From gars@speakeasy.org Wed Sep 17 00:44:22 2003 Date: 16 Sep 2003 23:31:35 -0000 From: Gary Night Owl To: Internet Recipients of Wotanging Ikche Subject: Wotanging Ikche--nanews11.038 _ __ _____ __ _ __ ___ ____ _ __ ___ ' ) / / ') / / ) ' ) ) / ) / ' ) ) / ) / / / / / / /--/ / / / ___ / / / / ___ (_(_/ (__/ ( / (_ / (_ (___/ '__/_ / (_ (___/ ' ____ _ , ___ _ , ___ / ' ) / / ) ' ) / / ' VOLUME 11, ISSUE 038 / /-< / /--/ /-- __/_ / ) (___/ / ( (___, WOTANGING IKCHE - Lakota - Common News Wotanging Ikche and Native American News Copyright c. 1996-2003 nanews.org Aboriginal/AmerIndian Perspective about the First Nations of Turtle Island September 20, 2003 Passamaquoddy Toqakiw/autumn moon Zuni Li'dekwakkwya ts'ana/moon when everything ripens +-------------------------------------------------------+ | Much more happens in Indian Country than is reported | | in this weekly newsletter. 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"He put in your heart certain wishes and plans; in my heart, he put other different desires." __ Chief Sitting Bull, Hunkpapa Lakota +- -- -- -- -- -- -- -- -- -- -- -+ | Indian Pledge of Allegiance | The Indian Pledge of Alleg- | | iance was first presented | I pledge allegiance to my Tribe,| on 2 December '93 during the | to the democratic principles | opening address of the Nat- | of the Republic | ional Congress of American | and to the individual freedoms | Indian Tribal-States Relat- | borrowed from the Iroquois and | ions Panel in Reno, NV. NCAI | Choctaw Confederacies, | plans distribution of the | as incorporated in the United | Indian Pledge to all Indian | States Constitution, | Nations. | so that my forefathers | | shall not have died in vain | Walk in Beauty! 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The Bush Administration environmental policy is disgusting and indefensible at best, and borders on criminal. The Secretary of the Interior, Gale Norton, is nothing more than a figurehead shill for industrial wastrells. The assault on the Alaska National Wildlife Refuge has resumed. The forest industry is now advocating a policy of deforestation that Bush and Norton have embraced. This week, the Bush administration reversed a stance in support of the Miccosukee and now wishes to permit damaging phosphate dumping in the Everglades. These are only a few examples. The list of this Administration's willingness to trade natural resources for votes and monetary support to the detriment of future generations is long and downright shameful. I don't oppose wise usage of resources and I am not a tree-hugging environmentalist, but the time has come for any right-thinking citizen to say, "No! Stripping every available resource is unacceptable!" I try to avoid political stances in this column, but I ask every reader to check out, and consider signing the petition, as I have, at the following website: http://www.saynotonorton.org/ ================== PETITION INFO =================== The intro and petition read as follows: As Secretary of the Interior, Gale Norton is allowing big corporations and industry insiders to determine government policies that will seriously weaken implementation of our nation's environmental laws -- putting imperiled wildlife and habitat at greater risk. She has purposely kept a low-profile while accumulating an environmental record that will be the worst in history for her position. That is why Defenders of Wildlife is calling on President Bush to replace Gale Norton as Secretary of the Interior with someone who will protect our public lands and wildlife. Please support our STOP NORTON NOW! campaign by adding your name to our petition and let President Bush know that Americans disapprove of Gale Norton's destructive agenda. URGENT PETITION TO PRESIDENT BUSH ----------------------------------------------------------------------- Dear President Bush, Along with hundreds of thousands of other citizens across the country, I am extremely concerned about the reckless actions of Interior Secretary Gale Norton. She is abusing her position as Interior Secretary and putting precious imperiled wildlife at greater risk. America's last remaining wild lands are quickly vanishing, and we urgently need a steward who will passionately implement and enforce laws protecting those places and the innocent wildlife that depend on them. Instead, Gale Norton is determined to undermine existing environmental laws and neglect sound science to help her friends in industry make more profits. Time and time again, Gale Norton has demonstrated that protecting habitat and wildlife for future generations of Americans is not part of her agenda as Interior Secretary. I hope you don't agree with her outrageous disregard for America's natural heritage. Gale Norton has brought dishonor to her position as protector of America's wild lands and wildlife, and again and again she has violated the public trust. I implore you to ask for her resignation immediately, and to replace her with someone whom we can trust in this. Respectfully submitted, ================ RELATED ARTICLE ================= Norton vs the Environment The Secretary of the Interior has proven she is more loyal to Big Industry than to the wildlife and public lands she is required to protect by Jeff Woods The oil, gas, mining and timber industries cheered loudly when Gale Norton was named Secretary of the Interior. "She's a fantastic choice," gushed Jack Ekstrom, director of governmental and industry affairs at the Denver- based Forest Oil Corporation. They had good reason to celebrate. Norton, who now has logged 16 months as the chief steward of about 500 million acres, or one sixth of the nation's land, is compiling a record as perhaps the most anti-environmental Interior Secretary in history -- even worse, perhaps, than notorious Reagan Interior Secretary James Watt, who resigned from his post after trying to cede public lands to special interests and losing the confidence of the American people. As Interior Secretary, Norton can do more to hurt or help America's wildlife and public lands than any other American. She is responsible for the national parks, the national wildlife refuges and the public rangeland. She controls numerous federal agencies -- including the National Park Service, the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service, the Bureau of Land Management and the Office of Surface Mining, and she oversees enforcement of the Endangered Species Act and other major environmental laws. Norton has run roughshod over public lands under the guise of "moving from conflict to cooperation" with industry. But conservationists say her responsibility as Interior Secretary requires her to defend natural resources from huge companies seeking quick profits at the expense of those resources. "Gale Norton is the greatest threat to America's wildlife and natural heritage today," Defenders of Wildlife President Rodger Schlickeisen says. "Our last remaining wild land is quickly vanishing, and we desperately need a steward who will passionately implement and enforce laws protecting those places and the wildlife that depends on them for survival. Instead, our Interior Secretary is determined to undermine those laws for her friends in industry." Norton is an ideological extremist who worked for two decades to dismantle the very laws the Interior Department is sworn to uphold. Before becoming Interior Secretary, she espoused the "right to pollute" and other extreme positions, including support of laws allowing polluters to police themselves. As Colorado attorney general, she was hostile to environmental protection and took a head-in-the-sand approach to polluters. She stood by, for instance, as cyanide leaks from the Summitville gold mine killed wildlife in 17 miles of the Alamosa River. As a lawyer, she represented the oil industry, loggers and miners. She was a senior attorney at the arch-conservative Mountain States Legal Foundation under its founder, the bombastic Watt. Environmentalists warned against Norton from the day she was nominated to the Bush Cabinet. Defenders of Wildlife helped lead the fight against her nomination and supporters sent 100,000 e-mails to senators urging her defeat. The effort to derail her confirmation failed after Norton assured the U.S. Senate that she would uphold environmental law and renounced the controversial positions she espoused throughout her prior career. She has not lived up to those promises. So far, Norton has managed to operate mostly under the radar screen of public scrutiny. That's because many of the harms she has committed so far have been a result of her refusing to act. For example, she has dragged her heels on listing many vanishing wildlife species as endangered, pushing them closer to extinction. Wildlife that's already protected under the Endangered Species Act is losing critical habitat because Norton is refusing to fight lawsuits by homebuilders and others bent on unbridled development. She has politicized the Interior Department by filling numerous key positions with executives and lobbyists from resource-extracting industries. Together, they have moved briskly to open more fragile public lands to oil and gas drilling, mining and off-road vehicles - sometimes even refusing to conduct environmental reviews mandated by federal law. Government scientists who object have been silenced or ignored. James Watt was outspokenly anti-environment and proud of it. With his self-righteous proclamations, he inflamed the public against him. Norton is Madison Avenue smooth, appearing frequently for photos at scenic locales to declare her passion for conservation while working quietly at the same time to exploit our pristine wild places for her friends in industry. As Schlickeisen said, "She has proven that she is no James Watt. She's worse. And unlike Watt, she's getting away with it." , , Gary Smith Night Owl gars@nanews.org (*,*) P. O. Box 672168 gars@speakeasy.org (`-') Marietta, GA 30008, U.S.A. http://www.nanews.org ===w=w=== ========================================== A recent article in The New Mexican underscores this administration's determination to exploit every possible natural resource this country may offer -- and it seems particularly determined to encroach upon the sites Native Americans hold sacred. After fighting off coal interests that almost certainly would have desecrated (if not outrightly destroyed) Zuni Salt Lake, the Zuni Pueblo and other local tribes are facing yet another assault, this time from an (unnamed) gas and oil developer seeking leases of that same site and other land in the area for oil and gas production. The Bureau of Land Management at first says it is "considering" the request, but later in the same article, says it INTENDS to GRANT this request in its October auction. An official with the BLM cautions that just because the company has a lease does not mean it will be necessarily permitted to drill. My contention is that this lease is a foot in the door, and once that foot is in, the leg will follow -- and once the land is already despoiled -- why not allow that coal company back in to finish off the job? So the Zuni hold this lake sacred? So what? It actually probably makes it a more desirable target. Like the Sweetgrass Hills and Weatherman's Draw, and the Canyon of the Ancients -- why not destroy our Native sacred areas? What does this mean to those who despise our traditions and wish to destroy them other than a double opportunity to accomplish that end while lining their pockets? A final note: An audit of lease fees showed that Indian landowners were consistently paid only a fraction of what white landowners received for use of their land or exploitation of their resources. That is yet another reason for resource-exploiting companies to seek opportunities on our land. They can get even richer by saving the cost of actually paying a fair price for stripping the land of its value. ================ RELATED ARTICLE ================= Another Battle Looms Over Zuni Salt Lake By BEN NEARY | The New Mexican - Saturday, September 13, 2003 Battles over development near a lake sacred to Zuni Pueblo might not be over yet. Just a month after an Arizona utility company abandoned a controversial plan to develop a coal strip mine near the lake, the U.S. Bureau of Land Management is considering leasing a portion of the proposed mine site and other land in the area for oil and gas production. Environmental groups that fought the strip-mine proposal call the prospect of oil and gas production in the area an outrage. They say the federal government should place the area off-limits to development. Gary Stephens, geologist with the BLM in Santa Fe, said Friday that his agency recently received a request from an energy company to hold an auction for the right to develop oil and gas on 117,000 acres of federal land in Catron and Cibola counties. Stephens declined to name the energy company, saying that federal regulations require confidentiality. "That's held confidential until the day of the sale," Stephens said. In response to the company's request that the oil and gas rights be placed at auction, Stephens said the BLM intends to offer 10-year leases for oil and gas on the land at its quarterly auction Oct. 22. Even if a company secures leases for oil and gas for the land, Stephens said the federal government would still require the company to secure drilling permits before any disturbance would be allowed at the site. "Just because we approve a permit for them doesn't mean they can go out and start drilling," Stephens said. Salt River Project, an Arizona utility company, announced last month that it was abandoning its plan to develop an 18,000-acre strip mine in the area, on the border between Cibola and Catron counties, south of Grants. Although Salt River Project said it decided against proceeding with the mine because it had located cheaper coal elsewhere, the company's announcement followed bitter opposition from Zuni Pueblo and other area Indian tribes who contended its proposal threatened the nearby Zuni Salt Lake. The lake is sacred to several southwestern Indian tribes. Early this summer, New Mexico's congressional delegation expressed concern that any mining at the site not be allowed to harm the production of brine at the lake. David Cunningham, lawyer for Zuni Pueblo, said Friday the pueblo will monitor any proposal for oil and gas development in the area closely. "Obviously, if what is planned will affect the water, or the Zuni Salt Lake, or the archaeological or the traditional cultural properties of Zuni, these people can expect a lot of resistance from Zuni and the surrounding Indian nations," Cunningham said. Officials with Salt River Project in Phoenix said Friday their company has nothing to do with any oil and gas development plans in the area. Before Salt River Project abandoned its mine project, opponents had formed a group called the Zuni Salt Lake Coalition to oppose it. The Center for Biological Diversity, an Arizona-based environmental group that commonly sues the federal government over endangered-species issues, is a coalition member. Brian Segee, Southwest public-lands director with the center, said Friday that oil and gas leasing near the lake could permit development of coal-bed methane, a type of natural gas. Such gas production commonly requires extensive pumping of groundwater. "Obviously, it's raising a lot of red flags," Segee said of the upcoming lease auction. "Because it will be pumping from the same aquifers that have already been shown as being connected to Zuni Salt Lake. "The fact that this proposal has come out so soon after SRP withdrawing from the coal mine really underscores the need for permanent protection for this area," Segee said. Carolyn Johnson, director of the Citizens Coal Council in Colorado, said Friday she has discussed the lease proposal with Stephens of the BLM and believes it endangers the Zuni Salt Lake and surrounding area. "It should be, I think, very clear that this area needs permanent protection," Johnson said. Even if the area around the lake proves unviable for production of oil or gas, she said, mere exploration would damage the area. There's not much oil or gas production in the area, Stephens said. Coal in the area being considered for Salt River Project's strip mine couldn't produce much coal-bed methane because the coal is too shallow, he said, but that wouldn't necessarily stop a company from exploring the area. +/// Janet Smith owlstar@speakeasy.org /*/+ P. O. Box 672168 OwlStar Trading Post + / * Marietta, GA 30008, U.S.A. http://www.owlstar.com * + Dohiyi Ani Oginalii , , Gary Smith Night Owl gars@nanews.org (*,*) P. O. Box 672168 gars@speakeasy.org (`-') Marietta, GA 30008, U.S.A. http://www.nanews.org ===w=w=== ----------- News of the people featured in this issue ---------- - White House renews call - Biography: BIA nominee to open ANWR 'Famous' Dave Anderson - KRISTOF: - Alaska Supreme Court Casting a Cold Eye on Arctic Oil considers Native Sovereignty - Blackfeet Treasurer - Purge of AFN Land Rights squelches Layoff Talk and Parliamentary Staff - Fort Benton and Blackfeet reunite - Inquest into death - Flathead Rangeland closures end of Native teen opens - N.M. Tribe weighs Lawsuit - Stonechild Social Worker for damage to Lake says she was Silenced - Bush brief backs Agency - Suspected Officers listen over Miccosukee Tribe as Friend Testifies - Attorneys appeal - Eastern Cherokee Police Norton Contempt Ruling to pay $200K for Death - Appeals Court - Federal Death Sentence blocks Norton's Appeal imposed in 2 Murders - Definition of Native American - Janklow's Accident at stake - Trial for Man charged - Utah lags in educating Indians with Aquash Murder delayed - Ute Tribe awarded - Native Prisoner $2.3 Million Contract -- Peltier's Parole Hearing - Swinomish may sue over Tide Gates - History: Carlisle Indian School - Indian Pleadings - Rustywire: The Cornfield posted at NARF Website - Poem: Gift of Sacrifice - White House acts to fill - Verse: Hawaiian Book of Days top BIA Leadership Post - Specials This Week on APTN - This Week on AIROS --------- "RE: White House renews call to open ANWR" --------- Date: Thu, 11 Sep 2003 08:10:37 -0700 From: Gary Smith Subj: NA News Item - - - - - - -- - - - - - - filename="EXPLOIT ANWR" http://www.indianz.com/News/ http://www.nytimes.com/2003/09/11/politics/11ENER.html White House Backs Most Items in Emerging Energy Package By CARL HULSE September 11, 2003 WASHINGTON, Sept. 10 - The Bush administration today endorsed the bulk of the provisions being considered by House and Senate negotiators as part of a new energy policy and renewed its call to open the Arctic National Wildlife Refuge to oil drilling. "The administration believes Congress should look at the facts, not the rhetoric, concerning the nation's best onshore prospect for oil, a small part of the coastal plain of A.N.W.R.," Energy Secretary Spencer Abraham wrote in a letter to Congress spelling out the White House position on the emerging energy bill. The oil drilling plan, which is in the House version of the bill but not the Senate's, faces strong opposition. At least 43 senators have signed new letters circulating on Capitol Hill opposing the drilling plan. One letter, written by Senators Richard J. Durbin of Illinois and Russell D. Feingold of Wisconsin, both Democrats, said that adding the drilling plan to the final bill would "seriously derail" efforts to pass a broad bill. Senator Pete V. Domenici, the New Mexico Republican who is chairman of the House-Senate negotiations on the energy measure, has said he will include the oil drilling plan only if he is assured that he has the 60 votes needed to overcome a filibuster. The number of senators signing the letters show that Mr. Domenici does not yet have that level of support. Representative Richard W. Pombo, Republican of California, the chairman of the House Resources Committee, said today that it would be "wholly irresponsible" not to tap the oil reserves, given the state of the economy. The letter from Mr. Abraham said the administration "strongly supports" provisions being considered to improve the nation's power grid in the aftermath of the blackout, including "mandatory and enforceable" reliability rules. It said the White House backed only voluntary membership in regional transmission organizations that some say would help avoid blackouts. The White House said it was opposed to provisions that would require utilities to use a set amount of renewable fuel sources, saying those standards were best left to states. The administration also rejected Senate provisions on global warming, saying they were inconsistent with the president's strategy on the issue. The White House called on Congress to hold tax incentives in the measure to about $8 billion and raised objections to price supports for a proposed natural gas pipeline from Alaska, though it endorsed loan guarantees for the project. "This comprehensive energy bill should reduce our reliance on foreign sources of energy, protect the environment, increase conservation, improve energy efficiency and expand the use of new technologies and renewable energy sources," the letter from Mr. Abraham said. Copyright c. 2003 The New York Times Company. --------- "RE: KRISTOF: Casting a Cold Eye on Arctic Oil" --------- Date: Thu, 11 Sep 2003 08:10:37 -0700 From: Gary Smith Subj: NA News Item - - - - - - -- - - - - - - filename="NO TO ANWR DRILLING" http://www.indianz.com/News/ http://www.nytimes.com/2003/09/10/opinion/10KRIS.htm Casting a Cold Eye on Arctic Oil By NICHOLAS D. KRISTOF September 10, 2003 ARCTIC NATIONAL WILDLIFE REFUGE, Alaska - Here's a helpful hint for backpackers here in the Arctic: If you're lying in your sleeping bag and suddenly feel a pat on the behind from outside the tent, YELL! Several campers have been subjected to this kind of sexual harassment lately, and when they opened their tent flaps, they found polar bears grinning at them. This refuge is, after all, a bit like a wildlife safari in reverse - curious animals have the opportunity to gawk at humans. After rafting and backpacking through this wilderness for a week, weighing whether Congress should allow oil drilling here, I've reached a few conclusions. One is that both the oil industry and environmentalists exaggerate their cases. For starters, no one has any idea how much oil is here, and we will never know unless it is explored. There has been limited exploration and test drilling in Eskimo-controlled lands in the refuge, but those results have been kept secret. Environmentalists say contemptuously that there's only a six-month supply, while Big Oil speaks of a 25-year spigot - and they're both talking through their hats. Estimates range from 3.2 billion barrels (which would supply all U.S. needs for six months) to 16 billion barrels, but these are all wild guesses. The top end of the range would be very significant, coming close to doubling America's proven petroleum reserves of 22 billion barrels, but there is some reason to be skeptical of the higher estimates - particularly because the oil here may not be economical to extract. One clue, for example, is that the Badami oil field, almost adjacent to the Arctic refuge, is now being mothballed because it was producing only 1, 300 barrels a day instead of the 30,000 expected. Arctic oil can be chimerical, and it would be tragic to sacrifice this wilderness for a series of dry wells. It is true that oil drilling would not ravage the entire refuge. Only the coastal plain, 7 percent of the total area, would be open to drilling. The coastal plain is endless brown tundra, speckled with ponds and lakes, boggy and squishy to hike in. It is by far the least scenic part of the refuge, and if one has to drill somewhere in the area, this is the place to do it. It's also only fair to give special weight to the views of the only people who live in the coastal plain: the Inupiat Eskimos, who overwhelmingly favor drilling (they are poor now, and oil could make them millionaires). One of the Eskimos, Bert Akootchook, angrily told me that if environmentalists were so anxious about the Arctic, they should come here and clean up the petroleum that naturally seeps to the surface of the tundra. Yet drilling proponents who dismiss the coastal plain as a wasteland - Alaska's governor, Frank Murkowski, has likened it to a sheet of white paper - are talking drivel. They should have been with me as I sleepily opened the tent flap early one morning to see a herd of caribou outside, or beheld the polar bears swimming along the coast, or admired a huge grizzly as it considered dining on nearby musk oxen. Drilling supporters also grossly understate the impact of drilling when they speak of only a 2,000-acre "footprint" in the Arctic. The reality is that oil would mean roads, lodgings, pipelines, security fences, guard stations and airstrips - and my children would never be able to experience the Arctic as I have. True, we need to get our oil from somewhere, and Americans are dying now in Iraq because of our dependence on foreign oil. So I would endorse drilling in the Arctic refuge if it were part of a mega-environmental package that also addressed global warming, an environmental challenge where we have even more at stake than in the Arctic. Daniel Esty, a Yale scholar of the environment, proposes such a deal - with trepidation - in the interest of breaking the national deadlock on environmental policy. The package could include careful oil exploration in the Arctic National Wildlife Refuge (exploratory drilling could be done in winter without permanent damage) and, if it turned out to be the oil lake that proponents claim, commercial drilling as well. In exchange, the right would accept a beyond-Kyoto framework to control carbon emissions, with tighter standards but a longer time frame. The deal would include $1 billion in additional financing for solar, wind and hydrogen energy, and significant increases in vehicle mileage standards to promote conservation. Yet President Bush's push to open the Arctic refuge is not part of such a bold and thoughtful package to break the stalemate on the environment. Rather it is simply a lunge for oil. Without trying to conserve oil, Mr. Bush would gobble up a national treasure, the birthright of our descendants, as a first resort. The argument that I find most compelling is that this primordial wilderness, a part of our national inheritance that is roughly the same as it was a thousand years ago, would be irretrievably lost if we drilled. The Bush administration's proposal to drill is therefore not just bad policy but also shameful, for it would casually rob our descendants forever of the chance to savor this magical coastal plain - and to be slapped in the butt by a frisky polar bear. Copyright c. 2003 The New York Times Company. --------- "RE: Blackfeet Treasurer squelches Layoff Talk" --------- Date: Fri, 12 Sep 2003 08:12:12 -0700 From: Gary Smith Subj: NA News Item - - - - - - -- - - - - - - filename="FISCAL SHORTFALL" http://www.greatfallstribune.com/~/20030912/localnews/243485.html Blackfeet treasurer squelches layoff talk September 12, 2003 By KATHLEEN A. SCHULTZ Tribune Staff Writer Bounced paychecks to some Blackfeet tribal employees this week have fueled rumors of tribal insolvency and impending layoffs. The rumors aren't true, Blackfeet tribal Treasurer Joe Gervais said Thursday, blaming the rubber checks on the tribal government's temporary end-of-the-fiscal year empty