From gars@speakeasy.org Tue Jan 20 20:54:37 2004 Date: Tue, 13 Jan 2004 15:37:16 -0800 From: Gary Night Owl To: Internet Recipients of Wotanging Ikche Subject: Wotanging Ikche--nanews12.003 _ __ _____ __ _ __ ___ ____ _ __ ___ ' ) / / ') / / ) ' ) ) / ) / ' ) ) / ) / / / / / / /--/ / / / ___ / / / / ___ (_(_/ (__/ ( / (_ / (_ (___/ '__/_ / (_ (___/ ' ____ _ , ___ _ , ___ / ' ) / / ) ' ) / / ' VOLUME 12, ISSUE 003 / /-< / /--/ /-- __/_ / ) (___/ / ( (___, 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 January 17, 2004 Potawatomi mkokisis/moon of the bear Mvskogee rv'fo cusee/moon of winter's younger brother +-------------------------------------------------------+ | Much more happens in Indian Country than is reported | | in this weekly newsletter. 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"It is not necessary for eagles to be crows." __ 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! Night Owl +- -- -- -- -- -- -- -- -- -- -- -+ +- -- -- -- -- -- -- -- -- -- -- -- -- -+ | Journey | In the summer and early fall | The Bloodline | of 1998 the Treaty Unity Riders | | rode a thousand miles on horse- | For all that live and live by law | back, carrying a staff and | We Stand, we Call, We Ride | praying each step of the way. | For All that fear and fear by sight | | We Hear, we Listen, we Ride | These prayers were offered for | For all that pray and pray by strength| each of us, and that the Unity | We Feel, we Move, we Ride | of all Peoples might happen. | For all that die and die by greed | | We Hurt, we Cry, we Ride | Tatanka Cante forwarded this | For all that birth and birth by right | poem on behalf of all the Unity | We Smile, we Hold, we Ride | Riders that we might stop and | For all that need and need by heart | ask if the next words we say, the | We Came, we Went, we Rode. | next act we make is for the good | | of the People or is it from ego | Treaty Unity Riders | for self. +- -- -- -- -- -- -- -- -- -- -- -- -- -+ O'siyo Brothers and Sisters! There are actually two good things to draw your attention to this issue. -- Item one - Newly elected Prime Minister Paul Martin made a strong symbolic statement when he had an aboriginal presence at his acceptance. He has now followed that with a strong commitment. He killed Nault's hated Governance Act. Instead, Martin will work on social issues, such as improving squalid housing conditions, a new clean-water strategy for reserves and the need for more higher education cash. Read it all in "Martin to scrap Governance Bill" -- Item two - A book has been released with REAL, practical and traditional health information for Native Women! http://www.owlstar.com/dailyheadlines.htm http://www.aberdeennews.com/mld/aberdeennews/news/7661395.htm Book offers information for American Indian women Associated Press January 8, 2004 VERMILLION, S.D. - American Indian women can find answers to health questions in a new book put out by the Native American Women's Health Education Resource Center in Lake Andes. It worked three years to compile "Indigenous Women's Health Book - Within The Sacred Circle." The book includes information on environmental health, traditional herbs and remedies, biodiversity, domestic violence and other topics. Copyright c. 2004 Aberdeen News. -- From the Native American Women's Health Education Resource Center... The Native American Women's Health Education Resource Center has released a new book, Indigenous Women's Health Book, Within the Sacred Circle, in a landmark effort to assist Native American women in developing self-advocacy skills to become active participants in managing our own health. Indigenous Women's Health Book, Within the Sacred Circle provides guidance in both Western and Indigenous health approaches to specifically address Native American women's health needs. Topics covered range from traditional midwifery, pregnancy, the politics of reproductive health, contraception, domestic violence, barriers to Indigenous women's healthcare, health effects of environmental contamination, traditional herbs and remedies, Native American nutrition and weight loss, smoking, alcohol, drug abuse, and much more. Written by a group of compassionate Indigenous women, activists, health experts, and healthcare providers, this pioneering book discusses both physical and mental health issues from a variety of perspectives... For more information call (605) 487-7072 or visit us at www.nativeshop.org ---- On a sad note for those left behind, Pine Ridge witnessed the passing of two traditional elders within a day of each other. We send prayers and smoke for Grandmother Lydia Ice and Grandfather David Swallow Sr. on their Spirit journeys. We grieve with the Swallow, Black Elk and Ice families. Dohiyi Ani Oginalii , , Gary Smith Night Owl (*,*) gars@speakeasy.org P. O. Box 672168 (`-') gars@nanews.org Marietta, GA 30008, U.S.A. ===w=w=== http://www.nanews.org ----------- News of the people featured in this issue ---------- - Western Shoshone divided - Akaka Bill could face revision over Land Dispute - Logging rights fight heats up - History leaves Tribes - Chretien can be Subpoenaed in Transition - Martin to scrap Governance Bill - Bear Butte Shooting Range - Mohawks claiming 9/11 Abandoned Health Fallout - Legislators want name - Zapatistas, w/o Marcos, restored to Squaw Peak Trying Peaceful Approach - Shakopee Dakota, - Indians in Bolivia a Culture of Sharing hope to create Tribal Nation - Violent takeover - Tribal youth found Dead in Snow at Kiowa Headquarters alleged - Former BIA Employee - Appeals seek to protect resentenced for Fatal DWI Old Chief Joseph's Grave - Peltier on Janklow conviction - Tribal Wind Power plans - Peltier: - Giago to join race for Senate Genocide of Native Americans - GONZALES: - Update from the Upstanding Native American Women John Graham Defense Committee - YELLOW BIRD: `Dreamkeepers' - Yukoners rally around John Graham new era in NA Films - Native Prisoner - GIAGO: -- Inmates seeking Pen Pals Gambling erodes Tibal Svereignty - Rustywire: Hard Rocks - OPINION: Return of Sealth's Home - Verse: Hawaiian Book of Days hopeful Sign - Poem: Raindancers standing Still - CNN's Novak calls Indians - Book Review: In Dull Knife's Wake Election Thieves - Upcoming Events --------- "RE: Western Shoshone divided over Land Dispute" --------- Date: Wed, 7 Jan 2004 08:17:26 -0700 From: Gary Smith Subj: NA News Item - - - - - - -- - - - - - - filename="WESTERN SHOSHONE" http://www.owlstar.com/dailyheadlines.htm http://www.macon.com/mld/macon/news/nation/7652121.htm Western Shoshone tribes divided over land dispute with government BY JUDITH GRAHAM Chicago Tribune January 7, 2004 CRESCENT VALLEY, Nev. - (KRT) - Two elderly Indian sisters haul hay, mend fences and round up cattle at their ranch in this remote Nevada valley. Between chores, they spearhead one of the most controversial land battles in the West. It's a conflict that has pitted Western Shoshone Indians against the federal government for decades and deeply divided Western Shoshone tribes along the way. "This is one of the headline struggles that raises the question, `Is there going to be justice for Indians in our time?'" said Vine Deloria Jr., one of the nation's leading American Indian scholars. At its center are Mary and Carrie Dann, obstinate and blunt women whose deeply lined faces and callused hands speak of a life of hard work on this arid, high desert. Many people consider the sisters modern Indian heroes. Others consider them fanatics out of touch with reality. The Danns are one of the forces behind a federal lawsuit filed last fall seeking recognition of the Western Shoshone's title to ancestral lands, including two-thirds of Nevada and some of the richest gold mines in the United States. Several Western Shoshone tribes support the suit. The government is preparing its response, due this month. "This land is ours; it's Western Shoshone land," said Carrie Dann on a recent morning in the sisters' run-down house, which is heated by a wood stove and surrounded by old pickup trucks and rusty farm equipment. Government officials disagree, arguing that the Western Shoshones lost most of their territory during the settlement of the West and were awarded just compensation - now exceeding $140 million - from the federal Indian Claims Commission. But for more than 20 years, the Western Shoshones have refused to take the money, in a protest against the Indian Claims Commission process and findings. The settlement sits in a government bank account accumulating interest. Now, a bill sponsored by Nevada's congressional delegation, passed by the U.S. Senate and awaiting action in the House, would mandate distribution of the funds to the Western Shoshone. And arguments over whether to accept the settlement or continue fighting for the land are raging again in this swath of Indian country, reviving old disagreements and never-healed wounds. "Our tribe has decided we want our money" said Diana Buckner, chairwoman of the Ely Shoshone tribe, speaking for one group of tribal members. "It's time. We're never going to get the land. Let's get what we can for our older folks." Never, the Danns and their supporters respond. If the tribe forsakes hope and accepts the money, they say, the tribe will be acting as if it sold the land. And if the tribe gives up its land, the culture and way of life will disappear. Historically, the Western Shoshone were not a united people with one chief who led all the tribes. Instead, they were a diverse set of extended family groups that stretched from Utah's Salt Lake Valley across most of eastern and central Nevada and down through Death Valley and California's Mojave Desert. Even today, Western Shoshones are dispersed among various tribes and communities in Nevada including the Duckwater, South Fork and Yomba reservations, and in Indian colonies in Battle Mountain, Elko, Ely, Wells and Winnemucca, among other towns. Because of their diversity, getting the Western Shoshones, currently numbering about 6,500, to agree on anything is difficult. Disputes over who has authority to represent the tribes, still common today, date back to the 1863 federal Treaty of Ruby Valley, which gives settlers permission to build railroads and telegraphs across their territory, mine the land, establish communities, and travel without interference. The Western Shoshones who signed the treaty were a small group that didn't represent the entire people, some tribal leaders insist. Moreover, the Ruby Valley treaty says nothing about giving up the land. On the contrary, it explicitly recognizes the boundaries of the country claimed by the Western Shoshone, according to Thomas Luebben, an Albuquerque lawyer who represents the Yomba Reservation. But that's not how the Indian Claims Commission saw it when that federally appointed body began meeting after World War II. The Western Shoshones had lost title to their lands "by gradual encroachment by whites, settlers and others, and the acquisition, disposition or taking of their lands by the United States for its own use and benefits," the commission ruled in 1962. James Anaya, professor at the University of Arizona law school and co- chairman of its Indigenous Peoples Law and Policy program, calls the theory of gradual encroachment a "legal fiction" built on the premise that "if we take land it is ours by right." American law does not treat property rights in this dismissive fashion, except when it comes to American Indians, he says. Without formally hearing arguments on land title, the Indian Claims Commission awarded the Western Shoshone $26 million in 1972 - an amount that valued about 24 million acres of the Indian's Nevada lands at 15 cents per acre. Gold mining operations on those lands have yielded an estimated $26 billion since the Western Shoshones signed their treaty with the government. Outraged, the Western Shoshones refused to take the money that, with interest, now exceeds $140 million. "I believe they (government officials) lied to our people," says Felix Ike, 58, a former chairman of the Te-Moak Tribe based in Elko, Nev., the largest of the Western Shoshone groups. He says he was at meetings in the 1980s when federal officials came out to talk about the Indian Claims Commission settlement and told people "you're not selling your land. We're just going to give you compensation." Fermina Stevens, general manager of the Elko Bandof the Te-Moak tribe, remembers her mother and her grandmother passing down the same story. "We were always told this money was for damage and trespass of the land, not for giving it up." The government argues that it informed the tribes thoroughly about what was involved with the claims settlement process. But a 2002 investigation by the Inter-American Commission on Human Rights, a group associated with the Organization of American States, concluded that the United States failed to provide the Western Shoshones due process and equal protection under the law in the land dispute. It was the Dann sisters who took the Western Shoshones' case to the international body, part of an ongoing fight they've waged since 1974 when government officials showed up at their ranch one day and said they were trespassing on federal lands by grazing cattle without a permit. "They never showed us the documents how they had taken our land," says Mary, who friends estimate is in her 80s, while guessing that Carrie is in her late 60s or early 70s. The sisters refuse to discuss their age. The Danns protested all the way to the U.S. Supreme Court, which ruled in 1985 that because the Western Shoshone had received a monetary settlement from the government, they could no longer pursue land claims. "Ridiculous," Carrie says in disgust, noting that the funds sit in a government bank account and the Western Shoshone have never taken one cent. "The earth is our mother and we can't give up our mother. No way in hell," says this silver-haired woman wearing dirt-spattered jeans, taking a drag on her cigarette. To this day, the sisters continue to have confrontations with the Bureau of Land Management, which seized and sold 232 cattle, about half the Danns' herd, a year and a half ago. Many Western Shoshone once supported the Danns, but have grown to see them as intransigent old-timers pursuing a quest so far-fetched it amounts to folly. Ike, the former Te-Moak tribe chairman, is among them. "After the Supreme Court ruled against the Danns, what hope was there? There was no stopping the federal government from doing what it wanted to do. They took the land away from us. It was over." "(The Danns) cry Mother Earth is not for sale. But look around you - who occupies this place? Who runs the railroads and the mines, who operates the ranches? Not indigenous people. Mother Earth has been sold. That's the reality," Ike said. Most Western Shoshone want the money the government is again offering from its proposed settlement - an estimated $20,000 per person, enough to buy a new car or help pay off a mortgage - says Ike, who helped organize a 2002 vote which found that tribal members supported the financial distribution by an 11-to-1 margin. The proposed settlement represents the $26 million the Shoshone never accepted, which has swelled to $140 million with interest. The Danns and others charge the vote was not held according to proper procedures, and have challenged organizers to allow to public recount of the ballots. That hasn't happened. "We Shoshones are sick of this fight the Danns have been carrying on all this time," says Naomi Mason, 74, a Western Shoshone who lives in Owyhee, Nev., on the Idaho border. "It's painful because it goes on and on, like a death that you go on grieving. We need to put closure on it." It's wrong to tie the money to the land issue, insists Amy Spanbauer, deputy chief of staff for Rep. Jim Gibbons, R-Nev., sponsor of the House bill. "There is no explicit ceding of land claims by accepting this distribution. The money is rightfully theirs and a majority of the Western Shoshone want it," she says. All the bill would do, she adds, is give Congress' authorization to distribute the money awarded by the Indian Claims Commission in the 1970s. Congressional approval is required for such distributions. The Western Shoshone should take the money and work with Congress to expand their land base, says a spokeswoman for Sen. Harry Reid, R-Nev. The senator's staff last month held meetings with several tribes in Nevada to discuss returning some federal lands to the Indians for housing and economic development. More than 80 percent of Nevada is owned by the government. As it stands, the tribes have little land to speak of - fewer than 10, 000 acres, according to some estimates, compared with the 62 million acres they once claimed as their homeland. "The fear is once we take money, the (government) is going to say, `We've dealt with you, we don't owe you anything, we don't have any reason to expand your land base,'" says Stevens. The suspicion is that government officials have economic reasons to want clear title to the contested Western Shoshone lands. With unknown amounts of gold still buried in the mountains of northern Nevada, where many tribal members live, and strong prospects for geothermal energy development in the area, there are potentially tens of billions of dollars to be made off the land. Back at the ranch, the Dann sisters have been watching new lights appearing at night on Mount Tenabo rising above Crescent Valley. The mountain is the setting for many Western Shoshone creation stories, the sisters say. It's also part of a proposed 100,000-acre sale of federal lands to Canadian gold mining company Placer Dome Inc. outlined earlier this year in a bill introduced by Gibbons. Enormous amounts of gold are believed to lie in Mount Tenabo, and a new mine has been proposed on that site. Congress has not yet acted on the bill. "All they can see in this land is the value in dollars and cents. They don't see the beauty, the medicinal plants, the rights of the deer and eagle to this land, the spiritual life that is being taken out in the name of gold," says Carrie Dann, with a deep sigh. "That's why I'm mad. ... All my life, it's been a struggle to preserve this land for our people, and I'll never get tired, I'll never stop." --- Copyright c. 2004 Chicago Tribune. Distributed by Knight Ridder/Tribune Information Services. Copyright c. 2004 Macon, GA Telegraph. --------- "RE: History leaves Tribes in Transition" --------- Date: Wed, 7 Jan 2004 08:17:26 -0700 From: Gary Smith Subj: NA News Item - - - - - - -- - - - - - - filename="WARM SPRINGS" http://www.owlstar.com/dailyheadlines.htm http://www.oregonlive.com/news/~/1070975053301740.xml History leaves tribes in transition BRENT WALTH The people of Warm Springs have overcome some daunting obstacles. January 7, 2004 In 1855, the U.S. government forced the Wasco and Warm Springs tribes into a treaty that sent them to the current-day reservation, about 6 percent of the 10 million acres they once called home. For centuries, bands of the Wasco and Warm Springs tribes prospered in peace along the Columbia River with salmon at the center of their survival and culture. In 1879, the U.S. government started moving Paiutes to the reservation, even though the plateau tribe was often antagonistic toward others. The three tribes had to find a way to live together despite different languages and cultures. They also had to face federal efforts at assimilation. U.S. government policies took particular aim at Indian children in an effort to stamp out their language and traditions. At Warm Springs, tribal members were forced to attend a boarding school where their traditional braids were chopped off and they were beaten for speaking their native language. The school closed nearly four decades ago, but people speak of the humiliation as if it were yesterday. In the past 40 years, the reservation has been transformed into a modern community, with telephones, electricity, paved roads, a social services network and a medical clinic. Tribal leaders also created a diversified economy that generated $27 million this year and includes a lumber mill, hydroelectric projects on the Deschutes River and the Kah-Nee-Ta High Desert Resort & Casino. Today, the tribes face an economic crisis. Revenue from timber has fallen sharply, and the casino, which is in an isolated location, brings in far less money than others in Indian communities across the United States. Warm Springs, population 3,800, in many ways looks like other small Oregon communities, with an elected government, police, courts and a range of programs and services. Tribal leaders say those institutions are only part of the story. Warm Springs, they say, is still struggling to create a form of government in which laws count for more than personal influence and family connections. "We have moved from a subsistence culture to one that has tried to adapt to a whole new way of life, and not everyone has adapted to the changes in the same way or at the same speed," said Willy Fuentes, the tribes' chief operations officer. "We are still a transitioning people." Many Warm Springs children and teenagers find themselves torn between the traditional and the modern. "I'm still confused about what it means to be Native American," said Pasha Smith, a 2003 Madras High School graduate. "If we still spoke our native tongue, it would give us a better understanding of our culture and our heritage, and that would give people more respect for their own lives and for ourselves." Copyright c. 2004 The Oregonian. --------- "RE: Bear Butte Shooting Range Abandoned" --------- Date: Fri, 9 Jan 2004 19:52:25 -0700 From: "Anna Martinez" Subj: Fw: Bear Butte Shooting Range Abandoned! >To: gars@speakeasy.net ----- Original Message ----- From: Congratulations Defenders!! All the prayers, good work, everything have led to the Sturgis Industrial Expansion Corporation abandoning the idea of building a shooting range near Bear Butte!! Much gratitude is owed to Jim Leach, our attorney, for his volunteerism and excellent work! He called me a short time ago to tell me that the Sturgis Industrial Expansion Corporation filed a motion with the court late this afternoon (Friday) stating that they are abandoning the building of the Shooting Range on the land they purchased near Bear Butte. Thank you to all of you for your prayers, support, and encouragement. This could not have been accomplished without all of us together. It has been almost a year since Defenders first learned about the proposal to build the Shooting Range. We had a prayer gathering in Feb. last year. In order to say an appropriate spiritual thank you (Wopila), we will be planning another prayer gathering and feed at Bear Butte again in February. I will let you all know as soon as I have a chance to get approval of a date from the Rosebud Sioux Tribe. We had our prayers at their lodge last year, and hope to do the same, this time to say thank you. Congratulations Everyone!! Charmaine White Face, Coordinator Defenders of the Black Hills PO Box 2003 Rapid City, SD 57709 =============== http://www.owlstar.com/dailyheadlines.htm http://www.rapidcityjournal.com/articles/2004/01/10/news/local/news06.txt Shooting range near Bear Butte canceled By Bill Cissell, Journal Staff Writer January 10, 2004 STURGIS - Sturgis Industrial Expansion won't be building a gun range near Bear Butte north of Sturgis. In documents filed in federal court Friday, the development group and the city of Sturgis asked the court to dismiss lawsuits filed over the location of the shooting range. The proposed $900,000 Black Hills Sportsman's Complex came under fire, and the suits were filed by American Indian tribes and a grassroots group of citizens called the Defenders of the Black Hills. The court documents say Sturgis Industrial Expansion voted at a special meeting Jan. 7 to abandon plans to build the shooting range. The suits was filed by the tribes and the citizens group because they said the range, four miles north of Bear Butte State Park - a religious site for many Indian tribes - would disturb religious ceremonies that take place on Bear Butte. The tribes and the citizens group also claimed that a $825,000 Community Development Block Grant given to the city and turned over to the development group didn't meet federal guidelines. A separate investigation determined that allegation to be true, and the money was returned to the state. Sturgis Mayor Mark Zeigler said that without the federal funds, the scope of the project might change. He said that the city and the development corporation might consider a world-class indoor range. Contact Bill Cissell at 394-8412 or e-mail bill.cissell@rapidcityjournal.com Copyright c. 2004 Rapid City Journal. --------- "RE: Legislators want name restored to Squaw Peak" --------- Date: Sat, 10 Jan 2004 17:15:46 -0700 From: Gary Smith Subj: NA News Item - - - - - - -- - - - - - - filename="PIESTEWA HONOR OR RACIST SLUR?" http://www.owlstar.com/dailyheadlines.htm http://www.azcentral.com/news/articles/0110piestewa10.html Legislators want name restored to 'Squaw Peak' Amanda J. Crawford The Arizona Republic January 10, 2004 Just when you learned to pronounce pie-ESS-ta-wah . . . A state legislator wants to replace the panel that changed the name of Squaw Peak to Piestewa Peak with appointees who may be willing to restore the original name. Republicans in the state House of Representatives want to take control of the Arizona State Board on Geographic and Historic Names away from the Governor's Office. Some say Gov. Janet Napolitano unduly influenced last year's decision to honor a fallen soldier, Spc. Lori Piestewa of Tuba City. Even Napolitano says the change was handled badly. Rep. Phil Hanson, R-Peoria, lead sponsor of the bill, said he hopes a board appointed by legislative leaders will rescind the April decision and bring back the name "Squaw." "This should have been a non-political decision, and it was made a total political decision," Hanson said. "This whole thing was a disservice to Lori Piestewa." The bill is co-sponsored by all but one of the 39 House Republicans. Any move to change the peak's name back to Squaw will likely meet with opposition. "We would not be going forward . . . we would be going backward," said Alida Montiel of the Inter Tribal Council of Arizona, which supported the change to Piestewa Peak. "With Piestewa there is common ground among tribes, veterans and a lot of people who feel the word 'squaw' is derogatory." The hullabaloo over Piestewa Peak has yet to subside. A Phoenix advisory board this week was unable to reach a decision about renaming the city's Squaw Peak Recreation Area in light of the adjacent mountain's new name. Supporters say the name change was an appropriate way to honor the Hopi woman who last spring became the first Native American female to die in combat for the United States, while disposing of the name "Squaw," which is seen by some as offensive. But Hanson and other critics question the independence of a board with six of its nine members employed by the state. They accuse Napolitano of steamrolling through the proposal for political gain and pressuring board members into ignoring rules. National guidelines require a person to be dead for five years before a geographic feature is named for him or her. The name change for the Phoenix peak was made by the state board about a month after Piestewa's death but won't be considered at the national level until 2008. "I have not seen such dirty politics in my three years in the Legislature," Hanson said, noting that one board member resigned instead of hearing the proposal and that a Napolitano aide pressured another to quit. The bill would strip the board of any gubernatorial influence by having eight of the nine members appointed by legislators. The remaining appointment would go to the executive director of the Arizona Historical Society. Napolitano's spokeswoman, Jeanine L'Ecuyer, notes that it is "unusual but not unheard of" to have boards appointed by the Legislature. "What the governor has consistently said is, 'Our process was flawed, we made mistakes and it won't happen that way again, but the outcome was exactly the right outcome,' " L'Ecuyer said. House Majority Leader Eddie Farnsworth, R-Gilbert, said he is not supporting the bill to get the Squaw Peak moniker back. Instead, he thinks the change would create "a board with at least some modicum of autonomy." "Piestewa Peak, whether you support the name or not, is always going to have a stain on it because of the process," he added. Board Chairwoman Linda Strock, a Department of Economic Security employee, said board policies and procedures are being reviewed in response to last year's action. She said it is unfortunate that the board's decision to commemorate Piestewa's sacrifice was "overshadowed by the perception of the political events that influenced it." Copyright c. 2004 The Arizona Republic. --------- "RE: Shakopee Dakota, a Culture of Sharing" --------- Date: Sat, 10 Jan 2004 17:15:46 -0700 From: Gary Smith Subj: NA News Item - - - - - - -- - - - - - - filename="SHAKOPEE DAKOTA" http://www.pechanga.net/ http://www.indiancountry.com/?1073669816 Shakopee Dakota - A culture of sharing January 9, 2004 by: David Melmer / Indian Country Today PRIOR LAKE, Minn. - Everyone knows, but not everyone may understand the purpose of giving as a tradition among American Indians. Criticism has been leveled against successful gaming tribes for not sharing their alleged wealth with poorer tribes. But some tribes are doing so without prodding or pressure from political threats. The Shakopee Mdewakanton Sioux Community of Minnesota, has put their excess funds to very good use, and has done so for the most part, in silence. In fact in 2003, it put nearly $8 million dollars into education, health care, infrastructure improvements, economic development and more for tribes in the Great Plains and Great Lakes areas. "The Shakopee Dakota have a cultural tradition of assisting others who are in need," said Tribal Chairman Stanley Crooks. "We recognize that we have a unique opportunity to help Native Americans and, indeed, non-Indians, as well." SMSC had donated $31.5 million to other tribes and local governments and organizations over the past six years; $22.9 million of that since January 2000; and an additional $119 million in loans. A dozen tribes, an additional dozen schools and more than 30 American Indian and charitable organizations have benefited from the generosity of the SMSC. One of the first tribes to be involved, the SMSC has benefited from Indian gaming. Tribal officials are reluctant to give out information about the financial success of their Mystic Lake Casino, Hotel and Resort, and said the donations and philanthropic giving of the tribe is not based on any percentage of profits or gross revenues. "The tribe doesn't gain from the donations. We do not have a policy like Target Corporation, like the 5 percent club. We do not get tax benefits. There is a lot of need out there," said Bill Rudnicki, tribal administrator. Rudnicki said a few years ago Chairman Crooks took him to an event for people that donated to special causes. "He said, `would you ever see anything like that in Indian country?'" "It's sad that a lot of American Indian nonprofits are asked by potential donors if the casino tribes helped them out. I respond by asking if Las Vegas has helped other organizations," said Rudnicki. American Indian nonprofits are awarded only one-sixth of one percent of all philanthropic dollars nationwide, according to the First Nations Development Institute. In many cases there are no strings attached to the generosity of the SMSC. There are exceptions, though; should a group ask for money that is intended for a school or specific project the money must go to the project. The SMSC has been very helpful to the Santee Sioux Tribe of Nebraska. The SMSC actually saved the tribe's fledgling economic development and protected and created jobs. The Santee tribe has received more than $2 million over the past few years after it experienced legal trouble with its casino. A new casino with restaurant and a new fuel station are the result of help from the SMSC. The Yankton Sioux Tribe would have lost a much needed dialyses center when IHS closed its facility when SMSC came to the rescue with $125,000. Rudnicki said the giving is not the result of pressure from outside forces, governments or political pressure. "It's an obligation that comes from the culture, not outside." More than $1 million each has been given to the Bois Forte Band of Ojibwe, the Grand Portage Band of Ojibwe, the Upper Sioux Community and the Lower Sioux Community, all from Minnesota. Economic opportunity donations or loans are not awarded to individuals. Rudnicki said a donation to a school system to rebuild or remodel a school building will benefit more people. Economic development money, like that given to the Empower Zone of Pine Ridge for equipment and to the Santee Sioux Tribe or to Sisseton-Wahpeton will be used to more broadly benefit the people. "We upped the amount of giving each year and we still have to meet the needs of the tribe. There is more need out there," Rudnicki said. He said he has toured the Crow Creek and Santee reservations. What most people see are the good things, but he said he saw the parts of the reservations that show the suffering. The community members are descendants of the Dakota who were removed from Minnesota in 1863 after the conflict with settlers and