red
Fox" Kirby at jk4538@earthlink.net or Dave "Bear Claw" Baker at
dgbake1@bellsouth.net
12-14 Powwow. Agriculture Center, Hagerstown, MD. Info: (252) 257-5383
12-14 2nd Annual Pony Meeks Memoriam. Chikamaka-Cherokee Indian Festival.
Tracy Ball Park, Tracy City, TN. Info: (615) 907-0308 or
email: eagleheart47@hotmail.com
13 4th Annual American Indian Powwow. Omaha Civic Center,Omaha,NE.
Info: (402) 444-5066
13 Post 408 Powwow. Methodist Church, Pearland, TX. Info: (281) 485-3919.
13 5th Annual Intertribal Powwow. East Side Park, Hearne, TX.
Info: (979) 828-4977.
13-14 The Spirit of This Place PowWow Indian Festival and PowWow. Pembroke,
NH. Info: (603) 485-5070 or E-mail: PemPowWow@aol.com
13-14 Harvest Moon Powwow. Francis Farms, Rehoboth, MA.
Info: (508) 336-8426.
13-14 American Indian Powwow. Walker County Civic Center, Rock Springs, GA.
Info: (706) 226-7995
19-21 Ossahatchee Powwow. Hamilton, GA. Info: (706) 628-7653.
20 24th Annual Autumn Powwow. Univ of Wisconsin, Milwaukee, WI.
Info: (414) 229-5880.
20-21 2nd Annual Saracen Memorial Powwow in Honor of the Quapaw People.
Pine Bluff Convention Center, Pine Bluff, AR. Info: (870) 541-5402.
20-21 Annual Otcoraro Native American Fall Festival. Camp John Ware,
Lacaster County, PA. Info: (717) 284-3427.
20-21 6th Annual Moving Waters Powwow. Canyon Lake, TX.
Info: (830) 964-3613.
20-21 8th Annual Healing of All Nations, Accohannock Native American Fall
Festival & Pauwau. Bending Water Park, Maryland's Eastern shore. Info:
(410) 623-2660 accohannock@crisfield.net
20-21 Land of Falling waters Pow wow. Middleschool at Parkside, Jackson,
Michigan. Info: landoffallingwaters@hotmail.com, or email:
osagelin@nativemail.com
26-28 14th Annual Mid-Columbia River Powwow. Celilo, OR.
Info: (509) 877-6105.
26-28 SouthEastern Indian Intertribal Powwow. The Parks at Chehaw, Albany,
Georgia. Info: Jerry Laney 229-787-5180 evenings. nativeway@mindspring.com
or www.NativeWayProductions.com.
26-28 14th Annual Mid-Columbia River Powwow. Celilo, OR.
Info: (509) 865-5121.
26-28 SouthEastern Indian Intertribal Powwow. Corner of S Jefferson
(Hwy 91) & Albany By-Pass, Albany, GA. Info: (229) 787-5180.
27 2nd Annual Competition Powwow. Legend Of The White Buffalo. $15,000
prize Money. Lone Star Convention & Expo Center, Conroe, Tx. Info: Carroll
Cocchia: 936-441-4572 or Anna Edwards: 281-452-3614,
Vendors Call: Pat Poland : 936-756-1225
27-28 Four Wins Tribe Louisiana Cherokee Confederacy Powwow. Forestry
Festival Fairgrounds, West Louisiana, LA. Info: (337) 537-8318
NOVEMBER 2001
2-4 Powwow. Fredericksburg Fairgrounds, Fredericksburg, VA.
Info: (252) 257-5383 now-cdcbarry@coastalnet.com
2 -4 15th annual AIA Orlando Pow wow. Sponsored by the American Indian
Association of Fla., Inc. Central Florida Fairgrounds Orlando, FL.
Info: (407) 862-9676 aiapowwow@cfl.rr.com
9-11 36th Annual Yakama Natioin Veteran's Day Celebration & Powwow.
Pavilion, White Swan, WA. Info; (509) 877-6105.
9-11 4th Annual Festival of Native American Arts. Harley Paiutes
Campground, Georgetown, FL. Info: (386) 328-9988.
9-11 The Great American Indian Exposition. Showplace, Richmond, VA.
Info: (252) 257-5383 now-cdcbarry@coastalnet.com
10 26th Annual Veterans Powwow. Cliftonville Middle School, Cliftonville
Road, Northampton, England. Host Drum Centreland Singers, Kim Oakeshott
M/C. info 01144 1064 414155.
10 Tri-Cities Inter-Tribal Association, Inc. and Fort Lee Equal
Opportunity Honor Pow Wow. Fort Lee, Virginia. To honor POW/MIA and
Veterans from All Wars. Info: (804) 530-3880 or email TCITAInc@aol.com
10-11 2nd Annual Clearfield Veterans Day Pow-wow. Clearfield Middle School,
Clearfield, PA. Info: (814)834-6452. email: pjcrow@hotmail.com
15-18 Tullahoma Intertribal Powwow. South Jackson Civic Center. Tullahoma,
TN. Info: ( 229) 787-5180. www.nativewayproductions.com
17 White Star Gourd Dance. Lions Club, Clermont, IN.
Info: Mel (812) 988 9070 or mchoefling@msn.com
23-25 35th Annual LIHA Fall Powwow sponsored by the La. Indian Heritage
Assn. Hidden Oaks Campground, Robert, LA. Info: (504) 366-5409 or 367-1375
or email: andi4769@aol.com. Trader info: Larry (985)878-4610 or
amangi@bellsouth.net. Camping info: (800) 359-0940
23-25 Native American Month Social Powwow and Craft Market. Rillito
Raceway Park, Tucson, AZ. Info: (520) 622-4900
DECEMBER 2001
22-25 Wapato Longhouse Powwow. Wapato Longhouse, Wapato, WA.
Info: (509) 865-2102.
29-Jan 1 Indian America New Year's Competition Powwow. Rillito Raceway
Park, Tucson, AZ. Info: (520) 622-4900
30-Jan 1 8th Annual New Year's Powwow. Ohio State Fair Grounds, Columbus,
OH.Info: (614) 443-6120
JANUARY 2002
18-20 Festival of the Buffalo. 1052 Highway 92, West Auburndale, FL.
Info: (863) 665-0062.
19 Morning Star Celebration Benefit Powwow for St Labre Indian School, At
John Carroll School in Bel Air, MD. Info: 410-838-8333 ext 14.
FEBRUARY 2002
7-17 American Indian Exposition. Flamingo Hotel Ballroom, Tucson, AZ.
Info: (520) 622-4900.
8-11 East Coast Powwow Cruise departing from Miami, FL.
Info: (760) 369-2232.
27 Jicarilla Apache Days. Community Center, Dulce, NM.
Info: (505) 759-1343.
MAY 2002
8th Annual Memorial Day Powwow sponsored by the Southern Sky Council of
Native Americans. Laredo, TX. Info: 956-727-0039. laredopowwow@yahoo.com
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This page has been designed to help you find Native American Events. We
have posted information on Pow-Wows, Festivals, Rodeos, Art & Craft Shows,
Seminars and many other types of gatherings that represents the Native
American culture. Please feel free to send us information about your
Gatherings to post. Along with our list of events, we have included links
to all other Event pages that we are aware of so that you can use this
page as your Native American Event Index Page. As hard as we work to make
sure the information we post is correct, mistakes seem easy to make.