pockets. The tribe's fiscal year runs from October to the end of September. "We're not broke. We had a cash flow problem Monday, it's been resolved, and the council hasn't taken action to lay anyone off," Gervais said. Because the tribe owns Blackfeet National Bank, the bank on which the paychecks were drawn, they could not be cashed until funds were back in place, he said. He declined to say how much money the tribe had to come up with to offset the shortfall, or from where the money came. But anyone whose checks have bounced should resubmit them, Gervais said, and they will be covered. Rick Billman, owner of Billman's Inc. building supply store in Cut Bank, said he's gotten a lot of calls from people asking if he's having problems getting payments from the tribe, but he's not. "So far, nothing," Billman said, adding that, as of Thursday, no checks to his company have bounced. "And we do a lot of business with the tribe." Byron Kluth, manager of First State Bank in Shelby, said his branch did see about four paychecks bounce on Sept. 4, but to his knowledge, all have since been paid. Copyright c. 2003 Great Falls Tribune. All rights reserved. --------- "RE: Fort Benton and Blackfeet reunite" --------- Date: Mon, 15 Sep 2003 08:10:49 -0700 From: Gary Smith Subj: NA News Item - - - - - - -- - - - - - - filename="FUR TRADE" http://www.pechanga.net/ http://www.greatfallstribune.com/~/20030914/localnews/259795.html Fort Benton, Blackfeet reunite to tell history of fur trade By KAREN OGDEN Tribune Regional Editor September 14, 2003 FORT BENTON - The farm town of Fort Benton and the Blackfeet Indian Reservation are 80 miles apart as the crow flies, but they have very little economic connection in today's Montana. But 156 years ago, their economies were bound together when the American Fur Co. opened the Fort Benton trading post to buy buffalo robes from the Blackfeet. The fort's blockhouse still stands in a park in the heart of the riverside town. Next weekend the two communities will make history together again as they time travel to the era of mountain men and trade beads and buffalo at the four-day Fur Trade Symposium in Fort Benton. "Most people in Fort Benton are aware that we're an old town and there's a lot of history there," said Sharalee Smith, a member of the town's Fort Restoration Committee. "But I don't know that they're aware as to the partnership the two races had back then." The Blackfeet Tribe's prominence in the event - from a living history Indian camp to a presentation on Blackfeet language - demonstrates a growing Native American voice in the retelling of Montana's history, organizers from Fort Benton and the reservation said. "We're really invited in as partners," said Darrell Kipp, director of the Piegan Institute, a Browning-based cultural preservation center. "I'm happy to report that we're not an afterthought." At least 180 history buffs will be in town for historic tours and academic lectures on the fur trade era. Speakers will include university professors, museum curators, Blackfeet tribal members and even an expert on Plains Indian material culture from England. Held in a different town every three years by history enthusiasts, the symposium is open only to paid registrants. But a re-enactment Saturday of the opening of trade at the fort - complete with cannon fire, horses and grog - will give the public a good dose of fur trade fever. "It'll be a colorful deal," said Fort Benton historian Bob Doerk, one of the symposium's lead organizers. International trade The ceremony was no less colorful back in the 1840s and '50s, when the Blackfeet met white traders at the fort's gates. Both parties dressed in their finest. This was sophisticated business, and each side was out to impress the other. Though in later years, whiskey traders brought the scourge of alcohol to the Blackfeet, the early days of the fur trade were prosperous and equitable. "It was really an entrepreneurial relationship where the traders knew they had to provide a fair exchange or they wouldn't make any money," Kipp said. Long before the World Trade Organization, the fur traders brought the Blackfeet goods from around the globe. The traders offered utilitarian items such as British-made guns and finer goods including Italian glass beads or vermilion, a scarlet pigment from China prized among the Indians as war paint. Sold in a paper package the size of a bar of hotel soap, the pigment sold for $5 to $6 a pound on the Chinese market, a handsome price in those days, said Jim Hanson, curator of the Museum of the Fur Trade in Chadron, Neb., and a lecturer at the symposium. At first, trappers were after beaver pelts to sell for fashionable top hats back East and in Europe "(The traders') sole purpose was to develop customers, and they operated just like Wal-Mart and the rest of them," Kipp said. "They gave you a lot of credit and brought you a lot of nice things and tried to get you to come back the next year." In fact, the fur trade helped build some modern companies. Trade blankets made by the Hudson Bay Co., now a Canadian department store chain, still are prized gifts at powwow ceremonies. The DuPont Co. of Wilmington, Del., today one of the world's leading chemistry companies, made gunpowder that was sold to the Blackfeet, Hanson said. "The Indians were very careful about what they chose," he said. "The traders had to supply just what the Indian wanted, and the trader gathered those goods from around the world." The first anthropologists Like modern-day companies, the fur traders did market research. "Companies would send their more adventurous types out first and they would spend a winter with the tribes and learn to speak their language, and they knew where the tribes were going to be at," Kipp said. The traders were known to Great Plains tribes long before Lewis and Clark passed through in 1805. "Not only did (the traders) set up trade agreements with the Native Americans, but in many cases they recorded language," Kipp said. "They took extensive field notes, so in many ways they were the earliest visiting anthropologists." The Blackfeet first encountered a Hudson Bay Co. trader in the 1750s in what is now Canada, Kipp said. The traders also mapped some of the plains along the Missouri River before Lewis and Clark's journey. When the expedition arrived at the Mandan villages in North Dakota, fur traders already were there, Hanson said. "Lewis and Clark merely proved to the fur traders in St. Louis that yes, you can go across the Rockies," Hanson said. Lewis and Clark's journals remain an important source for modern historians. But today's tribes are writing and telling their history in their own words. "There's a total renaissance right now among the Blackfeet Tribe in studying their own history and beginning to recount their own historical analysis," Kipp said. When Lewis and Clark Bicentennial events began in 2000, "most of the presentation then reflected almost exclusively the view of Lewis and Clark and primarily through their journals, and little attention was given to the Native American side," Kipp said. "Indian people wanted nothing to do with it." But organizers have since made a genuine effort to include the Indian side of the story, both for Lewis and Clark events and other activities such as Fort Benton's symposium, Kipp said. A meeting of the Montana Lewis and Clark Bicentennial Commission in Lewistown next month is titled "Many Nations - One Land." "Once (Indians) realized they were not brought in as token presenters or sideshows or sidebars they began to realize their scholarship and presentations were respected equally with others," he said. Prosperous times Although the Indian side of the fur trade story ends badly, the fur traders initially improved the Blackfeet's lot with metal cooking pots and knives, firearms and "a whole range of things that simply made life easier for them," Kipp said. The Blackfeet at first kept non-Indian trappers out of their territory, Doerk said. But in 1831 they allowed the American Fur Co. to build a trading post at Fort Piegan on the north bank of the Missouri River on the neck of land between the Missouri and Marias rivers. The company moved its post several times, finally opening Fort Benton in 1847. Its main currency was the buffalo robe. By the late 1830s beaver fur hats had fallen out of fashion in Europe, replaced by silk. Buffalo robes were popular as carriage blankets and the tough hide was used for belts in East Coast textile mills, Doerk said. At the height of the buffalo robe trade in the 1840s and '50s more than 100,000 buffalo robes a year were sent down the Missouri, Hanson said. Smallpox and bloodshed But the prosperous times were not to last for the Blackfeet. Smallpox ravaged the tribe while population pressure from the gold rush and displaced Civil War veterans strained relations with whites. In Fort Benton, Blackfeet were shot on the street in the light of day and tossed in the river, Doerk said. "The other thing that came to a screeching halt was there weren't any more buffalo and one day the Indians found themselves hungry," Hanson said. The only survivor Fort Benton was sold to the military in 1865. In his book "Montana: An Uncommon Land," the late historian and University of Montana professor K. Ross Toole notes that of 11 American Fur Co. posts established in Montana, Fort Benton was the only one to survive the end of trade and to establish a permanent community. Though the Blackfeet now are separated from Fort Benton by decades of subsequent history, the communities' shared history will come back to life next weekend. "Native American history is absolutely intertwined with American history," Kipp said. "You can't separate them. They have to be presented as one entity." Copyright c. 2003 Great Falls Tribune. All rights reserved. --------- "RE: Flathead Rangeland closures end" --------- Date: Wed, 10 Sep 2003 08:46:13 -0700 From: Gary Smith Subj: NA News Item - - - - - - -- - - - - - - filename="FOREST/RANGE REOPENED" http://www.owlstar.com/dailyheadlines.htm http://www.missoulian.com/articles/2003/09/10/news/mtregional/news08.txt Reservation closures end today By JOHN STROMNES of the Missoulian September 10, 2003 PABLO - Effective Wednesday, the general rangeland and forest closure of tribal lands on the Flathead Reservation has been canceled, officials of the Confederated Salish and Kootenai Tribes announced. The Tribal Council took the action Tuesday morning rescinding the general reservation-wide closure of tribal lands imposed July 31, said Germaine White, information and education specialist with the tribal government in Polson. Stage II fire restrictions will remain in effect until there is a significant long-term change in fire danger. Tony Harwood, tribal fire management officer, urged residents and visitors to exercise caution while hunting, working or recreating outdoors. Stage II fire restrictions prohibit campfires; smoking, except within an enclosed vehicle or building, a developed recreation site or while stopped in an approved, cleared area; and operating motorized vehicles off designated roads and trails. "Hoot-owl" restrictions, in effect from 1 p.m. to 1 a.m. each day, prohibit blasting, welding activities and most logging activities, including firewood cutting. Reporter John Stromnes can be reached at 1-800-366-7816 or at jstromnes@missoulian.com Copyright c. 2003 Missoulian. --------- "RE: N.M. Tribe weighs Lawsuit for damage to Lake" --------- Date: Thu, 11 Sep 2003 08:10:37 -0700 From: Gary Smith Subj: NA News Item - - - - - - -- - - - - - - filename="NAMBE'" http://www.indianz.com/News/ http://www.sfnewmexican.com/print.asp?ArticleID=32463 Study: Fire Caused Long-Term Damage to Nambe' Lake By MARISSA STONE | The New Mexican Wednesday, September 10, 2003 A hydrologist hired to assess damages to Nambe' reservoir caused by the Molina Complex Fire said sediment from the blaze has shortened the life of the man-made lake. Nambe' reservoir, which was designed to last about 100 years, now has a lot of dead storage space because an Aug. 10 flash flood washed dirt and other sediment that collected at the bottom, said Laurel Lacher, a hydrologist hired by the Bureau of Indian Affairs. "The long-term impact to the reservoir is worse than expected," she said. For the lake to regain some of its life, it would have to be dredged, Lacher said. The BIA is completing the assessment of damages at the pueblo's recreation area to determine if it will be eligible for the federal Burn Area Emergency Response funding, which will be awarded if the tribal members' life and livelihood were affected by the fire. Only $2 million remains in that fund this year, and it must be shared by all tribes, said Ed Wallhagen, BAER coordinator with the BIA's Southwest regional office. The tribe's attorney is conducting a review of the damages to determine if the pueblo will file a tort claim notice against the U.S. Forest Service, said Nambe Gov. Tom Talache. A tort claim notice puts a government agency on notice that a lawsuit could follow. "I don't know if the BIA is going to have enough money to cover the damages," Talache said. The BIA hired Lacher to complete an independent study of the area because Nambe' Pueblo officials were dissatisfied with a recent assessment the U.S. Forest Service conducted of the burn site. The Forest Service determined the pueblo should receive $60,000 for overall damages from the fire, said Nambe' Pueblo Lt. Gov. Shannon McKenna. Some officials criticized the Forest Service for not fighting the fire aggressively from the start.^G The lightning-sparked fire began June 23 in the Pecos Wilderness and burned 7,240 acres, including 264 acres of pueblo lands. Lacher's assessment also will include BIA reports on whether the quality of pueblo's 38-square-mile watershed and drinking water were damaged by the fire. However, that report is not complete yet, Lacher said. Nambe' Pueblo's governor and lieutenant governor said in July that the tribe lost 53 percent of the income it normally receives from its recreation area. People hike, fish and camp at the lake. Nambe' Pueblo Lt. Gov. Shannon McKenna has said the tribe makes its yearly income from the recreational area during June, July and August. Nambe' Lake has been closed since the fire and the pueblo has been holding concerts and other events at the falls to try to recover some of the lost revenues, Talache said. After the fire, hundreds of trout began dying in the Nambe' Lake because carbon and other organic matter from the fire washed into the lake and choked the oxygen source of the fish, said Steve Romero, Nambe' Pueblo's environmental director. Between Aug. 29 and Sept. 3, Romero, Matthew Gutierrez and Joe Garcia, members of the tribe's environmental department, along with an employee of the U.S. Fish and Wildlife service, counted 300 dead rainbow trout and sunfish along a 100-yard stretch of the Rio Nambe', said Chris Kitcheyan, a fish biologist with the service. But the men also found hundreds of living fish in other sections of the river, where dissolved oxygen that fish need to survive was more plentiful, Kitcheyan said. In the lake, where dissolved oxygen levels were low, more dead fish were found, Kitcheyan said. The group conducted a study of the fish in the area to determine the impacts of the fire. "We've been told (by biologists) it will be years before the fish population is back to the way it was before the fire," Romero said. Although the tribe stocks the lake with rainbow trout, those fish breed with cutthroat trout that are already in the lake, Romero said. Copyright c. 2003 The Santa Fe New Mexican, Inc. --------- "RE: Bush brief backs Agency over Miccosukee Tribe" --------- Date: Thu, 11 Sep 2003 08:10:37 -0700 From: Gary Smith Subj: NA News Item - - - - - - -- - - - - - - filename="REVERSAL OF STANCE" http://www.indianz.com/News/archives/001392.asp Bush brief backs Fla. agency over Miccosukee Tribe Thursday, September 11, 2003 The Bush administration asked the Supreme Court on Wednesday to overturn a victory the Miccosukee Tribe obtained as part of the $8 billion battle to clean up the Florida Everglades. In May, the Department of Justice sided with the tribe in urging the justices not to take the case. At the time, Solicitor General Ted Olson, who handled President Bush's Florida election appeal, said in a brief that the matter was not of national significance and didn't create a conflict among the lower courts. But now that the nation's high court has agreed to hear the dispute, Olson and other government lawyers have shifted their stance. They are not supporting the tribe's bid to stop water containing high levels of phosphorous, a dangerous pollutant, from being pumped into the Everglades. "The Bush administration's approach would allow phosphorous pollution to poison the Everglades," said Nancy Stoner, director of the Clean Water Project at Natural Resources Defense Council in response to the brief. "[Gov.] Jeb Bush should call his brother and tell him this idea is as bad as drilling for oil off the coast of Florida." At issue is a pumping station operated by the South Florida Water Management District, a state agency. The station discharges polluted water directly into the Miccosukee's homelands. The tribe and a coalition of environmental groups contend that the activity violates the federal Clean Water Act. They want the district to seek a permit from the Environmental Protection Agency, a process that would allow for greater tribal and public input. The district, in a brief submitted on Tuesday, stood firm in its opposition to the permit issue. The managers argue that they are not generating new pollution that would trigger the Clean Water Act. That point is crucial to the government's stance in the case. Olson's brief supports the view that the pumping station itself doesn't add pollutants to the water. The pumping station "water contains, however, higher levels of phosphorus than the waters in" the Everglades, the brief admits. And in a position somewhat contrary to the May brief, Olson argues that the U.S. has a "substantial interest" in the case due to the $8 billion Everglades cleanup. The Bush administration, Secretary of Interior Gale Norton and the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers are big backers of the plan. In a separate case, the tribe has challenged how the plan was developed. The 11th Circuit Court of Appeals ruled in the tribe's favor last September and said there wasn't enough tribal or public consultation. The tribe and the environmental groups have not yet submitted their final arguments in South Florida Water Management District v. Miccosukee Tribe, No. 02-626. The brief is due by November 14. Copyright c. 2000-2003 Indianz.Com, a product of Noble Savage Media, LLC and Ho-Chunk, Inc. --------- "RE: Attorneys appeal Norton Contempt Ruling" --------- Date: Wed, 3 Sep 2003 08:11:38 -0700 From: Gary Smith Subj: NA News Item - - - - - - -- - - - - - - filename="DoI CONTEMPT" http://www.indianz.com/ http://www.sunherald.com/mld/sunherald/news/breaking_news/6676135.htm Attorneys Appeal Norton Contempt Ruling ROBERT GEHRKE Associated Press September 3, 2003 WASHINGTON - Attorneys suing the government on behalf of hundreds of thousands of American Indians asked a federal appeals court Tuesday to reinstate a contempt of court reprimand of Interior Secretary Gale Norton. U.S. District Judge Royce Lamberth held Norton in civil contempt almost a year ago, ruling that her department had "committed fraud on the court" by deceiving the judge about progress toward fixing a system for managing royalties from American Indian-owned land. The Indian plaintiffs allege the government squandered billions of dollars of oil, gas, timber and grazing royalties that belonged to Indians. A three-judge appeals court panel suspended the contempt ruling in April and vacated the contempt citation in July, saying Norton should not be reprimanded for actions that occurred partly during the tenure of her predecessor, Bruce Babbitt. The panel also said Lamberth should have used the stricter standards for criminal contempt, not civil contempt, when deciding whether to sanction Norton. In their filing Tuesday, the plaintiffs' attorneys asked the full nine- member U.S. Court of Appeals for the District of Columbia Circuit to overturn the three judges and to reinstate the contempt decision. They said the three judges erred in basing their decision on issues that were not raised before Lamberth and considering the cases as a matter of possible criminal contempt. The appeals court has ruled that its judges lack jurisdiction in civil contempt cases, the brief stated. "It was a device to create jurisdiction for the court of appeals where otherwise, as a matter of federal law, they had none," said Dennis Gingold, attorney for more than 300,000 American Indians in the class-action lawsuit. Dan DuBray, a spokesman for the Interior Department, said: "It is not surprising that the attorneys for the plaintiffs, after sustaining such a significant loss in front of the court of appeals would attempt to have it reversed. Not only have they had their efforts to find the secretary and others in contempt overturned, but they've had their claims for $3 million in attorneys fees also reversed." The case against the government was filed in 1996, alleging that the Interior Department mismanaged the oil, gas, mining and timber royalties for more than a century. Money was never collected, misappropriated or stolen and documents were poorly kept or destroyed. Lamberth ruled in 1999 that the department breached its duties as trustee of the money and ordered the Interior Department to piece together what is owed and repair its management of the accounts. In September 2002, he held Norton in contempt, after an extensive trial, for failing to do an accounting and concealing holes in the department's computer security from the court. She was the third Cabinet official to be held in contempt in relation to the case. Babbitt and Treasury Secretary Robert Rubin were held in contempt during the Clinton administration for failing to turn over documents. The plaintiffs say $176 billion passed through the accounts, including interest, and the Indian landowners may have been cheated out of tens of billions of dollars. The department concedes the money was not properly managed but figures the amount owed probably is no more than a few million dollars. Copyright c. 2003 The Sun Herald/Gulfport MS, Knight Ridder. --------- "RE: Appeals Court blocks Norton's Appeal" --------- Date: Wed, 10 Sep 2003 08:46:13 -0700 From: Gary Smith Subj: NA News Item - - - - - - -- - - - - - - filename="NO APPEAL" http://www.indianz.com/News/ Appeals court blocks Norton's appeal in trust case Wednesday, September 10, 2003 A federal appeals court late Tuesday dismissed the Bush administration's second round of appeals in the Indian trust fund lawsuit, cutting short some of the federal government's options in the long-running case. In a brief order, the D.C. Circuit Court of Appeals threw out the government's challenges with prejudice, meaning they cannot be filed again. Attorneys for Secretary of Interior Gale Norton asked to withdraw the arguments, but had wanted them preserved for a later date. A three-judge panel also ordered Norton to show cause why a personal appeal, filed by a private law firm whose fees are being reimbursed at taxpayers' expense, should not be dismissed. The court gave her 30 days to respond "in light of the fact that the Department of the Interior's interests are fully represented" by government lawyers on the federal payroll. The order, released after hours, means oral arguments that were scheduled for January 2004 are canceled. Norton was seeking to overturn two decisions from U.S. District Judge Royce Lamberth that force the government to act more like a private trustee when handling funds belonging to hundreds of thousands of American Indians. Dennis Gingold, a Washington, D.C., attorney for the plaintiffs, said the move from the appeals court "reinforces the trust" by applying, to the government, what is known in trust law as a fiduciary exception. Normally, the department can cite the attorney-client privilege or the work product doctrine to keep certain matters private during litigation. But under the fiduciary exception affirmed in the case, Interior can't hide behind lawyers to keep information from Indian beneficiaries, Gingold said. "The books are wide open," he said. Gingold also said the move has implications for contempt charges that are in dispute. There are enough judges on the D.C. Circuit in disagreement about the case to warrant reconsideration of sanctions, he argued. "So we think it's a good sign," he said. In July, a three-judge panel cleared Norton and former Indian affairs aide Neal McCaleb of lying about failed efforts to reform the trust. Three Republican appointees -- Chief Judge Douglas H. Ginsburg, A. Raymond Randolph and Karen Lecraft Henderson -- handled the contempt appeal. A different panel made of two Republican appointees -- Harry T. Edwards and David B. Sentelle -- and David S. Tatel, a Democrat appointee, was set to hear the fiduciary exception appeal. Sentelle wrote the February 2001 decision that upheld Lamberth's historic ruling in the case. The split leaves just three active judges with the potential to tip the case against Norton. That can only happen if the court agrees to hear the plaintiffs' motion to rehear the contempt appeal. The court also has three senior judges who don't normally handle cases. The makeup of the D.C. Circuit has been a key battleground for the Bush administration since early 2001. Democrats blocked a Senate vote on nominee Miguel Estrada, who decided to drop out of consideration last week. Another nominee, John G. Roberts Jr., has not come up for a vote. Roberts defended the state of Alaska in the historic Venetie Supreme Court case that determined there was no Indian Country in the state. The Cobell case has been to the appeals court twice since its inception, costing taxpayers millions in the process. According to a Department of Justice disclosure, Norton's lawyer, Herbert Fenster, and his law firm were reimbursed $491,538.63 to argue on her behalf to the D.C. Circuit. Fenster's work largely consisted of a brief that was filed late and didn't play a role in the court's decision. A Department of Justice spokesperson had no immediate comment on yesterday's order, which was not faxed from the clerk's office until after 6 p.m. A message was left for a Department of Interior spokesperson. Copyright c. 2000-2003 Indianz.Com. --------- "RE: Definition of Native American at stake" --------- Date: Thu, 11 Sep 2003 08:10:37 -0700 From: Gary Smith Subj: NA News Item - - - - - - -- - - - - - - filename="KENNEWICK" http://www.indianz.com/News/ http://wvgazette.com/section/APNews/News/ap0928n Definition of 'Native American' at stake in ancient skeleton case By WILLIAM McCALL Associated Press Writer PORTLAND, Ore. (AP) - With both sides clashing over the definition of "Native American," an appeals court heard arguments Wednesday on whether a 9,300-year-old skeleton known as Kennewick Man belongs to scientists or Indian tribes. The Interior Department has been fighting with scientists over control of the bones since they were discovered in 1996 along the banks of the Columbia River near Kennewick, Wash. Anthropologists want to do research on the skeleton. But then-Interior Secretary Bruce