federal agents. Among their ancestors were many of the 38 who were hanged in Mankato after the conflict came to an end. The Shakopee were sent from Minnesota to Crow Creek, in South Dakota, then to Santee, and some of them returned to their homeland of Minnesota. "We have attained a significant level of self-sufficiency and are very thankful for the ability to help others through our charitable giving program," Crooks said. The Shakopee Mdewakanton Community was federally recognized in 1969. A small community of people lived on 250 acres of traditional land which was purchased in the 1880s. They had dirt roads and like most tribes were very poor. The goal of the tribe from the beginning was to become self- sufficient. The SMSC contributes hundreds of thousands of dollars today to Scott County, Minnesota, and the town of Prior Lake for any services needed for the casino or the community. The tribe readily admits that if it were not for the casino none of the contributions would be possible. "During the last four years, the SMSC has experienced continued growth and development in all areas. "We should all be very proud of the many achievements we as a community have made in this four-year period of time. Since 2000, our tribal economy has shown great strength as our tribal enterprises as a whole continue to earn significant tribal revenues," the business council stated in a prepared statement. The Shakopee are not so naive as to believe that gaming will always be the economic windfall it has been. Rudnicki said the tribe is building a new golf course to draw people from different parts of the country to come and stay in the hotel and enjoy the facilities. Other tribes are also doing much the same thing in developing end destination resorts. As criticism of Indian gaming grows in different parts of the country, the possibility of an end is always on the minds of gaming leaders. Some members of the Minnesota legislature have in the past threatened to legalize slot machines and card gambling at a horse track located just a few miles from Mystic Lake Casino Hotel. Bar owners in the state also argue that video lottery games would help to level the playing field. New construction at Mystic Lake Casino Hotel will make things more convenient for customers with new parking facilities and covered outside areas. No expansion of the casino is planned. Copyright c. 2004 Indian Country Today. --------- "RE: Violent takeover at Kiowa Headquarters alleged" --------- Date: Fri, 9 Jan 2004 08:26:34 -0700 From: Gary Smith Subj: NA News Item - - - - - - -- - - - - - - filename="KIOWA CONFLICT" http://www.owlstar.com/dailyheadlines.htm http://www.nativetimes.com/index.asp?action=displayarticle&article_id=3522 Violent takeover at Kiowa headquarters alleged Violent scene described by family of administration CARNEGIE OK Sam Lewin January 8, 2004 For the third time in less than a month, a dissident faction has seized control of a tribal office. A former member of the tribe's business council and his supporters allegedly invaded the Kiowa Tribe, which has been wracked by controversy for months now. Kiowa Vice Chairman Hess Bointy told the Daily Oklahoman that Bill Tsoodle arrived with a small band of supporters at the headquarters early Wednesday and took control of the building. Bointy said Tsoodle is frustrated because he was voted out of office during contentious elections last year. "He wants to be the leader of the tribe," Bointy said. "He feels this is the only way he can be the leader." Reached at home, Bointy's wife, who declined to give her name, described a violent scene Wednesday morning. "Bill Tsoodle was the leader. They hired a bunch of goons who call themselves security and they took over our security. They took over the complex and started shoving people; five of them went to the hospital. They were pushing elders who weren't moving fast enough. They hit [one employee] and hurt his back. Two of the elder leaders were jerked around and pushed," she told the Native American Times. She said Tsoodle was accompanied by Steve Quetone, Debra Shrock Wilson, Joycetta Elliott and she criticized the Bureau of Indian Affairs for not responding. BIA officials in Oklahoma City did not immediately return a phone call seeking comment. Wilson was involved in an election controversy this summer, when it was revealed that she owed the tribe money. Wilson had defeated Kathleen Tiny Cannon in the race for tribal secretary, but under the Kiowa constitution, anyone indebted to the tribe cannot hold public office. Calls to the tribe's headquarters are met with an answering machine. Bointy's wife said Tsoodle is still in control of the building and that he has been known to carry a gun. Tsoodle could not be reached for comment. He does not have a residence listing in the Carnegie area. One woman, who identified herself as Tsoodle's sister-in-law, said this when contacted: "I'm every much ashamed to be Kiowa and I don't appreciate what Bill is doing." The Kickapoo and Ponca tribes saw similar takeovers of their headquarters in the past few weeks. Native American Times is Copyright c. 2003 Oklahoma Indian Times, Inc. --------- "RE: Appeals seek to protect Old Chief Joseph's Grave" --------- Date: Thu, 8 Jan 2004 08:44:55 -0700 From: Gary Smith Subj: NA News Item - - - - - - -- - - - - - - filename="OLD CHIEF JOSEPH'S GRAVE" http://www.indianz.com/News/ http://seattlepi.nwsource.com/local/155759_triballand08.html Tribes challenge development plan THE ASSOCIATED PRESS January 8, 2004 JOSEPH, Ore. - Tribes have filed challenges to a planned upscale development on 62 acres at the foot of the Wallowa Mountains, a region where a band of Nez Perce lived until they were forced out by the U.S. Army 127 years ago. Five appeals have been filed against a development approved conditionally by a county commission on land next to Wallowa Lake in this picturesque community. Three of those appeals were filed by reservations where Nez Perce Indians now live - the Confederated Tribes of the Umatilla Indian Reservation near Pendleton, the Nez Perce Tribe in Lapwai, Idaho, and the Colville Confederated Tribes at Nespelem. The city of Joseph has also filed a challenge, as have three Joseph residents who filed a single appeal. The appeals will be heard by the Wallowa County Board of Commissioners on Tuesday. In December, the county planning commission approved a tentative plan for the development of 11 5-acre homesites on 62 acres bordering an Indian cemetery containing the grave of Old Chief Joseph, a Nez Perce leader who died in 1871. Though a buffer was established between the cemetery and the proposed subdivision, the Nez Perce tribe has identified the entire area as culturally significant. Joe McCormack, a Nez Perce, says the development site's proximity to the lake and to the cemetery make it culturally significant to Indians. "I believe the entire site to be of great significance to our people," said McCormack. The Old Chief Joseph grave site is included in the Nez Perce National Historical Park and is the beginning of a National Historic Trail. Old Chief Joseph was the father of Chief Joseph -- who led the Wallowa band of the Nez Perce out of the Wallowa Valley in 1877 after Army Gen. Oliver Howard threatened to attack if they stayed. Some angry warriors raided nearby settlements. For nearly four months, the Nez Perce and U.S. Army troops fought skirmishes and battles along a 1, 400-mile route now known as the Nez Perce Trail. Young Chief Joseph surrendered in Montana, not far from the Canadian border. Appeals filed against the planned development contend additional studies should be conducted to document the Nez Perce people's continued and future connection to the site. Also, the city of Joseph argues the county was required to conduct a more in-depth archeological study than the one that was done. The city of Joseph had previously denied an application for a larger subdivision. The developers then came back with a plan approved by the county planning commission. Copyright c. 1996-2004 Seattle Post-Intelligencer. --------- "RE: Tribal Wind Power plans" --------- Date: Tue, 6 Jan 2004 08:10:17 -0700 From: Gary Smith Subj: NA News Item - - - - - - -- - - - - - - filename="WIND/ENERGY DEVELOPMENT" http://www.owlstar.com/dailyheadlines.htm http://www.idahostatesman.com/News/story.asp?ID=57759 Tribal wind power plans may generate energy development January 6, 2004 PLUMMER - The Coeur d'Alene Tribe's plans for wind power generators on the butte above its headquarters and other alternative energy prospects are laying the groundwork for northern Idaho to become a focus for energy development. "This is a place where a lot of good ideas might come to fruition," tribal spokesman Bob Bostwick said. The Plummer Forest Products mill already converts waste wood to energy that is sold on the open market. The University of Idaho also has expressed interest in conducting research on the possibility of turning wheat and grass stubble into energy. A local plant converted stubble into building products, but it shut down after facing tough price competition from particle board. But with grass burning banned in eastern Washington and limited in Idaho, converting stubble to energy has gained some support. The U.S. Forest Service also is considering its own project, looking for a way to use small-diameter logs thinned from its forests for energy. The state has already identified a site in McCroskey State Park at the southern end of the Coeur d'Alene Indian reservation as a possible wind- power location that could generate enough electricity to power 15,000 homes. And generators atop Plummer Butte, said Gerald Fleischman of the Idaho Energy Division, could produce enough power to run the city, the Benewah Medical Center and Tribal Wellness Center and the tribal casino. "With all these things in one place, perhaps we ought to look at forming a consortium and look at making Plummer a renewable energy center," said Dick Larsen, spokesman for the Department of Water Resources. The department includes the Energy Division. Larsen is working with private industry, public agencies and research groups to develop potential for the products before taking the idea to the tribe. Bostwick, the casino's public relations manager, said the tribe is open to ideas to spur economic development on the reservation. Fleischman said the wind farming projects are in the early stages. It could cost $4.5 million to put two generators on Plummer Butte and up to $50 million to develop a wind farm on the park site to the south. But he said the wind-farming prospects on the reservation are greater than at any other site in northern Idaho. Copyright c. 2004 Idaho Statesman. --------- "RE: Giago to join race for Senate" --------- Date: Sat, 10 Jan 2004 17:15:46 -0700 From: Gary Smith Subj: NA News Item - - - - - - -- - - - - - - filename="GIAGO TO RUN FOR SENATE" http://www.owlstar.com/dailyheadlines.htm http://www.argusleader.com/news/Saturdayarticle5.shtml Giago to join race for Senate David Kranz dkranz@argusleader.com January 10,2004 Editor plans run as Democrat National attention may be focused on a race between Senate Minority Leader Tom Daschle and former Rep. John Thune, but both U.S. Senate candidates might have to clear primary hurdles to win their parties' nomination. Tim Giago, an Oglala Lakota and editor/publisher of the Lakota Journal newspaper in Rapid City and the Pueblo Journal in Albuquerque, N.M., said Friday that he will seek the Democratic nomination against Daschle. Last month, Lakota Media Inc., owner of both publications, was sold to the Flandreau Santee Sioux Tribe. "My basic reason for running is that for the past 50 years, the Indian vote on the Indian reservations has been taken for granted in this state," said Giago, 69. Daschle, 56, welcomed Giago to the political arena and spoke positively about him. "I have known Tim for more than 20 years and have respect for him as a community leader and a businessman," Daschle said Friday. "I have applauded his efforts to encourage reconciliation in South Dakota." Daschle said Giago was one of the leaders in encouraging the Gathering and Healing of Nations Conference sponsored by Daschle and Gov. Mike Rounds. "Using my position in the Senate to continue working to improve the quality of life in Indian Country is one of the primary reasons that I am running for re-election," Daschle said in a statement. Thune, 43, a Republican, announced Monday that he will challenge Daschle. But Bert Tollefson, a Watertown native who has been living in Arizona, said late last year that he will run in the Republican primary. Tollefson, 73, also ran in the Republican House primary in 2002, getting 1 percent of the vote. He served as assistant to U.S. Agriculture Secretary Ezra Taft Benson in the Eisenhower administration, as assistant administrator for the U.S. Agency for International Development in the State Department and as U.S. Aid Mission director in Nairobi, Kenya. If Giago and Tollefson get on the ballot, the Senate primaries would be June 1. Giago said a recent speech by Rounds defined what he sees as a problem in the state. "We have a mind-set to see one point of view," Giago said. "Governor Rounds said South Dakota has only 3 percent unemployment, but he totally disregarded the Indian reservations, with some having as high as 75 percent unemployment." Daschle and Sen. Tim Johnson have taken the Native American vote for granted, he said. "There are some things we can do together as people," Giago said, "and if I can talk about where we come from as a people, that is an important step." Giago said he is not running just for the fun of it. He said he intends to beat Daschle and is prepared to debate him. "Senator Daschle has lost a lot of luster in my mind," Giago said. "So many things could have been done to bring things to Rosebud and Pine Ridge (reservations). Why not economic development?" He cited an unsuccessful effort in Kyle to build a mall. "Harvey White Woman has been trying for years to get it. He has got the people interested, but he can't do a simple thing to get it built," Giago said. "They (the congressional delegation) have no good reason why it hasn't been built." Giago said a letter he wrote challenging state government on reconciliation got the ball rolling on that venture of hope in the mid- 1980s. "Reconciliation died with (Gov.) George Mickelson," Giago said. "Getting reconciliation on track would again create an awareness of the problem and a discussion of solutions." A Giago candidacy would be good for the state, said Leonard Eller of Flandreau, chairman of the Santee Sioux Tribe. "Not only would he help Native Americans, he would help everyone," Eller said. "I don't know much about him politically, but he has a lot of experience dealing with the public, and that would be helpful." Herbert Hoover, professor of history at the University of South Dakota, sees it differently. "Nothing surprises me in what Tim Giago does. I think he realizes he doesn't have a chance in the primary. He is just trying to make a statement," Hoover said. "It is strange with all Daschle does for Native Americans. Giago can't win. A primary could give Daschle a chance to show what kind of clout he has." Reach David Kranz at 331-2302. Copyright c. 2003 Argus Leader. All rights reserved --------- "RE: GONZALES: Upstanding Native American Women" --------- Date: Wed, 7 Jan 2004 20:16:15 -0800 (PST) From: MJ La Burt Subj: UPSTANDING NATIVE WOMEN Mailing-List: ndn-aim Editor's note: This is a first-person column by Patrisia Gonzales. http://www.uexpress.com/columnoftheamericas/?uc_full_date=20031107 UPSTANDING NATIVE WOMEN An Indian woman had to die in war for folks to figure out how to honor native women. Lori Piestewa, a Hopi single mother of two, was honored in Arizona this summer as the first Native American female soldier to die in war. But many Native American women died in wars against the Indians, and many are courageously raising their children as single parents as Piestewa did. In her memorial, Aztec dancers participated in recognition that she was also Mexican. Her family wanted all her heritage honored. And the long- standing battle over naming places found victory when Squaw Peak in Phoenix was renamed Piestewa Peak. Native American activist Winona LaDuke notes that the renaming represents the right of Native Americans to take control of their place names and words. LaDuke spoke recently of many native "women of consequence." These are the women fighting nuclear dumping, genetic engineering and other social ills. Many tribes have special names for warriors or those who defend their people in various ways. In indigenous America, "upstanding women" are often in the front of physical confrontations in Bolivia, Ecuador and Chiapas, where they have been raped to bring the male warriors out of cover. Lori Piestewa and Jessica Lynch were roommates at Fort Bliss military base and close friends everywhere else thereafter. Then they (along with 13 members of the U.S. Army's 507th Maintenance Company) were ambushed last March after they took a wrong turn. Lynch, who was hospitalized and cared for by Iraqi doctors and was eventually found by soldiers, emerged as the symbol of American strength and heroism. An African American was also captured. But how many know her name? Now, former POW Shoshana Johnson, who was shot in both legs, is in the news because the army granted her 30 percent disability benefits; Lynch was awarded 80 percent. Lynch became the public hero with book and movie deals, while the women of color (a strong contingent in the military) are footnotes. Piestewa's death will be remembered for changing the "s-word," as many Native Americans call it. Abenaki storyteller and historian Marge Bruchac notes that the word (squaw) is the derivative of an Algonquian word that originally meant woman. However, it became used by white settlers and frontiersman as a profane reference to vagina. Bruchac is a lone voice among Native Americans, arguing that there are occasions when the word should be preserved, such as to recognize the historical memory of a female. The meanings of words change with who has the power to use them, and who has the power to tell the stories. About the time of the peak's renaming, I stopped at a farmer's market in Whittier, Calif. One type of bread caught my eye -- "Frontier Squaw Bread. " I asked the vendor why the bread was called this. "Because it's made from wheat, molasses and cinnamon. It goes down slow, and it's sweet and sticky all over," he replied. I told him that usage was offensive to many native folks. He replied he knew that but no harm was meant by it. I responded, but how you used that word is exactly why it's offensive. Then he started raising his voice in self-justification as he spoke in a tone that sounded like he was feeling unjustly made responsible for history. A lady with teased hair piped in: "It's an old frontier recipe. Well, I've seen it in the history books." Nothing like official California history to justify comfort zones. I asked my mother-in-law not to buy the bread, and I later told her what he said. Since she mostly speaks Spanish, she didn't understand the whole exchange. But, being a woman of consequence herself (having raised seven children), she knew you don't eat bread named that way. I went home fuming, perhaps because of peaks and Tomahawk and Apache bombs that co-opt native names and words (and the stories that will be told) in wars against other peoples. Despite some national coverage, few people knew that Piestewa's father fought in 'Nam and that her grandfather fought in World War II. However, a romanticized and fictionalized account of Jessica Lynch's rescue had saturated the media to boost morale for the war. Piestewa's tale as part of a warrior ethic rooted in native cultural roles, family tradition, as well as patriotism (and economic necessity) will be among those told in a forthcoming documentary on the native warrior ethic by Ojibwe scholar and journalist Patty Loew. Yes, Lynch got a movie. But Piestewa got a mountaintop. COPYRIGHT c. 2003 UNIVERSAL PRESS SYNDICATE --------- "RE: YELLOW BIRD: `Dreamkeepers' new era in NA Films" --------- Date: Wed, 7 Jan 2004 08:17:26 -0700 From: Gary Smith Subj: NA News Item - - - - - - -- - - - - - - filename="DORREEN YELLOW BIRD: DREAMKEEPERS" http://www.grandforks.com/mld/grandforksherald/news/opinion/7641287.htm DORREEN YELLOW BIRD COLUMN: 'DreamKeepers' marks new era in films about Native Americans I don't like and rarely watch two-part films on television because it means I have to be in place in front of the TV the next evening. I also don't like most films about Native Americans. I am squeamish about watching films where all Native people are portrayed as alcoholics who live in poverty. Nor do I appreciate portrayals of holy men that are taken straight from the imagination of writers who know little about medicine men or spiritual people. I watched the two-part "DreamKeepers" last week hoping it would beat the odds on all of those things. I wasn't disappointed. The film won the Best Film award at the 28th Annual American Indian Film Festival in San Francisco in November. It also was a winner in my mind. The film is about young Shane Chasing Horse, a Pine Ridge Lakota Sioux (played by Eddie Spears) and his grandfather, old Pete Chasing Horse (played by August Schellenburg). Sounds too typical, doesn't it? But where the story diverts from the typical is in its setting and the craft with which the movie was made. Those become its great strengths. The setting is Pine Ridge, S.D. The Native community in the film is typical but not awful. The movie doesn't deny there are gangs, poverty and alcoholism; but, unlike many Native American films, the movie doesn't make these the center of the story. They're background. Shane is in trouble with what might be called the "Indian Mafia." He owes them money. His mother strongly suggests that he take his grandpa to the Gathering of Nations powwow in Albuquerque, N.M., where the elder is to tell stories. He is the "DreamKeeper." The young man knows the "Mafia" is after him, so he reluctantly drives that long road in an old, beat-up '66 Ford pickup nicknamed Many Miles With No Muffler. During the trip, his grandfather fills his ear with stories as they chug along that southwestern highway. The Indian Mafia does catch up with them at one point. The grandfather also takes Shane to see his estranged father, who is a reformed alcoholic. A relationship develops between the boy and his father. The film is an "epic odyssey of a Lakota grandfather's final storytelling," says a press release. One thing that's exceptional about this film is that it is filled with Native American actors. Years ago, it was routine to use actors such as Burt Lancaster or Victor Mature, heavily made-up and with black braided wigs, in roles as Native people. They spoke phrases such as, "Me, Indian." "Me want water." That always irritated me because those Native people in the 1800s probably used sign language rather than stilted, single-word phrases. Today there is a long lineup of Native American actors, some nationally known - Michael Horse, Elaine Miles, Gary Farmer, Russell Means, Graham Greene, John Trudell, Nathan Chasing Horse, Rodney Grant, Floyd (Red Crow) Westerman and others. They gave this film an authentic feel and seemed to know their ground. In addition, the stories told by elder Chasing Horse and woven throughout the film were authentic. I knew some of them, as they were told by my grandmother. The stories include the Lakota story of Eagle Boy's vision quest, the Akwesasne Mohawk story titled "Thunder Begins" and a Pawnee story about a woman and her son. The movie also featured coyote and iktomi (red spider) stories that were especially wonderful. I have seen few better portrayals of coyote than in that film. The tales were identified by tribe and by some photographs by Edward Curtis; he was an early 1900s photographer of the West. I don't know if the film will be rerun, but it certainly is worth seeing. I hope that "DreamKeeper" is just the beginning of films of this kind and that they get even better. Films such as this are a good way to break stereotypes and bring understanding in a painless way. ---- Yellow Bird writes columns on Tuesday and Saturday. Reach her at 780-1228, (800) 477-6572 ext. 228 or dyellowbird@gfherald.com. Copyright c. 2004 Grand Forks Herald/Grand Forks, ND. --------- "RE: GIAGO: Gambling erodes Tibal Svereignty" --------- Date: Wed, 7 Jan 2004 08:17:26 -0700 From: Gary Smith Subj: NA News Item - - - - - - -- - - - - - - filename="GIAGO: CHIEFS ON GAMBLING" http://www.projo.com/opinion/~20040107_7ctgiago.2870cf.html Tim Giago: Indian chiefs spoke out -- Gambling erodes tribal sovereignty January 7, 2004 RAPID CITY, S.D. WITHIN THE SPACE of a couple of years, Indian country lost two of its strongest advocates for the rights of the Indian people. Roger Jourdain, former 30-year chairman of the Red Lake Band of Ojibwe, and Wendell Chino, who served more than 30 years as president of the Mescalero Apache and was still chairman when he died, were lifelong friends. There was nothing more entertaining than to be at a meeting with these two great chiefs and listen to them tease each other. Both had quick minds and both could dish it out as well as take it, at least when the gentle ribbing was between the two of them. Of course, since they both had such a long history of working together on Indian issues, both had long memories of the gaffs each had pulled in their long relationship. If one had committed a particularly embarrassing faux pas, it was brought to the table and dissected amid much laughter. Jourdain and Chino were vociferous opponents of the National Indian Gaming Regulatory Act that was introduced in 1987. They were not intrinsically opposed to Indian gaming, but they were opposed to the IGRA itself and the harm, they believed, that it would bring to Indian country. Sixteen years ago, I met with Chino and Jourdain at Bemidji, Minn., in order to listen to their concerns. The Indian Gaming Regulatory Act was about to be passed by Congress, and I didn't have a clue as to its significance. But these two elders, skilled in the ways of their people, knowledgeable about the overreaching of a benevolent Congress, and cautious in the way of those who had learned through life's experiences that laws intended to help Indians had often brought great harm instead, expressed their fear of the IGRA. What were their fears? For one, if the approval of gaming compacts rested solely in the hands of state governments, the lifelong adversaries of the Indian nations, states would then, finally, have a hammer they could hold over the heads of the sovereign nations. Cooperate with us, bend to our guidelines, or there will be no compacts: This was, and still is, the criteria used by states in approaching the signing of gaming compacts. Maine just held an election that precluded Indian gaming there. The Penobscot and Passamaquoddy Nations of Maine have been rejected as prospective Indian gaming tribes. Utah, with its strong Mormon legislature, has stood in the way of Indian gaming from day one. This is just one of the reasons Jourdain and Chino fought the IGRA. Both of these visionaries also feared that the greed for instant money would cause many tribal leaders to succumb to the pressures of state governments and sign away much of their tribal sovereignty in order to open a casino. And they were right. In state after state, Indian nations jumped at the crumbs offered by state governments. After all was said, done and signed, many Indian nations found themselves handcuffed by regulations that took away their ability to be independent. If the state said each tribe within its boundaries could only operate 250 slot machines, regardless of the size of the tribe, tribal leaders still signed on the dotted line. As a result, some tribes with only 250 members have 250 slot machines while neighboring tribes with 20,000 members are still limited to 250 slot machines. What was legal for one tribe in one state was illegal for another tribe in a bordering state. When the newly formed Mashantucket Pequot Tribe in Connecticut opened its Foxwoods Casino, it immediately signed a compact that paid nearly $100 million annually to the state from its slot machine profits. Without consulting any of the much larger Indian nations, the Pequot effectively set a precedent that has held dire consequences for Indian nations across America. States that had ignored the poverty on Indian reservations within their boundaries for more than 100 years suddenly saw dollar signs in Indian gaming. New Mexico, for example, a state that had been one of the strongest opponents of Indian sovereignty, suddenly demanded as much as 16 percent of the profits from the casinos of the Indian nations within its boundaries. New Mexico was so anti-Indian at one time that it took them 22 years to grant citizenship to its indigenous people after the same right was granted by Congress in 1924. The same can be said about Arizona. And yet both of these states are now reaping profits from the highly successful Indian casinos within their boundaries. Chino and Jourdain envisioned all of these things 16 years ago. They knew the Indian people, their strengths and their weaknesses. They knew that if enough pressure was brought to bear and enough dollars waved before their eyes, many tribal leaders would jump on the casino bandwagon without considering the dire consequences of the IGRA. To date, the Bureau of Indian Affairs has shunned its regulatory responsibility and has sided with state governments against the very people it is sworn to protect. The loss of Jourdain and Chino may turn out to be the nail that is driven into the caskets of nations that long considered themselves sovereign. Their loss has too often left us with Indian leaders and nations of sheep. ---- Tim Giago, an Oglala Lakota, is editor and publisher of the Lakota and Pueblo Journals. Copyright c. 2004 The Providence Journal. --------- "RE: OPINION: Return of Sealth's Home hopeful Sign" --------- Date: Thu, 8 Jan 2004 08:44:55 -0700 From: Gary Smith Subj: NA News Item - - - - - - -- - - - - - - filename="SEALTH'S HOME" http://seattlepi.nwsource.com/opinion/155674_sealth08.html Return of Sealth's home hopeful sign By TED GEORGE AND SARAH RUTH VAN GELDER GUEST COLUMNISTS January 8, 2004 During this time when peace on Earth is so hoped for and yet so elusive, there are signs of peace coming from just across the Puget Sound. These signs center on efforts to return the home of one of the region's most famous peacemakers, Chief Sealth, to the Suquamish Tribe. Chief Sealth is known not only for the city named after him but also for his famous words, which have circled the globe inspiring people to consider our interconnectedness with one another and with the natural world. Chief Sealth's home is on Agate Passage, which separates Bainbridge Island from the Kitsap Peninsula. Archaeological evidence shows that people lived on this site for at least 2,000 years. Old Man House, the largest longhouse in the Puget Sound region, built here in the early 1800s, was the winter home for Chief Sealth and hundreds of Suquamish people. The 600-foot-long Old Man House was burned to the ground by the U.S. military in the 1870s in an apparent effort to convince the people to give up their traditional ways of life. The Suquamish people rebuilt a village at this site, then called Old Man House Village, and by 1885, most of the families of the Port Madison Indian Reservation were living there. In 1904, the U.S. War Department, claiming the land was needed for fortifications to protect the Bremerton Navy Yard from foreign attack, took the land from the tribe. The village was dismantled; the church, graveyard, school and the homes of the people were moved and dispersed. The War Department never built any fortifications, and in 1937, the site of Old Man House Village was sold to a private buyer and then subdivided. Washington state purchased a small portion of the former Old Man House site for a state park in 1950. In recent years, the Suquamish Tribe, like many in the region, has been regaining the vision and the skills to promote their agendas, protect their rights and be positive change agents. The tribe is requesting the return of Old Man House Park, not as a hostile takeover but with a commitment to maintain the park as a location of singular historic and cultural importance -- and to continue to keep it open as a park, accessible to all. Opposition from a small group has stalemated past efforts to have the park returned but this time may be different. The state is seeking to reduce the costs associated with some state parks and is looking for other governmental entities to take them over. And this year, the tribe is reaching out to the broader community, working closely with Suquamish Olalla Neighbors, a group of tribal and non-tribal residents committed to peacemaking of the deepest sort -- the sort that aims to right wrongs and build lasting friendships based on mutual respect. Together, the tribe and the broader community prepared a plan for the park based on hundreds of comments received at open meetings, through surveys and emails. Opposition to the tribe has not gone away. Anti-Indian groups from outside the region are joining local opponents in an effort to stop the tribe from regaining the site of Old Man House Park. But