Therefore before you depart for a Gathering, please use the contact
numbers given and verify all of the important information for yourself.
We can be contacted as follows:
write us:
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11372 Timber Lane
Brooksville, Florida 34601
Native American Events
August 3 - 5, 2001: Pow Wow at Frank Liske Park in Concord, North Carolina,
Ridgie Tucker will lead the host Southern Drum. There will be Gourd
Dancing. The famous or infamous Florida duo of Jim and Dave make an
appearance once again as Jim will MC and Dave and his better half Kathy
will be head man and lady. If you can put this little dance on your
calendar as it has been outstanding the last few years. For more
information contact George Hoyt (704)786-5705 or e-mail him at:
gehoyt@concordnc.com Traders contact Gene Hall at: 336-236-1099.
August 4 - 5, 2001: Powwow, York Fairgrounds, York PA. For more
information call 252-257-5383.
August 4 - 6, 2001: 11th annual Oklahoma Indian Pow Wow in Concho Oklahoma
August 17 - 18, 2001: Mascoutin Society of Chicagoland 45th annual O-Sa-
Wan Powwow in Boone County Fairgrounds Belvidere, Illinois. See us on the
web at: www.mascoutin.com For more information call 847-640-9165 or
708-456-2765
August 17 - 19, 2001: Ketegaunseebee Spirit of the Anishnawbe Pow Wow,
2001 Garden River First Nation Point Charles Spiritual Grounds Garden
River First nation, Ontario, Canada.
For more information call: 705-946-6300
August 18 - 19, 2001: Nasemond Indian Tribal festival, Chuckatuck Island,
Lone Star Lodge, Suffolk, VA. For more information call 252-771-2476 or
757-483-4236.
August 18 - 19, 2001: Red Hawk American Indian Cultural Society 2nd Annual
Competition Pow Wow at Willow Ranch Coitsville Twp., Ohio. For more
information contact Rose Marie Tullio at 330-755-4971 or
e-mail at:CrebMogur@aol.com
August 18 - 19, 2001: The Thunder Mountain Lenape Nation Pow Wow at
Conemaugh Dam, Saltburg, PA. For more information call Pat Stardancer
Selinger at 724-459-5276.
August 18 - 19, 2001: 25th annual Pow Wow at Chippewas of the Thames First
Nation This is an outdoor intertribal contest pow wow with camping
available. Located 30 km southwest of London, Ontario. See the Prizeboard
at this url: http://www.geocities.com/hereontherez/index.htm For
information call Ph:519-289-2232 or Fax:519-289-2230 or
email: r1cush@mnsi.net
August 24 - 25, 2001: Native American Cultural Festival, Halifax County
Fairgrounds, South Boston, VA. For information call: 804-454-6482 or
804-572-9200.
August 24 - 26, 2001: First annual Shooting Star Casino, Hotel & Event
Center traditional pow-wow in Mahnomen, Minnesota. For more information
contact: Thomas Mason (218)573-2104 or (218)846-9749 or
email:tmas34@hotmail.com
August 24 - 26, 2001: Mid Ohio Valley Traditional Pow Wow & Indian Market
Civitan Park Belpre, Ohio. For more informatio call 304-428-6468 or
740-374-8923.
August 25 - 26, 2001: 3rd annual International Intertibal Traditional
Gathering at Camp Sertoma in Indianapolis, Indiana. For information
contact 317-356-5187.
August 29 - September 2, 2001: Metis Celebration and Conference 2001,
Central Montana Fairgrounds, lewistown, Montana. See web site:
http://members.home.com/blandrie/mertis.html .
For more information call 406-248-2948 or 406-652-7828.
August 31 - September 2, 2001: 11th Annual Lake Shawnee Traditional Powwow,
Topeka, KS. No contact information is given on this one.
September 1 - 2, 2001: 41st Annual Tecumseh Lodge Pow Wow at the Tipon
County Fairgrounds Tipton, Ind. Visit our website:www.tlodge.srphoto.net
For more information call 317-745-2858
September 7 - 9, 2001: 39th Annual National Championship Pow Wow Arts &
Craft Show to be held in Traders Village, Grand Prairie, Texas and
sponsored by the Dallas Fort- Worth Inter-tribal Associations.
For more information contact 972-647-2331.
September 14 - 16, 2001: St. Francis River Pow Wow, Mineral Area College
Campus, Park Hills, Missouri. For more information call: 573-358-7633.
September 14 - 17, 2001: The 9th annual feast of Green Corn and Dance, on
the Miner Farm off Wintechog Hill Rd. North Stonington, CT..
For more information call: 1-800-224-CORN.
September 15 - 16, 2001: 9th Annual Four Winds Powwow at the Killeen
Special Events Center, at Killeen, Texas. For information call 254-699-
3167 Paula Brock or e-mail at: Tameroa@nativeweb.net or
fourwinds@hotmail.com There is a web site at: http://www.fourwindstx.org
September 15 - 16, 2001: Trail of Courage Living History Festival, Fulton
County Historical Society, Indiana.
For more information call: 219-223-4436.
September 22 - 23, 2001: 6th Annual Blanchard Indian Powwow, Findley, Ohio.
There is no contact information with this one.
September 28, 2001: Honor the Children Powwow, Dora, Alabama. No contact
information with this one.
October 6 - 7, 2001: Loras College presents the 2001 Powwow & American
Indiana Art Exhibit. Loras College Field House 1450 Alta Vista, Dubuque,
Iowa. For more information contact 563-588-7664.
October 6 - 7, 2001: ATWOOD LAKE POWWOW New Cumberland, Ohio. No contact
number.
October 12 - 14, 2001: Hagerstown Powwow Agricultural Center, Hagerstown,
Maryland. For more information e-mail: cdcbarry@coastalnet.net or call -
252-257-5383.
October 20 - 21, 2001: Accohannock Indian Tribe Powwow Marion Station,
Maryland. No contact information given.
October 26 - 27, 2001: 12th Annual South texas (Way South) Powwow in
McAllen, Texas. No contact information given.
October 26 - 27, 2001: Meherrin Indian Tribe Annual Competition Powwow,
Meherrin Indian Tribal Grounds, between Murfreesboro and Ahoskie, North
Carolina For more information call: 252-332-4923 or 252-398-3321.
October 26 - 28, 2001: Southeastern Indian Intertribal Powwow at Chehaw
Park, Albany, Georgia. For information call: 912-787-5180 evenings.
November 2 - 4, 2001: 15th Annual AIA Pow Wow of Orlando. Held as always
at the Central Florida Fair Grounds in Orlando, Florida this has been the
best dance in Florida for quite a few years. Prize money, great vendors
and always good music and people. For more information call: 407-389-9917
or 407-363-9917. You can e-mail at: AIAPowwow@cfl.rr.com
Powwow Director: Christi
November 2 - 4, 2001: Fredericksburg Fairgrounds, Fredericksburg, Virginia.
