From gars@speakeasy.org Fri Jan 30 01:52:23 2004 Date: Tue, 27 Jan 2004 15:13:03 -0800 From: Gary Night Owl To: Internet Recipients of Wotanging Ikche Subject: Wotanging Ikche--nanews12.005 _ __ _____ __ _ __ ___ ____ _ __ ___ ' ) / / ') / / ) ' ) ) / ) / ' ) ) / ) / / / / / / /--/ / / / ___ / / / / ___ (_(_/ (__/ ( / (_ / (_ (___/ '__/_ / (_ (___/ ' ____ _ , ___ _ , ___ / ' ) / / ) ' ) / / ' VOLUME 12, ISSUE 005 / /-< / /--/ /-- __/_ / ) (___/ / ( (___, WOTANGING IKCHE - Lakota - Common News Wotanging Ikche and Native American News Copyright c. 1996-2004 nanews.org Aboriginal/AmerIndian Perspective about the First Nations of Turtle Island January 31, 2004 Kiowa kaguat p'a san/little bud moon Anishnaabe Gichi-Manidoo-giizis/Great Spirit moon +-------------------------------------------------------+ | Much more happens in Indian Country than is reported | | in this weekly newsletter. 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Yet they say that I am a thief." "What white woman, however lonely, was ever captive or insulted by me? Yet they say I am a bad Indian." "What white man has ever seen me drunk? Who has ever come to me hungry and left me unfed? Who has seen me beat my wives or abuse my children? What law have I broken?" __ 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! Judge Rodney Steele gave Bill Janklow 100 days of jail time, fines and some community service as "just punishment" for his manslaughter conviction after running down Randy Scott. I and my half-side, Janet, are volunteers to our brothers at a maximum security US Prison who are doing a lot more times for far less crimes. I can guarantee I would receive a conviction - in prison, not some damn county jail - for 5 to 10 years if I go out, speed and kill another human being through my negligence. Once again, American "Just-Us" has proven its true value system. My only solace is that this germ will be politically bankrupt. I sincerely hope the civil suit by Randy Scott's family will also leave him financially bankrupt. He was already morally bankrupt - just listen to the spirit of Jacinta Eagle Deer. --- This week a federal judge ruled housing that was built substandard at the direction of the BIA is the responsibility of the Blackfeet. Though the BIA specified, approved and managed the construction of housing in Montana with wood foundations that now rot and mold, it is NOT the BIA's responsibility to repair or compensate for the damage. Why not? Because the Blackfeet are a sovereign nation whose own housing authority should make repairs. It should not, but it absolutely amazes me how we have sovereignty only when it can be used as a hammer to beat us down. The occupation forces are even too cowardly to admit to this obvious duplicity. To borrow one of the occupation forces' quotes: "This too shall pass." 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 ---------- - A Trust Betrayed - Zuni's Historic Santo Nino - FarmBureau influencing has new Caretakers Indian Policy - Hospitals ordered to obey - One Nation opposition Indian Birth Rites to Enviormental Programs - Interior to open - Seneca Nation sues New York almost 9 Million Acres in Alaska over Internet ban - Jules resigns - Blood Quantum, as AFN Chief of Staff Identity and Arrested Development - Chre'tien subpoena - Tribes given voice by Natives in offing on Brucellosis Committee - A Community Member - Schaghticoke awaits BIA confronts Issac and Ross Recognition Ruling - Kanehsata:ke: What Happens Now? - NEWCOMB: - Me'tis adopt Definition Observations on U.S. v. Lara to include US Descendants - Native American Bank - Racist comments by Ontario Police offers new Mortgage Program on Videotape - Real Story of Code-talkers - Commissioner calls for inquiry - Indian tribes in Phoenix: into Man's Death Is anybody listening? - REPORT: Mexican Troops - Judge dismisses suppress Indian Town Blackfeet housing complaints - Sweat Lodge/Police Controversies - Seneca Nation sues New York - Janklow gets Jail Time over Internet ban - FBI, others seek leads - YELLOW BIRD: in Tribal death threats Seminars on Native Culture - Native Prisoner - American Indian Leader -- Leonard Peltier Solidarity pledges 1 Million Voters - Rustywire: Early Morning - Native Americans - Verse: Hawaiian Book of Days to aid Zuni Dancer - Poem: In the Struggle we Stand - Upcoming Events --------- "RE: A Trust Betrayed" --------- Date: Tue, 20 Jan 2004 12:06:09 -0700 From: Gary Smith Subj: NA News Item - - - - - - -- - - - - - - filename="DoI TRUST BETRAYAL" http://www.indianz.com/News/ http://www.time.com/time/magazine/~C8816%2C1101040126-578961%2C00.html A Trust Betrayed? Native Americans claim the U.S. mismanaged their oil and gas legacies it promised to protect By MARGUERITE MICHAELS/SHAWNEE January 26, 2004 Ruby Withrow remembers the happy days she spent as a young child on her grandfather Moses Bruno's 80-acre homestead near Shawnee, Okla. There the extended Bruno family, members of the Potawatomi tribe, tended large gardens of vegetables and fruits and raised chickens, hogs and cows. On Sundays the whole family attended the Sacred Heart Catholic Mission just down the road. But all that changed soon after oil was discovered on the Bruno property. Lease agreements were arranged with oil producers, wells were dug, and pumping began in 1939. But family members say Grandpa Bruno never knew how much oil and gas were being taken out of his land or how much money he was due from their sale. All his royalty payments went into a trust fund managed by the Bureau of Indian Affairs (BIA). If Bruno needed to buy something, he had to appeal to the local BIA agent, and he was rarely given cash. When he wanted to buy a cow, the price was deducted from his account and given directly to the seller. When he bought groceries, he paid for them with a BIA voucher. The wells were plugged just 28 months later - Bruno family members say the wells' operator never gave a reason for ending production - but in that short time, they say, the soil was ruined, and the Brunos were able to grow hardly anything on it. Younger family members moved away to find jobs, and the old folks limped along on public assistance until 1960, when Bruno and his wife Frances died within a month of each other. Their heirs decided to sell what remained of the land the next year. Such stories are common among Native Americans. Like legions of others, Bruno acquired his holdings under the Dawes Act of 1887. Its allotment program was an effort by Congress to break up the tribal structure by encouraging self-sufficiency among the Indians. The Dawes Act mandated that the land given to Natives be managed by the Department of the Interior's local BIA agent and promised that any profits from the property would be held in trust for its owners. The problem, say hundreds of families like the Brunos, is that the owners received relatively little of the money coming to them. Over the past decade, many of the families have begun actively pursuing what they say is their rightful legacy. In 1996 Elouise Cobell, a member of the Blackfeet tribe, filed a $135 billion class action against the U.S. government, claiming that billions of dollars belonging to some 500,000 Native Americans and their heirs had been mismanaged or stolen from accounts held in trust since the late 19th century. Through document discovery and courtroom testimony, the Cobell case revealed mismanagement, ineptness, dishonesty and delay by federal officials, leading U.S. District Judge Royce Lamberth to declare their conduct "fiscal and governmental irresponsibility in its purest form." The BIA holds 11 million acres in trust for individual Native Americans. Money from timber sales and agricultural and oil leases of this property is distributed under the same program that dealt with Moses Bruno. Five years ago, his descendants began tracking their patrimony. Their experience shows how difficult it can be to prove past wrongs and have them redressed. Family members say Moses Bruno was never allowed to see his oil and gas account ledgers. It might not have done him much good if he had been, given that, like many Indians of his generation, he had never learned to read and could write only his name. When his eldest son Johnnie argued that the government was robbing him blind, the older man insisted that the Indian-agency people would never cheat him. After World War II, Bruno's children tried to sue the oil company for saltwater damage to their soil caused by the pumping from the wells. "But even though my dad Johnnie took photos," says Ruby Withrow, 69, "we couldn't prove Moses had not allowed the salty runoff. There was no paper trail at that time." Nor was there money to pay for a lawyer. Over the years, family members looked for documents that could prove the bureau had treated Moses Bruno badly. They went to the National Archives in Washington, visited historical societies in Oklahoma and requested records from BIA offices in Shawnee and nearby Anadarko, Okla. Always they were told that few records were available. The Cobell case reassured the Brunos that others had had similarly unhappy experiences with their BIA trust funds and motivated them to dig deeper for documents to support their complaints. Finally, after a 16-hour marathon on the Internet in the fall of 1998, Dana Dickson, Ruby Withrow's daughter, discovered on an obscure Indian arts-and-crafts site a link to Oklahoma Indian - agency files located at the regional National Archives in Fort Worth, Texas. A family delegation immediately made the trip. "I'll never forget the first time we went down there," says Dickson's cousin Johnnie Flynn. "Dana and I were pulling file after file. One of them was Moses Bruno's. It was three inches thick. I stopped and looked over at my mother and my Aunt Ruby. There were tears streaming down their faces." They found grocery receipts and bills from JCPenney for socks at 15 cents a pair and a coat for $14.66. The purchase order from the Indian agency for Moses' first car was there, as were numerous voucher slips endorsed with his tentative, spidery signature. Most important, there were pages of ledger sheets detailing his individual BIA money account. More than half a dozen visits later, Moses' grandson Leon Bruno has accumulated enough photocopies of documents to fill 19 loose-leaf notebooks. Papers show that Moses' entire 80-acre allotment first came under an oil lease in 1923. Six years later, according to BIA documents, 20 of those acres were sold to two local white men for $1,311, or $65.55 an acre. The family has found contradicting government estimates of the land's royalty value at the time, ranging from $50 to $400 an acre. And documents are unclear about whether Moses Bruno understood before the transaction was completed that the land was being sold. A well was drilled on these 20 acres in 1933 and still pumps to this day. In 1931 Bruno got permission from the BIA to withdraw 20 separate acres of his allotment from the trust, and he began selling percentages of his oil and gas royalty interest. Four wells were eventually drilled on the remaining BIA-controlled 40 acres and pumped from March 1939 to the end of 1941. It was the practice then for oil companies to send royalty-payment checks for Indian-owned property directly to the superintendent of the local BIA office. Each day the Shawnee office made a deposit via certified mail to the Federal Reserve Bank in Oklahoma City, Okla. The deposit sheet listed the source of each check, its amount and the day's total deposits. Daily entries were also made in the office's cash-receipts journal, registering the payment to each individual Indian account on a ledger card. Sorting through those old documents, with the lingering resentments the families have toward the BIA, can be confusing. When Dana Dickson began comparing the amounts posted to her great grandfather's ledger card with the sums on the deposit sheets for the same days, she discovered that 10% was routinely funneled from the oil check to a special-deposit account. Dickson and her relatives suspected that corrupt agents were taking the money for themselves. But Ross Swimmer, a Department of the Interior ombudsman working on behalf of Indian-trust beneficiaries, told TIME that the deduction, which was not exclusive to Moses Bruno's account, was simply a fee that the BIA charged for managing the oil and gas properties held by the trust funds. Nearly two years after the elder Brunos died in 1960, a Shawnee bureau agent suggested that the family sell its remaining 40 acres, along with the property's mineral rights. "[The minerals have only a] nominal value," the agent wrote in a letter to the regional BIA office in Anadarko. The family signed off on the sale, netting $3,022.50. In 1982 a new oil well was drilled on that land and is still pumping. The Bruno family acknowledges the pressure the BIA was under during the oil-boom years. In the 1935 annual report of the Shawnee agency, the superintendent called his office "woefully undermanned," handling 1,500 Indian money accounts with only one clerk, who had no modern accounting machines. "Maybe there were some mistakes made," says Leon Bruno. "[But] a lot of what went on was deliberate." The family estimates that Moses Bruno earned a total of $35,000 from his oil and gas leases. The production figures the descendants unearthed, on just one well on the land that was sold in 1933, amount to almost $70 million. It is not clear whether the family will ever receive compensation for any miscalculations that may have been made on their land sales and oil leases. Elouise Cobell's class action has stalled in the face of the Department of the Interior's estimate that it would take five years and $335 million just to account for the money from land and mineral leases covering a period of more than 100 years. And Congress is balking at the expense - even though its committees have issued more than one report over the years about gross mismanagement of Native American trust funds. In December the Bruno descendants decided to withdraw from the Cobell suit and hired a lawyer to pursue their own. "It's not about the money," says Moses' granddaughter Ruby Withrow, a nurse who administers a diabetes program for the Absentee Shawnee tribe. "I want some justice for a man who trusted the United States and was betrayed." The BIA has looked into the family's claims and says that while the records for Moses Bruno's account may not be complete, "no instance of malfeasance was found in the records that we examined." In a fax to TIME, the agency stated that "understandably, the family did not review these files with a historian's commitment to objectivity." Still, the search for what happened to Moses Bruno's land has produced a new sense of equanimity for his family. There have been several meetings to bring all the descendants - some 200 plus - up to date on the stories the documents tell. Leon Bruno has started a nonprofit corporation, funded by garage sales, raffles and donations from family and friends, that he hopes will eventually allow the family to pay for an organized study of its Potawatomi culture and language. He and his wife Veta attend the annual gatherings of the nine Potawatomi bands, now scattered over several states. Leon has gone through the training and fasting that are required of those chosen as the tribe's honored fire keepers. And he has built a roundhouse on his property in Tecumseh, Okla., where family members gather four times a year to light a sacred fire and pray for the memory of their ancestor Moses Bruno. Copyright c. 2004 Time Inc. All rights reserved. --------- "RE: FarmBureau influencing Indian Policy" --------- Date: Tue, 20 Jan 2004 20:12:23 -0600 From: "jkdowell" Subj: FarmBureau influencing Indian policy This proposed legislation comes straight out of Farm Bureau policy. Read for yourselves: www.okfarmbureau.org http://www.newsok.com/cgi-bin/show_article?ID=3D1161320&TP=3Dgetarticle Legislator calls for oversight on tribal pacts 2004-01-19 By Carmel Perez Snyder Capitol Bureau A measure that will be considered in the upcoming legislative session could dilute the governor's power in negotiating tribal compacts. Rep. Forrest Claunch, R- Midwest City, wants compacts approved by the governor and the Joint Committee on State-Tribal Relations to require approval by the Legislature. "We have major public policy being decided by a group of 10 appointed people," Claunch said. "This typically does not happen with any other committee." Claunch said approval would be required by a simple majority of the Legislature, and should not affect the governor's ability to negotiate compacts. But Secretary of Finance Scott Meacham, the governor's point man on tribal compact negotiations, said the change is not a good idea. "Routine things, such as changing language in a compact or renewing a compact, would require legislative approval," Meacham said. "We would need to have special sessions all the time." Currently, the governor or his designee can negotiate compacts, such as the recently signed tobacco compacts, and need approval only from the Joint Committee on State-Tribal Relations. The committee is responsible for overseeing and approving agreements between the state and Indian tribes. The speaker of the House of Representatives and the president pro tempore of the Senate each appoint five committee members. Claunch said he's concerned the current system would allow for the expansion of gambling without legislative approval. "The governor wants to approve Class III gambling that means slot machines, and one way to do that without approval from the Legislature or voters is through a tribal compact," Claunch said. Henry has repeatedly said any gaming compact would be sent to the Legislature for approval. A gaming compact proposal that included allowing gaming at horse race tracks did not get approval from lawmakers last year, and both Meacham and the governor have said they plan to try again in the upcoming session. --------- "RE: One Nation opposition to Enviormental Programs" --------- Date: Fri, 23 Jan 2004 08:46:31 -0700 From: Gary Smith Subj: NA News Item - - - - - - -- - - - - - - filename="JUSTIFYING RACISM" http://www.owlstar.com/dailyheadlines.htm http://www.nativetimes.com/index.asp?action=displayarticle&article_id=3596 One Nation leader details opposition to tribal enviormental programs "Kind of like putting a gun to my head" TULSA OK Sam Lewin January 22, 2004 A Tulsa conference on granting special status to Indian tribes to conduct their own environmental programs saw strong opposition from Oklahoma anti- tribal sovereignty group One Nation. One Nation Co-Founder Mike Cantrell appeared along with an attorney for the Cherokee Nation and a tribal ombudsman from the Environmental Protection Agency. They were guests of the Environmental Federation of Oklahoma. The EFO sponsored the event to, in their words, "hear everyone's point of view." Cantrell defended One Nation's opposition to tribes seeking federal permission to operate water and air quality standards. "I don't think we are all racists. We certainly don't think of ourselves that way. What we are concerned about, and I haven't seen anything here today that led me to be any less concerned, is the idea that we have governments within our governments that we have created that basically we are accountable to. When we started working on this effort we started to learn," said Cantrell. Cantrell said an incident involving the Sandia Pueblo in New Mexico shows why giving tribes state status is dangerous. "The tribe is six miles down river from the city of Albuquerque. Just read the newspaper accounts of what happened. The tribe got treatment similar to state status from the EPA. They set water quality standards for arsenic 100 times stronger than a fifty-seven mile stretch of the Rio Grande River before it got to Albuquerque. The effluent from the city of Albuquerque had to be cleaned up to a standard that was impossible to meet. The city of Albuquerque has, last time I checked, spent $800 million trying to meet that impossible water standard that the tribe had set," Cantrell said. EPA Ombudsman Mark Allen, an Oklahoma-born Indian, told Cantrell he didn't have his facts straight. "As far as Albuquerque is concerned, the money they were going to have to spend on that, they were going to be required to do that regardless of whether tribal governments were involved. They weren't meeting federal health requirements. They were going to have to spend that money anyway," Allen said. Cantrell said he didn't trust the motivation of a tribe seeking the state status. "So for our friends and neighbors in the Indian tribes of Oklahoma to say `don't worry about us, we are business friendly' is kind of like putting a gun to my head and saying `but don't worry there are no bullets' and the next thing is like `oh there are bullets, but we won't fire it,' " Cantrell said. He also criticized a federal energy bill that contained tax incentives for tribes to invest in gas and energy. Obtaining state status is solely up the federal government, said Environmental Protection Agency official Ben Harrison. "We are supportive of the tribes having their own environmental programs," Harrison told the Native American Times. "We have a trust responsibility to promote self-governance, and we are trying to fulfill that." Harrison is assistant regional council for tribal affairs in the EPA's region 6, an area covering Oklahoma. He said even though there are grants available to start environmental programs, no tribe has gone through the complicated permit process, although the Pawnee Nation is getting there. "The Pawnees have had an application for a water quality program that we have not acted on, but we are fairly close to a decision," Harrison said. Native American Times is Copyright c. 2003 Oklahoma Indian Times, Inc. --------- "RE: Seneca Nation sues New York over Internet ban" --------- Date: Sun, 18 Jan 2004 12:44:54 -0700 From: Gary Smith Subj: NA News Item - - - - - - -- - - - - - - filename="INTERNET SMOKE SALES" http://www.pechanga.net/ http://www.indiancountry.com/?1074965057 Seneca Nation sues New York over Internet smoke sales ban Pataki proposes postponement of sales tax collections January 24, 2004 by: Tom Wanamaker / Correspondent / Indian Country Today CATTARAUGUS RESERVATION, N.Y. - In a move to protect one of its strongest business enterprises, the Seneca Nation filed suit in federal district court challenging a New York state law banning the sale of cigarettes over the Internet. In its complaint, the nation alleges that the law is both unconstitutional and a violation of Seneca sovereignty. "If enforced, the (law) would severely restrict the manner in which Native American retailers in New York have been able to transact business for years, and would represent unlawful interference with the sovereignty of the Nation," wrote Seneca attorneys in court briefs. "Revenue generated through the sale of tobacco products by Native American retailers has assisted in increasing the standard of living for all members of the Nation." The Senecas are New Yorks most prominent online Indian tobacco retailers. According to a recent estimate, Seneca-owned businesses involved in the online cigarette trade employ some 1,500 people. The Nation licenses all tobacco merchants operating on its territory; proceeds from the licensing fees support a number of Nation-provided services. The law, originally enacted in 2000, prohibits the sale of cigarettes ordered both by mail and over the Internet. State officials began enforcing the measure last June after U.S. District Court Judge William M. Skretny declined to stop them. The legislation was originally touted as a measure to both protect public health and to limit minors' access to tobacco, but some critics believe its real intent is to force New Yorkers to physically purchase their cigarettes from actual New York stores, thus boosting state tax revenue. Two other legal challenges, both filed last year, to the Internet tobacco sales ban are also pending before Judge Skretny. One is led by the Online Tobacco Retailers Association and includes a Seneca retailer, out- of-state online retailers and disabled smokers. A pair of Seneca business owners filed the other action. Sales tax collection In other news of import to the Senecas and other New York tribes, Governor George Pataki on Jan. 20 asked the Legislature to postpone for a year its attempts to collect sales taxes on reservation transactions. The governor wants another 12 months to negotiate price or tax parity agreements with the various state tribes involved in retailing. "We appreciate the fact that the governor wants to engage in a dialogue with the Indian nations on this issue," said Rickey L. Armstrong Sr., Seneca Nation president, in a Jan. 20 press release. "We recognize this as a positive step by the governor in attempting to achieve a resolution to this issue that is respectful of our sovereignty." Facing a massive budget deficit, the state legislature last year directed Pataki to enforce the collection of sales taxes on reservation sales of fuel and tobacco to non-Indian customers. In 1997, Pataki halted attempts to collect state taxes on reservation transactions in the wake of blocked Interstates and threats of violence. He expressed his recognition of tribal sovereignty at that time. This experience surely swayed Pataki to pursue a negotiated settlement. This time, legislators had originally set Dec. 1, 2003 as the deadline to strike a deal with the tribes or to begin tax collections. As that date neared with no deals on the horizon, Pataki got the deadline pushed back to March 1. This still would have allowed legislators to book a month of tax revenue before the state's new fiscal year begins April 1. There was no immediate word from legislators regarding the 52-week postponement. To the pessimistic, the fact that Pataki wants a whole year could mean that no tribes are anywhere close to a tax agreement. Or it simply could reflect the fact that the complex inter-mingling of tax, land claim and casino revenue sharing issues will take some time to resolve, regardless of whatever progress may have been made to date. Copyright c. 2004 Indian Country Today. --------- "RE: Blood Quantum, Identity and Arrested Development" --------- Date: Mon, 19 Jan 2004 11:14:07 -0800 (PST) From: James Starkey Subj: feel free to forward Mailing-List: RezLife Blood Quantum, Identity and Arrested Development Hau Mitakiapi: It is more and more obvious we as Indigenous People in general and as the Tetuwan Oyate in particular are at the brink of a renewed awareness. Surviving generations of colonization, indoctrination, second-class status and outright genocide, our People are now taking inventory. We are searching beyond the simple symptoms of oppression to the root causes of our cyclic ills. As we do this, we are faced with a few dynamics, of which we must continually be aware. The first and foremost are of course, the dynamics of the re-awakening itself. The re-awakening was a period of renewed interest in identity. Constantly oppressed, depressed and repressed Peoples found an outlet. They found a voice, a whipping post for their pain. A pan-indian counterculture was born. Far from a panacea, the new pan-indian