Babbitt ruled three years ago the bones should be handed over to the tribes for reburial. Last October, U.S. Magistrate John Jelderks overturned Babbitt and approved research on the bones. Jelderks agreed with arguments by scientists who said there was no direct link between the skeleton and modern tribes. The government and the tribes appealed, and argued their case on Wednesday before a three-judge panel of the 9th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals. The definition of "Native American" is at issue because of differing interpretations of a 1990 federal law aimed at returning Indian remains to tribes and discouraging illegal trafficking in bones or artifacts taken from burial sites. The law defines Native American as someone "indigenous to the United States." Judge Susan Graber asked whether the definition could cover any bones found in North America that were so old they rivaled the age of ancient fossils. "Yes, they would be considered Native American," said Ellen Durkee, a Justice Department attorney representing the Interior Department. But Paula Barran, attorney for the scientists, argued that Congress in its definition did not intend to include people who lived that long ago. She said the law was not intended to block scientific research to determine how ancient settlers arrived in North America. Kennewick Man drew scientific interest because it is one of the oldest, most complete skeletons found in North America, with characteristics unlike modern Indians. In his ruling last October, Jelderks said the term "Native American" requires "a cultural relationship" with a modern tribe to qualify under the 1990 law. He said his review of court documents, including scientific reports, produced no evidence to support any cultural link between Kennewick Man and the Northwest tribes seeking reburial. The appeals court is not expected to rule until next year. Attorneys for both sides said they expect further appeals whatever the ruling. Copyright c. 1996-2003 The Charleston Gazette/Charleston, WV. --------- "RE: Utah lags in educating Indians" --------- Date: Tue, 16 Sep 2003 08:35:52 -0700 From: Gary Smith Subj: NA News Item - - - - - - -- - - - - - - filename="UTAH EDUCATION ISSUES" http://www.azcentral.com/news/articles/0915indianeducation-ON.html Utah lags in educating Indians, state committee says Associated Press Sept. 15, 2003 07:30 AM SALT LAKE CITY - Utah is lagging behind several other states in Indian education, a Utah American Indian/Alaska Native Education State Plan Advisory Committee report said. A group of 65 tribal leaders, tribal educators, state and federal education officials compiled the document. The committee said Utah is behind Idaho, New Mexico, Arizona, California, Montana and Minnesota, which have all mandated that their education systems change their social studies core curriculum and counseling programs. Forrest Cuch, director of the state Division of Indian Affairs, will present the plan Wednesday to the legislative education interim committee. "They don't know how to educate Indian children," Cuch said of Utah's schools. "We have generally failed our kids over the past 50 years." Cuch said the schools should include more American Indian history and show sensitivity to Indian culture. The report said that "Indian people are still suffering from and have not healed from the North American conquest, nor the violent struggle to settle Utah, predominantly by members of (The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints)." Cuch met Friday with Richard Kendell, deputy to Gov. Mike Leavitt for higher education, public education and economic development. "I agree that Native American kids are not being well served," Kendell said. "They drop out in disproportionate numbers, and their achievement levels in school are not very good." Cuch said Indian children are falling through the cracks in greater numbers, dropping out of school and turning to self-destructive behaviors that involve drugs and alcohol at an alarming rate. The report said a lack of "accurate and culturally relevant curriculum" perpetuates stereotypes and contributes to low self-esteem among Indian students. Copyright c. 2003 The Arizona Republic. --------- "RE: Ute Tribe awarded $2.3 Million Contract" --------- Date: Wed, 10 Sep 2003 08:46:13 -0700 From: Gary Smith Subj: NA News Item - - - - - - -- - - - - - - filename="ANIMAS-LA PLATA CONTRACT" http://www.owlstar.com/dailyheadlines.htm http://www.daily-times.com/artman/publish/article_2600.shtml Ute tribe awarded $2.3 million contract By Laura Banish/The Daily Times Sep 10, 2003, 11:20 DURANGO, Colo. - Despite the fact that the cost of the Animas-La Plata Project has nearly doubled, the Bureau of Reclamation reported this week it will continue to move full-steam ahead with current construction plans and award contracts for work on the Ridges Basin Dam. Project Team Leader Ken Beck said he does not anticipate the $162 million cost increase to have an immediate impact on the project's construction, however the long-term goal of completing the entire dam by April 2008 may be pushed back a year or two depending on how much money Congress allocates the project in the coming years. Beck said the bureau awarded Weeminuche Construction Authority with a $2. 3 million contract Tuesday for work considered "critical" in keeping with the overall construction time line for the Animas-La Plata Project. "To date we're right on schedule," Beck said. "Completion of this contract is an important step in keeping the construction of Ridges Basin Dam on schedule." Beck said the Weeminuche contract includes key sediment retention structures on Basin Creek, excavation of the dam's right abutment above the existing stream level and construction of a ravine dam just downstream of the dam's right abutment. Also specified in the contract is installation of a construction water delivery system to the dam and reservoir site and construction of additional segments of a haul road for constructing Ridges Basin dam. Weeminuche Construction Authority is owned and operated by the Ute Mountain Ute Tribe. Sky Ute Sand and Gravel, owned by the Southern Ute Indian Tribe, was chosen to provide some of the materials for construction. The work is anticipated to be finished by the end of September. Furthermore, Beck said the bureau has moved an enormous amount of earth since blasting activities began at the dam site in May and concrete is expected to be poured soon. Beck said this will be a "huge step" forward. Laura Banish: laurab@daily-times.com Copyright c. 2003 Farmington Daily Times, a Gannett Co., Inc. newspaper. --------- "RE: Swinomish may sue over Tide Gates" --------- Date: Wed, 10 Sep 2003 08:46:13 -0700 From: Gary Smith Subj: NA News Item - - - - - - -- - - - - - - filename="SALMON BLOCKED" http://www.owlstar.com/dailyheadlines.htm http://seattlepi.nwsource.com/local/138875_tidegates10.html Swinomish may sue over tide gates SEATTLE POST-INTELLIGENCER STAFF September 10, 2003 The Swinomish Tribe yesterday announced it plans to sue over the use of gates that block salmon from Skagit County estuaries. Tide gates are used largely by farmers to keep salt water out of farmland that abuts Puget Sound. The tribe notified one of the 12 Skagit County diking districts, elected bodies that regulate the use of the gates, that in 60 days it could be sued. The suit in federal court could be averted, tribal officials said, if the parties reach an agreement over the gates that are barring threatened chinook salmon from inland waterways on Fir Island. The tribe could take action under the Endangered Species Act, arguing that the barriers are harming the fish and therefore illegal. After the Columbia River, the Skagit River has the state's second- largest wild salmon runs. This year legislators approved a law supporting the use of tide gates. Copyright c. 1998-2003 Seattle Post-Intelligencer. --------- "RE: Indian Pleadings posted at NARF Website" --------- Date: Tuesday, September 02, 2003 11:51 pm From: Bill McAllister Subj: Indian Pleadings Posted at NARF Website Revised to note posting at different website, http://www.narf.org/cases/en_banc_.pdf For Immediate Release: INDIANS ASK COURT TO REINSTATE CONTEMPT FINDING AGAINST INTERIOR SECRETARY WASHINGTON, Sept. 2 - Lawyers for a group of Indians today asked the nine active judges who sit on U.S. Court of Appeals for the District of Columbia to reinstate the civil contempt citations against Interior Secretary Gale Norton and her top Indian affairs aide, former assistant Interior secretary Neal McCaleb. Norton and McCaleb were found to be unfit trustee-delegates as the result of the fraud and other misconduct that U.S. District Judge Royce Lamberth found they had perpetrated on his court in a lawsuit filed by the Indians. The Indians are seeking a full accounting of individual Indian trust accounts. The lawyers cited errors by the three-judge panel in seeking a review of the July 18 ruling by the full court of appeals. The panel decided that a district court ruling holding both Norton and Neal McCaleb in civil contempt had to be reversed because the sanction was a criminal proceeding, not a civil sanction. "The panel's decision misconstrues the true nature and purpose of this civil contempt proceeding in declaring it to be something it was not - a criminal contempt proceeding," noted the petition. It was filed by lawyers representing a group of Indians who have being waging a seven-year court battle to secure a full accounting of trust funds that the government has supposedly held for them in individual trust accounts. The petition to the appeal court noted that the proceeding against Norton and McCaleb was "a civil contempt proceeding in every respect." It also said that the three-ruling ruling violated a well-established rule of law in the D.C. circuit that bars an appellate panel from considering issues that had not been raised by the parties in the lower court or in their written briefs on appeal. That rule had just been reaffirmed by the appeals court in a case involving Vice President Richard Cheney 10 days before the three-judge panel disregarded it to vacate the contempt ruling against Norton and McCaleb, the petition noted. The petition also challenged the three-judge ruling on the grounds that Norton and McCaleb were being sanctioned, in part, for actions that had occurred by their predecessors. U.S. District Court Judge Royce Lamberth made clear in his orders that the ruling applied not to the Bush administration officials as individuals but to their offices-the same admonition he used when sanctioning Clinton administration officials for contempt in the same lawsuit. Elouise Cobell, the lead plaintiff in a lawsuit seeking a full accounting of funds the government has placed in trust accounts for individual Indians, explained the rehearing request: "Without accountability, Secretary Norton will continue to breach her trust duties and will continue to engage in malfeasance. Her refusal to accept responsibility for her many failures is why a receiver must be appointed without further delay." "Integrity and competence are absolutely essential for the prudent management of the individual Indian trust. And today none exists. We hope that the full Court of Appeals will recognize the importance of Judge Lamberth's decision, join him and demand accountability from the trustee- delegates." A copy of the pleading is available at http://www.narf.org/cases/en_banc_.pdf For additional information: Bill McAllister 703-385-6996 202-257-5385 (cell) --------- "RE: White House acts to fill top BIA Leadership Post" --------- Date: Mon, 15 Sep 2003 08:10:49 -0700 From: Gary Smith Subj: NA News Item - - - - - - -- - - - - - - filename="BIA" http://www.indianz.com/ White House acts to fill top BIA leadership post Monday, September 15, 2003 The Bush administration on Friday announced its intention to nominate David Anderson, an Ojibwe businessman, as head of the Bureau of Indian Afairs, nearly a year after his predecessor said he was leaving office due to a contentious and litigious environment. In making the announcement, officials played up Anderson's business -- rather than political -- background. A member of the Lac Courte Oreilles Band of Ojibwe in Minnesota, Anderson is more commonly known as "Famous Dave," after the publicly-traded chain of barbecue restaurants he founded. The company reported evenues of $90.8 million last year. The administration also said Anderson has a long history with Indian issues, noting $6 million in donations he has made to Indian causes. He was recently recognized by Oprah Winfrey's "Angel Network" for his efforts to help Native children, including the $1.4 million YouthSkills Foundation he created in 1999. But to some in Indian Country, Anderson and his achievements draw a blank. Even though his name was mentioned numerous times in recent months as the possible assistant secretary nominee, tribal leaders were hard- pressed to understand why he was even being considered. "There are some very qualified people out there," said John Gonzales, Governor of San Ildefonso Pueblo in New Mexico. "I have no idea where people like [former assistant secretary] Neal McCaleb came from or [acting BIA head] Aurene Martin or, now, David Anderson. I've been involved in Indian Country affairs for some time now and sometimes I wonder where where they find certain people to serve in these positions." Regardless of the choice, the fact that it took so long for the White House to make its move bothered tribal leaders. To leave the BIA without a leader while the agency undergoes a top-to-bottom reorganization in an attempt to fix the broken Indian trust was troublesome, they said. Trust reform was the reason Neal McCaleb, a former Oklahoma state Cabinet official, announced his resignation last November and left a month later. He was under pressure from a federal judge who labeled him and Secretary of Interior Gale Norton "unfit" to manage the money belonging to hundreds of thousands of American Indians. The case alleges that up to $176 billion in funds and interest remains unaccounted since 1887. Tex Hall, president of the National Congress of American Indians (NCAI), the largest inter-tribal organization, said trust will be one of the biggest challenge facing Anderson. "The weakness is that he doesn't have the experience of trust, of administering trust management and adhering to the trust responsibility," he said. But the other major issue, Hall added, is improving economic conditions for more than 2 million American Indians and Alaska Natives. "The real question is the character and the commitment and the other experiences that he would provide," Hall said. "Obviously, he's a self-made individual so economic development would be important. I would really like to ask him what his plans are [in this area]. I think Indian Country has been clamoring for economic development." In a statement, Anderson said he was "deeply honored at the prospect of being nominated as Assistant Secretary of the Interior, Indian Affairs. I welcome the opportunity to work closely with the American Indian and Alaska Native tribal governments, as well as the Bureau of Indian Affairs." Anderson's "innovative leadership and dedication to constant improvement, " will be an asset to the BIA, said Norton in a statement. "His inspiring vision, proven management expertise and compassion for Indian issues will help us in our efforts to improve the quality of services we provide to Indian Country." Aurene Martin has been serving as acting assistant secretary, hand- picked by Norton. She was angling for the permanent nomination, Republican sources said, but was not among the final candidates for the job. Anderson's name still has to be submitted to the Senate for approval. The Senate Indian Affairs Committee would have to hold a confirmation hearing. Typically, a BIA nominee, regardless of party affiliation, receives unanimous support from the panel. Anderson is currently serving as chairman of the board of directors of Famous Dave's of America. In a statement, CEO David Goronkin said Anderson would step down from his capacities with the company if confirmed. Copyright c. 2000-2003 Indianz.Com More headlines... --------- "RE: Biography: BIA nominee 'Famous' Dave Anderson" --------- Date: Mon, 15 Sep 2003 08:10:49 -0700 From: Gary Smith Subj: NA News Item - - - - - - -- - - - - - - filename="ANDERSON BIO" http://www.indianz.com/ Biography: BIA nominee 'Famous' Dave Anderson Monday, September 15, 2003 After months of waiting, the White House finally got around to picking a new assistant secretary to run the Bureau of Indian Affairs. So who is this nominee? His full name is David Wayne Anderson, age 50. Of Ojibwe and Choctaw heritage, he's a member of the Lac Courte Oreilles Lake Superior Band of Ojibwe in Wisconsin. He's married, to Kathryn, and they reside in Edina, Minnesota. He is a graduate of Harvard University's Kennedy School of Government, where he received a master's degree in public administration in 1986. Anderson is a household name is some circles and his face can be seen in some supermarket aisles. All because of Famous Dave's Barbeque, a restaurant he started in 1994. The first location was in Hayward, Wisconsin. Since then the company has grown to a publicly-traded chain of of 87 restaurants in 23 states. Last year, Famous Dave's of America reported $90. 8 million in revenues, up 3.6 percent the year prior, although the company had a net loss due to a lawsuit settlement and other business arrangements. Traded on the NASDAQ as DAVE, naturally, the company lost $928,000, or $0.08 per share for 2002. Shares closed at $6.35 on Friday, up 0.41 the day prior. Analysts give the stock mixed reviews, from "strong buy" to "neutral." The company's Securities and Exchange filings can be found here and here. [Note the recent "Statement of changes in beneficial ownership of securities" in the second link. Currently serving as chairman of the board of directors, Anderson will step down from all capacities at the business if he is confirmed by the Senate.] Anderson worked for his tribe at one point, serving as CEO of the Lac Courte Oreilles tribal enterprises in 1982. According to the White House and his company, he helped stabilize the business, which saw revenues grow from 3.9 million to $8 million during his tenure. It was at this point where his private career intersected with the public sector. His success at LCO was mentioned by the Commission on Indian Reservation Economies, which was formed by former President Ronald Reagan to examine economic conditions in Indian Country. The commission was co-chaired by former Cherokee Nation chief and former assistant secretary Ross Swimmer, who now serves as Special Trustee in the Bush administration. Former assistant secretary Neal McCaleb, a member of the Chickasaw Nation, also sat on the panel, which issued a report that called for a number of controversial changes, including dismantling of the BIA. Tribal leaders, at the time, overwhelmingly rejected the suggestions. Anderson went on to serve in a variety of public service positions. He sat on the Wisconsin Council on Tourism (1983), the Council on Minority Business Development for the State of Wisconsin (1983) and the National Task Force on Reservation Gambling (1983). From there, it was a seven-year gap to his appointment, by President Bush, to the Advisory Council for Tribal Colleges and Universities (2001) and the American Indian Education Foundation (2003). Some may remember Anderson for a recent appearance on the Oprah Winfrey Show. As part of her Angel Network, she highlighted Anderson's dedication to helping at-risk Indian youth and young adults through his LifeSkills Center for Leadership. Winfrey gave the organization a $25,000 grant in 2002. Other honors, according to the Department of Interior, include being named a Bush Leadership Fellow (1985), being named Minnesota and Dakota's Emerging Entrepreneur of the Year by Ernst and Young, NASDAQ, and USA Today and being named Restaurateur of the Year by Minneapolis-St. Paul Magazine (1998). He was also a torch carrier for the 2002 Winter Olympics. As head of the BIA, Anderson would oversee about 10,000 employees, the overwhelming majority of whom are Native American. He would set policy for the agency, which would be carried out by his staff. By the time Anderson gets to BIA, he will find a changed organization. Central office in Washington, D.C., has been shuffled and realigned due to an ongoing reorganization spurred by the Indian trust fund lawsuit. The BIA's regional offices are still undergoing changes. As a political appointee, Anderson would have to recuse himself from dealings or interests affecting his tribe. The Lac Courte Oreilles Tribe is asking the BIA to take land into trust for an off-reservation casino. The proposal is controversial because it is opposed by other tribes and was the subject of an independent investigation during the Clinton administration. The matter is currently in litigation because the former Wisconsin governor objected to the land-into-trust application. Copyright c. 2000-2003 Indianz.Com More headlines... --------- "RE: Alaska Supreme Court considers Native Sovereignty" --------- Date: Tue, 16 Sep 2003 08:35:52 -0700 From: Gary Smith Subj: NA News Item - - - - - - -- - - - - - - filename="SOVEREIGNTY" http://www.indianz.com/ http://www.adn.com/alaska/v-printer/story/3934705p-3956896c.html Native sovereign immunity claimed LAWSUITS: Opinions vary on whether group of council presidents enjoys tribal status. By SHEILA TOOMEY Anchorage Daily News September 16, 2003 FAIRBANKS - A Bethel Native organization told the Alaska Supreme Court on Monday that it has the same kind of legal immunity that federal and state governments have, which means it cannot be sued if it doesn't want to be. The Association of Village Council Presidents said two families who claim their children were injured while participating in programs run by the association cannot file negligence claims in state court unless AVCP waives its immunity, which it has refused to do. AVCP's lawyers say the organization has immunity because it is made up of 56 Native villages that have been declared sovereign tribes by the federal government, a designation that automatically endows them with legal immunity such as that enjoyed by other sovereign governments in the United States. The case, called Runyon v. AVCP, has attracted encyclopedic friend-of- the-court briefs from heavyweights on both sides of the tribal sovereignty dispute, which has been heating up since 1999, when the Alaska Supreme Court in a 3-2 decision said sovereign tribes do exist in Alaska. In that decision, called John v. Baker, the court did not broadly define what powers come with tribal sovereignty, ruling only that Alaska tribes could handle some child custody disputes involving tribe members. Last summer, Superior Court Judge Dale Curda threw out lawsuits against AVCP filed by the Runyon and Wassilie families. One says a child in the AVCP Head Start Program was sexually molested by another Head Start child; the second says a child was injured on a bus operated by AVCP. Both suits accuse AVCP of negligence. Curda found that AVCP has tribal immunity. The families have appealed his ruling. In a written argument on behalf of the state Legislature, attorney Don Mitchell said the Supreme Court didn't have all the facts when it decided Baker and should reconsider the issue, then reverse itself. There are historically no tribes in Alaska, Mitchell said. In order for them to appear, the U.S. Congress would have to specifically create them and has chosen not to, Mitchell said. An opposing argument, written by Heather Kendall-Miller for the Alaska Inter-Tribal Council, says tribes as defined by the federal government have always existed here regardless of what they were called, and in 1993 the Department of the Interior specifically recognized the existing sovereignty of Alaska's villages. There are at least three cases currently percolating up through state and federal courts here featuring the same sovereignty/no sovereignty debate. It is expected that at least one of them will end up in the U.S. Supreme Court. But on Monday, in the new Rabinowitz Courthouse on the banks of the Chena River, the divided Alaska justices seemed uninterested in re-arguing the question of whether sovereign tribes exist here and refused to allow Mitchell or Kendall-Miller to appear before them. That left the door open for Charlie Cole, a former Alaska attorney general and a canny legal strategist, to offer the justices a simple way out of the AVCP dilemma, one that wouldn't involve stoking the tribal fire. It doesn't matter if AVCP has sovereign immunity, Cole told the justices on behalf of the families, because they waived it when they bought a liability insurance policy, as required by the people who give out federal Head Start money. The government required the insurance to protect the program's assets if it got sued. By accepting this contract stipulation and buying the insurance, AVCP and the federal government both signalled that AVCP could be sued and, by implication, waived any immunity AVCP might have, at least to the limits of the $2 million policy, Cole said. Not so, said attorney Patrick McKay, who represents AVCP and the insurance company. Buying a required policy didn't waive anything. It's good business practice and might be needed for defense purposes, as it is now being used -- to defend AVCP's immunity. The policy would have cost much more than the $1,734 premium charged if Scottsdale Insurance thought AVCP could be sued at will, McKay said. During the questioning, Justice Warren Matthews seemed concerned at an outcome predicted by Cole if tribal immunity is upheld. "Children of the tribe are without a remedy for ... the wrongful conduct of AVCP," Cole said. In response to Matthews, McKay said tribal courts may arise in the future to handle negligence allegations. Meanwhile, AVCP has immunity and is "not liable in any way," he said. The justices took the matter under advisement. Daily News reporter Sheila Toomey can be reached at stoomey@adn.com. Copyright c. 2003 The Anchorage Daily News (www.adn.com) --------- "RE: Purge of AFN Land Rights and Parliamentary Staff" --------- Date: Thu, 11 Sep 2003 22:54:10 -0400 From: "Frosty" Subj: Fw: Purge of AFN Land Rights And Parliamentary Staff Mailing List: Frostys AmerIndian Purge of AFN Land Rights And Parliamentary Staff By Sharon Green September 11, 2003 Ottawa - Today the new National Chief of the Assembly of First Nations Phil Fontaine is cleaning house. Several people who have worked long and hard for this organisation have been fired and no longer allowed acess to the internet from their offices. Among those who have been asked to leave are Rolland Pangowish (Head, AFN Land Rts. Unit) who has works there for fifteen years . Audrey Mayes Lands/Treaties/Fisheries Associate Director who has worked there for nine years. Included in the group who are leaving are Danny Gaspe' (AFN Parliamentary Liaison) and Mike O'Brien, AFN Justice Director. All of these people have worked very hard and are outstanding at what they do. With the huge cut to the budget when former National Chief Matthew Coon Come was punished by Indian Affairs Minister Nault for not "playing ball" these people continued to hold things together and do their jobs. I am sure many of you will remember Dan Gaspe' dedication to his work this past spring during the Bill C-7 hearings. The long hours he spent helping to make sure everyone knew what was going on. Dan was one of the founders of the Parliamentary Liaison office in 1978. His return to the AFN about one years ago was a real catch because he has great experience and sensitivities for this work. Rumour has it that there will be some drastic changes taking place at the AFN including a rumour that Scott Serson (former Deputy Minister of Indian Affairs) and a former Paul Martin staffer have been hired by Phil. Some are saying if this rumour is true these people have been hired to the staff of the AFN it should now be called AFN 3D Assembly For Nault. Rumour also has it that this is just the beginning , look for more news on this issue as it breaks Here are the messages of thanks sent out by Rolland Pangowish (Head, AFN La nd Rts. Unit) ..... Audrey Mayes Lands/Treaties/Fisheries Associate Directo r ..... Danny Gaspe' (AFN Parliamentary Liaison) There is also a message of support from Rarihokwats ...... Leaving AFN After 15 years of service, I am now being released by the new leadership. My understanding is that this was approved by the Executive Committee. I very appreciate their thoughtful consideration. I just wanted to convey my appreciation for the honour I have had of working with you all on these issues, which are of great importance to our people. I can only hope that some day, we will make real progress toward the recognition of our Inherent, Treaty and Aboriginal rights. I know the struggle will continue and I hope to see you all again, perhaps on the floor of our national meetings. If anyone needs a used Treaties and Lands specialist, I hereby attach my resume.