For more information: e-mail: now-cdcbarry@coastalnet.com or
call 252-257-5383
November 2 - 4, 2001: Thunderbird Intertribal Powwow, Eglin, AFB, Florida.
No contact information given, but call the Base.
November 9 - 12, 2001: The Greta American Indian Exposition, showplace,
Richmond, Virginia. For more information contact: e-mail
now-cdcbarry@coastalnet.com or call 252-257-5383
November 10 - 11, 2001: 12th Annual Texas Championship Pow Wow Arts and
Craft Show held at Traders Village, Houston, Texas. For more information
contact 972-647-2331.
November 16 - 17, 2001: The Indian Territory Festival showcases Native
American Artists. The 2001 Festival will be held at the Broken Arrow
Community Center, 1500 S. Main, Broken Arrow, Oklahoma. This year's
Festival will honor the 15 artists who have been invited to exhibit in
Celle Germany Aug 1 to October 1, 2001. For more information, contact the
Indian Territory Gallery (918) 259-1772.
November 17, 2001: Fourth Annual White Star Gourd dance Powwow, Clermaont,
Indiana. For more information contact: e-mail mchoefling@msn.com or call
812-988-9070 or 317-780-0000.
February 22 - 24, 2002: Ancient Voices 3rd annual Benefit Pow Wow To help
benefit Sovereign Nations Cultural Preservation Center in the building of
their Museum. The location is Myakkahatchee Creek Park, North Port,
Florida. Use exit 33 off I-75. Visit us on the web at: http://www.sncpc.
home.dhs.org For more information
e-mail: ancient_voices_pow_wow_@yahoo.com
July, 2002: Yes 2002! National Powwow 12. July, 2002 in Crescent City,
Illinois. The committee is looking for input and suggestions on how to
make The National Powwow experience more enjoyable and rewarding. See our
Web Site at: www.nationalpowwow.com Please send input to: J. Ford Griggs,
Chairman, National Powwow 12, Rt. 3, Box 110, Bartlesville, Oklahoma 74003,
Telephone 918-662-5317, Fax 918-662-5317, or e-mail at: FordGriggs@aol.com
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Date: Mon, 26 Mar 2001 21:01:02 -0800
From: Rebecca <dalton@NIDLINK.COM>
Subj: Powwows in Idaho
Mailing List: INDIAN Heritage<INDIAN-HERITAGE-L@LISTSERV.INDIANA.EDU>
September 8-10, 2000
The Nez Perce Celebration
Lapwai, Idaho
Northern Host Drum: White Clay
Southern Host: TBA
Head Dancers: Poncho Brady and Denae Jack
Specials are hand drum contest, womens jingle,
Miss Ne-Mee-Poo(16-25, Nez Perce descendant
can participate), Best Old Style Outfit, Best
Contemporary Outfit.
October 20 - 22, 2000
Mata'Lyma Pow Wow
Wa-A'Yas Community Center
Nez Perce Reservation
Kamiah, Idaho
HOST DRUM---> Indian Nation
Dance Contests all categories.
Royalty Contest---Miss Mata'Lyma and Lil'Miss Mata'Lyma 2000
Specials: Dance Specials In recognition of Allen P. Slickpoo Sr.
* Nez Perce Tribe Elder of the Year 1999
* National Indian Education Elder of the Year 1999
* University of Idaho presidents Medallion Recipient 1999
* Lewis Clark State College Life Time Achievement Award winner 1999
Men's Traditional (45 years & up) $1000.00 1st place plus consolation
Men's Round Bustle (21 yrs & up) $1000.00 1st place plus consolation
Lena Calfrobe, Lil'Miss Mata'Lyma 1999 12 & under Girls special
Raleigh Ellenwood, Men's 21 & Under Dance Special
Mask Dance Contests all ages (good prize money)
Other specials TBA
For Information contact Pam Steffy @ 208-935-4103
Or e-mail Mary Tall Bull at marytb@enterprise.nezperce.org
Visit us on the Web: http://www.whiteeagles.com/matalyma
Greetings everyone,
Just a reminder that the University is sponsoring an Educational Conference
November 1st and 2nd and the "Tutxinmepu Pow-wow" the 3rd and 4th and they
are both free and open to the public. Both events are sponsored by the U of
I Native American Student Association and the Native American Studies
Program. The powwow will be held in the University of Idaho Kibbie Dome and
will feature an art auction/exhibit, food, and arts & crafts vendors. NASA
students are also selling raffle tickets for various prizes for only a one
dollar donation. Any questions or comments please respond to this email.
Thanks for your attention.....PHILL
"Phill Allen" phillnptlcbc@hotmail.com
All listed here:
http://members.tripod.com/~windthruherhair/id.html
Becky
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near Coeur d'Alene, Idaho
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Date: Tue, 27 Mar 2001 21:20:42 -0800
From: John Wm Sloniker <johnwms@SERV.NET>
Subj: WASHINGTON Indian Tribal Events
Mailing List: INDIAN Heritage<INDIAN-HERITAGE-L@LISTSERV.INDIANA.EDU>
Check the URL at the end of this listing. -- John
TRIBAL EVENTS (May 1999)
Attention Readers: Please understand that every effort has been
made to ensure that our listings are correct. However, sometimes
errors are made or scheduling changes occur without our knowledge.
We strongly advise calling the contact number to verify the dates
and locations of each event.