outlook should have been a simple wake up call. Specific Lifeways of the specific Indigenous Nations should have been nurtured. The "american indian" and "native american" monikers used in the beginning should have grown obsolete in the face of a nurtured awareness of each specific Ancient Lifeways. The pyramidal hierarchies of organizing should have given way to the Indigenous ways of the Circle. Accepting a status as "tribal" or as "activists" should have grown into awareness of a People and as a Relative. Should have. Instead, we are 30 years thence and now facing the repercussions of the continuum of pan-indianism. We are now dealing with the entry-level awareness of an arrested development. We now have to throw off the deep-rooted shackles of what was once a movement and now is an encumbrance. My Relatives, take a look around you. Why do those espousing the "struggle" consistently use the weights and measures of the oppressor as valid? When did this become so inverted? For example, "traditions" are seen as a way to keep blood-quantum high. This is problematic for a couple of reasons. First, because in our way we don't have "traditions", we don't have a "lifestyle", we have Lakol Wicohan, the "friendly Lifeways". The focus should be upon promoting and growing the infrastructure necessary within oneself first, then within one's Tiospaye to allow these Lifeways to flourish. It isn't about using these Lifeways as a vehicle for blood purity. It isn't about how things appear on the surfac e; it is about the essence of the thing. Look at our very Language. Look how often our own words go far deeper than the appearance, and to the very essence of being. It isn't about blood-quantum. The wasicu can see it how they will all day and it still wouldn't matter, not if our Lifeways and Tiospaye based infrastructure were intact. They could outlaw the Lakota Oyate today and it wouldn't matter at all, not if we held our Lifeways as paramount. Why focus so adamantly upon what the wasicu does, what the wasicu thinks and what the wasicu measures by and not upon your own circle? Why rant on about mascots in schools and not endeavor to augment the very curriculum of those schools with a truer understanding of Lakol Wicohan? Why rally against the IRA governments and not then rebuild our Ancient Infrastructure? Why oppose the hierarchical paradigm with another hierarchical paradigm STILL not of the Tetuwan Oyate? The second dynamic we must remember is the human desire for power. When a person has no means to know his/her own innate power, that being searches instead for empowerment. Usually this empowerment is manifested in some form of control. Usually the control is manifested against one's own People. This is an unfortunate symptom of oppression that winds its way throughout our current dilemma. Couple this false sense of power, this control and empowerment with our addiction to drama (another cyclic symptom of oppression) and we are then fervently chasing our own tail as a People. We then easily put on the trappings of the wasicu in an attempt at empowerment. We put on the clothes of oppression in an attempt to dress ourselves. In a poignant attempt at rebellion, we may turn the clothes inside out, pitifully trying to masquerade as "tradish". My Relatives, I urge you to continue your re-awakening. Continue throwing aside the shackles of pyramidal, hierarchical control, and to continue nurturing the simple Relations within your respective Tiospayes, thereby causing the Circle, the Hocoka to strengthen. Your most simple act of Relatedness outstrips the most audacious act of "activism" any day. Our struggle is not a struggle for rights. We seek neither civil-rights nor property rights. Our struggle is as deep as our Lifeways. Our Lifeways are not about rights. Our Lifeways, and indeed our struggle, is about Responsibility. Mitakuye Oyasin. James H. Starkey James H. Starkey http://www.oyateunderground.com --------- "RE: Tribes given voice on Brucellosis Committee" --------- Date: Sun, 18 Jan 2004 12:44:54 -0700 From: Gary Smith Subj: NA News Item - - - - - - -- - - - - - - filename="BRUCELLOSIS" http://www.owlstar.com/dailyheadlines.htm http://www.casperstartribune.net/~/5465b61ddeda790187256e25007908bd.txt Tribes given voice on brucellosis committee By JEFF GEARINO Southwest Wyoming bureau Sunday, January 25, 2004 GREEN RIVER - Native Americans will get a seat on the Greater Yellowstone Interagency Brucellosis Committee (GYIBC) as a non-voting member, officials decided at a recent committee meeting. Members of the GYIBC formally endorsed a proposal to have Native American representation on the GYIBC's executive committee during a meeting Jan. 14 in Bozeman. The group decided to begin work on a memorandum of understanding to formalize the proposal. Wyoming Game and Fish Department Public Information Specialist Mark Gocke said while the executive committee voiced support for the idea, there are still some details to be worked out, such as who would represent the tribes and the specific wording of the memorandum. Last September, the Inter-Tribal Bison Cooperative, which represents 52 tribal governments, asked the executive committee to consider Native American representation on the committee. The GYIBC's membership is currently composed of representatives from 13 state and federal organizations, including the Game and Fish, that provide funding and personnel for the group. GYIBC officials believe the numerous tribes surrounding Yellowstone will be crucial to the implementation of management measures outlined in a strategic plan to eradicate the disease. The strategic plan calls for the committee to prepare Herd Unit Management plans for 25 elk herds and two bison herds living around the park. The GYIBC has set a goal of eliminating brucellosis from the Greater Yellowstone Area by the year 2010. Many bison and elk in Yellowstone National Park are believed to be infected with the disease, which can cause cattle to abort their first calves and in rare instances cause undulant fever in humans. A GYIBC subcommittee studying the tribes' proposal reported unanimous support for the idea of tribal representation and recommended Native Americans be added on the executive committee as a non-voting member, Gocke said in a prepared statement. Gocke said the non-voting status was recommended since the tribes do not possess management authority with regard to land, livestock or wildlife in the Greater Yellowstone Area . "The tribes expressed their desire to be a voting member, but agreed the (non-voting) proposal was reasonable," Gocke said. The next meeting of the GYIBC is tentatively scheduled for May in Pinedale. Copyright c. 2004 by the Casper Star-Tribune published by Lee Publications, Inc., a subsidiary of Lee Enterprises. --------- "RE: Schaghticoke awaits BIA Recognition Ruling" --------- Date: Sun, 18 Jan 2004 12:44:54 -0700 From: Gary Smith Subj: NA News Item - - - - - - -- - - - - - - filename="SCHAGHTICOKE" http://www.pechanga.net/ http://www.theday.com/~5B43-45A1-AEFC-D5BBA46AEBAF Tribe Awaits BIA Recognition Ruling Final Decision Expected Thursday By KAREN FLORIN Day Staff Writer, Casinos/Gambling January 24, 2004 The Schaghticoke Tribal Nation is waiting expectantly as the Bureau of Indian Affairs prepares to issue a final decision Thursday on the tribe's petition for federal recognition. Tribal leaders and their consultants have scrambled to bolster the tribe's application with new information on their social and political history since the BIA issued a preliminary denial in December 2002. They say a positive decision could enable them to enlarge their Kent reservation, provide better education, housing and health care for their approximately 300 members and, of course, venture into casino ownership. "We're sitting on the edge of our chairs," Chief Richard Velky said Friday from the tribe's office in Derby. U.S. District Judge Peter Dorsey has presided over a lawsuit involving the state and the Schaghticokes, and has overseen the BIA's schedule for reviewing the tribe's federal recognition process. Now the tribe's fate is in the hands of the BIA's Office of Federal Acknowledgment, which will make the final recommendation, and Aurene Martin, the acting assistant secretary of Indian Affairs, who will sign off on it. The tribe submitted nine additional volumes of documents to the BIA following the preliminary denial. In September 2003, as the deadline for submissions loomed, the tribe introduced a membership list that included members of a rival faction. State Attorney General Richard Blumenthal immediately objected to the last-minute submission. He said it was fraudulent and erroneous because the rival members had since attempted to renounce their membership. Both the tribe and the attorney general were able to submit additional information to the BIA to support their positions. Velky said Friday that he has yet to receive a letter from the members requesting that they be removed from the rolls. Blumenthal said it does not matter. "The bottom line is they have withdrawn, whether they have documented it in writing," the attorney general said. "There seems no dispute that they have either revoked their oral permission to use their names or they never intended to do so. The impact on the merits of the recognition petition is the same, regardless of how specifically they have denied permission to use their names. It undercuts, essentially, one of the key claims that the tribe's membership is broader than the BIA thought when it denied them (in the preliminary decision)." Blumenthal said the new material submitted by the tribe is "either irrelevant or unpersuasive." He is a longtime critic of the federal recognition process but agreed with the BIA's preliminary denial of the Schaghticokes. He said Friday that he is hopeful the BIA will uphold its preliminary decision next week. If they don't, he said he is likely to appeal. Velky said the tribe would reveal more information about its financial backers once the tribe is recognized and that the tribe is still looking for a host community for a casino. He said the backers are not one of the large gaming interests that have partnered with tribes in other states and that a casino is not the tribe's only economic development initiative. Velky said the tribe has spent millions on the federal recognition process and could never have done so on its own. "We wouldn't have been able to finance this," he said. "Although the BIA encourages tribes to do this on their own, it's totally impossible. At one time back in the '80s we could have, but since gaming became involved and it became more political, there's not a tribe that could finance it on their own." k.florin@theday.com Copyright c. 1998-2004 The Day Publishing Co. --------- "RE: NEWCOMB: Observations on U.S. v. Lara" --------- Date: Tue, 20 Jan 2004 12:06:09 -0700 From: Gary Smith Subj: NA News Item - - - - - - -- - - - - - - filename="NEWCOMB: LARA" http://www.indiancountry.com/?1074527640 Newcomb: Observations on U.S. v. Lara January 19, 2004 by:Steven Newcomb/Indigenous Research Coordinator/D-Q University at Sycuan I'm confused. According to my dictionary, the word "inherent" means, "existing in something as a permanent and inseparable element, quality, or attribute." The word also relates to "inhere," namely, "to belong intrinsically." Thus, my confusion arises from the claim by some that Congress has the power to "diminish" or "restore" what is referred to as "inherent tribal sovereignty." If such sovereignty is "inherent," meaning "permanent" and "intrinsic" to the very existence of a given Indian nation or people then, logically and arguably, it cannot be diminished or restored, not even by the Congress of the United States. Such specific attention to semantic detail, however, has never been characteristic of the way federal Indian law and policy is dealt with in the United States. Now comes the case U.S. v. Lara, which the Supreme Court is about to hear. At issue is whether Indian "tribes" (I prefer the term nations) have the authority to prosecute the minor crimes of non-member Indians. In its 1990 Duro v. Reina decision, the Court held that tribes, through a dependent relationship with the U.S., had lost the authority to prosecute non-member Indians. Now the Court is asked to decide whether Congress restored such "inherent power" to Indian tribes. "Restored inherent power"? If such power is truly inherent then Indian nations could not have "lost" it, nor could Congress have rightfully "deprived" Indian nations and peoples of such power. But, instead of looking at the terminology in this manner, we're asked instead to set aside the ordinary meaning of the word "inherent" in favor of the plenary power doctrine. This doctrine, of course, is the idea that Congress, on behalf of the United States, has "plenary" (virtually unlimited) legislative power over Indian nations. (Where Congress supposedly got this power over originally free and independent Indian nations is a question not usually addressed) As Indian Country Today correspondent Jerry Reynolds recently wrote of an amicus curiae brief filed in the Lara case by the National Congress of American Indians: "NCAI notes as well that the congressional record in restoring tribal `inherent power' to prosecute non-member Indians plainly indicates that the restoration is not a delegation of federal authority, but a clarification of tribal authority." Here, then is the same confusion about "restoring" power said to be "inherent." In a dissenting opinion in an appeals court ruling in U.S. v. Lara, four judges for the United States Court of Appeals for the Eighth Circuit, express dissatisfaction that the majority did not base its opinion "on the Constitution, nor did the Constitution require the result that the Court reached there." Instead, said the dissenting judges, the majority had based its opinion "on federal common law, nothing more and nothing less." In the Indian Civil Rights Act (ICRA), said the dissent, "Congress exercised its plenary legislative power over federal common law in general and Indian affairs in particular to define the scope of inherent Indian sovereignty." And what did the dissent say about this "inherent sovereignty?" That "Congress restored to the tribes a power they had previously exercised but had lost over the years as a result of Supreme Court decisions." So, let us get this straight. The dissent referred to "inherent Indian sovereignty" as "a power" that Indian nations had "lost," not as a result of congressional action, but as a result of "Supreme Court decisions." Reflecting the same confused logic we examined at the outset of this column, the Eighth Circuit dissent depicts Congress as having "restored" through ICRA the "inherent power" that Indian nations had supposedly "lost" through a number of Supreme Court rulings. (The question of how originally free and independent Indian nations supposedly became subject to the U.S. Supreme Court is also never dealt with.) Fortunately, there is much in the Eighth Circuit dissent that expresses a powerful critique of the usual perspective on federal Indian law. For example we find the following sentence from the dissent regarding the majority opinion: "The court opines in the present case that `once the federal sovereign divests a tribe of a particular power, it is no longer an inherent power and may only be restored by delegation of Congress's power.'" (The question that the dissent does not address here is this: If "a particular power" was an "inherent power" to begin with - namely, "an intrinsic and permanent element" of a given Indian nation's existence - then how could that power have been "divested" or "restored" by "the federal sovereign"?) The dissent goes on to say: "This [the majority's] holding draws on statements in Supreme Court opinions that a tribe's inherent sovereignty consists of those aspects of sovereignty that the tribes `retained' despite the federal government's overriding sovereignty [citing Duro]... The court's apparent premise is that [an Indian nation's] power cannot be retained once the Supreme Court holds that it can no longer exist." Notice that that the dissent mentions an "overriding sovereignty" on the part of the federal government without ever identifying the actual basis of the claim that it is "overriding." Fortunately, however, the dissent did not step away from a discussion of the basis of the claim of an overriding sovereignty on the part of the federal government. First the dissent points out that, in its view, "the origin" of "the Spirit Lake Nation's ability to try Mr. Lara" is not "the ICRA amendments themselves but the full territorial sovereignty that the tribes possessed in the past." After making this point, the dissent then launches into an examination of the "foundation of federal Indian law: Johnson v. McIntosh ..., Cherokee Nation v. Georgia ..., and Worcester v. Georgia." "An examination of these cases," said the dissent, "shows that in forging the legal relationship between Indian tribes and the government of the United States, `The Supreme Court in the Marshall trilogy embraced pre-constitutional notions of the colonial process, rooted in the law of nations, involving both inherent tribal sovereignty and a colonial prerogative vested exclusively in the centralized government.'" The dissent goes on to say that "These principles, which the Supreme Court created from extra-constitutional sources, have `been consistently followed by the courts for a hundred years." To further explain the "extra-constitutional" [meaning, non- constitutional] basis of federal Indian law principles, the dissent then addressed the Johnson v. McIntosh ruling: "In McIntosh ...Chief Justice Marshall justified federal power over Indian tribes in terms of the right of discovery, a euphemism for the right of conquest." U.S. v. Lara provides Indian country with the opportunity to fully challenge the most foundational principles of federal Indian law instead of engaging in faint-hearted half-measures. Why should we accept for even one minute the idea that the United States has any rightful "federal power over Indian tribes" or nations, particularly on the basis of the "right of discovery," (which is more accurately stated as "a right of Christian discovery"). Why, in the 21st century, should we accept the antiquated claim of a U.S. "right of conquest" (albeit, cloaked in "euphemism") over our respective Indian nations? Such a claim stands in violation of our inherent birthright as free and independent nations, and our fundamental human rights. Clearly, it is long past time for Indian country to launch a concerted, well planned, and strategic challenge to such outdated, outmoded, and indefensible notions. ---- Steven Newcomb, Shawnee and Lenape, is director of the Indigenous Law Institute, and Indigenous Law research coordinator at D-Q University at Sycuan, on the Reservation of the Sycuan Band of the Kumeyaay Nation and is a columnist for Indian Country Today. Copyright c. 2004 Indian Country Today. --------- "RE: Native American Bank offers new Mortgage Program" --------- Date: Wed, 21 Jan 2004 08:23:14 -0700 From: Gary Smith Subj: NA News Item - - - - - - -- - - - - - - filename="NA BANK MORTGAGES" http://www.indianz.com/News/archives/003333.asp Native American Bank offers new mortgage program Wednesday, January 21, 2004 Denver, Colorado - The Native American Bank announced a new partnership with LenderLive Network and GreenPoint Mortgage. The creative partnership will offer a turnkey home mortgage program with Native American Bank and two of the industry's most prominent leaders. The program provides NAB with the ability to originate a loan for purchase, refinance or rehabilitation anywhere in the country. LenderLive will act as a retail operation for mortgage originations giving NAB the ability to work as a mortgage lender without the costs of hiring loan managers. GreenPoint will function as a broker partner, purchasing loans processed by NAB and LenderLive, and ultimately offering customers a full range of mortgage products at competitive rates. "The name of the game is leveraging," said Elouise Cobell, executive director for the Native American Community Development Corporation, the non-profit affiliate of Native American Bank. "Nowadays in banking, we don't have to recreate the wheel. I am very happy to have such strong partners as LenderLive and GreenPoint who know the area of home mortgaging. With NAB's strong footprint in the Native American community, it's a perfect fit. A win-win for everybody." Native American Bank currently originates mortgages through the Browning office that covers both the Blackfeet and Rocky Boy Indian communities. Under the new arrangement, mortgages will be originated in the name of Native American Bank with LenderLive providing the fulfillment capabilities of both a call center and Internet access to applicants. "We are thrilled to provide solutions and services that will directly lead to increased homeownership among the Native American community" said Rick Seehausen, chief operating officer for LenderLive. "This partnership opens the door to a seamless process for Native Americans to have the ability to apply for a mortgage," said Stephanie Harmon, housing director for Native American Community Development Corporation, pointing out that the biggest challenge in Indian Country is home ownership. "Going through the mortgage process is difficult; to settle is cumbersome. LenderLive will take care of that process for the customer," she explained. GreenPoint Mortgage, selected because of the development of their Tribal POINTTM Mortgage Program, will serve two functions. First, GreenPoint will purchase loans on fee simple land from NAB. All loans sold to GreenPoint will be on a whole loan basis with servicing released. NAB will earn origination fees and serviced released premiums through the sale of the loan. GreenPoint's second relationship with NAB will be a brokerage partnership. NAB and LenderLive will originate and process the loan application and will forward the package to GreenPoint for underwriting, closing, funding and servicing. "We are excited about this partnership with Native American Bank and Lender Live," said CeAnn Kelly, Vice President and director of GreenPoint's tribal lending program. "We specialize in meeting the needs of underserved markets, and this is clearly a market with a great deal of unmet demand for home ownership. We have worked hard to identify the unique needs of Native Americans wanting to purchase housing on tribal lands and to create a set of loan products to meet those unique needs. Through this partnership, we will be able to create greater housing opportunities than any of us could on an individual basis." GreenPoint has a proven track record in the development of new markets and lending opportunities. According to NAB president and CEO John Beirise, the ultimate objective in the partnership with GreenPoint is to create enough product to have a market for trust land mortgages, "just like there is a market for mortgages in the non-Indian communities through players like Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac, with the end result being cheaper financing for home buyers." NAB also plans to work with Tribal housing counselors who are working with individuals applying for a mortgage. The counselor will complete the information on-line while working with the customer and then will submit the mortgage application online for processing by NAB's team at LenderLive Network. "This partnership will provide NAB with the opportunity to become the dominant mortgage lender in the Native American market, believed to be the fastest growing emerging market in the United States," concluded Harmon. "LenderLive will arm NAB with the resources, experience and technology needed to compete for a greater share of Native American mortgage business, whereas GreenPoint is among the most profitable of the 50 largest banking companies in the country and has tremendous capital to fund the loans." Copyright c. 2000-2003 Indianz.Com. --------- "RE: Real Story of Code-talkers" --------- Date: Thu, 22 Jan 2004 08:08:47 -0700 From: Gary Smith Subj: NA News Item - - - - - - -- - - - - - - filename="TRUE HISTORY" http://www.owlstar.com/dailyheadlines.htm http://www.bozemandailychronicle.com/2004/01/22/news/indiansbzbigs.txt Indian professor tells real story of code-talkers; sets history straight By GAIL SCHONTZLER, Chronicle Staff Writer January 22, 2004 Hollywood did a poor job telling the story of Indian code-talkers in the movie "Windtalkers," says a Native American studies professor from Montana State University. Walter Fleming, associate professor and author of "The Complete Idiot's Guide to Native American History," said the World War II movie "sucks." He joked that it put an "Indian-deprived" actor, Nicholas Cage, and his "angst" at the forefront. The history of Indian code-talkers in war is more complex and interesting, he told a crowd of 50 people Tuesday at the Bozeman Public Library. His talk, "10 Things About Native Americans I Learned While Looking Up Something Else," was sponsored by the American Association of University Women. Not all code-talkers were Navajo, said Fleming, a member of the Kickapoo Kansas tribe who grew up on the Crow reservation in Montana. Choctaw, Comanche, Sioux and Crow soldiers also used their languages to help the U.S. Army communicate secretly and thwart enemy spying, he said. The first to do so were eight Choctaw Indians, who helped the Allies outmaneuver the Germans in the Argonne. Barney Old Coyote, a Crow Indian, flew more than 50 missions during World War II in Europe, and communicated with his brother Henry in another bomber, Fleming said. The Navajo used a "code within a code" to foil the Japanese in the Pacific. In Navajo they called the United States "our mother," Australia "rolled hat" and China "braided hair." In 2001, the Congressional Medal of Honor was awarded to the five survivors of the 29 originators of the code. One footnote to World War II was that a Crow soldier, Joe Medicine Crow, now 90, came home and found himself honored as a modern warrior chief, Fleming said. When Medicine Crow told tribal elders about his war experiences, they discovered that he had completed the four tasks required to become a warrior chief -- stealing an enemy's horse, taking an enemy's weapon, touching an enemy or counting coup with a stick, and leading a successful war party. Medicine Crow's commanding officer had asked him to steal the retreating Germans' horses, which he did as a lark. He had fought an enemy hand-to- hand, and also taken his weapon. And he had led a successful war party by crawling through mud to retrieve dynamite. Fleming also offered historic tidbits on the Lewis and Clark expedition. Lewis consulted a map made in 1801 by a Blackfeet chief named Feather, which should have answered the expedition's big questions. It clearly showed there was no water passage across the Rockies to the Pacific. Fleming said he has received mainly positive reactions to his "Complete Idiot's Guide," but there was a complaint from one California professor that it wasn't "edgy" or angry enough. "Humor I think is necessary," Fleming said. "It's a way of dealing with