( resume is at the link below:) Sincere best wishes, Rolland Pangowish Please note my personal e-mail is realpang@hotmail.com Home phone (613) 830-2398 Treaties and Lands specialist, I hereby attach my resume Now from Audrey Mayes After 9 years of service with the AFN, I too have been asked to leave. It has been such a wonderful experience and the most fulfilling job that I have had the honour to do. I will use those talents and experience to advance First Nations rights, so I guess I'll see you at the "meetins". I would like to thank you all for your wonderful friendships and it's been a pleasure working with such a wonderful group. So, with that here's " One kick ass Mi'kmaq Treaties, Lands and Fisheries specialist for hire"&.resume will be forth coming. All the best, Audrey Mayes Audrey_mayes@hotmail.com 613-829-0071 home Audrey Mayes Assembly of First Nations Lands/Treaties/Fisheries Associate Director One Nicholas Street suite 1002 Ottawa ON K1N 7B7 Phone 613-241-6789 ext. 304 Fax 613- 241-5808 FROM Dan Gaspe' Sekon/Greetings friends, As some of you already know, I have been asked to leave the employ of the AFN after one year of dedicated service. I am proud and honoured to have been given the opportunity, as I did years ago, to serve the First Nations at the AFN as Director of Parliamentary Liaison. I logged many long hours on Parliament Hill developing relations, preparing strategy, accompanying Chiefs, and helping them to communicate their messages regarding the bills that are still before Parliament all with the goal of protecting and enhancing our inherent, Aboriginal and Treaty rights. We put forward a professional and impressive image and we were effective. I am also honoured to have worked with such dedicated and professional colleagues from across the country and in the national office. Regarding my future, I am ready to offer my 26 years of work experience to First Nations and to other Aboriginal organizations in the area of government and Parliamentary relations. I will make me resume available, where appropriate. I can be reached at dan.gaspe@sympatico.ca, phone 819-827-3618, fax 819-827-6165. Onen Dan Gaspe' Rarihokwats message .... Greetings. Well, now is the time for everyone who has so much benefitted from their services to be supportive. These guys have great experience and a lot to offer. They will need some immediate short-term contracts, etc., from provincial organizations, TARRs, individual First Nations, tribal councils, etc. Let's pull together and see what we can do to keep them active, particularly during the critical month ahead while Parliament is in session. Best regards, Rarihokwats --------- "RE: Inquest into death of Native teen opens" --------- Date: Mon, 8 Sep 2003 08:09:47 -0700 From: Gary Smith Subj: NA News Item - - - - - - -- - - - - - - filename="STONECHILD" Inquest into death of Native teen opens in Saskatchewan http://www.indianz.com/News/ http://www.cbc.ca/stories/2003/09/09/stonechild030909 Witnesses say Stonechild was beaten Last Updated Tue, 09 Sep 2003 7:28:05 SASKATOON - The public inquiry into the death of Neil Stonechild opened in Saskatoon on Monday with his mother and others who knew the 17-year-old Cree testifying they were shocked at the condition of his body. Stonechild was found frozen to death in a remote field on the outskirts of Saskatoon in November 1990, but his body also displayed signs of having being beaten. "It was one of the things you'd notice because he was an extremely good looking boy, and he had this cut... it looked like his nose had been broken," said Pat Pickard who ran the group home where Stonechild was staying when he died. She's convinced the teen she cared for was beaten before he froze to death. "He had bruises on his face and he had a cut across the bridge of his nose that extended to his cheek," said Stonechild's aunt, Debra Mason. "Makeup couldn't hide the bruises, and we felt his head and there were lumps on his head," she said. Jerry Mason, Stonechild's uncle, told the inquiry that he thought Stonechild had been handcuffed. "Between his wrist and his thumbs, on both hands, there was skin missing. It looked not like gouges but scrapes," he said. Mason said he believed the marks on his hands were caused by "pulling at handcuffs." Stonechild's mother, Stella Bignell, told the inquiry she's fearful that "whoever is responsible for this is still out there. They didn't investigate this as they should have." An RCMP investigation concluded there wasn't enough evidence to lay charges. They ruled the death accidental, speculating Stonechild died while trying to turn himself in at a nearby correctional centre. Headed by Justice David Wright, the inquiry cannot assign blame, but will look into how police handled the case. Stonechild is one of three aboriginal men found frozen to death in the outskirts of Saskatoon in the past decade. On Tuesday, the inquiry will likely hear from Jason Roy. He's the friend who said he saw Stonechild in a police cruiser the night he disappeared, his face bleeding and yelling "They're going to kill me." Written by CBC News Online staff Copyright c. 2003 CBC. --------- "RE: Stonechild Social Worker says she was Silenced" --------- Date: Wed, 10 Sep 2003 08:46:13 -0700 From: Gary Smith Subj: NA News Item - - - - - - -- - - - - - - filename="STONECHILD INQUEST" http://www.indianz.com/News/ http://sask.cbc.ca/regional/servlet/View?filename=pickard030909 Stonechild social worker says she was silenced September 9, 2003 SASKATOON - The last social worker to have contact with Neil Stonechild says she was prevented from coming forward about the teenager's death because government policy prevented it. Stonechild's mysterious death in 1990 is the subject of a judicial inquiry underway in Saskatoon. Pat Pickard ran a community home for young offenders in Saskatoon. It's the home Stonechild was supposed to be living in when he died. Pickard says that a decade later when the RCMP began investigating the case again she says a full report was ordered by her superiors where she was asked to detail the interview she had with the task force. Pickard says it was part of an overall "gag order" imposed on government employees. "I think they would have suppressed information in such a situation as that at anytime." Pickard said. "It's just one of those things they want to have more control over about what's put out there." She refused to report details of her RCMP interview to her superiors in Saskatoon or Regina and defied the gag order because she never believed the police theory that Stonechild died trying to walk to jail to turn himself in. Stonechild had been missing from the group home for several days and was considered a fugitive by police on the night he died. Copyright c. 2003 CBC All Rights Reserved. --------- "RE: Suspected Officers listen as Friend Testifies" --------- Date: Wed, 10 Sep 2003 08:46:13 -0700 From: Gary Smith Subj: NA News Item - - - - - - -- - - - - - - filename="STONECHILD INQUEST" http://www.indianz.com/News/ http://sask.cbc.ca/regional/servlet/View?filename=stonechild_cops030909 Suspected officers listen as Stonechild friend testifies September 10, 2003 REGINA - The Judicial Inquiry into the death of Neil Stonechild has heard the first accusation against Saskatoon city police on Tuesday, while the two officers considered suspects by the RCMP task force that investigated Stonechild's death made their first public appearance. A friend of Stonechild says he saw the 17-year-old in a police car the last night he was seen alive. Two Saskatoon police officers, interviewed more than ten times by the RCMP task force that investigated Stonechild's death, walked into the court room during Roy's testimony accompanied by lawyers. Jason Roy says he spent Stonechild's last day alive with him drinking and playing cards. He says that Stonechild decided to look for another friend, a former girlfriend, who was supposed to be baby sitting in a west side housing project. According to Roy's testimony, the two walked six blocks to the apartment complex, stopping at a convenience store to warm up. Roy testified that they started ringing buzzers at random looking for Stonechild's friend and at one point Roy says he was cold and wanted to go back to the store to warm up, but Stonechild wanted to keep looking. Roy says he lost sight of Stonechild and headed back to the store and then started walking back to a party they were at earliest that evening. That's when he says he was cut off by a Saskatoon Police Cruiser. "A police car pulled in front of me and Neil was in the back and the moment he saw me, he was very irate. He was freaking out. He was saying, 'Jay help me, just help me these guys are going to kill me.' Roy said he didn't want to end up in the police car with Stonechild, so he gave police a false name and was allowed to leave. Roy says that because he was considered unlawfully at large he lied about his identity. In his testimony Roy said never believed anything would happen to Stonechild and thought he'd just be sent back to Kilborne Hall for young offenders. Roy is expected back on the stand in Wednesday where he'll face cross examination by lawyers for the City, the Police union and the two constables linked to Stonechild. Copyright c. 2003 CBC All Rights Reserved. --------- "RE: Eastern Cherokee Police to pay $200K for Death" --------- Date: Wed, 10 Sep 2003 08:46:13 -0700 From: Gary Smith Subj: NA News Item - - - - - - -- - - - - - - filename="EBC POLICE" http://www.indianz.com/News/ http://cgi.citizen-times.com/cgi-bin/story/regional/41478 Eastern Cherokee Police to pay $200K for Teen's Death By Jon Ostendorff, Staff Writer Sept. 9, 2003 11:00 p.m. CHEROKEE - A civil case in Tribal Court has forced the Eastern Band of Cherokee Indian's police department to pay $200,000 to the family of a teenager and could change the way the department handles suicide calls. The civil settlement does not hold the department liable for the death of Charles Don Biello but it marks the first time the department has been held financially accountable for a negligence claim, an attorney handling the case said. The settlement, reached last month, requires the department to offer annual suicide awareness training to its officers. Marion Teesateskie, executive director of the tribe's Community Service program, which oversees the police department, said she did not know when the department would offer the training. Police shot and killed Biello during a scuffle on Sept. 1, 2000. Biello's mother called police after he threatened suicide with a knife. At least four officers responded to the call and entered the back and front doors of the home. According to court papers, the officers told Biello to move toward them. He had one hand behind his back. The officers drew their guns and batons, and Biello grabbed a knife from a nearby table. The officers beat him with their batons until he dropped the weapon, according to court papers. "Then, as (Biello) was attempting to escape from this beating he was shot dead, unarmed, two steps away from his mother in the presence of at least eight other eyewitnesses," the court papers state. "After the shooting, the police officers planted a knife at (Biello's) feet to defend themselves from criminal and civil liability for their gross misconduct and unlawful killing of this teenager." The officer said he had to shoot Biello to protect the life of another officer, according to court papers. The Cherokee Indian Police Department is the law enforcement agency for the 7,000 people living on the Cherokee Indian Reservation. It is also the public safety agency for the millions of people who visit the reservation each year to gamble at Harrah's Cherokee Casino. The FBI investigated the incident but did not find enough evidence to send a criminal case to the U.S. Justice Department. The court papers allege the FBI helped the police department cover up criminal wrongdoing in the shooting. According to court papers, the police department's lack of policy for dealing with suicidal people and people with emotional problems contributed to Biello's death. Police Chief Jonah Wolfe, according to a deposition in the case, routinely destroys complaints against his department and discourages people who come to him with complaints. "If you just shred (the complaints), you won't hear about it no more," Wolfe said, according to the deposition. On Tuesday, Wolfe said his department acted appropriately in the shooting of Biello, 17, who died in his home within reach of his mother, Brenda Bustos. Wolfe said he would make the suicide awareness training available but not mandatory. "I wanted to go to court," he said. "I still do. We have done no wrong and I think we could win." The police department and its insurance company settled the case before a judge on Aug. 27, the day opening statements were scheduled to begin in the jury trial. Mark Melrose, the Sylva attorney who handled the case for the Biello family, said he hopes the judgment will force the police department to create polices and standards that regulate police operations. "The money to the family was not the primary point of interest," he said. "The most important thing to them was effecting change in the police department. They wanted to impress on the Cherokee Indian Police Department that there are some consequences when they don't act responsibly and follow generally accepted and appropriate procedures in other police departments across the country." Contact Ostendorff at 452-1467 or JOstendorff@CITIZEN-TIMES.com. Copyright c. 2003 Asheville Citizen-Times, a Gannett Co., Inc. newspaper. --------- "RE: Federal Death Sentence imposed in 2 Murders" --------- Date: Tue, 16 Sep 2003 08:35:52 -0700 From: Gary Smith Subj: NA News Item - - - - - - -- - - - - - - filename="CONVICTION UPHELD" http://www.azcentral.com/news/articles/0916deathpenalty16.html Federal death sentence imposed in 2 murders Carol Sowers The Arizona Republic Sept. 16, 2003 12:00 AM A 22-year-old Navajo man convicted of stabbing to death a woman and her granddaughter has become the only Native American in the country who's facing execution by federal authorities. Lezmond Mitchell is also the first person to be sentenced to death in a U.S. District Court in Arizona. Judge Mary Marguia told Mitchell on Monday that she was upholding the May jury verdict ordering his execution because of the brutality of the 2001 crime and the family's suffering. He was convicted of the deaths of Alyce Slim, 65, and Tiffany Lee, 9, of Fort Defiance. The murders occurred in October 2001 after Slim picked up a hitchhiking Mitchell. Asked Monday to speak on his own behalf, Mitchell said only, "I have nothing to say at this time." Michael Slim, grandson of the slain grandmother and cousin of the 9- year-old, told Marguia that the "death penalty is the right decision," adding that some members of his family still have nightmares when they remember the gruesome deaths. "My little cousin's mother still cries herself to sleep," Michael Slim said. Slim and Tiffany were returning from a visit to two Gallup, N.M., medicine women on Oct. 28, 2001, when they picked up Mitchell and Johnnie Orsinger. When Slim stopped to let them out, she and her granddaughter were stabbed multiple times with knives. Mitchell also confessed to slitting the girl's throat. Their bodies were dismembered and burned. Kurt Altman, a federal prosecutor, says he knows of no other federal defendants in Arizona who may be facing execution. The federal death penalty has been carried out on two defendants, one of whom was Timothy McVeigh. Copyright c. 2003 The Arizona Republic. --------- "RE: Janklow's Accident" --------- Date: Sun, 14 Sep 2003 23:28:38 -0400 From: Alfred Bone Shirt Subj: Argus Leader - Janklow's Accident Mailing List: Many of Our Indian people are going to be there in Flandreau,S.D at the Moody County Courthouse to remind the world of the rape of Jancita Eagle Deer - Alfred Bone Shirt ---------- http://www.argusleader.com/janklowaccident.shtml Janklow's Accident Janklow's recovery likely, say experts David Kranz dkranz@argusleader.com published: 9/11/2003 Head injury won't prevent air travel The type of head injuries suffered by U.S. Rep. Bill Janklow in a car accident last month could cause memory loss and strokelike symptoms, but the chances of recovery are good, a Chicago doctor said Wednesday. Dr. Tom Scaletta, president of Chicagoland Emergency Physicians, said the fact that Janklow is not hospitalized or bedridden suggests that his condition is not potentially serious, but there still can be problems. Janklow had a subdural hematoma, commonly called bleeding on the brain, following a car accident on Aug. 16 in which a motorcyclist was killed. He declined medical attention immediately after the crash in rural Moody County but later received treatment in Sioux Falls. The former four-term governor appeared in court on Sept. 2 on charges of man-slaughter related to the accident. He did not speak, appeared to have pain and walked with the assistance of friends and family. "If it were a serious injury, usually that person would not be able to decide for themselves whether they were going to the hospital or not," said Scaletta, who has not examined Janklow but has written medical papers on the condition. "When we see acute subdural hematoma, it can mean complete unconsciousness or unsalvageable by the time we see them as patients." Janklow has been tested for his head injuries at a Sioux Falls hospital as recently as Friday and has returned home to continue his recovery. The fatal accident and felony manslaughter charge have fueled speculation about Janklow's political future. The freshman congressman, who turns 64 on Saturday, hopes to return to Washington in the near future, his son, Russ, has said. No timetable for that return has been announced, however. Janklow's next court appearance is scheduled for Sept. 25-26 in Moody County District Court in Flandreau. Janklow should be able to travel with his condition, as long as it is not acute, said Dr. Greg Cooper, a family practice physician from Marshall, Minn., who is not treating the congressman. "He should be able to fly several weeks after the accident," he said. "That should not be a problem." Janklow also has a fractured hand, which is in a cast, and that has prevented fingerprinting for booking. Health care professionals say the cast could come off four to six weeks after the injury. Subdural hematoma is caused by a blow to the head and is common in car accidents. The brain is surrounded by a leathery outer covering, called the dura, which keeps it supplied with blood and spinal fluid, according to the University of Missouri Health Care's Web site. When the head is hit, the brain jostles inside the skull, causing tearing of blood vessels. The blood builds up between the brain and the dura, causing swelling of the brain. But there is no room in an inflexible skull for the extra blood. The only way to make space is for the brain to move other areas, putting pressure on other vital brain functions such as eye opening, speech, consciousness or breathing. In severe cases, surgery is required to relieve the pressure on the brain. "In some cases, you may not need an operation and have no permanent signs," Scaletta said. "Usually, it needs surgical correction. That is really for the neurosurgeon to decide." The fact that Janklow is at home, but making occasional visits to his doctors, seems to indicate that his hematoma is not serious, Scaletta said. The patient is especially fortunate if there is no change in his actions or personality, he said. "If he is getting an MRI, they are probably saying it was small enough and won't require surgery. That would suggest he is doing surprisingly well," Scaletta said. Even if surgery is not required, there can be some effects from the injury, including forgetfulness. Some memory loss isn't alarming if patients can make decisions for themselves, he said. There also can be symptoms similar to a stroke, causing a loss of feeling on one side or other of the body. That said, prognosis for those with subdural hematomas can be good. "You can recover completely and have no residual problems. But there is a possibility that won't happen," Scaletta said. The recovery period could be a few weeks or months, but concern rises as that time stretches on, he said. A battery of tests is available to determine the potential long-term impact of the injury. Moving around is an indicator of Janklow's determination, Scaletta said. "He is trying to portray himself as someone who is not going to let something stop him," he said. "I admire someone who has a serious problem and is not going to let it stop him. There is no reason to think he won't recover." Reach reporter David Kranz at 331-2302. Copyright c. 2003 Argus Leader. ----- Two witnesses to Janklow accident ordered to testify Staff and wire reports published: 9/9/2003 Two witnesses from Pipestone, Minn., have been ordered to testify for the state in the manslaughter case of U.S. Rep. Bill Janklow. Brad Ilse and Monica Collins must be present at a preliminary hearing scheduled for later this month in Moody County. They will describe what they saw on Aug. 16 when a car driven by Janklow and a motorcycle driven by Randy Scott of Hardwick, Minn., were involved in an accident that took Scott's life and injured Janklow. Janklow, a first-term Republican, is recovering from head and hand injuries at his Brandon home. Moody County State's Attorney Bill Ellingson has charged Janklow with second-degree manslaughter, a felony, and three misdemeanors. Authorities say he was going 71 miles per hour in a 55 mph zone at the time of the accident. Ilse and Collins were in separate vehicles the night of the accident. Collins, secretary at Christ the King Lutheran Church in Pipestone, said Monday night that she was "tired of being harassed by reporters" and would not answer questions about the order to appear. Earlier in the day, Malva DeVine, church treasurer, told reporters that Collins was on the same road as Janklow was driving when he drove around them at a high rate of speed. "They said Janklow went past them. They said, 'We felt like we were standing still.' And then when they got to corner, there was the accident," DeVine said. "It was scary when they got up there and saw it." Isle's wife, Sherry, said they saw the accident on the way to go camping at Trent. "We were driving in our motor home, and it happened right in front of us. But that's about all we want to say," she said. Ellingson refused to comment on the two witnesses' relationship to the case. Highway Patrol officials said at least five witnesses were interviewed after the accident. Judge Rodney Steele signed the order for Ilse and Collins to testify. Janklow and his lawyer, Ed Evans of Sioux Falls, made a first appearance in Moody County Court on Sept. 2 to hear the charges. Janklow's preliminary hearing is scheduled for Sept. 25 and 26 in Flandreau. Ellingson will try to show why Janklow should stand trial. Janklow's lawyers will be able to call their own witnesses and also cross-examine the prosecution's people. It's possible that Ellingson could avoid the preliminary hearing by calling a grand jury and requesting an indictment against Janklow. A grand jury would be held behind closed doors, while a preliminary hearing is public. Steele wrote in his order that Collins and Isle would probably be needed only for Sept. 25 and would be paid for mileage and time. Copyright c. 2003 Argus Leader. --------- "RE: Trial for Man charged with Aquash Murder delayed" --------- Date: Fri, 12 Sep 2003 08:12:12 -0700 From: Gary Smith Subj: NA News Item - - - - - - -- - - - - - - filename="ANNA MAE TRIAL DELAYED" http://www.indianz.com/News/ http://www.aberdeennews.com/mld/aberdeennews/news/6748137.htm Judge delays Looking Cloud trial until February September 11, 2003 CARSON WALKER Associated Press SIOUX FALLS, S.D. - The trial for one of two men accused of killing American Indian Movement member Anna Mae Pictou-Aquash has been delayed until February - 28 years after her body was found on the Pine Ridge Indian Reservation. U.S. District Judge Lawrence Piersol granted the request Thursday from Tim Rensch, the court-appointed lawyer for Arlo Looking Cloud, who was to stand trial starting Sept. 30 in Rapid City. Looking Cloud and John Graham, also known as John Boy Patton, are charged with first-degree murder for the Dec. 1975 slaying of Aquash. Looking Cloud was arrested in Denver in March. Graham has not been arrested and is thought to be in Canada. Rensch said he needs more time to prepare because of the large number of documents, tapes and other information in the case. Aquash, a member of Mi'kmaq Tribe of Canada, was killed at a time when tensions between AIM members and government-backed factions ended in numerous deaths on the reservation. She was among Indian militants who occupied the village of Wounded Knee for 71 days in 1973. Aquash vanished from a Denver home in December 1975. Her body was found in February 1976. She had been shot in the head. Looking Cloud and Graham were security guards with AIM in the 1970s and would serve mandatory life prison terms if convicted. Graham is a Canadian Indian and Looking Cloud is a Lakota Indian who grew up on the Pine Ridge reservation. Rensch said his investigator has run into problems talking to people. And Looking Cloud appears to be depressed about recent reports of missing evidence that turned out to be false, he said. "He does not seem to be aiding in his defense," Rensch said. "There's a thought here that something's missing and I think that may be triggering mental problems for the defendant." He acknowledged the inconvenience of a delay for everyone involved but said he's been