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Kalispel Salish Fair
July 31-August 2
Kalispel Tribe
(509) 445-1147
An annual Indian festival held on the Kalispel reservation
near Usk;
a Pow Wow features traditional drum and dance
*=*=*=*=*
Omak Stampede, Encampment & Rodeo
August 6-9
Colville Confederated Tribes
(800) 933-6625 or (509) 634-4711
A popular event in Omak that brings together thousands of Indians
from all over the United States and Canada;
it includes Native American dance contests and a PRCA sanctioned
rodeo that attracts top stars on the circuit
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Chief Seattle Days
August 14-16
Suquamish Tribe
(360) 598-3311
Travel to this Pow Wow in downtown Suquamish on the Kitsap
Peninsula, and enjoy an authentic native salmon bake;
watch canoe races and dance;
and visit the tribal museum
*=*=*=*=*
Spokane Falls Northwest Indian Encampment & Pow Wow
August 21-23
Spokane Tribe
(509) 535-0886
3 days of tribal festivities held in Spokane's beautiful
Riverfront Park
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Makah Days
August 28-30
Makah Tribe
(360) 645-2201
Visit Neah Bay at the northwestern tip of the Olympic Peninsula
and learn about the native heritage of this ancient coastal tribe;
tribes from all over the Northwest gather here to compete in
canoe races, play games, and participate in native dancing;
Sat. is usually the most eventful with a parade and salmon bake
*=*=*=*=*
Puyallup Tribal Pow Wow
August 29-31, 1997
Puyallup Tribe
(253) 597-6200
Northwest tribes will converge on Puyallup for this important
native gathering;
the public is welcome to watch the festivities
*=*=*=*=*
Spokane Tribal Fair & Pow Wow
September 4-6
Spokane Tribe
(509) 258-4581
A traditional Pow Wow on the reservation at Wellpinit plus
an Indian art and food fair
*=*=*=*=*
National Indian Days
September 17-20
Yakima Indian Nation
(509) 865-5121
This major Pow Wow in White Swan near Yakima draws Native American
dancers from all across the U.S. and Canada
*=*=*=*=*
Nisqually Pow Wow
October 3 & 4
Mickey Gleason 360-412-5000
*=*=*=*=*
Chief Sealth Pow Wow
November (TBA)
(206) 296-6070
Seattle University
Northwest tribes meet at Seattle University to share a weekend of
traditional native song, dance, art, and food
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Suquamish Museum Cultural Celebration
November 7 & 8, 14 & 15, 21 & 22
Suquamish Tribe
(360) 598-3311
Native American artisans gather at the Suquamish Museum to sell
their works and demonstrate traditional arts such as drum making,
weaving, canoe carving, wood carving, beading, painting, basketry,
and more;
food will be on sale too
*=*=*=*=*
Veteran's Day Pow Wow
November 13 & 14
Colville Confederated Tribes
(509) 634-4711
An annual holiday gathering in Nespelem that includes
traditional dancing and games
*=*=*=*=*
Veteran's Day Pow Wow
November 13-15
Yakima Indian Nation
(509) 865-5121, ext. 436
A weekend tribal celebration in Toppenish with traditional dance,
games, and food
*=*=*=*=*
Northwest Native Americans & Washington Indian Casinos
http://www.travel-in-wa.com/DISTINCTLY/native.html
Tribal Events
http://www.travel-in-wa.com/DISTINCTLY/tribal_events.html
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Date: Saturday, June 02, 2001 6:21 PM
From: "Susan Bates" <susanbates@webtv.net>
Subj: Pow wow Calendar - Hill & Holler Column
>To: ShngSprt@aol.com <ShngSprt@aol.com>
> Powwow Calendar
>AUGUST
>3 100 years honor and contest powwow, Warrior Football Field,
Anadarko, Ok.
Judith Lamar or Gordon Whitewolf, 405-247-2671 or grwolf@tanet.net
>3-5 Annual Oklahoma Indian Nations Contest Powwow, Concho Pow-wow
Grounds. Concho, Ok. FMI:: Dara 405-262-8839 or Christine 405-422-3477.
>3-4 Annual Bell Powwow in Stilwell, OK.
>3-5 Kaw Pow wow east of Kaw City. Camping available. Call Donna Villa
417-364-7114.
>10-12 Thunderbird Society 11th Annual Powwow Vandalia Fairgrounds,
Vandalia, MO, Info: De Givens (573) 874-3454 6-11 Annual American Indian
Exposition, Anadarko, Ok. Starts with an all Indian Street Parade.
Pageant, horse and dog races, contest powwow throughout the week. World
championship wardance dance off and fry bread contest. Morgan Tosee,
580-365-4097. Carnival.
>21 Indian Territory Day at Five Civilized Tribes Museum. Please call
918-683-1701 for details.
>25-26 11th Annual Texas Inter-Tribal Indian Org. Contest
Pow-wow. Tri-state Fairgrounds. Rex Baster Building, Amarillo, TX Info:
Lester Crow 806-457-8105 or 806-467-1088. contest all catagories Labor
Day Weekend
>August 31-September 2 38th Annual Ottawa Powwow at Adair Park east of
Miami, OK. Call Charla 918-674-2553.
>August 31-September 3 117th Annual Choctaw Holiday at the Tribal Council
Gounds at Tuskahoma. Call 580-924-8280 or 800-522-6170 for more info.
>August 31-September 2 Cherokee Annual Holiday. Tahlequah, Ok
1-918-456-0671. SEPTEMBER
>7-9 Wyandotte Pow wow, Wyandotte, Oklahoma. 918-678-2297. 7,8 & 9
Northern Cherokee Nation of Mo & Ark PowWow, 578 E. Hwy 7, Clinton,
Missouri 64735, FMI: Gail--660-885-7779 $5,000.00 in dance prize money.
>14-16 Indian Summer Festival, Bartlesville Community Center,
Bartlesville, OK, 1-918-337-2787.
>14 to 16 St. Francis River Pow Wow, Mineral Area College Campus Park
Hills, Missouri. Hwy 67 South from St. Louis. Contest
Dancing.Contact: Deborah 573 358-7633 or email garby@therural.net
>14 - 17 Trail of Tears Pow-wow, De Queen, AR. Info: Willard Polk
1-800-522-6170.
>15-16 9th Annual Four Winds Pow wow at the Killeen Special Events Center
in Killeen, TX. For more info call or write to: Four Winds Box 10035
Killeen Tx 76547-0035. 254-699-3167 or 520-6169 or www.fourwindstx.org
>21-23 Council Tree Pow wow, Delta, Colorado, 1-970-874-1718 28-29
Standing Bear Park Pow wow., Ponca City, OK, 1-580-762-1514.
>28, 29, 30 Ozark Mountain Cherokee of Arkansas and Missouri Highwway 160
E. of Alton to Many Springs Community. Turn left on FF Highway. Signs
will be posted. FMI: Bea Deckard 417/778-6425
>OCTOBER
>8 Native American Day at the Heritage Village next door to Crazy Horse
Mountain. Call 888-HAVE FUN
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Four Winds Trading Company Powwow Calendar
http://fourwinds-trading.com/news/powwowmain.cfm
Powwow information generously provided by Liz Campbell,
author of the 1999 Powwow Calendar book.
Please call the contact number given with each PowWow listing before you
travel. On occasion, Powwows are cancelled or rescheduled to a new date.
To submit a new Powwow listing fill out our on-line form.
August
August 3, 4, & 5, 2001 12th Annual Oklahoma Indian Nation Contest Pow-Wow
- Concho, Oklahoma
August 3 to 5, 2001 Sagkeeng First Nation Treaty Days Pow Wow - Fort
Alexander, , Manitoba, Canada
August 3 to 5, 2001 17th Annual Little Elk's Retreat Pow-Wow - Mount
Pleasant, Michigan
August 4,5 & 6, 2000 11th Annual Oklahoma Indian Nation Pow-Wow-Concho, OK
August 4 & 5/01 8th Annual Rekindling Our Traditions Pow Wow-Fort Erie,ONT
Aug. 4-5 White Cloud's Purple Heart Powwow - White Cloud, MI
August 6-11, 2001 70th Annual American Indian Expo - Anadarko, Oklahoma
August 10th to 12th Native American Intertribal Council Fellowship Pow-Wow
Buchanan , Tennessee
August 10 to 12, 2001 Thunderbird Society 4th Annual Powwow - Vandalia, MO
August 10-12, 2001 Millbrook First Nation 4th Annual Pow Wow - Truro, Nova
Scotia, Canada
August 11 and 12 Juaneno Band of Mission Indians/Acajachemen Nation
Gathering-Inter-tribal Pow-Wow - Mission Viejo, California
Aug. 17 - 25 2001 Wilson County Fair - Lebanon, Tenn
Aug. 17-19, 2001 45th Annual O-Sa-Wan pow wow - Belvidere, IL
August 17 to 18, 2001 Peshawbestown Pow Wow - Peshawbestown, , Michigan
August 18th 19th Red Road Intertrieal Powwow - E-Montpelier, Vermont
August 18 & 19, 2001 THE DANIEL NIMHAM POW WOW - CARMEL , NEW YORK
August 18-19 2001 25th Annual Chippewas of the Thames First Nation Pow Wow
- Muncey, ON
August 18 & 19, 2001 Chippewas of the Thames First Nation 25th Annual Pow
Wow - Melbourne, Ontario, Canada
August 18 & 19, 2001 Red Hawk American Indian Cultural Society 2nd Annual
Competition Pow Wow - Coitsville Twp., Ohio
August 24, 25 & 26, 2001 Grindstone Creek Pow Wow - Pulaski, New York
August 24, 25, 26, 2001 1st Annual Spirit of The North Traditional
Celebration - Mahnomen, Minnesota
Aug. 24-26, 2001 6thAnnual Mid OhioValley Traditioal Powwow - Belpre, Ohio
August 24-25, 2001 Massabesic Inter Trible Pow-Wow & Gathering - Waterboro,
Me.