the tragic nature of history. It's not to make light of it, but to deal with it in a positive way, instead of negative." Gail Schontzler is at gails@dailychronicle.com Copyright c. 2003 the Bozeman Daily Chronicle. --------- "RE: Indian tribes in Phoenix: Is anybody listening?" --------- Date: Thu, 22 Jan 2004 08:08:47 -0700 From: Gary Smith Subj: NA News Item - - - - - - -- - - - - - - filename="TRIBAL GATHERING" http://www.owlstar.com/dailyheadlines.htm http://www.gallupindependent.com/012104indiantribesinphoeni.html Indian tribes in Phoenix: Is anybody listening? Ariz. governor praised by tribes Pamela G. Dempsey Dine' Bureau January 21, 2004 PHOENIX, Ariz. - Tribal leaders throughout Arizona gathered Tuesday at the Arizona State Capitol Building to accomplish just one thing: Have their voices heard. "We're not going to go anywhere, we're here to stay," said Vivian Juan- Saunders, chairperson of the Tohono O'odham Nation. The annual Indian Nations and Tribes Legislative Day, inspired by now- retired state Sen. Jack Jackson, brings together statewide tribal communities and the State of Arizona to encourage communication between the governments. "The main part is to hear our voice," said Mary Martin, Ms. Navajo Nation Elder and an observer of Tuesday's events. Politicians looking for a vote from the American Indian population should pay attention to issues surrounding it, such as health care, education, and housing, Martin said. Although the gallery was full of observers and tribal leaders, the House floor was absent of many legislators as a few tribes were given a chance to address Arizona's representatives. House and Senate committees met with tribal delegations throughout the day to hear input on education, natural resources, and agriculture, among other issues as representatives met individually with tribal leaders. "(With the) efforts of a man who taught us to judge a man not by the color of his skin but by the contents of his character (we are here today), " said Ken Bennett, Arizona's senate president, in reference to Martin Luther King Jr. "Good neighbors can have fences, not to keep each other out, but to keep the kids from causing trouble." Gov. Janet Napolitano was praised many times by tribal leaders for the quarterly tribal summits she held in 2003 at the Grand Canyon, Pinetop, Sells and Yuma to personally meet with tribal delegations to address issues affecting tribal education, health, housing and economic development. "Thank you for getting us involved," Navajo Nation President Joe Shirley Jr. told state representatives. "There's a myriad of challenges facing all of us, we are in this together." Napolitano cited the creation of Arizona's first full-time Policy Advisor for Tribal Affairs in her office as increasing communication between tribes and the state. "This strengthened relationship benefits both the tribal communities and the State of Arizona," she stated in a letter to participants. Hopi Tribal Chairman Wayne Taylor Jr., while reiterating issues from other tribes, emphasized two issues pertaining to Hopi tribe. "We want to deal with the State of Arizona as one government deals with another," Taylor said. He indicated his intention to address state laws concerning autopsies on the Hopi people, which lengthens the burial days although Hopi beliefs require burial within 24 hours of death. He also addressed dual taxation. "When the state exercises its taxing authority within boundaries of a reservation, it removes the tribe's taxing authority," Taylor said. "This results in dual taxation." As an example, Taylor used Peabody Coal Mine, which he said, is currently paying $50 million in state taxes to Arizona, less than it pays in royalties to the Hopi tribe. "When the state explores amending its tax codes, invite the tribe's input," Taylor said. The absence of many legislators did not go unnoticed. Speaker of the Navajo Nation Council Lawrence Morgan said the delegation "shied away." "The Indian nations spoke to each other," he said. Copyright c. 2004 The Gallup Independent. --------- "RE: Judge dismisses Blackfeet housing complaints" --------- Date: Fri, 23 Jan 2004 08:46:31 -0700 From: Gary Smith Subj: NA News Item - - - - - - -- - - - - - - filename="BIA HOUSES/TRIBE'S PROBLEM" http://www.owlstar.com/dailyheadlines.htm http://www.billingsgazette.com/~/01/23/build/state/64-blackfeethousing.inc Federal judge dismisses complaints about Blackfeet housing Associated Press January 23, 2004 GREAT FALLS - A federal judge has dismissed a lawsuit seeking repair or replacement of 203 houses on the Blackfeet Indian Reservation that residents claim made them sick. An appeal is expected. U.S. District Judge Sam Haddon recently granted motions to dismiss the lawsuit filed in August 2002 against the federal Department of Housing and Urban Development and the Blackfeet Housing Authority. Martin Marceau, a lead plaintiff, said the case likely will be appealed to the 9th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals. Marceau and his fellow plaintiffs bought the houses, built in the late '70s and early '80s, under a rent-to-own program with the tribal housing authority. They say their families have suffered medical problems from asthma to sinusitis because the homes were built with treated wood foundations unsuited for the area. Moisture problems caused by the wooden foundations have exposed residents to mold, and the wood itself was treated with toxic chemicals, the plaintiffs contend. The suit asked for unspecified monetary damages and for the homes to be repaired or replaced, an undertaking estimated to cost $30 million. Haddon ruled that HUD can't be sued under the various laws that apply to the housing projects and the Blackfeet Housing Authority has "sovereign immunity." He said responsibility for maintenance of the homes falls with the housing authority and the plaintiffs. "We think he's dead wrong," said Tom Towe of Billings, attorney for the plaintiffs. HUD had a trust responsibility to maintain the homes because it funded construction and imposed long-term rules and regulations on the project, Towe said. At a hearing in mid-November, assistant U.S. attorney Timothy J. Cavan, who represented HUD, argued the federal agency has no authority over the sovereign Blackfeet nation and, therefore, did not force the tribal housing authority, which built the homes, to do anything. The new ruling, filed Jan. 12 in federal court in Great Falls, suggests that the proper venue for the suit would be the Court of Claims in Washington, D.C. It typically decides contract disputes involving the federal government. Other plaintiffs named were Candice Lamott, Julie Rattler, Joseph Rattler Jr., Mary Grant, Gary Grant and Deana Mountain Chief. Copyright c. 2004 Associated Press. All rights reserved. Copyright c. The Billings Gazette, a division of Lee Enterprises. --------- "RE: Seneca Nation sues New York over Internet ban" --------- Date: Sun, 18 Jan 2004 12:44:54 -0700 From: Gary Smith Subj: NA News Item - - - - - - -- - - - - - - filename="INTERNET SMOKE SALES" http://www.pechanga.net/ http://www.indiancountry.com/?1074965057 Seneca Nation sues New York over Internet smoke sales ban Pataki proposes postponement of sales tax collections January 24, 2004 by: Tom Wanamaker / Correspondent / Indian Country Today CATTARAUGUS RESERVATION, N.Y. - In a move to protect one of its strongest business enterprises, the Seneca Nation filed suit in federal district court challenging a New York state law banning the sale of cigarettes over the Internet. In its complaint, the nation alleges that the law is both unconstitutional and a violation of Seneca sovereignty. "If enforced, the (law) would severely restrict the manner in which Native American retailers in New York have been able to transact business for years, and would represent unlawful interference with the sovereignty of the Nation," wrote Seneca attorneys in court briefs. "Revenue generated through the sale of tobacco products by Native American retailers has assisted in increasing the standard of living for all members of the Nation." The Senecas are New Yorks most prominent online Indian tobacco retailers. According to a recent estimate, Seneca-owned businesses involved in the online cigarette trade employ some 1,500 people. The Nation licenses all tobacco merchants operating on its territory; proceeds from the licensing fees support a number of Nation-provided services. The law, originally enacted in 2000, prohibits the sale of cigarettes ordered both by mail and over the Internet. State officials began enforcing the measure last June after U.S. District Court Judge William M. Skretny declined to stop them. The legislation was originally touted as a measure to both protect public health and to limit minors' access to tobacco, but some critics believe its real intent is to force New Yorkers to physically purchase their cigarettes from actual New York stores, thus boosting state tax revenue. Two other legal challenges, both filed last year, to the Internet tobacco sales ban are also pending before Judge Skretny. One is led by the Online Tobacco Retailers Association and includes a Seneca retailer, out- of-state online retailers and disabled smokers. A pair of Seneca business owners filed the other action. Sales tax collection In other news of import to the Senecas and other New York tribes, Governor George Pataki on Jan. 20 asked the Legislature to postpone for a year its attempts to collect sales taxes on reservation transactions. The governor wants another 12 months to negotiate price or tax parity agreements with the various state tribes involved in retailing. "We appreciate the fact that the governor wants to engage in a dialogue with the Indian nations on this issue," said Rickey L. Armstrong Sr., Seneca Nation president, in a Jan. 20 press release. "We recognize this as a positive step by the governor in attempting to achieve a resolution to this issue that is respectful of our sovereignty." Facing a massive budget deficit, the state legislature last year directed Pataki to enforce the collection of sales taxes on reservation sales of fuel and tobacco to non-Indian customers. In 1997, Pataki halted attempts to collect state taxes on reservation transactions in the wake of blocked Interstates and threats of violence. He expressed his recognition of tribal sovereignty at that time. This experience surely swayed Pataki to pursue a negotiated settlement. This time, legislators had originally set Dec. 1, 2003 as the deadline to strike a deal with the tribes or to begin tax collections. As that date neared with no deals on the horizon, Pataki got the deadline pushed back to March 1. This still would have allowed legislators to book a month of tax revenue before the state's new fiscal year begins April 1. There was no immediate word from legislators regarding the 52-week postponement. To the pessimistic, the fact that Pataki wants a whole year could mean that no tribes are anywhere close to a tax agreement. Or it simply could reflect the fact that the complex inter-mingling of tax, land claim and casino revenue sharing issues will take some time to resolve, regardless of whatever progress may have been made to date. Copyright c. 2004 Indian Country Today. --------- "RE: YELLOW BIRD: Seminars on Native Culture" --------- Date: Sun, 18 Jan 2004 12:44:54 -0700 From: Gary Smith Subj: NA News Item - - - - - - -- - - - - - - filename="YELLOW BIRD: NATIVE CULTURE" http://www.grandforks.com/~/dorreen_yellow_bird/7785211.htm DORREEN YELLOW BIRD COLUMN: Seminars on Native culture launch vital talks The first of five forums and discussions on American Indians issues is done. I left the discussion table feeling after all these years the secret is out, and the story is told. Yet, the book, "The Dull Knifes of Pine Ridge," which was the center of the discussion Thursday in Barnes and Noble University Bookstore in Grand Forks, barely pricked the surface of what happened to Indians historically. Joe Starita's book is agonizing and raw. It is the story of a Lakota- Northern Cheyenne family, the Dull Knifes. Chief Dull Knife rode with Crazy Horse, escaped from forced relocation in Indian Territory (what is now Oklahoma) and led his followers on a desperate, 600-mile flight back to his Dakota Territory homeland. The book also is about George Dull Knife, who survived the Wounded Knee Massacre and toured with Buffalo Bill Cody's Wild West Show; Guy Dull Knife Sr., who fought in World War I and took part in the siege of Wounded Knee in 1973; and Guy Dull Knife Jr., who fought in Vietnam. But more than the circumstances surrounding the family, the book is about the atrocities that were committed against the Lakota and, broadly, Indians. At the discussion, I barely heard the conversations about what the people ate, their "by consensus" political systems, how they used humor and the roles of women in Indian societies. My mind was seeing the pictures of suffering that the relatives of Dull Knife painted in the book. I knew that this was the history of most Indians a history that has been left out of many history books. I knew, too, that without the tribal historians those who kept the history alive through the oral tradition the inhumane and outrageous treatment of our people would fade from books and the minds of the nation and even Indians. So, it was good to have people interested in hearing and talking about Indian history conversation promotes understanding. One of the participants told me to remember that not all white people were like those depicted in the book. Yes, I knew that was true, too. Some of the journals were written by white people who saw Indians starving and dying. In many cases, they wrote about it because that was the only way they could take action against it. Starita, a former investigative journalist and New York bureau chief for the Miami Herald, currently is associate professor of journalism at the University of Nebraska. He spent time interviewing the Lakota people and most of the Dull Knifes of Pine Ridge, S.D. This series of forums is a project of the American Indian Programs Council at UND. The goal is to provide linkages between Greater Grand Forks communities and Indian people, Greg Gagnon, associate professor at Indian Studies, told me. The forum was a suggestion of UND President Charles Kupchella, who funded the program because he thought it was important, Gagnon said. The university sees itself as trying to provide Indian education to the public. The more information that gets out there, the more these discussions will help allay some of the difficulties that have plagued the university, Gagnon said. Were they pleased with the turnout? "Oh, boy, were we," Gagnon said. They expected 50 people and 100 showed up. All the tables, chairs and space inside and around the bookstore's Tower Cafe were filled. It was a good place for a discussion. Some people sat in soft, cushy chairs and couches, and others sat at tables where they could write and take notes or drink hot coffee or tea. I liked the arrangement. Feb. 23, Starita, the author of "The Dull Knifes of Pine Ridge," will be in Barnes and Noble for a discussion and book signing at 7 p.m. Jan. 29, Gagnon will explore the history of and common beliefs about Indian culture from 7 to 9 p.m. in the Herald's Community Room. March 1, Jim Grijalva, UND associate professor of law, will discuss current issues in Indian country from 7 to 9 p.m. in the Herald's Community Room. Last, Brian Gilley, assistant professor of indian studies and Russ McDonald, associate research director of the National Resource Center on Native American Aging, will explain the role of tradition in modern powwows in the Chester Fritz Auditorium from 7 to 9 p.m. April 1 This is a good opportunity to discuss issues about Indians. It is a good time to ask questions and find answers about the largest ethnic group in North Dakota. ---- Yellow Bird writes columns Tuesday and Saturday. Reach her by phone at 780-1228 or (800) 477-6572, extension 228, or by e-mail at dyellowbird@gfherald.com. Copyright c. 2004 Grand Forks Herald/Grand Forks, ND. --------- "RE: American Indian Leader pledges 1 Million Voters" --------- Date: Thu, 22 Jan 2004 08:08:47 -0700 From: Gary Smith Subj: NA News Item - - - - - - -- - - - - - - filename="INDIAN VOTES PLEDGED" http://www.owlstar.com/dailyheadlines.htm http://www.billingsgazette.com/~/build/nation/38-americanindianvotes.inc American Indian leader pledges 1 million voters in 8 key states Associated Press January 22, 2004 WASHINGTON (AP) - The president of the National Congress of American Indians pledged Wednesday to mobilize 1 million Indian voters in eight states this fall. "These are key states, these are key races," said Tex Hall, chairman of the Three Affiliated Tribes in North Dakota. Hall said the Indian turnout in Arizona, South Dakota, New Mexico, Alaska, Minnesota, Michigan, Oklahoma and California will be "critical to our success in reclaiming other important rights - the right to adequate health care, quality education, the right to fully govern our lands, to protect our citizenry and the right to see our nation's commitments to tribes fulfilled." Hall made the pledge during his second annual "State of Indian Nations" address in Washington. He also outlined a number of areas where he said the federal government has fallen short in its responsibilities to Indian tribes. Those areas include funding of the Indian Health Service and schools, and the need for changes in the management of an Indian trust fund, he said. Congress created the fund in 1887 to manage revenue from land designated to each tribal member, but the money often was not collected, lost or stolen. Lawyers for a group of American Indians say that, with interest, the account should be worth as much as $176 billion. They also contend that tens of billions of dollars likely never made it to more than 300,000 Indian landowners. Hall asked Congress to boost funding to the Indian Health Service by $2. .3 billion. He said it would allow the agency to better fight diabetes, heart disease, cancer, suicide and alcoholism - "each disproportionately severe in Indian Country." Jacqueline Johnson, executive director of the national congress, said the group's overall priorities for the year include working to protect tribal sovereignty, resolving the dispute over the trust fund, boosting funds needed for Indian programs and getting Indians out to vote. Copyright c. 2004 Associated Press. All rights reserved. --------- "RE: Native Americans to aid Zuni Dancer" --------- Date: Fri, 23 Jan 2004 08:46:31 -0700 From: Gary Smith Subj: NA News Item - - - - - - -- - - - - - - filename="HELPING GRANDFATHER MAHOOTY" http://www.owlstar.com/dailyheadlines.htm http://www.rochesterdandc.com/news/01236T31JOS_news.shtml Native Americans to aid Zuni dancer By Diana Louise Carter Staff Writer January 23, 2004 Two heart attacks in rapid succession prevented Chester Mahooty of Henrietta from giving the opening prayer and song at a Native American gathering in Tucson, Ariz., on New Year's Day. Mahooty, 75, a Zuni dancer and singer who has toured internationally, collapsed just before sunrise prayers on Dec. 30 at Zuni Pueblo, N.M., according to his wife, Barbara Bethmann-Mahooty. Mahooty made it through the heart crises and several surgical procedures but now must go through cardiac rehabilitation before he can leave the hospital in Albuquerque. On Saturday, the Rochester-area Native American community, which reveres Mahooty as both a cultural and spiritual leader, will gather and welcome others to join them at an Iroquois social dance aimed at raising money to help with the expenses the elderly couple have incurred. The event, beginning with a potluck supper at 5:30 p.m. and continuing with a dance from 7 to 10, will be at the Rochester Museum & Science Center's Eisenhart Auditorium. Bethmann-Mahooty, 70, has been staying in an Albuquerque hotel to remain near her husband of 10 years. They had been staying with relatives at Zuni Pueblo, one of the Pueblo Indian communities, about 150 miles from Albuquerque. Reached by phone on her way to the Heart Hospital of Albuquerque on Tuesday, Bethmann-Mahooty laughed at the irony of the social being held while the couple is away. Unable to get her Christmas cards out before the couple left for the Southwest, Bethmann-Mahooty had been considering holding a party when they got back. Now the friends will gather, but she'll be too far away to see them. "It's very kind of them to do this. People have been so nice," said Bethmann-Mahooty, who is Mohawk. The Young Spirit Dancers, the dance troupe affiliated with the Ganondagan State Historic Site in Ontario County, will host the Iroquois social. Mahooty, founding member of the American Indian Dance Theatre and leader of his own Zuni Rainbow Dancers troupe before that, taught Zuni dances to many of the youngsters and young adults who dance with the Young Spirit troupe. "Wherever they went, they were really great and got great reviews," G. Peter Jemison, site manager at Ganondagan, said of the American Indian Dance Theatre, which was extremely popular in the 1980s and 1990s. Jemison met Mahooty in 1992, when Jemison and some other Iroquois people worked with the dance theater to teach Iroquois dances to the troupe. While on tour in Alaska in 1993, Mahooty fell and smashed his kneecap, ending his dancing career. Mahooty is a medicine man in his Pueblo community. He also is a master silversmith and sells his work and that of other Southwest artists at Ganondagan arts and crafts fairs. Jemison said Rochester-area Native Americans turn to Mahooty for his spiritual wisdom. "He always was called upon to offer a prayer or song in a way to bring the minds of the group together," Jemison said. "Although our language is different, he didn't really see a difference in what we are offering thanks for." Bethmann-Mahooty met her future husband in 1978, when he was performing at Art Park in Lewiston, Niagara County. Then the teacher of the Native American cultural program in the Rush-Henrietta schools, she would take her students to various cultural performances for inspiration. The teacher looked the dancer up again at a St. Lawrence University performance to offer the suggestion that the dances be narrated to help the audience better understand their significance. "He told me, `They don't narrate the ballet,'" Bethmann-Mahooty recalled, suggesting a debate that still hasn't been settled between them. In October 1992, they met again, backstage at Nazareth Arts Center, and he told her he'd like to get to know her better. His wife had died three years earlier, and he said he was lonely, she recalled. They married in November 1993. Bethmann-Mahooty said she can't predict when her husband will be ready to leave the hospital, but she expects they will stay at Zuni to recuperate for a while before returning home to Henrietta. "It's all in the creator's hands," she said. DCARTER@DemocratandChronicle.com Copyright c. 2004 Rochester Democrat and Chronicle. --------- "RE: Zuni's Historic Santo Nino has new Caretakers" --------- Date: Sun, 18 Jan 2004 12:44:54 -0700 From: Gary Smith Subj: NA News Item - - - - - - -- - - - - - - filename="CHANGE OF CARETAKER" http://www.owlstar.com/dailyheadlines.htm http://www.gallupindependent.com/012404ZuniPuebloshistorics.html Zuni Pueblo's historic Santo Nino has new caretakers Statue believed to be more than 400 years old by Pamela G. Dempsey Staff Writer January 24, 2004 ZUNI - The Santo Nino in Zuni, a small statue resembling Jesus Christ as a child, receives many things throughout the year jewelry, clothing, and money and, just recently, new caretakers. The Siutza family, its former caretakers until last week, was asked to leave the house of the Santo Nino, on Jan. 21 by the governor of Zuni after a traditional hearing between the Siutzas and the Kanastas, the overseeing family, was held. "I believe no other person has the right to take away from us what they took away from us," said Bob Siutza, the figure's former caretaker. The Santo Nino resides in a 11-room house in the middle of the Zuni pueblo. The house is open 24 hours a day so that believers of the faith can come and pray at anytime. The Saint, one of several throughout the world, is believed to be more than 400 years old. It rests in a glass case surrounded by candles and offerings of its many visitors. Although the house is community property, members of the Kanasta family bloodline are the only ones allowed to care for the spiritual figure, passed down from generation to generation since the late 1600's, "Eviction was not the case," said Arlen Quetawki, governor of the pueblo. "Nobody got evicted." Instead, he said, the Kanasta family asked for a traditional hearing to discuss the responsibilities and concerns of the Siutzas' care of the Saint. While the Siutzas claim they were evicted due to allegations by other family members of drinking, drug dealing, and domestic violence, Quetawki would not confirm any reason behind their replacement. "We are a neutral party in the case," he said. Kathy Siutza, a member of the Kanasta family, moved into the house early last year. "You feel like you have to treat (the Saint) with respect," she said. "You have to protect the Saint at all times with your life." The respect and dedication, they said, is what they gave 100 percent for the last year and the allegations are not true. "We are looking at the Saint as our infant," Bob said. "I want our dignity back." Their children, two daughters and a son, ran errands, paid bills, and did the shopping while Kathy and Bob kept vigil. A requirement, the Siutzas said, for anyone watching over the Saint seen in several locations worldwide. Beliefs surrounding the Santo Nino continue to grow. It is known worldwide for its reputed healing properties. Its shoes, believers say, new ones each day, are worn out by morning from the miracles it performs running around at night. Both national and international visitors from all over the world come to pay respects and ask for blessings from the Saint in exchange for jewelry, clothing, and money. In January, churches from all over the world celebrate the Feast of Santo Nino, where members reflect on its child-like qualities to remind them of the childlike qualities so revered in Christianity. "The Saint has been a miracle on our family," Bob said. "Money ain't the thing over here, it's life." The Siutzas said they feel sad to leave the house and the Saint as they make a new home on the north side of the village. "Hopefully, we'll start off new," Kathy said. Quetawki said the family agreed the Santo Nino is common property. "It doesn't belong to one individual," he said. The Kanasta family decided to give the full-time responsibility back to its former caretakers, a mother and daughter team. Quetawki said everyone, including the Siutzas, had a chance to speak on the matter. "The decision of the tribal council is the final decision," Quetawki said. "Commitments have to made to stay with her constantly and watch over the house." Copyright c. 2004 the Gallup Independent. --------- "RE: Hospitals ordered to obey Indian Birth Rites" --------- Date: Thu, 22 Jan 2004 08:08:47 -0700 From: Gary Smith Subj: NA News Item - - - - - - -- - - - - - - filename="GUARANI" http://www.owlstar.com/dailyheadlines.htm http://www.reuters.com/newsArticle.jhtml?type=oddlyEnoughNews&storyID=4176185 Hospitals Ordered to Obey Indian Birth Rites January 21, 2004 SAO PAULO, Brazil (Reuters) - The Brazilian state of Sao Paulo Tuesday ordered public hospitals near Indian villages to abide by ancient tribal customs when delivering babies for Guarani Indian women. The resolution, aimed at increasing the Guarani's trust in the modern health care system, obliges hospitals to allow midwives from the tribe to assist in childbirth and respect the Indians' traditional diet. That means removing foods like beef, pork, fish, beans, eggs, milk, salt, sugar and fruit from meals for 40 days after labor. Instead, Guarani mothers will be served chicken, rice, corn and a porridge made from the cassava root. Hospitals will also preserve the mother's placenta after childbirth so it can be buried in the tribe's village or kept with the community's most prized possessions, in accordance with Guarani traditions. "The Indians believe the ritual of burying the placenta has an impact on the rhythm of life of the newborn baby. We're just respecting their wishes," said Augusta Sato, who tracks Indian health issues for Sao Paulo state. Sao Paulo, Brazil's wealthiest and most populous state, is home to about 2,000 Guarani Indians who live in 15 villages scattered throughout the eastern part of the state. The Guarani can also be found in other parts of southern Brazil and in neighboring Paraguay, where 90 percent of the population speaks Guarani. Copyright c. 2004 Reuters. All Rights Reserved. --------- "RE: Interior to open almost 9 Million Acres in Alaska" --------- Date: Fri, 23 Jan 2004 08:46:31 -0700 From: Gary Smith Subj: NA News Item - - - - - - -- - - - - - - filename="WHAT ENVIRONMENT?" http://www.owlstar.com/dailyheadlines.htm http://www.news-miner.com/Stories/0,1413,113~26794~1908305,00.html Interior to open almost 9 million acres in Alaska to drilling By JOHN HEILPRIN , Associated Press Writer WASHINGTON January 22, 2004 Interior Secretary Gale Norton signed off on a plan Thursday to open 8.8 million acres of Alaska's North Slope to oil and gas development, some in areas important for migratory birds, whales and wildlife. The Interior Department's Bureau of Land Management will use the plan to manage a northwest portion of the government's 23.5 million-acre National Petroleum Reserve-Alaska. Geologists believe that reserve may contain 6 billion to 13 billion barrels of oil. It is located just west of the 1.5 million-acre Arctic National Wildlife Refuge, which President Bush wants to open to drilling as part of a massive energy bill stalled in the Senate. Environmentalists said the management plan threatens the health of Arctic tundra, ponds and lakes that are home to wildlife and migratory birds and provide a vital subsistence hunting and fishing ground for native Alaskans. "What makes this even worse is that BLM has failed to study the effects of oil activities on the environment like it has promised to do," said Cindy Shogan, executive director of the Alaska Wilderness League. The plan makes 7.23 million acres available for energy leasing, but will defer leasing the other 1.57 million acres for a decade to see if more environmental studies are needed, Interior Department officials said. All energy leases will be subject to strict environmental standards, the officials said, while other provisions are meant to protect water quality, vegetation, wetlands, fish and wildlife habitats and subsistence uses. The Interior Department proposed the management plan in January 2003. With few changes, the plan includes creation of a 102,000-acre Kasegaluk Lagoon Special Area fenced off from leasing. It is considered particularly sensitive, as it is home to beluga whales, spotted seals and the black brandt, a migratory wild goose. The plan designates special study areas of more than a half-million acres each for the Pacific black brandt and caribou. It also requires habitat studies for eiders, a bird whose existence is imperiled, and yellow-billed loons, and sets restrictions to minimize loss of foraging habitat for raptors around the Colville River Special Area. Norton said oil and gas from the North Slope will help increase domestic energy production and stabilize prices in the long term. "This plan will help produce energy in an environmentally responsible manner with the best available technology, while protecting the important biological, subsistence and cultural values found in this area," she said. The reserve was set aside in the 1920s for potential energy development. Environmentalists said the management plan rewards Bush administration friends in the oil and gas industry. "This decision certainly gives big oil and gas plenty to be thankful for," said Eleanor Huffines, regional director in Alaska for The Wilderness Society. BLM can now modify or waive environmental safeguards on a case-by-case basis for economic reasons, environmentalists said. The bureau expects to hold a lease sale for oil and gas development on selected tracts next June. The Clinton administration had opened much of the eastern section of the reserve to oil and gas exploration in 1998, with tight restrictions and some areas fenced off. Copyright c. 2004 Fairbanks Daily News-Miner. --------- "RE: Jules resigns as AFN Chief of Staff" --------- Date: Sun, 18 Jan 2004 12:44:54 -0700 From: Gary Smith Subj: NA News Item - - - - - - -- - - - - - - filename="JULES RESIGNS" http://www.owlstar.com/dailyheadlines.htm http://www.ammsa.com/raven/topnews-Jan-2004.html#anchor743371 Jules resigns as AFN chief of staff Paul Barnsley, Raven's Eye Writer, Ottawa January 19, 2004 Just a few months after he was appointed chief of staff of the Assembly of First Nations, Manny Jules resigned. He was conspicuously absent from the chiefs' meeting on Dec. 9, the opening day of the Confederacy of Nations in Ottawa. It turned out there was very good reason for his absence. "The First Nation Fiscal and Statistical Management act is good for my community and many others. I will continue to strongly endorse it and support its passage through parliament. I realize my position is in conflict with the stated position of the assembly. I therefore feel it is necessary that I offer my resignation as chief of staff of the AFN effective immediately," Jules wrote in a letter he delivered to the executive during their meeting Dec. 8. He explained the recent developments to the chiefs on Dec. 10. "Up until recently I was the chief of staff for National Chief Phil Fontaine," he told the delegates. He said representatives of the Chiefs of Ontario asked what his position was on Bill C-19 [the financial institutions' legislation] after the AFN meeting in Squamish in October. The chiefs in assembly had directed the national chief and executive to not speak in support of the legislation.Manny Jules had worked for many years to push the legislation forward and the bill's political opponents wanted to be sure that the AFN's chief of staff was not disobeying that directive. Jules admitted that put him in a tough situation. "So, when I'm asked if I support Bill C-19, I found I could not do that within the Assembly of First Nations given the direction that was given to the national chief at Squamish. I want to let every one of you know exactly where I stand," he said. "I left the position of chief of staff so that I can carry on my work, which is to advocate national institutions for First Nations, for communities that want to make this change ourselves." He said he consented to take the AFN job in the first place because it was clear to him that institutions would have to be created in order to carry out the national chief's Getting Results Agenda. "There was a notion that institutions would have to be built in order for us to do that. After the Squamish meeting it was very clear that the chiefs in assembly, particularly those who've opposed the legislative format right from the beginning, were going to be continually active in that process. So I toughed it out as long as I could and I reached the conclusion that the Assembly of First Nations was not the best place for me to do the kind of work that I feel I've been put in this world to do," said Jules. Ironically, the job he held before joining Fontaine's staff had just been filled days before he made the decision to resign. He had been the founder and leader of the Indian Taxation Advisory Board. Newly-elected Siksika First Nation (Alberta) Chief Strater Crowfoot had just been appointed to fill that position. "I'm no longer chair or CEO of ITAB," he said. Asked what he would do next, he said "I will go back and advocate for C- 19. I've dedicated 15 years of my life to see that piece of legislation move forward and I want to see it through to fruition." His successor as chief of the Kamloops Indian Band, Bonnie Leonard, has announced her intention to run as a federal Liberal candidate in the next election. Jules said he has no such ambitions. "I'm not looking to government, for a place in the Liberal government to carry on this work. I'm looking to work with the First Nations institutions to see Bill C-19 through," he said. Jules was asked if he would do that lobbying as a private citizen, as John Q Public. "There has been an agreement from the institutions that I be their spokesman. So it's a little bit more than John Q," he said." Copyright c. 1983-2004 Ravens Eye AMMSA - Aboriginal MultiMedia Society. --------- "RE: Chre'tien subpoena by Natives in offing" --------- Date: Fri, 23 Jan 2004 08:46:31 -0700 From: Gary Smith Subj: NA News Item - - - - - - -- - - - - - - filename="CHRE'TIEN" http://www.owlstar.com/dailyheadlines.htm http://www.theglobeandmail.com/~/CHRETIEN22//?query=aboriginal&disp=e&end Chre'tien subpoena by natives in offing By JILL MAHONEY January 22, 2004 EDMONTON - Former prime minister Jean Chre'tien is being subpoenaed to appear as a witness by an Alberta native band that is suing the federal government for $1.4-billion. James O'Reilly, a lawyer for the Samson Cree Nation, said Mr. Chre'tien is key to the civil case because of his involvement in native issues during most of his 40-year political career. "He was a key actor for the Government of Canada in all of this and one thing about him is he's a straight shooter. He's going to answer the questions, I'm pretty sure, and we may take some hits, but I think that he'll be able to confirm our view as to what the federal government was doing and not doing," he said. The Samson Cree band, located north of Red Deer, Alta., is suing Ottawa over allegations it mishandled oil-and-gas royalties over the past six decades and deprived the band of higher interest returns. The federal government denies the allegations, saying it adhered to the law. Mr. O'Reilly said arrangements to serve the subpoena were made with Mr. Chre'tien's lawyers yesterday and the document is expected to be served soon. A copy was faxed to his legal counsel lawyers in Calgary and Ottawa yesterday. His lawyers did not return phone calls. Mr. Chre'tien, whose career in politics included a stint as Indian Affairs minister, has reserved his right to appeal the subpoena. "That's still an issue which we might have to deal with," Mr. O'Reilly said. The two-page subpoena says Mr. Chre'tien must appear in Federal Court in Calgary on Feb. 23 and may be required for five days. The document, which was issued Tuesday by a Federal Court senior registry officer, says, in capital letters: "If you fail to attend or remain in attendance as required by this subpoena, a warrant may be issued for your arrest." As well as the subpoena, Mr. O'Reilly is also serving a $3,550 cheque for Mr. Chre'tien's $30 daily attendance allowance for five days, Ottawa- Calgary return airfare allowance of $2,400 and hotel and meal allowance of $1,000. The payment is in accordance with Federal Court rules. The document notes: "If further attendance is required, you will be entitled to additional money." Crown lawyers opposed Mr. O'Reilly's months-long attempt to subpoena Mr. Chre'tien, calling it a political stunt. However, eight days before Mr. Chre'tien stepped down as prime minister in mid-December, Mr. Justice Max Teitelbaum of the Federal Court ruled that he could be called to testify in the case, which began nearly four years ago. The decision is believed to be the first time a judge has granted leave to issue a subpoena to force a sitting Canadian prime minister to testify at trial. In his written ruling, Judge Teitelbaum noted that Mr. Chre'tien's name appears on "numerous documents" relevant to the case. However, he also said he will not allow questions that indicate "a fishing expedition" or allow counsel to "engage in a political debate". Copyright c. 2004 Bell Globemedia Publishing Inc. All Rights Reserved. --------- "RE: A Community Member Confronts Issac and Ross" --------- Date: Fri, 23 Jan 2004 08:46:31 -0700 From: Gary Smith Subj: NA News Item - - - - - - -- - - - - - - filename="OKA RECALLED" http://www.easterndoor.com/12-50/12-50-3.htm A Community Member Confronts Issac and Ross By: Ross Montour Eastern Door Volume 12 Number 50 January 16, 2004 While many Kanehsata:ke community members expressed outrage at the imposed return to their territory of Terry Isaac and Larry Ross, perhaps no one had greater cause than Walter David, whose brother Joe was paralyzed by a gunshot wound suffered during a raid led by Ross and Isaac in 1999. David channelled his anger to confront both men upon their arrival back in Kanehsata:ke. Joe David was one of the Warriors defending the Pines during the long hot summer that was the backdrop of the Oka Crisis of 1990. The Crisis and its aftermath left his brother Joe struggling with the effects of post- traumatic stress disorder, David explained. Joe David was in the throes of that disorder when Isaac and Ross led the assault on him four-and-a-half years ago. David recalled that Ross, originally from Akwesasne, came to Kanehsata:ke with a bad attitude toward Warriors. Joe, now wheelchair-bound, has never returned to live in Kanehsata:ke because of the incident which left him paralyzed. David talked about his reaction to the news that Grand Chief James Gabriel had brought the men he holds responsible for his brother's shooting. "I couldn't let these men come in here and not tell them what I thought about them. They, more than anyone, were responsible for the shooting of my brother, which I communicated to them in the police station. "I told them they were not welcome here. For James to specifically request these two men was beyond insensitive - but, then that's James. It's about time that people understood this issue. The Police Ethics Commission found them guilty. Joe now lives in Montreal and because he's still dealing with the trauma, he can't come back here," David shared. David said that his family dealt with their own feelings of having been abandoned by the community after the shooting of his brother. Asked how Isaac and Ross reacted to his statements to them, David said each man's response was different. "Larry couldn't look at me. He just turned away, but I kept on telling him what I thought of him. I wanted those other guys (police officers) to learn what kind of man he is. You know, before I talked to him, he was coming out in the front all the time trying to intimidate the women. But, after that he never came out again - he stayed in the back." David said that he felt that Ross' reaction suggested, to him, the man might have some remorse or at least shame for his behaviour. The same was not true of Isaac, as far as David was concerned. "When I spoke to him, he just stood there like it was nothing. It was like he was saying I don't care, I'm a cop and I'd do it again." Asked to comment on Gabriel's professed reason for bringing the two men back - to fight organized crime and, in particular, the drug problem in the community - David didn't mince words. "He's painting everything with a wide paintbrush by lumping cigarettes and drugs together. In all of those busts he talks about, not once were there ever any hard drugs. I don't support drugs - I never have. For James to do this is insulting. The real issue is that James wants personal control over the police and the commission." Regarding the concerns about the cigarette stores expressed by Gabriel in the press, David said, "If James had a problem with the cigarette stores, he should have sat down with them but he never did." What does David feel about Gabriel's comments that he will return to the community? "He's done a lot of damage to this community. There needs to be a public inquiry about him and the government's handling of James Gabriel. These actions are not about cigarettes or drugs or police - it's about power. This is all about James Gabriel's and the government's retribution over 1990. You know, trauma after trauma, crisis after crisis, they all lead back to James' door," David charged. "You know James' house was not 500 feet from my doorstep but not once after my brother's shooting did he ever come to my family to offer the slightest comfort. Instead, he claimed my brother was on drugs - that he was on heroin. There were no drugs in his system. James is full of s__t." David believes there needs to be a judicial inquiry over Gabriel's actions in sending in an outside police force led by Ross and Isaac. He believes Gabriel knew very well that it would be provocative to the people of his community. "It was deliberate - to see how far they could push," he said. In spite of all of his misgivings, David said he condemns the burning down of Gabriel's home. He worries that when individuals show willingness to take such actions, no matter what kind of political division exists between them and others, then they would be just as willing to turn on anyone who disagrees with them. "My wife was crying this morning," David said Wednesday. "She works with James' wife - she was in tears over what happened." Copyright c. 1997-2000 The Eastern Door/Kahnawake, QC/Mohawk territory. --------- "RE: Kanehsata:ke: What Happens Now?" --------- Date: Fri, 23 Jan 2004 08:46:31 -0700 From: Gary Smith Subj: NA News Item - - - - - - -- - - - - - - filename="KANEEHSATA:KE" http://www.easterndoor.com/12-50/12-50-3.htm Kanehsata:ke: What Happens Now? By: Ross Montour For a community long beset by internal strife, this week's crisis, though ended, requires Kanehsata:ke to act proactively and decisively if it is to move toward healing its wounds. Questions about James Gabriel's leadership remain unanswered - certainly the burning of his home will leave scars on the man and his family. On Wednesday evening a press conference was held at the Mohawk Council of Kanehsata:ke after a daylong meeting with community members and the three Chiefs who remain. One of those Chiefs, Pearl Bonspille called The Eastern Door after the press conference to talk about what was discussed. "About 50 people came to the office this morning and called the meeting. They said we couldn't wait for another assault to happen to the community. After meeting it was decided to call new elections as soon as possible. It was also decided that the election code must be amended as soon as possible," Bonspille related. She said that the community is determined that no government or court interference in the community's affairs would be allowed to happen again. "The people have always stood by the decision to remove James and Marie Che'ne' two years ago. The people are fed up," Bonspille stressed. Bonspille said that a public meeting has been called for Monday to address concerns about the governance of the community and its leadership. "This has to be dealt with before Kanehsata:ke can move forward. Some people want James banished - that's up to the community. It doesn't matter if James meets with Charest, it makes no difference. The community won't stand for any more interference and it will stand up for its decisions," she stated. While Gabriel has called on Charest to meet with him, Bonspille believes that leaders in either the provincial or federal government will likely distance themselves from Gabriel because of the latest crisis. Bonspille said that an assessment is being conducted on the damages caused in the police station - damages reportedly caused by the police contingent brought in by Gabriel. "We feel we must thank the Kahnawake and Akwesasne police and Councils for their help in bringing a peaceful end to the crisis this week. The people here were so happy to see the Peacekeepers arrive in our community to help with the removal of the outside police," Bonspille said on behalf of her community. Bonspille said that James Gabriel is not the only person the community holds accountable. "We're demanding the dismissal of Peter Fisher (Director General of the Solicitor General of Canada's Aboriginal Policing Directorate) and we're demanding he be made to answer for the secret deal he signed with James." Copyright c. 1997-2000 The Eastern Door/Kahnawake, QC/Mohawk territory. --------- "RE: Me'tis adopt Definition to include US Descendants" --------- Date: Tue, 20 Jan 2004 12:06:09 -0700 From: Gary Smith Subj: NA News Item - - - - - - -- - - - - - - filename="ME'TIS DEFINITION" http://www.indianz.com/News/ http://sask.cbc.ca/regional/servlet/View?filename=metis_def040119 Chartier wins Me'tis definition approval REGINA - The Me'tis Nation of Saskatchewan is celebrating the adoption of a national definition of its members' status after the province's Me'tis general assembly approved it over the weekend. The Saskatchewan organization became the last to officially adopt the new definition on Saturday. Me'tis are now defined as Aboriginal people who originate from mixed marriages between Aboriginal women and Scottish or French fur traders in west-central North America. The definition includes parts of Montana and North Dakota. Saskatchewan Me'tis president Clem Chartier spoke before hundreds of people before the vote took place. "Somebody said over here we're all First Nations. Well, I beg to disagree. We're not," he said. "And if people feel that, then perhaps they're in the wrong room. We are Me'tis, and we should be proud of it and accept this definition once and for all." The vote passed almost unanimously. Chartier says finally having self-definition will help the Me'tis move forward. "We are just carving out our space in Canada," he said, "and this was one of the most important aspects of it. I will be doing several hunting and fishing Me'tis rights cases within the province of Saskatchewan within the next year or two and this definition certainly will help us." Getting the definition approved was Chartier's last job in office before becoming president of the Me'tis National Council. Saskatchewan Me'tis Council vice-president Lorna Dokken will be interim president until a general election in May. Copyright c. 2004 CBC All Rights Reserved. --------- "RE: Racist comments by Ontario Police on Videotape" --------- Date: Wed, 21 Jan 2004 08:23:14 -0700 From: Gary Smith Subj: NA News Item - - - - - - -- - - - - - - filename="ONTARIO POLICE" http://www.indianz.com/News/ http://www.cbc.ca/stories/2004/01/20/ipperwash040120 Racist comments by Ontario police caught on videotape January 20, 2004 TORONTO - New details are emerging about events surrounding a native protest at Ipperwash Provincial Park in Ontario, in the late summer of 1995. About 30 native protesters erected barriers blocking access to the park in a dispute over land. During a confrontation one of the native protesters, Dudley George, was shot and killed. Now a videotape has emerged that gives some insight into the events leading up to the incident. A handful of Ontario Provincial Police officers posing as a media crew, were caught on tape having a shocking conversation. "Is there still a lot of press down there," one officer is says. "No, there's no one down there. Just a great big fat fuck Indian," replies another. The camera's rolling, eh?" "Yeah." "We had this planned, you know. We thought if we could get five or six cases of Labatts 50, we could bait them." "Yeah." "Then we'd have this big net at a pit." "Creative thinking." Works in the (U.S.) South with watermelon." It's a conversation rife with racist remarks, recorded just a day before the land dispute ended in gunfire. It was only released after an access to information request by a producer with The Fifth Estate. The request was for police surveillance material taken during the standoff, to provide insight into why it ended in the shooting death of Dudley George. The OPP says it doesn't condone the remarks and that the two officers in question have already been disciplined. One underwent native sensitivity training. The other was working on a contract that was not renewed. "The words were shameful and offensive and they should never have been said, and I can tell you our position with regards to this is pretty clear. It's just not acceptable behaviour," said OPP Superintendent Bill Crate. But the George family says the conversation points a damning figure at the OPP. "I think once they start to think like that then they start to downgrade a person to a certain extent. Then they start to feel that that person's not worth nothing. Then maybe it's all right to shoot them," said Sam George, Dudley George's brother. OPP Sgt. Kenneth Deane was convicted of criminal negligence causing death in 1997 shooting. A judge also determined that George and two other protesters were unarmed during the incident, in spite of police allegations to the contrary. Those allegations have added to persistent and lingering charges that police were under political pressure by then premier Mike Harris to take action. George family lawyer Murray Klippenstein has spent nearly a decade researching events at Ipperwash and pushing for a public inquiry - something the new Liberal government in Ontario finally announced last fall. But Klippenstein calls the conversation toxic and poisonous and says it adds a whole new dimension to the case. "This kind of attitude ... makes it pretty easy to shoot an Indian, and if an Indian has legitimate grievances about burial grounds you can joke about them and demean them. Shooting them not such big deal," he said. Klippenstein says this conversation will play a large part in the public inquiry into the death of Dudley George, which is likely to begin this September. Written by CBC News Online staff. Copyright c. 2004 CBC. --------- "RE: Commissioner calls for inquiry into Man's Death" --------- Date: Wed, 21 Jan 2004 08:23:14 -0700 From: Gary Smith Subj: NA News Item - - - - - - -- - - - - - - filename="FRANK PAUL" http://www.indianz.com/News/ http://vancouver.cbc.ca/regional/servlet/View?filename=bc_paul20040120 Commissioner calls for inquiry into man's death January 20, 2004 VANCOUVER - B.C.'s Police Complaints Commissioner is recommending that the province order a public inquiry into the December 1998 death of an aboriginal man in Vancouver Police custody. Jail surveillance video shows Vancouver officers dragged a drunk, unconscious Frank Paul out of the police station and left in the alley. Police Complaints Commissioner Dirk Ryneveld says Paul was helpless and at the mercy of the police that night. "I believe that he was