many people see the possibility that this small location with a grand natural mosaic can be an oasis, refuge and place for healing for us all. This year is the 100th anniversary of the year the land was taken from the Suquamish people; if the state Parks and Recreation Commission chooses to return this land to the tribe, this could be a year of the most profound kind of peacemaking. ---- Ted George and Sarah Ruth van Gelder are co-founders and co-chairs of Suquamish Olalla Neighbors; www.soneighbors.org George is the Gamble (elder leader) of the S'Klallam tribes. Van Gelder lives on the Port Madison Reservation. Copyright c. 1996-2004 Seattle Post-Intelligencer. --------- "RE: CNN's Novak calls Indians Election Thieves" --------- Date: Fri, 9 Jan 2004 08:26:34 -0700 From: Gary Smith Subj: NA News Item - - - - - - -- - - - - - - filename="NOVAK VOMITS RACISM" http://www.owlstar.com/dailyheadlines.htm http://www.rapidcityjournal.com/~/top/news01.txt CNN's Novak under fire for calling American Indians election thieves By Denise Ross, Journal Staff Writer January 9, 2004 Robert Novak, nationally known political commentator, has drawn criticism from all corners of South Dakota for racially charged remarks he made Tuesday on CNN's nationally broadcast program, "Crossfire." "In 2002, (Republican candidate John) Thune would have been elected to the state's other Senate seat, but the election was stolen by stuffing ballot boxes on Indian reservations. Now, Tom Daschle may have to pay for that theft," Novak said in an exchange with Democratic operative James Carville. Carville called the statement "really out there" and said American Indians are "very patriotic Americans." "Has Thune said that the Native Americans are election thieves?" Carville asked. Novak replied, "No, I said it." On Thursday, three people demanded Novak apologize. They are state Democratic Party chairwoman Judy Olson Duhamel of Rapid City, Lower Brule Sioux Tribe Chairman Mike Jandreau and Frank LaMere, treasurer of a political action committee. South Dakota's governor, two U.S. senators, secretary of state, Republican Party chairman and Thune's campaign also issued statements. "I can't conceive of anyone making that debasing statement about anyone in the human race," Olson Duhamel said. "This kind of racist, insulting remark is outrageous. There's just no excuse. I call on John Thune to repudiate that, and I expect other political leaders in both parties to make statements, to join me in demanding an apology." Jandreau and LaMere sent letters to Novak's office. Novak, who is in Iowa, did not respond to a telephone message from the Rapid City Journal. Jandreau took Novak to task for a series of anti-Indian remarks and included an excerpt of a Dec. 13 "Crossfire" transcript in which Novak said, "The Indians, they got the phony Indian votes out there." Jandreau called Novak's accusations "outrageous, offensive and factually wrong." "Our people deserve to have a voice in the democracy you and I both cherish, just like every other American," Jandreau wrote. "When people like you characterize our participation as suspect solely because you may not like the outcome, you undermine the fundamental principle upon which our great republic is built." LaMere said Novak is eager to "paint with a broad brush a whole race of people who want what every American wants, a chance to be heard and a chance to be counted." "Indian people did not stuff ballot boxes on Indian reservations and to even hint at that is insensitive and irresponsible at best and blatantly racist at worst," LaMere, treasurer of the Four Directions political action committee, wrote. Thune's new campaign manager, Dick Wadhams, replied quickly to Olson Duhamel's call for a statement. "Robert Novak's comments were inappropriate and certainly do not reflect John Thune's commitment to work hard for the Native American vote in 2004, " Wadhams said. "The accusation overall is just off the mark." Thune, a three-term Republican congressman, announced Monday that he would challenge Sen. Daschle, a Democrat, in South Dakota's 2004 Senate election. The race will watched by political pundits nationwide, just as they did when Thune lost to incumbent Sen. Tim Johnson, D-S.D., by 524 votes in 2002. Johnson and Daschle each issued statements through staff members. Johnson spokeswoman Julianne Fischer said: "For Bob Novak, a seasoned political commentator, to throw around such allegations is yellow journalism at its worst. Those that say the election was stolen have been proven wrong and are serving up sour grapes over what was a very successful grassroots effort." Daschle spokesman Dan Pfeiffer said, "The false allegations and efforts to intimidate voters on the reservations were a very dark moment in South Dakota politics." Novak's statement alludes to the increased voter turnout on South Dakota's Indian reservations in the 2002 general election and to criminal investigations into some forged and allegedly forged voter registration applications that were detected before the election. Secretary of State Chris Nelson, a Republican, said Thursday that despite Johnson's razor-thin margin of victory and the attempts at fraudulent voter registration, South Dakota's 2002 election was not compromised. "There were no stuffed ballot boxes in South Dakota's 2002 election," Nelson said. "We all know there were attempts at voter registration fraud. I'm confident our county auditors and the law enforcement of this state were able to stop that and that no illegal ballots were cast." Nelson said investigations into some obviously forged voter registration cards could not be resolved. (See related story.) Republican Gov. Mike Rounds focused on the practical political considerations. "I've made it very clear I want to compete for Native American votes. The Democratic Party did a better job than the Republican Party of activating forces on the reservations. Republicans have to work very hard at pointing out our interests at reconciliation," Rounds said. "We've got just as good a shot as the Democrats do in convincing them we have good ideas and ways of improving life on reservations. I think that's what Native Americans are interested in." Asked whether he found Novak's statements offensive, Rounds replied, "I find it ignorant." State GOP Chairman Randy Frederick had stronger words, calling Novak's statements "appalling" and "insane." "There were problems, but they were attributable to one individual. To attempt to tag an entire race is totally out of bounds, uncalled for, discriminatory and shows prejudice," Frederick said. "Voter turnout on reservations went up. That is a good thing." One tribal official who watched Tuesday's broadcast said she fears such charges could change that. "That is slander to the Indian people of South Dakota. I hope it doesn't make the people want to quit voting because of how we get called down for what is our right. I would like an apology," Eileen Janis, finance coordinator for the Oglala Sioux Tribe, said. "He's a sore loser. They should quit crying around." Political activist Mary Ann Bear Heels-McGowan of Pierre said her people have suffered such slurs for generations. "We have been talked about for generations as being the savage heathens, prairie niggers and people that live off the government. We've listened to all of this. We're still walking around. We're survivors," she said. "I think it's a lack of education. He needs to come out here and visit us. I would send him a personal invitation." Contact Denise Ross at 3943-8438 or denise.ross@rapidcityjournal.com Copyright c. 2004 Rapid City Journal. --------- "RE: Akaka Bill could face revision" --------- Date: Tue, 13 Jan 2004 08:38:34 -0700 From: Gary Smith Subj: NA News Item - - - - - - -- - - - - - - filename="NATIVE HAWAIIAN BILL" http://the.honoluluadvertiser.com/article/2004/Jan/12/ln/ln12a.html Akaka bill could face revision, Norton says By Vicki Viotti Advertiser Staff Writer January 12, 2004 U.S. Interior Secretary Gale Norton said yesterday that her staff is reviewing the bill that would give Hawaiians federal recognition in hopes that revisions might avert some of the legal conflicts and other "pitfalls" faced by Native American nations. Norton, taking media questions following remarks to the American Farm Bureau Federation convention in Honolulu, acknowledged that the so-called Akaka bill is the subject of discussions involving Hawai'i's congressional delegation and officials of the U.S. Interior and Justice departments. The latest form of the bill, sponsored by Sen. Daniel Akaka, D-Hawai'i, and known also by the label "S. 344," has passed through the Indian Affairs Committee but has stalled en route to a vote by the full Senate. A week ago, the delegation, in Honolulu for the holiday break, met with Gov. Linda Lingle, Attorney General Mark Bennett and trustees of the Office of Hawaiian Affairs for a status report on the bill. Akaka was not available for comment last week, but U.S. Rep. Ed Case, D- Hawai'i, said "issues are being hashed out" in the effort to get the administration on board. "The goal is to obtain concurrence on 344, to consider any proposed changes by the administration," he said. "The intention is to pass S. 344 through Congress as it was passed out of committee. It may or may not turn out to be that way." Paul Cardus, a spokesman for Akaka, said no specific amendments have been hammered out yet. Some OHA members expressed worry over what the possible changes might include. Trustee Rowena Akana said OHA, which has been lobbying for passage of the bill, should get on record via a state resolution as supporting the legislation as written. Akana said her chief concern is that the revised bill could end up restricting membership in a Hawaiian nation in some way, but Case said no such curtailment is evident. Yesterday, Norton acknowledged that the administration has had concerns about the constitutionality of the bill, but she said her department's focus has been on passing on lessons learned from experience with Native American tribes. "My concern is a practical one," she said. "We deal with our Native American tribes. What we would like to do is help Hawaiians avoid pitfalls that we have seen. "I think it's important for everyone to think through how they want the system to operate when they establish it." For example, she said, the bill needs to clarify specific relationships between the state and the Native Hawaiian governing entity. She said some tribes have run into conflict over land use when there are overlapping tribal and local regulations. Other conflicts have arisen over taxation questions and over whether crimes should be adjudicated by the native entity or the state jurisdiction. Norton, who also yesterday presided over the presentation of honors to volunteers at the Arizona Memorial, spoke to the convention about the need for endangered species legislation that promotes cooperative solutions over litigation. Reach Vicki Viotti at vviotti@honoluluadvertiser.com or 525-8053. Copyright c. 2004 The Honolulu Advertiser, a division of Gannett Co. Inc. --------- "RE: Logging rights fight heats up" --------- Date: Mon, 12 Jan 2004 08:20:47 -0700 From: Gary Smith Subj: NA News Item - - - - - - -- - - - - - - filename="LOGGING RIGHTS" http://www.owlstar.com/dailyheadlines.htm http://www.princegeorgecitizen.com/news/20040112/20040112n2.html Logging rights fight heats up by GORDON HOEKSTRA Citizen staff January 12, 2004 First Nations and communities called on the B.C. Liberal government to take back more timber from major forest companies, but B.C. Forests Minister Mike de Jong said it won't happen. At a forestry forum on Saturday organized by Prince George's city council, the Carrier Sekani Tribal Council called on de Jong to take back 50 per cent of the annual logging rights and redistribute it to communities and First Nations, while the B.C. Coalition for Sustainable Forest Solutions said the government should redistribute a majority of tenure to communities and First Nations. Neither are new positions. The B.C. Coalition for Sustainable Forest Solutions unveiled it's suggested forestry changes nearly one year ago. The Northwest Treaty Tribal nations -- of which the Carrier Sekani Tribal Council is a member - - also called on the forests minister 10 months ago to give First Nations in northern B.C. half the allowable logging rights and half of the province's stumpage revenue. De Jong told the forestry forum -- which attracted more than 60 First Nations, community and business leaders to the Civic Centre -- the B.C. Liberal government has already done more than other governments to put more timber in the hands of First Nations and communities. As part of its sweeping forest policy changes, the Liberal government clawed back 20 per cent of the timber harvesting rights of companies holding long-term licences, an unpopular move with the companies. "We are not going to take back 50 per cent of tenure -- it's not going to happen," de Jong told reporters during a break at the forum. "We're moving ahead with the 20 per cent takeback which gives us the tools to create opportunities." Half of the 20 per cent takeback is going to be used to increase the amount of timber sold at auction, with the remaining 10 per cent being split up between First Nations, communities and woodlots. De Jong said in the past year the province has already inked deals with 15 First Nations, including several in northern B.C., to hand over the rights to log four million cubic metres of timber and share in revenues of more than $1 million. He said he expects to sign more deals in the next two weeks. Nak'azdli First Nation chief Leonard Thomas said he's concerned that forest policy changes -- including the ability of companies to shut down mills without penalty and move timber around the province -- simply increase the security and profit of big companies at the expense of smaller communities. Combined with the removal of having to get government approval to merge, Leonard said he fears smaller mills will be shutdown and super mills created. That's bad for small communities like Fort St. James and the First Nations around it, he said. Cliff Stainsby, a spokesman for the B.C. Coalition for Sustainable Forest Solutions, said the government also needs to ensure the public gets good value for timber, which could be done, in part, by creating regional log markets. Mackenzie mayor Tom Briggs said the province needs to ensure the new timber sales program doesn't simply sell off the timber that's easiest to access to get higher prices for the government. Ed Mazur, a pulp mill worker, said he's concerned about logs being allowed to leave communities. Logs moving out of Prince George means less wood chips for the pulp mills which will jeopardize local jobs, he said. Copyright c. 2004 Prince George Citizen . --------- "RE: Chretien can be Subpoenaed" --------- Date: Wed, 7 Jan 2004 08:17:26 -0700 From: Gary Smith Subj: NA News Item - - - - - - -- - - - - - - filename="CHRETIEN/SAMSON FN" http://www.firstperspective.ca/story_2003_12_10_chretien.html Chretien Can Be Subpoenaed, Judge Rules But attempt to force Nault into court rebuffed By Len Kruzenga January 7, 2004 Outgoing Prime Minister Jean Chretien may not be able to slip as quietly into private life as he'd hoped after a federal court judge ruled that the PM can be subpoenaed as a witness in a civil trial involving the Samson Cree First Nation, which is suing the federal government for $1.4 billion. "I am satisfied that Samson First Nation should be permitted to call the present Prime Minister as a witness," Mr. Justice Max Teitelbaum said in his written December 5 -ruling "The Prime Minister, like all other citizens in Canada can be called to give evidence in a trail in Canada provided he has relevant and admissible evidence to give." The ruling is a first, according to Samson Cree band lawyer James O'Reilly, allowing leave to issue a subpoena to force a Canadian prime minister to testify at a trial. O'Reilly says the band is serious in wanting Chretien to testify, but added he didn't know when he would subpoena the prime minister. "We think this is the biggest aboriginal case going on in the country," said O'Reilly. The lawsuit by the Samson Cree alleges that the federal government mishandled the band's oil and gas royalties over the last sixty plus years and deprived the band of securing higher interest on it's funds, which were held in trust by the Department of Indian and Northern Affairs. The trial has already heard from over 50 witnesses in trial that has already nearly stretched a year. Samson Cree Chief Victor Buffalo says his community is challenging the Indian Act and is adamant the PM, who served as minister of Indian and Northern affirms in the 1960s, has crucial information regarding the band's claim. The government has denied it breached its trust position and insists it adhered to its lawful responsibilities to the band. Although Crown lawyers resisted the attempt to have Chretien-named an honorary chief by the band in 1980-subpoenaed, labeling it a political stunt, Justice Teitelbaum disagreed. "The Prime Minister's name appears on numerous documents, that are relevant in the present case; therefore I am satisfied that the present Prime Minister should appear as a witness to relate the relevant facts." However the Federal Court Judge served notice he won't be granting the band's legal team carte blanche with the PM. "I will not permit questions that indicate a party is going on a fishing expedition I will also not permit counsel to engage in a political debate with the witness. Yet the judge confirmed his agreement with the band that Cretin's role as a former INAC minister makes his appearance relevant. "During his time as minister of Indian and Northern affairs trust issues relating to First Nations were being discussed and decided," Judge Teitelbaum wrote. However the court rebuffed an attempt by the band to also supoena current INAC minister Robert Nault. "I am satisfied that the main purpose for calling Minister Nault as a witness would be to engage the minister in a political debate. As I stated, Minister Nault did not become Minister of Indian and Northern Development until well after the present litigation commenced." Copyright c. 2004 First Perspective. FP is published monthly by Taiga Communications Inc. at Brokenhead First Nation, Scanterbury, Manitoba. --------- "RE: Martin to scrap Governance Bill" --------- Date: Fri, 9 Jan 2004 08:26:34 -0700 From: Gary Smith Subj: NA News Item - - - - - - -- - - - - - - filename="GOVERNANCE ACT KILLED" http://www.owlstar.com/dailyheadlines.htm http://www.canoe.ca/~/CANOE-wire.Martin-Native-Agenda.html Martin to scrap native bill that sparked protest, focus on social issues January 8, 2004 OTTAWA (CP) - Prime Minister Paul Martin will scrap a despised bill and instead focus on urgent social needs as he reaches out to native voters. The prime minister has signalled that native issues will be a top priority, although tight federal finances may not allow big funding hikes right away. Improving squalid housing conditions, a new clean-water strategy for reserves and the need for more higher education cash are all on Martin's radar. High native unemployment rates and lagging health standards are also expected to merit mention as his government's new course is set in a throne speech on Feb. 2, sources say. But a hugely unpopular piece of legislation won't be resurrected. "C-7 is dead," said a government source close to the legislation who spoke on condition of anonymity. Bill C-7, the proposed First Nations Governance Act, was first introduced under Jean Chretien. The bid to impose electoral and fiscal codes on more than 600 reserves was crafted in haste with little native input, complained chiefs from across Canada. There were angry protests and shouts from the public gallery as demonstrators staked out all-night committee meetings on Parliament Hill. The contentious bill "poisoned" relations with aboriginal people, Martin once said, while leaving the door open to an altered version. Sources now say that won't happen. Instead, Martin is considering expansion of a pilot project that has so far offered a total of $5 million to help eligible First Nations draft their own rules. More than 100 native communities currently are working on election codes, administrative manuals and fiscal standards. Insiders say it's a more collaborative way of better tracking how Indian Affairs spends more than $5 billion a year - 80 per cent of it on programs run by First Nations. More than half of Canada's 700,000 status Indians now live off reserve, many of them pushed to the big cities by poverty back home. Martin has said they have been forgotten for too long. Dwight Dorey, head of the Congress of Aboriginal Peoples, represents 800, 000 off-reserve native and Metis people. "We've got to bring up the quality of life for aboriginal people," he said in an interview. "For people to be able to afford housing they need to address health and social issues." These include drug and alcohol addiction, Dorey said. Phil Fontaine, national chief of the Assembly of First Nations, says decrepit housing on reserves is another top concern. "Right now, First Nations are in nothing less than a housing crisis. In Quebec and Labrador alone there is a need for 7,069 houses within the next five years." Almost half of existing units need repairs, he added. Auditor General Sheila Fraser highlighted the situation in a damning report last spring. Fontaine will be looking for a specific section on aboriginal issues in the throne speech as a signal of Martin's commitment. "Our issues - like our people - are distinct and require their own unique and innovative approaches." Under Chretien - a former Indian Affairs minister who adopted a native child and professed a deep commitment to the plight of Canada's First Nations - the Liberal government repeatedly promised improvements but made little real progress. Copyright c. 2004, CANOE, a division of Netgraphe Inc. --------- "RE: Mohawks claiming 9/11 Health Fallout" --------- Date: Fri, 9 Jan 2004 08:26:34 -0700 From: Gary Smith Subj: NA News Item - - - - - - -- - - - - - - filename="GROUND ZERO HEALTH ISSUES" http://www.owlstar.com/dailyheadlines.htm http://www.canada.com/~4433-9c36-31d9796954c7&disp=e&end Mohawks claiming 9/11 health fallout Ironworkers make post-deadline list for Ground Zero fund IRWIN BLOCK The Gazette Thursday, January 08, 2004 On Sept. 11, 2001, Mohawk ironworkers from Kahnawake and Akwesasne didn't think twice before rushing to Ground Zero of the terrorist attacks on the World Trade Centre. Jaysen Mayo, Gary Cook and Kyle Beauvais were among 50 Mohawk men who helped in the search-and-rescue efforts in New York City, never wavering in the face of potential health risks. As it turns out, many developed such symptoms as shortness of breath. But few were aware that medical care and compensation funds had been set up for those who worked at Ground Zero. They weren't aware, either, that Dec. 22 was the deadline for filing claims with the U.S. federal government's Sept. 11 Victim Compensation Fund. Thanks to the action of Darlene Thomas, the alert wife of ironworker Jaysen Mayo, the deadline has been set aside for the Mohawk men, who have been given more time to apply for compensation and care. "I heard about the health problems after reading an article in The Eastern Door on Nov. 14, called The Ills of 9-11," Thomas said yesterday from Kahnawake. However, it took her several weeks to track down the right agency in the United States. On deadline day, Dec. 22, Thomas was referred to a free legal service in New York City and then to Washington, D.C., again. "I then put together a list and sent a fax by midnight with the names of 30 men who worked at Ground Zero. ... A lot of them are ill, and all the ones I spoke to had respiratory problems." On Monday this week, an agency in Washington called back and said the 30 names had been accepted for medical care. The legal-aid lawyer in New York also told Thomas that once she collects an additional 20 names of Ground Zero, she will pressure authorities to add them to the post-deadline list. In Brooklyn, N.Y., ironworker Kyle Beauvais of Kahnawake, said he had "just heard" about the deadline yesterday. "While at Ground Zero, I burned my lungs and was sent to the hospital. I used an acetylene torch to burn through this big Verizon telephone cable. The stuff (fumes) went right through the respirator and right into my lungs. I almost collapsed. "I found out days later that one of the most dangerous, poisonous substances covered this cable. "Now I have shortness of breath." iblock@thegazette.canwest.com Copyright c. 2004 Montreal Gazette. --------- "RE: Zapatistas, w/o Marcos, Trying Peaceful Approach" --------- Date: Thu, 8 Jan 2004 11:10:17 -0600 (CST) From: owner-chiapas95-english@eco.utexas.edu (Chiapas95-english) Subj: Zapatistas,Without Marcos,Trying Peaceful Approach Mailing List: Chiapas95-english This message is forwarded to you by the editors of the Chiapas95 newslists. To contact the editors or to submit material for posting send to: . From: "Dana" Zapatistas, Without Marcos, Trying Peaceful Approach ( ) MEXICO CITY, Dec 30, 2003 (IPS/GIN via COMTEX) -- A decade after the Zapatista guerrillas burst on the scene in southern Mexico, the rebels in the remote mountainous jungle region of Chiapas are no longer demanding rvolutionary change but are seeking to exercise their rights through autonomous local government councils. The Zapatista National Liberation Army (EZLN) made its first public appearance with an armed uprising - brutally put down by the army - on Jan. 1, 1994, the same day the North American Free Trade Agreement (NAFTA) went into effect, linking Mexico, Canada and the United States in a trade accord. Analysts and critics have pointed to the decline of the group's charismatic leader, Subcomandante Marcos, who apparently no longer controls the insurgent organisation that in the mid- to late 1990s staged a number of events that drew wide international attention. After the peace talks with the government stalled in 1996, the Zapatista demands for autonomy and recognition of the rights of indigenous people -- who form a large part of the population of the impoverished state of Chiapas -- dissolved into silence. But last August, the EZLN took a new step, and modified the local governing structures that functioned since 1994 in areas under its influence, creating the "Caracoles" -- a new geographic division and form of de facto autonomy in the 33 Chiapas municipalities under Zapatista control. Thus began a new stage of political struggle for "democracy, freedom and justice" -- goals proclaimed by the EZLN when, in the first minute of 1994, the poorly armed group declared war on the government of then-president Carlos Salinas (1988-1994). Although Chiapas is the poorest state in this country of 100 million, it possesses large reserves of oil and gas. The main lesson provided by the Zapatistas has been one of continuity and survival of a unique movement, said historian Carlos Montemayor, a respected scholar of Mexican armed movements and the author of "War in Paradise", a novel that narrates the extermination of an earlier insurgent group, headed by rural schoolteacher Lucio Cabanas, in the 1970s. The EZLN's ability to survive helped give a new shape to the national debate, catapulting the question of the marginalisation and dire poverty plaguing a majority of Mexico's estimated 10 million ethnic Indians onto the national agenda. The continued existence of the group, which engaged in less than two weeks of fighting with the army in January 1994 before agreeing to an armed truce, also gave a boost to participation by civil society in political and social policy- and decision-making, Montemayor told IPS. The peace talks that had been going on for a year and a half broke down in September 1996, after Congress modified a draft law on indigenous rights that emerged from the San Andres accords on indigenous rights and culture, signed with the government in February 1996. The creation of the Caracoles, one of the EZLN's most ambitious moves, was the group's peaceful response to the government's failure to live up to the San Andres accords. The Caracoles involved the proclamation of autonomy and self-government in 33 Zapatista-controlled municipalities in Chiapas, where the EZLN's own health and education programmes are being implemented. The creation of alternative local power structures in the form of "good government councils" arose from the traditions of indigenous communities in Mexico and other Latin American countries, like Ecuador or Colombia. The councils are a modern-day version of an ancient form of government, said Montemayor. But some political sectors have interpreted the creation of the Caracoles as a challenge to the government of President Vicente Fox and a mockery of the state of law. Montemayor noted that International Labour Organisation convention 169, which has been signed and ratified by Mexico, stipulates that the social, cultural, religious and spiritual customs and practices of indigenous peoples must be respected. That requires the preservation of traditional native institutions that for centuries enabled indigenous communities to conserve their identities and survive in adverse conditions, he said. In 10 years, the EZLN has gone beyond armed struggle and developed its own forms of self-government, said the writer. However, there is no sign that peace talks will be resumed with the government in the immediate future, Montemayor added. After walking out of the peace talks in 1996, the EZLN announced in 1997 that it would not return to the negotiating table until the terms of the San Andres accords were fully met. After Fox, the first president from outside the Institutional Revolutionary Party in 71 years, took office in December 2000, the parliamentary passage of a modified version of the law on indigenous rights in 2001 became one of the main obstacles to the resumption of peace talks. Montemayor said the new law did not reflect the spirit of the San Andres accords and only partially incorporated, in a distorted manner, some of the concepts and rights recognised by ILO convention 169. The law as modified by Congress establishes that it is up to state governments and laws, not federal legislation, to recognise indigenous peoples and communities. In 1996 and 1997, the EZLN held "anti-neoliberalism" international meetings in the jungles of Chiapas, which were attended by prominent global figures like U.S. filmmaker Oliver Stone. According to analysts, the meetings made the Zapatistas the first organisers of the international anti-globalisation movement. The portentously named "inter-galactic conferences" were the direct forerunners of the global wave of protests that began in 1999 with the demonstrations at the World Trade Organisation (WTO) ministerial conference in Seattle, Washington. Although the military maintains a heavy presence in Zapatista areas, paramilitary groups remain active, and there are continued threats of forcing people out of EZLN strongholds like the Montes Azules biosphere reserve, the insurgents are loudly celebrating the 10th anniversary of their first public appearance. The festivities began in November, with the launch of a nationwide campaign to explain the EZLN's thinking and the motives behind the uprising. The group was actually founded more than 20 years ago, in November 1983, by five men and one woman in the heart of the Lacandona jungle in Chiapas. The central event in the celebrations was the presentation of the book "20 and 10, Fire and the Word", by Mexican journalist Gloria Munoz, who describes life in the Zapatista communities and narrates the origins of the movement. Subcomandante Marcos, who from behind his trademark black ski mask seduced much of Mexican society and the international leftist intelligentsia, has said he regrets the attention he received, and has taken a low-profile stance and faded into the background. In fact, he did not even appear in the ceremony for the launch of the Caracoles, and analysts say he no longer controls the movement. But the EZLN's continued survival has failed to bring about any change in the situation of Mexico's indigenous people. The difference, according to the leaders of the rebel group, is that they now have hope and dignity. Official statistics indicate that Chiapas is the state with the third- largest proportion of indigenous people over 15 with no primary school education (39.8 percent), after the northern Chihuahua (40.8) and Guerrero, in the south (45.4). President Fox, who prior to taking office promised to resolve the conflict in Chiapas in "15 minutes", is now trying hard to ignore the whole issue, and says that in Chiapas, "there is peace, and everyone is working, fortunately." Copyright (c) 2003 IPS-Inter Press Service. All Rights Reserved. -- To subscribe to this list send a message containing the words subscribe chiapas95 (or chiapas95-lite, or chiapas95-english, or chiapas95-espanol) to majordomo@eco.utexas.edu. Previous messages are available from http://www.eco.utexas.edu/faculty/Cleaver/chiapas95.html or gopher to Texas, University of Texas at Austin, Department of Economics, Mailing Lists. --------- "RE: Indians in Bolivia hope to create Tribal Nation" --------- Date: Thu, 8 Jan 2004 08:44:55 -0700 From: Gary Smith Subj: NA News Item - - - - - - -- - - - - - - filename="BOLIVA" http://www.indianz.com/News/ http://online.wsj.com/~jeoNmlad3npuua3qGcayEm4%2C00.html Along the Andes, Indians Agitate For Political Gain Radicals Topple Governments, Test U.S. Regional Policy; Rising Clout in Bolivia By JOSE DE CORDOBA Staff Reporter of THE WALL STREET JOURNAL January 8, 2004 LA PAZ, Bolivia - In 1781, rebel Indian armies shook the foundations of the Spanish empire when they laid siege to this city surrounded by snow- capped mountains on the Andean plateau. The siege of La Paz lasted 109 days, reducing the white population to eating rats and boiled shoe leather. A Spanish army eventually broke through and executed Tupak Katari, the leader of the Aymara Indian army. "I will return, and I will be millions," the rebel leader said, according to legend, before he was tied to four horses, drawn and quartered. Two centuries later, the memory of that uprising is haunting the Andean region - and inspiring its native Indian underclass to become powerful political players. Indians make up about 40% of the population of Peru, Ecuador, and Bolivia - among the poorest nations in the Western hemisphere - but they have long been politically marginalized and socially shunned. Yet in the past four years, first in Ecuador and now in Bolivia, Indian-led movements have helped topple governments and are bedeviling U.S. policies promoting free markets and the eradication of coca, the prime ingredient in cocaine. Radical Indian movements have become an increasing source of instability in the region. In October, Bolivian President Gonzalo Sanchez de Lozada fled the country, toppled by Indian-led protesters who laid siege to La Paz. In the country's presidential election in 2002, an Indian candidate placed second with 21% of the vote. Throughout the Andes, the Indian movement is becoming a magnet for radical groups and allying with anti-American leaders such as Hugo Chavez of Venezuela and Cuba's Fidel Castro. The movement is riding a continent-wide backlash against free-market reforms that many believe have further impoverished the poor. The antiglobalization movement has helped local activists gain credibility and political savvy. Rising Indian consciousness - spurred by the heated debates surrounding the 500th anniversary of Columbus' arrival in the Americas in 1992 - is feeding the rediscovery of Indian history, often one that is selectively told. The movement reaches as far south as the tip of Chile, where the Mapuche Indians have become major political players fighting timber companies, and as far north as Mexico, where Zapatista Indian rebels staged a bloody uprising in 1994 and continue to agitate for autonomy. Mass demonstrations in Ecuador by Indians furious with price increases and government corruption were instrumental in toppling President Jamil Mahuad four years ago. Nowhere is the Indian movement as radical or as powerful as in Bolivia, the poorest nation on the continent, where at least six out of every 10 people are Indian. The country's economy has stagnated for the last six years. A succession of corruption scandals has discredited traditional political parties. In September, radical Indian leaders seized upon a dispute over tribal justice to mobilize thousands of protesters. They eventually blocked roads and laid siege to La Paz, much as Tupak Katari did in 1781. One of their leaders was Felipe Quispe, 61, a self-styled Mallku, or chief, of many of Bolivia's more than two million Aymara Indians. The president, Mr. Sanchez de Lozada, fled into exile in the U.S. "History is repeating itself," says Mr. Quispe, his shoulder-length hair streaming out from under a fedora hat. Aymara women in shawls and sun- baked men sit silently chewing coca leaves in his smoky office. Between fielding phone calls from lieutenants, Mr. Quispe, a former guerrilla who now heads Bolivia's powerful peasant union, declares that his goal is nothing less than turning back the clock on history itself. He wants to overthrow the government, do away with the nation-state of Bolivia and return to a past that he believes existed before the Spanish conquest. "Then we can scrap this capitalist system that has failed and change it to a system of communal property where there are no poor and no rich, like during the years of the Inca empire," says Mr. Quispe, drinking coca tea. Indians have been treated as an underclass since the Spanish conquistadors overthrew the Inca empire in the 16th century. During colonial times, all male Indians were forced to supply three years of free labor in Bolivia's Potosi silver mine, then the richest mine in the world. Thousands died there. Independence in 1825 didn't bring much improvement; the Bolivian state's main source of income in the early decades was an "Indian tax" from which whites and people of mixed blood were exempt. Until the 1952 revolution, Indians were considered by many to be almost like chattel. Other governments have tried to redress historic wrongs. During his first term in office from 1993 to 1997, President Sanchez de Lozada pushed for teaching the main Indian languages alongside Spanish in schools and vastly increased the money available to local communities. The emergence of an Indian elite has increased their numbers in government. Nearly half of the country's legislators and mayors are Indians. Big Gulf But a yawning economic and social gulf remains. Households in non-Indian neighborhoods are almost three times as rich as Indian ones, according to United Nations statistics. Hunger for land is a driving force behind dissatisfaction. Many peasants from the hardscrabble highlands are moving east to a fertile swath of land between the Andes and the Amazon forest, often leading to violent clashes with mostly white or mixed-race landowners. Bolivia's Indian movement seeks to recreate in the 21st century a communal Eden that proponents say existed before the Spanish arrived, and where there was neither poverty nor oppression. Fused to this utopian vision is a mix of populist, Marxist, anti-American and antiglobalization beliefs. The movement, says Mr. Quispe, would replace capitalism with an economic system based on three pillars of ancient Aymara society: "Don't be a rat, don't lie, and don't be lazy." It would do away with nation-states such as Bolivia, which Mr. Quispe and his followers see as artificial entities that arose from the foundations of the Spanish empire. In their place they would like to redraw national boundaries to set up an Indian nation run according to traditional customs. Mr. Quispe and other Aymara leaders also defend the extensive growing of coca as Indian tradition, calling U.S. policies to wipe out the crop an attempt to control the Indians. While such declarations seem far-fetched, they are appealing to a good number of Bolivians. U.S. officials are struggling to deal with the movement. "It's like Alice in Wonderland," says one worried U.S. diplomat. In 1988, Mr. Quispe, a leader of a radical political party, penned a manifesto calling on followers to burn down Bolivia's congress. In the 1990s, he spent five years in prison for blowing up power stations in a failed attempt to overthrow the government. He garnered 6% of the vote in the 2002 presidential election; another radical Aymara leader, Evo Morales, placed second with 21%. In September, Mr. Quispe began a hunger strike to protest the jailing of an ally for killing a cattle thief; Mr. Quispe argued that the man had merely been applying tribal justice. The hunger strike spawned a chain of protests and morphed into a national strike against a proposed natural-gas pipeline. Landlocked Bolivia has enormous stores of natural gas, but no easy way to get it out. A consortium of foreign companies led by Spain's Repsol TPF planned to spend $6 billion to build a pipeline and a plant in Chile to convert the gas into liquid form to ship in tankers to the U.S. For Bolivia, the payoff would be enormous: as much as $400 million a year for the next 20 years, or close to a fifth of Bolivia's annual government budget. Radicals attacked the pipeline as the latest foreign attempt to exploit Bolivian workers, drawing parallels to the pillaging of silver and tin mines in past centuries. They didn't want the gas shipped through Chile, a long-resented neighbor. They argued that the natural gas should stay in Bolivia and be piped into individual homes or farms. Mr. Quispe and others assembled an army of Indian slum dwellers, miners, farmers and coca growers to march on La Paz. Army troops killed dozens of protestors in bloody clashes. The spiraling violence pressured Mr. Sanchez de Lozada to resign. The vice president, Carlos Mesa, a respected intellectual and former television news anchor, was sworn in. Grace Period Mr. Quispe and other Indian radical leaders say they are giving Mr. Mesa a few months' grace period to deliver on a wide array of demands. Mr. Mesa has already met with the aggrieved people of El Alto, a sprawling slum city on the main access road to La Paz where dozens were killed in the fighting. There are plans to hold a constitutional convention, which could redraw the country's charter to give Bolivia's Indian groups more autonomy. In a speech Sunday, Mr. Mesa said Bolivia will hold a national referendum in March on how to develop the country's gas reserves. But that may be a moot point. Last month, U.S. power company Sempra Energy, which was going to buy Bolivia's gas, signed a 20-year agreement to buy liquefied natural gas from Indonesia. "We are paying for a large historical bill," said Mr. Mesa in an interview late last year at his ornate office in the presidential palace. "The racist underpinning of Bolivian society is still there, while the possibility of an ethnic confrontation is latent." Some 50 miles north of La Paz, an Aymara nation of sorts is beginning to take shape in the provincial capital of Achacachi, Mr. Quispe's political stronghold. There haven't been any police or federal prosecutors living here since 2000, when the local people drove out all federal authorities in fighting which left three townspeople and a soldier dead. "The police left, but I tell you, who needs them?" says Pedro Carisaya, the acting mayor. Now, village councils detain culprits in crime cases and mete out justice. Punishments are in the form of paying damages to the victim or, in some cases, a whipping. Down the street from the mayor's office works Alberto Romay, a nervous prosecutor in a worn tweed jacket. Four years ago, he left town fearing for his life. These days, he commutes daily from a nearby village. "Everything is excellently normal," he says cheerfully, then quickly reverses himself: "There's always fear." A block away, the members of the local dairy farmers' association know fear. Believing they would be a target for protestors because of their perceived wealth, they took down the sign identifying the association when the disturbances began in September. They reluctantly stopped shipping milk to La Paz in support of the siege even though it cost them 8,000 liters of milk a day. "There's no law here," says Robert Gonzalez, a local veterinarian, standing in the association's spare office. "You can die like an animal and no one will care." Mr. Quispe might rule the high plateau, but Evo Morales, 44, holds sway in the lush semitropical coca-growing region of the Chapare, 250 miles southeast of La Paz. The baby-faced Aymara politician heads the powerful coca-growers' union. Between 1998 and 2001, the Bolivian government, under heavy U.S. pressure, eradicated nearly half of the country's coca crop. That created thousands of disaffected farmers loyal to Mr. Morales, who is now a federal congressman who placed second in last year's presidential election. Mr. Morales has close ties to Venezuela's fiery leftist leader, Hugo Chavez. Fidel Castro has also been welcoming Indian leaders. At a congress in Havana in October, Mr. Morales urged Latin countries to join together and oppose free trade. For now, Bolivia is quiet. But emigration abroad is a constant subject of conversation in La Paz's southern suburbs, home to the city's small middle and upper classes. Many residents expect protests to resume this year, with Mr. Quispe as a prominent instigator and inspiration. In the bare El Alto offices of the Aymara Educational Council, an organization that promotes Aymara culture, a dozen Indian intellectuals recently met to consider the next step in what they see as continuing revolution. "Don Felipe is the only leader who has returned the Aymara our pride," says Walter Gutierrez, the council's president, referring to Mr. Quispe with a traditional title of respect. "He told the whites, 'We are the owners of the country, and you are renting it from us.'" Write to Jose De Cordoba at jose.decordoba@wsj.com Copyright c. 2004 Dow Jones & Company, Inc. --------- "RE: Tribal youth found Dead in Snow" --------- Date: Thu, 8 Jan 2004 08:44:55 -0700 From: Gary Smith Subj: NA News Item - - - - - - -- - - - - - - filename="WARM SPRINGS DEATH" http://www.madraspioneer.com/MAPNews4.html Tribal youth found dead in snow January 8, 2004 A 17-year-old Warm Springs tribal member, Sidney Greene, was found dead in the residential area of Greely Heights in Warm Springs on Saturday. According to investigating officers with the Warm Springs Police Department, the youth was last seen on Jan. 1, at 1:15 a.m., when he left a local residence. His body was discovered by his 17-year-old girlfriend around 2 p.m Jan. 3. The case is under investigation by the Warm Springs Police Department. An autopsy will be performed to determine cause of death. His body was transported to Bel-Air Colonial Funeral Home in Madras. Copyright c. 2004 The Madras Pioneer. --------- "RE: Former BIA Employee resentenced for Fatal DWI" --------- Date: Wed, 7 Jan 2004 08:17:26 -0700 From: Gary Smith Subj: NA News Item - - - - - - -- - - - - - - filename="DWI DRIVER RESENTENCED" http://www.indianz.com/ http://www.journalstar.com/latest_reg.php?story_id=112246 Former BIA employee resentenced for fatal DWI crash January 7, 2004 ALBUQUERQUE (AP) - A former Bureau of Indian Affairs employee who killed two Nebraska couples in a drunken driving crash on Interstate 40 two years ago was resentenced Tuesday to 20 years in prison, the same sentence he'd received earlier. U.S. District Judge C. LeRoy Hansen had to resentence Lloyd Larson of Crownpoint because the 10th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals struck down Larson's original sentence in October. Larson had agreed to plead guilty to four counts of second-degree murder in the Jan. 25, 2002, crash. Hansen imposed a harsher sentence than expected - and did so without allowing time for Larson's lawyer to prepare for it. Larson's attorney learned of the stiffer sentence the evening before the original sentencing. He appealed, saying Hansen didn't give reasonable notice that he was going beyond federal sentencing guidelines. The appellate court ruled that the lack of reasonable notification violated procedures and required a hearing and a resentencing. Before sentencing Larson again, Hansen noted Larson passed 37 cars in the two miles that state police followed and videotaped him after spotting him driving the wrong way on the interstate. The judge said one mile was not videotaped, which could have meant many other people's lives were in danger. "Alcohol has caused many, many deaths, violent deaths on Indian land, and these are four more," Hansen said. "It's alcohol." Larson was driving on I-40 west on Laguna Pueblo land when the head-on collision occurred, killing Larry and Rita Beller of Lindsay, Neb., and Edward and Alice Ramaekers of Norfolk, Neb. Authorities said Larson had a blood-alcohol level of 0.205, more than double the legal limit, two hours after the crash. He later admitted drinking 11 beers before getting behind the wheel of his government truck. Hansen also ordered Larson to pay more than $82,900 in restitution, the same as in the original sentence. He also sentenced Larson to five years on probation and forbid him to drive while on probation. He said Larson should refrain from drinking and should not frequent places where alcohol is the primary item for sale. The initial plea deal and a presentence report called for Larson to get a 14- to 17 1/2-year term. Hansen originally ruled a longer sentence was deserved because Larson seriously endangered the public by driving the wrong way before the crash. In reaffirming the sentence, Hansen cited Larson's prior drunken driving arrests and convictions as well as the danger to the public. "This was an enormous case. It took the lives of four people and it could have taken the lives of many more," he said. Hansen rejected arguments by Larson's attorney, Alonzo Padilla, that sentencing guidelines for second-degree murder already took into account Larson's prior arrests and putting other people's lives in danger. Padilla, said he isn't sure whether he will appeal the latest sentence. He added that the outcome is unlikely to change with another appeal. Padilla said Larson apologizes to the families and wishes he could have died that day if it meant the victims would have survived. Several members of Larson's family were in the courtroom as well as Larry Beller's brother, Jim Beller, and his wife Mary. Jim Beller told the court: "Not only did the defendant murder a member of my family, he stole my brother, my mentor and my confidante." Other members of the Beller family were unable to make the hearing because of a problem with their flight in Omaha. The prosecutor said their plane was getting ready to take off when one of the engines failed, and the family could not find another flight that would get to Albuquerque in time. Copyright c. 2003, Lincoln Journal Star. All rights reserved. --------- "RE: Peltier on Janklow conviction" --------- Date: Wed, 7 Jan 2004 08:17:26 -0700 From: Gary Smith Subj: NA News Item - - - - - - -- - - - - - - filename="PELTIER ON JANKLOW" http://www.owlstar.com/dailyheadlines.htm http://www.nativetimes.com/~article_id=3507 Peltier on Janklow conviction "It does not change the terrible conditions that my people face daily." BISMARK SD Sam Lewin January 6, 2004 Convicted Indian activist Leonard Peltier said he would not revel in former Congressman Bill Janklow's legal troubles. In a letter to The Call, a newspaper published by Louis Farrakhan's Nation of Islam organization, Peltier said "I could revel in the conviction of Janklow; however, it does not change the terrible conditions that my people face daily." The letter was apparently mailed in mid December. The 64-year-old Janklow, a Republican, was convicted of running a stop sign, speeding and second-degree manslaughter, in the death of a motorcyclist. Peltier has served 27 years for the 1975 murder of two Federal Bureau of Investigation agents during a shoot-out on the Pine Ridge Reservation. He maintains his innocence. "This decision is from a state that historically practiced a program of polarization and racism toward Native people, a state where Janklow, as attorney general, called in a riot squad to beat and eject all courtroom observers who would not stand for the judge," Peltier wrote. "I could revel in the conviction of Janklow; however, it does not change the terrible conditions that my people face daily. I surely doubt he'll miss a meal or look in the faces of children on the reservation or other Native Americans in areas where the people have been taught to celebrate Xmas, and yet receive nothing but despair. I sincerely wish they would sentence him the same way they would sentence a Native American." Janklow dominated South Dakota public office for three decades, a political career that was derailed when he was convicted in the Aug. 16 crash that killed Randy Scott, 55, a Minnesota farmer. Prosecutors said Janklow was traveling more than 70 mph in a white Cadillac when he crashed with Scott's Harley-Davidson. Peltier has been a cause celebre for many folks in Indian Country and aboard who believe he is falsely imprisoned. The FBI vehemently denies any wrongdoing in the case. Native American Times is Copyright c. 2003 Oklahoma Indian Times, Inc. --------- "RE: Peltier: Genocide of Native Americans" --------- Date: Mon, 5 Jan 2004 17:35:17 -0800 (PST) From: MJ La Burt Subj: Letters from Leonard Peltier on the genocide of Native Americans (Part II) Mailing List: ndn-aim Letters from Leonard Peltier on the genocide of Native Americans (Part II) By Saeed Shabazz Staff Writer Updated Jan 5, 2004, 12:30 am http://www.finalcall.com/artman/publish/article_1220.shtml Letters from Leonard Peltier - Part I (12/22/2003) The Case of Leonard Peltier; Native American Political Prisoner (FinalCall.com) - In the last issue (Volume 23, Number 12) of The Final Call, Native American activist Leonard Peltier talked about a young man named John Boy Graham, who was recently arrested for the murder of American Indian Movement activist Anne Mae Pictou-Aquash. The young woman was murdered in 1975, a bad time for Native American activists such as Mr. Peltier, who has been in federal prison for 27 years for the murder of two Federal Bureau of Investigation agents during a shoot-out on the Pine Ridge Reservation, also in 1975. Mr. Peltier's second letter concerned the guilty verdict against South Dakota Republican Congressman William Janklow, 64, who was convicted of running a stop sign, speeding and second-degree manslaughter, in the death of a motorcyclist. Speaking of the irony of the guilty verdict, Mr. Peltier wrote: "This decision is from a state that historically practiced a program of polarization and racism toward Native people, a state where [Wm.] Janklow, as attorney general, called in a riot squad to beat and eject all courtroom observers who would not stand for the judge. "I could revel in the conviction of Janklow; however, it does not change the terrible conditions that my people face daily. I surely doubt he'll miss a meal or look in the faces of children on the reservation or other Native Americans in areas where the people have been taught to celebrate Xmas, and yet receive nothing but despair. I sincerely wish they would sentence him the same way they would sentence a Native American." According to Bureau of Criminal Justice, FBI statistics and the 2000 Census, on any given day, one in 25 Native Americans, ages 18 and older, are under the jurisdiction of the criminal justice system in some form or fashion; 2.4 times the number of Whites and 9.3 times the number of Asians. In 1999, it was reported that 63,000 Native Americans were in jails and prisons. An alarming statistic is that Native Americans suffer violent crimes at two-and-a-half times the national rate. Seventy percent of those who commit violence against Native Americans are from another race or ethnic group. Now, let's tie all this together. In 1973, Mr. Janklow was hired as the chief prosecutor for the South Dakota attorney general's office, mainly to prosecute Native American activists. He was elected attorney general in 1974, and became governor for four terms. In 2002, he was elected to Congress. Native American activists refer to Mr. Janklow as "the Indian fighter." The Census Bureau says that Buffalo County, South Dakota, is the poorest county in America, with 56 percent of the people living below the poverty line. It is the home to the Crow Creek Native American reservation. Five out of the 10 poorest counties in America are located in South Dakota. Mr. Peltier said that men such as Congressman Janklow continued to stifle any attempt by Native Americans to change their lives. Unemployment amongst Native Americans stands at 15 percent, three times the national norm. On the reservations, one-third of the people 25 and older do not have a high school diploma. Only 6.4 percent of the Native American population earns $100,000 or more a year. The average earnings for a person living on a reservation is $1,500 a year. But, the irony is that nearly 60 percent of Native Americans live in America's urban settings and pay taxes. But, as Mr. Peltier points out, there is a change coming over the horizon. Native Americans in states such as South Dakota are starting to use the vote to bring about change in spite of the efforts of people such as the deposed Congressman. In February 2003, the state legislature introduced House Bill 1176, which requires voters to show an identification card before casting their vote. The American Civil Liberties Union of the Dakotas said the law is in violation of the Voting Rights Act, because it has the effect of discriminating against Native American voters. Activists charge that following the local elections in 2002, Republicans attacked the record high Native American voter turnout, alleging fraud, although investigations turned out negative. In an April 2002 editorial, USA Today said: "Native Americans continue to be the most deprived people in America." The fifth deadliest disease in the U.S. is diabetes, and 14.5 percent of the Native American population has it. One Native American nation in Arizona has the highest rate of diabetes in the world, with 50 percent of the adults between the ages of 30 to 64 affected, according to USA Today. Observers and analysts say that it has been the policies of the American government that has caused such a negative effect on a people that once totaled 40 million before the arrival of Christopher Columbus. By the end of the 19th century, there would be less than 250,000 Native Americans left alive. "From the forced relocations and so-called assimilation of the `savage' to the White man's way of life; to the forced sterilization of Native Americans, agencies such as the Bureau of Indian Affairs set out to destroy all things Indian," Lindsay Glauner writes in the DePaul University Law Review. She is a judicial law clerk for the Immigration Court in Los Angeles. On September 8, 2000, the head of the Bureau of Indian Affairs formally apologized for the agency's participation in the "ethnic cleansing" of the Western Native American nations. "Every aspect of the United Nations definition of genocide exactly corresponds to what happened to Native Americans," columnist Rebecca L. Adamson writes in the Indian Country Today newspaper. "America has a terrible day of reckoning ahead for the treatment of my people," Mr. Peltier writes. Copyright c. 2004 FCN Publishing, FinalCall.com --------- "RE: Update from the John Graham Defense Committee" --------- Date: Wed, 07 Jan 2004 16:36:07 -0800 From: MJ Subj: Update from the John Graham Defense Committee Mailing-List: ndn-aim Update from the John Graham Defense Committee Please. If you can pass this along to your list of contacts that would be most graciously appreciated. Update from the John Graham Defense Committee ---------- From: "John Graham Defense Committee" Date: Tue, 6 Jan 2004 02:23:19 -0800 Hello all, I just got off the phone with John Graham, who is in very good spirits and so pleased to hear of the support he is receiving from all over the world. He asked me to tell you that he loves you all for your concern and your contributions to his situation. John Graham's Freedom Fund - One week and counting... We are pleased to announce in this update that contributions to John Graham's freedom fund have been very generous, coming from all parts of the globe. We are now about half-way towards the $25,000 bail required for John's release. In about one week, John and his attorneys will revisit the judge to request John's release. We hope to have the funds in place by that time. And so, we are now entering a week of impassioned fund raising - a sprint for the freedom line! It is so important that John be released to actively assist in the development of his defense. While his attorneys are doing an excellent job preparing his defense, John's involvement will undoubtedly be invaluable. Therefore, we are asking everyone to consider contributing any amount towards John's freedom. Please remember, your contributions can be in the form of a loan and completely reimbursed once John's extradition hearing is complete. If you or anyone you know is able to contribute to John's freedom, please send a certified cheque directly to the office of John's lawyer, Terry Laliberte, at the following address: Terry Laliberte Barrister and Solicitor 1190-605 Robson Street Vancouver, B.C. V6B 5J3 Certified cheques should be made out to John's lawyer, "Terrance Laliberte In Trust". All funds will be deposited with the court registry until the case is completed, at which time your contribution will be reimbursed. Once your cheque has been sent, please e-mail us at info@grahamdefense. org with the amount of your contribution, and clarifying whether the amount is a donation or a contribution to be reimbursed. If you are overseas or would like to wire funds directly into the John Graham trust account, please reply to this e-mail and we will send you the account information. You may also call us directly at (867) 633 3513 to discuss a contribution, or anything at all related to John's case. John Graham Defense Committee Web site If you are new to the matter of John Graham, we encourage you to visit the John Graham Defense Committee Web site at www.grahamdefense.org . The website has gained some new features, including news articles, statements of support, and a new photographic history page entitled, "A History of Activism," showing some of the advocacy work John has done in the past. Most notable is a photo of the "Anna Mae Aquash Survival Camp," a camp established by John and friends. John was instrumental in the naming of the camp, wanting to honour the memory of his friend, Anna Mae. Thank you for your continued support of John Graham, and of truth and justice. All my relations, Matthew Lien, Public Relations www.matthewlien.com John Graham Defense Committee www.grahamdefense.org *Please forward this e-mail on to your own friends and family to spread the word. Thank you. __________________________________________________________________ Mary Jane ICQ#: 107864404 Current ICQ status: __________________________________________________________________ "The battle for Aboriginal children will be won in the classroom, not on the streets or on horses. The students of today are our warriors of tomorrow." --Wilma P. Mankiller, CHEROKEE --------- "RE: Yukoners rally around John Graham" --------- Date: Fri, 9 Jan 2004 08:26:34 -0700 From: Gary Smith Subj: NA News Item - - - - - - -- - - - - - - filename="SUPPORT GROWING" http://www.owlstar.com/dailyheadlines.htm http://north.cbc.ca/regional/servlet/View?filename=jan07grahambail07012004&disp=e&end Yukoners rally around John Graham January 7, 2004 WHITEHORSE - A group of Yukoners is trying to raise enough money to get John Graham out of a Vancouver jail. Graham, a member of the Champagne and Aishihik First Nation of Haines Junction, is wanted in the United States in connection with the death of Anna Mae Pictou-Aquash. The Mi'kmaq woman was involved with the American Indian Movement in the early 1970s. She was shot, possibly on suspicion of being an FBI informant, in 1976. The American government wants Graham extradited to face trial in connection with her murder. A Vancouver judge has set a $125,000 bail limit and other conditions on Graham before he can be released. Yukon singer-songwriter Matthew Lien says his friend is innocent. He helped organized the John Graham defence committee. "We need to raise $25,000 and were about halfway to that," he says. "A strong and noble advocate of First Nations rights is in a very difficult situation now and he must be released very soon so that he can actively participate in the preparation of his own defense, we feel that's very important." Graham is scheduled to make his next court appearance in Vancouver later this month. Copyright c. 2002 CBC. All Rights Reserved. --------- "RE: Native Prisoner" --------- Date: Mon, Jan 12 2004 19:18:40 -0700 From: Janet Smith Subj: NA News Item - - - - - - -- - - - - - - Below are few samples from the list of inmates seeking pen pals on the Native American Prisoner Network pages at http://members.tripod.com/~foltz.k/napnhome.html (Note: In order to enter the NAPN site, you must be 18 years of age or older). In addition to a long list of inmates seeking correspondents, these pages include inmate artwork and writings. Fredrick Bird Inmate Number 06166-058 Birth Date August 12, 1966 Mailing Address USP Lee County P O Box 305 Jonesville, VA 24263-0305 Nation/Tribe Eastern Band of the Cherokee Nation DAVID NEAL HARJO Inmate Number 105738 Birth Date Mailing Address Howard MCLeod Correctional Center HC82, Box 812 Atoka, OK 74525-9152 Nation/Tribe Creek Gordon Red Tomahawk Inmate Number 46738 Birth Date October 2, 1977 Mailing Address Montana State Prison 700 Conley Lake Road Deer Lodge, MT 59722 Nation/Tribe Standing Rock Sioux/Northern Cheyenne WAMBDI SAPA SEABOY Inmate Number 38515 Birth Date July 1, 1981 Mailing Address South Dakota State Penitentiary Box 5911 Sioux Falls, SD 57117-5911 Nation/Tribe Sisseton-Wahpeton Sioux (Dakota Sioux) --------- "RE: Rustywire: Hard Rocks" --------- Date: Mon, 16 Jun 2003 1:04 AM From: rustywire@yahoo.com (john rustywire) Subj: Hard Rocks Newsgroup: alt.native The old man got up early way before sunrise and drove off, everyone heard the old truck startup and take off down the road. It was way out there in the place called Hard Rock, where there life is difficult, no running water, electricity or any stores to go to. Everyone was wondering where he went to, the nearest