August 23 to 26 3rd Annual West Valley City Pow Wow - West Valley City,
Utah 84119, State of Utah
August 24 to 26 Burnt Church PowWow - Burnt Church First Nation, New
Brunswick, Canada
Aug.25-26 3rd International Intertribal Traditional Gathering -
Indianapolis, Indiana
8/31/ - 9/2/2001 Lake Shawnee Powwow - Topeka, Kansas
August 31 to September 2 36th Annual White Buffalo Council Pow Wow -
Denver, CO
Aug. 31 to Sep 2, 2001(Fri - Sun) 11th Annual Lake Shawnee Traditional
Intertribal PowWow - Topeka, KS
Aug. 31 to Sept. 3, 2001 5th Annual American Indian & Frontier Festival -
Harrisburg, PA
September
September 7, 8, & 9, 2001 Northern Cherokee Nation of Mo & Ark PowWow -
Clinton, Missouri
Sept.8 / 9 Credit Island Powwow - Davenport, IOWA
September 8, 2001 4th Annual Southeastern Indian Pow Wow & Festival -
Homewood (just south of Birmingham), Alabama
September 14-16, 2001 Mahkato Wacipi - Mankato, Minnesota
September 14 to 16, 2001 St. Francis River Pow Wow - Park Hills, Missouri
September 15-16, 2001 8th Annual Hart of the West Intertribal Pow Wow -
Newhall, California
9/15/16/2001 Hart of the West Pow wow - Newhall, California
Sept. 15 & 16, 2001 9th annual Four Winds Powwow - Killeen , TX
September 15th & 16th 2001 13th Annual Everything is Sacred Pow Wow
Gathering - Thousand Oaks, CA.
September 20, 21, 22, &23, 2001 Yakama Nation National Indian Days Pow-wow
- White Swan, Washington
September 21-23, 2001 Angel Mounds State Historical Site - Shadow of the
Buffalo Pow Wow - Evansville, Indiana
Sept. 21 - 23, 2001 Council Tree Pow Wow and Cultural Festival - Delta, CO
Sept 21-23 IIAC Pow-wow - Bishop, CA 93513
Sept. 22, 23, 2001 6th. Annual Blanchard Indian Pow-Wow - Findlay, Ohio
Sept. 27, 30. 2001 The - Damascus, VA
September 27 to 30 Drums Along the Trail Pow Wow - Damascus, VA
9/27/2001 to9/29/2001 AIRC FALL FESTIVALS AND CONTEST POW WOW - San
Antonio, Texas
September 28, 2001 Tenth Annual SACNAS Conference Pow Wow - Phoenix, AZ
9/28/2001 - 9/30/2001 19th Annual Native American Days - Evansville, IN
Sept. 28,29,30, 2001 California Indian Days - Covelo, Ca.
Sept 28th-30th 11th Annual Thunder & Lightning Pow-wow - Cabazon, CA,
Sept.28 to30,2001 2nd Annual Save the Land Foundation Festival -
Barbarville , Florida
September 29 to 30, 2001 Second Annual Permian Basin Pow-wow - Odessa, TX
October
October 5,6,7, 2001 Second Annual Tonto Apache Tribal Pow Wow - Payson, AZ
Oct 5-6-7, 2001 Lenape Tears Powwow - Lehighton, PA
10/05-01-10/07/01 2nd Annual Intertribal Pow Wow - Palmdale, California
Oct. 6th & 7th, 2001 Loras College Presents the 2001 Pow Wow and American
Indian Art Exhibit - Dubuque, Iowa
10/6 & 7/2001 Atwood Lake Powwow - near New Cumberland, OH
October 6th to 7th CSU San Marcos Tukwut Pow Wow - San Marcos, CA
Oct 13, 2001 1st Annual Crazy Water Pow Wow - Mineral Wells, Texas
13 october Rappahannock harvest Festival &Pow Wow - Indian neck, , Va.
10/13/2001 Crazy Water Pow Wow - Mineral Wells, Texas
Oct 19-21, 2001 Shadow of the Buffalo at Big Bone Lick State Park - Union,
Kentucky
Friday .Oct.19 to Sun. Oct 21 POW WOW FESTIVAL - ORANGE SPRINGS, FLORIDA
October 20-21, 2001 6th Annual Moving Waters PowWow at Canyon Lake, Tx. -
Canyon Lake, TX.
October 20 to 21 Moving Waters Pow-Wow - Canyon Lake, Texas
October 20 & 21, 2001 Accohannock Indian Tribe Powwow - Marion Station,
Maryland
October 26-28, 2001 18th Annual Mesa Pow Wow - Mesa, AZ
Oct. 26-27 12th Annual South Texas (Way South) Pow wow - McAllen, Texas
OCT. 27 TO 28 2ND ANNUAL FOUR WINDS LOUISIANA CHEROKEE CONFERENCY -
LEESVILLE, LOUISIANA 71446
OCT. 27 TO 28 2ND ANNUAL FOUR WINDS TRIBE LOUISIANA CHEROKEE CONFERENCY -
LEESVILLE, LOUISIANA 71446
November
11/2, 3, 4, /2001 American Indian Association of Millington, Tenn . 5th
Annual Educational/ Competitive Pow Wow - Millington, Tenn
November 2 to 4, 2001 Thunderbird Intertribal Pow Wow - Eglin AFB, FL
November 10-11,2001 2nd Annual Sacajawea Pow Wow - Pine Bluff, Arkansas
NOVEMBER 16-18 2001 YOUNG NATIONS CELEBREATION - LAPWAI, IDAHO
Nov.23,24,25 Native American Month Social POW-WOW & Indian Craft Market -
Tucson, AZ
Nov 30th-Dec 2nd 5th Annual Winter Gathering & Pow-wow - Coachella, CA
December
December 8, 2001 Good Medicine Society's 1st Annnual Native American
Christmas Arts&Crafts Show - Oklahoma City, Oklahoma
Dec. 29 to Jan.1,2002 - Tucson, AZ
December 31, 2001 Good Medicine Society's 10th Annual New Years Eve
Sobriety Pow-Wow - Oklahoma City, Oklahoma
Dec.31-2001 til 12;30am Jan 1,2002 sobriety pow-wow - Salem , Oregon
February
Feb.3 - 17, 2002 American Indian Exposition - Tuscon, AZ
February 22, 23, and 24, 2002 Ancient Voices 3rd Annual Benefit Pow Wow -
North Port, Florida
February 22, 23, and 24, 2002 Ancient Voices 3rd Annual Benefit Pow Wow -
North Port, Florida
May
May 4 - 5, 2002 9th Annual Choctaw-Apache Traditional Pow Wow - Ebarb, LA
Copyright c. 1998 Four Winds Trading Company. All rights reserved.