totally incapable of looking after himself," he says. "If that's so, the police in my respectful opinion have a duty of care." Ryneveld says Paul's death "cries out for a public airing of the facts." A public inquiry would compel witnesses to testify, something Paul's stepsister, Peggy Clement, has demanded for years. "We never believed anything like that could happen to someone under police protection," she says. "He was treated like garbage that they had to take out." B.C. aboriginal leaders have also been calling for a public inquiry into Paul's death. The First Nations Summit's Ed John says the justice system needs to gain the confidence of native people. "We hear ongoing litany of complaints around the kind of treatment our people get, so it's important for us to take a look at it in that respect," he says. B.C.'s Solicitor General is not ruling out a public inquiry, saying he still needs more information from the Police Complaints Commissioner. Rich Coleman says a full public inquiry is usually held only if there is a systemic problem. "It's one of the criteria under the Inquiry Act, that there's a bigger issue than the one incident. "But I think it would really be fair of me to look at the new information, and move forward from there, and that's what I'll do," he says. Coleman also says an independent investigator could be appointed instead of full-scale inquiry. Copyright c. 2004 CBC. --------- "RE: REPORT: Mexican Troops suppress Indian Town" --------- Date: Wed, 21 Jan 2004 08:23:14 -0700 From: Gary Smith Subj: NA News Item - - - - - - -- - - - - - - filename="TWO KILLED" http://www.indiancountry.com/?1074631684 SPECIAL REPORT: Mexican troops suppress Indian town Two killed, others disappeared, during President Bush visit January 20, 2004 by: Jim Adams / Associate Editor / Indian Country Today TLALNEPANTLA, Mexico - Hours after President Bush held a summit meeting in Monterrey several hundred miles north, Mexican troops stormed this indigenous village in the state of Morelos over the night of Jan. 14, leaving at least two dead and scores missing, according to on-the-scene reports reaching Indian Country Today. This agricultural township of about 3000 people had just inaugurated an autonomous municipal council Jan. 11, rejecting the results of a state- sponsored election last year. According to the report reaching Indian Country Today, the council was modeled on the autonomous local governments of the Zapatista indigenous movement in Chiapas, which was just celebrating its tenth anniversary. According to an eyewitness from the United States, who filmed some of the events, starting at 1 a.m. Jan. 14: "Riot police stormed the town, killing at least two and sending hundreds of campesinos running for cover. I saw helicopters hunting campesinos in the hillsides. It is a disaster." The witness, whose identity is being withheld by this newspaper pending further communication, said the attack followed warnings from the state government against establishment of the autonomous council. After repeated threats from the government to dismantle the autonomous government in Tlalnepantla, Governor Sergio Estrada Cajigal ordered nearly 1500 riot police at 1 a.m., armed with assault rifles, to evict the autonomous government from Tlalnepantla. "Snipers and police gunmen filled the air with bullets, beat women and men over 80 years of age, and left two dead, many wounded and scores of people disappeared and as of yet unaccounted for. Illegal searches were conducted in dozens of houses in the town." A spokesman for the federal government in Mexico City said that the incident was in charge of the state government of Morelos and that he would be unable to provide information. He did confirm, however, that the police in the raid were state and not federal. Morelos State, the smallest in the country, is currently controlled by the PAN, the conservative party led by Mexican President Vicente Fox. According to the dispatch, establishment of the council and its suppression followed an electoral dispute last July. "Like thousands of indigenous communities in Mexico, and according to ancient custom," said the report, Tlalnepantla "has always elected its leaders in an open town council consisting of the entire adult population." In last July's elections, this way of selecting authorities was rejected by the Mexican electoral commission. The candidate who officially won at the polls was not selected by the full town assembly. The winning candidate, with less than 10 percent of the electorate's vote, is an unpopular political boss who has been accused of corruption in other political offices he has held. A majority of the population of Tlalnepantla subsequently called for an annulment of the electoral results and legal recognition of its ancient form of selecting leaders, but the Morelos state government ignored their plea. After months of discussion within the town, and in full accordance with the legal guarantees of the Mexican constitution, the people of Tlalnepantla declared themselves "autonomous" in the same way that EZLN [Zapatistia Army of National Liberation] affiliated indigenous communities in Chiapas have done. Tlalnepantla's declaration of autonomy came just as communities across Mexico and the world were celebrating the ten year anniversary of the uprising in Chiapas. The town is 17 miles away from the historic center of Cuernavaca, where many foreign students attend language classes. It is said to be an important producer of the edible nopal cactus, an important staple of the Mexican diet, and also grows peaches and sugar cane. But no further information about the situation was available over the holiday weekend. A duty officer at the U.S. State Department said no one was available on the Martin Luther King national holiday who would be aware of the events, and it appears not to have been reported in any major U. S. newspapers. Copyright c. 2004 Indian Country Today. --------- "RE: Sweat Lodge/Police Controversies" --------- Date: Thu, 22 Jan 2004 08:08:47 -0700 From: Gary Smith Subj: NA News Item - - - - - - -- - - - - - - filename="SWEAT LODGE ISSUES" http://www.owlstar.com/dailyheadlines.htm http://www.nativetimes.com/index.asp?action=displayarticle&article_id=3588 Sweat lodge/police controversy in three seperate places "The officers probably thought it was a drunken party." TULSA OK Sam Lewin January 21, 2004 Law enforcement and Native Americans seeking to use sweat lodges and other cultural staples are butting heads in three recent, unrelated cases. In the first, the Boulder chapter of the American Indian Movement is blasting a decision to close down a sweat lodge ceremony on New Year's eve. Boulder police and sheriff's officers say they stopped the ceremony because the man conducting the event, Lakota spiritual leader Robert Cross, did not have a permit to use Boulder Open Space land on Valmont Butte. Cross and Boulder officials later confirmed that he did in fact have the right to use the land. A sheriff's department spokesman said they were not aware at the time that Cross, who had performed similar ceremonies at the same location, had permission. "He may have permission, but he needs to get clarification," Sheriff's Sgt. George Dunphy told the Rocky Mountain News. "The officers probably thought it was a drunken party." In Minnesota, a Native American prison inmate has enlisted the Minnesota Civil Liberties Union to press for his right to perform a religious ceremony that included smoking a ceremonial pipe and smudging sage and sweet grass. The man is incarcerated at the Kandiyohi County Jail. MCLU officials say they are looking into legal options after attempts to conduct a dialogue with jail officials were rebuffed. Sheriff Dan Hartog says a ban on tobacco is the reason for the problem. North of the border, Elaine North, a member of the Winnipeg-based Ebb and Flow First Nation, is demanding an apology from the Royal Canadian Mounted Police. North said an RCMP officer interrupted a sweat lodge ceremony in December to serve her legal papers. RCMP officials say they have reviewed an audiotape of the incident and have decided there is no reason for the officer to apologize. North said she is frustrated that the RCMP does not realize how offensive their actions were. According to the Native American Sweat Lodge History, three basic forms of the sweat bath are indigenous to North America: the hot rock method, used by the Navajos and Sioux; the direct fire chamber, heated by blazing logs; and a more sophisticated type relying on a heating duct system believed to be of Mayan origin. Native American Times is Copyright c. 2003 Oklahoma Indian Times, Inc. --------- "RE: Janklow gets Jail Time" --------- Date: Fri, 23 Jan 2004 08:46:31 -0700 From: Gary Smith Subj: NA News Item - - - - - - -- - - - - - - filename="SLAP ON WRIST" http://www.owlstar.com/dailyheadlines.htm http://www.rapidcityjournal.com/~/2004/01/22/news/janklow/news859.txt Janklow gets jail time for traffic crash By Denise Ross, Journal Staff Writer and Carson Walker, The Associated Press January 23, 2004 FLANDREAU - Bill Janklow, who dominated South Dakota politics for three decades and resigned his U.S. House seat hours after a jury convicted him of causing an accident that killed a man, was sentenced Thursday to 100 days in jail. Judge Rodney Steele ordered Janklow to serve his time in the Minnehaha County jail in Sioux Falls. Steele gave Janklow a suspended imposition of sentence, which means he will not go to prison. But he must serve the jail time and after 30 days he must serve up to 10 hours a day of community service. Janklow will be on probation for three years and during that time will not be allowed to drive. On Dec. 8, a jury convicted Janklow, 64, of second-degree manslaughter for barreling through a stop sign at a rural intersection near Trent on Aug. 16 and colliding with motorcyclist Randy Scott, 55, of Hardwick, Minn. He also was convicted of speeding, reckless driving and running a stop sign. South Dakota does not require minimum sentences, so the judge's discretion ranged from no time behind bars and no fines to a total of 10 years in prison for the second-degree manslaughter count, 14 months in jail for the lesser counts and $11,400 in fines. Janklow, a Republican, was the state attorney general for four years in the 1970s before serving 16 years as governor and being elected to the state's lone House seat in 2002. During his four terms as governor, Janklow won over legions of voters in heavily conservative South Dakota with his tough-talking, maverick style. During the trial, jurors saw Janklow in tears as he described his grief over the crash. A man riding motorcycles with Scott cried as he recalled finding Scott's mangled body in a soybean field. Senate Democratic Leader Tom Daschle even took the stand to support Janklow. Long-time friends of Janklow testified that he was a kind man who spent his life working for others and now feels true sorrow over the Aug. 16 accident that killed a Minnesota man. "He is the kindest, most generous human being in this world. He would put anyone before himself at anytime," Janklow family friend Kira Dougherty of Sioux Falls said. Dougherty said Janklow had paid to have her teeth fixed, arranged for surgery on her thyroid and helped her mother have surgery at the Mayo Clinic to remove a cancerous tumor on her face. Janklow and his wife, Mary Dean, also helped Dougherty by providing her a car and school clothes, she said. "Words cannot describe how you feel when somebody who's not even your blood relative can do so much for you," she said. Marcella Prue of Mission said she has known Janklow for 35 years, beginning during the time when he was working as a legal-aid lawyer on the Rosebud Sioux Reservation. Prue said her husband died young, leaving her with nine children. Prue said Bill and Mary Dean Janklow helped care for her kids, and that Janklow used his personal boat to search for the body of Prue's sister after she drowned in a prairie lake. Janklow also provided his personal plane to help Prue's son return home after another death in the family and also provided cash support, she said. Sioux Falls lawyer Jeremiah Murphy said Janklow spent his life looking out for people without wealth or power. "He was the champion of the little guy. He really didn't worry about the big guy. He knew they'd get taken care of," Murphy said. Murphy met Janklow about 30 years ago when the two were testifying on different sides of a legislative issue. Janklow wouldn't speak to Murphy at first, but they later became friends. When Janklow took office in 1979, state voters had eliminated the state personal-property tax, leaving a $40 million hole in the budget, Murphy said. When state officials suggested ways to cut the budget in certain social programs, Janklow emphatically refused. "He blew up. He was just outraged," Murphy said. "He said we can't take it out of their backs. He said there's cheats out there. Go find those people." Bob Burns, chairman of the Political Science Department at South Dakota State University, said he and Janklow had been friends for more than 40 years. Burns listed some of Janklow's accomplishments in government aimed at helping people, often in areas with potential political consequences. "His willingness to expend his political capital and assume some risk speaks to his concerns for the needs of those who cannot fend for themselves," Burns said. Monsignor James Doyle of Sioux Falls said he has known Janklow since Doyle was a campus chaplain at the University of South Dakota. Doyle said he was impressed that after graduating from law school, Janklow went to the reservation "for the common good of everyone" rather than taking more lucrative jobs in the private sector. Over the years, Janklow has given Doyle large sums of cash to distribute to the needy during the Christmas season, with the admonition that it not be traced back to him. "He never wanted the beneficiaries to know who the benefactor was," Doyle said. Doyle said he spoke to Janklow after the Aug. 16 accident that killed Minnesota farmer Randy Scott and led to the end of Janklow's term in Congress. "As a priest who knows what true sorrow is, I saw genuine sorrow on his part," Doyle said. The defense argued that Janklow, a diabetic, was suffering from low blood sugar Aug. 16 because he had not eaten for 18 hours. A prosecutor, however, said Janklow concocted the story as an excuse for his reckless driving, calling the diabetes defense "goofy." Janklow made no secret of his need for speed while driving. "Bill Janklow speeds when he drives -- shouldn't, but he does," Janklow said in a 1999 speech to the Legislature. "When he gets the ticket he pays it, but if someone told me I was going to jail for two days for speeding, my driving habits would change." Janklow received 12 speeding tickets from 1990 to October 1994. He was elected to a third term as governor a month later and never received another ticket in the state. A special election will be held during South Dakota's June 1 primary to fill the remainder of Janklow's term, giving Democrats an early chance to pick up a seat in the narrowly divided House. Janklow would have been up for re-election next November. His resignation was effective Tuesday. Republicans gather Friday and Saturday to select a candidate for the June 1 election. Democrats meet March 6 and are expected to select Stephanie Herseth, who narrowly lost to Janklow in 2002, as their candidate. Copyright c. 2004 The Rapid City Journal. --------- "RE: FBI, others seek leads in Tribal death threats" --------- Date: Tue, 27 Jan 2004 08:46:31 -0700 From: Gary Smith Subj: NA News Item - - - - - - -- - - - - - - filename="DEATH THREATS" http://www.owlstar.com/dailyheadlines.htm http://www.sooeveningnews.com/articles/2004/01/26/news/news08.txt FBI, others seek leads in Tribal death threats By Scott Brand/The Evening News January 26, 2004 SAULT STE. MARIE - The Sault Ste. Marie Tribe of Chippewa Indians is offering a $25,000 reward for information leading to the arrest and conviction of the person or persons responsible for making death threats against Tribal Chairman Bernard Bouschor, his family and associates. The reward was announced early today coming on the heels of multiple death threats received by Chairman Bouschor at his home and office in recent weeks. The Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI), the U.S. Postal Service and the U.S. Department of Justice are all working in this investigation joining the Sault Tribe's Police Department to find the source of these threats. A spokesman for the tribe said there have been three delivered death threats over the past few weeks. The specific nature of the threats and details included in the correspondence has prompted tribal and federal officials to take this matter very seriously. "This is an attempt to change the elected leadership of the government by terrorist threat," said the spokesman. "Sadly, terrorism has reared its ugly head in the Sault Tribe," said Bouschor through a press release. "The tribe is a democracy in which healthy debate about our issues and priorities is expected and encouraged. However, there is no place -- and there should be no tolerance-- in our community for personal threats of violence against any tribal member and his or her family." Tribal officials did not want the specific contents of the letters released, saying it could hamper the investigation. The Evening News did hear some chilling excerpts from one of the letters where the chairman and his family were specifically identified as targets. The author of the letter apparently would not carry out the plan, according to his words, if Bouschor took certain actions prior to an established deadline. "In recent months, tribal politics has become increasingly hostile in rhetoric and e-mails. However these threats are crimes of political terrorism," said Bouschor adding he hopes and prays the threats did not come from tribal members. "It would be sad and shameful if tribal members are the source of threats of terrorism against other tribal members." Anyone with information relating to a small package mailed to the tribal office on or about Dec. 30, 2003 is asked to contact authorities. Another threat was placed on a late model light metallic colored minivan parked at the Kinross Recreation Center on Jan. 20, 2004 during a tribal board meeting. Anyone with information regarding the placement of a letter on the van that evening is also asked to contact authorities. If you have any information regarding the source or sources of these threats, contact the Sault Tribal Police Department at 635-6065. Copyright c. 2004 Sault Ste. Marie Evening News. All rights reserved. --------- "RE: Native Prisoner" --------- Date: Mon, Jan 26 2004 19:18:40 -0700 From: Janet Smith Subj: NA News Item - - - - - - -- - - - - - - From http://www.infoshop.org Please Post Widely From: Tacoma Leonard Peltier Support Group P.O. Box 5464 Tacoma, WA 98415-0464 Tacoma-lpsg@ojibwe.us INTERNATIONAL DAY OF SOLIDARITY WITH LEONARD PELTIER MARCH AND RALLY FOR JUSTICE SATURDAY, FEBRUARY 7, 2004 TACOMA, WA UP-DATE ON MARCH As many of you know last year the City of Tacoma refused to issue us a march permit because we did not have the funds they demanded to pay for police, $1,000 for every 300 marchers, and they wanted us to have a million dollar insurance bond. The ACLU filed a suit against the City of Tacoma and because of that suit the City of Tacoma changed the city ordinance so that political marches no longer had to pay for their right to march in Tacoma. We though we would have no problems from the City of Tacoma with this years march. We filed the papers for a march permit two months before the march and did everything that the ACLU lawyers, the City of Tacoma Attorney and the City of Tacoma ordinances told us to do. On January 12, 2004, we were issued our permit. Our march permit was for marching in one lane in the street from Portland Ave Park to the Federal Courthouse. Rather than trying to stop our march through placing fees on it that we could not pay, this year the City of Tacoma is trying to stop us through bureaucratization. In other words they are placing many conditions on our permit that are impossible to fulfill. I should point out that no other march, including peace marches and labor marches, have had these type of conditions placed on them. We can only conclude that because our march is in support of Leonard Peltier and speaks to the misconduct of the U.S. government in its policies in dealing Native people, and that our march includes Native people from throughout our region, that the actions of the City of Tacoma that are meant to try to stop our march are racist to the core. Following are some of the conditions that they have placed on us: 1. We are told two weeks before the march (even though we filed for the permit two months before the march) that we must submit to the fire department a "site plan" 30 days before our march. That is not in the city ordinances. That alone makes fulfilling the conditions of the permit impossible and thus invalidates our permit. 2. One week before our march we have to notify all "merchants and neighbors" along our route of our march. I can tell you for a fact that this is not a condition of other events because every year they close down the street in front of my house for a run and no one has ever notified me. 3. We must notify all those taking part in the march in writing "all rules, regulations and laws related to pedestrians". They tried to pull that one on us last year. If we have a march in the street the rules of pedestrians do not apply to us. 4. We must ensure that no traffic will be blocked or delayed. How can we ensure that if we are marching in the street? Even if we marched on the sidewalk we could not ensure that because we cross streets. 5. "All intersections must remain open for traffic". How about side streets where we have the right-of-way? How do you march through intersections and at the same time keep them completely open to traffic? 6. Fire hydrants, sprinkler connections, building entrances, exit doors etc must have an unobstructed path to them at all times. How then can we march past them? 7. Temporary wiring (that of our sound system) must be approved by the Electrical Inspection Division. If they want to come out and look at our sound system they can. Our group has given this problem back to the lawyers and there maybe another law suit in the works. We have issued a statement to the City of Tacoma that states, we will not shut down our march because of their attempt to suppress us by bureaucratization, We will march on Feb. 7th and it is our constitutional right to do so. DO NOT BELIEVE THE MEDIA! Last year some of the mass media stated that our march had been called off even though it had not been called off. There is no way that we will call off our march and rally. If need be we will march on the sidewalk which we don't need a permit to do. HOW YOU CAN HELP 1. Send this message to every list, news web site and to your friends. 2. Use this attempt at suppressing our right to march as additional motivation to mobilize your groups, organizations and friends to come out to the Feb. 7th Tacoma Justice for Leonard Peltier March. This march is not only in support of Leonard Peltier, but also in support of the right to march for Leonard. 3. E-mail the Tacoma Mayor, Deputy Mayor, City Clerk and City Council in support of our right to march for Leonard Peltier in Tacoma and ask them to end their attempt to suppress our march through bureaucratization. Use the information above in your messages. Please send a copy to our group at: bayou@blarg.net. We have put all the e-mail addresses together so that all you need to do is cut and paste them into your "send" box of your e-mail. bbaarsma@cityoftacoma.org; bevans2@cityoftacoma.org; julie.anderson@ci.tacoma.wa.us; cladenbu@cityoftacoma.org; mlonergan@cityoftacoma.org; spiro.manthou@ci.tacoma.wa.us; kphelps@cityoftacoma.org; thomas.stenger@ci.tacoma.wa.us; rtalbert@cityoftacoma.org; dsorum@cityoftacoma.org; bayou@blarg.net . MOBILIZATION FOR LIBERTY AND JUSTICE, FREE LEONARD PELTIER NOW! Leonard Peltier is an Anishinabe/Lakota American Indian Movement activist who was frame-up and convicted after a firefight on the Pine Ridge Reservation in 1975. The firefight took place as part of an attempt to suppress traditional Oglala Lakota people who resisted losing any of their land to multinational corporations who sought to mine uranium. Now is a critical time in the struggle for social justice and the case of Leonard Peltier. In past appeals of Leonard's case, his defense disproved the government's case to the point that the government's prosecutor stated that the government has no evidence connecting Leonard to the deaths of the FBI agents and that he only "aided and abetted". Given the fact that the first two AIM members to go on trial were found not guilty for reason of self-defense, because it was shown in court that there had been many killings (over 63) of Lakota people and AIM members in two and a half years before the firefight and the FBI came up to the AIM encampment in the same way that other drive-by shootings had taken place. That means Leonard has spent all these years in prison for "aiding and abetting" an act of self-defense. The latest ruling from the Tenth Circuit Court Appeals stated, "Much of the government's behavior at Pine Ridge Reservation and in its prosecution of Mr. Peltier is to be condemned. The government withheld evidence (it is still withholding evidence). It intimidated witnesses. These facts are not disputed." Even though the court acknowledged government misconduct in Leonard's trial, the court rejected Leonard's appeal based on that trial. We of the Tacoma Leonard Peltier Support Group are putting out a call for a general mobilization of all people who believe in social justice to come together in Tacoma on Feb. 7th to begin a renewed struggle to gain justice for Leonard Peltier. The government's actions against Leonard should be viewed by all as direct actions against all people's rights to liberty and justice. Please join us on Feb. 7th and please join the mobilization by actively helping to bring people out for our march and rally. One way to help is to get this message out to everyone you know and post it on every list and web site that you can. 12:00 NOON: MARCH FOR JUSTICE Portland Ave. Park (on Portland Ave. between E. 24th and E. Fairbanks Ave. Take Portland Ave. exit off I-5 and head east) 1:00 PM: RALLY FOR JUSTICE U.S. Federal Court House, 1717 Pacific Ave. CARAVAN FOR JUSTICE: SEATTLE: Meet at 10:45 AM at the parking lot 22nd and Madison OLYMPIA: Meet at 10:45 AM at Media Island, 816 Adams St. AFTER RALLY POT LUCK: (Starting around 3:00 PM or sooner if the weather is bad) First United Methodist Church, 423 Martin Luther King Way (next to Tacoma General Hospital). Go up the Hill from the rally and turn right on Martin Luther King Way. Speakers Harold Belmont: Elder, Native People's Alliance With Friends and Allies Dorothy Ackerman: Lakota Elder Shelly Vendiola:Indigenous Women's Network/Indigenous Environmental Network Pete Sanchez: Ktunaxa (Kutenai), Drummer Kelly White: Coastal Salish, long time B.C. Peltier activist Kerwin Hemlock: Drummer Jeanette Bushnell: Native People's Alliance With Friends and Allies Bill Simmons: International Indian Treaty Council Michael One Road: Portland AIM Juan Jose Bocanegra: Community organizer and long time Peltier supporter. Matt Remle: Hunkpapa Lakota/ Native Youth Action Steve Hapy,Jr:Tacoma LPSG Arthur J. Miller: Tacoma LPSG NW AIM DRUM Anne Feeney: Labor Folk Singer Native Youth Movement SEATTLE BUS: Sometimes it is even faster taking the bus than driving. Express Bus 594 leaves 2nd & Union St. downtown Seattle at 10:40am. Get off at the Tacoma Dome Station walk north to Portland Ave and then head east to Portland Ave, Park or wait until 11:50 and catch bus number 41 "Portland Ave" and get off at 34th St.. Return trip: take the street car to the Tacoma Dome Station and return to downtown Seattle on Bus 594. PARKING FOR MARCH: The parking at Portland Ave. Park parking lot is limited and we filled it up fast last year. Also, the park is in a community, mostly poor, and we want to maintain good relations with the community. So there are a few ways you can help. 1. Get to the starting point of the march, Portland Ave Park early, drop off all passengers at the park, then drive to the rally site and we will organize cars to bring drivers back to the starting point of the march. This will mean that your car will be close to the rally so that it will be easy for you to get to it to go home or to the after rally pot luck meal. 2. Park at the Tacoma Dome "park and ride" Station and either walk to the starting point of the march or at 11:50am catch bus number 41 "Portland Ave" and get off at 34th St. Then after the rally take the street car, which stops right by the rally site, back to the Tacoma Dome Station. We need volunteers who are willing to drive drivers back to the starting point of the march. If you can help please be at the Portland Ave. Park by 11:00am. TWO PAGE FLIER ON WEB SITE: A two-page flier, 8 1/2" x 11", for the up-coming Tacoma Leonard Peltier events is available for downloading at: http://www.peltiersupport.org/Events/NWLPSG02072004.html DONATIONS NEEDED (to help pay for the costs of the march and rally): Please send donations to (make checks out to Northwest Leonard Peltier Support Network): Tacoma LPSG, P.O. Box 5464, Tacoma, WA 98415-0464. YOU CAN HELP: Please pass this message on to e-mail lists, web sites, to friends, family and groups. We also have fliers and posters that you can help us get out. Please contact us with a mailing address and we will send them to you. YOU CAN ALSO HELP WITH THE FOLLOWING: 1. Legal Observers. 