town was 80 miles away, Tuba City and that was a long drive. Some of the kids had come home for Father's Day, Sunday and here the old man taking off somewhere. Maybe something had made him gone away, those that got up and later everyone pointed to each other and said, maybe you did something to get him riled up so he took off. They went on this way for a while and then sat back and fixed breakfast still fighting with one another like when they were kids. Still the old man was gone when the sun came up and after everybody had eaten, it was mid-morning when they got together. Edison sat there and thought to himself, I came home to have a meal with the old man, and now he is gone, there is nothing form me to do here he thought and got his stuff together to drive back to Phoenix. The others saw him getting his things to leave, and said how come you're going? The old man is gone, so why stay he said. They all looked at each other and thought there was nothing they could say to make him stay. His sister Charlene, always had a way of talking to him, she came in and thumped on the head with her forefinger, Don't take off! Don't take off! Her looked at her and said, I can't take it here anymore that is why I left for Phoenix, no water, no electricity, no showers, I just want a bath and not have to use a bucket. She took a dipper of water from a bucket by the sink and threw it in his face. He sat there stunned for a minute and then she said, go if you want to, your face is washed. He got up to go but halfway through the door realized his Mom was crying after him and so he just stood outside and said n a loud voice. I am going to cut some wood. He then went to the woodpile and started to swing the double bladed axe. The rest of the kids got together and started to prepare the noonday meal, they would eat together even if the old man was gone, but they took their time fixing things. The grandkids slowly started to get up, crawling out of sleeping bags and off the floor of the hogan, washing their face with a wash rag, a dipper full of water. Way out there at Hard Rock, if you want water you have to haul it by the barrel full. The nearest place to haul from is Tuba City, a long windy road away from their place. It was a bumpy ride across washboard roads, and when you get to the main highway you have to go another 45 miles to the west to get into town where there is a well where you can fill the barrels of water and drive back. The drums are 55 gallons and usually you can get four in the bed of pickup if you're nearly all dried up. Each drop of water is precious. This way of life on the Navajo Rez teaches you to stretch your resources, wood, water and food, you learn to schedule baths, and trips to town. It is not a matter of choice but of necessity. The oldest boy, Edison remembered how hard it was to haul water and his sister by throwing a dipperful in his face made him think, that even for him it was a waste of water for her to do that since it was so hard to get. The grandkids started wandering around the place, they were used to TV, stereos, and m computer games, way out here there was none of the stuff. The old man had left early after waking up and having a dream he remembered from the time he was younger. It was in 1965 at the Shonto Boarding school where he was teaching Navajo Culture classes as a part of Johnson's War on Poverty, and he saw on the antenna TV, the Wallace and Ladmo Show, a couple of characters who came on everyday at 4 PM to show cartoons. The show was from Phoenix, KPHO Channel 5. He liked the show, the characters were like Laurel and Hardy, Wallace was short and chubby, and Ladmo was tall and skinny and wore one of those old Abe Lincoln stovepipe hats. He really liked that show and when he woke up he remembered his dream and left for Tuba City. All his kids were home, but they were there because their mom made them come home, they had been away for a long time living in Phoenix, Albuquerque, Farmington and Flagstaff. The grandkids didn't know anything about herding sheep, but there was a daughter, Marlene from Dennehotso, who lived like them near the road, and had no running water, electricity and plumbing. She knew what reservation life was like and so did her children, Dodie and Eddie. Some of her kids were at the boarding school at Shonto where he went to help out with Navajo Culture and they too liked to watch Wallace and Ladmo. It seemed that all the good cartoons came on that show and boarding school kids lived to see it at 4 PM. Dodie and Eddie, were his grandkids, their Mom worked at the trading post at Mexican Water traveling from Dennehotso, so they stayed at the boarding school. When the best cartoons were on, the commercials came on. The tv always had commercials for all the kids, selling stuff, there was slip n slide, a water sprinkler, talks of trips to Disneyland which was new with pictures of a water slide. The kids at boarding school always talked about them, about having those kinds of things to play in but they forgot in their excitement there was no running water way out there where they came from. There were no slip n slides for sale on the Navajo Rez, except at the trading post in Tuba City, which sold a small wading pool. It has been on the shelf for a couple of years. Marlene and her kids were there, and saw the old man leave early that morning wondering where he had gone for Father's Day. It was about 3 in the afternoon when he got back and they could see he had bought some new white plastic water barrels and they were full, he had six of them in the back of the truck, the springs were sagging. He parked the truck behind the hogan and everyone was glad to see him get back because now they could eat. After a little bit they wondered why he didn't come in right away to eat with them, but stayed behind the hogan so they went outside and walked around back. They were all there wanting to see what he was doing. He was standing there next to the truck and had a siphon hose in the tank; he had finished emptying the water from all six barrels. There was a smile on his face as he had finished filling a small wading pool, maybe it was 8 foot across and there in the pool was Eddie and Dodie, crawling around splashing in the water. The old man just stood there and laughed to see them play with water, the hard work, travel time, gas and energy spent to bring it way out there was a sacrifice in and of itself. It was a waste of water, but the look on his face seeing those two play made all his children laugh, because their father had made his own father's day present and he just stood there and smiled and then started to laugh and talk with his children as the water splashed on the ground way out there at Hard Rocks. --------- "RE: Verse: Hawaiian Book of Days" --------- Date: Sat, 10 Jan 2004 17:27:17 -1000 From: Debbie Sanders Subj: Hawaiian Book of Days A HAWAI`I BOOK OF DAYS, week of January 12-18 IANUALI January Ka`elo 12 In the neverending cycles of the land is my spirit renewed. 13 This is the place where rainbows are born. 14 The land was created in the joining of fire and water. 15 At the meeting of the land and the sea, that is where all life begins. 16 Ancient kings walk the mountains at night. 17 In the secret places of the land are found the answers to life's mysteries. 18 My parents taught me the ways of the future; I teach my children the ways of the past. (c) Copyright 1991 by D. F. Sanders Me ke aloha i ka nani, ... Moe'uhanekeanuenue (With love and beauty, ... Rainbow Dream) --------- "RE: Poem: Raindancers standing Still" --------- Date: Mon, 28 Jul 2003 8:51 PM From: rustywire@yahoo.com (john rustywire) Subj: raindancers standing still Newsgroup: alt.native Raindancers I can see them three stand talking in silence they say where is the wind, the sky and ground lifting themselves with no place to go Raindancers arrayed in bright colors feathers dressed to sing and dance one leg in the air, the other stepping down silent rattles and sash belts Not one glances at me They look up and a way see nothing of ancient stars where is the pueblo we can dance tired of resting at midstep three katchinas standing waiting for each new dawn quietly ready to dance away Raindancers not born to dance each day they wait for me in the dust that gathers at their feet --------- "RE: Book Review: In Dull Knife's Wake" --------- Date: Wed, 7 Jan 2004 08:17:26 -0700 From: Gary Smith Subj: NA News Item - - - - - - -- - - - - - - filename="BOOK REVIEW" http://www.owlstar.com/dailyheadlines.htm http://www.emediawire.com/releases/2004/1/emw97037.htm In Dull Knife's Wake: The True Story of the Northern Cheyenne Exodus of 1878. "Vernon Maddux's In Dull Knife's Wake is a well told account of the Northern Cheyenne's struggle for freedom. Maddux's view of the Cheyenne is unpatronizing and his depictions are rich and vivid." Ben Nighthorse Campbell, U.S. Senator from Colorado and Great-grandson of Cheyenne Warrior Reuben Blackhorse (PRWEB) January 7 2004--You have seen part of the story in Cheyenne Autumn. Now, historian Vernon Maddux tells the rest of the story in In Dull Knife's Wake of the breakout of the Northern Cheyenne from Darlington Reservation in Indian Territory, and their bloody but futile attempt to return to their northern homeland in the fall of 1878. You'll forget you know the inevitable end of the story and you'll feel both sides of the conflict as Mr. Maddux recounts the last Indian raids in Kansas and the final massacre of the Cheyenne. The story has only recently ended. In 2002, the government found in their archives a bone fragment that had come from Black Horse, one of the Cheyenne warriors, when army doctors operated on his shattered ankle. In 2002 the bone was presented to his great grandson, United States Senator from Colorado, Ben Nighthorse Campbell. The story begins in September 1878, when Dull Knife, against the orders of the federal government, led his followers from Indian Territory. Over the next several weeks, the Cheyenne swept along the eastern edge of the Great Plains like a razor-sharp scythe. Following along in their wake was the 4th regiment of the U.S. Cavalry. The men of the 4th marked and recorded the bodies of nearly a hundred men and boys White, Black, and Native American. The dead lay by themselves in the grass on a wide prairie, on isolated roads, or on hilltops. Some were found slumped over their tools and farm implement. One died in the doorway of a crude dugout. They all had to die. In the Cheyenne eyes it was justified, cowboys perished for their weapons and horses; soldiers perished because they were a threat; and the settlers perished because there were in the way. But many died for no good reason except that they were victims of a century of frustration. The story ends in the Northern Plains of Nebraska. After fighting all the way north, the army captured the Northern Cheyenne and locked them inside an army barracks at Fort Robinson. Another escape was planned and implemented. The final chapter of the history of the fighting Cheyenne was written in frozen blood across the prairie west and north of Fort Robinson. The army destroyed almost all of Dull Knife's band in a buffalo wallow near Warbonnet Creek in extreme northwestern Nebraska. In Dull knife's Wake is a well-told, well-balanced account of the last resistance of the Northern Cheyenne. The author presents a complete and accurate account. In so doing, he doesn't argue that the methods employed by the average warrior to obtain critical goods for their escape were not justified. The goal is merely to guide the reader along the trail and to show the humanity on both sides. Copyright c. 1997-2003, PR Web(TM). All Rights Reserved. --------- "RE: Upcoming Events" --------- Date: Mon, 12 Jan 2004 15:39:14 -0700 From: Gary Smith (gars@speakeasy.org) Subj: Upcoming Events =+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+= EVENTS ARE FEATURED IN ODD NUMBERED ISSUES ONLY =+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+= NATIVE SOLUTIONS PRESENTS: 6TH ANNUAL INTERTRIBAL POW WOW APRIL 23-25, 2004 TIMES FRI 5-9 DANCING & STORYTELLING SAT 10-8 GRAND ENTRY 11:00 SUN 10-6 GRAND ENTRY 12:00 HEFLIN FOOTBALL FIELD, HEFLIN, AL FORMERLY OXFORD LAKE PARK NATIVE AMERICAN WARRIOR SOCIETY AND HONOR GUARD ADMISSION - $5 - ADULTS SENIORS 65 AND UP & CHILDREN 12 AND UNDER - FREE HEADMAN - TONY WALKINGSTICK HEADLADY - CHRISTINA POWELL M.C. - GARY SMITH A.D. - BUCK TUCKER DRUM COMPETITION - 1ST $1000.00, 2ND - $500.00, 3RD - 250.00 ALL SINGERS MUST BE REGISTERED BY 10:30 ON SATURDAY ALL DANCERS WELCOME ALL DRUMS WELCOME NO DRUGS OR ALCOHOL ALLOWED FOR MORE INFORMATION, CALL TONY AT (256) 835-0110; MARK OR RUTH AT (256) 820-6315. VENDORS BY INVITATION ONLY CALL MARK OR RUTH OR EMAIL ravenspiritwalker@yahoo.com or thunderhawk2062@yahoo.com. HOST MOTEL IS HOWARD JOHNSON'S CALL (256) 463-2900 DIRECTIONS: I-20 EXIT 199 GO PAST HOWARD JOHNSON'S AND TEXACO AT THE END OF THE ROAD TURN RIGHT ONTO HWY 78 EAST GO PAST JACK'S TURN RIGHT AT METRO BANK ONTO COLEMAN ST TURN LEFT ON EVANS ST FOOTBALL FIELD WILL BE ON THE RIGHT =================================== Euharlee Native American Festival Osborne Park, Downtown Euharlee, GA Special Tribute to ALL veterans. ALL VETERANS INVITED!!! October 22 - 24, 2004 Grand Entry Sat 12 Noon Sun 1 PM Hosted by Native American Honor Guard & Warrior Society Host Drum: Buffalo Heart Guest Drum: Aracoma Lightning Head Man: Jerry Smith Head Lady: Ellen Rasco Emcee: Gary Smith AD: Maggot No Drugs, Alcohol or bad attitudes. Bring your blankets and lawn chairs. Info: Joey Pierce 404 377 4950 or Sam Hinson 770 546 7191 or Jerry Lang 256 492 5217 =================================== June 4-6, 2004 Blackwater Creek American Indian Festival and Pow-wow At Black Water Creek RV Park off Airport Road & Curry Highway (Hwy. 257) Jasper, Alabama This event is sponsored by Native American Girl Scout Troop #389 and Aracoma Boy Scout Drum and Dance Team. Admission donation: $5.00 - adults; $1.00 for Seniors & students. Head Man: Bill Jolly (Ojibwa); Head Lady: Betsy Jolly (Echota Cherokee); Head Veteran: don Nelson (Potawami): Junior Head Man: TBD; Junior Head Lady: TBD; Arena Director: Little Hawk Gatty (Cherokee); Emcee: John Ferguson (Creek); Storyteller: Vickie King (Cherokee Tribe of NE Alabama) and Steve Bison (CRIC); Host Northern Drum: TBD; Host Southern Drum: Caney Creek Singers; Invited Drums include: Gun Powder River singers; Aracoma Lightning Singers & NoNaMe Singers. All traditional drums are welcome. Ambassador contest for those age 11 to 21 at time of event. This is for males and females. Contact kcooper@uabmc.edu related to details. Gourd dance will be available at 10 AM on Saturday and 12 Noon on Sunday. Prayer Circle will be conducted by Paul Whitehawk and Elizabeth Lightwalker. Host Motel: Holiday Inn Express 205-302-6400 ($57.00 + tax); RV camping is $12.00 per night, tent camping is $5.00 per night. Schedule: Friday: gates open at 4pm, Call-in Songs & Opening Ceremonies at 6 PM, Social Dancing begins at 7 PM, Round Robin Trade Blanket at 9:30 PM. Saturday: Gates Open at 9 AM; Grand Entry at 10:30 AM, Benefit Auction/Flute Playing/Story Telling begin at 2 PM, Dancing resumes at 3 PM, Benefit Auction/Storytelling at 5 PM, Evening Grand Entry at 6 PM, Round Robin Trade Blanket at 9:30 PM. Sunday: Gates Open/Church Services at 10 AM, Benefit Auction at noon, Grand Entry at 1 PM, Closing at 4:30pm. For more information, call Karen Cooper at 205-648-2529 Paul Eulenstein at 205-221-9071 E-mail kcooper@uabmc.edu Or check out the website at http://children.1accesshost.com The Blackwater Creek site is a beautiful one, with RV sites and primitive camping areas along a creek. The RV park was developed from a family farm owned by Mr Deavor's father and grandfather. He developed it to do Blue grass festivals and it is only 3 years old. On the hill up from the RV sites is the showers and the dance circle. There is electricitry at this area and limited water hook-up. =================================== Andersons-web.com http://andersons-web.com/native_events.htm Updated December 5, 2003 February 7, 2004 - 5th Annual Stockton Winter Benefit Powwow. For information call 209-477-5383 or e-mail: twolegsx2@yahoo.com March 5 - 7, 2004: Middle Tennessee State Universtiy 5th American Indian Festival Tennessee Livestock Center Murfreesboro, Tennessee. For information call 615-898-2872. March 26 - 28, 2004: Third annual Indian University Powwow Bloomington, In. April 24 - 25, 2004: 2nd Annual Tennessee Native Veterans Society Powwow Sparta, Tennessee. May 7 - 9, 2004: 16th Annual ETIL American Indian Powwow Knoxville, Tenn. May 29 - 30, 2004: Eastern Delaware Nations Whispering Maples Powwow Lovelton, PA. June 4 - 6, 2004: Blackwater Creek American Indian Festival and Powwow. Jasper, Alabama. June 18 - 20, 2004: Eastern Deleware Nations Powwow Forksville, PA. June 18 - 20, 2004: AICA of North Carolina 26th Annual Powwow Union Grove North Carolina. A word of advice, no matter how hard we try, mistakes happen! Please try to get in contact with the event staff and verify the important information before leaving for it. ========================================================================= Crazy Crow Trading Post Updated December 5, 2003 http://www.crazycrow.com/events_nativeamerican/ NATIVE AMERICAN INDIAN POWWOW CALENDAR This Native American Indian powwow calendar and related events listing is brought to you as a courtesy of Crazy Crow Trading Post to help keep you up-to-date on the latest powwows & events. We will do our best to validate the accuracy of the information provided, including checking links to web sites, but cannot be responsible for inaccuracies. Check with the contact names and website links of powwow event sponsors for the latest info. J A N U A R Y 2 0 0 4 Jan 17: Morning Star Celebration Location: John Carroll School, 703 Churchville Rd, Bel Air, MD 21014 Event Detail: Doors open at 11 am, Gourd Dancing begins at 12:30, and Grand Entry is at 1 pm. MC- Clayton Old Elk; Head Dancers will be students from St Labre Indain School, Ashland, MT. This is a benefit pow wow for St Labre. Contact: Gary Scholl, phone: 410-838-8333 ex 14, email: glsjcs@yahoo.com Jan 17: 10th Annual Benefit Pow Wow Location: Greenville High School, Greenville, TX 75402 Event Detail: 1p & 6p Gourd Dance, 7:30 Grand Entry. Jess Oosahwe (Head Man), Deborah Garcie (Head Lady), Will Tonemah (Head Gourd), Darrell Blackbear Jr. (Head Singer), Bear Claw Singers (Head Southern Drum), Curtis Abrams (Arena Director), Emcee TBA. All Drums Welcome. Contact: 903-457-2589 or 903-455-2497, e-mail: shackelr@greenville.ednet10.net Jan 23-25: St. Petersburg City Fair & Pow Wow Location: St. Petersburg, FL Event Detail: Vinoy Park, Downtown St. Petersburg, its a fun filled family festival, complete with entertainment from two stages, food, children activities, and exhibits. Native American Indians for booth space 10x20 update with times. Contact: Shane Ritch, phone: 727-345-2755, email: beauty23@aol.com Jan 30-Feb 1: The First Nations Winter Celebration Location: Keystone Centre, Brandon, Manitoba, Canada Event Detail: Keystone Centre Brandon plays host to a celebration of Native culture with a variety of sporting events, dance performances and shows. Contact: Sioux Valley Administrative Office, phone: 204-855-2671 Event Website F E B R U A R Y 2 0 0 4 Feb 7: Rainbow Dancers Winter Gathering Location: IL. Central College, Rt. 24, East Peoria, IL 61611 Event Detail: Host Southern Drum Eagle Ridge, Head Northern Drum Spirit of the Rainbow. All Drums and dancers welcome. Contact: Butch McCamy, phone: 309-382-2779, email: walkhawk2@ntslink.net Event Website Feb 8-9: Antelope Pow Wow Location: Powwow Grounds, Mission, SD Contact: 605-747-2381 Feb 14-15: 7th Annual United San Antonio Powwow Location: Crossroad of San Antonio Convention Center, Fredricksburg & Loop 410, San Antonio, TX Event Detail: See website for detail. Contact: Ewrin De Luna, phone: 210-736-3702, email: erwin@unitedsanantoniopowwow.org Event Website Feb 20-22: 2nd Annual FSU Spring Powwow Location: Tallahassee, FL Event Detail: American Indian Student Union Spring Powwow - Details TBA. Contact: phone: (850)644-3756, email: AISU@admin.fsu.edu Event Website Feb 21: Native American Powwow Location: NC School of Science and Mathematics, 1219 Broad Street, Durham, NC 27705 Event Detail: Grand Entries at 1p and 7p. Feast for singers and dancers at 5p. No Contests but lots of intertribal dancing. 17 Arts and Crafts vendors, 2 food stands. Contact: Joe Liles, phone: 919-416-2730, email: liles@ncssm.edu Feb 23: 13th Annual Wacipi Location: Frost Arena, SD State University, Brookings, SD Contact: 605-688-4423 Feb 27-29: Vero's "Thunder on the Beach" Powwow Location: Indian River Fairgrounds, 58th Ave., Vero Beach, FL Event Detail: Call for information . We will have performers from Australia and New Zealand and many from the US. Our fee's are $6 for adults, $4 for children and seniors. We have RV hook ups for $20 per night. Host Hotel: Days Inn-772-562-9991, will have special rates when presented with a flyer. Please e-mail me and I will e-mail you a flyer. Head man - Andrew Hunter Head Lady - Kay Taylor MC - David Whitewolf Trezak Arena Director -TBA Drum- TBA Flute Player-Ed Winddancer Storyteller. Contact: Dona, phone: 772-567-1579/ Cell Phone: 772-538-8363, email: deedee1579@aol.com Feb 27-29: Flag High Native American Club Annual Spring Contest Pow-Wow Location: Flagstaff High School, Flagstaff, AZ Event Detail: Contest in all Categories. Head Staff: TBA Contact: Jason Curley at jcurley17@hotmail.com M A R C H 2 0 0 4 Mar 5-7: University of Southern Mississippi Golden Eagles Intertribal Society 2nd Annual Benefit Spring Pow Wow Location: USM Sports Arena Field, Hwy 49, Hattiesburg, MS 39406 Event Detail: FREE ADMISSION (Donations Accepted), Gates Open Daily at 9a. Bring Lawn Chairs. FRI: 10:00 AM To Noon - Cultural Presentations; 1:00 To 3:00 PM - Cultural Presentations; 6:00 PM Gourd Dancing; 7:00 PM - Grand Entry. SAT: 11:00 AM Gourd Dancing; 1:00 PM Grand Entry, 5:00 PM Dinner Break, 6:00 PM Gourd Dancing, 7:00 PM Grand Entry. SUN: 11:00 AM Gourd Dancing; 1:00 PM Grand Entry; 5:00 Close. HEAD STAFF - TBA, ALL DRUMS WELCOME. Vendors: $75 Arts & Crafts (10'x10' Space), $100 Food (10'x10' Space). No Alcohol or Drugs Permitted. Contact: Joseph Bohanon, phone: 601-266-4171, email: Joseph.Bohanon@usm.edu March 5-7: 24th Annual Early Spring Celebration Pow Wow Location: Adjacent to the Ft. Yuma Quechan Reservation, Winterhaven, CA Contact: Faron Owl, phone: 760-572-0222, ext. 2228 March 6-7: Native American Heritage Festival Location: Middle Tenn. State University Campus, Murfreesboro, TN Contact: Georgia Dennis, phone: 615-898-2551 March 7-8: 30th Annual NASC Location: Field House, Utah State University, 800 E. 705 N, Logan, UT Contact: Antonio Arce or Martina Yazzie, phone: 435-563-8340 March 8: Joliet Junior College Pow Wow Location: Joliet Junior College, 1215 Houbolt Rd., Joliet, IL (815) 280-2566 March 8: Fife School Districts 11th Annual Surprise Lake Middle School Pow Wow Location: Milton, WA Contact: 253-573-7872 Mar 13-14th: CSU Long Beach 34th Annual Pow Wow Location: CSULB, Central Quad, Upper Campus, 1250 Bellflower Blvd., Long Beach, CA 90840 Event Detail: Gourd Dancing, Contest Dancing and Hand Drum Contest. Sat March 13th, 11am to 11pm. Sunday, March 14th, 11am to 7pm. Head Southern Singer- Glenn Ahhaitty (kiowa/comanche), MC- Roy Track (assiniboine), Gourd Dancing; 11am both Sat. & Sun. Grand Entry: 1pm, 7pm Sat., 1pm Sun. This event is FREE, parking is free and the campus is handicapped accessible. It is strongly recommend that spectators bring folding chairs. Not responsible for theft, loss, accident, injury or personal expenses. Absolutely no alcohol or drugs allowed, nor overnight camping. With respect to our elders, no pets allowed. CSULB Map & Directions (and additional info), see website. Contact: American Indian Student Council, phone: 562-985-4963, email: csulb_powwow@hotmail.com March 19-21: 30th Annual Denver March Pow Wow Location: Denver Coliseum, Denver, CO Contact: 303-934-8045 March 19-21: Calling of the Tribes Pow Wow Location: Bourg/Larose Hwy, 470 Hwy 24, Bourg, LA 70343 Contact: T Dardar, phone: 985-879-2373, email: bronlaw@cajun.net A P R I L 2 0 0 4 Apr 3: 6th Annual Longhorn American Indian Council Powwow Location: University Of Texas-Austin, Texas Union Ballroom, 2247 Guadalupe Austin, TX Event Detail: See our website for more information. Contact: Johnathan Williamson, phone: 512-232-2960, email: laic@www.utexas.edu Event Website Apr 4-3: 30th Annual Pah-Loots-Pu Celebration Location: Washington State University campus, Pullman, WA Event Detail: See website for detail. Contact: Paul Orozco, Brian Tanner, Veronica Mendez, phone: 509-335-8676 email: naschome@wsunix.wsu.edu Apr 16-18: ASU's 18th Annual Spring Competition POW WOW 2004 Location: ASU Band Practice Field, East 6th St & South Rural Rd Tempe, AZ Event Detail: HOST NORTHERN DRUM- Bear Creek, Batchewana Reserve, Ontario; HOST SOUTHERN DRUM- Southern Thunder, Pawnee, Ok; HEAD GOURD DANCER-Joe Fish Dupoint, Carnegie, Ok; AD-Randy Medicine Bear, Rosebud, SD; MC- Sammy Tonekei White, Anadarko, Ok; CO-MC- Dennis Bowen, Tuba City, AZ.. See website for complete detail. Contact: Pow Wow Office: 480-965-5224, email: letspowwow@asu.edu Event Website April 22-24: 21st Annual Gathering of Nations Powwow, Miss Indian World, and Indian Trader's Market Location: In the belly of Mother Earth, at the University of New Mexico Arena ("the Pit"), Albuquerque, New Mexico Event Detail: Competition Powwow. Over $125,000 will be awarded. Plan to join us for the 21st Anniversary World Celebration! More details coming soon! Contact: 505-836-2810 ========================================================================== Aboriginal Multi-Media Society Updated December 5, 2003 Aboriginal Community Events Listing http://www.ammsa.com/ammsaevents.html FEBRUARY February 26 - March 14, 2004 Native Earth Performance: The Artshow by Alanis King Toronto, ON 416 531 1402 February 14-15, 2004 United San Antonio 2004 7th Annual Powwow Crossroad of San Antonio Convention Center Fredericksburg and Loop 410 San Antonio, TX Email: webmaster@unitedsanantoniopowwow.org MARCH March 26, 27, 28, 2004 WARRIORS ON ICE National Native Hockey Championships, Yellowknife, Northwest Territories. Joe Bailey Phone: (867) 920-8083 Fax: (867) 873-0622 web site: www.warriorsonice.com APRIL April 16, 17, 18, 2004 Eighteenth Annual Arizona State University Spring Competition Pow Wow Tempe, Arizona Phone: 480-965-5224 Email: letspowwow@asu.edu URL: http://powwow.asu.edu ========================================================================== California's Native News Updated December 5, 2003 http://www.ocbtracker.com/index.html Dec 31 to Jan 1, 2004 Red Road pow-wow Fresno, Ca. Info: 559-452-0620 2004 Events I'll be adding more of these after I return from Barstow Powwow. January 2-3,2004 After the New Year Contest Pow Wow Shonto Preparatory School hwy 98/160 Shonto, Az M/C-Dennis Bowen-Tuba City AZ;A/D-Lee Williams, Tempe AZ; Host Northern Drum-Eagle Creek Singers, Dennehotso AZ; HeadMan/Lady-pick per session; Grand Entry-Fri(Jan 2) 7 pm, Sat(Jan 3) 1 & 7 pm; Special Contest-Men's Grass Dance Special and Drum Contest; Flag Ceremony and Veterans Give-Away Info: 928/672-2652 ========================================================================== Whispering Winds Updated December 5, 2003 A Magazine of American Indian Crafts*Material Culture*Powwow http://www.whisperingwind.com/ DECEMBER 2003 31-Jan 1 Red Road New Year Powwow. Gateway Sports Center, Fresno, CA. Info: (559) 252-8659. JANUARY 2004 Dec 31-Jan 11 Thunder in the Desert. 10,000 years of culture, 150 tribal nations, 13 days, 1 location - Rillito Raceway Park, Tucson, AZ. Info. www.usaindianinfo.org or call (520) 622-4900 17 TIHA Annual Winter Powwow. Vernon L. Richards Riverbend Park, Smithville, TX. Info: (830) 665-9309. 17 10th Annual Benefit Pow Wow. Ron Shackelford, Greenville High School, 3515 Lion's Lair Road, Greenville, TX 75402, Phone 903-457-2589, FAX 903-455-5158, e-mail shackelr@greenville.ednet10.net 17 Morning Star Celebration. John Carroll School, Bel Air, MD. Info: (410) 838-8333 ext 14. email: glsjcs@yahoo.com 24 Thunderbird American Indian Dancers Powwow. Chelsea McBurney YMCA (no city state or contact provided) 30th-Feb 1st. Mul-Cha-Tha, Sacaton, Az. Info: Lena Rock (480)220-7161 or Gila River Recreation (520)562-6092 or 6087 29-Feb 1 2nd Annual Mystic Eagle Powwow. Oscar Scherer State Park, Osprey, FL. Info: (941) 485-9072 email: jno8363406@aol.com FEBRUARY 2004 7 Rainbow Dancers Winter Gathering. Central College, East Pearce, IL. Info: www.powwowws.2ya.com or email: walkhawk2@ntslink.net 7 5TH Annual Stockton Winter Benefit Powwow. Info: Julie (209) 477-5383 or twolegsx2@yahoo.com 20-22 Avi Kwa Ame. Lauglin, NV. Info: avikwaamepowwow_04@hotmail.com 27-29 Flag HS Native American Club Spring Powwow. Flagstaff, Az. Info: Jason Curley: jcurley17@hotmail.com 28 Thunderbird American Indian Dancers Powwow. Chelsea McBurney YMCA (no city state or contact provided). MARCH 2004 5-7 Second Annual Golden Eagles Intertribal Society Benefit Powoww. University of Southern Mississippi, Hattiesburg, MS. Info: Joe Bohanon (601)-545-1448, 5-7 Middle Tennessee State University 5th American Indian Festival, Tennessee Livestock Center, Murfreesboro, TN - Website:http://www.mtsu.edu/~powwow email: powwow@mtsu.edu phone: 615-898-2872. All dancers welcome. All drums welcome. Venders by invitation only. 12-14 Apache Gold Casino Powwow. San Carlos, Az. Info: (928)475-7800, apachegoldcasinoresort.com 13 12th Annual Mid-Winter Red Creek Festival. Kline Center Gym, Dickinson College, Carlisle, PA. Vendors by invitation. Info: (717) 677-8026 13-14 CSU Long Beach Powwow. Long Beach, Ca. Info: (562)985-4963, csulb_powwow@hotmail.com or www.csulb.edu/aux/alumni/chapter/americanindian/index 26-28 39th Annual Florida Indian Hobbyist Association Powwow. Savannah Recreational Area, Ft Pierce, FL. Vendors by invitation only. Info: Tye Bell (772) 466-7379 or email tye_bell@bellsouth.net. Visit our website at www.fiha.org APRIL 2004 2-3 27th Annual SUU Contest Pow. Cedar City, UT 2-4 University of Lethbridge/Black Horns Pow Wow. Lethbridge, Alberta , Canada 3-4 UC Davis Powwow. West Quad-One Shields Ave, Davis, CA. Info: (530)752-6656 Fax:752-7097 16-19 38th Annual Louisiana Indian Heritage Assn (LIHA) Powwow. Hidden Oaks Campground, Robert, LA. Info: (504) 367-1375; Traders: (504) 367-1375. www.liha-news.com or email andi4769@aol.com 10-11 NAU Spring Powwow. Flagstaff, Az. Info: http://nau.edu/powwow. 