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Char-Koosta News Online
The official publication of the Flathead Indian Nation
http://www.charkoosta.com/pow.html
Upcoming Powwows
.......... AUGUST 2001
Aug. 4 and 5: Piegan Nation Powwow and Rodeo; Pincher Creek, Alberta,
Canada; 1-888-298-5855
Aug. 17, 18 and 19: Kalispel Salish Fair in Usk, WA; 509/445-1178.
.......... SEPTEMBER 2001
Sept. 15 and 16: 8th Annual Hart of the West Intertribal Pow Wow; William
S. Hart Park & Museum, 24151 N. San Fernando Rd, Newhall, CA; 661/255-9295
Sept. 21, 22 and 23: 7th Annual Council Tree Powwow, Delta Park, CO; 1-
-800-874-1741, 970/874-1718; counciltreepowwow@doci.net;
http://www.counciltreepowwow.org
.......... OCTOBER 2001
Oct. 27 and 28: 18th Annual Mesa Powwow at Pioneer Park in Mesa, AZ;
480/644-2351; http://www.ci.mesa.az.us
.......... NOVEMBER 2001
Nov. 2, 3 and 4: 15th Annual AIA Orlando Contest Powwow; Central Florida
Fairgrounds in Orlando, FL; 407/363-9917; AIAPowwow@cfl.rr.com
Nov. 2, 3 and 4: 14th Annual Thunderbird Powwow; Niceville, FL;
850/678-7714, 850/882-1495
Nov. 11 and 12: Veterans Memorial Powwow in San Carlos, AZ; 520/475-2361
Nov. 23, 24 and 25: Social Powwow and Craft Market, Rillito Raceway Park
in Tucson, AZ; 520/622-4900
.......... DECEMBER 2001
Dec. 29 through Jan. 1, 2002: New Year's Powwow, Rillito Raceway Park in
Tucson, AZ; 520/622-4900
Let us announce your Powwow.
Please include a phone number or functioning e-mail address for
confirmation purposes.
U.S. Mail:
Char-Koosta News
PO Box 98
Pablo MT 59855-0098
Electronic:
Phone: (406) 675-3000
Fax: (406) 675-3001
E-Mail: news4u@CharKoosta.com
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Native America Online Native American Indian Powwows and Events
http://www.nativeamericainc.com/events/SWCalendar%20of%20Events.html
<+> Southwest Powwows & Events Calendar
AUGUST 24, 25, 26
ORANGE COUNTY POW WOW, ORANGE COUNTY FAIRGROUNDS,CA ORANGE, CALIFORNIA
Sept. 7, 8 and 9, 2001
Stillwater Powwow, Redding Convention center, Redding, CA 96001, Info:
Molly Redmon (530) 225-8979, ext 144
September 22-23 2001
Traditional Family Pow-Wow, Lake Silverwood off Hwy 138, Hesperia, Ca .
92345 Info: Deborah Tonn (909) 887-6006, This Pow-wow is hosted by the
parents and children of Title IX indian education.Everyone is welcome! We
strongly encourage dancing for the little ones. Our location in the park
is situated among lush green pine trees and an old mother oak tree,there
is green grass all around !! please join us for a wonderful Pow-wow !!
Vendor spaces available. Thank you for your support!!
September 28, 29 & 30, 2001
11th Annual Thunder & Lightning Pow Wow, 39755 Seminole Drive, Cabazon
California 92230 Info: Roxanne Shenah 1800 252 4499 The Morongo Band of
Mission Indians proudly presents the 11th Annual Thunder & Lightning Pow
Wow September 28, 29, & 30, 2001. For current information please click
onto www.casinomorongo.com.
October 5 & 6, 2001
29th Annual National Indian Days Pow-Wow, Bluewater Casino, Colorado
River Indian Reservation, Parker, Arizona, Info: 520-669-8223
Headstaff: TBA For more information call Kenton Laffoon, 520-669-3072 or
Ora Jones-Humeumptewa, 520-669-8223
Oct 13 - Oct 14 , 2001
Lodi Lake All Nations Pow Wow, Lodi Lake, Lodi, Ca. Info: Deana Johnson
(209)0745-7338 All drums welcome, contest, Camping. Vendord contact Glenda
(209) 748-2845 or Deana (209)745-7338
Fall Market October 20-21, 2001
IACA 2001 Wholesale Indian Arts & Crafts Markets, Phoenix, AZ; Phoenix
Civic Plaza; 225 E. Adams, Contact: Indian Arts & Crafts Association ,
4010 Carlisle NE Suite C , Albuquerque , NM , 87107 , 505 265.9149 ,
email: iaca@ix.netcom.com website http://www.iaca.com
December 8, 2001
American Indian Child Resource Center Annual Pow Wow, Oakland Tech High
School, Oakland, CA, Info: Tami Wasson hootseva@netscape.net
<+> South Central Powwows & Events Calendar
August 10-12, 2001
Thunderbird Society 11th Annual Powwow
Vandalia Fairgrounds, Vandalia, MO, Info: De Givens (573) 874-3454
Aug 31 - Sep 2, 2001
11th annual Lake Shawnee Powwow, East side of Lake Shawnee, Topeka,
Kansas, Info: 785/357-1036
September 7, 8 & 9, 2001
Northern Cherokee Nation of Mo & Ark PowWow, 578 E. Hwy 7, Clinton,
Missouri 64735, Info: Gail--660-885-7779 $5,000.00 in dance prize money
September 15-16, 2001
9th Annual Four Winds Powwow Killeen Special Events Center Killeen, TX
76547 Info: Paula Brock (254) 699-3167, Grand Entries : Saturday 1:00 &
7:00 Sunday 1:00, Pint System in Effect, Gourd Dancing 12:00 and 6:00, $15,
000 prize money, Southern Drum: Young Bird, Northern Drum: Little Eagle,
Emcee: Archie Mason, Arena: Thoma Muskrat, Head Man: Crickett Shields,
Head Lady, Angie Goodfox, Head Gourd, Cliff Queton, Adm. $1.00 Vendors($75.