2. Someone to videotape our march, rally and after rally meal. There are three reasons for this. First, in case there are any problems or to show that there were no problems, this has to do with legal matters. Second, videotape of our events has been used around the country by Leonard Peltier supporters. And last, we have videotapes of a number of our events and we hope to edit them into one good video for supporters to use. So if anyone can videotape this event please do so and give a copy of it to Arthur J. Miller, c/o Tacoma LPSG, P.O. Box 5464, Tacoma, WA 98415-0464. 3. Photographers. We need photographs for the same reasons as we need video, plus we send some of the best photos to the LPDC and to Leonard. Same as video please send photos to Arthur J. Miller. 4. Banners. We only have three banners left which are rather old. One banner has been to all 61 of our marches and has been all over the country. So we need some new Leonard Peltier support banners. It would be nice if we had one banner with the eagleman on it and Free Leonard Peltier and Tacoma Leonard Peltier Support Group.We need as many Leonard Peltier support signs as possible. For those of you who only wish to just receive event up-dates from the Tacoma LPSG please send a message to: Tacoma-lpsg@ojibwe.us, and request to be place on the Tacoma LPSG up-date list. Those who wish to sign up on the NWPeltierSupport list you can do so by going to the following address on the internet: http://lists.riseup.net/www/info/nwpeltiersupport Or send an e-mail to: nwpeltiersupport-subscribe@lists.riseup.net --------- "RE: Rustywire: Early Morning" --------- Date: Fri, Jul 11 2003 06:04 AM From: rustywire@yahoo.com (john rustywire) Subj: Early Morning Newsgroup: alt.native It is early the sun is nowhere and the dark night greets me I wake up early each morning usually between 4-5, this is the time I can go about the house and read, write or work on silver, this morning I could hear my father, he would say......Get up, you need to run, so he would chase us up out of bed and we would run. Well I got up and there I was feeling the crunch of the small stones and ground under my feet, the sky was violet blue and I started to walk then slowly as the cold air cleared my lungs I slowly began to put one foot in front of the other. The air is crisp and cold, everything is quiet and I began to see what was in front of me. All the trees, bushes and ridges on to the horizon. They look asleep, but they called to me...run, run, meet the dawn....I can hear the early morn song of the birds floating on the air flying nest to me to the East to meet the Dawn. I can feel the air, my own wind breathing in and out, letting me know I am alive....again I hear the silent prayer of all that is around me....run, run, run, meet the Dawn. It is so nice, there is the first hint of light, the sky is pink, blue and brightens with each step....This is how it is for my people, the old ones they know, they say...get up and run and meet the Dawn. It is so, all that was important in my little world of work vanishes with the mist. I think of the one called He who encircles the earth and his brother He who encircles the sky, they meet in the glorious light of a new day as I watch, running. I stand here, a small one in all this that surrounds me.....Dawn Boy, I am here..... How is it run like the wind to travel so far and yet in the midst of dawn to be so small to taste the wind to feel my body ache let me run to early morning and so the day begins --------- "RE: Verse: Hawaiian Book of Days" --------- Date: Sun, 25 Jan 2004 17:27:17 -1000 From: Debbie Sanders Subj: Hawaiian Book of Days A HAWAI`I BOOK OF DAYS, week of January 26-February 1 IANUALI January Ka`elo 26 I am the wild spirit that greets the dawning of this day. 27 I see the thread of mana which passes from me to all those I hold dear -- we are family -- we are `ohana. 28 If I feel hunger or thirst, the land will provide; if my spirit is troubled, the wind and the sea will comfort me; if I am afraid, Pele will protect me. 29 Each morning is a celebration of beginnings. 30 The stars, na hoku, guide me at night -- they show me the way to my destiny. 31 The will of my ancestral spirit, my `aumakua, speaks in all that I say or do. PEPELUALI February Kaulua February was the time when the `anae, the mullet, spawned. 1 If you want to see the stars, you have to look up! (c) Copyright 1991 by D. F. Sanders Me ke aloha i ka nani, ... Moe'uhanekeanuenue (With love and beauty, ... Rainbow Dream) --------- "RE: Poem: In the Struggle we Stand" --------- Date: Tue, 13 Jan 2004 08:38:34 -0700 From: Gary Smith Subj: NA News Item - - - - - - -- - - - - - - filename="JAMES STARKEY POEM" http://www.angelfire.com/indie/oyate/poems.html IN THE STRUGGLE WE STAND In the struggle we stand, both shields and shawls It's in this struggle a great duty calls, It's a duty to Oyate, a duty to the People, A duty to Agape', within Inipi and Steeple, Use your head, Sitting Bull said, Find what was lost, move us ahead, Come on now People; let's take a look, Cause there's more to history than what meets the book, There's a blizzard blowing hard, and it's 100 degrees, Dying of thirst, trying not to freeze, In the struggle we stand, with kith and kin, Struggling to stand through strength from within, Look back to where and why, when and how, Build upon all relatedness now, Hold onto what's dear, canunpa in our heart, Families rent asunder, culture ripped apart, In the struggle we stand, seven generations thence, Resisting oppression and a fool's recompense, The People are fractured, wooed by neon wiles, Slice o' apple pie and sugary smiles, Diplomas and degrees and learned and smart, Versed in the classics and Plato and art, Learn to fit in and learn to not fret, Melt in the pot and confusion beget, Finding no solace we look back to the ways, We talk and we read and we glean from past days, We find where we've been and see where we are, We shake off old wounds but remember each scar, Echo in our ears, words of Sitting Bull, Finding refuge in them from the shove and pull, Relatedness, affinity, and matriarchal ways, The four virtues adding light to dark days, We are a beautiful People, just recovering anew, Refreshed like a Sundancer by morning dew, Our voices still sing, our children still play, Our People still live, and daily we pray, In the struggle we stand, both young and old, Enduring the heat, bearing the cold, We struggle on, finding happiness and health, For our relatedness is the seed of our wealth. Mitakuye Oyasin. James H. Starkey --------- "RE: Upcoming Events" --------- Date: Mon, 26 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 =================================== Augusta Pow-Wow May 7-8, 2004 Sponsored by the Augusta Pow-Wow Association Please come join us at our new location: The AJCC on Three J Road Augusta, GA Head Singer - Billy Horse Head Man - Mark Alexander Head lady - Teresa Alexander Arena Director - Orville Gates Craft Contest - Raffles & Auction Approximated Times: Friday 6:30PM - Grand Entry Saturday 12:30-3PM - Gourd Dance 3:00-4:30 - Intertribal 7:00PM - Grand Entry Auction to Immediately follow Saturday Night Dance Information: Bill Medeiros (706) 771-1221 Email: krazywilly@knology.net Pets welcomed on a leash (Owners MUST clean up behind their pets) =================================== 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, 2004 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, 2004 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 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, 2004 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 ========================================================================== Whispering Winds Updated December 5, 2004 A Magazine of American Indian Crafts*Material Culture*Powwow http://www.whisperingwind.com/ JANUARY 2004 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/powwow2004/calendar/ Updated December 5, 2004 January 2004 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, 2004 J A N U A R Y 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: King Kuka" --------- Date: Thu, 22 Jan 2004 08:08:47 -0700 From: Gary Smith Subj: NA News Item - - - - - - -- - - - - - - filename="KING KUKA" http://www.greatfallstribune.com/stories/20040122/localnews/272755.html Pioneer Blackfeet artist King Kuka dies By KIM SKORNOGOSKI Tribune Staff Writer January 22, 2004 A leader in the Native American art community whose work has been displayed internationally, Browning native Kingsley "King" Kuka, 57, died of a stroke earlier this week at Benefis Healthcare in Great Falls. Throughout the past two decades, Kuka's work frequently was featured at the annual C.M. Russell Art Auction and appears in galleries across the West, in New York, Italy, Germany and the Netherlands. One of his prints hangs in the Vatican. Among the first class of artists to graduate from the Institute for Native American Art in Santa Fe, N.M., Kuka was pivotal in the growing Native American art movement, said Inez Wolins, executive director of the C.M. Russell Museum, Wednesday. "He influenced an entire younger generation of Native American artists," she said. "(He) felt this mission to get his artwork out before a wide audience." Kuka was born in Browning, growing up on his family's ranch in Birch Creek. But by high school, he left to attend the art institute where he sold his first painting. Kuka spent time in the military, but by 1978 he became an artist full time. Kuka frequently switched mediums, painting in oils and most recently in pastels, sculpting and even making jewelry. His poetry was translated into various languages and published. He coined the term "Kuka-graph," prints on embossed paper that would create a ghostlike image, usually of an animal, in the background. His wife of 28 years, Marietta Kuka, said he always was fondest of his current work and whatever medium he was using at the time. A teacher, Kuka encouraged other Indian artists to pursue their goals and develop their own styles. "His emphasis was on colors and textures," Marietta Kuka said. "He painted a painting to produce a feeling. He didn't care for replicating reality, he wanted to realize a feeling or make a statement." Proud of his Blackfeet heritage, Kuka completed a stained glass work at the Catholic Church in Browning. Most recently the couple lived in Great Falls. Darrell Norman, owner of the Lodgepole Gallery just west of Browning, was a longtime friend. Kuka was one of 15 Indian artists whose work sold in the gallery. "He's got to be one of the most well-known Native American artists, not just in the United States, but internationally," Norman said. "(His art) crossed cultural lines. It had strong Native themes, but it was acceptable to people who normally wouldn't buy Native American art. He crossed bridges." Kuka's art was distinctive for its symbolism and had a strong sense of design and color. Norman said Kuka was very supportive of the gallery and other efforts to promote art and business on the reservation. Like other area artists, Kuka's work was better known outside the state, Wolins said. Though not as well-known, Wolins praised his poetry as capturing the spirituality of his work. She quoted one published in 1991: "I will send my heart with the eagle carried on winds of trust, to be blessed by the sun and baptized in rain beneath nature's rainbow altar." Wolins said that although Kuka died at a young age, he was a prolific artist and left behind many works to appreciate. "The gifts that he's left to all of us in the art world. ... Think about how much more he had to express and say as an artist. He will be missed," she said. Kuka died Monday. He and Marietta had seven children and eight grandchildren. Rosary recitation will be at 7 p.m. Friday at St. Anne's Catholic Church in Heart Butte. Funeral Mass will be at noon Saturday in the church, and burial will follow. Rockman Funeral Chapel in Chester is handling arrangements. Copyright c. 2004 Great Falls Tribune. All rights reserved. --------- "RE: Joe P. Cardinal" --------- Date: Sun, 18 Jan 2004 12:44:54 -0700 From: Gary Smith Subj: NA News Item - - - - - - -- - - - - - - filename="JOE P. CARDINAL" http://www.owlstar.com/dailyheadlines.htm http://www.ammsa.com/sweetgrass/topnews-Jan-2004.html#anchor893281 Joe P. Cardinal - He will be missed Sweetgrass Staff January 2004 Joseph Patchakes Cardinal, known as "Joe P." to his relatives and friends, passed away Dec. 12 at the age of 82. He is survived by his wife of 56 years, Jennie Cardinal, as well as seven children, a sister, Catherine Cardinal, and a large extended family. Born to Patchakes and Honoreen Cardinal at Birch Mountain in northern Alberta on Nov. 19, 1921, Joe's early life was spent on the trapline along with five sisters and one brother. When Joe, the youngest son, was just six years old, his father passed away. In 1929, Joe's family moved to Saddle Lake, where he attended the first Blue Quills Indian Residential School to Grade 6. Joe's recollection was that he had learned some English and mathematics, but he got a lot of experience working on the residential school's farm. At 19, Joe joined an armored division of the Canadian Army and survived Germany, Italy and the beaches of Normandy. Following the Second World War, Joe met Jennie Caroline, whom he married in 1947, and with whom he had eight children: Ernie, Theresa, the late Eugene, Anne, Emile, Elaine, Ricky and Mona. The couple became foster parents to numerous children and they adopted several: Ruth Morin, Wilton Goodstriker and Charlie Monckman of Edmonton; Francis Whiskeyjack of Saddle Lake; Ross Hoffman of Smithers, B.C.; Earl Henderson of Prince George, B.C.; and Butch Campbell of Tennessee, U.S.A. The family in time expanded to include 22 grandchildren (two predeceased Joe) and 15 great-grandchildren. With a large family to care for, it was only natural that Joe also cared about their community. In the 1950s and 1960s, he took on leadership roles in Saddle Lake, culminating in his becoming chief for two consecutive terms. Joe's devotion to community service continued throughout his life and he contributed to many organizations, such as Native Counselling Services of Alberta (27 years) and the Aboriginal Multi-Media Society (AMMSA), publisher of Windspeaker and Alberta Sweetgrass (15 years). For many years and until his death he also had an active role on the Dreamcatcher Aboriginal Youth Conference's board. "Joe Cardinal's wisdom and vision were integral to the Dreamcatcher Aboriginal Youth Conference at Grant MacEwan College," said Gerri Nakonechny, dean of Health and community studies at the college. "Joe's belief in the power of education and community was a great gift to thousands of youth across our country who attended Dreamcatcher." It is only five years since Joe and four other Elders guided the formation of Amiskwaciy Academy in Edmonton in order to bring a culturally based curriculum to Aboriginal high school students. In the eulogy that Nechi Training, Research & Health Promotions Institute's CEO Ruth Morin prepared with the help of the Cardinal family, she wrote, "Joe gave the school its name, as well as provided direction for the education of the young. Today the school has been recognized nationally and internationally by receiving many visitors ... Joe believed and advocated the importance of education for the young." Ruth Suvee, chair of the mental health diploma program at Grant MacEwan College in Edmonton, said she had known Joe and his family since the 1970s and she praised Joe's commitment to children, education, social and correctional services and other endeavors. She made special mention of his cross-cultural work, noting that although some Elders are opposed to teaching Indigenous culture in an institution, Joe saw the need to meet people where he found them and to pass the teachings along. She said he recognized that many Elders have departed without their knowledge being shared, and he was aware of the large urban Indian population that may never get the opportunity to learn in a traditional setting. Joe did considerable cross-cultural work for the staff at Grant MacEwan, she said, and when the mental health program ran a retreat, he said it was "very important to integrate the cultural teachings of the 16 Elders at the gathering," so that those who would work with Aboriginal people would understand them. "Joe endorsed it. Joe was a very traditional man, but he was also very involved in church. He believed in sharing traditional beliefs and practices." Suvee attributed his generous spirit and lack of prejudice to the fact that he had traveled extensively and had "a bigger world view. "He walked his talk. He touched a lot of people." He was an Elder advisor for the K Division of the RCMP, worked for the Aboriginal wellness program, and he helped establish the Nechi Institute and the Capital Health Region in Edmonton. Additionally, Joe served as an Elder on the National Parole Board, where he addressed about 2,800 inmates during his tenure, a responsibility he accepted with humility and respect, said Suvee. In all these roles, those who knew him say that he was masterful at accommodating and blending traditional and contemporary practices and beliefs. In the early 1990s, Joe was one of the Elders who went to Davis Inlet, Labrador to help a troubled community there. Lynda Ferguson, a Me'tis from northern Alberta who works in the Aboriginal Education Centre at Grant MacEwan, said that while she was not a close friend of Joe's, she knew him as an Elder. "He was an absolutely amazing man." Ferguson heard Joe speak at Amiskwaciy Academy many times and said "His guidance as far as culture and tradition has made that school what it is. "Whenever I heard him speak, I found him to be very inspiring, motivating, and I think he is going to be missed by hundreds and hundreds of people." Particularly youth, she said. "That's one thing Joe P did, was he was able to captivate the young people." Harrison Cardinal, president of AMMSA's board of directors and best man at his sister Jennie's marriage to Joe, said his brother-in-law worked very hard to reach young people. "He's always been the same. He believed in his work. He was a man of honesty. He believed in people. He cared for people." Harrison considered Joe his teacher and in recent years spent long hours listening to him talk about his beliefs. "In the sweatlodge, when we sit together, this is where I learned lots. The way he talked to people, the way he described the knowledge and wisdom that an Elder has." Two years ago, Joe asked Harrison to go with him to Saskatoon. "He talked all the way out there. I found it very strange that he would be talking to me like this while we were traveling. He never quit from the time we left Saddle Lake First Nation till we got to Saskatoon...telling me the things that he believed in. Telling me the things that should be done and had to be done." Harrison said on one important occasion he had the opportunity to use some of Joe's words to help ease the pain of a family who had tragically lost a loved one. When Harrison told Joe about it, he said, "'That's good. That's what I'd like to happen. Carry the message out. Take it along with you, because if it's important to you, use it.'" Noel McNaughton, secretary of AMMSA's board, had known Joe since 1969. "He was a friend. He has always been a leader and a man with humility, which is what a leader needs. He tells the truth as he sees it, and he doesn't insist that everybody see his point of view. "Some of the things that shaped him I think... there were some Elders around that helped guide him. "One of the things that was very important in his life and I think taught him a lot about what he was-he was in the Second World War... And Joe discovered through that that these guys were the same as him, and it had a profound effect on him. I think that kind of guided him through the years with people of all races and nationalities... There was no racism in him. He related to you by who you were, rather than where you came from or what your race was. "One of the other things I heard him say a few times was 'The role of a warrior is to face his own worst enemy, which is him... The task of the warrior is to overcome the fear of death and face who you really are and overcome your ego.' Protecting his community is the other part of the warrior's job, McNaughton said he learned. "Really, the warrior's task is to battle himself and to overcome all his fears and his faults ... and that was something I think Joe also lived by, " said Noel McNaughton. Rosemarie Willier, vice-president of AMMSA's board of directors, is another who knew Joe P. Cardinal as an extraordinary person. "I have never, never heard Joe say anything bad about anyone. Whenever he said something, it was always something good, and he showed a lot of respect, particularly to women. Joe was such a gentleman and we'll definitely miss him. "The first time I met Joe was at Nechi when he was helping as an Elder... One of the things that I noticed about him too was that he touched so many lives because he was so involved, and I used to wonder, 'My goodness, where does this man get all the energy?'" Willier said she was happy when Joe joined AMMSA's board, because she recognized how much help he would be. "He is the type of person that you know immediately he is an honest person and that the decisions he helped to make would be something that I would respect. "He was a no nonsense person," Willier said. AMMSA board treasurer Chester Cunningham also observed Joe in numerous roles over the years. Of his board contribution, Cunningham said, "his presence kind of stabilizes, gives people a comfort zone" in which others felt free to express themselves and know their opinions would be received with respect. Joe was "a real good pipeline into the community, and an observant person. And he shared his ideas. He never kept them to himself," said Cunningham. They met "in the mid-60s" when Joe was with Alberta Community Development, building Aboriginal capacity to run their own organizations and improve access to employment and training opportunities. "Bringing them into the new world, I guess," explained Cunningham. "Because they were holding workshops and trying to develop some of the organizations into taking over some of the stuff that belonged to them." Cunningham remembers that Joe worked on recruitment workshops at Syncrude in an effort to bring in more Aboriginal employees. "When I went to set up Native Counselling (Services of Alberta), I wanted Joe on the board, but Joe was the chief of Saddle Lake" by then, said Cunningham. Around 1974 or 1975, Joe did join Native Counselling Services' board, and when the Correctional Service of Canada (CSC) started requesting Elders to work in institutions, Cunningham said he recommended Joe for that role. "Joe was really a good Elder... He explained culture to me. That culture wasn't like the light bulb. You didn't turn it on. You lived it. And he said, 'Culture is your living. You bring your background, but the first thing you have to recognize is you're a person first'... Too many of them try to say that they're an Aboriginal first and then go to the person, but it's the other way around." While serving on the parole board, Joe's participation "helped change the whole format of the parole hearings. They weren't as structured. They got into a circle and everybody talked." That change "really worked out with Native people," and Joe's influence led to formation of an all-Native parole board, Cunningham said. The CSC offered Joe a job in Ottawa, but not only did he not want to relocate, he also did not like the idea that the system aimed to "categorize" Elders and put them under the auspices of prison chaplains. Corrections wanted him, in effect, to create job descriptions for Elders working within the correctional system, who would then be mired "in a bunch of paperwork," according to Cunningham. Joe told them, "No. Our culture is not paperwork." He also made it clear that Elders would be independent of the chaplains, Cunningham stated. Joe "was a good representative" for Aboriginal people at home and on the international stage, Cunningham recalled. "He told it as it was, and I never heard him raise his voice. He was always interested in the family." Ruth Morin said Joe will be missed. "However, his teachings of love, camaraderie, commitment, and the vision of helping the young people are left with us. His work is complete. Our job is to honor and continue his vision." Copyright c. 1983-2004 Alberta Sweetgrass AMMSA - Aboriginal MultiMedia Society. --------- "RE: Wallace Black Elk" --------- Date: Mon, 26 Jan 