16-18 ASU Spring Powwow. Tempe, Az. Info: Lee Williams (480)965-5224 or letspowwow@asu.edu or http://powwow.asu.edu 16-18 6th Annual United Cherokee Native American Powwow. Guntersville National Guard Armory off Hwy 79, Guntersville, AL. Info: Powwow Committee, PO Box 754, Guntersville, AL 35976. or stilwtrs@bellsouth.net 24 Thunderbird American Indian Dancers Powwow. Chelsea McBurney YMCA (no city state or contact provided). JULY 2004 2-4 Midnight Sun Intertribal Powwow. Tanana Valley Fairgounds, Fairbanks, Alaska. Info: (907) 456-2245. info@midnightsunpowwow.org or visit www.midnightsunpowwow.org AUGUST 2004 14-15 Natchez Trace Powwow & Summer Festival. Historic Leiper's Fork Village, Franklin, TN. Info: (615) 591-1682. SEPTEMBER 2004 10th-12 Eastern Missouri will host the 2nd Annual American indian Days Powwow at Woodosn Terrace,city Park. Woodson Terrace Mo. Info: Martin at 636-978-8732 or e-mail at moindiancouncil@aol.com. ========================================================================== Indian Country Today Pow-wow Calendar http://www.indiancountry.com/se/powwow2003/calendar/ Updated December 5, 2003 January 2004 Festival of the Buffalo January 16-18, 1052 Highway 92 West, Auburndale, Fla. (863) 665-0062 Morning Star Celebration January 18, John Carroll School, Bel Air, Md. Gary Scholl (410) 838-8333, ext. 14 MECA Pow Wow January 31-February 2, Oscar Sherer State Park, Osprey, Fla. (941) 485-9072 or (941) 493-4475 jno8363406@aol.com Sinte Gleska 34rd Annual Founders' Day Celebration Traditional and Contest Wacipi Last weekend of January Mission, S.D. (605) 856-4463 http://www.sinte.edu February 2004 Antelope Pow Wow February 8-9, Pow wow grounds, Mission, S.D. (605) 747-2381 7th Annual New Hampshire Intertribal Council Pow Wow February 15-16, Mt. Valley Mall, North Conway, N.H. (603) 528-3005 66th Washington Birthday Celebration February 19-21, Topinish, Wash. Dora Quint (509) 865-5121 124th Birthday Pow Wow February 21, Salam, Ore. Warner Austin 503) 399-5721, ext. 240 Marysville Winter Pow Wow Feb. 22, Marysville Youth and Civic Center, Marysville, Calif. (530) 749-6196 13th Annual Wacipi February 23, Frost Arena, S.D. State University, Brookings, S.D. (605) 688-4423 Arizona State University West Pow Wow February 22, ASU West at 47th Ave. and Thunderbird, Glendale, Ariz. Velma Maloney (602) 615-0445 or Elizabeth Young (602) 995-9578 9th Annual Traditional Bemidji Indian Education Programs Pow Wow February TBA, Old Bemidji High School Gymnasium, Bemidji, Minn. (218) 333-3187 March 2004 14th Annual United Amerindian Center Pow Wow March TBA, Oneida Civic Center, Oneida, Wis. (920) 436-6630 Native American Heritage Festival March 6-7, Middle Tenn. State University Campus, Murfreesboro, Tenn. Georgia Dennis (615) 898-2551 24th Annual Early Spring Celebration Pow Wow March 5-7, Adjacent to the Ft. Yuma Quechan Reservation, Winterhaven, Calif. Faron Owl (760) 572-0222, ext. 2228 30th Annual NASC March 7-8, Field House at Utah State University, 800 E. 705 N, Logan, Utah, Antonio Arce or Martina Yazzie (435) 563-8340 Joliet Junior College Pow Wow March 8, Joliet Junior College, 1215 Houbolt Rd., Joliet, Ill. (815) 280-2566 Fife School Districts 11th Annual Surprise Lake Middle School Pow Wow March 8, Milton, Wash. (253) 573-7872 Hardeeville Native American Pow Wow March 8-9, Millstone Landing on the Savannah River, Puurysburg Rd., Hardeeville, S.C. Sgt. Michael Benton (843) 784-2233 or (843) 784-2886 30th Annual Denver March Pow Wow March 19-21, Denver Coliseum, Denver, Colo. (303) 934-8045 Honor the Children Intertribal Traditional Pow Wow March TBA, Walker County Fairgrounds, Airport Rd., Jasper, Ala. Karen Cooper (205) 648-2529 kcooper@uabnc.edu 16th Annual Pow Wow March TBA, Native American Heritage Association of Radford University, The Dedmon Center, Radford University Radford, Va. Melissa Lineberry, (540) 674-1989 white_buffalo_woman@yahoo.com. April 2004 2004 Pow Wow & Earth Day Celebration April, Adams, Mass Dan Shears (413) 743-5081 ========================================================================== Gathering of Nations Powwow Calendar http://www.gatheringofnations.com/powwows/ Updated December 5, 2003 J A N U A R Y January 16-18 - Spirit of the Buffalo Location: Auburndale, Florida. Notes: See Live grazing Buffalo Seniors -$2.00, 17 & older-$3.00, 12 to 16-$1.00 under 12-Free Native & RV setup area available Competition Dance. Contact: Jimmy Wiseowl (931) 212-2464 e-mail - grayeagle42@yahoo.com January 17 - Morning Star Celebration Location: John Carroll School, Bel Air, Maryland. Notes: A benefit pow wow for St Labre Indian School, Ashland, MT. Doors open 11 am, Gourd Dancing 12:30, Grand Entry 1 pm. MC Clayton Old Elk. Head Dancers will be students from St Labre. Feed and evening dancing. Contact: Gary Scholl 410-838-8333 ex14, glsjcs@yahoo.com January 17 - 10th Annual Benefit Pow Wow Location: Greenville High School Gym, Greenville, Texas. Notes: 1:00 & 6:00 Gourd Dance 7:30 Grand Entry Jess Oosahwe (Head Man), Deborah Garcie (Head Lady), Will Tonemah (Head Gourd), Darrell Blackbear Jr. (Head Singer), Bear Claw Singers (Head Southern Drum) Curtis Abrams (Arena Director), Emcee TBA. All Drums Welcome. Contact: 3515 Lion's Lair Road, Greenville, TX 75402, phone 903-457-2589, FAX 903-455-5158, e-mail shackelr@greenville.ednet10.net January 17 - Senior Pow-wow Location: Newcomb, New Mexico. Contact: Lenusy Morris at (505) 360-0143. January 23-25 - St. Petersburg city fair and Pow wow Location: St. Petersburg, Florida. Notes: Vinoy Park, Downtown St. Petersburg, its a fun filled family festival, complete with entertainment from two stages, food, children activities, and exhibits. native American Indians for booth space 10x20 update with times. Contact: Shane Ritch 1-727-345-2755, beauty23@aol.com January 30 - February 1 - Mul-Cha-Tha Powwow 2004 Location: Sacaton, Arizona. Notes: Powwow Schedule: Friday Gourd Dance 5pm, Grand Entry 7pm. Saturday Gourd Dance 12pm only, Bird Singing and Dance Contest 5-7pm, Grand Entry 1 & 7pm. Sunday Gourd Dance 11am, Grand Entry 1pm. Dance Contests: Golden Age Men & Women; Adult Men Fancy, Grass, No. & So. Trad.; Adult Women Fancy, Jingle, Grass, Traditional; Teen Boys & Girls Fancy, Jingle, Grass, Trad.; Tiny Tots; Bird Singing/Bird Dancing. Host So. Drum: Southern Comfort; Host No. Drum: Blu Thunder. Contact: Lena Rock 480-220-7161 or Gila River Recreation Office 520-562-6092 or 6087. F E B R U A R Y February 1-14 - American Indian Exposition Location: Tucson, Arizona. Notes: Coming Soon! February 14 - Violet Astor Brown Little Memorial Dance & Powwow Location: Burdette Hall, San Carlos, Arizona. Notes: Scalp & Victory Dance, Gourd Dancing, Apache War Dance, Social Powwow. 11am - ?. Dancing from 11am to 7pm. Powwow starts @ 7pm. Special Contests: Golden Age Womens (60+) $300 cash, Apache Camp Dress, Burden basket - sponsored by Larry Brown. $500 Winner Take All Men's No. Trad., $500 Winner Take All Women's No. Trad. Open Straight Dance Contest, Jr.& Teen Girls So. Buckskin, Teen Boys Fancy & Grass, Tiny Tots. Special invitation to all Princesses and Royalty. ALL Singers & Dancers Welcome! Contact: Larry Brown (928) 475-5280 (no collect calls, please) February 14-15 - United San Antonio 2004 7th Annual PowWow Location: San Antonio, Texas. Notes: Crossroad of San Antonio Convention Center Fredericksburg and Loop 410. Free Admission. Contact: webmaster@unitedsanantoniopowwow.org http://www.unitedsanantoniopowwow.org February 20-22 - Avi Kwa Ame Pow Wow '04 Location: Laughin, Nevada. Contact: avikwaamepowwow04@hotmail.com February 21 - Marysville Winter Pow Wow Location: Marysville Youth and Civic Center 1830 B Street Marysville, CA 95901, Marysville, California. Notes: Open Gourd @ noon Grand Entry @ 1:00pm Retire flags 6:00pm MC-Val Shadowhawk Arena Director-Ron Rader Head Man-Allen Noel Head Woman-Jacie Snow Host Northern-TBA Host Southern-Strictly Southern This is a short winter pow wow. No contests. Lot's of fun dances and good times. Food available. All drums welcome All dancers welcome Public welcome No admission fee. Contact: 530-749-6196 or jgraham@mjusd.k12.ca.us February 27-29 - Vero's "Thunder on the Beach" Powwow Location: Vero Beach, Florida. Notes: We are located at the Indian River Fairgrounds on 58th ave. Call for information . We will have performers from Australia and New Zealand and many from the United States. Our fee's are $6.00 for adults, $4.00 for children and seniors. We have RV hook ups for $20.00 per night. Host Hotel: Days Inn-772-562-9991, will have special rates when presented with a flyer. Please e-mail me and I will e-mail you a flyer. Head man - Andrew Hunter Head Lady- Kay Taylor MC- David Whitewolf Trezak Arena Director -TBA Drum- TBA Flute Player-Ed Winddancer Storyteller. Contact: Dona: 1-772-567-1579/ Cell Phone: 1-772-538-8363/ Fax: 1-772-567-6325/ E-mail : deedee1579@aol.com February 27-29 - Flag High Native American Club Annual Spring Contest Pow-Wow Location: Flagstaff High School, Flagstaff, Arizona. Notes: Contest in all Categories. Head Staff: TBA Contact: Jason Curley at jcurley17@hotmail.com M A R C H March 5-6 - 11th Annual Madison School District Pow Wow Location: 1431 East Campbell, Phoenix, Arizona. Notes: As always there is no charge. Let us again come together and show support for young Native students in hopes they will be inspired to become successful. Sound system will be provided by David Begay. Good sound system, this man has. More info to come very soon; Contact Phone numbers, etc. Contact: E-mail: cabinstallsllc@aol.com --Web addy: In the works. March 13-14 - CSU Long Beach 34th Annual Pow Wow Location: CSULB. 1250 Bellflower Blvd., Long Beach, California. Notes: Saturday, 11am - 11pm; Sunday, 11am - 7pm Inter-Tribal, Contest Dancing and Hand Drum Contest Gourd Dancing- 11am, both Saturday & Sunday Grand Entry- 1pm, 7pm Saturday, 1pm Sunday Head Southern Singer- Glenn Ahhaitty (Kiowa/Comanche) MC - Roy Track (Assiboine) Dancers Registration closes at 2pm on Saturday, 3/13. Hand Drum Contest Saturday night!! Pow Wow takes place in the Central Quad, upper campus of CSU Long Beach. This event is FREE, parking is free, and the campus is handicapped accessible. This year's featured artists include Silversmith Michael Rodgers (Bishop Paiute), Contemporary Silversmith, Larry Pacheco (Laguna Pueblo), Dineh Silversmith Leroy Begay, Contemporary Etched Pottery by Harrison Tom (Dineh), and Silversmiths Frank and Darlene Chee (Dineh). It is strongly recommended that spectators bring folding chairs. Not responsible for theft, loss, accident, injury or personal expenses. Absolutely no alcohol or drugs allowed, nor overnight camping. With respect to our elders, no pets allowed. CSULB Campus Map- http://daf.csulb.edu/maps/index.html CSULB American Indian Alumni Chapter: http://www.csulb.edu/aux/alumni/chapters/americanindian/index.html Artist and Vendors, invitation only. American Indian Artisans and vendors, please be in compliance with the Indian Arts and Crafts Act of 1990 (P.L.101-644), which prohibits misrepresentation in marketing of Indian arts and crafts products within the United States. The Indian Arts and Crafts Act of 1990 is a truth-in advertising law. It is illegal to offer or display for sale, or sell any art or craft product in a manner that falsely suggests it is Indian produced, an Indian product, or the product of a particular Indian tribe. Contact: csulb_powwow@hotmail.com, (562) 985-8528. www.csulb.edu March 13-14 - Hardeeville Native American Pow Wow Location: Hardeeville, South Carolina. Notes: Located on the banks of the majestic Savannah river just north of Savannah Ga. (non contest) Intertribal Easy access from I-95 exit 5 and exit 8. Contact: Mike Benton/ email: mbenton@cityofhardeeville.com (843) 784-2886 or 784-2233. March 26-27 - University of Arizona Wild Cat Pow Wow 2004 Location: Bear Down Field, Tucson, Arizona. Notes: This is an annual Pow Wow put on by the Students of the UA Pow Wow Society. Everyone Welcome! Gourd Dancing; Dance Contest In: Golden Age 50+, Adults 18-49, Teens 13-17, Juniors 7-12, Tiny Tots paid daily. ALL DRUMS INVITED! Host So. Drum: Omaha White Tail. Host No. Drum: Black Lodge. Grand Entries: Fri. 7pm, Saturday 1 & 7pm. Contact: Native American Student Affairs at: 520-621-3835. Vendors contact: Becky Greeling 520-207-0841. March 26-27 - 2004 Flagstaff High School Native American Club Spring Contest Pow-Wow Location: Flagstaff High School, 400 w. elm ave, Flagstaff High School, Flagstaff, Arizona. Notes: Fri: Gourd Dancing 5pm, Grand Entry 7pm Sat:Gourd Dancing 10am & 5pm Grand Entry 12noon & 7pm. Specials: Team Dancing, Women's Old Style Jingle, Men's Chicken Dance. Contact: Jason Curley, jcurley17@hotmail.com, Or Josie Begay-James At (928)773-8120/8121 or jcbjames@flagstaff.apscc.k12.az.us A P R I L April 2-3 - 32nd Annual University of Utah Pow Wow Location: Salt Lake City, Utah. Notes: Friday April 2, Grand Entry 7 pm, Saturday April 3, Grand entries 1 pm and 7 pm. Contact us for further information. Contact: ashirley@sa.utah.edu, Call 801-581-5898. April 3-4 - 34th Annual UC Davis Pow Wow Location: Davis, California. Notes: UC Davis West Quad (Outdoors) April 3rd-Saturday: 10am to midnight April 4th-Sunday: 10am to 6pm. Contact: Judith Ladeaux (530)752-6656 or jaladeaux@ucdavis.edu April 16-18 - 18th Annual Arizona State University Spring Competition Pow Wow Location: Tempe, Arizona. Notes: Contest dancing, Native foods, arts& crafts, Contest dancing. Contact: Email: letspowwow@asu.edu URL: http://powwow.asu.edu Phone: 480-965-5224. May 7-8 - Coconino High-Native American Club Pow-wow Location: Flagstaff, Arizona. Notes: No Immediate Plans on Admission, Jan.2004 Will keep posted on future Info. MC.-Ricky Grey, Head Gourd-Steve Darden, A.D.-Felix "Jay" Thompson Jr. Head Man-Leeander Bia, Head Lady-Tisha Yazzie, Northern Host-Bearshield, Southern Host-Longwalk Descendants. 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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: Theodore Stone" --------- Date: Tue, 6 Jan 2004 08:10:17 -0700 From: Gary Smith Subj: NA News Item - - - - - - -- - - - - - - filename="THEODORE STONE" http://www.bismarcktribune.com/community/obits/ Theodore Stone Theodore Benedict Stone, "Ma-nees se" (Red Horse), 51, Twin Buttes, journeyed to the spirit world Jan. 4, 2004. Services will be held at 10 a. m. Thursday at Twin Buttes Memorial Hall, with the Rev. Stephen Kranz, OSB officiating. Burial will be in Medicine Stone II Cemetery, rural Twin Buttes. Wake services will be held at 5 p.m. Wednesday at Twin Buttes Memorial Hall. Benny, as he was known, was born April 11, 1952, in Richardton, N.D., the youngest of five children to Ernest and Vivian (Lone Fight) Medicine Stone. He was a member of the Low Cap Clan and a child of the Knife Clan. He was baptized and confirmed as a member of St. Joseph Catholic Church, Twin Buttes. Benny was raised and educated in Twin Buttes Grade School and Marty Indian School, where he played football. He attended Fort Berthold Community College, studying in the farm and ranch management program. Benny was a member of the Fort Berthold Agricultural Cooperative, Steering Committee with the Fort Berthold Community College, Agricultural Division. Benny was asked to serve on this committee because of his interest, enthusiasm and dedication to cattle ranching. He was active in contributing his ideas toward the development of phase I and phase II of the c,ooperative. He was one of the incorporators of the co-op when it became Tribally-chartered by the Tribal Business Council in December 1999 via Resolution No. 233-DSB. In May 2001, Benny participated in a Steering Committee educational trip to Cody, Wyo., to visit the Hoodoo Ranch, a genetic/breeding ranching program and Ft. Duchesne, Utah, to visit a custom feedlot. Benny was very committed to the development of this cattle cooperative for the Fort Berthold Ranchers. The steering committee will deeply miss his participation, and his dedication to make this co-op become a reality for Fort Berthold. Benny ranched most of his life. He was an all around ranch hand and a skilled hunter. In 1986, he graduated from the personal care attendant program, along with his sister, Kathy. He later provided attendant care services for his parents, until the time of their deaths. He enjoyed shooting pool, and was an avid collector of knives, which he enjoyed throwing. Benny was a caring and honest person with a wry sense of humor. This was demonstrated by his support and love for Ernest Stone Grant and Justice Calvin Howling Wolf, who lived with him. Benny is survived by three godchildren, Vernette Holen, Mary Ellen Sun and Breyana Brave Bull; three brothers, Calvin, Darcy and Dennis, all of Twin Buttes; three sisters, Diana, Bismarck, Mavis, Twin Buttes, and Kathy, Fort Yates; two nephews, Craig and Terran Jay; one niece, Vivian; and all of his grandchildren, Sierra Rain Sun, Sheridan Paige Sun, Dallas Reynolds, Persephone Eastman, Jerrod Lee Grant Jr., D. Stephin Grant, Cedar Grant, Samantha Hurkes, Deltin Arrow Hurkes, Craig Hurkes Jr. and Aiden Hurkes. He was preceded in death by his father, Ernest Medicine Stone; his mother, Vivian Medicine Stone; and his niece, Stephanie Medicine Stone. (Seibel Funeral Home, Hazen) Copyright c. 2004 Bismarck Tribune. --------- "RE: Mary C. Demientieff" --------- Date: Wed, 7 Jan 2004 08:17:26 -0700 From: Gary Smith Subj: NA News Item - - - - - - -- - - - - - - filename="MARY DEMIENTIEFF" http://www.owlstar.com/dailyheadlines.htm http://www.adn.com/alaska/story/4589223p-4559502c.html Athabascan matriarch, nurse dies at 97 in Nenana MARY DEMIENTIEFF: She received honorary doctorate; services Friday. The Associated Press January 7, 2004 FAIRBANKS -- Mary C. Demientieff, the matriarch of a large Interior Athabascan family who provided decades of health care in Nenana, has died at her home. Demientieff died Sunday evening. She was 97. Demientief retired in 1990 at age 83 after more than 30 years of being on call 24 hours a day as a health worker in the small community 60 miles south of Fairbanks. "There isn't a child who has been raised here in Nenana who hasn't been touched by her healing hands," grandson Mitch Demientieff said. "She was proud of her accomplishments. The clinic here was dedicated to her in June 1999." Demientieff was born Sept. 12, 1906, in Eagle and was raised in Flat. She was sent to the Catholic mission at Holy Cross for schooling. She decided when she was about 10 she wanted to be a nurse. Demientieff graduated from Holy Cross in 1927 and then married Alphonse Demientieff at age 20. She volunteered her nursing skills wherever she was needed. She helped deliver a baby for the first time more than 70 years ago while trapping with her husband on the Iditarod River. The couple moved to Nenana in 1945. In the early 1950s, she began helping the Public Health Service nurses and, without formal training, she served the community as a volunteer health aide. It wasn't until Demientieff was in her 60s that she had the opportunity for formal instruction with the Community Health Aide Program. Demientieff finally became Dr. Mary C. Demientieff on May 11, 1986, when she received an honorary doctoral degree from the University of Alaska Fairbanks. The couple was married for 47 years when Alphonse Demientieff died in 1974. They were parents of 14 children, raising nine to adulthood and losing five at early ages to childhood illnesses and diseases. A traditional Athabascan funeral service and potlatch will be held at George Hall in Nenana on Friday. Copyright c. 2004 The Anchorage Daily News. --------- "RE: Michael Two Horses" --------- Date: Wed, 7 Jan 2004 08:17:26 -0700 From: Gary Smith Subj: NA News Item - - - - - - -- - - - - - - filename="MICHAEL TWO HORSES" http://www.owlstar.com/dailyheadlines.htm http://www.roanoke.com/roatimes/news/story160807.html American Indian activist sought to smash stereotypes Michael Two Horses 1953-2004 By Donna Alvis-Banks January 7, 2004 BLACKSBURG - Michael Two Horses found his voice in the voice of his age - the Internet. "He had such a strong and visible Internet personality," said Two Horses' friend, Deanna Beacham of the Virginia Council on Indians. "He was visible since the very beginning in the cyber community." Two Horses, whose native heritage was Sicangu Lakota/Wahpekute Dakota, came to Virginia Tech as a visiting instructor in the American Indian Studies Program in August. On Dec. 28, his landlords found his body in their rental house. The cause of death has not been determined pending an autopsy, but an obituary that ran in Tuesday's Roanoke Times called Two Horses' death "unexpected and peaceful." He was 50 years old. His life, however, was far from peaceful. "He was a very passionate individual, very strongly committed to the rights of American Indians," said Elizabeth Fine, Virginia Tech's vice president of interdisciplinary studies. "He has friends and supporters all over the country who are grieving for him." Martha Ture, a friend from California, said she met Two Horses through Tribal Law, an Internet discussion group for projects concerned with federal Indian tribal law. "We were simpatico, politically and culturally," she said. Two Horses asked Ture to become a board member for another Internet- based organization he founded, the Coalition to End Racial Targeting of American Indian Nations. "I said I would happily join and I did so," she said. "I'm not an Indian. I'm just an ally." Two Horses started CERTAIN as a way of countering protests aimed at the Makah Indians in Washington state after anti-whaling groups attacked the Makah nation's commercial whaling activities. In 1994, when the U.S. government removed the gray whale from the endangered list, the Makah nation applied for and was granted hunting rights after a 70-year hiatus. Controversy erupted, with animal rights supporters and others protesting the Makah livelihood. Ture said the protests often got out of hand and that Makah Indians were threatened and mistreated. "Save a whale, harpoon a Makah" was one of the signs held up during a May 1999 protest. Children on school buses were targets of racial slurs. CERTAIN received numerous messages on its Web site denigrating and attacking the Makahs. Two Horses, who was working on advanced degrees at the University of Arizona, went repeatedly to Neah Bay in Washington, where the tensions were highest. He interviewed residents, members of whaling families and members of tribal councils, Ture said, noting that Two Horses was doing this partially in pursuit of his dissertation, "We Know Who the Real Indians Are." Two Horses' writings and reports of illegal activities resulted in the arrests of some protesters, Ture said. "If it had not been for the high profile this thing had and still has, and if not for the defense of Michael and CERTAIN, I hate to think how it could have been," she said. "Michael put it together," she said. "And it was really brave." "Mike was a very vibrant, powerful person," Beacham said. "He was an educated, articulate Indian who was willing to speak out. You don't feed into the cultural stereotype when you speak as Mike did." Smashing cultural stereotypes of the American Indian was what Two Horses was all about, his friends agreed. "There are people who go around selling Indian spirituality," Ture said. "It used to drive Michael crazy. It was like taking the cool parts of the Mass and selling it to people and saying, 'OK, here you go! Now you're a Catholic.'" Beacham said the Virginia Indian community was excited about Two Horses' teaching position at Virginia Tech. A reception was held for him in Richmond last November. "His loss is a loss not only to Virginia Tech but to the Virginia Indian community as a whole," she said. "It's hard to get good American Indian professors to come here. Virginia's not on the map when people think of Indian country - and it is Indian country." Ture said Two Horses was excited about his new job, too. "It was his first teaching job and he was just delighted. He had been talking to people about coming to do guest lectures. "He was not ready to die," she added. "He was 50 years old. He was entering a wonderful, productive new phase of his life and had everything to look forward to." ---- donna.banks@roanoke.com 381-1661 Copyright c. 2004 The Roanoke Times. --------- "RE: Joe Colby Sr." --------- Date: Sun, 11 Jan 2004 17:11:19 -0700 From: Gary Smith Subj: NA News Item - - - - - - -- - - - - - - filename="JOE COLBY SR." http://www.poncacitynews.com/ Joe Colby Sr. Joe Colby Sr., longtime Ponca City area resident, died Jan. 9, 2004, at the Fairfax Manor in Fairfax. He was 92. Mass of Christian Burial will be held 2 p.m. Monday, Jan. 12, 2004, at St. Mary's Catholic Church. Burial will follow at St. Mary's Catholic Cemetery. A vigil will be held 7 p.m. Sunday evening, Jan. 10, at Trout Funeral Home Chapel. Arrangements are under the direction of Trout Funeral Home. On Jan. 3 of the year 1912, Dr. A.S. Nuckles of Ponca City forded the icy water of the Arkansas river with his team and buggy and proceeded east about seven miles into the Osage Tribal Reservation to deliver Bert and Nora Colby's last son, Joe (Joseph Franklin) Colby. It was so cold in that small wood frame house that a glass of water froze on the dresser in the bedroom where Nora had her baby. Bert, then about thirty years of age, had been a cowboy at the "Hundred and One" from 1896 until the death of G.W. Miller in 1903. Although born in a sod house south of Colby, Kan., the town named after his father, Joseph R. Colby, Bert had gone through the eighth grade in Enid before going to work for the Millers. Nora Dennison Hardy, being Osage, had been raised on the reservation east of Ponca City. She had been married previously and had a son, Oral, and a daughter, Irene. Walter, Joe's full brother, had been born almost three years before in 1909. Bert and Nora established their ranch on Nora's Osage Tribal Allotment. When Joe was 1 year old they moved into their new home built on the place about a half mile east of the old house. In this new home Joe resided all the rest of his life, except for the last five months while being in hospitals and nursing homes. The Colbys, father Bert and sons Walter and Joe, made their living in the farming and cattle business. Bert Colby and Sons Hereford Ranch was a registered cattle operation which lasted over thirty years. Colby Herefords were known country-wide. Prize bulls and heifers were entered and won their classes in livestock shows in Chicago, Kansas City and Tulsa. In the late 40s, one of their heifers, a grand champion animal of the Tulsa State Fair, was sold at auction in the lobby of the Mayo Hotel in downtown Tulsa. The drought of the 50s caused the Colbys to disperse their registered herd and thereafter they ran commercial cows and stocker cattle. Joe attended eleven years of school at St. Mary's in Ponca City. One of his twelve years was spent in a one-room schoolhouse built behind the home on the ranch. Father Bert hired a school teacher who taught their four children along with one or two children whose fathers worked on the ranch. Joe attended one semester at the University of Oklahoma. In the years prior to his marriage to Audrey, Joe worked on the ranch but spent some time driving for Col. Zack T. Miller. Zack, at that time, was traveling the country trading cattle, horses and mules. Some of those trips were to New York and New Jersey, Florida and the other Southeastern states as well as Texas and as far west as the Navajo Reservation in Arizona. Col. Zack also helped the Colbys market some of their registered cattle through his contacts around the country. Ponca City oil man Lew Wentz was a cattle customer of the Colbys and relied on the expertise of Bert, Walter and Joe to advise him on further cattle purchases. Joe made several trips with Mr. Wentz helping him purchase cattle. Mr. Wentz was a frequent visitor to the ranch and it was not unusual to see him helping himself to a self-guided tour of the pastures and bull pens. On June 3, 1939, Joe married Audrey Tayrien at the Catholic Church in Pawhuska. They were married 56 years, living all of that time in the big house. Joe served on the Osage Tribal council 12 years and was on the Osage County Fair Board a number of years. Senator John Dahl, a close friend of Joe's, named the portion of old U.S. Highway 60, on which the home sits, Joe Colby Road in his honor. Joe enjoyed fishing and hunting. A number of hunts were made with close friend Zack Miller Jr. in Texas and Montana. He took great pleasure being with his friends and family. He is preceded in death by his parents, his wife, brother Walter, half- brother Oral Hardy and half-sister Irene Dunlap. He is survived by his son, daughter-in-law, three granddaughters, one step-granddaughter, and five great-grandchildren. Casket bearers will be Bob Stingley, Henry Hainzinger, Henry Lee Hainzinger, Mark Freeman III, Arlin Cales and Jack Klinger. Copyright c. 2004 Ponca City News. --------- "RE: Crossings" --------- Date: Mon, 12 Jan 2004 08:10:52 -0600 From: Gary Smith Subj: NA News Item - - - - - - -- - - - - - - filename="CROSSINGS" January 8, 2004 Ruth E. Brayboy PEMBROKE - Mrs. Ruth Ellen Brayboy, 89, of 3058 Whistling Rufus Road, died Tuesday, Jan. 6, 2004, in Southeastern Regional Medical Center in Lumberton. The funeral will be conducted at 11 a.m. Friday in Sandy Plains United Methodist Church by the Revs. Robert Mangum, Bobby E. Locklear and Harold Jacobs. Burial will be in the Brayboy family cemetery. Mrs. Brayboy is survived by a son, Lafayette Brayboy of Wilson; five daughters, Carolyn B. Jim, Elowyn B. Woods, E. Lucille B. Revels and Annie R. Oxendine, all of Pembroke, and Linda B. Shipp of Knoxville, Tenn.; several grandchildren; and several great-grandchildren. The family will receive friends tonight from 7 to 9 at Locklear & Son Funeral Home in Pembroke. January 12, 2004 Leon Locklear LUMBERTON - Leon Locklear, 53, of 976 Beam Road, died Saturday, Jan. 10, 2004, in Cape Fear Valley Medical Center in Fayetteville. Arrangements will be announced by Locklear & Son Funeral Home of Pembroke. Copyright c. 2004 The Fayetteville (N.C.) Observer. -=-=-=- January 7, 2004 Mary 'Edie' Bradley Cherokee - Mary Edith "Edie" Jackson Bradley, 72, of the Wolftown community of Cherokee, died Monday, Jan. 5, 2004, in a Buncombe County hospital. A native and lifelong resident of Jackson County, she was the daughter of the late Jack C. and Mary Queen Jackson. She was a member of Acquoni Baptist Church, where she sang in the choir. She retired from Cherokee Elementary School as a truant officer and was recently working at the Hampton Inn as a breakfast hostess. She was preceded in death by her husband, John Richard Bradley Sr. She is survived by two sons, John R. Bradley and his companion, Debra Panther, of Cherokee and Larry Edward Bradley of Cherokee; daughter, Debbie Bradley of Cherokee; eight grandchildren; six great-grandchildren; several nieces and nephews; three sisters, Sadie Jackson of Cherokee, Barbara Robie and her husband, Barry, of Cherokee and Lawanda Jean Bryant of Ladson, S.C.; sister-in-law, Mary Jackson; and special friend, Jess Winstead. She was also preceded in death by two sisters, Omie Kanott and Mackie Abran and four brothers, Walter Jackson, Johnny Jackson, Boyd Jackson and Jack Jackson. The funeral services will be held at 11 a.m. Thursday at Acquoni Baptist Church with the Revs. Ray Kinsland and Jim Parks officiating. Burial will be in Bradley Family Cemetery. The family will receive friends from 6 to 9 p.m. Wednesday at Crisp Funeral Home in Bryson City, where the body will remain until taken to the church 30 minutes prior to the services. Copyright c. 2004 Asheville Citizen-Times. -=-=-=- January 9, 2004 Robert L. McConnell Robert L. McConnell, 80, of Darrow Road, passed peacefully into the spirit world on Wednesday, Jan. 7, 2004, at his residence. Robert was born Oct. 1, 1923. On June 5, 1948, he married Shirley I. Levans and they celebrated 55 years of marriage. He attended schools in Superior and at 19 years of age he joined the US Army Air Corp. Serving in WWII from 1940-1945 he flew B-24 bombers over Europe and North Africa and was awarded many medals including the Distinguished Flying Cross. Bob was a member of the VFW Post 14000 and the LCO AMVETS Post 1998. Bob retired from Archer Daniels Midland Company in 1992, after 43 years of dedicatied service. He was a member of the Fond du Lac Band of Lake Superior Chippewa, their Council on Aging, and was a board member of their Diabetes Advisory Committee. He was a very loving husband, father, grandfather, great- grandfather, and friend to all he met, and will be greatly missed. Robert is survived by his wife Shirley, daughters Teri (Tim) Bernard, Dubois, Wyo., and Randi (William) Bailey, Duluth; sons, Mark (Mary) McConnell, Superior, and Jason (Elke) McConnell, Cheyenne, Wyo.; 11 grandchildren; 12 great-grandchildren with one on the way; sister Shirley Allen, Madison, Wis., and many nieces. Robert is preceded in death by his parents, Arthur and Ethel (Wester) McConnell, and sister, Betty Markon. VISTITATION:5 p.m. on Friday, Jan. 9, 2004, in Downs Funeral Home. Reverend Mark Holmes of Darrow Road Wesleyan Church will officiate at the 1 p.m. service on Saturday in Downs Funeral Home. Military rites will be accorded by Thomas F. Stein VFW Post 1091, at the funeral home. Interment will be at Graceland Cemetery at a later date. Honorary pallbearers will be Roger Treece, Duane Johnson, Tim Bernard, William Bailey, Ed Hanson, Mark McConnell and Jason McConnell. Should friends desire, memorials may be made in Robert's memory to the Fond du Lac Head Start Program, 1720 Big Lake Rd, Cloquet, Minn., 55720. Copyright c. 2004 Duluth News Tribune. -=-=-=- January 9, 2004 Louise Holding Eagle PARSHALL - Louise Holding Eagle, 72, Parshall, died Dec. 23, 2003, at a St. Paul, Minn., hospital. Services were held Dec. 27 at Twin Buttes Community Hall. She is survived by two daughters, Dinah Belgarde, Valley City, and Kathy Holding Eagle, Walthill, Neb.; one adopted daughter, Shirley Eagle, Parmelee, S.D.; two brothers, Marvin Starr, Fort Yates, and Russell Gillette Sr., Bismarck; five sisters, Shirley Smith, Aurelia Gillette and Florence Brady, all of New Town, Barbara Roy, Oklahoma City, Okla., and Grace Gillette, Denver; 11 grandchildren; and five great-grandchildren. January 10, 2004 Samuel Two Hearts Samuel R. Two Hearts Jr., 66, Mobridge, S.D., died Jan. 7, 2004, in a Mobridge care center. Services will be held at 10:30 a.m. Wednesday at St. Elizabeth's Episcopal Church, Wakpala, S.D., Burial will be in the church cemetery. Oster Funeral Home, Mobridge. Copyright c. 2004 Bismarck Tribune. -=-=-=- Welcome to the Sisseton-Wahpeton Sioux Tribe/Dakota Nation Sota Iya Ye Yapi On-Line, News from the Lake Traverse Reservation Volume 35, Issue 2 Wednesday, January 14, 2004 Funeral services held for Teanna Bernard Funeral services for Teanna Renee Bernard, Tate Amani Win ("Walks on the Wind Woman"), 28, of Sisseton, South Dakota, were held last Saturday, January 10, 2004 at the Tribal community center, Agency Village, South Dakota, with the Rev. Ronald Campbell, Senior Catechist John Cloud III, and Spiritual Leader Gary Holybull officiating. Active pallbearers were Phillip Allen, Randy Bernard, Perry Lufkins, Robert Diaz, James Rondell, and Darren Crawford. Honorary Pallbearers were the "Buffalo Heart Women Society," Gina Williams, Cyndi Lee Williams, Brooke Corcoran, Tiana Nickey, Elsie Williams, Linda Renville, JoDean Wanna, Gypsy Wanna, Deb Flute, Vanessa Wanna, Mike Gill, LaDean Wanna, Kathy Wanna, Tara BearHead, Donna German, Donna Williams, and "all Dakota Magic Blackjack Dealers." Pianist was Billy Kohl. Interment is in the Sisseton-Wahpeton Sioux Tribe traditional burial grounds, rural Sisseton, South Dakota. Wake services were held Thursday and Friday, at the Tribal community center. The Cahill Funeral Chapel, Sisseton, was in charge of arrangements. Teanna was born on August 10, 1975 in Sisseton, South Dakota to Martin and Marie (Renville) Bernard. She attended school in Sisseton, Flandreau Public, and Flandreau Indian schools. After her education she worked at the Dakota Magic Casino. Teanna liked to spend time with friends, and