working day and night on the case and would not be adequately prepared in the next three weeks. The documents are "like nothing I've seen before," Rensch said. "I have about 3 1/2 feet of discovery stacked on my conference room table." During the brief hearing held by teleconference, U.S. Attorney Jim McMahon and Assistant U.S. Attorney Bob Mandel said they were ready to go to trial. About 20 witnesses have been subpoenaed and people have already made plans to attend, McMahon said. "This is pretty late in the game," he said. But McMahon said he understood the amount of work involved in going through everything collected in the case. "I concede we have provided Mr. Rensch with a tremendous amount of material," McMahon said. That's probably why Rensch missed a two-page report in the stack from 1994 when Looking Cloud took investigators to the place near Wanblee where a rancher found Aquash's body, he said. "It's easy to understand how he overlooked it," McMahon said. In asking for the delay, Rensch said Looking Cloud would give up his right to a speedy trial. He already received an earlier delay and vowed to be ready by February. "I will be ready when you tell me to," Rensch told the judge. Looking Cloud's trial is now set for Feb. 3 in federal court in Rapid City and scheduled to take up to two weeks. Copyright c. 2003 AP Wire and wire service sources. All Rights Reserved. Copyright c. 2003 Aberdeen News. --------- "RE: Native Prisoner" --------- Date: Mon, Sep 15 2003 19:18:40 -0700 From: Janet Smith Subj: NA News Item - - - - - - -- - - - - - - filename="NATIVE PRISONER" ===== A September 15, 2003 article in the Denver Post reports that this week a federal appellate panel is considering moving up Leonard Peltier's parole hearing date. For more information about Peltier's case, go to http://www. freepeltier.org/. Judges to hear pleas for Indian activist Peltier's parole By Jim Hughes, Denver Post Staff Writer September 15, 2003 Leonard Peltier, the American Indian Movement activist convicted of murdering two FBI agents in 1975, may finally get a chance to have a parole hearing. A panel of federal appeals-court judges in Denver this week will consider moving up a parole hearing for Peltier, convicted of the murders on South Dakota's Pine Ridge Indian Reservation. Peltier, 59, has always denied killing the two FBI agents. On Friday, attorneys hope to convince the 10th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals that the U.S. Parole Commission erred when, instead of considering Peltier for parole in 1986, it scheduled a hearing on the matter for 2008. "Under federal guidelines, someone convicted of murder is considered for parole at 200 months," said Barry Bachrach, an attorney in Worcester, Mass., who specializes in appellate law and is working on Peltier's case for free. "Mr. Peltier would deny that he committed the crimes, but (that) is not the issue before the court," he said. "The issue is whether the parole commission gave a proper reason for basically doubling the time for considering Mr. Peltier for parole." The federal parole system became obsolete in 1987, when Congress adopted a new set of federal sentencing guidelines. Inmates convicted of federal crimes before 1987, however, still are eligible for parole under the old system. When he applied for parole in 1986, Peltier had been in prison for 204 months. As they were required to do, parole officials explained why they put off Peltier's hearing: "A decision ... above the minimum guidelines is warranted because you were involved in the ambush of two federal officers," they wrote. "After the officers were incapacitated by gunshot wounds, you participated in the premeditated and cold-blooded execution of those two officers." Bachrach's task is to convince three appellate judges that the explanation relied on two incorrect facts: that there was an ambush, and that Peltier was definitely the executioner and not simply an accomplice. "There is no evidence in the record which supports that he ambushed and executed the two FBI agents," Bachrach said, adding that prosecutors never proved the shootout was premeditated. The two agents, Jack Coler and Ronald Williams, died after exchanging gunfire with Peltier and others involved with the Native American liberation movement. Coler worked out of the FBI's Denver field office. Coler and Williams initially were wounded in the shootout near the reservation town of Oglala, dying only after someone shot each of them in the head at point-blank range. In a 1977 trial later described by an appellate court as problematic, a jury in Fargo, N.D., convicted Peltier of two counts of first-degree murder. He received two consecutive life sentences. He is incarcerated at the federal maximum-security prison in Leavenworth, Kan. The 8th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals in St. Louis in 1986 found "inconsistencies casting strong doubts upon the government's case," but said the problems did not warrant a new trial for Peltier, according to court records. The government misconduct in the case included coerced testimony and withheld evidence, the court found. Prosecutors asked Peltier's jurors to convict him if they thought he killed the agents or if they believed he aided and abetted whoever did, Bachrach said. "The reasons they've given just don't hold water, in light of the government's admissions, particularly after it was discovered that the government withheld evidence and fabricated evidence," Bachrach said. But there was no government attempt to railroad Peltier, said Norman Zigrossi, the now retired FBI agent who oversaw the investigation into the deaths of Coler and Williams. The perception by some that Peltier was victimized by a government bent on breaking the AIM and avenging two fallen agents is wrong, he said. "We did nothing unethical or illegal," Zigrossi said. "We presented the facts as we knew them. It was not easy, because it was a complicated case. If anything was withheld, it was done inadvertently." Still, the stigma of injustice has remained, helping add to Peltier's supporters, from those who knew him in the AIM to countless others all around the world who have never met him. He has attained iconic stature while in prison, with his name appearing on T-shirts and bumper stickers. This week, organizers with the Leonard Peltier Defense Committee, Peltier's legal-defense fund based in Lawrence, Kan., have scheduled several events in Denver to bring attention to the hearing, including a news conference, a showing of Peltier's paintings and a rally Friday morning on the steps of the 10th Circuit Court on Stout Street. Zigrossi said Peltier's international support is misplaced. "Leonard Peltier is not a political prisoner. He's a murderer," Zigrossi said. "He's appealed at every level, and every appeal was denied. He's where he deserves to be, in my opinion." The last time Peltier's case drew this much attention was during the final days of President Clinton's administration, when many expected the outgoing president to pardon him. But when Clinton released a list of recipients of presidential pardons on his last day in office, Peltier's name was not on it. "It's unanimous (among Peltier's supporters) that he's wrongly imprisoned, and that Clinton should have had some courage and some backbone to do what he said he was going to do - grant him clemency," said Glenn Morris, a leader of AIM's Colorado chapter. While Peltier's lawyers said they felt confident going into this week's hearing in Denver, Morris struck a more cynical note. "To release Peltier at this point is to vindicate, in part, the program of the American Indian Movement, which challenged the conventions of U.S. society," Morris said. "Why would a federal judge do that?" --------- "RE: History: Carlisle Indian School" --------- Date: Mon, 08 Sep 2003 19:48:16 -0400 From: Barbara Landis Subj: August 29, 1890 INDIAN HELPER, Carlisle Indian School. [Editorial Note: These reprints are being included in this newsletter so that you might know the mind of those who ran institutions like Carlisle.] THE INDIAN HELPER ~%^%~ A WEEKLY LETTER FROM THE Carlisle Indian Industrial School To Boys and Girls. ================================================ VOL. V. FRIDAY, AUGUST 29, 1890 NUMBER 52 ================================================ BETTER TO "GO IT ALONE," ------ An incomplete common school education, a plunge into some business unprepared, a careless effort and partial success, fill out the record of far too many lives. Thoroughness, application and hard work are necessary to win. The story of the lives of successful men is plain. It has always been so. Gibbon said; "the best and most important part of every man's education is that which he gives himself." Then be self-reliant. "In battle or business, whatever the game, In law or in love, it is ever the name. In the struggle for power, or the scramble for self, Let this be your motto. Rely on yourself. For whether the prize be a ribbon or throne, The victor is he who can go it alone." --------- [For THE HELPER.] A DOCTOR AND HIS WIFE AMONG THE INDIANS. --------- Fifteen years ago it was my pleasant fortune to spend some time at Wichita, Indian Territory. These few years have marked great changes in the Indians and their country. Then we could count on our hands every house they owned in that part of the Territory where we were acquainted. The houses had been built by the government, and were little used. A certain log house was the center of a chief's home. It was looked upon as a curiosity, something to be kept for show, not to be used carelessly. The chief's real home was his tepees and his arbors. These were grouped together around his log hut. The arbors were open and had floors three or four feet above the ground. Underneath these rude and broken floors the dogs congregated, and the chickens. The chickens were few, but the dogs were many, of all colors and sizes and dispositions. Some of them I thought were ferocious, and I have often held my riding skirt, and my feet high up on the saddle for fear I should be pulled off, when riding through the camps. I soon learned however that "barking dogs do not bite"--a proverb which will apply to individuals as well as dogs. Mostly the Indian dogs were ugly, cowardly curs, without a single virtue. How they subsisted, I cannot tell, for I have known many of their owners to be so poor that they had not enough to eat, and were continually hungry. Sometimes we have known Indians to kill and eat their dogs; they make a kind of stew of them. We were often assured by a progressive Catholic Priest and other trustworthy persons that to partake of such a feast is to eat what is both toothsome and wholesome. The fact that the number of dogs in a village never seemed to diminish even in the most trying times, led us to believe that the Indians do not eat dog meat as long as they can live without it. It is nothing against them if they do eat such food when pressed with hunger. It was not until the siege of Paris that the French, aesthetic people as they are, learned to eat the noble horse, and more ignoble mule. Why the Indians kept so many greedy dogs puzzled us. Since then we have noticed that among our own people, the poorer and more ignorant a family is the more dogs they keep. Indeed in some communities of poor broken houses and starving population we often see almost as many dogs as children. In those days buffalo were plentiful, and many were the nice pieces of buffalo steak the neighborly Indians brought us. The dried meat is delicious, especially the fat. It is not like beef or any other flesh, but more like bread. In eating a dinner of beef or mutton, we very soon reach the limit of our appetite, but with buffalo there is no satiety. We are Indians enough to believe that we shall never again eat flesh so sweet and good. Perhaps it is with this as with any other thing as the more scarce it is, the more desirable. In taking the stage route from Wichita Kansas to Wichita Agency a distance of two ----------------------------------- (Continued on the Fourth Page.) ====================================== (page 2) The Indian Helper. ----------------------------- PRINTED EVERY FRIDAY, AT THE INDIAN INDUSTRIAL SCHOOL, CARLISLE, PA. BY THE INDIAN PRINTER BOYS. --> THE INDIAN HELPER is PRINTED by Indian boys, but EDITED by The-Man-on-the-band-stand, who is NOT an Indian. ----------------------------- Price: - 10 cents a year. ============================== Address INDIAN HELPER, Carlisle, Pa. Miss M. Burgess, Manager. ============================== Entered in the P.O. at Carlisle as second class mail matter. ============================== The INDIAN HELPER is paid for in advance, so do not hesitate to take the paper from the Post Office, for fear a bill will be presented. ============================= ...[first part of article garbled] It is not if everybody is quiet better work is and more is crowded into the time. M.O.T.B.S. has heard many boys and say that the coming year is to be the best for them - that they intend to take bold do their part well and get the most out of advantages offered. This should be true of every one. It is the right spirit in which to begin the new year. What we miss we seldom know until the opportunity is passed. We seldom stop to think how much we fail to learn in school until it is too late. Three words sum it all up: Be docile, obedient, studious. =========== There is a kind of education in this life which every man must have, and which he can only get in one way, and that is the education of experience. Very few men are entirely willing to profit by the experience of others. How to get there! Do you wish to stand in a high place, and to be thought well of, either as a workman or a scholar? Would you like to know how to get into such a place? Ask yourself: "What am I doing to make myself valuable in the small position I now occupy?" "Am I doing with all my might what my hands find to do?" If you are, the chances are ten to one that you are making yourself so valuable in your present position that you cannot be spared from it, but that is the *very* time you will be sought for to fill a higher and better place. =========== As usual the mail this week brought in many subscribers-some new, some renewals, and the printer boys are kept busy arranging and properly placing them. And yet the cry is for more, many more names to whom the little paper may be sent. Everything is in good condition in the Office and in order to keep the whole force on the move the galleys must be kept well-filled. The Mailing list during the coming winter should reach 15,000. To secure this is only a question of what our friends intend to do for us. The boys here are willing,-the rest is with you. =========== The yearly report of the school, to be inserted in the Annual Report of the Honorable Commissioner of Indian Affairs, is commencing to assume shape, and will be somewhat fuller than the reports for the past few years. It is desired that many of the details leading to the formation of the school should be outlined besides giving many of the important steps taken since the opening in '79. Such facts will interest every one. The report no doubt will be printed in the September number of the *Red Man*. =========== With this issue another volume of the HELPER is complete. It seems but a short time since we entered upon volume V, but in the meantime fifty-two numbers have been issued and next week volume VI begins. Yes, we are growing old and at the same time widening our range and weekly increasing the circulation. Quite a half million of HELPERS were mailed by our Indian boys last year. We want to make it three-quarters of a million this year. =========== Word received from Mr. Standing indicates that a good party of Nez Perces children will be here in a short time. They start east the close of this week and will probably reach Carlisle next Wednesday or Thursday. Miss Fletcher, so well known in Indian work, has been lending a helping hand in gathering this party of pupils from far away Idaho. =========== 'Tis well said, that the fact we live tells us there is something ahead. Every one has a future - some short, others long. WE can prepare ourselves for such time by doing our duty in the present. To think well and act well means contentment and happiness for us now and in the end will make us truly successful. ============================= Captain spent a day in Washington this week looking after school matters. ---------- Ambrose one of the little boys returned early last Saturday morning after a most, delightful outing in New York state for a month. ---------- Mrs. Pratt, Mrs. Campbell, Miss Fisher and several of the little folks spent a day at Hunters Run this week. All had a very pleasant time. ---------- Miss Burgess, accompanied by Miss Kate Irvine, has been spending the week at Doubling Gap, a very popular resort in the mountains up the Valley. ---------- The new store-house will be 100 feet by 30, two stories high. The building will be a plain, substantial structure with a wide approach facing the west end of the large boys' quarters. ---------- Miss Hunt returned to the school after a pleasant vacation mostly spent in and about Chautauqua. Mrs. Worthington is also back from her vacation spent at Sunbury. Miss Cook returned the middle of the week. ---------- The plasterers have about completed their work in the large boys' quarters. Many of the rooms were torn up for some time but things are being put in shape again and every thing will be settled before the cold weather is upon us. ---------- All the old corps of teachers remain during the coming year. Heretofore there have always been some few changes--some new at the opening of the school year. The school room work the coming year should be the most successful ever yet experienced. ---------- After waiting all the summer for necessary flags two were received early in the week, and they have been doing service ever since. It is expected that two large garrison flags and two post flags, somewhat smaller, will be received before many days. The two received this week are storm flags. ---------- The grass has been carefully watched this summer and when necessary the lawn mowers were put in play. In fact the lawn mowers have been on the go all the time. The great quantity of rain which has fallen has enabled the grass to grow rapidly, causing continuous work, but as a result the grounds look fresh and green. All the bare spots have been covered over. ---------- There is talk of the ball team going to Lewistown to play a game soon after the opening of school. It would be well if a game could be played before that time with some good nine here on the school grounds. The team that goes away as far as Lewistown should be a winning team, and only the very best players selected. ---------- It seems that the wishes of the M. O. T. B. S. are never consulted when the Chief Clerk suddenly decides to go off. However no complaint can be made this time, for the chief clerk has been ailing somewhat the past few weeks and a little outing of a week or so will be just the thing to revive her and make it possible for her to please better than ever the many readers of the HELPER. The number of applications this year for position as teachers has been unusually large. ---------- Minnie Paisano, who went with the Grinnells, stood the journey very well, and is now with her people in New Mexico. ---------- Word from Dr. Grinnell tells of their safe arrival in their former home, Pasadena, Cal. The trip on the whole was a pleasant one. ---------- Henry Phillips is walking about again after being confined several weeks in the Hospital, it will be remembered. Henry met with a severe accident in the machine shop in the town. ---------- The English speaking meeting Saturday night was held as usual. In the absence of Captain and Mr. Standing, who are always wont to lead this meeting, Miss Bishop took charge. ---------- Quite a change in the weather this week. Not quite as bad however was the case in New York and a few of the New England states where they had frost. Think of it, frost in August! ---------- Dr. Stewart who has been the physician since Dr. Grinnell's departure is off for a two weeks' trip to Atlantic City and along the coast. A permanent resident physician will be here in a month or so. ---------- A very pleasant incident in connection with the sociable last Friday evening was the way some of the boys, of their own accord, welcomed the teachers back after their vacations. It was manly and courteous. ---------- The Grangers Picnic held the last week in August each year at Williams Grove attracted many of the boys who have money of their own. There was also a corresponding increase of visitors on the grounds here during the week incident to the picnic. ---------- Mr. Campbell returned to the school Wednesday evening from his trip among the boys on farms. It takes a long time to go around and see personally every one of the 275 who have been out for the vacation; but this is that Mr. Campbell did. He returns with some excellent reports as well as some unfavorable comments regarding certain ones. ---------- The sick list has been greatly reduced during the present month. In fact for the past two weeks there have been only four pupils who required the attention of the hospital corps. This is as it should be and with proper care and attention on the part of all the boys and girls the number will not be increased however much the weather may change. ---------- The sociable last Friday evening was in every way successful. The new pupils seemed to enjoy the occasion as much as those who have been here longest. Everybody seemed to be in a happy humor. There was an easiness manifested by the boys and girls which should characterize all the sociables. This was the first one to be held during this session. ================================== (Continued from the First Page.) hundred and fifty miles we met large herds of buffalo who would look up at us with curiosity. Even when they started over the hills they did not seem to hurry. Now there is but a small herd left in all America, and they are preserved in the National Park. In those days many of the Indians were hungry. I often wondered why they did not fish more in the Wichita. Catfish were abundant, though a person must work some and wiat more to obtain them. The Caddoes were never hungry there, I think. While the Kiowas and Wichitas, and Kechies and other wild tribes were waiting around the office to beg permission of the Agent to go on a buffalo hunt, or sitting on the commissary doorsteps in hopes that the flour and sugar and coffee would soon put in an appearance, what were the Caddoes doing? They were planting corn and melons and pumpkins. They were driving their little herds of beef to water, or keeping watch over their few fat pigs. Among any people, *Industry* is the key to comfort, and there is no truer proverb than this for the Indian or the white man "If a man does not work, neither shall he eat". We could see a change in the wild tribes as time passed on. A rich little piece of land by the creek grew to have its charms. Vulgar people called the little garden a "Squaw patch", but I think it no more a squaw patch than the little window-garden in the pretty cottage of any lady or the kitchen garden at the rear of most farm houses in which the women do the most of the work and enjoy it too. The Indians learned to like cooked vegetables, and strings of dried pumpkin came to be prominent features, hung all about in close proximity to the medicine pole with its red rag and glass bottle and piece of deer hide. I accompanied the Doctor in his daily rounds to the camp. The trails on the prairie were used in single file and if we kept to the road we must ride one behind the other. Frequently we met parties of Indians, and if the Doctor happened to be ahead they invariably turned out and gave him the trail because he was "heap big medicine man." But, if I chanced to be ahead the case was different, and it was a long time before they learned the sort of politeness which white men accord to woman. When I was ahead on the trail and met an old Chief with his train I did not look in his face, save to say "How," and with my eyes strait before me kept the trail. Sometimes there was a halt. Who had ever heard of a Chief giving the road to a "Squaw? and there were all his own squaws right behind him to witness the circumstance. We often dismounted at the camps and of course my husband assisted me, much to the amusement of the spectators. When we were ready to leave the village the whole population apparently assembled to see what to them was a funny sight. There were men as curious as the rest but evidently not much in favor of this change in their affairs which might result in "Woman's Rights." But the women themselves were the most interested. The wild, half naked children peeping from behind the lodges seemed to get the most real fun out of it. After I was assisted to mount they would all set up a perfect chorus for the Doctor, and crowd around him with emphatic demonstrations. We were never quite sure whether they were making fun of him or praising him, but it made no difference I carried lumps of cube sugar in my pocket and distributed it among the children. It was not long before we had an army of little ones at our heels. Sometimes there was not enough sugar to go around and then we watched to see them quarrel over it. But did they quarrel? No indeed, I never saw two Indian children quarrel over anything in camp. Perhaps they did, but I never saw them. These little fellows would crack their sugar and give a piece of the white lump to their playmates just as any good children do. THE DOCTOR'S WIFE. ------------ Enigma. I am made of 13 letters. My 6, 8, 11, 4, 7 is necessary to make bread. My 13, 12, 11, 9, 3 is a trap for catching birds. My 5, 8, 2, 9, 6 is the name of a fruit. My 4, 1, 1O, 12 is a method of making linen. My whole is the name of a religious sect. ------------ ANSWER TO LAST WEEK'S ENIGMA: Character. STANDING OFFER: - For FIVE new subscribers to the INDIAN HELPER, we will give the person sending them a photographic group of the 17 Carlisle Indian Printer boys, on a card 4 1/2 X 6 1/2 inches, worth 20 cents when sold by itself. Name and tribe of each boy given. (Persons wishing the above premium will please enclose a 1-cent stamp to pay postage.) For TEN, Two PHOTOGRAPHS, one showing a group of Pueblos as they arrived in wild dress, and another of the same pupils three years after, or, for the same number of names we give two photographs showing still more marked contrast between a Navajoe as he arrived in native dress, and as he now looks, worth 20 cents a piece. The new combination picture showing all our buildings and band-stand, (boudoir) will also be given for TEN subscribers. (Persons wishing the above premiums will please enclose a 2-cent stamp to pay postage.) For FIFTEEN, we offer a GROUP of the whole school on 9x14 inch card. Faces show distinctly, worth sixty cents. For FIFTEEN, the new combination picture 8x10 showing all our buildings. (Persons wishing the above premium will please send 6 cents to pay postage.) For TWO Subscribers and a One-cent stamp, we send the printed copy of the Apache contrast. For ONE Subscriber and a Two-cent stamp we will send the printed copy of Pueblo contrast. Persons sending clubs must send all the names at once. ======================================== Transcribed