2004 10:23:53 -0500 From: Alfred Bone Shirt Subj: Fwd: WALLACE BLACKELK ~ HAS CROSSED OVER Mailing List: D-L-N >from .....Thanks >forward: HE HAS CROSSED OVER - JANUARY 26, 2004 Wallace Black Elk, a traditional Lakota Elder and spiritual interpreter, is a Channupa (sacred pipe) bearing descendent of the legendary Nicholas Black Elk whose visionary experiences were recounted in the book "Black Elk Speaks." Grandfather Wallace was born and raised on the Rosebud Reservation in South Dakota and has been trained since childhood in the sacred ways of his people. One of the original spiritual advisors to the American Indian Movement, Black Elk was present at the occupation of Wounded Knee and was instrumental in the passage of the American Indian Religious Freedom Act in 1978. An international lecturer, Black Elk taught traditional Lakota spiritual ways of life throughout the U.S., France, Germany, Switzerland, Egypt, Japan, Mexico, New Zealand, and Australia. As a Native American representative to the United Nations, he addressed United Nations Meetings in New York and the International Non-Governmental Organizations Conference in Geneva, Switzerland. NOW HE IS IN ATTENDANCE PERPETUALLY WHENEVER NEEDED! OUR PRAYERS ARE WITH HIS FAMILY AND HIS FRIENDS "You cannot destroy a people who has dreamed a dream such as ours" Visit us at Subj: NA News Item - - - - - - -- - - - - - - filename="MARY ELIZABETH DUNCAN" http://juneauempire.com/stories/012604/obi_duncan.shtml January 26, 2004 Mary Elizabeth Duncan Angoon resident Mary Elizabeth Duncan, 73, died Jan. 9, 2004, at Mt. Edgecumbe Hospital in Sitka after a struggle with cancer. She was born May 19, 1930, to Charlie and Sophie Bailey. Her mother died when she was 1, and she was raised by her mother's sister and her husband, Elizabeth and Walter Williams, in Angoon. She spent the rest of her life there. She worked in the canneries and later became a fisher on the seiner Mary D with her husband. She also worked as an alcohol counselor, a Tlingit storyteller and was past president of the Angoon Alaska Native Sisterhood camp. She spent many years on the advisory school board in Angoon. Her hobbies included gathering subsistence foods, such as clams, gumboots and game, and putting them away for the winter. She collected china, angels and antiques, and before she got sick, her passion was taking care of her home. She took great pride in taking care of the picnic grounds at the Killisnoo harbor, near the cemetery where she was laid to rest. Her family wrote that she "is greatly missed by her family and friends." She was preceded in death by her children, Marilyn and Bonnie Duncan, Irene Woods and Robert, Jeffrey and Mitchell Duncan; grandchildren, Lester Young and Dixie, Kristen and Buddy George; and nephews, John and David Howard III. She is survived by her husband of 57 years, Robert Duncan of Angoon; brother and sister-in-law, Roy and Doris Bailey of Sitka; daughters, Jennifer Young and Alberta Duncan of Sitka, Vivian James, Barbara George, Katie Duncan, Audrey Howard and Irene Duncan, all of Angoon, and Anita Peters of Seattle; son, Peter Duncan of Angoon; sisters, Frances Cropley of Juneau and Barbara Johnson of Yakutat; nieces, Anita Leonard, Della Downs, Genevieve Guanzon, Jan Walker and Gaylene Jacobs; and her nephew, John Nanney. Services were held Jan. 13 at the Angoon Community Hall with the Salvation Army in charge. Burial was at the Killisnoo cemetery. Copyright c. 1999-2004 Fairbanks Daily News-Miner, Inc. --------- "RE: Crossings" --------- Date: Mon, 19 Jan 2004 08:31:56 -0600 From: Gary Smith Subj: NA News Item - - - - - - -- - - - - - - filename="CROSSINGS" January 20, 2004 Helen Carter PEMBROKE - Ms. Helen Carter, of 13 Corbett Road, died Saturday, Jan. 17, 2004, in Southeastern Regional Medical Center in Lumberton. The funeral will be conducted at 3 p.m. Wednesday in Tabernacle Baptist Church in Lumberton by the Revs. Henry W. Oxendine, Listern Dial and Tessie Blue. Burial will be in Harpers Ferry Baptist Church cemetery. Ms. Carter is survived by four daughters, Mazelene Thomas of Pembroke, Mary H. Flagg of Rowland, Diane Locklear of Maxton and Michelle Emanuel of Lumberton; a brother, Vernon Locklear of the home; three sisters, Shirley Steen of Bennettsville, S.C., Lucille Deanton and Gladys Rice; 23 grandchildren; and 41 great-grandchildren. The family will receive friends tonight from 7 to 9 at Locklear & Son Funeral Home in Pembroke. Gregory Locklear HOPE MILLS - Gregory "G-Man" Locklear, 37, of 3915 Polk Drive, died Friday, Jan. 16, 2004. The funeral will be conducted at 2 p.m. Wednesday in Floyd Memorial Chapel in Lumberton by the Revs. Charles Jones, Chris Jones and David F. Locklear. Burial will be in Robeson Memorial Park in Lumberton. Mr. Locklear is survived by a son, Gregory L. Locklear of Deerfield, Mass.; his father and stepmother, Leroy and Amveline Locklear of Hope Mills; two brothers, Vernon Locklear of Fayetteville and Patrick Locklear of Tazwell, Tenn.; a sister, Denise Locklear of St. Pauls; and two stepbrothers, Bradley W. Oxendine and Michael A. Oxendine, both of Fayetteville. The family will receive friends tonight from 7 to 9 at Floyd Mortuary & Crematory in Lumberton. January 22, 2004 Clara M. Oxendine PEMBROKE - Mrs. Clara Mae Oxendine, 68, of 111 Vance St., died Monday, Jan. 19, 2004, in Southeastern Regional Medical Center in Lumberton. The funeral will be conducted at 2 p.m. Friday in Revels Funeral Home chapel in Pembroke by the Revs. Edward R. Brooks and Cleo Norton. Burial will be in Lumbee Memorial Gardens in Lumberton. Mrs. Oxendine is survived by six sons, Bobby Ray Hunt and George Locklear, both of Maxton, Donald Hunt and Rock Locklear, both of Pembroke, Dan Locklear of Fayetteville and Rocky Lane Locklear of Hamlet; two daughters, Judy Lowery of Maxton and Catherine Locklear of Aberdeen; a brother, Bailey Hunt of Maxton; and 21 grandchildren. The family will receive friends tonight from 7 to 9 at the funeral home. January 23, 2004 Donald Locklear LUMBERTON - Donald Locklear, 60, of 3586 Fayetteville Road, died Thursday, Jan. 22, 2004, in his home. The funeral will be conducted at 11 a.m. Saturday in Mount Olive Baptist Church by the Revs. Kelly Sanderson and Robert Nolley. Burial will be in the church cemetery. Mr. Locklear is survived by a son, Damian Locklear of the home; a daughter, Donna Jo Locklear of Greenville; a brother, Floyd Locklear of Lumberton; and two sisters, Josephine Locklear of Lumberton and Dorothy Lowry of Albuquerque. The family will receive friends tonight from 7 to 9 at Locklear & Son Funeral Home in Pembroke. William Oxendine Jr. RALEIGH - William "Shorty" Oxendine Jr., 61, of 1301 Wake Forest Road, formerly of Robeson County, died Tuesday, Jan. 20, 2004, in his home. The funeral will be conducted at 2 p.m. Saturday in Floyd Funeral Services chapel in Fairmont by the Rev. Jerry Butler. Burial will be in Fairpoint Baptist Church cemetery in Fairmont. Mr. Oxendine is survived by his wife, Elizabeth J. Oxendine of Greensboro; two sons, Shawndale Oxendine of Greensboro and Kenny Jacobs of Rowland; a brother, Michael Oxendine of Edenton; three sisters, Christine Oxendine, Judy Butler and Dorothy Locklear, all of Fairmont; and five grandchildren. The family will receive friends tonight from 7 to 9 at the funeral home and at other times at the home of Christine Oxendine, Meadow Woods Apartments, Apartment 403F, Fairmont. January 24, 2004 Mittie J. Jones LUMBERTON - Mrs. Mittie Jane Jones, 64, of 323 River Ridge Road, died Wednesday, Jan. 21, 2004, in her home. The funeral will be conducted at 3 p.m. Sunday in Pembroke Assembly of God by the Revs. Hubert Chavis, Eugene Jones, Matthew Jones and Larry Lowery. Burial will be in St. Anna Church cemetery in Pembroke. Mrs. Jones is survived by three sons, the Revs. Eugene Jones and Matthew Jones, both of Lumberton, and Joseph Jones of Pembroke; seven daughters, Nancy J. Locklear, Betty J. Cummings, Judith A. Pierce, Katherine Hammonds, Irene J. Hitchens and Laura V. Hammonds, all of Lumberton, and Emma K. Locklear of Laurinburg; a sister, Kathleen Taylor of Lumberton; four brothers, Melton Lowery of Norfolk, Va., and James Lowery Jr., Gordon Lowery and Marvin Lowery, all of Lumberton; four half brothers, Jerry Lowery, Ambrose Lowery, Delton Lowery and Marshall Lowery, all of Lumberton; 22 grandchildren; eight stepgrandchildren; and four great- grandchildren. The family will receive friends tonight from 7 to 9 at Locklear & Son Funeral Home in Pembroke. Verdie S. Locklear LUMBERTON - Mrs. Verdie Mae Smith Locklear, 82, of Lumberton, died Thursday, Jan. 22, 2004, in GlenFlora Nursing Home. Mrs. Locklear was a member of Antioch Baptist Church. The funeral will be conducted at 2 p.m. Sunday in Antioch Baptist Church in St. Pauls by the Revs. Sterling Chavis, Gary Deese and Clyde Freeman. Burial will be in Oxendine Cemetery. Mrs. Locklear is survived by six sons, Kenneth W. Locklear, Johnny R. Locklear, Marshall W. Locklear Jr. and Jerry W. Locklear, all of Lumberton, and Michael Locklear of Parkton; six daughters, Marilyn Hicks of Oxford, Lula F. Martin of Fairmont, Audrey H. Scott of St. Pauls, Rita M. Locklear and Meredith A. Jacobs, both of Lumberton, and Suzette Reed of Rennert; 33 grandchildren; 30 great-grandchildren; and four great-great-grandchildren. The family will receive friends tonight from 7 to 9 at Biggs Funeral Home in Lumberton and at other times at 1616 Townsend Road, St. Pauls. Memorials may be made to the American Cancer Society, 950 48th Ave. N., Suite 101, Myrtle Beach, SC 29577. January 26, 2004 Eddie L. Oxendine Sr. SHANNON - Eddie Lee "Jitty Bug" Oxendine Sr., 61, of 8892 Rennert Road, died Friday, Jan. 23, 2004, in Southeastern Regional Medical Center in Lumberton. The funeral will be conducted at 2:30 p.m. Tuesday in Friendly Temple Baptist Church by the Rev. Herbert Chavis, Montana Locklear and Jackson Locklear. Burial will be in the family cemetery. Arrangements are being handled by Boles Funeral Home of Red Springs. Mr. Oxendine is survived by his wife, Ethel Oxendine of Shannon; five sons, Eddie L. Oxendine Jr. of Morganton and Larry Oxendine, Quincy Oxendine, Bobby Oxendine and Mark Oxendine, all of Shannon; six daughters, Sandra Oxendine of Bladenboro, Linda Oxendine of Rennert, Kathy Oxendine, Patsy Oxendine and Roxanne Oxendine, all of Shannon, and Doris Oxendine of Red Springs; a brother, James Oxendine of Shannon; three sisters, Grace Menah and Christine Jones, both of Red Springs, and Verlene Woods of Raleigh; and nine grandchildren. The family will receive friends tonight at 6 at the home. Copyright c. 2004 The Fayetteville (N.C.) Observer. -=-=-=- January 21, 2004 Wesley K. Buchanan Wesley Keith Buchanan, 41, of Sioux City died Saturday, Jan. 17, 2004, at a Sioux City hospital following a lengthy illness. Services will be 2 p.m. today at the Native American Church in Winnebago, Neb., with Morgan Earth officiating. Burial will be in Winnebago Tribal Cemetery. Arrangements are under the direction of Winnebago Wake and Burial Program. Mr. Buchanan was born Oct. 25, 1962, in Pamona, Calif. He was a lifelong resident of Sioux City. He married Juanita on Oct. 24, 1995, in Sioux City. He was employed as a laborer at various businesses. He also was an artist and craftsman. He was a member of the Native American Church. He is survived by his wife, Juanita of Sioux City; two sons, Anthony and Shunk-Mato-Ska Buchanan, both of Sioux City; six sisters, Martha Buchanan, Lauren Buchanan, Sharon Pennah, Teresa Buchanan and Karen Buchanan, all of Winnebago, and Amy Jeanotte of Tempe, Ariz.; and two brothers, Tom Buchanan of Sioux City, and Laurence Buchanan of Tempe. He was preceded in death by his parents, Laurence and Marvella Buchanan; and his maternal and paternal grandparents. Pallbearers will be Gary Trudell, Earl Frazier, Walter Ewing, Robert Loera, Raul Loera, Alan Wolfe, Gary Wabashaw and John Smith. Honorary pallbearers will be Robert RedOwl, Tom Buchanan, Tom Harlan, Danny Ricehill, Jonas Walker and Mark Blackhawk. Copyright c. 2004 Sioux City Journal. -=-=-=- January 22, 2004 Lorenzo Thin Elk Flandreau Flandreau - Lorenzo Thin Elk, 57, died Saturday in an accident at White River, SD. He is survived by 5 children: Carmen Thin Elk, Choctaw, MS, Lorenzo Kelly Thin Elk, Yankton, Michael Thin Elk, Lisa Black Elk and Allison Thin Elk, all of White River; 13 grandchildren; his mother, Vivian Brave, Flandreau; and 6 siblings: Elvira Tubby, Flandreau, Helen Nicky, Choctaw, MS, Lavonne Deuchar, Flandreau, Gene, Vermillion, Alvin, Flandreau, and Calvin, Lake Andes. Funeral services will be Friday at 2 p.m. at Eastman Hall, with burial at First Presbyterian Cemetery. There will be a Wake Service at 6 p.m. on Thursday. Arrangements by Skroch Funeral Chapel. Copyright c. 2004 Sioux Falls Argus Leader. -=-=-=- January 21, 2004 Theresa Feather Earring BATESLAND - Theresa Feather Earring, 70, Batesland, died Sunday, Jan. 18, 2004, in Wakpamni Lake. Survivors include five sons, Dwight Black Crow, Batesland, Eugene Black Crow and Waylon Black Crow, both of Wakpamni, Kenneth Short Bear, Manderson, and Ricky Grey Grass, Gordon, Neb.; six daughters, Linda Feather Earring, Lincoln, Dorothy Black Crow and Mary Lou Black Crow, both of Wakpamni, Ruby Tayle, Batesland, Betty Black Crow, Pine Ridge, and Tracy Buckley, Aberdeen; and one brother, Ben Feather Earring, Porcupine. A one-night wake will begin at 2 p.m. Friday, Jan. 23, at St. Andrew's Episcopal Church in Wakpamni Lake. Services will be at 2 p.m. Saturday, Jan. 24, at the church, with the Rev. Cordelia Red Owl officiating. Burial will be at St. Barnabas Episcopal Cemetery in Kyle. Sioux Funeral Home of Pine Ridge is in charge of arrangements. Mesu Freedom Fresquez WOUNDED KNEE - Mesu Freedom Fresquez, infant, Wounded Knee, was stillborn Tuesday, Jan. 13, 2004, in Pine Ridge. Survivors include his parents, Daniel Fresquez and Desiree Rowland, both of Wounded Knee; his maternal grandmother, Anita Rowland, Wounded Knee; his maternal great-grandmother, Cleone Ice; and his paternal grandfather, Freida Bad Yellow Hair, Wounded Knee. A one-night wake will begin at 1 p.m. today at Sacred Heart Catholic Church in Wounded Knee. Services will be at 1 p.m. Thursday, Jan. 22, at the church, with the Rev. Wendell Ghost Bear officiating. Burial will be at Sacred Heart Catholic Cemetery in Wounded Knee. Sioux Funeral Home of Pine Ridge is in charge of arrangements Rev. Collins P. "C.P." Jordan ST. FRANCIS - The Rev. Collins P. "C.P." Jordan, 86, St. Francis, died Saturday, Jan. 17, 2004, at Bennett County Nursing Home in Martin. He served as a sailor in the Pacific Campaign during World War II. Survivors include his cousins, Bertha Bordeaux, Harvey Jordan, Donald Jordan, Edith Tatum, Kenneth Bordeaux, Gertrude Little Thunder and others, and numerous nieces and nephews. A wake will begin at 8 p.m. today at Digmann Hall in St. Francis. Services will be at 2 p.m. Thursday, Jan. 22, at St. Charles Church in St. Francis. Burial will be at St. Francis Catholic Cemetery. Sandoz Chapel of the Pines in Valentine, Neb., is in charge of arrangements. A memorial scholarship will be established. Jordan Reese Martinez KYLE - Jordan Reese Martinez, infant, was stillborn Saturday, Jan. 17, 2004, in Pine Ridge. Survivors include her parents, Leonard Martinez Jr. and Laretha Brown Bull, Kyle; her paternal grandparents, Jeanette and Harry Iron Boy, Porcupine, and Leonard Martinez Sr., Wounded Knee; two brothers, Evan Brown Bull and Manny Clifford, both of Kyle; and one sister, Rose Clifford, Kyle. A one-night wake will begin at 1 p.m. Friday, Jan. 23, at St. Barnabas Episcopal Church in Kyle. Services will be at 10 a.m. Saturday, Jan. 24, at the church, with the Rev. Cordelia Red Owl officiating. Burial will be at St. Barnabas Episcopal Cemetery in Kyle. Sioux Funeral Home of Pine Ridge is in charge of arrangements. January 24, 2004 Kenneth C. Janis PINE RIDGE - Kenneth C. Janis, 73, Pine Ridge, died Wednesday, Jan. 21, 2004, in Pine Ridge. Survivors include his wife, Mary Ann Janis, Pine Ridge; five daughters, Arlette Janis, Patricia Janis, Joan Lehner and Wanda Lehner, all of Pine Ridge, and Norma Rendon, Porcupine; four sons, Robert Janis, Ann Arbor, Mich., and Garry Janis, Rodney Janis and Wesley Shangreau, all of Pine Ridge; one brother, Charlie Janis, Denver; and one sister, Laveta Back, Pine Ridge. A two night-wake will begin at 2 p.m. Monday, Jan. 26, at Billy Mills Hall in Pine Ridge. Services will be at 10 a.m. Wednesday, Jan. 28, at Billy Mills Hall, with the Rev. Bill Pauly and the Rev. Ben Tyon officiating, and traditional Lakota services by Mr. Floyd Hand. Burial will be at Janis Family Cemetery in Manderson. Sioux Funeral Home of Pine Ridge is in charge of arrangements. Copyright c. 2004 the Rapid City Journal. -=-=-=- January 22, 2004 Lenora Jewel Catterson CARNEGIE - Funeral for Lenora Jewel Catterson, 53, Carnegie, will be at 1 p.m. Saturday at Rainy Mountain Indian Baptist Church, Mountain View, with Reeves Nahwooks and Eugene Tsatoke officiating. A wake service will be at 7 p.m. Friday at Pitcher-Hackney Funeral Chapel, Carnegie. She died Wednesday, Jan. 21, 2004, at an Oklahoma City hospital. Burial will be at Samone Cemetery, Carnegie. She was born May 3, 1950, in Lawton to Adam and Helen Redhorn Kaulaity Sr. She attended Mountain View and Riverside Indian schools. She was a member of the Kiowa County Warriors Hand Game Club and a CNA at Tri County Municipal Hospital. Survivors include two daughters: Tracey Munden and her husband, Tom, Hayden, Colo.; and Crystal Catterson, Carnegie; two grandchildren: Joey Lynn Gonzales, Carnegie; and Brooke Lane Munden, Hayden; five brothers; eight sisters; and many nieces, nephews, other relatives and friends. James C. Bonecutter Graveside service for James C. Bonecutter Jr., 86, Lawton, will be at 10 a.m. Friday at Sunset Memorial Gardens with Sam White, pastor, Carriage Hills Christian Church, officiating. Mr. Bonecutter died Sunday, Jan. 18, 2004, at a Lawton hospital. Burial with military honors will be under direction of Becker Funeral Home. He was born Dec. 18, 1917, in Detroit, Mich. He enlisted in the Army in 1943. He fought during World War II and received the EAME Theater Ribbon, American Defense Service Medal, American Theater Ribbon and the Purple Heart. He retired after 20 years of service. He worked for the City of Lawton for 15 years. He married Elsie Irene Brewer on July 16, 1949, in Las Cruces, N.M. He was a member of the Independent Order of Odd Fellows, where he served as the Noble Grand for three years. He was a member of Carriage Hills Christian Church. Survivors include his wife, of the home; a sister, Bertha Wurster, Whitmore Lake, Mich.; two grandchildren: Paulanita Chappell, Palmer Lake, Colo.; and Charles J. Pratz, Denver; and four great-grandchildren. He was preceded in death by a daughter, Juanita Jane Pratz. Memorial contributions may be made to Carriage Hills Christian Church at 3211 E. Gore, Lawton 73501. Copyright c. 2004 The Lawton Constitution. -=-=-=- January 21, 2004 Colbert Burris Private memorial services for former longtime Seminole County resident, Colbert Jackson Burris, Oklahoma City, were held Tuesday, Jan. 20 under the direction of Vondel Smith Funeral Home. The service was held in southeast Oklahoma at Blue River, where he fished when he was young. Burris died Jan. 15, 2004, at the age of 78. He was born Aug. 14, 1925, to Minabel and H.H. Burris I. Burris served his country proudly during World War II as a medical technician in the United States Navy. He married Wanda Colbert in 1947 and after raising their children in Wewoka, the couple moved to Oklahoma City. He was also proud of his heritage as a member of the Chickasaw-Choctaw Indian Nation. He was preceded in death by his parents; one brother, William Calvin Burris; and one grandchild, Colbert Jason Burris. He is survived by his wife Wanda of 56 years; his sons, Barry Burris of Oklahoma City and Michael Burris and wife, Bobbie of Tahlequah; daughters, Kay Caswell and husband, Ben of Hollis and Carol Wood and husband Gary of Midwest City; one brother, H.H. Burris II of Ardmore; sisters, Betty Fowler, Pat McCullom and Caroline Curry, all of Tishomingo, Rosemary Clark and Annabelle Easterwood of Spring, Texas; grandchildren, Haley Paige Baxter, Courtney James Burris and Cory Daniel Burris, as well as a host of nieces and nephews. The Seminole Producer/Copyright c. 1999-2004 Arizona Newspapers Assn. -=-=-=- January 25, 2004 Timothy A. Lucero Timothy A. Lucero, Isleta Pueblo. The family would like to express our gratitude for the prayers, support and contributions given to us during the recent loss of our loved one. We are very thankful and our prayers are with each and every one of you. Copyright c. 1997 - 2004 Albuquerque Journal: Albuquerque, New Mexico. -=-=-=- January 21, 2004 Rosemary Saenz A prayer service for Rosemary Carrillo Saenz, 65, of Mescalero was Monday at St. Joseph's Mission in Mescalero, where the funeral Mass was on Tuesday, with burial following at the Saenz Family Cemetery. Mrs. Saenz died Friday, Jan. 16, 2004, in Alamogordo. She was born Aug. 1, 1938, in Mescalero. She lived in Mescalero all of her life. She was a secretary for Tribal Education and attended St. Joseph's Mission. She married Alvino W. Saenz Jr. on Sept. 19, 1962, in Ruidoso Downs. Survivors include her husband, Alvino W. Saenz Jr.; sons Lorenzo Saenz Sr., Alvino Luke Saenz Sr., and Arnold Juan Saenz; daughters Sharon Saenz, Christine Ponce and Rebecca Martinez; her mother, Virginia Evans Gaines; brothers Lucas Carrillo, Carson Carrillo, Harrison Toclanny, Cornel Cervantes, Manuel Cervantes and Jose Cervantes; sisters Mona Joy Lopez, Lydia Cervantes and Mary C. Martinez; 40 grandchildren; and seven great- grandchildren. Arrangements are under the direction of LaGrone Funeral Chapel of Ruidoso, 257-7303. Copyright c. 2004 Ruidoso News, a Gannett Co., Inc. newspaper. -=-=-=- January 20, 2004 Shawna Christina Chavez PINEDALE - Services for Shawna Chavez, 18, were 10 a.m., today at Cope Memorial Chapel. Rev. Jimmie Etsitty officiated. Burial followed on private family land, Pinedale. Chavez died Jan. 13 in Santa Fe. She was born Dec. 3, 1985 in Gallup into the Two Who Came to the Water People Clan for the Bitter Water People Clan. Chavez attended Wingate High School and school in Santa Fe. She was a member of the drumming group, Red Tail Hawk from Santa Fe. Her hobbies included writing and reading poetry, short stories, playing the piano & guitar and drawing.Survivors include her parents, Caroline Davis and Alvin Chavez; brothers, Brandon Davis of Las Vegas, Nev., Ivan Skeet of Breadsprings, Rylan Chavez of Thoreau, Cody Davis and Aaron Chavez both of Gallup; sisters, Valentina Damon of Window Rock and Valencia Kinlicheenie of Gallup; and grandmother, Annie Becenti of Pinedale. Chavez was preceded in death by her grandparents, Bennie Davis, Lawrence and Bertha Chavez. Pallbearers were Clifton Davis, Cody Davis, Brandon Davis, Fermin Rios, Tyrone Henio and Aaron Chavez. The family will receive friends and relatives after services at the Pinedale Chapter House. Cope Memorial Chapel is in charge of arrangements. January 22, 2004 Maynard Tyler Willie CHINA SPRINGS - Services for Maynard Willie, 24, will be 10 a.m., Friday, Jan. 23 at Cope Memorial Chapel . Elder Gardner and Perrenoud will officiate. Burial will follow at Gallup City Cemetery. Willie died Jan. 17 in China Springs. He was born April 2, 1979 in Gallup into the Towering House People Clan for the Water Edge People Clan. Willie was employed with Wal-Mart, as a stockman. His hobbies included cars, cooking and playing games. Survivors include his wife, Linda Armijo of Gallup; son, Zane Tyler Willie of Gallup; daughter, Caitlin Ashley Willie of Gallup; parents, Laverne and Leslie Willie both of China Springs; brothers, Victor, Duvall and Schuyler Willie all of China Springs; sister, Michelle Mary Willie of China Springs; grandparents, Rose and Henry Kinlichelney and Archie Willie Sr. Willie was preceded in death by his grandparents, Mary Lee Willie, Ella and Willie Wilson. Pallbearers will be Peterson Willie, Archie Willie Jr., Duvall Willie, Orlando Tom, Dennis Manuelito Jr., Melbert Tom, Thompson Willie and Patrick Willie. The family will receive friends and relatives after the burial services at Mexican Springs Chapter House. Cope Memorial Chapel is in charge of arrangements. Robert Nez Sr. MENTMORE - Services for Robert Nez Sr., 82, were 10 a.m., today at the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter Day Saints Stake Center. Bishop Jeff Nolte officiated. Burial followed at Santa Fe National Cemetery. Nez Sr. died Jan. 18 in Albuquerque. He was born March 22, 1929 in Cottonwood, Ariz. into the Bitter Water People Clan for the Towering House People Clan. Nez Sr. attended school in Fort Wingate. He served in the U.S. Army, and jumped in Normandy D-Day and fought in the Battle of the Bulge. He was awarded the Bronze Star; Master Jump Wing, 82nd Airborne Div 508; Purple Heart; and Victory Medal. He was a member of the POW and Purple Heart Veteran's Organization. Robert volunteered with the DAV Transportation. Survivors include his sons, Rudy Nez, Richard Nez, Ronald Nez and Ruben Nez; daughters, Roberta Marinez, Ramona Nez and Rebecca Nez; brothers, John Nez and Carl Tsosie; sisters, Stella Mitchell, Zonnie Tsosie and Leta Tsosie Burbank; 19 grandchildren; and nine great-grandchildren. Nez was preceded in death by hisson, Robert Nez Jr.; parents, Aheny Bahh and Hosteen Nez Tsosie; and brother, Joe Tsosie. Pallbearers were Raymond Martinez Jr., Brian Martinez, Christopher Charley, Timothy Charley, Karrie Nez and Gary Chandler. Cope Memorial Chapel is in charge of arrangements. Mary 'Jean' Kanuho Hardy WINSLOW, Ariz. - Services for Mary Hardy, 70, were at 10 a.m., today at Maranatha Assembly of God, Winslow. Pastor Johnny Nells officiated. Burial followed at Desert View Cemetery, Winslow. Hardy died Jan. 18 in Winslow. She was born May 21, 1933 in Elephant Butte, Ariz. into the Salt People Clan for the Many Goats People Clan. Survivors include her husband, Kee Hardy Sr.; sons, Raymond Kee Hardy, Larry Hardy, Anthony Hardy and Kee Hardy Jr.; daughter, Eileen Hardy, Marilyn Lee and Lucille Jones; 17 grandchildren; and five great- grandchildren. Hardy was preceded in death by her son, Wilfred Joe Hardy; and grandparents, Pete and Chinpa Totsonie. Sharon Terri Graymountain FORT DEFIANCE, Ariz. - Services for Sharon Graymountain, will be announced at a later date. Graymountain died Jan. 20 in Fort Defiance. She was born June 17, 1963. A family meeting will be 6 p.m., tonight at Church Assembly of God, Fort Defiance. Cope Memorial Chapel is in charge of arrangements. January 23, 2004 Edith Benson Wilcox STEAMBOAT, Ariz. - Services for Edith Wilcox, 88, will be 10 a.m. Saturday, Jan. 24, at Navajo Bethel Church, Steamboat. Harold Noble will officiate. Burial will follow in Steamboat. Wilcox died Jan. 19 in Winslow, Ariz. She was born Oct. 15, 1915, in Steamboat into the Todich''n People Clan for the Ti'zlani People Clan. Wilcox was a rancher. Survivors include sons, Chester Wilcox of Phoenix and Calvin Wilcox of Ganado, Ariz.; daughters, Louise Wilcox and June Billie both of Steamboat; 18 