00) www.fourwindstx.org, fourwinds1@hotmail.com, FAX(254)699-3038, FWIS,
Box 10035, Killeen, TX 76547-0035
September 7,8,9
Northern Cherokee Nation Of Missouri and Arkansas Pow Wow, 578 East Hwy 7
(5 miles East of Clinton) ,Missouri, Info: 660-885-7779
Contest dancing $5,000 Prize money, Camping available-( some with electric)
<+> North Central Powwows & Events Calendar
August 31, September 1&2 2001
Numaga Days Celebration, Reno Sparks Indian Colony, Hungry Valley, Sparks,
Nevada, Info: 775-425-0775 or 775-425-2431
August 24, 25, 26 2001
1st Annual Spirit of The North Traditional Celebration
Shooting Star Casino Lodge & Event Center Mahnomen, Minnesota, 56575
Info: Thomas Mason (218)846-9749 or (218)573-2104
Host Drums - White Thunder, Dowagiac, MI & Grassy Narrows, Ont. Can.
Honor Host - Kokomissinan, Ont. Can. Invted Drums - Hanishaa, Ont. Can. &
Red River Singers, Red River Valley, ND. & Mantou, Ont. Can. MC's -
Clarence White, Whitefish Bay, Ont. Can. & Paul Schultz, White Earth
Nation AD's - Thomas Mason, White Earth Nation & Sam Mason, White Earth
Nation, Grand Entries - Friday 7 p.m. Sat. 1 p.m. & 7 p.m. Sun. 1 p.m. & 7
p.m. Honorarium for All registered singers & dancers All Craft & Food
Vendors Welcome - Deposit required, book in advance. Public Is Welcome
September 28-30, 2001
Last Chance Community Pow Wow, Helena Civic Center, Helena, MT 59601,
Info: 406-439-5631
Oct. 6th & &th, 2001
Loras College Presents the 2001 Pow Wow and American Indian, Art Exhibit,
Loras College Fieldhouse 1450 AltaVista, Dubuque Iowa 52003, Info: Shannon
563-588-7664, Vendor and Artist inquiries welcome camp grounds close by
<+> Northeast Powwows & Events Calendar
August 18 & 19, 2001
Red Hawk American Indian Cultural Society 2nd Annual Competition PowWow,
Willow Ranch, Coitsville Twp. Ohio Info: Rose Marie Tullio 1-330-755-4971
September 8th and 9th, 2001
G.V.A.I.L. 40th annual Traditional Pow wow
Riverside Park, Monroe N.E., Grand Rapids MI 49505
Contact: Lori (616)364-4697 One of the oldest Indian organizations in
Michigan. One of the biggest pow wows in the state with over 80 traders,
hundreds of dancers and thousands of visitors.
October 20-21, 2001
Accohannock Native American Fall Festival & Pauwau
Bending Water Park Marion, MD 21838 Info: 410-623-2660 or
accohannock@crisfield.net 8th Annual Pauwau
Saturday: 10-5/Grand Entry at noon
Sunday: 9:45-5/Grand Entry at 1:00
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Street address: 12833 East 41st Street, Tulsa, OK 74146
Telephone: 1-918-438-6548 or Fax: 1-918-438-6545.
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August
3 100 years honor and contest powwow, Warrior Football Field, Anadarko, Ok.
Judith Lamar or Gordon Whitewolf, 405-247-2671 or grwolf@tanet.net
3-5 Annual Oklahoma Indian Nations Contest Powwow, Concho Pow-wow Grounds.
Concho, Ok. INfo: Dara 405-262-8839 or Christine 405-422-3477.
3-4 Annual Bell Powwow in Stilwell, OK.
3-5 Kaw Pow wow east of Kaw City. Camping available. Call Donna Villa 417-
364-7114.
4-5 4th Annual HonDah Resort Powwow in the Pines at the junction of Hwys
260 and 73 in Hon-Dah Arizona. FMI: 800-WAY-UP-HI or 520-369-0299 or
www.hon-dah.com
6-11 Annual American Indian Exposition, Anadarko, Ok. Starts with an all
Indian Street Parade. Pageant, horse and dog races, contest powwow
throughout the week. World championship wardance dance off and fry bread
contest. Morgan Tosee, 580-365-4097. Carnival.
10-12 IICOT Powwow
17-19 Shakopee Mdewqakanton Sioux Community annual Pow wow. 1-952-445-8900.
18-19 Annual Corpus Christie Contest Powwow Arts and Crafts, Indoor & A/C.
Contact 361-643-0399.
21 Indian Territory Day at Five Civilized Tribes Museum. Please call
918-683-1701 for details.
23-26 Schemitzen 2001 Contest Powwow and Indian Rodeo. Foxwoods Resort,
Conn. 1-800-224-CORN.
24-26 So. California Indian Center 33rd Annual Pow-wow. $20,000 in Prize
Money. www.indiancenter.org or call 714-962-6673
25-26 3rd Honoring the Elders Pow wow . Pipestone MN Grand Entry 12:00
noon and 7:00pm This is a traditional pow wow
For more info call 507 825 3734
25-26 11th Annual texas Inter-Tribal Indian Org. Contest Pow-wow. Tri-
state Fairgrounds. Rex Baster Building, Amarillo, TX Info: Lester Crow
806-457-8105 or 806-467-1088. contest all catagories
Labor Day Weekend
31-9/2 Stockton 20th Annual Title IX Community Labor Day Pow wow at
Webster Middle School in Stockton, CA. Free Admission and camping.
Call Clyde 209-669-6238, email at chodge@stockton.k12.ca.us or
clydehodge@earthlink.net
31-9/2 38th Annual Ottawa Powwow at Adair Park east of Miami, OK.
Call Charla 918-674-2553.
31-9/3 117th Annual Choctaw Holiday at the Tribal Council Gounds at
Tuskahoma. Call 580-924-8280 or 800-522-6170 for more info.
31-9/2 Cherokee Annual Holiday. Tahlequah, Ok 1-918-456-0671.
September
1-3 NAICCO Labor Day Weekend Trad. Pow-wow. Heimat Haus 4555 Jackson Pike,
(St. Route 104) Grove City, OH INfo 614-443-6120
7-9 Wyandotte Pow wow, Wyandotte, Oklahoma. 918-678-2297.
14-16 Indian Summer Festival, Bartlesville Community Center, Bartlesville,
OK, 1-918-337-2787.
15th Trail of Tears Pow-wow, De Queen, AR. There will be activities
going on from Friday night Sept 14th - Monday Night Sept. 17.
Info: Willard Polk 1-800-522-6170.
15-16 9th Annual Four Winds Pow wow at the Killeen Special Events Center
in Killeen, TX. For more info call or write to: Four Winds Box 10035
Killeen Tx 76547-0035. 254-699-3167 or 520-6169 or www.fourwindstx.org
21-23 Council Tree Pow wow, Delta, Colorado, 1-970-874-1718
22-23 Eschikagou Powwow 2001 and Indian Traders Market at University of
Chicago in Hyde Park. Admission free. Call 888-947-5004 or 505-836-2810 or
online at www.gatheringofnations.com
22-23 Elders Honoring Ceremony, dance and games, Redwood Acres Fairgrounds,
3750 Harris Street, Eureka, California. Info: 707-445-8451
http://www.ncidc.org
28-29 Standing Bear Park Pow wow., Ponca City, OK, 1-580-762-1514.