liked Pow-Wow's, dancing, and making traditional regalia for her children and nephews. She also liked to read and go to movies. Teanna enjoyed attending local sporting events and enjoyed playing softball. She loved and enjoyed caring for her children. Teanna was involved with the repatriation of ancestral remains and was a member of the Buffalo Heart Woman's Society. Teanna was a volunteer firefighter for the Sisseton-Wahpeton Sioux Tribe. Teanna passed away on January 6, 2004 from injuries received in a motor vehicle accident. Teanna is survived by two children, Mason Shepherd of Shakopee, Minn., and DeSean Antell Bernard of Flandreau; her parents - Marie Renville of Agency Village, and Martin Bernard of Flandreau; three sisters - Leanna Bernard of Sisseton, LoLita Renville of Sisseton, Gina Williams of Flandreau; Hunka sister Phyllis Roberts II; one brother, Merlin Jay Renville of Sisseton; maternal grandmother Alma Renville of Sisseton; and numerous aunts, uncles, nieces, nephews and cousins. Teanna was preceded in death by her paternal grandparents, and maternal grandfather. Funeral services held in Minnesota for Solon Hill Solon M. Mill, 87, formerly of Ottertail, Minn., and Wahpeton, N.D., died January 1, 2004 at the Minnesota Veterans Home, Fergus Falls, Minn. Funeral mass was held Monday, January 5th, at St. John's Catholic Church, Wahpeton, N.D., with the Rev. Jerry Nordick as celebrant. Visitation was held at Vertin-Munson Funeral Home, Wahpeton, and at the church before the services. Interment is at Farview Memorial Gardens, Wahpeton. Military honors were provided by Hafner-Miller-Ross American Legion Post 20 and Wahpeton VFW Post 4324. Active casketbearers were Chris Meyer, Brent Meyer, Mike Houle, Stanley Warren, David Wilkie, and Troy Wilkie. Honorary casketbearers were members of the Wahpeton Knights of Columbus Council 2205. Arrangements were made by Vertin-Munson-Wahpeton, N.D. Funeral Home. Solon Matthew Hill was born near Veblen, S.D., August 1, 1916, the son of Lucas and Eliza (Plume) Hill. He attended grade school at Wahpeton Indian School, and high school at Haskell Indian School in Kansas. He participated in sports at Haskell, excelling in football and track. Solon started employment at Wahpeton Indian School in May 1940 and entered the U.S. Navy in 1943. He served in the South Pacific theatre, serving on Guam and other areas until November of 1945. He was united in marriage to Dora Thomas of Devils Lake, N.D., on June 9, 1941. They were both employees at the Wahpeton Indian School, where Solon served in various capacities, including coach for many years. He retired in June 1973, and the couple lived on Ottertail Lake in Minnesota. Dora passed away on May 15, 1982. Solon continued to live at Ottertail and married Alyce Grinnell in August 1984 at St. Lawrence Catholic Church, Rush Lake, Minn. He entered the Minnesota Veterans Home, Fergus Falls, Minn., in December 1998. Solon was a member of St. Lawrence Catholic Church and formerly St. John' s Catholic Church, Wahpeton American Legion, Wahpeton VFW, and Knights of Columbus. He was proud of his Native American heritage and was willing to share his Dakota customs with children at schools or families at various events. He enjoyed fishing, hunting, and loved to watch sporting events on TV. He is survived by his wife Alyce Hill, St. Cloud, Minn.; a son, John Hill, Vancouver, Wash.; one grandson, Daniel Hill; two brothers - Sam (Jean) Hill, Wahpeton, N.D., and Solomon (Louise) Hill, Spokane, Wash.; and his sister Genevieve Waseskuk, Tama, Iowa. Solon was preceded in death by his parents, two sisters and a brother - Margaret Hendrickson, Hazel Hill, and Benjamin Hill. Copyright c. 1999-2003 by C. D. Floro/Earth and Sky Enterprises. -=-=-=- January 7, 2004 Lucille "Jan" Bergen-Long Wolf RAPID CITY - Lucille "Jan" Bergen-Long Wolf, 47, Rapid City, died Thursday, Jan. 1, 2004, in Rapid City. Survivors include her father, Jule Bergen, Ozark, Ark.; her husband, Thomas Long Wolf, Rapid City; and two sisters, Mary Mousseau, Rapid City, and Cheryl Richards, Ozark. A one-night wake will begin at 3 p.m. today at Sacred Heart Catholic Church in Pine Ridge. Services will be at 10 a.m. Thursday, Jan. 8, at the church, with the Rev. Steve Sanford and Mr. Charles McGaa officiating. Burial will be at Sacred Heart Catholic Cemetery in Wounded Knee. Sioux Funeral Home of Pine Ridge is in charge of arrangements. January 9, 2004 Melvina B. Backs OGLALA - Melvina B. Backs, 72, Oglala, died Tuesday, Jan. 6, 2004, at Rapid City Regional Hospital. Survivors include her husband, Nason Backs Sr., Oglala; one daughter, Wendy Backs, Oglala; and three sisters, Vestana Red Ear Horse, Christine Lajtay and Philomine Lakota, all of Oglala. A family vigil service will begin at 11 a.m. Saturday, Jan. 10, at the Nason Backs Sr. home. A two-night wake will begin at 7 p.m. Saturday at Brother Rene Catholic Church Hall in Oglala. Services will be at 10 a.m. Monday, Jan. 12, at the church hall, with the Rev. Robert Two Bulls officiating. Burial will be at St. Peter's Episcopal Cemetery in Oglala. Sioux Funeral Home of Pine Ridge is in charge of arrangements. Althea R. Fast Horse LOS ANGELES, Calif. - Althea R. Fast Horse, 40, Los Angeles, died Monday, Dec. 29, 2003, in Los Angeles. Survivors include her husband, Ron Richardson, Los Angeles; two sons, Kevin Dunbar and Coy Gokey, both of Los Angeles; four brothers, Wilbur Fast Horse, Wounded Knee, S.D., Timothy Fast Horse, Coalingua, Calif., Myron Fast Horse, Washington, N.C., and Terry Fast Horse, Denver; and three sisters, Elizabeth Gibbons, Gordon, Neb., Lorraine Bear Eagle, Wounded Knee, and Audrey Fast Horse, Los Angeles. A two-night wake will begin at noon Saturday, Jan. 10, at Sacred Heart Catholic Church in Wounded Knee. Services will be at 10 a.m. Monday, Jan. 12, at the church, with the Rev. Bill Pauly officiating and traditional Lakota services by Mr. Wilmer Mesteth. Burial will be at Fast Horse Creek Cemetery in Wounded Knee. Sioux Funeral Home of Pine Ridge, S.D., is in charge of arrangements. Lydia M. Ice WOUNDED KNEE - Lydia M. Ice, 76, Wounded Knee, died Tuesday, Jan. 6, 2004, in Greeley, Colo. Survivors include two sons, Gerald Ice and Bernard Ice Jr., both of Wounded Knee; one daughter, Norma Ice, Wounded Knee; and one brother, Wallace Black Elk, Denver. A three-night wake will begin at 2:30 p.m. Friday, Jan. 9, at Native American Church in Wounded Knee. Services will be at 9 a.m. Monday, Jan. 12, at the church, with Leonard Crow Dog officiating. Burial will be at Wounded Knee Cemetery. Sioux Funeral Home of Pine Ridge is in charge of arrangements. January 10, 2004 Winston D. Mesteth PINE RIDGE - Winston D. Mesteth, 38, Pine Ridge, died Thursday, Jan. 8, 2004, at Pine Ridge Hospital. Survivors include his wife, Rachel Mesteth, Manderson; one son, Winston Mesteth Jr., Manderson; one daughter, Sandra Mesteth, Manderson; two stepdaughters, Heather Iron Cloud and Jacinta Lipp, both of Manderson; four adopted brothers, Michael DeMartino, Filmore, Calif., Moses Bull Bear and A.V. Fire Thunder, both of Manderson, and Bluch Fire Thunder, Grass Creek; and two sisters, Carol Mesteth and Christine Bores a Hole, Manderson. A two-night wake will begin at 3 p.m. Wednesday, Jan. 14, at Wounded Knee District School in Manderson. Services will be at 10 a.m. Friday, Jan. 16, at the school, with the Rev. Bill Pauly officiating, and traditional Lakota services by Mr. Orville Looking Horse, Mr. Pete Catches Jr. and Mr. Rocky Afraid of Hawk. Burial will be at Mesteth Family Plot, White Horse Creek, Manderson. Sioux Funeral Home of Pine Ridge is in charge of arrangements. David Swallow Sr. PORCUPINE - David Swallow, Sr., age 82, died January 8, 2004, at Pine Ridge Hospital. Survivors include four sons, David Swallow, Jr., Leo Swallow, Porcupine, SD, Richard Swallow of Chadron, NE., and Timothy Swallow, Boston, MA; one stepson, Archie Sierra, Batesland, SD; one daughter, Janice Swallow-Foster of Eureka Springs, Arkansas; two stepdaughters, Delores Tail, Porcupine, SD, Florence Sierra, Batesland, SD; 42 grandchildren; and 27 great- grandchildren. Mr. David Swallow, Sr. entered the U.S. Navy in 1943, and after an injury received during service, that merited him the Purple Heart, he was honorably discharged in 1945. In 1994 he received the Royal Family Chief Headship of the Standing Buffalo Clan. He was preceded in death by 3 wives, one daughter, and two stepdaughters. A three-night wake will begin at 1 p.m. Tuesday, January 13, 2004, at Porcupine CAP Office, Porcupine, SD. Funeral service will be at 2 p.m. Friday, January 16, 2004, at Porcupine CAP Office, with Rev. Emerson Spider and Mr. Aloysius Weasel Bear officiating. Interment will be at Swallow Family Cemetery, Porcupine, SD. Sioux Funeral Home of Pine Ridge is in charge of arrangements. Copyright c. 2004 the Rapid City Journal. -=-=-=- January 9, 2004 Mary V. Fuller Mary Virginia (Rinehart) Fuller, age 86, of Santa Fe, New Mexico, died Friday January 2, 2004. She was preceded in death by her husband Kenneth B. Fuller, brother, C.B. Rinehart and parents, Violet Mae Armstrong and Charles B. Rinehart. Mary was born in Nowata, Oklahoma, on April 2, 1917, to Violet Mae Armstrong and Charles B. Rinehart. She married Kenneth B. Fuller in Wichita, Kansas on August 10, 1957. Mrs. Fuller was a graduate of the Women's Business College in Tonkawa Oklahoma. She was employed by Continental Oil Company from 1937-1957 and later retired from the Bureau of Land Management in Santa Fe. She was also a member of the First Presbyterian Church in Santa Fe and a registered member of the Delaware and Cherokee Indian Tribes. Memorial contributions may be donated to the First Presbyterian Church, the Santa Fe Humane Society or a charity of your choice. Her nephew, Charles W. Rinehart and wife Le of Cotopaxi, Colorado, niece, Suellen Rinehart Lemmon of Mt. Vernon, Washington and numerous grandnieces, nephews, cousins and other relatives, survive her. Interment will be conducted on Tuesday, January 6, 2004 in Nowata, Oklahoma, a memorial service will be announced at a later date. Arrangements are with Benjamin Funeral Service of Nowata. January 12, 2004 Arnold D. Longpine Funeral services for Mr. Arnold Dean Longpine, 60, long time Wann area resident, will be held at 11:00 a.m. on Tuesday in the Wann Community Center, Wann, Oklahoma. Pastor Robert Dewoody will be the officiant. The funeral cortege will drive overland to Oak Hill Cemetery, Chautauqua, Kansas where committal prayers and final rites will be directed by the Arnold Moore Funeral Service. Mr. Longpine will lie in state in the Drawing Rooms of the Arnold Moore Funeral Residence where friends may call for visitation until he is removed to Wann on Tuesday morning. Surviving are his sons, James Gail "Jim" Longpine and wife, Dena Lynn (Harding) Longpine, Fort Gibson, Oklahoma and Loren Dale Longpine and wife, Jody, DeSoto, Kansas; his daughter, Mrs. Kimberly Joyce Gose and husband, Jim, rural Wann, Oklahoma; six grandchildren; and three sisters, Edna Mozetta Spooner, Missouri; Mrs. Alta Slaughter and husband, Lester, Langley, Okla. and Mrs. Ines Ryan and husband, Lewis A., Spavinaw, Okla. In addition to his father, mother and his wife, he was preceded in death by three brothers, Sammie, James W. and Earl Longpine and by two sisters, Frankie Longpine and Loretta Aldora Jones. Copyright c. 2004 the Bartlesville Examiner-Enterprise. -=-=-=- January 8, 2004 Ethelyn Shunatona Hudson PAWNEE - Ethelyn Shunatona Hudson, resident of Pawnee, died Tuesday, Jan. 6, 2003, in the Davis Assisted Living Home in Yale. She was 91. The funeral will be 2 p.m. Saturday, Jan. 10, in the chapel of Poteet Funeral Home in Pawnee. Burial will follow in Highland Cemetery in Pawnee. Ethelyn Shunatona Hudson was born July 29, 1912, in Pawnee, the daughter of Richard Shunatona and Jenny Bayhylle Lincoln. She graduated from Pawnee High School. She lived in Albuquerque, N.M., for 10 years. She was employed as a secretary for the Democratic National Committee in Washington, D.C. After retiring, she moved to Oklahoma and married Bill Pipestem and then Andrew Hudson in Del City. She is a member of the Oklahoma City Powwow Club and a member of the Pawnee Nation. Survivors include son, Robert Evans of Dallas, Texas, and a number of other relatives. She was preceded in death by two husbands; her parents; four brothers; and three sisters. January 11, 2004 Dr. Christina Ruth Akers Services for Dr. Christina Ruth (Harp) Akers, who entered into rest Jan. 6, 2004, at Via Christi Hospital in Ponca City will be held at the Tonkawa United Methodist Church, Monday, Jan. 12, 2004, at 2 p.m. The Rev. Mike Brannon will officiate. Interment will follow at the Fairfax Cemetery in Fairfax. Services are with Anderson Funeral Home. Dr. Akers will lie in state at her home 1008 East Oklahoma Street, Tonkawa. Friends and family are welcome to call. A prayer service will be held at 7 p.m. at her residence. She was born Jan. 21, 1945, in the Pawnee Indian Hospital in Pawnee to Chris and Florence (Sumpter) Harp. She grew up in Fairfax and Ponca City. She graduated from Ponca City High School in 1963. She then attended Northern Oklahoma College, Tonkawa receiving her A.A. in Social Science in 1965. Dr. Akers then attended Northwestern Oklahoma State University receiving her B.S. Ed. in Library Science in 1967. She received her M.L.S. in Library Science from Emporia State University, Emporia, Kan. in 1971. Dr. Akers then attended Oklahoma State University, receiving her Ed.D. in Higher Education Administration in 1990. Christina was employed at Northern Oklahoma College from Sept. 1967 to Nov. 1998. Christina was Assistant Librarian and Instructor of Library Science. She became Librarian in 1983 and Director of Library Services in 1991. She was consultant/evaluator for the North Central Association of Colleges and Schools Commission and Institutions of Higher Education and visited more than 35 colleges as consultant/evaluator from 1972 to 1997. She was Designated Reader from 1985 to 1990. Her honor and awards include, taking leadership and developing grant applications for library materials as Title II-A part of the Higher Education Act of 1973. In 1977 she drafted and submitted for publication "Acquisition Policy for Library and Learning Resources Center for Northern Oklahoma College." The policy was chosen as one of 14 to be reprinted in its entirety from over 500 submissions in Futus: Library Acquisition Policies and procedures. Phoenix: Oryx Press. In 1990, Dr. Akers served as Docent at the Governor's mansion. She was elected Tonkawa City Council Member from 1987-1991. Dr. Akers was appointed to the Governor's Oklahoma Library Technology Advisory Committee in 1993. She was a founder of the Native American Heritage Club, member of the Women's Club, an avid reader, and enjoyed traveling, shopping, and most of all, family. She is survived by one son, Chris M. Akers, his wife Christy and their daughter, Lita. She was preceded in death by her parents, one brother Herman Longstar, four nephews, and one sister-in-law. She will be greatly missed by all who knew her. Copyright c. 1998-2004 The Ponca City News. -=-=-=- January 6, 2004 Thomas Lowe George Thomas Lowe George, 49, of Albuquerque, N.M., died Wednesday, Dec. 31, in Albuquerque, N.M. Survivors include his mother, Lydia Grant Brown; brothers and sisters, Candace Howard, Lydia McConnell, Terry Billiman, Anna Russell, Kenneth George, Lisa Lizarrago and Judy George; aunts, Alice Eason and Claudia Cale; and many nieces and nephews. Service will be 10 a.m. today at First Indian Baptist Church with the Rev. Darrell "Bow" Tiger officiating. Burial will be at Sac and Fox Cemetery in Stroud. Walker Funeral Service is in charge of arrangements. January 10, 2004 Richedean Miranda Bristow resident Richedean Miranda, 53, died Tuesday, Jan. 6, in Bristow. Survivors include her mother, Minnie Harjo of Bristow; two sons, Richard Cruz of Bristow and Michael Anthony Cruz Sr. of Shawnee; a grandson, Michael Anthony Cruz Jr. of Denver, Colo.; two sisters, Patricia Cantley of Oklahoma City and Beverly Davis of Oklahoma City; an uncle, Roman Harjo of Ada; three aunts, Leah Wood of Tecumseh, Dorsett Story and Christine Walker of Konawa; nieces and nephews and other relatives and friends. A wake service was held Friday and a funeral service will be 1:30 p.m. today at Stout Phillips Funeral Home Chapel of Wewoka with the Rev. Steve Holata and Rev. Eddie Lindsey officiating. Burial will follow at Oakwood Cemetery of Wewoka. Copyright c. 1997-2004 The Shawnee News-Star. -=-=-=- January 12, 2004 Jewel Iris Crain Jewel Iris Crain of rural Miami died Saturday, Jan. 10, 2004, at St. John's Medical Center in Tulsa after an illness. She was 81. Crain was born Dec. 20, 1922, in Ottawa County to Dave and Allie (Frazier) DuShane. She lived in Ottawa County most of her life. She worked at a variety of jobs for area restaurants, Green Thumb, the Eastern Shawnee Tribe and the Wyandotte Tribe of Oklahoma. She married Arthur Gene Craine on March 7, 1938. He preceded her in death on March 12, 1982. She was also preceded in death by one son, Arthur David "Sonny" Crain on Dec. 14, 1978; one daughter, Shirley Brendlin on Sept. 26, 2000; five brothers, David, Junior, Jimmy, Chester and a baby boy DuShane, and three sisters, Genevieve Golden, Vance Nelson and Della DuShane. Survivors include one sister, Madelyn Dowd of Granby, Mo., eight grandchildren and several great-grandchildren. Services will be 2 p.m. Wednesday in Seneca, Mo., Cemetery with Leonard Stoner officiating. The family will receive friends from 6 to 8 p.m. Tuesday at the Guilford-Thomas Funeral Home in Miami. The family will gather at Mrs. Crain's home, 65200 E. 100 Rd. Copyright c. 2004 The Miami News-Record. -=-=-=- January 6, 2004 Sinclair Colbert Funeral for Sinclair Colbert, 24, Lawton, will be at 1 p.m. Wednesday at Comanche Nation Funeral Home Chapel with the Rev. Wilfred Niedo and the Rev. Bubba Clarke officiating. Mr. Colbert died Friday, Jan. 2, 2004, in Lawton. Burial will be at Highland Cemetery. A prayer service will be at 7 p.m. Tuesday at the funeral home. He was born Oct. 9, 1979, to Robert and Carmen Klossek Colbert in Kitzingen, Germany. He attended school at Flower Mound and graduated from MacArthur High School. He married Gina Tahdooahnippah in Fort Worth, Texas, on Oct. 6, 2000. Survivors include his wife; two daughters: Jazmen and Crystal; his mother; and a brother, Anthony Colbert, all of the home; a son, Stephen, Cache; his father, Fort Worth; his mother-in-law and father-in-law, Georgia and Frank Waites, Cache; two sisters-in-law: Stephanie and Natasha, both of Cache; his grandparents: Gertrude Tahdooahnippah, Cache; Eleonore Klossek, Kitzingen, Germany; Lillie Colbert, Fort Worth; Doc Colbert and Rachel Colbert, both of Abilene; and many other relatives. He was preceded in death by his sister, Dominique Colbert; his grandfather, Herbert Klossek; and his grandmother, Clarice Tahdooahnippah. January 7, 2004 Gladys Toahty Funeral for Gladys Toahty, 84, Lawton, will be at 1 p.m. Thursday at Comanche Reform Church with the Rev. Charles Spencer and the Rev. Kyle Taylor officiating. A prayer service will be from 7-9 p.m. today at Comanche Nation Funeral Home. Mrs. Toahty died Sunday, Jan. 4, 2004, in Lawton. Burial will be at Highland Cemetery. She was born Nov. 22, 1919, in Walters, to Leslie and Kitty Hokup Ticeahkie. She married Benjamin Toahty in 1946 in Salem, Ore. She was a lifetime member of Comanche Reform Church and the Comanche Tribe. She was an instructional attendant at Chemawa Indian School and Haskell Institute. Survivors include her husband; three daughters: Kittie Toahty, Carla Harjo Nowell and Jo Harjo; a sister, Hope Taylor; three granddaughters: Renea, Vicky and Ali; four great-granddaughters: Brooklyn, Ci'Lina, Jur-Nee and Angelina; and two brothers: Rudy Akoneto and Raleigh Taylor. She was preceded in death by her parents, four sisters and a brother. Ralph C. Nevaquaya Funeral for Ralph C. Nevaquaya, 39, Lawton, will be at 1 p.m. Friday at Comanche Nation Funeral Home with the Rev. Norman Jones, the Rev. Charles Spencer and the Rev. Bo Johnson officiating. A prayer service will be at 7 p.m. Thursday at the funeral home. Mr. Nevaquaya died Monday, Jan. 5, 2004, in Lawton. Burial will be in Highland Cemetery. He was born Nov. 16, 1964, to Frank and Charlene Johnson Nevaquaya. He grew up in Lawton and graduated from Lawton High School in 1983. He attended Cameron University. He married DeLisa Anderson on Dec. 3, 1996, in Wichita Falls, Texas. He was a member of Snyder Primitive Baptist Church, Comanche Reform Church and the Comanche Tribe. Survivors include his mother, Lawton; and two sisters: Cheryl and Mary Nevaquaya, both of Lawton. He was preceded in death by his wife; his father; his grandmother, Margaret Tarsee; and his grandfather, Malcom Nevaquaya. January 8, 2004 Christian J. Hummingbird Funeral for Christian J. Hummingbird, infant son of Thurman Stafford and Sheryl Hummingbird, Lawton, will be at 10 a.m. Friday at Comanche Nation Funeral Home with the Rev. Milton Otis officiating. Christian was born and died Tuesday, Jan. 6, 2004, in Lawton. Burial will be at Mt. Scott KCA Cemetery. Survivors include his parents; a sister, Dorian D. Kristen Hummingbird; his grandmother, Dorthy Ann Kawaykla, Lawton; and two aunts: Clara Acevedo, Lawton; and Lou Geimausaddle and her husband Kevin, Anadarko. He was preceded in death by a brother, Thurman Alvin Hummingbird; a sister, Thersa Lynn Hummingbird; and his grandfather, Joseph Hummingbird. January 10, 2004 Walter Jay Nesahkluah Jr. CARNEGIE - Funeral for Walter Jay Nesahkluah Jr., 58, Carnegie, will be at 11 a.m. Monday at Cedar Creek United Methodist Church, Carnegie, with the Rev. Milton Otis and the Rev. Hurley Goombi officiating. A prayer service will be at 7 p.m. Sunday at Pitcher-Hackney Funeral Home Chapel, Carnegie. Mr. Nesahkluah died Wednesday, Jan. 7, 2004, in Anadarko. Burial will be at Cedar Creek Cemetery, Carnegie. He was born Sept. 9, 1945, in Lawton, to Walter and Ruby Geionety Nesahkluah. He lived most of his life in the Carnegie area and was a member of the Apache tribe of Oklahoma. Survivors include two sons: Virgil Nesahkluah and Clifford Nesahkluah, both of Wichita, Kan.; three grandchildren; his parents, Carnegie; two sisters: Esther NcNamer, Pottsboro, Texas; and Donna Florez, Cedar Hill, Texas; a brother, Corwin Nesahkluah, Carnegie; and many nieces and nephews. Copyright c. 2004 The Lawton Constitution. -=-=-=- January 6, 2004 Billy Tsosie Upper Fruitland Aug. 16, 1924 - Jan. 2, 2004 Billy Tsosie, 79, of Upper Fruitland died peacefully on Friday, Jan. 2, 2004, after a brief illness. He was born Aug. 16, 1924, at Carson. Funeral services will be held at 10 a.m., today, Tuesday, Jan. 6, 2004, at the Carson Faith Assembly of God Church in Carson. Pastor Pauline Platero will officiate. Interment will follow at St. Luke Cemetery in Carson. The family has entrusted Brewer, Lee and Larkin Funeral Home of Shiprock with the arrangements. (505) 368-4607. January 9, 2004 Nathan Tyler Whiterock Kirkland July 13, 2000 - Jan. 5, 2004 Nathan Tyler Whiterock, 3, of Kirtland, went to be an angel in God's army Monday, Jan. 5, 2004. Nathan was born July 13, 2000, in Shiprock, into the Hanagani Clan, for the Tachini' Clan. Nathan is survived by his parents, Harry Whiterock and Jennifer Lee- Cota; sisters, Tara Nicole Whiterock and family of Inglewood, Calif., Krysten L. Cota of Kirtland, and Alyssa R. Whiterock of Kirtland; brothers, Bryan J. Whiterock, John Jeremy Lee, and Jerrod Lee, all of Kirtland; maternal grandmother, Lillian Lee; paternal grandparents, Ben and Annie Whiterock of Red Lake, Ariz.; a special friend at Kirtland Headstart, Eric Woody; and the bus driver, Sam a.k.a. "Ham". He is also survived by numerous aunts, uncles, nieces and nephews, near and far. He was preceded in death by his grandfather, John H. Lee Sr.; aunt, Julianna J. Lee; and a cousin, Rusty Ludgood Jr. Funeral services will be held at 10 a.m., Saturday, Jan. 10, 2004, at the First Baptist Church in Kirtland, with the Rev. Ray Henry officiating. Interment will be at Greenlawn Cemetery in Farmington. a reception will follow at the Nenahnezad Chapter House. Pallbearers will be Johnathan Lee, Jason Lee, Jeremy Lee and Jerrod Lee. Honorary pallbearers will be Kirtland Headstart teachers and classmates, Kirtland Clinic, Staff of Northern Navajo Medical Center, Pediatric Staff of Round Tree Children Service, Catherine Laroque, and the Prader-Willi Association. Funeral arrangements are under the direction of Chapel of Memories Funeral Home of Kirtland, (505) 598-9636. Copyright c. 2004 Farmington Daily Times, a Gannett Co., Inc. newspaper. -=-=-=- January 6, 2004 Francis John Miller GALLUP - Services for Francis Miller, 69, will be 11 a.m., Wednesday, Jan. 7 at the Free Trinity Navajo Mission, Tohlakai. Dennis R. Gardener will officiate. Burial will follow at Gallup City Cemetery. Miller died Jan. 1 in Gallup. He ws born July 28, 1934 in Ramah into the Towering House People Clan for the Salt People Clan. Miller attended Rehoboth Christian School. He was employed with Gallup Sales, Baby Lion, he was an aircraft mechanic, and worked for the Santa Fe Railroad. Her served in the U.S. Army during the Korean War, where he was a sargent and received a Purple Heart. His hobbies including fishing, hunting and watching football. Survivors include his wife, Eunice Miller of Gallup; sons, Francis Miller of Mustang, Okla., Michael Tracey of Crownpoint, Johnny Tracy of Whitewater, Lionald Miller and Steven Tracy both of Gallup; daughters, Joanna Tony of Oklahoma City, Okla., Clara Tracy of Breadsprings, Darlene Tracy of St. Michaels, Ariz. and Charlene Tracy of Whitewater; brothers, Lorence Miller of Denver, Louie Miller of Gallup and Bobby Miller of Borrego Pass; sisters, Maxine Long of Rocksprings, Grace Parker of Manuelito, Angaline Bodenheimer of Albuquerque, Sara Nez of Fillmore, Utah, Gloria Parker of Shiprock, Judy Dixon of Cedar City, Utah, Jane Becenti of Del Horte, Colo., Lilian Larson and Marie Livingston both of Borrego Pass; and 31 grandchildren. Pallbearers will be Chris Miller, Lloyd Long, Herman Long, Vernon Long, Magdeleno Lopez and Joseph Depetee. The family will receive friends and relatives after the burial services at Manuelito Chapter House. Cope Memorial Chapel is in charge of arrangements. Curtis V. Antonio OJO ENCINO - Services for Curtis Antonio will be held at 1 p.m., Thursday, Jan. 8 at the Torreon Mission in Cuba, N.M. Antonio died Dec. 29 in Ojo Encino. He was born March 29, 1946 in Ojo Encino into the Bitterwater People Clan for the Red House People Clan. Antonio graduated from Cuba High School and earned an auto mechanic certificate from a trade school in Dallas, Texas. He was employed with the Navajo Forest Products Industries in Navajo, N.M., Vigil's Garage in Cuba, N.M. and the Coca-Cola Bottling, Co., in Fort Worth, Texas. Survivors include his daughter, Karen Kunkel of Farmington; sons, Carlos Antonio of Albuquerque and Kirk Antonio of Phoenix; brother, Eugene Antonio of Window Rock; sisters, Ethel Kee of Klagetoh, Ariz., Rena Antonio of Ojo Encino and Lilyan Calvin of Tse Bonito; and three grandchildren Antonio was preceded in death by his parents, Charlie and Carrie Rico Antonio. Pallbearers will be Carlos Antonio, Kirk Antonio, Roland Yazzie, Robert Yazzie, Jr., Ryan Yazzie and Marshall Castillo. The family will receive friends and relatives after the burial services at Rena Antonio's residence in Ojo Encino. Shane Jonah Jerell Jones SAGEBRUSH - Services for Shane Jones, 12, will be 11 a.m., Wednesday, Jan. 7 at the Gallup Church of Jesus Christ of Latter Day Saints Stake Center. President Haswood will officiate. Burial will follow at the private family cemetery, Sagebrush. Jones died Jan. 2 in Gallup. He was born Nov. 26, 1991 in Gallup into the Edge Water People Clan for the Towering House People Clan. Jones was a member of the FFA at Gallup Mid School. His hobbies included fishing, and reading books. Survivors include his parents, Agnes Ramone and Jonah Emerson Jones Sr. both Sagebrush; brothers, Donovan Jones of China Springs, Jonah Jones Jr. of Lupton, Ariz. Jonar Jones of Germany, Germaine Jones and Jonath Jones both of Gallup, Israelle Jones, Misiah Jones and Derek Yabeny all of Sagebrush; sisters, Gernalyn Jones of Gallup, Margarita Jones, Sheena Jones, Sherra Jones and Savannah Yabeny all of Sagebrush; and grandmother, Elsie Mariano of Smith Lake. Jones was preceded in death by his grandparents, Howard Abeita, Jones and Kee Jones. Pallbearers will be Jonah Jones Jr., Jonah Jones Sr., Jonar Jones, Margarita Jones, Johnson Klen Jr. and Derek Yabeny. The family will receive friends and relatives after the burial services at Tohlakai Church of Jesus Christ of Latter Day Saints. Rollie Mortuary is in charge of arrangements. Irene Jake LITTLEWATER - Services for Irene Jake, 76, will be 10 a.m., Wednesday, Jan. 7 at Hosanna Pentecostal Church, Crownpoint. Pastor Harry Cayatinete will officiate. Burial will follow at Crownpoint Community Cemetery. Jake died Jan. 1 in Crownpoint. She was born Nov. 1, 1927 in Whitehorse Lake into the Ute People Clan for the Tangle People Clan. Survivors include her daughter, Sadie Largo of Crownpoint; brothers, Johnnie Jake of Fort Defiance, Ariz., Roger Jake of Crownpoint, Jimmy Jake Thompson of Hospah, Arthur Jake and Sammie Jake both of Pueblo Pintado; sisters, Roselyn Jake of Lake Valley, Rose Jim of Pueblo Pintado, Virginia Pinto of Gallup and Jennie Shorty of Tohajillee; and nine grandchildren. Jake was preceded in death by her parents, Naazbah and Sam Jake; and brothers, Albert Jake, Alfred Jake and Willie Jake. Pallbearers will be Brian Burnside, Kirby Chapo, Harry B. John, Lajonas Largo, Stephen Perry Jr. and Harrison Sam. Rollie Mortuary is in charge of arrangements. Lillian Apachito-Yazzie GREASEWOOD, Ariz. - Services for Lillian Yazzie, 64, were 10 a.m., Monday, Jan. 5 at The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter Day Saints, Greasewood. Burial followed at the Greasewood Cemetery. Yazzie died Dec. 31 in Ganado, Ariz. She was born Oct. 15, 1939 in Canoncito into the Red Running into the Water People Clan for the Two Who Came To Water People Clan. Yazzie attended Canoncito Elementary School and Albuquerque Indian School. She was employed with the Greasewood School as a custodian. She was a member of The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter- Day Saints and the Native American Church of Navajo land. Her hobbies included cooking, making arts & craft projects, gardening and traveling. Survivors include her husband, Guy V. Yazzie of Greasewood; son, Harold J. Platero-Yazzie of Flagstaff, Ariz.; daughters, Marita Rose Begay and Percinda Yazzie both of Greasewood; sisters, Selena Secatero and Lorita Secatero both of Canoncito; and brother: Phillip Apachito of Crownpoint. Yazzie was preceded in death by her parents, Mary Wood and Tom Apachito; son, Moses Apachito; and sisters, Cecelia Pablo and Clara Secatero. Pallbearers were Harold Platero- Yazzie, Ted Secatero, Manual Chavez, Tyrone Etsitty, Norman Lee and Tyson Lee. Cecelia Martine Benally RAMAH - Services for Cecelia Benally, 59, will be 10 a.m., Wednesday, Jan. 7 at Ramah Navajo Church of the Nazarena. Burial will follow on private family plot, Ramah. Benally died Dec. 31 in Gallup. She was born May 1, 1944 in Ramah into the Jemez People Clan for the Bitter Water People Clan. Benally was employed with the federal govenment. She was a member of the Navajo Nazarene Church. Her hobbies included baking, traveling, dancing and arts & crafts. Survivors include her husband, Russell Benally; son, Brandon Benally; mother, Rose C. Henio; brothers, Bradley Henio of Coyote Canyon, Dave Martine, Norman N. Marine Sr. and Gilbert Henio all ofRamah; and sisters, Darlene Martine of Las Vegas, Shirley Henio, Sherry Henio and Brenda Bee all of Ramah and grandparent Kee Yazzie PIno. Benally was preceded in death by father, Leo Narcisco Martine; brothers, Anderson Henio and Emerson Henio; sisters, Elouise Martine and Esther Martine; and grandmother, Lena Yazzie Pino. Pallbearers will be Alfonso N. Martine, Bradley Henio, Brandon Benally, Tyrone Henio, Clinton P. Martine and Jason L. Andrews. Cope Memorial Chapel is in charge of arrangements. January 7, 2004 Roy Spencer BREADSPRINGS - Services for Roy Spencer, 82, will be at 10 a.m., Thursday, Jan. 8 at St. Francis Catholic Church, Gallup. Joe Redinbo will officiate. Burial will follow at Gallup City Cemetery. Spencer died Jan. 5 in Gallup. He was born May 9, 1921 in Mentmore into the Salt People Clan for the Black Streak Wood People Clan. Spencer was employed with the railroad and with Bread Springs Day School. He was a traditional medicine man and a roadman. Survivors include his wife, Mary T. Spencer of Bread Springs; sons, Andrew Spencer of Chichiltah, Ronald Spencer and Nelson Spencer both of Prewitt; Richard Spncer, LeRoy Spencer of Bread Springs, Sampson Spencer of Gallup and Daniel Spencer of Spencer Valley; daughter, Charlene Spencer of Bread Springs; 15 grandchildren; and three great-grandchildren. Spencer was preceded in death by his sons, Erman and Teddy Spencer; parents, Chin has Bah and Herbert Spencer; and brother, Robert Spencer. Pallbearers will be Sampson Spencer, Daniel Spencer, Nelson Spencer, Patrick Spencer, Emery Spencer and Robert Dunsworth. Cope Memorial