grandchildren; 44 great-grandchildren; and six great great- grandchildren. Pallbearers will be family members. Tse Bonito Mortuary is in charge of arrangements. Mary Thompson LUPTON, Ariz. - Services for Mary Thompson, 77, will be 10 a.m. Saturday, Jan. 24, at Twin Buttes Nazarene Church, Gallup. Pastor Herman Nells will officiate. Burial will follow in Lupton. Thompson died Jan. 19 in Lupton. She was born Dec. 21, 1926, in Lupton into the Edge Water People Clan for the Black Streak Wood People Clan. Thompson was self-employed as a rug weaver, homemaker and rancher. She was a member of the NAC. Her hobbies included sewing, herbalist, cooking, horse back riding and training horses. Survivors include her husband, Leo Kee Thompson of Lupton; sons, Wilbur Begay Sr. of Houck, Ariz., George Begay Sr. of Allentown, Ariz., Laird Thompson of Grants and Laraman Thompson of Lupton; daughters, Lucy Lewis of Gallup, Louise Joe of Lupton and Rose Maria of Ramah; brother, John Spencer of Lupton; sister, Mary Elaine Silversmith of Lupton; 26 grandchildren; and 15 great-grandchildren. Thompson was preceded in death by her sons, Tony Joe and Arnold Thompson; and parents, Alhinibah and Paul Spencer. Pallbearers will be Faron Yazzie, Edison Spencer, Waylon Joe, Nathaniel Joe, Michael Joe and Brian Lewis. The family will receive friends and relatives after the burial services at Lupton Chapter House. Cope Memorial Chapel is in charge of arrangements. January 24, 2004 Vernon Jake Charley COOLIDGE - Services for Vernon Charley, 22, will be 10 a.m., Monday, Jan. 26 at First Baptist Church, Thoreau. Jimmy Etsitty will officiate. Burial will follow at Thoreau Community Cemetery. Charley died Jan. 20 in Iyanbito. He was born Sept. 26, 1981 in Gallup into the Salt Water People Clan for the Edgewater People Clan. Charley graduated from Thoreau High School in 2000. He was employed with Towering House. His hobbies include horseback riding, bull riding and playing guitar. Survivors include his wife, Amanda Roe Charley of Coolidge; son, Cody Ty Charley of Coolidge; daughter, Raelene Glendesbah Charley of Coolidge; parents, Ronald and Virginia Charley of Mariano Lake; brothers, Tyren Charley and CJ Charley of Mariano Lake; sister, Sophia Charley of Mariano Lake; and grandparents, Grant Morgan, Roger and Rose Charley both of Mariano Lake. Charley was preceded in death by his sister, Sonya Charley; and grandmother, Mary Morgan. Pallbearers will be Sher-Ron Johnson, Stacey Curley, Les Hill, Daniel Todachine, Ronald Charley, Jimmy Morgan and CJ Charley. The family will receive friends and relatives after the burial services at Thoreau Chapter House. Cope Memorial Chapel is in charge of arrangements. Donald Arnold Shay ANADO, Ariz. - Services for Donald Shay, 54, will be at 10 a.m., Monday, Jan. 26 at All Saints Mission, Ganado. Father Flann O'Neil will officiate. Burial will follow at family plot, Burnside, Ariz. Shay died Jan. 20 in Gallup. He was born Nov. 14, 1949 in Ganado into the Red Running into the Water People Clan for the Big Water People Clan. Survivors include his daughters, Denna Shay of Tempe, Ariz., Rhonda Acoff of Alabama, Dianna Shay, Denalda D. Shay and Dora Johnson all of Steamboat, Ariz.; brothers, Francis Shay of Steamboat, Wilfred Shay of Shiprock and Clarence F. Shay of Ganado; sister, Donna M. Begaye of Ganado; and five grandchildren. Shay was preceded in death by his father, Glen Shay; and brother, Vincent H. Kirk. Pallbearers will be family members. Tse Bonito Mortuary is in charge of arrangements. Terri Pat David MESA, Ariz. - Services for Terri David, 28, were 9 a.m., today at Assembly of God Church, Fort Defiance, Ariz. Burial followed at Gallup City Cemetery. David died Jan. 21 in Mesa. She was born Aug. 13, 1975 in Fort Defiance into the Bitter Water People Clan for the Edgewater People Clan. David attended Window Rock High School, Mesa Community College, Northern Arizona University and New Foundation, Scottsdale, Ariz. He was employed in New York, New Jersey, and Tungland Corporation, as a social worker and counselor. She was a member of the FHA. Her hobbies included traveling, reading, and watching movies. Survivors include her parents, Judy D. Yazzie and Edward David; brother, Duane A. Yazzie; sister, Donna David; grandmother, Nesbah C. Yazzie. David was preceded in death by her grandfather, John H. Yazzie Sr. Pallbearers were Darryl Yazzie, Jonathan McClanahan, Stewart Sam, Leonard Hardy, Brian Joey Hardy and Stephen Litson. Tse Bonito Mortuary is in charge of arrangements. Sharon Becenti Graymountain FORT DEFIANCE, Ariz. - Services for Sharon Graymountain, 40, will be 10 a.m., Monday, Jan. 26 at First Assembly of God, Fort Defiance. James Bennett will officiate. Burial will follow at Lone Pine Cemetery, Mexican Springs. Graymountain died Jan. 20 in Fort Defiance. She was born June 17, 1963 in Fort Defiance into the Mud People Clan for the Edgewater People Clan. Graymountain graduated from Window Rock High School in 1981. She was employed with the Navajo Nation Credit Services. Survivors include her husband, Randy R. Graymountain of Sawmill, Ariz.; sons, Brandon, Brent, Andrew, Riley and Tylar of Fort Defiance; daughters, Brittany, Jessica and Andreya; parents, Joanne Becenti of Fort Defiance and Edison R. Becenti Sr. of Naschitti; brothers, Edison R. Becenti Jr. and Elliott Becenti both of Fort Defiance; and sisters, Diane Dawes, Jolynda Morgan and Joycietta Becenti all of Fort Defiance. Graymountain was preceded in death by her grandparents, Nonabah and Neal Belone. Pallbearers will be Ed Becenti Jr., Elliott Becenti, Bert Graymountain, Richard Morgan, Lanson Davis and Jasper Thomas. Cope Memorial Chapel is in charge of arrangements. January 26, 2004 Henry D. Yazzie TOHATCHI - Services for Henry Yazzie, 52, will be 10 a.m. Tuesday, Jan. 27, at Our Lady of the Blessed Sacrament, Fort Defiance. Father Gilbert will officiate. Burial will follow at Veterans Cemetery, Fort Defiance. Yazzie died Jan. 22 in Gallup. He was born May 5, 1950, in Sawmill, Ariz. , into the Red Running into the Water People Clan for the Bitter Water People Clan. Yazzie attended Intermountain Indian School and graduated in 1968. He served in the Navy extraction team during the Vietnam War and was honorably discharged. His hobbies included rodeo, leather crafts and art work. Survivors include his wife, Virginia Becenti Yazzie; daughters, Hannah Rae Yazzie; and brother, Michael James Yazzie. Yazzie was preceded in death by his parents, Rose and Kee H. Yazzie; brothers, Lewis James Yazzie and Joseph Yazzie and sister, Loretta Jane Yazzie. Pallbearers will be family members. The family will receive friends and relatives after the burial services at Sawmill Chapter House. Cope Memorial Chapel is in charge of arrangements. Copyright c. 2004 the Gallup Independent. -=-=-=- January 22, 2004 Mary Hardy Mary "Jean" Kanuho Hardy, 70, of Dilkon, died Jan. 18, 2004, in Winslow. She was born May 21, 1933, to Bertha Totsonie and Marcus Kanuho. She is of the Salt people clan and born for Manygoats people clan. Maternal grandparents are Big Water people clan and paternal grandparents are Bitterwater people clan. She was a homemaker and rug weaver. She took great joy in raising her children, grandchildren and great-grandchildren. She is survived by her husband of 55 years, Kee Hardy Sr., sons, Raymond (Rosemary) Kee of Flagstaff, Larry of Dilkon, Anthony (Lavon) of Flagstaff, and Kee Jr. (Bernice) of Dilkon; daughters, Eileen of Leupp, Marilyn (Lorenzo) Lee of Nixon, Nev., and Lucille (Randy) Jones of Leupp; 17 grandchildren and 5 great-grandchildren. She was preceded in death by her son Wilfred Joe Hardy and grandparents, Pete and Chinpa Totsonie. Services will be 10 a.m. Thursday, Jan. 22, 2004, at Marantha Assembly of God located on the corner of Alfred and Fleming in Winslow. Pastor Johnny Nells will officiate. Interment will be at Desert View Cemetery in Winslow. Arrangements were made by Greer's Mortuary of Winslow. Copyright c. 2000-2004 Arizona Daily Sun. -=-=-=- January 20, 2004 Adam Noline Adam Schenandoah Noline, 58, of Peridot died Jan. 14, 2004, at Mesa General Hospital in Mesa. Born in San Carlos, he was a bus driver for the San Carlos School District. He is survived by his wife, Roselita Noline of Peridot; two sons, Efton Noline and Chavez Noline of Peridot; one daughter, Sherry Noline of Peridot; one brother, Travis Noline of San Carlos; and five grandchildren. Funeral service for Mr. Noline was conducted Jan. 19 at World Evangelist Revival Church. Interment was in Lower Peridot Cemetery. Arrangements were under the direction of Lamont Mortuary of Globe. Copyright c. 2004 Arizona Silver Belt/Apache Moccasin. -=-=-=- January 20, 2004 Wilta Crumbo Wilta Mae Duos Crumbo, age 80, died January 13, 2004. Wilta Mae Duos Crumbo, age 80, of Fort Duchesne, died January 13, 2004, peacefully at home of natural causes. Wilta was born May 18, 1923, in Ville Platte, Louisiana, to Regile and Lydie Fontenot Duos. She attended the University of Southwestern Louisiana and graduated with a degree in home economics. Wilta joined the Waves during World War II, and after the War, moved to the Uintah Basin to teach at the Whiterocks Indian School. Here she met her husband, Daniel Crumbo. They were married May 30, 1947. She instilled in her children a love of learning, the importance of volunteer work and an itch to see other parts of the world. She worked as a dietitian,school teacher and USU Extension Agent. Wilta was active in St. Helen's Catholic Parish. She enjoyed yardwork, traveling, and loved to dance. Wilta is survived by her husband, Daniel; children, Christy (Nick) Oprandy, both of Fort Duchesne; Dana Christensen, Salt Lake City; Sr. Teresa Pauline Crumbo, SA, New York City, NY; and one grandson, Alex. She was preceded in death by an older brother and two older sisters. Memorial mass held 11:00 a.m., Saturday, January 17, 2004, at St. Helen's Catholic Church. Cremations arrangements handled by the Hullinger Mortuary. Burial of ashes will be at the family home in the spring In lieu of flowers, please make a donation to Catholic Relief Services, PO Box 17090, Baltimore, MD 21203-7090. Copyright c. 2004 Uintah Basin Standard/Roosevelt, UT. -=-=-=- January 24, 2004 William T. House CROW AGENCY - William T. "Jakie" House, 61, of Crow Agency, passed away early Thursday morning, Jan. 22, 2004, in the Crow Agency IHS Hospital. Returning Crow "Aalihtakuush" was born Nov. 6, 1942, in Crow Agency, a son of Franklyn and Mae House. He grew up in the Black Lodge area and attended Hardin schools. Following his education, he worked for Floyd Warren Farming and the Wilcutt ranching outfit. He later worked heavy equipment on highway construction projects, worked for the Sarpy Coal Mine, worked as a Crow Tribal Game warden and most recently as a facility supervisor for the Crow Tribe for 10 years, retiring due to ill health. Jakie married Sarah Other Medicine on June 27, 1963, in Sheridan, Wyo., and the couple made their home in the Crow Agency area. He was a member of the Black Lodge Pentecostal Church, Big Lodge Clan and a child of the Whistling Water Clan. He was the lead singer for the Black Lodge Wrangler Traditional singing group. He and his group were often requested to sing at many traditional gatherings including Sun Dances, Hand games, and Push dances. He was the general manager for Crow Fair Celebration in 1991. He also has won several champion best Handgame Singers. Jakie was an active person, who trained the racehorse "Alisha Dawn." He loved the outdoors and knew the areas of the reservation better than most. However, the joy of his life was his family, especially his grandchildren, whom he gave nicknames and often honored them with Crow names. His father, Franklyn; sister, Roseabelle Fighter and Thorann House, and brother, Tommy Medicine Horse, preceded Jakie in death. Survivors include his wife of 40 years, Sarah; his mother, Mae House of Black Lodge; his daughters, Amelia (McKinley) Sees the Ground and Farah (Avery) Pretty on Top of Hardin, his baby girl, Willamina (Cameron) Rides the Horse and Etheleen Mountain Sheep of Black Lodge; his sons, William L. House, Fred (Cindy) Alden, Lloyd (LaTonna) Long Soldier, Lance (Renita) and Stephen (Leanne) House of Crow Agency; his sisters, Gracemae (Jerome) Hummingbird and Ruth Alden of Hardin, Irene Reed and Mary (Edward) Iron of Fort Smith, Vera White Clay of Black Lodge, Donna (Norman) Pretty on Top and Fannie (Kenneth) Plenty of Garryowen; his brothers, Richard (Agatha) and Raymond House of Black Lodge; his adopted sons, Daryl Three Irons, Dezmond Rides Horse, David Jefferson III, Gary (Janice) Dawes, Kevin White, Elliott (Sandy) Mountain Sheep and Thomas House; his adopted daughters, Amelia Other Medicine, Sarah Page, Marshae Little Light and Opal (Donald) Nomee; his adopted brothers, Robert Iron Maker, Larry (Carol) Old Elk, Lloyd (Mary) Top Sky, Alex (Harriett) Bear Crane, Clifford (Ardeth) Bird in Ground and Paul (Joy) Matt; his aunt, Elizabeth Smart Enemy; his uncles, Louis Weasel Boy and Joe Ironman; 25 grandchildren; one great- granddaughter, Keyonna Hogan; sister-in-laws, Dineen Other Medicine, Vanetta Dawes, Sandra Other Medicine, Ardena Other Medicine, Marie Lincoln and Ann Horseman all of Crow Agency; brother-in-law, John (Elizabeth) Other Medicine of Crow Agency; family friend, Eli Aramjo and many, many nieces and nephews. His extended families include Bad Bear, Big Medicine, Three Irons, Bird Hat, Black Hawk, Goes Ahead and Black Eagle; Stump, Denny, Standing Rock and Top Sky of Rocky Boy; Buffalo and Saddle Backs of Hobbema Alberta, Canada. Funeral services will be held at 1 p.m. Monday in the Crow Multipurpose Building. Interment will follow in the Crow Agency Cemetery. Bullis Mortuary of Hardin has been entrusted with the arrangements. 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 22, 2004 Cupie Old Chief Cupie Theola (Cut Finger) Old Chief, 79, a homemaker, of Browning, died Jan. 17, 2004 at Benefis East of natural causes. Funeral services are (today) Thursday, Jan. 22 at 11 a.m. at Old Eagle Shield with burial at St. Michael's Cemetery. She was raised in Browning and married Joseph Old Chief in 1939. She was a member of the Penicostal Church, Black Lodge Society and Crazy Dog Society. She enjoyed bingo, blackjack, powwows, holy feather, stick games, beading, sewing, cooking, quilting, cut dry meat, spending time with her children and grandchildren. She took care of many people, she never turned a person away that was in need. She is survived by her husband Joe Old Chief, Sr. of Browning, daughters JoAnn Old Chief, Debra Old Chief, Loretta Old Chief Courtorelle, Darlene Old Chief, Marlene Old Chief, Geraldine Old Chief, Rose Calf Robe Old Chief, Wyone LuLu Cree Medicine; sons Thomas Roy Old Chief, Joseph Old Chief, Paul Old Chief, Fred Old Chief and Ernie Cut Finger; a sister Joyce Hattie Keiting of Tacoma, Wash., a brother Jessie James Cut Finger of Browning, 29 grandchildren and 43 great-grandchildren and numerous great- great-grandchildren. Copyright c. 2004 Golden Triangle Newspapers. -=-=-=- January 20, 2004 Duane Patrick Belcourt ROCKY BOY - Duane Patrick Belcourt, 58, of Rocky Boy, whose Indian name was Ki-iw-wah Kah-wi-che-kot "Eagle with him," died of cancer Monday at his home. A wake service is 3 p.m. Tuesday at the Rocky Boy Catholic Church with a Rosary at 7 p.m. His funeral is 11 a.m. Wednesday at the church, with burial in Rocky Boy Cemetery. Holland and Bonine Funeral Home of Havre is handling arrangements. Survivors include his wife Ernestine Belcourt; sons Shawn Belcourt and Leslie Belcourt; adopted daughters Terry Jo Skalski and Charlotte Big Knife; a sister-in-law, Arvella Hunter; his grandmother, Mary Jane LaMere; brothers Merle (Wilma) Belcourt, Robert (Sandy) Belcourt, Kermit Corcoran and Raymond "Jake" Parker; an adopted brother, Mike (Ligia) Ley; a brother-in-law, Bruce Nagel; sisters Myrtle Belcourt, Elsie (Robert) Geboe, Leota Standing Bear, Linda Belcourt and Luanne (Erwin Little Sun) Belcourt; numerous nieces and nephews and grandchildren. The grandchildren include Hunter, McKenzie and Dymon Skalski and his godson Logan Rock. He was preceded in death by his parents; brothers Gerald "Chief" Belcourt and Levi "Gene" Belcourt; and sisters Margaret "Peggy" Nagel, Tami Corcoran Frost and Connie Jo Belcourt Limberhand. Duane Patrick Belcourt, 58, was called by his Creator on Monday, Jan. 19, 2004. Duane was born on May 7, 1945, to Levi Belcourt and Cecelia Parker Corcoran in Fort Belknap. The family lived in Rocky Boy all their lives. Duane graduated from Flandreau High School in 1964. Duane married Ernestine Hopkins in September of 1966, settling first in Denver and later making their home in Rocky Boy. He completed masonry training in Flandreau High School. Duane worked independently in the construction field before forming the Belcourt & Morsette Construction Co. in partnership with Jon "Cubby" Morsette. Duane later formed Belcourt & Son Inc., continuing to complete projects across the Southwest. He was awarded the Small Business of the Year award in 1998, from the Small Business Association. Duane completed many construction projects throughout California, Illinois, South Dakota, Montana, Nevada, Arizona and in his hometown of Rocky Boy. Duane was an avid team roper and a great supporter of the sport of rodeo. Duane first got his start in rodeo as a bull rider, then later took up the sport of team roping. He was a member of the U.S. Team Roping Championships, and the Montana Team Roping Association. He enjoyed roping off of his horse Six, attending the National Finals Rodeos and spending time with his family and friends. Any monetary donations may be submitted to Ernestine Belcourt HC 30 Box 370 Havre, MT 59501. All donations will be used to fund a Duane Belcourt Rodeo Scholarship. James Andrew 'Red Plume' Four Star POPLAR - James Andrew "Red Plume" Four Star, 34, a firefighter, died in a car accident Saturday on Nickwall Road south of Wolf Point. His funeral is 10 a.m. Jan. 27, at the Poplar Cultural Center, followed by burial in St. Ann's Cemetery in Poplar. Bell Mortuary of Glasgow is handling arrangements. Survivors include his parents Odessa and Adrian Four Star, Sr.; his grandmother, Maria Cantrell; daughters, Angelina Jolie Four Star of Poplar and Kensey Davis; brothers Adrian Four Star, Jr., Mike Four Star and Thomas Four Star; sisters Dolly Four Star, Antoinette Four Star, Claudia Four Star, Janet Four Star, and Lucinda Deleon. January 21, 2004 Virgil Vernon Four Bear 'Mato topa' POPLAR - Navy veteran Virgil Vernon Four Bear, 68, whose former occupations included police officer, security guard and ranch hand, and who had worked for the Bureau of Indian Affairs Road Department and BIA Irrigation, died of natural causes Monday at his home. Prayer services are 7 this evening at Poplar Cultural Center. His funeral is 10 a.m. Thursday at the Jim Black Dog Center in Fort Kipp, with burial in Fort Kipp Cemetery. Clayton Stevenson Memorial Chapel of Poplar is in charge of arrangements. Condolences may be sent to the family at csmc@nemontel.net or www.stevensonandsons.com. Survivors include sons Charles Four Bear, Delvin Four Bear, Cornell Four Bear, Dale Four Bear and Cordell Four Bear, all of Poplar; daughters Rena Williams and Noreen Four Bear-Figueroa of Poplar and Vernell Four Bear of Georgia; an adopted son, Dana Comes Last of Poplar; brothers Ervin Four Bear and Raymond Four Bear of Brockton; and numerous grandchildren and great-grandchildren. His wife of more than 20 years, Eleanora (McKay) Four Bear, preceded him in death by nine days. January 23, 2004 Kingsley D. 'King' Kuka BIRCH CREEK - Kingsley D. "King" Kuka, 57, a military veteran, teacher and well-known Native American artist, died of complications from a stroke Monday at a Great Falls hospital. Rosary is 7 this evening at St. Anne's Catholic Church in Heart Butte. Funeral Mass is noon Saturday at St. Anne's, with burial in Robare Cemetery near Birch Creek. Rockman Funeral Chapel of Chester is in charge of arrangements. Survivors include his wife of 28 years, Marietta Kuka of Great Falls; children Chris Stevens of Missoula, Amy LaBarre of Coronado, Calif., and Kokko Kuka, Khi Kuka, Kqyn Kuka, Kodi Kuka and Khol Kuka, all of Great Falls; a brother, Vern Kuka of Birch Creek; a sister, Patricia Cobell of Great Falls; and eight grandchildren. January 25, 2004 Juanita Ellen Morgan BROWNING - Juanita Ellen "Nita" (Rutherford) Morgan, 75, of Browning, died of natural causes Friday at Blackfeet Community Hospital in Browning. Her funeral is 2 p.m. Wednesday at Little Flower Parish in Browning, with burial in St. Ann's Parish Cemetery in Heart Butte. Pondera Funeral Home of Conrad is handling arrangements. Survivors include her husband, Charlie Morgan; children Charlie Morgan Jr., Cheryl Morgan, Edna Morgan, Terry Morgan, Dean Morgan, Zola Sellars and Alan Morgan; brothers Joseph Rutherford Sr., Richard Rutherford Sr. and Melvin Rutherford; sisters Ruby Butterfly, all of Browning, Marisha Ball of Salem, Ore., and Melvina Geffre, of Aberdeen, S.D.; 22 grandchildren and 21 great-grandchildren. January 26, 2004 Elvira Fawn Rae Red Door BROWNING - Elvira Fawn Rae Red Door, infant daughter of Iris Reevis and Timothy Red Door Jr., was stillborn Wednesday at a Browning hospital. Her funeral is 2 p.m. today at Glacier Homes Community Center, with burial in Reevis Cemetery. Day Funeral Home is handling arrangements. In addition to her parents, Elvira is survived by brothers Nathanile, Eugene and David Red Door; grandparents Elvira Reevis and Bernie Ground, both of Browning, Delores Scott and Timothy Red Door Sr., both of Poplar; and great-grandparents Rose Calf Looking, Clayton Reevis and Eugene and Imelda Ground. Copyright c. 2004 Great Falls Tribune, a division of Lee Enterprises. -=-=-=- January 20, 2004 Duane Patrick Belcourt ROCKY BOY's INDIAN RESERVATION - Duane Patrick Belcourt, 58, died on Monday, Jan. 19, 2004, of cancer. A wake service will be held at the Rocky Boy Catholic Church today with a Rosary at 7 p.m. The funeral service will be held Wednesday at 11 a.m. at Rocky Boy Catholic Church with burial at the Rocky Boy Cemetery. The Rev. Pete Guthneck will officiate, with Kenny Writing Bird to sing a going-away song in Duane's honor. Duane, whose Indian name was Ki-iw-wah Kah-wi-che-kot or Eagle with Him, was born on May 7, 1945, to Levi Belcourt and Cecelia Parker Corcoran in Fort Belknap. Duane graduated from Flandreau High School in 1964. He married Ernestine Hopkins in September 1966, settling first in Denver and later making a home at Rocky Boy, where his family was from. Duane completed masonary training at Flandreau High School. He worked independently in the construction field before forming the Belcourt & Morsette Construction Co. in partnership with Jon "Cubby" Morsette. Duane later formed Belcourt & Son Inc. In 1997, he was awarded the first-ever Native American-owned Small Business of the Year Award in Montana by the Small Business Administration. Duane completed many construction projects throughout California, Illinois, South Dakota, Montana, Nevada, Arizona and in his hometown of Rocky Boy. Duane was a great supporter of the sport of rodeo. Duane first got his start in rodeo as a bull rider, then later took up the sport of team roping. He was a member of the United States Team Roping Championships and the Montana Team Roping Association. He enjoyed roping off of his horse Six, attending the National Final Rodeos, and spending time with his family and friends. He was preceded in death by his parents; two brothers, Gerald "Chief" Belcourt, and Levi "Gene" Belcourt, and sisters Margaret "Peggy" Nagel, Tami Corcoran Frost, and Connie Jo Belcourt Limberhand. Survivors include: his wife, Ernestine Belcourt; sons, Shawn Belcourt and Leslie Belcourt; adopted daughters, Terry Jo Skalski, and Charlotte Big Knife; sister-in-law, Arvella Hunter; grandmother, Mary Jane LaMere; brothers, Merle (Wilma) Belcourt, Robert (Sandy) Belcourt, Kermit Corcoran, Raymond "Jake" Parker; adopted brother, Mike (Ligia) Ley; brother-in-law, Bruce Nagel; sisters, Myrtle Belcourt, Elsie (Robert) Geboe, Leota Standing Bear, Linda Belcourt and Luanne (Erwin Little Sun) Belcourt; numerous nieces and nephews; and grandchildren. Any monetary donations may be submitted to Ernestine Belcourt, HC 30 Box 370, Havre, MT 59501. All donations will be used to fund a Duane Belcourt Rodeo Scholarship. Funeral arrangements are under the direction of Holland & Bonine Funeral Home. Copyright c. 2004 Havre Daily News. -=-=-=- January 25, 2004 Frank P. Mercer Former Juneau and longtime Anchorage resident Frank P. Mercer, 85, died Jan. 8, 2004, at the Santo Nino Home in Anchorage. He was born Dec. 28, 1918, in Juneau to Charles and Elsie (Mercer) Bobb. He was of the Raven moiety of the T'aakdeintaan clan and from the Baby Sockeye house of Hoonah. His Tlingit name was K'aa L'ei. He was raised by his grandparents, Frank and Sally Mercer. He was educated in Juneau and attended Sheldon Jackson College in Sitka. He held numerous jobs in commercial fishing and drove a van for the handicapped in Anchorage. He was featured in the award-winning film "Kusah Hakwaan." He was a carver and an artist, played the trumpet and piano, and enjoyed traveling and sightseeing. His family said he will be remembered for his kind, patient nature. They said he was proud of his culture and often shared his knowledge of the Tlingit culture with various schools. He was preceded in death by his sister, Irene Culver. He is survived by his sisters, Frances Marvin of Juneau, Florence Bennett of Hoonah; nephews Carl Marvin Jr., Reginald Marvin, and Wallace Marvin of Juneau, George Marvin and Lawrence Marvin of Anchorage, Richard Mercer of Anchorage, Donald Marvin of Klawock, Terry and Charles Smith of Texas; nieces Francine and Colleen Mercer of Juneau, Beverly Duguqua and Charlotte Duncan of Anchorage, Paula Funicelli of Texas; and numerous relatives throughout the state. Honorary pallbearers included Raymond Sensmeier, Raymond Duguqua, Janet Read, Mabel Lawrence, Harvey and Richard Marvin, Edwin Mercer Jr., Violet James, Eva Sensmeier, and Ernie Hillman. Pallbearers included Jeremy S. Marvin, Herman James, Martin Sensmeier, John Buller, Matthew Anderstrom, Eric Anderstrom and Joe Johnson. Funeral and burial services were held Jan. 13 at the Evergreen Memorial Chapel and at the Anchorage Memorial Park Cemetery. Services were officiated by his nephew, Richard Mercer. Copyright c. 1999-2004 Fairbanks Daily News-Miner, Inc. -=-=-=- January 23, 2004 Pearl Moose Yellow Quill First Nation, SK MOOSE - On Monday, January 21, 2004, Pearl Moose, passed away at the age of 42 years. Pearl is survived by her children Kirstine, Kristen, Denise, Stephanie and Justin and by her grandchildren Chance, Corey, Kiana, Elijah, Isaiah, Alyca-Paige and Kobe. Pearl is also survived by many other relatives and friends. The Wake will be held on Saturday, January 24, 2004 at 4:30 p.m. in the Band Hall of the Yellow Quill First Nation. The Funeral Service will be held in the Band Hall on Sunday, January 25, 2004 at 10:00 a.m. with burial to follow. Arrangements are in the care of LEE FUNERAL HOME 757-8645 Copyright c. 2000-2004 Regina Leader Post Group Inc.