from the original by Barbara Landis-- http://www.epix.net/~landis --------- "RE: Rustywire: The Cornfield" --------- Date: Tue, Apr 22:09:25 2003 08:12:44 -0600 From: Gary Smith Subj: NA News Item - - - - - - -- - - - - - - filename="RUSTYWIRE: CORNFIELD" http://www.geocities.com/SoHo/Nook/1574/Starmtn/cornfield.html Navajo Spaceships, Star mountain and Life An online journal- Star Mountain-Navajo Life The Cornfield by Johnny Rustywire A long time ago in the last century there was once a couple from Wide Ruins not too far Klagetoh, and this couple had a hogan that was warm and provided shelter for the man, Hosteen Ke' Tso, his wife and child. The woman was from Shush Bitoh, and had come to him a few years before. She settled with him in this valley just a little ways from ancient ruins, hence the name Wide Ruins. She stayed with him, and though they went about their business, she wanted to leave and go back to her own country, to take her child and return and leave this land. One morning she packed a few things and after her husband left for the cornfield to water it, she took her child and took a horse and headed to the East, leaving her husbands' things outside the hogan. Hosteen Ke' Tso, was his name because he had big feet. He watered the cornfield by hand, a pot full at a time working with each plant throughout the day and then tended the sheep. When he was working his sister came to him and told him that his hogan was empty and that his wife had left him. He returned to the hogan and thought maybe she was just going to visit her family and told his mother and father that when they came to see him. She had left on horseback and did not return. Hosteen Ke' Tso worked the land and tended the sheep. His wife did not come back in the traditional way of doing things it looked to be a partnership that was broken. Shush Bitoh Woman found her family and stayed with them and did not return to her husbands' place all through the summer. She moved in with her sister and they fixed a place for her and the small child. One day Hosteen set out to see about some traditional things up toward Round Top, not too far from Nazlini and set out on horseback. He was going to have some prayers said and his family said they would water the corn plants, as they were near full-grown. The field was full and his hard work had made it so. He set out and after some days did not return. Some weeks went by and there was no word on his whereabouts. He did not come back home and no one knew why. In those days life was hard and many things could happen to someone traveling alone. He may have fallen off his worse, been attacked by an animal or something else. No one knew what had happened to him. The family realized that a bad thing had befallen their son. They sought the advice of a headman in the local area. He related the fields and hogan should be taken care of until their son could return. One day word came that Hosteen had been found, that in collecting some pinons from a high branch he had fallen to the ground. Word of what happened was sent to Shushbito Woman and she was requested to come and bring his child back to the family so that might know and remember the father through the son. They had seen the child born and knew the child well, that maybe by having the mother bringing the child the family might be able to care for him and also her. Shush Bitoh Woman did not come, and two messengers went to her place far to the East to tell her to come and she did not come or send any word. Hosteen's family took care of the place for Hosteen's son and wanted him to return to this place. One day while going to the hogan they found that his wife, Shush Bitoh Woman had returned. She was loading up what remained in the house and her family had brought extra pack animals with them to haul the corn harvest back with them to an area near Iyanbito. They had come to harvest the corn. This created some discussion between all the parties and they argued about the corn harvest. The corn was ready for picking and the crop was good, because Hosteen had worked so hard at making it grow and had taken care of it. The matter was brought to the Headman and he heard both parties speak about the cornfield. Shush Bitoh Woman said the things in the hogan, the sheep and corn field were hers as she was married to the Hosteen and had been visiting with her family for some time and that she planned to come back, but upon returning learned that her husband would never be back and so knowing that she had family in her own homeland was going back there to live with them and was taking was hers according to tradition. Hosteen's family related that Hosteen had not known that his wife was leaving, that she left on her own without telling him and had torn their blankets in half and thrown them on the ground where he found them with his things laying in front of the hogan. That this by tradition was the way of ending the union, she let it be known they were no longer to be together. He worked the fields alone and told his family that he hoped his wife would return with his son so that he might care for the child. Hosteen's family told the Headman, that by the traditional way of doing things that when the items were thrown out of the hogan, and the blankets torn, that Shush Bitoh Woman had decided to leave for good and took the child away with her. That by her leaving, tearing the blankets and placing his things outside of the hogan and returning to her own family, she had left him for good. It was as if she had died, and that was the way she should be treated. She was dead to the family, but the child was still their hope for the family to continue on. This was made clear by her actions, that when she was contacted twice about her husband, first of his not returning and then later of his fall. She did not come back and did not bring the child, Hosteen's child back to Wide Ruins. Now that the corn was ready to harvest she had returned to this place with her family to take the corn back to Iyanbito. Hosteen's family said, the corn should be harvested for the benefit of the child and that the child should remain with them as it had been said she was with another man from that area of Bear Springs, not too far from Fort Wingate, the cavalry fort. Hosteen's family wanted the child returned to them. Shush Bitoh Woman spoke and said that since the child was hers that all the things in the hogan, the sheep and corn harvest were hers as she was the mother of the Hosteen's child. The Headman thought for a long time and related that when the woman left, she was leaving forever, she did this by tearing up the blankets, throwing Hosteen's things on the ground and taking all her possessions back to Iyanbito, and that further she upon learning of Hosteen being missing did not return then or later when he was found and never would be back to harvest the corn. The Headman told Shush Bitoh Woman that she was "dead" to the family and the family bond between husband and wife was forever broken and she was to be treated as if she had died too, and therefore had no right to anything in the hogan or in the cornfield. As she was the mother she was entitled to hold a little for the benefit of the child but if she did not bring the child back to the area to know his father's family then she was to be alone with responsibility to care for the child alone. The Headman gave a portion of the cornfield harvest to Hosteen's family and appointed his sister as caretaker of the place until the child would return to reclaim it as his own. So the Headman made his talk in this manner and it was fair and so that is how it was done. Shush Bitoh left the area and went back to Iyanbito and never did return to the area with the boy and so he was lost to the family. One night in 1981, a young Navajo family, a father, mother and child lived near this place called Wide Ruins. It so happened the father worked and with it came some benefits for himself and his family. He worked everyday providing for them. Luck would have it that his wife did not like it there and wanted to return to Thoreau and so one she left with their child and did not return. During this time, the father was coming home and never got back due to an accident. His family rushed to him but it was too late, he was gone. He was taken to a place where they prepare one for laying to rest. Word was sent to the his former wife, who filed and received a divorce just before the father had his accident. She was asked by his family to bring the child to the funeral and also to go to the funeral home and sign over some of the proceeds of the insurance, life insurance over to the funeral home to cover the costs there. On the day of the funeral, the family went to bring their brother home and learned that his body had not been prepared. They called the woman from Thoreau and she did not come, though she said she would. The brothers and sisters met and not wanting to tell the parents about what was going on, gathered up hard goods, jewelry, conchos and beads and pawned them and came up with the money necessary to have the things done for their brother. The brother was laid to rest and the parents did not learn about this until later. The child was not brought to the funeral and no word was received about it from the mother. The following day the mother went to collect the insurance on her former husband as she was the beneficiary and would receive the whole amount. The family of the father sued in Window Rock stating that the due to the circumstances involved in this situation, that the former wife did not deserve the insurance proceeds. After many nights of soul searching and looking at the facts of the matter, the simplicity of a cornfield made it's presence known and so after a fashion an argument that went against established law was made based on Navajo tradition. The lawyers for the insurance company came to Court and in their suits stated that under the general principles of law that once a beneficiary is named it cannot be undone and the former wife was to receive all the proceeds. The tribal court advocate also known as "a man who speaks for his people" came from Navajo Legal Aid stood up and related the story of the cornfield and explained the analogy to the facts in this case. He related what happened in this sad situation. At the beginning the thought was that nothing could be done, but in thinking in practical traditional terms that maybe this was similar to a cornfield that was ready to harvest and the owner leaves never to return. The tribal judge told the tribal court advocate you have two minutes to make an oral argument on your position. The lawyers for the insurance company laughed out loud when they heard the argument, The tribal court advocate spoke of tradition, that state and federal laws were guideposts to help in the deciding of things like this, but that the common law of the people should be followed. In seeking a divorce the woman had by tradition cut herself off from the family, it was as if she were dead to them and that the court consider the circumstances surrounding this situation, which was further evidenced in that she did not claim the body, or bring the child to the funeral. That an arrangement had been made and she had agreed to assign the cost of the funeral to the funeral home but did not do so and placed an undue hardship on the family. The lawyers argued that under existing state and federal law once an insurance beneficiary was named it could not be undone. The hearing lasted a short while and written arguments were presented. Three years later the Navajo high court in the land with a panel of three judges looked at the issues and having read about an abandoned cornfield ready to harvest decided Navajo Common Law was the primary law to be followed and the beneficiary clause was ruled invalid and without force or affect. The young man who had passed away, his family had won and set up a trust for the child to protect the assets of the estate, the harvest, and so it was done. The analogy of the cornfield based on Navajo custom, usage's and tradition won out. When the advocate went into Gallup, to the law offices of the insurance company, to pick up the check for a large sum of money to be placed in a trust, he thought grassroots common sense won out and no one is laughing at the thought of it, that the cornfield had found it's proper owner and harmony was restored. Copyright c. 1999, Johnny Rustywire, all rights reserved. --------- "RE: Poem: Gift of Sacrifice" --------- Date: Fri, 12 Sep 2003 00:47:05 EDT From: HGold42734@aol.com Subj: poem from phil goldvarg Mailing List: ndn-aim Today in Cancun, Kyung Hae Lee, a 56-year old South Korean farmer, died after stabbing himself in protest of the World Trade Organization (WTO), a global trading institution that has been leaving farmers hopeless and desperate, and silently killing them the world over. Gift of Sacrifice Kyung Hae Lee followed the dragon to his ancestor's home, protesting death of future generations, offering voice of his blood in this time of Chusok, where harvest is survival, in strange land of Cancun, away from family, his mother earth, he breathes softly against a heartless sky, flesheaters in their greed, eating this earth to death, Kyung becomes wind, wild wings of protection flapping against dark night, he flies with the dragon, they are eyes of opposition, never to close, Kyung gives his heart to grandchildren, to their children, the line will dance into everlasting light of sun, kiss of misty moon. Phil Goldvarg 9/11/03 hgold42734@aol.com --------- "RE: Verse: Hawaiian Book of Days" --------- Date: Sun, 14 Sep 2003 14:22:27 -1000 From: Debbie Sanders Subj: Hawaiian Book of Days A HAWAI`I BOOK OF DAYS, week of September 15-21 KEPAKEMAPA (September) (Mahoe Hope) 15 See the dance of the rain upon the leaves; hear the laughter of the waves upon the shore. 16 Be like the mountain stream -- if something blocks your path, flow around it. 17 In this world, there is time enough for all things. 18 The road I walk is always unfolding before me; what lies around the next bend is a new adventure. 19 The dolphins leap and play upon the waves at morning; they are the eternal children of the sea. 20 The world seen from the eye of aeko, the eagle, is a vast and wondrous place. 21 Our hopes and dreams inter-weave in the intricate patterns of love, aloha. (c) Copyright 1991 by D. F. Sander Me ke aloha i ka nani, ... Moe'uhanekeanuenue (With love and beauty, ... Rainbow Dream) --------- "RE: Specials This Week on APTN" --------- Date: Mon, 15 September 2003 08:03:22 2003 -0700 From: Gary Smith Subj: NA News Item - - - - - - -- - - - - - - filename="APTN" Available on Star Choice (1-888-554-STAR), channel 350 and on Bell ExpressVU (1-888-SKY-DISH), channel 441 = = = = = = = = = Aboriginal Peoples Television Network is a full featured network available to Canadian DBS viewers on Star Choice and Bell ExpressVU. The weekly program grid is available at http://www.aptn.ca/Schedule/schedule_html =========================================== Times are shown in Eastern time. APTN National News: Contact ------------------------------------------------------------------------- - Friday September 12, 2003, 8 pm eastern/5 pacific - Saturday September 13, 2003, 1 am e/Friday September 12, 2003 11 pm p - Sunday September 14, 2003, 4:30 pm e/1:30 pm p APTN National News: Contact Aboriginal Fishing Rights: Too little or too much? On the week of the 4th anniversary of the Marshall Supreme Court decision, 'Contact' -- APTN's weekly national call-in show -- kicks off its fifth season of all-new programs with a Live 90 minute Town Hall on Aboriginal Fishing Rights from Canada's east coast. We'll bring together a live audience from across the Atlantic to debate the evening's question: "Aboriginal Fishing Rights: Too Little or Too Much?" We'll also take calls and emails from across the country for a truly national perspective at toll-free 1-877-647-2786 or . ** HOW TO BE IN THE AUDIENCE ** The event will take place Friday, September 19 at 8:30 pm (Atlantic), to be hosted at the Alderney Landing facility, overlooking Halifax Harbour. If you live or will be in the Halifax metro area and want to be a part of our audience, email or call Naomi at nclarke@aptn.ca or 1-888-278-8862 ext. 232. APTN National News and APTN National News: Contact Create even greater synergy than ever before, with daily coverage on News that is followed up with interactive, national phone-in discussions and guest interviews, every Friday. APTN National News: Contact is your chance to express yourself on APTN interactive Fridays. Voice your opinions to Host Rick Harp about the most crucial issues of this century - a Canada wide viewing audience is only a phone call or e-mail away! Live, immediately following APTN National News. ----------------- Language: English --------- "RE: This Week on AIROS" --------- Date: Mon, 15 September 2003 08:49:03 -0600 From: Gary Smith Subj: This Week on AIROS 1)CLUB RED WITH CHARLIE HILL...: Skits by Charlie Music by guest Sharon Burch 2)NATIVE AMERICA CALLING.......: Stopping Fetal Alcohol Syndrome Grave Robbers Coming Clean Who Can Beat the Bush? 3)VOICES FROM THE CIRCLE.......: Gary Small and his blues band, Younbird, R. Carlos Nakai, Wolfriver Band, Oneida Hymns... 4)ALTERNATIVE VOICES...........: Destruction of evidence in the 1975 Anna Mae Pictou-Aquash investigation 5)EARTHSONGS...................: Brent Michael Davids 1)CLUB RED WITH CHARLIE HILL Club Red with Charlie Hill has been described as "Monty Python with Moccasins" This program of NDN humor is a bold offering from producer Peggy Berryhill. Club Red star Oneida comedian Charlie Hill along with the Club Red Players, Bruce King, Carla Plante, Joe Paulino and Steve Tokar. Join them on each show as we feature some of Charlie's standup comedy, skit and sketch humor from our comedy ensemble, along with interviews of some of Native America's brightest talents. 9/16 - 9/22: Club Red: Sharon Burch: This edition of Club Red was recorded live at the Luther Burbank Center in Santa Rosa California. The format of this program is a traditional concert featuring Charlie Hill's stand up comedy and performances by Navajo recording artist Sharon Burch with songs from her CD's including "Yazzie Girl. The Club Red Players share some of their zany skits ala Olde Time Radio theatre. Skits include "Pocket Rainmaker," "The Adventures of the Flat Earth Rangers," "Generikee," and " Jeff, Last of the White People." We've also provide a couple bonus skits at the end of the program "Shaman Cologne" and "Sports Update." 2)NATIVE AMERICA CALLING Native America Calling, the AIROS flagship program, is a live one-hour call-in show, now distributed to over 40 Native and non-Native radio stations across Indian Country, Monday-Friday at 1 p.m. ET. Monday, September 15 - Stopping Fetal Alcohol Syndrome: Despite a concentrated effort to inform the public, alcohol-related birth injuries are still devastating our Native communities, families and mothers - especially young mothers. The sad part is these growth retardations, facial abnormalities, birth defects, mental retardations, and behavioral learning problems can be prevented. The effects on the child are apparent at birth, but there are deeper questions that loom. Like, what are the contributing factors and the underlying causes linked to FAS? And what makes a mother want to drink while she's pregnant? Invited guests include Michael Baldwin of the South Central Foundation Medical Center. Tuesday, September 16 - : According to the Denver Post, "some of America's most celebrated institutions - including Harvard's Peabody Museum, the Field Museum in Chicago and the American Museum of Natural History in New York - are indicating for the first time in reports to the U.S. government that they were more involved in the looting of Native American burial grounds than they have previously admitted." It is estimated somewhere in the neighborhood of 250,000 Native remains still exist within our nation's museums. Is NAGPRA finally paying off? And is Indian Country ready? Guests include Suzan Harjo of the Muscogee & Cheyenne Nations, director of the Morningstar Institute. Wednesday, September 17 - Who Can Beat the Bush?: The 2004 Campaign for President has officially kicked off, as eight of nine Democratic candidates held their first debate here in New Mexico. All of the candidates present agreed that President Bush and his administration are doing a horrible job in their handling of the War On Iraq and the struggling economy. What about their views on health care, immigration, trade and employment? And for Native America, what are the respective candidates' views on tribal sovereignty, state/tribal relations, trust management and Indian health care? Can any of these candidates emerge and beat Bush? Guests include former Oklahoma U.S. Senator and Democratic presidential candidate Fred Harris. Thursday, September 11 - TBA Friday, September 12 - TBA To participate call 1-800-996-2848, that's 1-800-99NATIV 3)VOICES FROM THE CIRCLE Voices from the Circle highlights Native news, music, issues, entertainment and storytelling from reservations and urban communities. The weekly program is produced and hosted by Barbara Jersey (Menominee/Potawatomi) and Jim DeNomie (Bad River Chippewa) at WLUW on Loyola University. 9/15 - 9/22: Voices From The Circle: This week, VOICES FROM THE CIRCLE producers Jim DeNomie & Barbara Jersey bring you more new music along with "Classics" and spiritual music from NDN Country. Gary Small and his blues band get us started and tapping our toes with the title song from his newest CD "Wild Indians." Noted AIC chanter Jay Begay sings an honor song for one of the first recorded Native American artists. It's "Natay's Song" Youngbird bring their Southern Style pow wow compositions to VOICES this week; "Summa' Time" and "Crazy Times." Continuing on the spiritual path we'll hear the Oneida Hymn Singers of Milwaukee and "#103 - Send The Light!" R. Carlos Nakai plays solo flute on his "Sanctuary" CD. Our listening pleasure this week is his "Spring Creek Journey." Wisconsin's Wolf River Band claims they play pow wows to honky tonks, so we guess it's appropriate to play their version of "Breakdown." Thunderbeat takes us from the Badger state to Mexico and the sounds of the "Feathered Serpent." Michael Jacobs is a more now oriented entertainer. He tells us the "Time Has Come." Flutist Bradley Smith adds two thoughtful pieces from his Spirit of the Wind CD; "Opening" and "Forever." Menominee Nation's Wade Fernandez brings us a satirical blues tune; "Commodity Cheese Blues." Aaaaay! We conclude with Robbie Robertson featuring Six Nations Women's Singers, Walela and a host of NDN Country musical notables -- it's a classic, "Stomp Dance For Unity." Any questions, comments or requests? urbaneagles@msn.com 4)ALTERNATIVE VOICES AlterNative Voices features Native music, interviews, and news reports relevant to Indian Country. AlterNative Voices is produced and hosted by Z. Susanne Aikman (Eastern Band Cherokee) and originates from KUVO-FM in Denver. 9/17 - 9/22: AlterNative Voices: At the alterNative Voices new desk this week, Susie reports the destruction of evidence in the 1975 Anna Mae Pictou-Aquash investigation and the discrimination in payments to Navajo land owners and pipeline deals. Music includes Jay Begaye, Larry Sellers, Aboriginal Fiddlers and Davis Mitchell. AlterNative Voices new and improved website is up and running. Much more information and more will be added as the days pass. We now have a guestbook that we hope will become a bulletin board and discussion area for our listening village and visitors at www.alterNativeVoices.org 5)EARTHSONGS Earthsongs is a weekly, hour-long music program on contemporary music by Native artists such as Robbie Robertson, Indigenous, Bill Miller, Murray Porter, Joanne Shenandoah, and Robert Mirabal. 9/18 - 9/22: Earthsongs: Brent Michael Davids: This week, we'll continue our conversation with Brent Michael Davids where he'll relate the fascinating story of how his unique quartz crystal flutes came into being. And we'll hear some samples of his very latest work for flute and orchestra. We'll also spin new releases from Casper & the 602 Band, Litefoot, Blackfire, Thunderbeat and Robert Mirabal. All this and plus the Native Word of the Day. 