Chapel is in charge of arrangements. January 8, 2004 Edison Yazzie Sr. WIDE RUINS, Ariz. - Services for Edison Yazzie, Sr., 52, will be 11 a.m., Friday, Jan. 9 at Assembly of God Church, Fort Defiance, Ariz. Pastor Ramone H. Yazzie will officiate. Burial will follow at Ganado Community Cemetery. Visitation will be held from 3-7 p.m., today at Silver Creek Mortuary. Yazzie died Jan. 5 in Wide Ruins. He was born Oct. 25, 1951 in Ganado into the Bitter Water People Clan for the Salt People Clan. Yazzie attended Ganado High School. He was employed with the Navajo Nation Department of Law Enforcement and Deluxe Painting, White Mountain, Apache Forestry. His hobbies included camping, fishing, traveling and gambling. Survivors include his wife, Rita Nelson of Wide Ruins; sons, Edison Yazzie Jr. of Lukachukai, Ariz. and Duane Yazzie of Fort Defiance, Ariz.; daughters, Velma Yazzie of Albuquerque, Marsha Yazzie of Wide Ruins, Jennifer Bahe of Phoenix and Cynthia Smiley of Window Rock; mother, Irene C. Yazzie of Ganado; brothers, Jonathan Yazzie, Peterson Yazzie and Robert Blackgoat all of Ganado; sisters, Rena Allison and Lena Yazzie both of Ganado; and 14 grandchildren. Yazzie was preceded in death by her father, Bennie Yazzie; brother, Benson Yazzie; and grandparents, Charlie and Mary Curley. Pallbearers will be Jonathan Yazzie, Edison Yazzie Jr., Aaron Yazzie, Jeremy Bahe, Malcolm Dakai and Ernest Allison. The family will receive friends and relatives after the burial services at All Saints Mission Hall, Ganado. Helen Rose Begay ROUND ROCK, Ariz. - Services for Helen Begay, 62, were 10 a.m., today at St. Isabel Mission. Father Caron Vollmer officiated. Burial followed at Lukachukai Community Cemetery. Begay was born June 24, 1941 in Round Rock into the Edgewater People Clan for the Mexican People Clan. Begay was a homemaker. Survivors include his wife, Jimmie Begay; sons, Cecil Yazzie and Archie Begay; daughters, Anna Christine Yazzie and Marlene Yazzie; mother, Ida Yazzie; brothers, Johnnie Lee Yazzie and Larry Yazzie; sisters, Mary Benally, Betty Leonard, Lorraine Y. King, Agnes Harvey, Marie McCabe, Dorothy Scott, Alice Marie Yazzie and Stella Begay; and 15 grandchildren. Begay was preceded in death by her daughter, Karen Rae Begay; father, James Yazzie; and grandparents, Yanabah and Joe Blinkey. Pallbearers were Archie Begay, Larry Yazzie, Gerald Allen, Sylvester Allen, Myron McCabe and Ranier Harvey. Tse Bonito Mortuary is in charge of arrangements. Leonard Peshlakai SOSILA BUTTES, Ariz. - Services for Leonard Peshlakai, 76, were 11 a.m., today at Blessed Sacrament Catholic Church, Fort Defiance, Ariz. Father Gilbert Schnieder will officiate. Burial will follow on familyland, Sonsela Buttes. Peshlakai died Jan. 3 in Albuquerque. He was born Feb. 18, 1927 in So'sila Buttes into the Honey Combed Rock People Clan for the Blacksheep People Clan. Peshlakai graduated from Albuquerque Indian School. He served in the Korean War and was a Veteran with Company 'C', 185th Engineer Battalion. Leonard received a two Bronze Stars, the United Nations Service Medal. He was employed with the BIA Branch of Roads, Fort Defiance Agency, as a surveryor. His hobbies included farming, ranching, gardening and reading. Survivors include his son, Chancellor Damon of Kirtland; daughters, Debra Adams-McLaughlin of So'sila Buttes; sisters, Myrtle Peshlakai Hermes, of So'sila Buttes and Laura Wallace of Window Rock; 31 grandchildren; 16 great-grandchildren; and two great-great grandchildren. Peshlakai was preceded in death by his wife, Louise Curley Damon; parents, Mary Dodge and Carl Peshlakai Sr.; brother, Carl Peshlakai Jr.; and sister, Katherine Paquin. Pallbearers were Brian Halona, Leland Hermes, Geoffery Wallace, Joseph Damon, William V. Damon and James Leslie. Tse Bonito Mortuary is in charge of arrangements. January 10, 2004 Richard S. Pinto CROWNPOINT - Services for Richard Pinto, 87, will be 10 a.m. today, Jan. 10, at St. Paul Catholic Church. Rev. Sherman Manuelito will officiate. Burial will follow at Crownpoint Community Cemetery. Pinto died Jan. 5 in Crownpoint. He was born July 13, 1916, in Whitehorse Lake into the Near the Mountain People Clan for the Black Streak People Clan. Pinto was employed with McKinley County School as a custodian, with Union Pacific Railroad Co. and as a rancher. He was a member of the Native American Church, served as a roadman. Survivors include his wife, Nancy Pinto; sons, Emerson Pinto of Crownpoint, Jerry Wayne Pinto of Naschitti and Peterson Pinto of Thoreau; daughters, Clara Sells of Ojo Caliente, Roberta Bearpaw of Espanola, Marie Ann Pinto of Espanola, Eva M. Littlefield of Tohatchi, and Julia Jayne Martinez of Thoreau; sister, Annie Betoney; 34 grandchildren; 22 great- grandchildren; and three great-great grandchildren. Pallbearers will be Jerry Wayne Pinto, Terrence A. Benally, Emerson Pinto, Anselm Yazzie, Mike Yazzie and Johnny Arrettia. Cope Memorial Chapel is in charge of arrangements. TiRiley Raye Garcia TSA YA TOH - Services for TiRiley Raye Garcia, infant, will be 10 a.m. Monday, Jan. 12, at Gallup Christian Church. Sherman will officiate. Burial will follow at Gallup City Cemetery. Garcia died Jan. 7 in Tsa Ya Toh. He was born Dec. 18 in Gallup into the Red Running into the Water People Clan for the Edgewater People Clan. Survivors include his parents, Shylynn McCray and Timothy R. Garcia; and grandparents, Jake and Annie McCray and Leo and Nellie Garcia. Pallbearers will be Byron J. McCray and Leo Garcia Jr. The family will receive friends and relatives after the burial services at Tsa Ya Toh Mult-Purpose Building. Cope Memorial Chapel is in charge of arrangements. Monica Begay LUKACHUKAI, Ariz. - Services for Monica Begay, 50, will be 10 a.m. Monday, Jan. 12 at St. Isabeil Church, Lukachukai. Burial will follow at Lukachukai Community Cemetery. Begay died Jan. 8 in Chinle, Ariz. She was born July 18, 1953, in Lukachukai into the Tangle People Clan into the Coyote Pass People Clan. Survivors include her husband, Alfred C. Begay; son, Travis Nakaidinae; daughters, Trudi Nakaidinae, Melissa Begay, Marielynn Begay and Vaness Begay; brothers, Billy Tom, Jerry Smith, Kenneth Smith and Cheetah Smith; sisters, Irene Sarreceno and Betty Leonard; and nine grandchildren. Begay was preceded in death by her parents, James and Mary Smith. Pallbearers will be Adrian Nez, Vernon Nez, Arthur Chee, Dennis Begay Jr, Larry Nez and Raymond Leonard. The family will receive friends and relatives after the burial services at Lukachukai Chapter House. Tse Bonito Mortuary is in charge of arrangements. Edison Lee Begay STEAMBOAT, Ariz. - Services for Edison Begay, 45, will be 10 a.m. Monday, Jan. 12, at Ganado All Saints Catholic Church. Visitation will be from noon to 1 p.m. today at Tse Bonito Mortuary. Begay died Jan. 2 in Gallup. He was born Sept. 19, 1958, in Steamboat into the Water Edge People Clan for the Red House People Clan. Survivors include his wife, Millie Eskeet; mother, Helen B. Begay; brothers, Larry Begay of St. Michaels, Ariz., Jackson Begay of Steamboat and Clifford Begay of Winslow, Ariz.; sisters, Helena Slickey of Tse Bonito, Roselyn Yazzie of St. Michaels, Rosita Begay of Grants and Charlotte Begay of Chinle, Ariz. Begay was preceded in death by his father, Lenard Begay and grandmother, Mary Bia. Pallbearers will be Ronald Kinlicheenie, Steward Slinkey, Stanley Slinkey, Daniel Begay Jr., Darrick Begay and Jerome Mann. The family will receive friends and relatives after the burial services at Steamboat Chapter House. Tse Bonito Mortuary is in charge of arrangements. Lyomie Hannah Yazzie CROSS CANYON, Ariz. - Services for Lyomie Yazzie, infant, were 10 a.m. Thursday, Jan. 8, at St. Michaels Catholic Church. Father Gilbert officiated. Burial followed at Kinlichee Cemetery. Yazzie died Jan. 7 in Kinlichee, Ariz. She was born Aug. 4 in Fort Defiance, Ariz., into the Black Streaks Forest People Clan for the Water Edge People Clan. Survivors include her parents, Candace Hannah of Cross Canyon and Austin Yazzie of St. Michaels, Ariz.; sister, Chelsea Yazzie of Cross Canyon; and grandparents, Yvonne Descheenie of Kinlichee, Benjamin and Elizabeth Yazzie both of Window Rock, and Steve Begay of Sanders, Ariz. Yazzie was preceded in death by her grandfather, Rick Hannah. Pallbearers will be Steve Begay and Austin A. Yazzie. Rollie Mortuary is in charge of arrangements. Kee Tapaha WIDE RUINS, Ariz. - Services for Kee Tapaha, 84, will be 10 a.m. Monday, Jan. 12, at Wide Ruins Community Cemetery in Wide Ruins, Ariz. Burial will also be at Wide Ruins Community Cemetery. Tapaha died Jan. 8 in Gallup. He was born May 8, 1919, in Wide Ruins into the Towering House Clan for the One Who Walks Around Clan. He retired from Santa Fe Railroad as at trackman. He was also a Navajo herbalist. Survivors include sons, Raymond Tapaha, of Phoenix, and Clyde Tapaha, Mariano Lake; daughters, Glenda Ashley, Rita Whitney, Sadie Billie, and Ruby Toddy, of Wide Ruins; brother, Charles Tapaha, Wide Ruins; sister, Alice Yazzie, Wide Ruins; 19 grandchildren and 10 great-grandchildren. Tapaha was preceded in death by his wife, Grace Tapaha; sons Philbert Toddy, Orlando Toddy, Kyle Tapaha and Derrick Tapaha. January 12, 2004 Richard S. Pinto CROWNPOINT - Services for Richard Pinto, 87, will be 10 a.m. today, Jan. 10, at St. Paul Catholic Church. Rev. Sherman Manuelito will officiate. Burial will follow at Crownpoint Community Cemetery. Pinto died Jan. 5 in Crownpoint. He was born July 13, 1916, in Whitehorse Lake into the Near the Mountain People Clan for the Black Streak People Clan. Pinto was employed with McKinley County School as a custodian, with Union Pacific Railroad Co. and as a rancher. He was a member of the Native American Church, served as a roadman. Survivors include his wife, Nancy Pinto; sons, Emerson Pinto of Crownpoint, Jerry Wayne Pinto of Naschitti and Peterson Pinto of Thoreau; daughters, Clara Sells of Ojo Caliente, Roberta Bearpaw of Espanola, Marie Ann Pinto of Espanola, Eva M. Littlefield of Tohatchi, and Julia Jayne Martinez of Thoreau; sister, Annie Betoney; 34 grandchildren; 22 great- grandchildren; and three great-great grandchildren. Pallbearers will be Jerry Wayne Pinto, Terrence A. Benally, Emerson Pinto, Anselm Yazzie, Mike Yazzie and Johnny Arrettia. Cope Memorial Chapel is in charge of arrangements. TiRiley Raye Garcia TSA YA TOH - Services for TiRiley Raye Garcia, infant, will be 10 a.m. Monday, Jan. 12, at Gallup Christian Church. Sherman will officiate. Burial will follow at Gallup City Cemetery. Garcia died Jan. 7 in Tsa Ya Toh. He was born Dec. 18 in Gallup into the Red Running into the Water People Clan for the Edgewater People Clan. Survivors include his parents, Shylynn McCray and Timothy R. Garcia; and grandparents, Jake and Annie McCray and Leo and Nellie Garcia. Pallbearers will be Byron J. McCray and Leo Garcia Jr. The family will receive friends and relatives after the burial services at Tsa Ya Toh Mult-Purpose Building. Cope Memorial Chapel is in charge of arrangements. Monica Begay LUKACHUKAI, Ariz. - Services for Monica Begay, 50, will be 10 a.m. Monday, Jan. 12 at St. Isabeil Church, Lukachukai. Burial will follow at Lukachukai Community Cemetery. Begay died Jan. 8 in Chinle, Ariz. She was born July 18, 1953, in Lukachukai into the Tangle People Clan into the Coyote Pass People Clan. Survivors include her husband, Alfred C. Begay; son, Travis Nakaidinae; daughters, Trudi Nakaidinae, Melissa Begay, Marielynn Begay and Vaness Begay; brothers, Billy Tom, Jerry Smith, Kenneth Smith and Cheetah Smith; sisters, Irene Sarreceno and Betty Leonard; and nine grandchildren. Begay was preceded in death by her parents, James and Mary Smith. Pallbearers will be Adrian Nez, Vernon Nez, Arthur Chee, Dennis Begay Jr. Larry Nez and Raymond Leonard. The family will receive friends and relatives after the burial services at Lukachukai Chapter House. Tse Bonito Mortuary is in charge of arrangements. Edison Lee Begay STEAMBOAT, Ariz. - Services for Edison Begay, 45, will be 10 a.m. Monday, Jan. 12, at Ganado All Saints Catholic Church. Visitation will be from noon to 1 p.m. today at Tse Bonito Mortuary. Begay died Jan. 2 in Gallup. He was born Sept. 19, 1958, in Steamboat into the Water Edge People Clan for the Red House People Clan. Survivors include his wife, Millie Eskeet; mother, Helen B. Begay; brothers, Larry Begay of St. Michaels, Ariz., Jackson Begay of Steamboat and Clifford Begay of Winslow, Ariz.; sisters, Helena Slickey of Tse Bonito, Roselyn Yazzie of St. Michaels, Rosita Begay of Grants and Charlotte Begay of Chinle, Ariz. Begay was preceded in death by his father, Lenard Begay and grandmother, Mary Bia. Pallbearers will be Ronald Kinlicheenie, Steward Slinkey, Stanley Slinkey, Daniel Begay Jr., Darrick Begay and Jerome Mann. The family will receive friends and relatives after the burial services at Steamboat Chapter House. Tse Bonito Mortuary is in charge of arrangements. Lyomie Hannah Yazzie CROSS CANYON, Ariz. - Services for Lyomie Yazzie, infant, were 10 a.m. Thursday, Jan. 8, at St. Michaels Catholic Church. Father Gilbert officiated. Burial followed at Kinlichee Cemetery. Yazzie died Jan. 7 in Kinlichee, Ariz. She was born Aug. 4 in Fort Defiance, Ariz., into the Black Streaks Forest People Clan for the Water Edge People Clan. Survivors include her parents, Candace Hannah of Cross Canyon and Austin Yazzie of St. Michaels, Ariz.; sister, Chelsea Yazzie of Cross Canyon; and grandparents, Yvonne Descheenie of Kinlichee, Benjamin and Elizabeth Yazzie both of Window Rock, and Steve Begay of Sanders, Ariz. Yazzie was preceded in death by her grandfather, Rick Hannah. Pallbearers will be Steve Begay and Austin A. Yazzie. Rollie Mortuary is in charge of arrangements. Kee Tapaha WIDE RUINS, Ariz. - Services for Kee Tapaha, 84, will be 10 a.m. Monday, Jan. 12, at Wide Ruins Community Cemetery in Wide Ruins, Ariz. Burial will also be at Wide Ruins Community Cemetery. Tapaha died Jan. 8 in Gallup. He was born May 8, 1919, in Wide Ruins into the Towering House Clan for the One Who Walks Around Clan. He retired from Santa Fe Railroad as at trackman. He was also a Navajo herbalist. Survivors include sons, Raymond Tapaha, of Phoenix, and Clyde Tapaha, Mariano Lake; daughters, Glenda Ashley, Rita Whitney, Sadie Billie, and Ruby Toddy, of Wide Ruins; brother, Charles Tapaha, Wide Ruins; sister, Alice Yazzie, Wide Ruins; 19 grandchildren and 10 great-grandchildren. Tapaha was preceded in death by his wife, Grace Tapaha; sons Philbert Toddy, Orlando Toddy, Kyle Tapaha and Derrick Tapaha. Copyright c. 2004 the Gallup Independent. -=-=-=- January 7, 2004 Gale Lawrence Jr. Simnasho resident Gale Lawrence Jr. died Dec. 30, as the result of a car accident. He was 41. Mr. Lawrence was born Aug. 17, 1962, in Redmond to parents Gale Lawrence Sr. and Marilyn Dick. He was an enrolled member of the Confederated Tribes of Warm Springs. On March 13, 1988, he married Marva Lawrence in Reno, Nev. He was employed as a sorter operator for Warm Springs Forests Products Industries. Survivors include his wife, Marva of Warm Springs; sons, Glen Whiz and Gale Lawrence III, both of Warm Springs; daughters, Promis, Esther, Doris, and Dashina Lawrence, all of Warm Springs; brothers, Daniel Lawrence of Warm Springs, Frederick and John Lawrence, both of Goldendale, Wash.; sisters, Agnes Arthur, Valerie Suiava, Stacy Logan, Carolyn Lawrence, all of Warm Springs, and Kathy Lawrence of Goldendale, Wash. The dressing ceremony and overnight services were held Dec. 31, at Agency Longhouse in Warm Springs, and burial was at sunrise, Jan. 1, 2004, at the Agency Cemetery in Warm Springs. Arrangements were under the direction of Bel-Air Colonial Funeral Home. Gale Lawrence Sr. Warm Springs resident Gale Lawrence Sr. died Dec. 30, 2003, of natural causes at the age of 62. Mr. Lawrence was born March 12, 1941, in Lapwai, Idaho, to parents Daniel Lawrence and Nora Jackson. He was an enrolled member of the Nez Pierce tribe. On Aug. 11, 1959, he and his wife Marilyn were married at the Warm Springs Baptist Church. Mr. Lawrence was self-employed as a logger. Survivors include his sons, Daniel Lawrence of Warm Springs, Frederick and John Lawrence, both of Goldendale, Wash.; daughters, Agnes Arthur, Valerie Suiava, Stacy Logan, Carolyn Lawrence, all of Warm Springs, and Kathy Lawrence of Goldendale, Wash.; and sister, Faye Compos of Lapwai, Idaho. He was preceded in death by his wife; son, Gale Lawrence Jr., who passed away on the same day; and two sisters. The dressing ceremony and overnight services were held Dec. 31, at the Agency Longhouse in Warm Springs, with burial at sunrise Jan. 1, 2004, at the Agency Cemetery in Warm Springs. Arrangements were under the direction of Bel-Air Colonial Funeral Home of Madras. Copyright c. 2001-2004 Madras Pioneer, Eagle Newspapers Inc./Madras, OR. -=-=-=- January 10, 2004 Clara Littlewhirlwind LAME DEER - Clara Littlewhirlwind, 64, died Wednesday, Jan. 7, 2004, at Deaconess Billings Clinic. Services will be at 1 p.m. Saturday at the Lame Deer Mennonite Church with burial in the Lame Deer Cemetery. Rausch Funeral Home is in charge. Copyright c. 2004 The Billings Gazette, a division of Lee Enterprises. -=-=-=- Golden Triangle On-Line Obituaries The following obituaries appeared in the Cut Bank Pioneer Press, Shelby Promoter, Valierian or Glacier Reporter this week. January 7, 2004 Peter Home Gun III Peter Home Gun III, 32, of Starr School, a laborer and rancher, died Thursday, Jan. 1, 2004 from injuries he received in an automobile accident near Browning. His funeral is today at 2 p.m. Thursday, Jan. 8 at the Little Flower Parish, with burial in the Home Gun Cemetery. Day Funeral Home is handling arrangements. He was born Feb. 17, 1971 in Browning and raised in Browning and the Starr School Community. He graduated from Browning High School in 1989. He was a Montana Indian Firefighter, from 1989-2002. He was a laborer at St. Mary's Lodge and Resort. He also worked as a cement contractor, ranch laborer and at a Kalispell Christmas tree orchard. He married Anna M. No Runner in 1996 in Cut Bank, they later divorced in 2002. He participated in Feast of the Sacred Blessing of horses and riders, Starr School Community and the North American Indian Days Parade. He enjoyed riding and breaking horses, carpentry, drawing art work, leather crafts and saddlery, basketball, family picnics and branding, swimming and fishing. Survivors include his mother Delores Home Gun; sisters Carol Faye Home Gun, Valerie Home Gun, Lottie Ann Trombley, Catherine Little Dog and Cecile Lynn Home Gun; brothers Clyde V. Home Gun and David Home Gun, aunts Florence Horn and Marie (Luke) Goings, a cousin Patty Home Gun, and numerous nieces and nephews all of Starr School. He was preceded in death by his father Clarence Home Gun, brothers Clement Home Gun and Casey L. Home Gun. Copyright c. 2004 Golden Triangle Newspapers. -=-=-=- January 6, 2004 Anne Hancock Wiya Najin 'Standing Woman' BILLINGS - Wolf Point native Anne Hancock Wiya Najin "Standing Woman," 89, a former nurse, died of natural causes Friday at a Billings hospital. Her funeral is 7 p.m. Tuesday at Blue Sky Ministries in Wolf Point. Her funeral is 10 a.m. Wednesday at Blue Sky Ministries, with burial in King Cemetery. Condolences may be sent to the family by visiting www. stevensonandsons.com or by e-mail at csmcnemontel.net. Clayton Stevenson Memorial Chapel of Wolf Point is handling arrangements. Anne is survived by one son John Pipe and his family, Shelly, Johnelle, Buddy and Heaven-Lee Devonne; nieces Marie Esparza and Joy Martin, Iris Anderson and Beverly Ackerman; nephews A.T. "Rusty" Stafne, Bill Whitehead and Lyle Denny, all of Wolf Point, and Russell Denny of Fort Kipp; and a cousin, Lavina Loves Him of San Jose, Calif. Anne Hancock passed away Jan. 2, 2004, in Billings. Anne was born on Dec. 17, 1914, two miles east of Wolf Point in her grandparents' log house. Anne was raised by her father (Appears in the day) Tom Hancock, as her mother passed away when she was 4 months old. Her grandmother Medicine Cloud assisted in her upbringing through the Indian way. She didn't start to speak her second language, English, until she was 3 years old. She graduated from Wolf Point High School in 1932 with honors and received two scholarships. She chose the Colonial Dames of America scholarship and attended College in Philadelphia, Pa., at William Penn School of Nursing. The college in Pennsylvania sent Anne on an internship to Sacramento, Calif., then to Winslow, Ariz., and finally to Pawnee, Okla., to gain experience. She returned to Philadelphia and received her diploma for nursing; thus Anne was the first full-blood Assiniboine from the Fort Peck Indian Reservation to become a registered nurse. Anne worked at the Pennsylvania hospital as a visiting home nurse in the Philadelphia area for 10 years, working in all aspects of the field and with all types of races. She also worked with other hospitals in northern and southern Pennsylvania. She finished her tenure as charge nurse of the 15-story Pennsylvania hospital, which is the second oldest hospital in America, working the evening shift. After working in Philadelphia for 20 years, she proudly returned home to the reservation. In 1966, she was recruited to run what was then called the health and home aid management program for the tribes, which later evolved into the CHR program. After 22 years of working at home for the Fort Peck Tribes and caring for many of her tribal members, she retired. She was fluent in her native Assiniboine language and culture. She spent her remaining years reminiscing of time past, relaxing, doing crossword puzzles, spending time with her great-grandchildren, driving around and working outdoors. She also enjoyed company, visiting and telling stories of her life ventures, the old days growing up and, of course, her journey off the reservation competing in the non-Indian world and being successful at it. Anne was preceded in death by her mother; her father; three sisters; one brother; niece Joanne Pipe; and nephew Gary Medicine Cloud Sr. Copyright c. 2004 Great Falls Tribune, a division of Lee Enterprises. -=-=-=- January 6, 2003 James Mesak Sr., 62 Kipnuk Lifelong Alaskan James Mesak Sr., 62, died Jan. 1, 2004, at Alaska Native Medical Center in Anchorage. No local service is planned. Mr. Mesak was born March 31, 1941, in Kipnuk. He was a retired fisherman. Survivors include his wife, Mary Mesak; sons and daughters-in-law, Thomas and Abigail Mesak and James Jr. and Kayleen Mesak; daughters and sons-in-law, Ella and Stephen Doak, and Donna and Bradley Amos; daughter- in-law, Olga Mesak; and 16 grandchildren. His sons, Chester and Oscar, preceded him in death. Arrangements were with Evergreen Memorial Chapel. January 7, 2004 Clayton Henry, infant Quinhagak Quinhagak resident Clayton Wassilie Henry, infant, died Jan. 2, 2004, from meningitis at the Alaska Native Medical Center in Anchorage. A funeral and burial will be in Quinhagak. Pallbearers will be Carl Johnson, George Paul Johnson, Andrew Henry and Alexie Henry. Clayton was born Sept. 3, 2003, in Bethel. He was a member of the Moravian church. His family said he was much loved and a very cheerful little boy. "He loved to spend time with his grandparents, aunts and uncles. He loved and adored his grandfather." Clayton is survived by his parents, John and Tina Henry; sister, Kaitlyn B. Henry; grandfather, Julius Henry of Twin Hills; grandparents, George and Pauline Johnson of Quinhagak; aunt, Marc Sandra Henry of Tuntutuliak, Alice Johnson and Rose Johnson of Quinhagak; uncles, Andrew Henry of Bethel, Alexie Henry, Carl Johnson, George Paul Johnson, Frank Johnson, all of Quinhagak; great-grandmother, Anesia Bavilla of Quinhagak; and many great-aunts, uncles and cousins. Clayton was preceded in death by his grandmother, Polly Henry; great- grandparents, Adolph and Katie Johnson and Mark and Helena Henry; great- -grandfather, Joshua Bavilla; great-uncle, Frank Bavilla; and great-aunt, Annie Johnson. Arrangements were with Evergreen Memorial Chapel. Copyright c. 2004 The Anchorage Daily News. -=-=-=- January 7, 2004 Richard Bird October 12, 1948 - January 6, 2004 Niizhwesagoneb Clan - Numae (Sturgeon) Richard Bird passed away Tuesday, January 6, 2004. He is survived by his loving and devoted wife, Agnes Bird (nee Blackhawk) of 36 years; sons Colin James (Brenda), Chris (Joyce), and Cardinal (Marge); and daughter Carmen (Rob). Niizhwesagoneb was a life long devoted and loving husband to his wife, Agnes, whose needs were always his priority and in turn, he received her forever tender loving care and attention. On December 20th Richard and Agnes happily celebrated their 36th wedding anniversary with all their proud children and family at their side. To his children, Colin, Chris, Cardinal and Carmen, he was the best Dad and there were very few days when he didn't make contact to let them know he was there for them always. Predeceased by his son, Little Richard John Moses, mother Betty Crow, father Moses Bird, sister Marlene, brothers Raymond, James, Charlie, Joe, nephews Melvin and Gary, and nieces Melvina and Lorraine. He leaves to mourn special daughters Nadine, Natalie, Bobbie Bird. Grandchildren Caitlyn Janine, Talon Fire, Barron Brave, Summer Breeze, Autumn Dawn, Destin Free, Justice James, Kiara Lynn, and Tai Christian. Papa or Shoomis (as he was known to his grandchildren) devoted his energy, love, and attention to his pride and joys. His grandchildren considered Papa and Kokum's home the place they would rather be. They enjoyed spending time with Papa drinking tea and receiving the never ending treats he had for them. And most of all, his company was the best treat ever. Special friends Barbara Ann Wynn, William Bird, Clarence White Sr., Andy White, David Bird, Cecil Redsky, Allan Redcloud, Elvis Adams, Bruce Kavanaugh, Maurice Caya, Alice Paypompee, Carrie Lynn, Amanda Banning, Charity Rose, Vinny White, Snow White, Ted Pellitier, Tony White, and Ricardo Pineda. Best man, Josias Fiddler. Maid of Honor, Juliette Blackhawk. Special aunts Louise Blackhawk, Eva Oshie. Special Uncle Walter Redsky. Relatives in Winnipeg, MB: Jim, Richard, Allan, Delores Day family; Sioux Narrows: Ellery and Helen Horseman family; Whitefish Bay: Crow family. Nieces: Linda, Darlene, Holly D, April, Crystal, Freedom, Celina, Jolene, Holly, Charlotte, Elva, Dawn, Nicole, Lori, Lorna, Carolyn, Renae, Courtney, Myrna. Nephews: Paul, Ronnie, Darryl, James, Norman, Lambert, Nathan, Thunder, Carl, Carlton, J.R., Delaney, Lee, Jamie, Merwin, Lorne. Special grandchildren of all his nephews and nieces. Within the past year, Richard successfully achieved his life long dream of receiving his High School diploma. Richard was an outstanding member of the Treaty Three area, he sat on various committees throughout the years. Neechee Friendship Centre, Migisi Treatment Centre, Whitefish Bay/Northwest Angle Education Authority, Naotkamegwanning Chief & Council. Upon his passing he was a newly elected member of the Naotkamegwanning Health Services. His quiet presence radiated strength to all who knew him. Richard was a traditional dancer and enjoyed traveling to traditional pow-wows throughout the area - his most recent joy was dancing along side his grandchildren. He also enjoyed meeting all his friends and making new friends on the pow-wow trail. He was renowned throughout Indian country for his unselfish acts, his tireless acts of kindness towards whoever he met, young and old. His mentality was to always help to whoever needed his help. The family would like to thank the Naotkamegwanning Chief & Council, Education Authority, Health Services, Northwest Angle #37 for their generous donations. The LOWDH Emergency Dept., ICU Staff, Doctors, ground and air paramedics and nurses for the care Richard received. The many friends, family members, community members who offered their support and condolences. Your outpouring of love and support will never be forgotten. Wake on Friday, January 9, 2004 and Traditional Burial Ceremony on Saturday, January 10, 2004 at the Bird Residence. Kitchi-Miigwech from the Bird Family. Copyright c. 2004 Kenora Daily Miner and News. -=-=-=- January 10, 2004 Velma (Eashappie) O'watch Carry The Kettle First Nation O'WATCH, VELMA (EASHAPPIE) - It is with heavy hearts that we announce the passing of our beloved mother, grandmother, great grandmother Velma O'Watch, who went home to the Creator on January 8, 2004. Mom was predeceased by our father Douglas in 1992, sons Dusty (1988), Lester (1976) and a son in infancy, her father Norman Eashappie (1997), her mother Theresa {Medicine Rope} (1956), sister Florence (1968), and her son in law Allan "Tubby" Bellegarde (1997). Mom is survived by her step daughter Verna Ironstar, Thomson, MB, daughter Freda Bellegarde, Indian Head, sons; Joe (Shawn), Windy (Brenda), daughter Theresa, and son Larron, special sons Woody and Barney, all of CTK First Nation. Adopted sons Alphonse (Helen) Moosimin, Mosquito First Nation, Pat (Lorraine) Bugler, Red Pheasant First Nation, Larry Agecoutay, Regina. Mom was also a very beloved grandmother with 28 grandchildren, 43 great grandchildren and 3 great, great grandchildren. Mom is also survived by sisters; Angeline and Sarah Eashappie, brother Leo Eashappie all of CTK First Nation. On Sunday, January 11, 2004, a wake will be held at her residence commencing at 5:00 pm. Funeral services to be held on Monday, January 12, 2004 at 11:00 am in the Carry The Kettle First Nation Band Hall. Interment at the North Cemetery. A traditional feast will be held at a later date. Copyright c. 2000-2004 Regina Leader Post Group Inc. -=-=-=- January 6, 2004 Shana Gaulton GAULTON - SHANA MARIE, passed away peacefully on Sunday, January 4, 2004 after a long battle with cancer at the age of 29. Shana is predeceased by her grandfather Kenneth Thomson. She leaves behind to cherish her memory her life-long companion Albert Dyck; four children Jayden, Alaina, Teegan and Aneiki; father and mother George and Elaine; sister Anita (Grant) Wagner; brother Brad Gaulton; and special friend Sherry Cook. A VISITATION for family and friends will be held at the Regina Funeral Home, Hwy #1 East on Wednesday, January 7, 2004 from 7 8 p.m. MEMORIAL SERVICE will be held at Broadway United Church, 105 Broadway Avenue, Regina on Thursday, January 8, 2004 at 2:30 p.m. with Rev. Jim Balfour, officiating. A Private Interment will be held at Carry the Kettle First Nations Cemetery on Saturday, January 10, 2004. A special thank you to the staff at the Pasqua Hospital Palliative Care Unit for their care and support. Friends so wishing may make donations to a Trust Fund for the children. Donations may be made payable to Albert Dyck, Box 32025, Regina, SK, S4N 7L2. Arrangements are entrusted to Regina Funeral Home (Phone 789-8850). Bryan Racette BRYAN DOUGLAS RACETTE - It is with heartfelt sadness and regret that our family announces the passing of Bryan on December 6th, 2003. Services were held in Vancouver, B.C. on December 11th attended by his many friends and family. Bryan was a good son, brother, uncle, cousin, and friend. He was predecesed by his parents Allen and Mable. He is survived by his partner Yves, and his life long friend Doug, his sisters Lynda (Gerry) Acoose; Lorna (Lise); Vicky (Josh) Pelletier; Darlene (Parker) McWilliams; Debby Moorie; Karen (Fritz) Neugebauer; Sharon Nofield; and his brothers Daryle; Kenny (Marco); Randy; Ricky (Carla); Joe (Cindy); Gillis (Darlene). Bryan will be brought home to rest with mom and dad at 1:30 pm on Tuesday, January 6th, 2004 at Regina Memorial Gardens. Our family would like to send a special thank you to the angels on the 10th Floor of St. Pauls Hospital; also to Healing our Spirit; BC First Nations Aids Society for the tender care and your angels of mercy that reached out and touched upon the life of the brother we so dearly loved. January 10, 2004 Bernadette Sommerfeldt MRS. BERNADETTE "BERNIE" SOMMERFELDT beloved wife of the late Mr. Gordon "Bunny" Sommerfeldt of Lethbridge passed away at Lethbridge Regional Hospital on Tuesday, January 6, 2004 at the age of 70 years. She is the loving mother of: Maynard (Debbie) Yellow Face of Pincher Creek, Peggy (Ralph) Sommerfeldt of Brocket, Edward (Lita) Sommerfeldt of Blairmore, Carmen (Pam) Sommerfeldt of Lethbridge, Dean Sommerfeldt of Lethbridge, William (Natalie) Sommerfeldt of Blairmore and Bruce (Shelley) Sommerfeldt of Lethbridge; seventeen grandchildren and five great grandchildren. She is also survived by two sisters: Alfreda (Clarence) Knowlton of Brocket and Madeline Yellow Face of Langley, BC; three brothers: Wallace Yellow Face of Brocket, Mervin (Virginia) Yellow Face of Standoff, Willard (Linda) Yellow Face of Brocket as well as numerous nieces and nephews. She was predeceased by her husband Bunny, parents Sam and Agnes; two sisters: Annabelle and Hazel as well as three brothers: Harvie, Delbert and Alan. Bernadette will be sadly missed by all her family and many friends. A Wake Service will be held at the residence of Alfreda Knowlton on the Piikani Reserve on Friday, January 9, 2004 starting at 1:00 P.M. A Funeral Service will be held at the PIIKANI COMMUNITY HALL, Brocket on Saturday, January 10, 2004 at 1:00 P.M. with Brother Leon Jansen officiating. Interment to follow at Sacred Heart Cemetery. Cornerstone Funeral Home and Crematorium, 381-7777. Copyright c. 2000 Alberta Newspaper Group, Inc./Lethbridge Herald.