October
6-7 CMU Powwow, Central Michigan University. Mt. Pleasant, MI,
517-774-2508.
6-7 29th Annual National Indian Days Pow-wow, Bluewater Casino, Parker,
AZ. Info: Kenton Laffoon 520-669-3072 or Valerie Weslh-Tahbo 520-669-5548.
8 Native American Day at the Heritage Village next door to Crazy Horse
Mountain. Call 888-HAVE FUN.
13 6th Annual Red Road to Freedom Pow-wow. Red Carpet Inn, formerly
TravelLodge Hotel Fairgrounds, OKC, OK Info: Loretta 405-728-3681.
27 Legend of the White Buffalo Second Annual Competition Pow-wow. 10 am -
Midnight. Location: Lone Star Convention and Expo Center F.M.1484 CONROE,
TX. 77303, 936-538-8000. $15,000. in prize money. Grand Entry 1 pm & 6 pm.
Directions: Interstate 45 to exit 89 (F.M. 3083/TEAS RD.), east to FM 1484,
left on 1484. convention center is on the corner of F.M. 3083 & 1484. For
more information, contact Carroll Cocchia at 936-441-4572 or Anna Edwards
at 281-452-3614. Vendors call Pat Poland at 936-756-1225.
November
3 Annual Coffeyville, KS Powwow at High School Gym.
3 NIU Gathering Traditional Powwow at Student Recreation Center Northern
Illinois University in DeKalb, Ill. For more info call Rita 815-753-0722
9-11 48th Annual Traditional Native American Pow Wow hosted by American
Indian Center of Chicago at UIC Pavillion 1150 West Harrison, Racine exit
of I 290. For more info call 773-275-5871.
December
31 Good Medicine Society's 10th Annual New Year's Eve Sobriety Pow-wow.
At the Kitchens of America Building, State Fair Grounds. OKC, OK For
information, call 405-943-7935 or 405-751-7132. or
e-mail: goodmedicinescty@aol.com
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do not list locations or contact names or phone numbers. We try to provide
you with as much information as possible from what we receive.
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Wind thru her Hair Canadian Powwows
http://members.tripod.com/~windthruherhair/canada.html
August 3-5, 2001
22nd Annual Kamloopa Pow-wow
Kamloops, Biritish Columbia
Rates: $7/day, $14/weekend
campgrounds and showers
group rates
Contact Salvina
c/o Kamloops Indian Band
315 Yellowhead Highway
Kamloops, Biritish Columbia
V2H 1H1
Phone: 250-828-9700
Phone: 250-372-8833
eMail: Kamloopapowwow@hotmail.com
August 4, 5 & 6, 2001
Wikwemikong Anishnaabe Giizhgadoonh
41st Annual Competition Pow Wow
"Renewing Friendships"
Wikwemikong Unceded Indian Reserve
Manitoulin Island, Ontario Canada
Prize Money: $35,000.00
Drum Competition: $10,000.00 plus a drum split to remaining
Grand Entries: Noon and 7:00 p.m. Daily, Monday Noon only.
Co-Masters of Ceremonies: Alex Fox, Allan Manitowabi & Peggy Pitawanakwat
Head Veteran: Archie Francis
Head Dance Judge: Debbie Plain
Head Drum Judge: Ponchy Plain
"To Honour Our Children" Special
(7-12) Girl's Open Special
(7-12) Boy's Open Special
1st Place Trophy + Top 3 receives Prize Money
All Participants will Receive a Gift
Hosted by: Emily Faries, Bill Constant, Sharla & Stan Peltier
Wikwemikong Pow Wow is sponsored by:
The Wikwemikong Heritage Organization and the Community of Wikwemikong
64 Beach Road,
Wikwemikong, Ontario, P0P 2J0
Phone: 705-859-2385 ~ Fax: 705-859-2980
e-mail: wikyher@amtelecom.net
This is an alcohol and substance free event
24 hour security
Wikwemikong Heritage Organization is not responsible
for accidents, theft or property damage.
August 10-12, 2001
(First weekend after Wiki Powwow)
11th Annual Genaabaajing Powwow
Serpent River First Nation, Ontario
Host Drum: Painted Horse - Calgary, Alberta
Co-Host: Whitefish Bay Singers - Fort Frances, Ontario
Invited Drum: Anishnabe Sobriety Drum - Sault Ste. Marie, Ontario
Invited Drum: TBA
MC: Roger Daybutch - Mississauga, Ontario
Co-MC: Murphy Rickard - Serpent River First Nation, Ontario
Head Male Dancer: TBA
Head Female Dancer: TBA
Head Elder: Violet McGregor - Birch Island, Ontario
Head Veteran: Big Track - Sault Ste. Marie, Ontario
For more information please call Fran at (705)844-2418.
August 17, 18, 19, 2001
2nd Annual Spirit of the Anishnawbe Pow-wow 2001
Garden River First Nation Point Charles Spiritual Grounds
Garden River First Nation, Ontario
(East of Sault Ste. Marie, Ontario
15 minutes from Sault Ste Marie, Michigan Border)
Contest Specials - Adult Categories - Traditional; Jingle; Grass & Fancy
- All Round Youth Special - Ages 13-17
- All Round Children Special - Ages 6-12
Host Drum - Snake Island Singers
Invited - ThaBucks Drum
- High Spirit Drum
- Beh Skabie Drum
M. C. - Vince Beyl
Head Male - Niso Shawanda
Head Female - Lisa Marie Lavallee
Head Veteran - George Martin
Arena Director - Harvey Thunderchild
Grand Entry - Friday Night - 7:00 pm
Drum Contests !!!!
Dancers Competition Fee - $5.00
Drummers Competition Fee - $50.00
Vendors - $50.00/day; $150.00/weekend - Native American Vendors Only
Admission - $2.00 day/ $5.00 weekend
For more information call -
946-6300 (9-4; Monday-Friday) or
For more information or questions,
please call - (705) 946-6300 (9-4, Mon-Fri)
email Tkeyaa@sympatico.ca (Committee Member)
August 18 - 19, 2001
25th Annual Chippewas of the Thames First Nation Pow Wow
This is an outdoor intertribal competition event with camping available.
Located 30 km southwest of London, Ontario
Pr iz e B oa rd Categories: Traditional, Jingle, Fancy Bustle, Fancy Shawl
plus Special Team Dance & Hand Drum Contests (one contest each)
Two camping areas for visitors
Native drums, singing groups & dancers
Dance contests both days all ages
& categories/winners announced Sunday
Princess Contest and Baby Contest
Special Dance and Hand Drum Exhibition
Security, rest rooms, parking and first aid station on the grounds
See Prizeboard at our url:
http://www.geocities.com/hereontherez/index.html
For more info: Ph/519-289-2230 Fax/519-289-0153
Email: r1cush@mnsi.net
IMPORTANT!!
To send new or updated powwow information,
the email address is also: powwowtrail@hotmail.com
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