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Read it with a fixed-pitch font, such as Courier, Monaco, FixedSys or CG Times. Proportional fonts will be difficult to read. <================<<<< >>>>================> IMPORTANT!! ----------- In accordance with Title 17 U.S.C. section 107, all material appearing in this newsletter is distributed without profit to those who have expressed a prior interest in receiving this information for educational purposes. <================<<<< >>>>================> --------- "RE: Crossings" --------- Date: Mon, 22 Sep 2003 08:10:52 -0600 From: Gary Smith Subj: NA News Item - - - - - - -- - - - - - - filename="CROSSINGS" September 10, 2003 Annie N. Boyle PEMBROKE - Mrs. Annie Neal Boyle, 74, of 402 W. Fifth St., died Monday, Sept. 8, 2003, in Southeastern Regional Medical Center in Lumberton. The funeral will be conducted at 3 p.m. Thursday in Revels Funeral Home chapel in Pembroke by the Rev. David Malcolm. Burial will be in Lumbee Memorial Gardens in Lumberton. Mrs. Boyle is survived by a son, Hugh J. Boyle III of Mine Hill, N.J.; six daughters, Robin Moody and Peggy Burns, both of Ocean Isle Beach, Susan Delia of Pittstown, N.J., Patty Hibble and Shirley Steen, both of Rowland and Anne Locklear of Bound Brook, N.J.; two sisters, Queenie Lowery and Sue Lowry, both of Pembroke; nine grandchildren; and three great-grandchildren. The family will receive friends tonight from 7 to 9 at the funeral home. September 11, 2003 Mollie Locklear MAXTON - Mrs. Mollie Locklear, 64, of 1985 Hezekiah Road, died Wednesday, Sept. 10, 2003, in her home. Arrangements will be announced by Thompson's Funeral Home of Pembroke. September 13, 2003 Roscoe Locklear PEMBROKE - Retired Army Staff Sgt. Roscoe Locklear, 75, of 8547 Deep Branch Road, died Thursday, Sept. 11, 2003, in Beverly Healthcare in Lumberton. Mr. Locklear served in the Army for 21 years. The funeral will be conducted at 3:30 p.m. Sunday in Harpers Ferry Baptist Church by the Revs. Ray Bryant, Horace Oxendine and Glenn Harris. Burial will be in the church cemetery. Mr. Locklear is survived by his wife, Ethel L. Locklear of the home; three sons, Darlton R. Locklearand Anthony L. Locklear, both of Pembroke, and Phillip L. Locklear of Tucson, Ariz.; a daughter, Talana L. Miller of Raleigh; two brothers, Belton "Lackey" Locklear of Maxton and Issac Locklear of Red Springs; a sister, Emma Jane Carter of Wagram; 12 grandchildren; and a great-grandchild. The family will receive friends tonight from 7 to 9 at Locklear & Son Funeral Home in Pemborke. Copyright c. 2003 The Fayetteville (N.C.) Observer. -=-=-=- September 11, 2003 Pat Smith Cherokee - Pat Hornbuckle Smith, 68, of Tsali Care Center, died Tuesday, Sept. 9, 2003, at Cherokee Indian Hospital after an extended illness. A native of Swain County, she was the house parent for Cherokee Children's Home, a member of Wright's Creek Baptist Church and the daughter of the late John Russell and Stacey Crowe Hornbuckle. She was also preceded in death by her husband, Charles H. Smith, who died in 1994 and three brothers and three sisters. She is survived by her daughters, Loretta H. Kirby and husband, Gary, of Sylva, Paula Holloway and husband, Mark, Billie Jean Huskey and Frieda Huskey, all of Cherokee; son, John David Huskey of New Jersey; sister, Frances Wahnetah of Cherokee; two brothers, Alex and John R. Hornbuckle Jr. , both of Cherokee; eight grandchildren and four great-grandchildren. The funeral services will be held at 2 p.m. Friday at Wright's Creek Baptist Church with the Rev. Dan Lambert officiating. Burial will be in Hornbuckle Family Cemetery. The family will receive friends one hour prior to the services at the church. Melton-Riddle Funeral Home, Sylva, is in charge of the arrangements. September 13, 2003 Raymond Bradley Cherokee - Raymond Bradley died Friday, Sept. 12, 2003, at his residence. Melton-Riddle Funeral Home of Sylva is in charge of the arrangements. Copyright c. 2003 Asheville Citizen-Times. -=-=-=- September 13, 2003 Darin Siegfried Darin David Carl Siegfried (Wambdi Kgahwinga aka Circling Eagle), 29, Mandan, died Sept. 8, 2003, in a work-related accident in California. Services will be held at 10:30 a.m. CDT Saturday at Spirit of Life Catholic Church, Mandan. Burial will be in Mandan Union Cemetery. Visitation will be held from 6 to 9 p.m. today at Spirit of Life Catholic Church, Mandan, with a parish vigil at 7 p.m. Visitation will continue for one hour before the services at the church on Saturday. Darin is survived by his parents, David and Helen Lorraine Siegfried, Mandan; four sisters, Karen Siegfried, Mandan, Kimberly Siegfried, Solen, and Ruby Ramsey and LaSheila Marron, both of Mandan; three brothers, Merle Red Bear, Cleatus Shell and Donte Smith, all of Mandan; and his grandmother, Lora Siegfried. He is also survived by his Godmother, Justine Parkhurst and his Godson, Gabriel American Horse. He was preceded in death by his grandparents, Carl Siegfried and Carl and Alma Many Horses. Darin was born Jan. 18, 1974, in Minot. With his family, he moved to Heart Butte Dam near Elgin in 1981. He graduated from Elgin High School in 1992 and attended the University of Mary and Bismarck State College, where he completed the Electrical Lineworkers Program. He then completed the Mountain States Apprenticeship and Training Program and worked in a three- state area while living in Denver. He had been working in California the past year. Darin had a great many interests and enjoyed life. He especially enjoyed jeeping in the Colorado Mountains, skiing, riding his Harley motorcycle, going to concerts, playing softball and other sports, visiting with his friends and relatives and eating Indian tacos. He made many friends throughout his travels because of his kindness, his easy-going nature and his willingness to help anyone. Darin was a young man with a lot of knowledge about anything mechanical, electronic or technical, and he enjoyed working with things of this nature. Darin will be missed greatly and remembered fondly by his immediate family as well as his large extended family of aunts, uncles, cousins, nieces and nephews and his many, many friends. Copyright c. 2003 Bismarck Tribune. -=-=-=- September 15, 2003 Marjorie F. Keeler Lake Andes Lake Andes - Marjorie F. Keeler, 92, of Lake Andes, SD, died Thursday, September 11, 2003 at Indian Health Services Hospital in Wagner, SD. Funeral services will be Monday, September 15, 2003 at 10:30 a.m. at the St. Peter's Episcopal Church in Lake Andes with burial following at 11:30 a.m. in St. Philip's Episcopal Cemetery, rural Lake Andes. Koehn Bros. Funeral Home, Lake Andes, formerly Clements-Wiese Funeral Home, is in charge of arrangements. Copyright c. 2003 Sioux Falls Argus Leader. -=-=-=- September 10, 2003 Virgil W. Powder Woman-Hawk Wing WOUNDED KNEE - Virgil W. Powder Woman-Hawk Wing, 57, Wounded Knee, died Monday, Sept. 8, 2003, at Scottsbluff Regional West Hospital in Scottsbluff, Neb. Survivors include one son, Virgil Hawk Wing Jr., Wounded Knee; four daughters, Darlene Hawk Wing, Pine Ridge, and Andrea Hawk Wing, Mickelaja Hawk Wing and Vanessa Hawk Wing, all of Wounded Knee; one brother, Eugene Red Shirt Sr., Porcupine; two sisters, Pansy Hawk Wing, Huron, and Delphine Red Shirt, New Haven, Conn.; 19 grandchildren; and two great- grandchildren. A first-night wake will begin at 2 p.m. today at Church of God in Alliance, Neb. The second and third night wake will begin at 1 p.m. Thursday, Sept. 11, at Porcupine CAP Office. Services will be at 10 a.m. Saturday, Sept. 13, at Porcupine CAP Office, with the Rev. Abraham Tobacco officiating. Burial will be at Body of Christ Cemetery in Wounded Knee. Sioux Funeral Home of Pine Ridge is in charge of arrangements. September 12, 2003 Leo Dixon PINE RIDGE - Leo Dixon, 77, Pine Ridge, died Tuesday, Sept. 9, 2003, in Rapid City. Survivors include three brothers, Richard Grass and Dr. Manual Guzman, both of Rapid City, and Johnny Dixon, Los Angeles, and one sister, Mona Grass-Brown, Rapid City. A one-night wake will begin at 3 p.m. today at Billy Mills Hall in Pine Ridge. Services will be at 10 a.m. Saturday, Sept. 13, at Billy Mills Hall, with the Rev. Steve Sanford officiating. Mr. Floyd Hand Jr. will officiate over traditional Lakota services. Burial will be at Holy Rosary Mission Cemetery in Pine Ridge. Sioux Funeral Home of Pine Ridge is in charge of arrangements. September 13, 2003 Tim Brown Bull Sr. KYLE - Tim Brown Bull Sr., 35, Kyle, died Wednesday, Sept. 10, 2003, in Kyle. Survivors include two sons, Leroy Brown Bull and Timothy Brown Bull Jr., both of Allen; three daughters, Latoya Brown Bull and Rebecca Brown Bull, both of Allen, and Crystal Ten Fingers, Oglala; two brothers, Vernel Brown Bull Jr., Rapid City, and Oliver Brown Bull Sr., Oglala; and two sisters, Sally Brown Bull and Sandra Janis, both of Kyle. Two-night wake services begin at 1 p.m. today at Brother Rene Church Hall, Oglala. Services will be at 10 a.m. Monday, Sept. 15, at the church hall, with the Rev. Robert Two Bulls officiating. Traditional Lakota services will be conducted by Wilmer Mesteth. Burial will be at Christ Church Episcopal Cemetery in Red Shirt. Sioux Funeral Home in Pine Ridge is in charge of arrangements. September 14, 2003 Wayne Romero PINE RIDGE - Wayne Romero, 32, died Saturday, Sept. 13, 2003, at Pine Ridge. Survivors include his mother, Lema Martin, Pine Ridge. Arrangements are pending with Sioux Funeral Home in Pine Ridge. Copyright c. 2003 the Rapid City Journal. -=-=-=- Gerald Dean Ketchum Towaoc resident Gerald Dean Ketchum died Tuesday, Sept. 2, 2003, at San Juan Hospital in Monticello, Utah. He was 45 years old. Funeral services for Mr. Ketchum will be at 10 a.m. Saturday, Sept. 6, in Towaoc at the family home at 235 Dry Creek Road. Interment is to follow at the Cortez Cemetery. Mr. Ketchum was born the son of Alex Ketchum Sr. and Clarabelle Dutchie in Cortez on Nov. 5, 1957. On Dec. 5, 1981 Mr. Ketchum married Sonya Hamlin in Towaoc. He was a member of the Native American Church and sang all the traditional Native American songs for the Bear Dance, Sundance and Pow Wow. He was also a Pow Wow Fancy Dancer and a Sun Dancer. He was Bear Dance Chief for the White Mesa Bear Dance. Surviving Mr. Ketchum are his wife, Sonya Ketchum of Towaoc; son Gerald Crazy Horse Ketchum also of Towaoc; brothers and sisters, Nathan Dutchie, Alvora Ketchum, Melvin Ketchum and wife, Valencia, all of Towaoc, Shirley Denetsosie of White Mesa, Utah, Darryl Ketchum, Frankie Ketchum both of Towaoc, Gilbert Dutchie and wife, Joyce of Ignacio, Colo., and Tallas Cantsee and wife, Rita of Towaoc; and his aunt, Ruby Moreno of Towaoc. Services will be under the direction of the Ertel Funeral Home. September 10, 2003 Lydia Tso Eddie Funeral services for Montezuma Creek resident Lydia Tso Eddie will be held at 10 a.m. Friday, Sept. 12, at the Ertel Memorial Chapel. Interment will follow at the Cortez Cemetery. Lydia was born Oct. 10, 1935, in Aneth, Utah, to Sayini Tso and Biitaanii Yaazhi Bitsi. She passed away Monday, Sept. 8, 2003, at the Southwest Memorial Hospital at the age of 67. She is survived by her husband, James Eddie of Montezuma Creek, Utah; her children: Michael Eddie of Aneth; Frieda Charley of Grants, N.M.; Jerome Eddie of Aneth; Anthony Eddie of Kirtland, N.M.; Jason Eddie of Farmington; McCartney Eddie of Red Valley, Ariz.; Ernel Eddie of Aneth; Messiah Eddie of Aneth; Thurston Eddie, Elnora Mustache of Horse Canyon, Utah, and Marlin Eddie of Aneth; her 20 grandchildren, 11 great- grandchildren; and her siblings: Margaret Weston, Lewis Tso and Louise Jones, all of Aneth. Preceding her in death were her parents; and her infant baby girl. Services are under the direction of the Ertel Funeral Home. Copyright c. 2003, the Cortez Journal. -=-=-=- September 10, 2003 Anthony Joseph Aaron Todeschi Anthony Joseph Aaron Todeschi, died Thursday, Aug. 28, 2003, at the Children's Hospital in Denver. Anthony was born June 13, 2003, in Durango, the son of Heather Todeschi. Anthony spent his short life in the hospital fighting every day. His aunt, Shawna Gibson said of Anthony, "He has touched many lives in his few months of life and has left a legacy of love and lessons to live and fight for those who are important to you." He is survived by his mother, Heather P. Todeschi; his grandparents, Susan and Rick Willden of Elko, Nev.; his grandfather, Joseph Todeschi of Elko, Nev.; his great-grandfather, Herman Todeschi of Bayfield; his great- grandmother, Constance H. Dyke of Santa Rosa, Calif.; his great- grandmother, Marjory Munn of Seattle; one uncle; one aunt; and numerous great-aunts, great-uncles and cousins. A funeral will be held at 10 a.m. Monday at Hood Mortuary. The Rev. Myron Darmour will officiate. Burial will follow at Greenmount Cemetery in Durango. Memorial contributions may be made to Ronald McDonald House, c/o Terry Johnson, 1300 E. 21st Ave., Denver CO 80205-5218 or the Children's Hospital of Denver, 1245 E. Colfax Ave., Suite 400, Denver CO 80218. Copyright c. 2003 Durango Herald. -=-=-=- September 9, 2003 Victor Martin Young PAWNEE - Victor Martin Young, former resident of Red Rock, died Saturday, Sept. 6, 2003, in Pawnee County. He was 35. The funeral is scheduled for noon Tuesday, Sept. 9, at Otoe-Missouria Cultural Center in Red Rock. Burial will be in the Otoe-Missouria Tribal Cemetery in Red Rock under the direction of Poteet Funeral Home in Pawnee. Victor Martin Young was born Nov. 22, 1967, in Pawnee, the son of Elton Lloyd Young and Regina Ann Bassett Young. He grew up in Red Rock and graduated from Frontier High School in 1986. Two years ago he moved from Arizona to Stillwater. He was employed in the home construction business. He enjoyed athletics and artwork; he enjoyed drawing. He was affiliated with the Baptist church. Survivors include his mother, Regina Ann Andrews of Perkins; two sisters, Althea Young in Talihina and Robin Andrews in Stillwater; two brothers, Tim Black of Arizona and Ronnie Andrews of Stillwater; and numerous other relatives. He was preceded in death by his father. Herman Joseph Bassett Herman Joseph Bassett, resident of Red Rock, died Sunday, Sept. 7, 2003, in the Perry Hospital. He was 60. The funeral feast will be noon Wednesday, Sept. 10, at his home in Red Rock. Burial will be in the Otoe-Missouria Tribal Cemetery at 2 p.m. with Bobby Moore officiating. Arrangements are under the direction of Grace Memorial Chapel. Herman Joseph Bassett was born Jan. 10, 1943, in Red Rock, the son of Joseph and Genevieve Littlecrow Bassett. He lived all of his life in Red Rock and was an auto mechanic. Survivors include his wife, Georgette Atkins of the home; seven stepchildren, Gabrielle Wilson of Ponca City, and Laetitia Atkins, Betty Tohee, Gina McBlair, Della Grant, Vernon Tohee and Leon Tohee, all of Red Rock; one brother, Goodwin Bassett of Red Rock; four sisters, Martha Koshiway of Del City, and Mary Howry, Margaret Haley and Linda Francis, all of Red Rock; 14 grandchildren; one great-grandchild; and a host of other relatives. Casket bearers will be George Koshiway, Dustin Barnett, Jon Haley, Wilson Atkins, Earl Howe Jr. and Jim Selby. Honorary bearers will be Charles Littlecrow, Frank Kent, Ron Haley, Vernon Tohee, Leon Tohee, Ted Hall, Keith Ely, Josh McBlair, Ben Burgess and James Greenley. Copyright c. 1998-2003 The Ponca City News. -=-=-=- September 9, 2003 Thelma Douglas Tiger Thelma Douglas Tiger, 64, died Saturday, Sept. 6, at her home in Stroud. Survivors include her husband, Herschel M. Tiger, of the home; son and daughter-in-law, Randy and Sharon Tiger of Pawnee; daughter and son-in-law, Cheryl and Carlos Zuniga of Cushing; brother, Juan Begay of Chinle, Ariz.; sister and brother-in-law, Roselee and Nelson Tsosie of Many Farms, Ariz.; two grandchildren, Caleb Tiger and Ashtin Tiger of Pawnee, and many other relatives. Services will be 11 a.m. today at Parks Brothers Funeral Home Chapel in Stroud with the Rev. Thomas Morris officiating. Burial will follow at the Tiger Family Cemetery near Cushing. Copyright c. 1997-2003 The Shawnee News-Star. -=-=-=- September 14, 2003 Edgar Lee Bear Edgar Lee Bear of Claremore died Thursday, Sept. 11, 2003, at the Claremore Indian Hospital at the age of 63. Bear was born Sept. 29, 1939, in Picher to Richard Vance and Dorothy Eunice (Kennedy) Bear. He grew up in Quapaw and joined the Navy at the age of 17. He later settled in California. Bear enjoyed traveling and Indian art. He drove in demolition derbies and enjoyed NASCAR. He is survived by his daughter, TiaLeesa Ballard of Inola; his grandson, Kenny Ballard of Inola; his granddaughter, SheaLynne Ballard of Inola; his sisters, Imogene Singleton and Susan Bear-Bamberg, both of Tulsa; his brother, James "Tony" Bear of Quapaw, and many nieces, nephews, cousins and friends. Graveside services for Edgar Lee Bear will be held at 2 p.m. Monday at the New Chouteau Cemetery. Burial will follow under the direction of Musgrove-Merriott-Smith Funeral Service of Claremore. Visitation will be held at the funeral home from 9 a.m.to noon Monday. Copyright c. 2003 The Miami News-Record. -=-=-=- September 12, 2003 Mason Ryan Shorty SHORTY - Mason Ryan Shorty, Funeral Services will be held on Saturday, September 13, 2003 at 10:00 a.m. at ToHajiilee Baptist Church. Burial will follow in ToHajiilee. Arrangements by Salazar & Sons Mortuary, 400 Third St. SW. Copyright c. 1997 - 2003 Albuquerque Journal: Albuquerque, New Mexico. -=-=-=- September 10, 2003 Mary Watson Nenahnezad Nov. 15, 1912 - Sept. 7, 2003 Mary Watson, 89, passed from this life Sunday, Sept. 7, 2003, in Farmington. She was born Nov. 15, 1912, in Littlewater. Mary was a life-long resident of Nenahnezad and a member of New Life Baptist Church in Fruitland. Mary is survived by daughters, Rose Tsosie, Clara Davis and husband Alvin, and Lojan Watson-Yazzie and husband Bruce, and son, Jonas Watson, all of Nenahnezad; adopted grandson, Randy Watson of Farmington; and 26 grandchildren and 23 great-grandchildren. She is also survived by a sister, Jessie Simpson of Farmington; and half-brothers, Richard and David Barber of Gallup, George Barber of Table Mesa, and Harrison Barber of Nenahnezad. Mrs. Watson was preceded in death by her husband, Warner Watson; sons, Jack and Wilson Watson; daughters, Alberta Dixon and Marie Yonkman; and grandson, Aaron Davis. She was also preceded in death by sisters, Flora McKinley and Mary B. Russell; and brothers, Wallace Lester and Jimmy Barber. Funeral services will be held at 10 a.m., Thursday, Sept. 11, 2003, at the Kirtland Baptist Church, with the Rev. Kenneth Norton officiating. Interment will follow at Greenlawn Cemetery, with Johnny Castro officiating. Pallbearers will be her grandchildren, Corey Watson, Emerson Tsosie, Anthony Yazzie, Jona Watson, Herbert Curley and Randy Watson. Funeral arrangements are entrusted to Brewer, Lee and Larkin Funeral Home, 103 E. Ute St., Farmington, (505) 325-8688. September 12, 2003 Leonard E. Lee, Sr. Hogback Sept. 22, 1955 - Sept. 8, 2003 Leonard E. Lee Sr., of Hogback, was born Sept. 22, 1955, to the late Frankie and Ilene Lee. He left to be with his Heavenly Father on Monday, Sept. 8, 2003 He is survived by his son, Leonard E. Lee Jr. of Shiprock; sisters, Ceceila Mitchell and husband, Frank of Hogback, Maylene Lee of Salt Lake City, Utah, Bettylene Washburn and husband, Randy of Kirtland, and Shirlene Lee of Lukachukai, Ariz.; brothers, James Lee of Hogback, Gilbert Lee of Salt Lake City, and Michael Johnson of Chinle, Ariz.; and numerous nieces, nephews and friends. He was preceded in death by his daughter, Mercella E. Lee; grandparents, Tom and Minnie Marshall; brother, Carl Lee; and nephews, Famothy Dish and Ferlando Mitchell. He will be greatly missed. Funeral services will be held at 10 a.m., today, Friday, Sept. 12, 2003, at Dineh Christian Center in Shiprock. Mike Lee will officiate. Interment will follow at the Shiprock Community Cemetery. Funeral arrangements are entrusted to Brewer, Lee and Larkin Funeral Home of Shiprock, (505) 368-4607. September 14, 2003 Ramona B. Curley Two Grey Hills Ramona B. Curley, 88, of Two Grey Hills, went back to the Spirit World on Sept. 12, 2003, in Farmington. She was born Nov. 30, 1914, in Whiterock. Funeral services will be held Tuesday at 10 a.m. at the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-Day Saints in Toadlena, New Mexico. Interment will follow at the family cemetery in Two Grey Hills. Funeral services are entrusted to Brewer, Lee and Larkin Funeral Home, Shiprock, N.M. (505) 368-4607. Copyright c. 2003 Farmington Daily Times, a Gannett Co., Inc. newspaper. -=-=-=- September 9, 2003 Geraldine Yathe Bahe ROUND ROCK, Ariz. - Services for Geraldine Bahe, 93, will be at 10 a.m., Wednesday, Sept. 10 at Bethany Christian Reform Chruch, 1110 S. Strong. Burial will follow at Sunset Memorial Park. Bahe died Sept. 6 in Chinle, Ariz. She was born Aug. 24, 1910 in Sweetwater, Ariz. into the Yucca Fruit People Clan for the Folded Arms People Clan. Bahe attended Shiprock Boarding School, Fort Apache Indian School and graduated from Albuquerque High School. She was employed with Rock Point Boarding School, Fort Defiance PHS, Gallup BIA, and retired from Winslow Indian Hospital. Survivors include her sons, Joseph V. Bahe and Gerald V. Bahe; daughters, Evelyn I. Elliott; brother, John Tso Begay; sister, Evelyn Shorty; 14 grandchildren; 26 great-grandchildren; and one great-great grandchild. Bahe was preceded in death by her husband, Woody J. Bahe; son, James V. Bahe; parents, Thin Folded Arm and Yucca Fruit Lady, Marie Tso Begay; sister, Ason Bah; and brothers, Kee Tso Begay and Calvin Tso Begay and one granddaughter. Pallbearers will be Landon Elliott, Leander Elliott, Larry Begay, Patrick J. Bahe, Delbert A. Johnson and Elbert H. Johnson. The family will receive friends and relatives after the burial services at Bethany Christian Reform Church. Cope Memorial Chapel is in charge of arrangements. September 10, 2003 Juanita Hatch Shay VANDERWAGEN - Services for Juanita Shay, 72, will be 10 a.m., Friday, Sept. 12, at Cope Memorial Chapel. Pastor Joe M. Lee will officiate. Burial will follow at Gallup City Cemetery. Shay died Sept. 6 in Gallup. She was born April 25, 1930, in Two Wells into the Water Edge People Clan for the Salt Water People Clan. Shay was a homemaker and rugweaver. Her hobbies included the outdoors. Survivors include her sons, Roy Shay, Wilson Shay, Louie Shay, Tim Shay and Chavez Shay; daughters, Alyce Shay, Mary Shay and Carolyn Shay; brothers, Jimmie Carlston; sisters, Helen Francisco, Nellie Hatch and Bessie Smith; 15 grandchildren and nine great-grandchildren. Shay was preceded in death by her husband, Jimmie Shay; sons, Dennis Shay and Paul Shay; daughter, Betty Martinez; and brothers, Jimmie Y. Hatch and Jimmie Chee Hatch. Pallbearers will be Louie Shay, Tim Shay, William Shay, Francis Shay, Franklin Francisco Jr. and Richard Smith Jr. The family will receive friends and relatives after the burial services at Shay's residence. Cope Memorial Chapel is in charge of arrangements. September 11, 2003 Rose B. Smith WHITEHORSE LAKE - Services for Rose Smith, 65, will be at 10 a.m., Friday, Sept. 12 at Rollie Mortuary Palm Chapel. Pastor Betty Betone will officiate. Burial will follow at Sunset Memorial Park. Smith died Sept. 8 in Whitehorse Lake. She was born Nov. 25, 1937 in Whitehorse Lake into the Near the Water People Clan for the Meadow People Clan. Survivors include her husband, Kenneth Whitehorse of Whitehorse Lake; son, Thomas Smith of Prewitt; daughters, Marilyn Jodie of San Rafeal, Genevieve Sandoval of Yah Ta Hey, Darlene Smith of Crownpoint, Rosilyn Smith of Whitehorse Lake, Gloria Yazzie of Bitter Springs, Ariz.; brothers, Andrew Betone of Flagstaff, Ariz., Earl Betone Jr. of Albuquerque, Franklin Betone of Crownpoint, Harrison Betone of Farmington, Edison Betone and Gilson Betone, both of Whitehorse Lake; and sisters, Grace Benally of Gallup, Charlene Betone of Albuquerque, Lena Betone of Pueblo Pintado, Matilda Betone of Las Vegas, Nev., Mae Martinez of Reno, Nev., Fannie Little and Ella Tsosie both of Flagstaff, Bonnie Betone, Helena Betone, Rena Mae Betone, and Zonnie Betone all of Whitehorse Lake. Smith was preceded in death by Alice and Earl Betone Sr.; daughter, Rosita Smith; and brother, Anderson Betone. Pallbearers will be Andrew Anderson, Terry Becenti, Delvin Bennett, Francis Jodie, Gregory Lee and Armond Smith. Rollie Mortuary is in charge of arrangements. September 12, 2003 Danny Chee Mescal WHITEHORSE LAKE - Services for Danny Mescal, 73, the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter Day Saints, Crownpoint. Pastor Rod Houston will officiate. Burial will follow at Crownpoint Community Cemetery. Mescal died Sept. 7 in Milan. He was born Aug. 20, 1930 in Whitehorse into the Within His Cover People Clan for the Near the Water People Clan. Mescal was employed with the railroad and was a ranchhand. Mescal was preceded in death by his parents Ni'Bah' Charley, and John Charley. Survivors include his sons, Dickie Charley, Benson Charley, Harrison Charley and Ronald Mescal; daughters, Ethel Mescal, Pauline Mescal and Rena Mescal; brothers, Wayne Charley, Stanley Charley, Harry Charley, Lawerence Charley and Timothy Charley; sister, Shirley Charley; 25 grandchildren; and eight great-grandchildren. Pallbearers will be Dickie Charley, Benson Charley, Marcus Tolino, Ronald Mescal, Earlson Henio and Jarred Thomas. Cope Memorial Chapel is in charge of arrangements. Copyright c. 2003 the Gallup Independent. -=-=-=- September 10, 2003 Samuel H. Duenez Samuel H. Duenez, 69, of Casa Grande, AZ passed away on Saturday, September 6, 2003. A wake will be held on Thursday, September 11th, 7:00 p.m. at Iglesia De Dios De La Profecia. Mass will be said on Friday, September 12th, 9:00 a.m. at the Church. Arrangements are by J. Warren Funeral Services, Cole & Maud Casa Grande Chapel. Copyright c. 2003 The Arizona Republic. -=-=-=- September 10, 2003 Frederick James "Freddy" Cornpeach, Sr. Frederick James "Freddy" Cornpeach, Sr., age 35, of Whiterocks, died August 30, 2003, from injuries sustained in an automobile accident. He was born October 24, 1967, in Roosevelt, to Merlin Ray Cornpeach and Marilyn Jim. Freddy was a singer of Sundance and Pow Wow songs. He enjoyed camping, hunting, fishing, playing basketball and horseshoes with his kids. He was very enjoyable and fun to be around, and loved to laugh and joke. He had a lot of friends that will miss him dearly. He was survived by his children, Merlin, Ardell, Fredrick, Shalaiah, all of Whiterocks, and Robert of Neola; brothers and sisters, Raymond (Jessica) Cornpeach, Whiterocks; Alfonzo (Irene) Cornpeach, LaPoint; Pauline Cornpeach Fausett, Pleasant Valley; Conrad Cornpeach, Orem; Betty Cornpeach Manning, Orem; uncles and aunts, Florine Benson, Alberta Jim Redcap, Alonzo Jim, Sr., Leon Cornpeach, Melvin Redcap; Great Aunts, Edith Upchego, and Ardona Hamann; niece and nephew, Rachel Rae Cornpeach, and Andrew Cornpeach. He was preceded in death by his parents, a brother, Ranjo Jim, and grandfather Paul Cornpeach. Graveside services held 10:00 a.m., Wednesday, September 3, 2003, at the John Harmes-Whiterocks Cemetery under the direction of the Hullinger Mortuary. Copyright c. 2003 Uintah Basin Standard/Roosevelt, UT. -=-=-=- Golden Triangle On-Line Obituaries The following obituaries appeared in the Cut Bank Pioneer Press, Shelby Promoter, Valierian or Glacier Reporter this week. September 10, 2003 Billy Wayne Pepion Billy Wayne (Indian Bird Chief) Pepion, 40, of Browning, a seasonal firefighter and Blackfeet tribal custodian, died of injuries he received in an automobile accident near Browning Friday, Sept. 5, 2003. His funeral is today, Thursday, Sept. 11 at 2 p.m. at the Old Eagle Shield Center, with burial in Willow Creek Cemetery. Croxford Funeral Home and Crematory in Great Falls is handling arrangements. Survivors include his wife, Wilma Pepion of Browning; daughters Janay Still Smoking, Billie Jo Pepion and Laura-Su Pepion; sons Andy Pepion, Jay B. Pepion and Willy Wayne A. Pepion; his mother, Carol Pepion; brothers Carl "Tiny Mite" Vail Jr., Eddie, Gene Jr., Anthony and Vernon; sisters Kelly, Deana, Jeania, Holly and Elaine; and three grandchildren. Copyright c. 2003 Golden Triangle Newspapers. -=-=-=- September 10, 2003 Christopher Shavehead LAME DEER - Christopher Shavehead, 65, of Lame Deer, died Sunday, Sept. 7, 2003, at the St. Vincent Healthcare in Billings. Wake will be at 8 p.m. Thursday, Sept. 11, at the home of Nancy Big Back in Lame Deer. Funeral service will be at 2 p.m. Friday, Sept. 12, at the Mennonite Church in Lame Deer. Burial will be in the Big Back Cemetery. Rausch Funeral Home of the Northern Cheyenne Nation is in charge. Copyright c. 2003 Great Falls Tribune, a division of Lee Enterprises. -=-=-=- Char-Koosta News - The official publication of the Flathead Indian Nation August 2003 Obituaries THEOLA BACHMAN ELMO - Theola Mae Bachman died from natural causes on Aug. 18, 2003, at St. Luke Extended Care in Ronan. She was born on May 8, 1923, in Elmo, and attended the Ursuline School in St. Ignatius. Theola grew up in Browning and moved to the Flathead Reservation in 1945. She married Martin Papin; they were later divorced. She later married Wayne Bachman; they were later divorced. She was a member of the Blackfeet Tribe, and worked as a nurse's aide. She was an artist who painted and played piano. She also loved to gamble and crochet, grow roses and attend powwows. She was preceded in death by her daughter Dee Dee; former husband Martin; her parents; a brother, Jason Devereaux; and a sister, Helen Devereaux. She is survived by her children, Martin "Bud" Papin (Finley Point), Darrell Papin (Kicking Horse), and Tana Bachman (Polson;) four grandchildren, Kenclena, Elliott, Harley and Molly; and two great grandchildren, Savahanna and Marilyn. Wake services started on Aug. 19 at the Elmo Hall. Mass of the Resurrection was celebrated on Aug. 20 in the Elmo Hall.. Burial followed at the Dayton Cemetery. HELEN BURGET RONAN - Helen A. Burget, 73, died at her home here of natural causes on Aug. 8, 2003. Cremation has taken place and memorial services will be held at a later date. LEROY BURLAND RONAN - LeRoy Thomas "Sonny" Burland died on Aug. 7, 2003, in a car crash on Highway 93 near Polson. Sonny was born on Oct. 17, 1941, in St. Ignatius, to Francis T. and Olivine (McLeod) Burland. He grew up and attended schools in Ronan and graduated from Ronan High School in 1960. He married Judy Lang; they were later divorced. Sonny lived in Kalispell and San Francisco before returning to the Mission Valley in 1979. He enjoyed playing pool, camping and fishing in his younger years. He was preceded in death by his father, Francis, and his son, Steven. He is survived by his mother, Olivine Burland (Ronan); six children, Sheila, Michelle, Will, Wade, Wayne and Jolene; and several grandchildren. He is also survived by his brothers and sisters, Frenchy Burland (Arlee), Barbara Mann and Florence Gehring (both of Ronan), Dick Burland, Betty Hernandez, Janice Durant, Sharon Whiting and Marilyn Howell (all of Polson), and Tracy Burland (Ronan). Cremation has taken place. A graveside memorial service was conducted on Aug. 11 at Lakeview Cemetery. PAUL CHRISTIANSEN CHARLO - Paul Christiansen died at his home here on Aug. 1, 2003. Paul was born in Fort Benton on Feb. 28, 1933, to Henry and Anna (Matteson) Christiansen. They moved from Geraldine to the Mission Valley in 1941 and then bought a farm south of Charlo. Paul graduated from Charlo High School in 1952 and then joined the U.S. Army; he was discharged in 1962. After his tour of duty, he returned to the Mission Valley and drove the dairy route, worked at Polson Plywood and eventually took over the family farm. He married Shirley Broderick on July 23, 1960. Paul drove bus for Charlo and later Ronan. He retired in 1990 after 25 years of transporting students. He had a passion for cars. He also enjoyed meeting for morning coffee at the local cafe and visiting with the surrounding ranchers. He was preceded in death by his parents, sisters Mary Ann Herbert and Nancy Kosanke, and one child, Shawn. He is survived by his wife (Charlo); four children, Scott (Charlo), Shannon (Columbia Falls), Shane and wife Jamie (Havre) and Steve (Federal Way, WA); and five grandchildren. Funeral services were held on Aug. 6 in Charlo, with military honors being presented. In lieu of flowers, donations in Paul's name may be made to the Diabetes Foundation or the Institute of the Blind. DURAN COURCHENE ARLEE - Duran L. Courchene, 70, died on Aug. 7, 2003, at his home near Arlee. Cremation has taken place at his request and private family services will be held at a later date. NANCY ESTEVEZ ST. IGNATIUS - Nancy Lynn Hansborough Estevez died of natural causes at her home in Butte on Aug 18, 2003. She was born on June 3, 1959, in Wenatchee, WA, to George and Darlene (Courchene) Hansborough. She attended schools in Polson, St. Ignatius and Arkansas. She also attended Salish Kootenai College, earning certificates in entrepreneurship, business planning, marketing and finance, and was a a certified nursing assistant with a medication certificate. Her favorite job was working for the Butte Sheltered Workshop. She was preceded in death by two sons, James Monroe Pickering Jr. and Jonathan Charles Pickering; a grandson; and her father. She is survived by two daughters, Marcela Angel Estevez and Natasha Maria Gallegos; her mother, Darlene Matt (St. Ignatius); siblings and their spouses, Sharon Hansborough (St. Ignatius), Sheryl and Allen Clement (Texarkana, TX), George Hansborough, and Robert and Sharlena Matt (all of St. Ignatius), and Rhonda Brasel (Dierks, AR); and many cousins, nieces, nephews, aunts and uncles. A wake was held in St. Ignatius. Mass was celebrated on Aug. 25 in the St. Ignatius Catholic Mission with interment following in the St. Ignatius Catholic Cemetery. RAYMOND FIDDLER JR. ST. IGNATIUS - Raymond Louis Fiddler Jr. died on Aug. 22, 2003. He was born in Anaconda, MT, on Nov. 26, 1948, to Raymond Louis Fiddler Sr. and Donna Mae McClure Martin. He spent many years working on the Vanderburg ranch with his grandfather, Alex Vanderburg, and grandmother, Cecile. He attended Chiloco Indian School. When he turned 18, he enlisted in the Army and served in the Vietnam War. He was a wounded combat veteran and was extremely proud of serving his country and earning a Purple Heart. He returned home and soon met and married Cheryl Sheridan (Clairmont). He went to school and graduated from several training courses and later became one of the first Native American U.S. Marshalls. Some of his fondest memories were of camping with Grandpa and Grandma up Jocko and South Fork. He enjoyed hunting, fishing and hiking. He was married a second time to Betty Lou Umphrey of Missoula and took her daughter, Tambi Lynn, as his own. He had a very special relationship with his first granddaughter, Emily Lynn. Preceding him in death were his parents and grandparents; brother Bobby and brother-at-heart, Jimmy Fyant. He is survived by his children and their spouses: Lisa, Louis (Bridget) and Lakota; three grandchildren; siblings and their spouses, Deeda and Neil Adams (Arlee), Connie Stevens (Deer Lodge), Bonnie Winninghoff (Phillipsburg); Cindy Glidewell (Lewistown) and Lynn and Stella (Arlee), Kirby Fiddler (Deer Lodge), Charlie "PeeWee" Fiddler (OR); Bruce and Velda Shelby and Gary Dean Shelby; his step-mother, Kitty Fiddler (Deer Lodge); aunts Mable (John) Rivera (Anaconda) and Laura Fiddler (Spokane, WA); nephews Joe Don (Kim) Charlo (Arlee) and Shane (Jessica) Fiddler (Salt Lake City, UT); nieces Marcie Stevens (Missoula) and Sam Shelby (Arlee); and numerous cousins and friends. Wake services were held at the Arlee Indian Senior Center. Mass and burial with honors from the Veteran Warrior Society were held at the Jocko Cemetery on Aug. 26. EVELYN GRENIER ARLEE - Evelyn Morigeau Grenier died on Aug. 25, 2003, at her daughter's home, next to the family home where she was born on July 22, 1911. She was a member of the Conf. Salish and Kootenai Tribes. She was born to Octave Morigeau and Collette LaMoose. Her maternal grandparents were Pierre and Lucy LaMoose. Her paternal grandparents were Alex and Rosalie Morigeau. Evelyn was the oldest girl in the family of 13 - seven brothers and five sisters. Up until the eighth grade, she went to school in Arlee. After she graduated from eighth grade, she stayed out of school for two years, then she and her sisters went to school in Rapid City, SD, and then Chemawa, OR. When she was 26, she married Hugh "Jumbo" Grenier. For a wedding present, they received a cow and a calf. From that start, she built up a herd and raised cattle until her death. Evelyn loved to travel. She and Jumbo traveled the western states. After his death, she traveled to Italy to see the Pope, Hawaii, Washington D.C., Alaska, New York City, Canada and Mexico. She was an active member of the Arlee Salish Senior Center and one of its founders. She delivered meals to many seniors younger than she. She had served on the Tribal Credit Committee, was one of the first members of the American Legion Auxiliary from the George Ducharme Post in Arlee, and was an active member of the Arlee Historical Society. She was preceded in death by her husband, her parents and several brothers and sisters. She is survived by her daughter, Yvonne Grenier (at the family home); sister Alice Gardipe (Arlee); brother Carl Morigeau (Arlee); a cousin, Louise Combs (Arlee); a special nephew who was raised as her brother, Frenchy Burland (Arlee); numerous nieces and nephews who all called her "Auntie Babe"; and her little dog "Lady." Mass was celebrated on Aug. 28 at the Sacred Heart Catholic Mission in Arlee. Interment followed in the Jocko Cemetery. RUTH A. HENDRICKSON MISSOULA - Ruth A. Hendrickson died on Aug. 29, 2003, at St. Patrick Hospital here of natural causes. She was born April 3, 1915, in Moiese, the daughter of George and Cora Miller Coleman. She was preceded in death by her parents, an infant daughter and 10 brothers and sisters. She is survived by her husband, Orval Hendrickson (Missoula), and four daughters, Marcia Kelley (Missoula), M. Judy Piper (Fremont, NE), Wilma Large (San Diego, CA), and Corrine Vaux (Philipsburg, PA); seven grandchildren; 12 great-grandchildren; her brother, Wesley Coleman (Charlo); and numerous nieces and nephews. Funeral services were conducted on Sept. 3 in Missoula. Graveside services were conducted on Sept. 5 in Spokane. RUTH K. JOHNSON CHARLO - Ruth K. Johnson, formerly of Big Timber, died here on Aug. 15, 2003, from natural causes. She was born on May 22, 1917, to Levi A. and Bess Ogle Keithly at Hesper. She was educated at Elder Grove School, Billings High School and Montana State College. In 1939, she married Newton W. Pierson. They ranched at Melville and Shepherd. She served as a home economist-extension agent in Yellowstone County from 1955 to 1972. Her first husband died in 1970 and in 1972 she married Arnold O. Johnson of Big Timber. She was a member of American Association of Family and Consumer Sciences and the Billings Professional Chapter, Epsilon Sigma Phi, Montana State Alumni Association, St. Mark's Episcopal Church, Overland Recreation Association and Stillwater/Sweet Grass Mental Health Association. She was preceded in death by her daughter, Anne; her sister, Margaret Stewart; her brother, Joe Keithly; and her husband, Arnold. She is survived by her daughter Caroline Myhre (Charlo); son Jim Pierson and wife Barbara (McMinnville, OR); stepson Steve Johnson and wife Linda (Big Timber); stepdaughter Kay Ross (Black Diamond, WA); 12 grandchildren and 12 great-grandchildren. A celebration of Ruth's life will be held as a memorial service in Big Timber at St. Mark's Episcopal Church on Aug. 23, at 2 p.m. Ruth's ashes will be buried on her daughter Anne's grave in Billings. DONNA McCLURE PABLO - Donna "Ida" Matt McClure, 49, died on Aug. 29, 2003, at St. Patrick Hospital in Missoula. She was preceded in death by her birth parents, Pete Matt and Theresa SmallSalmon; her adoptive mother, Gertrude (Matt) McClure; sons Chris LaMere and Marshall McClure; grandmother Mary SmallSalmon; brother Kevin Matt; and nephew Richard L. Matt. She is survived by a daughter, Opal; sisters and their spouses Donata Healy, Jody and Arnold Irvine, Bev and Wilbert Michel, Arlene and Frank Powell, Shirley Matt and April McClure; brothers and their spouses, Eugene "Sammy" and Thelma Matt and Jerry and Selena Matt; her father, Harold McClure; four grandchildren, Kirsten and Samantha McClure and Loran and Christopher Bacon; boyfriend Francis "Fuss" McDonald; Richard LaMere, longtime love and father of her boys; aunts and uncles Steve SmallSalmon, Stan Healy, Joe and Sophie Matt, Margaret Matt and Alice SmallSalmon; as well as many nieces, nephews, cousins, other aunts and uncles too numerous to mention. Traditional wake services were held in St. Ignatius. Mass was celebrated on Aug. 30 in the Longhouse in Mission. Interment followed at the Jocko Cemetery near Arlee. ELLEN MORIN ARLEE - Ellen Morin died at her home here on Aug. 24, 2003, after a long illness. She was born on Dec. 10, 1921. She is survived by her brother, Wayne Lynch (Seattle); son and daughter- in-law, Steve and Lisa, and her grandchildren, Kee-Yazzie, Carole, Alan and Jade (all of Arlee). She also had the joy of seeing her first great- grandchild, Lisa Isabelle, also of Arlee. Per her wishes, cremation has taken place and her ashes will be buried beside her husband of 50 years, Alvin, on the family property with no services. R.H. 'DICK' MUTTERER FAIRFIELD, Idaho - R.H. 'Dick' Mutterer, 66, died on Aug. 21, 2003, at St. Alphonsus Regional Medical Center in Boise, Idaho. He was an educator and was superintendent of schools at St. Ignatius from 1991 through 1994. He is survived by his wife, June, and extended family. Cremation was in Boise. No services are being held at Dick's request. TERJE PABLO RONAN - Terje Jonaven Ellis Pablo, infant son of Craig and Shirley Pablo, was stillborn on Aug. 7, 2003, at St. Luke's Community Hospital in Ronan. He was preceded in death by his uncle, William John "B.J." Ellis Gardipe. Terje is survived by his parents, Craig and Shirley, and brother, Marshall (Ronan); maternal great-grandmother Clara Robison (Polson); maternal grandparents Ron and Maxine Kimmel (Ronan); paternal great- grandparents Thomas M. Pablo (Ronan) and Vida Jane Pablo (Ronan); paternal grandparents Marvin Gardipe (Charlo) and Alma Pablo (Pablo); and numerous other relatives. Terje would have been a member of the Confederated Salish and Kootenai Tribes. A traditional wake was held Aug. 9 in Charlo. Burial followed at the family lot on Mud Creek Lane. KENNETH SAGEN LIBBY - Kenneth D. Sagen died on Aug. 24, 2003, at St. John's Lutheran Hospital here. Born on May 15, 1935, in Kalispell, to Knute and Mary Brekke Sagen, he grew up and attended school in Pablo and Ronan. He entered the U.S. Army in 1955 and served in Germany. On June 14, 1958, he married Nancy Elverud in Idaho, and they made their home in Libby. He worked for the St. Regis Paper Co. and Champion International. He enjoyed hunting, fishing, dancing, camping, talking and his grandchildren. Preceding him in death were his parents; three brothers, Arnold, Orphie and Arley; and four sisters, Ann Marchant, Eleanor Day, Evelyn Smart and Myrtle Shepard. Survivors include his wife, Nancy Sagen (Libby); three children and their spouses, Kenneth and Donna Sagen (Bucyrus, KS), Julia and Jeff Rothstein (Tempe, AZ) and Tyrena and Charles Drury (Libby); nine grandchildren; one sister, Helen Lutton (Ronan); and numerous nieces and nephews. Services were held on Aug. 30 at the Nelson & Vial Funeral Home Chapel. GRACE SKAFLESTAD TACOMA, Wash. - Grace Marie Sousley Skaflestad died here on Aug. 28, 2003. She was born to John Thurmond Sousley and Mary S. Gibeau on Feb. 8, 1916 in Dixon. She is survived by her three children, Joyce Coffel (Tacoma), Lynn Webber and wife Eileen (Puyallup), Doug Webber and wife Sharon (Tacoma); brother James Sousley and wife Vera; 9 grandchildren, 11 great- grandchildren, 4 great-great-grandchildren and numerous extended family members. She was preceded in death by her mother and father, her husband Ragnar Skaflestad, brother Henry (Hank) Sousley and sister Helen Cowin. A member of the Conf. Salish and Kootenai Tribes, she had a passion for family and tradition. Her life's calling was spent caring for others, whether it be her family or the patients at Western State Hospital in Tacoma. She loved painting, sewing, crocheting, gardening and traveling, especially back to Montana. Her funeral was held Sept. 4 at Lynn Funeral Home in Tacoma. Memorials may be made to the People's Center in Pablo. DUSTIN SPANG PABLO - Dustin James Spang, 16, died of injuries sustained in an automobile crash near Ronan on Aug. 4, 2003. Dusty was born to Arlene and Gary Spang on Oct. 15, 1986, in Ronan. Some of his favorite pastimes were fishing, motorcycles and snowmobiling. He learned to ride his first bicycle when he was but two years old. Dusty leaves behind his parents; sister Nikki; brother Casey; nephews, Kain, Raven and Gage; niece Rogue; and his grandmothers, Dorothy Spang and Esther Clay. Dusty was preceded in death by his grandfathers, Edwin Spang and Melvin Wickey. Funeral services were held on Aug. 8 in Pablo. Burial was in Ronan. Copyright c. 2003 Char-Koosta News. -=-=-=- September 11, 2003 Ralph Noyakuk, 87 Anchorage Anchorage resident Ralph Nulikina Noyakuk, 87, died Sept. 5, 2003, at Alaska Native Medical Center. A funeral will be at 1 p.m. today at Central Lutheran Church, 1420 Cordova St. A visitation will begin at noon at the church. The Rev. Karen Sonray will officiate. Pallbearers will be Jerome Trigg III, Travis C. Noyakuk, Santos Noyakuk, Alberto Caballero Jr., R.J. Caballero and Cinco Caballero. A graveside service will be at the Anchorage Memorial Park cemetery after the funeral. A potluck at the church will be after the burial. Mr. Noyakuk was born June 16, 1916, in Shishmaref. He was an ivory and soapstone carver. He mined gold and cinnabar in Red Devil. He also worked for the Alaska Railroad until he retired in 1975. He received a certificate for outstanding employment and service from the railroad. He also helped build the Whittier Tunnel. He was a member of Central Lutheran Church. Mr. Noyakuk enjoyed carving ivory and soapstone, eating Alaska Native foods and fishing and hunting for subsistence. His family said, "Ralph was a quiet and serene man, a respected elder in the Eskimo community. He lived a simple life, was a good husband, a wonderful father and grandfather. He will be dearly missed by family and many friends." Mr. Noyakuk is survived by his daughter, Alice Noyakuk of Anchorage; brothers, Gilbert Noyakuk and Peter Noyakuk of Nome; grandsons Jerome Trigg III, Travis Noyakuk, Santos Noyakuk, Alberto Caballero Jr., R.J. Caballero and Cinco Caballero all of Anchorage; granddaughters, Miya Caballero, Felicia Caballero of Anchorage, Valarie Christian and Sara Trigg of Nome; and many nieces and nephews. He was preceded in death by his wife, Theresa Noyakuk; daughters, Martha Trigg, Caroline Noyakuk and Pamela J. White; and many nieces and nephews. Funeral arrangements were with Evergreen Memorial Chapel. September 13, 2003 Victoria Leonard, 29 Victoria Colleen Leonard, also known by her Native name, Oomesauk, was found dead Sept. 5, 2003, at her Anchorage home. She was 29. A service was Friday at Alaska Native Lutheran Church. Ms. Leonard was born Feb. 24, 1974, to Mark Gregory and Eva Kiyutelluk Leonard in Anchorage. After graduating in June 1995 from the Matanuska- Susitna Alternative School in Wasilla, she was employed at the Alaska Native Medical Center. Most recently, she worked as manager of food service for Blimpie's Sub and Salad. Her family wrote: "She was the beloved mother of three beautiful daughters who love her very much. People called her loving, caring, respectful, strong and wise. Victoria had a certain smile and laughter that drew many people to her. Her laughter was with truth and meaning, and for those people whom she knew, her love toward them was unconditional. Victoria was giving, caring and always made sure everyone's needs were taken care of; many times her own needs were a lower priority. She had a lot of respect for her elders. She did not turn anyone away from her when people just needed to talk or to get advice on how to get things done, both inside and outside of her reach. She had a ready smile for people and was very compassionate to family and friends. "Victoria was raised in a Christian home and had a strong belief in God and the healing power of prayer. She was a member of the Alaska Native Lutheran Church in Anchorage. Victoria was certainly a gift to us, and we will miss her. She had an impact in our lives." Ms. Leonard is survived by her parents, Mark Gregory and Eva Kiyutelluk Leonard; children, Jessica, Tiffany and Brittany; brothers, Lawrence and Marc Leonard; sister, Angelica Adonga-Leonard; grandparents, Davis and Geraldine Kiyutelluk and Carol Ruth Pagaran; aunts and uncles, Harriett Gales, Dolly, Arlene "Kikie," Warren and Herbert Kiyutelluk, Terry Robbins, Kirk L. and Garth A. Leonard, Kathleen Babcock, Paul Leonard, Carla Stubbs and Glenn Leonard; and many cousins. She was preceded in death by her grandfather, Alton Leonard; and uncles, Robert Kiyutelluk and Matt Leonard September 14, 2003 Moses Mojin, 78 Bethel/Nunapitchuk Bethel and Nunapitchuk resident Moses Tsaliak Mojin, 78, died Sept. 11, 2003, at Alaska Native Medical Center in Anchorage of surgical complications. Visitation will be at 9 a.m. today at Evergreen Memorial Chapel, 737 E St., with a service at 10 a.m. A second funeral and burial will be in Nunapitchuk. Honorary pallbearers will include John Samuelson, George Andrew Sr. and William Nicholson. Mr. Mojin was born June 27, 1925, in Nanvarnarluk, 40 miles northwest of Bethel. He attended school through the third grade. He later served in the Alaska Territorial Guard and Alaska National Guard. He was self-employed as a retail store owner and operator and as a commercial and subsistence fisherman. He was an active member of the Moravian church. Mr. Mojin enjoyed being a church choir director and attending family gatherings. Survivors include his wife, Anna Mojin of Tuntutuliak; sons, John Mojin and Frank Mojin of Bethel, and Michael Mojin of Nunapitchuk; daughters, Theresa Moses, Carrie Dahl and Sheila Wallace of Bethel, Barbara Nicholson and Verla Mojin of Anchorage; 23 grandchildren and four great- grandchildren. He was preceded in death by his first wife, Mary; son, Michael A. Mojin; and daughter, Sharon Mojin. Arrangements were made with Evergreen Memorial Chapel. Copyright c. 2003 The Anchorage Daily News. -=-=-=- September 15, 2003 Barbara M. Folger Barbara Marie Folger left this world for a better place on Sept. 10, 2003. She was born to Lillian and William Folger Jr. on June 23, 1953, and raised in Tanana. Throughout her short life, Barbara will be best remembered for her love of family and her special closeness to her seven brothers and five sisters. She was often mentioned as the "glue" that held the family together. She was also the one who demanded a clean home, encouraging order, neatness and spotlessness everywhere she went and all throughout her life. Her love of family was especially evident in her love for her children and grandchildren as well as her nieces and nephews. She was a wonderful mother and grandmother. Barbara loved to do beadwork and often shared her skills with others who wanted to learn. She always had her door open to family and friends, making sure that everyone had enough to eat. Having learned a lot from her mom and her aunts and uncles, she became a good cook and knew how to put away subsistence foods like smoked fish and berry preserves. During the last few years, she lived in Delta where she made more friends who treated her so well, especially close friends Anne, Patty, Dave, Jackie and the Joseph Becker family. She had so many close friends from all the villages. Barbara attended school in Tanana as well as in Delta and graduated from Tanana High School in 1971, where she later served as the executive assistant to the superintendent for many years. Later on, she moved to Rampart where she enjoyed many years in her beautiful home with her family. Barbara was preceded in death by her father, William Folger Jr.; her maternal grandparents Lee and Florence Albert; Katherine Mayo; paternal grandparents Willie Folger Sr., Mary Folger, Bertha Folger; and siblings Johnny and Kathy. She is survived by her beloved mother, Lillian Folger; her companion of over 16 years, Gary Joseph; their daughters June, Jenny and Cheryl and companion Sam Beetus; Gary's children Aaron, Brian and Vanessa. She also leaves behind her precious grandchildren Kristi, Donovan, Rochelle, Laurisa Marie, Latrell, Hailey and Brandon; her sisters Eleanor, Verna, Florence and Cindy; her brothers Gerald, Robert, Lee, Rick, Alfred and Fred; her mother-in-law, Jenny Joseph; and extended families to include the Mayos, Greenways and Alberts, as well as numerous aunts, uncles, nieces and nephews. A memorial service will be held in Fairbanks on Wednesday, Sept. 17 at noon at St. Matthews Episcopal Church on First Avenue with tea afterward in the parish hall. The funeral service, burial and potlatch will be held in Tanana at 1 p.m. on Thursday, Sept. 18. Copyright c. 1999-2003 Fairbanks Daily News-Miner, Inc. -=-=-=- September 9, 2003 Ryan Aaron LaPlante RYAN AARON LAPLANTE - JUNE 26, 1972 SEPTEMBER 7, 2003. The LaPlante family regret to announce the sudden passing of a beloved son and brother. Predeceased by mother Margaret. Ryan will be sadly missed by father Sidney; brothers Orville (Norma), Rynold, Linus and Sheldon; sisters Ethelene (Joe), Sarah (Thomas) and Deneen (Aton); numerous nephews, nieces, cousins, aunts and uncles. A Visitation for family and friends will be held on Wednesday, September 10, 2003 from 1:00 2:00 PM in the Chapel of Lee Funeral Home, 3101 Dewdney Avenue, Regina, SK. The Wake will be held on Wednesday, September 10, 2003 at 5:00 PM in the Daystar First Nation Gymnasium. A Traditional Service will be held on Thursday, September 11, 2003 at 2:00 PM also in the Daystar First Nation Gymnasium, with Band Elders officiating. Burial will follow at Daystar Cemetery. Arrangements are in the care of LEE FUNERAL HOME 757-8645 September 12, 2003 Jamie Bear BEAR - Jamie Robert Albert "Bones" was suddenly taken from our world to be home with our creator on Tuesday, September 9, 2003. Jamie was born in Regina, SK on September 2, 1994 and lived on Ochapowace First Nation surrounded by his family and friends in Bear Valley. Jamie is predeceased by his great grandfather, Robert Bear; Auntie, Carol Bear; Auntie, Roberta Kay; and cousin, Richard Bear. Jamie is survived by his loving parents, Bradley and Lorrie; brother, Brad (Angie); sisters, Melodie and Shaylynn; nephew, Dashawn; grandparents, Albert and Doris Bear, Marina Hotomani; Aunties, Darlene (Blair), Patti (Gerald), Denise (George), Bonnie, Gwen (Kevin); Uncles, Myles (Louisa), Clinton, Lyndon, and Wendell; and numerous family and friends. Jamie attended school on the Ochapowace First Nation at Kakisiwew School, in grade three. Jamie had a great love for the outdoors, was well known for his postitive, outgoing and happy attitude toward everyone young and old and his love for his puppy, Taz. We will miss you. You touched the lives of so many in the short time you were here with us. The family wishes to thank each and every person who assisted us in our time whether it was bringing food, a phone call, a personal visit and for your thoughts and prayers. Wake services will be held at Kakisiwew School at 5:00 P.M. Friday, September 12, 2003 on the Ochapowace First Nation with an evening prayer service at 7:00 P.M. Funeral Services will be held on Saturday, September 13, 2003 starting with a traditional feast, taking place at 12:00 P.M. with First Nation Elders officiating and followed by a service at 2:00 P.M. with Rev. Hector Bunnie officiating. Interment will follow at the Kahkewistahaw First Nation Memorial Cemetery. Arrangements entrusted to PARAGON FUNERAL SERVICES (359-7776). Copyright c. 2000-2003 Regina Leader Post Group Inc. -=-=-=- September 13, 2003 Ada Buffalo ADA LORRAINE BUFFALO "Iinakksipiiksakiiwa", beloved wife of Sam Holloway Sr. of the Peigan Nation, was called home to be with the Creator on September 8, 2003 in Calgary, Alberta, at the age of 52 years. Besides her loving husband Sam, Ada is survived by her children: Sam Jr. Buffalo (Lynn), Scott Buffalo , Randy Buffalo (Shannon) and Jordan Holloway; her granddaughter Eileen Wolf Tail and by her adopted children: Delaney, Lori, Francine and Adel Holloway. She was predeceased by her parents Ben and Ethel Buffalo in 1989 and 1990. Ada was born in Brocket on February 21, 1951 to Ben and Ethel Buffalo. She received her education at the Anglican Residential School in Brocket and St. Paul's Residential School, Standoff, Alberta. Ada was a very hard working woman and she loved her family very dearly. Ada was kind and always giving and she always had a smile, no matter what. She made everyone laugh with her stories and jokes. Ada loved her brothers, sisters, many aunts and uncles and numerous nieces and nephews, with all her heart. She will be greatly missed by her family and friends and by her special friend Mary Many Grey Horses. Ada was a very courageous woman. A Wake Service will be held at the home of Sam Holloway on Saturday, September 13, 2003 beginning at 5:00 p.m.. The Funeral Service will be held at the Peigan Community Hall on Monday, September 15, 2003 at 11:00 a. m. with Archdeacon Sidney Black officiating. Interment to follow in the Brocket Cemetery. Eden Funeral Home, Pincher Creek, 627-3131. Copyright c. 2000 Alberta Newspaper Group, Inc./Lethbridge Herald.